Yeah, I thought about this as well. With all the cracking tools I've read about, it seems that a dedicated child pornographer wouldn't have any trouble. It's also easy to spoof your NIC, and if you don't post your child porn to a single account like the Buffalo guy, there isn't really a way to track you. Furthermore, proxies are also easy to use. I have no temptation to upload illegal things to the internet, but if I did, I don't think it would be hard to keep from being caught.
Don't Samsung manufacture a lot of (most of?) the flash chips that go into Apple products? Did they maybe have a tacit deal (collusion) that Samsung broke, and now Apple is getting revenge to send a message to all the smaller companies that also have a tacit deal with Apple? This is kind of ugly.
Cool, but it also needs to be re-edited because those cuts are just too slow. And parts will need to get re-shot, especially the WTF ending. But then, yeah, we'll make a good movie out of it!
Is this focus problem really unsolvable? Yes, for TVs and theaters it must be. But if we moved to retinal projection, wouldn't there be a way to monitor your depth/angle of focus and according to that, blur/sharpen the image being projected so that it looks natural? (Couldn't an eye tracking system already tell what object you're looking at by working out where your eyes are converging?) Sure that would be amazingly hard, but it would also be amazingly cool (also for games).
And besides, MS wants to write the software for tablets made by other firms, and maybe these would find it reassuring that they won't be competing with MS branded hardware.
Yeah, the same has happened to me too many times. I think that Google needs to ask user input about which aggregators are actually spitting out something useful and which just show you a sentence with the words you searched for, plus an ugly ad. Oh, if only I could turn on some sort of fine-grained rating feature for Google results! I'm sure they're considering it at Google, but I imagine they're worried that someone will game it too. I don't think that we can or should really kill the aggregators, but we definitely should kill the useless ones. There must be a way to do that. This would be a start: for every terrible result generated from a website, that entire domain should take a small ranking hit.
So will there be a category for promiscuity? Adultery? Bearing false witness (cruelly lying)? Inter-species love? Homosexual love? I bet you that only the last one will be asked about, but on any way of looking at the issue (weather biblical fundamentalist or humanistic or whatever) that sort of focus makes no sense. Should interest groups now call in and request certain lines which play to their issues? Can someone force them to ask about abortion on the questionnaire, for example? Or about cancer, which in many families could be considered an "adult" topic? About uncritical jingoism? About philosophical arguments for why God doesn't exist? About the uncritical promotion or demonization of some religion or culture?
I'm trying to think of some troubling categories that almost certainly won't be on the checklist. I'm sure that there will be a category for graphic violence, about whether blood and dismemberment is shown, etc. But whatever, we know it's a game. But I'd like to also know whether some character will be killed or "taken away" which the player actually started to care about. That's the sort of thing that traumatizes kids: stuff like Bambi. Of course that won't be rated.
We all know that we don't need anything graphic to be freaked out. Just think of Lovecraft or Poe. Some fiction just succeeds at scariness, but no checklist will catch it. So I think that this checklist idea is just an abdication of responsibility by the ESRB. But it doesn't matter. I can't think of anyone who thought that they were a valuable source of information about games.
Wow, my physics courses apparently forgot to mention that Newton's Law of Gravity had anything to say about the quantum states of neutrons. In fact, I was taught it's not a law; it's a falsified hypothesis.
Actually, the patent on the Roundup Ready Gene expires in 2014. It seems to me that the system is working: There is enough money to be made from a big discovery to provide ample incentive to do costly research, but ultimately, the whole world can benefit from that research. In 2015, any farmer can separate their own Monsanto seeds, plant them, or even sell them. I think that overall, the world wins. (And yes, I do think that Monsanto is evil. I think it's nice that we got an evil company to ultimately do good for the world.)
I was thinking that there will be the geek whose cloud girlfriend will totally cockblock him when a real girl loses interest in him because he appears taken. Or worse, he does start dating a great girl he likes, and then gets the dreaded "OK, who the fuck is Ashley Moore and why is she blowing you kisses on your fucking wall?"
I see your point, though I'd add that just because consumer grade camcorders can record at that resolution and frame rate doesn't mean that what they record actually looks nice. I'm sure that professional cameras record at much higher specs and then downsample only once all the effects are done. I know for a fact that this is how music recording works: The music doesn't get to be 44KHz @ 16 bits until after all the mixing and post-production is done - at a much higher sample and bit rate.
You know what would really annoy the movie purists? An option to drop every other frame, so they could have their "optimal" 24 FPS. Because, you know, audio- and videophiles love nothing more than knowingly discarding data!
I agree, and would add one more example: Color - which was said to make movies look garish, gimmicky and all kinds of awful. But then it got a lot better and now we're OK with it, and even like it.
