$170 isn't that much for a console dev kit. Certainly many other homebrew devices for gaming consoles cost around that much. The 1541 Ultimate for C64 runs about $160. The Cuttle Cart 3 for intellivision costs $150. If you're really into a platform, it's worth it to unlock it to its full potential. Creating this kind of stuff is not easy work. It's really just luck and economies of scale that have given us as many cheap modchips as we have.
I do, I'm just testing for hypocrisy. Most small government types are just republicans in sheep's clothing, who recoil at the thought of cutting the military. Glad to see you at least are consistent.
It's because there are too many people, who become leeches on society, they are unproductive, they don't do anything useful and they start coming up with justifications for their own existence and leeching, they don't do anything useful anymore, they are just parasites.
Look at the tea-party platform, and you'll see it's primarily economic: they've dropped the 'moral' aspect of the right and have focused mainly on cutting deficits by cutting spending.
Hardly. The libertarian right views its form of meritocracy as a moral issue. It's immoral to give healthcare to the needy because you take money from those who "earned" it. I haven't seen any tea-partier actually support reducing the size of the government by cutting funding to the largest military in the world. I haven't seen a single tea-partier come out in favor of personal liberty through marijuana reform, or legalizing prostitution, or really any other actual limits on our liberty. The tea-party platform is total bunk. It's the same old conservative, right wing, republican platform dressed up in colorful rhetoric.
So uh, good. This will give those who are smart enough to either not do stupid things, or do stupid things but not brag about them, an advantage. Sounds like the free market and/or natural selection at work.
You are very, very wrong. The Executive's job is to enforce the law as passed by Congress. The Executive has no power to do anything not authorized by Congress or the Constitution. Since the Constitution forbids Congress from making any law infringing our freedom of speech, the Executive has no legitimate authority to infringe our freedom of speech.
Those obstruction of justice laws also violate the First Amendment. Any judge that rules otherwise is failing in their duty to uphold the Constitution.
The 2nd amendment also codifies an absolute, personal, right of Americans to own any arms (but not munitions).
We don't have an "empire" and free speech has always been something that can be curtailed for an ongoing criminal investigation
I don't see an exception for criminal investigations in the First Amendment.
When I was in the ISP business I learned that it's illegal in New York State to tell one of your customers that he's the subject of a electronic surveillance warrant. Are you going to claim that's an infringement on free speech?
What good is it to be able to say "fuck the government" if you can't say "fuck these agents, from this branch of the government, for this specific action"?
Nothing about network neutrality means you can't provide QoS. Assigning priority to different types of traffic is completely OK, and not related to Network Neutrality at all. Network Neutrality means that whoever you buy your VoIP from, your traffic gets the same priority.
Making a recording is making a copy, which is an exclusive right held by the owner of the copyright. I'd be very interested in hearing what court cases have ruled that making concert recordings without permission is legal. I guess it could be argued that using a tape recorder at a concert is much like using a VCR on a broadcast, but I'd like to read the rulings. Whether it's legal or not for you to make the recording, it's still legal for the venue to kick you out for not following their rules.
etree.org and archive.org are irrelevant. They host only recordings from bands which have explicitly given permission for recordings to be made.
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The PS1 was hackable in 1 wire.
Do you have a link to this hack? All the PS1 mods I know of require at least a PIC.
The PS2 required an additional circuit board for a mod chip.
But these days you can do it with nothing more than a memory card with the proper software.
the pragmatic advantages of avoiding PS1-levels of piracy
What pragmatic advantages are those? Has Sony sold more PS3s than PS1s?
$170 isn't that much for a console dev kit. Certainly many other homebrew devices for gaming consoles cost around that much. The 1541 Ultimate for C64 runs about $160. The Cuttle Cart 3 for intellivision costs $150. If you're really into a platform, it's worth it to unlock it to its full potential. Creating this kind of stuff is not easy work. It's really just luck and economies of scale that have given us as many cheap modchips as we have.
I do, I'm just testing for hypocrisy. Most small government types are just republicans in sheep's clothing, who recoil at the thought of cutting the military. Glad to see you at least are consistent.
