How much you wanna bet the above post gets a +5 insightful whereas a similar post about Clinton (or god help us, Obama) would get -1 troll?
You're suggesting there is a liberal/democrat bias among Slashdot users, who are probably better educated and informed (especially on certain subjects) than the average American?
I just spilled my coffee and dropped my monocle.
What do you propose we do about it? Change our political views to bring slashdot exactly center?
I recall that Japan has a similar law, to prevent photos being taken of. . . things that Japanese men want to take pictures of, I guess.
When I was living there, my phone would indeed make a loud clicking noise whenever I took a picture. I went into the settings and set the "photo alert noise" to "none." No more alert noise.
(No, I was not trying to take pictures I shouldn't have been, I was just curious.)
Oddly, there was an even louder chime that would play when you started capturing video that could NOT be changed. Makes you wonder if there is a big problem with dirty old men filming unsuspecting girls on the subway in extremely low quality video, as opposed to just taking 4 megapixel still photos.
Nevermind that, you could open up the phone and cut the wire to the speaker! So not only does this leave a large area to interpretation, it's easy to circumvent with a little determination.
And then I could also cut the wire to the earpiece speaker, and then my phone also wouldn't have to play those annoying "mother/wife/boss talking" sounds.
Oh please, that assumes both that the military is the best way to safeguard our freedoms and that it is not strong enough to do so. Our military is the strongest in the world, and the serious challenges to our freedom come from within our borders, from our own citizens, corporations, political interests, churches, and politicians.
Yes, that was just an idle comment on how nukes should never have been invented. Genie is out of the bottle though, we can't get rid of them now, I do realize that.
Best state motto ever. Of course, some people did sue to keep that off their license plates, which is really stupid when you think about it. "I don't want to even give the impression that I'd defend my rights to the death, and I will defend my right not to do so via lawyers."
Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.
Yes of course, but I don't care what it's called, I do not want individuals (or even governments, including my own) to have nuclear weapons. If the thing worked, you could call it "super happy nuclear archeology," and I wouldn't mind just as long as SOMEONE took it away from the guy.
That our 'custom for the pc' gta iv experience they hyped about... Supports ONE controller. The xbox controller.
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I'd like my money back, but i know that wont happen. I'll just have to forget about buying from them anymore.
Right, because those developers who DO actually put games out on the PC need to be boycotted until they get it 100% right.
PC gamers often seem picky at a time when more and more games are bypassing their medium of choice. It wouldn't be right of me, but if I made a game and bothered making it available on the PC and read complaints like this, maybe after finding out the game was being pirated (or as is often the case, the game's flaws being used to justify the piracy itself), my temptation would be to say "Fine, fuck it, I'm not going to make anything for the PC anymore." And that would be that.
I should point out again that would be a stupid reaction, and I'm not saying accept flawed games, but I can empathize, and it's stupid to take offense to imperfect games as if they're an insult to you personally.
It's more about making products people want to buy. How many people really want to buy Microsoft products anymore?
On slashdot? No one. In the real world of consumers where at least half of the population couldn't even name you one microsoft product? Enough to make it work.
I really don't think the "microsoft" brand did as much damage as the "not an ipod" brand did.
Slashdot Mirror
You are currently using one of the fruits of the space program: a computer.
I know, it will TOTALLY clash with the rest of my yellow PC.
How much you wanna bet the above post gets a +5 insightful whereas a similar post about Clinton (or god help us, Obama) would get -1 troll?
You're suggesting there is a liberal/democrat bias among Slashdot users, who are probably better educated and informed (especially on certain subjects) than the average American?
I just spilled my coffee and dropped my monocle.
What do you propose we do about it? Change our political views to bring slashdot exactly center?
I for one welcome our new learning, seeing, navigating, manipulating, planning, reasoning, speaking, and natural language processing Stair overlords.
I recall that Japan has a similar law, to prevent photos being taken of. . . things that Japanese men want to take pictures of, I guess.
When I was living there, my phone would indeed make a loud clicking noise whenever I took a picture. I went into the settings and set the "photo alert noise" to "none." No more alert noise.
