While I can't speak for the GP, it's not the movie trailers that piss me off -- I expect to see those. In fact, since I'm there to watch a movie, the trailers might just show another one that is relevant to my interests. No, what piss me off are the product commercials that have shown up in the last few years. Maybe they haven't hit in the UK yet, but don't worry, they will...
The Book of Vile Darkness versions were much more powerful, as I recall. If I were to use a demon prince, I'd probably restat them from there. Honestly, I don't like the idea of giving gods and demon princes stats to begin with...if you constrain something like that to a form, a player will (given sufficient time and resources) come along and kick its ass.
I linked to the Miller test because that's the court standard for Constitutionality...which is the question raised in the parent post. Yes, it's vague, but it is what would be used should the question ever get raised in the US courts.
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"Defining google as a verb and as using the Google search engine is appropriate," a representative for Google told CNET News.com in an e-mail.
Makes perfect sense to me. I'm no trademark lawyer (or a lawyer of any kind, for that matter, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...), but as long as the new verb refers solely to using Google, does it dilute their trademark? I guess the concern is going to be whether or not the word use starts creeping and begins to mean using any search engine. Personally, I prefer the way Oxford handled it, retaining the capitalization. Still, Google faces an uphill battle from here on out to retain their trademark...
I use AdBlock and NoScript, but I've whitelisted a bunch of the webcomics I read and I'll click through if something piques my interest. I imagine the same principle could be extended to other sites one reads regularly, enjoys, and wishes to support.
...I have a personal counterpoint to some of them. I grew up doing a lot of the typical outside kid things, but still ended up with some pretty bad allergies to grass and other pollens. That doesn't mean I don't agree with the article - I think it's fairly intuitive that a too-clean environment results in a weaker immune system. Just saying that the reverse isn't guaranteed.
"The NSA is using this stuff. The DEA, the Secret Service, the CIA. Are you kidding me? They don't answer to you. They do whatever the hell they want with it. Are you really that naïve? Now leave these guys alone; they make a product, that's all. It's nothing to them what happens afterward. You really need to educate yourself."
Attitudes like this guy's are dangerous. It's the "if you don't have anything to hide why are you objecting?" and the "these guys just make the product" sentiments that just bury us deeper and deeper.
Ultimately, the government derives its mandate from the people, so they do answer to us. He's forgotten it, and so has every single politician and bureaucrat out there. Is there any way short of a violent assertion of our second-amendment rights that will remind them? Sometimes I fear there is not...
I don't trust any article about wireless security that says WEP has any use at all - "Not only is WEP a good way to ward off many would-be attackers, it is strengthened when used with other security techniques." Same for MAC filtering: "[although] this can be bypassed by knowledgeable hackers, it is still a valid method for keeping many intruders at bay." They'll keep your neighbors from hogging all of your bandwidth, but they won't keep out anybody who wants to get at your data.
Not even a mention of WPA2, certificates (hardware/software), or any other actual security measures in there. Some decent stuff about PEBRAC errors in the beginning, and other changes that should be obvious to any netadmin with two brain cells to rub together, but TFA is really not even worth the time it takes to read.
...without actually causing any real damage or impairing the computer's operation.
Um, maybe it's just me, but I'd call disabling antivirus impairing the computer's operation. Yeah, sure, it's not installing a spam zombie client, but it is unlocking the door for someone who will...
Sounds to me like a c/p of a press release - it's got the same Corpspeak feel.
As for getting paid...wasn't that the point? I just hope they'll continue to take care of the bandwidth bill they're causing for as long as their routers are "authorized" to hit the server. I'd guess that was one of the terms of authorization.
So instead of trying to legislate the problem out of existence, because ye gods we know how well that works, let's teach them how to be smart about looking for the information and what they do with it. Are kids these days about not giving out personally-identifying info at the same time we teach them the "strangers with candy" speech? I wouldn't know, I got through that time before this became an issue. I wonder, though, if this is an "in-between" bunch of kids, who only got the "Get in my van, little boy" training but is now coming of age in a time where the Dirty Old Men look (online) like some cool kid like them...
When I have performed public speaknig engagements recently, the coffee buzz always makes me a better speaker (and calmer, actually). I wonder if caffeine, the drug, just puts us into our most comfortable role as many drugs do (including following others if that is how we're designed).
Interesting thought. I've always used caffeine similarly - I take all that energy and use it to get the gears turning faster and keep myself mentally sharper, instead of getting wasting excess energy getting jittery like a lot of people do. Of course, anecdotal evidence does not a theory make, and I'm not terribly familiar with the biochemistry of caffeine. I have to wonder, though, how others use the "buzz."
So if coffee is a yes-drink...and alcohol is a yes-drink...screw pheromones. We need to start buying women coffee martinis. There's the real liquid panty remover.
