One thing many open source projects are lacking is good, solid documentation. There's a thousand minds working on the code, but not all of them know what everything does. Documentation would help, especially when it comes to answering some of the more common questions.
If you pick a project, but don't want to/don't know how to jump right into coding, download the code. Read it over. Document it (comments, docs, faqs, whatever). You'll get to know the code in and out, and in doing so, probably figure out some way to contribute.
Well, that really defeats the purpose of a secret ballot, then.
Then just have a trusted witness. Judges, notaries, court clerks and most religious figures are already authorized to bear witness for official documents. Just have one on hand, or let someone bring their own if there's an issue. The ballot is still a secret, because the person's vote will be held in confidence.
And these guys get arrested for destruction of evidence when they find that the RAM is blank. Un-freaking-believable.
This is something I'd actually be worrying about if I were them. I hope they cover their asses on this one. My suggestion: Comply with the court order by handing over a list of all the RAM sticks that are in production. Then have the courts to arrange for a evidence collector to come in and retrieve the RAM from the servers. Be very careful to specify that you are complying with the request to hand over the RAM, not the servers.
This accomplishes two things. First, it preserves the chain of possession. It will allow the "evidence" to move directly from the source into the courts hands, so the MPAA can't bs anything about it being tampered with.
And second, it takes the responsibility of the care and handling of the evidence out of the defendant's hands. Once the neutral third party comes in, one of three things will happen:
1) They will remove the RAM, and in doing so destroy all the data on it (because that's what WILL happen). The defendants cannot be charged with destroying evidence, because it was not their responsibility to handle it. It was the court's. (Even better if it was a third party of the MPAA's choosing, makes them look like idiots).
2) The third party will have a good laugh, and report back to the courts that it is not possible to physically take the RAM without losing the data on it. The MPAA will look like an idiot for asking, and it will hurt their case. (Even better if it was a third part of the MPAA's choosing, makes them look like idiots-- again).
3) Worst case scenario: The third party shows up with some program to dump the RAM to a USB drive. Hopefully, the defendants can argue against this, saying that they agreed to hand over the physical RAM, but did not authorize a third party to access their system, scan their data, or run any programs on their servers.
Where will you be getting the gold that you will be selling? Do you purchase your initial stock from players? Will the game companies themselves be giving you a cache of cash to turn into cash? How will you keep your supply going? If you need to replenish your stock by yourself, are you going to farm gold, or hire third parties to do it for you?
But Valenti and Lindberg saw potential. On a whim, they started Nakedsword.com, an adult site for gay men..."mainly as an experiment,"... Then something unexpected happened
{snickergiggleteehee}
To that end, New Frontier is obsessive about metadata, watching every frame of every video it digitizes and recording as many attributes as it can.
Obsessively watching porn-- for Metadata tagging. That's they're excuse and they're sticking to it.
"Mobile brings immediate gratification. With the Internet, you have to wait until you get home."
I'm more concerned about a snot-nosed script-kiddie exploiting this. It's very easy:
1) Do as the poster suggests, and harvest a list of valid email addresses
2) Attempt to log on as those users (either by guessing that their username is probably the same as the username in their email address).
3) Repeat step 2 until the user account hits the "too many invalid login attempts" theshold, and gets locked out.
4) Repeat step 2 for every email address you have.
Voila. Service = denied. That user now has to go through the "reactivate my account" procedure, which probably involves several minutes of effort and possibly a Security Question that they might not remember. And if the script kiddie is doing his "job" right, that person will be locked out again by the next time they try to log in.
This can get annoying very quickly, especially on a time-sensitive site like eBay (where you are trying to win an auction), or even a stock-trading site.
Here's a couple ideas that lean towards the "green":
1) Do your entire roof with solar power panels. Hook them into your house. They'll probably never produce enough to need to store excess or feed back into the grid, but they should help your bill a bit.
2) Wind generators on your roof or backyard. Or both. Again, not going to be generating massive levels of electricity, but enough to make a difference.
3) Plan where your computers and televisions will be. Install conduits there that lead directly into your hot-air ducts. Then, run that heat through your house during the cold times, or through your hot-water system during the warm times.
4) A touch-screen PC in your kitchen right near your counter. Use it to load up recipes while you cook. Much better than having a cookbook falling over all the time. Make sure the face of the touchscreen is easily replacable if it gets messy from batter-splatter.
