The files would be corrupt, have severely distorted video and/or audio, or simply be a "Shame on you" advert repeated over and over. Very shortly after this, all the major torrent sites introduced the notion of "verified" torrents, and allowed anyone to rank a torrent, or otherwise flag it as crap. The practice has since stopped for the same reason spam e-mail usually doesn't make it through: A web of trust is a simple, yet powerful way, to sort the chaffe from the wheat.
I don't know if this factored into the practice ending, but I can't think of a more effective way to make someone want to continue pirating and sharing more files. When they were uploading MP3s with static in the middle or just looped in the golden days of Napster, that made me really want to pirate all of that artist's songs and share them with everyone.
Bit of a strawman there. GP wasn't claiming dashboard cams were a magical solution to 100% all police misconduct problems. They have though ensnared some cops behaving poorly, and have not created a police state by themselves. Were the dashboard cams not there, there would be a few more victims of cops being cops, a few more bad cops on the streets, and would still have as much of a police state as we have now. That was GP's point.
I disagree with GP that drones are going to backfire much on cops though, at least without causing a tragedy. Even if a drone gets sucked into an engine and people die as a result, I'm sure the cops will get to keep their overpriced toys and we'll keep paying for it.
And yet, people are still buying media with heavy DRM. I'd wager most people don't know what DRM is or why it will cost them a lot of money for things they "buy." They don't know they're agreeing to "license" things temporarily.
While you may say "That's their problem," it's also our problem, since such unethical practices being profitable makes things worse for those of us who do know that DRM is a scam. If you play games, you likely either are stuck with few quality games, or games that have at least a little DRM in them that annoys you from time to time. It's because too few people know that DRM is a scam. Movies and TV shows are the same way. The war has been won for now on music thankfully. More coverage = more people realize that DRM is something to avoid.
Also, don't click on stories you find obvious if you don't want to.
The chances of a sequel for Mirror's edge dropped from maybe 1% to 0.5% or less. He had said it was a good game and wanted to see a sequel, even though it sold not very well.
As someone who really liked that game, that makes me a little sad, though overall, fuck that guy.
As far as used game sales, they already had that. No one sells used PC games, gamestop doesn't take physical copies used, they haven't for years, there's as of yet no way to transfer purchases on Steam or Origin.
Perhaps they were planning on shutting down the servers when the next sim city came out, forcing you to buy the new version. That I could see.
But they don't have to let you use their online service if your xbox has been tampered with, nor do they have to give you half the game if you buy it used and the activation code is used up. And consumers won't vote with their wallets on such an issue, the consumers in this case are pre-teens with more money than they know what to do with and no thoughts about anything beyond next week.
Legal questions aside, you could mod your console already prior to this decision. The enforcement to try to get you to not do that will remain the same after this decision: they won't sue you or arrest you, but they weren't before. Their control over your possessions wasn't based on laws.
I can understand. I feel like most people hanging on rumors and press releases about the newest phone or operating system fail to realize that mobile phones are a hobby, not a necessity or something of great importance.
Installing CM on my phone was fun, but honestly, it's still the same phone it was before, just with different standard backgrounds and a few apps that were bundled in with it. Jailbreaking my ipad was a bit more functional, but at the end of the day, I tinker with my devices because I enjoy it and because they're mine to do so. The fact that various companies try to tell me they're not actually only adds an element of "Fuck you, apple" to it.
That said, if mobile phones aren't a hobby of yours, why upgrade at all?
There's a problem with your conspiracy theory: the overzealous prosecution of Aaron had begun before SOPA.
On July 19, 2011, the grand jury's indictment was unsealed. It charged Swartz with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer
SOPA happened in 2012, later.
This is not a big evil government purposefully stamping out someone they hate, it wasn't even because of the bribes Hollywood et al paid to set up SOPA. It was because the government and specifically the prosecutor didn't give a damn about ruining people's lives.
