Problem is, when you test your tanks against newly invented weapons, thats the legal part.
You *dont* however then allow your weapons developer to get hired out to corporate america to go around shooting the cars of their corporate enemies. Big difference.
Did you read the other article where they were hired by a law firm to spy on and defame unions?
I think the main wrongdoing is not the *acts* themselves, but using knowledge gained/obtained by funding of their government military contracts (ostensibly to be used on the non american enemy) and then going around and selling those services for private companies to use against american businesses/corporations/individuals.
I think it is sort of a research to make sure the military isn't effectively funding private espionage. Forget the part where it is American businesses. What's even worse is it is possibly espionage against unions (political speech)
As an Australian to a Canadian, I hope to god yours gets started soon so it can add to the debate here in Australia! For the whole debate over our NBN there has been running a fox-news like smear campaign against our NBN since its inception. (The Australian newspaper attacks it atleast 1 article per day, anywhere up to 4 articles per day, with basically lies, or deliberate misinterpretations).
Hopefully your network hasn't got the same kind of hysterical response. Or if it does it survives long enough to help convince a few of the less gullible Australians of its benefits.
The next election here (~2.5 years away) is going to be so critical it almost hurts. (NBN hasn't fully ramped up, can basically be cancelled or massively scaled back if the Libs get in).
Surely our banking regulations (OH NOOOES BIG GOVERNMENT etc...) had a part to play in it. You know, lending money you actually *have* rather than lending money you don't have then selling that risk off to third parties to then repackage and sell to other banks as guaranteed income, to back additional lending to other parties.
These points all actually add up to a really good thing. SO MUCH of our lives is related to internet access, having access banned entirely for breaking a non-criminal rule should be illegal, therefore the first customer to get disconnected, then sues iiNet for damages. Those damages get immediately passed onto the movie industry (they have been indemnified after all!) and that will be the last customer ever disconnected. (or if they were stupid and got a couple hundred kicked off at the same time, hello class action!)
Sadly. AFACT will indemnify the ISP, which will kick off the user, the user will sue (AFACT or the isp whoever) the case if prosecuted right will yield a big precedent in favour of the user, the ISP passes the bill to AFACT, AFACT conveniently has no assets. The movie studios incorporate AFACT2 and keep getting people kicked off the internet.
You own the memory, and it is your right to modify the contents of that memory to change future operations.
Just as it is Sony's right to modify ITS code to try and detect when it doesn't operate as intended.
These jailbreaks DO NOT release modified sony code. They release code that will modify the future operation of sony code.
you may not "Own the code" but you sure as hell own the hardware, and all the code does is tell the hardware to do things. You are **well within your rights** to tell the hardware to do something else even if you are halfway through doing something sony's code does.
Just like to point out; that sure Angry Birds on Android didnt sell very well, but from your own article: "And most of all that we decided to go with a free, ad supported model. 15M+ downloads is a good start too."
Where's the bit in that article about how they tried selling something and failed? Could it be perhaps that this developer is influenced by the early sales information that came out about android; and NOT based on reality that zuperduperman (parent) has seen first hand? (that you ignore without even reference).
Boils down to; Read your own full article before quoting it as gospel (or even remotely supporting your argument - unless you count someone elses opinion - not someone elses experience)
actually a premium cost iPod Touch (using similar materials and manufacturing as the iPhone saving costs) but with a premium price tag over normal iPods is EXACTLY what marketing want.
"Lets sell 2 of the same thing, but make one expensive and the other cheap, that way we get all those people who want to pay nothing AND the people that want to pay lots." It was gravy that they could also sell iPhone apps on the iPod touch! (and that the touch was basically a stripped down iPhone that they had done a whole bunch of R&D on)
And you really dont get where iPhone marketers are coming from. They aren't looking for sales *today* they are looking for sales for the next 25 years.
Marketing said: "NO! dont put FM radio in!! how will we sell NEXT YEARS iPhone!!"
