People over in Sweden still value their freedoms unlike you and are more patriotic than any US citizen it seems. Nice generalization, jackass. No, really, you're a jackass for that comment. There are still people in the US who value their freedoms, and try to stand up for them, it's not our damn fault that we can't change the country by ourselves.
Doesn't matter. Stupid users trump all possible security measures (except locking them out of the system for their own good, which isn't really feasible), and there's no shortage of them. Until the programmers can prevent stupid users from infecting their systems, it doesn't matter how damn many malware samples there are in the wild, and you have no right to be smug about the security of your OS.
imho, any user stupid enough (in a security sense) to click random banner ads is stupid enough to enter their password when asked for it, on blind faith.
I'm not saying that having a secure OS is an unworthy goal, by any means, but whatever OS is top dog will always be the most plagued by stupid users... and unless you lock them out of the system (which is just going to piss them off), there's nothing that can be done about it.
I don't have any problem with you voicing your opinion. It's a public forum, after all. But if you get to whine about stupid, unimportant things, I sure as hell have the right to tell you that your issues are stupid and unimportant.
You know what? I don't particularly care if you approve, I think the story belongs (and apparently I'm not alone). We're only talking about one of the most hotly anticipated Wii games which is ever going to come out here, after all. And if you have a problem with it... it's not even on the main page, it's in the games section. So, if you have such a problem with seeing it (your loss), I suggest you take Games stories off your front page, because that's what the section is for. You know, news about (gasp) games.
Exactly. Open source shouldn't be treated like some sort of religion, where people run around evangelizing it all the time. If people want to know about it, tell them. If there's an open source program which is better than the proprietary ones (usually not the case), tell them... but not because it's open source, do it because it works better.
Most of the people in the comments seem to get this, which is a relief to me. Whoever wrote the summary, however, does not. You shouldn't convince people to switch to anything, if it's better for them, it won't take much effort to get them to realize that.
...eagerly installed VS2005 to discover that MS had turned VS into a bloated monster that was slow to open do *anything* (the performance of Intellisense greatly improved my knowledge of MFC because it was easier to memorize all the methods than wait for it to show them to me)... You mean MS turned VC++ into that, maybe. VS is not that, I use VC# 2005 all the time and it works great. I don't use VC++, so your complaints against it may be valid, but they don't apply to the whole studio.
Maybe the C++ editor in newer versions of Visual Studio just blows chunks, but I've certainly never had the problems with responsiveness you cite with VC# 2005. It runs just fine. And this is on a crappy computer, no less... on my good computer, it runs even better.
I never said I couldn't read C++, just that it gives me a headache. If I put effort into it, I can do it, but I have yet to use a language (well, except INTERCAL) which has messier, more difficult-to-read syntax than C++.
Yeah, I kinda have to laugh at the ingenuity of making someone pay for violating your copyright by making them appear to link to goatse. That guy is all right in my book.
It has nothing to do with the value of the picture. There was no real harm done, however, if the media companies are going to be dicks about copyright, and enforce it to within the last nanometer of the law, individuals can and should do the same back to them when the big guys violate copyright. Turnabout is fair play, after all.
The fact that there is such a code of conduct does not give them the right, it means that there's a code of conduct. The school's right to punish for non-school related activities is still quite separate. By your logic, if I have a code of conduct clearly displayed to all visitors to my home which states that I may shoot them if they piss me off, I shouldn't get murder charges if I shoot them, because that code of conduct gave me the right to do so.
I agree, but that doesn't make it less wrong for the administrators to have been digging around for this stuff. If it gets brought to their attention, they'd have to deal with it appropriately then, but LOOKING for it is plain wrong.
You're right that there's no expectation of privacy, though. That's why I said the kids were stupid for putting the photos up.
You're correct, the students were unlikely to post photos of themselves. However, I disagree that there's no one to blame. The administrators are solidly to blame for sitting looking through Facebook photos to check up on their students. This is unacceptable abuse of authority, and should not be tolerated.
I think that the kids are pretty stupid to post photos of themselves doing illegal things on the Internet, but neither is it the administrators' business to be scouring Facebook for such things. Their job is to deal with things as they're brought to their attention, not be a surveillance force.
That point doesn't even make sense in the context of this discussion. The GPL is (supposedly) about sharing your changes with the community. Fine, cool. However, what you're arguing is that not only are you supposed to be sharing your changes with the community, but you shouldn't be doing things the community doesn't approve of. In other words, "I'm going to let everyone use this because I'm generous like that, but only as long as you do it in the way I specifically approve of". Well, if that's the way that you guys want to try to run things, fine, but that ain't freedom. Freedom does not include telling people that they have to follow your moral beliefs, and you do not have the right to make the company help you modify your device as you see fit.
