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Ah, feck. By quoting the article I just broke rule number 4.
>>>"Sometimes, it's obvious why a crowd needs controlling or a hostage-taker is taking hostages"
Really? It is not that obvious. Can you elaborate? Perhaps explain why US journalists are targeted? or perhaps why ordinary people protest?
>>> What would you have the military do in cases where we know what the hostage-taker wants but do not want to give it to him? Hostages make great shields.
I've had a recent run of very important correspondence with some colleagues (some peers, some more senior, some more junior). They're out of country and I'm supposed to provide them a whole bunch of information, usually in the form of answers to their questions that I need to research here to get them the answers. I found they were telling my managers that I hadn't been passing the information they requested, which of course had me e-mailing the managers with a copy of the e-mails I'd previously sent.
Turns out these guys weren't reading the reply. How do I know? Well I followed the same 'booby trap' method. In a couple of e-mails I inserted the words "if you read this sentence, e-mail be back and I'll buy you a case of beer"...
I've only had one request for the case of beer out of about 10 "ZOMG answer this or the world will end" e-mails.
Although, there are quite a few movies that I'd like to watch but would never buy. If there was no blockbuster/netflix I'd probably switch to piracy. I don't mind paying to see a trashy movie, but I certainly don't want it filling up space in my living room.
Yep, All of them. I haven't purchased a DVD in a while, and these were ones I rented. (2 from netflix, and one from Blockbuster that I took back and got a replacement which still didnt work --- before we were Netflix members). With Blockbuster I told them that the disks wouldn't play and that I wasnt happy. I even told them that I'd be getting my movies from Netflix from now on. With the netflix movies, I filed the 'defective disk' or whatever the netflix option has... I figure if other people do the same, the trend will show.
If blockbuster and netflix both complain to Sony, things might change.
I own a LG - DVT418 home theater and these disks wont play on that. I've returned 2 disks to Blockbuster, and filed 2 reports to Netflix for 'broken disks'.
After the second disk, I put two-and-two together and figured it was some DRM scheme and started complaining. I can however watch them on my Linux machine, but the wife prefers to watch DVD's on the main telly... I guess I have no choice but to rip and re-author them to use my DVD player.
Exactly. I rented Casino Royale and Pursuit of Happiness (from netflix) and neither would play in my LG DVD player (LG DVT-418), so I ended up playing them on my Mythtv Box using xine.
I filed the 'trouble report' with netflix saying selecting the 'unplayable' option as they didnt have a 'Fucken Sony DRM' option.
It may be the reason for the second ammendment, only thing is the second amendment is now redundant. The very instant anyone attempts to put together a group of people with the aim of affecting Government policies or methods through the 'bearing arms' avenue, they'll be thrown in prison or sent to GTMO.
Your only choice is to vote for the lest corrupt and most honest politician. While you state that a little rebellion is good, it ain't gonna happen.
I'm a little disappointed not to see Mythtv on the list. It could do with a boost.
Mythtv was on the SOC list last year but I don't think we saw much in the way of enhancements - just an 'experimental' add detection algorithm which you can use instead of the standard one. They had a list of things they wanted done, most importantly making setup a bit easier and a new (ajax?) UI.
The latest Ubuntu (Feisty) includes support for the PVR-150 out of the box, (IVTV drivers?), and will include more for Mythtv in the repo's, or so I am lead to believe. And has allot more support for getting up and running with Mythtv, just Mythtv itself needs a boost.
Digital sales of individual songs this year have risen 54% from a year earlier to 173.4 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But that's nowhere near enough to offset the 20% decline from a year ago in CD sales to 81.5 million units. Overall, sales of all music -- digital and physical -- are down 10% this year.
Sure they're down 10% overall, but as someone else mentioned, how are the Indi bands doing? I'd say they're up.
Music industry needs to spend less time blaming P2P and pirates (Arrhhh!), and way less time recording dicks like K-Fed.
If people thought playing computer games would affect your actions in real life, then all those hours of PacMan would have had us running around in darkened rooms listening to repetitive music munching on pills.
I'd like to see people cut and paste full articles and copyrighted works into comment sections onto Viacom's (or their subsidiaries) pages. They are then guilty of what they are blaming youtube for.
