The XP firewall is practically fucking useless to begin with. That still doesn't give them the right to jump out of a contractual support obligation 5 years in advance.
send an email to this guy - this is the firm that helped me on the EA Spore SecuROM case. I'll bet ten to one their systems run XP and they're unaware of Microsoft trying to worm their way out of a contractual obligation to provide support until 2014.
I just sent my email - I'd suggest more of you do the same so he takes notice and has more incentive to take the case.
You totally fail to see and understand the problem.
First off, it's the TCP/IP stack - Technology that RUNS THE FUCKING INTERNET. For Microsoft to *NOT* fix the flaw in it means they're going to open up a massive fucking hole that anybody and their mother could probably exploit, and very likely this is going to cause problems. For example, most of our government systems still run XP - for Microsoft to refuse to patch this problem leaves us vulnerable, and they're doing it on purpose.
That's giving aid to the enemy, which is treason. Microsoft, as of right now, should be charged with Treason against the USA and shut the fuck down.
Umm, Hotmail and Gmail both offer alternative HTML rendering. I use it because Gmail's java consistently breaks when I log out of one email account and try to log into another, and hotmail's implementation of Java just sucks.
You need to be smart enough to not accidentally kill a person - that's a lot more intelligent than 80% of the population, in case your eyes have been welded shut the past three decades.
EVERYTHING IS BOUND, GUIDED, AND MANIPULATED BY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, EVEN THE ECONOMY.
What, you think the economy is going to magically sustain itself when there's no energy left? It takes energy to move a human, it takes energy to produce fuel, it takes energy to ship things across the globe. AT EVERY SINGLE POINT IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS energy is *THE* absolute prerequisite. If you can get past that, you're the smartest person on this entire planet, nay, you're smarter than the fucking laws of nature.
Thermodynamic models are popular because they're more correct than the Keynesian bullshit we're trying right now, it hasn't even been half a goddamned century and our economy has already hit a deep recession. Keynes acts as if the laws of physics doesn't even exist.
...take into account someone going psychotic and killing the very people that make these models?
See, 'cuz you can't incorporate human behavior into an algorithm. To even think you can apply mathematics to human behavior or vice-versa is sheer insanity, because human behavior, much like human emotion, is pretty unpredictable. What might make one person happy can make another person go into a murderous rage. These people should be put in an insane asylum.
You also need to be certified as a First Responder, because quite often you're the first on the scene and that means you're the first to provide medical support.
So, yes, firefighters DO need to be smart. Go figure such an ignorant statement would come from somewhere in the Navy.
Just because you understand electrical engineering doesn't mean you understand the legal system or how lazy it inherently is, or how crippled it is because of budget cuts, nor would it mean that you'd even have half a clue as to the amount of staff currently working in my town (hint: Practically NIL.)
So again, keep spouting off about nonsense you don't have a clue about. The shortage of police officers in this town is SAD, I could take the entire police force out with a Glock. 40 and a fully-loaded double-stack magazine. That's how understaffed and undermanned the police force is here. There is no money to pay for camera operators, the cameras take a picture and it gets sent straight to the traffic court judge who makes the determination and then sends your ass a ticket in the mail. In a town of almost 75,000 people there's only 4 cops on active duty at any given time, and they wonder why they have such a gang and meth problem.
Also, I know plenty of electrical engineers that don't have a clue about technology. My father would be one of those people. Sure, he can do radar guidance for missiles and he can design and build a guidance system from scratch, but he can't figure out that a fucking DSL line needs filters or else the connection drops when you pick up the phone. He certainly didn't think about rebooting a computer back in 1989 to get a network card working in DOS (he was teaching a class at a company called Enterprise back in Plano, TX) and me at 8 years old simply killed the machine, started it back up, and then explained to my father "drivers don't automatically load because you tell Autoexec.bat to load them, config.sys needs to be loaded from system startup as well." I was 7 years old. Pretty sad a 7 year old knew DOS better than a then-34 year old.
Just because you've got that piece of paper doesn't mean you fully understand how EVERY PIECE OF TECH WORKS.
Your understanding is wrong. Whomever taught you civics should be fired. It is the responsibility of the Judicial branch to interpret the meaning of the laws. Not the Legislators - legislators have no judicial power, they just submit ideas for laws and try to get them passed - it's up to the courts to decide whether or not a law is fair or unconstitutional.
The court ruled that a participant in a private conversation may record it without violating the statute because the statutory term "eavesdrop" refers only to overhearing or recording the private conversations of others.
Umm the case specifically cited states "In Michigan it's not illegal to record a conversation in which you are a participant." That is the final ruling.
Read the judge's opinion and maybe you'll have a clue.
