The accusation is a serious thing, but the source of the information is not creditable. Why do you give so much credit to what you read on a facebook page, washroom stall, or an un-cited wikipedia article. If these kids went to the police and these accusations were on a police report and these accusations were found to be false, then these kids do deserve some kind of punishment.
What about if I write that my teacher is a pedophile in my diary that I keep locked away? What about if I write the same message but the message is only visible in my house and only visible to the guests of my house?
These kids were forced to login to their facebook page so that a teacher could verify what was said. How would you feel if the Government forced you to open your diary and inside you wrote you wished the president dead?
But these kids didn't make any official reports that their teacher(s) were doing these things. These kids made some postings on a website that only a limited number of people could see, like a washroom stall or a personal journal. A teacher forced a student to login to their facebook page to verify the these statements.
Maybe instead of punishing these kids, society in general should be educated that baseless accusations of rape or cheating should not be treated as the truth.
Facebook 15 years ago would have been a Bulletin Board at the local arcade/kids hangout.
Facebook page, bulletin board, washroom stall, wikipedia article with no citations... why would anyone believe what is written in one of those locations.
Replace Facebook with washroom stall and think about what you just said. Do you really take what you read on the washroom stall as the truth? If the kids had went to the police or filed some kind of official statement that was false, then their expulsion would be understandable.
FYI, cheaters (especially call of duty games) existed before pirates/homebrewers existed on the ps3. The cheaters did things like purposely lag their connection or modify their save game files. Saying they are banning people to catch cheaters is a scapegoat for bugs in games.
You do know if you installed any Ps3 firmware after Dec2009, you agreed to a EULA that has the following:
"To the extent permitted by applicable law, your rights to use or access the current version of the System Software will cease upon installation of a newer version of the System Software onto your PS3 system, whether such installation occurs through manual or automatic download by SCE through SCE's online network, or otherwise."
Sarcastic or not, I don't drink alcohol for pleasure so this idea is fine with me. Once alcohol is banned, then most people will know what weed smokers feel like.
If this complaint was only between MS and the mother, NOTHING would have happened. The only reason the mother got some kind of response was b/c the news of this on many web sites.
Sounds like big news to me. For other products, such as ebooks and physical books, I keep hearing that they are the same price at retail for the consumer because the money saved by distributing over the internet is small.
Summary: A guy grew up doing things like raising pigs and killing them for food. He sometimes shares the meat with friends. All of a sudden, because of new laws, it is illegal and he is in trouble with the law. Most idiotic thing about this story is how the guy was caught. Someone was spying on him from a treehouse for a couple days, just waiting for him to kill the pig and share with his friend.
Here are the steps: 1)./configure 2) make 3)make install How is this Nokia developer preventing you from doing any of those steps? Do you realize that it is Apple that is preventing you from doing step 3.
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The accusation is a serious thing, but the source of the information is not creditable. Why do you give so much credit to what you read on a facebook page, washroom stall, or an un-cited wikipedia article. If these kids went to the police and these accusations were on a police report and these accusations were found to be false, then these kids do deserve some kind of punishment.
What about if I write that my teacher is a pedophile in my diary that I keep locked away? What about if I write the same message but the message is only visible in my house and only visible to the guests of my house?
These kids were forced to login to their facebook page so that a teacher could verify what was said. How would you feel if the Government forced you to open your diary and inside you wrote you wished the president dead?
But these kids didn't make any official reports that their teacher(s) were doing these things. These kids made some postings on a website that only a limited number of people could see, like a washroom stall or a personal journal. A teacher forced a student to login to their facebook page to verify the these statements.
Maybe instead of punishing these kids, society in general should be educated that baseless accusations of rape or cheating should not be treated as the truth.
Facebook 15 years ago would have been a Bulletin Board at the local arcade/kids hangout.
Facebook page, bulletin board, washroom stall, wikipedia article with no citations ... why would anyone believe what is written in one of those locations.
Replace Facebook with washroom stall and think about what you just said. Do you really take what you read on the washroom stall as the truth? If the kids had went to the police or filed some kind of official statement that was false, then their expulsion would be understandable.
The headline says no flash at launch, not no flash EVER.
FYI, cheaters (especially call of duty games) existed before pirates/homebrewers existed on the ps3. The cheaters did things like purposely lag their connection or modify their save game files. Saying they are banning people to catch cheaters is a scapegoat for bugs in games.
George Hotz is probably using truecrypt. Ive seen him mention it before on IRC.
And how do you know the link is from wikipedia? It is because google tells you or labels it as such.
You do know if you installed any Ps3 firmware after Dec2009, you agreed to a EULA that has the following:
"To the extent permitted by applicable law, your rights to use or access the current version of the System Software will cease upon installation of a newer version of the System Software onto your PS3 system, whether such installation occurs through manual or automatic download by SCE through SCE's online network, or otherwise."
How about, before they start the heavy drinking, they think about how they are going to get home first.
Sarcastic or not, I don't drink alcohol for pleasure so this idea is fine with me. Once alcohol is banned, then most people will know what weed smokers feel like.
Everyone dies sometime, but not everyone has a huge ego.
If you google "sony geohot $1" http://www.google.ca/search?q=sony+geohot+%241 you will get some info along the lines that Sony tried to paypal George Hotz $1 dollar ("Attached hereto as Exhibit DD is true and correct copy of a redacted PayPal receipt from George Hotz, using an account registered to..." from http://psx-scene.com/forums/attachments/f6/23998d1294899764-scea-vs-geohot-day-2-more-files-day-3-now-over-more-files-added-04-pdf ). You can imagine why Sony did this ...
If this complaint was only between MS and the mother, NOTHING would have happened. The only reason the mother got some kind of response was b/c the news of this on many web sites.
Did you also know, that a past president of a certain country said there were WMDs in another country. You are suppose to believe him!
Most new customers won't have a choice because they signed a 2 or 3 year contract. Older customers probably will be having their contract expire soon.
Sounds like big news to me. For other products, such as ebooks and physical books, I keep hearing that they are the same price at retail for the consumer because the money saved by distributing over the internet is small.
"The USBOP is obviously making an example out of this guy, and I can totally understand why"
You have no problems with different laws for different people?
"In simple terms, it's illegal because they passed a new law to make it illegal."
An example of this is here http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Armed+Forces+major+battles+province+over+slaughtered+shared+with+friend/3536088/story.html
Summary: A guy grew up doing things like raising pigs and killing them for food. He sometimes shares the meat with friends. All of a sudden, because of new laws, it is illegal and he is in trouble with the law. Most idiotic thing about this story is how the guy was caught. Someone was spying on him from a treehouse for a couple days, just waiting for him to kill the pig and share with his friend.
If these statements by his lawyer are just paranoia, then why are they believable? Why is there a debate about if this could or could not happen?
I am pretty sure the USA government can charge him with something like failing to pay taxes *cough*al capone*cough*
These negative statements about USA are believable because similar things have happened before to other people.
Wasn't the OtherOS feature removed from all ps3 systems after 3.15 firmware versions?
Here are the steps: 1) ./configure 2) make 3)make install
How is this Nokia developer preventing you from doing any of those steps? Do you realize that it is Apple that is preventing you from doing step 3.