"...the only people who this would be catching are people who really don't know what they're doing."
Likely the same people easiest to harrass into a out-of-court settlement. This is a fearmongering game, remember? If you don't know what you're doing with this, you likely won't know how to protect yourself legally.
I think the big deal is this: being unaccustomed to having this DNI thing, other countries' citizens don't know it'll be useful, and fear the potential for abuse by the issuing body. We wear our hats because we've never had this tech, and it's different, uncomfortable, and scary. If we'd grown up with it (or lived with it for a sufficient amount of time), we'd have been around it always, and it'd be more normal for us, and we'c likely adopt your stance on this issue.
It offers a lot of convenience, but we're not the types to trust our governments. I'm an American, and I can't stand the idea of a random wiretap on my lines, for example, so what's to make me comfortable with this idea?
Is there anything to dissuade me of my idea that Nyxem could have been hyped by Mikrat to cover this RTS strike? Anything at all? The world focuses on Nyxem (which, in effect, didn't happen) and then the RTS goes down. Seems a bit too coordinated to me. "Nyxem" seems to be an anagram for NYMEX (New York Mercantile EXchange), a securities market, not entirely dissimilar from RTS. Perhaps the NYMEX people should look out for this being a possibility on their system(s).
I swear I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this all looks too coincidental.
The candidate is, after all, a Republican. A moron, but a Republican (For all you Republicans out there, I am very much a liberal, and am also generalizing like mad. Please excuse.), and he has the "Christian morals and decency" bit to uphold.
Those electronics courses have lied to me! The said there were daemons and goblins living trapped in the traces! I feel horrible. Magic smoke. *grumble*
That's fair; for the things I code, I don't need much more than is offered by Dr. Java (haven't yet learned how to properly use a regex....) and haven't been introduced to anything more complex.
This is by no means an ad. Just a helpful bit of information.
Bluej and Dr. Java have worked well for me in the past. Bluej has more (in my estimation unneeded) frills then Dr. Java, bu that's a personal preference. Dr. Java has a very shallow learning curve, and setup is simple: run the installer, and point it to your tools.jar class path. Both are free; Bluej was "developed and maintained by a joint research group at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK." while Dr. Java was developed at Rice University in Houston, TX.
Just my two cents.
...the second one, for sure. The Internet's usefulness was augmented by breasts (and augmentations of same), as was the VHS, and I believe that the entire motive force in our modern market is seeing tits more clearly. The progression is simple to follow:
Renaissance: Nude art.
As nude art lost its appeal (poor "resolution", you might say), magazines were introduced. Black and white, even worse "resolution", and much much cheaper than nude art.
Early 1900's: Magazines, nude art.
And then came VHS. Magazines? Who wants to see static images? WE WANNA SEE FULL-MOTION <insert porn genre/action here>!!!!!
1970's: VHS, magazines.
DVD > VHS > magazines, but they're all still in wide use.
Late 1990's: DVD, VHS, magazines.
Now it's on demand!
Late 1990's continued: INTERNET!
So, as you can see from the above progression from whackin' it in a museum to picking your perversion and whackin' it in your own room, better porn has been the major factor in the initial success of most major mediae. All have stayed around, but the older ones have dropped off mainly in terms of userbase. In other words, porn drives the entire entertainment market at the outset of each new format.
I predict that porn will be the initial push for video in the new formats, but that software will be the push for all else.
The OneCare Safety Center thingy won't run on IE 7 beta, either. lol.
On a slightly different tangent:
From the Live Jobs site:
Do you want to be at the forefront of Microsoft's effort to beat Google, Apple & Yahoo at the same time? Do you want to take up the challenge of converting...
... go with Ubuntu. (If that's an option). I've had absolutely no trouble with my installation: it picked up my D-Link DWL-G250 (a g card) and all I had to supply was the SSID and network key; it worked beautifully from the get-go.
Just my 2 cents.
And thank you for the tact; it's something clearly lacking in the top-level commentor's personality.
(Most of the hostility was bred of defensiveness... My apologies.)
And anyway, it is of no consequence. Just a ponderous thing for me.
Meh.
I referenced the possibility that someone else named russ horton had at one point used my computer, and then found that it was not a possibility. There is, to my knowledge, no person within my company by that name, and there is no person with access to this machine by that name either. If my machine had been 0wn3d, I would have known (this machine is offline as soon as I walk away from it for anything including restroom breaks and lunches and such), and has all web-connectivity passworded in triplicate. Outside of the unlikely event of a hack (two software-based firewalls and a physical one make this merely a matter of time and the hacker's determination, I will freely admit) there is no way for this computer to have been jeopardized.
And as to the "script kiddie" comment, I will ignore the slander. If you think me a script kiddie, that is your own opinion. I am secure in the knowledge that I could most likely best you in nearly any contest of programming prowess, and am open to a challenge.
Also, the login is not on the "Get the Beta" page supplied, but lies several pages deeper in the path. If you follow the path and watch the status bar closely for all of the various redirects and codebases, you will find session IDs buried in the URLs.
Lastly, as I did not request such rude treatment, I have only to wonder what prompted such a blatantly ill-tempered response. The only thing my "script-kiddie" mind can even find to be feasible is an overgrown ego. Deflate thyself, O pompous windbag!
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Ah, but can you find a psychology professor to back you up? There's a fellow who knows a lot about market dynamics and computers...
"...the only people who this would be catching are people who really don't know what they're doing."
Likely the same people easiest to harrass into a out-of-court settlement. This is a fearmongering game, remember? If you don't know what you're doing with this, you likely won't know how to protect yourself legally.