Perhaps excerpts of code that SCO or Microsoft are laying claim to, in an effort to draw them all in to a war of attrition. Of course the poster of such content might want to do it as "anonymous coward"
I've often wondered why MSFT see Google as a threat, MSFT make office software and Operating systems. Google dont make OS's (well not yet) and sure Google have a web app that can read office docs, which is really more for convenience, so at least until recently the two companies have been after completely different things.
MSFT is just a little scared because they are accustomed to being the only big boy on the block. Now there are two big boys, but different blocks. IMHO, MSFT should focus on improving its Office tools and making OS's. Read: Their Core Business. MSFT trying to compete with Google with search is a battle already lost. MSFT trying to compete with Apple on mp3 players is a battle already lost. But for everyone else, Competing with MSFT on an OS and Office suite is a battle already lost. Stick to what you're good at MSFT. Sony's pissy attempt at diversification should be a lesson.
If they don't want people to see it, don't broadcast it in the first place.
If they want to control it properly, have could big rooms that seat maybe 100 people, and with large screens. Oh put them in public places where you can pay an 'admission' fee. You might want to serve food in the foyer as I tend to get hungry. Perhaps Popcorn.
You might still start to get spam, if someone on your list has a compromised address list or computer.
I've often thought of generating some kind of unique e-mail address for each of my friends, to detect if my e-mail address has been compromised by them (or their PC). e.g:
asdf2344ks@gmail.com for my emails to Tom
oieo116i2k@gmail.com for my emails to Liz
The idea is they reply to that address, and mail to these addresses would aggregate to my inbox. If one of those email addresses starts to get spammed, I'll have an idea of who's responsible, change the address for them and see if it continues. After it happening a couple of times I could inform them that they may have a compromised computer and help them out etc.
I just dont have the time to implement such a scheme and rely on Gmails spam filtering which i think is pretty good.
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Ah, feck. By quoting the article I just broke rule number 4.
>>>"I'm prepared to be proven wrong."
Bold words for an AC...
>>>"Sometimes, it's obvious why a crowd needs controlling or a hostage-taker is taking hostages"
Really? It is not that obvious. Can you elaborate? Perhaps explain why US journalists are targeted? or perhaps why ordinary people protest?
>>> What would you have the military do in cases where we know what the hostage-taker wants but do not want to give it to him? Hostages make great shields.
You watch too many movies.
>>> imagine it would be used for crowd control or hostage situations
Why do they need controlling? Why are they taking you hostage?.........
I don't think the problem is with the overpowering the enemy; I think the problem is with identifying the enemy.
Oh, that, and 'winning their hearts and minds'.
Using non-lethal force on crowds that 'inadvertently gets innocent people' just pisses them off.
because the NSA are not very good at giving back the hardware to the company from which they subpoenaed it.
Yeah, who wants to join me on a road trip from the Bottom of Chile to South Africa... via India and Finland?
I call shotgun!
These aren't the type of guys that would turn down free beer, and they certainly wouldn't hesitate to take it from me.
Not just judges.
I've had a recent run of very important correspondence with some colleagues (some peers, some more senior, some more junior). They're out of country and I'm supposed to provide them a whole bunch of information, usually in the form of answers to their questions that I need to research here to get them the answers. I found they were telling my managers that I hadn't been passing the information they requested, which of course had me e-mailing the managers with a copy of the e-mails I'd previously sent.
Turns out these guys weren't reading the reply. How do I know? Well I followed the same 'booby trap' method. In a couple of e-mails I inserted the words "if you read this sentence, e-mail be back and I'll buy you a case of beer"...
I've only had one request for the case of beer out of about 10 "ZOMG answer this or the world will end" e-mails.
>>>The 30 second analysis with graphics and 3D models detailing every step will come later.
Ironically, it will use the HL2 engine....
The right to bear arms like this: http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/secondamendment/
Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
Although, there are quite a few movies that I'd like to watch but would never buy. If there was no blockbuster/netflix I'd probably switch to piracy. I don't mind paying to see a trashy movie, but I certainly don't want it filling up space in my living room.
>>> Did you report the dvd's as defective?
Yep, All of them. I haven't purchased a DVD in a while, and these were ones I rented. (2 from netflix, and one from Blockbuster that I took back and got a replacement which still didnt work --- before we were Netflix members). With Blockbuster I told them that the disks wouldn't play and that I wasnt happy. I even told them that I'd be getting my movies from Netflix from now on. With the netflix movies, I filed the 'defective disk' or whatever the netflix option has... I figure if other people do the same, the trend will show.
If blockbuster and netflix both complain to Sony, things might change.
