Telling people how to run software on a device they own is "openly challenging them"?
No, but telling people how to break the existing security related to the IP/network that they own is. You don't like the terms that they make on their network, you can stay the hell off it.... you want to pirate their games out of your feigned spite, again, you can stay the hell off of PSN. If you honestly are naive enough to think that everything that has gone down has been about running homebrew, you're out of your damn mind. If anything more than 10% of the modded consoles get used for actual homebrew, that should probably considered a miracle. Sony already screwed themselves over with piracy on the PSP (I supposed everyone modded theirs exclusively for homebrew too, huh?), and do you honestly think they're going to let it happen again with their home console? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
Oh, you mean something like this? Now granted, the prosecution still messed up the case, but the gist of it is MS went after modders as well. Chances are, any console make will go after someone distributing how to hack their system. If you're caught using said hack, they'll ban you; if you're distributing it, they'll send the lawyers. In general they don't care... it's all about their revenue stream from licensing.
I do say that is a rather nice false-equivalency you did start there, DM. If you remember right, and I'm assuming you don't reading that drivel you posted, but MS did the exact same thing with their JTag'ed consoles that Sony is doing now (PSN ban). If you go out and try to tell the world how to get around the PS3 security for your "homebrew" (read: piracy), they have the right to bring down hell on you. If you've noticed, the only people Sony are coming after are the douchebags like GeoHot who are openly challenging them.
Now that my rant's over, the reason that they (Sony/MS) don't really care about having an SDK for their controllers is that it's not going to screw with their revenue streams, e.g. game licenses, which in turn, isn't going to scare publishers away.
No, you can still hack your hardware.... Sony just won't allow your hardware anywhere near its network if you have though (nor should they). Now, if you want hack your hardware and then tell a few people such as, I don't know, the internet, that you did it and *how* you did it then yes they will sue you. We know you're one of the many "I'm boycotting Sony until kingdom-come", but come on.... at least know what you're talking about and don't be a douche about it.
It died with some of the some of the Fat models, actually. IIRC, it got stripped from the lower end SKU's (e.g. the 40GB models) around mid-2007, and the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle (early 80GB's) was the last to have any PS2 support.
Except I'm willing to bet that the PSN server won't be sending out any code, if they go this route. If they do it correctly (and I have my doubts after the whole random-key generator bit), they should just send up a hash from the console, PSN will compare it to what it has stored on the server, and then send back a "Yay/Nay" to the console. If the server responds with a "Nay", then ban the account.
Simple... If you jailbreak your iPhone, the main reason you would probably want to do so is to change carriers, which would be perfectly legal. If you want to jailbreak your PS3, chances are, you're in the 99.999% of owners that would want to jailbreak it for mods (e.g. the Call of Duty debacle formerly known as their multi-player) or piracy (obviously illegal). You can be as idealistic as you want to think that people would want to use a jailbreak for homebrew, but get real...It's going to be abused for piracy.
Yeah, Sony's acting like a bunch of douchebags for the way that they're going after jailbreakers, but they are trying to protect their IP. Had they not shot themselves in the foot (PR-wise) and perma-banned any psn account and/or console with CFW, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
If things that random/.'s have said would push you towards voting for her, instead of running away as fast as possible after many of the inane (and frankly outright moronic) things that she has said, that just, well further frightens me about the state of our electorate.
Yes, but if you remember the actual episode, which was re-run a month ago or so, they noted that the last burn was one that would *not* have been from a mixture that they would have applied to the Hindenburg (e.g. a formula loaded up with much more thermite than normal). Their last test was their usual "let's over-do the situation and see if we can blow some stuff up" test they keep for the end.
Would that solve the perennial liberal-conservative fights? And who would come out ahead?
Short answer... no. Liberaltopia would be invaded so that Conservatopia could "spread democracy to the godless heathens in Liberaltopia" or some bit of jingoistic nonsense like that.
