I could hack that POS in my sleep, and have multiple times. The University of Redlands has some of the most incompetent IT administrators EVER - hack blackboard, get access to student accounts, surf the web on their network with not a goddamned one of them being the wiser, under an account that I could use to frame that person.
Doesn't help their wireless AP broadcasts into my apartment at such a high power level that it blocks out most of the other wireless APs when it's engaged. 5 bars on my router two feet away? As soon as a game starts up in their sports complex, I lose my router and I get a big fat UoR signal. I hack it EVERY SINGLE TIME and they're still not smart enough after several warnings to ditch blackboard and ResNet and find something more reliable.
"SCOTUS ruled in the '00s that a Californian medical marijuana patient growing for her own use was violating Federal laws and affecting interstate commerce."
Well, yea, the dumb bitch was growing more than legally allowed by the state as the law at that time proscribed, and was trafficking it. DUH.
On the other hand, just a couple of months ago the Californian Supreme Court said that the limitation on how many plants a patient could cultivate was 100% unconstitutional. That in itself flies in the face of that particular '00's ruling.
As it sits, the Federal government has no real power. California decides to break away and the USA loses most of the global influence it has.
That's why Obama is slowly calling the retreat. If they don't retreat, California will pull the plug and secede. It's not said on the news but the word is heard almost daily just from random walks I take through the town.
Perfect exmaple of this: You go to a forum about a topic, post about some work you've been doing to improve something related to that topic, and you're suddenly banned for 'advertising' even though you've never mentioned a company name, or that you even worked for a company.
The threat to ad money is what's causing a lot of this bullshit to happen.
"No, Apple is not a media organization -- it does not create consumable content."
Excuse me, the software packages Apple creates and distributes is consumable content. What're you smoking and may I have some? In fact, they're one of the BIGGEST media organizations, just not what you would traditionally refer to as media. You're thinking media as newspapers, cable stations, etc. Apple does digital media production and publishing.
Go out to the Lucerne dry lake bed, or any desert spot in southern California, and with a good pair of binocs you can pretty much just spot them sitting out in the open.
'Never trust what rooted machines say about themselves..."
Funny, that's usually how I spot a rooted machine. There's a fine difference between "I just don't want to work because I'm a piece of shit" and "I don't want to work because I'm controlled by someone other than you."
"At which point those companies will pass on the check balances to their customers."
Did you not read: "and don't raise prices."
They'd see it somehow, either through their own employees that use those networks reporting about the raise in their bills for SMS, or through other means, and they'd just shut it off for mobile phone users.
Mobile screens and browsers are crap for ad displaying, anyways.
"The reason you need so many laws and lawyers is because without the threat of enforceable legal action, big corporations would simply act like gangsters."
If there were no threat of enforceable legal action, the second the corporations tried anything the people would kill them and move on with their lives.
"... and the world's insects have the power to join together and destroy humanity, but it's not going to happen."
Whoo boy, I guess you haven't been paying attention to the Argentinan Ant invasion. They're wiping out their competition first, then they'll be after us.
California is practically one GIANT anthill underneath.
"Do you think that without Valve they could have gotten the GLaDOS voice actress? "
Uh, yea. Aren't you aware of the capabilities of the SBLive! cards? Native FX processing built-in from ring modulators to flangers to pitch shifters. It would be TRIVIAL to redo the GLaDOS voice with a piece of hardware that might cost fifteen bucks today.
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I could hack that POS in my sleep, and have multiple times. The University of Redlands has some of the most incompetent IT administrators EVER - hack blackboard, get access to student accounts, surf the web on their network with not a goddamned one of them being the wiser, under an account that I could use to frame that person.
Doesn't help their wireless AP broadcasts into my apartment at such a high power level that it blocks out most of the other wireless APs when it's engaged. 5 bars on my router two feet away? As soon as a game starts up in their sports complex, I lose my router and I get a big fat UoR signal. I hack it EVERY SINGLE TIME and they're still not smart enough after several warnings to ditch blackboard and ResNet and find something more reliable.
As if the commercialization won't happen once we actually establish any sort of presence there? Come on.
"SCOTUS ruled in the '00s that a Californian medical marijuana patient growing for her own use was violating Federal laws and affecting interstate commerce."
Well, yea, the dumb bitch was growing more than legally allowed by the state as the law at that time proscribed, and was trafficking it. DUH.
On the other hand, just a couple of months ago the Californian Supreme Court said that the limitation on how many plants a patient could cultivate was 100% unconstitutional. That in itself flies in the face of that particular '00's ruling.
