The only reason I had a copy was it was my first experence downloading a full mpeg movie from a site I knew had pretty good upstreem. I wasn't specificly after pornography, but simply because pornography was more available then a real movie at the time.
Which is why I say... FLAMEBAIT MY ASS. I do have mormans in my family and I needed to demonstrate how you would for example download a video from the net. The only thing I had was DDD: TNG. I didn't specificly want to affend the mormon side of my family, so I cut out the pornography aspect. This was important for two reasons...
#1: Show them what the fuck a vcd was and how it could be useful to them
#2: Show them that they can screen movies that contain objectional bits
And the subject mater was choice. DDD TNG is porno. about as porno as you can get it. The characters have sex at a drop of a hat, and the women never wear panties and make sure they sit so the camera can see it. Being able with simple editing tools to remove the porn from porn and actually keep the story, though it be a crappy one, served to prove a point.
"Gee... I can now show these hollywood hits to my kids without the sex and violence."
You'll be pleased to note that I have an edited version of Debbie Does Dalles the Next Generation. All sex, nudity, and foul language has been removed. The remaining plot is a heart felt tale of a mother's desire to have her daughter follow in her footsteps. The edited length is 15min and 23seconds.
This has been viewed by Mormans in my family and has been reported as being funny, but is still not reccomended for children under age 13.
Actually, they do give a damn about netplay. Otherwise they would not have contracted speakeasy to host their web site to distribute.mp3 files. They give a big ass damn about it. Without airplay / netplay, old and new fans alike are not nessicarly going to be aware of their new material, and not buy it. Bands are alot like businesses, in the fact that they want to sell you a product. Word of mouth advertsing sells products, which is exactly what they want to do.
Why the hell else would they release.mp3 files on their website if they didn't want net play?
While I agree with you, in the business enviroment there are still many people still running SCO. There is a damn good reason for this, cause the cost of the license is lower then that of the downtime required to go to something diffrent.
And nmap is a useful tool to test even a Unixware or Openserver box. The lack of this tool can be used by the IT department to promote something diffrent. "I'm sorry, but it's no longer possible for me to evaluate wether our SCO box is secure, the people who make the software no longer support SCO. It's reccomended that we upgrade to supported software, we don't want to risk getting hacked now do we?"
While nmap isn't in it self a reason to update, I support this person's choice in no longer supporting a platform who's politics he disagree's with. While I "could" telnet to my home box and run nmap, i'm not about to tell management that. I'm going to use this person's choice to promote my own agenda, and hope the SCO platform looses more support.
I never have been a big Metalica fan, but I did enjoy their music. Their liberal policy on music was a selling point for me back in the 20th century. Atleast, a band that says it's ok to make a copy for a friend. Good for my friend, who wants to know if it's worth buying a real copy, good for Metalica, cause their name gets spread out.
But because Metalica said quite specificly in the year 2000 that they didn't want their music propigated via MP3, I complied FULLY. I will never make a copy for a friend, will never share one of their mp3 files, and in fact got rid of the two CDs of them I owned.
My moderate like for their music doesn't compair for my distaste of their politics. I respect that they are peformers who's material they have a say in how it's distributed, and that's just peachy. Everything else I own with a few exceptions are by artists who are more tolerant of music trading, basicly operating under the assumption that while it is piracy, the gain in word of mouth advertising is far too valuable to interfear with.
Bands like Metalica clearly disagreed with that, which is their right. As a direct result, and through no fault of my own, there is a generation of kids who do say, "Metali-who?". Those kids who know the name respond with, "Oh yea, those are the guys who killed Napster".
Metalica made a choice, they took a stand for what they believe in. I can respect that. But they have to live with it too. A band's success or failure at one time depended wether or not it got airplay, today netplay is a deciding factor. Metalica didn't want net play, no diffrent if they said they didn't want their material played on the radio in the 20th century. This is exactly what they fought for and they sure got it.
