Welcome to oppressive surveillance British-style. If you really want to see Big Brother in action, come to the UK, where all town centres bristle with spy cameras, and the government recently ran a poster campaign suggesting that anyone who even took any notice of the cameras was a terrorist who should be reported. Pay no attention to the man behind the camera!
"The program, developed in 1975, is written in a computer language so obsolete that few programmers know how to fix it." How about some details - which language? MAD? NELIAC? TRAC? CPS? Culler-Fried system? Python?
No doubt pro-Bush renegade hackers will already be attacking the site, keen to repeat their Clark County anti-Guardian campaign by deleting any data that casts suspicion on right-wing MPs.
Their suicide bombers = "Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war"
Our suicide bombers = "Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty"
Seriously, anyone who uses 'warrior' with its connotations of bravery in a context of destroying civilians by remote control makes Gen Melchett look like a model of sanity and morality.
Sad to see that Virgin are giving the copyright farmers exactly what they want - a way of harrassing alleged file-sharers without evidence, charge or trial.
The idea of Python as a modern replacement for FORTRAN is totally risible, given that Python is actually more dependent on significant whitespace than FORTRAN. In fact that's why Python is so called.
Unlike its UK counterpart, which is requiring citizens to pay for digital pay TV adaptors out of their own pockets - despite the fact that they've already shelled out USD250 equiv for a TV licence. And even if you do take out a digital pay TV subscription, the channels all have unremoveable on-screen logos and are constantly interrrupted by red-button messages.
The original and best GTA had many of these. Some you were clearly supposed to find (like the island in Liberty City), as they had cars, bikes or tanks set up for you to jump or batter your way in. Others were genuine (?) glitches, like the areas you could enter by sliding under cars and thence under fences.
I'm surprised no-one has yet claimed to have found the castle in Battlezone, which was variously supposed to be inside the crater or the volcano, or to be locatable by driving towards the moon for a very long time.
Twitter is just like Facebook would be if it only had the status update. Its only other advantage is that you don't need to invent a real-sounding name to sign up.
Cybersquatter had this incredible quality which was, um, I don't know how you can define it but I would, er, say it was, um, I'd say it was stupidity.
Take Peter Cook's advice and choose a different name. Don't encourage Squatter.
This issue draws attention to the danger of encouraging for-profit space travel. If in 50 years' time you find yourself looking up at the moon and seeing a Microsoft logo on it, don't say I didn't warn you.
'I would like to see more fairy stories about the police'. 'And so you shall'
If the police are really after a conviction, they always bring the evidence with them anyway. And they'll continue to do so as long as they are allowed to control the forensic process from start to end. It needs to be handed over to an impartial public service with all due speed.
'Jail' is such a terrible metaphor to choose for a product. I want a happy metaphor like 'sandbox', not something redolent of brutality, despair and iron sorrows.
Fair use has got nothing to do with it. If a site makes a video publicly available, they're implicitly granting permission for anyone to download and play it. Whether that's directly, or through an intermediate site, is neither here or there.
The state has - rightly or wrongly - decided to use capitalism as the basis for producing and distributing goods such as online games. This differs from the pro-crap games faction's perception of capitalism as a trap for separating suckers from their money. If you represent a product as a game, and charge people actual money for it, it has to function as described; whether it costs 99 cents or $99 billion is completely irrelevant.
I recall the Simpsons episode where CBG was the target of an anti-fan speech given to Bart, the gist of which was that we should be grateful to suck up any crap the networks give us because it's "free entertainment". As if broadcasters don't have to pay to screen the show, and as if advertisers don't have to pay to advertise with them, and as if they don't recoup that money from us through product prices.
Oh, I've wasted my life.
Fingerprinting is traditionally something reserved for criminals and people arrested on genuine suspicion of actual offences. If the state starts fingerprinting other categories of people, they'll resent being classed with crimmos. I know I certainly would.
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Welcome to oppressive surveillance British-style. If you really want to see Big Brother in action, come to the UK, where all town centres bristle with spy cameras, and the government recently ran a poster campaign suggesting that anyone who even took any notice of the cameras was a terrorist who should be reported. Pay no attention to the man behind the camera!
"The program, developed in 1975, is written in a computer language so obsolete that few programmers know how to fix it." How about some details - which language? MAD? NELIAC? TRAC? CPS? Culler-Fried system? Python?
