It's inevitable. Just as when the printing press was invented, it didn't take long for revolution to spread throughout the world. The Chinese government (and other governments and organizations around the world) knows that it's only hope against revolt is to suppress communication - the spread of information.
They're mostly already dead, so not too many more stray survivors to be found. Not everybody can dig for bodies. Not everybody can save the world from nuclear disaster. Not everybody can rebuild houses. These cables are somebody's responsibility and are very important in their own right. Clearly they're not THE TOP PRIORITY, but somebody has to address it sooner or later.
I had to look up what "extra credit" meant (here). I (British) haven't heard of it before.
It's simple. The easiest way to earn extra credit is to attend extra private "office-hours" with the professor. The second easiest to earn it is with sexual favors.
Limewire is pretty common among non-geek types. That's how the majority of college students download music. It's easier for them to be able to search for a song and download it, which is less complicated than having to go out and find a torrent to download.
"In our opinion," the authors of the study conclude, "the success of BitTorrent lies in the availability of popular content which is typically protected by copyright law, and people who take the risk of publishing that content do it because they receive an economic benefit. If in the future these users lose their incentive, either because of a decrease in advertising income or due to having to pay very expensive fines, BitTorrent would very likely cease to offer this content, which would make people stop using the application on a massive scale."
You would think so. Each side (prosecution and defense) get to dismiss jurors. Generally, the lawyers like to have complete control of everything in the case - they want to define what (for example) 'rape trauma syndrome' means according to their expert witness so that it better fits their case.
Having a juror with prior knowledge of a relevant subject will probably be to the detriment of at least one side of the case, so those types of people are regularly dismissed.
Right. In other news: The DoD is currently bitching that they might be losing something like $10 billion in funding next year. Of course, even that is a just a small fraction of DoD's full money allocations.
I understand that Credit Cards can be nice. Nice to make large purchases now. Nice to cover the gap until payday when your bank account is empty. Nice for a lot of things. But people will be fine if their CC doesn't work for a day or two. There are other resources available to put food on the table, etc.
I think my original point still stands though. If your credit card not working for a couple days has a significant affect on your life (i.e. your ability to provide for your family), then YES you are too dependent on credit cards. If you NEED a credit card to put food on the table, you're already in the red - using a credit card will just put you further into the red. Credit card companies surely deserve some, but not 100% of the blame for that situation.
It would do a lot of people well to not have such a close dependence on credit cards. And for that, they are not innocent. We're all guilty for empowering these organizations so much and allowing them to become so essential to our lives that we can't do without them. Sounds like an addiction to me if your life can't "run smoothly" without them for a day or two.
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Fine.. half the population is below the *median* intelligence.
LSD isn't nearly strong enough.
Ha. It's plenty strong, you just need to eat more.
Sssshhhh - don't tell!
It's inevitable. Just as when the printing press was invented, it didn't take long for revolution to spread throughout the world. The Chinese government (and other governments and organizations around the world) knows that it's only hope against revolt is to suppress communication - the spread of information.
I prefer medical marijuana
They're mostly already dead, so not too many more stray survivors to be found. Not everybody can dig for bodies. Not everybody can save the world from nuclear disaster. Not everybody can rebuild houses. These cables are somebody's responsibility and are very important in their own right. Clearly they're not THE TOP PRIORITY, but somebody has to address it sooner or later.
I had to look up what "extra credit" meant (here). I (British) haven't heard of it before.
It's simple. The easiest way to earn extra credit is to attend extra private "office-hours" with the professor. The second easiest to earn it is with sexual favors.
statistics, 825% of them are made up on the spot.
hmm. How's that work?
Limewire is pretty common among non-geek types. That's how the majority of college students download music. It's easier for them to be able to search for a song and download it, which is less complicated than having to go out and find a torrent to download.
Apparently it's not as profitable for these entities to actually do what's best for the consumer.
"In our opinion," the authors of the study conclude, "the success of BitTorrent lies in the availability of popular content which is typically protected by copyright law, and people who take the risk of publishing that content do it because they receive an economic benefit. If in the future these users lose their incentive, either because of a decrease in advertising income or due to having to pay very expensive fines, BitTorrent would very likely cease to offer this content, which would make people stop using the application on a massive scale."
In our opinion
heh.
I'm thinkin' of something that tastes like sodium and tomato juice, with faint hints of onion and vinegar.
Pussy!
bet you thought I was gonna say "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss", didn't you?
Yup
I borrowed a helicopter to pick up some 'za once. I didn't pilot it though. It was in Iraq and I hadn't had pizza for months - so worth it.
But these are not their personal e-mails. They are all communications conducted in an official capacity.
Check out my other post which links to anther post, which has a link to a YouTube documentary
Are you serious? Do you really expect anybody to do that?
So you went to a gay porn site and that makes you think there's money in hijacking typo domains? How much money did you give to gamefaws.com?
You would think so. Each side (prosecution and defense) get to dismiss jurors. Generally, the lawyers like to have complete control of everything in the case - they want to define what (for example) 'rape trauma syndrome' means according to their expert witness so that it better fits their case.
Having a juror with prior knowledge of a relevant subject will probably be to the detriment of at least one side of the case, so those types of people are regularly dismissed.
Right. In other news: The DoD is currently bitching that they might be losing something like $10 billion in funding next year. Of course, even that is a just a small fraction of DoD's full money allocations.
For my next trick, I'll show how letting two gay men get married to each other shouldn't cause millions of straight people to get divorced.
They'll probably end up getting divorced anyway.
It's affecting debit cards too, dipshit.
No. It's not. It's not even affecting credit cards. It's affecting www.mastercard.com.
I don't see where I said any of this is OK or that I condone this DDOS attack. I was just pointing out that it may not be such a bad thing.
I understand that Credit Cards can be nice. Nice to make large purchases now. Nice to cover the gap until payday when your bank account is empty. Nice for a lot of things. But people will be fine if their CC doesn't work for a day or two. There are other resources available to put food on the table, etc.
I think my original point still stands though. If your credit card not working for a couple days has a significant affect on your life (i.e. your ability to provide for your family), then YES you are too dependent on credit cards. If you NEED a credit card to put food on the table, you're already in the red - using a credit card will just put you further into the red. Credit card companies surely deserve some, but not 100% of the blame for that situation.
It'll trigger most Anti Virus programs. Run it in a clean VM and you should be fine.
It would do a lot of people well to not have such a close dependence on credit cards. And for that, they are not innocent. We're all guilty for empowering these organizations so much and allowing them to become so essential to our lives that we can't do without them. Sounds like an addiction to me if your life can't "run smoothly" without them for a day or two.