I'm not exactly sure how comparing a WWII mod for UT2k3 and a full-blown WWII game, designed from the beginning to be such, is considered insightful...
I heard some jackass on CNN (one of those guys on the morning show, with Soledad and that other guy, that they bring on to comment on various topics) say the following: "[...] [i]file sharers, or as I call them, file stealers[/i] [...]" *click*
[...] to ensure that no single block has copyright content.
Maybe I missed something, but since when did they start caring about individual packets/blocks?
Dear PirateScum, We're sending this email to notify you that packets #31253-#32675, #32743, #48667, #57365-#59326 received by your IP on the evening of June 14th have been detected as containing copyrighted materials.
It may have been fun to think about and type, but that's not how these companies are catching people sharing copyrighted works.
Is it really that hard to download a mail content filter, or hit delete?
Is it really that hard for people to accept that we shouldn't have to put up with that kind of crap. Has the world really become so pussified that they'd rather just cover their eyes and ears than stand up and fight?
The article mentions that the youths were obsessed with Warriors of Freedom.
No it doesn't... Read the article again. The article never says these kids ever even played the game. They just briefly mentioned that the name they had chosen was the same as that of an online browser-based RPG. That's it.
There are plenty of little "details" dropped all over the article, in the most inappropriate spots, and have seemingly no importance other than to stereotype these kids as sociopathic computer addicts.
The 15-year-old, who is tall and heavy, was represented by Cherry Hill lawyer John A. Underwood, who said his client maintains he is innocent. The other teen, tall and thin, did not have a lawyer.
Why is their physical build and height important to this article? I don't need this information to know that, for whatever reason, these kids were messed up.
He said he could not believe that Matthew Lovett, who had no job, would carry out the alleged plan. "If he was determined to do that sort of thing, he would have shot at the officer," Crymes said. "All it was was a call for help."
Again... why do the authors feel that this information is important to me?
"Matt was an easy target," said Paul Phillips, 18. "But he never lashed out. He just took it."
"Everybody picked on him," said Tom Urick, 19, a 2002 Collingswood graduate
This, along with the revelation that the oldest of the three had lost his mother and an older sister, are fairly quickly glossed over and not even mentioned as potential sources for this kid's problems. Typical media...
If the artists truly owned the copyright to their music, then why is the name of the band's recording company placed after the little symbol, and the name of the band itself?
If we all boycott RIAA members products (yes downloads too), we can hurt them.
Yeah right. Do you really think that they believe completely that P2P is taking their sales away? Hell no. If people start boycotting, they just increase their efforts against piracy that much more.
News Headline: Millions of citizens begin 6 month boycott of RIAA products
RIAA: Oh fuck, our sales are dropping even more. Throw more money at this anti-piracy thing. Oh, and give some to Britney, too.
"Then you have to employ someone to clean it up after the show. [...]"
Umm... I'm not so sure I'd want to go to a theater that allows people to bring their own food and drinks, and yet puts forth the impression that employing people to clean up any potential mess is a Bad Thing(tm).
While I enjoyed the movie and thought it pretty good overall, I was honestly a bit disappointed. Half the crowd clapped when the lights dimmed, everyone clapped at a few scene resolutions... but no one clapped at the end.
I agree with the statement in the review about the sex scene; waaay too long. There were also a number of [fight] scenes where it was pretty obvious the characters were computer generated. Those scenes, eventhough slightly disappointing to see, were definitely acceptable to me, though.
The Twins didn't get nearly enough screen time.
I think the best part, though, was the discussions my friends and I had after the movie. They weren't entirely exclusive to this movie, however.
Birth in the Matrix? Is it the humans' decision to have the baby, which is then created by the machines in the real world? Or is it the other way around; do the machines create the infant and then program it's birth into the Matrix?
People in the Matrix look like they do in the real world. If you've been hooked up to the Matrix your entire life, how do you know what you look like? Outside input from the machines?
Decoding the Matrix code. It's too difficult for a computer, but a human can do it on the fly?
Did Neo really have a choice when he accepted the piece of candy from the Oracle? If she had known he wouldn't have accepted it, she wouldn't have offered it in the first place.
In the end, it wasn't what I had hoped it would be, but it wasn't even bad.
There were parts of the movie I need to see a few more times before I can fully grasp what was being said, or what happened. Not because it was poor dialog, but because there were so many thoughts in my mind that were spawned from the original statement(s) or event(s) that I need to go back and compare some of them to what was actually said or happened.
