I'm surprised that noone has thought of the seemingly obvious reason as to HOW they found it. Here's what I think happened:
Guys are installing drive... need files to test drive. Don't want to just throw the shortcuts on the desktop on the disk to test it, since they actually want a full burn. Guys know that video files are big.
Guys then go to Start - Search - for files and folders. Guys search for *.mpg or *.avi. Thumbnails for bunch of child porn videos come up. Guys call police.
In that situation, they're not hunting through his 'my documents', but using the search tool for one or two big files instead of dragging half of the 'program files' folder to the burner.
I had thought of that, but only after I had posted. A creature that's living a full 1/3rd of it's lifespan in addition to it's regular lifespan has GOT to be at least a bit visibly different than say... the usual 200-year old type.
I may be mistaken, and it may well be nigh-identical to every other one out there... but if the shell alone can tell you how old it is, surely they must have a 'quick-test' to at least give you a ballpark age that leaves it alive, before you go and smash it with a hammer. It's like seeing a psychotically massive redwood tree. The first thought that would come to MY mind wouldn't be to hack it down to find it's age. Perhaps run a few tests if something looks unusual about it.
That's what I was thinking. Like... what was going through their mind?!?
Scientist 1: Look at this... the oldest known living creature on earth. Scientist 2: Let's kill it. Scientist 1: Agreed.
I mean seriously... they couldn't wait until it died naturally? Or failing that... with all of the scanning technologies available nowadays, they weren't able to look at it's shell without killing it? Or take a tiny sliver of said shell?
I'm probably just not understanding the methods required to find it's age... but seriously, if I were to find the oldest known living creature in existance, I'd probably create an artificial home identical to where it was and leave it there for however many generations it takes for it to die naturally.
Yeah, after reading the summary, I was thining "Ok... the smallest sentence in the summary is about the article, and the longest one is about Deep Blue, which is COMPLETELY irrelevant right now.
What, is it suddenly though thtat slashdotters have no clue who Kasparov is without referencing Deep Blue?
Whup... better reference Linux somehow in this post... otherwise noone will have the slightest clue what the hell I'm talking about...
Problem with THAT is that a lot of bosses also believe "a complaining employee who's wanting to make his own rules is a replaceable employee". So you damn well better be sure if your boss is that type or not, otherwise you could find yourself scraping your savings together while hunting through the want-ads.
You can listen to the music here. And going off CNN's picture of the cover of the book, which shows the notes, they don't look particularily well lined up, with things kinda offset this way or that way a little bit. Looks like they definitely had a margin of error they were working with.
I can't see how it's more secure. I'm sure many, many passwords will just be some random part of the background, like the bird or a tree, just coloured in.
Also... if we're so much better at remembering images, then one just has to glance at the screen someone is drawing on and then whoops... looks like they remember it too now.
The amusing part is that because this has been posted on Slashdot, their sales are probably going to go up at least a bit due to people now wanting to get it to see just how truly bad it really is. Not from this wallet though... I have better things to spend money on:P.
Right, because murderers are known to constantly plead 'guilty', and in no way, shape, or form try to deny it in the slightest.
If she was framed and actually is innocent, that sucks and all. Unfortunately, the judicial system is all that we've got, and if that system thought she wasn't framed, there's not much that can be done. Perhaps after this many years, I could see them reaching a middle-ground of sorts, in that there be a second hearing. With new technologies and techniques... if she is still found to be guilty, back in the slammer. If she DOES turn out to be innocent, then the system can pay her whatever they pay for someone unjustly imprisoned for several years.
It'd be win-win. On one side... murderer goes back to jail. On the other side, if she's innocent, she gets compensation. The system can't afford to start making exceptions when a guilty person escapes prison and they just decide... eh... let 'em go. When you get to that point, you might as well just do away with the entire judicial system. Either everyone who escapes prison is thrown back in when caught, or you'll have a MASSIVE grey-zone of people pleading that they should be 'left free' after they escape.
And there WOULD be a ton more escape attempts if it became known that the system will just let people stay free.
Yeah, with my webcomic, a fan made a wikipedia article for it... pretty thorough, and it stayed up for about a month. Someone marked it for deletion. There were about 3 votes for deleting it... from people who admitted that they had never read the webcomic before... and tons of votes to keep it.
