Twelve hours? How many vendors and services do you deal with? Except for the minor inconvenience of being with a credit card for a few days, there's not much work involved. You update the obvious ones and the ones you forgot about will come running when their payment gets declined.
No thanks. I'll stick with BitTorrent, if only because I live outside the US, and it won't be available outside the US, for some reason. They don't want me to watch their ads, and it's a good thing because I don't want to watch them either.
If I follow your reasoning, when I pull the power plug from my computer, it becomes bricked because it also has the computational capabilities of a brick at that moment?
Hmmm, I haven't incurred any support expenses on my kids OLPC. My 11-year-old bricked his but he used his sister's and an old camera memory card to fix it himself.
I use TVersity. It really works great and can play most videos I throw at it, and it will reencode the ones it can't play on the fly if you have the necessary hardware specs.
Apparently it is difficult for you too. The original phrase makes more sense than yours, and means exactly what it should mean (i.e. most of what they do is an illusion)
You may eventually be able to prove you didn't download that child porn or plot that attack, but when SWAT comes knocking on (more like bashing in) your door because they put 2 and 2 together and got your name from the ISP, the damage is done.
Here are a few reasons why this is a bad idea.
1. You are accountable for any illegal activity that happens on your account. Your neighbor may not be tech savvy, but wait until their nephew or grandson shows up and wreaks havoc on Limewire.
2. I assume this is not a problem for you, but by default, security software usually put the LAN in a trusted zone. Malware may spread quickly on a LAN you do not have control over.
3. If one of them discovers the joys of bittorrent, you can kiss your bandwidth limit goodbye (assuming you have one).
My wi-fi is protected by WPA and MAC filters. It may not be 100% foolproof (what is anyways?), but it will keep most if not all of the trouble out.
I think it's a little pretentious to say it got slashdotted, this goes way beyond/.!
But I do agree, if you want to lay claim to the world record of download, least you could do is make sure you can handle the load.
Let them try. If they write that on that label, they will no doubt have to prove they actually recover the CDs they send, and it's not just there to get around the other judgement. And if the CD is sent unsolicited, then they will have to pay for the return fee or expose themselves to extortion lawsuits or something. Let them try to deal with that logistic nightmare.
Don't know if this is related or not, but they did release a new RC yesterday aimed directly at fixing an old outstanding Mac bug. Don't know if this was the bug they fixed though.
I don't really see this as a problem, at least at home. The list of people I actually don't mind calling me at home is very short. For the rest, let them jump through turing hoops to prove they're human. If it's important, they won't mind, if it isn't important, I didn't want to talk to them anyways.
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How much research do you need to do? This is all common sense. Credit card gets stolen. Number is not good anymore. Service providers need new number.
Twelve hours? How many vendors and services do you deal with? Except for the minor inconvenience of being with a credit card for a few days, there's not much work involved. You update the obvious ones and the ones you forgot about will come running when their payment gets declined.
So if I get my grubby little protuberances on some code that's worth £100m, but I only make £1m with it, I'm okay?
If the prosecutor tries to throw the book at you by overcharging you, then yes.
WHOOOOSH
Have fun getting your luggage through that thing.
Here it is. Godwinned on the first post! A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany
Godwin's law on the first post? Come on give us a chance at least!
No thanks. I'll stick with BitTorrent, if only because I live outside the US, and it won't be available outside the US, for some reason. They don't want me to watch their ads, and it's a good thing because I don't want to watch them either.
Good idea, until they figure out how to cold boot the CPU as well.
If I follow your reasoning, when I pull the power plug from my computer, it becomes bricked because it also has the computational capabilities of a brick at that moment?
Hmmm, I haven't incurred any support expenses on my kids OLPC. My 11-year-old bricked his but he used his sister's and an old camera memory card to fix it himself.
If he fixed it himself it wasn't bricked.
I use TVersity. It really works great and can play most videos I throw at it, and it will reencode the ones it can't play on the fly if you have the necessary hardware specs.
Creationists will be all over this... At least it shows that unlike them, scientists have the capacity to admit it when they're proven wrong.
WHOOOOOOSH. He was referring to the AC post asking a question to which he arguably answered insightfully.
Apparently it is difficult for you too. The original phrase makes more sense than yours, and means exactly what it should mean (i.e. most of what they do is an illusion)
If it's an intel processor doing the math, then yes
You may eventually be able to prove you didn't download that child porn or plot that attack, but when SWAT comes knocking on (more like bashing in) your door because they put 2 and 2 together and got your name from the ISP, the damage is done.
Here are a few reasons why this is a bad idea. 1. You are accountable for any illegal activity that happens on your account. Your neighbor may not be tech savvy, but wait until their nephew or grandson shows up and wreaks havoc on Limewire. 2. I assume this is not a problem for you, but by default, security software usually put the LAN in a trusted zone. Malware may spread quickly on a LAN you do not have control over. 3. If one of them discovers the joys of bittorrent, you can kiss your bandwidth limit goodbye (assuming you have one). My wi-fi is protected by WPA and MAC filters. It may not be 100% foolproof (what is anyways?), but it will keep most if not all of the trouble out.
The article does specify they ordered their US held assets frozen. However, if they're smart, they wouldn't have that much assets held in the US.
I think it's a little pretentious to say it got slashdotted, this goes way beyond /.!
But I do agree, if you want to lay claim to the world record of download, least you could do is make sure you can handle the load.
I guess it got firefoxed...
Let them try. If they write that on that label, they will no doubt have to prove they actually recover the CDs they send, and it's not just there to get around the other judgement. And if the CD is sent unsolicited, then they will have to pay for the return fee or expose themselves to extortion lawsuits or something. Let them try to deal with that logistic nightmare.
Don't know if this is related or not, but they did release a new RC yesterday aimed directly at fixing an old outstanding Mac bug. Don't know if this was the bug they fixed though.
I don't really see this as a problem, at least at home. The list of people I actually don't mind calling me at home is very short. For the rest, let them jump through turing hoops to prove they're human. If it's important, they won't mind, if it isn't important, I didn't want to talk to them anyways.
Whoooooosh!