punished in proportion to the economic damage inflicted
One could then say that killing a poor and elderly man is a much lesser crime than killing a young doctor fresh out of med school. This might be one reason we like to avoid the price tags.
That was my first reaction though, when I saw the headline. I wondered, "So, I suppose they're suing them then?" Geeze, thanks **AA, I'm expecting litigation everywhere these days.
I know you're being funny, but that might be a seriously good idea. Dump a whole lot of paper in their offices. Send a letter as you would normally, describing your grief and then, as examples, give hardcopies of every spam you've received in the past week.
He has said that the newspapers are invited to ask Google, and that he has sent an email to Google telling them about the whole thing, with permission to release the numbers if asked. Doesn't sound like he's got anything to blush about.
Ah, having lots to say about it is always enough justification to take plenty of liberty with whatever subject-matter. I guess that's why history books tend to be so long. It's all about the word count, don't worry if it's rubbish.:)
Wireless eh? I can see it now, the next big geek sport will be drive-by pr0ning. You'll be having a nice dinner with the family, who are admiring the majestic mountain view you snapped on your last holiday, when suddenly, two very different 'mountains' appear, accompanied by the screech of car tires outside.:)
Well, TFA has it listed at number 2. Here's the text if you couldn't get that far:
Programmable proto-Playstations Never forget there are entire generations for whom giant stores like Hamleys and Toys 'R' Us were unimaginable fantasies on a par with space cars, food pills, and robot butlers. The rear sections of the catalogues were a 2D approximation of some incredible future where thousands of toys might be gathered in one place. As we grew up, though, we started to explore some of the other pages (and yes, thanks, the adolescent jokes about the underwear section have already been done - in 1996, by Frank Skinner, so let's leave it there, eh?). Girls tended to graduate to jewellery and, for the poor are always with us, occasionally the clothes. As far as boys were concerned, however, it was usually the digital watches that were first to attract attention, followed shortly (as noted elsewhere on this list) by the posh "scientific" calculators. Which brings us neatly to the rise of the home computer, a market entirely created by Clive Sinclair, whose previous experience in the electronics industry was successfully marketing the first pocket calculator. By 1981, he'd sold several hundred thousand Sinclair computers that were nominally more sophisticated but, with the introduction of the Spectrum 16k personal computer a year later, he finally hit paydirt. Inspiring the first generation of amateur programmers, the Spectrum (and Chipite-style rival, the Commodore 64) became a glorified games machine, cracking open opportunities in the software, peripherals and specialist magazine industries and bringing popular arcade classics into the living room. Enthusiasts and early adopters suffered from ropey British engineering and after-sales service, but for those of us who bought from catalogues, the choice was astounding (just check out any of the million web sites devoted to the history of home computers); random evocative name roll-call for Googling purposes - Kempston, Matthew Smith, Ultimate, Microdrive, Ocean, Mutant Camels, Crash, Jetpac, RS232, Chuckie Egg, QL, Elite. Shared experience memory-joggers for lazy comedy slags; waiting half an hour for a cassette game to load up, only to have the computer crash at the last second; typing in transcribed lines of BASIC from the back of Your Sinclair/64, only to have the computer crash at the last second; beating a high-score only to accidentally yank out the joystick/expansion port/power cable and cause the computer to crash at the last second. The fiercely competitive American triumvirate of Apple/Microsoft/IBM killed off the inept British micro business, after which only dedicated "consoles" appeared in the catalogues. However, where these limited micros scored over your Megadrives and Nintendos is that they at least allowed the owner to learn something about computing, if only the layout of the QWERTY keyboard at the very least, which laid the foundations for understanding the workings of PC operating systems, interfaces and networks, without which, etc.
I was performing my Doctor duties and giving buffs one day, when someone approached and tried to group with me. This is common, as someone would occasionally need to be killed and rezed to lose their buffs so they could get new fresh ones. (this is before publish 7) They need to be in a group with a Doc to get rezzed, so without thinking, I joined the group. Well it turned out this guy was a Squad Leader, and no sooner had I joined I was suddenly incapacitated, as he did a Squad Leader special move that draws from the whole party to do something-or-other.. He had about 10 people grouped, and group-tell was filled with, "What the hell was that?" and "Hey I'm dead what's going on? What are you doing?"
The guy continued to run around, bringing people into the group and zapping them with this ability. My mind stat was accumulating wound damage, which was annoying because I'd have to go to the cantina for awhile before getting back to business, once I got free of this jerk. My incapacitated body was being dragged all around the Coronet starport as he took several more victims. I got out of the group, and was able to get up, and/reported him, not that it mattered because he certainly knew he'd be in deep shit, and was probably quitting anyway, just going out with a bang.
