Why the hell are GUI layers providing virtual filesystems anyway? What happens if I want to pop open a console and manipulate the files I've been manipulating on a VFS? Why not just use FUSE which will work whether you're on the GUI or on the console. It'll work whether you use XFCE, GNOME, or KDE.
There's way, way too many features dependent on a GUI these days.
Yes, Jury Nullification works both ways. If I'm on a jury, I will exercise my conscience. If I'm ever a defendant, I hope my jury will do the same. The world would be a much better place if people exercised their consciences more often.
It is one thing to tinker with your own stuff. It's another to tell everyone else how to do the same with the full knowledge that most of those who listen will misuse it to commit illegal acts, and even those using it legally would be just as well served doing said legal activity on any number of other platforms.
Yes, those are two things. Specifically the first is exercising your property rights. The second is exercising your free speech rights.
This is patent nonsense. We still have combat troops on the ground in Iraq. They are trained for combat, they are ready for combat, and they are receiving combat pay. They are combat troops. We are still at war in Iraq.
Property rights are being eroded in that I can no longer use my property as I see fit. If Sony et. al. want to retain control over the hardware, they must not sell it. Just rent out the consoles. Of course, their customers won't stand for that, so they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. This isn't good for anyone except Sony and the rest of the MAFIAA.
From what I currently gather, most of the install hacks require changing the hex string in the game to make it run from/dev/hdd0 instead of/dev/brd0*, so what's to stop a developer simply encrypting this string?
If you can modify the system's firmware, you can make "/dev/brd0" point to whatever device you want.
Personally I'll continue to buy my games. Granted, most of them I'll get from trade-ins, which, sadly, will be the next thing to go
Don't worry about it. There are more good games from the Atari 2600 to the PS2 than any person could play in their lifetime. There could never be another video game published and you won't run out of things to play.
The fact that it can't be sustained without corrupting our government and eroding our property rights shows that it's not.
this model at least means that most people can afford such a console
Nonsense. Everyone who plays games pays for the full cost of their console and then some. It's just spread over time. The proper solution to your issue is layaway.
This should not be aimed at people who have legitimate issues with management which they take through the appropriate channels (which certainly should exist), but at those people who view everything said and done by upper management as bad.
What if everything done by upper management IS bad? Then this policy ousts the exact people you need to fix the problem.
And what are they going to do when they find unhappy employees? Are they going to find out why they are unhappy and see what they are going to do to help? Or are they going to fire them? If it's the latter, then we've got unhappy employees with an incentive to lie to keep their jobs. Now you *can't* trust your employees anymore.
OK, I find that government suppression of free speech is less just than libel. If I'm imprisoned by my government for speaking out against it, I'm pretty much fucked, and so is the country. If I'm libeled I have recourse, I can debunk the accusations, or I can libel the fucker right back.
OK, what's the difference between me believing that my father is possessed and so it's OK to kill him, and me believing that marijuana is wholesome and beneficial and so it's OK to smoke it? I mean besides the fact that the latter is true. From the standpoint of the law, aren't these equivalent?
You get the url of link on right side of the your top url bar.
I'm already using the right side of my top URL bar. Why not leave the status bar where it is? It's not hurting anything. I have plenty of vertical resolution for it. What about my noscript icon, and the SSL icon?
If they really want to save some vertical space, they should get rid of the find bar. Bring back the find window from 2.x.
Also now it tells you whenever it's connecting or downloading to/from the server on the actual tab so it's actually more informative.
How do you fit an entire URL on the tab? My current tab has the following visible "Mozill...". That's barely enough characters to fit 'slashdot', let alone linux.slashdot.org
Besides, if it tells me what site it is connecting to on the tab itself, where am I supposed to read the page title?
So suppose I know that murder is illegal, but I'm crazy enough to believe that satan has inhabited my father. I might believe that killing him is the right thing to do(because it will stop him from unleashing evil across the world for instance), even if it's against the law. That wouldn't qualify for an insanity defense?
In the article, they mention that the computer gets the question as text.
Well that's cheating. With all the work that went into the natural language processing here, would it have been so hard to slap an OCR module in there?
Insanity is about whether the defendant knew what he was doing was wrong.
What if what you're accused of doing isn't wrong? For instance, Cannabis possession. There's no coherent way anyone can believe that is actually wrong. Do I qualify for an insanity defense?
Yes, it certainly is fair. It would have been preferable if the admin in question had demanded to see a warrant first though. Demanding a warrant every time will help stop FBI fishing expeditions, and only inconvenience those who really deserve the data a tiny bit.
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Why the hell are GUI layers providing virtual filesystems anyway? What happens if I want to pop open a console and manipulate the files I've been manipulating on a VFS? Why not just use FUSE which will work whether you're on the GUI or on the console. It'll work whether you use XFCE, GNOME, or KDE.
There's way, way too many features dependent on a GUI these days.
It's hard to think of things that I don't like about it...
Here's one. There's no way to permanently turn off the trash bin in XFCE. Fuckin trash nazis.
