...the government caught me in the act of doing something illegal using public information that's been available for years now! Bad Big Brother!
Permits are hard to get around here to do anything though. Which sucks. But if you choose to break the law, you should be aware of the potential consequences and the chance of getting caught. Given the public images of homes it should not be too surprising that something like this would happen eventually.
The FBI claims that this production of this image is 'particularly problematic, because it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations of restrictions by Wikipedia users.'
Unless they're referring to FBI Halloween costumes, I must sadly agree that caching has to be what they're referring to here...
This image is a work of a Federal Bureau of Investigation employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.
Public domain from a copyright standpoint, but other restrictions apply. Unauthorized use of the FBI seal, name, and initials are subject to prosecution under Federal Criminal law, including 18 U.S.C 701, 709, and 712.
So uh, what exactly is their legal standing for keeping it up there? There must be more to it, but I can see how the FBI could read this and decide to sue them.:)
If your overclocked card can't handle maximum load, you're doing it wrong. The whole POINT of overclocking is to increase the maximum load the card can handle. If the maximum is at a point where it will cause crashes or damage to the card when sustained for short or extended periods you've overclocked it too much.
My old nVidia card would underclock itself when it started to overheat. Good thing too, when my heatsink got clogged with dust it probably saved itself when I was still clueless about it.
Yeah I ripped apart the summary before I moved on to the article. It does look like the article still tries to place part of the blame on Blizzard though, as the author expects it to be patched.
s/I don't think this is a problem./This sounds like a red herring to me.
And the article talks about dust being the problem; which is exactly what I was thinking of when I said "something is wrong with its cooling". I've had that problem before with my old GPU; in Left 4 Dead 2 (but not in older games like TF2) I'd get great slowdowns every so often and my GPU was running pretty hot. Turns out it was throttling itself to keep itself from getting even hotter. A heatsink cleanout fixed that right up.
You can uncap the framerate in lots of games, but we've never heard about this problem before. I don't think this is a problem. Especaily since you can easily make a GFX card run at full capacity and a low framerate by simply playing a game that's a little too new for it, something a lot of people trying to put off upgrades do. If your GFX card can't run at it's maximum capacity without overheating, something is wrong with its cooling.
The Internet Explorer planners proposed a feature that would block any third-party content that turned up on more than 10 visited websites, figuring that anything so pervasive was likely to be a tracking tool. This, they believed, was a more comprehensive approach to privacy than simply turning off browser cookies, one that would thwart other tracking methods.
Cue Firefox/Chrome extension implementing this feature in 3...2...1...
In the meantime, Google for Ghostery, which blocks tracking tools using a blacklist. I've had it disabled actually because I figured adblock + a hosts file would do enough for me. But in honor of this article I will re-enable it.
I think you can hold some keys when the calculator turns on (or when inserting the batteries?) to reset to factory defaults. Since the calculator wouldn't want to store an entire separate copy of the OS in its limited storage, you could keep some stuff around in theory. I haven't used my TI calc for awhile though; my DSi is more fun.:)
Here's how my comparison stacks up, personally. (I consider anything that requires the console to fix in Linux but not Windows permanently broken for the average user):
My monitor doesn't go to sleep. At all. Power Management settings do nothing. I have to use the console command xset, but whoops, I have to do it again at every boot and resume. Adding the command to gdm and pm-suspend startup scripts has no effect. Oh yeah, and using 900 seconds for 15 minutes seems to never actually wait 15 minutes but sleeps sooner.
Sometimes it just won't come back from resume at all, although it mainly just happened once before video drivers were installed.
When I boot, sometimes the network will randomly decide to not start connected. This can be fixed from the network tray icon but it is not very intuitive and will greatly frustrate an average user.
Perhaps the problem is that there is a LOT of hardware out there to test, and Microsoft simply does a better job with hardware compatibility. No year of the Linux desktop this year imo, but Ubuntu is definitely making right steps in that direction with 10.04.
Whenever this comes up I say it took them 9 tries to get it right, only took the Firefox guys 4 tries But imo the IE team hasn't quite gotten it right yet
What idiots write these comments? It amazes me how many slashdotters and people in general will use phrases that they clearly have no understanding of when they speak or write. Its clear they have no understanding because they don't even say it right.