Were it a conspiracy rather than reckless prosecution of trivial crimes, that would be reassuring. Were it simply a matter of don't mess with powerful interests, that would be easy enough to avoid or know what you're getting into. What we have is worse: a justice system that will send you to prison for a very long time arbitrarily.
Perhaps google SHOULD buy the RIAA. They seem to get a lot of headaches from those idiots through youtube. Even if google went evil with it... would it really be worse than the RIAA right now?
I apologize to AC, I would go swimming in his slightly-heated swimming pool anytime. Although I have heard AC suggest some pretty sick shit before. Maybe not.
Remember that "species" is a surprisingly loose concept. You could define species as organisms who can successfully mate to produce fertile offspring, that's a close definition for sexually reproducing organisms. But there'd be no way to test that here.
You're not offended at roman mythological names for the planets, are you? Science isn't endorsing or promoting these religions, they're merely referencing them. "Project to bring a frog back from extinction" or "Jurribbit park" aren't as memorable. At least, not in a good way.
No. I kept telling them they were missing a golden opportunity to revive the JP franchise, but they were all like "Security! Get this man out of here!"
I meant as a consumer, updates aren't something to get too upset about. As far as the manufacturer goes, yeah, it's good PR to release the updates and extremely bad to not.
Updates also seem to be about 95% hype. Pop quiz, without looking at wikipedia, what are some differences in the last two or three updates to android, gingerbread to Jellybean?
I know there was a facial unlock feature that was totally worthless. Some new fonts and backgrounds, which you could obviously add yourself. I think there was a panorama mode which you could do with any number of third party apps. I think HDR camera was also added in there, again you could do that with third party apps already.
Personally, I think updates are mainly marketing tools to stay in the news ahead of the competition. In apple's case, updates also serve to try to take back control over the phones that have been jailbroken. But in android's case, if you REALLY want an update and you're not getting it, just install cyanogenmod. If you're savvy enough to know what version you're on, you're savvy enough to do that. Most people with androids, you ask them what version they have, and they'd say "Uh... well it's not an iphone?"
I dunno, I could never win any money at cards in any casino in GTA San Andreas. Pretty sure the PS2 was cheating and looking at my cards. Jokes on it though: I was using cheat codes to get $25,000 dollars any time I wanted. I was like Neo in the Matrix, except instead of kung fu it was bullets and instead of a global AI computer it was a Sony.
I've heard the average time to get a PhD has increased to 5 years, though I couldn't immediately find a citation for that, so it could just be something one of my fellow grad students said to make ourselves worry about graduating on time less.
There's also some wiggle room in either. Maybe some physics projects take necessarily 8 years or so, but with many projects in at least cell biology, you can speed it up or shape it to your timescale. Publishing as is, without all the experiments that could be done, also happens, leaving stuff for the next student, a postdoct, or the lab head to finish up. A project that only lasts 2 years doesn't happen very often: there's almost always more experiments to do, push the knowledge further. I can't think of any biologist who could say "And that's basically all there is to research in this particular project: DONE."
When I choose what to research, length of study is not really a big concern.
I googled veoh to see what they were, and was surprised to see that Veoh is still around. The wiki page says they were bought by an Israeli company. Is the new Veoh something similar in name only? I'm genuinely confused.
From the banking scandals it should be clear to anyone with half a mind that Washington wants you to stop being a little thief and start being a very big one.
What was China trying to get out of allowing NK to keep it's accounts anyway? That's totally puzzling to me. They have a much bigger interest in reigning Un in than we do. Is the new leadership trying to show it doesn't take orders from the world or what? If things continue to escalate, and China's little brother starts shelling, that seems like it would reflect very poorly on the Communist Party.
That said, I've never even been to China and don't really have a good handle on the politics. Maybe Chinese citizens find NK attacking South Korea to be entertaining?
