Well, at least you have some kind of usable broadband, in Australia you're generally looking at 3gb/month download caps, unless you're willing to pay exorbidant fees for additional downloads, so BT isn't that bad... what am I saying, anyone who tries to enforce this kind of payment is evil. Though I guess it's not as bad as the "one click" patent, now that one is just a joke.
Well, given that every game you play on the XBox works solely as a piece of software, without any hardware modification, it must be possible to do the same thing with a linux kernel (well, assuming there's nothing that would specifically prevent an OS over a game). Sure, it may be infuriatingly difficult or even verging illegal, but it must be possible.
Well, there you're citing an act, where Congress has given the power to the executive to act. It hardly means that they cannot then pass another law repealing the War Powers Act and replacing it with the "Peace Act" which then stops the action. Heck, if they REALLY REALLY wanted to, you could cram a quick constitutional amendment through to get the same effect if you needed a more authoritative statement, though admittedly that's massive overkill and would take forever.
/me reads article more thoroughly/me feels stupid Okay, it's the Americans getting paid out for their absurd "hack everyone on kazaa" laws, more than the Australianans for our laws. Fair enough, I only skimmed the article, and the gist of the/. posting seemed to suggest it was somehow implying that Australia was the "stupid" party here
Well yes, the executive always has controlled the armed forces, and even much of foreign affairs. However, the legislature could always just pass a law forbidding military action against X nation, and that'd be binding on the executive.
As an Australian, I'm baffled by what the particular problem here is. Is somebody trying to suggest we're wrong to have anti-hacking laws? How dare we be so unreasonable as to disallow people breaking into personal and business computers for nefarious purposes? What's next, banning theft? Especially ironic is most of the complainers would likely be US people, at least we don't have the DMCA:).
Then you can get a mod chip which just does import games. I'd bet anything the chips this guy was selling were not those ones, but instead the ones which play pirated games too.
Why do that? Just refuse to licence the patent to Mozilla, Netscape, and every other browser. Make the entire web unusable to any non-windows user.. oh, wait, they already did that one.
That would make sense, and explain the "emergency calls only" status you sometimes get on your phone. Not a bad design idea either...
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Yeah, but I think the mobile emergency number is 112 worldwide. Any phone can make that call, even without a SIM card, and it will be carried by any available network. He should have just done that.
You are so right, yet so wrong. You're right when you say anti-trust laws have no teeth, but you're wrong when you say they can be ordered to pay a fine. The thing is that the laws have so little strength, they can't even do that! Anti-trust laws only permit structural or conduct remedies. Given that the break-up is almost out of the question now, Microsoft won't even get fined, they'll just have some minor restrictions placed on their conduct, which they will legally circumvent (which they have on multiple occassions before I believe). So basically, a million dollar fine would probably be worse for M$ than most of the likely outcomes of this case.
No freaking idea, I'm still using Mandrake, and because of my stupid Australian ISP my usage limits on the net won't allow me to ever go up to Gentoo, despite my great desire to do so.
Have you considered looking around on the Gentoo site for help? In all likelyhood it's something they have added to portage.
It's normally installed by default by most distros.
They're rather poor open gl libraries, I'm not sure if they're software only or what, but they seem slow as hell for me. (but I am using an nvidia card, so perhaps it's just nvidia that's not properly supported, on the grounds they have their own drivers)
Yes, but that's because it's the Nvidia Open GL extentions module. Of course it won't be turned on, since you have to install the Nvidia closed-source drivers first. By default I would guess it is designed to expect the Mesa drivers. So while you are right, it's not a broken XF86Config causing it, and indeed glx shouldn't be turned on automatically, and is only relevant at all if you have an Nvidia card.
You can't spare the $50 for the most meagre of upgrades? Given that you're on the internet right now, you probably spend that much on your internet connection every one or two months. Honestly, it's not like a pentium is a big ask. Heck, a pentium 2 isn't a big ask either.
How in the world did you get modded down, especially twice? That's just wrong, and I'm willing to lay my karma on the line for it.
Will some moderator please mod back up the above two, especially the second one, there's no possible justification for their modding down. Really, that's just wrong.
Well, I think I know who hasn't been reading the article. If perhaps you had in fact done so before flaming others for not reading it, you would know that links to the BBC TV story (in realmedia format) on this. It is not a webstream of the footage.
So, next time I suggest you actually do read it before flaming others for not reading it.
Actually, I don't believe so. Whoever is the registered owner at the Land Titles Office of a piece of land has an indefeasible (sp?) claim over the land. So it doesn't matter how many deeds you can get out, whoever is written on the title is the legal owner. I'm quite positive that's the position in Australia, and I presume in the USA as well.
Easy, they noticed the report was written by Arthur Andersons. Though yeah, you do have to wonder how they got caught given how big their accounting division must be. You'd think they could pull something like this off.
Who the hell is going to keep their credit card number and other personal info on their X-Box? You don't need that at all, any info would be on the servers, which I'd expect will not be X-boxes, and even then, I doubt the billing info would be anywhere near the game servers. So much as I dislike MS, I think it's pretty certain that these problems are really just theoretical, not threatening (though I'll be honest, I haven't read it because it was/.ed)
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Well, at least you have some kind of usable broadband, in Australia you're generally looking at 3gb/month download caps, unless you're willing to pay exorbidant fees for additional downloads, so BT isn't that bad... what am I saying, anyone who tries to enforce this kind of payment is evil. Though I guess it's not as bad as the "one click" patent, now that one is just a joke.
