I think the MPAA *should* attack Google with everything they can muster. Because once Google breaks their impetuous arrogant charge dead in its tracks with its Great Wall of Lawyers, the rest of us can breathe a little easier.
One day some fool will ask a machine to figure how to rescue the environment and fix it for us, and the machines will figure out that humans are the ones who destroy it... let's hope that Newton's Laws come standard by that point, otherwise we'll be in deep deep trouble.
Also, the landlord happens to own any physical object that enters through the front door. Any idea you have within his complex? By default, it's HIS intellectual property. He can also film inside your home with closed cameras, and use the footage for any purpose without your consent.
Sony is going to run into a full Streisand Effect backlash with this new attempt to expunge the net of any trace of the very mention of this hack existing. And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it? Are they planning to go the RIAA route and send blackmail letters to those people, threatening to sue them for millions unless they pay several thousands of dollars?
Though a $500+ video card is considered top of the line, a $250 one will now play pretty much any game at the highest settings with no problem. (Maybe that’s what everyone wanted?) Pretty soon, however, graphics chip makers won’t be able to sustain their rate of growth because the software is so far behind, which will be bad for gamers on consoles as well as PC.
Because I'm certain all PC gamers want to return to the days of Crysis when a top of the line computer still wasn't strong enough to run a latest release game with anything more than average graphic settings unless they were willing to drop a few hundreds on a new video card every six months.
With an ever growing underclass it won't take long before we get our own Lenin or little German to stir the underclasses into following Egypt, my guess is it will be right about the time those checks the fed keeps cranking out won't even buy a loaf of bread.
Technically, he was austrian. Germany was so broke after WWI that they had to IMPORT their new fascist dictator.
I'm pretty sure even if there were never 9-11 hijackers or a DHS, the RIAA and MPAA would have found some other government agency to overstep its bounds and pull this kind of crap. Hooray for the good senator in trying to shed light on it.
True that. The best way to send the cockroaches flying into panic is to turn on the kitchen light.
... but where it fails is the business model. It assumes that people are willing to pay to access a single aggregation service when so many already exist free of charge. Ever wonder why music and video piracy is so rampant? Yeah, internet users like their free stuff. So given a choice between a 99 cents a week or a zero cents a week price point, most will just take the latter while wondering why the former would even exist.
As long as they hold very still at exactly two feet away from me. Would you place your head directly on the focal point of my rig? Thans, I appreciate it, it's a pain the ass to aim this thing.
Where was this service two years ago when unlimited bandwidth broadband services still existed? Nowadays it sounds like a new way to put a direct funnel from my bank account to Comcast's.
Sony has mocked Microsoft for years for charging their customers to access online gaming, but without having something shiny to take away from their customers, they're pretty much left with an install base that has nothing to lose. Who's laughing now?
There, an expert on prison gangs argued not only that having a Dungeon Master issue direction to other players “mimics the organization of a gang”, but that the game encourages players to become obsessed with mentally escaping the restrictions of prison life, which could threaten “the safety and security of the institution.”
As opposed to leaving them in the courtyard to look at the outside, separated from society by armed guards and chainlink fences?
Doesn't matter if my viagra emails come from a hacked chinese botnet or an amazon approved paying customer - I still don't want that garbage in my inbox.
Having successfully argued in favor of leveling million-dollar fines against people for downloading a handful of MP3s, he's clearly uniquely qualified for defending insane positions that cannot be rationally argued with anything but emotion.
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I think the MPAA *should* attack Google with everything they can muster. Because once Google breaks their impetuous arrogant charge dead in its tracks with its Great Wall of Lawyers, the rest of us can breathe a little easier.
One day some fool will ask a machine to figure how to rescue the environment and fix it for us, and the machines will figure out that humans are the ones who destroy it... let's hope that Newton's Laws come standard by that point, otherwise we'll be in deep deep trouble.
At least the army had the good sense of developing their self-refueling organic-eating robot to only go for plant matter!!!
