This is a good point. If you slowly bought a bunch of these movies and burned them yourself it would be nearly impossible to sell your collection without others thinking you were a pirate.
I know that if I bought 500 movies and burnt them I would like the option to be able to sell them.
"The legislation would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to these sites"
This will just cause the creation of middleman sites where you park funds with your credit cards and then they transfer the $$ to the online casino of your choice. Paypal would be a good candidate for this. If the govt get's on Paypal's case, then some offshore holding company will come along and for a 1-2% fee do this. The sad thing is that it will probably be owned by a casino and will drive the cost up another 1-2% just to get into a game.
Here are the features I'd like to see in an Ipod killer...
-80+ GB -plays mp3, mpg, avi, jpg, bmp, and any other common audio/video/picture formats -Has GPS with a 1GB database listing data found in a phone book and have the features of another GPS -Can be used as a 2.4 Ghz walkie talkie with a 2 mile range -Can be used as a phone -builtin camera with flash and can shoot video -RCA out jacks to pump video or audio to a TV or stereo -AM/FM radio with DVR tech so you can record/rewind live audio -802.11G capable with a builtin browser usable at hotspots -builtin speakers -replacable battery -able to fit in a man's shirt pocket -no more than $450
I've seen some items close but nothing that meets all these requirements.
People who are bitten excessively by mosquitos have shown that they have less and less reaction to the bites.
There are some people who have been profesional Off testers (they spray some on their hand and stick it in a jar filled with mosquitos to see if they bite, how long it lasts, how many bite, etc. Many of then have been so exposed to so many bites that they have no reactions anymore. I suspect you need to continue that exposure to keep yourself immune though.
As you age your body changes also. When I was little and got bit they were the size of silver dollars. Like most, I tried to minimize my exposure but still got bit occationally. Now they are the size of a nickel when I get bit.
It is trivial to copy the contents from a hard drive and leave NO sign that the data was read. There would be NO way to forensically determine whether the data had been compromised. You could do a best guess, but that would only be a guess.
It would be funny if a bunch of students did a DOS against Kent. They could register profiles as if they are actual Kent state atheletes. A group of 10-15 people could sign up as the Kent basketball team. When the college tried to suspend them they would say they were innocent and when it hit the news the college would look stupid. Then in the future, the college would never be sure if profiles were for those people or from pranksters!
Supersize it please. I want a Uranus sandwich!
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An Earth sandwich is OK, but what would be really good is if you could supersize it! Two pieces of bread on Uranus would be much bigger and therefore better.
As a side note, I have a connection who independently has obtained around 999,999 - 1,000,001 very dark brown(almost black) DS Lites and is looking to unload them cheap. Any parties interested can contact him on via PicoChat.
I don't seen how making a cartoon HD will make it any better. I remember this in the arcade and as others have mentioned, it was a quarter eater that wan't very fun to play. It definately looked good but gameplay was all guesswork or memory. Minimal to zero skill was involved. You either knew where to go and lived or you didn't and died.
I also remember when it came out for the PC around 1991. It took 7-9 floppies and looked nearly as good as the original. It was fun for about one night.
1) Turn off your cell phone. 2) Leave it somewhere. 3) Pay some kid to carry it around (making it look like you're still moving) 4) Hang out in tunnels. 5) Line pockets with tin foil. 6) Get better parents.
Any parent savvy enough to use a system like this won't be easily tricked. If you turn your cell phone off they will see it. When you get home you may not be able to go out anymore.
If you leave it somewhere and they call, you won't be able to answer unless you forward your phone. Even then, all they need to do is ask you to call them back from your phone. If you can't then you are busted.
Have someone else hold it? Again, you won't be able to answer it. It they want to track you and you won't/can't answer your phone, that sends a signal that something is up!
For nearly all teens, the parents are the ones paying for the phone, car, clothes, etc and they can cut all that off if they like. I'm sure many of you will say I work xx hours per week and pay for everything. Good for you. Most others aren't so lucky!
This system may not seem right/fair/trusting/etc. Still, it isn't as easy to beat as most here think.
802.11n makes many improvements over 11.g. It provides for greater redundancy(MIMO), security, speed(400MBPS+), and more distant coverage. It is also an open standard so anyone can use it without worring about paying someone license fees today, tomorrow, or 3 years from now when it is commonplace. Since its speed can allow multiple hdtv connections to stream at once and the costs should not be any greater than 11b or 11g devices, the n standard will soon dominate wireless networking and connections.
If suddenly there were no more music copyright protections, would artists stop making music? I suspect not. They would be forced to tour if they wanted to make decent money, but most would still do what they are doing. Therefore, why do we still allow copyright protections to exist? The purpose was to promote creation.
Why don't we just make Mexico the 51st state and get this over with. Then we could have cheap labor, not have to worry about them sneaking across the border, and lots of new cheap land for us to exploit.
