Why is it that I can own a M4 carbine upper with an 11 inch barrel and do not need a NFA short barrel tax stamp as long as it is not installed on a M4 lower, but it's 10 kinds of law violation to sell a dongle that can jailbreak some specific computer platform? This planet make no sense what's so ever. I am going back to my veal fattening pen and watch some sitcoms.
Actually the two examples might be better related than you expect... regardless, "copyright infringement" is easy to pull off, a federal crime and some corporations are tenaciously lobbying to protect their source of easy money. They perverse the law and the public perception of it.
Now the NFA is just bullshit, but as much as politicians preach gun laws to get the vote there's not nearly as much lobbying on the topic. I mean, plenty are talking about abolishing guns and others are talking about abolishing nearsighted gun laws, but there's not much being done about it as, say, gay marriage.
Anyways... people are far more likely to "pirate" games (a relatively harmless action that leaves the person free of guilt) than use their legally acquired and prepared short-barrel automatic rifle to kill or even threaten anyone.
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Yeah, the summary kind of confused me (I'm purposely waiting until after I comment to RTFA). When someone leave out that one bit of important information (what age the numbers refer to) they're effectively trying to scare someone into viewing the story.
The most concerning thing is... imagine a flawless setup for an automated retaliation system, and the exact location of every component and operation of the system was only known by key individuals, all of whom died and failed to pass on the information to the more peacefully minded.
Now I'm sure Dead Hand isn't flawless, but how can we ever be sure the fossils of the Cold War aren't at any moment already invoking armageddon?
I can imagine the cruel irony where one day all of Humanity finally reaches a perfect state of peace, and deciding to hunt down and dismantle these "I'm taking you down with me" networks all sentience is magnificently eradicated on Earth.
I guess if you can't figure out a way to fool it, then you probably shouldn't be driving. Actually, that's a pretty good reason to fit them to every car.
When a (healthy) person exhales, the oxygen content will be a little below nearby atmosphere, carbon dioxide will increase significantly and nitrogen will stay about the same. There's other gasses that are effected or not but can be measured.
An attempt to fool the device might create more trouble than drinking and driving is worth.
You can't silence it, but you don't have to listen.
I'm afraid it's a freedom that very much can be quelled. It starts with someone like this bitching about something they personally don't like, then a hundred million people wanting to be PC about it.
There's a vast chasm between the people who can make a change and the people who've got their head on straight.
Since when did mothers start playing video games now, especially ones that depict war? Bitching about an OPTION that can be selectively unselected is idiotic in my opinion. We have the choice to pick the story lines if we decide to buy the game because my money is what counts and it's what the distributor is offering for said money. Yea, our soldiers died in the war but no one can help but empathize with the enemy and this game will make good use of that empathy. Maybe it will even help people of the US realize how much it hurts for them as it hurt our soldiers too... freaking imbeciles. They made the choice to go to war and they paid for it...
It isn't about what she wants to do for herself, it's what she wants you to be able to do with yourself. That's what lobbying is all about and it always starts with one person thinking "There is something here I find wrong and I want it changed".
For the express purpose of losing and mocking the dumb SOBs. All through the match I would warble and scream like a Taliban fighter and would yell out "Allah Fubar" or "Admiral Akbar", before getting sniped, as I was getting sniped I would scream, "I can see heaven and my 72 virgins, oh crap they are star trek nerds!!" before respawning.....
A spectacle to be applauded, you make the game much more fun and exciting for all involved!
Didn't even Hot Coffee help GTA? I'm wondering when they'll have a kicking dogs and raping babies option in a game. That'll make polygonal titties in that unexceptional biking game look like old hat.
Of course it did. The people who wanted to play a game like that had more incentive to do so and the people who wouldn't play that kind of game anyways bitched about it so the formerly mentioned heard more about it.
It's simple, whichever side you play, yours looks like the Awesome Good Guy Moral And Fair Playing Americans and the other side looks like those Nasty Evil Smelly Savage Pigdog What'stheirwhatever. Real' easy to do with computer games.
That way we can avoid the issue entirely, not having to face the threat of having to see the situation from their side (however wrong it always is). It can be done with the Allies versus the Nazis. The Europeans versus the Russians. The Democratic versus the Communists. We can just completely disregard the visceral drama of what "they" have to deal with.
After all, everyone prefers to play counter-terrorist, just someone has to play the terrorists to make it fair. Both sides surely shed a tear whenever they hear "Terrorists win."
Actually, I think you just described what 4chan would be like with buttons.
