I'm a little shocked. Just going through, lots of claims, little evidence. Some of them don't cite a claim, and the article doesn't say its not completed, or that it needs citation for that part.
Yep, times are a changing. I recall the Wing Commander series being amongst the pioneers in story-telling, voice acting, multiple story-pathing, even cinematics. If you look at any of them now, they seem so ridiculously dated in every regard. A time when all the acting was done by the developers, because they didn't have money to hire anyone else. You've got your Lead Developer who was a bit of a shut in during his senior year trying to sound like the hero everyone can relate with. Or better yet - if there was no female on the team, you just knew one of them coaxed their wife to come in, and she didn't even want to be in the game. So of course it was terrible!
Now I've got Captain Jean Luc Picard in my Oblivion, Jedi Qui Gon Jinn in my Fallout, Seth Green in my Mass Effects... The list goes on. You know that videogames have become a huge industry when they can branch out and grab talent from other sectors to help out with some value-added services.
Why should a cop who is being deceptive while investigating one suspect suddenly be allowed to access people, perhaps 100's or 1000's who may or may not be involved in any way?
Are you saying an offline undercover cop should be a blind idiot and focus ONLY on the ONE person associated with selling drugs, and not the supplier of the drugs, or the purchasers? Then whats the point of going undercover?
This is no different. If you know a Drug Dealer, everyone the drug dealer associates with is suspect, that is just the way it works. Hey, the dealers wife might not know he deals drugs, she might be completely innocent, or she could be the brain behind the whole operation, regardless, the cops have to look into it, otherwise they'll get nowhere.
Now they get to examine your life and investigate you, and you don't think boundaries have been crossed?
Considering that either
A) The information is public, like putting it on a billboard or B) I have to accept their friend request in order for them to access any information
How is this any different than giving consent to let them investigate you?
There's no reason to believe anything about you or obtain any information on you, until and unless they have probable cause to believe you have committed a crime
Right - which is why police go undercover in the first place, right? I don't see how this is any different.
A) users will only do the minimum required. B) users consider security measures to be a pain. C) user education is not working. or D)based entirely on the economics of the process
And NONE of those overlap?
I think this arguement is moot, everyone seems to be shouting the same thing.
There is nothing illegal against me investigating you or your friends.
Are you not concerned about that?
Law Enforcement Agencies are not going to waste their time creeping out on facebook unless they have some sort of lead. If you have an issue with keeping stuff Private your issue is with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc - not with the feds.
I may have gone to highschool with someone who is now a known drug dealer. Now they can look at my profile and stuff if I have it public, they aren't stepping over any boundaries. If I don't have it public, they can't see it. They literally would have to imposter someone I know to get on my friends list (which is in fact illegal) - so I don't have to worry about that.
On the chance that they do look into it - it will be very obvious I have not associated with the person after investigating MY events and other information. .
You are correct. They aren't doing anything that you nor I couldn't do - besides having access to police records and placing people under arrest. The actual information gathering is pretty standard stuff.
I follow the same philosophy - Except I probably wouldn't even offer to replace Photoshop with Gimp - if they shelled out the money for PS already, its worth having.
Then I tell them about my "First Ones Free Policy". Which is exactly how it sounds. The first one I clear all their Malware off and set them up on more secure standards. If they somehow manage to catch something then - Thats when I start charging by the hour.
Membership would be a problem, since there are supposedly only "two at any time."
It actually just makes the book-keeping a lot easier. Everyone else under my command would just be part of "the Empire", regardless of their force powers.
It's like saying your Blu Ray Player is useless because your TV is busted. You can plug your 360 controller into your PC to have it work like a gamepad. You can give it to a friend. You can sell it.
In any case, buying a new console or not, the Controller still has many uses, and shouldn't be discarded.
Specifically they're going to be tailoring ads specific towards you. They're going to know the music you wear, and the type of comments you post, that kind of stuff. They'll then be able to tell what ads you've rolled over for how long, suggesting what advertising might be working on you, and remove the ones that aren't. On top of that, they'll be using a GeoIP database to target your city.
Myspace has become Theirspace. Their advertising space.
I'll repost Aphoxema's comment above, since it is the best Car Analogy for the scenario.
If I sold you a car and it had a cupholder with a lock on it, and you had to pay me any amount of money for me to take that lock off , would you feel right about it? Worse yet, lets imagine that there's laws mandating that you're not allowed to drill or cut that lock off, even though it was sold to you with your car.
Can you understand it now? Can you understand that -having- content but being unable to use it as frustrating?
No one makes money on Niche products by making them less expensive. They could find a way to cut a dollar off production costs and they'd still charge you an arm and a leg.
While I know what you mean, I've only ever done this once with computers since my boss thinks that Blood on the components is a health and sanitary issue.
