interestingly I have had localized brown outs in parts of my house....
I have underground power and water got into the line.. and one of the legs would drop in voltage for no reason.. so instead of 2 120v legs coming in I had 1 120 and 1 60v leg.. when say the heater would cut on power would bleed across from one leg to the other and things would work but when it turned off anything that was on the 60v side would brown out..
it was odd as hell.. if I unplugged my fridge then half the house would start working again.. none of it made since - that is until I realized that my power meter wasn't working (one of the new digital ones).. as soon as I turned off the main breaker the power meter would boot up and be good.. so I called the power company.. they strapped a solid state transformer to my house for a week so I could live off of 1 120v leg until they could repair the line...
but due to over doing UPS's.. none of my computers ever lost power.. hell I was online playing games during the last few hurricanes..
personaly i would (for the first time in my life) go to best buy and get their exchange waranty so i could jsut go down there - throw it at them and grab a new one.... for like 50$ you can get it and it lasts 2 years past the MS waranty.. so that is what.. 5 years now.. personaly i hope we evolve to something new in that time frame..
crap i used MS and evolve in the same post - damnit did it again - someone shoot me now...
the sad part is MS has done two warranty extentions.. while yes the 360 seems to fail alot and MS is going to lose alot of money.. i can say one thing.. they are saving face and are doing a good job.. if i was going to get a consol it would be either A: a 360 or B: a Wii (if they add dvd playback and i could find one) - but i refuse to let my self own a consol cause it would be a very bad thing for me
honestly if you hunt around you can pick up 500gb SATA drives for 80-110$ each (not crappy opes either) pick up some raid cards or hell use software raid (pick up cards) and the cost comes out to be about 50-75 cents per GB.. so that comes to 2-4$ cost to store ripped dvd's (4-8gb) the cost isnt' that bad.. but hell i am too lazy.. i just buy what i want..
i knew what you ment i was just trying to draw out an important statement "that code itself isn't illegal, it's how the code is used that leads to the potential commission of a crime"
the fact here is that Sony placed the Code on to CD's and sold them there by committing a crime.. the company that wrote it did not infact commit a crime..
Sony might have a leg to stand on if the program was delivered out of spec but in the end it was Sony that committed the crime..
if i buy a gun and expect it to be loaded with blanks and aim it at someone and shot - but a real bullet came out - who is the one that killed the person on the other end.. yes blame lands on both but ultimtly i pulled the trigger - i should have checked the chamber to make sure it was a blank..
Sony should have inspected the program before distrubting it, there for the blame still lands with them..
ahh but why should we limit it to only warm days.. what about the brisk days.. they can stay inside when cold.. but then require them to stand next to an unblocked window...
well here comes the question - they own the copyright - they knowingly put their material out there for people to download - and even created a site that inticed people to download it.. as far as i can see they where just giving it away.
on the other hand they also installed spy ware on users computers without letting them know ahead of time - that is aginst the law in some states - it is on the same lvl as alotof the viruses out there.
and if they try to doge the the fact that "they" put it out there by saying it was this "company that does the dirty work" then you point the finger and say - hey did this company have distrubution rights? if not then they are in alot of trouble - if so then they gave the stuff away - and if they say that the company doesn't have distrbution rights but what they where doing wasn't violating the their copyright then well damn many people will be happy to see them say that cause that can be applied so many ways..
all and all this was EXTREAMLY STUPID of them - and i can only pray that they get their asses burned when they try to take someone to court from this thing
i find this kinda intresting.. exchange years ago disabled url's to the same domain as the mail server cause people where getting e-mails with links in them that would use OWA to delete mail or change passwords and so on and so forth
needless to say i had to alter their proccessing page for this cause they blocked the whole damn domain not jsut the mail server..
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this is why i use the Underrated mod.. it gives karma and well is honest
interestingly I have had localized brown outs in parts of my house....
.. none of it made since - that is until I realized that my power meter wasn't working (one of the new digital ones).. as soon as I turned off the main breaker the power meter would boot up and be good.. so I called the power company.. they strapped a solid state transformer to my house for a week so I could live off of 1 120v leg until they could repair the line...
.. none of my computers ever lost power.. hell I was online playing games during the last few hurricanes..
