So... if you were a big media company what would you do?
Buy out allofmp3.com. If it was that easy for me to find what I want at a decent price/quality with no DRM, I'd have no problem paying for it.
Set it up so that it works like the automatic toll road tags - it charges your credit card $x every time your balance gets low, so there's no hassle with transactions for a few cents.
Just use a wheeled cart like a deskside support guy might... throw some mice & keyboards on it, a few cables, and you can get away with walking off with all sorts of things
Not quite the only way... - Always use a credit card... if he'd done that, as soon as Best Buy refuses to take it back, just stand there in front of the manager, call your card customer service, and have it charged back - Contact your state's attorney general and notify them that Best Buy is fraudulently selling bathroom tiles labeled as hard drives - Then complain to the BBB just to cover all the bases
You're living in a fantasy world. It only takes one- and really, it doesn't even take an idiot. Ever had a blowout on the highway? Would you call yourself an idiot if a piece of debris you couldn't see caused one and sent you into a crash? Didn't think so. Doesn't change the good chance of death you have as a result.
It pretty much always takes at least one idiot. Even in your blowout example, it's most likely the drivers fault:
Hit something because it was dark. Slow down so your headlights let you see far enough ahead
Couldn't see debris during the day because of the car in front of you? Don't follow so close
Didn't see debris during the day? Pay attention
Blew out because the vehicle was overloaded? Your fault again
Blew out because the tire wasn't inflated properly? Your fault again
Blew out because the tire was worn out? Your fault again
Blew out because of some visible defect? Your fault again (should have inspected your equipment)
Blew out because of some invisible defect? About the only time you can't blame it on the driver
I run quite a few Linux mail relays, whose throughput is essentially limited by disk IO ops per second... It looks a little better then, even at $30/GB:
This is why law enforcement doesn't generally use the term "non-lethal." I do a lot of volunteer work for our local department, and I've NEVER heard them call anything, even pepper spray, "non-lethal." The correct term is "less-lethal."
Any competent admin at an internet cafe will have the cases padlocked, the BIOS passworded, and the hard drive (or NIC) as the first boot device, so a live CD won't work.
The problem is that no one knows what it's *supposed* to sound like any more. The current generation of music-listening teens listen to MP3s on crappy earphones and cheap speakers. When I was a teenager, I listened to a few pre-loudness-war CDs, but on crappy headphones and cheap speakers. Only just recently (I turn 30 in two months) could I afford a decent stereo system that's good enough to actually hear the difference. And that's just at home. In the car, even with a decent sound system, it's too noisy to care.
So sell the "real" version direct from your website (allowing you to pocket both the wholesale and retail profit), and the version clearly marked as "censored" goes in the shops.
Then see how long it takes the game stores to realize that their profits are disappearing and carry both versions.
Hmm... So, if only the lawyers win, you win $10, which means that the lawyers AREN'T the only winners, so you shouldn't win your $10. But then the lawyers would be the only winners! Now if only they'd all disappear in a puff of logic...
I'm not so sure that this method would result in a net increase in atmospheric carbon. If, as you state, they're aiming to use "cellulosic material" to feed the bacteria, where is that going to come from? Some sort of plant, probably. So the carbon that's released into the atmosphere comes from a plant, which, in turn, got it from the atmosphere. The carbon release is only an issue when it's coming from under the ground and being burned, not when it's just being cycled through.
There is a difference, but I doubt that 95% or more of the people listening to MP3s have good enough equipment to let them hear it. I've been listening to MP3s for about ten years now, and I could *barely* tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps vbr, and couldn't tell 256 from CD at all. (on headphones, on my stereo, in the car, wherever) Not until I recently upgraded to some really good speakers (Polk RTi12) and a good amp to drive them could I really tell, and it's still a tough call.
So, if you're not an audio nut, you can't tell the difference, and if you are, you probably know how to deal with it:)
In the context of producing hydrogen, I think you're looking at solar power the wrong way. Using solar cells would be inefficient. Using a large offshore electrolysis facility powered by focused sunlight from orbit (heat/steam) or something like that would be very clean.
"If it changes while you are in the intersection, you are running it"
Not quite. According to a police officer I was riding along with, a red light (in Texas, anyway) means that you may not ENTER the intersection, while green means that you may enter the intersection WHEN IT IS CLEAR (or when it is safe to do so). As long as you're over the line when the light goes red, you're not running it. (I'm not saying it's a good idea, though, just that it's legal) Now, if you just sit there, you can get a ticket for "obstructing traffic," or some such thing.