It of course got deleted.
From what I see of it, of the thousands of webcomics out there... if yours is one that the tiny admin population does NOT read, you might as well just delete the fan-made article yourself.
If this ends up being a valid way to argue against getting a speeding ticket, the next step I see will be people speeding like hell, and then hacking their car's GPS records to show they were going at the speed limit.
Ok... I'm pretty sure that the comic Ubersoft is blatantly mocking Microsoft... but with this, it seems like Microsoft is trying to become MORE like how they're projected in that comic.
I don't know whether that's funny, disturbing, or just plain sad.
I'm going to guess it's about 2 minutes after it goes on commercial sale before some idiot tries to drive in ASCII. Depth-perception and visibility? Pfft... secondary to being able to see ASCII cars zip by:P
Still, I'd love a pair. Added difficulty to any video game by way of filtering the hell out of it:P
It was posted above that his 'flight plan' was 'look for dry lake beds that he could set a land-speed record at'. If his destination was the same as where he took off... IF that's even the case... it's really not all that useful when he's just flying around looking for flat areas.
Their first place to look would be close to any dry river beds. If he was planning to look for them, it's possible he may have crashed near one.
What came to mind with your comment of "People have figured out chords to songs", it makes me wonder about games like "Guitar Hero". Is the RIAA going to go after THAT next?
I don't think they'd be using the things you downloaded from the site itself against you. If the "helpful" software it peddles to speed up downloads searches your hard drive for all other media, that's probably a bit of a bigger worry.
Given his complete disregard for safety, I could care less if he impales himself. I'd be more concerned of the blades breaking off and slicing through the air towards some poor bastards out for a walk in the area. Maybe if he finds himself with only one lung or a colostomy bag, he might thing twice before making some dumbass murdercycle again:P
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I'm surprised that noone has thought of the seemingly obvious reason as to HOW they found it. Here's what I think happened:
Guys are installing drive... need files to test drive. Don't want to just throw the shortcuts on the desktop on the disk to test it, since they actually want a full burn. Guys know that video files are big.
Guys then go to Start - Search - for files and folders. Guys search for *.mpg or *.avi. Thumbnails for bunch of child porn videos come up. Guys call police.
In that situation, they're not hunting through his 'my documents', but using the search tool for one or two big files instead of dragging half of the 'program files' folder to the burner.
Should CBS decide to simply not renew the domain... the very first thing to fill it will be a domain-name squatter page jammed with ads and spyware.
I had thought of that, but only after I had posted. A creature that's living a full 1/3rd of it's lifespan in addition to it's regular lifespan has GOT to be at least a bit visibly different than say... the usual 200-year old type.
I may be mistaken, and it may well be nigh-identical to every other one out there... but if the shell alone can tell you how old it is, surely they must have a 'quick-test' to at least give you a ballpark age that leaves it alive, before you go and smash it with a hammer. It's like seeing a psychotically massive redwood tree. The first thought that would come to MY mind wouldn't be to hack it down to find it's age. Perhaps run a few tests if something looks unusual about it.
That's what I was thinking. Like... what was going through their mind?!?
Scientist 1: Look at this... the oldest known living creature on earth.
Scientist 2: Let's kill it.
Scientist 1: Agreed.
I mean seriously... they couldn't wait until it died naturally? Or failing that... with all of the scanning technologies available nowadays, they weren't able to look at it's shell without killing it? Or take a tiny sliver of said shell?
I'm probably just not understanding the methods required to find it's age... but seriously, if I were to find the oldest known living creature in existance, I'd probably create an artificial home identical to where it was and leave it there for however many generations it takes for it to die naturally.
And this just goes to show that in order to win an election over there, you need to be even MORE corrupt than anyone else in previous elections.
Yeah, after reading the summary, I was thining "Ok... the smallest sentence in the summary is about the article, and the longest one is about Deep Blue, which is COMPLETELY irrelevant right now.
What, is it suddenly though thtat slashdotters have no clue who Kasparov is without referencing Deep Blue?
Whup... better reference Linux somehow in this post... otherwise noone will have the slightest clue what the hell I'm talking about...
