All too often (in the US) people get off free because the offense is blamed on the Corporation® and not the individual acting on behalf of the corporation.
Just for reference, this:
Kaffee: Did you order the Code Red? Col. Jessep: I did the job I... Kaffee: *Did you order the Code Red?* Col. Jessep: *You're Goddamned right I did!*
All it takes is some engineer to mistype a single keystroke (a "*" in Google's case) and down the whole system comes.
A single engineer to mistype a single keystroke + A director of quality that proposed/allowed a quality control methodology that didn't include a single check between the engineers coding and the public receiving a new version.
Laying blame on those who don't have a large scale responsibility is, very often*, wrong.
*: Yes, a dev could've set a logic bomb when suspecting he'd be fired. And even then most of the blame was on the one who lost control on the future firing info.
I commute by train to work, and must listen, involuntarily, to the conversations that cell phone addicts have, and who seem to think that what they have to say is important and should be shared with the rest of the world.
Solution: Don't commute by train.
General solution: Reduce interaction with strangers if you dislike such interaction.
On PC games you have the option of cracking your games.
On PS3 you have no other option, right? Once you paid the console, you're pretty much forced to accept whatever system Sony decides to create. They may decide tomorrow to force you to be permanently connected to play any game at all and the only alternative would be to sell the PS3.
I don't know if it's the case, but I think at some point in the past, some people decided to stop using "Funny" because the combination of a "+1 Funny" with a "-1 Overrated" ended up being a -1 on karma, which could make a single unevenly popular joke empty any amount of karma.
Not if you convince "proper graphics card" to see it all as a CPU integrated in their graphics card.
I don't think it'd be very hard right now to convince an alienware buyer to uy a computer that's essentially a graphics card with all the rest integrated around it. Except, maybe, the hard drive. And even there you could argue "it has a SSD for you to install one or two games at a time. You can buy a standard HD for the rest."
The only thing to leave outside would have to be the mouse (some elite pro killer razer) and the keyboard (a pro ergonomic strafer pro elite pro fatal1ty). And the headset.
What if you take their computer and they don't infringe? Do you have to go to jail for stealing a computer?
The second question is: If you're about to take away a computer from an adolestent because he's going to infringe, but, as he then won't be able to, you're just going to steal a computer; can we put you in jail, knowing that once there you won't be able to take the computer away from the adolescent?
However, the real question for the truly enlightened is: If we do jail you because you were thinking about taking a computer away from an adolescent because he was about to infringe, if he later does infringe with a different computer... you'd have to be freed... to take the computer... hmmm... DAMN! I got lost.
These predictive laws are clearly too complex for the common minds. We should just let the corporations imprison us when they consider it's the right thing to do.
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All too often (in the US) people get off free because the offense is blamed on the Corporation® and not the individual acting on behalf of the corporation.
Just for reference, this:
Kaffee: Did you order the Code Red?
Col. Jessep: I did the job I...
Kaffee: *Did you order the Code Red?*
Col. Jessep: *You're Goddamned right I did!*
doesn't work in real life.
No I have not! What is this "Apple" you speak of?
It's a fruit.
You're welcome.
And since it's over $950, it's a felony.
$950? That's nothing. Was there any song in the IPhone?
All it takes is some engineer to mistype a single keystroke (a "*" in Google's case) and down the whole system comes.
A single engineer to mistype a single keystroke + A director of quality that proposed/allowed a quality control methodology that didn't include a single check between the engineers coding and the public receiving a new version.
Laying blame on those who don't have a large scale responsibility is, very often*, wrong.
*: Yes, a dev could've set a logic bomb when suspecting he'd be fired. And even then most of the blame was on the one who lost control on the future firing info.
And a fricking hard to miss bug!
It questions the entire quality control system.
The danger for users of porn is clear and present.
The misdetection of fingers?
Every time I hear someone proclaim 'the should be a law against saying X' a little part of me dies...
You clearly need a law against saying "there should be a law againt saying".
Let's be clear that in Brazil, separation of Church and State means "opposite sides of the confession box".
And judges are Maxwell's demons?
The only true longterm solution is to force encryption and invite-only data access.
