As a participant in a forum or message board, if you see something "offensive" - IGNORE IT - DO NOT REPLY. If you are the owner of a message board and you are not willing to accept posts that you don't like, then DO NOT RUN A PUBLICLY ACCESABLE MESSAGE BOARD.
It's that simple. Period.
No it isn't. As someone with a public guestbook myself, I know the difference between something "offensive" and something "abusive." When someone posts the same idiotic joke hundreds of times in a row, I delete them all. You go ahead and ignore messageboard abuse and see how fast your board fails.
I'm glad "Luck of the Fryrish" was nominated for best writing. I was stunned by the depth and power of that episode, something you don't expect in a cartoon.
The plaintiffs are not "manufacturing", according to the judge; nor are they offering their code for sale. The judge segues to what he sees as deficiencies in the plaintiff's legal complaint - they did not assert they planned to fully violate the criminal sections of the DMCA, mainly their assertions were that the Act is unclear and vague. Finally he closes - the plaintiffs must have an "objectively reasonable fear" of prosecution in order for the required legal conflict to exist, and the judge sees no such objectively reasonable fear.
I guess he missed that whole DeCSS thing.
With this ruling there seems to be a precedent for making DeCSS available again without fear of being legally assraped by the RIAA. Are there any legal-types who want to speculate on this?
Of course good movies can be rated PG. Great movies, on the other hand, tend to deal with life, and life is frequently R-rated. Could Schindler's List have been a PG movie? The network that aired it on television didn't think so.
I don't know about that...after reading your post I ground up the OS X 10.1 CD and tried to smoke it. Let me tell you, that shit is *nasty*, and all I got for my trouble was severe nausea.
I'll bet they do hire people like him. Hell, I'd work there if I could. Can you imagine the typical day of a "Content Control Coordinator"?
CCC1: "Dude, they want us to come up with something stronger."
CCC2: "Shit, haven't they got it through their thick skulls yet? It won't work."
CCC1: "Let's tell them we need to spend more to come up with an effective system."
CCC2: "Cool, time to buy some more Nerf guns!"
CCC1 & CCC2 (unison): "Man, I love this job."
People buying an XBOX get a gaming PC replacement with titles optimized for that exact hardware config, instead of spending twice as much on a PC and hoping their hardware will work with the games they'll want to buy for the next two years.
Not too long ago I finished Max Payne on my 4-year-old PII 350 with a 3-year-old video card (Voodoo 2). I didn't have every last lens flare effect in play, but I still enjoyed the game.
As for console wars...I'll consider a GC if Silent Hill 2 is going to be released for it...that's the only reason I want a PS2.
Something else you can do is hang onto old credit cards (expired, or if you've canceled them). Then when Joe Minimumwage at the video store demands a CC number he can write down on your application form and leave in plain sight, you can give him a number that isn't going to cause you any major headaches down the road.
Yes, voting off someone who you KNEW was the strongest would be insanely stupid...but we all knew that my vote wouldn't count for anything, since I was doomed, anyway.
First of all, congratulations on being part of a record-winning WL team. Anne said things like "...a paltry $23,000 in the first round" even though Sunday night's team had something like $7,000 at the end of round 3.
How often do you watch the show? Voting off the strongest link in the late stages is actually a good strategy in game theory (if you're playing to win); I've seen many shows where the two weaker contestants did just that.
And now that you're on this thread, I'd like to ask a few questions about the show, if you don't mind: What is Anne like when the cameras aren't rolling? What's the deal with the $500 amount (You can't bank when it's on $1,000, but $500 is added every so often at the end of a round)? Do you know why no other original series members played?
When Roxann left the stage, there was a close shot of her blowing a kiss and mouthing, "I love you." If that was in your direction (as it seemed to be), then why is she saying you were rude and "coming on to" her? I would have dismissed it as an act if I hadn't seen her poor acting skills on the few Voyager episodes I could stomach and if I hadn't seen Slashdot posts to the effect that you wanted to apologize to her.
Someone also mentioned that you were shocked when a producer called you arrogant. If you were acting arrogant for the show--and my wife says you seemed fairly humble on the Diary-L list a while back, so I tend to believe her--then people who are seeing you for the first time (like me) are going to think you're arrogant, even if people who know you know different.
When Wil voted for Robert, it was a choice between him or Levar... and Levar actually won, remember?
Yes. But I'm assuming Wil can't predict the future, and Robert was "stronger" up til then. He tried to vote off the strongest link at that point.
Not very far. He seemed pretty flustered on the round he got kicked out (and the round previous, to a lesser extent), but when he was keeping his cool he did quite well. He finished third out of 8 contestants, and if I were trying to rank by "IQ" that's probably about where he'd fall as well.
Finishing third doesn't mean he was the third smartest person on the team, only that he wasn't voted off. In contrast, I've seen a few shows where the two overall dumbest people ended up in the final round (in one episode, the "strongest" link stumbled onto a right answer and won 1-0).
Moderators: does my parent article *really* deserve a +4? Come on, now.
The problem with WL is that the brightest out of the bunch almost never wins. By logic, when it gets down to the last 3 or 4, it's in the best interests of the other players to vote out the player who is clearly the strongest.
Just like Wil tried to vote off Robert, the brightest of the bunch.