Well, given that every game you play on the XBox works solely as a piece of software, without any hardware modification, it must be possible to do the same thing with a linux kernel (well, assuming there's nothing that would specifically prevent an OS over a game). Sure, it may be infuriatingly difficult or even verging illegal, but it must be possible.
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Well, there you're citing an act, where Congress has given the power to the executive to act. It hardly means that they cannot then pass another law repealing the War Powers Act and replacing it with the "Peace Act" which then stops the action. Heck, if they REALLY REALLY wanted to, you could cram a quick constitutional amendment through to get the same effect if you needed a more authoritative statement, though admittedly that's massive overkill and would take forever.
/me reads article more thoroughly /me feels stupid /. posting seemed to suggest it was somehow implying that Australia was the "stupid" party here
Okay, it's the Americans getting paid out for their absurd "hack everyone on kazaa" laws, more than the Australianans for our laws. Fair enough, I only skimmed the article, and the gist of the
Well yes, the executive always has controlled the armed forces, and even much of foreign affairs. However, the legislature could always just pass a law forbidding military action against X nation, and that'd be binding on the executive.
:).
As an Australian, I'm baffled by what the particular problem here is. Is somebody trying to suggest we're wrong to have anti-hacking laws? How dare we be so unreasonable as to disallow people breaking into personal and business computers for nefarious purposes? What's next, banning theft? Especially ironic is most of the complainers would likely be US people, at least we don't have the DMCA
Then you can get a mod chip which just does import games. I'd bet anything the chips this guy was selling were not those ones, but instead the ones which play pirated games too.
Why do that? Just refuse to licence the patent to Mozilla, Netscape, and every other browser.
Make the entire web unusable to any non-windows user.. oh, wait, they already did that one.
I have to ask, did anyone just buy a working HC11 then and get perfect marks? I mean, $500 isn't a bad price for a 100%. :)
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Then use the good old google cache - http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:r9MHgtv93-YC: zapatopi.net/metrictime.html+=en=UTF-8
That would make sense, and explain the "emergency calls only" status you sometimes get on your phone. Not a bad design idea either...
Yeah, but I think the mobile emergency number is 112 worldwide. Any phone can make that call, even without a SIM card, and it will be carried by any available network. He should have just done that.
Yeah, I regularly go to them when they come near my home, absolutely fantastic. Complete choice at bargain basement prices, what more could you want?
You are so right, yet so wrong. You're right when you say anti-trust laws have no teeth, but you're wrong when you say they can be ordered to pay a fine. The thing is that the laws have so little strength, they can't even do that! Anti-trust laws only permit structural or conduct remedies. Given that the break-up is almost out of the question now, Microsoft won't even get fined, they'll just have some minor restrictions placed on their conduct, which they will legally circumvent (which they have on multiple occassions before I believe). So basically, a million dollar fine would probably be worse for M$ than most of the likely outcomes of this case.
No freaking idea, I'm still using Mandrake, and because of my stupid Australian ISP my usage limits on the net won't allow me to ever go up to Gentoo, despite my great desire to do so.
Have you considered looking around on the Gentoo site for help? In all likelyhood it's something they have added to portage.
It's normally installed by default by most distros.
They're rather poor open gl libraries, I'm not sure if they're software only or what, but they seem slow as hell for me. (but I am using an nvidia card, so perhaps it's just nvidia that's not properly supported, on the grounds they have their own drivers)
Yes, but that's because it's the Nvidia Open GL extentions module. Of course it won't be turned on, since you have to install the Nvidia closed-source drivers first. By default I would guess it is designed to expect the Mesa drivers.
So while you are right, it's not a broken XF86Config causing it, and indeed glx shouldn't be turned on automatically, and is only relevant at all if you have an Nvidia card.
You can't spare the $50 for the most meagre of upgrades? Given that you're on the internet right now, you probably spend that much on your internet connection every one or two months. Honestly, it's not like a pentium is a big ask. Heck, a pentium 2 isn't a big ask either.
How in the world did you get modded down, especially twice? That's just wrong, and I'm willing to lay my karma on the line for it.
Will some moderator please mod back up the above two, especially the second one, there's no possible justification for their modding down. Really, that's just wrong.
Well, I think I know who hasn't been reading the article. If perhaps you had in fact done so before flaming others for not reading it, you would know that links to the BBC TV story (in realmedia format) on this. It is not a webstream of the footage.
So, next time I suggest you actually do read it before flaming others for not reading it.
Actually, I don't believe so. Whoever is the registered owner at the Land Titles Office of a piece of land has an indefeasible (sp?) claim over the land. So it doesn't matter how many deeds you can get out, whoever is written on the title is the legal owner. I'm quite positive that's the position in Australia, and I presume in the USA as well.
How about 50 cents and some gum?
Easy, they noticed the report was written by Arthur Andersons. Though yeah, you do have to wonder how they got caught given how big their accounting division must be. You'd think they could pull something like this off.
Who the hell is going to keep their credit card number and other personal info on their X-Box? You don't need that at all, any info would be on the servers, which I'd expect will not be X-boxes, and even then, I doubt the billing info would be anywhere near the game servers. So much as I dislike MS, I think it's pretty certain that these problems are really just theoretical, not threatening (though I'll be honest, I haven't read it because it was /.ed)
Bah, that's nothing, I'm 435.6971425^2! So there! :)