Also, the landlord happens to own any physical object that enters through the front door. Any idea you have within his complex? By default, it's HIS intellectual property. He can also film inside your home with closed cameras, and use the footage for any purpose without your consent.
Sony is going to run into a full Streisand Effect backlash with this new attempt to expunge the net of any trace of the very mention of this hack existing. And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it? Are they planning to go the RIAA route and send blackmail letters to those people, threatening to sue them for millions unless they pay several thousands of dollars?
Though a $500+ video card is considered top of the line, a $250 one will now play pretty much any game at the highest settings with no problem. (Maybe that’s what everyone wanted?) Pretty soon, however, graphics chip makers won’t be able to sustain their rate of growth because the software is so far behind, which will be bad for gamers on consoles as well as PC.
Because I'm certain all PC gamers want to return to the days of Crysis when a top of the line computer still wasn't strong enough to run a latest release game with anything more than average graphic settings unless they were willing to drop a few hundreds on a new video card every six months.
Well, better start preparing to live aboard a migrant starship fleet, sealed inside a suit to protect our weakened immune systems.
With an ever growing underclass it won't take long before we get our own Lenin or little German to stir the underclasses into following Egypt, my guess is it will be right about the time those checks the fed keeps cranking out won't even buy a loaf of bread.
Technically, he was austrian. Germany was so broke after WWI that they had to IMPORT their new fascist dictator.
I'm pretty sure even if there were never 9-11 hijackers or a DHS, the RIAA and MPAA would have found some other government agency to overstep its bounds and pull this kind of crap. Hooray for the good senator in trying to shed light on it.
True that. The best way to send the cockroaches flying into panic is to turn on the kitchen light.
... the terrorists have already won? That seems the logic behind the DHS seizing domains at the RIAA's request.
... but where it fails is the business model. It assumes that people are willing to pay to access a single aggregation service when so many already exist free of charge. Ever wonder why music and video piracy is so rampant? Yeah, internet users like their free stuff. So given a choice between a 99 cents a week or a zero cents a week price point, most will just take the latter while wondering why the former would even exist.
Since when did article postings come with gratuitous flamebait in addition to the link/info?
When it's justified by the article topic's inherent stupidity?
As long as they hold very still at exactly two feet away from me. Would you place your head directly on the focal point of my rig? Thans, I appreciate it, it's a pain the ass to aim this thing.
Where was this service two years ago when unlimited bandwidth broadband services still existed? Nowadays it sounds like a new way to put a direct funnel from my bank account to Comcast's.
This isn't about protecting children, it's about making damn sure no men get to roleplay as hot female elves:
http://boingboing.net/2007/09/26/chinese-mmo-bans-ing.html
Stop trying to confuse us with cylindrical logic!
Because nobody in the history of terrorism had ever thought of bringing a bomb to an airpo- oh wait.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/603120512.html?dids=603120512:603120512&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+20%2C+1974&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=London+Airport+Bomb+Hurts+2%2C+Panics+Tourists&pqatl=google
Cheap discount Cialis is a patriotic war hero!
Sony has mocked Microsoft for years for charging their customers to access online gaming, but without having something shiny to take away from their customers, they're pretty much left with an install base that has nothing to lose. Who's laughing now?
There, an expert on prison gangs argued not only that having a Dungeon Master issue direction to other players “mimics the organization of a gang”, but that the game encourages players to become obsessed with mentally escaping the restrictions of prison life, which could threaten “the safety and security of the institution.”
As opposed to leaving them in the courtyard to look at the outside, separated from society by armed guards and chainlink fences?
Doesn't matter if my viagra emails come from a hacked chinese botnet or an amazon approved paying customer - I still don't want that garbage in my inbox.
I didn't say he agreed. I said he argued those positions, regardless of how illogical they might be, which is the hallmark of a great lawyer.
Having successfully argued in favor of leveling million-dollar fines against people for downloading a handful of MP3s, he's clearly uniquely qualified for defending insane positions that cannot be rationally argued with anything but emotion.
Independant replication or it didn't happen.
Maybe this time around we'll find out what a Hrung is and why it would it would choose to collapse on Betelgeuse.