Not sure what else you think the software could tell you? Should it pop up and ask the user what his name is? Turn on a keylogger and send back everything he typed in? (although effective, I wouldn't feel very secure knowing this company could be logging everything *I* was typing in as well) Scan the local network and attempt to extract information from any other local computers? Without some additional hardware to gather location evidence, there's little else it can do.
Honestly, unless you had a GPS or GSM/CDMA circuit in the unit logging what it could see, what else could the software send back to you? It certainly wouldn't solve your coffee shop wifi problem.
2) To date, no direct ancestral chains have been established. That is, where one species can be definitively proven to have descended from another.
You mean like Hyracotherium, which evolved into modern horses and all the documented transitory species in between them? If you need living examples and a DNA chain to follow, the mice above work as an example here as well.
Please do not let this color your opinion of the evidence for the creationist position. What evidence would this be? I have never seen any. Only religious rhetoric. Surely you're not talking about scripture?
Even with little knowledge of computers they're easy to get around. New porn sites pop up everyday, the nanny software has to be updated on the ball to keep up. And that's not counting porn that gets shared privately via personal ftp and websites, or through filesharing apps. I've pretty much determined it will be impossible to stop my kids once they're that age and are actively searching for it.
That's pretty damn funny. I forgot to turn my phone off when flying to and from LA last month (3000 miles). Wonder if it caused any havoc with Tmobile?
I think it depends how deep your common sense is. Little common sense: stealing = free stuff = benefit. Smart common sense: stealing = risk of jail = detriment.
Dumb: Rape = feels good to me = benefit. Smart: rape = sent to prison, raped by Bubba = detriment.
See how common sense works both ways? No morality involved in the decision making process. A simple common sense risk-benefit analysis.
I'd wager you're right. The same people who would not say a word about a "F**k Whitey" group, but would rally against any "F**k [insert minority]" group.
Even if he did proposition gay sex in the bathroom (which my only problem with is knowing my own damn kid could have walked into that bathroom), I don't find that particularly bad in itself. I'm just very amused at how he toes the anti-gay party line while secretly doing men in the bathrooms. Criminal? Nah. Hypocrite who shouldn't deserve to be making decisions regarding anyone else? Yep.
The OP didn't even write that. I saw it posted on a newsgroup more than 10 years ago. This guy isn't even creative, he's just trolling with offtopic stories.
I don't deserve it. Who gets to decide whether someone deserves something or not anyway? But that doesn't mean people won't download it. Taking and deserving are not mutually inclusive.
Damn straight. In fact, I'd be all for a massive spam-DDOS on the entire Chinese IP range. That, and the Netherlands domains make up most of my server's spam problems.
Still... if you've got a way around this that is truly idiot proof, I'd like to hear it!
I've been thinking about it. My idea is that you would install an activeX control or java applet from MS. Websites that want to log you into your Live account would invoke this applet, which does all of the authentication client side, then returns only a token back to the website that called it. That token would contain only whatever information was deemed appropriate for them to have or need.
Of course nothing is fool proof. I'm sure the attack vector they'd use to try and break this scheme is to try to distribute fake applets, that don't really authenticate you, just report back your login info.
if you're complaining that they don't include the outlet adapter anymore, that's fine, but it's not really relevant either to the parent or to the main story.
It's relevant to THIS thread, which you are posting in. He was responding to someone who thinks it's a ploy to force users to buy an outlet adapter. You just admitted they don't include the first one. The cable they provide is a USB cable. Not a power adapter. Useless if you don't happen to have a computer near you. And, a simple outlet adapter would bypass this anti-charging safeguard. So, yeah, it's relevant.
So there's a temporary interruption to what, 2 irc servers? Out of thousands? Oh, the humanity!!! Pick another damn server to get your chat on. It's not like they're blocking port 80. I'd bet only a tiny percentage of users even still use IRC, and out of those only a few even use the servers affected.
WinAmp does not write anything to the tags unless you specifically edit one. I use WinAmp pretty much exclusively now, and can guarantee (at least on my computer) this is the case.
iTunes does add garbage to the tag. One more reason I don't use it. The biggest reason was more to do with it bing slow and a memory hog on my computer. Even after disabling the "helper" service (I know all it does is listen for iPods, but why leave it running if I don't use an iPod?) Why bother harassing Apple to fix it? I just won't use it.
I have a hard time liking most media players. iTunes, MMJB, WMP, Real, Quicktime, etc. I love how realplayer and quicktime change all your file type associations, even when you specifically uncheck those options. Even better, I love how WMP will start to retag and reorganize your media library without asking. iTunes and MM aren't that bad, but they are slow and bloated. Winamp is not perfect, but it's what I generally keep because it's small and fast, and doesn't retag/rename/reorganize my files without permission, and doesn't eat up my resources.
I don't use the straps. My kids haven't even thrown the damn things. Maybe dropped it once, but not thrown. And the damn wiimotes are not very heavy. It would take quite some speed to get it to break a TV.
Right. I think submitter was a bit dramatic. And what will actually stop people in Cuba from downloading this? I'm sure they'll be able to find it on Bittorrent, foreign sites, FTP's, etc. Export restrictions on software (or most other IP) are completely unenforceable.
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Not sure what else you think the software could tell you?
Should it pop up and ask the user what his name is? Turn on a keylogger and send back everything he typed in? (although effective, I wouldn't feel very secure knowing this company could be logging everything *I* was typing in as well) Scan the local network and attempt to extract information from any other local computers?
Without some additional hardware to gather location evidence, there's little else it can do.
Honestly, unless you had a GPS or GSM/CDMA circuit in the unit logging what it could see, what else could the software send back to you? It certainly wouldn't solve your coffee shop wifi problem.