Here's a better idea... let the lead-paint-eating nuts who are trying to take over congress marginalize themselves to they will become wholly unelectable in any future elections. (not that they are particularly electable right now). If any of them make it into office, I'm sure that they will do enough to get booted right back out in 2-6 years.
That's essentially how churches fall under the US tax code, with the caveat being that they are not supposed to try to have a direct say in political issues. Church leaders can say "You should vote for candidates who support x, y, and z issues", but cannot say, "You should vote for Candidate Joe Schmoe because we think you should. Doing so usually results in their tax-exempt status being revoked. I'm willing to bet that along with asinine actions like this burning, this church probably has had its leaders openly support a candidate (more than likely someone like W.) and should have their exemption status stripped.
Ok, I don't know whether I should laugh or be annoyed by that comment. Insomniac has released a total of five games so far for Ratchet and Clank (4 PS2, 1 PSP) and have one R&C Future coming out later this year. That is hardly milking a franchise (considering this was done over 5 years) when there have probably been that many Mario/Zelda offshoots released in the same period.
Actually, being a parent, I also know that they did a number of theme songs for the pre-schooler Disney shows as well. They did, at least, the themes for Mickey Mouse Club House and Higglytown Heroes (and I know this from having the theme songs drilled into my head on Saturday and Sunday mornings), but I don't think that they did any shows for the morning block.
I beg to differ on the idea that Democratic areas in Ohio didn't use Diebold machines in '04. I live in the 17th district in NE Ohio, and we most definitely did use Diebold machines for the general that year. This area is heavily democratic, so much so that the Republican nominee for the HR seat only got about 35% of the vote, which is higher than usual, since that number is usually down around 30% (And that was even with Trafficant running). Electronic machines are still being used in this area as well, since there were some glitches with the machines when they were fitted with reciept printers for last week's primaries. This "liberal urban legend" (Probably stared by the liberal media, right?) holds a hell of a lot of weight when you consider "glitches" with the results, like Gahanna, Ohio, where one precinct gave Bush 4200+ votes where only 638 people are registered voters, went in favor of Bush.
So am i the only one who thinks the term limits are going to be changed before election '08? No you are not. In fact, I think the next poll should be: Repeal of Amendment XXII:
I would like to say, as both an American and someone with karma about to go down, I declare that shenanigans right now. Well, if you were so bright you might have realized that the President has the right to preemptive strike, which is exactly what we did in Iraq No, Clinton launched what was a pre-emptive strike against Iraq in 1998. Invading a soverign nation under false pretenses and proceding to bomb the living hell out of it is NOT a pre-emptive strike You said we had no excuse, but have you ever heard of crimes against humanity? Going on that pretense, then why are we not invading China? Hell, they've committed their share of atrocities too, but I don't see us preparing an army to go against them. ...as long as we are within internation laws and do not violate UN sanctions... Like pesky things like the Geneva Convention? And I'm not even going to touch the idea of the Middle East, since GWB obviously did so much to try to stabilize the area in the last 4 years. Sure our government has some faults, but it is not completely out of control. If it was, Bush would have been impeached instead of re-elected. Such is the benefit of having the the majority of representatives being from the same party as the president. If Zippergate has tought us nothing over the last nearly 7 years, it's that if you're not up for re-election, and your party owns the House/Senate, you can do damn well whatever you want.
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Telling people how to run software on a device they own is "openly challenging them"?
No, but telling people how to break the existing security related to the IP/network that they own is. You don't like the terms that they make on their network, you can stay the hell off it.... you want to pirate their games out of your feigned spite, again, you can stay the hell off of PSN. If you honestly are naive enough to think that everything that has gone down has been about running homebrew, you're out of your damn mind. If anything more than 10% of the modded consoles get used for actual homebrew, that should probably considered a miracle. Sony already screwed themselves over with piracy on the PSP (I supposed everyone modded theirs exclusively for homebrew too, huh?), and do you honestly think they're going to let it happen again with their home console? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
Oh, you mean something like this? Now granted, the prosecution still messed up the case, but the gist of it is MS went after modders as well. Chances are, any console make will go after someone distributing how to hack their system. If you're caught using said hack, they'll ban you; if you're distributing it, they'll send the lawyers. In general they don't care... it's all about their revenue stream from licensing.
