Mmm, but in many forms of theatre, film and videogame, the actor (or animator's) job (and that of the director, editor, etc.) is to make you forget that, so that you engage emotionally with what you're seeing. You watch a romance in order to have your heartstrings tugged; that won't happen if you keep reminding yourself they're only actors.
Must be why I don't like a lot of fiction. I never forget, even for a second, that it's not real. I enjoyed Tron and Avatar, because they were pretty. I enjoy farces because they're still funny even when wildly unrealistic. Dramas? Why would I care what happens to fictional people? Not interesting in the least.
It might not have the market share those big names have, but even as a desktop Arch is far and away superior. Arch is capable of all the GUI niceties the others have, you just have to follow some simple instructions to get them. Since it's so well documented, and it actually works as described, this adds up to a better experience than Ubuntu, where things may or may not work as expected, and when they break you have to delve through forums instead of a nicely edited, fully hyperlinked wiki.
To Arch. A bare bones distro with excellent documentation turns out to be a much better experience than layers and layers of GUI junk that never works right anyway.
No, I mean the google results are clogged with irrelevant forum posts, blatant copies of wikipedia etc. Five years ago, if you were searching something obscure you'd get the usual highly rated links at the top. You'd ignore those because you're looking for something obscure, so you'd go to the next couple pages of results. Back in the early 2000s, you could actually find useful things beyond the first page of results. Not so much anymore.
Also, in the past 5 years Google has been increasingly returning results that don't contain the search phrase. Even if you mark the query with quotes and plus signs. I don't have an example handy, but it happens frequently enough.
Also, Google has started thinking that it's smarter than me. It's been returning results for the query it thinks I should have asked instead of the query I actually made.
All of these things add up to a significant quality drop in the past years.
Google is still better than any other option by a longshot. That doesn't mean its best days aren't behind it. Google today is much less useful than Google 5 years ago. If you only ever look for things that are easy to find, Google is great. Finding an obscure piece of information in the sea of forum posts, ecommerce sites, and straight up spam is becoming harder.
You're proving him with your own counter examples. What exactly do you expect O'Donnell to do? Nothing that really matters, that's what. We have the largest anti-incumbent wave in recent US history today. Is anything important going to change? No!
High turnout means more people have consented to be ruled. Low turnout means they've withheld their consent. It has a direct bearing on the legitimacy of the government.
If we're talking about Anonymous, someone's going to be using LOIC. It's not hard to detect, and since there's no other purpose for it, there's little room to argue it's not an intentional DDOS. You are correct that a properly executed DDOS is hard to track back to its perpetrators. That's not what Anonymous does.
Also, it seems you didn't read my whole post. I'll reiterate. Reasonable doubt is not the burden of proof in a civil case. Preponderance of the evidence is. That's a *much* lower standard. It amounts to "is it more likely than not".
You see, WBC doesn't need to stop the DDOS. They just need to single out a few, sue them, and get some judgments. They know how to work the legal system so this won't be hard.
Just, you know, some of us don't want to go to work in the dark.
Why not? It's not like you get to do anything special with that light, you're on your way to work. You'll get there whether it's light or not. Save the light for after work when you actually have free time to enjoy it.
You've demonstrated a severe lack of knowledge about the basics of the legal system. You don't need to prove civil cases beyond a reasonable doubt, just have a preponderance of the evidence. Fact is, tracking LOIC traffic back to its source will be enough to meet that standard, and the burden will be on the defendant to prove otherwise.
One income source for WBC is lawsuits. They provoke people into confrontation and sue for damages. If they have anyone technically competent around it would be trivial for them to identify and sue participants in a DDOS, ADDING to their cash flow.
Higher quality picture? Seriously? What, then, is the pirated version ripped from? The original film print?
If you're using component cables you will soon get a higher quality picture from a pirated BluRay than an actual BluRay. That's the entire point of this/. article.
The right thing to do is to just let them go. Nobody learns anything without wanting to. Forcing kids who don't want to learn to be in school hurts everyone who is there to learn. Forcing kids who do want to learn to be in school just holds them back. School should be 100% voluntary.
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Mmm, but in many forms of theatre, film and videogame, the actor (or animator's) job (and that of the director, editor, etc.) is to make you forget that, so that you engage emotionally with what you're seeing. You watch a romance in order to have your heartstrings tugged; that won't happen if you keep reminding yourself they're only actors.
Must be why I don't like a lot of fiction. I never forget, even for a second, that it's not real. I enjoyed Tron and Avatar, because they were pretty. I enjoy farces because they're still funny even when wildly unrealistic. Dramas? Why would I care what happens to fictional people? Not interesting in the least.