5) A security system that stores everything it records off site, and will drop a GPS-enabled tag onto anyone who trips the alarm. Because what good is all this tech if it's not protected? And what good is proection tech if it will get stolen? And what good is unstealable security tech if it can't help you locate the stolen stuff? =)
Better yet, hook it up to an accelerometer, which is hooked up to a small monitoring CPU. Put the accelerometer into a punching back. Then right it to send a signal once it reaches a certain acceleration (ie: when you hit it long enough).
Then, set the monitor to start a timer once it registers a high enough average acceleration. Set the time for, say, 10 seconds. If you manage to sustain the average acceleration for a long enough time, the monitor will reset the computer for you.
It's not enough to hit something. It's not enough to hit something hard enough. It's only enough to hit something hard enough, repeatedly, for a period of time. Only then will you have worked out your rage. =)
Might I suggest you do a slight remix on your CD as follows:
Instead of a continuous loop of "on hold" muzack, about every 5 minutes, break to a "real" person. Just include a recording of someone saying "Hello? Thanks for holding. How can I help you? (5 second pause) I see. (5 second pause) Yes, yes, yes, I think I can help you with that. Hang on I'll pull up the appropriate documents. I'll just put you on hold for a moment." (5 minute hold) "Sorry about the delay. Computers, y'know? Okay, I've got the documents now. Could you give me the information again?" (10 second pause) "Sorry, I didn't catch that. Could you repeat? Just go a bit slow, my computer's acting up." (15 second pause) "Oh dear. Repeat that last part again?" (5 second pause) "Ooops. I'm not sure who transferred you to me, but I'm afraid I'm the wrong person. That information is Jill's domain. Jill McSaunders. I'll transfer you to her department right away." (back to "on hold" music for 5 minutes.
Then break to a recording of "Jill", which is just a variation of above. Record as many as you feel needed. If you can ever get to the end of a ~80 minute CD and get them connected back to the first "person", you win.
Alternatively, the last 5 minutes is the candidate they're looking for, who "sets up" a lunch meeting for the following Friday. =)
That's fine and all, but answer this-- did they get a release form from the driver in question/flames?
I mean, if you're going to claim you own the footage, then you have to take responsibility to securing the rights to use the images of everyone who appears. I don't see a signed, dated Model Release. And no, you can't just build it into the unsigned "contract" of using the turnpike. Not only is the turnpike public, but from the best I can see, even if it was, the driver wasn't on the turnpike. At least, most of him wasn't.
I would think that the Zune team should be working on making a better mp3 player instead of trying to guilt trip MS employees into giving up their iPods.
Especially since those now-iPodless employees will quickly go into withdrawal, and go buy another iPod. So not only would the plan not increase the sale of the Zune (since the "amnesty" Zunes would be free), but they've in face increased the number of iPods being sold.
All the teachers would need to do is smash the phone of any kid caught sending these messages in class.
An "F" or detention is much simpler.
Actually, an airhorn is even more efficient. I mean, if some snot is allowed to make noise and disrupt my class, then by all rights, I should be able to do the same thing. With an air horn. Right next to their head. Every time their cell rings.
Already got a ton of them. A local warehouse shop had a bulk deal on them. Glad I did, because a regular wireless keyboard+mouse goes through them mighty fast.
I guess you're right about the Optimus eating batteries:
Maybe they are doing a bitorrent-in-the-browser thing. There's nothing to say that someone can't hack together a nice Flash-based instance of a Bitorrent client. {shrug} It'd probably be slow as heck, but it'd be non-hosted.
Or they'll do a hybrid. Host low-peer files, and torrent popular ones.
22% interest on 14K over 72 monthly payments (I'm assuming 12 payments per year)
$351.77 / month car payment
After 6 years, that's $11326.75 in interst paid!
Let's put it this way: If you can afford to put aside $351.77 / month, and you can get a savings account that offers 4% interest, then after 1 year, you'll have $4,313.83 saved up.
If you need the car NOW, then heck, if you can afford $351.77 / month, you probably have a not too shabby salary. Get a line of credit from the bank. They're usually in the neighbourhood of 6%. You can buy a 14k outright, and then payback the loan. At $351.77 / month, you'll have it paid back in 44 months (as opposed to 72), and you'll have paid only $1631.32 in interest (as opposed to $11k!). Plus a line of credit is more flixible. If you can afford to pay more than $351 in a month, you can, without penalties.