Anyhow, you don't have to be signed up for PvP to get griefed. Someone will always find a way...
On Starsider we had this crazy side-show, Ichben Einberlinner, an obese old bald man who danced in underwear and a stormtrooper helmet, at the Coronet starport, all freakin day, every day. It was kinda gross, and many felt it detracted from the game. He would spout some kind of message about trying to bring peace to the galaxy or whatever rot, I don't know he changed it up every so often. He was always asking for money too. But despite complaints, he stayed there for a rather long time. I think he finally just got bored, how could you not? But there's no telling what floats their boat...
had there been a real satellite on board it would be pretty much a loss now
Well, doesn't that make it a success? They have an opportunity to fix a problem now, and it didn't cost them as much as it could have to expose that problem.
I don't understand why people still insist on everything working 100% the first time, even though it has never ever worked that way. How did we somehow start expecting it?
No, you have it backwards. If they didn't care they would just fork it over. They are protecting his privacy, as agreed upon by the terms of service, something they had promised him. You don't know, he may have gotten along with his family for the most part, or appeared to, but may have occasionally used unkind words when describing certain family members to friends. Do they really want to see that? Or maybe they would really rather not see his signup confirmation for HotBlackTranssexualMidgetTeenies.com or whatever. They've got some gall if they really want to look that far into his private life.
And, you also forget that it is not just the deceased's privacy that is at stake. There are the various people he corresponded with who have nothing to do with the family. They haven't been asked if they mind having their private emails handed over to someone they had not intended to write to. And there's no way of deducing who all of them are, to ask either, is there?
The only emails the family has a right to are the ones they themselves participated in, and if it didn't mean enough to them at the time, for them to keep their own copies, it shouldn't matter now.
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I'm assuming you'd put the comms gear in a helmet, whether it be for bicycle or motorcycle. Different helmets but similar ideas. One can momentarily free up a hand on either vehicle while moving, or the switch could be put in one of the handgrips.
I set up pop access for Thunderbird last week, but almost immediately didn't care that I could do that. It's nice I guess (I liked Thunderbird fine before, for my ISP account), but the gmail interface works rather well for me, I like the labelling and other features, so having it in TBird is just extra work since I still like to use the web interface from different locations. My ISP account is forwarded to my gmail as well, so I've got just one handy mobile package.
fair to give people an advantage because they have money
In electronics, if you amplify a good RF signal, you will get a good, amplified RF signal. If you amplify a noisy RF signal, you just get louder noise. People who are already sharp could gain additional focus that they would be able to really *do* something with. A 'norm' would get less of a benefit, and someone reasonably 'challenged' would probably not gain much of anything, maybe they could come up with dumb ideas faster.
The lack of signage upon install, weakly-related download sites, and unsigned extensions with a default option to install (they may be whitelisted somewhere, but does it tell the user this?), all conspire to make it look like a bit of a sloppy job. It sets a bad example of how to behave on the net. People are saying that most of the software on the internet is unsigned. Well if most of the software on the internet made goatse-man pop up every 30 seconds would you want Firefox to do that too?
If you want better security on the internet, you need to get people to behave more securely, and these things he points out, the ones I have mentioned at least, do ring true. Probably not too hard to fix either, so I don't see this as something to get worried about. As long as the Firefox team does think about it and decides to do something about it, IE will still get its ass kicked.;)
(It's not bad to have people like him pointing out all the problems, that's how things get fixed, enjoy the free feedback!)
I must drink beer. Beer is the painkiller. And beer is the little drink that brings total satisfaction. I will drink my beer. I will permit it to pass through me. And where the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only a hangover will remain.
I don't know why there are always so many complaints about apparent ads on Slashdot. It's really no different than seeing an ad for an interesting product and then mentioning it at the water cooler at work. People like to tell other people about stuff that looks cool to them, and might interest others. It doesn't have to always be some kind of conspiracy...
Nuts, nevermind me, I didn't look back on the topic to see what we were talking about, thought it was a different subject I'd also replied about in the last few days. *blush*
The way you phrased that I imagined a babbling incomprehensible din all around. That, plus the babbling voices were speaking japanese, which I cannot understand. Those two factors change things greatly. Try again, in a reasonably quiet spot, with one loud idiot speaking a language you understand, with only half the conversation available to you. It's different.
Once they get control of your recording devices though, perhaps not. They can make your sound card recognize certain things that you cannot hear, and mess with the recording, like macrovision. Keep all old hardware in good shape and it won't be an issue though.
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punished in proportion to the economic damage inflicted
One could then say that killing a poor and elderly man is a much lesser crime than killing a young doctor fresh out of med school. This might be one reason we like to avoid the price tags.
That was my first reaction though, when I saw the headline. I wondered, "So, I suppose they're suing them then?" Geeze, thanks **AA, I'm expecting litigation everywhere these days.
