The US Administration decided it was politically expedient to have this man in jail for his "political crime". The technical method of achieving this goal, as they are only allowed to wield their power according to the "letter of the law", they hired a detective to dig up the dirt on him and "find a law" which which to charge him.
I'd like to see your proof for that claim.
He was interviewed by probation officers shortly after it became public that he was behind the movie. He was interviewed by probation officers, not the FBI. They evidently determined that he had in fact violated his probation, which is actually publicly demonstrable since he used an alias on the casting call for the movie that you can find online. That's a violation itself. Posting the casting call online is another violation. Uploading the video to Youtube is another violation. Posting comments on Youtube is another. As soon as I found information about this guy in the days after the riots started and saw that his probation terms included not using a computer I immediately wondered why he wasn't in jail already. I'm glad they eventually got to it.
Had his film not caused the diplomatic incident, he probably would have flown under the radar and not been noticed by the authorities, and thus still be a free man.
That's correct. It doesn't need to be a diplomatic incident though, he could have posted a comedy video that got viewed by 100 million people and he still would have popped up on someone's radar. Like his probation officer's.
Personally, I don't think the government actually wanted to jail this guy. They have to though, or risk other people asking why they have to stand up before the man for a probation violation when this idiot got off free. This would be equal justice under the law.
It just says he was sentenced in 1997, not that he started serving then. He could have started serving in 1998, which means a release in 1999, and probation to 2002. The Wikipedia article has references that I didn't bother checking.
It is still incitement. The INTENT is what matters, not the speech itself.
And this film was clearly made to incite people to do violence, knowing the target demographic of the film itself.
Guess how I know you're not a lawyer? The film was not intended to incite anyone to violence. It was intended to insult people. It's not his fault that the result of that perceived insult was an angry mob. They didn't have to react that way. Inciting people to violence means that you are actively encouraging or suggesting that people go out and do violent things. That's not what he did, what he did was insult a group of people who have a segment in their population that are prone to knee-jerk violent reactions.
If you disagree with that, then explain why American Muslims have not become violent over this video.
What I'm more interested in is the line between free speech and hate speech. He obviously didn't incite anyone to violence, but this may be considered hate speech.
How would you like it if you posted a video on Youtube, or a post on Facebook that was very offensive. It offended your community, neighboring county (or country,) so instead of outright saying "we don't accept this free speech" you were arrested for an unpaid parking ticket or any other minor offense? Sort of a big fucking deal.
A big fucking deal? How about a stupid fucking analogy? The terms of his 5-year probation strictly said that he was not to use a computer without approval, and that he was not to use an alias without approval. He did both, and nearly immediately after he was released. That means he violated his probation, and that means he gets sent back to the pokey. That's not an "unpaid parking ticket or any other minor offense". The judge gave him specific terms, specific actions that he no longer had the privilege of doing, and he responded by saying FU and doing those things anyway. This is not a rights issue, this is a minor non-issue about some asshole who can't bother to live his life without committing a crime and now he gets to go back to jail. This happens every day across the country. The only reason we are hearing about it in this case is because now it is happening to a man who was in the headlines recently for pissing off a large chunk of the world. That's not what he's being arrested for, that's just the reason why his arrest is news.
So, here's the real question - should this long-term criminal get a free pass for violating his probation because of the video he produced? Does that video and the subsequent response and coverage of it warrant a Get Out Of Jail Free card?
The Daily Beast reported that Nakoula was arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1997 after being pulled over and found to be in possession of ephedrine, hydroiodic acid, and $45,000 in cash; he was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 1997 to one year in Los Angeles County Jail and three years probation. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he violated probation in 2002 and was re-sentenced to another year in county jail.
