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Okay, fine. How about pharmaceutical companies that benefit from government funded research (at Universities, etc.) start paying for the value they get from that?
Well I guess this is part of the quest for cheap labor. Pretty much everyone that could be locked up for drugs is, so now it's time to fill the prisons will evil p2p downloaders who will get paid $1 an hour answering phones or making license plates.
Yeah, they're pushing for hydrogen vehicles that magically get hydrogen from sources that have no effect on the environment. You know, coal, oil, gas, nuclear--actually, nuclear isn't so bad unless there's an accident--and those huge wind farms or giant fields of solar panels that have no effect either, even if they take reduce the temperature at the surface or slow down the wind a bit.
And not at just google. Here's a few great examples of placement I have seen:
- In an article about three boys being found in a trunk (a story a few months back, they were playing and got locked in) and how the father of one found them and fell to his knees, is a tower ad. on the right side about "get the perfect car" with a guy hunched down hugging the bumper of a car
- Google word ads. for "LED/LCD Digital Signage" on a forum "Sign in" page
- German car ads in a news story about a holocaust anniversary
My point is that while often great, automatic targeted ads. often seem completely off-base or even insensitive.
The purpose of these bunkers was so the political elite could survive the nuclear holocaust brought upon their subjects. In my opinion they ought to have suffered the same fate as the people if anything really bad happened.
Of course only essential people were allowed--cabinet ministers, and attractive secretaries, and a few maintenance people. This way, the politicians could restart civilization with their superior genes and the young ladies who worked in their office.
Something that bothers me, why do EULAs typeically come in eight-point font in a 400x200 dialog box, and make it impossible to copy the text? There's absolutely no excuse for the small font--no paper is being saved, and the tiny window is just to discourage people reading and finding out just how many ways they are getting screwed.
This would go over just great when a rape+attempted murder victim can't call for help because while she could enter 911 after several tries, she can't enter 971356 correctly because she is shaking from shock.
Well it's not so bad for food. If it was clothing, or books, there are privacy problems definitely--you are going to generally wear clothes a lot, so if there is a db of which you have bought you can be tracked. Same with books, you either buy them or are going to borrow them from the library. However food you are probably going to just take home, and toss the packaging when you're done. What food you eat is already tracked thanks to those loyalty card programs.
Don't most of you use RFID access cards at work (HID corporation access cards are a major brand)? A lot of the postings here show a major ignorance of these systems.
There are two types of door locks where I work.
1) Magnetic. The power failure mode of these is that they unlock when the power goes out. 2) Mechanical. Here, a spring holds the latch bolt in, and when you wave your card, the latch opens. The failure mode is locked.
In both cases of these you can still exit from the inside. In the first case, you can go both ways, in or out, in the second case, you can just turn the handle and exit, but from outside you can't return.
The main building doors are magnetic. Thus you can still get inside if the power fails and it's freezing cold outside. The inner doors to the more secure areas are mechanical, and you can't get in with no power.
Now of course extending this to a single residence home is a problem, there is usually only one door. The problem here is that someone may get stuck outside in bad weather or a high crime area. In a large building or apartment, at least there is either a security guard or you use magnetic locks on the outer doors.
Now cloning would be a big deal. In an office building, a guard regularily walks around and will (hopefully) notice any devices left by the card reader to eavesdrop on signals. I doubt most people would notice the change (or be aware that it was not legit) on a residental building.
The face recognition sounds like a gimmick. It could probably be defeated by taking a picture of someone, printing it out life-size, and pasting the page on a paper bag over your head.
I like how you are comparing pirating DVDs to break-and-enter (which endangers lives when burglar and resident meet), rape, and murder. These crimes are REALLY in the same league.
My Treo 600 crashed, DAILY. Usually it would freeze at the start or the end of a call, and require a reset. After a few months it would cut out constantly during calls. Sent it in for a replacement by warranty, plugged in my SIM card, and on the first call it freezes. I got a regular cellphone with bluetooth recently, and a Dell Axim X30. The phone never crashes, and the Axim requires a reset about once a month. Good bye Palm, when did your quality control become so poor?
They already think everyone who uses their product is a lying cheating bastard who deserves their scorn.
Reference: - the "do not pirate" commericals in a theatre, after you've paid to see the movie - The FBI warning at the beginning of every DVD that you can't fast-forward through - Unskippable advertisements on DVDs, especially rentals
I believe the other motherboard manufacturers usually add this as an overall setting that can be enabled or disabled in the bios--Gigabyte for example, has a "Top Performance" setting. By default it is OFF.
ASUS on the other hand is being sneaky. You set speed settings to "Auto" or "Normal" and you get overclocked anyways. The only way to turn off the overclocking is "Slow."
As the article noted, this is primarily for synthetic Benchmark cheating.
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Okay, fine. How about pharmaceutical companies that benefit from government funded research (at Universities, etc.) start paying for the value they get from that?
There is always colinux for running linux inside windows.
Well I guess this is part of the quest for cheap labor. Pretty much everyone that could be locked up for drugs is, so now it's time to fill the prisons will evil p2p downloaders who will get paid $1 an hour answering phones or making license plates.
