How small? So far you have given us the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. The IRA is not concerned with the US, are not that large in numbers, and don't do nearly as much damage as the muslims do in the middle east. To me it simply looks like you can't count.
What about the Klan, neo-Nazis, anti-Castro Cubans, generic white supremacists, synagogue arsonists, abortion clinic bombers, paranoid militias?
HOWEVER, these items in online games have MASSIVE intrinisic value based on labor. If there's only one of such item known in existence, and I've put 400 hours into obtaining said item, I can't simply go and pick up another one at the dollar store. There is no equivalent conversion in the real world, and if someone steals the item, they're essentially stealing 400 hours from my life.
Gaming is meant to be an end in itself. If that 400 hours of labor wasn't something you enjoyed, then why are you playing?
Those 400 hours of my life have massive value
If you're spending 400 hours on a game to get one fictitious object I'm not sure it qualifies as "massive".
Courts can exercise judicial power over things that happen in their geographical jurisdiction. If you're publishing something in the UK, whether electronically or in print, you're supposed to follow the laws of that country.
If all that "Democracy" and "US Constitution" stuff the US likes to boast about isn't just bullshit talk, then all the Diebold people involved and their bosses AND the people who approved the machines should be lined up and charged for _treason_.
The US Constitution specifically states that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." This does not qualify. We try not to stretch the law just because we're really mad at someone, and the specific definition of treason was included to prevent making it a blank check to prosecute whoever you want.
Speaking as a Euroweenie, I just don't understand the apparent apathy in the USA with regards to the very serious issues surrounding vote counting machines. In a democracy, could anything be more important than making sure that votes are counted correctly and fairly, with a transparent process that can be verified?
Where do you get the apathy from? I guarantee you most of the outraged posts here were written by Americans, there has been extensive media coverage of voter machine problems, and investigations by legislative bodies. Also keep in mind that not every state uses Diebold machines, and furthermore some states that do use them don't use them exclusively.
Now we'll have 5000 posts screaming about this, most of them adding nothing to the argument. Why preach to the choir? Can someone explain it to me? Do people just like patting each other on the back?
To file a lawsuit you need a small amount of money. That's it. This doesn't mean anything. Trust me. They have no standing, they have no legitimate cause of action, this will go nowhere. Just calm the hell down people.
when someone who just looks at unsecured goverment computers serves more time than someone who broke into some ones house and shot and killed some one for shit to pawn for money for drugs..
AKA felony murder, and punishable by the death penalty in many, many states. And these computers weren't unsecured, just because he got in. It's like saying a house was unlocked because you jimmy the front door.
You are always responsible for your actions unless you are being coerced (We will kill your dog unless you invest in our 401k plan).
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. By extrapolation you're saying if your bank, or your stockbroker, decides to just keep all your money and starts to send you phony bank or brokerage statements it's all your fault because you're not being "coerced"?
Actually, everyone who decided that Enron and a handful of others could be extrapolated to the entire US economy are the ones to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Sarbanes-Oxley only applies to public companies, not the entire US economy. And anyone who thinks the various games Enron executives played were limited just to Enron is hopelessly naive.
What exactly are people's problems with Sarbanes-Oxley? Auditor independence? The ban on personal loans to executives? Certification of financial reports by CFOs and CEOs?
Alright, Al Gore's line of "I have ridden the mighty moon worm!" would not be nearly as funny without it being delivered in Al Gore's stilted, wooden voice.
Wow, nice strawman there sparky. Do you have any idea of the terms she left on? Do you have any idea whether they were amicable or not? Do you think that if Bill Clinton called up George W. Bush and suggested he stopped treating the Constitution as if it didn't exist, do you think he'd listen? Do you think the current head of the RIAA really wouldn't mind if the former head called them up and told them they were doing something wrong? Some people retain influence in an organization after they leave. Some don't. Your assertion that they always keep influence is wrong.
If she thinks suing is wrong, then why the fuck did she allow anyone to be sued?
She didn't. She says she had left before they started suing individuals.
What a hypocrite.
Where's the hypocrisy? As far as I know she never did it, or advocated it, why is saying it's wrong hypocrisy?
I'll believe this when I hear that she is ordering all the money taken from dead people and 13-year-old girls and Mac users and all the other wrongfully-sued people be returned
How would she order that? She's no longer with the RIAA, how would she have the authority to do that?
I'll believe that when the lawsuits stop.
She's no longer with the RIAA, how would she have the authority to do that?
Well, yeah, it is. In this case, while the citation may be there, enough of the text is taken that there's no point in consulting the original article (so it's not like aggregators such as slashdot, which point to the article). The blogger adds no additional content, and effectively profits (whether in "community kudos" or adsense) from unauthorized reproduction of someone else's content.
That's plagiarism, whether cited it or not.
