Are there still legit bounces? I don't think I've received a legitimate mail undeliverable message in about five years (probably because so many servers have a catch-all account). Obviously there's some lower-level stuff that never hits your inbox, but I don't see any major reason to avoid that save addressing network congestion issues.
Yeah.... copyright infringement really doesn't fit the model of a quote about genocide that well. Especially when they seem to be moving in a direction of MORE lenience.
Yes, that's quite true. But from a privacy standpoint (specifically regarding photography), malls are considered public places. If they have a problem with photographers, they're certainly entitled to ask you to leave (and you'd be trespassing if you don't comply) but that's about the extent of it.
Do they really? From what I was able to tell, it's not specified as reCAPTCHA anywhere in the window; having looked at the reCAPTCHA site from a development side I could swear that I read that you needed to give credit if developing a custom style for it. Either I'm remembering wrong, they've got a deal, or FB is undergoing one of the stupidest TOS violations ever.
You do realize that the money you're saving on not buying or using traditional rentals is going directly to fund your continual battle for more hard drive space, right?
True enough. TFS points out the obvious in that if employers get away with a lawsuit settlement for less than they owed, it was a good deal. I'd extend that to suggest that if the employee following the suit was stupid enough to settle for less than s/he was owed, s/he wasn't worth the unpaid overtime money that was owed.
Do you propose I play with it in a balloon indoors? If I get arrested for doing something stupid, I'd feel a little better knowing my family won't get soaked in the next rainstorm because I blew the roof off the house.
True, but the cloud (at least in theory) also gives you ubiquitous access to your data from any location - when it's online, of course. I think it's best to treat it as the centralized synchronization point that you work from day-to-day (think: email, calendar) so that it's consistent across your devices, but have at least one system that YOU control periodically backing up that data.
The issues with services like Gmail and Amazon S3 tend not to be with hardware failures, but with software problems. Recent S3 outages as well as yesterday's brief Gmail outage weren't caused by a load balancer exploding, but by something going screwy in software. Theoretically no data will be erased if they've got permissions set right, but that doesn't mean you're important enough to get a human working on the database to fix YOUR account.
I really hope that our wars aren't fought like Crysis in the future. The self-destruct feature probably makes sense for military use (and the idea of jumping fifty feet is pretty awesome), but I'd rather not deal with the frozen aliens.
Of course, being intelligent, i'm sure it would be a struggle on an ethical standpoint to do this
Not really. I ran a "scam" for quite some time (selling Diablo II items) and never had a dilemma about it, and I'm an Eagle scout who always bitches about people being dishonest. All of the information was on the site, and it was made very clear. If people after that point are still stupid enough to purchase bits, it might as well be from me.
If I really felt the need to morally justify it, I could claim that it's better for them to get hit once with a low-value transaction rather than get really screwed on a big-ticket purchase in hopes that they'd learn and pay more attention/think things through, but honestly I'd feel a lot dirtier thinking about it that way.
In this case, I'd suggest that the developer of I Am Rich was hoping that people would just mis-click (twice!) and buy the thing, which happened in at least one of the eight cases. That IS sleazy. Parting a fool from his money is one thing; parting the unlucky from their money is just unfair.
True, but for the most part, PHP5 doesn't change things from PHP4 (some default configuration settings have changed for the better, but flipping a bit to go back to the old way isn't exactly hard). It's not like you're dealing with a complete new UI, just some additional functionality. Comparing a close source operating system to an open source scripting language isn't too fair of a comparison.
They also had Kari wander around in a giant fluffy bird suit to get past those ultrasonic sensors, IIRC. It's not exactly practical, but it makes for great TV. I'm sure the trial of whoever tries that in DC will be equally amusing.
Well FFS, a lot of cars these days have a little RFID tag embedded in the key's handle bit so that an unofficial copy will trip the alarm. You think Washington, DC of all places could figure out how to implement that kind of system. Maybe they don't have the budget to spend $40 and three days on a replacement key:/
You local machine's cache is probably safe, yes (or reasonably so). What about your ISP's, which in all likelihood you're using when you don't have a local cache of the required information? Not only are you vulnerable to that, but so is everyone else using your ISP.
Regardless, it's not a very good analogy. It takes considerably more than the technological equivalent of a hacksaw to break a solid encryption scheme.
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Are there still legit bounces? I don't think I've received a legitimate mail undeliverable message in about five years (probably because so many servers have a catch-all account). Obviously there's some lower-level stuff that never hits your inbox, but I don't see any major reason to avoid that save addressing network congestion issues.
