Yes, but to make the point the post above yours did. The Joker was originally a homicidal lunatic, he's Chaotic Evil incarnate with a veneer of perverting the clown image as clowns are supposed to be bright and entertaining characters. This is entirely to make him a strong contrast to Batman, who is all about Order above all and generally acting for the good of the people who if not respecting the law per se still has a fairly rigid code about which lines he will and will not cross, coupled to a dark and intimidating visage.
The CCA-effected Joker was less violence, Chaos, and perversion of all that is good for personal gain and amusement, making the contrast less severe. He was meant to be *disturbing* if you actually thought about it too much (kinda like everything in the TV show Dollhouse, if you thought about the concept behind the show for more than 10s, you should have been well into Nightmare Fuel territory, even from the first episode).
There are two groups of people, those who want to pirate, and those who want to develop/homebrew/tinker. There is some overlap between the two, but most of the technical skill is in the latter and most of the money willing to buy something from you is in the former, so long as you are cheaper than the total number of games they wish to pirate.
If the homebrew guys can do their thing uninterrupted, there's less development put towards making a modchip, but once one is made it has to be presented in a way that makes piracy clear in order to sell enough that the developer recoups his time/effort circumventing protections that are too restrictive to let him do his thing.
Really, what's needed is a restricted version of the dev kit aimed at homebrewers -- say one that explicitly disables any access to the optical drive or anything else that might be used for piracy, and is signed under a different key to enforce that. Keeps the homebrewers happy, and reduces the talent pool for the "bad" kinds of exploits. All at the cost of letting homebrewers do their thing.
Heh, from my position both the nearest post office and nearest grocery store are within two blocks, closer to 5 miles if I need fresh produce or fresh meat. Nearest UPS Store is 15 miles away, nearest UPS distribution center closer to 30. FedEx is a few miles farther out in both cases.
...which is in large part due to their being required to cover everyone, and there being a handful of exceptionally expensive places to deliver mail in this country, who don't bear the real cost of getting it there to receive it.
If I were willing to lay down the coin for a PSJailbreak, I know of a few games in my collection that would immediately get run through the Backup Manager if only because they have "unpleasant" load times and being on a HDD would vastly improve them. The lack of any other homebrew at this point makes it less attractive though, and by the time there is significant other homebrew it'll be cloned and cheap.
It's actually a bummer that it's not a reverse engineered JIG stick though -- if it were it would be essentially unpatchable, as the JIG is used to boot the thing in a factory repair mode, one that used for things like repairing a machine that has corrupted firmware. To do what they do with it, it has to work in a manner that circumvents the firmware.
I expect they'll start bans based on the application ID of the Backup Manager since that's the most they can do without a firmware update (and noone using one will update firmware). Which will in turn lead to it stealing it's signature from another app, much like DSi flash carts do (I know mine claims to be Danny Phantom).
You mean something like different connectors for each tube type, with the connectors and a band above each end being color and letter coded (with both colo and letter being unique) to make it easier to grab the right one in a hurry, say for example a red connector with a white letter B for IV lines, as they connect to the bloodstream (thus making for an easy mental connection when you need one NOW and it's critical red = blood = starts with B), whilst neither red nor B is in use for any other kind of tube?
So is Louisiana Creole a perfectly acceptable way to speak French then?
Of course, I'm from one of those places where we were more or less isolated for a good stretch of time and have our own dialect of English, but at least we can easily speak with those only familiar with SAE, since Appalachian English only varies from SAE by a few grammatical quirks (like having a distinct plural form of you) and a handful of lexical borrows from Scottish and Irish that tended to end up here. Supposedly it's easier for a speaker of AE to understand SAE than vice versa though, not sure why that would be the case.
Doesn't prevent the speech of my ancestors and that which we use in casual situations from being derided as a lesser form of speech, though. We just can't use the race card.
License agreement to use the "Homebrew kit" and homebrew executables are signed with a different cert than commercial ones. One of the terms being very specifically that anything made with the homebrew kit is not for commercial distribution, including a firmware embedded splash screen with all the appropriate warnings on each boot of the software. Also restrict anything signed as homebrew from doing certain specific things (like reading from an optical drive) to make loaders and the like more difficult.
Not exactly. All the current gen systems (PS3, 360, PSP, DSi, Wii) have either a USB port, SD slot, or MemoryStick Pro Duo slot that they support running properly signed software from already, so no need for custom hardware, just firmware that recognizes the "homebrew" signed software as valid and executable under a more restricted environment.
