The authorities won't do anything to offending script kiddies unless you can show a certain dollar amount of damages. Most admins probably don't bother calling the feds because they know the feds won't do a thing.
I checked out NewEgg. Their prices on video cards blow--I paid $5 more for my Leadtek GeForce 2 MX card six months ago than NewEgg is advertising it for now.
I don't feel particularly inclined to look at their prices on other hardware.
1. Qwest sucks.
2. MSN sucks (see dslreports.com).
3. Qwest phone monkeys don't know what they're doing.
These are, for the most part, undisputed opinions. That doesn't change the fact that Qwest has no obligation to point you to their partner's competition. Informed consumers do their own research.
I can't stress this enough: Qwest sucks. They are the single worst company I've ever dealt with. I'm still fighting with them over charges for the 678 router I received 3 months after I was supposed to. I've gotten so many credits over their fuckups that *they're* paying *me* $20 for two routers, one of which was mistakenly sent to me by the incompetent morons in the warehouse. They also like to tell people there's an "outage" in the area when the lazy techs don't feel like looking into problems.
Qwest might suck, but they have never once pressured me into signing up for MSN over my current local ISP. Even better, they never even *suggested* MSN to me as an alternative. So while I'd like to see Qwest slammed, there are much better things to slam them for than this.
"Where are all these zillions of states hiding in a black hole?" says Mottola.
Let's hope their paper doesn't include words like "zillions." Also:
But if gravastars can weather the controversy, then maybe there'll no longer be any need for black holes -- maybe they really are pure fantasy. It wouldn't be the first time that Einstein's dazzling intuition has been proved correct.
It also wouldn't be the first time his dazzling intuition has been proved wrong. Remember, Einstein didn't believe quantum mechanics was possible (at first, anyway).
I can just imagine China's leadership: "Oh, those sly Americans are still up to their clever tricks. Now who's the dead man who fucked up and let it happen?"
From what I understand of Chinese culture, America has lost face and now looks incredibly stupid due to being caught; their own people will probably get medals for discovering the bugs.
Quoting from the Legalese: "you may not attempt to separate the Player or Content from the CD on which you received them."
They wish. The existing (and still valid) fair use laws let you do whatever you want with the content as long as it's not prohibited by law. Since Universal hasn't bought a large enough portion of politicians to affect the law yet, their legalese is just so much hot air.
The one show I watched this season--the second one with Lucy Lawless, apparently--was full of shoddy writing, internal inconsistencies and outright defiance of basic logic. Also bad acting by everyone except Lawless and the actor who took Mulder's place.
My wife asked me why I don't watch it anymore, given that I used to record every episode. This is why: the writers have stopped caring.
Our arguments have always been based on the fact that M$ windoze is a bloated hacker haven.
I know plenty of bloated hackers who run linux.
Worse than that, what if ole Billy also decides to make it a lot faster? What if the deepest pockets in the world turn to actually making windows a decent OS?
Then I'd start using it. Linux is best suited for servers. That may change in the near future, but for now Windows has the desktop market and isn't going anywhere soon. If MS actually does manage to improve Windows security and stability, the end-users can only benefit.
My guess is that it would depend on the size of the program. Since coding is like writing an essay, there are probably as many ways to code a program as there are of writing about, say, European history; two different papers will have many of the same elements, but should differ in style.
My syllabus specifies that if the student cannot solve a problem on an exam that (s)he has solved successfully on a project, that project will be assumed to have been plagiarized.
Congratulations on nailing a lot of innocent students with that one.
In my college programming courses I always learned just enough about the commands and functions to get a project done, then promptly forgot what I'd learned, only to relearn it when cramming for exams. The thing about cramming, though, is that you usually can't relearn everything.
Pay Napster is destined to fail miserably, just as the RIAA plans.
People will refuse to pay for this; not because of a refusal to pay for content, but a refusal to pay for such limited, proprietary content. That won't stop the RIAA from pointing to the failed pay Napster business model and claiming it supports their claims that only music "pirates" used Napster.
Then they'll jack up CD prices a little more. All in a day's work.
The sole purpose of the Lindows project, if you admit it or not, is to steal people for the Microsoft user base, with the hopes of confusing some of them.
On the one hand, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. On the other hand, we *are* talking about your average Windows user.
Most normal people, however, have no problem distinguishing between "Windows" and "LindowsOS" or their respective logos.
The page doesn't say when the next stable version is due out (at least, not that I can find after a quick once-over). It's been, what, three whole weeks since the last one? I'm used to the "once a week" releases.
On the plus side, that must mean 2.4.17 is somewhat stable.:)
You (not *you* personally, I'm not one to judge) could use it to compensate for a small penis. At least I assume that's why people buy these gas-guzzling atrocities.
MS doesn't need a warehouse. Go into any department store, electronics/computer specialty store, or toy store and you will see the many units that MS has already built and paid for.
Yes, they will slow production if no one buys the units already there. They will still be out the initial money regardless (and probably pump even more money into marketing to try to sell the existing XBoxes).
For your scheme to work, people would have to buy up *every* XBox out there, forcing MS to build more, then buy those as well. There is a lower limit to the number of units that have to be sold before MS starts losing more money than they would if no one bought one of the many, many units already produced. The math is actually very easy for most people to understand.
"If you ban me from this type of medium, you have severely limited my ability to enter into the marketplace," said Jerry Cerasale of the Direct Marketing Association.
