How could a user download a browser not having one already installed? Are you kidding?
- Using an FTP client
- Using a P2P/torrent application
- Using another computer with a browser
- Already having the software in question on a portable media, say a USB memory key or a CD?
- Buying the browser at a computer store, just like many people do with tons of other software?
If it were impossible to install new software on a computer without a working browser and an internet connection, hos would an operating system ever be installed? How would Linux be installed on a computer to begin with, if the requirement to do so was that the computer already had a working OS and a browser?
But what do you think of packet forgery? True. That sucks big time! Sue them for "whatever sticks".
Hell, we could probably even come up with some patent-troll-company who owns a patent or two covering RTS packet forgery. (A method and/or mechanism which blocks custom-targeted network traffic and serves as a counter agent to... yada yada). The entertainment value of such a patent trial would probably be worth the effort of finding the appropriate troll...;-)
- Jesper
Throttling is IMHO only a problem when the customer doesn't know about it.
I have specifically chosen an ISP who promise they don't use any kind of throttling. On the other hand I did'nt go with the cheapest ISP I could find. My ISP has a "true flatrate" policy. No maximum usage and no throttling. The price is accordingly a little higher.
Most of my family does not use P2P in any way, and rarely download anything at all. For them, a low price is more important. And lets face it: this kind of bandwidth throttling was only invented because 5% of the customers consume 90% of the ISPs backbone resources. If this wasn't an issue, nobody would have invented the damn thing.
I don't think throttling should be illegal. It should only be illegal to use throttling and not tell customers about it. Throttling keeps the price down for ISPs, and they should be perfectly allowed to implemented - as long as all their customers are aware of it. In that way, if you don't want an ISP/product with throttling you can simply choose another ISP/product.
Bandwidth costs money. Free competition dictates that all ISPs will be seeking ways to lower their costs and in that way offer the consumers lower prices. This is a good thing, as long as customers know what they are buying.
Therefore: Allow throttling, but force ISPs to clearly state which products are subject to throttling. In that way, customers can buy the product they find suitable for their needs, and the "heavy users" can pay a higher price for their actual usage.
It is no different than your (cell)phone bill: if you call people 24/7, of if you buy a true flatrate product, it will cost more than just calling your mom for 5 minutes twice a month. Just as it should.
Criticism is allowed. Mocking/patronizing is not. In fact, mocking/patronizing any minority group is illegal in these countries - so your point is SOMEWHAT valid in that regard. But it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality or religion. That is in fact the whole point of the laws prohibiting mocking/patronizing minority groups...;-)
I have been doing a little thinking... tell you what: I'll host your site for you. Free of charge *). Provided I do not object personally to the content.
I will not disclose your identity to anyone (and being a private person, I am not required to do so by law) even if approached by authorities/lawyers. Should the day come where someone tries to retrieve your identity from me, I will fight them to the best of my abilities - which means you will probably be a lot better off than if you were a simple customer at some webhotel.
I have my own little server in a professional server-hotel with all the stuff required for serious hosting (redundant internet connections, emergency power, backup, halon-based firefighting, etc).
Throw me a message if you want to take me up on the offer. And remember: I will only do this free of charge if I do not object to the contents and/or goals of your site.
Fair?
- Jesper
*) Free of charge up to a certain amount of traffic. If you exceed 2 gigs a month we will have to work something out. On the other hand, if you reach that amount of traffic you'll probably be happy to help finance the hosting...;-)
You might want to consider the Scandinavian/Baltic region.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greenland are all pretty protective about their citizens privacy. Provided your sites contain only "controversial" (but not illegal) content, you would definitely be in the clear!
Illegal content would be: child pornography, copyrighted material for which you do not have the distribution right, neo-nazi propaganda and holocausts-denial. Pretty much everything else is accepted. Including blasphemies drawings
Germany is also a good bet - but you would have to add "scientology" to the list of illegal content;-)
Parents holding their kids back from videogames probably have all the best intentions in mind - as they should, since kids are in no position to do so by themselves. The constant rabble about Japanese teenagers dying at the local internet café after playing WOW 36 hours straight, or kids steeling cars after playing GTA is all the reason most parents need to be sceptic about computergames.
The lack of games actually targeted towards 2-7 year old kids is a much bigger problem IMHO.
I am a 34 year old gamer, and I have a 2½ year old daughter. I have tried on countless occasions to teach her how to play games (on our PC, Mac, Xbox PS2, DS) but most of the games are either too abstract or too advanced for her. Keep in mind that something as simple as "shooting" is a rather advanced concept for a 2-year old girl, and that "death" or "number of lives" can be a hard thing to teach a kid that age.