I'm saying something to the tune of a downloadable kit that includes the "I am homebrew" cert, a mostly complete API (missing only features that the firmware locks hombrew-signed software out of) and a compiler.
The firmware should of course display warnings to the effect of "this software is not licensed for commercial sale, this software has not been licensed or approved for use or sale by (manufacturer), and (manufacturer) is not responsible for any harm caused", etc, etc, etc.
Or, more likely you've got a set in the overlap between the two, including a not insignificant number who would fall in "I want to homebrew and Linux etc, and would pirate if it's not too difficult but I'm not willing to invest time/effort to do so if I've got homebrew/linux. Now I need a hack to do it, and now that I've made a hack how do I spread the word/turn a profit on my time/effort? Hai pirates, I can haz moniez for donglez plz?"
Heh, I more or less failed regarding the PSP -- I grabbed one of the Peacewalker bundles, and then went to check what was on PSN, forcing an update from 6.2 to 6.3. All before even really looking into hacking them at all, and before I really thought about how perfect a PSP would be to run SNES9x on.
This goes back to one of those things I've always wondered: Why do the console makers not release a "homebrew developer's kit" for their consoles? As in a kit that runs on a PC and contains a compiler and basic libraries (preferably with the same API as the *real* dev kit, minus the parts you specifically don't let the homebrew kit produce). Put a restriction in the firmware that prevents a homebrew app from reading files from a directory that isn't a subdirectory of it's own, and blocks it from accessing the disc drive/cartridge slot/however you would load software in the machine otherwise.
With sufficient capability to create properly signed executables for their respective machines and properly install them on an SD/Memory Stick/USB card/drive so the console will recognize them, maybe with a mandatory "This was created with the [company] Homebrew Software kit. This software has not been approved or licensed by [company] and is not licensed for commercial distribution. If you have paid money for this software please contact [company] at [phone number]."
Actually, bake that warning screen into the firmware (along with all other provisos and restrictions) and have the homebrew compiler use a different signing key than licensed applications to differentiate the two.
You figure it out, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33088778 is my +1 Troll post. The moderation screen lists it as 50% Troll, 50% Insightful, which doesn't make a lot of sense by the way the moderation works.
The problem of course being that it's wildly overapplied. Ideally a combination of severity and likelihood of recidivism would determine that -- the drunk pissing in the bushes is pretty much bottom rung in both cases, the guy streaking on a dare is still pretty low, the guy who has systematically raped a continuing array of toddlers from the position of a caregiver is about as far up the scale on both sides as you can go.
In all but one scenario sex is bad/sinful, in that one scenario contraception=murder? That to me says "I want lots of sexually frustrated youths who will produce lots of babies within the faith starting fairly young in a setting where the child is certain to be indoctrinated as well."
I suppose it could be one of those "Jesus had the right idea as presented. More or less everything afterward is a perversion of the general way he showed" things. I've known people like that. The most "faithful" (I guess that's the right word) such person like that I've known actually ended up taking up Buddhism once they realized how similar it and his own beliefs actually were.
No, because that provides the appearance of condoning sin and directly selling God's forgiveness. If you merely threaten them with infinite pain if they don't donate^Wrepent, then quietly pass around the plate, it's different.
The funny part is that there's an entire discipline around defending why things that are not convenient nowadays "don't count" post Jesus while the things you still want to be offended by do.
What comes out of your mouth is more important than what goes in it = we can freely ignore all of the diet related restrictions in the Bible because none of them have any weight at all anymore, so long as we still hate the icky gays. Not an example of the previously mentioned discipline, but another argument I've heard in the past two weeks.
Which goes back to the whole "it could happen every day" stance -- lets pretend primitive proto-life does in fact come to be semi-frequently, quasi bacteria for example. What happens to these barely extant life forms when the rest of our "been put through the crucible for several million years" elaborate killing machines gets a hold of them? Hint: While I suppose spontaneously forming life as a semi-common process is *possible*, I would expect that even if true effectively none of it never reaches generation 2.
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Heh, every year when my evaluation comes around I get a raise and an apology that the raise wasn't bigger. Small-ish business though.
Yes, but to make the point the post above yours did. The Joker was originally a homicidal lunatic, he's Chaotic Evil incarnate with a veneer of perverting the clown image as clowns are supposed to be bright and entertaining characters. This is entirely to make him a strong contrast to Batman, who is all about Order above all and generally acting for the good of the people who if not respecting the law per se still has a fairly rigid code about which lines he will and will not cross, coupled to a dark and intimidating visage.
