I disagree with you. I at first thought that some of the stunts were impossible, but then I realized that they were using the force. Had someone else done that, then it would've been impossible to belive. With the exception of that scene and Anakin jumping out of the aircraft (he is crazy), nothing else was that far out.
Your second point, Anakin was too unstable. You have to realize that first, he is in training, so you have to allow for some imperfections in his character, he did start late in life, and he does get the job done. Secondly, the force was being clouded by the darkside , so the future (as well as other things) was not able to be seen clearly.
Your third point is valid, but the point of the pre-quels is to give us history, and the villian now doesn't show his face.
Your fourth point is not valid either. The people are trying to save the republic. It has simularites to the civil war, there were systems breaking away from the republic, and in order to stop it (and from them getting killed), they needed to fight. Just because the people leading it may have been from "privilage" doesn't mean they are protecting their "privilage"
Thats not neccessarly true, because you would still have access to both drives. So I don' think changing master/slave relationship doesn't give much security.
I think its problably more rough on his wife and kid. I'm sure he never wanted to be a "Civil Rights Hero". Since he's not going to be released w/o a trial, lets just hope everything its quick, and this unfair law is thrown out.
I would not mind my tax dollars going to preventing something like this. But what exactly would they prevent. Would they spend more money on research and vaccines (assuming its a common illness and one exists), or stopping it from ever happening. I hope its the first one because we already know that if someone's determined enough, they can bomb (infect) us.
Ideally, I'd want all my webservers, etc. to be just as impregnable at port 80 as on port 8000, so why bother hiding it?
Because its very hard to reach that ideal, thats why you hide it. As said in the article, it makes it harder for the script kiddies to find. Now for the non script kiddies...
Your right, I didn't know what I was talking about, what I meant to say was that things that only once affect geeks and nerds, such as mp3's decss etc, is now making its way into mainstream America. Mainstream America in now being affected by these events, and thy are getting fed up with it.
With more and more of mainstream America getting information that was once available to only nerds and geeks, we can finally put a stop to all this. Its about time that we as a people take a stand against this onslaught of our rights. Sure the Internet needs rules and laws, but taking away our rights to inpart these "rules and laws" is too far. Companies caring more about profits then the livelihood of people is too far. There needs to be a change.
First I would have to agree with the article. Having a lack of money to buy something is no excuse. If the Napster "community" were acting as they are supposed to be (which is sharing), I'm sure there wouldn't be that much of a problem, but because most people would rather steal then contribute, problems arise. Let's face it, you wouldn't want someone taking your masters thesis (which is information) and turning it in as their's.
Why do companies constantly and constantly go for profits and hurt the consumers. Better question is why do we allow things like this. The answer, anytime we come up with our own solution, we get hit with lawsuits or injunctions or letters or... Its time for americans to take a stand. As technology is continually being controlled by a select few, the consumer ultimately loses out. Its unfortunate, and it has to stop soon.
But what do we do to stop it?
The report says nothing about limiting the use of recording regular television. This new law would protect copying of events such as Pay-Per-View and etc. Although, there is still a problem with that, it doesn't affect us as much. I don't see what the big deal is, if you don't want it to be copied don't release it on TV. How much money can they really lose from copying. All I have to do is call all the people over I was going to lend the tape over and let them watch it when it comes on originally. Unless, of course they put a per-user license on TV also.
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I disagree with you. I at first thought that some of the stunts were impossible, but then I realized that they were using the force. Had someone else done that, then it would've been impossible to belive. With the exception of that scene and Anakin jumping out of the aircraft (he is crazy), nothing else was that far out.
Your second point, Anakin was too unstable. You have to realize that first, he is in training, so you have to allow for some imperfections in his character, he did start late in life, and he does get the job done. Secondly, the force was being clouded by the darkside , so the future (as well as other things) was not able to be seen clearly.
Your third point is valid, but the point of the pre-quels is to give us history, and the villian now doesn't show his face.
Your fourth point is not valid either. The people are trying to save the republic. It has simularites to the civil war, there were systems breaking away from the republic, and in order to stop it (and from them getting killed), they needed to fight. Just because the people leading it may have been from "privilage" doesn't mean they are protecting their "privilage"
Here is another link http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/007 139.htm
Thats not neccessarly true, because you would still have access to both drives. So I don' think changing master/slave relationship doesn't give much security.
I think its problably more rough on his wife and kid. I'm sure he never wanted to be a "Civil Rights Hero". Since he's not going to be released w/o a trial, lets just hope everything its quick, and this unfair law is thrown out.
I would not mind my tax dollars going to preventing something like this. But what exactly would they prevent. Would they spend more money on research and vaccines (assuming its a common illness and one exists), or stopping it from ever happening. I hope its the first one because we already know that if someone's determined enough, they can bomb (infect) us.
Because its very hard to reach that ideal, thats why you hide it. As said in the article, it makes it harder for the script kiddies to find. Now for the non script kiddies...
Your right, I didn't know what I was talking about, what I meant to say was that things that only once affect geeks and nerds, such as mp3's decss etc, is now making its way into mainstream America. Mainstream America in now being affected by these events, and thy are getting fed up with it.
--Reggie
With more and more of mainstream America getting information that was once available to only nerds and geeks, we can finally put a stop to all this. Its about time that we as a people take a stand against this onslaught of our rights. Sure the Internet needs rules and laws, but taking away our rights to inpart these "rules and laws" is too far. Companies caring more about profits then the livelihood of people is too far. There needs to be a change.
--Reggie
First I would have to agree with the article. Having a lack of money to buy something is no excuse. If the Napster "community" were acting as they are supposed to be (which is sharing), I'm sure there wouldn't be that much of a problem, but because most people would rather steal then contribute, problems arise. Let's face it, you wouldn't want someone taking your masters thesis (which is information) and turning it in as their's.
--Reggie
Why do companies constantly and constantly go for profits and hurt the consumers. Better question is why do we allow things like this. The answer, anytime we come up with our own solution, we get hit with lawsuits or injunctions or letters or... Its time for americans to take a stand. As technology is continually being controlled by a select few, the consumer ultimately loses out. Its unfortunate, and it has to stop soon.
But what do we do to stop it?
--Reggie
The report says nothing about limiting the use of recording regular television. This new law would protect copying of events such as Pay-Per-View and etc. Although, there is still a problem with that, it doesn't affect us as much. I don't see what the big deal is, if you don't want it to be copied don't release it on TV. How much money can they really lose from copying. All I have to do is call all the people over I was going to lend the tape over and let them watch it when it comes on originally. Unless, of course they put a per-user license on TV also.
--Reggie