Here's the punchline:
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Since he considers spam a legitimate business practice, make sure you forward all your "HOT WET PUSSY!" emails to him so he doesn't miss out on any great deals.
They've already paid for the boxes. Let's make this simple for you (using simple numbers, even):
MS pays $100 to produce an XBox which retails for $75. Two things can happen: 1.) You buy the box, giving MS $75--net loss to MS=$25. 2.) You don't buy the box, giving MS $0--net loss to MS=$100.
Either that or I missed the marketing class which discussed how a company would lose more money if people bought its products than if they didn't.
Even better, don't buy any. MS has already spent the money to produce XBoxes--if you buy one, you're just helping them recoup some of that cost. By not buying one, they're still out the total cost. Which brings us to: "Total Cost of Ownership" for MS. Got to be in the millions.
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I don't feel particularly inclined to look at their prices on other hardware.
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1. Qwest sucks.
2. MSN sucks (see dslreports.com).
3. Qwest phone monkeys don't know what they're doing.
These are, for the most part, undisputed opinions. That doesn't change the fact that Qwest has no obligation to point you to their partner's competition. Informed consumers do their own research.
I can't stress this enough: Qwest sucks. They are the single worst company I've ever dealt with. I'm still fighting with them over charges for the 678 router I received 3 months after I was supposed to. I've gotten so many credits over their fuckups that *they're* paying *me* $20 for two routers, one of which was mistakenly sent to me by the incompetent morons in the warehouse. They also like to tell people there's an "outage" in the area when the lazy techs don't feel like looking into problems.
Qwest might suck, but they have never once pressured me into signing up for MSN over my current local ISP. Even better, they never even *suggested* MSN to me as an alternative. So while I'd like to see Qwest slammed, there are much better things to slam them for than this.
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Let's hope their paper doesn't include words like "zillions." Also:
But if gravastars can weather the controversy, then maybe there'll no longer be any need for black holes -- maybe they really are pure fantasy. It wouldn't be the first time that Einstein's dazzling intuition has been proved correct.
It also wouldn't be the first time his dazzling intuition has been proved wrong. Remember, Einstein didn't believe quantum mechanics was possible (at first, anyway).
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From what I understand of Chinese culture, America has lost face and now looks incredibly stupid due to being caught; their own people will probably get medals for discovering the bugs.
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"you may not attempt to separate the Player or Content from the CD on which you received them."
They wish. The existing (and still valid) fair use laws let you do whatever you want with the content as long as it's not prohibited by law. Since Universal hasn't bought a large enough portion of politicians to affect the law yet, their legalese is just so much hot air.
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My wife asked me why I don't watch it anymore, given that I used to record every episode. This is why: the writers have stopped caring.
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I know plenty of bloated hackers who run linux.
Worse than that, what if ole Billy also decides to make it a lot faster? What if the deepest pockets in the world turn to actually making windows a decent OS?
Then I'd start using it. Linux is best suited for servers. That may change in the near future, but for now Windows has the desktop market and isn't going anywhere soon. If MS actually does manage to improve Windows security and stability, the end-users can only benefit.
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It's about fucking time.
In other news, why does this story have a Borg logo on it instead of the Monty Python foot?
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Congratulations on nailing a lot of innocent students with that one.
In my college programming courses I always learned just enough about the commands and functions to get a project done, then promptly forgot what I'd learned, only to relearn it when cramming for exams. The thing about cramming, though, is that you usually can't relearn everything.
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People will refuse to pay for this; not because of a refusal to pay for content, but a refusal to pay for such limited, proprietary content. That won't stop the RIAA from pointing to the failed pay Napster business model and claiming it supports their claims that only music "pirates" used Napster.
Then they'll jack up CD prices a little more. All in a day's work.
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RIAA/Napster: the pimp-daddies of the music world.
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On the one hand, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. On the other hand, we *are* talking about your average Windows user.
Most normal people, however, have no problem distinguishing between "Windows" and "LindowsOS" or their respective logos.
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On the plus side, that must mean 2.4.17 is somewhat stable. :)
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Yes, they will slow production if no one buys the units already there. They will still be out the initial money regardless (and probably pump even more money into marketing to try to sell the existing XBoxes).
For your scheme to work, people would have to buy up *every* XBox out there, forcing MS to build more, then buy those as well. There is a lower limit to the number of units that have to be sold before MS starts losing more money than they would if no one bought one of the many, many units already produced. The math is actually very easy for most people to understand.
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"If you ban me from this type of medium, you have severely limited my ability to enter into the marketplace," said Jerry Cerasale of the Direct Marketing Association.
Here's the punchline:
Jerry Cerasale
Direct Marketing Association
Washington Office
1111 19th St NW
Washington, DC 20036
UNITED STATES
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fax: (202)955-0085
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Since he considers spam a legitimate business practice, make sure you forward all your "HOT WET PUSSY!" emails to him so he doesn't miss out on any great deals.
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MS pays $100 to produce an XBox which retails for $75. Two things can happen: 1.) You buy the box, giving MS $75--net loss to MS=$25. 2.) You don't buy the box, giving MS $0--net loss to MS=$100.
Either that or I missed the marketing class which discussed how a company would lose more money if people bought its products than if they didn't.
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Qwest's cheapest 256/640 DSL rate used to be $19.95 per month in Colorado, but it's gone up by about five bucks since then.
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"I sprained my eyes, your honor. That's right, the eyes were sprained."
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