I know you're being funny, but that might be a seriously good idea. Dump a whole lot of paper in their offices. Send a letter as you would normally, describing your grief and then, as examples, give hardcopies of every spam you've received in the past week.
He has said that the newspapers are invited to ask Google, and that he has sent an email to Google telling them about the whole thing, with permission to release the numbers if asked. Doesn't sound like he's got anything to blush about.
It worked. Damn am I tired...
What? Leaving out Bombadil made it less boring? All that boring crap with Arwen made it less boring? How does that work?
Ah, having lots to say about it is always enough justification to take plenty of liberty with whatever subject-matter. I guess that's why history books tend to be so long. It's all about the word count, don't worry if it's rubbish. :)
wireless would be nice for the picture uploads
:)
Wireless eh? I can see it now, the next big geek sport will be drive-by pr0ning. You'll be having a nice dinner with the family, who are admiring the majestic mountain view you snapped on your last holiday, when suddenly, two very different 'mountains' appear, accompanied by the screech of car tires outside.
Well, TFA has it listed at number 2. Here's the text if you couldn't get that far:
Programmable proto-Playstations
Never forget there are entire generations for whom giant stores like Hamleys and Toys 'R' Us were unimaginable fantasies on a par with space cars, food pills, and robot butlers. The rear sections of the catalogues were a 2D approximation of some incredible future where thousands of toys might be gathered in one place. As we grew up, though, we started to explore some of the other pages (and yes, thanks, the adolescent jokes about the underwear section have already been done - in 1996, by Frank Skinner, so let's leave it there, eh?). Girls tended to graduate to jewellery and, for the poor are always with us, occasionally the clothes. As far as boys were concerned, however, it was usually the digital watches that were first to attract attention, followed shortly (as noted elsewhere on this list) by the posh "scientific" calculators. Which brings us neatly to the rise of the home computer, a market entirely created by Clive Sinclair, whose previous experience in the electronics industry was successfully marketing the first pocket calculator. By 1981, he'd sold several hundred thousand Sinclair computers that were nominally more sophisticated but, with the introduction of the Spectrum 16k personal computer a year later, he finally hit paydirt. Inspiring the first generation of amateur programmers, the Spectrum (and Chipite-style rival, the Commodore 64) became a glorified games machine, cracking open opportunities in the software, peripherals and specialist magazine industries and bringing popular arcade classics into the living room. Enthusiasts and early adopters suffered from ropey British engineering and after-sales service, but for those of us who bought from catalogues, the choice was astounding (just check out any of the million web sites devoted to the history of home computers); random evocative name roll-call for Googling purposes - Kempston, Matthew Smith, Ultimate, Microdrive, Ocean, Mutant Camels, Crash, Jetpac, RS232, Chuckie Egg, QL, Elite. Shared experience memory-joggers for lazy comedy slags; waiting half an hour for a cassette game to load up, only to have the computer crash at the last second; typing in transcribed lines of BASIC from the back of Your Sinclair/64, only to have the computer crash at the last second; beating a high-score only to accidentally yank out the joystick/expansion port/power cable and cause the computer to crash at the last second. The fiercely competitive American triumvirate of Apple/Microsoft/IBM killed off the inept British micro business, after which only dedicated "consoles" appeared in the catalogues. However, where these limited micros scored over your Megadrives and Nintendos is that they at least allowed the owner to learn something about computing, if only the layout of the QWERTY keyboard at the very least, which laid the foundations for understanding the workings of PC operating systems, interfaces and networks, without which, etc.
I was performing my Doctor duties and giving buffs one day, when someone approached and tried to group with me. This is common, as someone would occasionally need to be killed and rezed to lose their buffs so they could get new fresh ones. (this is before publish 7) They need to be in a group with a Doc to get rezzed, so without thinking, I joined the group. Well it turned out this guy was a Squad Leader, and no sooner had I joined I was suddenly incapacitated, as he did a Squad Leader special move that draws from the whole party to do something-or-other.. He had about 10 people grouped, and group-tell was filled with, "What the hell was that?" and "Hey I'm dead what's going on? What are you doing?"
/reported him, not that it mattered because he certainly knew he'd be in deep shit, and was probably quitting anyway, just going out with a bang.
The guy continued to run around, bringing people into the group and zapping them with this ability. My mind stat was accumulating wound damage, which was annoying because I'd have to go to the cantina for awhile before getting back to business, once I got free of this jerk. My incapacitated body was being dragged all around the Coronet starport as he took several more victims. I got out of the group, and was able to get up, and
Anyhow, you don't have to be signed up for PvP to get griefed. Someone will always find a way...