In 2010, Nakoula pleaded no contest to federal charges of bank fraud in California. Nakoula had opened bank accounts using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, including one belonging to a 6-year-old child, and deposited checks from those accounts to withdraw at ATMs. The prosecutor described the scheme as check kiting, "You try to get the money out of the bank before the bank realizes they are drawn from a fraudulent account. There basically is no money," she said. Nakoula’s June 2010 sentencing transcript shows that after being arrested, he testified against an alleged ring leader of the fraud scheme, in exchange for a lighter sentence. He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, followed by five years probation (supervised release), and ordered to pay $794,701 in restitution. He was sent to prison, then to a halfway house, and was released from custody in June 2011. A few weeks later, he began working on Innocence of Muslims. Conditions of Nakoula's probation include not using aliases and not using the Internet without prior approval from his probation officer.
Please explain again the "chilling effects" that this arrest is going to have on my rights, and why this idiot deserves to get a free pass.
And the new changes around the corner in 1.05 are a vast step in the right direction.
What do you mean, they're moving all of the processing from a central server to the local PC? Because that's the only direction they can take with that game which would even make me consider looking at it to start to think about purchasing it during some sale or something. Any other step is actually a "sidestep".
To add to the above, that list barely scratches the surface. I didn't even mention Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3 (played that a couple months ago again), Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Crysis, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Descent, Freespace 1 and 2, Freelancer, the X-series, etc etc etc etc. I've spent hundreds of hours in each of those games over several playthroughs (where applicable) over an extended period. I am a nerd. And I have no girlfriend. But I sure as hell get my money's worth out of my games. I also won't buy Diablo 3. When I get home tonight I'll be buying Torchlight 2.
I don't know where anybody got this idea that their one-time payment should give them hundreds of hours of entertainment.
I think they probably got that idea from past experiences where their one-time payment got them hundreds of hours of entertainment. I could be wrong though.
I can't even guess how many hundreds of hours I've put into Fallout, Fallout 2, Diablo, Diablo 2, etc. Shit, I have over 400 hours in Skyrim, and that's been out for less than a year. Last night I was playing through a heavily-modded Fallout: New Vegas again. I've played through both Fallout 3 and Borderlands with at least 3 characters each. I've installed and played my original copies of Fallout and Fallout 2 on Windows 7. Just last month I followed this guide and played the original Warcraft for a few days. Within the past 2 years I installed Ultima 7 again and played that for a while. There's nothing wrong with getting ridiculous amounts of playing time from new and old games. At least, there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
Anyway, that's probably where people get those wacky ideas from.
then there's no excuse for there not being a Linux version right now.
That statement is a little naive. They will release the Linux version when it is ready. They aren't going to sit on the Windows version once it's done just so that they can also finish the Linux version before starting to sell either one. And there's no reason to split the team into 2 versions doing simultaneous development when they should focus the entire team on making the game great and polished, on whatever platform they want first (turns out they picked the one with the biggest market share), and then refocus the entire team into porting to other platforms. They can be making money on sales while they're working on the platforms with smaller market shares. It makes perfect sense to do that if they happen to be one of those companies that is working with finite resources.
Another analogy is backup, everyone knows what a backup is. Source control is like a backup that contains every change ever made to every file, who made them and when, and allows you to switch between them to find and fix problems. They might have a hard time understanding merging, but they at least know what a backup is.
All the other programmers tell me I'm wrong but they can't tell me why.
Can you tell them why you're right?
"Why you're wrong" is a readability issue, for people who pride themselves on code readability (which apparently doesn't include you or your co-workers). That would include things like a list of variable declarations, where the names are variable lengths, but you want the assignment operators and values to line up vertically regardless of how long the variable names are. That would apply to any list of key/value pairs where you want the keys to be left-aligned in one "column" and the values left-aligned in another "column". You can't line up all of those values with a proportionally-spaced font. I'd love to give you an example in this post but apparently Slashdot prefers to re-format multiple spaces.
Hmm. I prefer the central server, actually, because that's only one place I need to back up. I'll look into git in the future though, there are plenty of problems with the Collabnet Subversion Edge/TortoiseSVN system that we're using that cause us to want to look into alternatives. For example, occasionally there will be a problem during commit where it will lock a file, stopping me from updating or committing further, but when I try to unlock it it just says that nothing is locked. The merge tool sometimes insists on keeping the old bugs in there and tossing our fixes too for whatever reason.
