It seems to be common these days for someone to just mention "invasion of privacy" and people jump up and down like it's some sort of invasion into your personal life.
It seems to be common these days for someone to just mention "invasion of privacy" and people jump up and down like it's some sort of invasion into your personal life. I put it to the commissioner that if she can safely make her name available to 1,000 people then she can safely give it to 6,000,000,000.
What does she expect? For people to see her name and spontaneously decide to visit? If fronted with that question I'd bet money she'd only be able to recall her original assertion that it's invading her privacy, not bring any new info to the table. If, once a month, she gets stalked by a crazy guy that saw her name somewhere, THEN she can argue that increasing her name's exposure will bring her harm. But again, I highly doubt her current exposure has had any real effect at all.
The "average consumer" doesn't know what DPI is now. You are implying that they are incapable of knowing. Take them aside for a few minutes, show them what net neutrality is, what DPI is, and what it means for their privacy and ability to surf then net. Then ask them whether they care about the implications of DPI.
In that case I'm not so sure the judge made the right decision. How is inspecting the insides of a locked trunk different to inspecting the contents of an encrypted harddrive?
It's good that they can't just force their way into the guy's privacy, but don't they have reasonable grounds to get a warrant which should force the guy to allow them "entry" as such?
The worst we have here is a monopolising telecommunications company. We have data caps and high prices compared to other countries. Sometimes I find it really hard to treasure what we have, but it's articles like these that make it easier. Precious few ISPs here throttle data and I've never heard of any kind of push against p2p, let alone all the blocked/throttled/privacy-busting measures I've been hearing about what's going on in the US.
Of course, I still have reason to worry. A lot of NZ traffic goes through the US.:)
Open beta's aren't very indicative of quality. Very rarely is an MMO playable when it's released; it's almost always riddled with bugs and server problems... so imagine how bad it is with several times the expected population crammed onto a stress-test server.
Case in point: the WoW open beta stress test. Three minute loot lag, constant server crashes and rollbacks, 10 players for every monster in existence. You couldn't play that and come away feeling like it's something you want to buy (although you couldn't really play it to begin with;)).
WoW was missing some major features: hero classes (STILL not in yet and only partially implemented in the upcoming expansion), endgame content, etc. that took time to get put in the game (and there was some due whining). But it wasn't missing anything as major as 4/6 cities or four core classes.
I guess people are built differently in that regard. I can focus all my attention on one game just fine, but if I start playing another game, all my attention quickly shifts and I forget the first game.
True - if you're getting bored with an MMO you could be looking for a new one. But how often does that happen? I'm a WoW player and have had a few 6-month breaks from it before getting back into it, and during those times I'm definitely not looking to get back into an MMO.
Although if, after said 6 month break, there's WoW and next to it is WHO... and if you're currently playing an MMO and are bored of the game but not the formula... okay, I guess I can see migration happening.:)
1) The gameplay video looked like nothing special. But then, neither did the early WoW one... it could still be good I guess.
2) You'd have to turn in your geek card if you actually paid and played an MMO without waiting a few months for it to be playable.
3) If you're the type that enjoys MMOs, you're probably already playing one. And if you're paying for one MMO, and you enjoy it, what's the point in paying for another? In this case they have a fanbase rabidly gnashing their teeth already but I wonder if that's enough to bite into a very well established market?
I'm surprised the guy doesn't have a giant black SUV constantly parked outside his house. The most the article mentions is that a kid who made a fusor for his science project was visited by the state health department, who then left him alone from there on. His neighbors seem cool with it too (not to mention his wife). What is this, some sort of alternate reality version of the US?
From the sounds of the article though, these people aren't actually looking to make a proper electricity-generating fusion reaction; they're just making fusors for shits and giggles. Misleading title?
Dude! I could have been nuked in a traffic jam caused by malfunctioning traffic lights and jumbo jets crashing into the streets... and to top it all off, I would have missed taping a Simpsons rerun.
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I'm sure if you were nice enough to Manson...
It's already the first thing to show up when you sift through her physical records.
It seems to be common these days for someone to just mention "invasion of privacy" and people jump up and down like it's some sort of invasion into your personal life.
Okay, I didn't word that too well...
It seems to be common these days for someone to just mention "invasion of privacy" and people jump up and down like it's some sort of invasion into your personal life. I put it to the commissioner that if she can safely make her name available to 1,000 people then she can safely give it to 6,000,000,000.