This officer also told me that these cameras are the safest way to enforce red lights. It's exceptionally hard for an officer to catch these people, because the officer 1) has to be able to see the light, 2) has to be in the front rank of cars, and 3) often as not would have to run the light themselves, which would be more dangerous than just letting the guy go. You can put an officer at each corner of the intersection, but that's manpower intensive, and people end up rubbernecking at the officers instead of paying attention to driving.
Not only would Sony have to buy back the consoles, but they'd have to buy back all the games people bought for them. You think anyone's going to give up their console after spending hundreds of dollars on games for it?
Not only that, but could individuals be forced to sell back consoles in the first place without the company taking individual action against each of them? Heck, if they asked for mine, I might just say "oh... it broke and I tossed it"
"Can you imagine the hilarity when you find out that the other 199 passengers are carrying bombs as well?"
I've always said that the best way to have a secure airplane is to have a large scary combat knife strapped to the back of every seat. You think anyone's going to try monkey business if they're surrounded by armed people?
"But since that would cost them customers, no one will do that."
Which is why it needs to go one step further... If an ISP doesn't enforce that policy, other ISPs can cut THEM off, effectively losing them ALL of their customers.
Actually, I think the problem could be solved without involving the government... if you could get a good majority of the major ISPs and backbone providers to cooperate a little:
Step 1: Basically, they implement a policy where any user who's machine is sending spam gets cut off until they've demonstrated that they've fixed the problem.
Step 2: To make sure the ISPs enforce Step 1, they agree to stop accepting *any* traffic from any ISP that doesn't, which means that ISP can basically only talk to themselves.
Probably not perfect, but I bet it would eliminate botnets almost overnight
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Buy out allofmp3.com. If it was that easy for me to find what I want at a decent price/quality with no DRM, I'd have no problem paying for it.
Set it up so that it works like the automatic toll road tags - it charges your credit card $x every time your balance gets low, so there's no hassle with transactions for a few cents.
problem solved!
Just use a wheeled cart like a deskside support guy might... throw some mice & keyboards on it, a few cables, and you can get away with walking off with all sorts of things
Not quite the only way...
- Always use a credit card... if he'd done that, as soon as Best Buy refuses to take it back, just stand there in front of the manager, call your card customer service, and have it charged back
- Contact your state's attorney general and notify them that Best Buy is fraudulently selling bathroom tiles labeled as hard drives
- Then complain to the BBB just to cover all the bases
It doesn't matter, since Verizon residential service (at least in my area) has TOS that ban servers and block ports, anyway.
It pretty much always takes at least one idiot. Even in your blowout example, it's most likely the drivers fault:
Well, if they're anything like the RIAA, they might have a case, then! :)
Screw that... it would be more fun to change the password to "[prosecutor's_name]_is_a_dickhead" before handing it over :)
Oh, and make sure that your encrypted partitons contain lots of GIMPed images of the "prosecutor" in indefensible situations.
You forgot the essential next step:
otherISPs.each do | otherISP |
if ( otherISP.NotEnforcingLUserBlockPolicy? ) then
router.BlockAllTraffic( otherISP )
end
end
Get enough ISPs doing that, and the problem will go away.
For bulk storage, this seems very expensive...
:)
I run quite a few Linux mail relays, whose throughput is essentially limited by disk IO ops per second... It looks a little better then, even at $30/GB:
6-disk RAID 10: ~200-300 IO ops/s - $3,000
80GB solid state drive: 100,000 IO ops/s - $2,400
I'll take the flash card
You get more space out of the disks, but we never use more than a few hundred meg on a relay
Ok, I do agree with you, and it annoys me, too... But I think it could be plausible story-wise
Episodes I-III took place during essentially peacetime - people probably had the time and money to make pretty spacecraft.
Episodes IV-VI took place during a long drawn-out war. Function over form would be the order of the day.
This is why law enforcement doesn't generally use the term "non-lethal." I do a lot of volunteer work for our local department, and I've NEVER heard them call anything, even pepper spray, "non-lethal." The correct term is "less-lethal."
