Children that play at violence learn empathy. They learn that it hurts when you get punched. All mammals play fight when young. It an important social function.
No one wants to ban the cymbal-clapping monkey. People want to ban video games because of the ideas and messages they teach children. They don't want there kids to learn violence is ok from a game. That communication is speach. If games couldn't teach violence and sex is ok then no one would care. Chances are if you want to ban something. It is either dangerously deffective or contains speach you don't like.
The judges didn't rule you couldn't ban violence from childen. They ruled you couldn't arbitrarily ban violence in only video games. The ruling says they threw it out because "the basic principles of freedom of speech... do not vary with a new and different communication medium." California can rerite the law to ban selling anything containing violent speach to children without a parent being present. If they do they might get a different verdict.
Basically Thomas's thinking you shouldn't be able to sell anything contain speach to a child without the parents being present.
The other justices through this law out because it singled out games. Any law would have to apply evently to books, music, movies, and games when dealing with children.
Also if they had discuss wages and the ownership split with Mark they might of got him on board with ConnectU. If he had an honest stake in their company then maybe he wouldn't have betrayed them. They were expecting free work from an underclassmen like they got with the last sucker.
Well not exactly. According to the movie, they contacted him after he became famous on campus for Face Smash. Face Smash was a sort of proto Facebook where you rated how well girls look from their year book photos. They were basically all working on this type of thing before they met. I am betting they real loser in this whole thing is the guy who worked on ConnectU originally. I bet he got squat from the settlement. Probably never got paid either.
He did withstand the scrutiny of the courts. That is why they settled years ago. The copyrights, business arrangements, patents, and contracts were all looked at years ago. The long and short of it is the Winklevoss Twins didn't treat ConnectU like it was a business. They didn't issue contracts. They didn't discuss who owned what. They didn't even pay anyone any money.
Hell they didn't even share the settlement with the other people they suckered into helping them. They are currently being sued by their other developers.
Are they seen as worthless by the software that filters out resumes? That is the real question. Once you get to the interview stage you degree stop mattering so much. Now if the trade school doesn't actually prepare you for the job is another thing. If the quality of your education matter so much in computer science off-shoring would be a huge issue. How does my client judge the quality of its Indian and Filipino workforce? Short answer is it doesn't. It trusts the consultant corporations to fire anyone who is a problem.
Personally I can't wait for Educational Tourism. It will be the straw that finally lowers education cost in America. The middle class will find that they can send their kids to India and get a good degree for 1/10th the price.
So it should be slightly faster on new chips. Slightly slower on outdated or specialized embedded chips. (No big deal they can use an version or a custom kernel)
Basically what benchmarks are the looking at when they say faster?
Serving HTML? Boot time? Responsiveness in Quake? Processing reports in a Cron job?
What machines are considering will be using this kernel when they ran their tests?
Supercomputers? Desktops? Cellphones? Embedded Systems?
December 29, 2010
Fail Overflow has a hacking PS3 press conference talking about how the PS3 was hacked.
They publicly show how each part of the PS3 security setup is a failure.
Early April, 2011
Sony fires some people in the security team
April 16-17, 2011
PSN is hacked resulting in loss of customer info
They gave you two free games and a month of Playstation Plus. They also give you a year worth of identity theft insurance. That is more than $0.99 from any Class Actions suit. Hell if you have a PSP then that is 4 games. Then there was the free movie rentals and 6 months of Qriocity music thing.
You can't complain that they didn't try to give you 'something.'
Some of things you mention did have class action suits. The root kit thing resulting in Sony replacing CDs.
Get a subpeonea? Why would they need to do that. They have contracts with Apple to have this service.
For all we know those contracts include a monthly report from Apple on possible infringement.
With novels you have people spaming the system with public domain works. Try browsing barnes and noble in the sci fiction section. You will give up after seeing "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells ten plus times. They also seem to spam the same book at different prices with different covers. You will see the same book at 99 cents, $1.99, $2.99, and $8.99. This is to get around people filtering by price.
They have an optical disk drive. A newer one that can hold 25GB. How can they possibly have a new drive and not be licensing the same patents as everyone else?
Why on earth would he run after a maid if she was not make him advances ?
The same question could be asked about most rapists. Or did you think rapists were only ugly men who never got any.
Also his story doesn't make sense.
1) Why would this maid want to give him a blowjob? He is a random old man? Did he pay her?
2) If she wanted to have sex with him why did she charge him with rape?
His story only makes sense if there is a conspiracy to convict him of rape. But we haven't seen any evidence of that. There is no story that she received a bunch of money recently. Or that she actually works for the CIA. All evidence points to this being some normal maid working a normal day at a hotel.
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Children that play at violence learn empathy. They learn that it hurts when you get punched. All mammals play fight when young. It an important social function.