My opinion: Go see it, but don't expect the entire movie to blow you away. There are some really great parts, and some really ho-hum parts.
It seems to me that their latest activities are more akin to a dictator ordering a few dissenters and opposition to be executed in order to scare everyone else into conformity, more than anything else...
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I'm not exactly sure how comparing a WWII mod for UT2k3 and a full-blown WWII game, designed from the beginning to be such, is considered insightful...
I heard some jackass on CNN (one of those guys on the morning show, with Soledad and that other guy, that they bring on to comment on various topics) say the following: "[...] [i]file sharers, or as I call them, file stealers[/i] [...]" *click*
Talk about ignorant media...
And the RIAA's values will live on in the new government...
Dear PirateScum,
We're sending this email to notify you that packets #31253-#32675, #32743, #48667, #57365-#59326 received by your IP on the evening of June 14th have been detected as containing copyrighted materials.
It may have been fun to think about and type, but that's not how these companies are catching people sharing copyrighted works.
That article was "written" by four journalists. It's a sad state of journalism when it takes that many people to come up crap like that.
Why is their physical build and height important to this article? I don't need this information to know that, for whatever reason, these kids were messed up.
Again... why do the authors feel that this information is important to me?
This, along with the revelation that the oldest of the three had lost his mother and an older sister, are fairly quickly glossed over and not even mentioned as potential sources for this kid's problems. Typical media...
And Jack Thompson is an ignorant fuck...
Wow. They really are hurting for funding...
Let me try this again...
If the artists truly owned the copyright to their music, then why is the name of the band's recording company placed after the little © symbol, and not the name of the band itself?
If the artists truly owned the copyright to their music, then why is the name of the band's recording company placed after the little symbol, and the name of the band itself?
Heh. Am I supposed to be this afraid of my own country?
News Headline: Millions of citizens begin 6 month boycott of RIAA products
RIAA: Oh fuck, our sales are dropping even more. Throw more money at this anti-piracy thing. Oh, and give some to Britney, too.
I could see Hilary going for that, but Jack... Ok, yeah, Jack too.
I mean, standard theaters are dirty enough...
In the close-up shot, the very first line: "Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanneds "
Another glitch in the Matrix?
While I enjoyed the movie and thought it pretty good overall, I was honestly a bit disappointed. Half the crowd clapped when the lights dimmed, everyone clapped at a few scene resolutions... but no one clapped at the end.
I agree with the statement in the review about the sex scene; waaay too long. There were also a number of [fight] scenes where it was pretty obvious the characters were computer generated. Those scenes, eventhough slightly disappointing to see, were definitely acceptable to me, though.
The Twins didn't get nearly enough screen time.
I think the best part, though, was the discussions my friends and I had after the movie. They weren't entirely exclusive to this movie, however.
Birth in the Matrix? Is it the humans' decision to have the baby, which is then created by the machines in the real world? Or is it the other way around; do the machines create the infant and then program it's birth into the Matrix?
People in the Matrix look like they do in the real world. If you've been hooked up to the Matrix your entire life, how do you know what you look like? Outside input from the machines?
Decoding the Matrix code. It's too difficult for a computer, but a human can do it on the fly?
Did Neo really have a choice when he accepted the piece of candy from the Oracle? If she had known he wouldn't have accepted it, she wouldn't have offered it in the first place.
In the end, it wasn't what I had hoped it would be, but it wasn't even bad.
There were parts of the movie I need to see a few more times before I can fully grasp what was being said, or what happened. Not because it was poor dialog, but because there were so many thoughts in my mind that were spawned from the original statement(s) or event(s) that I need to go back and compare some of them to what was actually said or happened.
My opinion: Go see it, but don't expect the entire movie to blow you away. There are some really great parts, and some really ho-hum parts.
I don't get it, really. Since when was thinking allowed to be cheapened by experience?
Note to self: Don't comment on Slashdot for at least an hour after waking up.
Comparing one part of Apple's annual revenue to the entirety of Dell's or Wal*Mart's annual revenue hardly puts things into proper perspective...
Did anyone notice that they've been nice enough to provide a "Skip Commercial" link at the top of the pop-up?
Good: They give you the option to skip the damn thing.
Bad: They call it a commercial...
It seems to me that their latest activities are more akin to a dictator ordering a few dissenters and opposition to be executed in order to scare everyone else into conformity, more than anything else...