As it sits, the Federal government has no real power. California decides to break away and the USA loses most of the global influence it has.
That's why Obama is slowly calling the retreat. If they don't retreat, California will pull the plug and secede. It's not said on the news but the word is heard almost daily just from random walks I take through the town.
"I'd bet 1000 bucks against anyone that it won't. Especially since all the outrage is from people who aren't even iPhone users anyway."
Developers.
I'll be taking that money, sir fool.
Perfect exmaple of this: You go to a forum about a topic, post about some work you've been doing to improve something related to that topic, and you're suddenly banned for 'advertising' even though you've never mentioned a company name, or that you even worked for a company.
The threat to ad money is what's causing a lot of this bullshit to happen.
"No, Apple is not a media organization -- it does not create consumable content."
Excuse me, the software packages Apple creates and distributes is consumable content. What're you smoking and may I have some? In fact, they're one of the BIGGEST media organizations, just not what you would traditionally refer to as media. You're thinking media as newspapers, cable stations, etc. Apple does digital media production and publishing.
"It's a once in a lifetime find (potentially)"
Go out to the Lucerne dry lake bed, or any desert spot in southern California, and with a good pair of binocs you can pretty much just spot them sitting out in the open.
Depends on your body chemistry - what normally makes one person sleepy speeds me up. Give me coffee and I pass out, ditto cocaine.
'Never trust what rooted machines say about themselves..."
Funny, that's usually how I spot a rooted machine. There's a fine difference between "I just don't want to work because I'm a piece of shit" and "I don't want to work because I'm controlled by someone other than you."
No, not really. If you intend to sell it, yes. If you cultivate it for your own personal use, they can't do shit.
Hell I just ordered a ten pack of albino tobacco seeds.
ATF What?
"No it isn't. A taser is a lot less lethal then a 9mm pistol."
Someone has no clue how electricity works, I see.
let me put those probes one to each nipple and let's see how long you live with 50,000V disrupting the bio-electric functions in your heart.
Vioxx, anyone?????? :)
"which is why your cat will get high as a kite on catnip but you won't."
Have you ever had catnip tea before? Smoking it doesn't do shit but ingesting it most certainly does.
I like how you say "Or some other fool."
Some of the stuff Google has been doing recently has been fairly foolish.
"At which point those companies will pass on the check balances to their customers."
Did you not read: "and don't raise prices."
They'd see it somehow, either through their own employees that use those networks reporting about the raise in their bills for SMS, or through other means, and they'd just shut it off for mobile phone users.
Mobile screens and browsers are crap for ad displaying, anyways.
"Now that Apple has entered the super-portable PC market, there are virtually no meaningful competitors"
That's because Apple isn't even competing with that crippled piece of shit.
"The reason you need so many laws and lawyers is because without the threat of enforceable legal action, big corporations would simply act like gangsters."
If there were no threat of enforceable legal action, the second the corporations tried anything the people would kill them and move on with their lives.
"Adobe does have some, albeit rudimentary, HTML5 Canvas exporting tools"
Tells me they only had this as a backup plan for when shit hit the fan, which they never expected to have happen so soon.
Apple got Adobe with their pants down and now Adobe is scrambling.
I concede to your point.
"... and the world's insects have the power to join together and destroy humanity, but it's not going to happen."
Whoo boy, I guess you haven't been paying attention to the Argentinan Ant invasion. They're wiping out their competition first, then they'll be after us.
California is practically one GIANT anthill underneath.
"It has to do with the fact that consumers really don't have as much power as free-market proponents believe"
Want to bet? If we quit buying everything but food, energy, and our clothing, watch how fast every other economy on the planet would suffer.
You cite Wikipedia as if it could be used as a RELIABLE source to explain something as unpredictable and random as human behavior.
What if every consumer just decided 'fuck it' and took up arms and ran every corporation into the ground via lethal force?
Consumers ARE all-powerful, no matter how corporations try to spin it. Without US, they do not exist.
"Do you have some evidence for this? One could think that viewing child pornography would satiate demand for it."
Someone doesn't visit /b/ I see.
T'hell with the USA, the Vatican AoC is 12. Sick fucks.
"When somebody says "rocket launcher" in relation to gaming, no particular title comes to mind."
Never played Doom, I see.
Cyberdemon.
"Do you think that without Valve they could have gotten the GLaDOS voice actress? "
Uh, yea. Aren't you aware of the capabilities of the SBLive! cards? Native FX processing built-in from ring modulators to flangers to pitch shifters. It would be TRIVIAL to redo the GLaDOS voice with a piece of hardware that might cost fifteen bucks today.