You went on to note that:
Think of some of the "techno trends" blog links that make it to slashdot sometimes. Slashdot links to the blog; the blog contains pretty much the whole news item, and you're done.
Yet, the best part of "Star Trek" cannot be bought. It is a story about how humankind transcends the suffering and limitations of life in the 20th century and 21st century.
...to achieve a future where everyone looks and dresses the same and listens to soulless light jazz. Did you ever hear the music they listen to on Star Trek? Now THAT'S suffering.
America has moved back to the good old days with a vanishing middle class and wealth concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. But even if the majority of Americans can't afford it (which I'd say is probably true) there are still enough of the core demographic with money to make it worth Sony's while if they market it effectively. But they won't be getting anywhere near the numbers they had on the PS2.
So.. Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great.
Let's be honest here, the average brit just isn't stylish enough to have a mac. If you want our trendiest computers apple will have to charge you a special fee for diluting the brand--I mean, other people will see your poorly-dressed, bad-haircutted self carrying around our pretty computers.
In another discussion, someone pointed out that most Americans have lots of surplus income to waste on videogames. Which is it?
Well they're mutually exclusive propositions, I'll grant, but they were also made by two different people.
So basically you're asking him which he thinks is more accurate, his assertion, or the assertion made by an anonymous stranger in another conversation? Do you really need him to answer that?
From the article they link to that allegedly calls the Xbox 360 hackproof:
But Mr Satchell [MS employee involved with the Xbox design] admitted no system was fool-proof and that, with enough time and dedication, the security on the Xbox 360 would be broken.
"There're some really bright people in the world with some really expensive hardware," he said.
They never said it was unhackable. In fact, they said the opposite. Slashdot just likes to make up quotes to provide ammo to criticize.
will it make 3D games, especially FPS ones, any less tedious?
It's Id, so no. This is the company that has spent the past 13 years remaking Doom. The funny thing is you'd think a company that focuses solely on graphics would be lightyears ahead of the competition, but honestly the cutting edge engines sort of hover near each other performance-wise.
We see the same thing in the United States when government gets involved in economic development activities.
Actually the United States government's involvement in economic development activities is one of the primary factors of the late 20th century computer revolution.
Legal writing has a tendency toward formalism and wordiness that makes many lawyers' writing painful to read. I think the problem is that law school so strongly emphasizes the thought process (framing the argument, supporting your position) that style and grace in exposition fall out of the equation.
My experience in law school was the opposite; we did very little formal legal writing outside clinical classes. Most of our writing was for either term papers or finals, both of which made me write as briefly and lucidly as possible.
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How small? So far you have given us the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. The IRA is not concerned with the US, are not that large in numbers, and don't do nearly as much damage as the muslims do in the middle east. To me it simply looks like you can't count.
What about the Klan, neo-Nazis, anti-Castro Cubans, generic white supremacists, synagogue arsonists, abortion clinic bombers, paranoid militias?
Smoooooooke.
HOWEVER, these items in online games have MASSIVE intrinisic value based on labor. If there's only one of such item known in existence, and I've put 400 hours into obtaining said item, I can't simply go and pick up another one at the dollar store. There is no equivalent conversion in the real world, and if someone steals the item, they're essentially stealing 400 hours from my life.
Gaming is meant to be an end in itself. If that 400 hours of labor wasn't something you enjoyed, then why are you playing?
Those 400 hours of my life have massive value
If you're spending 400 hours on a game to get one fictitious object I'm not sure it qualifies as "massive".
Courts can exercise judicial power over things that happen in their geographical jurisdiction. If you're publishing something in the UK, whether electronically or in print, you're supposed to follow the laws of that country.
If all that "Democracy" and "US Constitution" stuff the US likes to boast about isn't just bullshit talk, then all the Diebold people involved and their bosses AND the people who approved the machines should be lined up and charged for _treason_.
The US Constitution specifically states that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." This does not qualify. We try not to stretch the law just because we're really mad at someone, and the specific definition of treason was included to prevent making it a blank check to prosecute whoever you want.
Speaking as a Euroweenie, I just don't understand the apparent apathy in the USA with regards to the very serious issues surrounding vote counting machines. In a democracy, could anything be more important than making sure that votes are counted correctly and fairly, with a transparent process that can be verified?
Where do you get the apathy from? I guarantee you most of the outraged posts here were written by Americans, there has been extensive media coverage of voter machine problems, and investigations by legislative bodies. Also keep in mind that not every state uses Diebold machines, and furthermore some states that do use them don't use them exclusively.
Now we'll have 5000 posts screaming about this, most of them adding nothing to the argument. Why preach to the choir? Can someone explain it to me? Do people just like patting each other on the back?
To file a lawsuit you need a small amount of money. That's it. This doesn't mean anything. Trust me. They have no standing, they have no legitimate cause of action, this will go nowhere. Just calm the hell down people.
when someone who just looks at unsecured goverment computers serves more time than someone who broke into some ones house and shot and killed some one for shit to pawn for money for drugs..
