1) People doing it for profit, if you sell it I have no sympathy
They are doing it for financial means though, they aren't causing harm to anyone. The point of prison should not be used as a deterrent but simply as a way to keep violent offenders off the street. Why? Because for one prison is expensive for the average taxpayer. A fine of say, $500 -creates- income for the state, not takes it away as in the case of prison. According to http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060129/NEWS01/601290307/1001/ARCHIVE#STS=g2tu38i3.j6q , it costs the state $35,000 per year per prisoner. California spent $272,194,994 in bridge construction in 2008 (http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/estimates/) , California also had 170,000 prisoners (34,164 are there for life), at the average cost of $35,000 per prisoner per year, and assuming that the 170,000 prisoners are there for a year, that costs California $5,950,000,000 -per year- for the care of prisoners. All the bridge construction in California could have been done over 20 times with that amount of money!
Furthermore, that is assuming a healthy, young prisoner, an elderly or sickly prisoner may cost as much as $70,000 per year! Prisons in the US are becoming overcrowded adding construction fees to the mix, plus more staffing fees, etc.
Aside from the price of prison there is also the moral consideration. First, we have an effectively eternal copyright system in the US, we also have stupid laws like the DMCA that criminalize using your hardware as you see fit, these are both very unpopular laws with the general citizen (just look at the data -by the RIAA- on piracy, assuming most Americans are by nature law abiding, you see they don't care much for these laws). Secondly if a movie isn't on a torrent site who does that benefit? It doesn't benefit me, it doesn't benefit you, it benefits a very small number of people, we should not use large amount of public funds to help a few people. I'm not saying we should have no copyright, but using public funds and putting people in prison for violating copyright is honestly, very stupid and is evidence of a corrupt government.
Yes, but Nokia has invested too much money and time in Symbian for them to abandon it now while Maemo was quickly thrown together, to Nokia they see Symbian as being carefully researched and Maemo to them is just Debian for phones.
The current measures are in place to hoard revenue for Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, but a side benefit of this is usually higher standards of quality in the games (not content, but code...trust me, you'd be surprised)
You mean the fact that Star Ocean III managed to fail to work on some PS2s? (http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2003/030803a.html) the general bugginess of most games, etc. Yeah, they might have better code, but for $60+ I'd better hope it works with any software, from an iPhone app, to an OS, to a game.
I'd settle for a simi-buggy game for free compared to a $50 game with a few bugs.
If the format is opened to anyone who can make a flash cart, etc., you will, most likely, begin to see a higher number of games with these show-stopping bugs hitting the market in the rush to lower standards in order to maximize profit.
Yes, but with flash carts come patches and cheaper games. Yeah, I'd like a bug free game, but paying less for a game and getting more (ability of patches, etc) may be a good tradeoff.
Opening the field for other companies isn't a bad thing, but people will definitely have to be more careful as to what software they buy for their game consoles
Because they don't already? How many people are conned into buying the $50 video game from $MOVIE that is complete crap. Yeah, they are generally less buggy, but that doesn't mean that they are good games. A buggy game with a good plot, storyline, price, and enjoyability is much better than a bug-free crap game.
With fewer first party blocks in place I would expect to see a game on the market within six months that at least corrupted system software.
And if you look at home console homebrew which is a whole lot more risky, you can see that its generally safe. Plus, with the opening up of the consoles, you can actually fix some of the software, and over time console makers will use failsafe firmware that is found in most newer devices.
Nintendo open? Their WiiWare approval process makes the iPhone development process look easy by comparison, especially when you realize that to be a developer you have to pay a $2,000 fee. Heck, they censored crosses in NES games!
No, the other alternative would be for people to realize that either A) Their matter is so important that it should be fully public or B) Their matter is unimportant and they should just drop it.
And most matters should -not- be confidential. If we are going to waste our tax dollars on a court case all records kept from it should be public. Don't take it to court if it is confidential, otherwise we have press manipulating facts that should be public.