"This looks like an "all party consent" law, but one Michigan Court has ruled that a participant in a private conversation may record it without violating the statute because the statutory term "eavesdrop" refers only to overhearing or recording the private conversations of others. See Sullivan v. Gray, 342 N.W. 2d 58, 60-61 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982)."
Now what were you saying? Anecdotal evidence from me usually comes from personal experience in the court systems. Remember, I'm the guy that kicked EA's ass over the Spore DRM issue.
Only one person needs to know that recording is happening and then making sure that an audible tone can be heard every so often. That's it. Been done many times by law enforcement in Michigan.
So yes, the very cops that should enforce that law are my sources. Call them liars and let's see what happens.
The camera does not have an operator. It is fully automated and it cannot tell the difference between running a red light and stopping then making a legal right had turn at the red light.
But then again you're not the type that understands technology or things like budget cuts and such, so keep spouting off the ignorance.
Yea, nothing wrong with an electronic cop enforcing the law, eh? Tell that to the fucking cameras that always get me a ticket for making a LEGAL RIGHT HAND TURN AT A RED LIGHT.
You know you could simply attach kinetic generators to your body and power many things, yes? On average, a human can produce.2kWh, that's enough to power a 13W CFL, your iPod, your Laptop, all while walking. Maybe even enough spare power left over for a few external hard drives. You'd just need to position the devices to harness kinetic energy in the right spots, at the end of limbs, at joints.
so yes, most parts of your body (besides internal organs) can be equally useful in terms of power generation.
Or, alternatively, I could just burn your entire body and use it as a fuel source.
This doesn't seem weird to me at all. I mean, if we can use our excrement for fuel for some form of power, why not use other things from our body that we generally don't have a use for?? Sounds more like a logical step, to me.
I stab your carotid or jugular and you're not doing shit because the sudden drop in blood pressure will make you lose consciousness. C'mon this is high school human anatomy stuff for crying out loud!
If you want to be part of the company, you'd better damn well be prepared for any and ALL potential consequences. If you hold any shares, you'd better at least TRY to make your voice heard.
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The XP firewall is practically fucking useless to begin with. That still doesn't give them the right to jump out of a contractual support obligation 5 years in advance.
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send an email to this guy - this is the firm that helped me on the EA Spore SecuROM case. I'll bet ten to one their systems run XP and they're unaware of Microsoft trying to worm their way out of a contractual obligation to provide support until 2014.
I just sent my email - I'd suggest more of you do the same so he takes notice and has more incentive to take the case.
You totally fail to see and understand the problem.
First off, it's the TCP/IP stack - Technology that RUNS THE FUCKING INTERNET. For Microsoft to *NOT* fix the flaw in it means they're going to open up a massive fucking hole that anybody and their mother could probably exploit, and very likely this is going to cause problems. For example, most of our government systems still run XP - for Microsoft to refuse to patch this problem leaves us vulnerable, and they're doing it on purpose.
That's giving aid to the enemy, which is treason. Microsoft, as of right now, should be charged with Treason against the USA and shut the fuck down.
"I concur on this point, and think we should throw javascript out with Adobe Flash."
FTFY
Umm, Hotmail and Gmail both offer alternative HTML rendering. I use it because Gmail's java consistently breaks when I log out of one email account and try to log into another, and hotmail's implementation of Java just sucks.
"I haven't seen any virus MB couldn't remove."
That's because they're not viruses at all. We haven't had a TRUE self-replicating computer virus in nearly decade.
In 8 more days it will be autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
And the weather's already broke here in southern California. Trees are shedding leaves like mad.
You need to be smart enough to not accidentally kill a person - that's a lot more intelligent than 80% of the population, in case your eyes have been welded shut the past three decades.
EVERYTHING IS BOUND, GUIDED, AND MANIPULATED BY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, EVEN THE ECONOMY.
What, you think the economy is going to magically sustain itself when there's no energy left? It takes energy to move a human, it takes energy to produce fuel, it takes energy to ship things across the globe. AT EVERY SINGLE POINT IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS energy is *THE* absolute prerequisite. If you can get past that, you're the smartest person on this entire planet, nay, you're smarter than the fucking laws of nature.
Thermodynamic models are popular because they're more correct than the Keynesian bullshit we're trying right now, it hasn't even been half a goddamned century and our economy has already hit a deep recession. Keynes acts as if the laws of physics doesn't even exist.
...take into account someone going psychotic and killing the very people that make these models?
See, 'cuz you can't incorporate human behavior into an algorithm. To even think you can apply mathematics to human behavior or vice-versa is sheer insanity, because human behavior, much like human emotion, is pretty unpredictable. What might make one person happy can make another person go into a murderous rage. These people should be put in an insane asylum.
You also need to be certified as a First Responder, because quite often you're the first on the scene and that means you're the first to provide medical support.
So, yes, firefighters DO need to be smart. Go figure such an ignorant statement would come from somewhere in the Navy.
