GoogleLife, free virtual land -- ad supported of course.
How about applying GoogleMaps to a Second Life server, a few alterations to allow weaponry, NPCs from census data, and create your own Harsh Realm? ...then have the server wirelessly transmit your avatar commands to a DARPA contest vehicle fitted with a webcam and a wide range of heavy artillery, and hey presto! You've got the most realistic version of Grand Theft Auto anyone has ever seen...
You'll generally see figures like: "In Europe, non IE browsers are approaching 25% market share." or "Non IE browsers now account for 15% of web traffic."
How many of that 15-25% (depending on figures) truly don't have the option to open IE if they need to? Let's see... Anyone using a Mac, Linux, or indeed any non-Microsoft OS. That's at least 7% of the market depending on where you source your statistics. And there's bound to be more... EG. various/. anecdotes suggest some people's workplaces have outright banned IE usage. I have no idea what the figure would look like but it would be >0% at any rate.
If a restaurant in a racist area decides to serve people regardless of race, are they truly excluding the racists who have elitist views, think the other race harbour viruses, etc. and therefore won't eat there? Or are the racists, who absolutely have the option to eat there, excluding themselves because of their elitism? Ahh, Slashdot... the home of bad analogies.
For starters, if you're comparing the website to the restaurant, then your restaurant is racist... it will only serve "IE" customers (let's call these "white people" to continue your racism analogue). Just because half of the black customers happen to own a bucket of white paint, why should they be forced to paint themselves in order to eat there?
Well, what if she comes at me with Girlfriend Genuine Advantage?
You mean when she searches in your nightstand and under your bed every time she comes over to make sure you haven't violated the EULA?
Mine never does that... I suspect she's been cracked, what with that little glass pipe I saw her with yesterday. And don't even get me started about the backdoor trojan I found last week...
OK... so instead let's go with the same codec, same bitrate, but ripped from two different instances of the same media. You can't seriously tell me that the same analog signal will be sampled exactly the same way every single time.
Have you tried ripping the song from the same CD twice in a row and doing a binary diff? Have you then tried it on a different PC with the same codec/bitrate/software? How about on a different OS with the same codec/bitrate?
Unlimited is not a term that is ambiguous in any sense. If you can take it to mean anything other tha "without limit" then you aren't speaking English.
From a comment on TFA:
This is why copyright is sooooooooo ridiculous today -- there is no possible reason on God's green earth why Britney Spears's music should be protected for 70 years after her death. The commercial life of 90% of her music is less than 5 years, after which it will languish in obscurity for maybe 130 years, copyright protected, commercially non-viable, and non-listened-to; putting it in the public domain afer five or ten years instead of holding it hostage for 130 would mean that her music would gain renewed relevance, and probably would boost the sale of her other, still-protected works. And releasing her "dead" works into the public domain would mean she'd have more impact on music as a whole (is that a good thing?); otherwise, her work just goes out of circulation. What poor misguided fool posted that? If that really will be the effect of lengthy copyright (which I doubt), surely most of us with any sense of taste would prefer that Britney Spears's music languished in obscurity for 130 years?
How is it harder than real life for the hackers then? If it really is supposed to be a contest (in the true sense of the word) then the least the participants could expect is a level playing field.
RIAA's job is to create a smoke screen.... They pause to light their cigars with burning 100 dollar bills. Well, they gotta get the smoke from somewhere...
And they really WILL make a spaceship modeled on Einstein's head. That prompts the rather zen-like question... what would Einstein's head look like if it was approaching at the speed of light?
I don't know the answer, but I'm sure the resultimg impact would be most entertaining.
How long before lost submarines are meandering up our rivers and streams because the GPS mapping told them this was the way to go? Depends... if the beacon has been moved due to the tectonic plates shifting, well... GPS will probably be obsolete by then.
But if it's been moved by a seismic event (earthquake, volcano, etc) or a bunch of cheeky kids (aka. "terrorists") or even a large marine mammal, well, all bets are off...
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First of all, the fraudsters aren't stupid enough to leave (much) of a paper trail; its common for them to use brokerage accounts compromised by phising. They execute their pump'n'dump via a stolen account, and by the time the dust settles the funds have been transferred. ...so, follow the trail then. They don't get transferred to thin air.
