By your definition, visiting the FTP server I found running on your PC is hacking. Last month I opened a browser and typed "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/" to look for an older version of Firefox. I didn't know if such a thing existed, I was just guessing. This is probably hacking, too.
No, illegal and criminal are not the same things. Not everything illegal is criminal. Sometimes when you violate a law it's not a crime, just a civil offense.
But yet, like you, I'm confused about the word "criminalize" in the title. Adding ludicrous measures against somebody doesn't equate criminalization, and when I read that something is criminalized I expect that either the police would get involved in chasing the offenders, or that it can result in jail time. There isn't anything like this mentioned in the summary. I couldn't find it in the article, either.
Now, whether the law would actually make it criminal or no, I don't know -- I'm not good at the semantics, and when an offense becomes a crime, but the title is misleading.
It doesn't matter if it's technically a standard tower defense game, looking at the screenshot it looks like it's a little scary at night, so it will probably be a lot of fun, your classic standard tower defense game lacked that feeling. A lot of things technically are the same, but when you change the circumstances, they can become quite different. Technically, walking through an empty street after sunset is the same as walking the same street at midnight. If you go and try, though, it certainly doesn't feel the same.
You can hardly do much to introduce a new game type that is very different from what you had with the original Starcraft without straying from the genre, but you can improve the old ones to create something new, fresh, and exciting. And that's what they've done.
But, but, but we are doing it for your privacy! We ask you to give us rights to your works, and give some of them up, _solely_ for your own good, don't you get it? We're thinking 'bout you! How can you acuse us like that?
He got his cheap publicity in a way that we most don't agree with. So, the best we can do is ignore him from now on.
But how are the artists that currently have the biggest chunk of the publicity cake any better? OK, some of them might be, but most aren't. And he's just some asshole. Too many assholes around, why care about this one? Even wishing him bad things you're caring too much. So don't wish him anything, instead go and download and/or *buy* music from artists that deserve it more than he does.
That said, I can't believe I'm reading this. When I read that he lied that he had an Wi-Fi allergy as a PR stunt I certainly felt I've read the most dumbest thing in my life. His "stunt" isn't even interesting. I mean, he got his coverage, got his 5 minutes of fame, and now when we know what it's about, it just sounds... stupid. Is it just me, or this sound like a rediculous way to get attention?
I don't think you need lasers to do this. Recently I made the mistake to turn a TV on, and what I saw and heard, can certainly make you deaf, blind and stupid.
Yep. Keep the phone in your pocket and don't bother with anything else.
But if you really want to, use Asterisk. Or use FreeSWITCH as suggested in another post. They would be easier to set up than looking for other solutions, they are not much resource intensive, so the comparison with UPS would be more acceptable if you could buy them for the price of the taxi. Not only they would do everything you need, but should you decide to extend your needs, you'll be able to do it with just a little change in the configuration. Both are decent solutions, and the fact that they are used for much more massive installations with gazillion of users shouldn't bother you. They're good for one user, too. It's not an overkill when it doesn't increase the cost.
I'm not sure, but we are capable of communicating with squids just as good as squids are communicating with each other. It would just take time until we learn how to speak to them. Communication with other animals at the same level, however, has been achieved. Or so it seems. So if the extraterrestrials can communicate with us almost as good as we communicate with each other, it wouldn't matter much to us. Probably they would be a little frustrated, as much as some people would get if they had to "talk" with a monkey. Unless our means of communication are different in a radical way. But eventually we'll learn how even then.
However, I think that both are false. Even if they have radically different ways of communication, or they are far more intelligent and comunicating at higher level than we do, their language would still fit in some of our notions for language, so there will be means for two-way translation that will be just as good as from English to Chinese, and we'll be understand everything they can say in their language. They might have better parsing abilities, though, so it might be a difficult task. But achievable. Don't underestimate us. Nor the extraterrestrials.
And making killing people legal is the only way to end murder....
