Oh I agree, it's incredibly useful. LOL! You have to watch this! Click here to see a funny video and share your bank account details.
18 of your friends Like this video,
I predict the day Facebook introduces a bank is the day people stop using it.
It's one thing to have friends of friends commenting on your dumb photos or status updates, but having those same people one click/exploit/phish away from your bank account? Even the most security clueless of Facebook users are going to feel uncomfortable about that.
Every enhancement and change a developer makes to software might fail occasionally, and the honest paying customer gets hurt. That's why you test these things and offer support to your paying customers. Piracy detection is no different in this regard.
I can understand pirating a $50 game because you want to stick it to the publisher or you want to try it out before shelling out, pirating something that costs $10 strikes me as a remarkably pointless gesture.
What on earth makes you think it's a "gesture"? Come to that, what makes you think that pirating the $50 game is a "gesture" either? Stop assigning higher motives to things that are far more easily attributed to "getting stuff for free".
Unfortunately Top Gear is not only very popular , but also still believed to have elements of factual content by many people. So naturally anything that trashes their car on the show is going to adversely affect Tesla's reputation and sales.
Personally I think they have a sound case for this legal action. Top Gear faked events and then presented them as fact. Claiming afterwards that they were simulations of what might happen is total BS. Any other car they test might spin off the track and kill Clarkson in a fossil-fuel fed explosion. But you don't see them simulating that.
This is just a badly laid out webpage, so that the section about the risks of having an open wireless router is listed alongside examples of what may be copyright infringement. Anyone with half a brain would realise this. But I guess stirring up a fuss about absolutely nothing is a surer way of getting your story on Slashdot.
When you're developing software two monitors allows you to have your application open, as it would be used by the end user, and also have desktop space for working on it.
Homosexual attraction, like any other kind of sexual preference, is influenced by a variety of factors; most important of all of those factors is conditioning (like, allowing/encouraging yourself to think homosexual thoughts, or hanging around with homosexuals, for example)
That's funny, I was more thinking that was more like a description, and the cause, of bigotry. Stop hanging out with bigots and you're less likely to think like one.
I can't help but feel that the Shlomi Fish is really, really naive. He actually believes that trolls have a point they want to get across, which can act as the starting point to what could turn into a reasonable discussion. This is just laughably wrong.
Trolls have no point other than to provoke. The point of trolling is to troll. They could not care less (to use his example) whether Perl or Python is better. They do not want to discuss the merits of either. They want attention. They want reactions, and as long as you're prepared to waste your time giving one they're happy to keep provoking.
Really, the only merit to the "negotiate" response is that it's too tame and not emotive enough for most trolls. You may be willing to provide calm and reasoned responses, but the troll won't respond in kind. You can only hope that they get bored, which is exactly what DNFTT achieves, without wasting your time.
I don't care for your (oligatory) car example. Here's a better one.
You leave your car parked while you go to the store. It has a new shiny red paint job and looks glorious. You come back and someone has scratched their key all the way up the side of it.
The vandal is still guilty and everything, but you are stupid for going out in a shiny red car. You should know, if not completely ignorant, that there are vandals who get pleasure out of damaging shiny paintwork. So you should paint your car blotchy matt puce green, or not drive it.
Ask your friends, they'll tell you how stupid you were being. You're tempting otherwise innocent citizens to get their keys out and commit a crime they would never dream of otherwise. Stay at home, and for god sake, cover that car up. We don't care how great it looks, have you no shame?
The particle flux is part of God's creation too. We wouldn't 'tolerate' it, we would rejoice in it as evidence of his bountiful provision of life-affirming radiation for us, his children. For without it we wouldn't be as we would be, and what are the chances of that happening through accidental evolution? Not much!
Standard procedure at this point is to blame the users; "I don't like using this." "What are you, a retard?"
