Plaid or some other suitably dense air-straining cloth.
When you visit the Chinese city, you will find it very pretty. Just too things of which you must beware, Don't drink the water, and don't breathe the air!
and yet it's not exactly legal to acquire the content without purchasing the rights from the copyright holder.
Clarified that for you. Authors have been retaining copyright more and more often these last 30 years.
Publishers are given rights to copy and distribute. If they are given exclusive rights to copy and distribute, and the (copyright holder) lets you copy/distribute, the publisher then has a beef with the copyright holder, not you.
Employee wages are a priority claim in a bankruptcy, second only to Secured claims. IANAL, but they could well have been cooking their books somewhat. Had I been an employee with them, I would have taken a sharp eye to the bankruptcy court. As a creditor, you'd have that right.
OTOH, "two months from going live" might have been the same sort of readiness that Stargate: Resistance had, when it was shoved out the door bare weeks before bankruptcy was declared. IE "two months and holding".
Glad, though, to know what became of the game. Saw the ads on TV, thought it was imminent, then... nothing.
It's even stranger, in that Gary Whiting, had ANOTHER company, Garvick Properties, LLC that went bankrupt. Due to Whiting's shenanigans, "Cheyenne Mountain Games, Inc" (a subsidiary of "Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc") got dragged into the bankruptcy. As near as I can tell, that caused the subsidiary to go bankrupt too.
Meanwhile, Tim Jensen, one time president of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment got caught by the SEC trying to move assets between two OTHER companies he owned/controlled. He's the one accused of orchestrating asset transfer in THIS case, too. Apparently the courts agreed in some fashion, since they forced the return of the assets. (Jensen is also accused of "Stalling Stargate Worlds for years", but it doesn't really sound like it was ready for prime time anyway....)
The articles (as a whole) are real hazy about divisions between CM Games and CM Entertainment, which might well reflect some ambiguity on the ground.
There's a big difference between "we've got these bugs we need to work out before we ship" (that is, Beta) and "Let's rip out the game engine and replace it with this other one" (NOT Beta).
It may be a balancing act, but DNF isn't on that particular set of scales.
The ambassador said he thought it could be a demonstration that "we could do that". It could also be a demonstration by someone else, that they could do that. Demonstrations aren't so very often kept quiet. What's the point, if you don't show it?
It could also have been an accidental firing. Those are kept as quiet as possible, unless there's some propaganda you can salvage from it after the fact. I'd like to see who is scrambling downrange to find the leftover bits.
> Not the case. DoT standards for setting speed limits, in a nutshell, are to use the 85th percentile of what unregulated drivers average on the roadway. This process works because people rarely drive faster than is dangerous regardless (and/or in spite) of posted speed limits.
I suspect...... that standards vary between states.... that speed limit standards were taken from stresses on the vehicle, measured long ago and preserved in perpetuity. (IE centripetal force for a turn of this degree is X, so speed limit is Y)... where speed limits are not baked into DMV code (residential traffic speed is X, highway speed is Y, etc).... your 85% percentile comment is derived from "safe and reasonable speed" determination as described by this page. Determining a safe speed related to other traffic is not the same as observing a posted speed limit. (eg if the rest of traffic is traveling at 20mph and you're observing the speed limit of 40, you could be a hazard.)
> I live in a city and don't own a car. When I do rent one on travel I avoid freeways as much as is feasible.
Oddly enough, I do own a car, live in the suburbs, travel on freeways as much as possible, and avoid city traffic when possible. Why? Freeway traffic is, for me, more predictable, more limited, than inner city traffic. Less predictable = more anxiety. Anxiety affects performance, creating a feedback loop.
>> Keeping your speed to the legal limit, while putting you personally at greater risk, encourages others to reduce their speed.
> It isn't about your personal risk, its about the risk to all of the other cars around you. One guy hits the slowpoke and the chain reaction can easily take out 10 cars.
So... you're blaming the person obeying the posted speed limit (maximum legal speed) for the actions of the person who is not? I'm curious to see your justification.
Given the current ratio of (commerical flights hijacked) / (commercial flights total), how do you prove that it is 99.999% (or any other percent) effective, when the mean time between incidents is measured in years?
