Infogrames bought the name and rolled it out for the first time for the release of the Bioware developed Neverwinter Nights. Neverwinter Nights 2 was also published under the Atari brand along with some other titles over the years.
The actual subject is both agencies, but I should have included the term "via" -- that is, MI5 works through the information and assistance that GCHQ provides:
MI5 intercepts communications though officially can only do so with warrants signed by ministers. It seeks technical help from GCHQ.
I was being naive that the actual link I provided would be read and clarify any questions -- silly me.
Stop being silly. Seeking to understand why something has occurred is not the same as condoning that thing. The knee-jerk reaction of holding your hands over your ears and simply denouncing anyone who seeks to understand the event as being "on the side of the criminals" is ridiculously childish, prima facie incorrect and detrimental in the short and long term.
If a police officer was shot, that means somebody had a gun who shouldn't have. Given that Mark Duggan was the one who was shot, it would seem logical that he was the one doing the shooting in the first place.
You've omitted a scenario -- a cop shot another cop:
The Guardian understands that initial ballistics tests on a bullet, found lodged in a police radio worn by an officer during Thursday's incident, suggested it was police issue – and therefore had not been fired by Duggan.
The ICO has failed time and time again to bring sanctions against infringers. Hell, BT tapped 100's of thousands of its customer's internet connections and never was sanctioned by the ICO or brought before a court to answer for its crimes. The ICO seems to take the attitude that the offenders just simply made a mistake and can't we just forget about it as we're sure they are sorry now -- they took action in just over 1% of cases and levied fines far less than that:
...the ICO acts on just 1.4% of data breaches and only fines 0.15% of offenders.
Right, so here we see the mighty argument from design -- "It's complex therefore it had a designer."
It's a complete non-sequitur. One simply doesn't follow from the other. Designers can design simple things and complex things can arise without a designer.
You complain about open minds but provide no actual argument -- you do what everyone who has ever put forward the argument from design or one of its variants does -- you go, "See, see this complex thing! Doesn't that blow your mind? Yep, it just makes sense that something made it, right? Right?" And you do that because there is no actual argument to make -- it's just a trick of the light.
Hehe , seems all he has said is, "yep, probable is the best we can do."
"Infinitely certain, no, but best belief, absolutely, overwhelmingly, so much so that only a really, really silly person would seriously assert the contrary."
And then invests that "probable" with enough weight to make someone dissenting "feel silly" -- I wonder how silly the guy who found the first black swan felt.
I should have followed your links before I replied as I see "edge" was more than just an idle suggestion now. BTW, there's also a radio station in Toronto Canada called The Edge -- 102.1
You know, it's a pretty decent suggestion for a replacement, but I have to say that my reaction is still, "no, fuck you 20th Century Fox." It's a little pun -- put the wall of lawyers back in their closet.
What makes you think that? They never pursued BT when it wiretapped tens of thousands of it's customers internet connections for precisely the purpose of tracking (Phorm) in order to monetize the customer's clickstream data. See https://nodpi.org/ for the full extent of the ICO's inaction. To this day, no one has ever been prosecuted over that breach -- and it now seems clear why -- there was endemic apathy towards privacy from all levels of government, police and the CPS. And we now see why with the News of The World scandal -- the people we trusted to protect us from such breaches were benefiting too greatly from invasions of privacy to ever actually do anything to stop them or prosecute offenders.
You seem really focused on monetary value. I was trying to show you there are things beyond that. The fact that you can't see that risking/losing human lives puts space exploration in a different ballpark than manufacturing processors I find quite sad -- and of course there's that whole "leaving the frikkin' planet thing". *shrug*
BTW, I'm not discounting the amazing achievements in computing -- I just find it to be in a different category than leaving the planet. And of course, space exploration relies on computing technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Bah, it's MyCleanUnderwear.com -- at least get it right.
Wow "flush" and "bowl" used in the first sentence.
Infogrames bought the name and rolled it out for the first time for the release of the Bioware developed Neverwinter Nights. Neverwinter Nights 2 was also published under the Atari brand along with some other titles over the years.
*snatch* Got your wallet! *runs away*
MI5 intercepts communications though officially can only do so with warrants signed by ministers. It seeks technical help from GCHQ.
I was being naive that the actual link I provided would be read and clarify any questions -- silly me.
GCHQ basically do a lot of back room work for MI5 and MI6.