I love Linux, but facts are for the average user its desktop experience is not as pleasant as Windows. Now you can blame anyone you like about that; it's the users' because they can't/won't learn anything different, it's the hardware vendors for not providing appropriate drivers, it's the developers for writing impenetrable half-assed documentation, but the end result is the same. And the bottom line is never going to go away; if your software isn't liked by users then it's your problem, not theirs.
If we can see all the way around the sun, Planet X can never hide behind it again, or sneak out from behind it when we're asleep and crash into the Earth. Thanks NASA!
Like everybody, I imagine, when the submission mentioned "RopeCon" I immediately thought of the role-playing convention held annually in Finland. Not a day goes by without ol' RopeCon being a topic of conversation in my household, I can tell you! But thanks to the submitter's wisdom I was thoughtfully steered away from this potentially embarrassing misunderstanding.
Who knows what kind of hilarious, cross-purpose confusion would have arisen on these pages otherwise? They are such similar subjects that no-one could be blamed for confusing the two.
Except it invites the frequent misunderstanding that evolution = progress, evolved = better. Progress is a value judgement, i.e. an outside agent is deciding if, from their point of view, things are improving. The car industry has the customer to perform this. Evolution has no such agent. Evolution doesn't remember how things were with Model T dinosaurs, and has no opinion whether GPS equipped pigeons are an improvement or not. Evolution is not progress, it's just change. Evolved is not better, it's just different.
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Oh I agree, it's incredibly useful. LOL! You have to watch this! Click here to see a funny video and share your bank account details. 18 of your friends Like this video,
Thanks for nothing, buddy. You've just totally ruined my plot for world domination by inventing Web 3.1.
Why is there always one flaw in the plan you don't anticipate?
I predict the day Facebook introduces a bank is the day people stop using it.
It's one thing to have friends of friends commenting on your dumb photos or status updates, but having those same people one click/exploit/phish away from your bank account? Even the most security clueless of Facebook users are going to feel uncomfortable about that.
Every enhancement and change a developer makes to software might fail occasionally, and the honest paying customer gets hurt. That's why you test these things and offer support to your paying customers. Piracy detection is no different in this regard.
I can understand pirating a $50 game because you want to stick it to the publisher or you want to try it out before shelling out, pirating something that costs $10 strikes me as a remarkably pointless gesture.
What on earth makes you think it's a "gesture"? Come to that, what makes you think that pirating the $50 game is a "gesture" either? Stop assigning higher motives to things that are far more easily attributed to "getting stuff for free".
Unfortunately Top Gear is not only very popular , but also still believed to have elements of factual content by many people. So naturally anything that trashes their car on the show is going to adversely affect Tesla's reputation and sales.
Personally I think they have a sound case for this legal action. Top Gear faked events and then presented them as fact. Claiming afterwards that they were simulations of what might happen is total BS. Any other car they test might spin off the track and kill Clarkson in a fossil-fuel fed explosion. But you don't see them simulating that.
This is just a badly laid out webpage, so that the section about the risks of having an open wireless router is listed alongside examples of what may be copyright infringement. Anyone with half a brain would realise this. But I guess stirring up a fuss about absolutely nothing is a surer way of getting your story on Slashdot.
Nuh uh! I filed a patent on methods of filing patents. You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
It's on the north coast.
Yeah, nasty, ugly places like Dounreay in Caithness. Horrid place.
Duh. One of the most obvious things about Angry Birds is they don't have wings. Or feet.
What they do have is a catapult, high explosives and pathological hatred of pigs. So nothing at all like these birds.
When you're developing software two monitors allows you to have your application open, as it would be used by the end user, and also have desktop space for working on it.
Homosexual attraction, like any other kind of sexual preference, is influenced by a variety of factors; most important of all of those factors is conditioning (like, allowing/encouraging yourself to think homosexual thoughts, or hanging around with homosexuals, for example)
That's funny, I was more thinking that was more like a description, and the cause, of bigotry. Stop hanging out with bigots and you're less likely to think like one.
