Speaking of common carriers, why not make it a choice on the part of the ISPs -- let them either accept common carrier status which requires them to be a "dumb pipe" as it were (no restrictions beyond basic QoS) but accordingly frees them from responsibility for what goes over the line, or let them elect to do all the nefarious filtering and such, at which point they are responsible and liable for everything that goes across their lines in both directions.
I'm sorry MPAA, but my ISP is not a common carrier, so I assumed all data I was able to receive was legal and authorized. You need to sue them *too*. Speaking of which I just got a trojan from a browser exploit on a site they authorized. I need to take them to small claims court to make them fix my computer, since their specifically authorized content damaged it. =)
Compatibility reasons maybe? It's not like game programmers for DOS liked to use sometimes bizarre and certainly nonstandard ways of accessing various hardware or anything. Except that they did. Quite a lot, in fact.
Amusingly most of the SNL skit stuff that was said were just exaggerations of things she had actually said, no different than when politicians turn generally reasonable statements about a topic into extremes to make an opponent sound bad, like "X sometimes agrees with Obama" into "X is just a rubber stamp for Obama, let me list every time he's agreed with Obama and pretend there are no counterexamples!"
Honestly she turned me off of her in one interview where she couldn't answer the question of what the actual duties of the office she was running for were -- seriously, shouldn't that be the most basic thing you know and can answer on the spot? Especially for the office of vice president, which has an amazingly short list of actual duties?
My employer has random drug testing as a condition of employment. Some subset of the employees operate some manner of heavy equipment on a day-to-day basis and everyone else at least has access to company vehicles, so that may have something to do with it.
Only so long as your camera never photographs a law enforcement officer, theoretically a servant of the public, in the line of duty. Because then, you know, you might have evidence of them doing something untoward.
How would you prevent them from compelling people to give that permission? I mean, at the very least, they could simply bin any applications that don't give them permission -- if you want to even be considered, then give us permission to spy on you.
Neither is an unnecessary service, strictly speaking. Lawyers are overvalued because of our overly litigious society by a long shot, however. The moment we start talking about things where someone needs a loan that beyond individual ability to offer, banks become necessary. Unless we're talking about a system in which the seller loans the buyer a physical good in exchange for a prescribed payment plan, in which case the seller is providing effectively the same service but with greater risk.
Personally, instead of trying to be clever, I'd drop it conveniently on the tracks at a railroad crossing, momentarily after the flashers start, assuming it isn't too large. Or some other "sane for a car to have passed, dangerous for small electronics" locations. It fell off, after all. You need to attach your surveillance electronics better.
I was wondering the same thing. The only US colonization game I can think of offhand at all is Oregon Trail, though I don't see how slavery would have significantly contributed to it at all. The slaughter of natives would certainly be more relevant, at least.
The funny part is that I'm from a state that 45th or lower on all the good statistics and 5th or higher on all the bad ones, and our public schools weren't nearly that bad. We had kinda big classes, and there was non-zero violence but at least we all had books and the violence was generally performed bare handed or with the nearest blunt object at hand.
Bah, copper sulfate isn't *that* dangerous. At least not when we're talking 60g in 3.78L of water, using an additional 20mL of 70% sulfuric acid to help it dissolve. At that point you're really almost to "just don't drink it or use it as eyewash, and wash your hands after use" -- it's also nifty for detecting unalloyed iron contamination, dunno what else it reacts with offhand though.
My employer has a vendor that has a "lite" version of discriminating on the base of religion. Basically, if you are known to be the wrong faith, then the powers that be simply watch you closer, looking for a reason to terminate. As in, you have to be extra careful not to step on any toes, and everything gets scrutinized a little more than if you were the "right" faith.
OK, so never drink around other human beings under any circumstances, never socialize outside the most prudish and formal situations possible, basically never ever do anything with anyone who might potentially be entertaining unless it's inside closed doors and you've already searched everyone and forced them to keep their phones and cameras locked away?
That's simple, the "Right to Bear Arms" is explicitly stated as being sacrosanct. The public doesn't see DRM etc as an infringement on property rights, as they largely drink the industry Kool-Aid. Hence why restricting one is a crime against humanity and the other is perfectly fine.
