I really need console and I really need co-op. I love fallout, but like the game I've got old. As I get older I have less and less time to play games alone. It is easier for me to play games when I know I can play them with others.
The US concept of privacy is an aberration. Should we strive for it? Yes, but we shouldn't expect it to last.
For centuries, families have lived in squalid one bedroom homes where the entire family slept and did other things in the same bed. Everyone knew everyone's business. When the founding fathers thought of privacy they were thinking of the privileged.
I think it is extremely silly to expect privacy to last.
we are living in an age where the average person can get equipment to see through walls, record conversations or videos, and do background/financial checks from their desk.
Two things are going to happen....some people are going to be annoyed by what they see and want to stamp it out....and some people are going to say 'so what? I saw something like that last week.'
The real question is when the offended person tries stamp out the activity are you going to defend it even if you don't do it?
I don't know why Congress doesn't just stop fucking around and ban thought crime.
very true. It would speed up the creation of the new slave class also known as ex-cons. After all, why punish poor drug users when you can just make them slaves. They have to be poor already because we can see that rich drug users can make it all the way to the white house.
on another note, here in Houston a few years ago I remember Geraldo Rivera had a special about ex-cons driving our metro buses....and how we should be worried about it. What the heck? I want ex-cons to have jobs. If they don't have jobs, I am pretty sure they are going to resort to crime...
I wish I had some mod points to give, but instead I'll respond.
I agree that Japan is a good example, but they also have a different view on sex.
Back in the late 90s they had a crazy (still do in some ways) for the school girl look. Many teenage school girls started having side jobs as prostitutes. It got so bad that Prime Minister of Japan made some comments about the practice.
As far as I know it just quieted down on its own. There was no country wide busts.
I doubt it'll break into the public domain any time soon.
Here at Chevron we encrypt our Blackberries, both on the unit and during transmission. If the Blackberry is lost, the data is safe because of the encryption.
I don't see it happening for the public unless the carrier provides the service and then wouldn't the government just request the carrier to give them access?
Selfish parents, having children when they aren't capable of caring for them.
I remember a court case a few years ago where a housewife was testifying against a homeless couple for having public sex. The house wife was tried of it and didn't want it done in her area. It didn't even seem to register with the woman that everything the homeless couple did was public. Who was selfish, the homeless couple for indulging in a human condition or the housewife that didn't want the act to soil her neighborhood?
Apparently you believe that the poor shouldn't have sex. Maybe you are more open minded about sex morals, believing that they can achieve enlightenment through non-baby producing means...say homosexuality...but...I doubt it. I'm willing to bet you are conservative and have a low sex drive.
At the homeless level of poverty taking reliable birth control is a bit unpractical and a bit unreasonable to take away the one human joy we come equipped with...
Also parents are not selfish for indulging in a god given need. That is nature. Selfishness is a cultural issue and in reality it is our western society that is selfish for punishing children for a parent's poverty.
"The nasty letters didn't work on North Korea, Iraq, Iran, etc etc, they certainly won't work on the USA either, UN, WTO, all other "organizations" are powerless and pointless. tom" Oh, okay, so the USA isn't any worse than NK, Iraq, or Iran? That's a stunning endorsement.
We've been in this camp for a long time. When the UN wanted to teach girls about family planning, it was the US and Iran that went to bat against the measure.
A minority of people don't need any guidance or roadmap at all in order to do their work and inevitably they are the ones who do the most innovation because their thought process is not confined to space/boundaries defined by someone else.
Everyone is confined by someone else's boundaries. If they weren't, then that would be anarchy. Boundaries are not the issue. Setting a goal and getting around boundaries is the issue or having enough boundaries to land in the goal by accident is.
If (as the "content industry" would like us to believe) we do not ever actually "own" our music, but "license" it, then there can't be any such thing as a Music Pirte. It's more like Unlicensed Music Listener. Like an unlicensed driver. Your thoughts?
LOL, but at $100,000 per song per violation is one heck of a traffic ticket!
If you make a better Malaria resistent bug, then only be the strongest strains of Malaria will survive. Now your chances of surviving infection are lower. This is just a guess but it seems resonable.
Strong strains of malaria? just different strains. Admittedly having fewer people infected will mean the strains seem stronger. I am afraid that will be true for anything we try to wipe out.
What I thought was humorous about the article...the GM mosquito have glowing eyes. I was thinking that having that released into the wild would be beautiful in Houston....great glowing swarms in the night. Entire yards lit up at night. Drunks driving off the road because the ditches look like yellow stripes.
