Entire IP range used by governmental mail servers now blacklisted by most email filters.
And I was half hoping it would finally grow out of fashion to be ashamed of this country now that the US was setting the world standard in pulling all this crap. Premature hope, apparently.
was signed by Bush, but...he actually added a signing statement that says, uh, he really doesn't have to follow the law because hey, he's the president and terrorists are trying to kill us after all..
Well, he does that for pretty much all laws. It's a real stroke of fortune he never signed the Constitution.
Pretty much. The only early adopters who get screwed are the consumers - the media companies will just cut their losses and pull out, leaving their customers standing with high-tech junk. That's why "Sony supports BluRay, they'll win" or "DreamWorks goes with HD-DVD, and they're really big" is asinine.
We can't trust them for making our own investment because they're taking no risk: If producing the media was a non-negligible cost compared to producing/profiting from the content, nobody would have come up with DRM. If one format goes sour, they just start producing the other format and trash or sell off what they have in stock.
Hear hear. The funny part is that so far, whenever we see a headline "HD-DVD encryption cracked (again)", people go "HD-DVD sucks, Blu-Ray is much more secure, lol at those idiot Hollywood executives."
This is our freedom. Much like we shouldn't find it cool if the NSA built a quantum computer (no matter how shiny), we shouldn't be awed by a proprietary medium that cannot be readily decrypted.
(Although... I'm disqualified from that discussion, as I get warm fuzzy feelings when I think about Google storing my personal data.)
I usually try to go by instinct (or "common sense") to get some idea of whether something is possible or what the result of something would be. This instinct is shaped by what I've seen, which my memory aggregates into some kind of system that can be used to make predictions.
However, when I watch a movie, it looks real enough to fool this memory. So as long as something is not obviously "unreal" (say, magic), it might enter this system. So by watching many repetitions of events that could not actually happen like this, but are made to look extremely real, we could be messing with our instinctive sense of "realism".
This isn't going to stop me from watching movies, of course.
The dirtier the ISP has to play to smuggle their ads in, the worse the backlash. Come on - some inserted ads are simply unethical. But if the ISP starts breaking into SSL connections and someone finds out (and they WILL), the ISP is in for a big lawsuit. They may even be committing fraud.
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Entire IP range used by governmental mail servers now blacklisted by most email filters.
And I was half hoping it would finally grow out of fashion to be ashamed of this country now that the US was setting the world standard in pulling all this crap. Premature hope, apparently.
One word: Diebold.
Oh wait. Bush would now be a certified ISO standard.
Considering that the monitoring software can only function *after* he has installed XP...
Well, he does that for pretty much all laws. It's a real stroke of fortune he never signed the Constitution.
MAFIAA Inquisitor: I think it's time for your re-education session, Mr. Executive.
Pretty much. The only early adopters who get screwed are the consumers - the media companies will just cut their losses and pull out, leaving their customers standing with high-tech junk. That's why "Sony supports BluRay, they'll win" or "DreamWorks goes with HD-DVD, and they're really big" is asinine.
We can't trust them for making our own investment because they're taking no risk: If producing the media was a non-negligible cost compared to producing/profiting from the content, nobody would have come up with DRM. If one format goes sour, they just start producing the other format and trash or sell off what they have in stock.
Hear hear. The funny part is that so far, whenever we see a headline "HD-DVD encryption cracked (again)", people go "HD-DVD sucks, Blu-Ray is much more secure, lol at those idiot Hollywood executives."
This is our freedom. Much like we shouldn't find it cool if the NSA built a quantum computer (no matter how shiny), we shouldn't be awed by a proprietary medium that cannot be readily decrypted.
(Although... I'm disqualified from that discussion, as I get warm fuzzy feelings when I think about Google storing my personal data.)
Here.
And I did a text search for "Pullman" to find if anyone had mentioned this already.
I usually try to go by instinct (or "common sense") to get some idea of whether something is possible or what the result of something would be. This instinct is shaped by what I've seen, which my memory aggregates into some kind of system that can be used to make predictions.
However, when I watch a movie, it looks real enough to fool this memory. So as long as something is not obviously "unreal" (say, magic), it might enter this system. So by watching many repetitions of events that could not actually happen like this, but are made to look extremely real, we could be messing with our instinctive sense of "realism".
This isn't going to stop me from watching movies, of course.
Compared to MS Office?
Speed was one of the factors I switched.
Well, technically I went with SO, not OO.o, but the performance difference can't be that radical, can it?
make lawyer -not evil?
Last I checked, a single Javascript command was enough to crash IE, and I think it works in IE7 as well as IE6:
for (x in document.write) { document.write(x);}
Was a great prank (ie, a sig link saying "IE USERS DON'T CLICK HERE"). Heh.
Really!
Here, I am on a bonus plan that gives me a cut when people call my cell phone. I actually have more money on it than when I last recharged it.
So have you ever heard a commercial that advertised job opportunities in that industry? :P
But the advertiser would be imagining this scenario:
Ad: "[long diatribe about product]"
(Caller: Hey, that sounds interesting)
Ad: "To order today, ca---"
"Yes, hello?"
Commercials running in time limits not known before-hand aren't very attractive to advertisers, especially when those time limits can be very short...
Is your attention more captivated by an advertisement than it is while you are talking on the phone?
Ouch, you must know some very boring people...
Evil comes in a million guises. I doubt they're allied, though they're brethren in spirit, no doubt.
The first "artificial human" doesn't look that far off now...
Put it in binary first, that makes it more secure!
A'la'ih, a'la'ih, do'neh'lini, a'la'ih...
Probably because you don't look black or middle-eastern enough.
Go re sa li li me no va ra su me re da dan gu tu mam ri.
(Yay for Neal Stephenson!)
That is an utterly preposterous idea. Not even the most depraved ISP would resort to that.
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I don't think so.
The dirtier the ISP has to play to smuggle their ads in, the worse the backlash. Come on - some inserted ads are simply unethical. But if the ISP starts breaking into SSL connections and someone finds out (and they WILL), the ISP is in for a big lawsuit. They may even be committing fraud.
Yes. They'll be left without any retirement whatsoever. It'll be awful. How are they going to eat in their old age, stricken with poverty? :P
Do you seriously and honestly believe that more destruction and death in Iraq would have resulted in a better situation than the current one?
Wow...