I would have thought that they'd have some more fun with him before outing him. Give him a false itinerary that keeps him moving back and forth through the hotel to rooms that don't exist. Stage-whisper around him about "the meeting at 4pm in Meeting Room C". Stuff like that.
Hell, at the very least, they could have man-in-the-middled his wifi connection. Read his report before he filed it. Maybe make some tweaks to it and see what gets overlooked and put on the air. Redirect his Google.com to goatse or something.
Cowards! You're letting the terrorists^H^H^H^H software pirates win! You're supposed to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here. You concede one battle, and what happens? The bastards got illegal and baby-raping MOD CHIPS into every single XBox in North America! Do you remember the raids? Do you remember the stacks of DVDs stored inside clear plastic jewel cases, instead of their majestic neon-green and white ones?
I'm not sure if there really needs to be a case for it. Ebay makes no qualms about bidders and sellers entering a contract, and contract law is pretty well defined as it is.
Ho-hum; there is no lack of options for torrent sites at the moment...
Sure, at the moment. All the more reason to open another one.
One of the main reasons the *AAs won't win the war on terror^H^H^H file sharing is because for every site they take down, two more pop up. This only works if the community is actively popping up sites.
That, and does it really hurt to have TPB 2: The Re-Novaing online? I mean, we all know it won't happen, but what if-- just, hypothetically speaking-- the Swedish government were to cave into foreign corporate pressure, and misuse the local police to raid TPB's servers. Obviously, this could never ever happen. But if it did, wouldn't it be nice to still have complete and total access via an identical, but autonomous portal?
I'm surprised TorrentSpy didn't decide to do something like "Sure, we'll turn over all our logs. Of course, in order to conserve disk space and cpu time, we've shut off logging, but that's besides the point, right?"
They deserve a refund because that, too, is company policy. Read the back of any ticket (or their terms and conditions if posted elsewhere), and you'll find a phrase along the lines of
Management reserves the right to refuse entrance or eject patrons for any reason by refunding the full price of their ticket.
This is mainly if someone is asked to leave, they can't counter with "I paid for the movie, I'm staying". By refunding the ticket, there's no chance at all that there's an "implied contract" or anything allowing the patron to stay after they've been asked to leave private property. It's mostly a "cover your ass" move-- think about how it would look if they booted some disruptive patrons 10 minutes into the movie, and refused to refund their ticket.
So yes, I do believe these people should get a refund on their ticket. At the very least.
This is probably what did happen, but not what should have happened. They seemed to skip a couple points of escalation. The usher should have gone down, flicked a light in their face, and said "Don't do that". I'm pretty sure that would have jolted some sense back into them. Kinda like if you parked in a No Parking zone by mistake, and someone said "You know you can't park there", rather than calling to tow truck company.
If they whipped it out again (the cell phone cam, you perv!), then they've been warned. The manager should have marched down, and told them they now have to leave the theater. He'd refund their ticket, and it would be a lesson learned.
The association can go on all they want about no being able to train their managers to be judge and jury, but y'know what? If your managers can't figure out how to handle minor situations like this, hire different managers. I mean, this is Theatre Management 101 stuff here. This is a goshdamn INTERVIEW question. "You're on shift, and one of your ushers reports he saw some kids using a camera phone. What do you do?"
I don't buy the theater's "We can't train our managers", and I don't buy any "I was just following orders" from the manager. This whole situation is just a big pile of derailed common sense. If the kids had displayed it, they wouldn't have taped the movie. If the manager had displayed it, he wouldn't have called the police. And if the theater displayed it, they wouldn't have pressed charges.
You can download just fine on Rogers. I sure do. Just be sure to use the "Encrypt Traffic" option on Azureus, and set yourself up with a non-standard port. Check out the Azureus Wiki on NAT Problems on how to do this. I suggest using a port like 25522 or something like that.
I'm wondering what the arguments are going to be...
Given everything I've learned about Rockstar Games from the media, I'd assume their argument would have to be:
Unban our game or we'll fucking kill you and rape your daughter then kill your wife with your daughter's bloodied still breathing body and then steal your car and drive it into a station full of police-puppies and make them all explode you fucking coffee-fucking assholes.
* Probably less spam. Tighter controls will make it harder for spammers to get their unwanted traffic into the intertubes.
Correction, less unauthorized spam. You'll get more than your daily dose of Real Official Good For You spam straight from whoever owns the Internext.
* Better security. Locking the internet down will help somewhat in keeping the criminal element out, because it will (theoretically) be a lot easier to trace where they're coming from.
I'd lean heavily on the "theoretically" part. There's still registered handguns killing people, licensed drivers doing illegal things on the road, and scammers using Ma Bell's network. The Internext might change the frequency and face of Bad Shit Going Down, but won't eliminate it.