Problem is that we're not even sure a civilization would use The electromagnetic spectrum to communicate. With the discovery of Neutrino's that travel at the speed of light and go through all matter without effecting it (We only detect them when two Neutrino's collide and cause beta waves or something) - it seems like that would be an ultimate mode of communication. If we find a way to master those kinds of particles it's likely we'd ditch Cables, wifi, and all that stuff altogether. Now, if we manage to pull that off in the next 300 years, how long does that means radio has been around? So - how long would Aliens be using Radio?
That people are so quick to blame pharmaceuticals for everything that may happen post vaccination. I understand that a lot of it comes from people not knowing whats in the vaccination - they don't know what they are putting into their children and they realize "Hey this could be cause" after something harmful happens. Don't get me wrong, I agree that its a problem, I don't ever go and get my flu shot because the local health regional offices won't tell me what's in the vaccine. [tinfoilhat] How do I know they aren't adding some kind of emotional suppressant that makes me less angry about taxes being raised [/tinfoilhat].
I think the ridiculous part of it though is that they only do this with the drugs. People don't think to blame the food, or the beverages, or anything else they are introducing into their system. They heard a smear campaign on the radio saying that a Vaccine might be linked to a disease or syndrome - time and time again these reports turn out to be faked. But for whatever reason, this kind of stuff continues.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is this: Stop trying to push the laws to treat a symptom of the problem. Transparency is the issue here - without having complete ACCURATE transparency, laymen (like myself) have an even tougher time determining what is true and what is false. If I had my way, everything we drink, every menu we read, every swimming pool you enter, anything that we interact with would have a label somewhere telling you -exactly- what goes into it. And don't get me started on current Nutritional labels - those things are a disgrace.
If you don't factor in a monthly cost for internet access, you don't know where your $1000 begins or ends. You could play forever on $1000.
Thats not true - Well I mean it could be if you stuck to single player only games but I doubt thats the case. I also left out electricity, though that has minimal effect on the scenario.
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I'm a little shocked. Just going through, lots of claims, little evidence. Some of them don't cite a claim, and the article doesn't say its not completed, or that it needs citation for that part.
Then completely out of context he quotes Bill Gates words from 1976, 34 years ago
Yeah but, isn't it obvious that when Bill said that he was referring to Smart Phones? He is clearly against the current App Market setup.
Yep, times are a changing. I recall the Wing Commander series being amongst the pioneers in story-telling, voice acting, multiple story-pathing, even cinematics. If you look at any of them now, they seem so ridiculously dated in every regard. A time when all the acting was done by the developers, because they didn't have money to hire anyone else. You've got your Lead Developer who was a bit of a shut in during his senior year trying to sound like the hero everyone can relate with. Or better yet - if there was no female on the team, you just knew one of them coaxed their wife to come in, and she didn't even want to be in the game. So of course it was terrible!
Now I've got Captain Jean Luc Picard in my Oblivion, Jedi Qui Gon Jinn in my Fallout, Seth Green in my Mass Effects... The list goes on.
You know that videogames have become a huge industry when they can branch out and grab talent from other sectors to help out with some value-added services.
Why should a cop who is being deceptive while investigating one suspect suddenly be allowed to access people, perhaps 100's or 1000's who may or may not be involved in any way?
Are you saying an offline undercover cop should be a blind idiot and focus ONLY on the ONE person associated with selling drugs, and not the supplier of the drugs, or the purchasers? Then whats the point of going undercover?
This is no different. If you know a Drug Dealer, everyone the drug dealer associates with is suspect, that is just the way it works. Hey, the dealers wife might not know he deals drugs, she might be completely innocent, or she could be the brain behind the whole operation, regardless, the cops have to look into it, otherwise they'll get nowhere.
Now they get to examine your life and investigate you, and you don't think boundaries have been crossed?
Considering that either
A) The information is public, like putting it on a billboard
or
B) I have to accept their friend request in order for them to access any information
How is this any different than giving consent to let them investigate you?
There's no reason to believe anything about you or obtain any information on you, until and unless they have probable cause to believe you have committed a crime
Right - which is why police go undercover in the first place, right? I don't see how this is any different.
I would stay away from C/C++. In the hands of novices in a timed activity, I would wager it would be more trouble than it's worth.
What do they mean "End of statement expected"?
Oh right. I forgot the Semicolon.
Now I've got 4 other errors by puting in that semicolon. Better take it away again.
Let me get this straight, Its either
A) users will only do the minimum required.
B) users consider security measures to be a pain.
C) user education is not working.
or D)based entirely on the economics of the process
And NONE of those overlap?
I think this arguement is moot, everyone seems to be shouting the same thing.
There is nothing illegal against me investigating you or your friends.
Are you not concerned about that?
Law Enforcement Agencies are not going to waste their time creeping out on facebook unless they have some sort of lead. If you have an issue with keeping stuff Private your issue is with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc - not with the feds.
Why not?
I may have gone to highschool with someone who is now a known drug dealer. Now they can look at my profile and stuff if I have it public, they aren't stepping over any boundaries. If I don't have it public, they can't see it. They literally would have to imposter someone I know to get on my friends list (which is in fact illegal) - so I don't have to worry about that.
