and that young people should be allowed to explore their natures more or less as they please and that if a "crime" doesn't hurt anyone, leave the "criminal" alone...
If she's nude or partially nude, regardless of how inept her raunchy pose is, it's probably pretty clear she meant it to sexually excite whomever she sent it to...
Can we assume maybe that the only ISP to actually fight the movie studios in court is not being as stupid as the summary implies, and one of the largest ISPs in Australia have unstupid legal council for just one moment?
A bad summary? On my slashdot?
For a start, they are rumoured to be saying something along the lines of what the summary says.
Secondly, anything reported to have been said by iinet that seems absurd is probably some incredibly specific thing designed specifically to counter some incredibly specific piece of pseudo-legal bullshit put forth by the big evil companies, specifically.
People, have faith that the only ones fighting your fight are not stupid.
Mate, I don't know who the fuck you are, but you're sure as fuck not an Aussie if you object to the term "down under". Maybe it's being surrounded by yanks that does it, but you sound a bit too up tight to have been in the country more than an hour or two.
I've never even heard of someone objecting to the term.
At my place of employment, we have to simulate the movement of data with rows of stones, but management never budgets enough stones so we can never process accounting and pay ourselves or order more sto*&#
Most platformers have different buttons for different functions: jump, shoot, etc etc. POP has one button for all moves (barring the too infrequent, too short fights).
Maybe you played Oblivion like a deadhead, but you missed out blocking and attacking strategically, working the magic system, managing weight, interacting with other characters, going into all the little details, and most importantly in combat: moving around and keeping the opponent in view/range.
I wouldn't even class this POP as a platformer. There is only ever one path between places, and once you've started a sequence you hardly even need to give him direction. It's more of a movie with intermittent button presses. If you had played POP you would know that I didn't leave out any of the controls. You can literally take your hand off the controller and use but a single button to play most of the game.
Perhaps Ubisoft could explain how this will benefit me, having exchanged this (very pretty, I'll admit) POS two days after I bought it.
Another case of "uhh, we realise now maybe we rushed production a little... sorry guys... Here's.. err.. a bit more game."
The problem with world-roaming games is that gameplay tend to be a bit homogenous, see: crackdown, oblivion, etc. Oblivion had a varied enough mechanic to keep me entertained for most of the game, but POP is:
Press A... wait. Press A Press A... wait. Press A... Push stick and press A. Press A.
IANAL, but isn't it the case that when a child reaches their majority any criminal record they may have come to possess is sealed or something specifically to prevent any childish indiscretions haunting the rest of their lives?
... the filter was an IP blacklist. If I recall correctly, they're planning on putting a CONTENT filter in place- scanning the md5 of any file transmitted in Australia against a hash blacklist.
Now I'm admittedly a little hazy on the details of VPNs, but isn't generally browsing the net over a VPN a little... impractical?
And, of course, as others have pointed out circumventing the filter will be illegal thus any technology/ website that allows it will be 404ed...
It seems like such a stupid idea, but then, this IS Australia...:( I'm moving to New Zealand.
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This blue screen pops up with all this cool programmer jargon!
and that young people should be allowed to explore their natures more or less as they please and that if a "crime" doesn't hurt anyone, leave the "criminal" alone...
If she's nude or partially nude, regardless of how inept her raunchy pose is, it's probably pretty clear she meant it to sexually excite whomever she sent it to...
... but this is /., I know.
Can we assume maybe that the only ISP to actually fight the movie studios in court is not being as stupid as the summary implies, and one of the largest ISPs in Australia have unstupid legal council for just one moment?
A bad summary? On my slashdot?
For a start, they are rumoured to be saying something along the lines of what the summary says.
Secondly, anything reported to have been said by iinet that seems absurd is probably some incredibly specific thing designed specifically to counter some incredibly specific piece of pseudo-legal bullshit put forth by the big evil companies, specifically.
People, have faith that the only ones fighting your fight are not stupid.
Why doesn't someone do something useful with their programming expertise and deliver the real news straight to people's boxes?
How difficult would it be to set a million people's homepages to a news article, and make the public aware of what's going on?
If people are going to get viruses anyway, can't we make them useful?
Mate, I don't know who the fuck you are, but you're sure as fuck not an Aussie if you object to the term "down under". Maybe it's being surrounded by yanks that does it, but you sound a bit too up tight to have been in the country more than an hour or two.
I've never even heard of someone objecting to the term.
Now, I'm assuming you're an Australian...
You know we're a constitutional monarchy, right?
It's clearly gone after the missing spider!
to my mind...
Your thoughts...
Perhaps someone should point out that making his own books freely available over the internet drastically increased their sales.
Oh, an abacus would be heaven!
At my place of employment, we have to simulate the movement of data with rows of stones, but management never budgets enough stones so we can never process accounting and pay ourselves or order more sto*&#
Sadly, they ARE the actual commands in most games these days. I'm not sure what happened to IMAGINATION...
I know what DQD stands for... and I've played SPISPOPD
does diviant behaviour include looting the corpses of my co-workers in between running up to all the walls looking for the secret doors?
Oh man, you are making me nostalgic.
I gotta get back there sometime.
Most platformers have different buttons for different functions: jump, shoot, etc etc. POP has one button for all moves (barring the too infrequent, too short fights).
Maybe you played Oblivion like a deadhead, but you missed out blocking and attacking strategically, working the magic system, managing weight, interacting with other characters, going into all the little details, and most importantly in combat: moving around and keeping the opponent in view/range.
I wouldn't even class this POP as a platformer. There is only ever one path between places, and once you've started a sequence you hardly even need to give him direction. It's more of a movie with intermittent button presses. If you had played POP you would know that I didn't leave out any of the controls. You can literally take your hand off the controller and use but a single button to play most of the game.
Perhaps Ubisoft could explain how this will benefit me, having exchanged this (very pretty, I'll admit) POS two days after I bought it.
Another case of "uhh, we realise now maybe we rushed production a little... sorry guys... Here's.. err.. a bit more game."
The problem with world-roaming games is that gameplay tend to be a bit homogenous, see: crackdown, oblivion, etc. Oblivion had a varied enough mechanic to keep me entertained for most of the game, but POP is:
Press A... wait.
Press A
Press A... wait.
Press A... Push stick and press A.
Press A.
The game plays itself. Hardly thrilling.
IANAL, but isn't it the case that when a child reaches their majority any criminal record they may have come to possess is sealed or something specifically to prevent any childish indiscretions haunting the rest of their lives?
That's what cryptographers say about cryptanalysts, AND what the RIAA says about filesharers. Software proprietors vs. reverse engineers?
Where would computer/ network security be without people of his ilk? It's simply the to and fro of development.
Ah, /. home of the windows-basher. If you didn't want the virus you shouldn't have installed it in the first place.
42 people who sure as shit won't be finding out about life, the universe, and everything...
Hi. You must be new here.
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Welcome to /.
When an artist is commissioned to paint, does he neglect to sign his work? Does his mark mar the work?
No; an artist knows where to sign.
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yes, it is.
... the filter was an IP blacklist. If I recall correctly, they're planning on putting a CONTENT filter in place- scanning the md5 of any file transmitted in Australia against a hash blacklist. Now I'm admittedly a little hazy on the details of VPNs, but isn't generally browsing the net over a VPN a little... impractical? And, of course, as others have pointed out circumventing the filter will be illegal thus any technology/ website that allows it will be 404ed... It seems like such a stupid idea, but then, this IS Australia... :( I'm moving to New Zealand.