Right, which is why I wrote GCHQ in brackets after mentioning MI5.
Intelligence agency asked to crack encrypted messages – especially on BlackBerry Messenger – to help police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/15/mi5-social-messaging-riot-organisers-police
You do realize the article is external and not "written by Slashdot", right?
You do understand the "evils" listed go beyond just "involving money" to serious issues concerning privacy, the integrity of web systems, etc., right?
You do realize you don't ever have to read Slashdot if it angers you so, right?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Stop being silly. Seeking to understand why something has occurred is not the same as condoning that thing. The knee-jerk reaction of holding your hands over your ears and simply denouncing anyone who seeks to understand the event as being "on the side of the criminals" is ridiculously childish, prima facie incorrect and detrimental in the short and long term.
If a police officer was shot, that means somebody had a gun who shouldn't have. Given that Mark Duggan was the one who was shot, it would seem logical that he was the one doing the shooting in the first place.
You've omitted a scenario -- a cop shot another cop:
The Guardian understands that initial ballistics tests on a bullet, found lodged in a police radio worn by an officer during Thursday's incident, suggested it was police issue – and therefore had not been fired by Duggan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/07/police-attack-london-burns
Nobody knows for certain right now, but things that "seem logical" very often turn out to be not the case.
Rock me Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
It holds the tachyon pants up.
...the ICO acts on just 1.4% of data breaches and only fines 0.15% of offenders.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/22/ico-penalises-less-than-1-of-security-breaches/
What would have been silly was to assert, "Black swans exist" prior to any evidence of them doing so...
You have it backwards -- the assertion was "all swans are white." -- this is not logically equivalent to "black swans exist."
Your argument amounts to, "anyone who doesn't agree with me simply doesn't understand what I'm talking about and is kinda sad, really."
*shrug*
Hehe.
;) Wish these ID'ers would do the same.
Yeah, but the Babelfish proof actually disproves god and he vanishes in a puff of logic.
Right, so here we see the mighty argument from design -- "It's complex therefore it had a designer."
It's a complete non-sequitur. One simply doesn't follow from the other. Designers can design simple things and complex things can arise without a designer.
You complain about open minds but provide no actual argument -- you do what everyone who has ever put forward the argument from design or one of its variants does -- you go, "See, see this complex thing! Doesn't that blow your mind? Yep, it just makes sense that something made it, right? Right?" And you do that because there is no actual argument to make -- it's just a trick of the light.
"Infinitely certain, no, but best belief, absolutely, overwhelmingly, so much so that only a really, really silly person would seriously assert the contrary."
And then invests that "probable" with enough weight to make someone dissenting "feel silly" -- I wonder how silly the guy who found the first black swan felt.
It reminds me of Hume.
Hmm, it reminds me of Sextus Empiricus. Either way, it's formally known as the Problem of Induction.
C'mon, you know that's Señor Spielbergo.
I should have followed your links before I replied as I see "edge" was more than just an idle suggestion now. BTW, there's also a radio station in Toronto Canada called The Edge -- 102.1
You know, it's a pretty decent suggestion for a replacement, but I have to say that my reaction is still, "no, fuck you 20th Century Fox." It's a little pun -- put the wall of lawyers back in their closet.
The bomb was a phaser set to overload -- happy now?
What makes you think that? They never pursued BT when it wiretapped tens of thousands of it's customers internet connections for precisely the purpose of tracking (Phorm) in order to monetize the customer's clickstream data. See https://nodpi.org/ for the full extent of the ICO's inaction. To this day, no one has ever been prosecuted over that breach -- and it now seems clear why -- there was endemic apathy towards privacy from all levels of government, police and the CPS. And we now see why with the News of The World scandal -- the people we trusted to protect us from such breaches were benefiting too greatly from invasions of privacy to ever actually do anything to stop them or prosecute offenders.
The first one was pretty much finished when EA ate Bioware, so there wasn't time for EA to do much -- the second one is a different story.
You seem really focused on monetary value. I was trying to show you there are things beyond that. The fact that you can't see that risking/losing human lives puts space exploration in a different ballpark than manufacturing processors I find quite sad -- and of course there's that whole "leaving the frikkin' planet thing". *shrug*
BTW, I'm not discounting the amazing achievements in computing -- I just find it to be in a different category than leaving the planet. And of course, space exploration relies on computing technology.