Git is a cleaner model in a lot of ways. In particular, the fact that you have a local copy of the entire repository makes it easier to roll back mistakes you make while editing the code.
What does that mean? It's trivial to either check out or export any part of the repository from SVN. What does git bring to the table that I don't already have with SVN?
That sounds a lot like vehicle control from the first one. It took a while to get used to, especially reversing direction like you said. It would be nice if you could use the mouse for looking and aiming and turn with keys.
We should take a page from the book of the mod_security team and add "exploit.html" to our list of URL filters. Make sure your AV software is also set to block "virus.exe" from running.
The mod_security reference is about the fact that they block files called "shell.php" from running, as if blocking specific filenames equals security. We had a hard time figuring out why the servers were refusing to acknowledge the existence of the PHP scripts that were launching our courseware shells.
And I could really do without the sound effects, especially the cheesy motor sound effects at the ending.
I know times are tough, but if your computer hardware is entirely lacking volume control then the video player provides a helpful interface to control the volume.
You can also write PHP, Python and wide array of other languages. VS is really powerful IDE.
That's sort of weird how your first long post is basically error-free in terms of grammar, but now you're dropping your articles. That would be *a* wide array, and *a* "really powerful IDE". It's almost like the first post was written by one or more native English speakers, but now in a short comment your English isn't so good.
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The US Administration decided it was politically expedient to have this man in jail for his "political crime". The technical method of achieving this goal, as they are only allowed to wield their power according to the "letter of the law", they hired a detective to dig up the dirt on him and "find a law" which which to charge him.
I'd like to see your proof for that claim.
He was interviewed by probation officers shortly after it became public that he was behind the movie. He was interviewed by probation officers, not the FBI. They evidently determined that he had in fact violated his probation, which is actually publicly demonstrable since he used an alias on the casting call for the movie that you can find online. That's a violation itself. Posting the casting call online is another violation. Uploading the video to Youtube is another violation. Posting comments on Youtube is another. As soon as I found information about this guy in the days after the riots started and saw that his probation terms included not using a computer I immediately wondered why he wasn't in jail already. I'm glad they eventually got to it.
Had his film not caused the diplomatic incident, he probably would have flown under the radar and not been noticed by the authorities, and thus still be a free man.
That's correct. It doesn't need to be a diplomatic incident though, he could have posted a comedy video that got viewed by 100 million people and he still would have popped up on someone's radar. Like his probation officer's.
Personally, I don't think the government actually wanted to jail this guy. They have to though, or risk other people asking why they have to stand up before the man for a probation violation when this idiot got off free. This would be equal justice under the law.
It just says he was sentenced in 1997, not that he started serving then. He could have started serving in 1998, which means a release in 1999, and probation to 2002. The Wikipedia article has references that I didn't bother checking.
We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends.
That's right, which is why I'm glad that not a single official or agency has apologized for free speech.
It is still incitement. The INTENT is what matters, not the speech itself.
And this film was clearly made to incite people to do violence, knowing the target demographic of the film itself.
Guess how I know you're not a lawyer? The film was not intended to incite anyone to violence. It was intended to insult people. It's not his fault that the result of that perceived insult was an angry mob. They didn't have to react that way. Inciting people to violence means that you are actively encouraging or suggesting that people go out and do violent things. That's not what he did, what he did was insult a group of people who have a segment in their population that are prone to knee-jerk violent reactions.
If you disagree with that, then explain why American Muslims have not become violent over this video.
What I'm more interested in is the line between free speech and hate speech. He obviously didn't incite anyone to violence, but this may be considered hate speech.
How would you like it if you posted a video on Youtube, or a post on Facebook that was very offensive. It offended your community, neighboring county (or country,) so instead of outright saying "we don't accept this free speech" you were arrested for an unpaid parking ticket or any other minor offense? Sort of a big fucking deal.
