Sure, if by 'loud noise' you mean 'room being flooded with poison gas while a squad of military droids converge around the door ready to finish the job.'
Samurai like? Yep. This would by why Qui Gon puts his sabre away and meditates quietly a few times during his battle with Maul.
I have to admit, I've never understood the 'they don't lose money, because I wouldn't pay for it.' argument.
I mean, they offer up 1 copy of their software in exchange for 100 dollars. You obtain a copy of the software, without forking over 100 dollars. Therefore, they have lost 100 dollars.
By that same, EXACT same argument, there is never any such thing as a GPL violation, if the programmer never intended to release under the GPL in the first place. That is to say, 'you may copy this code, in exchange for releasing your changes.' Well, I wouldn't release my code in the first place, so I should be able to use your code anyway. You don't lose anything.
Seriously. Take my first example, replace '100 dollars' with 'your modifications' and what's the difference?
Exactly. The word here is 'reasonable.' It's 'reasonable' to check your outgoing mail for things that shouldn't be going out; both to stop intentional data leakage, as well as unintentional.
It is not, however, 'reasonable' for your Fortune 500 company to check your colon for hidden USB keys. If you work for a nuclear missile storage facility, on the other hand....
If you want to steal data, you will. Period. But at least the company took 'reasonable' precautions against it. I'll also point out that it's the 'crusaders' who make a point of trying to subvert the system who wind up actually sliding that 'reasonable' marker further and further into rubber glove territory....
Well, I think you've done an excellent job retro-conning the concept.
Myself, I'd say that Obi-Wan and Yoda didn't want Luke to know that he had this grand role to play; they were more or less using him for their own devices. Which is understandable, in war and what not. Note that Vader later plays on this to try to divide Luke from Obi and Yoda.
Why does it matter if they'd otherwise have not purchased the software? They were offered a contract: one copy of software for one set monetary amount. They received their copy of the software, they did not give up the money. Or, they did not receive a copy of the software from somebody authorized to distribute it.
The real question is: Why did Obi Wan have to talk Yoda into training Luke? Why not 'Waiting for you, I have been. Late you are; your training we must start.' What's with the 'no, he's too old' stuff?
Well, I remember watching E3 coverage on G4TechTV, and the Microsofties were constantly saying 'Oh, we haven't even built the final hardware, we're running on gear that's 1/4th the power; that's why you see stuttering and jaggies.
Oh, I found those settings. They don't help a whole lot.
Hell, Final Fantasy X has just as bad a problem. Lulu's hair rendered as four rectangles, with flex points? It reminded me of Albert's cape in Legend of Dragoon. Necklaces and belts rendered by putting flat textures on flat planes? Yipes.
Actually, it reminded me alot of FF8 on the PC; same textures, sharper polys. Which in turn reminded me of FF7 on the PC, which looked much better. Why? Very very few textures; almost everything was shaded. Which means that it looked nice when you upped the resolution.
Troll? Hardly. Simply pointing out that, hey, you've got a hard drive, and an ethernet port. Not to mention a graphics library which was designed around the idea of having one set of code work on multiple graphics boards. Why not take advantage of all this?
Slowly. My understanding is that the movie gives a terrible sense of it, but it takes a few months.
As they're leaving Hoth, Luke zips over to Dagobah, say it takes a few days in hyper, and begins his Jedi training. He's several months into it when the MF finally makes it to Bespin, and within a few days of that, Vader captures and tortures Han to lure Luke out.
Who needs a clone? Konami published Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix for the xbox at least a year ago, with or without dancepad, and I believe theres an Ultramix 2 out.
Even comes with an exercise mode, which counts calories burned.
Not to mention a great fucking idea; playing a PS1 game on a PS2 is just painful, what with all the jaggies, swimming textures, and so on. Even if the recompile simply turns on AA and texture smoothing, it's an improvement.
Me, I think it's an elegant solution to a thorny problem that just might have some added side effects.
Actuallly, one interesting theory I heard is that they would put the sounds there for the benefit of the pilot.
