Cracking/modding a console to enable the use of ISO images/CDR/DVDR copies of legitimate software should most definitely be and is a crime.
No it shouldn't, since I'm allowed to make a backup copy for archival purposes, either they have to let me mod my console to play it, or they have to provide me with a way to purchase the tools to create and run the backup copy on the unmodified console. They can't take 80% of the DMCA and ignore that part.
It was redundant because reverseengineer made the same joke, but better. We don't need you explaining other peoples humor.
Apparently you do, if you think reverseengineer's point was the same as mine. You can't even grasp the difference after I broke it down, completely spelling it out for you like you were a preschooler. That tells me that you are one of two things: too stubborn or too stupid to mod correctly.
Get the fuck over yourself.
Sound advice from someone who advertises his idiocy through his mod points. I might take it if it were not bad form to listen to the King of all Jackasses when he tells you to stop being such a jackass.
Congrats to the douchebag who modded this redundant. You have proven yourself incapable of discerning a comment that suggests: "there is a lot of bullshit in Washington DC that would lure bullshit-eating microbes to the Potomac" and a comment that suggests: "washington DC is full of scum-sucking politicians, so what are the chances that the microbes in DC suck scum as well?"
I hope you strangle yourself with the helmet your mother makes you wear whenever you go outside.
So why the "congratulations"? Because you're no longer the dumbest person with modpoints on slashdot. There was a person who modded my post as "Flamebait" because they've microwaved their head for long enough to think that calling a politician a "bottom-feeding scumsucker" is trying to pick fights on the internets. You read that correctly. Someone has been registered on slashdot for more than 6 months and thinks that the leadership and appointed representation of this fine country is composed of sterling men who have nothing but the populace's best interests at heart -- instead of their own.
But sadly, this post does nothing toward rectifying such a situation, so I'm sorry to everyone else that I'm wasting the time and bandwidth to tell these two idiots that they are idiots.
I was thinking that this would already be part of the government system -- to index who makes each earmark or revision to a bill -- to add at least some semblence of accountability to the legislating process. Then I thought "Why doesn't the government already have a searchable website like this? Shouldn't they be accountable to make one?" then I realized the website probably would have been contracted out for $8 million to some governor's grandson's company... So Go Volunteers!
We're talking about a microbe that can turn bullshit into electricity? I suppose this is the one way that Congress will give power back to the people....
Of course people CAN admit guilt, but amendment says "No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" Though lawyers and judges try to mitigate this to be as small and unapplicable as possible, you don't have to witness against yourself. Your silence cannot, constitutionally, be considered a witness against you. Any judge who disagrees is worse than the witch burners of Salem who STILL recognized this right, despite their many other atrocities.
Finally, I'll just add that the right against self-incrimination applies only to criminal cases and has no application here.
I would still claim it in the spirit of the 5th amendment. Considering that the amendment was historically created in answer to the trials that would convict men as "guilty" if they did not swear in, the entire point of that clause was to insure that silence was not an admission of guilt, but it was a protection of the witness. Justice Brandeis saying "Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character." probably caused the dead to rise in the 1970's. Do witnesses deserve protection in civil cases like they do in criminal cases? If any judge tries to tell me "No, they don't" Then I'll tell him that his sister has a stupid orgasm face, I collected pictures of him having sex with farm animals -- and over the last 5 years, everyday he's busy banging his gavel, I've been banging his wife. Want me to stop testifying yet? Too bad, because I'm just getting warmed up!
Going to jail for that kind of contempt of court would be much more satisfying than paying unconscionable amounts of money for downloading a few mp3s. While in jail, I'll probably write up some nasty romance novel about the judge and an underaged male stripper named "Goose". Eventually, I'll end up in a criminal court where I can, finally, invoke the 5th.
There is a difference between someone who knows how to do something by hand, yet uses a calculator to save time, and someone who uses the calculator to get "mysterious results." The exercises do end up paying off in the end.