R2-45 (the document in question) was clearly a joke when it was made, and was simply used as an euphemism for murder in later contexts. While Scientology has lots of problems (suppression of information, extortion, slavery, etc), R2-45 is more of a joke than anything else and should be taken as such. It should be taken in the same vein of the Darwin Award.
It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust. Take any group of trusted people and you will find that a minority want to use their trust for personal gain. In America, corporations, schools, etc. are all looked at pretty thoroughly for abuses, religion usually isn't.
The difference is, as you said, its easy for a typical user to work around this (buy a router, change the MAC, get a new network card, etc) at most that is a $10 extra investment. Changing phones though is quite expensive (Even more so if you go through all the carrier crap).
Its my phone, whether I bought the cheap Nokla phone from China, the iPhone knock-off from some guy in Russia, or any other phone, I should be able to use it if I pay for my service.
Whats next? My ISP deciding not to allow me to connect to the internet because I'm using a different OS and network card?
And look at how great that has worked out with real crime (robbery, murder, etc) when you do the same thing with another medium (guns). The "two extra crimes" thing is unimportant, do you realize how trivially easy it is for someone to steal an identity? Yeah, ok, if you spend $30,000 they are going to notice, but lets say a $100 extra charge at Wal-Mart? They won't know. As for fake IDs, they don't need to be foolproof to fool a store clerk. About the only place where IDs get checked throughput is at a traffic stop, at the airport (or at least security theater makes it look like they are) and if you are buying alcohol.
I don't really see the point in using Chrome OS rather than Windows or Ubuntu. Lets see, the boot up time is about the same (30 seconds), all the OSes have good browsers, Ubuntu is just as free as Chrome OS, etc. So really, why the hype about Chrome OS? You are essentially getting less than what you would get with a standard distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.
A) We have such a large investment in space already (ISS anyone?) if we stop working on it for a few months it could become unusuable and all the money we spent on it would be for nothing
B) Private space flight is struggling because of dumping large amounts of money into classified government projects to improve government space flight (yes, the money that you and me spent on research is unavaliable to the average citizen)
C) Space flight creates new private industries. Space flight has goals, and new things need to made to meet these goals, so until we have good private space flight, government space flight is a good way to discover new things.
Why would it void the warranty? With any computer the vast majority of warranty claims are going to be from hardware related issues, not software related issues. Usually you can't screw up something hardware wise badly unless you -really- mess up the software, but I think Archos should still keep the warranty intact for hardware related issues.
I don't really see the point in using assembly anymore. Yeah, its fast. But, its also a total pain to port and sometimes to maintain. With predictions saying that ARM will eventually catch up to x86 within the next 5 years, the fact that an ARM version of netbooks could be coming, etc. I don't know why anyone would still program in assembly for anything other than, say, emulators which need to be built for speed.
A generation to skip for servers (or move to AMD for a generation) but Core i7s are amazing for home/gaming use. For just about anything other than visualization and server-specific stuff, Core i7s and CPUs with the same architecture have no comparison with what AMD has to offer.
While the BBC is better than most American cable news channels it is by no means the "gold standard". Even when their coverage is unbiased on a certain story, they cherry-pick the stories that helps the UK government. They are in general liberal stories (look at the large amount of climate change stories on their RSS feed), stories that don't tell the whole truth (look at any of their copyright law stories), etc.
Their editorial comments page is the worst offender though and really tells whats going on in the BBC. Lets have a civilized debate on
Should Google remove the racist Obama image?
Google has apologised over a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama which came top of its search results. Should Google remove it?
The doctored image of the first lady earlier came top of Google Images search results for "Michelle Obama".
The search engine put a warning above the picture titled "Offensive Search Results" but it has so far refused to remove the picture.
Should search engines remove offensive images from their results? Or should "free speech" prevail? Should the internet be policed? If so, by whom, and how tightly? Have you ever found something offensive about you posted on the internet?