No doubt pro-Bush renegade hackers will already be attacking the site, keen to repeat their Clark County anti-Guardian campaign by deleting any data that casts suspicion on right-wing MPs.
Their suicide bombers = "Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war" Our suicide bombers = "Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty" Seriously, anyone who uses 'warrior' with its connotations of bravery in a context of destroying civilians by remote control makes Gen Melchett look like a model of sanity and morality.
No, but it made a handy excuse for setting up a global network of CIA torture camps.
Sad to see that Virgin are giving the copyright farmers exactly what they want - a way of harrassing alleged file-sharers without evidence, charge or trial.
Minimal? 64K RAM, 3-channel sound, 16 colours, 320x200 graphics and _sprites_? In my day we had 22x32 text screens and 16K RAM and we were grateful.
'He said he thought the image was computer-generated'
The idea of Python as a modern replacement for FORTRAN is totally risible, given that Python is actually more dependent on significant whitespace than FORTRAN. In fact that's why Python is so called.
Unlike its UK counterpart, which is requiring citizens to pay for digital pay TV adaptors out of their own pockets - despite the fact that they've already shelled out USD250 equiv for a TV licence. And even if you do take out a digital pay TV subscription, the channels all have unremoveable on-screen logos and are constantly interrrupted by red-button messages.
This is excellent news, I only hope that soon Linux will be able to recognise a USB device that was connected after the system booted.
The original and best GTA had many of these. Some you were clearly supposed to find (like the island in Liberty City), as they had cars, bikes or tanks set up for you to jump or batter your way in. Others were genuine (?) glitches, like the areas you could enter by sliding under cars and thence under fences. I'm surprised no-one has yet claimed to have found the castle in Battlezone, which was variously supposed to be inside the crater or the volcano, or to be locatable by driving towards the moon for a very long time.
Twitter is just like Facebook would be if it only had the status update. Its only other advantage is that you don't need to invent a real-sounding name to sign up.
Good news for US consumers, hopefully the UK authorities will follow suit and force banks to make repeat charges cancellable.
Then again, the chances of Ubuntu working with any piece of hardware made in the last 2 years are slim indeed.
Yes, the liberal arts majors bit tells us plenty about the OP but nothing about the story.
Cybersquatter had this incredible quality which was, um, I don't know how you can define it but I would, er, say it was, um, I'd say it was stupidity. Take Peter Cook's advice and choose a different name. Don't encourage Squatter.
This issue draws attention to the danger of encouraging for-profit space travel. If in 50 years' time you find yourself looking up at the moon and seeing a Microsoft logo on it, don't say I didn't warn you.
'I would like to see more fairy stories about the police'. 'And so you shall' If the police are really after a conviction, they always bring the evidence with them anyway. And they'll continue to do so as long as they are allowed to control the forensic process from start to end. It needs to be handed over to an impartial public service with all due speed.
Comedy works best when it's based on truth, and the truth is that the only terrorists at Guantanamo are the US soldiers who carry out the torture.
'Jail' is such a terrible metaphor to choose for a product. I want a happy metaphor like 'sandbox', not something redolent of brutality, despair and iron sorrows.
Fair use has got nothing to do with it. If a site makes a video publicly available, they're implicitly granting permission for anyone to download and play it. Whether that's directly, or through an intermediate site, is neither here or there.
The state has - rightly or wrongly - decided to use capitalism as the basis for producing and distributing goods such as online games. This differs from the pro-crap games faction's perception of capitalism as a trap for separating suckers from their money. If you represent a product as a game, and charge people actual money for it, it has to function as described; whether it costs 99 cents or $99 billion is completely irrelevant.
I recall the Simpsons episode where CBG was the target of an anti-fan speech given to Bart, the gist of which was that we should be grateful to suck up any crap the networks give us because it's "free entertainment". As if broadcasters don't have to pay to screen the show, and as if advertisers don't have to pay to advertise with them, and as if they don't recoup that money from us through product prices. Oh, I've wasted my life.
Fingerprinting is traditionally something reserved for criminals and people arrested on genuine suspicion of actual offences. If the state starts fingerprinting other categories of people, they'll resent being classed with crimmos. I know I certainly would.