Damn you AC-x for beating me to it. :)
I do say that is a rather nice false-equivalency you did start there, DM. If you remember right, and I'm assuming you don't reading that drivel you posted, but MS did the exact same thing with their JTag'ed consoles that Sony is doing now (PSN ban). If you go out and try to tell the world how to get around the PS3 security for your "homebrew" (read: piracy), they have the right to bring down hell on you. If you've noticed, the only people Sony are coming after are the douchebags like GeoHot who are openly challenging them.
Now that my rant's over, the reason that they (Sony/MS) don't really care about having an SDK for their controllers is that it's not going to screw with their revenue streams, e.g. game licenses, which in turn, isn't going to scare publishers away.
No, you can still hack your hardware.... Sony just won't allow your hardware anywhere near its network if you have though (nor should they). Now, if you want hack your hardware and then tell a few people such as, I don't know, the internet, that you did it and *how* you did it then yes they will sue you. We know you're one of the many "I'm boycotting Sony until kingdom-come", but come on.... at least know what you're talking about and don't be a douche about it.
It died with some of the some of the Fat models, actually. IIRC, it got stripped from the lower end SKU's (e.g. the 40GB models) around mid-2007, and the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle (early 80GB's) was the last to have any PS2 support.
Except I'm willing to bet that the PSN server won't be sending out any code, if they go this route. If they do it correctly (and I have my doubts after the whole random-key generator bit), they should just send up a hash from the console, PSN will compare it to what it has stored on the server, and then send back a "Yay/Nay" to the console. If the server responds with a "Nay", then ban the account.
Not quite...but I heard that Glen Beck did do a similar act. He still has not denied it either though.
Simple... If you jailbreak your iPhone, the main reason you would probably want to do so is to change carriers, which would be perfectly legal. If you want to jailbreak your PS3, chances are, you're in the 99.999% of owners that would want to jailbreak it for mods (e.g. the Call of Duty debacle formerly known as their multi-player) or piracy (obviously illegal). You can be as idealistic as you want to think that people would want to use a jailbreak for homebrew, but get real...It's going to be abused for piracy.
Yeah, Sony's acting like a bunch of douchebags for the way that they're going after jailbreakers, but they are trying to protect their IP. Had they not shot themselves in the foot (PR-wise) and perma-banned any psn account and/or console with CFW, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
If things that random /.'s have said would push you towards voting for her, instead of running away as fast as possible after many of the inane (and frankly outright moronic) things that she has said, that just, well further frightens me about the state of our electorate.
Yes, but if you remember the actual episode, which was re-run a month ago or so, they noted that the last burn was one that would *not* have been from a mixture that they would have applied to the Hindenburg (e.g. a formula loaded up with much more thermite than normal). Their last test was their usual "let's over-do the situation and see if we can blow some stuff up" test they keep for the end.
... From similar comments as those in the post to long winded posts about grits.
Did we really need to bring Natalie Portman into this?
Unless of course it's about googling for pictures of her with said hot grits, which would be perfectly legit, but I digress...
Would that solve the perennial liberal-conservative fights? And who would come out ahead?
Short answer... no.
Liberaltopia would be invaded so that Conservatopia could "spread democracy to the godless heathens in Liberaltopia" or some bit of jingoistic nonsense like that.
Here's a better idea... let the lead-paint-eating nuts who are trying to take over congress marginalize themselves to they will become wholly unelectable in any future elections. (not that they are particularly electable right now). If any of them make it into office, I'm sure that they will do enough to get booted right back out in 2-6 years.