Now lets see here, how is this skewed? For one they said it was "racially offensive" they made no mention to the actual picture itself (if it the same one as it shows up for me it just shows Michelle Obama looking ape-like), nor Google's policies. And of course there there was no debate on if the picture itself was even racially offensive. No, that would be too free thinking! It -has- to be a racist picture (which we don't see nor get any mention of) of the US first lady. For another did anyone notice that they used "free speech" in quotation marks? So obviously the writer doesn't view free speech in a good light. And for
have you ever found something offensive about you posted on the internet?
discussion point it doesn't bring anything to the debate because very, very, few BBC commentators are going to be public officials out in the press and its not going to be indexed on Google but rather be a private e-mail posting, perhaps a 4Chan troll defaced an image and thats it.
The BBC is far from the "gold standard" it just happens to be a step above the crap that is mainstream US news.
A) No real way to get it to work on non-jailbroken iPhones.
B) The fact that every iPhone worm worked because of having SSH running with a default password that is basically equivalent to going to Defcon with a laptop with a stickynote saying "Username is user password is alpine" of course things are going to turn out badly. Everyone knows what the default SSH login is on iPhones (alpine) and when there are thousands of them running with the same password why are people surprised when bad things happen?
C) It is a lot easier to make a virus for Android than the iPhone.
Yeah, and if you look at the demographics who like newspapers they are almost overwhelmingly older. Talk to a 20 something and ask them if they read the newspaper, most will just laugh at you. In about 80 years, just about anyone who likes reading a newspaper now will be dead. Mix that with the fact that even older people who like newspapers are finding out about the internet and getting more news from there means an accelerated death for print. Yeah, print advertising will probably stick around but the newspapers simply aren't the place to get information for national or world news anymore. Local newspapers in small towns will stick around for longer than national newspapers but there just needs to be a few good blogs about the area and soon the newspaper has free competition.
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1) People doing it for profit, if you sell it I have no sympathy
They are doing it for financial means though, they aren't causing harm to anyone. The point of prison should not be used as a deterrent but simply as a way to keep violent offenders off the street. Why? Because for one prison is expensive for the average taxpayer. A fine of say, $500 -creates- income for the state, not takes it away as in the case of prison. According to http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060129/NEWS01/601290307/1001/ARCHIVE#STS=g2tu38i3.j6q , it costs the state $35,000 per year per prisoner. California spent $272,194,994 in bridge construction in 2008 (http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/estimates/) , California also had 170,000 prisoners (34,164 are there for life), at the average cost of $35,000 per prisoner per year, and assuming that the 170,000 prisoners are there for a year, that costs California $5,950,000,000 -per year- for the care of prisoners. All the bridge construction in California could have been done over 20 times with that amount of money!
Furthermore, that is assuming a healthy, young prisoner, an elderly or sickly prisoner may cost as much as $70,000 per year! Prisons in the US are becoming overcrowded adding construction fees to the mix, plus more staffing fees, etc.
Aside from the price of prison there is also the moral consideration. First, we have an effectively eternal copyright system in the US, we also have stupid laws like the DMCA that criminalize using your hardware as you see fit, these are both very unpopular laws with the general citizen (just look at the data -by the RIAA- on piracy, assuming most Americans are by nature law abiding, you see they don't care much for these laws). Secondly if a movie isn't on a torrent site who does that benefit? It doesn't benefit me, it doesn't benefit you, it benefits a very small number of people, we should not use large amount of public funds to help a few people. I'm not saying we should have no copyright, but using public funds and putting people in prison for violating copyright is honestly, very stupid and is evidence of a corrupt government.
Yes, but Nokia has invested too much money and time in Symbian for them to abandon it now while Maemo was quickly thrown together, to Nokia they see Symbian as being carefully researched and Maemo to them is just Debian for phones.
Its new moon though.... That might be the best 3 minutes of the movie.
