"A lot of non-working and low income poor may be forced out of London"
About damn time.
If I can't afford to live in London, while working a productive job and contributing to society, why the hell do you think that someone else should get given housing in an area I couldn't hope to afford to live in? And it's ME that has to pay for it?
Sorry, but if someone wants money taken from the pockets of working people, the least they can do is live somewhere that makes that more affordable.
Any system where it's more profitable to work than not, is inherently broken.
They already don't quite understand the two types of quantum tunneling they already have, and they want to have a third? Everyone knows that you get your existing shit in order before you go expanding, especially in the current economic climate. Like two types isn't enough already anyway!
If you can find a way to properly polymerise their silk, you could even make plastic knives and forks (or better, a spork) out of their silk to eat them with.
Breed larger silkworks and you could even use them to make the plates to eat them from! BONUS!
A large chair-shaped dent was subsequently found in the side of their web server, and a large sweaty man was seen running from the scene of the crime shouting "DEVLOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!"
>>have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells... thereby turning fat people into really smart people.
Yes but the question is, does the IQ boost from hundreds of burgers beat the negatives of the BSE/CJD/mad cow disease disease from it? Further studies are required if your hypothesis is to be proved.
Elvis was clearly just ahead of his time. Were he born in 2050, he'd be making Einstein look like a mere string theorist!
Actually this sounds like expected behaviour. www.slashdot.org isn't a valid address, people are just used to the user-friendly auto-appending of http://./
www.slashdot.org is the name of a file in a location that IE searches for named shortcuts.
What IE is doing in this case is preferring an exact match over an autoguess.
The only arguement here is if IE should be searching the desktop for URL shortcuts, and considering how many people use their desktop in lieu of the favourites menu, I don't think that it's an unreasonable feature.
If you want to go to http://www.slashdot.org/ - type that in. Leave room for the software to guess, and well, it will guess.
Whenever I hear people talk about how we're "99% like a chimp", "45% like a fern", "76% like a catfish", etc. I just point out that we are not DNA. DNA is just the intruction manual on how to make us.
A more accurate analogy would be that the user manuals for a chimp and a human are 99% similar. Considering that the first 950,000 of 1,000,000 pages are about basic body structure, chemicals, etc, that's hardly surprising.
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2) This sounds like a rather remote, extremely lightly travelled route - it may not be economically feasible to install a guard rail and "stabilize the slope" (which could cost tens of thousands or millions of dollars). Sounds like it is just a back-country dirt road that wasn't designed for through traffic.
Nah it wouldn't cost a single dollar - we have our own currency over here, thankyouverymuch.
That said, you're right, and the best option is probably a big "OMG WTF THIS IS A DANGEROUS ROAD - THERE BE DRAGONS" sign.
You missed my preferred option number 3 though - set up some webcams and register www.watchpeoplefalloffaroadhahafunny.com
www.galciv2.com - go there and you can buy, download, install, and play the game with minimum hassle.
IT sems to me that they're giving you exactly what you're asking for, and that's great. I did it and I have never had to touch a CD. I have a backup stored on my HD, and can re-downoad it from them whenever I want and all I have to do is supply them with the serial number to do so.
Oh, if I lose the serial number too, if I can prove ownership (via registered email address, receipt, etc) they'll give me the serial number I lost so I can get playing again.
Pretty neat, eh? (Not a fanboy, just VERY impressed with a company where supporting the customer is priority)
It's a great game by a great company and I pre-ordered it and have been enjoying it for a while now.
The point is though that they're not treating their customers like criminals by default. This is something that we really should all support. Mutual trust between company and buyer is something that's been almost eradicated over the past few years by rape-artists like Starforce and Sony.
The proof of what Starforce is all about is right there in front of you. "They didn't pay us loads of money to crap all over their customers, so DAMMIT WE'RE GOING TO PROMOTE PIRACY OF THEIR SOFTWARE." You know, does this remind anyone else of mafia-like tactics? That's because that's exactly what this is. It look for all intents and purposes like a protection racket.
Starforce are saying by their actions - "Give us money or we'll encourage and make it easier for people to take from you."
---- eBay is infested with public domain repackagers and sellers of "information" that they seem to do nothing about. But if Microsoft doesn't like an auction, it's gone, apparently ----
I don't see anything wrong in charging a nominal fee for redistributing public domain work. It's not as if it's not still free somewhere else, it just saves you the effort of going out and rounding it up yourself. In a world of 'money first', allowing this can only help that little bit extra to keep said work alive. How is this different to the books of Dickens still being printed and charged for? The words themselves are free now, but you're paying for them to be wrapped up in a little paper package for you.
