Don't like violent video games? Don't buy them. Don't want your kids to play violent video games? Don't buy them (why is your kid carrying around $60 in cash and alone at the mall, by the way?). Afraid of your kids playing violent games at a friend's house? Check with the friend's parents -- you should be, anyway.
Even if there is a correlation between violent video games and violence, removing the video games is not the answer. There's a correlation between driving cars and car accidents, too, but we don't ban cars. Education and parental involvement is the best solution, even if it is not the most direct or time efficient.
4) Daeg immediately cancels TiVo service.
5) Daeg looks for a class action lawsuit against TiVo and ABC.
6) Daeg stops watching ABC.
7) Daeg calls local ABC affiliates and tells them that their parent company sucks and he will enjoy watching them die in a sea of fire.
8) Daeg builds MythTV box.
You don't even need to decompile the flash. Unless recent flash versions have changed, the majority of actionscript is almost completely readable directly in the file with little-to-no obfuscation.
We did an interview with these guys long before the SP Times did, when they first started rolling the system out in the Bay area. Supposedly their machines require a normal body temperature and a pulse to be detected and the process can take a few seconds.
Also note that the system is closed. Merchants have no ability to troubleshoot or fix their machines, it requires a full visit by the company. It also requires a broadband connection. Yes, it goes over the Internet. Many, many small stores still use dialup connections for credit card processing.
This system is far from flawless. Realize that this system only pulls funds from other sources such as your bank account. To be secure, all systems would have to go based on fingerprint only and have no other method to withdraw funds. If a criminal can get your money out just by swiping your account number from a check, why would he bother chopping off your finger? Unless he eats it with his peas and carrots, that is.
Also, do you think CSS3 is too complex? Some of it seems nearly impossible to correctly implement across browsers. Is there any consideration going in to the speed and complexity of rendering? I fear that CSS3 (and beyond) are beginning to play into the assumption that all computers will be Pentium 4's with 2 GB of RAM and plenty of clock cycles to spare.
Note that I never said that it justified stealing, and in fact I agree with you. I don't condone piracy. I was just pointing out that the media throws around these figures that come only from the record companies themselves. It is in their interest to overinflate their "losses" to lobby for legislation easier. It also gets more media attention.
Part of the problem as I see it is that there is no way to return these things if we dislike them or they don't work. I realize that it isn't very feasible in some cases, but in the case of games, some games don't play even on recommended specs. Oblivion comes to mind -- my other desktop met the specs on the box. It wouldn't run it. It didn't meet the specs in their help section online, but on the box it did. No store would take an open game back. (It ran flawlessly on my main rig, of course.) Can you imagine the outcry if car dealerships only allowed you to read the manual and look at the exterior of a car before buying it?
I'd like to see a study that looks at if people that pirate software and other copyrighted materials would pay for them to begin with. I'd also like to see a study of the commercial gains from piracy. For instance, downloading an MP3 from a friend of a song. The downloader likes the song, so he buys the entire album from iTunes. He now kmow about the band and enjoy them and will likely purchase more. All I see are press releases from the record and movie industry claiming they "lost" money.
The time lag is largely due to only having an IE team that fixes bugs. They now have a full time team, and according to the MSDN blogs, it looks like the team is to stay even after 7 ships.
Also, they have a developer toolbar for IE now, too, although it isn't quite as powerful as Firefox's yet: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displa ylang=en
From what I've seen with IE7, when it does crash, it is a much cleaner crash than Firefox. I can't count the number of times that Firefox has crashed (that's fine, I expect software to malfunction once in a while) and it takes 3-4 minutes even through task manager to exit it when it hangs. At least with IE7 it closes almost immediately.
Sorry, it was more of a rhetorical question. I know where they get drugs, I know how easy it is. I was just pointing out that if you're going to punish someone, it isn't always prudent to punish the end user.
I personally just don't see how this can help them. The laptops will become bargaining chips. A goat for your laptop. True, their economies aren't doing so hot, if they have anything beyond local barter economies at all. I just think all the effort put into this (and other programs) needs to give these children and adults education they can use now, not 20 years from now. Things like farming economies of scale, farming co-ops, and what kinds of crops to plant where and when. Much of Africa and Asia is limited to a single crop. With the industrialized world backing it, we could easily give them seeds meant for their local environment. Why give them food if you can give them seed and teach them to grow it?
I suppose all of this is moot: any help we can give them is a Good Thing(tm).
Okay, I can see that argument. No problem. I haven't read up entirely on the subject but past posts on Slashdot have implied it was more designed for completely impoverished areas. I apologize.
There is also the misconception that educating Africa and other non-industrialized countries will suddenly make them better. Some areas just aren't meant for human inhabitation. You can only keep them going so long before the environment catches up to them.
Secure connection should not be tied to a verified domain. That is just stupid. Any site should be able to offer secure https for free with no alerts. Now, if they want a verified secure connection, sure, pay up for a certificate. It will give users additional trust in your website ("I see that Verisign has verified these guy... they seem alright").