Before you go off saying "Why, that's not true, CorporateSuit!" then let me remind you of children in the 3rd grade -- good at addition and subtraction, learning multiplication. You and I can rattle off multiplication tables like it's no one's business. We don't have to THINK about what the square root of 64 is. We don't have to think about what the square root of 65 probably is. If our education was pure "learn to use a calculator or the internet to do anything" then you would still be reaching for a calculator when I ask you what 3x8 would be.
That might be acceptible for a marketroid, but programming anything of value would take twice as long -- not to mention, when critical thinking comes into play (real life word problems!) then all your calculators and internets training would be gone to waste.
Calculators and internet make the math behind anything that much easier... but knowing the steps and calculations makes everything much quicker and convenient, and probably keeps the brain somewhat fit.
This is an order to appear before the Nigerian High Court for fraud charges that have been perpetrated against you. I am a widow and also the judge of the court and have asked that you appear to prosecute the man who stole your identity. The fine for that in Nigeria is $600,000,000 (SIX HUNDRED MILLION US DOLLARS) and if you appear in court, we will award you 1% of the damages, which is $6,000,000 (SIX MILLION US DOLLARS) as a token of thanks for your time and honor to justice. Please call the number below in order to verify your plans to assist us with this trial.
God Bless,
Frank Liu Xiong
+34.37.342.34209
866 Muskrat Way
Habubajab
Nigeria
This would be a more realistic, since when someone nudges their brakes, it does not leave cars =stopped= for =hours=, but =slowed= a few seconds. 500 cars going 50mph on average or 200 cars going 65mph on average...
A mile of highway metering 500 cars per mile per lane will has the capacity for 250,000 cars going 50mph on average. The mile of highway metering 200 cars per mile per lane has the capacity for 130,000 cars going 65mph on average. What happens if you try to force 250,000 cars onto the lane that holds capacity for 130,000? Gridlock. Gridlock so bad that they'd call in helicopters and make a movie about it.
Traffic, barring stupidity, is about road capacity. If you're taking up 5x the amount of room because you want 5 invisible cars driving between you and the guy in front of you, then the people who left work 20 minutes after you did will not get home -- if you live in a city that has a population nearing its roads' capacities.
Woah, woah, wait a second, there, pal. If you back up 4 or 5 car lengths, and expect everyone else to, then you're, in effect, increasing traffic by 4-5 times. Rush hour traffic jams are caused by too many cars on the road at one time. If you say each car needs to extend its personal sphere by 3-4 times, then you're turning every civic into a double-trailer. Suddenly, the capacity for a highway goes from 500 cars per lane per mile down to 200 cars per lane per mile. This might be ok for a place like... Unknown Town, Idaho -- but in places where traffic is caused by BOTTLENECKS and not just COWS or ACCIDENTS, (cities with populations over 3,000). Breaking because the guy in front of you is breaking or slowing or merging may cause temporarily slowdown or lag in a slinky effect, but it's not what shuts down entire 8-lane freeways for hours.
If it doesn't make decisions for itself at all it is technically not a robot.
Is this some reference or joke I'm not aware of? Current robots never make their own decisions. The manufacturing industry would be absolute havoc if robots decided what and how they wanted to do every day.
The first thing the researchers noticed is that within 30 minutes, the botnet had sent over 6 billion emails out of newly-registered gmail and hotmail accounts, and continued to send millions more each hour. The researchers say the botnet thrives on pain and misery, and probably shouldn't have been given access to the real internet.
That's fine for people who don't want or need something like a "steady income" and projects for companies who don't care about things like a contractor's reputation. This sort of thing is good for people with either:
A) Large personal portfolios but small enough egos that they can fit their heads into a room with enough strangers to collaborate on a project that may take weeks
OR
B) Kids looking to start a portfolio or gain work experience.