You know what? If you want to make your TiVo run exactly how you want it to, great... but TiVo isn't obligated to help you in that endeavor. And if you choose, as a punishment, to try to not allow them to benefit from the work you're supposedly giving away as a benefit to all mankind, then you don't really believe in that altruism, you're just paying lip-service. Then again, it's been painfully obvious to me from the first time I read the GPL that it's not about freedom, it's about enforcing your ideology as much as possible on others.
1) Blu-Ray movies don't cost $25-30, unless we're not using US dollars here. They cost more like $20-$25, I rarely see Blu-Ray titles for >$25.
2) So they're encrypted. Whoop-de-fuckin' doo. So are DVDs, I hope that you have just as much moral objection to them, and refuse to use them.
True. Besides, the idea that Java is damaging to students is pure bullshit anyway. If the students are learning the Java way to do things, and nothing else, then they have horrible professors. I learned CS from good profs (well... one good and one bad), and surprise, even though I got my start in Java, I am perfectly capable of doing things in other ways.
When I took data structures, and we used C++, I didn't have mental convulsions because Java had wrecked up my thinking so much (although I did have mental convulsions cause C++ is incredibly messy to read at a glance), I learned different ways of doing things. So, maybe these professors should look at whoever's teaching these kids so sloppily, not the language.
No, many of their games are crap (or, at least, games I can't stand, which is different, I grant you). EA produces good games, they just happen to be few and far between compared to the masses of mediocre/bad games they put out.
Also, I'm still pissed off that they bought the NFL license. God forbid we have a level playing field here... your competition makes a better game than you, so take away their ability to make it! Good game, EA (and NFL). Good fucking game.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I thought KOTOR 2 was excellent. The plot wasn't as good as KOTOR, but the gameplay was much better (extra levels, extra feats, lightsaber forms were actually pretty damn cool). It ran just fine for me (and on a woefully underpowered system, at that), I encountered no bugs, and the level design was pretty much the exact same damn formula as in KOTOR, so you have no grounds whatsoever to complain on that note. I will agree that the ending sucked the big one, but the rest of the game was pretty damn good, and a worthy sequel to KOTOR.
I didn't miss that at all. I'm saying you seem to be claiming we shouldn't assess the risks of doing something ("Life has risks, get over it"), which isn't true at all. Sometimes, the risk will be worth taking. Sometimes, it won't. Sometimes, we can avoid the risk altogether. These are important questions to consider.
Maybe so, but we're talking about the class-action suit here. Those people have every right to vote with their dollars, but filing a class-action suit is ridiculous, imnsho.
I disagree that the game is a kick in the balls, but for the record: the fact that it's an Xbox Live Arcade game does not mean you'll need to play it over Xbox Live. Many of the Arcade games have a single-player, or local multiplayer, component. You do need to be able to download the thing from XBL, though.
Exactly. Most likely, they don't give a damn about us one way or the other. Saying they actively wish to harm us is just kind of... dumb. Why should they care what the hell happens to us (so long as they're getting what they want)?
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Doesn't matter. Stupid users trump all possible security measures (except locking them out of the system for their own good, which isn't really feasible), and there's no shortage of them. Until the programmers can prevent stupid users from infecting their systems, it doesn't matter how damn many malware samples there are in the wild, and you have no right to be smug about the security of your OS.
I'm not saying that having a secure OS is an unworthy goal, by any means, but whatever OS is top dog will always be the most plagued by stupid users... and unless you lock them out of the system (which is just going to piss them off), there's nothing that can be done about it.
I don't have any problem with you voicing your opinion. It's a public forum, after all. But if you get to whine about stupid, unimportant things, I sure as hell have the right to tell you that your issues are stupid and unimportant.
You know what? I don't particularly care if you approve, I think the story belongs (and apparently I'm not alone). We're only talking about one of the most hotly anticipated Wii games which is ever going to come out here, after all. And if you have a problem with it... it's not even on the main page, it's in the games section. So, if you have such a problem with seeing it (your loss), I suggest you take Games stories off your front page, because that's what the section is for. You know, news about (gasp) games.
Good God, people will whine about anything.
Most of the people in the comments seem to get this, which is a relief to me. Whoever wrote the summary, however, does not. You shouldn't convince people to switch to anything, if it's better for them, it won't take much effort to get them to realize that.