The real question is not "when are kids old enough to play videogames" but rather: "when are they old enough to become a target group" in the videogame industry,
Today's games are ill suited for very small kids - not because games in general are bad for kids - but simply because the lack of demand for such videogames has resulted in the absolute absence of suitable games for kids of that age!
- Jesper
(And BTW: suggestions on good games for a 2½ year old girl are welcome...)
I have played a number of online games which offer great team-play experience and where the winners are the players who think/plan/analyze the game and find alternate solutions to their problems.
I am not suggestion yet another Team Fortress / Counter Strike clone. There are a gazillion of those already. But I honestly think Deus Ex 3 could have the potential to bring something new to the FPS MP arena. Here are some examples, which could differentiate (or revolutionize) the online gaming experience:
- Headquarters with central planning and perhaps a commander to coordinate the team activities (like the commander-role Natural Selection or Battle Field 2)
- Non linear side plots embedded in the multiplayer game, and with many different possible sideplots enabled/disabled for each round of the game. This would certainly make each round a different experience - greatly reducing the problem most other online FPS games has: repetitive gameplay.
- Mixed environment with both real players and bots/npcs in the same game
- Advanced augmentations and/or the "infolink" embedded directly into the gameplay (similar to the Khaara "hive mind" concept of Natural Selection)
- Reuse of the same player character over time. By keeping the same character at player respawn, and perhaps making an online service which could host the "personalities", the players use of rare augmentation/upgrade canisters suddenly becomes an integral part of the online gaming experience. Similar to Diablo/Diablo II and others.
- Limited loss of inventory items at respawn
- Map round-time of more than 30 minutes, and a game play designed to evolve the player into a "mission" with unpredictable parameters from game to game
- Reuse of door codes, computer hacks, security systems, etc. within the same mission/round but automatically changing the codes/parameters for each round. This would support the players experience of playing a "mission" each round.
I can think of a lot of ways in which Deus Ex 3 could offer new aspects to online gaming. And I think they could be implemented without loosing the "spirit" of Deus Ex.
Whatever they do, I hope they make it somewhat modable (maps, weapons, AIs, objects, graphics, simple game mechanics). Giving the gaming community the ability to enhance the game, is a good recipe for adding value for both the simple end-customers and the more serious fans.
In addition, they should ensure that the game plays well in online scenarios. Allowing players to connect on a 16-player server is not enough these days - server admins must have tools, scripting platforms, dedicated game servers, etc. in order to ensure continued success of the product.
Both are elements present in every successful game in recent years.
Using an existing gaming platform could ensure these criteria. Using Halflife2/3, CRY Engine or similar is probably costly, but if they implement their work well, the revenue stream will continue for much longer.
Please use the correct name for the standard!
Open XML just missed out on a fast-track to approval as an ISO standard The correct name is Office Open XML or OOXML.
The standard format "Extensible Markup Language" otherwise known as XML, is already "open" and has absolutely nothing to do with XML itself (other than using that particular format for wrapping up its data/contet).
Why is that important? Because Microsoft has a (successful) strategy of sucking up general terms like "XML" and turning them into their own. If the world starts calling their new document format "Open XML" it won't be long before all non-IT people think that XML is either something out of Redmond, or that Microsoft made it "open". This has happened before, and Microsoft are really good at it. My boss and perhaps 80% of our customers insist that an "SQL Server" is a Microsoft product, and they falsely connect "SQL" with something from Microsoft. And I often meet young students (age 16-19) who think Microsoft invented the TCP/IP network protocol, only because Windows calls the protocol "Microsoft TCP/IP" in the Windows operating system.
I am not a Microsoft-flamer. In fact, I work with development of Microsoft-based IT systems. But I still object to the degradation/transformation of general terms or standards, which falsely make them sound like they are from Microsoft.
In short: The new document standard from Microsoft, used by Microsoft Office, is named "Office Open XML", and there is no such thing as "Open XML". The Extensible Markup Language, XML, is published by W3C and is already "open".
I disagree with most of the posts here on Slashdot on this issue.
First, let me say that I do not own any Novel or Microsoft stock, and have absolutely no financial interest in any of these companies. I am simply trying to share my experience and observations here.
