In a state well-known for its walleye, a local television station ran an investigative report a couple of years ago on restaurants that proclaimed to serve walleye in various forms...and found a number of them trying to pass off zander as walleye (usually by trying to call it "European walleye"). A number of them were shamed into switching to the genuine article.
There's an investigative agency called Griffin Inc. that's been providing biometrics and other identification technology to the casinos around the country for years. Although originally designed to identify known cheats engaged in illegal activities, Griffin also has a tendency to try to paint those engaged in legal (but frowned upon) advantage gaming behavior with the same broad strokes.
I suspect that.gov will probably end up doing similar sorts of things with their own biometric database...
Perhaps this is a prelude to the Chinese government looking to do something better with American dollars than have them sitting in US government debt. If the Party were looking to buy out Microsoft, they could really have the rest of the world bent over a barrel, enjoying a tremendous amount of control over anyone that uses MS software.
Not only that, it finally gives the BSA the power it's looking for - let's hear it for the Chinese military fighting the BSA's battles to defend Microsoft's owners and their IP...
Unless he's expressing his vested interest in using hardware firewalls to keep viruses and malware away from the end user PC, this statement makes absolutely no sense.
Generally, a rational botnet creator would tend to try to pwn the low-hanging fruit first - i.e. the ones that have no updates, malware detection, AV, etc. Only if he/she is unable to get a large enough botnet after applying those tools would one resort to the higher-level techniques.
It's rather like saying that Timothy McVeigh would rather have used nuclear ordnance when a U-Haul full of fertilizer served his purpose just fine...
How much weight does this system add vis-a-vis the use of non-composite materials? If you use a system that weighs more than the corresponding non-composite system, you won't gain anything by using the composites in the first place...
The internet is said to route around censorship; however, you don't need to censor the internet if you can pwn the world's PCs.
At first glance, it seems that this would easier to do by simply mandating government backdoors in all operating systems. Wait. Not only does a legislative fix not work work for FOSS, it's also likely to start a tremendous uproar until you show enough people a video of Britney Spears's latest car accident...
Because of China's overt and explicit censorship of the news media, those outside of China (and probably those inside China, too, for that matter) can't possibly be aware of the actual sentiments of the Chinese people.
Basically, what's going to happen is that the pro-Tibet folks will be squelched, either by the Great Firewall of China, imprisonment, or self-censorship, and so only those voices advocating the pro-Tibet stance will be allowed through the filtering and be heard as the "popular" sentiment of the Chinese people.
How does it handle the sunrise/sunset shots for locations that enjoy periods of 24x7 daylight during the summer? Does it (correctly) show the sun rotating around the sky?
Most likely, the only papers that they will be able to vacate are those based on investigations taking place after being served with the C&D order. Whether that costs them enough evidence to prevent them from winning a judgment remains to be seen, however...
Republicans: Spend and don't tax
Democrats: Tax and spend
In order to get a true smaller government in the US these days, you have to choose a third party, such as the Libertarians or the Constitution Party...
What about the static electricity generated by wool, fleece, and other types of clothing? Shoot, in these parts just about anything can generate static, and there's no feeling quite as electric as getting bit by 20,000 volts on the end of your finger whenever you step out of the car...
If Washington state goes to a worldwide (rather than water's edge) method of taxation (where a resident company and all related entities are subject to state income tax on all of its income) and/or a three-factor method of taxation (i.e. resident wages are considered as part of allocating income to Washington state), the portion of worldwide income assigned to Washington state and therefore subject to corporate income tax will increase, thereby closing this loophole.
However, this may generate certain negative effects on the corporate environment in the state, and may cause Microsoft (as well as a boatload of other companies) to pack up and leave town for places such as Nevada.
I don't play games such as this, but it seems obvious to me that these sorts of scams are going to happen whenever there is a real dollar value associated with in-game currency. This sort of thing wouldn't happen if the makers of Second Life would remove the exchange rate between Linden dollars and USD; and even if it did happen, it wouldn't really be news.
One more point: How can the makers of this game do this without running afoul of the banking regulations of various nations, especially if you can buy/sell Linden dollars directly from the company itself?
This would seem to be more about the censorship of his complaint, not about his dog. However, I do tend to agree that he's likely to get executed and the family billed for the firing squad bullet(s)...
OTOH, given the Chinese taste for dogmeat, I am somewhat surprised they would issue regulations like this, unless the intent is to take the confiscated dogs and process them for meat. Wouldn't it be better for the Chinese to take a page out of Michael Vick's playbook and factory-farm dogs for their meat?
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All this really means is that script kiddies can now do identity theft as easily as they can perform DDoS attacks...
In a state well-known for its walleye, a local television station ran an investigative report a couple of years ago on restaurants that proclaimed to serve walleye in various forms...and found a number of them trying to pass off zander as walleye (usually by trying to call it "European walleye"). A number of them were shamed into switching to the genuine article.