It's a little harder to rig those, having the paper trail and all.
They've got them on line now and shit, too.
Do they have shit online or dictionaries on shit?
My guess.... both.
That's essentially how churches fall under the US tax code, with the caveat being that they are not supposed to try to have a direct say in political issues. Church leaders can say "You should vote for candidates who support x, y, and z issues", but cannot say, "You should vote for Candidate Joe Schmoe because we think you should. Doing so usually results in their tax-exempt status being revoked.
I'm willing to bet that along with asinine actions like this burning, this church probably has had its leaders openly support a candidate (more than likely someone like W.) and should have their exemption status stripped.
Because that seems to predict what Digg will do in the future too.
with a much higher percentage than 63%, I'll bet...
Pakistan's version or the Tea Party's version?
Theres a guy in every group thats into cougars. He may not admit it, but he's there.
And I think that said guy is the one that started this thread...
Speaking as a 6-digiter, I would have to agree. And no, I didn't bother RTFA either.
Ok, I don't know whether I should laugh or be annoyed by that comment. Insomniac has released a total of five games so far for Ratchet and Clank (4 PS2, 1 PSP) and have one R&C Future coming out later this year. That is hardly milking a franchise (considering this was done over 5 years) when there have probably been that many Mario/Zelda offshoots released in the same period.
Actually, being a parent, I also know that they did a number of theme songs for the pre-schooler Disney shows as well. They did, at least, the themes for Mickey Mouse Club House and Higglytown Heroes (and I know this from having the theme songs drilled into my head on Saturday and Sunday mornings), but I don't think that they did any shows for the morning block.
Um, no.....7 is right
NT 4 (commercial)/95 (consumer) = 4.0
98 (consumer) = 4.1
ME (consumer) = 4.9
2000 (commercial) = 5.0
XP (both) 5.1
2003 (commercial) = 5.2
Vista = 6.0
So, being that it should be a major-number release, Windows 7.0 is what it should be.
I beg to differ on the idea that Democratic areas in Ohio didn't use Diebold machines in '04. I live in the 17th district in NE Ohio, and we most definitely did use Diebold machines for the general that year. This area is heavily democratic, so much so that the Republican nominee for the HR seat only got about 35% of the vote, which is higher than usual, since that number is usually down around 30% (And that was even with Trafficant running). Electronic machines are still being used in this area as well, since there were some glitches with the machines when they were fitted with reciept printers for last week's primaries.
This "liberal urban legend" (Probably stared by the liberal media, right?) holds a hell of a lot of weight when you consider "glitches" with the results, like Gahanna, Ohio, where one precinct gave Bush 4200+ votes where only 638 people are registered voters, went in favor of Bush.
No you are not. In fact, I think the next poll should be:
Repeal of Amendment XXII:
I would like to say, as both an American and someone with karma about to go down, I declare that shenanigans right now.
...as long as we are within internation laws and do not violate UN sanctions...
Well, if you were so bright you might have realized that the President has the right to preemptive strike, which is exactly what we did in Iraq
No, Clinton launched what was a pre-emptive strike against Iraq in 1998. Invading a soverign nation under false pretenses and proceding to bomb the living hell out of it is NOT a pre-emptive strike
You said we had no excuse, but have you ever heard of crimes against humanity?
Going on that pretense, then why are we not invading China? Hell, they've committed their share of atrocities too, but I don't see us preparing an army to go against them.
Like pesky things like the Geneva Convention?
And I'm not even going to touch the idea of the Middle East, since GWB obviously did so much to try to stabilize the area in the last 4 years.
Sure our government has some faults, but it is not completely out of control. If it was, Bush would have been impeached instead of re-elected.
Such is the benefit of having the the majority of representatives being from the same party as the president. If Zippergate has tought us nothing over the last nearly 7 years, it's that if you're not up for re-election, and your party owns the House/Senate, you can do damn well whatever you want.