Problem with THAT is that a lot of bosses also believe "a complaining employee who's wanting to make his own rules is a replaceable employee". So you damn well better be sure if your boss is that type or not, otherwise you could find yourself scraping your savings together while hunting through the want-ads.
As opposed to first-person shooters, which are TOTALLY new and not copying anything from previous games.
You can listen to the music here. And going off CNN's picture of the cover of the book, which shows the notes, they don't look particularily well lined up, with things kinda offset this way or that way a little bit. Looks like they definitely had a margin of error they were working with.
I can't see how it's more secure. I'm sure many, many passwords will just be some random part of the background, like the bird or a tree, just coloured in.
Also... if we're so much better at remembering images, then one just has to glance at the screen someone is drawing on and then whoops... looks like they remember it too now.
The amusing part is that because this has been posted on Slashdot, their sales are probably going to go up at least a bit due to people now wanting to get it to see just how truly bad it really is. Not from this wallet though... I have better things to spend money on :P.
Right, because murderers are known to constantly plead 'guilty', and in no way, shape, or form try to deny it in the slightest.
If she was framed and actually is innocent, that sucks and all. Unfortunately, the judicial system is all that we've got, and if that system thought she wasn't framed, there's not much that can be done. Perhaps after this many years, I could see them reaching a middle-ground of sorts, in that there be a second hearing. With new technologies and techniques... if she is still found to be guilty, back in the slammer. If she DOES turn out to be innocent, then the system can pay her whatever they pay for someone unjustly imprisoned for several years.
It'd be win-win. On one side... murderer goes back to jail. On the other side, if she's innocent, she gets compensation. The system can't afford to start making exceptions when a guilty person escapes prison and they just decide... eh... let 'em go. When you get to that point, you might as well just do away with the entire judicial system. Either everyone who escapes prison is thrown back in when caught, or you'll have a MASSIVE grey-zone of people pleading that they should be 'left free' after they escape.
And there WOULD be a ton more escape attempts if it became known that the system will just let people stay free.
Yeah, with my webcomic, a fan made a wikipedia article for it... pretty thorough, and it stayed up for about a month. Someone marked it for deletion. There were about 3 votes for deleting it... from people who admitted that they had never read the webcomic before... and tons of votes to keep it.
It of course got deleted.
From what I see of it, of the thousands of webcomics out there... if yours is one that the tiny admin population does NOT read, you might as well just delete the fan-made article yourself.
If this ends up being a valid way to argue against getting a speeding ticket, the next step I see will be people speeding like hell, and then hacking their car's GPS records to show they were going at the speed limit.
So wait... working for Fox News is supposed to increase her support?
Yes, but if I'm not mistaken, that can be easily disabled.
Ok... I'm pretty sure that the comic Ubersoft is blatantly mocking Microsoft... but with this, it seems like Microsoft is trying to become MORE like how they're projected in that comic. I don't know whether that's funny, disturbing, or just plain sad.
I'm going to guess it's about 2 minutes after it goes on commercial sale before some idiot tries to drive in ASCII. Depth-perception and visibility? Pfft... secondary to being able to see ASCII cars zip by :P
:P
Still, I'd love a pair. Added difficulty to any video game by way of filtering the hell out of it
It was posted above that his 'flight plan' was 'look for dry lake beds that he could set a land-speed record at'. If his destination was the same as where he took off... IF that's even the case... it's really not all that useful when he's just flying around looking for flat areas.
Their first place to look would be close to any dry river beds. If he was planning to look for them, it's possible he may have crashed near one.
I don't know if it can be called a 'higher plan' unless he was buried on a hill :P
Bah, unless all of that was brought about by the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly goodness, it's meaningless :P
Just when you thought that there was no way to heal a broken heart...
What came to mind with your comment of "People have figured out chords to songs", it makes me wonder about games like "Guitar Hero". Is the RIAA going to go after THAT next?
I don't think they'd be using the things you downloaded from the site itself against you. If the "helpful" software it peddles to speed up downloads searches your hard drive for all other media, that's probably a bit of a bigger worry.
Given his complete disregard for safety, I could care less if he impales himself. I'd be more concerned of the blades breaking off and slicing through the air towards some poor bastards out for a walk in the area. Maybe if he finds himself with only one lung or a colostomy bag, he might thing twice before making some dumbass murdercycle again :P