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I don't normally MPU, but I'm out of mod points, and the above post is kinda buried-- and kinda informative.
If you pick a project, but don't want to/don't know how to jump right into coding, download the code. Read it over. Document it (comments, docs, faqs, whatever). You'll get to know the code in and out, and in doing so, probably figure out some way to contribute.
Will this fix the very common keyboard to chair interface errors that so many of my customers suffer from?
Then just have a trusted witness. Judges, notaries, court clerks and most religious figures are already authorized to bear witness for official documents. Just have one on hand, or let someone bring their own if there's an issue. The ballot is still a secret, because the person's vote will be held in confidence.
I'm all for pulling on the knowledge of the tech community, but seriously-- this isn't exactly difficult information to find. I've seen some pretty nifty questions asked on Slashdot, about things like cosmic rays, full-house renovation tips, clever telemarketer avoidance techniques, and even which button not to press.
But seriously-- this is about a half-step away from Slashdot's front page being a place to ask "ne1 gt dell cupn codz?"
Forget RTFA-- try STFG (Search The Floving Google)
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This is something I'd actually be worrying about if I were them. I hope they cover their asses on this one. My suggestion: Comply with the court order by handing over a list of all the RAM sticks that are in production. Then have the courts to arrange for a evidence collector to come in and retrieve the RAM from the servers. Be very careful to specify that you are complying with the request to hand over the RAM, not the servers.
This accomplishes two things. First, it preserves the chain of possession. It will allow the "evidence" to move directly from the source into the courts hands, so the MPAA can't bs anything about it being tampered with.
And second, it takes the responsibility of the care and handling of the evidence out of the defendant's hands. Once the neutral third party comes in, one of three things will happen:
1) They will remove the RAM, and in doing so destroy all the data on it (because that's what WILL happen). The defendants cannot be charged with destroying evidence, because it was not their responsibility to handle it. It was the court's. (Even better if it was a third party of the MPAA's choosing, makes them look like idiots).
2) The third party will have a good laugh, and report back to the courts that it is not possible to physically take the RAM without losing the data on it. The MPAA will look like an idiot for asking, and it will hurt their case. (Even better if it was a third part of the MPAA's choosing, makes them look like idiots-- again).
3) Worst case scenario: The third party shows up with some program to dump the RAM to a USB drive. Hopefully, the defendants can argue against this, saying that they agreed to hand over the physical RAM, but did not authorize a third party to access their system, scan their data, or run any programs on their servers.
Where will you be getting the gold that you will be selling? Do you purchase your initial stock from players? Will the game companies themselves be giving you a cache of cash to turn into cash? How will you keep your supply going? If you need to replenish your stock by yourself, are you going to farm gold, or hire third parties to do it for you?
{snickergiggleteehee}
To that end, New Frontier is obsessive about metadata, watching every frame of every video it digitizes and recording as many attributes as it can.
Obsessively watching porn-- for Metadata tagging. That's they're excuse and they're sticking to it.
"Mobile brings immediate gratification. With the Internet, you have to wait until you get home."
Ew. I'm never taking the bus again.
I wonder how Vegas is going to handle this. After all, they were taking bets on Will He or Won't He.
Methinks the director is going to have to fess up as to wtf happened, less he end up on the wrong side of some "fade-to-black" folk.
Or is that prison?
Sure, that's just what they want you to think. Sneaky game devs.
1) Do as the poster suggests, and harvest a list of valid email addresses
2) Attempt to log on as those users (either by guessing that their username is probably the same as the username in their email address).
3) Repeat step 2 until the user account hits the "too many invalid login attempts" theshold, and gets locked out.
4) Repeat step 2 for every email address you have.
Voila. Service = denied. That user now has to go through the "reactivate my account" procedure, which probably involves several minutes of effort and possibly a Security Question that they might not remember. And if the script kiddie is doing his "job" right, that person will be locked out again by the next time they try to log in.
This can get annoying very quickly, especially on a time-sensitive site like eBay (where you are trying to win an auction), or even a stock-trading site.
1) Do your entire roof with solar power panels. Hook them into your house. They'll probably never produce enough to need to store excess or feed back into the grid, but they should help your bill a bit.