OK, so does that mean that the PSJailbreak is illegal but that at least one of the open source implementations of the same hack (PSGroove) is fine because it specifically disabled the piracy functionality (though in a trivial way if you look at the source) and it's creators do not talk about piracy at all aside from the clear declaration "This software is not intended to enable piracy, and such features have been disabled. This software is intended to allow the execution of unsigned third-party apps and games on the PS3."?
It can't be used for piracy out of the box (read: without altering the source and recompiling). It advertises itself as specifically not intended for piracy, and that such use has been disabled.
Would you consider it in the same position as PSJailbreak?
Of course, but they should still be targeting the people actually violating their copyrights rather than the guys who are doing something directly analogous to what was declared legal with phones recently.
In all reality the genie is out of the bottle, and it's only a matter of time before custom firmware is released that tells Sony it's current and has the full current feature set but allows execution of unsigned code. The current version of PSGroove is capable of allowing homebrew to write to the firmware, CFW is just a matter of time.
Their response to the hack is just a continuation of what happened with GeoHot. They retroactively cut a feature (Other OS) from consoles in the wild. They have since done it again (the ability to use third party USB devices at all). Frankly, everyone who knows about this hack is going to grab one whether they care about piracy or not, and refuse to update until there's CFW, ideally CFW that restores OtherOS.
And by "code specifically and exclusively designed to play copied Blu-Ray games" you mean the disabled out of the box (by that I mean you have to alter the source and recompile to enable it, or use a fork of PSGroove that has done so -- there are several) ability to mount a folder on any attached device in place of the Blu-Ray device.
I do wonder from what you've said though, since I haven't analyzed the payload -- is it as simple as you claim, is the code that allows blu-ray redirection completely unused by the rest of the payload and all non-BackupManager software in any way, such that it would be trivial to remove that piece of code while not effecting the rest of the functionality in any way?
The open source clones actually specifically disable the "piracy" function, by blocking bluray dvd access. It's admittedly not hard by any means to re-enable it, but it's disabled the way it is for a reason -- they haven't found a way to re-enable or reinstall Other OS yet, and the only "piracy" functionality really left after their alteration is "can run unsigned code."
They should crack down on the github branches that re-enable the piracy functionality, and on the so-called "hermes payload" which is an altered payload with more advanced piracy functionality.
The jailbreak itself doesn't use Sony's SDK. Pretty much all currently available homebrew (except maybe PSPong?) does use it however, since there isn't a stable open alternative...yet. Building a complete, mature, and stable SDK for a newly accessible system in, what, a month? is frankly an unreasonable demand.
Sony should be driving legal action to stop the current PSJailbreak scene, but they shouldn't be targeting the creators of PSGroove, PSFreedom, or OpenPSJailbreak -- they should be attacking the people who have released actual homebrew to date using the Sony SDK (which is, admittedly, basically all of it so far and includes the original creators of the PSJailbreak hack). That would protect their copyrights while also encouraging the creation of an open SDK as an alternative to the leaked Sony SDK.
He was smiling because he gets additional warm fuzzies that random people on the internet may or may not be downloading his images?
I mean yeah, he's smiling because some young girl/teenager is having sex with him, but your downloading an image of such isn't providing support/motivation unless the idea that people might be doing exactly that is the underlying motivation and not the act with the kid itself (if the whole "sex with her" is the underlying motivation, then random stranger on the internet downloading pictures are essentially unrelated and accordingly are not supporting the process).
Pretty much. Most of the anti-union views in the US are ultimately derived from the pathological "thing" we've created by not restricting the powers of the unions enough and in the right ways. It's in part what I was getting at in my last paragraph: You don't "get" where myself and the other poster we both replied to are coming from, because in your country unions were put n a much shorter leash to begin with, preventing them from getting out of hand.
I very much understand the importance of unions, and what they put a stop to, and why a lot of labor laws are needed in the first place. Where I'm from, we get that drilled into our heads in 8th-9th grade state history and civics classes (WV, so there's a decent chunk of state history that goes into exactly what happens when a company is the only major employer in an area and has no restrictions on them -- read "coal towns"). That doesn't mean that what unions have become in the US since isn't an abomination.
"Hack the machine to get it to sell for $10 er ounce, sell at $300 per ounce so that you can dump your ill gotten gold very quickly for 30 times what you spent."
When it's effectively stolen gold, being able to dump it quickly is far more important than getting full market value out of it, just like any other stolen property.
