"Tetra" as a prefix means four in English usage, heck tetrada means four in Greek and Spanish (well it's a romanization of), and the game is based upon all the shapes you can make out of 4 squares. I can see an argument that "Tetrada" is thus a perfectly ok name, I don't expect a court to buy it though.
The Tetris Company is famous for this, if you are releasing a Tetris clone with a name that is even vaguely similar you had better be doing to because you want to end up in court to make a point.
If you just want to make a simple game without coming up with one, there are thousands of other old games to copy whose "IP" rights holders have gone out of business or who show no signs of trying to enforce them (which in the trademark domain at least often means those "IP" rights don't exist anymore anyway).
ethics and legality are not the same. If you happen to be in a country where torture is legal and disappearing people is also legal, it is still unethical to take the job of torturing people whose relatives disagreed with the government. When slavery was legal in the US, I'd still say it would be unethical to take a job hunting down escaped slaves.
Of course I see nothing unethical with the actual job in question here.
Smuggling a phone into a prison isn't illegal, that's the entire point of the article which you obviously didn't even at look at. Hence the proposal to make it illegal.
But being able to put the person who supplied the phone in jail for doing so should cause some people not to do so. Of course it'll just drive the price up providing a bigger incentive for some people.
Or just install picocells and snoop on all the traffic. Given it's a prison if you can work out how to stop phones outside the prison using the cell you might even have a end run around privacy rules and warrants and so on...
Why block it when you can collect it all as evidence.
That's the whole idea. You don't want you sales rep using their personal facebook page for your marketing and mixing it in with their drunken adventures in Bangkok. You want them to use a facebook profile just for their work - but now you run into compliance issues since what they say is clearly said as part of your company.
And the sales rep likely doesn't want to have all their annoying as shit clients as friends on their personal facebook page either. So win-win.
Of course the level of retaliation of most of those most people is to complain to their spouse that night, or grumble about whomever to their friends at the bar on Friday night.
He broke the law by "hacking" their computer system. And then when he sold the results of that he's now converting criminal property and hence gets done for that too.
Exploiting a dupe bug in an MMO and sell the resulting items is different because you haven't committed the initial criminal act and hence the sale isn't converting criminal property and so neither charge can apply. If you hacked into the WoW database server and gave yourself items that way, then it would be the same situation and you'd have some legal issues.
It's not a "common myth", you're just ignoring what "real value" means in that context.
Can arbitrary amounts of the currency be created out of thin air? If so it has no "real value", if not it has "real value".
And yes, there's no need for a currency to have "real value" as long as people are willing to use as an exchange medium. A currency with nothing restricting its creation has a higher chance of people deciding not to be willing than one that does though.
There are ever so slightly more people in Asia and Europe then there are in California. It's already being held too late if they wanted "as many folks as possible are AWAKE" is the main criteria, but waiting for California would just ensure even fewer people were "AWAKE".
Of course you can. And of the course the jury can now consider everything you say to be suspect and be more likely to take the other guys word in a "he said/she said" situation.
Velocity in General Relativity is a local phenomena, the "speed" we observer things moving away due to the expansion of space is a different thing than the relative velocity of something in General Relativity. Note that this "motion" due to expansion is one way - things can move away from each other faster than light, but not towards each other.
No information is being transmitted. At some point information will be lost and observers will only see their own galaxy with no evidence at all of a larger universe - but that doesn't violate relativity.
The first study said no such thing. In fact it compared two different types of games and found that one type correlated with better performance on an arbitrary test over another type. Neither type was "fast paced racing games", in fact neither type involved driving at all.
The second one is a simple statistics correlation and likely without even reading it you've jumped to a conclusion and decided you know the cause or the correlation. Here's one alternative cause of the correlation: People who enjoy playing driving games drive more than non-players of driving games, hence they have more crashes even though they are of exactly equal ability. Of course I have no idea if that's true I can't read the study (I don't have the print edition of metro) to see if they controlled for that.
One study looked at players of FPS games and found them to be better at answering quick decision questions after playing than players of Sims. And speculate that those decision making abilities might be useful in driving, maybe...
The other looked at players of race driving games, and found that they crash their real cars more often than non-players. With no reference to the actual study (well other than "in the print edition of Metro") so no idea if players of racing games just drive more or whatever other variables are in play.
So two studies. Of two different things. Reaching unrelated conclusions.
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Sure, but does your coffee table smell of rotting dead mice? Didn't thnk so.
"Tetra" as a prefix means four in English usage, heck tetrada means four in Greek and Spanish (well it's a romanization of), and the game is based upon all the shapes you can make out of 4 squares. I can see an argument that "Tetrada" is thus a perfectly ok name, I don't expect a court to buy it though.
The Tetris Company is famous for this, if you are releasing a Tetris clone with a name that is even vaguely similar you had better be doing to because you want to end up in court to make a point.
