Sorry, but even back then they were obnoxious. There was like maybe a year of ads that were like you describe, then it quickly degenerated into crap "Punch the monkey!" type ads, animated images, flash animations, pop-ups, pup-unders, and sound. By 1999 it was already a cesspit.
Static ads were around much longer than a year. Animated ads spread much slower than flash/pop ads when they first appeared too.
I can say that once pop-up, pop-under, new pop-up opening if you click to close the last one ads appeared I started militantly blocking all ads. When smarmy pervasive tracking started (quant, com-score) I installed blockers on all of my employers computers. When they finally pissed me off, they lost 100 systems...
Book publishers once tried to put a binding Eula in books. It said the purchaser could not resell the book or allow any other party to read the book, which sounds just like what the RIAA would like for music. The courts at the time were more sensible and struck it down.
So now your freedom depends on the recollection of you versus the recollection of an officer.
Essentially it's an offense if any part of any statement you make doesn't perfectly match every witness statement. If your recollection is correct and the officer's is wrong, you've committed a serious crime.
Of course we would never ban encryption. That would be unworkable and crazy!
Think of the children though. Criminals are using encryption to target the MPAA - I mean boy bands - wait The Children. That can't be allowed to continue!
Encryption is like lock picking tools. It's only ethical to possess in the hands of the media cartels - I mean professionals. It's use will be restricted to those who pass certification exams and are granted per website permits.
ISPs will be required to block all encrypted traffic, unless the destination is validated by our permit list server.
Cops often demand unlawful searches, order dispersal, or deletion of photos/video when they have no legal basis to do so. If you don't comply with their order, they'll arrest you for obstruction, failing to follow a lawful order, resisting arrest, wiretapping or any of a number of 'contempt of cop' charges.
Dispersal orders aren't valid unless there is a threat to public safety. Each area has it's own specific rules, but I haven't read one that I thought was unreasonable. Cops simply use the law as a threat since in court it will be the officers word against yours regarding whether the conditions were met -- unless there is video. That is why video is so hated. They can't lie as easily.
My encounter this year was a speed trap. There is a budget short fall, and the traffic cops had been sent out to help - I mean 'ensure traffice safety'. They'd been setting up seed traps and after each citation they'd pull the next car passing by over to issue another. I knew they were doing it, so I'd been driving with video rolling showing my speedometer and the road out the front window since that's about the only defense from revenue focused traffic enforcement. I was pulled over for 51 in a 40 zone, despite never going over 40. That is one of the simplest reasons everyone needs to video each encounter with cops. It's a partial defense against for profit law enforcement. (so Yes, I have video and it did happen)
Really? Dell and Lenovo have both sold systems pre-installed with Linux in the past and they just didn't sell, comparatively no-one wanted them.
Dell's Linux offerings began when MS was under anti-trust scrutiny. Each time I looked, the Linux offerings were more expensive or had fewer features than the system with Windows pre-installed. I.E., Dell priced Linux systems so the customer got less for more. Given the information eventually made public, it appears Dell put undesirable systems on the market at MS's request in an attempt to give MS cover at trial.
I don't understand this part:
Where's the savings?
New applications may be the goal, rather than savings. If you can make the receiver end easy to tie to a chip when it's packaged, you can replace a great many pins with a fiber buss running into the chip package itself. Replace the North and South bridge CPU interconnects with fiber and the pinouts just shrank, traces and RF problems disappeared from the motherboard. If they can make it practical, I'd expect it in big iron first but it's still a promising direction for research.
If the semiconductors don't use much light, you could make the buss multicast. Pick up the signal at each card slot with local to the slot signal amps and you're well on your way to making much of the rest of the motherboard communications fiber based.
You could go a bit further and make the interconnect generalized. Make a fiber cable with a laser diode bonded at one and, an the receiver semiconductors built in on the other. Bond that to a second cable facing the other way, and you have a plug in data cable that could be used in much the same way as sata cables are now. Card slots could be relegated to providing power, with the data communications working through optical cables.
Perhaps they should load the cargo bay with pallets of $100 bills. Dropping those on the enemy might be cheaper and more destructive than dropping bombs.
Print several C-5 Galaxy's full of the enemy country's currency and drop that over their major cities. I'm sure they'll have fun with what that does to their economy.
If TSA is compiling data about me from public posts, can I file a FOIA request to see what information they've compiled so I can verify that it's accurate and really is from me?
You can file the request, but as they've decided to ignore FOIA obligations when inconvenient and lie when they do respond I'm not sure what that will prove.
I think it was obvious that when they were talking of protecting the bootloader that they were talking about tablet style devices.
But on another level, why should they care if someone does?.