The CCA-effected Joker was less violence, Chaos, and perversion of all that is good for personal gain and amusement, making the contrast less severe. He was meant to be *disturbing* if you actually thought about it too much (kinda like everything in the TV show Dollhouse, if you thought about the concept behind the show for more than 10s, you should have been well into Nightmare Fuel territory, even from the first episode).
Seriously? It always looks like this to me:
There are two groups of people, those who want to pirate, and those who want to develop/homebrew/tinker. There is some overlap between the two, but most of the technical skill is in the latter and most of the money willing to buy something from you is in the former, so long as you are cheaper than the total number of games they wish to pirate.
If the homebrew guys can do their thing uninterrupted, there's less development put towards making a modchip, but once one is made it has to be presented in a way that makes piracy clear in order to sell enough that the developer recoups his time/effort circumventing protections that are too restrictive to let him do his thing.
Really, what's needed is a restricted version of the dev kit aimed at homebrewers -- say one that explicitly disables any access to the optical drive or anything else that might be used for piracy, and is signed under a different key to enforce that. Keeps the homebrewers happy, and reduces the talent pool for the "bad" kinds of exploits. All at the cost of letting homebrewers do their thing.
Umm, since it puts you in factory repair mode, couldn't you just, you know, write a package other than the backup manager and run that?
I mean yeah, it's not terribly useful without an SDK or at least a compiler, but it does what needs done to run unsigned code.
Heh, from my position both the nearest post office and nearest grocery store are within two blocks, closer to 5 miles if I need fresh produce or fresh meat. Nearest UPS Store is 15 miles away, nearest UPS distribution center closer to 30. FedEx is a few miles farther out in both cases.
...which is in large part due to their being required to cover everyone, and there being a handful of exceptionally expensive places to deliver mail in this country, who don't bear the real cost of getting it there to receive it.
If I were willing to lay down the coin for a PSJailbreak, I know of a few games in my collection that would immediately get run through the Backup Manager if only because they have "unpleasant" load times and being on a HDD would vastly improve them. The lack of any other homebrew at this point makes it less attractive though, and by the time there is significant other homebrew it'll be cloned and cheap.
It's actually a bummer that it's not a reverse engineered JIG stick though -- if it were it would be essentially unpatchable, as the JIG is used to boot the thing in a factory repair mode, one that used for things like repairing a machine that has corrupted firmware. To do what they do with it, it has to work in a manner that circumvents the firmware.
I expect they'll start bans based on the application ID of the Backup Manager since that's the most they can do without a firmware update (and noone using one will update firmware). Which will in turn lead to it stealing it's signature from another app, much like DSi flash carts do (I know mine claims to be Danny Phantom).
So long as you can visit 4chan and the like without being innately suspicious, LOLCats = Evil pedophile terrorist secret messages?
You mean something like different connectors for each tube type, with the connectors and a band above each end being color and letter coded (with both colo and letter being unique) to make it easier to grab the right one in a hurry, say for example a red connector with a white letter B for IV lines, as they connect to the bloodstream (thus making for an easy mental connection when you need one NOW and it's critical red = blood = starts with B), whilst neither red nor B is in use for any other kind of tube?
So is Louisiana Creole a perfectly acceptable way to speak French then?
Of course, I'm from one of those places where we were more or less isolated for a good stretch of time and have our own dialect of English, but at least we can easily speak with those only familiar with SAE, since Appalachian English only varies from SAE by a few grammatical quirks (like having a distinct plural form of you) and a handful of lexical borrows from Scottish and Irish that tended to end up here. Supposedly it's easier for a speaker of AE to understand SAE than vice versa though, not sure why that would be the case.
Doesn't prevent the speech of my ancestors and that which we use in casual situations from being derided as a lesser form of speech, though. We just can't use the race card.
...because their client lacks "jury tampering" money?
Shouldn't that be "protocol is open"? It's not like they can turn around and retroactively close it or anything.
License agreement to use the "Homebrew kit" and homebrew executables are signed with a different cert than commercial ones. One of the terms being very specifically that anything made with the homebrew kit is not for commercial distribution, including a firmware embedded splash screen with all the appropriate warnings on each boot of the software. Also restrict anything signed as homebrew from doing certain specific things (like reading from an optical drive) to make loaders and the like more difficult.
