I doubt the people that stole the game are complaining -- the people whose keys were hacked or stolen now have disabled accounts with little or no recourse.
Except for those people that have other games on Steam and were banned. Not only can they not play their illegal copy of HL2, but they can't play the Steam games that they obtained legitimately.
It would be interesting to see how they design stations which have a large amount of congestion at various times of the day. I'm guess their graphic is a typical station, but the waiting traffic would easily overrun the main track in even the smallest city.
I was thinking the same thing. As someone who uses the Metro in DC I'm skeptical that this would work. I can just imagine if there is a queue of people at one station, and the station after that one has a lot of people wanting to get on but no one getting off then this would lead to some very long wait times.
Perhaps if they were able to incorporate larger pods for groups of people it would help with the problems. This would also be good for large families, traveling groups, persons with wheelchairs, etc.
How long until an entry level machine needs 3 phase power, 16GB ram, terabyte hard drives and networking quick enough to stream the entire iTMS all at once...
Isn't that the recommended specs for Duke Nukem Forever? Sounds like we'll be waiting a while.
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are so AMD-biased, I don't even bother reading them any more, especialy when it's related to the latest AMD or Intel chips.
This sounds so familiar to me... kind of like a MAC fan that won't even consider the competition as a viable option. Perhaps it is just you that is biased and not Anandtech and Tom's.
AMD has come out with some very solid CPUs lately, and frankly I think they deserve the recognition. When Intel comes out with its next flagship processor that topples AMD you can be sure that you'll hear about it on these sites.
Or how about how long will it take for some pedeophile to get ahold of one of these tokens?
Instead of relying on children to take their word of how old they claim to be, the kids could be fooled by a false sense of security with these IDs.
Peodophile: I'm an 11 y/o kid honest... see my Verisign token proves it.
Kid: Wow, you're right. Want to go hang out?
And won't the NMPA and RIAA start to female-dog about it being a copyright infringement tool?
They female-dog about everything anyways. They constantly go around peeing the carpet and chewing the shoes of the very people that feed them. Female-dogs indeed.
...The National Weather Service has announced it will offer early warnings for natural
disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes to subscribers of its new "Stay Alive Platinum" service.
The policeman was not acting under orders from the head librarian to go out in the land and stop any and all bandwidth-stealing priests that may be roaming the nearby countryside.
This is probably true that the library did not inform the police officer that someone was using their open wifi outside, but clearly the officer knew of this rule before the "incident".
It is not as if a police officer must be told about a crime (in this case, to me, "crime" seems a little harsh) when they witness one in order to enforce the law, especially if its on public property.
RTFA. May I quote?
..."but it's a new law, sir; 'theft of signal"...
"Is this a state law?" I asked.
"It's a federal law, sir; a Secret Service agent came and explained it to us."
Yes I did read that. I was replying to the parents comment,
"The real point here is a federal law that stops you from using WiFi outside, or the fact that it's interpreted that way."
I stand by my statement that there is no law that prohibits the use of wifi outside and any law enforcement officer that says otherwise is full of it.
The real point here is a federal law that stops you from using WiFi outside, or the fact that it's interpreted that way.
There's no such law, and the officer said no such thing. What he did say was it was "signal theft". It sounds like the library has a policy in place against anyone from using their network from outside the building. The library is certainly free to put policies like this in place since it is their network, and even enforce such policies.
Regardless of the analogy, it simply is not "stealing", no matter what some judge decided.
You're right it's not "stealing", it's called unauthorized access. If the preist had been passively sniffing packets off a wireless signal then that is perfectly legal (or at least there are no laws against that yet). When you connect to someone elses network you need permission to do so. Sometimes permission is implied such as with an open wireless network.
If the library decides that they only want users to access the network from within their building they can do that, and is also up to them to enforce their policy.
The police officer may have been slightly confused about the law, as are many uniform officers in my experience. He said it was signal theft like if you stole from someone elses cable TV connection. Even if my neighbor gave me permission to split his cable TV connection to my house I beleive that is cable theft. There are laws that protect cable TV companies from this type of theft. Now we all know that if my neighbor wanted to share his bandwidth with me that he could do so without either of us breaking the law.
So in other words... passive sniffing and you're in the clear... connect to an AP you need permission.
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I'd especially like to see how the Alliance is going to spy on me and my Horde buddies when they can't even understand what we're saying.
I doubt the people that stole the game are complaining -- the people whose keys were hacked or stolen now have disabled accounts with little or no recourse.
Except for those people that have other games on Steam and were banned. Not only can they not play their illegal copy of HL2, but they can't play the Steam games that they obtained legitimately.
It would be interesting to see how they design stations which have a large amount of congestion at various times of the day. I'm guess their graphic is a typical station, but the waiting traffic would easily overrun the main track in even the smallest city.