Hmm, if you go in/b/ you'll clearly see they're quite satisfied with artistically rendering their response into the form of an image that captures every poignant detail of their deep, meaningful logic.
I think socially it would make sense to have some more buttons.
Ah, you make the wrong assumption that the average person can handle choice. Depressingly they cannot.
Too many choices confuse people. Look at all those successful sites like Digg, etc. This is also why major corporations offer so few options: to prevent customers from NOT buying due to an abundance of choices. There are whole books written about this phenomenon.
Exactly, so they should be left with "I might like this or I might just be hitting the button to show attention to the topic" or "I shall do nothing, either due to my own apathy or I may willingly dislike the post. Yet, I may also like this and am unwilling to express it publicly, or maybe like it but not quite enough to state to my peers that I do."
It's "stories" like this that make me wonder if people are trying to use Slashdot to get experienced people to do something about it so they don't have to.
I'm sure you could game it by switching the routers on but disabling WiFi, change any classes using computers so that the work they are doing doesn't need it or can make do with a few wired connections. Surely not every class needs access to the net. The kids wouldn't notice the difference and still go home saying "school makes them feel ill".
What they actually need; is some kind of proof from which to start making a hypothesis. But so far they have no proof whatsoever, just "concern".
I'm sure there's plenty of bright children or parents who can figure out how to set up raw detection of WiFi traffic. Of course, without actually broadcasting or communicating you have effectively cut down the amount of radiation. By changing these two variables at once it makes the test unreliable.
They dont need to.They just need to be told and proved that their concerns are bullshit.
It's never that easy. People who are lead to believe incredible things despite evidence otherwise and little evidence in favor resist every scrap of your supposed "proof".
It's sort of a good thing that we harden ourselves enough that our entire sense of reality can't be crippled by every deceit or incongruency. However, as incredible it is that we are unwilling to be proven wrong it is far more incredible when we can think things through and decide for ourselves when we're wrong.
When I was in elementary school, the only class I could stand was gym class. So, I would stick it out through the day until gym class, after which I would develop serious symptoms that demanded I be sent home. As it so happened, gym almost always was scheduled directly after lunch. I was a good enough actor that my symptoms usually got attention even if they didn't get me sent home, which led to all sorts of theories about why I was mysteriously sick, usually focusing on the food that I ate for lunch... all sorts of allergies and intolerances were postulated, and more than once my parents got furiously angry at various administrators for the food they were serving in the cafeteria. Eventually, somebody realized what was really going on, and it all got quietly dropped.
I think maybe they just didn't want to hear you bitch anymore.
Clearly to be safe they need to build a 10 million dollar faraday cage around every school.
And light the interior with only sunlight/candlelight/fiber, no computers, maybe no calculators or watches (probably not though), can't allow some chemical reactions to occur...
You can do it to adults too, to an extent. Depending on how your frame questions about an event you can change the way people remember it. A simple example is show people video of a car crash then ask some "How fast were the cars going when they slammed together?" and ask others "How fast were the cars going when they bumped each other?" You'll get much lower speed answer to the second question than the first, despite showing the same video. The framing of the question suggests the answer and changes how we remember things.
It's very true. I've learned to be cautious about my own recollections, never quite trusting what I remember without evidence when I can. I try to admonish others to do the same but the concern is rarely accepted.
Kids don't want to go to school. I know I didn't when I was a kid and I was even good at school. I was always happy for an excuse to stay home from school. Didn't often work for me, since mom was a teacher and fairly clever, but still.
Hmm, maybe instead of ignoring a child's concerns or making a legal mess out of apparent "harm", parents should discuss the fears a child faces and help them overcome it so when they grow up they'll be better equipped to handle everyday stressors.... Oh, never mind me, that's just crazy talk.
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Why is it that I can own a M4 carbine upper with an 11 inch barrel and do not need a NFA short barrel tax stamp as long as it is not installed on a M4 lower, but it's 10 kinds of law violation to sell a dongle that can jailbreak some specific computer platform? This planet make no sense what's so ever. I am going back to my veal fattening pen and watch some sitcoms.
Actually the two examples might be better related than you expect... regardless, "copyright infringement" is easy to pull off, a federal crime and some corporations are tenaciously lobbying to protect their source of easy money. They perverse the law and the public perception of it.
Now the NFA is just bullshit, but as much as politicians preach gun laws to get the vote there's not nearly as much lobbying on the topic. I mean, plenty are talking about abolishing guns and others are talking about abolishing nearsighted gun laws, but there's not much being done about it as, say, gay marriage.