An interesting concept, to say the least. If done with due dilligence, it could lend a hand with those who do this sort of thing in their off-time but cannot be bothered to market themselves. I wouldn't go as far as to say it will replace the cubicle for 95% of the world's digital gears.
New Yorkers have shown their ingenuity in fizzling out countless disasters according to the action and disaster movies I've seen. Any problems that happen in Kansas, however, will eat a path of destruction until it reaches the outskirts of New York City, just before the crackpot scientist (who happens to be a close, personal friend of the president) is able to unleash his creatively-devised weapon to stop the problem, and burn it back to its core.
I have an idea that is 10x their idea!!!!.... Mine promises infinite energy for all (free in fact), and the best part is that it will be ready next week if you just give me $100 million dollars immediately... In fact, after the wire transfer goes thru, everything (at least for me) will be wonderful...
Isn't that exactly what Nikola Tesla told J.P. Morgan?
I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier results for fear of a copyright claim.
I would think that repeating an experiment falls into the category of "Scientific Rigor" -- if academics are unwilling to their experiments (albeit this seems for the wrong reasons), they are in the wrong job...
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men
It is a thin line to define, but it's selective breeding, not evolution.
Perhaps your Sex & the City DVDs may disagree, but this is the pattern of the vast majority of human courtship:
1. Boy meets many girls
2. Boy falls in love with girl (selection)
3. Boy convinces girl he likes the best to be his mate (courtship)
4. Girl falls in love with boy (successful courtship)
5. ????? (breeding)
6. Most desirable girl has babies!
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Just how they managed to suck billions of dollars from governments is beyond me
Well, you could say the LHC working better than intended. Instead of making a black hole, it became one.
Cracking/modding a console to enable the use of ISO images/CDR/DVDR copies of legitimate software should most definitely be and is a crime.
No it shouldn't, since I'm allowed to make a backup copy for archival purposes, either they have to let me mod my console to play it, or they have to provide me with a way to purchase the tools to create and run the backup copy on the unmodified console. They can't take 80% of the DMCA and ignore that part.
It was redundant because reverseengineer made the same joke, but better. We don't need you explaining other peoples humor.
Apparently you do, if you think reverseengineer's point was the same as mine. You can't even grasp the difference after I broke it down, completely spelling it out for you like you were a preschooler. That tells me that you are one of two things: too stubborn or too stupid to mod correctly.
Get the fuck over yourself.
Sound advice from someone who advertises his idiocy through his mod points. I might take it if it were not bad form to listen to the King of all Jackasses when he tells you to stop being such a jackass.
Congrats to the douchebag who modded this redundant. You have proven yourself incapable of discerning a comment that suggests: "there is a lot of bullshit in Washington DC that would lure bullshit-eating microbes to the Potomac" and a comment that suggests: "washington DC is full of scum-sucking politicians, so what are the chances that the microbes in DC suck scum as well?"
I hope you strangle yourself with the helmet your mother makes you wear whenever you go outside.
So why the "congratulations"? Because you're no longer the dumbest person with modpoints on slashdot. There was a person who modded my post as "Flamebait" because they've microwaved their head for long enough to think that calling a politician a "bottom-feeding scumsucker" is trying to pick fights on the internets. You read that correctly. Someone has been registered on slashdot for more than 6 months and thinks that the leadership and appointed representation of this fine country is composed of sterling men who have nothing but the populace's best interests at heart -- instead of their own.
But sadly, this post does nothing toward rectifying such a situation, so I'm sorry to everyone else that I'm wasting the time and bandwidth to tell these two idiots that they are idiots.
I was thinking that this would already be part of the government system -- to index who makes each earmark or revision to a bill -- to add at least some semblence of accountability to the legislating process. Then I thought "Why doesn't the government already have a searchable website like this? Shouldn't they be accountable to make one?" then I realized the website probably would have been contracted out for $8 million to some governor's grandson's company... So Go Volunteers!