1) I am not aware of any known observations of macroevolution (new species created via mutation).
Well then you might learn something today. The mice of Madeira:
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/04_00/island_mice.shtml
And this is 7 years old now, so it does seem your facts may not be up to date.
2) To date, no direct ancestral chains have been established. That is, where one species can be definitively proven to have descended from another.
You mean like Hyracotherium, which evolved into modern horses and all the documented transitory species in between them?
If you need living examples and a DNA chain to follow, the mice above work as an example here as well.
Please do not let this color your opinion of the evidence for the creationist position.
What evidence would this be? I have never seen any. Only religious rhetoric. Surely you're not talking about scripture?
Even with little knowledge of computers they're easy to get around. New porn sites pop up everyday, the nanny software has to be updated on the ball to keep up.
And that's not counting porn that gets shared privately via personal ftp and websites, or through filesharing apps.
I've pretty much determined it will be impossible to stop my kids once they're that age and are actively searching for it.
I'm running Vista just fine under VMWare.
They only changed the EULA, if anything.
That's pretty damn funny. I forgot to turn my phone off when flying to and from LA last month (3000 miles). Wonder if it caused any havoc with Tmobile?
I'd like to see a good example of one. Recommend a good place to research further?
I think it depends how deep your common sense is.
Little common sense: stealing = free stuff = benefit.
Smart common sense: stealing = risk of jail = detriment.
Dumb: Rape = feels good to me = benefit.
Smart: rape = sent to prison, raped by Bubba = detriment.
See how common sense works both ways? No morality involved in the decision making process. A simple common sense risk-benefit analysis.
I'd wager you're right.
The same people who would not say a word about a "F**k Whitey" group, but would rally against any "F**k [insert minority]" group.
Even if he did proposition gay sex in the bathroom (which my only problem with is knowing my own damn kid could have walked into that bathroom), I don't find that particularly bad in itself. I'm just very amused at how he toes the anti-gay party line while secretly doing men in the bathrooms.
Criminal? Nah. Hypocrite who shouldn't deserve to be making decisions regarding anyone else? Yep.
The OP didn't even write that. I saw it posted on a newsgroup more than 10 years ago.
This guy isn't even creative, he's just trolling with offtopic stories.
I don't deserve it. Who gets to decide whether someone deserves something or not anyway?
But that doesn't mean people won't download it.
Taking and deserving are not mutually inclusive.
Damn straight.
In fact, I'd be all for a massive spam-DDOS on the entire Chinese IP range.
That, and the Netherlands domains make up most of my server's spam problems.
Still... if you've got a way around this that is truly idiot proof, I'd like to hear it!
I've been thinking about it. My idea is that you would install an activeX control or java applet from MS. Websites that want to log you into your Live account would invoke this applet, which does all of the authentication client side, then returns only a token back to the website that called it. That token would contain only whatever information was deemed appropriate for them to have or need.
Of course nothing is fool proof. I'm sure the attack vector they'd use to try and break this scheme is to try to distribute fake applets, that don't really authenticate you, just report back your login info.
I have no problem running vista in vmware.
Or are you just saying that we're not supposed to do it, according to that EULA I will never read?
if you're complaining that they don't include the outlet adapter anymore, that's fine, but it's not really relevant either to the parent or to the main story.
It's relevant to THIS thread, which you are posting in.
He was responding to someone who thinks it's a ploy to force users to buy an outlet adapter. You just admitted they don't include the first one. The cable they provide is a USB cable. Not a power adapter. Useless if you don't happen to have a computer near you.
And, a simple outlet adapter would bypass this anti-charging safeguard.
So, yeah, it's relevant.
So there's a temporary interruption to what, 2 irc servers? Out of thousands?
Oh, the humanity!!!
Pick another damn server to get your chat on. It's not like they're blocking port 80. I'd bet only a tiny percentage of users even still use IRC, and out of those only a few even use the servers affected.
You're speaking of children older than infants/toddlers? A baby will become attached to whomever is taking care of it fairly quickly.
haha... I was about to say, "Great troll!"
WinAmp does not write anything to the tags unless you specifically edit one. I use WinAmp pretty much exclusively now, and can guarantee (at least on my computer) this is the case.
iTunes does add garbage to the tag. One more reason I don't use it. The biggest reason was more to do with it bing slow and a memory hog on my computer. Even after disabling the "helper" service (I know all it does is listen for iPods, but why leave it running if I don't use an iPod?)
Why bother harassing Apple to fix it? I just won't use it.
I have a hard time liking most media players. iTunes, MMJB, WMP, Real, Quicktime, etc. I love how realplayer and quicktime change all your file type associations, even when you specifically uncheck those options. Even better, I love how WMP will start to retag and reorganize your media library without asking. iTunes and MM aren't that bad, but they are slow and bloated.
Winamp is not perfect, but it's what I generally keep because it's small and fast, and doesn't retag/rename/reorganize my files without permission, and doesn't eat up my resources.
No, he's saying that they're more likely to do it.
If they're actually children, I agree.
If they're only statutorily illegal, I'd probably not agree.
I don't use the straps.
My kids haven't even thrown the damn things. Maybe dropped it once, but not thrown.
And the damn wiimotes are not very heavy. It would take quite some speed to get it to break a TV.
Right. I think submitter was a bit dramatic.
And what will actually stop people in Cuba from downloading this? I'm sure they'll be able to find it on Bittorrent, foreign sites, FTP's, etc. Export restrictions on software (or most other IP) are completely unenforceable.
Cross microwave ovens off that list, and you're right. :)
They a specific frequency for a very specific reason.