I just couldn't help myself but think of the movie Hatley High when I saw this newsitem. I thought it was a great movie about chess and would like to reccommend it to all:).
Yeah, and next thing is that the backbones will do routing if you try to use an encrypted link to www..com
I like my internet non-contaminated. traffic shaping is _not_ an option
--Socrates
I'll start this post with a quote from the article:
"CrimeNet offers details on 4000 convicted criminals gleaned from newspapers and court records"
It says it all right here, the info on CrimeNet isn't to blame. It's not like they are the only ones to have had the information publisized. The problem is that this is just bad judgement from the Judge and his/her consorts.
Problem is that most people are not going to see it "the right way" and are going to scream hell on earth and down with the internet. It's just too easy to blame internet (and computers in general) for the things that go wrong.
What could have been done different?
Before trial the judge tells the jurors what to do and what not to do. I think a judge says something like "thou shalt not investigate in prior offenses of this person" at the jury selection. Why should a website be anything different?
Reading the article I couldn't help but feeling like the judge thought the same thing, therefore he refused to abort the trial at first. Problem is that other people got wind of the case and started meddling, after which the judge suddenly did abort the trial.
<disclaimer> Ahwell, as you can guess, this is just IMHO so don't blame me if I'm wrong...:) </disclaimer>
I keep being amazed at the enormous amounts of time "scientists" seem to be having on their hands lately. You can't be serious about research like this. This is of no public interest whatsoever and I think they could at least use their time for something research worthy. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have fun with it, but I hope they didn't get a grant or some other form of pay for this research. #include
I think you're right here. I just want to add that it is also very important to not only ask for a port, but also give good, positive response when they actually do it. This is very easy, just send them a little message stating that you want to thank them for the good port and that they should keep releasing for linux.
I don't agree with the term email flooding here. As is said already it is good to let the producers of games (and for that matter other software) know that we appreciate their efforts in porting to different platforms (not necessarily Linux). But this shouldn't result in flooding now should it? If someone uses a port for a game and thinks it is great work why shouldn't he or she let the producers know that. If I were a producer of software I would welcome any replies (bad or good) to my efforts. Why should other people feel otherwise?
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I just couldn't help myself but think of the movie Hatley High when I saw this newsitem. I thought it was a great movie about chess and would like to reccommend it to all :).
imdb link
Hang on, don't import the DVDs from the US, because that would be illegal too!
Euhm, sorry, but you're wrong
/dev/null it's gone to the heavens, bye bye packet, holding a ceremony with flours and a coffin, things like that.
/dev/null would have been linked to the internet, people would get some really weird packets from me :)
Really, once it hits
If
-- Socrates
Yeah, and next thing is that the backbones will do routing if you try to use an encrypted link to www..com I like my internet non-contaminated. traffic shaping is _not_ an option --Socrates
I'll start this post with a quote from the article:
:)
"CrimeNet offers details on 4000 convicted criminals gleaned from newspapers and court records"
It says it all right here, the info on CrimeNet isn't to blame. It's not like they are the only ones to have had the information publisized. The problem is that this is just bad judgement from the Judge and his/her consorts.
Problem is that most people are not going to see it "the right way" and are going to scream hell on earth and down with the internet. It's just too easy to blame internet (and computers in general) for the things that go wrong.
What could have been done different?
Before trial the judge tells the jurors what to do and what not to do. I think a judge says something like "thou shalt not investigate in prior offenses of this person" at the jury selection. Why should a website be anything different?
Reading the article I couldn't help but feeling like the judge thought the same thing, therefore he refused to abort the trial at first. Problem is that other people got wind of the case and started meddling, after which the judge suddenly did abort the trial.
<disclaimer>
Ahwell, as you can guess, this is just IMHO so don't blame me if I'm wrong...
</disclaimer>
Socrates
I keep being amazed at the enormous amounts of time "scientists" seem to be having on their hands lately. You can't be serious about research like this. This is of no public interest whatsoever and I think they could at least use their time for something research worthy. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have fun with it, but I hope they didn't get a grant or some other form of pay for this research. #include
I think you're right here. I just want to add that it is also very important to not only ask for a port, but also give good, positive response when they actually do it. This is very easy, just send them a little message stating that you want to thank them for the good port and that they should keep releasing for linux.
I don't agree with the term email flooding here. As is said already it is good to let the producers of games (and for that matter other software) know that we appreciate their efforts in porting to different platforms (not necessarily Linux). But this shouldn't result in flooding now should it? If someone uses a port for a game and thinks it is great work why shouldn't he or she let the producers know that. If I were a producer of software I would welcome any replies (bad or good) to my efforts. Why should other people feel otherwise?