Diablo, the first edition, I remember was available as a demo. I also remember that "Future Shop" sold the "shareware" version for those who didn't want to make the multi-meg downlownload. I can't remember the size of Diablo exactly, but it was pretty massive for a 56k modem, likely to be 50-100meg or so if my memory is correct. Quake II also still has a nice little shareware edition.
You know... after getting a 99cent copy of diablo the shareware edition, I payed full price for the game within a week.
So if i'm the desired demographic, shareware and demo editions of games work for me. I'm not about to pay for a game site unseen, and it's not often the latest and greatest in stores have display models. And hell, I don't want to go to the fucking store anyway.
Did your neighbor borrow your lawn mower and fail to return it? Well in legislation proposed by Sen. Hatch you would be able to bust a cap in their ass! Yep... it's legal vigalanty justice should this bill pass. One catch though, you have to video tape the retaliation and sent it in to Cops(tm) who will own the copyright for personal justice media.
But it doesn't stop here, no sir. If you indeed returned that lawnmower, and you get a cap in your ass, you can bust a cap in their ass too.
Hatch has been remarked as saying, "The only way to reduce our crime rate is to legalize it".
With great delight I inform the./ audence that even SACD and DVD-a based on my observation are not very likely to be purchaced due to the following explanation...
"I don't want to buy a new media player, i'm happy with the one I bought"
Home media systems are not like computers, they don't go obsolete after 1.5 years. Vinyl has been the standard for decades, cassette tapes have been the standard for decades. CDs have been the standard for decades.
Part of the reason people bought into DVD players is because they can play CDs, and they served to actually reduce the size of a person's home theater stack. I just bought a new DVD player with FM/AM tuner, I just dropped my stack by a whole two components. Now it's only digital cable box, vcr, turn table, and amp.
I don't have the room for a tape player in that stack, which is fine cause I don't have room for tapes. I'm not about to invest in a new media player to use new standards when the old one works just dandy, I don't have the room nor the desire to spend yet more bucks for something else that just won't fit. I'm so sorry to disapoint the media companies.
I might be considered somewhat up to date on my media system, I had DVD via a realmagic card for years. But this is my first DVD player, and only bought it because it actually reduced the size of my stack without loss of sound quality. I don't have room for a SACD compatabile player, nor do I have the room in my stack for anything else.
While I enjoy the ability to rent high quality DVD media, even if they gave me a DRM complient player I don't have the room for it. They would have to buy me a new entertainment center as well.
The suit also adds illegal export issues stemming from the worldwide availability of open-source software. Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya, countries to which the United States controls exports.
Righto. I'm an American, and being an American it would be irresponcible for me to permit direct trade with any nation that America has a trade embargo with, esp encryption / sci research / weapon tech. I disagree with some of these embargos, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't nessicarly do this.
However, if I wasn't an American, then America has no juristition. Fancy that, America has no offical authority over these countries.
For example... pre iraq war, there was a trade embargo. R.J Renelds couldn't export Camel Cigarettes to iraq. American product, trade embargo, can't do it. However, other nations who don't have a trade embargo between either America or Iraq could buy Camel Cigarettes and sell them to Iraq. While in a way R.J. Renelds products are making their way to Iraq, they can't nessicarly be held responcible.
This is one reason why there is an anti-american sentiment in many places, because of this attutude that we own the world. SCO clearly demonstrates this attudide. And the thing is, I hate people like this my self, dispite the fact that I'm an American. While I don't know everyone who develops for the linux kernel, i'm willing to bet a few are not American nationals, and not subject to our laws.
Exclusivly American products are with in our domain, but given the fact that it's not the 20th century anymore, even those are harder to actually control.
There are those who would be critical of such things, but I like it! Ham radio to broadcast digital media will open a new door to... dare I say it, multi-casting! Why bother broadcasting on the net when you can actually recieve digital media over shortwave / ham and not have it suck up your bandwidth. Took us long enough to converge these two technologies.