Once during an IP audit, I asked a manager what databases he considered sensitive and critical. He said none because we have it all in paper format.
I always remembered that and now whenever I look at a database, I think about the security of the paper documents. If they are not critical or sensitive, I'm not worried.
Yes coal can be burned more cleanly and the CO2 sequestered but there isn't a single clean coal plant in operation.
For me, I think it comes down to whether I want pollution in a single place (the plant) or multiple places (cars.) I think I'd prefer it in a single place far from me.
I went from no TV to cable just to get Dora the Explorer, Bob the Builder, and a host of other kid shows.
And yea it sucks to have kids watching TV, but when you are the only adult in the house and you need to take a shower, it is nice to have a few minutes as the kid zones into Curious George.
the only time the average user would need to surf anonymous is when he/she knows he is doing something wrong. I mean, i'm not trying to start anything here, but rather understand WHY you would need to do this. Obviously we have 'pr0n viewing' at work, and stalking ex's and whathave you...
I can think of a few...Maybe the Fedex clerk wants to work for UPS. Or maybe you want to read up about Democrats at your mostly Republican company. Or maybe you or your girlfriend are up the duft and want to find out more about Plan Parenthood without fear that someday some Attorney General is going to make those records public. Or maybe some militia group is wanting to hold a meeting and some Attorney General is interested in the members of that militia (wants to track all those IPs.)
etc...etc..etc...
There are plenty of activities that are not illegal that a person could be interested in, but don't want to be dragged through the courts over for political reasons....
If people like this are a result of nature, wouldn't the abnormality present itself in offspring? Only worse? Yes, you could implement gender segregation, but how long would that stop 4 states worth of amoral, determined, horny, psychopaths?
Is that a jab at the US, Australia, and New Zealand?;)
Seriously....those genes have their uses. I would not want to wipe out any of the criminal genes because they have kept our species alive. In the right context those genes are an asset.
The simple truth is that some people simply are born bad. I'm torn on whether we should be curing them, or implementing George Carlin's idea and turning the four corner states into a gigantic prison, and just throw them in there.
Instead, NASA lost a great astronaut and her life has been destroyed.
Her life has been destroyed and several families. The court system isn't fun for anyone....the victim, the criminal, their families. I feel for the kids. It is going to be rough for them with so many changes all at once.
I lost both of my parents. My mother is guilty (murder of her cheating boy friend) and I believe my dad to be innocent since there is no physical evidence & no witnesses (molestation of a 3 year old).
Needless to say discussing my family is not something I usually do and Nowak's kids are going to have a hard time...I mean they are in school right now...imagine being a teenager with your mother on the news for attempted murder nightly! I can't even imagine discussing adult diapers with teenagers!
WTF? It sounds great. Collect all the DNA from criminals (or those accused), but what good is collecting DNA if you never compare it to a crime? There are thousands of rape kits that are not processed because the local districts do not have the money to send off the kits to be tested.
I am sure other crimes will be the same...so what does this DNA database do? I think its primary function will be data mining. Maybe not at first, but eventually through something like the freedom of information act or something similar I bet all that DNA will end up in a companies' database.
The second function will be to solve crimes where the victims are either rich or the cases are so high profile that the departments have to be looking like they are trying something.
So where does that leave the lowly victim in a minor *cough* crime of rape? If the person is poor or not a celebrity, then I'd say that DNA database isn't going to be used. The rape kit will sit on a shelf waiting until the department has enough spare money (when do they have that?) to process the kits....and then it'll be tested against the database (when hell freezes over.)
Slashdot Mirror
You're right. I like my naked women to actually BE cartoons.
anime freak....
dang that makes me one too...
I remember once talking to a tech in the lab about anime girls that were hot....he looked at me in disbelief, telling me they are just cartoons...
my answer was...if you are looking for the perfect female form, the best place to look is unrealistic art.
I really need console and I really need co-op. I love fallout, but like the game I've got old. As I get older I have less and less time to play games alone. It is easier for me to play games when I know I can play them with others.
If it isn't co-op, I'm not interested...
The US concept of privacy is an aberration. Should we strive for it? Yes, but we shouldn't expect it to last.
For centuries, families have lived in squalid one bedroom homes where the entire family slept and did other things in the same bed. Everyone knew everyone's business. When the founding fathers thought of privacy they were thinking of the privileged.