This should be a civil matter, no one should have to spend any nights in jail for even the worst cases of copyright infringement.
The current measures are in place to hoard revenue for Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, but a side benefit of this is usually higher standards of quality in the games (not content, but code...trust me, you'd be surprised)
You mean the fact that Star Ocean III managed to fail to work on some PS2s? (http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2003/030803a.html) the general bugginess of most games, etc. Yeah, they might have better code, but for $60+ I'd better hope it works with any software, from an iPhone app, to an OS, to a game.
I'd settle for a simi-buggy game for free compared to a $50 game with a few bugs.
If the format is opened to anyone who can make a flash cart, etc., you will, most likely, begin to see a higher number of games with these show-stopping bugs hitting the market in the rush to lower standards in order to maximize profit.
Yes, but with flash carts come patches and cheaper games. Yeah, I'd like a bug free game, but paying less for a game and getting more (ability of patches, etc) may be a good tradeoff.
Opening the field for other companies isn't a bad thing, but people will definitely have to be more careful as to what software they buy for their game consoles
Because they don't already? How many people are conned into buying the $50 video game from $MOVIE that is complete crap. Yeah, they are generally less buggy, but that doesn't mean that they are good games. A buggy game with a good plot, storyline, price, and enjoyability is much better than a bug-free crap game.
With fewer first party blocks in place I would expect to see a game on the market within six months that at least corrupted system software.
And if you look at home console homebrew which is a whole lot more risky, you can see that its generally safe. Plus, with the opening up of the consoles, you can actually fix some of the software, and over time console makers will use failsafe firmware that is found in most newer devices.
Nintendo open? Their WiiWare approval process makes the iPhone development process look easy by comparison, especially when you realize that to be a developer you have to pay a $2,000 fee. Heck, they censored crosses in NES games!
No, the other alternative would be for people to realize that either A) Their matter is so important that it should be fully public or B) Their matter is unimportant and they should just drop it.
And most matters should -not- be confidential. If we are going to waste our tax dollars on a court case all records kept from it should be public. Don't take it to court if it is confidential, otherwise we have press manipulating facts that should be public.
Yeah, and spend $20 for the postage there...
R2-45 (the document in question) was clearly a joke when it was made, and was simply used as an euphemism for murder in later contexts. While Scientology has lots of problems (suppression of information, extortion, slavery, etc), R2-45 is more of a joke than anything else and should be taken as such. It should be taken in the same vein of the Darwin Award.
It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust. Take any group of trusted people and you will find that a minority want to use their trust for personal gain. In America, corporations, schools, etc. are all looked at pretty thoroughly for abuses, religion usually isn't.
The difference is, as you said, its easy for a typical user to work around this (buy a router, change the MAC, get a new network card, etc) at most that is a $10 extra investment. Changing phones though is quite expensive (Even more so if you go through all the carrier crap).
Its my phone, whether I bought the cheap Nokla phone from China, the iPhone knock-off from some guy in Russia, or any other phone, I should be able to use it if I pay for my service.
Whats next? My ISP deciding not to allow me to connect to the internet because I'm using a different OS and network card?
And look at how great that has worked out with real crime (robbery, murder, etc) when you do the same thing with another medium (guns). The "two extra crimes" thing is unimportant, do you realize how trivially easy it is for someone to steal an identity? Yeah, ok, if you spend $30,000 they are going to notice, but lets say a $100 extra charge at Wal-Mart? They won't know. As for fake IDs, they don't need to be foolproof to fool a store clerk. About the only place where IDs get checked throughput is at a traffic stop, at the airport (or at least security theater makes it look like they are) and if you are buying alcohol.
I don't really see the point in using Chrome OS rather than Windows or Ubuntu. Lets see, the boot up time is about the same (30 seconds), all the OSes have good browsers, Ubuntu is just as free as Chrome OS, etc. So really, why the hype about Chrome OS? You are essentially getting less than what you would get with a standard distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.