I have underground power and water got into the line.. and one of the legs would drop in voltage for no reason.. so instead of 2 120v legs coming in I had 1 120 and 1 60v leg.. when say the heater would cut on power would bleed across from one leg to the other and things would work but when it turned off anything that was on the 60v side would brown out..
it was odd as hell.. if I unplugged my fridge then half the house would start working again
but due to over doing UPS's
personaly i would (for the first time in my life) go to best buy and get their exchange waranty so i could jsut go down there - throw it at them and grab a new one.... for like 50$ you can get it and it lasts 2 years past the MS waranty.. so that is what.. 5 years now.. personaly i hope we evolve to something new in that time frame..
crap i used MS and evolve in the same post - damnit did it again - someone shoot me now...
the sad part is MS has done two warranty extentions.. while yes the 360 seems to fail alot and MS is going to lose alot of money.. i can say one thing.. they are saving face and are doing a good job.. if i was going to get a consol it would be either A: a 360 or B: a Wii (if they add dvd playback and i could find one) - but i refuse to let my self own a consol cause it would be a very bad thing for me
for once my sig applys....
yea so we jsut send them to that government sponsored resort in cuba
by the way - nice sig
my cats name
one of these days they are going to run out of feet.. and have to start on the knee caps
honestly if you hunt around you can pick up 500gb SATA drives for 80-110$ each (not crappy opes either) pick up some raid cards or hell use software raid (pick up cards) and the cost comes out to be about 50-75 cents per GB.. so that comes to 2-4$ cost to store ripped dvd's (4-8gb) the cost isnt' that bad.. but hell i am too lazy.. i just buy what i want..
i knew what you ment i was just trying to draw out an important statement "that code itself isn't illegal, it's how the code is used that leads to the potential commission of a crime"
the fact here is that Sony placed the Code on to CD's and sold them there by committing a crime.. the company that wrote it did not infact commit a crime..
Sony might have a leg to stand on if the program was delivered out of spec but in the end it was Sony that committed the crime..
if i buy a gun and expect it to be loaded with blanks and aim it at someone and shot - but a real bullet came out - who is the one that killed the person on the other end.. yes blame lands on both but ultimtly i pulled the trigger - i should have checked the chamber to make sure it was a blank..
Sony should have inspected the program before distrubting it, there for the blame still lands with them..
please inform us - what is legal code and what isn't? - last i checked there was nothing like that defined....
ahh but why should we limit it to only warm days.. what about the brisk days.. they can stay inside when cold.. but then require them to stand next to an unblocked window...
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just an idea
i don't know who made it first or when all i know is i where a seiko kinetic watch that was made in the 50's - now days they call them automatics
well if it wasnt' real material then they can't do anything to the people.
well here comes the question - they own the copyright - they knowingly put their material out there for people to download - and even created a site that inticed people to download it.. as far as i can see they where just giving it away.
on the other hand they also installed spy ware on users computers without letting them know ahead of time - that is aginst the law in some states - it is on the same lvl as alotof the viruses out there.
and if they try to doge the the fact that "they" put it out there by saying it was this "company that does the dirty work" then you point the finger and say - hey did this company have distrubution rights? if not then they are in alot of trouble - if so then they gave the stuff away - and if they say that the company doesn't have distrbution rights but what they where doing wasn't violating the their copyright then well damn many people will be happy to see them say that cause that can be applied so many ways..
all and all this was EXTREAMLY STUPID of them - and i can only pray that they get their asses burned when they try to take someone to court from this thing
it was ment to be funny to the parent's "only in America"
it was ment to be funny to the parent's "only in america"
could someone make a living selling sex toys to imaginary people
well if i had had them i would have jsut gave them to you and let it be.. instead i burned karma - just like now :)
i wish i had mod points.
first time i have seen "geekist" used in the right context..
don't you guys get the iMate stuff there too? if so bank there you go.
didn't we already do this?? i seem to remember an artical here that it was done
i find this kinda intresting.. exchange years ago disabled url's to the same domain as the mail server cause people where getting e-mails with links in them that would use OWA to delete mail or change passwords and so on and so forth
needless to say i had to alter their proccessing page for this cause they blocked the whole damn domain not jsut the mail server..
i was mainly refrencing the damn DMCA
don't worry we already got the Aussies on and soon canada - guess what - your next :)