No more so than the guy behind the counter at the DMV.
Being an employee of the government does not make one a public presence.
For some references on public figures from Wikipedia, see:
* Time, Inc. v. Firestone (an example case of "not a public figure"; probably a "no, you can't manufacture public figure-dom to get away with it", too) * Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (established standard of 1st amendment vs defamation brought by private individuals; the defamed person was a police officer, court deemed he was not a public figure) * Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (prior to Gertz; media have some protections) * New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (prior to Butts; actual malice standard for public figures)
Another case where that ****** is handy is when there is a risk of your monitor signal being electronically intercepted (TEMPEST). I don't think TEMPEST works on non-CRT monitors.
If "they" have physical access to your computer, there are so many easier ways of snagging passwords that physical monitor signal interception isn't going to be a concern.
But if you have realistic concerns at this level, you might well have more to worry about from a common wrench. (A reminder that if "they" have physical access to YOU, they can get your passwords too...)
...For the subsequent seven thresholds, players will earn skill/experience points at a gradually decreasing rate, eventually reaching a rate of zero. Nobuaki Komoto
Whereas in World of Warcraft, "Rested XP" is a resource that provides entirely additional XP - on top of 'base XP' - until exhausted. That is, there is a base experience reward level.
More, the Rested XP applies to only particular kinds of experience gains, where (as near as I can tell), FFXIV fatigue affects all experience gains equally.
What is your procedure for when the tools you provide, or the repair shop you recommend, does not result in a botnet-free system? IE either the infection wasn't in the computer, or the tools did not remove it?
Honest question, not baiting you. Other replies mentioned scenarios such as routers being infected. Do your services cover "whatever it takes to free you of the infection"?
Do you have a separate service, "remedial computer security 098"? And if not, why not? If you're getting folks with recurring infections, it is a service they could use. And likely could sell.
Fuck. Another guy who doesn't like the Constitution, but is too lazy to work to fix it other than subjecting everyone around him to constant shit about it.
Tennessee has 7% sales tax, 6% on food and food ingredients. It has personal income tax only on stock dividends and interest from bonds, except for persons over 65 with incomes below a certain threshold. It also has Property taxes.
As a resident of another state that has two of three popular taxing measures (Oregon: Income, property), I can agree with Tennessee residents: You can vote in that third tax only if you utterly eliminate one of the other two.
Once you allow taxation on something, it nearly takes an act of god to stop. While I think Tennessee residents have chosen poorly (sales tax is regressive, thus not amenable to social change, IE adjusting burdens on the poor), I agree with their protests. As surely as a hammer will fall if I drop it, the politicians were proposing an income tax without dropping the sales tax.
Where he worked, there was a safety awareness/training program. As an award, for finishing the program, or for having a good safety record, was a pocket knife. Nearly every person who got one of these knives cut himself with it soon afterward....Except my father, who had been shown how (and why) to handle knives safely when he was very young.
One of my lasting memories is of my father showing me why "sticking your fingers in a fan is a bad idea" by using a small metal fan to totally destroy a carrot. You can't tell me that hands-on experience should not be given at a young age. The problem comes when the parents don't have the proper experience either. They fear the risk because they don't know it, and pass it on to their children.
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> against anyone other than the original human creator getting any control over the copyright.
Ah, my get rich quick scheme comes to fruition!
1) find work I can exploit
2) kill author of said work to free up copyright.
3) profit!
I'll make beellionz!
Only those Scots visiting Beijing on holiday...
Plaid or some other suitably dense air-straining cloth.
When you visit the Chinese city,
you will find it very pretty.
Just too things of which you must beware,
Don't drink the water, and don't breathe the air!
and yet it's not exactly legal to acquire the content without purchasing the rights from the copyright holder.
Clarified that for you. Authors have been retaining copyright more and more often these last 30 years.
Publishers are given rights to copy and distribute. If they are given exclusive rights to copy and distribute, and the (copyright holder) lets you copy/distribute, the publisher then has a beef with the copyright holder, not you.
was "Kentucky Fried Movie"...
Employee wages are a priority claim in a bankruptcy, second only to Secured claims. IANAL, but they could well have been cooking their books somewhat. Had I been an employee with them, I would have taken a sharp eye to the bankruptcy court. As a creditor, you'd have that right.