Anyone spending money on an auction for info on how to get a 'free ipod' deserves to get ripped off.
Quite how either of those are like someone trying to make a profit from selling info of a vulnerability potentionally harming millions to a virus writer is beyond me though.
One is making a bit of money (indirectly) helping to keep public domain work alive, the other is trying to profit from the harm of others.
Looking at the motivation this guy has, I can't really see how it can be good.
So, it was submitted to Microsoft on the 6th, and since then he's recieved a reply stating they'll probably be working on a fix. That was LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. Releasing vulnerabilities is something that, IMO, should only be done if (a) there is some specific need for everyone to know about it right now, or (b) requests for fixes have fallen on deaf ears or otherwise failed for an extended period of time. This meets neither of those criteria.
- looking to make a profit from releasing details of a vulterability - phrasing the auction in a way that makes it clear he wants the buyer to do something bad - "It can be assumed that no patch addressing this vulnerability will be available within the next few months"
Sounds to me more like some dumb little script kiddy that got lucky finding a small hole, but doesn't have the ability to do anything with it. Working from an illogical hatred of MS he's trying to get someone else to unleash a virus on the world on his behalf.
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And they are punishing the guilty - the rioters they have caught to date, and the inciters they have caught to date.
Or are you suggesting the absurd notion that until they can punish exactly and precisely everyone involved that nobody should be punished?
Barbarism is exactly what they are punishing for most of these sub-human scum.
Expelling familes from *their* homes?
Not at all - they are homes owned by the taxpayers. If you want to be secure in a home, two useful steps would be:
1) Get a job so you can pay for your own home, instead of taking money out of the pockets of working families.
2) Don't be a criminal shitbag stealing from and killing those who pay for "your" home.
"A lot of non-working and low income poor may be forced out of London"
About damn time.
If I can't afford to live in London, while working a productive job and contributing to society, why the hell do you think that someone else should get given housing in an area I couldn't hope to afford to live in? And it's ME that has to pay for it?
Sorry, but if someone wants money taken from the pockets of working people, the least they can do is live somewhere that makes that more affordable.
Any system where it's more profitable to work than not, is inherently broken.
Had they collected 16 fewer records, it could have been so much more appropriate.
They already don't quite understand the two types of quantum tunneling they already have, and they want to have a third? Everyone knows that you get your existing shit in order before you go expanding, especially in the current economic climate. Like two types isn't enough already anyway!
Who do they think they are, string theorists??
If you can find a way to properly polymerise their silk, you could even make plastic knives and forks (or better, a spork) out of their silk to eat them with.
Breed larger silkworks and you could even use them to make the plates to eat them from! BONUS!
A large chair-shaped dent was subsequently found in the side of their web server, and a large sweaty man was seen running from the scene of the crime shouting "DEVLOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!"
>>have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells ... thereby turning fat people into really smart people.
Yes but the question is, does the IQ boost from hundreds of burgers beat the negatives of the BSE/CJD/mad cow disease disease from it? Further studies are required if your hypothesis is to be proved.
Elvis was clearly just ahead of his time. Were he born in 2050, he'd be making Einstein look like a mere string theorist!
Actually this sounds like expected behaviour. www.slashdot.org isn't a valid address, people are just used to the user-friendly auto-appending of http://./
www.slashdot.org is the name of a file in a location that IE searches for named shortcuts.
What IE is doing in this case is preferring an exact match over an autoguess.
The only arguement here is if IE should be searching the desktop for URL shortcuts, and considering how many people use their desktop in lieu of the favourites menu, I don't think that it's an unreasonable feature.
If you want to go to http://www.slashdot.org/ - type that in. Leave room for the software to guess, and well, it will guess.
Constantly being tarred and feathered, the poor velociraptors were often the butt of the larger dinosaurs' jokes.
Nowhere is there proof that the 'raptors actually grew those feathers out of their skin!
Very true.
Whenever I hear people talk about how we're "99% like a chimp", "45% like a fern", "76% like a catfish", etc. I just point out that we are not DNA. DNA is just the intruction manual on how to make us.
A more accurate analogy would be that the user manuals for a chimp and a human are 99% similar. Considering that the first 950,000 of 1,000,000 pages are about basic body structure, chemicals, etc, that's hardly surprising.
>Unless you seriously believe that they spontaneously appeared on slashdot fully-formed, they must have evolved from something
My ancestors visited Digg? No, say it ain't so!!! It can't be, anyway, there are no itermediary fossils!