Bit-torrent is a pretty cool and hip standard in it self, but imagine releases sent digitaly via the airwaves, using a simple 50ft long wire that can reach between seattle and finland. Not perfect mind you, even the best sets are going to have some unrecoverable packet loss, but hey. Not exactly ideal for let's say a linux distro, but through the use of checksums I can see how such a broadcast service could get you most of what you need, and anything that fails you can just download via standard means.
And as a bonus... to people who have a broadcast license, could open the door to ham based ISPs. While a dated technology, short wave / long wave is a proven one. While i'm sure statalight would no doubt be superior, land based access would be cheeper to deploy, and can even be based on older tube technology.
This is something i'd use, even if just to get music from overseas.
Not to speak of the fact that you really need something other then a road to stare at for a while. This in it self is good enough benifit to give a truck driver some perks.
IMNATD but I know friends who are in this field. Personaly when taking extended road trips, I found it to be a great comfort to my eyes to switch from rythmic road lines to "Colonization", a game that actually could be plaid on a 486sx laptop. I'm not sure if it was focusing on a close object, or the fact that I was taking a break from the road line blinking in my eyes and hypnotizing me, but for me it was the next best thing to down time.
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I'm actually somewhat shocked citizen's band hasn't been expanded and used to transmit digital information. Nothing "fancy" mind you, but based on my garage experiments I was perfectly able to transmit data at 110 to 300 baud over CB radio. Not high tech, but adquate enough to transmit wether reports, road conditions, accidents, oh and the ever important *weigh station open*. Useful, and not out of bounds to drivers to carry, a 1st generation Palm(TM) could do it.
--- I honestly don't know how high tech drivers are as a whole, the one's I know are computer literate, carry laptops with them on extended road trips, and jack in to check their mail and keep in touch. Also portable mp3 players with an FM transmitter seems to be stock equipment among the ones I personaly know, as their respective companies are too cheep to provide tape / CD players. You can argue that point, they are not 100% nessicary for operation of the vehicel, but AM/FM seem to be manitory.
The point was ice is a condition where even the most accurate mechanical and electronic read-outs will indicate wheel speed, which doesn't nessicarly equal vehicel velosity.
I live in western washington, we have less of an issue with ice as other people may have. What we do have an issue with is hydroplaning. It's notable that starting up with light rains my speedo sometimes reads 20-35mph, dispite not being in motion at all. When on the freeway, there are nice little grooves in the road in the right 3 lanes, where wheel speed will easily increase to from the regulated 65mph to 75+. While this in it self is not exactly safe, what can you do when you are hydroplaning other then get out of the condidtion by slowing down the wheels till they catch the road, which again wheel speed would likely be less then vehicel speed. Even careful drivers experence this condition often enough, and know by feel to compensate.
How often do I drive in the rain? About 9 months out of the year.
Ice, rain slick roads, mud, sand, gravel, all would affect one's ability to accuratly record vehicel speed based on wheel speed.
A jarhead going 115mph in a 25 zone (I assume, residental areas varry) well that's no excuse [I personaly go for +/- 10mph on highways, but go into grandma mode for residental] But an average joe could easily be recorded in their onboard computer as exceeding the speedlimit.
This is why I feel that there needs to be a human element involved to gain access to these records, like a supena and a judge. Physical evidence or eye witnesses that sugest wreckless driving is what i'd expect as being bare minium. A crime or infaction need be commited first before privacy is violated.
People should respect the copyrights. Supporting the industry and all. The game should be purchaced at some point.
However... I'm happy to see that the piracy of such games is going on strong, in the same way that a fast number of 8-bit games are available for download. This is shit you just can't buy anymore. It's still a copyright violation for those who didn't buy them in the first place, but the copyright holders either look a blind eye to it, or even grant license to do so.
But I'm mostly happy at the fact that that this research doesn't only permit piracy, but it would in theory permit legit people to publish a game without special shit.
I know in america, while I don't remember the specefic laws on the subject, that radio / telivision have to give equal air time to a contervercial issue, and this law/reg was used in the 1960's and 1970's in order to justify putting on anti-smoking comercials.
