Yes, but if doesn't have all of those "wonderful qualities" that we just so admire in Jack Thompson, then there's also the possibility that he will be able to engage in a debate on video games without degenerating into name calling and wild speculation. Imagine someone who wants to block violent video games from children's ready access, but is willing to discuss the matter in a calm and rational manner? If he's replaced by that kind of person, then that person will be more successful than the forceful polarization done by you-know-who.
The ideal replacement would know that a direct attempt at censorship will not work, and instead resort to tactics such as stating that is merely a rehash of the previous iterations that provides nothing new or interesting.
The cell phone I have has one level of protection - a PIN number that only needs to be entered when it turns on. As long as it's on, you can do anything you want with it, including modifying content or planting evidence. In addition, you can still access content on the phone by attaching it to a computer (without any need to enter a pin.)
As a result, I'm not storing any sensitive information on the phone.
The Palm Pilot was at least better in this regard, since it allowed seperating public and private information and requiring a pin when you wanted to access private data. However, this was a PDA rather than a cell phone.
Stop with red herrings, ok? [...] Really? Canada allows gays to marry? These two points speak for themselves. Allowing gays to marry is moot - what you should be asking is if Canada allows homosexual couples to divorce, an issue which did occur in the past. (Look it up.)
You're trying to use the ends to justify the means. You're basically saying that things like Gitmo are just fine and dandy. Either charge someone or release them. But saying that they should be allowed to be arbitrarly "held" smacks of totalitarianism. Strawman, and also unrelated. The example I originally gave was not an arbitrary holding, it was an arrest involving a common criminal that developed a pattern of committing crimes. If you believe that clause allows said totalitarianism, it's a moot point since any political party that gains power can easily change the constitution with enough support.
Unlike an actual slippery slope, the clause doesn't create a massive window for the government to randomly and permanently seize power. Even the temporary laws passed under the Emergency Act are just temporary, even when the scope of a reasonable limit is increased.
Section 33 provides an out to trample on any Candian citizens rights without ever needing review. If you think the "vote them out" argument works, well, may as well move to the US and see how that's working. Unlike the US, Canada is not a one-party system. Parties have been destroyed in the past and were no longer recognized as an official party within parliament. Furthermore, parties have been divided as well because the opposition party felt it was more important to hardline party members into a specific position rather than trying to maintain clout. Those twelve members showed that they can easily create their own political party.
It's the exact reason such laws expire after 5 years. If the previous party pushed something like that through, they'll have trouble getting it through again with only two seats in parliament.
Where did you get the idea where trampling rights of Canadians don't get review? It's done by the backbenchers that are being told by the party leaders that it needs to be done, since usage of those clauses attracts a lot of attention. As you know, these backbenchers are also easily replaced.
i guess i don't get it, and i certainly don't understand what any of it has to with video games. Activism is a method of trying to promote coverage of a certain issue as well as an attempt to get people to support said issue. The simplest form of activism involves making a forum posting on Slashdot to advertise Ron Paul (a.k.a. preaching to the choir), or dropping leaflets on a bus or in a park (a.k.a. buckshotting), and can be as complex as creating a significant grassroots campaign (such as to remove the game "Primal Rage" from Target or other retail stores.)
In this case, video games are being created as part of activism. When you play Airport Security, the nature of the game causes you to wonder about what's going on at those airports. When you later read an article where a person dies when tasered at the airport, you'll get a slightly larger emotional impact because of your previous experience with said security (in this case, a politically charged representation.)
So a critical law which violates rights should still be allowed to stand? Including or excluding laws that put violent criminals in jail?
Seriously, if you believe that the example I gave shouldn't be allowed to stand, you might as well give children a carte blanche to commit murder. The law in question was designed to prevent young offenders known to have a pattern of criminal behaviour from committing additional crimes. Within 24 hours of it being struck down, the individual stole a car and caused a car accident.
Or a popular law which violates the rights of a minority should be allowed to stand? There is no such thing. The closest match is Quebec's language laws, and those aren't popular.