As a former resident of Wisconsin, cheese is big business. Huge, in fact. Government grants for cheese and other dairy research are nothing new to the University of Wisconsin. Sure, it might appear like a drain on money, but by doing the research in a public setting it benefits all dairy producers whereas private research only benefits the company or co-op sponsoring it. To justify it all you have to do is imagine the tax benefits of even a few percentage points of additional dairy production.
Besides, I back all agricultural research. Food will become the next major world commodity (aside from fuel). It's easy to make potable water, but trying to compensate year after year of lackluster arable ground is foolish. The United States is one, if not the, top contender for arable land and our rank will only increase as the floodplains of the Asian countries are flooded with ocean water with rising sea levels. Seven billion people have to eat somehow.
Is there a source that even tried to identify online stores as a source of credit card numbers? I wouldn't have ever thought that someone would try to use them as a large source.
Very lucky is all. I tend to invest in generally low price stock (not penny stocks). One company I remember in particular nearly tripled in value in less than a day when they announced they were getting bought out (a small mining corp of all things). I've also lost a lot (relative) on a few things. I don't think my "strategy" would be viable on a large scale, otherwise I would probably try it at least for a while. I also got in relatively fairly early on the Google thing and sold high.
I'm in a two-income no-kids (DINK) situation. I'm still paying off student loans. We live very comfortably but I have a strict 20% to retirement rule. For the past two years (roughly) we've been putting 30% into general savings. We could reduce it easily since we both work in very steady industries (him: high rate commercial insurance, me: television station). It is nice to know that just on the general 30% savings one of us can be without work for years and we'd never have to tap retirement. BTW - I'm 22, He's 30. Still a long time until retirement and our health care costs are quite low.
However, as such, that money is invested quite aggressively. I make stock purchases that tend to be risky. Of course, it has paid off even in the short run, with the 30% savings pushing near 45% annual gain (not including additional cash put in).
I'd rather live modestly for a long period of time than live well and spend a lot only to lose a job and have to risk moving back to a frugal lifestyle.
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Obviously the answer is to not use Wikipedia as a factual source for anything.
TiVo users are crazy fanatics, though. Don't fk with our TiVos.
Don't like violent video games? Don't buy them. Don't want your kids to play violent video games? Don't buy them (why is your kid carrying around $60 in cash and alone at the mall, by the way?). Afraid of your kids playing violent games at a friend's house? Check with the friend's parents -- you should be, anyway.
Even if there is a correlation between violent video games and violence, removing the video games is not the answer. There's a correlation between driving cars and car accidents, too, but we don't ban cars. Education and parental involvement is the best solution, even if it is not the most direct or time efficient.
4) Daeg immediately cancels TiVo service. 5) Daeg looks for a class action lawsuit against TiVo and ABC. 6) Daeg stops watching ABC. 7) Daeg calls local ABC affiliates and tells them that their parent company sucks and he will enjoy watching them die in a sea of fire. 8) Daeg builds MythTV box.
You can shove your square peg into my triangular opening any time.
You don't even need to decompile the flash. Unless recent flash versions have changed, the majority of actionscript is almost completely readable directly in the file with little-to-no obfuscation.
What genious linked to a Geocities site from a Slashdot posting? I mean... come on.
We did an interview with these guys long before the SP Times did, when they first started rolling the system out in the Bay area. Supposedly their machines require a normal body temperature and a pulse to be detected and the process can take a few seconds.
Also note that the system is closed. Merchants have no ability to troubleshoot or fix their machines, it requires a full visit by the company. It also requires a broadband connection. Yes, it goes over the Internet. Many, many small stores still use dialup connections for credit card processing.
This system is far from flawless. Realize that this system only pulls funds from other sources such as your bank account. To be secure, all systems would have to go based on fingerprint only and have no other method to withdraw funds. If a criminal can get your money out just by swiping your account number from a check, why would he bother chopping off your finger? Unless he eats it with his peas and carrots, that is.
Was nesting ever considered? For example, instead of:
something like:
Also, do you think CSS3 is too complex? Some of it seems nearly impossible to correctly implement across browsers. Is there any consideration going in to the speed and complexity of rendering? I fear that CSS3 (and beyond) are beginning to play into the assumption that all computers will be Pentium 4's with 2 GB of RAM and plenty of clock cycles to spare.
Do you have a reference on the uranium peak? I'd be interested to read up on that, I wasn't aware that the peak could come that soon.
Note that I never said that it justified stealing, and in fact I agree with you. I don't condone piracy. I was just pointing out that the media throws around these figures that come only from the record companies themselves. It is in their interest to overinflate their "losses" to lobby for legislation easier. It also gets more media attention.
Part of the problem as I see it is that there is no way to return these things if we dislike them or they don't work. I realize that it isn't very feasible in some cases, but in the case of games, some games don't play even on recommended specs. Oblivion comes to mind -- my other desktop met the specs on the box. It wouldn't run it. It didn't meet the specs in their help section online, but on the box it did. No store would take an open game back. (It ran flawlessly on my main rig, of course.) Can you imagine the outcry if car dealerships only allowed you to read the manual and look at the exterior of a car before buying it?