Secondly, many of these folks operate from abroad and the amounts involved - in any single fraud - just aren't large enough to warrant the intervention of The Feds. Sad but true.... The Feds won't get involved as the individual amounts are so damn small. Agreed that it's sad but true. But it's obviously serious enough to warrant attention and action by the SEC. There has to be enough evidence there already that this crime is organised. I'm sure they could get international authorities to help, even the IRS too perhaps? They took down Al Capone, surely they could throw their weight about here, maybe lean on a few brokers and banks...
Anyway, if I'm not too mistaken, there are only two (or at the most three) major versions of windows that are supported. Sorry, missed a few... Windows 2003 Server... Windows CE... Longhorn... the twenty seven flavours of Vista... the 64-bit versions of all of the above (x86 as well as the unobtanium)... etc... All of which probably have less binary compatability than you seem to believe.
I'm guessing this troll is quite full enough already, so I'll offer some dessert... Actually, you can own guns. You just can't be a complete redneck about it.
Yes, you have to play by their rules... fill in all the paperwork, secure ammo and arms in separate locked containers that meet certain standards, etc. etc. but so what really. As an Australian gun owner I can say it's not as easy as I would like but I can live with it as it stands. I also realise that all the legislation in the world is going to have no effect on the trade or use of illegal arms. However, if the current arrangement only saves one person (ever) from death due to accident or a crime of opportunity, it's got to be worth it.
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How many of that 15-25% (depending on figures) truly don't have the option to open IE if they need to? Let's see... Anyone using a Mac, Linux, or indeed any non-Microsoft OS. That's at least 7% of the market depending on where you source your statistics. And there's bound to be more... EG. various
For starters, if you're comparing the website to the restaurant, then your restaurant is racist... it will only serve "IE" customers (let's call these "white people" to continue your racism analogue). Just because half of the black customers happen to own a bucket of white paint, why should they be forced to paint themselves in order to eat there?
Mine never does that... I suspect she's been cracked, what with that little glass pipe I saw her with yesterday. And don't even get me started about the backdoor trojan I found last week...You mean when she searches in your nightstand and under your bed every time she comes over to make sure you haven't violated the EULA?
OK... so instead let's go with the same codec, same bitrate, but ripped from two different instances of the same media. You can't seriously tell me that the same analog signal will be sampled exactly the same way every single time.
Have you tried ripping the song from the same CD twice in a row and doing a binary diff? Have you then tried it on a different PC with the same codec/bitrate/software? How about on a different OS with the same codec/bitrate?
Easy. Type "about:iddqd" in your addressbar.
Unlimited is not a term that is ambiguous in any sense. If you can take it to mean anything other tha "without limit" then you aren't speaking English.
Especially when they run out of lubricant.
Of course, when the hardware failure prevents you from reloading all that stuff, you plan fails and you're SOL...
Psh, he developed FORTRAN. I'm surprised he even lived to 82 without being killed by a rabid programmer.
John W. Backus Dies at 82; Developed FORTRAN
IE. he developed it after he passed away. Surely that explains it...
Or near enough to it at any rate...
3) Profit
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Oops, wrong thread...
How is it harder than real life for the hackers then? If it really is supposed to be a contest (in the true sense of the word) then the least the participants could expect is a level playing field.
I don't know the answer, but I'm sure the resultimg impact would be most entertaining.
Well, it is a significant upgrade from the previous release, which was a BSOD instruction...
But if it's been moved by a seismic event (earthquake, volcano, etc) or a bunch of cheeky kids (aka. "terrorists") or even a large marine mammal, well, all bets are off...
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Well, if you do it right, it's based on your neighbour's debt.
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Works for me - haven't had to pay for bandwidth in over a year
Obligatory Steven Wright:
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."
I'm guessing this troll is quite full enough already, so I'll offer some dessert... Actually, you can own guns. You just can't be a complete redneck about it.
Yes, you have to play by their rules... fill in all the paperwork, secure ammo and arms in separate locked containers that meet certain standards, etc. etc. but so what really. As an Australian gun owner I can say it's not as easy as I would like but I can live with it as it stands. I also realise that all the legislation in the world is going to have no effect on the trade or use of illegal arms. However, if the current arrangement only saves one person (ever) from death due to accident or a crime of opportunity, it's got to be worth it.
I'd mod you informative, but you're a day late this time - sorry!