The Colt revolver was the great equalizer of the 1800s, making the average person just as deadly as those who had the time to practice swordsmanship. Computer cameras like these license plate readers and public webcams will be the great equalizer of the 2000s. I relish the equalization of power these will bring.
There's this voice nagging me in the back of my head about some "cold war"...
I know you can't extrapolate from online laws to real-world ones, but...
On Snow's site, any member of the general public could access the site by merely registering with a username and password and clicking on the words "I Agree to these terms." Such an easily surmountable barrier to access is, according to the court, insufficient to make a site not "readily acessible to the general public."
If I own some land, and don't want people trespassing to pick berries but have no problem with them hiking across it, I can put up signs to that effect. If they come to pick berries, I can kick them out for trespassing. Were online standards applied to this law, even putting up a short fence wouldn't be sufficient to allow me to enforce my signs; I'd need 15-foot concrete barriers and hired guides to chaperone all visitors.
SLA? Bullshit. If I buy a car called "Toyota 85MPH Blue Car" it had damned well better not be goverened to 55MPH. "But when you bought the car, the dealer never signed an agreement guaranteeing speed." Bull-shit.
The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
Oh goodie. I'm glad companies are finally listening to me, the consumer. I'm sick of buying a game and then having it. I'd much rather be nickle-and-dimed for additional content as it's made available to me at their discretion.
AllOfMP3? Good call. So, instead of illegally downloading a song, you can illegally download it AND pay a fee that never gets anywhere near artists' hands.
Here's a trick for Verizon Online phone service:
Call up, listen to menu items, then say -nothing-. Don't ask for an operator, don't enter in your phone number: just chill for about two minutes while the prompts repeat. In under three minutes, you'll be transfered to a live operator.
"Most users do one of two things when their PC runs out of hard disk space: they either add an additional drive or rely on external storage with a USB 2.0 or Firewire connection. However, both options have their disadvantages, since installing a new drive can be a cumbersome process, while external hard drives do not offer the same level of performance as that of directly attached Serial ATA (SATA) or UltraATA."
And why does the type of home user who shuns opening his or her case need mind-blowing performance? I just don't see who this product is for. There are already sollutions available for those concerned with either performance or ease-of-install.
Is it time to set off a few nukes and see if nuclear winter can cool things down?"
Uh-uh. Last time I tried that on Sim Earth, my planet was overtaken by sentient robots. Of course, the robots eventually get taken out by carnivirous plants, but is that really much of an improvement?
Does anyone else remember a "state-of-the-art" fractal compression program that appeared back around 95 or so? It was very impressive at first - you'd compress a four meg file down into a few kilobytes, and it would decompress just fine afterwards... until you deleted the original file. Turns out the program only stored a pointer to the location of the original file on the drive in its output file. I bet more than one person, after thinking they had verified it worked, lost some valuable data.
"The staff believed, based on conversations with frequent customers, that most customers were buying the boxes to install Windows on them. But that is not surprising to us, because, as we discuss in section two, brick-and-mortar "computer" stores are still part of the Microsoft distribution chain."
And if they sold systems with no OS, they'd sell like hotcakes. Take your pick: pirates or people sick of buying an XP license each time they want to upgrade to a new machine without the trouble of buying it part-by-part?
SUPERcomputer? And it's only an atom-level simulation? Hmm... seems to me that a SUPER computer would at least simulate on a fermion level. My colecovision does whole ATOM sims.
I'll tell you what! I set up a business that sees a lot of cash go through it: a fast-food restaurant or a network of vending machines. I process all cash I take in through some sort of molecular scrubber based on these molecules. I pick up all the miniscule clumps of cocaine that are on the bills. http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
I then invest those monies back into more cash-accumulating businesses and extract more and more cocaine.
Slashdot Mirror
*cough*USENET*cough*
There's an audience for performance art!
Sure, a robot audience, but beggars can't be choosers.
You don't put an "internet addict"'s life in danger by making him quit cold turkey.
"IPv6 has enough improvements over IPv4 to make it worth the change even if we weren't running out of IPV4 addresses, such as built-in IPSec"
Why do I need IPSec on my home network? So I can give my embedded systems that extra encryption overhead? No thanks.
In other news, sales of IR-blocking plastic films skyrocket.