It was a free speech issue after a fasion as no one wanted to be critical of their top advertisers, but it was more a equal access issue.
In case I have NO objection to law Enforcement going to a judge, getting a warrent to supenea someone's personal records. If there was an accident, and someone is suspected of causing an accident, and physical evidence sugesting / eye witnesses claiming wreckless driving, oh yea.
Fuckhead going 114 in a residental zone, this is an excelent example why this should be permited. Such fuckheads kill people.
But I do not give cart blaunch (SP) for law enforcement to view my black box, which I don't have presently anyway. If i'm in an accident, and i'm dead, then feel free, i'll have no objections, i'm dead. I may disagree with police but i'd rather trust human judgement then records which could be taken out of context, as well as blind enforcement.
My last flight between texas and washington arived at 12pm, and everyone on the flight had a whole row to them selves. So it was grab a pillow, strech your legs out, and fall asleep.
To be honest, i'm not sure i've seen the wizard, even though I have a taste for cheese. But reading the basic review I think every generation has a film of this nature. The first thing that comes to mind is something called, "TILT" which rather then an unreleased NES game used pinball culture as a vehicel, a vehicel to have the lead actress's ass in the camera shot thoughout practicaly the entire movie.
While I think it's important we watch classic media to view the cultural impact of entertainment devices, I think TILT is responcible for some early ass trama. To this day I can't figure out why people choose a mate based on their ass, esp now that pinball is not quite the fad it once was.
I'll have to agree, I get very violent when I get exposed to cheep device where you hear that 15.75 KHZ noise. Such a cheep telivision I grab a maul and smash it till it's dead. Is this wrong?
When I use windows, typicaly I got use to just using Internet Exploder, it' was there and actually I prefered it's user interface over Netscape / Mozilla. Personal preference, plus I had to protest all the people on their respective soapboxes. One of the worst things about the browser wars are people who felt it was their devine quest to convience you that X browser was better, but not feeling compelled to share facts or personal observations. Dispite the fact that I did choose to use "Internet Exploder" lately it's become too unreliable, and always popping up bizzaro windows off screen that I can't seem to close without crashing all the browsers I have open.
Plus the fact that I do use some of MSN services which specificly didn't work under 2k and netscape/mozilla for me, though i've heard that XP users could choose to use netscape. Now this is no longer an issue as there is now netscape support, if a bit tweeky, Mozilla is officaly my first choice.
So, in my case, i've made the choice to go Mozilla, not out of any comprex emotional rational, it simply works even though I actually like the layout of "Internet Expolder". I will share this observation with others in the event that they claim they are experencing issues. I will not get on any complex soap box about the advantages of OSS vs Closed source but free software.
But Microsoft actually acknologing they actually don't need to make IE for Darwin... this is great. This kicks ass. While I may have been a fan of I.E. user interface, I think it would be far more productive for microsoft to actually support Safari and or Mozilla. Why waste the money developing software when you could actually support crap that doesn't require multi meg download per user. And heaven forbid, this might encourage them and others to actually make sure websites work under what people choose to use, rather then, "just download Internet Exploder, i'm too lazy to make my stuff work for you".
No need to play the OSS card here, encouraging support for standard standards rather then propriority standards is good and should be encouraged.
This would be totally inconsistent with countries who have passed laws basicly saying that the end user when buying [music] media owns the rights the the physical media, and not the content.
I had a 1200 baud teletype by GTE. Not so advanced as dot matrix, but rather had 120 hammers and a spinning train track of letters. Actually I liked it much better. But I guess that's what you get for getting involved with the technology at a later date.
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Anyone who has some experence please share with the rest of us a list of IP addresses we may block in our firewalls.
I for one don't want the RIAA on my ass for stuff I converted from vinyl to mp3.
Ummm, it had good bits?
The only reason I had a copy was it was my first experence downloading a full mpeg movie from a site I knew had pretty good upstreem. I wasn't specificly after pornography, but simply because pornography was more available then a real movie at the time.