Dropped floppy drives? How about: "our product looks awesome without floppy drives, and we get to sound like we are ahead of the curve since everyone sees floppy drives as going away soon, and since we don't actually provide features our users WANT we just sell them hardware they SHOULD want... lets drop floppies"
I'm sorry. Apple is run by marketing. But, its extremely intelligent **Long term thinking** marketing department. NOT marketing that is only interested in what they sell next week.
iPhone. You do not own this device. You cannot install your own software on this device. Only until recently, it was illegal to jailbreak and install your own software on the device (you were circumventing a "Technological Protection Measure" - even though you aren't stealing anything, you are picking the digital lock therefore you were breaking the law).
You lose.
Just because they didn't brick their phones when you jailbroke, doesn't mean they aren't control freaks.
lolwut? Are you a moron?
Right now, we can point at a couple of wars that could be blamed on the right.
Before then there were a couple of wars that could be blamed on the left. (arguably smaller than the more recent "right wing wars" - not to mention the reasons behind the wars turned out to be truthful.)
And before all that there has been war / murder / death at the behest of all kinds of *extremists*. Lefties can be extremists and righties can be extremists.
Political violence is endemic *in the human race*. (and if anything ultra conservative religious nuts are more likely to dehumanise than any other group, I mean, we are all infested with the devil are we not?)
So your $4,000 Macbook Pro laptop comes with the non-pro version of quicktime pro.. that doesnt ask you to upgrade to the pro-version of quicktime pro...
Sounds pro err great...
Where you went wrong.
1) You forgot that all mutations propagate.
2) You mixed up the fact that mutations that provide advantages propagate faster, with the fact that ALL mutations propagate.
Change is due to change. Natural Selection is the process that picks which change to keep. If the changes make no difference, Natual Selection keeps both (changed AND unchanged). Now the slightly changed organism is free to develop USEFUL change.
See how that works?
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Problem is, when you test your tanks against newly invented weapons, thats the legal part.
You *dont* however then allow your weapons developer to get hired out to corporate america to go around shooting the cars of their corporate enemies. Big difference.
Chaotic Neutral is my guess. Rare case of *actual* chaotic neutral.
They troll a lot of innocent people/entities, but also troll a lot of horrible people/entities.
Did you read the other article where they were hired by a law firm to spy on and defame unions?
I think the main wrongdoing is not the *acts* themselves, but using knowledge gained/obtained by funding of their government military contracts (ostensibly to be used on the non american enemy) and then going around and selling those services for private companies to use against american businesses/corporations/individuals.
I think it is sort of a research to make sure the military isn't effectively funding private espionage. Forget the part where it is American businesses. What's even worse is it is possibly espionage against unions (political speech)
As an Australian to a Canadian, I hope to god yours gets started soon so it can add to the debate here in Australia! For the whole debate over our NBN there has been running a fox-news like smear campaign against our NBN since its inception. (The Australian newspaper attacks it atleast 1 article per day, anywhere up to 4 articles per day, with basically lies, or deliberate misinterpretations).
Hopefully your network hasn't got the same kind of hysterical response. Or if it does it survives long enough to help convince a few of the less gullible Australians of its benefits.
The next election here (~2.5 years away) is going to be so critical it almost hurts. (NBN hasn't fully ramped up, can basically be cancelled or massively scaled back if the Libs get in).
Surely our banking regulations (OH NOOOES BIG GOVERNMENT etc...) had a part to play in it. You know, lending money you actually *have* rather than lending money you don't have then selling that risk off to third parties to then repackage and sell to other banks as guaranteed income, to back additional lending to other parties.
They tried in the 50's. All they hit was South Australia. And nothing of value was lost.
