I get "no results" for even common web searches, and bizarre mistakes even on the occasions when it DOES work (showing inappropriate pictures beside entries, shwoing results that have nothing to do with the search term, etc.). Their claims of being better than Google are not only laughable, but probably cross over into outright fraud. Anyone stupid enough to invest in such a company DESERVES their fucking. The whole thing reeks of con job.
Yeah, but a thin client usually connects to an internal network with a 10/100 or gigabit connection, not through some 1.5-6 Mbps connection on the frickin' INTERNET.
I guess theoretically you could build a BIOS that automatically connected to the net and downloaded your OS at every bootup. But that would be about the dumbest, most inefficient, and most laughably bandwidth-intensive computer setup I can possibly imagine.
Every movie I rent warns me I *could* get several years in prison for copying it. Cops, prosecutors, etc. always use "could get" as a subtle threat (pretty sure it's that way in the UK too). But, as any defense lawyer can tell you, "could get" and "will get" are two VERY different things. In practice, this guy will probably get 10-15 years max (maybe 20 at the *outside*). Unless they can show he was trying to sell the secrets (i.e. espionage) or incite terror, it's doubtful he'll get even that.
You can bet a lot of his friends will get long-term no-bid contracts as part of his last hurrah too. After all, what can Obama do about Halliburton if Bush signs a huge 10-year contract with them at the last minute?
That was the coroner's finding. But heart attacks can be induced if you've got the right money to buy the right chemicals (even a simple potassium chloride injection will do the trick and leave little or no trace behind). And the timing (right before he was penalized, which would have opened up his family to civil liability), is WAY too coincidental for a reasonable person to believe it was just a happy coincidence.
The "intolerable" argument seems like a stretch to me (to say the least). The guy isn't facing the death penalty and U.S. prisons (especially the minimum security ones, where this guy will probably end up) are at least as good as UK ones.
The guy's lawyers are acting like we're going to flog him and throw him in a dungeon or something.
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Giving employees a chunk of time to work on their own projects seemed like a good idea until the day one of them proposed a new AI search program called "Skynet."
I just hope they don't run into a horrible bad guy, who is uber-powerful but instead of confronting them directly sends his progressively stronger minions after them one-by-one until finally showing up himself for a huge final battle.
If he ever serves a day in prison (unlikely), it will be in some minimum security prison where the only rape is to the taxpayers who have to pay the cable bill. Rich Republicans never pay for crimes they commit. Even when it looks like they might, they just find some slick way out of it (like Ken Lay, who killed himself so his wife and family could keep every dime of his stolen money).
Not to worry. In an original twist he starts out the game with amnesia and slowly discovers as the game progresses that he's the chosen one who must save humanity.
Most of Hasbro's board is so old they probably have to have oxygen tents built into the boardroom. It's unlikely that the leadership there even knows how to turn on a computer, much less understands the significance of an argument about how web 2.0 apps are changing the business landscape. We're talking a company that still specializes in *board games*. You'd be about as lucky lecturing a buggy whip company on the potential of the horseless carriage.
I've never downloaded a bootleg movie that I didn't buy on DVD when it came out (except for a few movies and TV shows that never were released on DVD in region 1). Many of them I also saw in the theater as well. So the idea that I'm ripping off studios just because they're too stupid to offer downloadable content themselves without gobs of DRM and other annoyances is laughable. It's not our fault that the studios can't let go of their outmoded distribution system (otherwise we would be able to buy the DVD the same day it was released in theaters and this would never even be an issue).
Normally, I would pirate a movie because it's free, has no DRM, and is available at any time (even while the movie is still playing in theaters). Then when it came out on DVD or Blu-ray later, I would buy it and give the filmmaker their fair cut (I'm not not looking to rip them off, I just want a copy of the movie to play at home).
But now that the MPAA has given me a chance to pay money to download from a piss-poor selection of movies that are all crippled by DRM, all I can say is "Thank God!" I mean, what I really want is a poor quality copy of a movie that requires me to connect to the internet and get the studio okay every time I watch it, won't let me make copies or share it with friends, and costs just as much as if I went and bought it on DVD (with the added bonus of none of the DVD extra content).
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I get "no results" for even common web searches, and bizarre mistakes even on the occasions when it DOES work (showing inappropriate pictures beside entries, shwoing results that have nothing to do with the search term, etc.). Their claims of being better than Google are not only laughable, but probably cross over into outright fraud. Anyone stupid enough to invest in such a company DESERVES their fucking. The whole thing reeks of con job.