Which is why I say... FLAMEBAIT MY ASS. I do have mormans in my family and I needed to demonstrate how you would for example download a video from the net. The only thing I had was DDD: TNG. I didn't specificly want to affend the mormon side of my family, so I cut out the pornography aspect. This was important for two reasons...
#1: Show them what the fuck a vcd was and how it could be useful to them
#2: Show them that they can screen movies that contain objectional bits
And the subject mater was choice. DDD TNG is porno. about as porno as you can get it. The characters have sex at a drop of a hat, and the women never wear panties and make sure they sit so the camera can see it. Being able with simple editing tools to remove the porn from porn and actually keep the story, though it be a crappy one, served to prove a point.
"Gee... I can now show these hollywood hits to my kids without the sex and violence."
Dear Mormon...
You'll be pleased to note that I have an edited version of Debbie Does Dalles the Next Generation. All sex, nudity, and foul language has been removed. The remaining plot is a heart felt tale of a mother's desire to have her daughter follow in her footsteps. The edited length is 15min and 23seconds.
This has been viewed by Mormans in my family and has been reported as being funny, but is still not reccomended for children under age 13.
Actually, they do give a damn about netplay. Otherwise they would not have contracted speakeasy to host their web site to distribute .mp3 files. They give a big ass damn about it. Without airplay / netplay, old and new fans alike are not nessicarly going to be aware of their new material, and not buy it. Bands are alot like businesses, in the fact that they want to sell you a product. Word of mouth advertsing sells products, which is exactly what they want to do.
.mp3 files on their website if they didn't want net play?
Why the hell else would they release
While I agree with you, in the business enviroment there are still many people still running SCO. There is a damn good reason for this, cause the cost of the license is lower then that of the downtime required to go to something diffrent.
And nmap is a useful tool to test even a Unixware or Openserver box. The lack of this tool can be used by the IT department to promote something diffrent. "I'm sorry, but it's no longer possible for me to evaluate wether our SCO box is secure, the people who make the software no longer support SCO. It's reccomended that we upgrade to supported software, we don't want to risk getting hacked now do we?"
While nmap isn't in it self a reason to update, I support this person's choice in no longer supporting a platform who's politics he disagree's with. While I "could" telnet to my home box and run nmap, i'm not about to tell management that. I'm going to use this person's choice to promote my own agenda, and hope the SCO platform looses more support.
I never have been a big Metalica fan, but I did enjoy their music. Their liberal policy on music was a selling point for me back in the 20th century. Atleast, a band that says it's ok to make a copy for a friend. Good for my friend, who wants to know if it's worth buying a real copy, good for Metalica, cause their name gets spread out.
But because Metalica said quite specificly in the year 2000 that they didn't want their music propigated via MP3, I complied FULLY. I will never make a copy for a friend, will never share one of their mp3 files, and in fact got rid of the two CDs of them I owned.
My moderate like for their music doesn't compair for my distaste of their politics. I respect that they are peformers who's material they have a say in how it's distributed, and that's just peachy. Everything else I own with a few exceptions are by artists who are more tolerant of music trading, basicly operating under the assumption that while it is piracy, the gain in word of mouth advertising is far too valuable to interfear with.
Bands like Metalica clearly disagreed with that, which is their right. As a direct result, and through no fault of my own, there is a generation of kids who do say, "Metali-who?". Those kids who know the name respond with, "Oh yea, those are the guys who killed Napster".
Metalica made a choice, they took a stand for what they believe in. I can respect that. But they have to live with it too. A band's success or failure at one time depended wether or not it got airplay, today netplay is a deciding factor. Metalica didn't want net play, no diffrent if they said they didn't want their material played on the radio in the 20th century. This is exactly what they fought for and they sure got it.
Diablo, the first edition, I remember was available as a demo. I also remember that "Future Shop" sold the "shareware" version for those who didn't want to make the multi-meg downlownload. I can't remember the size of Diablo exactly, but it was pretty massive for a 56k modem, likely to be 50-100meg or so if my memory is correct. Quake II also still has a nice little shareware edition.