These points all actually add up to a really good thing. SO MUCH of our lives is related to internet access, having access banned entirely for breaking a non-criminal rule should be illegal, therefore the first customer to get disconnected, then sues iiNet for damages. Those damages get immediately passed onto the movie industry (they have been indemnified after all!) and that will be the last customer ever disconnected. (or if they were stupid and got a couple hundred kicked off at the same time, hello class action!) Sadly. AFACT will indemnify the ISP, which will kick off the user, the user will sue (AFACT or the isp whoever) the case if prosecuted right will yield a big precedent in favour of the user, the ISP passes the bill to AFACT, AFACT conveniently has no assets. The movie studios incorporate AFACT2 and keep getting people kicked off the internet.
You own the memory, and it is your right to modify the contents of that memory to change future operations.
Just as it is Sony's right to modify ITS code to try and detect when it doesn't operate as intended.
These jailbreaks DO NOT release modified sony code. They release code that will modify the future operation of sony code.
you may not "Own the code" but you sure as hell own the hardware, and all the code does is tell the hardware to do things. You are **well within your rights** to tell the hardware to do something else even if you are halfway through doing something sony's code does.
Just like to point out; that sure Angry Birds on Android didnt sell very well, but from your own article:
"And most of all that we decided to go with a free, ad supported model. 15M+ downloads is a good start too."
Where's the bit in that article about how they tried selling something and failed? Could it be perhaps that this developer is influenced by the early sales information that came out about android; and NOT based on reality that zuperduperman (parent) has seen first hand? (that you ignore without even reference).
Boils down to; Read your own full article before quoting it as gospel (or even remotely supporting your argument - unless you count someone elses opinion - not someone elses experience)
actually a premium cost iPod Touch (using similar materials and manufacturing as the iPhone saving costs) but with a premium price tag over normal iPods is EXACTLY what marketing want.
... lets drop floppies"
"Lets sell 2 of the same thing, but make one expensive and the other cheap, that way we get all those people who want to pay nothing AND the people that want to pay lots." It was gravy that they could also sell iPhone apps on the iPod touch! (and that the touch was basically a stripped down iPhone that they had done a whole bunch of R&D on)
And you really dont get where iPhone marketers are coming from. They aren't looking for sales *today* they are looking for sales for the next 25 years. Marketing said: "NO! dont put FM radio in!! how will we sell NEXT YEARS iPhone!!"
Dropped floppy drives? How about: "our product looks awesome without floppy drives, and we get to sound like we are ahead of the curve since everyone sees floppy drives as going away soon, and since we don't actually provide features our users WANT we just sell them hardware they SHOULD want
I'm sorry. Apple is run by marketing. But, its extremely intelligent **Long term thinking** marketing department. NOT marketing that is only interested in what they sell next week.
iPhone. You do not own this device. You cannot install your own software on this device. Only until recently, it was illegal to jailbreak and install your own software on the device (you were circumventing a "Technological Protection Measure" - even though you aren't stealing anything, you are picking the digital lock therefore you were breaking the law). You lose. Just because they didn't brick their phones when you jailbroke, doesn't mean they aren't control freaks.
lolwut? Are you a moron? Right now, we can point at a couple of wars that could be blamed on the right. Before then there were a couple of wars that could be blamed on the left. (arguably smaller than the more recent "right wing wars" - not to mention the reasons behind the wars turned out to be truthful.) And before all that there has been war / murder / death at the behest of all kinds of *extremists*. Lefties can be extremists and righties can be extremists. Political violence is endemic *in the human race*. (and if anything ultra conservative religious nuts are more likely to dehumanise than any other group, I mean, we are all infested with the devil are we not?)
So your $4,000 Macbook Pro laptop comes with the non-pro version of quicktime pro.. that doesnt ask you to upgrade to the pro-version of quicktime pro... Sounds pro err great...
Where you went wrong. 1) You forgot that all mutations propagate. 2) You mixed up the fact that mutations that provide advantages propagate faster, with the fact that ALL mutations propagate. Change is due to change. Natural Selection is the process that picks which change to keep. If the changes make no difference, Natual Selection keeps both (changed AND unchanged). Now the slightly changed organism is free to develop USEFUL change. See how that works?