(No, I was not trying to take pictures I shouldn't have been, I was just curious.)
Oddly, there was an even louder chime that would play when you started capturing video that could NOT be changed. Makes you wonder if there is a big problem with dirty old men filming unsuspecting girls on the subway in extremely low quality video, as opposed to just taking 4 megapixel still photos.
Oh no! What about the deaf *and* blind?!
A probe to poke the target that would spell out in morse code that you're being photographed.
For one thing, this law would do NOTHING to alert deaf victims they are being photographed! Some of them could be kids!
our lives and economy are in meltdown and all these taint stains can think about is a new 'camera clicking law'?
To be fair to congress (why? ...uh...) it was just one guy introducing the bill on the 9th, with no cosponsors, and it was referred to comittee.
As of right now, it appears that only one "taint stain" is thinking about this.
Nevermind that, you could open up the phone and cut the wire to the speaker! So not only does this leave a large area to interpretation, it's easy to circumvent with a little determination.
And then I could also cut the wire to the earpiece speaker, and then my phone also wouldn't have to play those annoying "mother/wife/boss talking" sounds.
You've illustrated an interesting parallel. How long before their "laws" say that our guns have to make a "bang" sound?
I, as the wiley "bad guy", press the button telling the camera to make the clicking noise when taking a picture.
Oh wow, you're advanced. I would have just made clicking sounds with my mouth.
MHz? Try GHz.
Sorry for that, I was actually just trying to counter-troll that one asshole. I don't actually think the ACLU defends our freedom like the military.
That's pretty impressive, but right now I'm posting using my overclocked apple IIe.
Ow cool, you've risked your life for the freedom of America in other ways than the military.
It's pretty clear you're a troll.
Anyway, I'm in the ACLU, that does far more to secure our freedom than joining the military or whatever missionary work you were talking about.
Oh please, that assumes both that the military is the best way to safeguard our freedoms and that it is not strong enough to do so. Our military is the strongest in the world, and the serious challenges to our freedom come from within our borders, from our own citizens, corporations, political interests, churches, and politicians.
I think you misunderstand. They're clearly talking radioactive bear limbs, not bears with nukes.
Yes, that was just an idle comment on how nukes should never have been invented. Genie is out of the bottle though, we can't get rid of them now, I do realize that.
Best state motto ever. Of course, some people did sue to keep that off their license plates, which is really stupid when you think about it. "I don't want to even give the impression that I'd defend my rights to the death, and I will defend my right not to do so via lawyers."
It worries me that there is one "insightful" mod on that post.
Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.
Yes of course, but I don't care what it's called, I do not want individuals (or even governments, including my own) to have nuclear weapons. If the thing worked, you could call it "super happy nuclear archeology," and I wouldn't mind just as long as SOMEONE took it away from the guy.
No, if that were the case, he would have built "Fat Man," the Nagasaki one.
If he's built a WORKING replica, I would hope VERY soon!
That our 'custom for the pc' gta iv experience they hyped about... Supports ONE controller. The xbox controller.
...
I'd like my money back, but i know that wont happen. I'll just have to forget about buying from them anymore.
Right, because those developers who DO actually put games out on the PC need to be boycotted until they get it 100% right.
PC gamers often seem picky at a time when more and more games are bypassing their medium of choice. It wouldn't be right of me, but if I made a game and bothered making it available on the PC and read complaints like this, maybe after finding out the game was being pirated (or as is often the case, the game's flaws being used to justify the piracy itself), my temptation would be to say "Fine, fuck it, I'm not going to make anything for the PC anymore." And that would be that.
I should point out again that would be a stupid reaction, and I'm not saying accept flawed games, but I can empathize, and it's stupid to take offense to imperfect games as if they're an insult to you personally.
It's more about making products people want to buy. How many people really want to buy Microsoft products anymore?
On slashdot? No one. In the real world of consumers where at least half of the population couldn't even name you one microsoft product? Enough to make it work.
I really don't think the "microsoft" brand did as much damage as the "not an ipod" brand did.