Couldn't you just compile it against Wine instead of porting it to OpenGL?
Buy the game, and play it on the open source engine. Just like Doom, Freespace II, Ultima 7, Star Control 2, and many, many other games.
Apple stopped caring about geeks when they introduced the Macintosh.
The party can always find you.
Yes, Jury Nullification works both ways. If I'm on a jury, I will exercise my conscience. If I'm ever a defendant, I hope my jury will do the same. The world would be a much better place if people exercised their consciences more often.
It is one thing to tinker with your own stuff. It's another to tell everyone else how to do the same with the full knowledge that most of those who listen will misuse it to commit illegal acts, and even those using it legally would be just as well served doing said legal activity on any number of other platforms.
Yes, those are two things. Specifically the first is exercising your property rights. The second is exercising your free speech rights.
This is patent nonsense. We still have combat troops on the ground in Iraq. They are trained for combat, they are ready for combat, and they are receiving combat pay. They are combat troops. We are still at war in Iraq.
Property rights are being eroded in that I can no longer use my property as I see fit. If Sony et. al. want to retain control over the hardware, they must not sell it. Just rent out the consoles. Of course, their customers won't stand for that, so they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. This isn't good for anyone except Sony and the rest of the MAFIAA.
From what I currently gather, most of the install hacks require changing the hex string in the game to make it run from /dev/hdd0 instead of /dev/brd0*, so what's to stop a developer simply encrypting this string?
If you can modify the system's firmware, you can make "/dev/brd0" point to whatever device you want.
Personally I'll continue to buy my games. Granted, most of them I'll get from trade-ins, which, sadly, will be the next thing to go
Don't worry about it. There are more good games from the Atari 2600 to the PS2 than any person could play in their lifetime. There could never be another video game published and you won't run out of things to play.
It's a perfectly reasonable business model.
The fact that it can't be sustained without corrupting our government and eroding our property rights shows that it's not.
this model at least means that most people can afford such a console
Nonsense. Everyone who plays games pays for the full cost of their console and then some. It's just spread over time. The proper solution to your issue is layaway.
This should not be aimed at people who have legitimate issues with management which they take through the appropriate channels (which certainly should exist), but at those people who view everything said and done by upper management as bad.
What if everything done by upper management IS bad? Then this policy ousts the exact people you need to fix the problem.
And what are they going to do when they find unhappy employees? Are they going to find out why they are unhappy and see what they are going to do to help? Or are they going to fire them? If it's the latter, then we've got unhappy employees with an incentive to lie to keep their jobs. Now you *can't* trust your employees anymore.
OK, I find that government suppression of free speech is less just than libel. If I'm imprisoned by my government for speaking out against it, I'm pretty much fucked, and so is the country. If I'm libeled I have recourse, I can debunk the accusations, or I can libel the fucker right back.
OK, what's the difference between me believing that my father is possessed and so it's OK to kill him, and me believing that marijuana is wholesome and beneficial and so it's OK to smoke it? I mean besides the fact that the latter is true. From the standpoint of the law, aren't these equivalent?
You get the url of link on right side of the your top url bar.
I'm already using the right side of my top URL bar. Why not leave the status bar where it is? It's not hurting anything. I have plenty of vertical resolution for it. What about my noscript icon, and the SSL icon?
If they really want to save some vertical space, they should get rid of the find bar. Bring back the find window from 2.x.
Also now it tells you whenever it's connecting or downloading to/from the server on the actual tab so it's actually more informative.
How do you fit an entire URL on the tab? My current tab has the following visible "Mozill...". That's barely enough characters to fit 'slashdot', let alone linux.slashdot.org
Besides, if it tells me what site it is connecting to on the tab itself, where am I supposed to read the page title?
So suppose I know that murder is illegal, but I'm crazy enough to believe that satan has inhabited my father. I might believe that killing him is the right thing to do(because it will stop him from unleashing evil across the world for instance), even if it's against the law. That wouldn't qualify for an insanity defense?
You see, every time somebody describes solitary confinement as torture it weakens a word which at one time used to bring up images of POW camps
John McCain is on record as saying that solitary confinement was worse than anything else that happened to him as a POW.
I find the fact that he is not allowed to exercise in his cell "troubling".
What are they going to do if he exercises in his cell? Throw him in solitary?
Don't the humans get to read the question on screen too? It would be easier to OCR it and ignore the audio.
In the article, they mention that the computer gets the question as text.
Well that's cheating. With all the work that went into the natural language processing here, would it have been so hard to slap an OCR module in there?
I'm more afraid of my government imprisoning me for speaking out against them than I am of being libeled. So, yes.
Insanity is about whether the defendant knew what he was doing was wrong.
What if what you're accused of doing isn't wrong? For instance, Cannabis possession. There's no coherent way anyone can believe that is actually wrong. Do I qualify for an insanity defense?
Yes, it certainly is fair. It would have been preferable if the admin in question had demanded to see a warrant first though. Demanding a warrant every time will help stop FBI fishing expeditions, and only inconvenience those who really deserve the data a tiny bit.