Buy one, get a tin-foil hat free.
"Regardless, it looks like males have one less reason for existance."
Don't sweat it -- you still need scientists to perform the procedure, and last I checked they weren't letting girls get into science.
Not so meaningless, no.
http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001065.html
I know you can't extrapolate from online laws to real-world ones, but...
On Snow's site, any member of the general public could access the site by merely registering with a username and password and clicking on the words "I Agree to these terms." Such an easily surmountable barrier to access is, according to the court, insufficient to make a site not "readily acessible to the general public."
If I own some land, and don't want people trespassing to pick berries but have no problem with them hiking across it, I can put up signs to that effect. If they come to pick berries, I can kick them out for trespassing. Were online standards applied to this law, even putting up a short fence wouldn't be sufficient to allow me to enforce my signs; I'd need 15-foot concrete barriers and hired guides to chaperone all visitors.
SLA? Bullshit. If I buy a car called "Toyota 85MPH Blue Car" it had damned well better not be goverened to 55MPH. "But when you bought the car, the dealer never signed an agreement guaranteeing speed." Bull-shit.
It is optional, you don't have to buy it, you aren't missing anything if you don't get it
... The optional content is exactly what you miss.
...
The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
Oh goodie. I'm glad companies are finally listening to me, the consumer. I'm sick of buying a game and then having it. I'd much rather be nickle-and-dimed for additional content as it's made available to me at their discretion.
It's not copyright violation -- it's a customs violation.
AllOfMP3? Good call. So, instead of illegally downloading a song, you can illegally download it AND pay a fee that never gets anywhere near artists' hands.
Here's a trick for Verizon Online phone service: Call up, listen to menu items, then say -nothing-. Don't ask for an operator, don't enter in your phone number: just chill for about two minutes while the prompts repeat. In under three minutes, you'll be transfered to a live operator.
Oh, now I see what's going on...
1. Broadband access fees http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30959
2. ???^H^H^H Provide in-house video-on-demand service
3. Profit
"Most users do one of two things when their PC runs out of hard disk space: they either add an additional drive or rely on external storage with a USB 2.0 or Firewire connection. However, both options have their disadvantages, since installing a new drive can be a cumbersome process, while external hard drives do not offer the same level of performance as that of directly attached Serial ATA (SATA) or UltraATA."
And why does the type of home user who shuns opening his or her case need mind-blowing performance? I just don't see who this product is for. There are already sollutions available for those concerned with either performance or ease-of-install.
Janek must have figured out a way to solve those problems without the key, and he hard wired it into that chip!
Is it time to set off a few nukes and see if nuclear winter can cool things down?"
Uh-uh. Last time I tried that on Sim Earth, my planet was overtaken by sentient robots. Of course, the robots eventually get taken out by carnivirous plants, but is that really much of an improvement?
Does anyone else remember a "state-of-the-art" fractal compression program that appeared back around 95 or so? It was very impressive at first - you'd compress a four meg file down into a few kilobytes, and it would decompress just fine afterwards... until you deleted the original file. Turns out the program only stored a pointer to the location of the original file on the drive in its output file. I bet more than one person, after thinking they had verified it worked, lost some valuable data.
"The staff believed, based on conversations with frequent customers, that most customers were buying the boxes to install Windows on them. But that is not surprising to us, because, as we discuss in section two, brick-and-mortar "computer" stores are still part of the Microsoft distribution chain."
And if they sold systems with no OS, they'd sell like hotcakes. Take your pick: pirates or people sick of buying an XP license each time they want to upgrade to a new machine without the trouble of buying it part-by-part?
I'd be more worried about bits getting "stuck" that reveal critical data that can no longer be securely erased.
SUPERcomputer? And it's only an atom-level simulation? Hmm... seems to me that a SUPER computer would at least simulate on a fermion level. My colecovision does whole ATOM sims.
I'll tell you what! I set up a business that sees a lot of cash go through it: a fast-food restaurant or a network of vending machines. I process all cash I take in through some sort of molecular scrubber based on these molecules. I pick up all the miniscule clumps of cocaine that are on the bills. http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp I then invest those monies back into more cash-accumulating businesses and extract more and more cocaine.
That's just a PR move by the robots. We know what they're REALLY about.