Current copyright law is FUBAR, which doesn't mean we should get rid of copyright completely. Even a sane version of copyright will still be infrinded just as any other law out there, which doesn't mean that one shouldn't exist. Sane copyright laws should exist, however they should be beneficial to art and culture, not to the RIAA's pockets, and shouldn't thread down on almost everybody's and their wishes.
Currently many people want and have the opportunity to remix and share art, so they will do it. On the other hand, current copyright laws make almost everything you can do with a work illegal. It's simply inconsistent with reality.
P.S. What's this piracy are you all talking about? Why would you bring sea-robbers in a discussion about copyright?
Works of art were copied long before your tape recorder existed. Hell, they were copied long before the printing press. I would guess that monks were copying lots of literary works by hand without any permission.
Your term, however, diminishes the significance of the values behind the term. Many people will not at something with that name too seriously. Nobody takes hippies seriously. So try again.
If I had mod points I would have modded you funny, though.
Also, unlike 3.5.x, there is no sync in PIM. So it's a few features that are missing in 4.2.x. And there is no list of them somewhere, so you'll discover them after you've switched.
Are you sure that's the same one? There is no mention what extension it is in the summary (no, I didn't RTFS, but I asked a friend to read and summarize it for me). This might be a new one. Like one that makes Firefox use Trident, support ActiveX and use Bing as a default search! Oh noes! Just imagine! It could also include eat babies, remove Linux related stories from Slashdot, add DRM and even be incompatible with the GPL! Don't downplay it! That's serious!
However, the reason they do this is not because it is not profitable to sell it at the same price everywhere, but because it is more profitable to sell it at a different. It's not about impossibility, it's about getting more money. Nothing that wrong with that, though. Except for the region codes -- you want to make more money, fine, but don't cripple my movies for that purpose, thank you.
Unfortunately that's not a phone. The only open phone (openmoko) has 2 buttons : power and aux. Not quite enough for a good game experience.
Erm, point and click games work nicely on the OpenMoko phones, it also features acceleratometers that can be used as game controllers, too. The only problem is that the phone is damn slow for anything more sophisticated. And while software can be improved, the hardware sucks, or at least the video subsystem, so you would have trouble with anything utilising the full resolution of the display, for example.
But if the graphic subsystem didn't suck (and SD I/O), it would make a great device for many sorts of games. And it is already enough for the games that I play on it (most supported by ScummVM, though the sound is choppy at times, but I believe this is a software issue).
Nor am I a fan of market regulation, but I don't think that this is getting out of hand. Would you elaborate why do you think so?
I see forcing Microsoft to do this beneficial for everyone else. I also find it an acceptable given their monopoly status. It's the best solution to the problem. Forcing Microsoft to do this might look a bit excessive, but I don't think it is. If you believe so, try to tell us why.
I don't know, but the alternative is to force Microsoft not to include a browser at all, which would certainly hurt the users. So Microsoft are given the alternative to include other browsers instead. Sounds fair to me. The problem is that it doesn't matter how you could remove IE after installing another browser, only people already using an alternative browser would do it, Microsoft would still continue to leverage IE market share by (ab)using their monopoly position just as well, until the users are presented with a direct choice. I'm not sure that this would help either. Microsoft would display the choice in a way that would make users click on IE.
Which would be kinda neat, if your options were be comparable. You can't compare MS Paint with GIMP, or Notepad with vim. Having such a choice for a browser, mail client, etc., would be fine. But making the average Joe choose between Notepad and vim would certainly be a distaster for those that chose vim. Your joke would probably be funny if you were given a choice between IE and Lynx...
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By your definition, visiting the FTP server I found running on your PC is hacking. Last month I opened a browser and typed "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/" to look for an older version of Firefox. I didn't know if such a thing existed, I was just guessing. This is probably hacking, too.
No, illegal and criminal are not the same things. Not everything illegal is criminal. Sometimes when you violate a law it's not a crime, just a civil offense.