If MS does this right, any vendor who certifies their tablet will be unable to also sell that version of the hardware with an Android or Linux OS. They'd have to develop new hardware and incur the expense of distributing an entirely different product line instead of just a different software load and packaging. That increases the cost and reduces the attractiveness of MS's competition.
Being responsible with handling debits like student loans and a card loan are a great way for a bank to calculate their risks when giving you 100k+ for a house.
If you do pay cash normally, when you need a loan you need to find a bank that actually still does their job. Many now only look up a fico score. Look for someone who does manual underwriting and you'll be fine. I had no problems buying my house, but I do need to choose lenders who actually look at my creditworthiness themselves.
Sadly, this fuels my belief that the human race undergoes periodic civilization collapses, where the technology and understanding of the day is almost completely wiped out.
That is the primary thing that the printing press and a scientific community have changed. Scientists sharing information for prestige vs. craft masters concealing the secrets of their craft spreads new information further. The printing press makes it tough for political/religious suppression of information to be successful. Both together make it less likely for war to destroy everything. i.e. Kill the master, burn his scrolls, loot his works for elite who don't understand them and the breakthrough is lost - which seems the likely history of the Antikythera mechanism.
Very simple how it can work: GEMA can work with studios. GEMA can offer rebates or reduced rates for artists the studio would like to promote. The studio picks artists that are under contracts that grant most of the money to the studio. Radio stations play the music that doesn't cost them to play, retailers promote the CDs that are most profitable. GEMA defines popularity based on those engineered numbers, and makes meaningful payments to the studio on the artists behalf only for those artists. The studio charges all the rate discounts against the artist as expenses. The studio keeps all the money. In actual practice the studios work directly with the radio stations, but via an intermediary to make the collusion legal. The arrangements are similarly cloaked in legitimacy, but this is the general core of it.
Rather than reporting the GPS device as a bomb, attach the same sort of explosive dye packs banks use to mark robbers to the GPS? Banks use them, they must be lawful!
If you lived in an area that has red light cameras (like mine) you might feel differently.
But in real life, what happens is the local police department makes a deal with private companies, the private companies manage the equipment (putting them in the odd position of being non-LEOs dispensing traffic tickets) and then the goal becomes to maximize the number of tickets. The first thing they do is shorten the yellow, to make it more likely that you'd leave the intersection red.
Here in Houston red light cameras were justified based on safety. After being caught installing them at intersections with very low accident rates and shortening yellow lights they tried a different tactic.
They installed the cameras on highway feeder roads that had heavy traffic and no side streets for a mile or more. Then they shortened the -green- to less than two seconds in the direction the camera monitored, causing hour plus backups when there was otherwise light traffic. Drivers treated the light as malfunctioning, which it was given that even the first driver couldn't clear the intersection before the light turned yellow. Cite everyone, profit! $$$
How naive! Three weeks ago I was driving 40 in a 40 zone when I was pulled over and busted for 51 in a 40. The only thing that got me out of it was when the officer spotted the camera videoing my speedometer and windshield starting miles before the speedtrap. So no, driving the speed limit is -not- a defense that works. Being able to conclusively prove it is, at least when the judge doesn't decide to just throw out your proof because that would interfere with the revenue drive.
Mostly the scare campaigns will be generated by people with other agendas... Think teamsters wanting to protect jobs for drivers. There are a *lot* of people who stand to loose their living once self driving cars start to be deployed.
They're small potatoes. Do you have any idea how profitable making our roads safer is? It funds politicians and a nationwide group with guns and blue uniforms. Do you think they'll just allow themselves to be cut out of the profits by cars that won't violate a traffic law and can prove what any ticket alleges is false?
The large companies lobbied for a large carve out for themselves in the junk fax laws. They can fax to anyone they have 'and exstablished business relationship' with.
Doesn't that work the other way? Can't anyone who has made a Paypal transaction or bought something from Amazon fax them a question about their order or account?
Any reason there would be a legal problem sending a few faxes a day until your question is answered?
Either the company would need actual employees to respond or the fax inquiries will continue without any unlawful activity taking place -- Just like their 'opt-out' practices do to us.
No multiplayer? In the mid 90s we'd wired the 4-plex I lived in with ethernet and Deathrally was one of the games we played after work. We even managed to play it over the Internet with Kali although the latency was a gameplay problem.
Deathrally really shined in competitive play. I hope it gets added at some point!
You can create obfuscated but maintainable code by using an obfuscating transpiler. You work on code with all of the comments, meaningful variable names and maintainable structures. The transpiler removes as much of that as possible before compiling any code you'll have to release the source for.
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Sorry, but even back then they were obnoxious. There was like maybe a year of ads that were like you describe, then it quickly degenerated into crap "Punch the monkey!" type ads, animated images, flash animations, pop-ups, pup-unders, and sound. By 1999 it was already a cesspit.