Rent a huge underground cavern. Preferably one with lots of wallspace, and an underground river. Then, employ a small order of monks. Stick them down in the cavern, then seal it up except for some air vents and pneumatic tubes. Every day, send them down the daily reports via tube, and have them etch it into the wall. All you have to do to maintain the system is send down a weekly supply of rice mush and fish heads, flavoured by the mushrooms that are sure to grow in the dark. Maybe yearly replacements for their hand-crank lights. They can use the report paper for their musings, or TP, or whatever.
The system is write once, and is permanent. (At least, the cavern walls will be around much longer than your company can ever hope to be). If anyone does manage to sneak in to change a record, the monks will hear them and judo-chop-fu their intruding ass.
The system is secure, since you control the only input point. You can add layers of security by working out an authentication code with the monks, posting loyal guards around the tube entrance, etc.
If you did your homework properly and got yourself some of those scrupulous, herb eating monks, the system is reliable has great longevity. Bonus points if you found an co-ed order, because then you have a self-replicating system.
If you ever need to retrieve the records, just reverse the flow of the tube. If you need a full system audit, blast a hole in the ceiling and lower the auditor in. Just seal up the hole afterwards with plenty of concrete. (Removing the auditor is optional)
Get ready for the high-tech beach? Alright! I'll go put on my high-tech speedo. It's like a regular bathing suit, but with SMS!
Seriously, though-- if every beach in the world is going to be overrun by loud-mouthed douches talking to Bob about the documents for my entire vacation, I'm hiring that guy from the old comic book ads to come around and deliver some sand-kicking!
As gas prices increases, delivery-based businesses become even more unprofitable. Or more expensive. Or, more likely, both. I hope you don't think that delivery companies get free gas.
Everyone's so focused on "beaming" the energy down. How boring.
I think we should have a gigantic kinetic-energy capturing device in the middle of a desert. Something akin to a bicycle pedal that turns a wheel. Then, you chuck massive rocks at it from space.
You can even turn it into a international sport. If you hit, the wheel spins, and your country gets the generated energy and another toss. If you miss, you cause a mucking huge "explosion", make a crater, and give the launcher up to the next team.
Even if the atmosphere isn't as thick, it's still an atmosphere. Mach 4 is 1361.1 m/s. The escape velocity of Mars is 5.027 km/s. If you enter at Mach 4, you have nowhere to go but down. Deploy a large enough glider, and you will glide. Since the atmosphere isn't a vacuum, there will be drag. Fly around long enough, and you will slow down enough to glide safely in. I'd rather spend a few hours circling the runway than six seconds ramming into it.
Then why not drop a robot bulldozer onto Mars via airbags. Once it lands, have it build a huge, flat landing strip. Then just land on Mars. Just fly around the planet a few times to shed off a few machs using air brakes or retro-rockets or whatever. Then glide in, land, and voila! You're on Mars.
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This bug's just six words long
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051226-5842 .html
That's from 2005! Did they just never follow through? What happened?
Hell, at the very least, they could have man-in-the-middled his wifi connection. Read his report before he filed it. Maybe make some tweaks to it and see what gets overlooked and put on the air. Redirect his Google.com to goatse or something.
Posting his picture is so-- boring.
Cowards! You're letting the terrorists^H^H^H^H software pirates win! You're supposed to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here. You concede one battle, and what happens? The bastards got illegal and baby-raping MOD CHIPS into every single XBox in North America! Do you remember the raids? Do you remember the stacks of DVDs stored inside clear plastic jewel cases, instead of their majestic neon-green and white ones?
I'm not sure if there really needs to be a case for it. Ebay makes no qualms about bidders and sellers entering a contract, and contract law is pretty well defined as it is.
Sure, at the moment. All the more reason to open another one.
One of the main reasons the *AAs won't win the war on terror^H^H^H file sharing is because for every site they take down, two more pop up. This only works if the community is actively popping up sites.
That, and does it really hurt to have TPB 2: The Re-Novaing online? I mean, we all know it won't happen, but what if-- just, hypothetically speaking-- the Swedish government were to cave into foreign corporate pressure, and misuse the local police to raid TPB's servers. Obviously, this could never ever happen. But if it did, wouldn't it be nice to still have complete and total access via an identical, but autonomous portal?
I'm surprised TorrentSpy didn't decide to do something like "Sure, we'll turn over all our logs. Of course, in order to conserve disk space and cpu time, we've shut off logging, but that's besides the point, right?"
