I invite you to be horrified by taking a look at the actual science behind those CSI shows. The threshold for use in court is far far lower than you might imagine it to be. Furthermore, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you don't have the foggiest idea how DNA evidence is handled in a courtroom, or for that matter a criminal lab. You'll be most pleased to know that not only were you a match to the sample we have, but so are all your immediate male family members, most of your extended family members and something like 5% of the population of the earth. But if you'd prefer to think of fingerprints and DNA as foolproof, please, don't let the facts stop you. It hasn't stopped anyone else.
I don't know what article you read, but the one linked above says that they examined 635 apps, found 68 containing OSS code, and found 71% of THOSE apps to be out of compliance. I leave it to the reader to figure out the exact number of infringing apps. I'll help... 71% of 68. Go on, I know you can do it.
And using the numbers you just did, should indicate to everyone present that some people need to work on their reading comprehension skills (and their math).
I don't know what article you read, but the one linked above says that they examined 635 apps, found 68 containing OSS code, and found 71% of THOSE apps to be out of compliance. I leave it to the reader to figure out the exact number of infringing apps. I'll help... 71% of 68. Go on, I know you can do it.
So you want to point a finger at the slashdot community mods as a whole, because you jumped on the Fanboi wagon and started flogging android, only to discover that your precious iOS is just as bad. You then, correctly, retracted your false and zealous statements, which is nice. But then you want to bitch about the burning Karma? Seriously?
I have an idea, instead of complaining about your bad mods, try reading the article, getting the facts, and formulating a reasonable opinion before posting. I know, you won't get first post. But your karma won't burn either. (figuratively, or literally) As should be apparent, I don't worry much about my karma.
No, it's not just a southern thing. Some of us in the west respect our families too.
I do free tech support for family members, and I'm almost always richly rewarded in some fashion. It has never once been money. I've gotten literally dozens of fresh baked cookies delivered to my home once a day for a week straight, because I recovered a "dead" hard drive loaded with family pictures and videos, for my cousin and her husband. I almost always get dinner at my choice of places when I do any tech work for my mom. That's our little secret agreement. My Dad works on my car so much I couldn't even begin to complain when wants help with his computer, which is almost never. Various other "in kind" of deals among family. I built a website for my Grandma to showcase her garden (it is rather spectacular), and got I don't know how many pounds of fresh Elk and home made sausage, it was super yummy. Etc etc. Cash money though... no way. Not from family. This is what I do for a living, and I make a good living, I don't need the cash, and I do want the good will (and the yummies).
No one bothered to look at the talk page? There are NO arguments for deletion. Meaning that unless things are different now at wiki, this flag isn't going anywhere.
There are also some very good points about the relevant (or not) legal standing of the image.
In short, wiki has no reason to delete this image, other than fear mongering. That won't actually stop them from doing it, but it's worth noting. OH, and what's to stop the/. community from reinstating the copyright flag in every wiki article on the site? Nothing. Don't mess with free speech modmins, you don't have the balls to play the game. Next thing you know you'll be drowning in Perl shaped like a camel, or ponies or something.
So you want microsoft to take liability for their users inability to operate the machine? Do you know how that's going to look in court? ATT: Did you read the user manual? LUSER: There is a manual? JUDGE: Facepalm JURY: obviously you should have ATT: smiles evily.
This is a recuring theme with SNL. When I was a kid, I used to stay up and watch it with my cousins. Then later, I would think back to the "good old days" when SNL was funny. Another 10 years later, and SNL is still "back when it was funny". I think SNL is only funny in retrospect. It's never actually funny at the time. Maybe funny moves at half the speed of light?
Based on anecdotal evidence, your statement holds true. Have you ever seen the haggard way married men look at the grocery store? That look on his face is not 'after-sex-glow'.
Incidentally, I think I just invented a new body spray. I'm gonna call ax.
While I don't agree with the virtual world ideal you are putting forward, I can respect that some people do. However, people like myself prefer video conferencing over a wholly abstracted world. I know some people get the whole "we are together" thing from second life and what not, but I'm much more interested in seeing the actual person, and their body language and expressions. Once you abstract the interface layer, you lose a considerable amount of data.
Game development is no different from Movies, TV shows, Books, Magazines or any number of other products. Just because the cost is front heavy, and the return is effectively only useful in a short window, doesn't make the first sale doctrine any less important. I can buy a book when it comes out, at full price. Read it, and then sell it again. Why should a video game be any different?
