Considering it would cost several orders of magnitude more to buy the truck than one would ever get from small ATM's (most only hold a grand or two, and that's only when they are full), I doubt that would really be worth it. Maybe if you hit ten in one day you could break even.
I was thinking about that too. I think many, if not all, of those are in very public places like Shopping Malls or 24-hour gas stations... not sure if I've seen one i a secluded area... Of course if the thief wore an official-looking uniform and name tag, I bet they could still get away with it.
What if my 9 year old was banned while playing something like Build-a-Lot 3. "Sorry about that Billy. Here's a free copy of a game rated MA. Shhhh....don't tell your parents".
From TFA: "A single, standard key can open many different types of machines, he said, presenting another serious security problem."
Does not one need to be inside the bank to use said key? If the criminal has already physically broken into the bank, theft of the few grand inside the ATM is the least of the banks' worries.
I wonder if Snopes has toned-down their ad scripts after some were found to be linked with nasty-ware. I just tried with NoScript disabled and only Ad-Blocker running. The only effect was an inability to highlight/copy any text (done via script).
According to Snopes.com, this is actually a truw story:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/handcuff.asp Warning for non-NoScript users: site has many pop-ups, pop-unders, and various other unpleasant scripts....
Sure. The primary goal of the show is to make people laugh. But they do send their people into the field often. They have had their corespondents travel all over the world to speak with different people. I've seen interviews from India, Iraq, Sweden, and many other nations. There have been several on-site reports from multiple political conventions across the US (where they are viewed as card-carrying reporters). These are often accompanied by impromptu interviews with regular folks.
Are you sure just intercepting is illegal? I have had police scanners in the past that would pick up cell phone (and nearby cordless phone) conversations all time. My understanding at the time was the law was violated only if I recorded and/or distributed the information. This was years ago, so the laws may have changed....or maybe it was illegal all along and I am a huge criminal.
The best way to make a product people want it is to have them make a prototype themselves and submit it. However most things cannot be prototyped but a regular Joe. But tshirts can.
Perhaps Threadless has stolen designs in the past. Can you cite a non-anecdotal instance of this theft by them? Searches for "Threadless stole my design" return zero results. THe phrase ""Threadless stole my design" has nothing about this (but is does return results about people who steal from Threadless). And searches for "Threadless stole my idea" only returned one deliciously ironic result. If it's happening often (or at all) nobody is hurt enough to talk about it online.
And are aware of how easily dismissible your claim of having your punchline 'stolen' is? Even if you had a million-dollar-an-hour law firm behind you, the claim would be laughed out of court. A short turn of phrase or other idiom, cannot be copywrited (source). It can be trademarked, but that only applies if the phrase is used to sell a product or promote an organization. Your punchline 'I hate your children', and the gag of hating 'trendy' children's names, was not at all new...even in 2004. What's more, the Gawker shirt didn't even take the exact phrase...and they added artwork. How long after you posted you strip did it appear on Gawker. From what I can tell it was years later (source). Do you really think someone stumbled across your strip and submitted it to Gawker? That reasoning seems really thin. Unless, of course, you have some kind of source...
Threadless has been very successful crowd sourcing designs for shirts, wall clings, etc. I have seen Hanes and other big names try and get on the 'clever/funny t-shirt' money train, but their stuff is horrid. I don't think any design 'team' could ever do better job with this type of thing than one person with some decent software, a Wacom tablet, and a really great idea. What's more, Threadless pays a few hundred bucks the most highly voted designs.
I suppose that would work if they set their DHCP lease times to a minimal level. But seems that would quickly become counter productive. My ISP gives me a dynamic IP too, but it only seems to change once a year or so (or if I buy new frontdoor firewall and forget to spoof the old MAC address). If Pirate is indeed cycling IP's fast (which would seem to be the only to dilute the IP-to-customer records) that could be prohibitively disruptive to the user. They could be in the middle of a something important and get their IP force-renewed, thereby dumping their session midstream. And this would happen often; perhaps daily.
Assuming it's not, why would any license holder need logs to prosecute? All they would need are billing records. I doubt anyone could successfully make an argument they are not pirating software/videos/etc while paying to use 'Pirate ISP'.
"Man, this is bad! And I've had my share of bad reviews. I still remember my first good one though. 'Everything else in this production of Our Town was simply terrible. Joey Tribbiani was abysmal.'"
Childs was a petulant prima dona with delusions of grandeur....he's a self-important ass hat.
I don't think any of those things have 'price' to 'pay'. In fact, toss in ambition, and you have a nearly perfect description of the traits needed to be blindly successful (professionally anyway). I am pretty sure he 'paid the price' for being a scofflaw and (eventually) a convicted felon.
...They're candid, and they're shocking, but they're not disturbing,..
There is not a quantitative description of what 'disturbing' is. If it disturbs you, it's disturbing. As for me, I visited Rotter once several years ago. The first image I saw was a dead baby splayed open on the slab. Maybe some are desensitized to that type of thing due to necessity (e.g. coroners, police), or due to a desired to see death (i.e. the people that chant 'jump! jump!' to the guy on the ledge) but it sure as hell disturbed the shit outta me.
...unaircrafted men (flying superheroes)? You know that will be coming eventually. Either through sophisticated jet-boots, or (my personal favorite) spontaneous emergence of superpowers.
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Considering it would cost several orders of magnitude more to buy the truck than one would ever get from small ATM's (most only hold a grand or two, and that's only when they are full), I doubt that would really be worth it. Maybe if you hit ten in one day you could break even.
I was thinking about that too. I think many, if not all, of those are in very public places like Shopping Malls or 24-hour gas stations... not sure if I've seen one i a secluded area... Of course if the thief wore an official-looking uniform and name tag, I bet they could still get away with it.