Just because you understand electrical engineering doesn't mean you understand the legal system or how lazy it inherently is, or how crippled it is because of budget cuts, nor would it mean that you'd even have half a clue as to the amount of staff currently working in my town (hint: Practically NIL.)
So again, keep spouting off about nonsense you don't have a clue about. The shortage of police officers in this town is SAD, I could take the entire police force out with a Glock. 40 and a fully-loaded double-stack magazine. That's how understaffed and undermanned the police force is here. There is no money to pay for camera operators, the cameras take a picture and it gets sent straight to the traffic court judge who makes the determination and then sends your ass a ticket in the mail. In a town of almost 75,000 people there's only 4 cops on active duty at any given time, and they wonder why they have such a gang and meth problem.
Also, I know plenty of electrical engineers that don't have a clue about technology. My father would be one of those people. Sure, he can do radar guidance for missiles and he can design and build a guidance system from scratch, but he can't figure out that a fucking DSL line needs filters or else the connection drops when you pick up the phone. He certainly didn't think about rebooting a computer back in 1989 to get a network card working in DOS (he was teaching a class at a company called Enterprise back in Plano, TX) and me at 8 years old simply killed the machine, started it back up, and then explained to my father "drivers don't automatically load because you tell Autoexec.bat to load them, config.sys needs to be loaded from system startup as well." I was 7 years old. Pretty sad a 7 year old knew DOS better than a then-34 year old.
Just because you've got that piece of paper doesn't mean you fully understand how EVERY PIECE OF TECH WORKS.
Your understanding is wrong. Whomever taught you civics should be fired. It is the responsibility of the Judicial branch to interpret the meaning of the laws. Not the Legislators - legislators have no judicial power, they just submit ideas for laws and try to get them passed - it's up to the courts to decide whether or not a law is fair or unconstitutional.
It's called the system of checks and balances.
Here' let me just copy the RELEVANT PART:
The court ruled that a participant in a private conversation may record it without violating the statute because the statutory term "eavesdrop" refers only to overhearing or recording the private conversations of others.
END OF STORY.
Umm the case specifically cited states "In Michigan it's not illegal to record a conversation in which you are a participant." That is the final ruling.
Read the judge's opinion and maybe you'll have a clue.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/michigan-recording-law since you're too lazy to attempt to debunk me, like a typical 7-digit slashdotter.
"This looks like an "all party consent" law, but one Michigan Court has ruled that a participant in a private conversation may record it without violating the statute because the statutory term "eavesdrop" refers only to overhearing or recording the private conversations of others. See Sullivan v. Gray, 342 N.W. 2d 58, 60-61 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982)."
Now what were you saying? Anecdotal evidence from me usually comes from personal experience in the court systems. Remember, I'm the guy that kicked EA's ass over the Spore DRM issue.
Only one person needs to know that recording is happening and then making sure that an audible tone can be heard every so often. That's it. Been done many times by law enforcement in Michigan.
So yes, the very cops that should enforce that law are my sources. Call them liars and let's see what happens.
The camera does not have an operator. It is fully automated and it cannot tell the difference between running a red light and stopping then making a legal right had turn at the red light.
But then again you're not the type that understands technology or things like budget cuts and such, so keep spouting off the ignorance.
Yea, nothing wrong with an electronic cop enforcing the law, eh? Tell that to the fucking cameras that always get me a ticket for making a LEGAL RIGHT HAND TURN AT A RED LIGHT.
And this is why Wikipedia is to NEVER BE TRUSTED.
Because Michigan certainly does NOT have two-party consent. Only one person need be aware of the recording, as Lumpy stated.
No you're an asshole for thinking you can patent something that's been done on computers for the past two or three decades, maybe even longer.
In fact, this type of patent should have expired LONG AGO.
So yes, these people are assholes, and you're just as much of one for failing to understand the history of technology.
You know you could simply attach kinetic generators to your body and power many things, yes? On average, a human can produce .2kWh, that's enough to power a 13W CFL, your iPod, your Laptop, all while walking. Maybe even enough spare power left over for a few external hard drives. You'd just need to position the devices to harness kinetic energy in the right spots, at the end of limbs, at joints.
so yes, most parts of your body (besides internal organs) can be equally useful in terms of power generation.
Or, alternatively, I could just burn your entire body and use it as a fuel source.
This doesn't seem weird to me at all. I mean, if we can use our excrement for fuel for some form of power, why not use other things from our body that we generally don't have a use for?? Sounds more like a logical step, to me.
I stab your carotid or jugular and you're not doing shit because the sudden drop in blood pressure will make you lose consciousness. C'mon this is high school human anatomy stuff for crying out loud!
If you want to be part of the company, you'd better damn well be prepared for any and ALL potential consequences. If you hold any shares, you'd better at least TRY to make your voice heard.