By the way, did you read the copy of the charter in question?
The problem is that Canada has this big loophole in it's charter of rights called the "non withstanding clause" That's not a loophole, it is a safeguard in the event a critical or popular law gets struck down (e.g. a specific law that allows holding a minor or other individual when it is determined that he has a pattern of dangerous crimes that make him a threat to society and himself.) Any law passed under that clause also automatically sunsets after five years. If the population wants to get rid of the law, they can easily vote for another party.
The clause also only applies to some aspects of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Besides, if a government wanted to use a loophole, they'd just invoke the first clause which allows reasonable limitations on said rights and freedoms.
As a coder, I don't agree with that. You make a tool/language/framework for developers, you better make it idiot proof. Example: C is far from idiot proof (seg fault!) but it's fast. A seg fault is a form of idiot proofing - it prevents rogue C-style pointers from ruining the system. The absence of seg fault means your program is overwriting various locations in memory, which potentially causes the system to crash.
If you need access to locations of memory normally protected by a seg-fault, your operating system normally provides a means to do so.
Can you get the same result of speeding up webpage loading by prioritizing which items need to be downloaded? For example, you load the main HTML webpage first, then switch to the images/objects on the originating server, followed by third-party images and stuff.
Given that supressing object/image loading was a staple feature of Netscape (combined with an instant button that loads them), I'm really suprised that they left this to dry.
i do exactly that, for the past 7 years or so (since 2001, i think, not sure) i have had 2 email accounts, one is personal, the other is used for online forms, registrations, notifications, ebay, amazon shopping, etc. [...] It takes very little effort on my part.
for me, spam is not an issue. My first e-mail address was cluttered with spam, and the primary method to access it was through a 2400 baud modem. The interface later improved where you could use web-mail alongside a faster connection - however, the quantity of spam compared to legitimate messages still made it a lot of work to go through. (It also had a size limit for "possible junk" but didn't delete the most likely spam items.)
My second e-mail address, even though it has a 6.0 MB limit, eventually received enough spam on a daily basis that it became useless. This resulted in bouncing e-mails.
Speaking of the 6.0MB limit, it might not seem much for a single user. However, if you multiply it by the number of users on the system or receiving this level of spam, it is an order of magnitude larger - 6.0GB/day, or 180GB/month. At this time, bandwidth wasn't as cheap as it is now.
i think all these anti-spam ideas miss the big picture: if no one bought products from spam, they wouldnt do it. we should be going after the idiots who reply to spam. That won't help, since there are too many idiots.
If anything, you should reply to spam as much as possible. It can be as simple as using a customized version of the LadVampire, or placing multiple false orders within their purchase systems.
But again, in most cases they have no business to be doing even that data mining in the first place. A financial market _can_ function without knowing the exact address and birthday of everyone who ever used their service. And Google _can_ refine their searches without trying to track who did them. Etc. One of the services provided by Google is the ability to recommend pages or searches you may be interested in. For example, if you do a Google search for "Semiconductor Of Moscow", it will recommend a search for "Conductive Paronite" because those two topics are semi-related based on searches by other users. For this level of detail, Google keeps very detailed information concerning searches, in the same way that Stumbleupon tries to recommend other sites available on the internet.
This may be trivia to Google as a whole, but an individual user could get information from having his search history correlated with search histories of other users. While you might only need 6-months of data for this, some people may feel that their personalized results will be more accurate if they give more than this amount of data.
Trivia and information are based on a matter of perspective.
It sounds nice but what happens when there's an exploit on the so called "kernel" If there's an exploit in the kernel, the browser can contain it by simply ignoring it. To this date, there have been zero systems compromised by a buffer overflow within an HTML page. Given the nature of the browser in question, they can easily negate WMF-style attacks by rendering images themselves (or at least sanitizing them).
How is this thing going to contain the buffer overflow that writes over just the right bits in Window's ancient and identical from machine to machine, i386 memory layout? If you want to know how it contains buffer overflows that somehow hit the kernel, get a compiler and write to system memory. At best, you'll only get as far as Windows 9x before that tactic stops working.