On the chance that they do look into it - it will be very obvious I have not associated with the person after investigating MY events and other information. .
You are correct. They aren't doing anything that you nor I couldn't do - besides having access to police records and placing people under arrest. The actual information gathering is pretty standard stuff.
Hi, I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. Why don't you take a seat over there.
I follow the same philosophy - Except I probably wouldn't even offer to replace Photoshop with Gimp - if they shelled out the money for PS already, its worth having.
Then I tell them about my "First Ones Free Policy". Which is exactly how it sounds. The first one I clear all their Malware off and set them up on more secure standards. If they somehow manage to catch something then - Thats when I start charging by the hour.
Membership would be a problem, since there are supposedly only "two at any time."
It actually just makes the book-keeping a lot easier. Everyone else under my command would just be part of "the Empire", regardless of their force powers.
LoL. Its one of those mornings. I also just locked my keys in my car.
Yoda has a hood on his robe in most of the Prequel Star Wars movies.
Luke uses one when he first Enters Jaba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
Just about each of them so far, Sith and Jedi Alike have worn hooded robes at one point or another.
Oh - that gives me an Idea. Can I create a Sith Religion and start a legal Crusade against the Jedi?
It's like saying your Blu Ray Player is useless because your TV is busted. You can plug your 360 controller into your PC to have it work like a gamepad. You can give it to a friend. You can sell it.
In any case, buying a new console or not, the Controller still has many uses, and shouldn't be discarded.
Specifically they're going to be tailoring ads specific towards you. They're going to know the music you wear, and the type of comments you post, that kind of stuff. They'll then be able to tell what ads you've rolled over for how long, suggesting what advertising might be working on you, and remove the ones that aren't. On top of that, they'll be using a GeoIP database to target your city.
Myspace has become Theirspace. Their advertising space.
I'll repost Aphoxema's comment above, since it is the best Car Analogy for the scenario.
If I sold you a car and it had a cupholder with a lock on it, and you had to pay me any amount of money for me to take that lock off , would you feel right about it? Worse yet, lets imagine that there's laws mandating that you're not allowed to drill or cut that lock off, even though it was sold to you with your car.
Can you understand it now? Can you understand that -having- content but being unable to use it as frustrating?
No one makes money on Niche products by making them less expensive. They could find a way to cut a dollar off production costs and they'd still charge you an arm and a leg.
While I know what you mean, I've only ever done this once with computers since my boss thinks that Blood on the components is a health and sanitary issue.
Problem is that we're not even sure a civilization would use The electromagnetic spectrum to communicate. With the discovery of Neutrino's that travel at the speed of light and go through all matter without effecting it (We only detect them when two Neutrino's collide and cause beta waves or something) - it seems like that would be an ultimate mode of communication. If we find a way to master those kinds of particles it's likely we'd ditch Cables, wifi, and all that stuff altogether. Now, if we manage to pull that off in the next 300 years, how long does that means radio has been around? So - how long would Aliens be using Radio?
That people are so quick to blame pharmaceuticals for everything that may happen post vaccination. I understand that a lot of it comes from people not knowing whats in the vaccination - they don't know what they are putting into their children and they realize "Hey this could be cause" after something harmful happens. Don't get me wrong, I agree that its a problem, I don't ever go and get my flu shot because the local health regional offices won't tell me what's in the vaccine. [tinfoilhat] How do I know they aren't adding some kind of emotional suppressant that makes me less angry about taxes being raised [/tinfoilhat].
I think the ridiculous part of it though is that they only do this with the drugs. People don't think to blame the food, or the beverages, or anything else they are introducing into their system. They heard a smear campaign on the radio saying that a Vaccine might be linked to a disease or syndrome - time and time again these reports turn out to be faked. But for whatever reason, this kind of stuff continues.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is this: Stop trying to push the laws to treat a symptom of the problem. Transparency is the issue here - without having complete ACCURATE transparency, laymen (like myself) have an even tougher time determining what is true and what is false. If I had my way, everything we drink, every menu we read, every swimming pool you enter, anything that we interact with would have a label somewhere telling you -exactly- what goes into it. And don't get me started on current Nutritional labels - those things are a disgrace.
Universities tend to be the place where this kind of "out of box" thinking takes place.
However, just because an approach is tried doesn't mean it filters down to the rest of the education process.
What was the last law the government passed that was in the interest of the social economics of the population and not to the benefit of corporations?
I think you are mistaking who is working for who. Presidents and Senators don't make money helping you or me.
Not exactly - look at the beginning scenario.
If you don't factor in a monthly cost for internet access, you don't know where your $1000 begins or ends. You could play forever on $1000.
Thats not true - Well I mean it could be if you stuck to single player only games but I doubt thats the case. I also left out electricity, though that has minimal effect on the scenario.