I'm a SOX IT auditor...if your auditors are giving you flak about your MOTD, they're being seriously, seriously anal. SOX has nothing to do with anything so banal and unimportant as MOTDs.
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While I can't speak for the GP, it's not the movie trailers that piss me off -- I expect to see those. In fact, since I'm there to watch a movie, the trailers might just show another one that is relevant to my interests. No, what piss me off are the product commercials that have shown up in the last few years. Maybe they haven't hit in the UK yet, but don't worry, they will...
The Book of Vile Darkness versions were much more powerful, as I recall. If I were to use a demon prince, I'd probably restat them from there. Honestly, I don't like the idea of giving gods and demon princes stats to begin with...if you constrain something like that to a form, a player will (given sufficient time and resources) come along and kick its ass.
Actually, "pretexting" isn't corpspeak, it's legalese.
I linked to the Miller test because that's the court standard for Constitutionality...which is the question raised in the parent post. Yes, it's vague, but it is what would be used should the question ever get raised in the US courts.
That would be for the courts to determine.
Fuck 'em.
Now we just have to believe that the ruling is ultimately upheld after all appeals.
That, and enforcement. More oversight and a stronger FISA court (i.e. one that isn't simply a rubber stamp) will be important.
Anybody have any thoughts about how this precedent will affect the EFF v. AT&T case?
Bob's true mission will be revealed when Sarah Connor unwittingly enters one of the connected Zaxby's.
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Makes perfect sense to me. I'm no trademark lawyer (or a lawyer of any kind, for that matter, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...), but as long as the new verb refers solely to using Google, does it dilute their trademark? I guess the concern is going to be whether or not the word use starts creeping and begins to mean using any search engine. Personally, I prefer the way Oxford handled it, retaining the capitalization. Still, Google faces an uphill battle from here on out to retain their trademark...
That's assuming, of course, that you don't pay for the subscription. Figures that I should remember that as soon as I hit 'Submit.'
I use AdBlock and NoScript, but I've whitelisted a bunch of the webcomics I read and I'll click through if something piques my interest. I imagine the same principle could be extended to other sites one reads regularly, enjoys, and wishes to support.
...Say, Slashdot.
...I have a personal counterpoint to some of them. I grew up doing a lot of the typical outside kid things, but still ended up with some pretty bad allergies to grass and other pollens. That doesn't mean I don't agree with the article - I think it's fairly intuitive that a too-clean environment results in a weaker immune system. Just saying that the reverse isn't guaranteed.
While I think he may have some natural talent, douchebaggery like that takes practice.
Attitudes like this guy's are dangerous. It's the "if you don't have anything to hide why are you objecting?" and the "these guys just make the product" sentiments that just bury us deeper and deeper.
Ultimately, the government derives its mandate from the people, so they do answer to us. He's forgotten it, and so has every single politician and bureaucrat out there. Is there any way short of a violent assertion of our second-amendment rights that will remind them? Sometimes I fear there is not...
Not even a mention of WPA2, certificates (hardware/software), or any other actual security measures in there. Some decent stuff about PEBRAC errors in the beginning, and other changes that should be obvious to any netadmin with two brain cells to rub together, but TFA is really not even worth the time it takes to read.
Um, maybe it's just me, but I'd call disabling antivirus impairing the computer's operation. Yeah, sure, it's not installing a spam zombie client, but it is unlocking the door for someone who will...
Ah ha, found it.
As for getting paid...wasn't that the point? I just hope they'll continue to take care of the bandwidth bill they're causing for as long as their routers are "authorized" to hit the server. I'd guess that was one of the terms of authorization.
So instead of trying to legislate the problem out of existence, because ye gods we know how well that works, let's teach them how to be smart about looking for the information and what they do with it. Are kids these days about not giving out personally-identifying info at the same time we teach them the "strangers with candy" speech? I wouldn't know, I got through that time before this became an issue. I wonder, though, if this is an "in-between" bunch of kids, who only got the "Get in my van, little boy" training but is now coming of age in a time where the Dirty Old Men look (online) like some cool kid like them...
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Interesting thought. I've always used caffeine similarly - I take all that energy and use it to get the gears turning faster and keep myself mentally sharper, instead of getting wasting excess energy getting jittery like a lot of people do. Of course, anecdotal evidence does not a theory make, and I'm not terribly familiar with the biochemistry of caffeine. I have to wonder, though, how others use the "buzz."
So if coffee is a yes-drink...and alcohol is a yes-drink...screw pheromones. We need to start buying women coffee martinis. There's the real liquid panty remover.
I'm a SOX IT auditor...if your auditors are giving you flak about your MOTD, they're being seriously, seriously anal. SOX has nothing to do with anything so banal and unimportant as MOTDs.