You're comparing downloading and double-clicking on a file with
1) learning what wine is and why you need it 2) installing and configuring an install of a windows "emulator" 3) managing configuration for each game, tweaking it as required
no thanks, my time is worth more than zero dollars per hour and I have no religious objection to Windows.
"Exactly. I'm saying that collecting evidence and then not finding any, is proof of gross negligence on the part of the police."
Have you ever heard of the 'law' of unintended consequences? Let's see, go looking for evidence, if you don't find any you are punished for gross negligence. What unintended consequence could that rule cause?
He had a really good point. All you are doing is taking things out one more level of abstraction.
For example, instead of having your chess "bot" get paramaters right from the application, just have it take captures of the board image and recognize the pieces. That is not a difficult task. Then, bolt on a chess-playing ai. Voila, bot, by your own definition.
This comment is pretty clever and insightful, and should be modded up. No one is using the fastest selling OS on the history of the planet. Hahaha I get it, the irony!
He's not saying the old processes aren't cool or intruiging or effective, he's saying they're not objectively better than modern processes in the end result.
>Even if he was looking for something to hack, he didn't do any damage
How can you possibly know that? If he had access to this data he could have copied it (even by taking a digital picture of the screen, completely untracable.)
If he could have copied it, he could have sold it, used it himself to commit fraud, and so on.
Just because he "came clean" about what he accessed doesn't mean he did no harm. It may seem more unlikely, but that's it.
I'm very happy for you. Perhaps you should be reassuring my coworkers whose Microsoft Windows XP machines are crashing every day or so instead of me.
You're doing it wrong.
Seriously, every time a flame war comes up between Windows and Linux, you get the guy who has 458 day uptime with his whatever.linux box but claims not to be able to keep a Windows box running for more than 20 minutes.
Hi, my name is crenshawsgc, I'm a salesman by trade, and my Windows XP Pro machine has a 3 month uptime. If I can make it this long, surely you neato tech people can.
You keep going on about "having Sony's ass on wire fraud and 'hacking' charges."
We here at slashdot are eagerly awaiting news of your success with Sony's 'ass' in court. Go ahead. No really, you'll win.
Ever since the term "hack" came to be applied to things like "lifehacker" and "funhacker" etc, I got liberal on the term "nerd" as well.
For all you know, these fine folks are "wormhackers."
The problem with your analogy is that these products do work, they're available now, and they certainly cost less than Apple's hypothetical product will. And they're not toasters.
I "Saw" that section you refered to and still nothing shows me that what you're saying has any basis in legal reality. Would you care to actualy prove yourself?
I might be overly practical, but for anything you'd be doing out of an apartment with sub-gigahertz machines, you don't need a seperate dedicated hardware firewall.
Sorry, for 99.9% of the general public and 98% of slashdot, the terms used are perfectly acceptable. And even someone as erudite as you got the intended meaning as well. Let it go.
This post is very funny, because it reports centuries-old technology as new and modern, yet parallels certain recent developments. The author is witty and brilliant.
oh wait no
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So what you're saying is this great and amazing game has all the great and amazing bits hidden away, and I have to go find them to enjoy the game?
You're comparing downloading and double-clicking on a file with
1) learning what wine is and why you need it
2) installing and configuring an install of a windows "emulator"
3) managing configuration for each game, tweaking it as required
no thanks, my time is worth more than zero dollars per hour and I have no religious objection to Windows.
"Exactly. I'm saying that collecting evidence and then not finding any, is proof of gross negligence on the part of the police." Have you ever heard of the 'law' of unintended consequences? Let's see, go looking for evidence, if you don't find any you are punished for gross negligence. What unintended consequence could that rule cause?
He had a really good point. All you are doing is taking things out one more level of abstraction. For example, instead of having your chess "bot" get paramaters right from the application, just have it take captures of the board image and recognize the pieces. That is not a difficult task. Then, bolt on a chess-playing ai. Voila, bot, by your own definition.
No one is blaming anyone with autism. We're talking about "Asperger's Syndrome." Autism is a real disorder.
Its funny how you are so pendantic yet so wrong. C is not the speed of light in a vacuum. You are thinking of c.
wat http://www.reddit.com/user/circletimessquare/
Unlikely true if you include the TV income, which is an enormous majority of the profit in almost any televised sport.
This comment is pretty clever and insightful, and should be modded up. No one is using the fastest selling OS on the history of the planet. Hahaha I get it, the irony!
forced meme status : FAIL
Wow, by restating his argument you sure have done a lot to counter his argument
He's not saying the old processes aren't cool or intruiging or effective, he's saying they're not objectively better than modern processes in the end result.
>Even if he was looking for something to hack, he didn't do any damage How can you possibly know that? If he had access to this data he could have copied it (even by taking a digital picture of the screen, completely untracable.) If he could have copied it, he could have sold it, used it himself to commit fraud, and so on. Just because he "came clean" about what he accessed doesn't mean he did no harm. It may seem more unlikely, but that's it.
It's ironic that you admit to towing something 110% the weight of your Geo Metro (!) and then go on to dismiss the "dumb or uneducated" about cars.
Being snide doesn't help your case. I followed that case very closely and never saw a performance issue come up in court.
You keep going on about "having Sony's ass on wire fraud and 'hacking' charges." We here at slashdot are eagerly awaiting news of your success with Sony's 'ass' in court. Go ahead. No really, you'll win.
Or, you could load your software from outside this "apps store" and not have to deal with any of this in the first place.
Ever since the term "hack" came to be applied to things like "lifehacker" and "funhacker" etc, I got liberal on the term "nerd" as well. For all you know, these fine folks are "wormhackers."
The problem with your analogy is that these products do work, they're available now, and they certainly cost less than Apple's hypothetical product will. And they're not toasters.
I "Saw" that section you refered to and still nothing shows me that what you're saying has any basis in legal reality. Would you care to actualy prove yourself?
I might be overly practical, but for anything you'd be doing out of an apartment with sub-gigahertz machines, you don't need a seperate dedicated hardware firewall.
Sorry, for 99.9% of the general public and 98% of slashdot, the terms used are perfectly acceptable. And even someone as erudite as you got the intended meaning as well. Let it go.
Should be treated as a massive number of petty thefts? Calling this action "petty theft" is absurd.
This post is very funny, because it reports centuries-old technology as new and modern, yet parallels certain recent developments. The author is witty and brilliant. oh wait no