But yet, like you, I'm confused about the word "criminalize" in the title. Adding ludicrous measures against somebody doesn't equate criminalization, and when I read that something is criminalized I expect that either the police would get involved in chasing the offenders, or that it can result in jail time. There isn't anything like this mentioned in the summary. I couldn't find it in the article, either.
Now, whether the law would actually make it criminal or no, I don't know -- I'm not good at the semantics, and when an offense becomes a crime, but the title is misleading.
It doesn't matter if it's technically a standard tower defense game, looking at the screenshot it looks like it's a little scary at night, so it will probably be a lot of fun, your classic standard tower defense game lacked that feeling. A lot of things technically are the same, but when you change the circumstances, they can become quite different. Technically, walking through an empty street after sunset is the same as walking the same street at midnight. If you go and try, though, it certainly doesn't feel the same.
You can hardly do much to introduce a new game type that is very different from what you had with the original Starcraft without straying from the genre, but you can improve the old ones to create something new, fresh, and exciting. And that's what they've done.
What's wrong with setting up a cron job to run sendmail just before you die? That's what I usually do... Oh, wait...
But, but, but we are doing it for your privacy! We ask you to give us rights to your works, and give some of them up, _solely_ for your own good, don't you get it? We're thinking 'bout you! How can you acuse us like that?
And, no, we're not lying, no... No, really!
He got his cheap publicity in a way that we most don't agree with. So, the best we can do is ignore him from now on.
But how are the artists that currently have the biggest chunk of the publicity cake any better? OK, some of them might be, but most aren't. And he's just some asshole. Too many assholes around, why care about this one? Even wishing him bad things you're caring too much. So don't wish him anything, instead go and download and/or *buy* music from artists that deserve it more than he does.
That said, I can't believe I'm reading this. When I read that he lied that he had an Wi-Fi allergy as a PR stunt I certainly felt I've read the most dumbest thing in my life. His "stunt" isn't even interesting. I mean, he got his coverage, got his 5 minutes of fame, and now when we know what it's about, it just sounds... stupid. Is it just me, or this sound like a rediculous way to get attention?
I don't think you need lasers to do this. Recently I made the mistake to turn a TV on, and what I saw and heard, can certainly make you deaf, blind and stupid.
While I feel that Affero GPL goes a little bit too far, your story only proves that your customer was an idiot.
The question is: Where is the donate button?
Yep. Keep the phone in your pocket and don't bother with anything else.
But if you really want to, use Asterisk. Or use FreeSWITCH as suggested in another post. They would be easier to set up than looking for other solutions, they are not much resource intensive, so the comparison with UPS would be more acceptable if you could buy them for the price of the taxi. Not only they would do everything you need, but should you decide to extend your needs, you'll be able to do it with just a little change in the configuration. Both are decent solutions, and the fact that they are used for much more massive installations with gazillion of users shouldn't bother you. They're good for one user, too. It's not an overkill when it doesn't increase the cost.
Yeah, we are earthlings, let's blow earth things first.
Someone is asking for constitution drafting advice on Slashdot? And I thought I had seen everything.
What's next? Mars human base construction advice?
And no need to switch to 128bit timestamp when the Earth is no more. What a relief.
I'm not sure, but we are capable of communicating with squids just as good as squids are communicating with each other. It would just take time until we learn how to speak to them. Communication with other animals at the same level, however, has been achieved. Or so it seems. So if the extraterrestrials can communicate with us almost as good as we communicate with each other, it wouldn't matter much to us. Probably they would be a little frustrated, as much as some people would get if they had to "talk" with a monkey. Unless our means of communication are different in a radical way. But eventually we'll learn how even then.
However, I think that both are false. Even if they have radically different ways of communication, or they are far more intelligent and comunicating at higher level than we do, their language would still fit in some of our notions for language, so there will be means for two-way translation that will be just as good as from English to Chinese, and we'll be understand everything they can say in their language. They might have better parsing abilities, though, so it might be a difficult task. But achievable. Don't underestimate us. Nor the extraterrestrials.