You know... after getting a 99cent copy of diablo the shareware edition, I payed full price for the game within a week.
So if i'm the desired demographic, shareware and demo editions of games work for me. I'm not about to pay for a game site unseen, and it's not often the latest and greatest in stores have display models. And hell, I don't want to go to the fucking store anyway.
Drink coffee! It's a poor man's Ritalin.
Drink latté! It tastes better then ritalin.
Did your neighbor borrow your lawn mower and fail to return it? Well in legislation proposed by Sen. Hatch you would be able to bust a cap in their ass! Yep... it's legal vigalanty justice should this bill pass. One catch though, you have to video tape the retaliation and sent it in to Cops(tm) who will own the copyright for personal justice media.
But it doesn't stop here, no sir. If you indeed returned that lawnmower, and you get a cap in your ass, you can bust a cap in their ass too.
Hatch has been remarked as saying, "The only way to reduce our crime rate is to legalize it".
With great delight I inform the ./ audence that even SACD and DVD-a based on my observation are not very likely to be purchaced due to the following explanation...
"I don't want to buy a new media player, i'm happy with the one I bought"
Home media systems are not like computers, they don't go obsolete after 1.5 years. Vinyl has been the standard for decades, cassette tapes have been the standard for decades. CDs have been the standard for decades.
Part of the reason people bought into DVD players is because they can play CDs, and they served to actually reduce the size of a person's home theater stack. I just bought a new DVD player with FM/AM tuner, I just dropped my stack by a whole two components. Now it's only digital cable box, vcr, turn table, and amp.
I don't have the room for a tape player in that stack, which is fine cause I don't have room for tapes. I'm not about to invest in a new media player to use new standards when the old one works just dandy, I don't have the room nor the desire to spend yet more bucks for something else that just won't fit. I'm so sorry to disapoint the media companies.
I might be considered somewhat up to date on my media system, I had DVD via a realmagic card for years. But this is my first DVD player, and only bought it because it actually reduced the size of my stack without loss of sound quality. I don't have room for a SACD compatabile player, nor do I have the room in my stack for anything else.
While I enjoy the ability to rent high quality DVD media, even if they gave me a DRM complient player I don't have the room for it. They would have to buy me a new entertainment center as well.
The suit also adds illegal export issues stemming from the worldwide availability of open-source software. Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya, countries to which the United States controls exports.
Righto. I'm an American, and being an American it would be irresponcible for me to permit direct trade with any nation that America has a trade embargo with, esp encryption / sci research / weapon tech. I disagree with some of these embargos, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't nessicarly do this.
However, if I wasn't an American, then America has no juristition. Fancy that, America has no offical authority over these countries.
For example... pre iraq war, there was a trade embargo. R.J Renelds couldn't export Camel Cigarettes to iraq. American product, trade embargo, can't do it. However, other nations who don't have a trade embargo between either America or Iraq could buy Camel Cigarettes and sell them to Iraq. While in a way R.J. Renelds products are making their way to Iraq, they can't nessicarly be held responcible.
This is one reason why there is an anti-american sentiment in many places, because of this attutude that we own the world. SCO clearly demonstrates this attudide. And the thing is, I hate people like this my self, dispite the fact that I'm an American. While I don't know everyone who develops for the linux kernel, i'm willing to bet a few are not American nationals, and not subject to our laws.
Exclusivly American products are with in our domain, but given the fact that it's not the 20th century anymore, even those are harder to actually control.
I will correct my self... while HAM might not be hip for comercial use, there is a medium wave alocation that is.
There are those who would be critical of such things, but I like it! Ham radio to broadcast digital media will open a new door to... dare I say it, multi-casting! Why bother broadcasting on the net when you can actually recieve digital media over shortwave / ham and not have it suck up your bandwidth. Took us long enough to converge these two technologies.
