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||bass Administrator                    Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Minimum wage is a tricky issue with no easy solution. Too low and many Americans will be underpaid. Too high and companies will outsource their labor to third world nations and Americans won't have jobs at all. The trick is to strike a delicate balance. | |||
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by Raccoon SamTo be totally honest, I think the computer in the photo is ugly as sin. It also looks like a cramped pain in the ass to service/upgrade. There are nicer looking PC's out there -> 1 2 3 4 that are large and spacious enough to be serviced. PS: How does one add an Audigy 4 DTX digital 7.1 surround card to a mac? |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| I understand the point you're trying to make but, for clarification, it's not possible to copyright, patent, or trademark a number. That's why Intel's trademark for 80386 and 80486 were both thrown out. Thats why they came up with the name PENTium when the 586 series chips came out. | |||
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||bass Administrator  Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Yes. It's still piracy. You people seem to be missing the most critical point though. The idea is that it makes it impossible to prosecute because all the information looks the same. It's like saying you can't sell copies of the Harry Potter books. It's true but you CAN sell books about shoe repair where if you read every 12th word, it just happens to be one of the books. Yes it's wrong and the publisher would be pissed. They couldn't however prosecute you because you never sold the potter book, you sold basic shoe repair.
Remember, knowing something and proving it in court are two TOTALLY different things. PS: Stop imming me. I know that my analogy is totally different than how the technology works and that's because most of you are too damn stupid to understand the process anyway. (edited by ||bass on 08-15-06 10:43 PM) |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by windwakerWell, that's kinda the point. It is legal, that's why I used that analogy even though it doesn't work even remotely like the technology at work here. It's more like if every book in the universe was made up of 1000 different generic pages, and the content that resulted just depends on which pages you use and in what order. They can never say that you copied harry potter because you just got page 764, 653, 321, and 11 all from different sources (assuming those 4 generic pages in that order would give you harry potter somehow, I know this doesn't make sence for books but just trust me when I say it does for data). Each individual doesn't know what those pages could be used for. Any of those pages could be used for millions of different legitimate applications. I can send generic page 764 to whoever I want, the page is an important aspect of basic shoe repair. There is no way I could possibly know that the other guy is using it to assemble a copy of harry potter. Thus the actual sending of the information is legal.Originally posted by ||bass |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by windwakerOne. I wasn't talking to you for one thing, I was talking to people who were already starting to bug me about 'omg that isn't how it works'. Second, I made the stupidity comment not for you but because 3/4 of the people in this thread seem to totally not understand how the technology works. Next order of buisness: Originally posted by windwakerThis is not what the abstract says the technology does. What you are describing is steganography (disguising diamonds within gravel), this technology is NOT steganographic in nature. On the other hand, what whiteasprinwow said IS correct. They could not tell what the information you send is because the blocks sent are generic, they are basic building blocks of files that do not represent any specific completed work until specific blocks are assembled in a specific order. This is NOT steganography or information hiding. |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| BTW: The song is called "Consumo Gusto" by SKA-P.
EDIT: Also, for those who don't know Spanish. The song sings against consumerism and materialism. Very appropriate. EDIT 2: As an example. The name of the song, Consumo Gusto is literally translated as "Consumption Pleasure". Although I think a more appropriate and correct translation of the meaning of the song as a whole would be "Consumer Lust". It's all about how people pay and pay and pay for tons and tons of shit that nobody needs. (edited by ||bass on 08-16-06 12:11 AM) (edited by ||bass on 08-16-06 12:34 AM) |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2006/LAW/08/15/spammer.gold.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
This is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I have EVER heard. (edited by ||bass on 08-15-06 11:34 PM) |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by Fire AlexaYes and not just that. You can make different pictures on the puzzle depending on which peices you use and how you snap them together. |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by witeasprinwowThat's because there is no constitutional right to privacy no matter how many people seem to think otherwise.Originally posted by CobyThere are laws like this in America, but they don't apply to disclosure of privacy for legal reasons. |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| The reverse is far FAR more likley. The MUCH more probably outcome of the conference is that there will soon be 8 planets, as allowing in Pluto allows in far too much else. They're probably going to scrap Pluto's planet classification. | |||
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| :: snip ::
EDIT: I decided the origional post wasn't worth the trouble it would cause. (edited by ||bass on 08-16-06 02:48 PM) (edited by ||bass on 08-16-06 02:48 PM) |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Did it ever occur to anyone that despite the fact it LOOKED new, I may not have been new? Just because he had the packaging doesn't mean he didn't buy a beat to shit used one from someone. Considering there was no plastic wrap on anything, it almost certainly was acquired used. Think about it seriously, it's a bit more probable than stealing a brand new PSP. | |||
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerClearly you DIDN'T READ the article. They ARE accusing him of hiding the gold. If you actually read the article, it says AOL is digging for gold on the guy's PARENT'S PROPERTY. Parents that he has apperantly not seen in quite some time. |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by Sexy Emperor ColinYou know you can eat nitroglycerin, right? |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationYou gotta be freaking kidding me. The iBookG4 looks like an old Brother word processor from the 80's (only with smaller keys) and the Mac Minis would look just like little single-slice toasters if only the cd slot were just a bit wider. Atleast Alienware laptops have some character to them. Also, unlike any Mac in the history of computing, the flashy newegg cases are (get ready for this shocker) ATX complient. God forbid we actually use standards-compliant form factor hardware! I mean, being able to swap out motherboard/power supply/peripheral cards/etc when I need to.... it's herasy! Can't have the consumer performing their own major upgrades. Not when the computer can be sent back to the manufacturer for upgrades at an extortionate fee. On that note, I've been wondering. If I got a Mac and wanted to do a serious upgrade of my video or sound card, do I just buy some propriatary card to fit into the micro-cramped casing, or do I just have to buy a whole new mac? Christ, even Lenina (my fiancée whom I live with) has a bright pink computer she built. It's not like it's particularly hard to do. (edited by ||bass on 08-17-06 02:59 AM) (edited by ||bass on 08-17-06 03:00 AM) |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by emceeYes except you're missing a critical point. Grokster was a private corperation that marketed software for use with a centralized network. OFF is an open system that users will eventually be able to integrate into any system. It's a methodology moreso than a product. If implemented on a decentralized network such as Kad, they would have to prove that every specific user was sharing copyrighted files one at a time. Not only would the legal costs of millions of court cases bankrupt even the largest companies, they would lose every individual case because in order to litigate against a specific user, the burden of proof would be on the MPAA/RIAA/etc to prove that the specific user is promoting piracy, something you can't do without knowing the exact identity of the user as well as the file being served (a feat FAR more easily said than done on the new OFF system). I don't know how many times I have to say this. The fact you can't justify something had ZERO impact on whether or not you can prove it in a court of law. The legal rules of evidence are far stricter than any rules set down for a phylosophical debate. |
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| All I have to say is. If they dig and there turns out to be no gold, this is going to be a HUGE egg in the face for AOL. Even though this guy is a spammer and a fugitive. Huge huge PR mistake. | |||
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||bass Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Would you like Lenina to come online and post "it's so easy a girl could do it"? Because she just said, upon reading your post, that she'd be more than willing to do it. |
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he owes them money that he doesn't have and damn well isn't likely to ever get. They suspect there's gold on his property. Since he can't pay them, they go for his gold instead. Makes sense to me.