While I do not like the way OSS/FOSS is being attacked by certain large commercial software vendors, OSS/FOSS certainly has a lot to learn from commercial software vendors when observed from a pure business perspective. It is usually better in some ways, but a lot worse in other ways. And hey - isn't that the way the world works? Open and/or Free does not automatically meens "better" for all people. And ultimately the choice between closed/open/free/free should be a personal one.
I think you should try looking at the Novel/Microsoft deal without letting your personal feelings get in the way. Try to look at this the way a CIO in a medium-large corporation would look at it.
In a complex world, what a good CIO wants the most is interoperability. He/she wants to be able to pick the best IT product for a given task, rather than being tied to a specific set of vendors. Failing that, a homogeneous environment is second-best... but certainly not desired because the vendor-lock-in is usually more costly. And trust me - the good CIO knows that, they are educated people after all.
I live and work with IT for medium-large enterprises, and I can tell you right now: The Novell/Microsoft deal *HAS* made a difference. The average enthusiast/fanatic might not think so, but in reality it has done one good thing: It has put Linux on the agenda in IT management. And not just SUSE Linux, mind you. The move by Novell to jump into bed with Microsoft may have been controversial, but it did without a doubt make Linux something that CIOs and management talk about when starting up new IT projects.
I believe that Novell will benefit from this deal in the long run. If they can survive all the hammering and flame-campaigns they get from the "community" (a word that usually describes a group of people helping each other?). And I am certain it has helped other Linux distributors as well - simply because it has sent the signal that Linux is something you should take seriously when you are a CIO.
Microsoft took Linux serious enough to make a deal with a Linux distributor. And like it or not, that really HAS helped put Linux (from any distributor) on the agenda in larger corporations. Seing that Microsoft took Linux seriously, many CIOs now do the same.
While this may be newsworthy for Germany, Denmark has already imposed such measures. Known as the "logging directive", all telco and ISPs are logging extensive information about telephone calls, e-mails and internet connections (including, but not limited to, HTTP connections and headers).
I wonder how long we have to accept politicians imposing such intrusive "counter-terrorist initiatives" in the name of freedom, when all it really does is take freedom away from the average citizen.
In addition, the whole mechanism is wildly flawed. Any sane terrorist or IT geek who wants to bypass the logging can do so - using anonymizer-servers in foreign countries, TOR networks, or just going downtown to a random café with a free WiFi Hotspot.
It would seem George Orwell lived (and died) in vain:-(
Why rewrite all software, and god forbid, patch all old software going back however many DECADES into the past to implement this change, when harddrive manufacturers could simply start labelling their drives correctly? Perhaps we don't have to. Perhaps it would be easier to correct the error on the graphical output of the computer, controlled by a setting in the system BIOS.
Imagine a new setting in your onboard system BIOS menu.
When "Use Moronic Byte Values" is enabled, a specially designed add-on GPU could graphically scan pixels for evidence of byte values displayed to the user. It would then alter the graphical output to the any number of Moronic Byte Value systems, including the famous "Moronic Kibibyte" (which replaces Kilobytes with Kibibytes, Megabytes with Mebibytes, etc) or the less-known "Moronic SI Recalculation" (which scans the numbers, recalculates them into SI units, and replaces the original value with the moronic SI value).
If produced as a standard chip, any vendor of graphical adaptors would be able to embed it into their products. There could even be a spin-off industry where the concept is applied to internal or external adapters with VGA plugs (like the old Voodoo VGA loopback cable) in order to ensure that older computers could benefit from this great innovation?
Hell... I love the idea already. I can't decide if I should submit it as a new open standard, or patent it...
why do they suck Uhm... Because they convicted her to pay 200.000$ for sharing 24 files (more than 9000$ a piece) when there was not a shred of evidence they were ever downloaded by someone else?
I don't like pirates. Fine. And maybe this woman was a moron. Hell, maybe her defense lawyer was moron too. That does not change the fact that there was insufficient evidence in this particular case. It also does not change the fact that the punishment does not fit the crime. Honestly... 200.000$ for 24 MP3 files???
In addition, I honestly can't understand why someone sits in a jury in a case regarding MP3 file sharing if he has never even used the internet (which he claims according to TFA).
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Forgot one more option:
- Buying a computer magazine from a nearby newsstand or store?
- Jesper
- Using an FTP client
- Using a P2P/torrent application
- Using another computer with a browser
- Already having the software in question on a portable media, say a USB memory key or a CD?
- Buying the browser at a computer store, just like many people do with tons of other software?