A big fucking deal? How about a stupid fucking analogy? The terms of his 5-year probation strictly said that he was not to use a computer without approval, and that he was not to use an alias without approval. He did both, and nearly immediately after he was released. That means he violated his probation, and that means he gets sent back to the pokey. That's not an "unpaid parking ticket or any other minor offense". The judge gave him specific terms, specific actions that he no longer had the privilege of doing, and he responded by saying FU and doing those things anyway. This is not a rights issue, this is a minor non-issue about some asshole who can't bother to live his life without committing a crime and now he gets to go back to jail. This happens every day across the country. The only reason we are hearing about it in this case is because now it is happening to a man who was in the headlines recently for pissing off a large chunk of the world. That's not what he's being arrested for, that's just the reason why his arrest is news.
So, here's the real question - should this long-term criminal get a free pass for violating his probation because of the video he produced? Does that video and the subsequent response and coverage of it warrant a Get Out Of Jail Free card?
The Daily Beast reported that Nakoula was arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1997 after being pulled over and found to be in possession of ephedrine, hydroiodic acid, and $45,000 in cash; he was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 1997 to one year in Los Angeles County Jail and three years probation. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he violated probation in 2002 and was re-sentenced to another year in county jail.
In 2010, Nakoula pleaded no contest to federal charges of bank fraud in California. Nakoula had opened bank accounts using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, including one belonging to a 6-year-old child, and deposited checks from those accounts to withdraw at ATMs. The prosecutor described the scheme as check kiting, "You try to get the money out of the bank before the bank realizes they are drawn from a fraudulent account. There basically is no money," she said. Nakoula’s June 2010 sentencing transcript shows that after being arrested, he testified against an alleged ring leader of the fraud scheme, in exchange for a lighter sentence. He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, followed by five years probation (supervised release), and ordered to pay $794,701 in restitution. He was sent to prison, then to a halfway house, and was released from custody in June 2011. A few weeks later, he began working on Innocence of Muslims. Conditions of Nakoula's probation include not using aliases and not using the Internet without prior approval from his probation officer.
Please explain again the "chilling effects" that this arrest is going to have on my rights, and why this idiot deserves to get a free pass.
did not have access to any Adobe products such as Flash Player, Adobe Reader
Phew, good thing that Flash Player and Acrobat Reader are still secure.
And the new changes around the corner in 1.05 are a vast step in the right direction.
What do you mean, they're moving all of the processing from a central server to the local PC? Because that's the only direction they can take with that game which would even make me consider looking at it to start to think about purchasing it during some sale or something. Any other step is actually a "sidestep".
To add to the above, that list barely scratches the surface. I didn't even mention Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3 (played that a couple months ago again), Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Crysis, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Descent, Freespace 1 and 2, Freelancer, the X-series, etc etc etc etc. I've spent hundreds of hours in each of those games over several playthroughs (where applicable) over an extended period. I am a nerd. And I have no girlfriend. But I sure as hell get my money's worth out of my games. I also won't buy Diablo 3. When I get home tonight I'll be buying Torchlight 2.
I don't know where anybody got this idea that their one-time payment should give them hundreds of hours of entertainment.
I think they probably got that idea from past experiences where their one-time payment got them hundreds of hours of entertainment. I could be wrong though.
I can't even guess how many hundreds of hours I've put into Fallout, Fallout 2, Diablo, Diablo 2, etc. Shit, I have over 400 hours in Skyrim, and that's been out for less than a year. Last night I was playing through a heavily-modded Fallout: New Vegas again. I've played through both Fallout 3 and Borderlands with at least 3 characters each. I've installed and played my original copies of Fallout and Fallout 2 on Windows 7. Just last month I followed this guide and played the original Warcraft for a few days. Within the past 2 years I installed Ultima 7 again and played that for a while. There's nothing wrong with getting ridiculous amounts of playing time from new and old games. At least, there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
Anyway, that's probably where people get those wacky ideas from.
then there's no excuse for there not being a Linux version right now.