Dude.....
I own a LG - DVT418 home theater and these disks wont play on that. I've returned 2 disks to Blockbuster, and filed 2 reports to Netflix for 'broken disks'.
After the second disk, I put two-and-two together and figured it was some DRM scheme and started complaining. I can however watch them on my Linux machine, but the wife prefers to watch DVD's on the main telly... I guess I have no choice but to rip and re-author them to use my DVD player.
Exactly. I rented Casino Royale and Pursuit of Happiness (from netflix) and neither would play in my LG DVD player (LG DVT-418), so I ended up playing them on my Mythtv Box using xine.
I filed the 'trouble report' with netflix saying selecting the 'unplayable' option as they didnt have a 'Fucken Sony DRM' option.
It may be the reason for the second ammendment, only thing is the second amendment is now redundant. The very instant anyone attempts to put together a group of people with the aim of affecting Government policies or methods through the 'bearing arms' avenue, they'll be thrown in prison or sent to GTMO.
Your only choice is to vote for the lest corrupt and most honest politician. While you state that a little rebellion is good, it ain't gonna happen.
I'm a little disappointed not to see Mythtv on the list. It could do with a boost.
Mythtv was on the SOC list last year but I don't think we saw much in the way of enhancements - just an 'experimental' add detection algorithm which you can use instead of the standard one. They had a list of things they wanted done, most importantly making setup a bit easier and a new (ajax?) UI.
The latest Ubuntu (Feisty) includes support for the PVR-150 out of the box, (IVTV drivers?), and will include more for Mythtv in the repo's, or so I am lead to believe. And has allot more support for getting up and running with Mythtv, just Mythtv itself needs a boost.
Oh well, It will get there eventually.
Sure they're down 10% overall, but as someone else mentioned, how are the Indi bands doing? I'd say they're up.
Music industry needs to spend less time blaming P2P and pirates (Arrhhh!), and way less time recording dicks like K-Fed.
>>> Yeah but Humans need oxygen too you know.
Of course you're working off the assumption the people in IT are human....
Look, this is ridiculous.
If people thought playing computer games would affect your actions in real life, then all those hours of PacMan would have had us running around in darkened rooms listening to repetitive music munching on pills.
Oh wait....
I'd like to take this one step further.
I'd like to see people cut and paste full articles and copyrighted works into comment sections onto Viacom's (or their subsidiaries) pages. They are then guilty of what they are blaming youtube for.
Perhaps excerpts of code that SCO or Microsoft are laying claim to, in an effort to draw them all in to a war of attrition. Of course the poster of such content might want to do it as "anonymous coward"
I really should have used this map
>>> Are users really that dumb?
Yes, and in this order
Think about it.
Exactly.
I've often wondered why MSFT see Google as a threat, MSFT make office software and Operating systems. Google dont make OS's (well not yet) and sure Google have a web app that can read office docs, which is really more for convenience, so at least until recently the two companies have been after completely different things.
MSFT is just a little scared because they are accustomed to being the only big boy on the block. Now there are two big boys, but different blocks. IMHO, MSFT should focus on improving its Office tools and making OS's. Read: Their Core Business. MSFT trying to compete with Google with search is a battle already lost. MSFT trying to compete with Apple on mp3 players is a battle already lost. But for everyone else, Competing with MSFT on an OS and Office suite is a battle already lost. Stick to what you're good at MSFT. Sony's pissy attempt at diversification should be a lesson.
>>>"it's Viacom's stuff"
If they don't want people to see it, don't broadcast it in the first place.
If they want to control it properly, have could big rooms that seat maybe 100 people, and with large screens. Oh put them in public places where you can pay an 'admission' fee. You might want to serve food in the foyer as I tend to get hungry. Perhaps Popcorn.
You might still start to get spam, if someone on your list has a compromised address list or computer.
I've often thought of generating some kind of unique e-mail address for each of my friends, to detect if my e-mail address has been compromised by them (or their PC). e.g:
asdf2344ks@gmail.com for my emails to Tom
oieo116i2k@gmail.com for my emails to Liz
The idea is they reply to that address, and mail to these addresses would aggregate to my inbox. If one of those email addresses starts to get spammed, I'll have an idea of who's responsible, change the address for them and see if it continues. After it happening a couple of times I could inform them that they may have a compromised computer and help them out etc.
I just dont have the time to implement such a scheme and rely on Gmails spam filtering which i think is pretty good.