I was thinking the same thing. As someone who uses the Metro in DC I'm skeptical that this would work. I can just imagine if there is a queue of people at one station, and the station after that one has a lot of people wanting to get on but no one getting off then this would lead to some very long wait times.
Perhaps if they were able to incorporate larger pods for groups of people it would help with the problems. This would also be good for large families, traveling groups, persons with wheelchairs, etc.
I obfuscate my code you insensitive clod!
How long until an entry level machine needs 3 phase power, 16GB ram, terabyte hard drives and networking quick enough to stream the entire iTMS all at once...
Isn't that the recommended specs for Duke Nukem Forever? Sounds like we'll be waiting a while.
Great. Here's where I can get into the corporate BS, thanks.
At least he's honest.
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are so AMD-biased, I don't even bother reading them any more, especialy when it's related to the latest AMD or Intel chips.
This sounds so familiar to me... kind of like a MAC fan that won't even consider the competition as a viable option. Perhaps it is just you that is biased and not Anandtech and Tom's.
AMD has come out with some very solid CPUs lately, and frankly I think they deserve the recognition. When Intel comes out with its next flagship processor that topples AMD you can be sure that you'll hear about it on these sites.
The TV probably gained sentience and realized the crap that was being fed to it. It responded in the only way it knew how.
Responded by not changing the channel, turning itself off? I'd like to think it was just trying to order a pizza.
Hey Netsky! Nice code, did your mommmy write it for you?!
Hey MyDoom! Yes she did, and she just pwned you!
Personally I can't wait for the double secret special edition to come out on DVD. I hear Mel has changed it to suck rather than just blow!
Repeat after me: "You have no right to privacy in public." (especially when you are outdoors)
And especially if you're an attractive woman that likes to leave her curtains open.
when I put tinfoil all over the roof of my house... but who's laughing now?
We are. At you.
Or how about how long will it take for some pedeophile to get ahold of one of these tokens?
Instead of relying on children to take their word of how old they claim to be, the kids could be fooled by a false sense of security with these IDs.
Peodophile: I'm an 11 y/o kid honest... see my Verisign token proves it.
Kid: Wow, you're right. Want to go hang out?
If Windows hadn't crashed. 5 minutes and I think it's time for another reboot.
And won't the NMPA and RIAA start to female-dog about it being a copyright infringement tool?
They female-dog about everything anyways. They constantly go around peeing the carpet and chewing the shoes of the very people that feed them. Female-dogs indeed.
In other words, A9 is NSFW? Nice feature.
...The National Weather Service has announced it will offer early warnings for natural
disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes to subscribers of its new "Stay Alive Platinum" service.
This is the greatest case of false advertising I've seen since I sued the movie The Never Ending Story.
The policeman was not acting under orders from the head librarian to go out in the land and stop any and all bandwidth-stealing priests that may be roaming the nearby countryside.
This is probably true that the library did not inform the police officer that someone was using their open wifi outside, but clearly the officer knew of this rule before the "incident".
It is not as if a police officer must be told about a crime (in this case, to me, "crime" seems a little harsh) when they witness one in order to enforce the law, especially if its on public property.
RTFA. May I quote?
..."but it's a new law, sir; 'theft of signal"...
"Is this a state law?" I asked.
"It's a federal law, sir; a Secret Service agent came and explained it to us."
Yes I did read that. I was replying to the parents comment,
"The real point here is a federal law that stops you from using WiFi outside, or the fact that it's interpreted that way."
I stand by my statement that there is no law that prohibits the use of wifi outside and any law enforcement officer that says otherwise is full of it.
The real point here is a federal law that stops you from using WiFi outside, or the fact that it's interpreted that way.
There's no such law, and the officer said no such thing. What he did say was it was "signal theft". It sounds like the library has a policy in place against anyone from using their network from outside the building. The library is certainly free to put policies like this in place since it is their network, and even enforce such policies.
Regardless of the analogy, it simply is not "stealing", no matter what some judge decided. You're right it's not "stealing", it's called unauthorized access. If the preist had been passively sniffing packets off a wireless signal then that is perfectly legal (or at least there are no laws against that yet). When you connect to someone elses network you need permission to do so. Sometimes permission is implied such as with an open wireless network. If the library decides that they only want users to access the network from within their building they can do that, and is also up to them to enforce their policy. The police officer may have been slightly confused about the law, as are many uniform officers in my experience. He said it was signal theft like if you stole from someone elses cable TV connection. Even if my neighbor gave me permission to split his cable TV connection to my house I beleive that is cable theft. There are laws that protect cable TV companies from this type of theft. Now we all know that if my neighbor wanted to share his bandwidth with me that he could do so without either of us breaking the law. So in other words... passive sniffing and you're in the clear... connect to an AP you need permission.