If it were impossible to install new software on a computer without a working browser and an internet connection, hos would an operating system ever be installed? How would Linux be installed on a computer to begin with, if the requirement to do so was that the computer already had a working OS and a browser?
- Jesper
An Australian man has been issued with an innovation patent for the wheel after setting out to test the workability of a new national patent system.
:-)
John Keogh was issued the innovation patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" under a patent system introduced in May 2001.
(read the rest...)
- Jesper
Hell, we could probably even come up with some patent-troll-company who owns a patent or two covering RTS packet forgery. (A method and/or mechanism which blocks custom-targeted network traffic and serves as a counter agent to
- Jesper
Throttling is IMHO only a problem when the customer doesn't know about it.
I have specifically chosen an ISP who promise they don't use any kind of throttling. On the other hand I did'nt go with the cheapest ISP I could find. My ISP has a "true flatrate" policy. No maximum usage and no throttling. The price is accordingly a little higher.
Most of my family does not use P2P in any way, and rarely download anything at all. For them, a low price is more important. And lets face it: this kind of bandwidth throttling was only invented because 5% of the customers consume 90% of the ISPs backbone resources. If this wasn't an issue, nobody would have invented the damn thing.
I don't think throttling should be illegal. It should only be illegal to use throttling and not tell customers about it. Throttling keeps the price down for ISPs, and they should be perfectly allowed to implemented - as long as all their customers are aware of it. In that way, if you don't want an ISP/product with throttling you can simply choose another ISP/product.
Bandwidth costs money. Free competition dictates that all ISPs will be seeking ways to lower their costs and in that way offer the consumers lower prices. This is a good thing, as long as customers know what they are buying.
Therefore: Allow throttling, but force ISPs to clearly state which products are subject to throttling. In that way, customers can buy the product they find suitable for their needs, and the "heavy users" can pay a higher price for their actual usage.
It is no different than your (cell)phone bill: if you call people 24/7, of if you buy a true flatrate product, it will cost more than just calling your mom for 5 minutes twice a month. Just as it should.
- Jesper
You are mistaken.
... ;-)
Criticism is allowed. Mocking/patronizing is not. In fact, mocking/patronizing any minority group is illegal in these countries - so your point is SOMEWHAT valid in that regard. But it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality or religion. That is in fact the whole point of the laws prohibiting mocking/patronizing minority groups
- Jesper
Thanks, good input :-)
:-)
I am not too big a fan of the Danish national TV monopoly, so I tend to avoid their homepage. I don't have a TV license either.
- Jesper
I have been doing a little thinking ... tell you what: I'll host your site for you. Free of charge *). Provided I do not object personally to the content.
;-)
I will not disclose your identity to anyone (and being a private person, I am not required to do so by law) even if approached by authorities/lawyers. Should the day come where someone tries to retrieve your identity from me, I will fight them to the best of my abilities - which means you will probably be a lot better off than if you were a simple customer at some webhotel.
I have my own little server in a professional server-hotel with all the stuff required for serious hosting (redundant internet connections, emergency power, backup, halon-based firefighting, etc).
Throw me a message if you want to take me up on the offer. And remember: I will only do this free of charge if I do not object to the contents and/or goals of your site.
Fair?
- Jesper
*) Free of charge up to a certain amount of traffic. If you exceed 2 gigs a month we will have to work something out. On the other hand, if you reach that amount of traffic you'll probably be happy to help finance the hosting...
...meant so write "including blasphemies and sarcastic drawings" as a reference to the recent "Mohamed cases" in Sweden and Denmark :-)
- Jesper
You might want to consider the Scandinavian/Baltic region.
;-)
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greenland are all pretty protective about their citizens privacy. Provided your sites contain only "controversial" (but not illegal) content, you would definitely be in the clear!
Illegal content would be: child pornography, copyrighted material for which you do not have the distribution right, neo-nazi propaganda and holocausts-denial. Pretty much everything else is accepted. Including blasphemies drawings
Germany is also a good bet - but you would have to add "scientology" to the list of illegal content
- Jesper
Never heard of that ... will be sure to check it out :-)
- Jesper
Parents holding their kids back from videogames probably have all the best intentions in mind - as they should, since kids are in no position to do so by themselves. The constant rabble about Japanese teenagers dying at the local internet café after playing WOW 36 hours straight, or kids steeling cars after playing GTA is all the reason most parents need to be sceptic about computergames.
The lack of games actually targeted towards 2-7 year old kids is a much bigger problem IMHO.