Well, this bacterium was originally discovered feeding off the muck at the bottom of the Potomac River. Make of that what you will....
Not surprising. After all, you won't find a more diverse, stubborn, rotting infestation of bottom-feeding scumsuckers in the United States than in DC.
We're talking about a microbe that can turn bullshit into electricity? I suppose this is the one way that Congress will give power back to the people....
Of course people CAN admit guilt, but amendment says "No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" Though lawyers and judges try to mitigate this to be as small and unapplicable as possible, you don't have to witness against yourself. Your silence cannot, constitutionally, be considered a witness against you. Any judge who disagrees is worse than the witch burners of Salem who STILL recognized this right, despite their many other atrocities.
Finally, I'll just add that the right against self-incrimination applies only to criminal cases and has no application here.
I would still claim it in the spirit of the 5th amendment. Considering that the amendment was historically created in answer to the trials that would convict men as "guilty" if they did not swear in, the entire point of that clause was to insure that silence was not an admission of guilt, but it was a protection of the witness. Justice Brandeis saying "Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character." probably caused the dead to rise in the 1970's. Do witnesses deserve protection in civil cases like they do in criminal cases? If any judge tries to tell me "No, they don't" Then I'll tell him that his sister has a stupid orgasm face, I collected pictures of him having sex with farm animals -- and over the last 5 years, everyday he's busy banging his gavel, I've been banging his wife. Want me to stop testifying yet? Too bad, because I'm just getting warmed up!
Going to jail for that kind of contempt of court would be much more satisfying than paying unconscionable amounts of money for downloading a few mp3s. While in jail, I'll probably write up some nasty romance novel about the judge and an underaged male stripper named "Goose". Eventually, I'll end up in a criminal court where I can, finally, invoke the 5th.
There is a difference between someone who knows how to do something by hand, yet uses a calculator to save time, and someone who uses the calculator to get "mysterious results." The exercises do end up paying off in the end.
Before you go off saying "Why, that's not true, CorporateSuit!" then let me remind you of children in the 3rd grade -- good at addition and subtraction, learning multiplication. You and I can rattle off multiplication tables like it's no one's business. We don't have to THINK about what the square root of 64 is. We don't have to think about what the square root of 65 probably is. If our education was pure "learn to use a calculator or the internet to do anything" then you would still be reaching for a calculator when I ask you what 3x8 would be.
That might be acceptible for a marketroid, but programming anything of value would take twice as long -- not to mention, when critical thinking comes into play (real life word problems!) then all your calculators and internets training would be gone to waste.
Calculators and internet make the math behind anything that much easier... but knowing the steps and calculations makes everything much quicker and convenient, and probably keeps the brain somewhat fit.
I'm hoping they come out with an Alien vs Predator: On Ice!
I can't think of a single choreographer who wouldn't just faint at the chance of helping produce such a number!
it requires a little stable of infected mosquitos.
That sounds repulsive and adorable at the same time.
The money I gave you for it still works. I don't get to take that back, do I?
Just start buying your CD's in bulk directly from the RIAA, with checks written in disappearing ink...
Hello Friend,
This is an order to appear before the Nigerian High Court for fraud charges that have been perpetrated against you. I am a widow and also the judge of the court and have asked that you appear to prosecute the man who stole your identity. The fine for that in Nigeria is $600,000,000 (SIX HUNDRED MILLION US DOLLARS) and if you appear in court, we will award you 1% of the damages, which is $6,000,000 (SIX MILLION US DOLLARS) as a token of thanks for your time and honor to justice. Please call the number below in order to verify your plans to assist us with this trial.
God Bless,
Frank Liu Xiong
+34.37.342.34209
866 Muskrat Way
Habubajab
Nigeria
This would be a more realistic, since when someone nudges their brakes, it does not leave cars =stopped= for =hours=, but =slowed= a few seconds. 500 cars going 50mph on average or 200 cars going 65mph on average...