If you just want to make a simple game without coming up with one, there are thousands of other old games to copy whose "IP" rights holders have gone out of business or who show no signs of trying to enforce them (which in the trademark domain at least often means those "IP" rights don't exist anymore anyway).
Because they don't really care if random people see them, and it makes it much much easier for their relatives and friends to see them.
ethics and legality are not the same. If you happen to be in a country where torture is legal and disappearing people is also legal, it is still unethical to take the job of torturing people whose relatives disagreed with the government. When slavery was legal in the US, I'd still say it would be unethical to take a job hunting down escaped slaves.
Of course I see nothing unethical with the actual job in question here.
Smuggling a phone into a prison isn't illegal, that's the entire point of the article which you obviously didn't even at look at. Hence the proposal to make it illegal.
And if people want to call those people idiots, let them.
But being able to put the person who supplied the phone in jail for doing so should cause some people not to do so. Of course it'll just drive the price up providing a bigger incentive for some people.
Or just install picocells and snoop on all the traffic. Given it's a prison if you can work out how to stop phones outside the prison using the cell you might even have a end run around privacy rules and warrants and so on...
Why block it when you can collect it all as evidence.
That's the whole idea. You don't want you sales rep using their personal facebook page for your marketing and mixing it in with their drunken adventures in Bangkok. You want them to use a facebook profile just for their work - but now you run into compliance issues since what they say is clearly said as part of your company.
And the sales rep likely doesn't want to have all their annoying as shit clients as friends on their personal facebook page either. So win-win.
I think most people.
Of course the level of retaliation of most of those most people is to complain to their spouse that night, or grumble about whomever to their friends at the bar on Friday night.
If you do ANYTHING that embarrasses most people they will retaliate. Public officials just have more tools to retaliate with.
And I tell my non-geek friends that their PS3 is "a nintendo". Confusing people with false factoids is great fun isn't it?
He broke the law by "hacking" their computer system. And then when he sold the results of that he's now converting criminal property and hence gets done for that too.
Exploiting a dupe bug in an MMO and sell the resulting items is different because you haven't committed the initial criminal act and hence the sale isn't converting criminal property and so neither charge can apply. If you hacked into the WoW database server and gave yourself items that way, then it would be the same situation and you'd have some legal issues.
It's not a "common myth", you're just ignoring what "real value" means in that context.
Can arbitrary amounts of the currency be created out of thin air? If so it has no "real value", if not it has "real value".
And yes, there's no need for a currency to have "real value" as long as people are willing to use as an exchange medium. A currency with nothing restricting its creation has a higher chance of people deciding not to be willing than one that does though.
And yet M1 > M0. And of course M2 > M1 and M3 > M2...
There are ever so slightly more people in Asia and Europe then there are in California. It's already being held too late if they wanted "as many folks as possible are AWAKE" is the main criteria, but waiting for California would just ensure even fewer people were "AWAKE".
Because the publicity of going to the media is worth $0, right?
And everybody who sells software that could run on Windows should send Microsoft 30%, right?
Of course you can. And of the course the jury can now consider everything you say to be suspect and be more likely to take the other guys word in a "he said/she said" situation.
Velocity in General Relativity is a local phenomena, the "speed" we observer things moving away due to the expansion of space is a different thing than the relative velocity of something in General Relativity. Note that this "motion" due to expansion is one way - things can move away from each other faster than light, but not towards each other.
No information is being transmitted. At some point information will be lost and observers will only see their own galaxy with no evidence at all of a larger universe - but that doesn't violate relativity.
You're missing the expansion of space.
It will become self aware, and set in motions events that end up with humans being used as batteries in vast farms.
I'm sure they can sit in jail while their cases are processed.
What does India do with foreigners it finds without valid visas?
Sure it sucks for anyone who was conned and didn't thought they were doing the right thing, but that's always the case.
The first study said no such thing. In fact it compared two different types of games and found that one type correlated with better performance on an arbitrary test over another type. Neither type was "fast paced racing games", in fact neither type involved driving at all.
The second one is a simple statistics correlation and likely without even reading it you've jumped to a conclusion and decided you know the cause or the correlation. Here's one alternative cause of the correlation: People who enjoy playing driving games drive more than non-players of driving games, hence they have more crashes even though they are of exactly equal ability. Of course I have no idea if that's true I can't read the study (I don't have the print edition of metro) to see if they controlled for that.
One study looked at players of FPS games and found them to be better at answering quick decision questions after playing than players of Sims. And speculate that those decision making abilities might be useful in driving, maybe...
The other looked at players of race driving games, and found that they crash their real cars more often than non-players. With no reference to the actual study (well other than "in the print edition of Metro") so no idea if players of racing games just drive more or whatever other variables are in play.
So two studies. Of two different things. Reaching unrelated conclusions.