What does she expect? For people to see her name and spontaneously decide to visit? If fronted with that question I'd bet money she'd only be able to recall her original assertion that it's invading her privacy, not bring any new info to the table. If, once a month, she gets stalked by a crazy guy that saw her name somewhere, THEN she can argue that increasing her name's exposure will bring her harm. But again, I highly doubt her current exposure has had any real effect at all.
He didn't make the Baldur's Gate series. Move along.
Actually, Dreamfall was pretty cool.
Just further proof that Adobe Flash is evil.
The "average consumer" doesn't know what DPI is now. You are implying that they are incapable of knowing. Take them aside for a few minutes, show them what net neutrality is, what DPI is, and what it means for their privacy and ability to surf then net. Then ask them whether they care about the implications of DPI.
That's cool man, but somewhat off topic.
In that case I'm not so sure the judge made the right decision. How is inspecting the insides of a locked trunk different to inspecting the contents of an encrypted harddrive?
It's good that they can't just force their way into the guy's privacy, but don't they have reasonable grounds to get a warrant which should force the guy to allow them "entry" as such?
Hero classes != Hero class
The worst we have here is a monopolising telecommunications company. We have data caps and high prices compared to other countries. Sometimes I find it really hard to treasure what we have, but it's articles like these that make it easier. Precious few ISPs here throttle data and I've never heard of any kind of push against p2p, let alone all the blocked/throttled/privacy-busting measures I've been hearing about what's going on in the US.
:)
Of course, I still have reason to worry. A lot of NZ traffic goes through the US.
Open beta's aren't very indicative of quality. Very rarely is an MMO playable when it's released; it's almost always riddled with bugs and server problems... so imagine how bad it is with several times the expected population crammed onto a stress-test server.
;)).
Case in point: the WoW open beta stress test. Three minute loot lag, constant server crashes and rollbacks, 10 players for every monster in existence. You couldn't play that and come away feeling like it's something you want to buy (although you couldn't really play it to begin with
WoW was missing some major features: hero classes (STILL not in yet and only partially implemented in the upcoming expansion), endgame content, etc. that took time to get put in the game (and there was some due whining). But it wasn't missing anything as major as 4/6 cities or four core classes.
I guess people are built differently in that regard. I can focus all my attention on one game just fine, but if I start playing another game, all my attention quickly shifts and I forget the first game.
That said, kittens are pretty awesome.
True - if you're getting bored with an MMO you could be looking for a new one. But how often does that happen? I'm a WoW player and have had a few 6-month breaks from it before getting back into it, and during those times I'm definitely not looking to get back into an MMO.
:)
Although if, after said 6 month break, there's WoW and next to it is WHO... and if you're currently playing an MMO and are bored of the game but not the formula... okay, I guess I can see migration happening.
1) The gameplay video looked like nothing special. But then, neither did the early WoW one... it could still be good I guess.
2) You'd have to turn in your geek card if you actually paid and played an MMO without waiting a few months for it to be playable.
3) If you're the type that enjoys MMOs, you're probably already playing one. And if you're paying for one MMO, and you enjoy it, what's the point in paying for another? In this case they have a fanbase rabidly gnashing their teeth already but I wonder if that's enough to bite into a very well established market?
It's a shame it's not DNF but Duke 3D kicks ass all the same. It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all out of gum.
We don't talk about Windows ME.
I'm surprised the guy doesn't have a giant black SUV constantly parked outside his house. The most the article mentions is that a kid who made a fusor for his science project was visited by the state health department, who then left him alone from there on. His neighbors seem cool with it too (not to mention his wife). What is this, some sort of alternate reality version of the US?
From the sounds of the article though, these people aren't actually looking to make a proper electricity-generating fusion reaction; they're just making fusors for shits and giggles. Misleading title?
Dude! I could have been nuked in a traffic jam caused by malfunctioning traffic lights and jumbo jets crashing into the streets... and to top it all off, I would have missed taping a Simpsons rerun.
Offtopic? I find the terror-crying index to be a much easier number to mentally picture.
Put microsoft's hand in warm water while they're at it. We'll get the next version of Windows a year early!
We'll make a real-life expansion and invade outland?
I don't know whether I could survive for that long.