AKA felony murder, and punishable by the death penalty in many, many states. And these computers weren't unsecured, just because he got in. It's like saying a house was unlocked because you jimmy the front door.
You are always responsible for your actions unless you are being coerced (We will kill your dog unless you invest in our 401k plan).
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. By extrapolation you're saying if your bank, or your stockbroker, decides to just keep all your money and starts to send you phony bank or brokerage statements it's all your fault because you're not being "coerced"?
Actually, everyone who decided that Enron and a handful of others could be extrapolated to the entire US economy are the ones to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Sarbanes-Oxley only applies to public companies, not the entire US economy. And anyone who thinks the various games Enron executives played were limited just to Enron is hopelessly naive.
What exactly are people's problems with Sarbanes-Oxley? Auditor independence? The ban on personal loans to executives? Certification of financial reports by CFOs and CEOs?
Alright, Al Gore's line of "I have ridden the mighty moon worm!" would not be nearly as funny without it being delivered in Al Gore's stilted, wooden voice.
The Cradle area of Thief 3. And the library in Thief 2 was eerie as hell too.
For certain reasons, I've come to the conclusion that I will be more effective in serving the US public out of uniform than in it.
Huh? You think that you're "serving the public" in a private sector job? Why exactly?
Wow, nice strawman there sparky. Do you have any idea of the terms she left on? Do you have any idea whether they were amicable or not? Do you think that if Bill Clinton called up George W. Bush and suggested he stopped treating the Constitution as if it didn't exist, do you think he'd listen? Do you think the current head of the RIAA really wouldn't mind if the former head called them up and told them they were doing something wrong? Some people retain influence in an organization after they leave. Some don't. Your assertion that they always keep influence is wrong.
If she thinks suing is wrong, then why the fuck did she allow anyone to be sued?
She didn't. She says she had left before they started suing individuals.
What a hypocrite.
Where's the hypocrisy? As far as I know she never did it, or advocated it, why is saying it's wrong hypocrisy?
I'll believe this when I hear that she is ordering all the money taken from dead people and 13-year-old girls and Mac users and all the other wrongfully-sued people be returned
How would she order that? She's no longer with the RIAA, how would she have the authority to do that?
I'll believe that when the lawsuits stop.
She's no longer with the RIAA, how would she have the authority to do that?
Yet, the best part of "Star Trek" cannot be bought. It is a story about how humankind transcends the suffering and limitations of life in the 20th century and 21st century.
...to achieve a future where everyone looks and dresses the same and listens to soulless light jazz. Did you ever hear the music they listen to on Star Trek? Now THAT'S suffering.
America has moved back to the good old days with a vanishing middle class and wealth concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. But even if the majority of Americans can't afford it (which I'd say is probably true) there are still enough of the core demographic with money to make it worth Sony's while if they market it effectively. But they won't be getting anywhere near the numbers they had on the PS2.
So.. Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great.
Let's be honest here, the average brit just isn't stylish enough to have a mac. If you want our trendiest computers apple will have to charge you a special fee for diluting the brand--I mean, other people will see your poorly-dressed, bad-haircutted self carrying around our pretty computers.
Yes, that's what it is. Enough with the conspiracy theories already, people.
In another discussion, someone pointed out that most Americans have lots of surplus income to waste on videogames. Which is it?
Well they're mutually exclusive propositions, I'll grant, but they were also made by two different people.
So basically you're asking him which he thinks is more accurate, his assertion, or the assertion made by an anonymous stranger in another conversation? Do you really need him to answer that?
From the article they link to that allegedly calls the Xbox 360 hackproof:
But Mr Satchell [MS employee involved with the Xbox design] admitted no system was fool-proof and that, with enough time and dedication, the security on the Xbox 360 would be broken. "There're some really bright people in the world with some really expensive hardware," he said.
They never said it was unhackable. In fact, they said the opposite. Slashdot just likes to make up quotes to provide ammo to criticize.
will it make 3D games, especially FPS ones, any less tedious?
It's Id, so no. This is the company that has spent the past 13 years remaking Doom. The funny thing is you'd think a company that focuses solely on graphics would be lightyears ahead of the competition, but honestly the cutting edge engines sort of hover near each other performance-wise.
We see the same thing in the United States when government gets involved in economic development activities.
Actually the United States government's involvement in economic development activities is one of the primary factors of the late 20th century computer revolution.
Legal writing has a tendency toward formalism and wordiness that makes many lawyers' writing painful to read. I think the problem is that law school so strongly emphasizes the thought process (framing the argument, supporting your position) that style and grace in exposition fall out of the equation.
My experience in law school was the opposite; we did very little formal legal writing outside clinical classes. Most of our writing was for either term papers or finals, both of which made me write as briefly and lucidly as possible.