Please kids, for the love of god, know what the words you are saying mean before you use them.
(My apologies to the original poster, I couldn't resist, and it felt fitting.)
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...this reminds me of the whole "Hackers can make your computer explode!" scare that went around in the early PC era...
...the government caught me in the act of doing something illegal using public information that's been available for years now! Bad Big Brother!
Permits are hard to get around here to do anything though. Which sucks. But if you choose to break the law, you should be aware of the potential consequences and the chance of getting caught. Given the public images of homes it should not be too surprising that something like this would happen eventually.
Unless they're referring to FBI Halloween costumes, I must sadly agree that caching has to be what they're referring to here...
Looks like the news site is going to be hit next!
And someone needs to tell those guys SVGs can scale up infinitely.
So uh, what exactly is their legal standing for keeping it up there? There must be more to it, but I can see how the FBI could read this and decide to sue them. :)
... how many Windows "pirates" actually own a legitimate product key but have simply no install CD/DVD.
Even if you do it to a phone you don't own, without permission from the owner?
Maybe someone forgot the password to their truecrypt volume.
Don't worry, when you can, you'll be able to do it just by visiting the website. :)
Yeah, unless you have the same car model and color as the gov't official this won't work.
If your overclocked card can't handle maximum load, you're doing it wrong. The whole POINT of overclocking is to increase the maximum load the card can handle. If the maximum is at a point where it will cause crashes or damage to the card when sustained for short or extended periods you've overclocked it too much.
My old nVidia card would underclock itself when it started to overheat. Good thing too, when my heatsink got clogged with dust it probably saved itself when I was still clueless about it.
Yeah I ripped apart the summary before I moved on to the article. It does look like the article still tries to place part of the blame on Blizzard though, as the author expects it to be patched.
s/I don't think this is a problem./This sounds like a red herring to me.
And the article talks about dust being the problem; which is exactly what I was thinking of when I said "something is wrong with its cooling". I've had that problem before with my old GPU; in Left 4 Dead 2 (but not in older games like TF2) I'd get great slowdowns every so often and my GPU was running pretty hot. Turns out it was throttling itself to keep itself from getting even hotter. A heatsink cleanout fixed that right up.
You can uncap the framerate in lots of games, but we've never heard about this problem before. I don't think this is a problem. Especaily since you can easily make a GFX card run at full capacity and a low framerate by simply playing a game that's a little too new for it, something a lot of people trying to put off upgrades do. If your GFX card can't run at it's maximum capacity without overheating, something is wrong with its cooling.
Cue Firefox/Chrome extension implementing this feature in 3...2...1...
In the meantime, Google for Ghostery, which blocks tracking tools using a blacklist. I've had it disabled actually because I figured adblock + a hosts file would do enough for me. But in honor of this article I will re-enable it.
I think you can hold some keys when the calculator turns on (or when inserting the batteries?) to reset to factory defaults. Since the calculator wouldn't want to store an entire separate copy of the OS in its limited storage, you could keep some stuff around in theory. I haven't used my TI calc for awhile though; my DSi is more fun. :)
and so will your coathanger.
Oh I can help with that. "Sunk."
Good luck, a basic part of javascript ui coding is knowing where the mouse is.
What about if the power fails?
ya rly
Here's how my comparison stacks up, personally. (I consider anything that requires the console to fix in Linux but not Windows permanently broken for the average user):
Perhaps the problem is that there is a LOT of hardware out there to test, and Microsoft simply does a better job with hardware compatibility. No year of the Linux desktop this year imo, but Ubuntu is definitely making right steps in that direction with 10.04.
Whenever this comes up I say it took them 9 tries to get it right, only took the Firefox guys 4 tries But imo the IE team hasn't quite gotten it right yet
Meanwhile, in the real world, oral agreements are not legally binding.
(AFAIK IANAL etc. Yeah I know you were just trying to make a point, and I see it. :P)
What idiots write these comments? It amazes me how many slashdotters and people in general will use phrases that they clearly have no understanding of when they speak or write. Its clear they have no understanding because they don't even say it right.
Please kids, for the love of god, know what the words you are saying mean before you use them.
(My apologies to the original poster, I couldn't resist, and it felt fitting.)