2) Wind generators on your roof or backyard. Or both. Again, not going to be generating massive levels of electricity, but enough to make a difference.
3) Plan where your computers and televisions will be. Install conduits there that lead directly into your hot-air ducts. Then, run that heat through your house during the cold times, or through your hot-water system during the warm times.
4) A touch-screen PC in your kitchen right near your counter. Use it to load up recipes while you cook. Much better than having a cookbook falling over all the time. Make sure the face of the touchscreen is easily replacable if it gets messy from batter-splatter.
5) A security system that stores everything it records off site, and will drop a GPS-enabled tag onto anyone who trips the alarm. Because what good is all this tech if it's not protected? And what good is proection tech if it will get stolen? And what good is unstealable security tech if it can't help you locate the stolen stuff? =)
Then, set the monitor to start a timer once it registers a high enough average acceleration. Set the time for, say, 10 seconds. If you manage to sustain the average acceleration for a long enough time, the monitor will reset the computer for you.
It's not enough to hit something. It's not enough to hit something hard enough. It's only enough to hit something hard enough, repeatedly, for a period of time. Only then will you have worked out your rage. =)
Instead of a continuous loop of "on hold" muzack, about every 5 minutes, break to a "real" person. Just include a recording of someone saying "Hello? Thanks for holding. How can I help you? (5 second pause) I see. (5 second pause) Yes, yes, yes, I think I can help you with that. Hang on I'll pull up the appropriate documents. I'll just put you on hold for a moment." (5 minute hold) "Sorry about the delay. Computers, y'know? Okay, I've got the documents now. Could you give me the information again?" (10 second pause) "Sorry, I didn't catch that. Could you repeat? Just go a bit slow, my computer's acting up." (15 second pause) "Oh dear. Repeat that last part again?" (5 second pause) "Ooops. I'm not sure who transferred you to me, but I'm afraid I'm the wrong person. That information is Jill's domain. Jill McSaunders. I'll transfer you to her department right away." (back to "on hold" music for 5 minutes.
Then break to a recording of "Jill", which is just a variation of above. Record as many as you feel needed. If you can ever get to the end of a ~80 minute CD and get them connected back to the first "person", you win.
Alternatively, the last 5 minutes is the candidate they're looking for, who "sets up" a lunch meeting for the following Friday. =)
I mean, if you're going to claim you own the footage, then you have to take responsibility to securing the rights to use the images of everyone who appears. I don't see a signed, dated Model Release. And no, you can't just build it into the unsigned "contract" of using the turnpike. Not only is the turnpike public, but from the best I can see, even if it was, the driver wasn't on the turnpike. At least, most of him wasn't.
I already do that with my Palm Pilot + 1GB card. It takes a couple minutes per song, but it's still free, drm-less, wireless mp3 sharing.
Especially since those now-iPodless employees will quickly go into withdrawal, and go buy another iPod. So not only would the plan not increase the sale of the Zune (since the "amnesty" Zunes would be free), but they've in face increased the number of iPods being sold.
... sue him first.
An "F" or detention is much simpler.
Actually, an airhorn is even more efficient. I mean, if some snot is allowed to make noise and disrupt my class, then by all rights, I should be able to do the same thing. With an air horn. Right next to their head. Every time their cell rings.
They'll get the point.
I guess you're right about the Optimus eating batteries:
{change change}
And make it wireless! Ever since I went wireless keyboard, I can't go back.
Or they'll do a hybrid. Host low-peer files, and torrent popular ones.
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22% interest on 14K over 72 monthly payments (I'm assuming 12 payments per year)
$351.77 / month car payment
After 6 years, that's $11326.75 in interst paid!
Let's put it this way: If you can afford to put aside $351.77 / month, and you can get a savings account that offers 4% interest, then after 1 year, you'll have $4,313.83 saved up.
If you need the car NOW, then heck, if you can afford $351.77 / month, you probably have a not too shabby salary. Get a line of credit from the bank. They're usually in the neighbourhood of 6%. You can buy a 14k outright, and then payback the loan. At $351.77 / month, you'll have it paid back in 44 months (as opposed to 72), and you'll have paid only $1631.32 in interest (as opposed to $11k!). Plus a line of credit is more flixible. If you can afford to pay more than $351 in a month, you can, without penalties.