I don't understand the problem. With Pay Per View, you are QUITE SPECIFICALLY buying a license to watch a movie once. You are PAYing PER VIEW.
There's no ambiguity about buying physical media vs the content, about buying a license, and so on. You're paying to have a movie playing to your sat/cable box at a specific time and date. Done.
Well, at that point, use acpd to run a script when you hit the reset button, and have the script take down all of the networking stuff, then put it back up.
Also, I trust your hard drives are all either mounted read-only?
In this case, assuming everything went ahead, Yan Ping would bring suit in, say, the great nation of NotAustrailia. Bill would be found guilty in absentia, and if he ever tried to enter NotAustrailia, he'd be arrested, forced to pay a fine, whatever.
NotAustrailia could conceivably try to get Austrailia to extradite him, or to enforce a sentance on him, which might happen for international relations reasons.
Think of it this way. If an eight year old standing on his lawn is yelling insults at an eight year old on the next lot over, the second kid's mommy might not be able to grab the kid and scold him, but she can certainly bar him from coming over, and can certainly ask the first kid's mommy to do something about it.
Nonsense. I can say the same thing about Cruise Control. If you're booting down the highway on CC, and some idiot decides to run across said highway, CC will quite happily run the bugger down.
AS IT SHOULD BE. The driver maintains ultimate responsibility for the car; that brake pedal is there for a reason.
'Super-computing on a budget' is kind of an oxymoron. You either pony up, or you're not super-computering; you're parallel processing on a big cluster.
Don't want your protest to end in an orgy of violence? Regulate it yourself.
There have been many peaceful protests with any number of people, where the cops need do nothing but sip coffee and watch.
And there are protests where you see people getting off of busses with backpacks full of masonry, balaclavas at the ready. Where during interviews, they say things like 'We'll be completely peaceful as we block off all roads within a ten block radius and hurl insults at passers by. If the cops want to MAKE it a fight though, we're ready.'
Nobody wants to be a riot cop. So you get the newbies and the burnouts. They don't get adequate training. They know that a mob can turn ugly. They know they're under watch, and that the hindsight brigade will come down on them like a ton of bricks. They know that taking proactive action to keep things under control will land them on the news; they know that letting things happen will result in a full riot.
And they know that the TV news will never show the rocks, the insults, and the provocations. They'll just show the cops wading in and busting heads.
Step 1: Make a machine that lets you pick who you vote for.
Step 2: The machine prints out a ticket with nothing on it but the name of the person for whom you've voted.
Step 3: You verify the ticket says what you want it to say.
Step 4: You place the ticket into a COMPLETELY SEPARATE and DISCONNECTED machine which OCRs the text registers a vote for the person in question.
Play some tricks so that the machines have to be reset from the outside after each vote, so you need to physically leave the booth before it will accept another vote to prevent stuffing.
You get no-hassle paper trail, can't link it to a human, no receipts that somebody can take out of the booth for purposes nefarious, and prevent casual ballot stuffing.
Or, he used the old trick of using an obvious, easily-discovered lie to hide the deeper, more meaningful lie.
Or, to put it another way, he went to a CA directory, pulled out a random name, registered under that, cleverly putting in an incorrect city/state, but not changing the zip code, giving Internet armchair detectives something to discover.
Of course, this is unlikely, and the idiot REALLY DID just use his own name, but the possibility can't really be discounted out of hand, can it?
It's not really intended to disadvantage you (unless, of course, you like playing on Live) so much as to instill confidence.
One of Xbox Live's draws is that they're really really tough on cheaters, and that you can be pretty much assured of having a 'fair' playing field.
By taking this sort of action, they hope to draw more people in; the people who are tired of playing SOCOM or Phantasy Star or whatever, with the rampant cheating and what not.
I agree. We won't be dehumanized, we'll be re-humanized.
Somebody from fifty years ago, a hundred, two hundred, would probably think, were they transported suddenly to now, that a certain element of humanity has been lost. Phones dehumanized us, industrialization dehumanized us, urbification dehumanized us, and so on.
Crap. It altered what humanity is. That which does not grow, which does not change, will stagnate and die. Entropy and all that.
Are you calling for non-anonymous voting? After all, if you're voting to elect the next President, doesn't every other voter have a right to know exactly who you are? And why would their knowledge serve as a threat in any form or fashion?
The flip side, of course, is that an animal backed into a corner, with nowhere to run, will generally lash out.
Or, put another way, it works great until your bluff is called. The Soviets, at least, didn't want to die. Rattling your sabre at somebody who honestly believes that if they die trying to kill you, they will be assured a place in Paradise tends to not quite have the effect you're hoping for.
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I don't understand the problem. With Pay Per View, you are QUITE SPECIFICALLY buying a license to watch a movie once. You are PAYing PER VIEW.
There's no ambiguity about buying physical media vs the content, about buying a license, and so on. You're paying to have a movie playing to your sat/cable box at a specific time and date. Done.
Well, at that point, use acpd to run a script when you hit the reset button, and have the script take down all of the networking stuff, then put it back up.
Also, I trust your hard drives are all either mounted read-only?
In this case, assuming everything went ahead, Yan Ping would bring suit in, say, the great nation of NotAustrailia. Bill would be found guilty in absentia, and if he ever tried to enter NotAustrailia, he'd be arrested, forced to pay a fine, whatever.
NotAustrailia could conceivably try to get Austrailia to extradite him, or to enforce a sentance on him, which might happen for international relations reasons.