Anyways... people are far more likely to "pirate" games (a relatively harmless action that leaves the person free of guilt) than use their legally acquired and prepared short-barrel automatic rifle to kill or even threaten anyone.
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Yeah, the summary kind of confused me (I'm purposely waiting until after I comment to RTFA). When someone leave out that one bit of important information (what age the numbers refer to) they're effectively trying to scare someone into viewing the story.
The most concerning thing is... imagine a flawless setup for an automated retaliation system, and the exact location of every component and operation of the system was only known by key individuals, all of whom died and failed to pass on the information to the more peacefully minded.
Now I'm sure Dead Hand isn't flawless, but how can we ever be sure the fossils of the Cold War aren't at any moment already invoking armageddon?
I can imagine the cruel irony where one day all of Humanity finally reaches a perfect state of peace, and deciding to hunt down and dismantle these "I'm taking you down with me" networks all sentience is magnificently eradicated on Earth.
AAAUGH!!!! The chink in the armor. How could I have not seen it??!!!
See? Now you know precisely how hard it is for us thieving bastards in stark contrast to consumers. It's like, a lot of work or something.
DRM only affects paying customers who play by the rules.
Not so. It effects me by having to spend another minute renaming the old EXE and copying the cracked one off the disk.
It's just like lobbyists to jump on legislation and corrupt it completely.
Not really, considering every single console and even UBISOFTS secure DRM on Assasins creed 2 was cracked.
Assassin's Creed 2 was hacked?!
*ahem* I have to go do... something entirely unrelated to... uhh... bbl.
... is the asking price of the dongle. They're taking pre-orders now, apparently. Take the money and run..?
It'd be a great way to make a fast buck. Hack starved owners jilted from the loss of the "Other OS" might just be dumb enough to jump right on it.
I'm sure they'll get two... maybe three preorders.
This guy can Hack the PS3 but can't change the setting on his camera to have the same cycle as his monitor. 60 should do.
He probably, well, just didn't give a damn. If anything it makes the claim of the crack more convincing.
If there is a hardware hole in the USB controller it may be very difficult to patch with firmware; [...]
Maybe, though probably it would be as easy as having the firmware just ignore the USB anything until a "secure" boot completed.
Either way anyone who believes this works and intend to get the USB thing best not even think about updating anymore.
I guess if you can't figure out a way to fool it, then you probably shouldn't be driving. Actually, that's a pretty good reason to fit them to every car.
When a (healthy) person exhales, the oxygen content will be a little below nearby atmosphere, carbon dioxide will increase significantly and nitrogen will stay about the same. There's other gasses that are effected or not but can be measured.
An attempt to fool the device might create more trouble than drinking and driving is worth.
You can't silence it, but you don't have to listen.
I'm afraid it's a freedom that very much can be quelled. It starts with someone like this bitching about something they personally don't like, then a hundred million people wanting to be PC about it.
There's a vast chasm between the people who can make a change and the people who've got their head on straight.
Since when did mothers start playing video games now, especially ones that depict war? Bitching about an OPTION that can be selectively unselected is idiotic in my opinion. We have the choice to pick the story lines if we decide to buy the game because my money is what counts and it's what the distributor is offering for said money. Yea, our soldiers died in the war but no one can help but empathize with the enemy and this game will make good use of that empathy. Maybe it will even help people of the US realize how much it hurts for them as it hurt our soldiers too... freaking imbeciles. They made the choice to go to war and they paid for it...
It isn't about what she wants to do for herself, it's what she wants you to be able to do with yourself. That's what lobbying is all about and it always starts with one person thinking "There is something here I find wrong and I want it changed".
For the express purpose of losing and mocking the dumb SOBs. All through the match I would warble and scream like a Taliban fighter and would yell out "Allah Fubar" or "Admiral Akbar", before getting sniped, as I was getting sniped I would scream, "I can see heaven and my 72 virgins, oh crap they are star trek nerds!!" before respawning.....
A spectacle to be applauded, you make the game much more fun and exciting for all involved!
Didn't even Hot Coffee help GTA? I'm wondering when they'll have a kicking dogs and raping babies option in a game. That'll make polygonal titties in that unexceptional biking game look like old hat.
Of course it did. The people who wanted to play a game like that had more incentive to do so and the people who wouldn't play that kind of game anyways bitched about it so the formerly mentioned heard more about it.
