I dunno. There seemed to be plenty of people on this post yesterday that pretty much said 'every problem can be solved with violence'. So I guess they were the ones who breed the kids that are the bully's. Either that, or they raise kids that go postal.
Jack Thompson is obviously a moron. They should flick him a copy of some assassin snuff underage beastiality sex game, and watch him catch fire. Then say 'oops we sent you the wrong disk'...
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people."
The government is affraid of the people, that is why they want to listen to your phone calls, read your emails and archive your searches. They want to find all the people that do not agree with them and brainwash them into voting republican through propaganda on Fox News. Or just simply put them on a watch list, or lock them up.
Im sure i've seen a quote on a/. sig that says something along the lines of "show me 6 lines written in a mans own hand, and I shall find him guilty of something." or words to that affect.
fair comment. The last paragraph of the article said "ozone depletion would be short-lived" and I figured that it would have an effect on global warming, but our prime/. reference (Wikipedia) states:
Ozone depletion represents a radiative forcing of the climate system. There are two opposed effects: reduced ozone allows more solar radiation to penetrate, thus warming the troposphere. But a colder stratosphere emits less long-wave radiation, tending to cool the troposphere. Overall, the cooling dominates
and
ozone layer depletion is expected to increase surface UVB levels, which could lead to damage, including increases in skin cancer.
So yeah, no global warming, just more cancer. Sorry for the mistake. You can go ahead with your testing now.
so thanks for setting me straight. BTW I look foward to the Cancer.
I say go for it. Its not like there is anyone important living in the South Pacific: Just Hawaii, Easter Island, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Marquesas, Samoa, Society, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tuvalu & Wallis, Futuna islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
and I'm sure some of those names are made up too. What do they care, they probably dont even have satellite communications, or rely on HF for communication, or listening to the BBC world service on 15.220MHz for their news or anything. Its not like the planes flying between the islands need GPS. Heck they can see them on a clear day when they get close.
Sure it might affect the ozone layer for a while, but its not like the Ozone hole over the South Pacific isnt already huge. Opening up the Ozone hole is not expected to heat the globe up a little more.
Go for it America. We love that you mess with the world in the way that you do. It makes the world a better place. Heck, it provides us assurance that if your global 'intelligence' network and nuclear proliferation polices dont work, and should someone actually aim their nuke for the upper atmosphere, we will all be saved from the resulting temporay loss of HF communications and GPS..... Yay, America, Thanks.
Yeah, Ive switched from CS:S to BF2. However, (not in-game related) I like the steam interface and their auto update system more. The BF2 interface (menu, server list etc) is clunky, such as refreshing a server list and not actually be able to do anything while that is occuring. The pop-up add for an add-on (special forces??) that requires me to go to a separate website, download the downloader, then PAY for it (hang on, they didnt mention it was going to cost!) kinda suxors. I'm happy to buy the game (have bought a couple of add-ons through steam, but the BF2 frontend interface just sux.
Gameplay in BF2 is alot better, but i'm better at CS:S, and hate being fragged in BF2. Nothing worse than a base-raper or spwaning in the middle of incoming artillery... (pic a different spawn!). Overall BF2 gets my vote.. I just wish they'd fix their frontend.
I suspected that the point of the XBOX was to move people away from the open PC architecture that we all know, to a closed architecture that they can control.
I heard the PS3 was going the other way. I heard PS3 was going to open up and allow hombrew in some shape or form, i guess this article is M$'s way of doing the same thing, but closed....
Thanks! those are really good tips. If you don't mind, I'll include your list in my next submission on the subject.
and yeah, damn that sucks. - The company is cutting off their nose......
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Thanks for backing my up. That is exactly my point. The car manufacture understands it is their responibility to fix a flawed product. A recall essentially provides a 'patch'. (for instance it might be a new fuel pump.) And the recall doesnt (normally) cost the consumer a dime.
Sadly, this is not the same for software. They sell you a flawed product, then sell you the 'new fuel pump' or whatever, so your software will work properly and safely.....
Like I said, thanks for pointing out that a recall doesn't occur with software like it should. Your a gem.
^Parent shouldn't be marked as troll. I think its a pretty fair observation. Google did aid in the repression of citizens (restriction of knowledge and communication), and started that slippery slope toward the dark side. They recieved a whole heap of crap about it and vowed to fix it.