2x4 huh... I was thinking a used copy of war and peace. Or maybe just start throwing the "horror" section of a used book store at them one by one.
Game developers are pretty much the only assholes out there that can actually say out loud that "first sale" doctrine is 'theft'. The interesting bit here, will be when someone sues them for it, and wins. I'm guessing it won't be too much longer. A nice little class action would go a long ways to put game publishers and developers back in their place. I'll bet gamestop will hire the lawyers if we ask real nice.
Are we talking about the same Katy Perry? The one that remade "I wear sunglasses at night" into a pop song (again), about lipstick lesbians? Because if we are, I'm pretty sure it's not the tits. It certainly isn't talent. That pretty much just leaves the payola.
The corrective action here isn't to vote him out next time he's up (he wants to retire anyway). The correct action is to impeach his ass. Until we start doing that, regularly, for malfeasance and treachery, we won't have any real change in government.
Actually, it's trivial to disable USB in a windows system. I mean disable it at the system level. Further, it's not hard to disable it at the hardware level either. Some crazy glue will go a long way to making those ports useless.
That being said, there are always ways around such efforts, especially if you have physical access.
No, we are not. I don't know where you are getting your information, but as it stands, even at the state of the art (and that's in no way economically viable) Hydrogen is FAR easier, cheaper and safer to "make" than is oil. Besides the economic concerns, there is the fact that "oil" as a fuel is TERRIBLE for the planetary ecosystem. While oil and it's products are needed for certain manufacturing and processes, as a fuel source it's just awful stuff.
Furthermore, just because we have a huge installed base of hydrocarbon fuel systems does not make them safe, or safer than hydrogen. The single largest point worth noting here is, what happens when you rupture the fuel tank? With Gasoline, it spreads along the ground, converting to vapor and becomes explosive in standard atmosphere. With Hydrogen, it goes STRAIGHT UP. Given the typical outdoor nature of fuel stations, this makes hydrogen FAR safer. Furthermore, while hydrogen is in fact a pain in the ass to store and transport, the technology to handle that will surface eventually, just as it did for gasoline.
It's also worth noting that every major town, city and state in this country already has the infrastructure to move hydrogen from one coast to the other. We've been doing it for decades. They call it Natural Gas, and it's piped and plumbed all over the country ALREADY. What the HELL is so difficult? OH right, it's not technological or safety that's the real issue...
Come to Portland, OR. The culture shock will astound you. Having lived on both coast, and parts of the south, I can honestly say that you don't have any idea what you are in for. In a lot of ways things are the same. But in a lot of ways, they are very very different. For me it's always the little things that screw with my head. For instance, going from Seattle, WA to Tennessee. The people in TN were VERY polite and more than willing to stop and help a stranger, something you are less likely to encounter on the west coast. Also, no one ever seemed to be in a hurry down there. Where as up in the NW, everyone is always in a hurry even when they don't have anywhere to be. I'm sure there a million other little things, but it all adds up to some serious culture shock. Not on the scale of going from the US to the EU, but that's a different ball game entirely.
Actually, it's KNOWN there are back doors. Well, at least one. I can't remember which government gave it away, I think it was probably Germany. In any case, it's known that there is a back door, which at the very least government agencies of the alphabet soup kind have access.
I don't know where they are sourcing that term, but "Maker" was used extensively by Orson Scott Card in the book 'seventh son'. I imagine it's a term they have adopted for use in the reprap community. Which makes sense, because it's highly applicable.
Arguably it does end well. Humans are crafty beasts and AIs are not. I've read pretty much all the Beserker books, the humans mostly win. The atrocities suffered in the mean time... not so fun. Having earths moon pushed into the upper atmosphere by a giant rampaging space ship with a malevolent AI at the helm would probably count as a bad day.
Wrong. If you used a Credit card, all you have to do is dispute the purchase. It'll be reversed, steam will throw a fit, and the game will be removed from your collection. Done deal. The fact you were too stupid, uniformed or lazy to do so is laughable. Further, what brick and mortar store accepts open software on return? None that I know of.