I like to think the longterm solution will stop being so as soon as some way of ISP-less internet technology appears.
However, I must admit it's just hope.
Hope for those who come after us.
HTC Desire is the first serious challenger to the IPhone
I'd like the author to elaborate about the many advantages of the IPhone over the Hero.
Yes, I have something to hide so I am worried about my privacy....
Still waiting for the part where you explain it's google's responsability to hide it for you.
If you indeed have something to hide, hide it. Don't spread it all around and then demand everyone else to not read it.
Yeah, cause I'll be way happier getting hit by one of these same morons making calls while they're driving?
Well, quite some times, replacing train commute for car gets you in humongous jams so they won't hit you very fast.
It's a win/win/bore you out of your skull until you'd rather repeatedly stab your brain with a pencil, situation.
(My bet is that phone related distractions cause more accidents and deaths than phone radiation will ever cause.)
My bet is that there will be more deaths by phone-attracted lightning than by phone radiation.
Problem:
I commute by train to work, and must listen, involuntarily, to the conversations that cell phone addicts have, and who seem to think that what they have to say is important and should be shared with the rest of the world.
Solution: Don't commute by train.
General solution: Reduce interaction with strangers if you dislike such interaction.
Rule: Reduce disliked situations.
Law: Be happy.
On PC games you have the option of cracking your games.
On PS3 you have no other option, right? Once you paid the console, you're pretty much forced to accept whatever system Sony decides to create. They may decide tomorrow to force you to be permanently connected to play any game at all and the only alternative would be to sell the PS3.
A phone that is expensive, sucks, *and* pretentious.
So we've got here either a phone that is sucks or a phone that pretentious?
Well, if there's a phone that can be sucks or pretent, it's the IPhone.
a Jenner weighs only 35 tonnes.
Which doesn't matter when you literally kick the 90t beast's head off.
"hmm, if I like this one that's 3 years old, maybe I'll like the one they're about to release".
You may sell a bit more on the first week but it your sequel is significantly worse than the first game, you'll receive a much larger impact.
I don't know if it's the case, but I think at some point in the past, some people decided to stop using "Funny" because the combination of a "+1 Funny" with a "-1 Overrated" ended up being a -1 on karma, which could make a single unevenly popular joke empty any amount of karma.
Ok. I've got the guy's brain in the silk bag, how do I set up the interface now?
Not if you convince "proper graphics card" to see it all as a CPU integrated in their graphics card.
I don't think it'd be very hard right now to convince an alienware buyer to uy a computer that's essentially a graphics card with all the rest integrated around it. Except, maybe, the hard drive. And even there you could argue "it has a SSD for you to install one or two games at a time. You can buy a standard HD for the rest."
The only thing to leave outside would have to be the mouse (some elite pro killer razer) and the keyboard (a pro ergonomic strafer pro elite pro fatal1ty). And the headset.
He's right. The cameras are ground based.
The satellite is only needed in case a repeated offender has to be nuked from space.
What if you take their computer and they don't infringe? Do you have to go to jail for stealing a computer?
The second question is: If you're about to take away a computer from an adolestent because he's going to infringe, but, as he then won't be able to, you're just going to steal a computer; can we put you in jail, knowing that once there you won't be able to take the computer away from the adolescent?
However, the real question for the truly enlightened is: If we do jail you because you were thinking about taking a computer away from an adolescent because he was about to infringe, if he later does infringe with a different computer... you'd have to be freed... to take the computer... hmmm... DAMN! I got lost.
These predictive laws are clearly too complex for the common minds. We should just let the corporations imprison us when they consider it's the right thing to do.
Actually, you don't have to stop being a criminal; what you must stop is to be going to be a criminal.
If you're not going to be a criminal, you've got nothing to fear.
This kind of law is the only way to stop going to be criminals. I hope all going to be criminals go to jail as soon as possible.
What I'm afraid of, now is what can we possibly do against those insidious people who will be going to be criminals in the future.
Think of the going to be going to be criminals! They're going to be going to harm your child! Probably!
Excuse me but, what were they trying to achieve by subliminally showing food logos to people and then putting shampoo in front of them?
I think someone was going for a much more spectacular result.