I can totally see how the 'ruthless' enforcement of a trademark can be considered evil, but it appears the 'system' requires Google to make an attempt to enforce its trademark - which makes it much less evil.
If they were to go after a 12 YO kid who wrote a note to his mom about googling something, then yeah - evil. But not if they have to do it to please the courts in a future lawsuit. What if MSN tried to provide a 'google toolbar' that used MSN search..??
Unless your taking a shot at someone paying for secure linux when they do not have to, as they could have used this secure distribution based on SE linux. Yeah, thats it. Sorry. You were obviously pointing out there is no need to pay for a secure operating system.
No one's forcing you to use the product. The product was not defective; it was merely lacking in features. You knew about all of them before purchasing it and accepting its EULA. If you do not want to accept the new EULA then don't use the product.
so..... when you purchased your car were you aware of all its defects? Even when the manufacturer was not because they didnt test their product fully? If customers complain the car blows up 1 mile over warranty, do they have a reasonable expectation that the manufacturer will fix it? Or, do you think they should purchase the next model up, to be safe and to meet DMV regulations? - let me answer that. You do.
When I can't find a place to live without signing some horrible clause in a rental agreement that lets them up the rent without letting me move out, because every single rental agreement I have ever seen has this clause, there is a problem.
I hear you. The Rental agreements in the US are very weighted toward the landlord. Aparantly is because the law is weighted in favour of the tenant. We moved here two years ago and in the process had to find a place to live. We renegotiated our lease with the landlord. They weren't open to it at first, but I think that the excess of housing and low rate of renting (everyone is builiding their home at 110% finance) put them in the position of having the house empty for another week or agreeing with the terms, which our agent thought was surprisingly fiar! We pulled a few clauses from the New Zealand Tenancy Agreement [PDF]. And we added a few clauses to ensure the landlord was responsible for termites and a working A/C etc.
The EULA issue is made worse by the 'other party' not being available to negotiate. At work, we are currently have an issue with a EULA on a piece of software. It revolves around our requirement to hotswap a server. The active server will have the app running, and the backup server sits operating till required. There is no site licence option with the software! The EULA states we need two separate copies of the sofware and they have to have different 'copy protection keys'. Our configuration management requires we have the 'exact same software' on both the drives. (We make a master drive, ghost it 2x and put one in a safe, off-site). We are happy to have the '3 boxes' of the software sitting on the shelf - thus the three licences required for the main, active backup, and off-site archive. Our system requires a high level of system safety (aviation), and the sofware has to be 'exactly the same' - every bit of data. The companies EULA precludes us copying their software, and we want to negotiate for a 'site licence' aproach, but they are unwilling to talk to us! - Guess its a case of 'bring money'....
-- Please excuse the poor spelling, grammer etc. I haven't had my morning coffee.
So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database
I wouldnt be surprised if the Google team have an AI project using their dataset. If anything is going to become sentient within the Internet it'll use Google's backend. Added that Google are builing the massive (secr3t) proc farm, it is all a matter of time.
Just how long till the sentient know's the human race is addicted to pr0n...?
Statistically 15 people have been murdered in the last 8 hrs in the USA... and by the end of today that number will be 45... 315 a week...
but for some reason that isn't news
I too, look foward to the gigantic electric and magnetic induction fields.... while damage to cells from mobile-phones is 'inconclusive', the large electric and magnetic fields required to wirelessly transmit 500 watts to your alienware might cause that mutation i'm after...
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I dunno. There seemed to be plenty of people on this post yesterday that pretty much said 'every problem can be solved with violence'. So I guess they were the ones who breed the kids that are the bully's. Either that, or they raise kids that go postal.
Jack Thompson is obviously a moron. They should flick him a copy of some assassin snuff underage beastiality sex game, and watch him catch fire.
Then say 'oops we sent you the wrong disk'...
Thanks!!! Hey, my memory isn't as bad as I thought....
you should only enter your zip as your starting address, for this very reason. (you should know your way around your zip, right?
Im sure i've seen a quote on a
So your protection from unfair search relies on the warrant.... You better hope they dont erode the requirement for warrants for search.
If your locked in a prison and all you have to eat is your cellmate......
I say go for it. Its not like there is anyone important living in the South Pacific: Just Hawaii, Easter Island, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Marquesas, Samoa, Society, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tuvalu & Wallis, Futuna islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
and I'm sure some of those names are made up too. What do they care, they probably dont even have satellite communications, or rely on HF for communication, or listening to the BBC world service on 15.220MHz for their news or anything. Its not like the planes flying between the islands need GPS. Heck they can see them on a clear day when they get close.