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I invite you to be horrified by taking a look at the actual science behind those CSI shows. The threshold for use in court is far far lower than you might imagine it to be. Furthermore, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you don't have the foggiest idea how DNA evidence is handled in a courtroom, or for that matter a criminal lab. You'll be most pleased to know that not only were you a match to the sample we have, but so are all your immediate male family members, most of your extended family members and something like 5% of the population of the earth. But if you'd prefer to think of fingerprints and DNA as foolproof, please, don't let the facts stop you. It hasn't stopped anyone else.
I don't know what article you read, but the one linked above says that they examined 635 apps, found 68 containing OSS code, and found 71% of THOSE apps to be out of compliance. I leave it to the reader to figure out the exact number of infringing apps. I'll help... 71% of 68. Go on, I know you can do it.
Shamelessly copied from myself a few threads up.
I hate to pick nits, but when did Android and iOS become "all mobile devices"? The two together don't even make up 50%.
And using the numbers you just did, should indicate to everyone present that some people need to work on their reading comprehension skills (and their math).
I don't know what article you read, but the one linked above says that they examined 635 apps, found 68 containing OSS code, and found 71% of THOSE apps to be out of compliance. I leave it to the reader to figure out the exact number of infringing apps. I'll help... 71% of 68. Go on, I know you can do it.
So you want to point a finger at the slashdot community mods as a whole, because you jumped on the Fanboi wagon and started flogging android, only to discover that your precious iOS is just as bad. You then, correctly, retracted your false and zealous statements, which is nice. But then you want to bitch about the burning Karma? Seriously?
I have an idea, instead of complaining about your bad mods, try reading the article, getting the facts, and formulating a reasonable opinion before posting. I know, you won't get first post. But your karma won't burn either. (figuratively, or literally) As should be apparent, I don't worry much about my karma.
No, it's not just a southern thing. Some of us in the west respect our families too.
I do free tech support for family members, and I'm almost always richly rewarded in some fashion. It has never once been money. I've gotten literally dozens of fresh baked cookies delivered to my home once a day for a week straight, because I recovered a "dead" hard drive loaded with family pictures and videos, for my cousin and her husband. I almost always get dinner at my choice of places when I do any tech work for my mom. That's our little secret agreement. My Dad works on my car so much I couldn't even begin to complain when wants help with his computer, which is almost never. Various other "in kind" of deals among family. I built a website for my Grandma to showcase her garden (it is rather spectacular), and got I don't know how many pounds of fresh Elk and home made sausage, it was super yummy. Etc etc. Cash money though... no way. Not from family. This is what I do for a living, and I make a good living, I don't need the cash, and I do want the good will (and the yummies).
80% success is better than fingerprint matching OR DNA. So yeah, I think it's likely to stand up in court.
No one bothered to look at the talk page? There are NO arguments for deletion. Meaning that unless things are different now at wiki, this flag isn't going anywhere. There are also some very good points about the relevant (or not) legal standing of the image. In short, wiki has no reason to delete this image, other than fear mongering. That won't actually stop them from doing it, but it's worth noting. OH, and what's to stop the /. community from reinstating the copyright flag in every wiki article on the site? Nothing. Don't mess with free speech modmins, you don't have the balls to play the game. Next thing you know you'll be drowning in Perl shaped like a camel, or ponies or something.
So you want microsoft to take liability for their users inability to operate the machine? Do you know how that's going to look in court?
ATT: Did you read the user manual?
LUSER: There is a manual?
JUDGE: Facepalm
JURY: obviously you should have
ATT: smiles evily.
You fire up Rag doll Kung Fu and plug in half a dozen USB mice. Then you spend 4 hours laughing your ass off while you polish off the bottle.
This is a recuring theme with SNL. When I was a kid, I used to stay up and watch it with my cousins. Then later, I would think back to the "good old days" when SNL was funny. Another 10 years later, and SNL is still "back when it was funny". I think SNL is only funny in retrospect. It's never actually funny at the time. Maybe funny moves at half the speed of light?
Based on anecdotal evidence, your statement holds true. Have you ever seen the haggard way married men look at the grocery store? That look on his face is not 'after-sex-glow'.
Incidentally, I think I just invented a new body spray. I'm gonna call ax.
While I don't agree with the virtual world ideal you are putting forward, I can respect that some people do. However, people like myself prefer video conferencing over a wholly abstracted world. I know some people get the whole "we are together" thing from second life and what not, but I'm much more interested in seeing the actual person, and their body language and expressions. Once you abstract the interface layer, you lose a considerable amount of data.