Any competent admin at an internet cafe will have the cases padlocked, the BIOS passworded, and the hard drive (or NIC) as the first boot device, so a live CD won't work.
No, that's the sound of a B-52 hauling off their sarcasm detectors without the proper documentation. :)
The problem is that no one knows what it's *supposed* to sound like any more. The current generation of music-listening teens listen to MP3s on crappy earphones and cheap speakers. When I was a teenager, I listened to a few pre-loudness-war CDs, but on crappy headphones and cheap speakers. Only just recently (I turn 30 in two months) could I afford a decent stereo system that's good enough to actually hear the difference. And that's just at home. In the car, even with a decent sound system, it's too noisy to care.
So sell the "real" version direct from your website (allowing you to pocket both the wholesale and retail profit), and the version clearly marked as "censored" goes in the shops.
Then see how long it takes the game stores to realize that their profits are disappearing and carry both versions.
Hmm... So, if only the lawyers win, you win $10, which means that the lawyers AREN'T the only winners, so you shouldn't win your $10. But then the lawyers would be the only winners! Now if only they'd all disappear in a puff of logic...
I'm not so sure that this method would result in a net increase in atmospheric carbon. If, as you state, they're aiming to use "cellulosic material" to feed the bacteria, where is that going to come from? Some sort of plant, probably. So the carbon that's released into the atmosphere comes from a plant, which, in turn, got it from the atmosphere. The carbon release is only an issue when it's coming from under the ground and being burned, not when it's just being cycled through.
There is a difference, but I doubt that 95% or more of the people listening to MP3s have good enough equipment to let them hear it. I've been listening to MP3s for about ten years now, and I could *barely* tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps vbr, and couldn't tell 256 from CD at all. (on headphones, on my stereo, in the car, wherever) Not until I recently upgraded to some really good speakers (Polk RTi12) and a good amp to drive them could I really tell, and it's still a tough call.
:)
So, if you're not an audio nut, you can't tell the difference, and if you are, you probably know how to deal with it
In the context of producing hydrogen, I think you're looking at solar power the wrong way. Using solar cells would be inefficient. Using a large offshore electrolysis facility powered by focused sunlight from orbit (heat/steam) or something like that would be very clean.
"If it changes while you are in the intersection, you are running it"
Not quite. According to a police officer I was riding along with, a red light (in Texas, anyway) means that you may not ENTER the intersection, while green means that you may enter the intersection WHEN IT IS CLEAR (or when it is safe to do so). As long as you're over the line when the light goes red, you're not running it. (I'm not saying it's a good idea, though, just that it's legal) Now, if you just sit there, you can get a ticket for "obstructing traffic," or some such thing.
This officer also told me that these cameras are the safest way to enforce red lights. It's exceptionally hard for an officer to catch these people, because the officer 1) has to be able to see the light, 2) has to be in the front rank of cars, and 3) often as not would have to run the light themselves, which would be more dangerous than just letting the guy go. You can put an officer at each corner of the intersection, but that's manpower intensive, and people end up rubbernecking at the officers instead of paying attention to driving.
Not only would Sony have to buy back the consoles, but they'd have to buy back all the games people bought for them. You think anyone's going to give up their console after spending hundreds of dollars on games for it?
Not only that, but could individuals be forced to sell back consoles in the first place without the company taking individual action against each of them? Heck, if they asked for mine, I might just say "oh... it broke and I tossed it"
"Can you imagine the hilarity when you find out that the other 199 passengers are carrying bombs as well?"
I've always said that the best way to have a secure airplane is to have a large scary combat knife strapped to the back of every seat. You think anyone's going to try monkey business if they're surrounded by armed people?
"But since that would cost them customers, no one will do that."
Which is why it needs to go one step further... If an ISP doesn't enforce that policy, other ISPs can cut THEM off, effectively losing them ALL of their customers.
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dd if=/dev/random bs=1024 count=1 | passwd --stdin
Actually, I think the problem could be solved without involving the government... if you could get a good majority of the major ISPs and backbone providers to cooperate a little:
Step 1: Basically, they implement a policy where any user who's machine is sending spam gets cut off until they've demonstrated that they've fixed the problem.
Step 2: To make sure the ISPs enforce Step 1, they agree to stop accepting *any* traffic from any ISP that doesn't, which means that ISP can basically only talk to themselves.
Probably not perfect, but I bet it would eliminate botnets almost overnight