Sure it might affect the ozone layer for a while, but its not like the Ozone hole over the South Pacific isnt already huge. Opening up the Ozone hole is not expected to heat the globe up a little more.
Go for it America. We love that you mess with the world in the way that you do. It makes the world a better place. Heck, it provides us assurance that if your global 'intelligence' network and nuclear proliferation polices dont work, and should someone actually aim their nuke for the upper atmosphere, we will all be saved from the resulting temporay loss of HF communications and GPS..... Yay, America, Thanks.
*Ring Ring*
Hello, I.T.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Yeah, Ive switched from CS:S to BF2. However, (not in-game related) I like the steam interface and their auto update system more. The BF2 interface (menu, server list etc) is clunky, such as refreshing a server list and not actually be able to do anything while that is occuring. The pop-up add for an add-on (special forces??) that requires me to go to a separate website, download the downloader, then PAY for it (hang on, they didnt mention it was going to cost!) kinda suxors. I'm happy to buy the game (have bought a couple of add-ons through steam, but the BF2 frontend interface just sux.
Gameplay in BF2 is alot better, but i'm better at CS:S, and hate being fragged in BF2. Nothing worse than a base-raper or spwaning in the middle of incoming artillery... (pic a different spawn!). Overall BF2 gets my vote.. I just wish they'd fix their frontend.
My bet is that the most open system will win.
Thanks! those are really good tips. If you don't mind, I'll include your list in my next submission on the subject. ... ...
and yeah, damn that sucks. - The company is cutting off their nose
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cheers.,
Sadly, this is not the same for software. They sell you a flawed product, then sell you the 'new fuel pump' or whatever, so your software will work properly and safely.....
Like I said, thanks for pointing out that a recall doesn't occur with software like it should. Your a gem.
That is the checksum for the hashes.
I'm sure that question was on my entry forms last time I entered the USA....
> Have you ever participated in genericide?
^Parent shouldn't be marked as troll. I think its a pretty fair observation. Google did aid in the repression of citizens (restriction of knowledge and communication), and started that slippery slope toward the dark side. They recieved a whole heap of crap about it and vowed to fix it.
I can totally see how the 'ruthless' enforcement of a trademark can be considered evil, but it appears the 'system' requires Google to make an attempt to enforce its trademark - which makes it much less evil.
If they were to go after a 12 YO kid who wrote a note to his mom about googling something, then yeah - evil. But not if they have to do it to please the courts in a future lawsuit. What if MSN tried to provide a 'google toolbar' that used MSN search..??
Even more simple would be hash some posts here on /.
There are some pretty fricken random posts.
Unless your taking a shot at someone paying for secure linux when they do not have to, as they could have used this secure distribution based on SE linux. Yeah, thats it. Sorry. You were obviously pointing out there is no need to pay for a secure operating system.
The EULA issue is made worse by the 'other party' not being available to negotiate. At work, we are currently have an issue with a EULA on a piece of software. It revolves around our requirement to hotswap a server. The active server will have the app running, and the backup server sits operating till required. There is no site licence option with the software! The EULA states we need two separate copies of the sofware and they have to have different 'copy protection keys'. Our configuration management requires we have the 'exact same software' on both the drives. (We make a master drive, ghost it 2x and put one in a safe, off-site). We are happy to have the '3 boxes' of the software sitting on the shelf - thus the three licences required for the main, active backup, and off-site archive. Our system requires a high level of system safety (aviation), and the sofware has to be 'exactly the same' - every bit of data. The companies EULA precludes us copying their software, and we want to negotiate for a 'site licence' aproach, but they are unwilling to talk to us! - Guess its a case of 'bring money'....
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Please excuse the poor spelling, grammer etc. I haven't had my morning coffee.
Just how long till the sentient know's the human race is addicted to pr0n...?
but for some reason that isn't news
or you want 4 monitors each run by a 7800 for super wide screen counterstrike..
I too, look foward to the gigantic electric and magnetic induction fields.... while damage to cells from mobile-phones is 'inconclusive', the large electric and magnetic fields required to wirelessly transmit 500 watts to your alienware might cause that mutation i'm after...
bah, you beat me to it.. see my post below....