"Simple solution: You have a new encryption scheme where there are 2 private keys. The first one allows decryption, the second wipes the drive. Guess which one you give to the police?"
While this technique would work great on CSI, in the real world the police does not look at original live data. They image the data first and always work from the copy. Therefore, at best your key would delete the imaged copy. That could also incremidate you in lying to authorities and attempting to destroy evidence. Two crimes for the price of one!
So the article states another among a long list of companies is working on a Fuel-Cell Powered device. Nothing has been made yet, not even a prototype. This is news?
This just in... I'm working on a fuel cell device in my garage.
"Our teacher would always say "that can't be done" whenever we had ideas about code - I'd always find a way to prove him wrong. "
Tell us what you did! I'd like to know things a teacher says can't be done that a student can repeatedly prove him wrong. Did he say you couldn't tell if P=NP? Perhaps he quipped that quicksort can't need more than (n2) comparisons.
"I designed and wrote a software system that saved a large financial instituion hundreds of millions of dollars."
Did you invent the ATM? Other than that, I can't think of many applicaitons an individual could design and write that could save a financial instituion that kind of money.
If a guy was somehow determined to be "cancer-resistant", imagine how many women would want to procreate with him so that their children would be immune to cancer. The guys that could be declared "cancer-resistant" could have women lining up down the street waiting for the guys to knock them up!
"What if I-95 announced an exclusive deal with General Motors to provide a special "rush-hour" lane for GM cars only?"
GM doesnt pay for the roads. Taxpayers do. Now if GM went a built a series of roads with their money and only allowed their cars to use those roads, would you object?
"I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day, and that would drive me insane."
If you work an 8 hour day and send 320 emails per day, then you are sending one every 90 seconds. Unless he is just forwarnding most if it, he must not do any real work since he spends his entire day composing/replying to email.
Re:Already done here in the US...
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"That would make the Canada's equivalent of the Fortune 500 at least."
Canada's so small, wouldn't a guy selling 20-30 items on eBay make their Fortune 500 list?
Re:Japanese did exactly things many years ago
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"Linux never make programmers in the U.S. become poor or retired but MS/HP/... do (by outsourcing). "
Perhaps that is because you don't have to outsource free labor? I don't see how you can blame outsourcing on MS and HP. If you work for free for MS or HP I bet they'd keep your job here also.
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This is a good point. If you slowly bought a bunch of these movies and burned them yourself it would be nearly impossible to sell your collection without others thinking you were a pirate.
I know that if I bought 500 movies and burnt them I would like the option to be able to sell them.
"The legislation would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to these sites"
This will just cause the creation of middleman sites where you park funds with your credit cards and then they transfer the $$ to the online casino of your choice. Paypal would be a good candidate for this. If the govt get's on Paypal's case, then some offshore holding company will come along and for a 1-2% fee do this. The sad thing is that it will probably be owned by a casino and will drive the cost up another 1-2% just to get into a game.
Here are the features I'd like to see in an Ipod killer...
-80+ GB
-plays mp3, mpg, avi, jpg, bmp, and any other common audio/video/picture formats
-Has GPS with a 1GB database listing data found in a phone book and have the features of another GPS
-Can be used as a 2.4 Ghz walkie talkie with a 2 mile range
-Can be used as a phone
-builtin camera with flash and can shoot video
-RCA out jacks to pump video or audio to a TV or stereo
-AM/FM radio with DVR tech so you can record/rewind live audio
-802.11G capable with a builtin browser usable at hotspots
-builtin speakers
-replacable battery
-able to fit in a man's shirt pocket
-no more than $450
I've seen some items close but nothing that meets all these requirements.
People who are bitten excessively by mosquitos have shown that they have less and less reaction to the bites.
There are some people who have been profesional Off testers (they spray some on their hand and stick it in a jar filled with mosquitos to see if they bite, how long it lasts, how many bite, etc. Many of then have been so exposed to so many bites that they have no reactions anymore. I suspect you need to continue that exposure to keep yourself immune though.
As you age your body changes also. When I was little and got bit they were the size of silver dollars. Like most, I tried to minimize my exposure but still got bit occationally. Now they are the size of a nickel when I get bit.
It is trivial to copy the contents from a hard drive and leave NO sign that the data was read. There would be NO way to forensically determine whether the data had been compromised. You could do a best guess, but that would only be a guess.
"The laws of 13 states expressly prohibit the unauthorized installation or use of cameras in private places"
If the camera was on the man's property, then you couldn't hardly say that the installation was unauthorized.
Have you ever personally traveled back in time and had sex with your grandmother?
If so, how was it?
It would be funny if a bunch of students did a DOS against Kent. They could register profiles as if they are actual Kent state atheletes. A group of 10-15 people could sign up as the Kent basketball team. When the college tried to suspend them they would say they were innocent and when it hit the news the college would look stupid. Then in the future, the college would never be sure if profiles were for those people or from pranksters!