Yeah.... copyright infringement really doesn't fit the model of a quote about genocide that well. Especially when they seem to be moving in a direction of MORE lenience.
Yes, that's quite true. But from a privacy standpoint (specifically regarding photography), malls are considered public places. If they have a problem with photographers, they're certainly entitled to ask you to leave (and you'd be trespassing if you don't comply) but that's about the extent of it.
Do they really? From what I was able to tell, it's not specified as reCAPTCHA anywhere in the window; having looked at the reCAPTCHA site from a development side I could swear that I read that you needed to give credit if developing a custom style for it. Either I'm remembering wrong, they've got a deal, or FB is undergoing one of the stupidest TOS violations ever.
You do realize that the money you're saving on not buying or using traditional rentals is going directly to fund your continual battle for more hard drive space, right?
Or just use Safari and resize on the fly :p
(I hate Safari but had to throw it out there)
Oh, that was SO un-called-for, you sick bastard.
But you're absolutely right.
True enough. TFS points out the obvious in that if employers get away with a lawsuit settlement for less than they owed, it was a good deal. I'd extend that to suggest that if the employee following the suit was stupid enough to settle for less than s/he was owed, s/he wasn't worth the unpaid overtime money that was owed.
Nah, just get these.
Do you propose I play with it in a balloon indoors? If I get arrested for doing something stupid, I'd feel a little better knowing my family won't get soaked in the next rainstorm because I blew the roof off the house.
Sure, but that doesn't stop people from doing exactly that.
True, but the cloud (at least in theory) also gives you ubiquitous access to your data from any location - when it's online, of course. I think it's best to treat it as the centralized synchronization point that you work from day-to-day (think: email, calendar) so that it's consistent across your devices, but have at least one system that YOU control periodically backing up that data.
The issues with services like Gmail and Amazon S3 tend not to be with hardware failures, but with software problems. Recent S3 outages as well as yesterday's brief Gmail outage weren't caused by a load balancer exploding, but by something going screwy in software. Theoretically no data will be erased if they've got permissions set right, but that doesn't mean you're important enough to get a human working on the database to fix YOUR account.
They're already headed down that path, with Vista Home Basic not supporting Aero Glass...
Dfcn?
Who can render the fastest? Oh, I'm totally winning the 2012 Olympics in their entirety.
I'm guessing that your last name isn't Dell or Packard.
I really hope that our wars aren't fought like Crysis in the future. The self-destruct feature probably makes sense for military use (and the idea of jumping fifty feet is pretty awesome), but I'd rather not deal with the frozen aliens.
What about very short but thick 2D objects?
Not really. I ran a "scam" for quite some time (selling Diablo II items) and never had a dilemma about it, and I'm an Eagle scout who always bitches about people being dishonest. All of the information was on the site, and it was made very clear. If people after that point are still stupid enough to purchase bits, it might as well be from me.
If I really felt the need to morally justify it, I could claim that it's better for them to get hit once with a low-value transaction rather than get really screwed on a big-ticket purchase in hopes that they'd learn and pay more attention/think things through, but honestly I'd feel a lot dirtier thinking about it that way.
In this case, I'd suggest that the developer of I Am Rich was hoping that people would just mis-click (twice!) and buy the thing, which happened in at least one of the eight cases. That IS sleazy. Parting a fool from his money is one thing; parting the unlucky from their money is just unfair.
True, but for the most part, PHP5 doesn't change things from PHP4 (some default configuration settings have changed for the better, but flipping a bit to go back to the old way isn't exactly hard). It's not like you're dealing with a complete new UI, just some additional functionality. Comparing a close source operating system to an open source scripting language isn't too fair of a comparison.
They also had Kari wander around in a giant fluffy bird suit to get past those ultrasonic sensors, IIRC. It's not exactly practical, but it makes for great TV. I'm sure the trial of whoever tries that in DC will be equally amusing.
Well FFS, a lot of cars these days have a little RFID tag embedded in the key's handle bit so that an unofficial copy will trip the alarm. You think Washington, DC of all places could figure out how to implement that kind of system. Maybe they don't have the budget to spend $40 and three days on a replacement key :/
I doubt it's that simple, or else you'd find far fewer people bitching about not getting cell signal at home.
Alternately: where the hell can I get one?
You local machine's cache is probably safe, yes (or reasonably so). What about your ISP's, which in all likelihood you're using when you don't have a local cache of the required information? Not only are you vulnerable to that, but so is everyone else using your ISP.
Regardless, it's not a very good analogy. It takes considerably more than the technological equivalent of a hacksaw to break a solid encryption scheme.