Static ads were around much longer than a year. Animated ads spread much slower than flash/pop ads when they first appeared too.
I can say that once pop-up, pop-under, new pop-up opening if you click to close the last one ads appeared I started militantly blocking all ads. When smarmy pervasive tracking started (quant, com-score) I installed blockers on all of my employers computers. When they finally pissed me off, they lost 100 systems...
Book publishers once tried to put a binding Eula in books. It said the purchaser could not resell the book or allow any other party to read the book, which sounds just like what the RIAA would like for music. The courts at the time were more sensible and struck it down.
So now your freedom depends on the recollection of you versus the recollection of an officer.
Essentially it's an offense if any part of any statement you make doesn't perfectly match every witness statement. If your recollection is correct and the officer's is wrong, you've committed a serious crime.
Think of the children though. Criminals are using encryption to target the MPAA - I mean boy bands - wait The Children. That can't be allowed to continue!
Encryption is like lock picking tools. It's only ethical to possess in the hands of the media cartels - I mean professionals. It's use will be restricted to those who pass certification exams and are granted per website permits.
ISPs will be required to block all encrypted traffic, unless the destination is validated by our permit list server.
And that's how they could do it...
Dispersal orders aren't valid unless there is a threat to public safety. Each area has it's own specific rules, but I haven't read one that I thought was unreasonable. Cops simply use the law as a threat since in court it will be the officers word against yours regarding whether the conditions were met -- unless there is video. That is why video is so hated. They can't lie as easily.
My encounter this year was a speed trap. There is a budget short fall, and the traffic cops had been sent out to help - I mean 'ensure traffice safety'. They'd been setting up seed traps and after each citation they'd pull the next car passing by over to issue another. I knew they were doing it, so I'd been driving with video rolling showing my speedometer and the road out the front window since that's about the only defense from revenue focused traffic enforcement. I was pulled over for 51 in a 40 zone, despite never going over 40. That is one of the simplest reasons everyone needs to video each encounter with cops. It's a partial defense against for profit law enforcement. (so Yes, I have video and it did happen)
Actually the pricing increase is completely fair.
The price increase covers the cost of the Whitney Houston Commemorative Rootkit!
Really? Dell and Lenovo have both sold systems pre-installed with Linux in the past and they just didn't sell, comparatively no-one wanted them.
Dell's Linux offerings began when MS was under anti-trust scrutiny. Each time I looked, the Linux offerings were more expensive or had fewer features than the system with Windows pre-installed. I.E., Dell priced Linux systems so the customer got less for more. Given the information eventually made public, it appears Dell put undesirable systems on the market at MS's request in an attempt to give MS cover at trial.
I don't understand this part: Where's the savings?
New applications may be the goal, rather than savings. If you can make the receiver end easy to tie to a chip when it's packaged, you can replace a great many pins with a fiber buss running into the chip package itself. Replace the North and South bridge CPU interconnects with fiber and the pinouts just shrank, traces and RF problems disappeared from the motherboard. If they can make it practical, I'd expect it in big iron first but it's still a promising direction for research.
If the semiconductors don't use much light, you could make the buss multicast. Pick up the signal at each card slot with local to the slot signal amps and you're well on your way to making much of the rest of the motherboard communications fiber based.
You could go a bit further and make the interconnect generalized. Make a fiber cable with a laser diode bonded at one and, an the receiver semiconductors built in on the other. Bond that to a second cable facing the other way, and you have a plug in data cable that could be used in much the same way as sata cables are now. Card slots could be relegated to providing power, with the data communications working through optical cables.
In one of those clips, I imagined "space invaders", in real life.
I was thinking Galaga, especially with the back flip trick.
Where is my nerf gun?
Perhaps they should load the cargo bay with pallets of $100 bills. Dropping those on the enemy might be cheaper and more destructive than dropping bombs.
Print several C-5 Galaxy's full of the enemy country's currency and drop that over their major cities. I'm sure they'll have fun with what that does to their economy.
Maybe they should say "I could suck a fag" which clarifies the intent?
That could be ambiguous if they were heading for San Francisco...
If TSA is compiling data about me from public posts, can I file a FOIA request to see what information they've compiled so I can verify that it's accurate and really is from me?
You can file the request, but as they've decided to ignore FOIA obligations when inconvenient and lie when they do respond I'm not sure what that will prove.
Don't some of the major ISPs have government hardware running on site?
I can neither confirm nor deny those allegations.
A Model M is dangerous only if you have better upper body strength than the typical slashdotter.
Mine is balanced above the door. A type of trap.
I think it was obvious that when they were talking of protecting the bootloader that they were talking about tablet style devices.