And making killing people legal is the only way to end murder....
Current copyright law is FUBAR, which doesn't mean we should get rid of copyright completely. Even a sane version of copyright will still be infrinded just as any other law out there, which doesn't mean that one shouldn't exist. Sane copyright laws should exist, however they should be beneficial to art and culture, not to the RIAA's pockets, and shouldn't thread down on almost everybody's and their wishes.
Currently many people want and have the opportunity to remix and share art, so they will do it. On the other hand, current copyright laws make almost everything you can do with a work illegal. It's simply inconsistent with reality.
P.S. What's this piracy are you all talking about? Why would you bring sea-robbers in a discussion about copyright?
Works of art were copied long before your tape recorder existed. Hell, they were copied long before the printing press. I would guess that monks were copying lots of literary works by hand without any permission.
Your term, however, diminishes the significance of the values behind the term. Many people will not at something with that name too seriously. Nobody takes hippies seriously. So try again.
If I had mod points I would have modded you funny, though.
Also, unlike 3.5.x, there is no sync in PIM. So it's a few features that are missing in 4.2.x. And there is no list of them somewhere, so you'll discover them after you've switched.
Doesn't this end in left, right, left, right, A, B, select, start? I'm confused
Nokia N900 looks good enough for me to consider neither Apple, nor Sony. Thank you.
Are you sure that's the same one? There is no mention what extension it is in the summary (no, I didn't RTFS, but I asked a friend to read and summarize it for me). This might be a new one. Like one that makes Firefox use Trident, support ActiveX and use Bing as a default search! Oh noes! Just imagine! It could also include eat babies, remove Linux related stories from Slashdot, add DRM and even be incompatible with the GPL! Don't downplay it! That's serious!
However, the reason they do this is not because it is not profitable to sell it at the same price everywhere, but because it is more profitable to sell it at a different. It's not about impossibility, it's about getting more money. Nothing that wrong with that, though. Except for the region codes -- you want to make more money, fine, but don't cripple my movies for that purpose, thank you.
Unfortunately that's not a phone. The only open phone (openmoko) has 2 buttons : power and aux. Not quite enough for a good game experience.
Erm, point and click games work nicely on the OpenMoko phones, it also features acceleratometers that can be used as game controllers, too. The only problem is that the phone is damn slow for anything more sophisticated. And while software can be improved, the hardware sucks, or at least the video subsystem, so you would have trouble with anything utilising the full resolution of the display, for example.
But if the graphic subsystem didn't suck (and SD I/O), it would make a great device for many sorts of games. And it is already enough for the games that I play on it (most supported by ScummVM, though the sound is choppy at times, but I believe this is a software issue).
Nor am I a fan of market regulation, but I don't think that this is getting out of hand. Would you elaborate why do you think so?
I see forcing Microsoft to do this beneficial for everyone else. I also find it an acceptable given their monopoly status. It's the best solution to the problem. Forcing Microsoft to do this might look a bit excessive, but I don't think it is. If you believe so, try to tell us why.
I don't know, but the alternative is to force Microsoft not to include a browser at all, which would certainly hurt the users. So Microsoft are given the alternative to include other browsers instead. Sounds fair to me. The problem is that it doesn't matter how you could remove IE after installing another browser, only people already using an alternative browser would do it, Microsoft would still continue to leverage IE market share by (ab)using their monopoly position just as well, until the users are presented with a direct choice. I'm not sure that this would help either. Microsoft would display the choice in a way that would make users click on IE.
Which would be kinda neat, if your options were be comparable. You can't compare MS Paint with GIMP, or Notepad with vim. Having such a choice for a browser, mail client, etc., would be fine. But making the average Joe choose between Notepad and vim would certainly be a distaster for those that chose vim. Your joke would probably be funny if you were given a choice between IE and Lynx...