As far as I'm aware, they're not paying the virus anything for it's work. They also have no choice in the matter.
Have we really sunk so low as to sink back to using slavery in order to make a few lousy batteries?
// 2) This sounds like a rather remote, extremely lightly travelled route - it may not be economically feasible to install a guard rail and "stabilize the slope" (which could cost tens of thousands or millions of dollars). Sounds like it is just a back-country dirt road that wasn't designed for through traffic.
Nah it wouldn't cost a single dollar - we have our own currency over here, thankyouverymuch.
That said, you're right, and the best option is probably a big "OMG WTF THIS IS A DANGEROUS ROAD - THERE BE DRAGONS" sign.
You missed my preferred option number 3 though - set up some webcams and register www.watchpeoplefalloffaroadhahafunny.com
www.galciv2.com - go there and you can buy, download, install, and play the game with minimum hassle.
IT sems to me that they're giving you exactly what you're asking for, and that's great. I did it and I have never had to touch a CD. I have a backup stored on my HD, and can re-downoad it from them whenever I want and all I have to do is supply them with the serial number to do so.
Oh, if I lose the serial number too, if I can prove ownership (via registered email address, receipt, etc) they'll give me the serial number I lost so I can get playing again.
Pretty neat, eh? (Not a fanboy, just VERY impressed with a company where supporting the customer is priority)
I'm sure I don't need to finish.
It's a great game by a great company and I pre-ordered it and have been enjoying it for a while now.
The point is though that they're not treating their customers like criminals by default. This is something that we really should all support. Mutual trust between company and buyer is something that's been almost eradicated over the past few years by rape-artists like Starforce and Sony.
The proof of what Starforce is all about is right there in front of you. "They didn't pay us loads of money to crap all over their customers, so DAMMIT WE'RE GOING TO PROMOTE PIRACY OF THEIR SOFTWARE." You know, does this remind anyone else of mafia-like tactics? That's because that's exactly what this is. It look for all intents and purposes like a protection racket.
Starforce are saying by their actions - "Give us money or we'll encourage and make it easier for people to take from you."
Support Stardock, Screw Starforce.
Steve Balmer discovered at the office party having sexual relations with Google in a storage cupboard.
Wrong, actually. If you download and register it before next November it is free for life - it's not an expiring trial edition.
In addition you can get enormous student discounts of VStudio if you really need the extra features.
There is also sharpdev as mentioned earlier.
Wow, so a University is now running an entire city. That's freaky!
Still, got to be better than Bush!
They'd better not let all of that dangerous oxygen escape into the atmosphere!!
"I'm off to McDonalds to get a bit of Bambi" ....IN A PIE! HAHAHAHAHA!
Please sign me up for your new service.
Love and kisses,
Paris Hilton.
A Macro lens can also print out your address labels from Wordand format everything as bold italic.
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eBay is infested with public domain repackagers and sellers of "information" that they seem to do nothing about. But if Microsoft doesn't like an auction, it's gone, apparently
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I don't see anything wrong in charging a nominal fee for redistributing public domain work. It's not as if it's not still free somewhere else, it just saves you the effort of going out and rounding it up yourself. In a world of 'money first', allowing this can only help that little bit extra to keep said work alive. How is this different to the books of Dickens still being printed and charged for? The words themselves are free now, but you're paying for them to be wrapped up in a little paper package for you.
Anyone spending money on an auction for info on how to get a 'free ipod' deserves to get ripped off.
Quite how either of those are like someone trying to make a profit from selling info of a vulnerability potentionally harming millions to a virus writer is beyond me though.
One is making a bit of money (indirectly) helping to keep public domain work alive, the other is trying to profit from the harm of others.
Looking at the motivation this guy has, I can't really see how it can be good.
So, it was submitted to Microsoft on the 6th, and since then he's recieved a reply stating they'll probably be working on a fix. That was LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. Releasing vulnerabilities is something that, IMO, should only be done if (a) there is some specific need for everyone to know about it right now, or (b) requests for fixes have fallen on deaf ears or otherwise failed for an extended period of time.
This meets neither of those criteria.
- looking to make a profit from releasing details of a vulterability
- phrasing the auction in a way that makes it clear he wants the buyer to do something bad - "It can be assumed that no patch addressing this vulnerability will be available within the next few months"
Sounds to me more like some dumb little script kiddy that got lucky finding a small hole, but doesn't have the ability to do anything with it. Working from an illogical hatred of MS he's trying to get someone else to unleash a virus on the world on his behalf.
What a great guy.