Well, my point was that if the unmount bug was the only thing wrong with 2.4.15, I may as well keep running it until I'm fairly sure there are no major flaws in 2.4.16. Since I'll hit the bug on reboot anyway, there's absolutely no incentive for me to switch kernels yet.
I'm running 2.4.15. I haven't rebooted since the boot that brought me into 2.4.15, and my disks haven't been unmounted (except for the FAT32 drives; I have a script that unmounts them and remounts RO before running vmware, but this bug shouldn't affect those drives). Since I'll hit this bug when I reboot, I think I'll compile the 2.4.16 kernel but sit on a reboot until a couple of weeks go by to make sure there are no problems....
Does anyone still trust the PGP implementation released by McAffee? If the veiled warning by Phillip Zimmerman wasn't enough to raise concern
What veiled warning? All I can find is this:
"Let me assure all PGP users that all versions of PGP produced by NAI,
and PGP Security, a division of NAI, up to and including the current
(January 2001) release, PGP 7.0.3, are free of back doors."
Although the source to 6.5.8 is nice. If NAI ever decides to release source for newer versions of PGP, I'll be happy to use them when the community pronounces them clean.
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It's that simple. Period.
No it isn't. As someone with a public guestbook myself, I know the difference between something "offensive" and something "abusive." When someone posts the same idiotic joke hundreds of times in a row, I delete them all. You go ahead and ignore messageboard abuse and see how fast your board fails.
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Oops...yep, thanks for pointing that out.
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Moderators: read the parent and this again if you think this is offtopic.
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Where can I get ahold of the home addresses of the [RI,MP]AA's legal team?
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I guess he missed that whole DeCSS thing.
With this ruling there seems to be a precedent for making DeCSS available again without fear of being legally assraped by the RIAA. Are there any legal-types who want to speculate on this?
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CCC1: "Dude, they want us to come up with something stronger."
CCC2: "Shit, haven't they got it through their thick skulls yet? It won't work."
CCC1: "Let's tell them we need to spend more to come up with an effective system."
CCC2: "Cool, time to buy some more Nerf guns!"
CCC1 & CCC2 (unison): "Man, I love this job."
-Legion
Not too long ago I finished Max Payne on my 4-year-old PII 350 with a 3-year-old video card (Voodoo 2). I didn't have every last lens flare effect in play, but I still enjoyed the game.
As for console wars...I'll consider a GC if Silent Hill 2 is going to be released for it...that's the only reason I want a PS2.
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First of all, congratulations on being part of a record-winning WL team. Anne said things like "...a paltry $23,000 in the first round" even though Sunday night's team had something like $7,000 at the end of round 3.
How often do you watch the show? Voting off the strongest link in the late stages is actually a good strategy in game theory (if you're playing to win); I've seen many shows where the two weaker contestants did just that.
And now that you're on this thread, I'd like to ask a few questions about the show, if you don't mind: What is Anne like when the cameras aren't rolling? What's the deal with the $500 amount (You can't bank when it's on $1,000, but $500 is added every so often at the end of a round)? Do you know why no other original series members played?
When Roxann left the stage, there was a close shot of her blowing a kiss and mouthing, "I love you." If that was in your direction (as it seemed to be), then why is she saying you were rude and "coming on to" her? I would have dismissed it as an act if I hadn't seen her poor acting skills on the few Voyager episodes I could stomach and if I hadn't seen Slashdot posts to the effect that you wanted to apologize to her.
Someone also mentioned that you were shocked when a producer called you arrogant. If you were acting arrogant for the show--and my wife says you seemed fairly humble on the Diary-L list a while back, so I tend to believe her--then people who are seeing you for the first time (like me) are going to think you're arrogant, even if people who know you know different.
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Yes. But I'm assuming Wil can't predict the future, and Robert was "stronger" up til then. He tried to vote off the strongest link at that point.
Not very far. He seemed pretty flustered on the round he got kicked out (and the round previous, to a lesser extent), but when he was keeping his cool he did quite well. He finished third out of 8 contestants, and if I were trying to rank by "IQ" that's probably about where he'd fall as well.
Finishing third doesn't mean he was the third smartest person on the team, only that he wasn't voted off. In contrast, I've seen a few shows where the two overall dumbest people ended up in the final round (in one episode, the "strongest" link stumbled onto a right answer and won 1-0).
Moderators: does my parent article *really* deserve a +4? Come on, now.
-Legion
Just like Wil tried to vote off Robert, the brightest of the bunch.
Wil was far from the smartest contestant.
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(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Then watch the fraudulent charges fly when the person who was sniffing cleartext HTTP traffic gets it in his logs.
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You guys beta test and let me know, OK? :P
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Heh.
1.) The moon is not a planet
2.) The universe was not "put here."
Natural resources are there to be used. Since there is nothing on the moon to destroy, perhaps you should worry about earth's rainforests instead.
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What veiled warning? All I can find is this:
"Let me assure all PGP users that all versions of PGP produced by NAI, and PGP Security, a division of NAI, up to and including the current (January 2001) release, PGP 7.0.3, are free of back doors."
Although the source to 6.5.8 is nice. If NAI ever decides to release source for newer versions of PGP, I'll be happy to use them when the community pronounces them clean.
-Legion