I think the big deal is this: being unaccustomed to having this DNI thing, other countries' citizens don't know it'll be useful, and fear the potential for abuse by the issuing body. We wear our hats because we've never had this tech, and it's different, uncomfortable, and scary. If we'd grown up with it (or lived with it for a sufficient amount of time), we'd have been around it always, and it'd be more normal for us, and we'c likely adopt your stance on this issue.
It offers a lot of convenience, but we're not the types to trust our governments. I'm an American, and I can't stand the idea of a random wiretap on my lines, for example, so what's to make me comfortable with this idea?
Is there anything to dissuade me of my idea that Nyxem could have been hyped by Mikrat to cover this RTS strike? Anything at all? The world focuses on Nyxem (which, in effect, didn't happen) and then the RTS goes down. Seems a bit too coordinated to me. "Nyxem" seems to be an anagram for NYMEX (New York Mercantile EXchange), a securities market, not entirely dissimilar from RTS. Perhaps the NYMEX people should look out for this being a possibility on their system(s).
I swear I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this all looks too coincidental.
Just my $.02.
Most likely the Chinese government's got "*.google.com" blocked at the ISPs under law (and all the other Country TLDs for google but .cn)
... "I play Halo... and I vote!!"
The candidate is, after all, a Republican. A moron, but a Republican (For all you Republicans out there, I am very much a liberal, and am also generalizing like mad. Please excuse.), and he has the "Christian morals and decency" bit to uphold.
Those electronics courses have lied to me! The said there were daemons and goblins living trapped in the traces! I feel horrible. Magic smoke. *grumble*
Ah, Bush-isms...
That's fair; for the things I code, I don't need much more than is offered by Dr. Java (haven't yet learned how to properly use a regex....) and haven't been introduced to anything more complex.
This is by no means an ad. Just a helpful bit of information. Bluej and Dr. Java have worked well for me in the past. Bluej has more (in my estimation unneeded) frills then Dr. Java, bu that's a personal preference. Dr. Java has a very shallow learning curve, and setup is simple: run the installer, and point it to your tools.jar class path. Both are free; Bluej was "developed and maintained by a joint research group at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK." while Dr. Java was developed at Rice University in Houston, TX. Just my two cents.
...the second one, for sure. The Internet's usefulness was augmented by breasts (and augmentations of same), as was the VHS, and I believe that the entire motive force in our modern market is seeing tits more clearly. The progression is simple to follow:
Renaissance: Nude art.
As nude art lost its appeal (poor "resolution", you might say), magazines were introduced. Black and white, even worse "resolution", and much much cheaper than nude art.
Early 1900's: Magazines, nude art.
And then came VHS. Magazines? Who wants to see static images? WE WANNA SEE FULL-MOTION <insert porn genre/action here>!!!!!
1970's: VHS, magazines.
DVD > VHS > magazines, but they're all still in wide use.
Late 1990's: DVD, VHS, magazines.
Now it's on demand!
Late 1990's continued: INTERNET!
So, as you can see from the above progression from whackin' it in a museum to picking your perversion and whackin' it in your own room, better porn has been the major factor in the initial success of most major mediae. All have stayed around, but the older ones have dropped off mainly in terms of userbase. In other words, porn drives the entire entertainment market at the outset of each new format.
I predict that porn will be the initial push for video in the new formats, but that software will be the push for all else.
That would be shown by
The bit about syllables
In the reply, yes?
Except for the lack
Of standard syllabaric
distribution, yes!
The OneCare Safety Center thingy won't run on IE 7 beta, either. lol.
On a slightly different tangent: From the Live Jobs site:
Do you want to be at the forefront of Microsoft's effort to beat Google, Apple & Yahoo at the same time? Do you want to take up the challenge of converting...
THEY ADMIT IT!
*Drops jaw*
That was beautiful... and I'm stealing the last bit for my sig.
Yay for gerunds!
... go with Ubuntu. (If that's an option). I've had absolutely no trouble with my installation: it picked up my D-Link DWL-G250 (a g card) and all I had to supply was the SSID and network key; it worked beautifully from the get-go. Just my 2 cents.
Proust in his first book
wrote about
wrote about...
And, since there were no clear winners, the prize goes to the girl with the biggest tits.
"Llama" was once misspelled in an edition of The Daily Llama, the official Monty Python newsletter. How very peculiar.
Well, if the information falls under something constituting self-incrimination, would that then fall into the Fifth?
But please, don't Share or Enjoy it if it happens to be something entirely similar to but not quite like tea...
Hmmm... Will do...
And thank you for the tact; it's something clearly lacking in the top-level commentor's personality. (Most of the hostility was bred of defensiveness... My apologies.) And anyway, it is of no consequence. Just a ponderous thing for me. Meh.
Forgot the link for you to follow.
I referenced the possibility that someone else named russ horton had at one point used my computer, and then found that it was not a possibility. There is, to my knowledge, no person within my company by that name, and there is no person with access to this machine by that name either. If my machine had been 0wn3d, I would have known (this machine is offline as soon as I walk away from it for anything including restroom breaks and lunches and such), and has all web-connectivity passworded in triplicate. Outside of the unlikely event of a hack (two software-based firewalls and a physical one make this merely a matter of time and the hacker's determination, I will freely admit) there is no way for this computer to have been jeopardized.
And as to the "script kiddie" comment, I will ignore the slander. If you think me a script kiddie, that is your own opinion. I am secure in the knowledge that I could most likely best you in nearly any contest of programming prowess, and am open to a challenge.
Also, the login is not on the "Get the Beta" page supplied, but lies several pages deeper in the path. If you follow the path and watch the status bar closely for all of the various redirects and codebases, you will find session IDs buried in the URLs.
Lastly, as I did not request such rude treatment, I have only to wonder what prompted such a blatantly ill-tempered response. The only thing my "script-kiddie" mind can even find to be feasible is an overgrown ego. Deflate thyself, O pompous windbag!
That is all.