There's an investigative agency called Griffin Inc. that's been providing biometrics and other identification technology to the casinos around the country for years. Although originally designed to identify known cheats engaged in illegal activities, Griffin also has a tendency to try to paint those engaged in legal (but frowned upon) advantage gaming behavior with the same broad strokes.
.gov will probably end up doing similar sorts of things with their own biometric database...
I suspect that
Perhaps this is a prelude to the Chinese government looking to do something better with American dollars than have them sitting in US government debt. If the Party were looking to buy out Microsoft, they could really have the rest of the world bent over a barrel, enjoying a tremendous amount of control over anyone that uses MS software.
Not only that, it finally gives the BSA the power it's looking for - let's hear it for the Chinese military fighting the BSA's battles to defend Microsoft's owners and their IP...
Unless he's expressing his vested interest in using hardware firewalls to keep viruses and malware away from the end user PC, this statement makes absolutely no sense.
Generally, a rational botnet creator would tend to try to pwn the low-hanging fruit first - i.e. the ones that have no updates, malware detection, AV, etc. Only if he/she is unable to get a large enough botnet after applying those tools would one resort to the higher-level techniques.
It's rather like saying that Timothy McVeigh would rather have used nuclear ordnance when a U-Haul full of fertilizer served his purpose just fine...
How much weight does this system add vis-a-vis the use of non-composite materials? If you use a system that weighs more than the corresponding non-composite system, you won't gain anything by using the composites in the first place...
The internet is said to route around censorship; however, you don't need to censor the internet if you can pwn the world's PCs.
At first glance, it seems that this would easier to do by simply mandating government backdoors in all operating systems. Wait. Not only does a legislative fix not work work for FOSS, it's also likely to start a tremendous uproar until you show enough people a video of Britney Spears's latest car accident...
Because of China's overt and explicit censorship of the news media, those outside of China (and probably those inside China, too, for that matter) can't possibly be aware of the actual sentiments of the Chinese people.
Basically, what's going to happen is that the pro-Tibet folks will be squelched, either by the Great Firewall of China, imprisonment, or self-censorship, and so only those voices advocating the pro-Tibet stance will be allowed through the filtering and be heard as the "popular" sentiment of the Chinese people.
How does it handle the sunrise/sunset shots for locations that enjoy periods of 24x7 daylight during the summer? Does it (correctly) show the sun rotating around the sky?
Most likely, the only papers that they will be able to vacate are those based on investigations taking place after being served with the C&D order. Whether that costs them enough evidence to prevent them from winning a judgment remains to be seen, however...
Computerized smoke signals
Republicans: Spend and don't tax
Democrats: Tax and spend
In order to get a true smaller government in the US these days, you have to choose a third party, such as the Libertarians or the Constitution Party...
Personally, I think IKEA is evil regardless of whether or not they supply desks for the NSA, but that's just me...
P2P is only OK if we can use it to make money and make our quarterlies.
Follow the money - Coble's just taking care of his patrons.
Hrm, who do I see here? The RIAA, ASCAP, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the American IP Law Association, all in his top 10.
The only surprise here is how long it's taken him to get around to taking care of them...
If you think DHS is bad about things like this, I suggest you acquaint yourself with the folks over at the Internal Revenue Service...
The leap from censoring pr0n to censoring unpopular beliefs and the opposition's political views is disturbingly short...
What about the static electricity generated by wool, fleece, and other types of clothing? Shoot, in these parts just about anything can generate static, and there's no feeling quite as electric as getting bit by 20,000 volts on the end of your finger whenever you step out of the car...
It takes far more money to buy the entire judicial system than it does to buy a few hundred politicians
We are in your politics killin' your business models
Why do you need a 'great install experience' when you can just force the update on your userbase?
If Washington state goes to a worldwide (rather than water's edge) method of taxation (where a resident company and all related entities are subject to state income tax on all of its income) and/or a three-factor method of taxation (i.e. resident wages are considered as part of allocating income to Washington state), the portion of worldwide income assigned to Washington state and therefore subject to corporate income tax will increase, thereby closing this loophole.
However, this may generate certain negative effects on the corporate environment in the state, and may cause Microsoft (as well as a boatload of other companies) to pack up and leave town for places such as Nevada.
I don't play games such as this, but it seems obvious to me that these sorts of scams are going to happen whenever there is a real dollar value associated with in-game currency. This sort of thing wouldn't happen if the makers of Second Life would remove the exchange rate between Linden dollars and USD; and even if it did happen, it wouldn't really be news.
One more point: How can the makers of this game do this without running afoul of the banking regulations of various nations, especially if you can buy/sell Linden dollars directly from the company itself?
A Linux port of Duke Nukem Forever, now that we finally know it isn't just vaporware...
This would seem to be more about the censorship of his complaint, not about his dog. However, I do tend to agree that he's likely to get executed and the family billed for the firing squad bullet(s)...
OTOH, given the Chinese taste for dogmeat, I am somewhat surprised they would issue regulations like this, unless the intent is to take the confiscated dogs and process them for meat. Wouldn't it be better for the Chinese to take a page out of Michael Vick's playbook and factory-farm dogs for their meat?