That statement is a little naive. They will release the Linux version when it is ready. They aren't going to sit on the Windows version once it's done just so that they can also finish the Linux version before starting to sell either one. And there's no reason to split the team into 2 versions doing simultaneous development when they should focus the entire team on making the game great and polished, on whatever platform they want first (turns out they picked the one with the biggest market share), and then refocus the entire team into porting to other platforms. They can be making money on sales while they're working on the platforms with smaller market shares. It makes perfect sense to do that if they happen to be one of those companies that is working with finite resources.
And running a RAID-1 or RAID-5 array is a backup too, right?
I didn't say source control is a backup. Notice the simile.
Source control is like a backup that contains...
If I tell a girl her eyes "twinkle like stars" I'm not suggesting that her eyes are fusing hydrogen into helium.
Another analogy is backup, everyone knows what a backup is. Source control is like a backup that contains every change ever made to every file, who made them and when, and allows you to switch between them to find and fix problems. They might have a hard time understanding merging, but they at least know what a backup is.
All the other programmers tell me I'm wrong but they can't tell me why.
Can you tell them why you're right?
"Why you're wrong" is a readability issue, for people who pride themselves on code readability (which apparently doesn't include you or your co-workers). That would include things like a list of variable declarations, where the names are variable lengths, but you want the assignment operators and values to line up vertically regardless of how long the variable names are. That would apply to any list of key/value pairs where you want the keys to be left-aligned in one "column" and the values left-aligned in another "column". You can't line up all of those values with a proportionally-spaced font. I'd love to give you an example in this post but apparently Slashdot prefers to re-format multiple spaces.
Check out the Bitstream family, much better than Courier or Lucida anything:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
As a moderator on the w3schools forum, I think I interact with these people from time to time.
Hmm. I prefer the central server, actually, because that's only one place I need to back up. I'll look into git in the future though, there are plenty of problems with the Collabnet Subversion Edge/TortoiseSVN system that we're using that cause us to want to look into alternatives. For example, occasionally there will be a problem during commit where it will lock a file, stopping me from updating or committing further, but when I try to unlock it it just says that nothing is locked. The merge tool sometimes insists on keeping the old bugs in there and tossing our fixes too for whatever reason.
Git is a cleaner model in a lot of ways. In particular, the fact that you have a local copy of the entire repository makes it easier to roll back mistakes you make while editing the code.
What does that mean? It's trivial to either check out or export any part of the repository from SVN. What does git bring to the table that I don't already have with SVN?
That's fine, but I doubt that much of the developing world is posting on Slashdot about their key generators.
Considering all the people I know that still want to stay with XP no matter what, it doesn't surprise me at all.
I was like that until I realized that Windows 7 is a very good OS. And, as a gamer, I also prefer DirectX 10 over 9.
It makes me LOL that people still have keygens for Windows XP.
That sounds a lot like vehicle control from the first one. It took a while to get used to, especially reversing direction like you said. It would be nice if you could use the mouse for looking and aiming and turn with keys.
We should take a page from the book of the mod_security team and add "exploit.html" to our list of URL filters. Make sure your AV software is also set to block "virus.exe" from running.
The mod_security reference is about the fact that they block files called "shell.php" from running, as if blocking specific filenames equals security. We had a hard time figuring out why the servers were refusing to acknowledge the existence of the PHP scripts that were launching our courseware shells.
We had one in our class and she was shy as hell.
Weird, there was a person in your class who was singled out as being different from everyone else, and she was shy? Not sure I believe that...
And I could really do without the sound effects, especially the cheesy motor sound effects at the ending.
I know times are tough, but if your computer hardware is entirely lacking volume control then the video player provides a helpful interface to control the volume.
You can also write PHP, Python and wide array of other languages. VS is really powerful IDE.
That's sort of weird how your first long post is basically error-free in terms of grammar, but now you're dropping your articles. That would be *a* wide array, and *a* "really powerful IDE". It's almost like the first post was written by one or more native English speakers, but now in a short comment your English isn't so good.