How does that actually work? What's involved in the process of proving the legitimacy of an email? What's the standard of evidence? Can any nerd here answer how the legitimacy of emails gets validated?
The article talked about the laws of physics and chemistry, but failed to mention biology. And the truth is that the amount of radiation an astronaut absorbs each day in interplanetary space probably far exceeds the amount of radiation that anyone has received from the "catastrophic" Fukushima reactor leak. When your DNA is getting fried like that, you don't want to hear about year-long detours. Outside of the Earth magnetic field, the radiation dose is in the tens of Sieverts per hour. With shielding you can get that dose down to a fraction of a Sievert, but that's still not good. (source)
Think about it this way: Fukushima emergency workers are required to stay away from reactors for the rest of the year if they absorb a quarter of a Sievert. In outer space, you get that every hour. In the US, the annual limit for radiation workers in non-emergency situations is a tenth of a Sievert.
Duh, Obama is an alien who came to Earth to get revenge for his fallen Muslim space-communist comrades, so cruelly attacked by that American radar installation. Why do you think he is hiding his birth certificate? It's because he was born in space! Isn't it clear that he's here to destroy our planet, or at least prepare it for alien colonization?
Maybe now they have an even newer design, one that produces even more DOE and VC money and runs entirely on vapor, which is an infinitely renewable resource.
Yeah, I think that Netflix streaming is the first commercial video service which is better and more convenient than piracy. Because let's face it, piracy is pretty darn convenient, and if you invest a minimal effort, the quality is also pretty good. For now, piracy still wins on the amount of content available, but I'm glad to see that Netflix is catching up!
You're exactly right, which is sad, because I don't really see much courage in our government to do any of this stuff. So yeah, we'll keep increasing the amount of coal we burn, waste more fuel stuck in traffic jams, etc., and think that shit smells like freedom.
I think that's a realistic mechanism for how we could bring about the transition to automation. The second, complementary one would be crazy expensive traffic tickets and automatic camera ticketing. And this would be a good thing: Force the knuckledraggers to drive politely and pay extra premiums for putting others into danger. For the people who want to grind through their gears and burn their tires could still do it, just not on public roads.
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Yeah, I thought about this as well. With all the cracking tools I've read about, it seems that a dedicated child pornographer wouldn't have any trouble. It's also easy to spoof your NIC, and if you don't post your child porn to a single account like the Buffalo guy, there isn't really a way to track you. Furthermore, proxies are also easy to use. I have no temptation to upload illegal things to the internet, but if I did, I don't think it would be hard to keep from being caught.
I assume the grandparent of this post was written to point out, through the use of irony, how there really are no viable alternatives.
Don't Samsung manufacture a lot of (most of?) the flash chips that go into Apple products? Did they maybe have a tacit deal (collusion) that Samsung broke, and now Apple is getting revenge to send a message to all the smaller companies that also have a tacit deal with Apple? This is kind of ugly.
Cool, but it also needs to be re-edited because those cuts are just too slow. And parts will need to get re-shot, especially the WTF ending. But then, yeah, we'll make a good movie out of it!
Theaters should supply glasses which supply the same view to both eyes though.
I totally second that. But you know, it wouldn't be that hard to make your own out of the 3D glasses we all have lying around.
Is this focus problem really unsolvable? Yes, for TVs and theaters it must be. But if we moved to retinal projection, wouldn't there be a way to monitor your depth/angle of focus and according to that, blur/sharpen the image being projected so that it looks natural? (Couldn't an eye tracking system already tell what object you're looking at by working out where your eyes are converging?) Sure that would be amazingly hard, but it would also be amazingly cool (also for games).
Not every party is worth attending.
And besides, MS wants to write the software for tablets made by other firms, and maybe these would find it reassuring that they won't be competing with MS branded hardware.
Yeah, the same has happened to me too many times. I think that Google needs to ask user input about which aggregators are actually spitting out something useful and which just show you a sentence with the words you searched for, plus an ugly ad. Oh, if only I could turn on some sort of fine-grained rating feature for Google results! I'm sure they're considering it at Google, but I imagine they're worried that someone will game it too. I don't think that we can or should really kill the aggregators, but we definitely should kill the useless ones. There must be a way to do that. This would be a start: for every terrible result generated from a website, that entire domain should take a small ranking hit.
So will there be a category for promiscuity? Adultery? Bearing false witness (cruelly lying)? Inter-species love? Homosexual love? I bet you that only the last one will be asked about, but on any way of looking at the issue (weather biblical fundamentalist or humanistic or whatever) that sort of focus makes no sense. Should interest groups now call in and request certain lines which play to their issues? Can someone force them to ask about abortion on the questionnaire, for example? Or about cancer, which in many families could be considered an "adult" topic? About uncritical jingoism? About philosophical arguments for why God doesn't exist? About the uncritical promotion or demonization of some religion or culture?