OTOH, "two months from going live" might have been the same sort of readiness that Stargate: Resistance had, when it was shoved out the door bare weeks before bankruptcy was declared. IE "two months and holding".
Glad, though, to know what became of the game. Saw the ads on TV, thought it was imminent, then ... nothing.
It's even stranger, in that Gary Whiting, had ANOTHER company, Garvick Properties, LLC that went bankrupt. Due to Whiting's shenanigans, "Cheyenne Mountain Games, Inc" (a subsidiary of "Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc") got dragged into the bankruptcy. As near as I can tell, that caused the subsidiary to go bankrupt too.
Meanwhile, Tim Jensen, one time president of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment got caught by the SEC trying to move assets between two OTHER companies he owned/controlled. He's the one accused of orchestrating asset transfer in THIS case, too. Apparently the courts agreed in some fashion, since they forced the return of the assets. (Jensen is also accused of "Stalling Stargate Worlds for years", but it doesn't really sound like it was ready for prime time anyway....)
The articles (as a whole) are real hazy about divisions between CM Games and CM Entertainment, which might well reflect some ambiguity on the ground.
There's a big difference between "we've got these bugs we need to work out before we ship" (that is, Beta) and "Let's rip out the game engine and replace it with this other one" (NOT Beta).
It may be a balancing act, but DNF isn't on that particular set of scales.
The ambassador said he thought it could be a demonstration that "we could do that". It could also be a demonstration by someone else, that they could do that. Demonstrations aren't so very often kept quiet. What's the point, if you don't show it?
It could also have been an accidental firing. Those are kept as quiet as possible, unless there's some propaganda you can salvage from it after the fact. I'd like to see who is scrambling downrange to find the leftover bits.
> Not the case. DoT standards for setting speed limits, in a nutshell, are to use the 85th percentile of what unregulated drivers average on the roadway. This process works because people rarely drive faster than is dangerous regardless (and/or in spite) of posted speed limits.
I suspect... ... that standards vary between states. ... that speed limit standards were taken from stresses on the vehicle, measured long ago and preserved in perpetuity. (IE centripetal force for a turn of this degree is X, so speed limit is Y) ... where speed limits are not baked into DMV code (residential traffic speed is X, highway speed is Y, etc). ... your 85% percentile comment is derived from "safe and reasonable speed" determination as described by this page. Determining a safe speed related to other traffic is not the same as observing a posted speed limit. (eg if the rest of traffic is traveling at 20mph and you're observing the speed limit of 40, you could be a hazard.)
> I live in a city and don't own a car. When I do rent one on travel I avoid freeways as much as is feasible.
Oddly enough, I do own a car, live in the suburbs, travel on freeways as much as possible, and avoid city traffic when possible. Why? Freeway traffic is, for me, more predictable, more limited, than inner city traffic. Less predictable = more anxiety. Anxiety affects performance, creating a feedback loop.
>> Keeping your speed to the legal limit, while putting you personally at greater risk, encourages others to reduce their speed.
> It isn't about your personal risk, its about the risk to all of the other cars around you. One guy hits the slowpoke and the chain reaction can easily take out 10 cars.
So... you're blaming the person obeying the posted speed limit (maximum legal speed) for the actions of the person who is not? I'm curious to see your justification.
> We could approach machine intelligence by lowering the standard for the Turing test.
That's one of only three options...
1) lower the standards
2) improve the machine intelligence
or 3) lower the human intelligence
Electrolytes ARE what plants crave, right? Here, let me get that program from right off the shelf here...
Given the current ratio of (commerical flights hijacked) / (commercial flights total), how do you prove that it is 99.999% (or any other percent) effective, when the mean time between incidents is measured in years?
> I have an elegant explanation for the events of 2008, but it is too long to fit in a /. comment...
I have a copy of Arithmetica that I can spare, if you'd care to use the margins...
Of course they'd be upset!
Haven't you heard of the laws about smoking in public places? Take it out 30' from the entrance! Have some consideration for the rest of us! Jeez...
> Would you berate them for ... being a firefighter too?
Only if they start causing fires in order to be "the hero who saves the people in the building"...