I am a 34 year old gamer, and I have a 2½ year old daughter. I have tried on countless occasions to teach her how to play games (on our PC, Mac, Xbox PS2, DS) but most of the games are either too abstract or too advanced for her. Keep in mind that something as simple as "shooting" is a rather advanced concept for a 2-year old girl, and that "death" or "number of lives" can be a hard thing to teach a kid that age.
The real question is not "when are kids old enough to play videogames" but rather: "when are they old enough to become a target group" in the videogame industry,
Today's games are ill suited for very small kids - not because games in general are bad for kids - but simply because the lack of demand for such videogames has resulted in the absolute absence of suitable games for kids of that age!
- Jesper
(And BTW: suggestions on good games for a 2½ year old girl are welcome...)
I respectfully disagree :-)
:-)
I have played a number of online games which offer great team-play experience and where the winners are the players who think/plan/analyze the game and find alternate solutions to their problems.
I am not suggestion yet another Team Fortress / Counter Strike clone. There are a gazillion of those already. But I honestly think Deus Ex 3 could have the potential to bring something new to the FPS MP arena. Here are some examples, which could differentiate (or revolutionize) the online gaming experience:
- Headquarters with central planning and perhaps a commander to coordinate the team activities (like the commander-role Natural Selection or Battle Field 2)
- Non linear side plots embedded in the multiplayer game, and with many different possible sideplots enabled/disabled for each round of the game. This would certainly make each round a different experience - greatly reducing the problem most other online FPS games has: repetitive gameplay.
- Mixed environment with both real players and bots/npcs in the same game
- Advanced augmentations and/or the "infolink" embedded directly into the gameplay (similar to the Khaara "hive mind" concept of Natural Selection)
- Reuse of the same player character over time. By keeping the same character at player respawn, and perhaps making an online service which could host the "personalities", the players use of rare augmentation/upgrade canisters suddenly becomes an integral part of the online gaming experience. Similar to Diablo/Diablo II and others.
- Limited loss of inventory items at respawn
- Map round-time of more than 30 minutes, and a game play designed to evolve the player into a "mission" with unpredictable parameters from game to game
- Reuse of door codes, computer hacks, security systems, etc. within the same mission/round but automatically changing the codes/parameters for each round. This would support the players experience of playing a "mission" each round.
I can think of a lot of ways in which Deus Ex 3 could offer new aspects to online gaming. And I think they could be implemented without loosing the "spirit" of Deus Ex.
- Jesper
Whatever they do, I hope they make it somewhat modable (maps, weapons, AIs, objects, graphics, simple game mechanics). Giving the gaming community the ability to enhance the game, is a good recipe for adding value for both the simple end-customers and the more serious fans.
In addition, they should ensure that the game plays well in online scenarios. Allowing players to connect on a 16-player server is not enough these days - server admins must have tools, scripting platforms, dedicated game servers, etc. in order to ensure continued success of the product.
Both are elements present in every successful game in recent years.
Using an existing gaming platform could ensure these criteria. Using Halflife2/3, CRY Engine or similar is probably costly, but if they implement their work well, the revenue stream will continue for much longer.
- Jesper
Open XML just missed out on a fast-track to approval as an ISO standard The correct name is Office Open XML or OOXML.
The standard format "Extensible Markup Language" otherwise known as XML, is already "open" and has absolutely nothing to do with XML itself (other than using that particular format for wrapping up its data/contet).
Why is that important? Because Microsoft has a (successful) strategy of sucking up general terms like "XML" and turning them into their own. If the world starts calling their new document format "Open XML" it won't be long before all non-IT people think that XML is either something out of Redmond, or that Microsoft made it "open". This has happened before, and Microsoft are really good at it. My boss and perhaps 80% of our customers insist that an "SQL Server" is a Microsoft product, and they falsely connect "SQL" with something from Microsoft. And I often meet young students (age 16-19) who think Microsoft invented the TCP/IP network protocol, only because Windows calls the protocol "Microsoft TCP/IP" in the Windows operating system.
I am not a Microsoft-flamer. In fact, I work with development of Microsoft-based IT systems. But I still object to the degradation/transformation of general terms or standards, which falsely make them sound like they are from Microsoft.
In short: The new document standard from Microsoft, used by Microsoft Office, is named "Office Open XML", and there is no such thing as "Open XML". The Extensible Markup Language, XML, is published by W3C and is already "open".
- Jesper
I disagree with most of the posts here on Slashdot on this issue.
... but certainly not desired because the vendor-lock-in is usually more costly. And trust me - the good CIO knows that, they are educated people after all.