I'm trying to think of some troubling categories that almost certainly won't be on the checklist. I'm sure that there will be a category for graphic violence, about whether blood and dismemberment is shown, etc. But whatever, we know it's a game. But I'd like to also know whether some character will be killed or "taken away" which the player actually started to care about. That's the sort of thing that traumatizes kids: stuff like Bambi. Of course that won't be rated.
We all know that we don't need anything graphic to be freaked out. Just think of Lovecraft or Poe. Some fiction just succeeds at scariness, but no checklist will catch it. So I think that this checklist idea is just an abdication of responsibility by the ESRB. But it doesn't matter. I can't think of anyone who thought that they were a valuable source of information about games.
Wow, my physics courses apparently forgot to mention that Newton's Law of Gravity had anything to say about the quantum states of neutrons. In fact, I was taught it's not a law; it's a falsified hypothesis.
Actually, the patent on the Roundup Ready Gene expires in 2014. It seems to me that the system is working: There is enough money to be made from a big discovery to provide ample incentive to do costly research, but ultimately, the whole world can benefit from that research. In 2015, any farmer can separate their own Monsanto seeds, plant them, or even sell them. I think that overall, the world wins. (And yes, I do think that Monsanto is evil. I think it's nice that we got an evil company to ultimately do good for the world.)
I was thinking that there will be the geek whose cloud girlfriend will totally cockblock him when a real girl loses interest in him because he appears taken. Or worse, he does start dating a great girl he likes, and then gets the dreaded "OK, who the fuck is Ashley Moore and why is she blowing you kisses on your fucking wall?"
ew!
I see your point, though I'd add that just because consumer grade camcorders can record at that resolution and frame rate doesn't mean that what they record actually looks nice. I'm sure that professional cameras record at much higher specs and then downsample only once all the effects are done. I know for a fact that this is how music recording works: The music doesn't get to be 44KHz @ 16 bits until after all the mixing and post-production is done - at a much higher sample and bit rate.
You know what would really annoy the movie purists? An option to drop every other frame, so they could have their "optimal" 24 FPS. Because, you know, audio- and videophiles love nothing more than knowingly discarding data!
I agree, and would add one more example: Color - which was said to make movies look garish, gimmicky and all kinds of awful. But then it got a lot better and now we're OK with it, and even like it.
"If the emails are proven legitimate..."
How does that actually work? What's involved in the process of proving the legitimacy of an email? What's the standard of evidence? Can any nerd here answer how the legitimacy of emails gets validated?
We'll talk after The Avengers comes out!
The article talked about the laws of physics and chemistry, but failed to mention biology. And the truth is that the amount of radiation an astronaut absorbs each day in interplanetary space probably far exceeds the amount of radiation that anyone has received from the "catastrophic" Fukushima reactor leak. When your DNA is getting fried like that, you don't want to hear about year-long detours. Outside of the Earth magnetic field, the radiation dose is in the tens of Sieverts per hour. With shielding you can get that dose down to a fraction of a Sievert, but that's still not good. (source)
Think about it this way: Fukushima emergency workers are required to stay away from reactors for the rest of the year if they absorb a quarter of a Sievert. In outer space, you get that every hour. In the US, the annual limit for radiation workers in non-emergency situations is a tenth of a Sievert.
Duh, Obama is an alien who came to Earth to get revenge for his fallen Muslim space-communist comrades, so cruelly attacked by that American radar installation. Why do you think he is hiding his birth certificate? It's because he was born in space! Isn't it clear that he's here to destroy our planet, or at least prepare it for alien colonization?
Maybe now they have an even newer design, one that produces even more DOE and VC money and runs entirely on vapor, which is an infinitely renewable resource.
Yeah, I think that Netflix streaming is the first commercial video service which is better and more convenient than piracy. Because let's face it, piracy is pretty darn convenient, and if you invest a minimal effort, the quality is also pretty good. For now, piracy still wins on the amount of content available, but I'm glad to see that Netflix is catching up!
You're exactly right, which is sad, because I don't really see much courage in our government to do any of this stuff. So yeah, we'll keep increasing the amount of coal we burn, waste more fuel stuck in traffic jams, etc., and think that shit smells like freedom.
Yup, even educated people are really stupid about understanding probabilities and risk. But I do think that it's an analogous problem.
I think that's a realistic mechanism for how we could bring about the transition to automation. The second, complementary one would be crazy expensive traffic tickets and automatic camera ticketing. And this would be a good thing: Force the knuckledraggers to drive politely and pay extra premiums for putting others into danger. For the people who want to grind through their gears and burn their tires could still do it, just not on public roads.