An Earth sandwich is OK, but what would be really good is if you could supersize it! Two pieces of bread on Uranus would be much bigger and therefore better.
As a side note, I have a connection who independently has obtained around 999,999 - 1,000,001 very dark brown(almost black) DS Lites and is looking to unload them cheap. Any parties interested can contact him on via PicoChat.
I don't seen how making a cartoon HD will make it any better. I remember this in the arcade and as others have mentioned, it was a quarter eater that wan't very fun to play. It definately looked good but gameplay was all guesswork or memory. Minimal to zero skill was involved. You either knew where to go and lived or you didn't and died.
I also remember when it came out for the PC around 1991. It took 7-9 floppies and looked nearly as good as the original. It was fun for about one night.
Many have listed ways to beat this including...
1) Turn off your cell phone.
2) Leave it somewhere.
3) Pay some kid to carry it around (making it look like you're still moving)
4) Hang out in tunnels.
5) Line pockets with tin foil.
6) Get better parents.
Any parent savvy enough to use a system like this won't be easily tricked. If you turn your cell phone off they will see it. When you get home you may not be able to go out anymore.
If you leave it somewhere and they call, you won't be able to answer unless you forward your phone. Even then, all they need to do is ask you to call them back from your phone. If you can't then you are busted.
Have someone else hold it? Again, you won't be able to answer it. It they want to track you and you won't/can't answer your phone, that sends a signal that something is up!
For nearly all teens, the parents are the ones paying for the phone, car, clothes, etc and they can cut all that off if they like. I'm sure many of you will say I work xx hours per week and pay for everything. Good for you. Most others aren't so lucky!
This system may not seem right/fair/trusting/etc. Still, it isn't as easy to beat as most here think.
802.11n makes many improvements over 11.g. It provides for greater redundancy(MIMO), security, speed(400MBPS+), and more distant coverage. It is also an open standard so anyone can use it without worring about paying someone license fees today, tomorrow, or 3 years from now when it is commonplace. Since its speed can allow multiple hdtv connections to stream at once and the costs should not be any greater than 11b or 11g devices, the n standard will soon dominate wireless networking and connections.
If suddenly there were no more music copyright protections, would artists stop making music? I suspect not. They would be forced to tour if they wanted to make decent money, but most would still do what they are doing. Therefore, why do we still allow copyright protections to exist? The purpose was to promote creation.
Why don't we just make Mexico the 51st state and get this over with. Then we could have cheap labor, not have to worry about them sneaking across the border, and lots of new cheap land for us to exploit.
"Simple solution: You have a new encryption scheme where there are 2 private keys. The first one allows decryption, the second wipes the drive. Guess which one you give to the police?"
While this technique would work great on CSI, in the real world the police does not look at original live data. They image the data first and always work from the copy. Therefore, at best your key would delete the imaged copy. That could also incremidate you in lying to authorities and attempting to destroy evidence. Two crimes for the price of one!
So the article states another among a long list of companies is working on a Fuel-Cell Powered device. Nothing has been made yet, not even a prototype. This is news?
This just in...
I'm working on a fuel cell device in my garage.
"Our teacher would always say "that can't be done" whenever we had ideas about code - I'd always find a way to prove him wrong. "
Tell us what you did! I'd like to know things a teacher says can't be done that a student can repeatedly prove him wrong. Did he say you couldn't tell if P=NP? Perhaps he quipped that quicksort can't need more than (n2) comparisons.
"I designed and wrote a software system that saved a large financial instituion hundreds of millions of dollars."
Did you invent the ATM? Other than that, I can't think of many applicaitons an individual could design and write that could save a financial instituion that kind of money.
"If you cure cancer, you get laid."
If a guy was somehow determined to be "cancer-resistant", imagine how many women would want to procreate with him so that their children would be immune to cancer. The guys that could be declared "cancer-resistant" could have women lining up down the street waiting for the guys to knock them up!
What if a future George W Bush type were to encounter such place when they were young. This of all teh leadership we may miss out on in the future!
"What if I-95 announced an exclusive deal with General Motors to provide a special "rush-hour" lane for GM cars only?"
GM doesnt pay for the roads. Taxpayers do. Now if GM went a built a series of roads with their money and only allowed their cars to use those roads, would you object?
"I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day, and that would drive me insane."
If you work an 8 hour day and send 320 emails per day, then you are sending one every 90 seconds. Unless he is just forwarnding most if it, he must not do any real work since he spends his entire day composing/replying to email.
"That would make the Canada's equivalent of the Fortune 500 at least."
Canada's so small, wouldn't a guy selling 20-30 items on eBay make their Fortune 500 list?
"Linux never make programmers in the U.S. become poor or retired but MS/HP/... do (by outsourcing). "
Perhaps that is because you don't have to outsource free labor? I don't see how you can blame outsourcing on MS and HP. If you work for free for MS or HP I bet they'd keep your job here also.