I like playing FPS games and they are absolutely ruined as soon as you have to deal with.. gamepads.
It's because there are too many people, who become leeches on society, they are unproductive, they don't do anything useful and they start coming up with justifications for their own existence and leeching, they don't do anything useful anymore, they are just parasites.
Like the military?
I might also remind you that Virginia and Maryland were penal colonies
Yeah, and look at how well THAT turned out.
You're still less likely to get caught toking in a car than a train.
Yeah, but there are other things you can smoke in a car on a long trip that makes it much more enjoyable.
What makes you think he's talking about nicotine?
Look at the tea-party platform, and you'll see it's primarily economic: they've dropped the 'moral' aspect of the right and have focused mainly on cutting deficits by cutting spending.
Hardly. The libertarian right views its form of meritocracy as a moral issue. It's immoral to give healthcare to the needy because you take money from those who "earned" it. I haven't seen any tea-partier actually support reducing the size of the government by cutting funding to the largest military in the world. I haven't seen a single tea-partier come out in favor of personal liberty through marijuana reform, or legalizing prostitution, or really any other actual limits on our liberty. The tea-party platform is total bunk. It's the same old conservative, right wing, republican platform dressed up in colorful rhetoric.
The movie I think of when I hear about retina scanners is Demolition Man.
So uh, good. This will give those who are smart enough to either not do stupid things, or do stupid things but not brag about them, an advantage. Sounds like the free market and/or natural selection at work.
I am not arguing that the invasion of Afghanistan is "wrong" because I don't moralize the military interests of the United States.
Being amoral is no better than being immoral.
You are very, very wrong. The Executive's job is to enforce the law as passed by Congress. The Executive has no power to do anything not authorized by Congress or the Constitution. Since the Constitution forbids Congress from making any law infringing our freedom of speech, the Executive has no legitimate authority to infringe our freedom of speech.
We now have the privilege of mostly being sorted into two rather neat piles:
Authoritarians
or
Decent human beings.
But how much of the Wii's success is in fact due to better games, and not just gimmicky marketing?
Those obstruction of justice laws also violate the First Amendment. Any judge that rules otherwise is failing in their duty to uphold the Constitution.
The 2nd amendment also codifies an absolute, personal, right of Americans to own any arms (but not munitions).
The first amendment is pretty clear. Any ruling that contradicts the clear and obvious meaning of the first amendment is wrong.
We don't have an "empire" and free speech has always been something that can be curtailed for an ongoing criminal investigation
I don't see an exception for criminal investigations in the First Amendment.
When I was in the ISP business I learned that it's illegal in New York State to tell one of your customers that he's the subject of a electronic surveillance warrant. Are you going to claim that's an infringement on free speech?
Yes.
Open source always prioritizes function over form, as it should be. If the core gameplay is good, what do you need graphics for at all? See Nethack.
What good is it to be able to say "fuck the government" if you can't say "fuck these agents, from this branch of the government, for this specific action"?
Nothing about network neutrality means you can't provide QoS. Assigning priority to different types of traffic is completely OK, and not related to Network Neutrality at all. Network Neutrality means that whoever you buy your VoIP from, your traffic gets the same priority.
Nobody said it was legal
Did you read the post to which I was replying? I'll save you the trouble and quote it:
Merely making recordings is not illegal, even if the promoter doesn't want it to happen. Many court cases have upheld that right.
Making a recording is making a copy, which is an exclusive right held by the owner of the copyright. I'd be very interested in hearing what court cases have ruled that making concert recordings without permission is legal. I guess it could be argued that using a tape recorder at a concert is much like using a VCR on a broadcast, but I'd like to read the rulings. Whether it's legal or not for you to make the recording, it's still legal for the venue to kick you out for not following their rules.
etree.org and archive.org are irrelevant. They host only recordings from bands which have explicitly given permission for recordings to be made.
Network neutrality is the status quo. The unintended consequences from maintaining an acceptable status quo are likely to be acceptable.