I think it is extremely silly to expect privacy to last.
we are living in an age where the average person can get equipment to see through walls, record conversations or videos, and do background/financial checks from their desk.
Two things are going to happen....some people are going to be annoyed by what they see and want to stamp it out....and some people are going to say 'so what? I saw something like that last week.'
The real question is when the offended person tries stamp out the activity are you going to defend it even if you don't do it?
Finger printing is the limit for me... I've turned down two jobs in the past that required I be finger printed.
I'm not sure what my limit is....but I am sure I would find out if I had only a weeks worth of food and money.
I'm betting I would submit to anything to get a job to keep food on the table and roof over my head.
and that is what they are counting on....those desperate for a job.
I don't know why Congress doesn't just stop fucking around and ban thought crime.
very true. It would speed up the creation of the new slave class also known as ex-cons. After all, why punish poor drug users when you can just make them slaves. They have to be poor already because we can see that rich drug users can make it all the way to the white house.
on another note, here in Houston a few years ago I remember Geraldo Rivera had a special about ex-cons driving our metro buses....and how we should be worried about it. What the heck? I want ex-cons to have jobs. If they don't have jobs, I am pretty sure they are going to resort to crime...
It's one of the most visible (easily readable) combinations.
Exactly. When I was into protesting in my college years, that was the combo (yellow text on black) that we used because it was the most visible.
I wish I had some mod points to give, but instead I'll respond.
I agree that Japan is a good example, but they also have a different view on sex.
Back in the late 90s they had a crazy (still do in some ways) for the school girl look. Many teenage school girls started having side jobs as prostitutes. It got so bad that Prime Minister of Japan made some comments about the practice.
As far as I know it just quieted down on its own. There was no country wide busts.
Contrast that with America...
Yippee! I love NAT!
I still want IPv6, but I really do love my NAT. It is like loving microsoft...I like products that generate their own tech support.
I doubt it'll break into the public domain any time soon.
Here at Chevron we encrypt our Blackberries, both on the unit and during transmission. If the Blackberry is lost, the data is safe because of the encryption.
I don't see it happening for the public unless the carrier provides the service and then wouldn't the government just request the carrier to give them access?
Selfish parents, having children when they aren't capable of caring for them.
I remember a court case a few years ago where a housewife was testifying against a homeless couple for having public sex. The house wife was tried of it and didn't want it done in her area. It didn't even seem to register with the woman that everything the homeless couple did was public. Who was selfish, the homeless couple for indulging in a human condition or the housewife that didn't want the act to soil her neighborhood?
Apparently you believe that the poor shouldn't have sex. Maybe you are more open minded about sex morals, believing that they can achieve enlightenment through non-baby producing means...say homosexuality...but...I doubt it. I'm willing to bet you are conservative and have a low sex drive.
At the homeless level of poverty taking reliable birth control is a bit unpractical and a bit unreasonable to take away the one human joy we come equipped with...
Also parents are not selfish for indulging in a god given need. That is nature. Selfishness is a cultural issue and in reality it is our western society that is selfish for punishing children for a parent's poverty.
"The nasty letters didn't work on North Korea, Iraq, Iran, etc etc, they certainly won't work
on the USA either, UN, WTO, all other "organizations" are powerless and pointless.
tom"
Oh, okay, so the USA isn't any worse than NK, Iraq, or Iran? That's a stunning endorsement.
We've been in this camp for a long time. When the UN wanted to teach girls about family planning, it was the US and Iran that went to bat against the measure.
Expect to see a lot of yellow lights at party rallies from now on...
yellow lights
I never wanted to vote for the lesser of two evils anyway....
Vote Cthulhu!
A minority of people don't need any guidance or roadmap at all in order to do their work and inevitably they are the ones who do the most innovation because their thought process is not confined to space/boundaries defined by someone else.
Everyone is confined by someone else's boundaries. If they weren't, then that would be anarchy. Boundaries are not the issue. Setting a goal and getting around boundaries is the issue or having enough boundaries to land in the goal by accident is.
If (as the "content industry" would like us to believe) we do not ever actually "own" our music, but "license" it, then there can't be any such thing as a Music Pirte. It's more like Unlicensed Music Listener. Like an unlicensed driver. Your thoughts?
LOL, but at $100,000 per song per violation is one heck of a traffic ticket!
If you make a better Malaria resistent bug, then only be the strongest strains of Malaria will survive. Now your chances of surviving infection are lower. This is just a guess but it seems resonable.