This is mainly if someone is asked to leave, they can't counter with "I paid for the movie, I'm staying". By refunding the ticket, there's no chance at all that there's an "implied contract" or anything allowing the patron to stay after they've been asked to leave private property. It's mostly a "cover your ass" move-- think about how it would look if they booted some disruptive patrons 10 minutes into the movie, and refused to refund their ticket.
So yes, I do believe these people should get a refund on their ticket. At the very least.
If they whipped it out again (the cell phone cam, you perv!), then they've been warned. The manager should have marched down, and told them they now have to leave the theater. He'd refund their ticket, and it would be a lesson learned.
The association can go on all they want about no being able to train their managers to be judge and jury, but y'know what? If your managers can't figure out how to handle minor situations like this, hire different managers. I mean, this is Theatre Management 101 stuff here. This is a goshdamn INTERVIEW question. "You're on shift, and one of your ushers reports he saw some kids using a camera phone. What do you do?"
I don't buy the theater's "We can't train our managers", and I don't buy any "I was just following orders" from the manager. This whole situation is just a big pile of derailed common sense. If the kids had displayed it, they wouldn't have taped the movie. If the manager had displayed it, he wouldn't have called the police. And if the theater displayed it, they wouldn't have pressed charges.
You can download just fine on Rogers. I sure do. Just be sure to use the "Encrypt Traffic" option on Azureus, and set yourself up with a non-standard port. Check out the Azureus Wiki on NAT Problems on how to do this. I suggest using a port like 25522 or something like that.
PROPOSED IPv6 Cutover.
Proposed.
Harry Doyle: That's all we got, one goddamn hit?
Assistant: You can't say goddamn on the air.
Harry Doyle: Don't worry, nobody is listening anyway.
Given everything I've learned about Rockstar Games from the media, I'd assume their argument would have to be:
A couple disagreements:
Correction, less unauthorized spam. You'll get more than your daily dose of Real Official Good For You spam straight from whoever owns the Internext.
I'd lean heavily on the "theoretically" part. There's still registered handguns killing people, licensed drivers doing illegal things on the road, and scammers using Ma Bell's network. The Internext might change the frequency and face of Bad Shit Going Down, but won't eliminate it.
Strange, based on the story five minutes ago, I thought the expansion was going to be something like WoW: Terrorist Training Grounds
GWB_TheDecider says hlp ne1! were find Osama need hlp w raid!
The system is write once, and is permanent. (At least, the cavern walls will be around much longer than your company can ever hope to be). If anyone does manage to sneak in to change a record, the monks will hear them and judo-chop-fu their intruding ass.
The system is secure, since you control the only input point. You can add layers of security by working out an authentication code with the monks, posting loyal guards around the tube entrance, etc.
If you did your homework properly and got yourself some of those scrupulous, herb eating monks, the system is reliable has great longevity. Bonus points if you found an co-ed order, because then you have a self-replicating system.
If you ever need to retrieve the records, just reverse the flow of the tube. If you need a full system audit, blast a hole in the ceiling and lower the auditor in. Just seal up the hole afterwards with plenty of concrete. (Removing the auditor is optional)
Seriously, though-- if every beach in the world is going to be overrun by loud-mouthed douches talking to Bob about the documents for my entire vacation, I'm hiring that guy from the old comic book ads to come around and deliver some sand-kicking!
As gas prices increases, delivery-based businesses become even more unprofitable. Or more expensive. Or, more likely, both. I hope you don't think that delivery companies get free gas.
I think we should have a gigantic kinetic-energy capturing device in the middle of a desert. Something akin to a bicycle pedal that turns a wheel. Then, you chuck massive rocks at it from space.
You can even turn it into a international sport. If you hit, the wheel spins, and your country gets the generated energy and another toss. If you miss, you cause a mucking huge "explosion", make a crater, and give the launcher up to the next team.
The TV rights alone could pay for the system.
From Episode 907 - Hobgoblins
As "music" from soundtrack plays: Note note note note note note other note
Even if the atmosphere isn't as thick, it's still an atmosphere. Mach 4 is 1361.1 m/s. The escape velocity of Mars is 5.027 km/s. If you enter at Mach 4, you have nowhere to go but down. Deploy a large enough glider, and you will glide. Since the atmosphere isn't a vacuum, there will be drag. Fly around long enough, and you will slow down enough to glide safely in. I'd rather spend a few hours circling the runway than six seconds ramming into it.
Then why not drop a robot bulldozer onto Mars via airbags. Once it lands, have it build a huge, flat landing strip. Then just land on Mars. Just fly around the planet a few times to shed off a few machs using air brakes or retro-rockets or whatever. Then glide in, land, and voila! You're on Mars.
I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. What do you mean, bad?
That is because you are crazy.