I see laptops as desktops with the expansion slots and mouse missing. So why are similarly specced laptops more expensive than desktops?
Why, it's almost as if, sometimes, less is more!
I can't help but feel that the Shlomi Fish is really, really naive. He actually believes that trolls have a point they want to get across, which can act as the starting point to what could turn into a reasonable discussion. This is just laughably wrong.
Trolls have no point other than to provoke. The point of trolling is to troll. They could not care less (to use his example) whether Perl or Python is better. They do not want to discuss the merits of either. They want attention. They want reactions, and as long as you're prepared to waste your time giving one they're happy to keep provoking.
Really, the only merit to the "negotiate" response is that it's too tame and not emotive enough for most trolls. You may be willing to provide calm and reasoned responses, but the troll won't respond in kind. You can only hope that they get bored, which is exactly what DNFTT achieves, without wasting your time.
Let me guess; you don't have many friends.
But your reasoning is sound. Heaven forbid that you should find yourself wasting time on some sub-human plebeian without a PhD.
...for who knows what reason.
Well now you know.
I don't care for your (oligatory) car example. Here's a better one.
You leave your car parked while you go to the store. It has a new shiny red paint job and looks glorious. You come back and someone has scratched their key all the way up the side of it.
The vandal is still guilty and everything, but you are stupid for going out in a shiny red car. You should know, if not completely ignorant, that there are vandals who get pleasure out of damaging shiny paintwork. So you should paint your car blotchy matt puce green, or not drive it.
Ask your friends, they'll tell you how stupid you were being. You're tempting otherwise innocent citizens to get their keys out and commit a crime they would never dream of otherwise. Stay at home, and for god sake, cover that car up. We don't care how great it looks, have you no shame?
The particle flux is part of God's creation too. We wouldn't 'tolerate' it, we would rejoice in it as evidence of his bountiful provision of life-affirming radiation for us, his children. For without it we wouldn't be as we would be, and what are the chances of that happening through accidental evolution? Not much!
This is an estimate, you'll note. But not just any estimate, it's the first accurate estimate.
Were previous estimates wild guesses made just for a laugh, with no expectation of accuracy?
And won't the next estimate researched be able to claim the same milestone, for all the same reasons?
Oh, no, no, nooo!
Standard procedure at this point is to blame the users; "I don't like using this." "What are you, a retard?"
I love Linux, but facts are for the average user its desktop experience is not as pleasant as Windows. Now you can blame anyone you like about that; it's the users' because they can't/won't learn anything different, it's the hardware vendors for not providing appropriate drivers, it's the developers for writing impenetrable half-assed documentation, but the end result is the same. And the bottom line is never going to go away; if your software isn't liked by users then it's your problem, not theirs.
At long last Planet X can be revealed!
If we can see all the way around the sun, Planet X can never hide behind it again, or sneak out from behind it when we're asleep and crash into the Earth. Thanks NASA!
Like everybody, I imagine, when the submission mentioned "RopeCon" I immediately thought of the role-playing convention held annually in Finland. Not a day goes by without ol' RopeCon being a topic of conversation in my household, I can tell you! But thanks to the submitter's wisdom I was thoughtfully steered away from this potentially embarrassing misunderstanding.
Who knows what kind of hilarious, cross-purpose confusion would have arisen on these pages otherwise? They are such similar subjects that no-one could be blamed for confusing the two.
Not a bad analogy, as car analogies go.
Except it invites the frequent misunderstanding that evolution = progress, evolved = better. Progress is a value judgement, i.e. an outside agent is deciding if, from their point of view, things are improving. The car industry has the customer to perform this. Evolution has no such agent. Evolution doesn't remember how things were with Model T dinosaurs, and has no opinion whether GPS equipped pigeons are an improvement or not. Evolution is not progress, it's just change. Evolved is not better, it's just different.
If the court can subpoena the data it makes not one iota of difference if its public or private. It can be used as evidence.