Thieves won't see that before taking it, and it won't prevent theft or help you get it back. If they decide they can't sell it they'll probably just ditch it in the trash.
Pretty much nothing is going to prevent theft, it's just good to know they won't profit. You might get it back if the police stop them...
It would help if everyone did it though.
You want the average iDevice owner to put an ugly mark on their shiny hardware? LOL.
Even better: Keep backups of the data. Etch your name and telephone number on the glass so the hardware is pretty much unsellable if they steal it. iPads have plenty of black bezel area for that.
Yep. I went to see Titanic 3D because, well, it was 3D. There was nothing new there, nothing I hadn't seen before or couldn't download.
And you know what? It was worth it.
There's also cases of compilation CDs being the biggest sellers of the year, eg. The Beatles compilation a few years ago. Every Beatles fan had all those songs, they can get them on P2P but it's the biggest seller of the year. Go figure.
The RIAA can cry me a river. The world has changed but they haven't offered us anything new in the last 20 years. They're still trying to sell us the Album-on-shiny-disc which you have to sit in a special place of the house to listen to. The Pirates are giving us what we want. Guess who delivers more music?
Right, because no other government could ever find/exploit a backdoor.
Having somebody listen in without you knowing about it is less secure than talking openly. When you talk openly you take basic precautions and don't discuss secrets.
Presumably the real peers won't forward the fake chunks of data to other people so they'll have to set up thousands of IP addresses and some huge servers to make this effective. That's going to cost them a lot of money. Which is a good thing.
It will take a month or so, so maybe we'll suffer a little bit. OTOH the media companies will have been ripped off for millions of dollars by a Russian company with 'Pirate' in their name. This will help me with the transition pains. .
Not only that but it's the perfect excuse to buy all sorts of new high tech toys for the police. Toys which will still be around long after the Olympics are over.
The problem isn't the science, the problem is the newspapers reporting any old science paper as if it were the absolute scientific truth as believed by the majority of scientists.
Combine this with the fact that the ignorant journalists enjoy making scientists look silly in exactly the same way that jocks like picking on nerds at high school and the results are quite predictable.
If I was king I'd make them all live a few weeks without access to any of the products developed by those scientists. Unfortunately I'm not.
You know, I've often wondered why comma delimited became the standard, rather than pipe delimited. You run into a pipe in text data far less often than you run into a comma. No need for text qualifiers with a pipe delimiter. Is MS Excel the culprit?
I'm guessing it's because some PHB though commas looked nicer.
I've gotten so used to Flash updating automatically on Windows....
"Automatically"?
If your definition of "automatic" is several dozen popups and mouse clicks, reading and accepting a new license agreement, etc. every single damn time you switch on a PC then, yes, I guess it's automatic.
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Pulling the phone of his arm must be fun...
Just stick it the side of your head, saves time and you can use shorter cables.
Thieves won't see that before taking it, and it won't prevent theft or help you get it back. If they decide they can't sell it they'll probably just ditch it in the trash.
Pretty much nothing is going to prevent theft, it's just good to know they won't profit. You might get it back if the police stop them...
It would help if everyone did it though.
You want the average iDevice owner to put an ugly mark on their shiny hardware? LOL.
Even better: Keep backups of the data. Etch your name and telephone number on the glass so the hardware is pretty much unsellable if they steal it. iPads have plenty of black bezel area for that.
Yep. I went to see Titanic 3D because, well, it was 3D. There was nothing new there, nothing I hadn't seen before or couldn't download.
And you know what? It was worth it.
There's also cases of compilation CDs being the biggest sellers of the year, eg. The Beatles compilation a few years ago. Every Beatles fan had all those songs, they can get them on P2P but it's the biggest seller of the year. Go figure.
The RIAA can cry me a river. The world has changed but they haven't offered us anything new in the last 20 years. They're still trying to sell us the Album-on-shiny-disc which you have to sit in a special place of the house to listen to. The Pirates are giving us what we want. Guess who delivers more music?
Major fail in summary - subby can't even get the conjecture right.
Wow.
Are you really THAT hateful toward a redesigned Start Menu?
Yes. When it's designed for use on tablets with touchscreens and I'm sat at a desktop machine then it's going to suck rocks.
Right, because no other government could ever find/exploit a backdoor.
Having somebody listen in without you knowing about it is less secure than talking openly. When you talk openly you take basic precautions and don't discuss secrets.
The 'resources' would probably cost more than the RIAA group's income. It's much more likely this is just a scam.
Sure, but it's THEIR definition so they can change it at will.
Presumably the real peers won't forward the fake chunks of data to other people so they'll have to set up thousands of IP addresses and some huge servers to make this effective. That's going to cost them a lot of money. Which is a good thing.
Yep. And by a Russian company with "Pirate" in their name.
Forgive me for what I'm about to type, but: "LOL!"
If this is adopted, P2P will adapt. Period.
It will take a month or so, so maybe we'll suffer a little bit. OTOH the media companies will have been ripped off for millions of dollars by a Russian company with 'Pirate' in their name. This will help me with the transition pains.
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8 notes is three bits each, I don't know how you got to 3 bytes from two consecutive notes...
Even two simultaneous notes would only be six bits.
someone to go deaf or partially deaf? Will the UK compensate someone for that life-long disability?
Nah, they'll laugh about it just like they do when police dogs rip people's arms and legs open.
Not only that but it's the perfect excuse to buy all sorts of new high tech toys for the police. Toys which will still be around long after the Olympics are over.
So...what happens to the people operating this device?
"But how was I to know that drivebydownload.secure serves up malware? Or that russianbusinessnetwork.secure would resell my credit card info?"
Even the summary says "vetting process for websites and their operators"...
Anybody know what the nine lines are?
I think you may want a technocracy. I'm not sure that there are any countries currently employing that form of government at the moment however...
I didn't say the exam would be University-entrance level. Very basic stuff would do.
The problem isn't the science, the problem is the newspapers reporting any old science paper as if it were the absolute scientific truth as believed by the majority of scientists.
Combine this with the fact that the ignorant journalists enjoy making scientists look silly in exactly the same way that jocks like picking on nerds at high school and the results are quite predictable.
If I was king I'd make them all live a few weeks without access to any of the products developed by those scientists. Unfortunately I'm not.
I want it via a genuine Microsoft product. Only then will I get the full Bing experience.
I hope it lets me use Bing search. Having Bing search on my TV in my living room would be a dream come true.
You know, I've often wondered why comma delimited became the standard, rather than pipe delimited. You run into a pipe in text data far less often than you run into a comma. No need for text qualifiers with a pipe delimiter. Is MS Excel the culprit?
I'm guessing it's because some PHB though commas looked nicer.
I've gotten so used to Flash updating automatically on Windows....
"Automatically"?
If your definition of "automatic" is several dozen popups and mouse clicks, reading and accepting a new license agreement, etc. every single damn time you switch on a PC then, yes, I guess it's automatic.