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Speaking of common carriers, why not make it a choice on the part of the ISPs -- let them either accept common carrier status which requires them to be a "dumb pipe" as it were (no restrictions beyond basic QoS) but accordingly frees them from responsibility for what goes over the line, or let them elect to do all the nefarious filtering and such, at which point they are responsible and liable for everything that goes across their lines in both directions.
I'm sorry MPAA, but my ISP is not a common carrier, so I assumed all data I was able to receive was legal and authorized. You need to sue them *too*. Speaking of which I just got a trojan from a browser exploit on a site they authorized. I need to take them to small claims court to make them fix my computer, since their specifically authorized content damaged it. =)
Compatibility reasons maybe? It's not like game programmers for DOS liked to use sometimes bizarre and certainly nonstandard ways of accessing various hardware or anything. Except that they did. Quite a lot, in fact.
It's also a silly idea to think that much done by a male that age is done for any other reason.
Amusingly most of the SNL skit stuff that was said were just exaggerations of things she had actually said, no different than when politicians turn generally reasonable statements about a topic into extremes to make an opponent sound bad, like "X sometimes agrees with Obama" into "X is just a rubber stamp for Obama, let me list every time he's agreed with Obama and pretend there are no counterexamples!"
Honestly she turned me off of her in one interview where she couldn't answer the question of what the actual duties of the office she was running for were -- seriously, shouldn't that be the most basic thing you know and can answer on the spot? Especially for the office of vice president, which has an amazingly short list of actual duties?
My employer has random drug testing as a condition of employment. Some subset of the employees operate some manner of heavy equipment on a day-to-day basis and everyone else at least has access to company vehicles, so that may have something to do with it.
Only so long as your camera never photographs a law enforcement officer, theoretically a servant of the public, in the line of duty. Because then, you know, you might have evidence of them doing something untoward.
How would you prevent them from compelling people to give that permission? I mean, at the very least, they could simply bin any applications that don't give them permission -- if you want to even be considered, then give us permission to spy on you.
Unless that group of people are wealthy enough and call themselves an "investment firm", in which case it would become OK.
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Neither is an unnecessary service, strictly speaking. Lawyers are overvalued because of our overly litigious society by a long shot, however. The moment we start talking about things where someone needs a loan that beyond individual ability to offer, banks become necessary. Unless we're talking about a system in which the seller loans the buyer a physical good in exchange for a prescribed payment plan, in which case the seller is providing effectively the same service but with greater risk.
Personally, instead of trying to be clever, I'd drop it conveniently on the tracks at a railroad crossing, momentarily after the flashers start, assuming it isn't too large. Or some other "sane for a car to have passed, dangerous for small electronics" locations. It fell off, after all. You need to attach your surveillance electronics better.
I was wondering the same thing. The only US colonization game I can think of offhand at all is Oregon Trail, though I don't see how slavery would have significantly contributed to it at all. The slaughter of natives would certainly be more relevant, at least.
The funny part is that I'm from a state that 45th or lower on all the good statistics and 5th or higher on all the bad ones, and our public schools weren't nearly that bad. We had kinda big classes, and there was non-zero violence but at least we all had books and the violence was generally performed bare handed or with the nearest blunt object at hand.
Bah, copper sulfate isn't *that* dangerous. At least not when we're talking 60g in 3.78L of water, using an additional 20mL of 70% sulfuric acid to help it dissolve. At that point you're really almost to "just don't drink it or use it as eyewash, and wash your hands after use" -- it's also nifty for detecting unalloyed iron contamination, dunno what else it reacts with offhand though.
My employer has a vendor that has a "lite" version of discriminating on the base of religion. Basically, if you are known to be the wrong faith, then the powers that be simply watch you closer, looking for a reason to terminate. As in, you have to be extra careful not to step on any toes, and everything gets scrutinized a little more than if you were the "right" faith.
OK, so never drink around other human beings under any circumstances, never socialize outside the most prudish and formal situations possible, basically never ever do anything with anyone who might potentially be entertaining unless it's inside closed doors and you've already searched everyone and forced them to keep their phones and cameras locked away?
Seems like a reasonable option, there.
That's simple, the "Right to Bear Arms" is explicitly stated as being sacrosanct. The public doesn't see DRM etc as an infringement on property rights, as they largely drink the industry Kool-Aid. Hence why restricting one is a crime against humanity and the other is perfectly fine.