After all, it's one thing to keep one eye on your radar screen, and see that pesky TiE fighter coming up behind you; it's another thing to *hear* it. A computer generated sound, based on distance, relative velocity, and direction, with different sounds for different ships, would let a pilot more quickly and easily identify when, and by what, he's being tailed or strafed.....
It's not illegal to gain access to a server, it's illegal to gain access to a server you don't have permission to. They have given you permission to access this server. Ergo, it's not illegal.
(Nice to see the ACLU feels Chester's right to commit a crime is more important than Suzy's right to live free of such threats)
Well, there is still the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and much like a stock, past performance isn't indicative of future action.
That having been said, as far as I'm concerned, there *are* certain crimes that, once performed, should wind up basically branding somebody for life. But that requires human judgement, and that's where the problem comes in. I don't have a better solution, I'm afraid.
How is it noone mentions that humanity knows how to write software that isn`t more worm prone then the stuff that got hit by the morris worm twenty F#$%ing years ago?
So how do you write software which is usable by humans, but not usable by worms?
Besides, reference the huge outcry against Microsoft in trying to do just that with the XP TCP/IP stack; things like limiting half-open connections gets them yelled at.
What it comes down to is, however, that if a system is usable, it's abusable. If your car can drive to the left, down a road, it can drive to the left, into a pedestrian. If your mail program can send a picture of an x-ray to your doctor, it can send a picture of the goatse.cx man. If your OS can execute a program to let you do your finances, it can execute a program to then send that data somewhere.
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Sure, if by 'loud noise' you mean 'room being flooded with poison gas while a squad of military droids converge around the door ready to finish the job.'
Samurai like? Yep. This would by why Qui Gon puts his sabre away and meditates quietly a few times during his battle with Maul.
I have to admit, I've never understood the 'they don't lose money, because I wouldn't pay for it.' argument.
I mean, they offer up 1 copy of their software in exchange for 100 dollars. You obtain a copy of the software, without forking over 100 dollars. Therefore, they have lost 100 dollars.
By that same, EXACT same argument, there is never any such thing as a GPL violation, if the programmer never intended to release under the GPL in the first place. That is to say, 'you may copy this code, in exchange for releasing your changes.' Well, I wouldn't release my code in the first place, so I should be able to use your code anyway. You don't lose anything.
Seriously. Take my first example, replace '100 dollars' with 'your modifications' and what's the difference?
Exactly. The word here is 'reasonable.' It's 'reasonable' to check your outgoing mail for things that shouldn't be going out; both to stop intentional data leakage, as well as unintentional.
It is not, however, 'reasonable' for your Fortune 500 company to check your colon for hidden USB keys. If you work for a nuclear missile storage facility, on the other hand....
If you want to steal data, you will. Period. But at least the company took 'reasonable' precautions against it. I'll also point out that it's the 'crusaders' who make a point of trying to subvert the system who wind up actually sliding that 'reasonable' marker further and further into rubber glove territory....Well, I think you've done an excellent job retro-conning the concept.
Myself, I'd say that Obi-Wan and Yoda didn't want Luke to know that he had this grand role to play; they were more or less using him for their own devices. Which is understandable, in war and what not. Note that Vader later plays on this to try to divide Luke from Obi and Yoda.
Why does it matter if they'd otherwise have not purchased the software? They were offered a contract: one copy of software for one set monetary amount. They received their copy of the software, they did not give up the money. Or, they did not receive a copy of the software from somebody authorized to distribute it.
The real question is: Why did Obi Wan have to talk Yoda into training Luke? Why not 'Waiting for you, I have been. Late you are; your training we must start.' What's with the 'no, he's too old' stuff?
Are you sure that the computer in question simply didn't have USB 2.0 ports?
Go to http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ grab a copy, and you're welcome.
I've played through QfG 1 through 4 several times on dosbox.
Well, I remember watching E3 coverage on G4TechTV, and the Microsofties were constantly saying 'Oh, we haven't even built the final hardware, we're running on gear that's 1/4th the power; that's why you see stuttering and jaggies.
Oh, I found those settings. They don't help a whole lot.
Hell, Final Fantasy X has just as bad a problem. Lulu's hair rendered as four rectangles, with flex points? It reminded me of Albert's cape in Legend of Dragoon. Necklaces and belts rendered by putting flat textures on flat planes? Yipes.
