They don't look at each person and try to tell if they are sharing illegally. They simply join a load of illegal torrents and read off the long list of IPs to which they connect. Encryption only works if only let people you trust join the party.
Just paint the shells blue. The trick isn't in making the projectile mirror back the laser, it's in making it stealthy enough not to be recognizable and trackable.
I believe the video demonstrates that the system uses infra-red to track the projectiles.
Friendly fire cases have recently caused a lot of controversy here in the UK. Americans have killed Britons in clearly marked convoys and the US refused to extradite or even court marshal them. In one case the coroner's report was actively impeded and a video from one of the US jets was only released when The Sun leaked it.
having our internet snooped
If you think that doesn't happen everywhere, you are very naive.
arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia
Since when was Germany the whole of Europe?
being video recorded on every street we walk/drive
I'll give you this one; we have more CCTV. However if you think it's every street you are much mistaken.
having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care
Plain wrong. You just pulled that figure straight out of your arse. Oh and would you rather we left poor people to die?
giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time
I actually agree that the welfare state here is too generous, but in the US it's so ungenerous you see people literally starving and that's what leads to a massively higher homicide rate.
arrested for speaking out politically
Can you show me where people have been arrested for peaceful protests?
You're obviously a bit dim (or just massively prejudiced), so I'll take things sloooooowly.
Your friend buys the latest piece of software (direct from the manufacturer) for $100. He shows it off to you and you decide to buy it yourself. You go to the same manufacturer and he decides to sell it to you for $220.
Do you a) pay up or b) make a fuss?
If you chose (b) then congratulations! You're a hypocrite!
Except they probably would have left it as localization. Take video games for example. Nintendo claim the huge delays and higher prices in Europe are due to localisation, yet all the games we get are littered with US spellings.
There are definitely a lot of bugs. For example, the first page of a search for "Cambridge University" fails to link to the University of Cambridge's official site, but "University of Cambridge" has it as the first hit.
I can see why that's happening, but that would catch a lot of people out.
I admit that the problem is mine and not Apple's. It's just that everything about Apple's approach to marketing their products creeps me out and causes me to experience an anxious nausea whenever I come into contact with their products or with dedicated users of their products. It's hard to bask in the cultural phenomenon that is Apple when you're nauseous.
I love how you hate these Apple fanboys yet you are equally irrationally against them. Why not just chill out? If you don't like a company, then don't buy their stuff. Don't make up a load of bullshit about how you feel nauseous when you see them (if you don't realise that's bullshit then you don't understand what nauseous means).
Exactly. It's not even well thought through. It reminds me of a group of eco-warrior types here in Oxford who have been letting down the tyres of people with SUVs. Of course, it just causes people to hate them and the SUV owners end up leaving their engine running for half an hour to reinflate their tyres using electric pumps anyway...
Personally I like it. It's something a bit interesting to look at and it's not like it's permanent.
I think people from the Americas need to realise that we're surrounded by this kind of thing here in Europe. I mean my uni accommodation in my first year was 14th or 15th century (we never found out which in the end), so was at least three hundred years older than the US itself.
It's funny but I've read PA for ages and I've never given any consideration to what they sound like. Maybe that's just me.
I'm still not convinced by your arguments for no speech though --- what about film adaptations of books where they might not even look like how you imagined them?
It's a real shame that there are so few genuinely funny games. I think it's all down to games like Grim Fandango selling all of about fifteen copies and demonstrating that not even that level of humour can beat gunning down thousands of identical aliens in the eyes of the majority of gamers.
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They don't look at each person and try to tell if they are sharing illegally. They simply join a load of illegal torrents and read off the long list of IPs to which they connect. Encryption only works if only let people you trust join the party.
Just paint the shells blue. The trick isn't in making the projectile mirror back the laser, it's in making it stealthy enough not to be recognizable and trackable.
I believe the video demonstrates that the system uses infra-red to track the projectiles.
I heard it feels like someone else is using the mouse if you do that.
Which one is the newest? Which one am I running? Who the fuck knows?