They'll learn, eventually.
I'd like to see a study that looks at if people that pirate software and other copyrighted materials would pay for them to begin with. I'd also like to see a study of the commercial gains from piracy. For instance, downloading an MP3 from a friend of a song. The downloader likes the song, so he buys the entire album from iTunes. He now kmow about the band and enjoy them and will likely purchase more. All I see are press releases from the record and movie industry claiming they "lost" money.
The time lag is largely due to only having an IE team that fixes bugs. They now have a full time team, and according to the MSDN blogs, it looks like the team is to stay even after 7 ships. Also, they have a developer toolbar for IE now, too, although it isn't quite as powerful as Firefox's yet: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displa ylang=en
From what I've seen with IE7, when it does crash, it is a much cleaner crash than Firefox. I can't count the number of times that Firefox has crashed (that's fine, I expect software to malfunction once in a while) and it takes 3-4 minutes even through task manager to exit it when it hangs. At least with IE7 it closes almost immediately.
Sorry, it was more of a rhetorical question. I know where they get drugs, I know how easy it is. I was just pointing out that if you're going to punish someone, it isn't always prudent to punish the end user.
Two wrongs don't make a right. If you are going to punish someone, punish the parents (for minors). How are these kids getting drugs, anyway?
Microsoft already tried placing small items/thumbnails in a "3D" environment. It was called Microsoft Bob and it failed completely.
I personally just don't see how this can help them. The laptops will become bargaining chips. A goat for your laptop. True, their economies aren't doing so hot, if they have anything beyond local barter economies at all. I just think all the effort put into this (and other programs) needs to give these children and adults education they can use now, not 20 years from now. Things like farming economies of scale, farming co-ops, and what kinds of crops to plant where and when. Much of Africa and Asia is limited to a single crop. With the industrialized world backing it, we could easily give them seeds meant for their local environment. Why give them food if you can give them seed and teach them to grow it?
I suppose all of this is moot: any help we can give them is a Good Thing(tm).
Okay, I can see that argument. No problem. I haven't read up entirely on the subject but past posts on Slashdot have implied it was more designed for completely impoverished areas. I apologize. There is also the misconception that educating Africa and other non-industrialized countries will suddenly make them better. Some areas just aren't meant for human inhabitation. You can only keep them going so long before the environment catches up to them.
I'm sure what these starving, malnourished children across the third world will enjoy trying to eat these plastic and metal monstrosities.
Secure connection should not be tied to a verified domain. That is just stupid. Any site should be able to offer secure https for free with no alerts. Now, if they want a verified secure connection, sure, pay up for a certificate. It will give users additional trust in your website ("I see that Verisign has verified these guy... they seem alright").
Surely there is room for a dozen or so people trying to sort out which John or Sarah gets which package since they all have the same name.
As a former resident of Wisconsin, cheese is big business. Huge, in fact. Government grants for cheese and other dairy research are nothing new to the University of Wisconsin. Sure, it might appear like a drain on money, but by doing the research in a public setting it benefits all dairy producers whereas private research only benefits the company or co-op sponsoring it. To justify it all you have to do is imagine the tax benefits of even a few percentage points of additional dairy production.
Besides, I back all agricultural research. Food will become the next major world commodity (aside from fuel). It's easy to make potable water, but trying to compensate year after year of lackluster arable ground is foolish. The United States is one, if not the, top contender for arable land and our rank will only increase as the floodplains of the Asian countries are flooded with ocean water with rising sea levels. Seven billion people have to eat somehow.
Is there a source that even tried to identify online stores as a source of credit card numbers? I wouldn't have ever thought that someone would try to use them as a large source.
Very lucky is all. I tend to invest in generally low price stock (not penny stocks). One company I remember in particular nearly tripled in value in less than a day when they announced they were getting bought out (a small mining corp of all things). I've also lost a lot (relative) on a few things. I don't think my "strategy" would be viable on a large scale, otherwise I would probably try it at least for a while. I also got in relatively fairly early on the Google thing and sold high.
Besides, I enjoy my job.
I'm in a two-income no-kids (DINK) situation. I'm still paying off student loans. We live very comfortably but I have a strict 20% to retirement rule. For the past two years (roughly) we've been putting 30% into general savings. We could reduce it easily since we both work in very steady industries (him: high rate commercial insurance, me: television station). It is nice to know that just on the general 30% savings one of us can be without work for years and we'd never have to tap retirement. BTW - I'm 22, He's 30. Still a long time until retirement and our health care costs are quite low.
However, as such, that money is invested quite aggressively. I make stock purchases that tend to be risky. Of course, it has paid off even in the short run, with the 30% savings pushing near 45% annual gain (not including additional cash put in).
I'd rather live modestly for a long period of time than live well and spend a lot only to lose a job and have to risk moving back to a frugal lifestyle.