Not exactly. All the current gen systems (PS3, 360, PSP, DSi, Wii) have either a USB port, SD slot, or MemoryStick Pro Duo slot that they support running properly signed software from already, so no need for custom hardware, just firmware that recognizes the "homebrew" signed software as valid and executable under a more restricted environment.
I'm saying something to the tune of a downloadable kit that includes the "I am homebrew" cert, a mostly complete API (missing only features that the firmware locks hombrew-signed software out of) and a compiler.
The firmware should of course display warnings to the effect of "this software is not licensed for commercial sale, this software has not been licensed or approved for use or sale by (manufacturer), and (manufacturer) is not responsible for any harm caused", etc, etc, etc.
Or, more likely you've got a set in the overlap between the two, including a not insignificant number who would fall in "I want to homebrew and Linux etc, and would pirate if it's not too difficult but I'm not willing to invest time/effort to do so if I've got homebrew/linux. Now I need a hack to do it, and now that I've made a hack how do I spread the word/turn a profit on my time/effort? Hai pirates, I can haz moniez for donglez plz?"
Heh, I more or less failed regarding the PSP -- I grabbed one of the Peacewalker bundles, and then went to check what was on PSN, forcing an update from 6.2 to 6.3. All before even really looking into hacking them at all, and before I really thought about how perfect a PSP would be to run SNES9x on.
This goes back to one of those things I've always wondered: Why do the console makers not release a "homebrew developer's kit" for their consoles? As in a kit that runs on a PC and contains a compiler and basic libraries (preferably with the same API as the *real* dev kit, minus the parts you specifically don't let the homebrew kit produce). Put a restriction in the firmware that prevents a homebrew app from reading files from a directory that isn't a subdirectory of it's own, and blocks it from accessing the disc drive/cartridge slot/however you would load software in the machine otherwise.
With sufficient capability to create properly signed executables for their respective machines and properly install them on an SD/Memory Stick/USB card/drive so the console will recognize them, maybe with a mandatory "This was created with the [company] Homebrew Software kit. This software has not been approved or licensed by [company] and is not licensed for commercial distribution. If you have paid money for this software please contact [company] at [phone number]."
Actually, bake that warning screen into the firmware (along with all other provisos and restrictions) and have the homebrew compiler use a different signing key than licensed applications to differentiate the two.
You figure it out, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33088778 is my +1 Troll post. The moderation screen lists it as 50% Troll, 50% Insightful, which doesn't make a lot of sense by the way the moderation works.
Why not limit the registry to "sex offenders" and then neuter the breadth of what counts as a "sex offender"?
The problem of course being that it's wildly overapplied. Ideally a combination of severity and likelihood of recidivism would determine that -- the drunk pissing in the bushes is pretty much bottom rung in both cases, the guy streaking on a dare is still pretty low, the guy who has systematically raped a continuing array of toddlers from the position of a caregiver is about as far up the scale on both sides as you can go.
In all but one scenario sex is bad/sinful, in that one scenario contraception=murder? That to me says "I want lots of sexually frustrated youths who will produce lots of babies within the faith starting fairly young in a setting where the child is certain to be indoctrinated as well."
I suppose it could be one of those "Jesus had the right idea as presented. More or less everything afterward is a perversion of the general way he showed" things. I've known people like that. The most "faithful" (I guess that's the right word) such person like that I've known actually ended up taking up Buddhism once they realized how similar it and his own beliefs actually were.
No, because that provides the appearance of condoning sin and directly selling God's forgiveness. If you merely threaten them with infinite pain if they don't donate^Wrepent, then quietly pass around the plate, it's different.
The funny part is that there's an entire discipline around defending why things that are not convenient nowadays "don't count" post Jesus while the things you still want to be offended by do.
What comes out of your mouth is more important than what goes in it = we can freely ignore all of the diet related restrictions in the Bible because none of them have any weight at all anymore, so long as we still hate the icky gays. Not an example of the previously mentioned discipline, but another argument I've heard in the past two weeks.
Which goes back to the whole "it could happen every day" stance -- lets pretend primitive proto-life does in fact come to be semi-frequently, quasi bacteria for example. What happens to these barely extant life forms when the rest of our "been put through the crucible for several million years" elaborate killing machines gets a hold of them? Hint: While I suppose spontaneously forming life as a semi-common process is *possible*, I would expect that even if true effectively none of it never reaches generation 2.