For the last couple of years, Ubuntu has gone:
I'll leave you to spot the pattern.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
(queue the whoosh)
Why would US troops operating in Iraq, goto trial in the UK?Civilian court no less?
They weren't punished in the US.
Friendly fire cases have recently caused a lot of controversy here in the UK. Americans have killed Britons in clearly marked convoys and the US refused to extradite or even court marshal them. In one case the coroner's report was actively impeded and a video from one of the US jets was only released when The Sun leaked it.
having our internet snooped
If you think that doesn't happen everywhere, you are very naive.
arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia
Since when was Germany the whole of Europe?
being video recorded on every street we walk/drive
I'll give you this one; we have more CCTV. However if you think it's every street you are much mistaken.
having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care
Plain wrong. You just pulled that figure straight out of your arse. Oh and would you rather we left poor people to die?
giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time
I actually agree that the welfare state here is too generous, but in the US it's so ungenerous you see people literally starving and that's what leads to a massively higher homicide rate.
arrested for speaking out politically
Can you show me where people have been arrested for peaceful protests?
...and to pay for free healthcare instead of letting their poor die. USA! USA! USA!
You're obviously a bit dim (or just massively prejudiced), so I'll take things sloooooowly.
Your friend buys the latest piece of software (direct from the manufacturer) for $100. He shows it off to you and you decide to buy it yourself. You go to the same manufacturer and he decides to sell it to you for $220.
Do you a) pay up or b) make a fuss?
If you chose (b) then congratulations! You're a hypocrite!
Except they probably would have left it as localization. Take video games for example. Nintendo claim the huge delays and higher prices in Europe are due to localisation, yet all the games we get are littered with US spellings.
Semi-first world countries? Just goes to show how out of touch Americans really are with the rest of the world.
There are definitely a lot of bugs. For example, the first page of a search for "Cambridge University" fails to link to the University of Cambridge's official site, but "University of Cambridge" has it as the first hit.
I can see why that's happening, but that would catch a lot of people out.
What value can humanity obtain from you posting on Slashdot?
His point was that people can be good without being religious. And of course people can be nasty and religious at the same time.
...go fuck yourself.
Your posts have done a lot to back up his claim.
Yeah! They're not geniouses at all!
I admit that the problem is mine and not Apple's. It's just that everything about Apple's approach to marketing their products creeps me out and causes me to experience an anxious nausea whenever I come into contact with their products or with dedicated users of their products. It's hard to bask in the cultural phenomenon that is Apple when you're nauseous.
I love how you hate these Apple fanboys yet you are equally irrationally against them. Why not just chill out? If you don't like a company, then don't buy their stuff. Don't make up a load of bullshit about how you feel nauseous when you see them (if you don't realise that's bullshit then you don't understand what nauseous means).
Exactly. It's not even well thought through. It reminds me of a group of eco-warrior types here in Oxford who have been letting down the tyres of people with SUVs. Of course, it just causes people to hate them and the SUV owners end up leaving their engine running for half an hour to reinflate their tyres using electric pumps anyway...
Blimey! I never knew they did all that. Makes the license fee look like a bargain if we avoid all that nonsense!
Personally I like it. It's something a bit interesting to look at and it's not like it's permanent.
I think people from the Americas need to realise that we're surrounded by this kind of thing here in Europe. I mean my uni accommodation in my first year was 14th or 15th century (we never found out which in the end), so was at least three hundred years older than the US itself.
What does "time allocated" mean?
(Not a troll, I've never seen a message like that on TV.)
pfft. So they both type strings into google? WOW HE SO MUST HAVE STOLEN IT!!!!
By that logic, xkcd stole it from Dave Gorman.
Fark puts the time tag to several hours in the future and replaces "first post" with "boobies" I believe.
It's funny but I've read PA for ages and I've never given any consideration to what they sound like. Maybe that's just me.
I'm still not convinced by your arguments for no speech though --- what about film adaptations of books where they might not even look like how you imagined them?
It's a real shame that there are so few genuinely funny games. I think it's all down to games like Grim Fandango selling all of about fifteen copies and demonstrating that not even that level of humour can beat gunning down thousands of identical aliens in the eyes of the majority of gamers.