The problem with this is
A) We have such a large investment in space already (ISS anyone?) if we stop working on it for a few months it could become unusuable and all the money we spent on it would be for nothing
B) Private space flight is struggling because of dumping large amounts of money into classified government projects to improve government space flight (yes, the money that you and me spent on research is unavaliable to the average citizen)
C) Space flight creates new private industries. Space flight has goals, and new things need to made to meet these goals, so until we have good private space flight, government space flight is a good way to discover new things.
Yeah, but when you change the firmware it basically prevents you from bricking your device.
That is not gambling causing it. It is mugging or robbery that is affecting you.
and voids the warranty
Why would it void the warranty? With any computer the vast majority of warranty claims are going to be from hardware related issues, not software related issues. Usually you can't screw up something hardware wise badly unless you -really- mess up the software, but I think Archos should still keep the warranty intact for hardware related issues.
I don't really see the point in using assembly anymore. Yeah, its fast. But, its also a total pain to port and sometimes to maintain. With predictions saying that ARM will eventually catch up to x86 within the next 5 years, the fact that an ARM version of netbooks could be coming, etc. I don't know why anyone would still program in assembly for anything other than, say, emulators which need to be built for speed.
A generation to skip for servers (or move to AMD for a generation) but Core i7s are amazing for home/gaming use. For just about anything other than visualization and server-specific stuff, Core i7s and CPUs with the same architecture have no comparison with what AMD has to offer.
Why? Its not harming you. Worst case scenario I lose all my money. It doesn't affect you.
Their editorial comments page is the worst offender though and really tells whats going on in the BBC. Lets have a civilized debate on
Should Google remove the racist Obama image? Google has apologised over a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama which came top of its search results. Should Google remove it? The doctored image of the first lady earlier came top of Google Images search results for "Michelle Obama". The search engine put a warning above the picture titled "Offensive Search Results" but it has so far refused to remove the picture. Should search engines remove offensive images from their results? Or should "free speech" prevail? Should the internet be policed? If so, by whom, and how tightly? Have you ever found something offensive about you posted on the internet?
Now lets see here, how is this skewed? For one they said it was "racially offensive" they made no mention to the actual picture itself (if it the same one as it shows up for me it just shows Michelle Obama looking ape-like), nor Google's policies. And of course there there was no debate on if the picture itself was even racially offensive. No, that would be too free thinking! It -has- to be a racist picture (which we don't see nor get any mention of) of the US first lady. For another did anyone notice that they used "free speech" in quotation marks? So obviously the writer doesn't view free speech in a good light. And for
have you ever found something offensive about you posted on the internet?
discussion point it doesn't bring anything to the debate because very, very, few BBC commentators are going to be public officials out in the press and its not going to be indexed on Google but rather be a private e-mail posting, perhaps a 4Chan troll defaced an image and thats it.
The BBC is far from the "gold standard" it just happens to be a step above the crap that is mainstream US news.
The main problems are
A) No real way to get it to work on non-jailbroken iPhones.
B) The fact that every iPhone worm worked because of having SSH running with a default password that is basically equivalent to going to Defcon with a laptop with a stickynote saying "Username is user password is alpine" of course things are going to turn out badly. Everyone knows what the default SSH login is on iPhones (alpine) and when there are thousands of them running with the same password why are people surprised when bad things happen?
C) It is a lot easier to make a virus for Android than the iPhone.
Yeah, and if you look at the demographics who like newspapers they are almost overwhelmingly older. Talk to a 20 something and ask them if they read the newspaper, most will just laugh at you. In about 80 years, just about anyone who likes reading a newspaper now will be dead. Mix that with the fact that even older people who like newspapers are finding out about the internet and getting more news from there means an accelerated death for print. Yeah, print advertising will probably stick around but the newspapers simply aren't the place to get information for national or world news anymore. Local newspapers in small towns will stick around for longer than national newspapers but there just needs to be a few good blogs about the area and soon the newspaper has free competition.