...eagerly installed VS2005 to discover that MS had turned VS into a bloated monster that was slow to open do *anything* (the performance of Intellisense greatly improved my knowledge of MFC because it was easier to memorize all the methods than wait for it to show them to me)... You mean MS turned VC++ into that, maybe. VS is not that, I use VC# 2005 all the time and it works great. I don't use VC++, so your complaints against it may be valid, but they don't apply to the whole studio.Maybe the C++ editor in newer versions of Visual Studio just blows chunks, but I've certainly never had the problems with responsiveness you cite with VC# 2005. It runs just fine. And this is on a crappy computer, no less... on my good computer, it runs even better.
I never said I couldn't read C++, just that it gives me a headache. If I put effort into it, I can do it, but I have yet to use a language (well, except INTERCAL) which has messier, more difficult-to-read syntax than C++.
Yeah, I kinda have to laugh at the ingenuity of making someone pay for violating your copyright by making them appear to link to goatse. That guy is all right in my book.
It has nothing to do with the value of the picture. There was no real harm done, however, if the media companies are going to be dicks about copyright, and enforce it to within the last nanometer of the law, individuals can and should do the same back to them when the big guys violate copyright. Turnabout is fair play, after all.
The fact that there is such a code of conduct does not give them the right, it means that there's a code of conduct. The school's right to punish for non-school related activities is still quite separate. By your logic, if I have a code of conduct clearly displayed to all visitors to my home which states that I may shoot them if they piss me off, I shouldn't get murder charges if I shoot them, because that code of conduct gave me the right to do so.
You're right that there's no expectation of privacy, though. That's why I said the kids were stupid for putting the photos up.
You're correct, the students were unlikely to post photos of themselves. However, I disagree that there's no one to blame. The administrators are solidly to blame for sitting looking through Facebook photos to check up on their students. This is unacceptable abuse of authority, and should not be tolerated.
I think that the kids are pretty stupid to post photos of themselves doing illegal things on the Internet, but neither is it the administrators' business to be scouring Facebook for such things. Their job is to deal with things as they're brought to their attention, not be a surveillance force.
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You know what? If you want to make your TiVo run exactly how you want it to, great... but TiVo isn't obligated to help you in that endeavor. And if you choose, as a punishment, to try to not allow them to benefit from the work you're supposedly giving away as a benefit to all mankind, then you don't really believe in that altruism, you're just paying lip-service. Then again, it's been painfully obvious to me from the first time I read the GPL that it's not about freedom, it's about enforcing your ideology as much as possible on others.
1) Blu-Ray movies don't cost $25-30, unless we're not using US dollars here. They cost more like $20-$25, I rarely see Blu-Ray titles for >$25.
2) So they're encrypted. Whoop-de-fuckin' doo. So are DVDs, I hope that you have just as much moral objection to them, and refuse to use them.
When I took data structures, and we used C++, I didn't have mental convulsions because Java had wrecked up my thinking so much (although I did have mental convulsions cause C++ is incredibly messy to read at a glance), I learned different ways of doing things. So, maybe these professors should look at whoever's teaching these kids so sloppily, not the language.
Also, I'm still pissed off that they bought the NFL license. God forbid we have a level playing field here... your competition makes a better game than you, so take away their ability to make it! Good game, EA (and NFL). Good fucking game.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I thought KOTOR 2 was excellent. The plot wasn't as good as KOTOR, but the gameplay was much better (extra levels, extra feats, lightsaber forms were actually pretty damn cool). It ran just fine for me (and on a woefully underpowered system, at that), I encountered no bugs, and the level design was pretty much the exact same damn formula as in KOTOR, so you have no grounds whatsoever to complain on that note. I will agree that the ending sucked the big one, but the rest of the game was pretty damn good, and a worthy sequel to KOTOR.
I didn't miss that at all. I'm saying you seem to be claiming we shouldn't assess the risks of doing something ("Life has risks, get over it"), which isn't true at all. Sometimes, the risk will be worth taking. Sometimes, it won't. Sometimes, we can avoid the risk altogether. These are important questions to consider.
Maybe so, but we're talking about the class-action suit here. Those people have every right to vote with their dollars, but filing a class-action suit is ridiculous, imnsho.
I disagree that the game is a kick in the balls, but for the record: the fact that it's an Xbox Live Arcade game does not mean you'll need to play it over Xbox Live. Many of the Arcade games have a single-player, or local multiplayer, component. You do need to be able to download the thing from XBL, though.
Exactly. Most likely, they don't give a damn about us one way or the other. Saying they actively wish to harm us is just kind of... dumb. Why should they care what the hell happens to us (so long as they're getting what they want)?