OK, so does that mean that the PSJailbreak is illegal but that at least one of the open source implementations of the same hack (PSGroove) is fine because it specifically disabled the piracy functionality (though in a trivial way if you look at the source) and it's creators do not talk about piracy at all aside from the clear declaration "This software is not intended to enable piracy, and such features have been disabled. This software is intended to allow the execution of unsigned third-party apps and games on the PS3."?
It can't be used for piracy out of the box (read: without altering the source and recompiling).
It advertises itself as specifically not intended for piracy, and that such use has been disabled.
Would you consider it in the same position as PSJailbreak?
Of course, but they should still be targeting the people actually violating their copyrights rather than the guys who are doing something directly analogous to what was declared legal with phones recently.
In all reality the genie is out of the bottle, and it's only a matter of time before custom firmware is released that tells Sony it's current and has the full current feature set but allows execution of unsigned code. The current version of PSGroove is capable of allowing homebrew to write to the firmware, CFW is just a matter of time.
Their response to the hack is just a continuation of what happened with GeoHot. They retroactively cut a feature (Other OS) from consoles in the wild. They have since done it again (the ability to use third party USB devices at all). Frankly, everyone who knows about this hack is going to grab one whether they care about piracy or not, and refuse to update until there's CFW, ideally CFW that restores OtherOS.
And by "code specifically and exclusively designed to play copied Blu-Ray games" you mean the disabled out of the box (by that I mean you have to alter the source and recompile to enable it, or use a fork of PSGroove that has done so -- there are several) ability to mount a folder on any attached device in place of the Blu-Ray device.
I do wonder from what you've said though, since I haven't analyzed the payload -- is it as simple as you claim, is the code that allows blu-ray redirection completely unused by the rest of the payload and all non-BackupManager software in any way, such that it would be trivial to remove that piece of code while not effecting the rest of the functionality in any way?
The open source clones actually specifically disable the "piracy" function, by blocking bluray dvd access. It's admittedly not hard by any means to re-enable it, but it's disabled the way it is for a reason -- they haven't found a way to re-enable or reinstall Other OS yet, and the only "piracy" functionality really left after their alteration is "can run unsigned code."
They should crack down on the github branches that re-enable the piracy functionality, and on the so-called "hermes payload" which is an altered payload with more advanced piracy functionality.
The jailbreak itself doesn't use Sony's SDK. Pretty much all currently available homebrew (except maybe PSPong?) does use it however, since there isn't a stable open alternative...yet. Building a complete, mature, and stable SDK for a newly accessible system in, what, a month? is frankly an unreasonable demand.
Sony should be driving legal action to stop the current PSJailbreak scene, but they shouldn't be targeting the creators of PSGroove, PSFreedom, or OpenPSJailbreak -- they should be attacking the people who have released actual homebrew to date using the Sony SDK (which is, admittedly, basically all of it so far and includes the original creators of the PSJailbreak hack). That would protect their copyrights while also encouraging the creation of an open SDK as an alternative to the leaked Sony SDK.
He was smiling because he gets additional warm fuzzies that random people on the internet may or may not be downloading his images?
I mean yeah, he's smiling because some young girl/teenager is having sex with him, but your downloading an image of such isn't providing support/motivation unless the idea that people might be doing exactly that is the underlying motivation and not the act with the kid itself (if the whole "sex with her" is the underlying motivation, then random stranger on the internet downloading pictures are essentially unrelated and accordingly are not supporting the process).
Pretty much. Most of the anti-union views in the US are ultimately derived from the pathological "thing" we've created by not restricting the powers of the unions enough and in the right ways. It's in part what I was getting at in my last paragraph: You don't "get" where myself and the other poster we both replied to are coming from, because in your country unions were put n a much shorter leash to begin with, preventing them from getting out of hand.
I very much understand the importance of unions, and what they put a stop to, and why a lot of labor laws are needed in the first place. Where I'm from, we get that drilled into our heads in 8th-9th grade state history and civics classes (WV, so there's a decent chunk of state history that goes into exactly what happens when a company is the only major employer in an area and has no restrictions on them -- read "coal towns"). That doesn't mean that what unions have become in the US since isn't an abomination.
You definitely missed his point:
"Hack the machine to get it to sell for $10 er ounce, sell at $300 per ounce so that you can dump your ill gotten gold very quickly for 30 times what you spent."
When it's effectively stolen gold, being able to dump it quickly is far more important than getting full market value out of it, just like any other stolen property.