Think of it this way. If an eight year old standing on his lawn is yelling insults at an eight year old on the next lot over, the second kid's mommy might not be able to grab the kid and scold him, but she can certainly bar him from coming over, and can certainly ask the first kid's mommy to do something about it.
Nonsense. I can say the same thing about Cruise Control. If you're booting down the highway on CC, and some idiot decides to run across said highway, CC will quite happily run the bugger down.
AS IT SHOULD BE. The driver maintains ultimate responsibility for the car; that brake pedal is there for a reason.
It's the end of October, and you think that 'GTA 3.2' is the first of the year's AAA titles?
Meh.
'Super-computing on a budget' is kind of an oxymoron. You either pony up, or you're not super-computering; you're parallel processing on a big cluster.
Don't want your protest to end in an orgy of violence? Regulate it yourself.
There have been many peaceful protests with any number of people, where the cops need do nothing but sip coffee and watch.
And there are protests where you see people getting off of busses with backpacks full of masonry, balaclavas at the ready. Where during interviews, they say things like 'We'll be completely peaceful as we block off all roads within a ten block radius and hurl insults at passers by. If the cops want to MAKE it a fight though, we're ready.'
Nobody wants to be a riot cop. So you get the newbies and the burnouts. They don't get adequate training. They know that a mob can turn ugly. They know they're under watch, and that the hindsight brigade will come down on them like a ton of bricks. They know that taking proactive action to keep things under control will land them on the news; they know that letting things happen will result in a full riot.
And they know that the TV news will never show the rocks, the insults, and the provocations. They'll just show the cops wading in and busting heads.
What to do:
Step 1: Make a machine that lets you pick who you vote for.
Step 2: The machine prints out a ticket with nothing on it but the name of the person for whom you've voted.
Step 3: You verify the ticket says what you want it to say.
Step 4: You place the ticket into a COMPLETELY SEPARATE and DISCONNECTED machine which OCRs the text registers a vote for the person in question.
Play some tricks so that the machines have to be reset from the outside after each vote, so you need to physically leave the booth before it will accept another vote to prevent stuffing.
You get no-hassle paper trail, can't link it to a human, no receipts that somebody can take out of the booth for purposes nefarious, and prevent casual ballot stuffing.
Or, he used the old trick of using an obvious, easily-discovered lie to hide the deeper, more meaningful lie.
Or, to put it another way, he went to a CA directory, pulled out a random name, registered under that, cleverly putting in an incorrect city/state, but not changing the zip code, giving Internet armchair detectives something to discover.
Of course, this is unlikely, and the idiot REALLY DID just use his own name, but the possibility can't really be discounted out of hand, can it?
It's not really intended to disadvantage you (unless, of course, you like playing on Live) so much as to instill confidence.
One of Xbox Live's draws is that they're really really tough on cheaters, and that you can be pretty much assured of having a 'fair' playing field.
By taking this sort of action, they hope to draw more people in; the people who are tired of playing SOCOM or Phantasy Star or whatever, with the rampant cheating and what not.
And yet on the Other Hand, Russia was lauded in WW2 for having superior tanks to the Germans, which helped stem the onslaught.
Technology isn't everything; it is a factor though. Similarly, numbers aren't everything; they are a factor, though.
When I die, I want to go like my Grandad did; peacefully, in his sleep.
Not screaming like the passengers in his car.
I agree. We won't be dehumanized, we'll be re-humanized.
Somebody from fifty years ago, a hundred, two hundred, would probably think, were they transported suddenly to now, that a certain element of humanity has been lost. Phones dehumanized us, industrialization dehumanized us, urbification dehumanized us, and so on.
Crap. It altered what humanity is. That which does not grow, which does not change, will stagnate and die. Entropy and all that.
A car without Windows? How will you see the road? Will it have a funky video system, and you'll be surrounded by screens?
(what a terrible pun)
This is extra interesting when you think that under American law, Cryptography was (and might still be) classified as 'munitions.'
The HAL is alive and well; when you choose single-processor vs SMP, you're picking a HAL; when you choose APCI vs non-APCI, you're picking a HAL.
Just don't use the counterfit cash from your last print run.
This is the difference between being 'emmitted' and 'produced.' The idea, I think, is that it's not being spewed uncontrollably into the atmosphere.
Paraphrasing from Neil Stepehson:
What he's saying is that if a minor is found guilty of a capital crime by a federal court, that court cannot execute him.
If, however, a minor is found guilty of a capital crime by a state court, then the laws of that state determine if he/she can be executed.
Once again, we get the violence vs sex disconnect in the States; If you're President, you can get a hatchet job, but you can't get a blow job.
Interesting distinction, but I was talking more to the assertion that this information would prove no possible threat to anybody.
Is that threat part of their job descriptions? That part, I can't speak to.
Are you calling for non-anonymous voting? After all, if you're voting to elect the next President, doesn't every other voter have a right to know exactly who you are? And why would their knowledge serve as a threat in any form or fashion?
I loved that game. Awesome awesome technology, great gameplay, excellent interface, decent voice acting, good mission design.
I'd love to see an updated version/sequel.
The flip side, of course, is that an animal backed into a corner, with nowhere to run, will generally lash out.
Or, put another way, it works great until your bluff is called. The Soviets, at least, didn't want to die. Rattling your sabre at somebody who honestly believes that if they die trying to kill you, they will be assured a place in Paradise tends to not quite have the effect you're hoping for.