A mile of highway metering 500 cars per mile per lane will has the capacity for 250,000 cars going 50mph on average. The mile of highway metering 200 cars per mile per lane has the capacity for 130,000 cars going 65mph on average. What happens if you try to force 250,000 cars onto the lane that holds capacity for 130,000? Gridlock. Gridlock so bad that they'd call in helicopters and make a movie about it.
Traffic, barring stupidity, is about road capacity. If you're taking up 5x the amount of room because you want 5 invisible cars driving between you and the guy in front of you, then the people who left work 20 minutes after you did will not get home -- if you live in a city that has a population nearing its roads' capacities.
This describes everyone who argues with me on slashdot!
Woah, woah, wait a second, there, pal. If you back up 4 or 5 car lengths, and expect everyone else to, then you're, in effect, increasing traffic by 4-5 times. Rush hour traffic jams are caused by too many cars on the road at one time. If you say each car needs to extend its personal sphere by 3-4 times, then you're turning every civic into a double-trailer. Suddenly, the capacity for a highway goes from 500 cars per lane per mile down to 200 cars per lane per mile. This might be ok for a place like... Unknown Town, Idaho -- but in places where traffic is caused by BOTTLENECKS and not just COWS or ACCIDENTS, (cities with populations over 3,000). Breaking because the guy in front of you is breaking or slowing or merging may cause temporarily slowdown or lag in a slinky effect, but it's not what shuts down entire 8-lane freeways for hours.
If it doesn't make decisions for itself at all it is technically not a robot.
Is this some reference or joke I'm not aware of? Current robots never make their own decisions. The manufacturing industry would be absolute havoc if robots decided what and how they wanted to do every day.
The first thing the researchers noticed is that within 30 minutes, the botnet had sent over 6 billion emails out of newly-registered gmail and hotmail accounts, and continued to send millions more each hour. The researchers say the botnet thrives on pain and misery, and probably shouldn't have been given access to the real internet.
That's fine for people who don't want or need something like a "steady income" and projects for companies who don't care about things like a contractor's reputation. This sort of thing is good for people with either:
A) Large personal portfolios but small enough egos that they can fit their heads into a room with enough strangers to collaborate on a project that may take weeks
OR
B) Kids looking to start a portfolio or gain work experience.
An interesting concept, to say the least. If done with due dilligence, it could lend a hand with those who do this sort of thing in their off-time but cannot be bothered to market themselves. I wouldn't go as far as to say it will replace the cubicle for 95% of the world's digital gears.
Not only are the blue mice absolutely adorable, but they've also taken a new appreciation of Emily Dickenson's poetry.
New Yorkers have shown their ingenuity in fizzling out countless disasters according to the action and disaster movies I've seen. Any problems that happen in Kansas, however, will eat a path of destruction until it reaches the outskirts of New York City, just before the crackpot scientist (who happens to be a close, personal friend of the president) is able to unleash his creatively-devised weapon to stop the problem, and burn it back to its core.
I have an idea that is 10x their idea!!!!.... Mine promises infinite energy for all (free in fact), and the best part is that it will be ready next week if you just give me $100 million dollars immediately... In fact, after the wire transfer goes thru, everything (at least for me) will be wonderful...
Isn't that exactly what Nikola Tesla told J.P. Morgan?
I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier results for fear of a copyright claim.
I would think that repeating an experiment falls into the category of "Scientific Rigor" -- if academics are unwilling to their experiments (albeit this seems for the wrong reasons), they are in the wrong job...
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men
It is a thin line to define, but it's selective breeding, not evolution. Perhaps your Sex & the City DVDs may disagree, but this is the pattern of the vast majority of human courtship:
1. Boy meets many girls
2. Boy falls in love with girl (selection)
3. Boy convinces girl he likes the best to be his mate (courtship)
4. Girl falls in love with boy (successful courtship)
5. ????? (breeding)
6. Most desirable girl has babies!