It's simple, whichever side you play, yours looks like the Awesome Good Guy Moral And Fair Playing Americans and the other side looks like those Nasty Evil Smelly Savage Pigdog What'stheirwhatever. Real' easy to do with computer games.
That way we can avoid the issue entirely, not having to face the threat of having to see the situation from their side (however wrong it always is). It can be done with the Allies versus the Nazis. The Europeans versus the Russians. The Democratic versus the Communists. We can just completely disregard the visceral drama of what "they" have to deal with.
After all, everyone prefers to play counter-terrorist, just someone has to play the terrorists to make it fair. Both sides surely shed a tear whenever they hear "Terrorists win."
Actually, I think you just described what 4chan would be like with buttons.
Hmm, if you go in /b/ you'll clearly see they're quite satisfied with artistically rendering their response into the form of an image that captures every poignant detail of their deep, meaningful logic.
I think socially it would make sense to have some more buttons.
Ah, you make the wrong assumption that the average person can handle choice. Depressingly they cannot.
Too many choices confuse people. Look at all those successful sites like Digg, etc. This is also why major corporations offer so few options: to prevent customers from NOT buying due to an abundance of choices. There are whole books written about this phenomenon.
Exactly, so they should be left with "I might like this or I might just be hitting the button to show attention to the topic" or "I shall do nothing, either due to my own apathy or I may willingly dislike the post. Yet, I may also like this and am unwilling to express it publicly, or maybe like it but not quite enough to state to my peers that I do."
See how hard just that is?
It's "stories" like this that make me wonder if people are trying to use Slashdot to get experienced people to do something about it so they don't have to.
Surely they'd notice if they can't get online
I'm sure you could game it by switching the routers on but disabling WiFi, change any classes using computers so that the work they are doing doesn't need it or can make do with a few wired connections. Surely not every class needs access to the net. The kids wouldn't notice the difference and still go home saying "school makes them feel ill".
What they actually need; is some kind of proof from which to start making a hypothesis. But so far they have no proof whatsoever, just "concern".
I'm sure there's plenty of bright children or parents who can figure out how to set up raw detection of WiFi traffic. Of course, without actually broadcasting or communicating you have effectively cut down the amount of radiation. By changing these two variables at once it makes the test unreliable.
These parents will not be easily appeased.
They dont need to.They just need to be told and proved that their concerns are bullshit.
It's never that easy. People who are lead to believe incredible things despite evidence otherwise and little evidence in favor resist every scrap of your supposed "proof".
It's sort of a good thing that we harden ourselves enough that our entire sense of reality can't be crippled by every deceit or incongruency. However, as incredible it is that we are unwilling to be proven wrong it is far more incredible when we can think things through and decide for ourselves when we're wrong.
When I was in elementary school, the only class I could stand was gym class. So, I would stick it out through the day until gym class, after which I would develop serious symptoms that demanded I be sent home. As it so happened, gym almost always was scheduled directly after lunch. I was a good enough actor that my symptoms usually got attention even if they didn't get me sent home, which led to all sorts of theories about why I was mysteriously sick, usually focusing on the food that I ate for lunch... all sorts of allergies and intolerances were postulated, and more than once my parents got furiously angry at various administrators for the food they were serving in the cafeteria. Eventually, somebody realized what was really going on, and it all got quietly dropped.
I think maybe they just didn't want to hear you bitch anymore.
Clearly to be safe they need to build a 10 million dollar faraday cage around every school.
And light the interior with only sunlight/candlelight/fiber, no computers, maybe no calculators or watches (probably not though), can't allow some chemical reactions to occur...
You can do it to adults too, to an extent. Depending on how your frame questions about an event you can change the way people remember it. A simple example is show people video of a car crash then ask some "How fast were the cars going when they slammed together?" and ask others "How fast were the cars going when they bumped each other?" You'll get much lower speed answer to the second question than the first, despite showing the same video. The framing of the question suggests the answer and changes how we remember things.
It's very true. I've learned to be cautious about my own recollections, never quite trusting what I remember without evidence when I can. I try to admonish others to do the same but the concern is rarely accepted.
Kids don't want to go to school. I know I didn't when I was a kid and I was even good at school. I was always happy for an excuse to stay home from school. Didn't often work for me, since mom was a teacher and fairly clever, but still.
Hmm, maybe instead of ignoring a child's concerns or making a legal mess out of apparent "harm", parents should discuss the fears a child faces and help them overcome it so when they grow up they'll be better equipped to handle everyday stressors. ... Oh, never mind me, that's just crazy talk.