Game development is no different from Movies, TV shows, Books, Magazines or any number of other products. Just because the cost is front heavy, and the return is effectively only useful in a short window, doesn't make the first sale doctrine any less important. I can buy a book when it comes out, at full price. Read it, and then sell it again. Why should a video game be any different?
2x4 huh... I was thinking a used copy of war and peace. Or maybe just start throwing the "horror" section of a used book store at them one by one.
Game developers are pretty much the only assholes out there that can actually say out loud that "first sale" doctrine is 'theft'. The interesting bit here, will be when someone sues them for it, and wins. I'm guessing it won't be too much longer. A nice little class action would go a long ways to put game publishers and developers back in their place. I'll bet gamestop will hire the lawyers if we ask real nice.
Are we talking about the same Katy Perry? The one that remade "I wear sunglasses at night" into a pop song (again), about lipstick lesbians? Because if we are, I'm pretty sure it's not the tits. It certainly isn't talent. That pretty much just leaves the payola.
The corrective action here isn't to vote him out next time he's up (he wants to retire anyway). The correct action is to impeach his ass. Until we start doing that, regularly, for malfeasance and treachery, we won't have any real change in government.
Actually, it's trivial to disable USB in a windows system. I mean disable it at the system level. Further, it's not hard to disable it at the hardware level either. Some crazy glue will go a long way to making those ports useless.
That being said, there are always ways around such efforts, especially if you have physical access.
No, we are not. I don't know where you are getting your information, but as it stands, even at the state of the art (and that's in no way economically viable) Hydrogen is FAR easier, cheaper and safer to "make" than is oil. Besides the economic concerns, there is the fact that "oil" as a fuel is TERRIBLE for the planetary ecosystem. While oil and it's products are needed for certain manufacturing and processes, as a fuel source it's just awful stuff.
Furthermore, just because we have a huge installed base of hydrocarbon fuel systems does not make them safe, or safer than hydrogen. The single largest point worth noting here is, what happens when you rupture the fuel tank? With Gasoline, it spreads along the ground, converting to vapor and becomes explosive in standard atmosphere. With Hydrogen, it goes STRAIGHT UP. Given the typical outdoor nature of fuel stations, this makes hydrogen FAR safer. Furthermore, while hydrogen is in fact a pain in the ass to store and transport, the technology to handle that will surface eventually, just as it did for gasoline.
It's also worth noting that every major town, city and state in this country already has the infrastructure to move hydrogen from one coast to the other. We've been doing it for decades. They call it Natural Gas, and it's piped and plumbed all over the country ALREADY. What the HELL is so difficult? OH right, it's not technological or safety that's the real issue...
Come to Portland, OR. The culture shock will astound you. Having lived on both coast, and parts of the south, I can honestly say that you don't have any idea what you are in for. In a lot of ways things are the same. But in a lot of ways, they are very very different. For me it's always the little things that screw with my head. For instance, going from Seattle, WA to Tennessee. The people in TN were VERY polite and more than willing to stop and help a stranger, something you are less likely to encounter on the west coast. Also, no one ever seemed to be in a hurry down there. Where as up in the NW, everyone is always in a hurry even when they don't have anywhere to be. I'm sure there a million other little things, but it all adds up to some serious culture shock. Not on the scale of going from the US to the EU, but that's a different ball game entirely.
Actually, it's KNOWN there are back doors. Well, at least one. I can't remember which government gave it away, I think it was probably Germany. In any case, it's known that there is a back door, which at the very least government agencies of the alphabet soup kind have access.
I don't know where they are sourcing that term, but "Maker" was used extensively by Orson Scott Card in the book 'seventh son'. I imagine it's a term they have adopted for use in the reprap community. Which makes sense, because it's highly applicable.
Futurists 20,000 years from now saying that AI is right around the corner and we'll definitely have it in 20 years or so.
Arguably it does end well. Humans are crafty beasts and AIs are not. I've read pretty much all the Beserker books, the humans mostly win. The atrocities suffered in the mean time... not so fun. Having earths moon pushed into the upper atmosphere by a giant rampaging space ship with a malevolent AI at the helm would probably count as a bad day.
Wrong. If you used a Credit card, all you have to do is dispute the purchase. It'll be reversed, steam will throw a fit, and the game will be removed from your collection. Done deal. The fact you were too stupid, uniformed or lazy to do so is laughable. Further, what brick and mortar store accepts open software on return? None that I know of.