Bit-torrent is a pretty cool and hip standard in it self, but imagine releases sent digitaly via the airwaves, using a simple 50ft long wire that can reach between seattle and finland. Not perfect mind you, even the best sets are going to have some unrecoverable packet loss, but hey. Not exactly ideal for let's say a linux distro, but through the use of checksums I can see how such a broadcast service could get you most of what you need, and anything that fails you can just download via standard means.
And as a bonus... to people who have a broadcast license, could open the door to ham based ISPs. While a dated technology, short wave / long wave is a proven one. While i'm sure statalight would no doubt be superior, land based access would be cheeper to deploy, and can even be based on older tube technology.
This is something i'd use, even if just to get music from overseas.
Not to speak of the fact that you really need something other then a road to stare at for a while. This in it self is good enough benifit to give a truck driver some perks.
IMNATD but I know friends who are in this field. Personaly when taking extended road trips, I found it to be a great comfort to my eyes to switch from rythmic road lines to "Colonization", a game that actually could be plaid on a 486sx laptop. I'm not sure if it was focusing on a close object, or the fact that I was taking a break from the road line blinking in my eyes and hypnotizing me, but for me it was the next best thing to down time.
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I'm actually somewhat shocked citizen's band hasn't been expanded and used to transmit digital information. Nothing "fancy" mind you, but based on my garage experiments I was perfectly able to transmit data at 110 to 300 baud over CB radio. Not high tech, but adquate enough to transmit wether reports, road conditions, accidents, oh and the ever important *weigh station open*. Useful, and not out of bounds to drivers to carry, a 1st generation Palm(TM) could do it.
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I honestly don't know how high tech drivers are as a whole, the one's I know are computer literate, carry laptops with them on extended road trips, and jack in to check their mail and keep in touch. Also portable mp3 players with an FM transmitter seems to be stock equipment among the ones I personaly know, as their respective companies are too cheep to provide tape / CD players. You can argue that point, they are not 100% nessicary for operation of the vehicel, but AM/FM seem to be manitory.
The point was ice is a condition where even the most accurate mechanical and electronic read-outs will indicate wheel speed, which doesn't nessicarly equal vehicel velosity.
I live in western washington, we have less of an issue with ice as other people may have. What we do have an issue with is hydroplaning. It's notable that starting up with light rains my speedo sometimes reads 20-35mph, dispite not being in motion at all. When on the freeway, there are nice little grooves in the road in the right 3 lanes, where wheel speed will easily increase to from the regulated 65mph to 75+. While this in it self is not exactly safe, what can you do when you are hydroplaning other then get out of the condidtion by slowing down the wheels till they catch the road, which again wheel speed would likely be less then vehicel speed. Even careful drivers experence this condition often enough, and know by feel to compensate.
How often do I drive in the rain? About 9 months out of the year.
Ice, rain slick roads, mud, sand, gravel, all would affect one's ability to accuratly record vehicel speed based on wheel speed.
A jarhead going 115mph in a 25 zone (I assume, residental areas varry) well that's no excuse [I personaly go for +/- 10mph on highways, but go into grandma mode for residental] But an average joe could easily be recorded in their onboard computer as exceeding the speedlimit.
This is why I feel that there needs to be a human element involved to gain access to these records, like a supena and a judge. Physical evidence or eye witnesses that sugest wreckless driving is what i'd expect as being bare minium. A crime or infaction need be commited first before privacy is violated.
People should respect the copyrights. Supporting the industry and all. The game should be purchaced at some point.
However... I'm happy to see that the piracy of such games is going on strong, in the same way that a fast number of 8-bit games are available for download. This is shit you just can't buy anymore. It's still a copyright violation for those who didn't buy them in the first place, but the copyright holders either look a blind eye to it, or even grant license to do so.
But I'm mostly happy at the fact that that this research doesn't only permit piracy, but it would in theory permit legit people to publish a game without special shit.
I agree fully.
I know in america, while I don't remember the specefic laws on the subject, that radio / telivision have to give equal air time to a contervercial issue, and this law/reg was used in the 1960's and 1970's in order to justify putting on anti-smoking comercials.