No one wants to ban the cymbal-clapping monkey. People want to ban video games because of the ideas and messages they teach children. They don't want there kids to learn violence is ok from a game. That communication is speach. If games couldn't teach violence and sex is ok then no one would care. Chances are if you want to ban something. It is either dangerously deffective or contains speach you don't like.
The judges didn't rule you couldn't ban violence from childen. They ruled you couldn't arbitrarily ban violence in only video games. The ruling says they threw it out because "the basic principles of freedom of speech... do not vary with a new and different communication medium." California can rerite the law to ban selling anything containing violent speach to children without a parent being present. If they do they might get a different verdict.
Basically Thomas's thinking you shouldn't be able to sell anything contain speach to a child without the parents being present. The other justices through this law out because it singled out games. Any law would have to apply evently to books, music, movies, and games when dealing with children.
Also if they had discuss wages and the ownership split with Mark they might of got him on board with ConnectU. If he had an honest stake in their company then maybe he wouldn't have betrayed them. They were expecting free work from an underclassmen like they got with the last sucker.
Well not exactly. According to the movie, they contacted him after he became famous on campus for Face Smash. Face Smash was a sort of proto Facebook where you rated how well girls look from their year book photos. They were basically all working on this type of thing before they met. I am betting they real loser in this whole thing is the guy who worked on ConnectU originally. I bet he got squat from the settlement. Probably never got paid either.
He did withstand the scrutiny of the courts. That is why they settled years ago. The copyrights, business arrangements, patents, and contracts were all looked at years ago. The long and short of it is the Winklevoss Twins didn't treat ConnectU like it was a business. They didn't issue contracts. They didn't discuss who owned what. They didn't even pay anyone any money.
Hell they didn't even share the settlement with the other people they suckered into helping them. They are currently being sued by their other developers.
Are they seen as worthless by the software that filters out resumes? That is the real question. Once you get to the interview stage you degree stop mattering so much. Now if the trade school doesn't actually prepare you for the job is another thing. If the quality of your education matter so much in computer science off-shoring would be a huge issue. How does my client judge the quality of its Indian and Filipino workforce? Short answer is it doesn't. It trusts the consultant corporations to fire anyone who is a problem.
Personally I can't wait for Educational Tourism. It will be the straw that finally lowers education cost in America. The middle class will find that they can send their kids to India and get a good degree for 1/10th the price.
So it should be slightly faster on new chips. Slightly slower on outdated or specialized embedded chips. (No big deal they can use an version or a custom kernel)
Basically what benchmarks are the looking at when they say faster? Serving HTML? Boot time? Responsiveness in Quake? Processing reports in a Cron job? What machines are considering will be using this kernel when they ran their tests? Supercomputers? Desktops? Cellphones? Embedded Systems?
Faster if pretty vague
Kernel optimizations could result in User Interface improvements. Or it could help batch jobs at the expense of the User Interface.
What does faster mean? What will be faster? Are they talking huge Linux servers or Linux Desktops? Latency? User Interface?
They gave you two free games and a month of Playstation Plus. They also give you a year worth of identity theft insurance. That is more than $0.99 from any Class Actions suit. Hell if you have a PSP then that is 4 games. Then there was the free movie rentals and 6 months of Qriocity music thing.
You can't complain that they didn't try to give you 'something.'
Some of things you mention did have class action suits. The root kit thing resulting in Sony replacing CDs.
The new guys. They came on and then 1 week later. Bam! Hacked.
We know someone on that team was incompetent. That shit with key not being random has been there for years.
You don't really have a folder on your hard drive labled "pirated" do you? That sounds like a good way to go to prison.
Ohh, and if you play the music in your barn to your horses you have to pay a performance fee in England.
Get a subpeonea? Why would they need to do that. They have contracts with Apple to have this service. For all we know those contracts include a monthly report from Apple on possible infringement.
The creator handed it off to someone else so they could persue other interests. So it is basically under new management.
With novels you have people spaming the system with public domain works. Try browsing barnes and noble in the sci fiction section. You will give up after seeing "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells ten plus times. They also seem to spam the same book at different prices with different covers. You will see the same book at 99 cents, $1.99, $2.99, and $8.99. This is to get around people filtering by price.
They have an optical disk drive. A newer one that can hold 25GB. How can they possibly have a new drive and not be licensing the same patents as everyone else?
Here is hoping that Apple doesn't screw with its browsers to make HTML5 web apps suck.
Why on earth would he run after a maid if she was not make him advances ?
The same question could be asked about most rapists. Or did you think rapists were only ugly men who never got any. Also his story doesn't make sense.
His story only makes sense if there is a conspiracy to convict him of rape. But we haven't seen any evidence of that. There is no story that she received a bunch of money recently. Or that she actually works for the CIA. All evidence points to this being some normal maid working a normal day at a hotel.