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The files would be corrupt, have severely distorted video and/or audio, or simply be a "Shame on you" advert repeated over and over. Very shortly after this, all the major torrent sites introduced the notion of "verified" torrents, and allowed anyone to rank a torrent, or otherwise flag it as crap. The practice has since stopped for the same reason spam e-mail usually doesn't make it through: A web of trust is a simple, yet powerful way, to sort the chaffe from the wheat.
I don't know if this factored into the practice ending, but I can't think of a more effective way to make someone want to continue pirating and sharing more files. When they were uploading MP3s with static in the middle or just looped in the golden days of Napster, that made me really want to pirate all of that artist's songs and share them with everyone.
Bit of a strawman there. GP wasn't claiming dashboard cams were a magical solution to 100% all police misconduct problems. They have though ensnared some cops behaving poorly, and have not created a police state by themselves. Were the dashboard cams not there, there would be a few more victims of cops being cops, a few more bad cops on the streets, and would still have as much of a police state as we have now. That was GP's point.
I disagree with GP that drones are going to backfire much on cops though, at least without causing a tragedy. Even if a drone gets sucked into an engine and people die as a result, I'm sure the cops will get to keep their overpriced toys and we'll keep paying for it.
And yet, people are still buying media with heavy DRM. I'd wager most people don't know what DRM is or why it will cost them a lot of money for things they "buy." They don't know they're agreeing to "license" things temporarily.
While you may say "That's their problem," it's also our problem, since such unethical practices being profitable makes things worse for those of us who do know that DRM is a scam. If you play games, you likely either are stuck with few quality games, or games that have at least a little DRM in them that annoys you from time to time. It's because too few people know that DRM is a scam. Movies and TV shows are the same way. The war has been won for now on music thankfully. More coverage = more people realize that DRM is something to avoid.
Also, don't click on stories you find obvious if you don't want to.
The chances of a sequel for Mirror's edge dropped from maybe 1% to 0.5% or less. He had said it was a good game and wanted to see a sequel, even though it sold not very well.
As someone who really liked that game, that makes me a little sad, though overall, fuck that guy.
As far as used game sales, they already had that. No one sells used PC games, gamestop doesn't take physical copies used, they haven't for years, there's as of yet no way to transfer purchases on Steam or Origin.
Perhaps they were planning on shutting down the servers when the next sim city came out, forcing you to buy the new version. That I could see.
But they don't have to let you use their online service if your xbox has been tampered with, nor do they have to give you half the game if you buy it used and the activation code is used up. And consumers won't vote with their wallets on such an issue, the consumers in this case are pre-teens with more money than they know what to do with and no thoughts about anything beyond next week.
Legal questions aside, you could mod your console already prior to this decision. The enforcement to try to get you to not do that will remain the same after this decision: they won't sue you or arrest you, but they weren't before. Their control over your possessions wasn't based on laws.
I can understand. I feel like most people hanging on rumors and press releases about the newest phone or operating system fail to realize that mobile phones are a hobby, not a necessity or something of great importance.
Installing CM on my phone was fun, but honestly, it's still the same phone it was before, just with different standard backgrounds and a few apps that were bundled in with it. Jailbreaking my ipad was a bit more functional, but at the end of the day, I tinker with my devices because I enjoy it and because they're mine to do so. The fact that various companies try to tell me they're not actually only adds an element of "Fuck you, apple" to it.
That said, if mobile phones aren't a hobby of yours, why upgrade at all?
On July 19, 2011, the grand jury's indictment was unsealed. It charged Swartz with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer
SOPA happened in 2012, later.
This is not a big evil government purposefully stamping out someone they hate, it wasn't even because of the bribes Hollywood et al paid to set up SOPA. It was because the government and specifically the prosecutor didn't give a damn about ruining people's lives.
Were it a conspiracy rather than reckless prosecution of trivial crimes, that would be reassuring. Were it simply a matter of don't mess with powerful interests, that would be easy enough to avoid or know what you're getting into. What we have is worse: a justice system that will send you to prison for a very long time arbitrarily.
Who told you government was something you only had to manage at election times or once or twice when something particularly bad comes up?