Yeah, they're pushing for hydrogen vehicles that magically get hydrogen from sources that have no effect on the environment. You know, coal, oil, gas, nuclear--actually, nuclear isn't so bad unless there's an accident--and those huge wind farms or giant fields of solar panels that have no effect either, even if they take reduce the temperature at the surface or slow down the wind a bit.
I wonder if a 4 digit UID would sell for anything on Ebay...
It looks like the begin of the end. When enought people come to there senses they might start looking for alternative OS's!
Oh, you mean alternative OSs like LINUX for which NO rootkits exist?
And not at just google. Here's a few great examples of placement I have seen:
- In an article about three boys being found in a trunk (a story a few months back, they were playing and got locked in) and how the father of one found them and fell to his knees, is a tower ad. on the right side about "get the perfect car" with a guy hunched down hugging the bumper of a car
- Google word ads. for "LED/LCD Digital Signage" on a forum "Sign in" page
- German car ads in a news story about a holocaust anniversary
My point is that while often great, automatic targeted ads. often seem completely off-base or even insensitive.
The purpose of these bunkers was so the political elite could survive the nuclear holocaust brought upon their subjects. In my opinion they ought to have suffered the same fate as the people if anything really bad happened.
Of course only essential people were allowed--cabinet ministers, and attractive secretaries, and a few maintenance people. This way, the politicians could restart civilization with their superior genes and the young ladies who worked in their office.
Something that bothers me, why do EULAs typeically come in eight-point font in a 400x200 dialog box, and make it impossible to copy the text? There's absolutely no excuse for the small font--no paper is being saved, and the tiny window is just to discourage people reading and finding out just how many ways they are getting screwed.
> You like to draw parallells with criminals and cash?
No, bankers and criminals, it looks like.
This would go over just great when a rape+attempted murder victim can't call for help because while she could enter 911 after several tries, she can't enter 971356 correctly because she is shaking from shock.
Well it's not so bad for food. If it was clothing, or books, there are privacy problems definitely--you are going to generally wear clothes a lot, so if there is a db of which you have bought you can be tracked. Same with books, you either buy them or are going to borrow them from the library. However food you are probably going to just take home, and toss the packaging when you're done. What food you eat is already tracked thanks to those loyalty card programs.
Also, besides greek fire, hurling burning balls of pitch was common in the day.
Don't most of you use RFID access cards at work (HID corporation access cards are a major brand)? A lot of the postings here show a major ignorance of these systems.
There are two types of door locks where I work.
1) Magnetic. The power failure mode of these is that they unlock when the power goes out.
2) Mechanical. Here, a spring holds the latch bolt in, and when you wave your card, the latch opens. The failure mode is locked.
In both cases of these you can still exit from the inside. In the first case, you can go both ways, in or out, in the second case, you can just turn the handle and exit, but from outside you can't return.
The main building doors are magnetic. Thus you can still get inside if the power fails and it's freezing cold outside. The inner doors to the more secure areas are mechanical, and you can't get in with no power.
Now of course extending this to a single residence home is a problem, there is usually only one door. The problem here is that someone may get stuck outside in bad weather or a high crime area. In a large building or apartment, at least there is either a security guard or you use magnetic locks on the outer doors.
Now cloning would be a big deal. In an office building, a guard regularily walks around and will (hopefully) notice any devices left by the card reader to eavesdrop on signals. I doubt most people would notice the change (or be aware that it was not legit) on a residental building.
The face recognition sounds like a gimmick. It could probably be defeated by taking a picture of someone, printing it out life-size, and pasting the page on a paper bag over your head.
aim the majority of your efforts towars the government owned (but not controlled) CBC.
rofls hehehahahah
hahahahahaha omg you're killing me here
I like how you are comparing pirating DVDs to break-and-enter (which endangers lives when burglar and resident meet), rape, and murder. These crimes are REALLY in the same league.
The trick in the sig. is a moderator intelligence test.
I think they're talking more about porn where violence, rape, coercion is depicted, even if fictional. I'm all for cracking down on suck things.
My Treo 600 crashed, DAILY. Usually it would freeze at the start or the end of a call, and require a reset. After a few months it would cut out constantly during calls. Sent it in for a replacement by warranty, plugged in my SIM card, and on the first call it freezes. I got a regular cellphone with bluetooth recently, and a Dell Axim X30. The phone never crashes, and the Axim requires a reset about once a month. Good bye Palm, when did your quality control become so poor?
Now someone just needs to do this with a belt-fed M249, with a much wider base tripod (and shorter) so it will not fall over.
They already think everyone who uses their product is a lying cheating bastard who deserves their scorn.
Reference:
- the "do not pirate" commericals in a theatre, after you've paid to see the movie
- The FBI warning at the beginning of every DVD that you can't fast-forward through
- Unskippable advertisements on DVDs, especially rentals
In most jurisdictions you can not practice engineering with a physics degree.
Will the car computer fry if your kid sticks something conductive in the USB slot? (the way your home pc will)?
Why not use bluetooth?
Sink it in Challenger deep.
I believe the other motherboard manufacturers usually add this as an overall setting that can be enabled or disabled in the bios--Gigabyte for example, has a "Top Performance" setting. By default it is OFF.
ASUS on the other hand is being sneaky. You set speed settings to "Auto" or "Normal" and you get overclocked anyways. The only way to turn off the overclocking is "Slow."
As the article noted, this is primarily for synthetic Benchmark cheating.