Yeah, but a thin client usually connects to an internal network with a 10/100 or gigabit connection, not through some 1.5-6 Mbps connection on the frickin' INTERNET.
I guess theoretically you could build a BIOS that automatically connected to the net and downloaded your OS at every bootup. But that would be about the dumbest, most inefficient, and most laughably bandwidth-intensive computer setup I can possibly imagine.
Every movie I rent warns me I *could* get several years in prison for copying it. Cops, prosecutors, etc. always use "could get" as a subtle threat (pretty sure it's that way in the UK too). But, as any defense lawyer can tell you, "could get" and "will get" are two VERY different things. In practice, this guy will probably get 10-15 years max (maybe 20 at the *outside*). Unless they can show he was trying to sell the secrets (i.e. espionage) or incite terror, it's doubtful he'll get even that.
You can bet a lot of his friends will get long-term no-bid contracts as part of his last hurrah too. After all, what can Obama do about Halliburton if Bush signs a huge 10-year contract with them at the last minute?
If the Justice Department doesn't stop the spotted owl, homosexuals, and dirty dirty sex; the terrorists win.
If spending $100,000 on this toy is someone's idea of "practical," they're a lot richer than I am.
Silly rabbit, Guantanamo is for brown people.
That was the coroner's finding. But heart attacks can be induced if you've got the right money to buy the right chemicals (even a simple potassium chloride injection will do the trick and leave little or no trace behind). And the timing (right before he was penalized, which would have opened up his family to civil liability), is WAY too coincidental for a reasonable person to believe it was just a happy coincidence.
The "intolerable" argument seems like a stretch to me (to say the least). The guy isn't facing the death penalty and U.S. prisons (especially the minimum security ones, where this guy will probably end up) are at least as good as UK ones.
The guy's lawyers are acting like we're going to flog him and throw him in a dungeon or something.
...and 35 years of wasting my money.
So the bartender says, "Hey you can't bring that stupid thing in here!"
"Sorry," replies the monkey
Giving employees a chunk of time to work on their own projects seemed like a good idea until the day one of them proposed a new AI search program called "Skynet."
Shit, too late for me. And who are you people?
I just hope they don't run into a horrible bad guy, who is uber-powerful but instead of confronting them directly sends his progressively stronger minions after them one-by-one until finally showing up himself for a huge final battle.
If he ever serves a day in prison (unlikely), it will be in some minimum security prison where the only rape is to the taxpayers who have to pay the cable bill. Rich Republicans never pay for crimes they commit. Even when it looks like they might, they just find some slick way out of it (like Ken Lay, who killed himself so his wife and family could keep every dime of his stolen money).
I can see the article now "Terrible crash results as drunk asshole, asshole on a cell phone, and asshole on his computer collide at three way stop."
Not to worry. In an original twist he starts out the game with amnesia and slowly discovers as the game progresses that he's the chosen one who must save humanity.
Most of Hasbro's board is so old they probably have to have oxygen tents built into the boardroom. It's unlikely that the leadership there even knows how to turn on a computer, much less understands the significance of an argument about how web 2.0 apps are changing the business landscape. We're talking a company that still specializes in *board games*. You'd be about as lucky lecturing a buggy whip company on the potential of the horseless carriage.
I've never downloaded a bootleg movie that I didn't buy on DVD when it came out (except for a few movies and TV shows that never were released on DVD in region 1). Many of them I also saw in the theater as well. So the idea that I'm ripping off studios just because they're too stupid to offer downloadable content themselves without gobs of DRM and other annoyances is laughable. It's not our fault that the studios can't let go of their outmoded distribution system (otherwise we would be able to buy the DVD the same day it was released in theaters and this would never even be an issue).
She didn't vote "No." She just didn't show up for the vote. She was still in the midst of her post-primary pity party.
Obama (D, Illinois) - Yea
Oh, we play games...but only for the ironic value
Normally, I would pirate a movie because it's free, has no DRM, and is available at any time (even while the movie is still playing in theaters). Then when it came out on DVD or Blu-ray later, I would buy it and give the filmmaker their fair cut (I'm not not looking to rip them off, I just want a copy of the movie to play at home).
But now that the MPAA has given me a chance to pay money to download from a piss-poor selection of movies that are all crippled by DRM, all I can say is "Thank God!" I mean, what I really want is a poor quality copy of a movie that requires me to connect to the internet and get the studio okay every time I watch it, won't let me make copies or share it with friends, and costs just as much as if I went and bought it on DVD (with the added bonus of none of the DVD extra content).
Yep, the MPAA finally gets it!