Okay... +1 for information, but -1 for aim. Those links are re libel suits, and in the USA.
While the case in question is defamation (libel), it's in Canada, so the whole "public figures vs libel" is under a whole different set of laws.
Still, the Gertz case does show that "police officer != public figure" (in the USA), in response to the actual question asked.
No more so than the guy behind the counter at the DMV.
Being an employee of the government does not make one a public presence.
For some references on public figures from Wikipedia, see:
* Time, Inc. v. Firestone (an example case of "not a public figure"; probably a "no, you can't manufacture public figure-dom to get away with it", too)
* Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (established standard of 1st amendment vs defamation brought by private individuals; the defamed person was a police officer, court deemed he was not a public figure)
* Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (prior to Gertz; media have some protections)
* New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (prior to Butts; actual malice standard for public figures)
January 1, 1970 UTC is when the UNIX singularity happened.
Other singularities:
MS DOS - January 1, 1980
AmigaOS - January 1, 1978
Microsoft Excel - January 0, 1900 (That was a red-letter day, for sure!)
OLE automation - midnight, 30 December 1899
Win32 - January 1, 1601
We're already in a post-singularity world, folks. Nothing to fear from the Mayan calendar that we haven't faced before.
Another case where that ****** is handy is when there is a risk of your monitor signal being electronically intercepted (TEMPEST). I don't think TEMPEST works on non-CRT monitors.
If "they" have physical access to your computer, there are so many easier ways of snagging passwords that physical monitor signal interception isn't going to be a concern.
But if you have realistic concerns at this level, you might well have more to worry about from a common wrench. (A reminder that if "they" have physical access to YOU, they can get your passwords too...)
... did the joke work, despite errors in details? Then, are the details important?
Not true.
...For the subsequent seven thresholds, players will earn skill/experience points at a gradually decreasing rate, eventually reaching a rate of zero. Nobuaki Komoto
Whereas in World of Warcraft, "Rested XP" is a resource that provides entirely additional XP - on top of 'base XP' - until exhausted. That is, there is a base experience reward level.
More, the Rested XP applies to only particular kinds of experience gains, where (as near as I can tell), FFXIV fatigue affects all experience gains equally.
Strangely enough, whether someone is my friend or not does not hinge on the status of a web site.
What is your procedure for when the tools you provide, or the repair shop you recommend, does not result in a botnet-free system? IE either the infection wasn't in the computer, or the tools did not remove it?
Honest question, not baiting you. Other replies mentioned scenarios such as routers being infected. Do your services cover "whatever it takes to free you of the infection"?
Do you have a separate service, "remedial computer security 098"? And if not, why not? If you're getting folks with recurring infections, it is a service they could use. And likely could sell.
Fuck. Another guy who doesn't like the Constitution, but is too lazy to work to fix it other than subjecting everyone around him to constant shit about it.
FTFY. Moving somewhere else doesn't fix broken government.
Tennessee has 7% sales tax, 6% on food and food ingredients. It has personal income tax only on stock dividends and interest from bonds, except for persons over 65 with incomes below a certain threshold. It also has Property taxes.
As a resident of another state that has two of three popular taxing measures (Oregon: Income, property), I can agree with Tennessee residents: You can vote in that third tax only if you utterly eliminate one of the other two.
Once you allow taxation on something, it nearly takes an act of god to stop. While I think Tennessee residents have chosen poorly (sales tax is regressive, thus not amenable to social change, IE adjusting burdens on the poor), I agree with their protests. As surely as a hammer will fall if I drop it, the politicians were proposing an income tax without dropping the sales tax.
An anecdote my father tells...
Where he worked, there was a safety awareness/training program. As an award, for finishing the program, or for having a good safety record, was a pocket knife. Nearly every person who got one of these knives cut himself with it soon afterward. ...Except my father, who had been shown how (and why) to handle knives safely when he was very young.
One of my lasting memories is of my father showing me why "sticking your fingers in a fan is a bad idea" by using a small metal fan to totally destroy a carrot. You can't tell me that hands-on experience should not be given at a young age. The problem comes when the parents don't have the proper experience either. They fear the risk because they don't know it, and pass it on to their children.