Perhaps google SHOULD buy the RIAA. They seem to get a lot of headaches from those idiots through youtube. Even if google went evil with it... would it really be worse than the RIAA right now?
I apologize to AC, I would go swimming in his slightly-heated swimming pool anytime. Although I have heard AC suggest some pretty sick shit before. Maybe not.
Remember that "species" is a surprisingly loose concept. You could define species as organisms who can successfully mate to produce fertile offspring, that's a close definition for sexually reproducing organisms. But there'd be no way to test that here.
You're not offended at roman mythological names for the planets, are you? Science isn't endorsing or promoting these religions, they're merely referencing them. "Project to bring a frog back from extinction" or "Jurribbit park" aren't as memorable. At least, not in a good way.
No. I kept telling them they were missing a golden opportunity to revive the JP franchise, but they were all like "Security! Get this man out of here!"
I meant as a consumer, updates aren't something to get too upset about. As far as the manufacturer goes, yeah, it's good PR to release the updates and extremely bad to not.
Throw it in a pool, insulate it, and use it as a heat source for a sterling engine or something...
Remind me never to go swimming in your heated pool. Not that you'd have room for one with a nuclear power plant in your backyard.
Updates also seem to be about 95% hype. Pop quiz, without looking at wikipedia, what are some differences in the last two or three updates to android, gingerbread to Jellybean?
I know there was a facial unlock feature that was totally worthless. Some new fonts and backgrounds, which you could obviously add yourself. I think there was a panorama mode which you could do with any number of third party apps. I think HDR camera was also added in there, again you could do that with third party apps already.
Personally, I think updates are mainly marketing tools to stay in the news ahead of the competition. In apple's case, updates also serve to try to take back control over the phones that have been jailbroken. But in android's case, if you REALLY want an update and you're not getting it, just install cyanogenmod. If you're savvy enough to know what version you're on, you're savvy enough to do that. Most people with androids, you ask them what version they have, and they'd say "Uh... well it's not an iphone?"
I dunno, I could never win any money at cards in any casino in GTA San Andreas. Pretty sure the PS2 was cheating and looking at my cards. Jokes on it though: I was using cheat codes to get $25,000 dollars any time I wanted. I was like Neo in the Matrix, except instead of kung fu it was bullets and instead of a global AI computer it was a Sony.
I've heard the average time to get a PhD has increased to 5 years, though I couldn't immediately find a citation for that, so it could just be something one of my fellow grad students said to make ourselves worry about graduating on time less.
There's also some wiggle room in either. Maybe some physics projects take necessarily 8 years or so, but with many projects in at least cell biology, you can speed it up or shape it to your timescale. Publishing as is, without all the experiments that could be done, also happens, leaving stuff for the next student, a postdoct, or the lab head to finish up. A project that only lasts 2 years doesn't happen very often: there's almost always more experiments to do, push the knowledge further. I can't think of any biologist who could say "And that's basically all there is to research in this particular project: DONE."
When I choose what to research, length of study is not really a big concern.
I googled veoh to see what they were, and was surprised to see that Veoh is still around. The wiki page says they were bought by an Israeli company. Is the new Veoh something similar in name only? I'm genuinely confused.
From the banking scandals it should be clear to anyone with half a mind that Washington wants you to stop being a little thief and start being a very big one.
Strawman argument. It's not about national defense technology.
What was China trying to get out of allowing NK to keep it's accounts anyway? That's totally puzzling to me. They have a much bigger interest in reigning Un in than we do. Is the new leadership trying to show it doesn't take orders from the world or what? If things continue to escalate, and China's little brother starts shelling, that seems like it would reflect very poorly on the Communist Party.
That said, I've never even been to China and don't really have a good handle on the politics. Maybe Chinese citizens find NK attacking South Korea to be entertaining?
I really don't even know what your point was there. That it will all work out problem free?
What's the difference between it being set in concrete by the supreme court and not challenging it at all?