First, let me say that I do not own any Novel or Microsoft stock, and have absolutely no financial interest in any of these companies. I am simply trying to share my experience and observations here.
While I do not like the way OSS/FOSS is being attacked by certain large commercial software vendors, OSS/FOSS certainly has a lot to learn from commercial software vendors when observed from a pure business perspective. It is usually better in some ways, but a lot worse in other ways. And hey - isn't that the way the world works? Open and/or Free does not automatically meens "better" for all people. And ultimately the choice between closed/open/free/free should be a personal one.
I think you should try looking at the Novel/Microsoft deal without letting your personal feelings get in the way. Try to look at this the way a CIO in a medium-large corporation would look at it.
In a complex world, what a good CIO wants the most is interoperability. He/she wants to be able to pick the best IT product for a given task, rather than being tied to a specific set of vendors. Failing that, a homogeneous environment is second-best
I live and work with IT for medium-large enterprises, and I can tell you right now: The Novell/Microsoft deal *HAS* made a difference. The average enthusiast/fanatic might not think so, but in reality it has done one good thing: It has put Linux on the agenda in IT management. And not just SUSE Linux, mind you. The move by Novell to jump into bed with Microsoft may have been controversial, but it did without a doubt make Linux something that CIOs and management talk about when starting up new IT projects.
I believe that Novell will benefit from this deal in the long run. If they can survive all the hammering and flame-campaigns they get from the "community" (a word that usually describes a group of people helping each other?). And I am certain it has helped other Linux distributors as well - simply because it has sent the signal that Linux is something you should take seriously when you are a CIO.
Microsoft took Linux serious enough to make a deal with a Linux distributor. And like it or not, that really HAS helped put Linux (from any distributor) on the agenda in larger corporations. Seing that Microsoft took Linux seriously, many CIOs now do the same.
- Jesper
While this may be newsworthy for Germany, Denmark has already imposed such measures. Known as the "logging directive", all telco and ISPs are logging extensive information about telephone calls, e-mails and internet connections (including, but not limited to, HTTP connections and headers).
:-(
I wonder how long we have to accept politicians imposing such intrusive "counter-terrorist initiatives" in the name of freedom, when all it really does is take freedom away from the average citizen.
In addition, the whole mechanism is wildly flawed. Any sane terrorist or IT geek who wants to bypass the logging can do so - using anonymizer-servers in foreign countries, TOR networks, or just going downtown to a random café with a free WiFi Hotspot.
It would seem George Orwell lived (and died) in vain
- Jesper
Imagine a new setting in your onboard system BIOS menu.
When "Use Moronic Byte Values" is enabled, a specially designed add-on GPU could graphically scan pixels for evidence of byte values displayed to the user. It would then alter the graphical output to the any number of Moronic Byte Value systems, including the famous "Moronic Kibibyte" (which replaces Kilobytes with Kibibytes, Megabytes with Mebibytes, etc) or the less-known "Moronic SI Recalculation" (which scans the numbers, recalculates them into SI units, and replaces the original value with the moronic SI value).
If produced as a standard chip, any vendor of graphical adaptors would be able to embed it into their products. There could even be a spin-off industry where the concept is applied to internal or external adapters with VGA plugs (like the old Voodoo VGA loopback cable) in order to ensure that older computers could benefit from this great innovation?
Hell
- Jesper
Remember to enable WEP security ... so you can claim your network was protected and... "encrypted"... ;-)
- Jesper
*LOL*
:-D
Parent has now been modded up to 5, while someone found it important to mod me down for saying "Good point"?
That just made my day.
- Jesper
Fine fine fine.
English is not my first language.
Perhaps, in stead of just being negative and writing "sigh" with all-caps, you could provide the correct term?
- Jesper
Aaaarh!
'got that right mate!
I don't like pirates. Fine. And maybe this woman was a moron. Hell, maybe her defense lawyer was moron too. That does not change the fact that there was insufficient evidence in this particular case. It also does not change the fact that the punishment does not fit the crime. Honestly
In addition, I honestly can't understand why someone sits in a jury in a case regarding MP3 file sharing if he has never even used the internet (which he claims according to TFA).
- Jesper
Good point. Don't have any mod-points today though ... sorry ... :-)
- Jesper
Did she break the law? If so, was there evidence presented to support that assumption?
Oh, well, she did appeal the case. Let's see what happens in the next trial. Hopefully she will get a better lawyer AND a better jury
- Jesper