But on another level, why should they care if someone does?.
If MS does this right, any vendor who certifies their tablet will be unable to also sell that version of the hardware with an Android or Linux OS. They'd have to develop new hardware and incur the expense of distributing an entirely different product line instead of just a different software load and packaging. That increases the cost and reduces the attractiveness of MS's competition.
Being responsible with handling debits like student loans and a card loan are a great way for a bank to calculate their risks when giving you 100k+ for a house.
If you do pay cash normally, when you need a loan you need to find a bank that actually still does their job. Many now only look up a fico score. Look for someone who does manual underwriting and you'll be fine. I had no problems buying my house, but I do need to choose lenders who actually look at my creditworthiness themselves.
Sadly, this fuels my belief that the human race undergoes periodic civilization collapses, where the technology and understanding of the day is almost completely wiped out.
That is the primary thing that the printing press and a scientific community have changed. Scientists sharing information for prestige vs. craft masters concealing the secrets of their craft spreads new information further. The printing press makes it tough for political/religious suppression of information to be successful. Both together make it less likely for war to destroy everything. i.e. Kill the master, burn his scrolls, loot his works for elite who don't understand them and the breakthrough is lost - which seems the likely history of the Antikythera mechanism.
Very simple how it can work: GEMA can work with studios. GEMA can offer rebates or reduced rates for artists the studio would like to promote. The studio picks artists that are under contracts that grant most of the money to the studio. Radio stations play the music that doesn't cost them to play, retailers promote the CDs that are most profitable. GEMA defines popularity based on those engineered numbers, and makes meaningful payments to the studio on the artists behalf only for those artists. The studio charges all the rate discounts against the artist as expenses. The studio keeps all the money. In actual practice the studios work directly with the radio stations, but via an intermediary to make the collusion legal. The arrangements are similarly cloaked in legitimacy, but this is the general core of it.
Rather than reporting the GPS device as a bomb, attach the same sort of explosive dye packs banks use to mark robbers to the GPS? Banks use them, they must be lawful!
If you lived in an area that has red light cameras (like mine) you might feel differently.
But in real life, what happens is the local police department makes a deal with private companies, the private companies manage the equipment (putting them in the odd position of being non-LEOs dispensing traffic tickets) and then the goal becomes to maximize the number of tickets. The first thing they do is shorten the yellow, to make it more likely that you'd leave the intersection red.
Here in Houston red light cameras were justified based on safety. After being caught installing them at intersections with very low accident rates and shortening yellow lights they tried a different tactic.
They installed the cameras on highway feeder roads that had heavy traffic and no side streets for a mile or more. Then they shortened the -green- to less than two seconds in the direction the camera monitored, causing hour plus backups when there was otherwise light traffic. Drivers treated the light as malfunctioning, which it was given that even the first driver couldn't clear the intersection before the light turned yellow. Cite everyone, profit! $$$
And if you don't speed, they don't get revenue.
How naive! Three weeks ago I was driving 40 in a 40 zone when I was pulled over and busted for 51 in a 40. The only thing that got me out of it was when the officer spotted the camera videoing my speedometer and windshield starting miles before the speedtrap. So no, driving the speed limit is -not- a defense that works. Being able to conclusively prove it is, at least when the judge doesn't decide to just throw out your proof because that would interfere with the revenue drive.
Mostly the scare campaigns will be generated by people with other agendas... Think teamsters wanting to protect jobs for drivers. There are a *lot* of people who stand to loose their living once self driving cars start to be deployed.
They're small potatoes. Do you have any idea how profitable making our roads safer is? It funds politicians and a nationwide group with guns and blue uniforms. Do you think they'll just allow themselves to be cut out of the profits by cars that won't violate a traffic law and can prove what any ticket alleges is false?
The large companies lobbied for a large carve out for themselves in the junk fax laws. They can fax to anyone they have 'and exstablished business relationship' with.
Doesn't that work the other way? Can't anyone who has made a Paypal transaction or bought something from Amazon fax them a question about their order or account?
Any reason there would be a legal problem sending a few faxes a day until your question is answered? Either the company would need actual employees to respond or the fax inquiries will continue without any unlawful activity taking place -- Just like their 'opt-out' practices do to us.
No multiplayer? In the mid 90s we'd wired the 4-plex I lived in with ethernet and Deathrally was one of the games we played after work. We even managed to play it over the Internet with Kali although the latency was a gameplay problem.
Deathrally really shined in competitive play. I hope it gets added at some point!
You can create obfuscated but maintainable code by using an obfuscating transpiler. You work on code with all of the comments, meaningful variable names and maintainable structures. The transpiler removes as much of that as possible before compiling any code you'll have to release the source for.