Actually, it reminded me alot of FF8 on the PC; same textures, sharper polys. Which in turn reminded me of FF7 on the PC, which looked much better. Why? Very very few textures; almost everything was shaded. Which means that it looked nice when you upped the resolution.
Troll? Hardly. Simply pointing out that, hey, you've got a hard drive, and an ethernet port. Not to mention a graphics library which was designed around the idea of having one set of code work on multiple graphics boards. Why not take advantage of all this?
Anakin's fall to the Dark Side: First Draft.
Scene: Star Wars style birthing room. Inside, Padme is on a bed, being attented to by a few medical droids. Anakin is at her side.
Outside, watching from behind Padme's head, through a large window, are Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, 3PO and R2.
There's some pushing, some screaming, and one of the droids holds up Padme's baby. It's small and green and wrinkled.
YODA: (slapping his forehead) Told that crazy bitch, I did. The condom broke, I told her. Get the morning after pill, I warned her.
Obi-Wan (in that very good Sir Alec Guiness voice that Ewan McGregor does) Bussssss-tedddddd.
Mace Windu: just looks over at Yoda and raises an eyebrow.
Anakin looks up at Yoda with murder in his eyes.....
Slowly. My understanding is that the movie gives a terrible sense of it, but it takes a few months.
As they're leaving Hoth, Luke zips over to Dagobah, say it takes a few days in hyper, and begins his Jedi training. He's several months into it when the MF finally makes it to Bespin, and within a few days of that, Vader captures and tortures Han to lure Luke out.
Who needs a clone? Konami published Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix for the xbox at least a year ago, with or without dancepad, and I believe theres an Ultramix 2 out.
Even comes with an exercise mode, which counts calories burned.
And had he have taken them all to a public park, or rented out an auditorium, or whatever, I'm sure it would have been fine.
But when his bosses told him he couldn't use their facilities for this, and he chose to anyway, well, that's a problem.
Not to mention a great fucking idea; playing a PS1 game on a PS2 is just painful, what with all the jaggies, swimming textures, and so on. Even if the recompile simply turns on AA and texture smoothing, it's an improvement.
Me, I think it's an elegant solution to a thorny problem that just might have some added side effects.
Actuallly, one interesting theory I heard is that they would put the sounds there for the benefit of the pilot.
After all, it's one thing to keep one eye on your radar screen, and see that pesky TiE fighter coming up behind you; it's another thing to *hear* it. A computer generated sound, based on distance, relative velocity, and direction, with different sounds for different ships, would let a pilot more quickly and easily identify when, and by what, he's being tailed or strafed.....
Note the 'if' statement.
Or, just do the Best of Both Worlds(tm) and dump your log to the database every night as part of the log rotation.
Why, the massive legal ramifications.
Or, more realistically, we'd just need a better way of defining a 'web of trust.' Like statements of credit-worthiness from your bank.
The open invitation?
It's not illegal to gain access to a server, it's illegal to gain access to a server you don't have permission to. They have given you permission to access this server. Ergo, it's not illegal.
s/Connector/Extender. Details.
And, you need to accurately define the problem, which affects the proposed solution.
Want to stop viruses from getting on the network? Transparent firewall with virus-scanning capabilities.
Want to punish transgressors? Managed switches, and shut off ports.
Well, there is still the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and much like a stock, past performance isn't indicative of future action.
That having been said, as far as I'm concerned, there *are* certain crimes that, once performed, should wind up basically branding somebody for life. But that requires human judgement, and that's where the problem comes in. I don't have a better solution, I'm afraid.
Einstein and General Relativity disagree with you.
So how do you write software which is usable by humans, but not usable by worms?
Besides, reference the huge outcry against Microsoft in trying to do just that with the XP TCP/IP stack; things like limiting half-open connections gets them yelled at.
What it comes down to is, however, that if a system is usable, it's abusable. If your car can drive to the left, down a road, it can drive to the left, into a pedestrian. If your mail program can send a picture of an x-ray to your doctor, it can send a picture of the goatse.cx man. If your OS can execute a program to let you do your finances, it can execute a program to then send that data somewhere.