It's still pending at the moment, but on Friday I submitted this story which describes pretty much the same thing, only it's a planned bill for next year's Congress spearheaded by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ.) The entire US will be looking at this soon, not just Virginians.
"(please keep all media out of direct sunlight, in a nice cool dry dark place, in acid-free plastic containers; this will triple the lifetime of any media)." And NEVER ever feed them after midnight.
Tell that to the clueless audio nuts. I'm sure there are many audiophiles who actually know what they are talking about and won't waste money on completely stupid things, but one conversation I had with a self-described audiophile (who insisted that since gold-plated cables are great, and fiberoptic cables are better, that surely gold-plated fiberoptic cables were the future) still wounds me deeply.
As a longtime computer user and builder, I'm shocked - shocked, I say! - that we've never seen a really good benchmarking test for power buttons. I demand a definitive report and comparison on factors like clickiness, springiness, and LED brightness.
I had a whole bunch of self-righting cat amusers in the house that my cats absolutely loved playing with, but now they've eaten all the mice. These days I'm just letting them play outside, but I don't know what I'll doo when the trees run out of birds.
I don't wish to play devil's advocate or anything, but if he is found guilty, why should he be treated differently from any other convicted murderer? Just because he writes code? I'm sure there are lots of murderers who had constructive hobbies before being thrwon in prison, nerdy or not.
Or, should I start my own filesystem now, to ensure a cushier sentence should I ever kill anyone in future?
For those unfamiliar with U2, they're the ones who made quite a tidy profit during the "Zoo TV" era, when they based their design ethic upon rapid-fire clips of other people's copyrighted material, courtesy of video cutups by the "Emergency Broadcast Network."
The software giant fights off more than 100,000 attacks every month
I wonder how the number of attacks on other sites enabled by botnets of compromised Windows machines compares to this. Are they taking more or less than their software dishes out to the rest of the world?
I live near the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway in New York, named for the areas at either end of it. After all these years, you can still hear the suppresed chuckles in the traffic reporters' voices when they have to announce that "the SOB is backed up again..."
At this point it seems like sending spam is just a tremendous waste of time.
The problem is, it's not a huge waste of time. If someone can point, click, and burn a few cents' worth of time and bandwidth to crank out five million spam emails, and only one single idiot out of all the recipients buys the v14gr@/falls for the scam/pumps that stock, the spammer has already come out ahead. And one sucker out of millions isn't too hard to imagine, the world is full of suckers and desperate people.
You are the head of Warner. You have discovered your children downloading music.
There are children here. There are illegal MP3s here. There is a belt here.
Do you:
(W)hip the crap out of them with the belt, (T)each them how to use TOR like everyone else so they don't get caught again, (B)us them off to boot camp to learn about DRM, (G)ive them the keys to your music vaults, (O)rder the current crop of talentless-yet-popular acts whose souls you own to play a private concert for your children so they see the dazed, strung out, malnourished people they are supposedly stealing from, (A)dmit that your business model is no longer relevant in modern society, (S)ue their whiny little asses to make an example of them.
That's a can of worms.. if they end up suing over the ability to post links rather than just who's storing the material, they'll have to sue pretty much every ISP on the planet. Anyone can post a link anywhere on the Internet. That whole hypertext thing is more or less what the entire Web was built around.
It is on MySpace's servers since MySpace implemented its own video-posting functionality similar to YouTube and all the rest. The feature was MySpace's response to the YouTube boxes that were springing up on all its users' pages. It's fairly idiot-proof, you don't need to know a thing about HTML coding to use it.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a wonderfully useful idea, and I wonder how soon it'll be before the takedown notice from Microsoft.
Do thiry Helens agree?
The TFT market suffers a shortage every time Xzibit pimps another ride.
It's still pending at the moment, but on Friday I submitted this story which describes pretty much the same thing, only it's a planned bill for next year's Congress spearheaded by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ.) The entire US will be looking at this soon, not just Virginians.
You know you're going to get space rain if you've just washed your space car or watered your space lawn.
Tell that to the clueless audio nuts. I'm sure there are many audiophiles who actually know what they are talking about and won't waste money on completely stupid things, but one conversation I had with a self-described audiophile (who insisted that since gold-plated cables are great, and fiberoptic cables are better, that surely gold-plated fiberoptic cables were the future) still wounds me deeply.
As a longtime computer user and builder, I'm shocked - shocked, I say! - that we've never seen a really good benchmarking test for power buttons. I demand a definitive report and comparison on factors like clickiness, springiness, and LED brightness.
I had a whole bunch of self-righting cat amusers in the house that my cats absolutely loved playing with, but now they've eaten all the mice. These days I'm just letting them play outside, but I don't know what I'll doo when the trees run out of birds.
I don't wish to play devil's advocate or anything, but if he is found guilty, why should he be treated differently from any other convicted murderer? Just because he writes code? I'm sure there are lots of murderers who had constructive hobbies before being thrwon in prison, nerdy or not.
Or, should I start my own filesystem now, to ensure a cushier sentence should I ever kill anyone in future?
I still want to buy "The Homer" from Powell Motors.
For those unfamiliar with U2, they're the ones who made quite a tidy profit during the "Zoo TV" era, when they based their design ethic upon rapid-fire clips of other people's copyrighted material, courtesy of video cutups by the "Emergency Broadcast Network."
I just got that much harder to Google.
Lunch is all well and good, but I'm still waiting for an investigation into the device's popcorn-popping capabilities.
The world is a cam whore.
I live near the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway in New York, named for the areas at either end of it. After all these years, you can still hear the suppresed chuckles in the traffic reporters' voices when they have to announce that "the SOB is backed up again..."
I blame that skinny blonde girl from "Footloose."
Um, that wasn't water. I had had a lot of juice earlier, and there wasn't a gas station or anything to be found... sorry about that.
You are the head of Warner. You have discovered your children downloading music.
There are children here.
There are illegal MP3s here.
There is a belt here.
Do you:
(W)hip the crap out of them with the belt,
(T)each them how to use TOR like everyone else so they don't get caught again,
(B)us them off to boot camp to learn about DRM,
(G)ive them the keys to your music vaults,
(O)rder the current crop of talentless-yet-popular acts whose souls you own to play a private concert for your children so they see the dazed, strung out, malnourished people they are supposedly stealing from,
(A)dmit that your business model is no longer relevant in modern society,
(S)ue their whiny little asses to make an example of them.
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Medicate Me Elmo!
This could be a perfect venue to bring back the US National Video Game Team. Bring on the jumpsuits!
That's a can of worms.. if they end up suing over the ability to post links rather than just who's storing the material, they'll have to sue pretty much every ISP on the planet. Anyone can post a link anywhere on the Internet. That whole hypertext thing is more or less what the entire Web was built around.
It is on MySpace's servers since MySpace implemented its own video-posting functionality similar to YouTube and all the rest. The feature was MySpace's response to the YouTube boxes that were springing up on all its users' pages. It's fairly idiot-proof, you don't need to know a thing about HTML coding to use it.