Strong strains of malaria? just different strains. Admittedly having fewer people infected will mean the strains seem stronger. I am afraid that will be true for anything we try to wipe out.
What I thought was humorous about the article...the GM mosquito have glowing eyes. I was thinking that having that released into the wild would be beautiful in Houston....great glowing swarms in the night. Entire yards lit up at night. Drunks driving off the road because the ditches look like yellow stripes.
Once during an IP audit, I asked a manager what databases he considered sensitive and critical. He said none because we have it all in paper format.
I always remembered that and now whenever I look at a database, I think about the security of the paper documents. If they are not critical or sensitive, I'm not worried.
Yes coal can be burned more cleanly and the CO2 sequestered but there isn't a single clean coal plant in operation.
For me, I think it comes down to whether I want pollution in a single place (the plant) or multiple places (cars.) I think I'd prefer it in a single place far from me.
I jsut didn't want them changing channels ans seeing the news. This was shortly after 9/11/01.
Get a TIVO. After awhile everyone in the house will stop wanting to see shows live.
Our kids (6 and 3) currently don't understand that their shows have been recorded. They just think that they are there always waiting for them.
You don't have young kids do you?
I went from no TV to cable just to get Dora the Explorer, Bob the Builder, and a host of other kid shows.
And yea it sucks to have kids watching TV, but when you are the only adult in the house and you need to take a shower, it is nice to have a few minutes as the kid zones into Curious George.
the only time the average user would need to surf anonymous is when he/she knows he is doing something wrong. I mean, i'm not trying to start anything here, but rather understand WHY you would need to do this. Obviously we have 'pr0n viewing' at work, and stalking ex's and whathave you...
I can think of a few...Maybe the Fedex clerk wants to work for UPS. Or maybe you want to read up about Democrats at your mostly Republican company. Or maybe you or your girlfriend are up the duft and want to find out more about Plan Parenthood without fear that someday some Attorney General is going to make those records public. Or maybe some militia group is wanting to hold a meeting and some Attorney General is interested in the members of that militia (wants to track all those IPs.)
etc...etc..etc...
There are plenty of activities that are not illegal that a person could be interested in, but don't want to be dragged through the courts over for political reasons....
...the first thing I thought was "why are they swapping around samples of a dangerous infectious disease like tuberculosis?"
I'm glad I wasn't the only one!
If people like this are a result of nature, wouldn't the abnormality present itself in offspring? Only worse? Yes, you could implement gender segregation, but how long would that stop 4 states worth of amoral, determined, horny, psychopaths?
;)
Is that a jab at the US, Australia, and New Zealand?
Seriously....those genes have their uses. I would not want to wipe out any of the criminal genes because they have kept our species alive. In the right context those genes are an asset.
The simple truth is that some people simply are born bad. I'm torn on whether we should be curing them, or implementing George Carlin's idea and turning the four corner states into a gigantic prison, and just throw them in there.
Mars or the Moon...or even Africa (after AIDS)
we just need some place to ship them.
Instead, NASA lost a great astronaut and her life has been destroyed.
Her life has been destroyed and several families. The court system isn't fun for anyone....the victim, the criminal, their families. I feel for the kids. It is going to be rough for them with so many changes all at once.
I lost both of my parents. My mother is guilty (murder of her cheating boy friend) and I believe my dad to be innocent since there is no physical evidence & no witnesses (molestation of a 3 year old).
Needless to say discussing my family is not something I usually do and Nowak's kids are going to have a hard time...I mean they are in school right now...imagine being a teenager with your mother on the news for attempted murder nightly! I can't even imagine discussing adult diapers with teenagers!
WTF? It sounds great. Collect all the DNA from criminals (or those accused), but what good is collecting DNA if you never compare it to a crime? There are thousands of rape kits that are not processed because the local districts do not have the money to send off the kits to be tested.
I am sure other crimes will be the same...so what does this DNA database do? I think its primary function will be data mining. Maybe not at first, but eventually through something like the freedom of information act or something similar I bet all that DNA will end up in a companies' database.
The second function will be to solve crimes where the victims are either rich or the cases are so high profile that the departments have to be looking like they are trying something.
So where does that leave the lowly victim in a minor *cough* crime of rape? If the person is poor or not a celebrity, then I'd say that DNA database isn't going to be used. The rape kit will sit on a shelf waiting until the department has enough spare money (when do they have that?) to process the kits....and then it'll be tested against the database (when hell freezes over.)