On Starsider we had this crazy side-show, Ichben Einberlinner, an obese old bald man who danced in underwear and a stormtrooper helmet, at the Coronet starport, all freakin day, every day. It was kinda gross, and many felt it detracted from the game. He would spout some kind of message about trying to bring peace to the galaxy or whatever rot, I don't know he changed it up every so often. He was always asking for money too. But despite complaints, he stayed there for a rather long time. I think he finally just got bored, how could you not? But there's no telling what floats their boat...
had there been a real satellite on board it would be pretty much a loss now
Well, doesn't that make it a success? They have an opportunity to fix a problem now, and it didn't cost them as much as it could have to expose that problem.
I don't understand why people still insist on everything working 100% the first time, even though it has never ever worked that way. How did we somehow start expecting it?
This may enlighten the humour-impaired:
o ffsite-nav-9057360
http://www.swordsorcery.com/gammaworld/#ggviewer-
No, you have it backwards. If they didn't care they would just fork it over. They are protecting his privacy, as agreed upon by the terms of service, something they had promised him. You don't know, he may have gotten along with his family for the most part, or appeared to, but may have occasionally used unkind words when describing certain family members to friends. Do they really want to see that? Or maybe they would really rather not see his signup confirmation for HotBlackTranssexualMidgetTeenies.com or whatever. They've got some gall if they really want to look that far into his private life.
And, you also forget that it is not just the deceased's privacy that is at stake. There are the various people he corresponded with who have nothing to do with the family. They haven't been asked if they mind having their private emails handed over to someone they had not intended to write to. And there's no way of deducing who all of them are, to ask either, is there?
The only emails the family has a right to are the ones they themselves participated in, and if it didn't mean enough to them at the time, for them to keep their own copies, it shouldn't matter now.
Cool, so I want to get charged with murder and tried in traffic court, how can I arrange that?
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Doesn't make sense, does it?
I'm assuming you'd put the comms gear in a helmet, whether it be for bicycle or motorcycle. Different helmets but similar ideas. One can momentarily free up a hand on either vehicle while moving, or the switch could be put in one of the handgrips.
I set up pop access for Thunderbird last week, but almost immediately didn't care that I could do that. It's nice I guess (I liked Thunderbird fine before, for my ISP account), but the gmail interface works rather well for me, I like the labelling and other features, so having it in TBird is just extra work since I still like to use the web interface from different locations. My ISP account is forwarded to my gmail as well, so I've got just one handy mobile package.
fair to give people an advantage because they have money
In electronics, if you amplify a good RF signal, you will get a good, amplified RF signal. If you amplify a noisy RF signal, you just get louder noise. People who are already sharp could gain additional focus that they would be able to really *do* something with. A 'norm' would get less of a benefit, and someone reasonably 'challenged' would probably not gain much of anything, maybe they could come up with dumb ideas faster.
The lack of signage upon install, weakly-related download sites, and unsigned extensions with a default option to install (they may be whitelisted somewhere, but does it tell the user this?), all conspire to make it look like a bit of a sloppy job. It sets a bad example of how to behave on the net. People are saying that most of the software on the internet is unsigned. Well if most of the software on the internet made goatse-man pop up every 30 seconds would you want Firefox to do that too?
;)
If you want better security on the internet, you need to get people to behave more securely, and these things he points out, the ones I have mentioned at least, do ring true. Probably not too hard to fix either, so I don't see this as something to get worried about. As long as the Firefox team does think about it and decides to do something about it, IE will still get its ass kicked.
(It's not bad to have people like him pointing out all the problems, that's how things get fixed, enjoy the free feedback!)
I must drink beer.
Beer is the painkiller.
And beer is the little drink that brings total satisfaction.
I will drink my beer.
I will permit it to pass through me.
And where the beer has gone there will be nothing.
Only a hangover will remain.
I don't know why there are always so many complaints about apparent ads on Slashdot. It's really no different than seeing an ad for an interesting product and then mentioning it at the water cooler at work. People like to tell other people about stuff that looks cool to them, and might interest others. It doesn't have to always be some kind of conspiracy...
Nuts, nevermind me, I didn't look back on the topic to see what we were talking about, thought it was a different subject I'd also replied about in the last few days. *blush*
The way you phrased that I imagined a babbling incomprehensible din all around. That, plus the babbling voices were speaking japanese, which I cannot understand. Those two factors change things greatly. Try again, in a reasonably quiet spot, with one loud idiot speaking a language you understand, with only half the conversation available to you. It's different.
But how much is that in Libraries of Congress packed full of AOL CDs?
Once they get control of your recording devices though, perhaps not. They can make your sound card recognize certain things that you cannot hear, and mess with the recording, like macrovision. Keep all old hardware in good shape and it won't be an issue though.