What if my 9 year old was banned while playing something like Build-a-Lot 3. "Sorry about that Billy. Here's a free copy of a game rated MA. Shhhh....don't tell your parents".
From TFA: "A single, standard key can open many different types of machines, he said, presenting another serious security problem."
Does not one need to be inside the bank to use said key? If the criminal has already physically broken into the bank, theft of the few grand inside the ATM is the least of the banks' worries.
I wonder if Snopes has toned-down their ad scripts after some were found to be linked with nasty-ware. I just tried with NoScript disabled and only Ad-Blocker running. The only effect was an inability to highlight/copy any text (done via script).
According to Snopes.com, this is actually a truw story:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/handcuff.asp
Warning for non-NoScript users: site has many pop-ups, pop-unders, and various other unpleasant scripts....
They [collectors, hobbyists] can rebuild it them. They have the technology. Heck, people even work to rebuild the ancient Harwell.
Indeed. Also I think you owe Glenn Beck like three bucks for using those phases. Pretty sure he has them all copyrighted.
Sure. The primary goal of the show is to make people laugh. But they do send their people into the field often. They have had their corespondents travel all over the world to speak with different people. I've seen interviews from India, Iraq, Sweden, and many other nations. There have been several on-site reports from multiple political conventions across the US (where they are viewed as card-carrying reporters). These are often accompanied by impromptu interviews with regular folks.
Are you sure just intercepting is illegal? I have had police scanners in the past that would pick up cell phone (and nearby cordless phone) conversations all time. My understanding at the time was the law was violated only if I recorded and/or distributed the information. This was years ago, so the laws may have changed....or maybe it was illegal all along and I am a huge criminal.
The best way to make a product people want it is to have them make a prototype themselves and submit it. However most things cannot be prototyped but a regular Joe. But tshirts can.
Perhaps Threadless has stolen designs in the past. Can you cite a non-anecdotal instance of this theft by them? Searches for "Threadless stole my design" return zero results. THe phrase ""Threadless stole my design" has nothing about this (but is does return results about people who steal from Threadless). And searches for "Threadless stole my idea" only returned one deliciously ironic result. If it's happening often (or at all) nobody is hurt enough to talk about it online.
And are aware of how easily dismissible your claim of having your punchline 'stolen' is? Even if you had a million-dollar-an-hour law firm behind you, the claim would be laughed out of court. A short turn of phrase or other idiom, cannot be copywrited (source). It can be trademarked, but that only applies if the phrase is used to sell a product or promote an organization. Your punchline 'I hate your children', and the gag of hating 'trendy' children's names, was not at all new...even in 2004. What's more, the Gawker shirt didn't even take the exact phrase...and they added artwork. How long after you posted you strip did it appear on Gawker. From what I can tell it was years later (source). Do you really think someone stumbled across your strip and submitted it to Gawker? That reasoning seems really thin. Unless, of course, you have some kind of source...
Threadless has been very successful crowd sourcing designs for shirts, wall clings, etc. I have seen Hanes and other big names try and get on the 'clever/funny t-shirt' money train, but their stuff is horrid. I don't think any design 'team' could ever do better job with this type of thing than one person with some decent software, a Wacom tablet, and a really great idea. What's more, Threadless pays a few hundred bucks the most highly voted designs.
Nude No More!
I suppose that would work if they set their DHCP lease times to a minimal level. But seems that would quickly become counter productive. My ISP gives me a dynamic IP too, but it only seems to change once a year or so (or if I buy new frontdoor firewall and forget to spoof the old MAC address). If Pirate is indeed cycling IP's fast (which would seem to be the only to dilute the IP-to-customer records) that could be prohibitively disruptive to the user. They could be in the middle of a something important and get their IP force-renewed, thereby dumping their session midstream. And this would happen often; perhaps daily.
Assuming it's not, why would any license holder need logs to prosecute? All they would need are billing records. I doubt anyone could successfully make an argument they are not pirating software/videos/etc while paying to use 'Pirate ISP'.
"Man, this is bad! And I've had my share of bad reviews. I still remember my first good one though. 'Everything else in this production of Our Town was simply terrible. Joey Tribbiani was abysmal.'"
I don't think any of those things have 'price' to 'pay'. In fact, toss in ambition, and you have a nearly perfect description of the traits needed to be blindly successful (professionally anyway). I am pretty sure he 'paid the price' for being a scofflaw and (eventually) a convicted felon.
There is not a quantitative description of what 'disturbing' is. If it disturbs you, it's disturbing. As for me, I visited Rotter once several years ago. The first image I saw was a dead baby splayed open on the slab. Maybe some are desensitized to that type of thing due to necessity (e.g. coroners, police), or due to a desired to see death (i.e. the people that chant 'jump! jump!' to the guy on the ledge) but it sure as hell disturbed the shit outta me.
...unaircrafted men (flying superheroes)? You know that will be coming eventually. Either through sophisticated jet-boots, or (my personal favorite) spontaneous emergence of superpowers.
I always thought "Ontological" was a synonym for a useless philosophy degree.
It also helps if you are impossibly good-looking. Or a child. Or a pet. But is you are cruel to children or pets, you're toast.
I think there has been at least a dozen horror and apocalyptic films that have started with this exact event.
Are these scientists on crack?
...I'll show myself out
Sorry... I immediately noticed this statement and have not been able to get it out of my head. I'll be back in about 5 min, er, make that 10 minutes.
They had two-button mice in 1985? I didn't say MS invented the context menu. They invented the context menu that was triggered by a right mouse click.
Could you really tell the difference between the real thing and a static looped scene of similar hardware?