You haven't been able to get Xbox live on an Xbox for nearly a year.
How do you get Netflix on an Xbox?
It might not have the market share those big names have, but even as a desktop Arch is far and away superior. Arch is capable of all the GUI niceties the others have, you just have to follow some simple instructions to get them. Since it's so well documented, and it actually works as described, this adds up to a better experience than Ubuntu, where things may or may not work as expected, and when they break you have to delve through forums instead of a nicely edited, fully hyperlinked wiki.
To Arch. A bare bones distro with excellent documentation turns out to be a much better experience than layers and layers of GUI junk that never works right anyway.
No, I mean the google results are clogged with irrelevant forum posts, blatant copies of wikipedia etc. Five years ago, if you were searching something obscure you'd get the usual highly rated links at the top. You'd ignore those because you're looking for something obscure, so you'd go to the next couple pages of results. Back in the early 2000s, you could actually find useful things beyond the first page of results. Not so much anymore.
Also, in the past 5 years Google has been increasingly returning results that don't contain the search phrase. Even if you mark the query with quotes and plus signs. I don't have an example handy, but it happens frequently enough.
Also, Google has started thinking that it's smarter than me. It's been returning results for the query it thinks I should have asked instead of the query I actually made.
All of these things add up to a significant quality drop in the past years.
Read the two sentences that follow that assertion.
Google is still better than any other option by a longshot. That doesn't mean its best days aren't behind it. Google today is much less useful than Google 5 years ago. If you only ever look for things that are easy to find, Google is great. Finding an obscure piece of information in the sea of forum posts, ecommerce sites, and straight up spam is becoming harder.
That's nothing, someone implemented a Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life.
You're proving him with your own counter examples. What exactly do you expect O'Donnell to do? Nothing that really matters, that's what. We have the largest anti-incumbent wave in recent US history today. Is anything important going to change? No!
High turnout means more people have consented to be ruled. Low turnout means they've withheld their consent. It has a direct bearing on the legitimacy of the government.
Having lived in rural central NY, and commuting 40 minutes to school before sun up in winter, I'd still rather have the daylight in the evening.
See, it's a trap
253 comments and rising. Compared to the less trollish articles immediately surrounding this one on the front page, the strawman has done his job.
If we're talking about Anonymous, someone's going to be using LOIC. It's not hard to detect, and since there's no other purpose for it, there's little room to argue it's not an intentional DDOS. You are correct that a properly executed DDOS is hard to track back to its perpetrators. That's not what Anonymous does.
Also, it seems you didn't read my whole post. I'll reiterate. Reasonable doubt is not the burden of proof in a civil case. Preponderance of the evidence is. That's a *much* lower standard. It amounts to "is it more likely than not".
You see, WBC doesn't need to stop the DDOS. They just need to single out a few, sue them, and get some judgments. They know how to work the legal system so this won't be hard.
The stakes here are higher than a little game of MW2. This case deals with our basic rights to free speech and property.
Just, you know, some of us don't want to go to work in the dark.
Why not? It's not like you get to do anything special with that light, you're on your way to work. You'll get there whether it's light or not. Save the light for after work when you actually have free time to enjoy it.
You've demonstrated a severe lack of knowledge about the basics of the legal system. You don't need to prove civil cases beyond a reasonable doubt, just have a preponderance of the evidence. Fact is, tracking LOIC traffic back to its source will be enough to meet that standard, and the burden will be on the defendant to prove otherwise.
One income source for WBC is lawsuits. They provoke people into confrontation and sue for damages. If they have anyone technically competent around it would be trivial for them to identify and sue participants in a DDOS, ADDING to their cash flow.
Higher quality picture? Seriously? What, then, is the pirated version ripped from? The original film print?
If you're using component cables you will soon get a higher quality picture from a pirated BluRay than an actual BluRay. That's the entire point of this /. article.
How does HDFury get around the DMCA? This is a circumvention device, right?
The right thing to do is to just let them go. Nobody learns anything without wanting to. Forcing kids who don't want to learn to be in school hurts everyone who is there to learn. Forcing kids who do want to learn to be in school just holds them back. School should be 100% voluntary.
It is OK to disregard authority, and that's the best lesson you can teach a person. Second best lesson is how not to get caught.
I understand your viewpoint, but disagree. I think it is better to have the discussion and set the ground rules for when such action should be taken.
That conversation has happened, and the answer is "whenever the President feels like".
She's 21. I bet she has some really nice assets.