It was a free speech issue after a fasion as no one wanted to be critical of their top advertisers, but it was more a equal access issue.
In case I have NO objection to law Enforcement going to a judge, getting a warrent to supenea someone's personal records. If there was an accident, and someone is suspected of causing an accident, and physical evidence sugesting / eye witnesses claiming wreckless driving, oh yea.
Fuckhead going 114 in a residental zone, this is an excelent example why this should be permited. Such fuckheads kill people.
But I do not give cart blaunch (SP) for law enforcement to view my black box, which I don't have presently anyway. If i'm in an accident, and i'm dead, then feel free, i'll have no objections, i'm dead. I may disagree with police but i'd rather trust human judgement then records which could be taken out of context, as well as blind enforcement.
My issue with this technology used in court isn't so much an issue of privacy, it's an issue of how accurate electronics are.
For example, my speedo can read really high speeds on ice but that doesn't mean i'm going anywhere.
Fly at night. Next best thing to teleportation.
My last flight between texas and washington arived at 12pm, and everyone on the flight had a whole row to them selves. So it was grab a pillow, strech your legs out, and fall asleep.
Problem solved.
To be honest, i'm not sure i've seen the wizard, even though I have a taste for cheese. But reading the basic review I think every generation has a film of this nature. The first thing that comes to mind is something called, "TILT" which rather then an unreleased NES game used pinball culture as a vehicel, a vehicel to have the lead actress's ass in the camera shot thoughout practicaly the entire movie.
While I think it's important we watch classic media to view the cultural impact of entertainment devices, I think TILT is responcible for some early ass trama. To this day I can't figure out why people choose a mate based on their ass, esp now that pinball is not quite the fad it once was.
I'll have to agree, I get very violent when I get exposed to cheep device where you hear that 15.75 KHZ noise. Such a cheep telivision I grab a maul and smash it till it's dead. Is this wrong?
When I use windows, typicaly I got use to just using Internet Exploder, it' was there and actually I prefered it's user interface over Netscape / Mozilla. Personal preference, plus I had to protest all the people on their respective soapboxes. One of the worst things about the browser wars are people who felt it was their devine quest to convience you that X browser was better, but not feeling compelled to share facts or personal observations. Dispite the fact that I did choose to use "Internet Exploder" lately it's become too unreliable, and always popping up bizzaro windows off screen that I can't seem to close without crashing all the browsers I have open.
Plus the fact that I do use some of MSN services which specificly didn't work under 2k and netscape/mozilla for me, though i've heard that XP users could choose to use netscape. Now this is no longer an issue as there is now netscape support, if a bit tweeky, Mozilla is officaly my first choice.
So, in my case, i've made the choice to go Mozilla, not out of any comprex emotional rational, it simply works even though I actually like the layout of "Internet Expolder". I will share this observation with others in the event that they claim they are experencing issues. I will not get on any complex soap box about the advantages of OSS vs Closed source but free software.
But Microsoft actually acknologing they actually don't need to make IE for Darwin... this is great. This kicks ass. While I may have been a fan of I.E. user interface, I think it would be far more productive for microsoft to actually support Safari and or Mozilla. Why waste the money developing software when you could actually support crap that doesn't require multi meg download per user. And heaven forbid, this might encourage them and others to actually make sure websites work under what people choose to use, rather then, "just download Internet Exploder, i'm too lazy to make my stuff work for you".
No need to play the OSS card here, encouraging support for standard standards rather then propriority standards is good and should be encouraged.
This would be totally inconsistent with countries who have passed laws basicly saying that the end user when buying [music] media owns the rights the the physical media, and not the content.
300 baud teletype, man you must be older then I!
I had a 1200 baud teletype by GTE. Not so advanced as dot matrix, but rather had 120 hammers and a spinning train track of letters. Actually I liked it much better. But I guess that's what you get for getting involved with the technology at a later date.
Friends don't let friends surf at 110 baud.