Bill Gates became fabulously wealthy because he persuaded the world that you should pay several hundred dollars for every copy of a piece of software. The world is waking up to the fact that software production is not your typical business, and FOSS is providing a concrete example of a more equitable economic model. I'll play devil's advocate:
What should be the correct price of Microsoft Windows, "at cost"? As you know, there's costs required to initially develop the operating system, patch/update the operating system for potential issues that come up (and in some cases, localize the changes or description), do research on what to do next, and helping the class of users that can't find the any key on their keyboard.
With Linux, there's plenty of volunteers that cut on the development costs, but there's still a bit of overhead in some expenses.
And as far as starting at the bottom and all that.. I think more kids these days should start at the bottom and learn what it is to put in an honest days work.. funny that I say that and absolutely refuse to work retail or supermarket. These kids already start at the bottom - known as elemantary school. In this organization, the kids are told to stay in high-school since it opens doors.
Let's say that instead of taking the Grade 10 math course, I worked for 1 hour/day at the McDonalds across the street. At $5/hr, it would substitute the 82 math classes with $410 - basically half of the tuition of a semester at college. (This is an extreme oversimplification, but is still valid.) I'm hard pressed to remember material in the Grade 10 course that I didn't otherwise learn earlier - such "new" material was more identifyable past Grade 11 but wasn't retainable on a longer scale since I didn't get to keep the textbook(s).
If you believe in the infamous homework ratio (e.g. 1:1), you could perhaps earn $820 instead of $410 - or flex the extra time onto either more difficult projects, burnout avoidance, or learning advanced topics (or discover tactics on topics that actually give you trouble). However, this cannot happen often due to the perceived homework load that some people have.
Interesting how you say that "installing unauthorized software" = "more productive" "Installing unauthorized software" is a very broad term. In some cases, it includes the software that your call center is contracted to troubleshoot.
A support team I belonged to at one time was expected to troubleshoot basically any device sold by the company, including basic troubleshooting of Windows XP. The workstations were locked down to a degree where unauthorized software probably included Adobe Acrobat Reader, which was needed if you wanted to read the documentation for the various manufacturer products. As a side note, group policy said you couldn't right-click, open a command prompt (or even the run prompt) to remotly ping a device, save Linksys manuals to your desktop, etc.
If you aren't brain-dead with your IT policy, there will be no reason to attempt to circumvent such IT policy restrictions.
In most other places it is 31/4. Only if you are using dd/mm/yy.
The correct international date format uses the ISO format of yyyy-mm-dd - for pi day, it's 31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164-06-28. Unlike the annual celebration, this one day event is something that you won't forget.
Devil's advocate... [...]can't pretty much everybody get a debit card tied back to a checking account? If I'm right, those behave almost like credit cards - however, I'm not comfortable using one. In the event that there's fraud, the money is not in your account while it's being resolved. This isn't an issue with credit cards, since it's merely your credit being "on hold" rather than having money taken away from you. If you don't have a credit card, you generally don't have as much money to use (making fraud very damaging.)
I've worked in a customer service call center where people were calling up about unauthorized charges on their credit card (and associated calls made by the fraudster trying to redirect the package). In some cases, these were really debit cards, which caused some transactions to fail or bounce.
Also, I didn't know that my ATM card qualifies as a debit card, and as such, I always did cash transactions.
Don't be so foolish as to think the only way to stop Hitler was to kill him. Actually, killing him does stop Hitler. It doesn't stop Stalin, but the objective you wanted gets completed successfully.
Let's figure out why Hitler became Hitler and fix that problem rather than pouring more money into guns or the military. This is generally well known - a combination of factors, ranging from WWI combined with the highly punitive post-war sanctions, and Great Depression that waxed the value of currancy. He was then able to exploit the dissatisifaction of the population (see Weimar Republic) and purge some unlawful elements from parliment (e.g. the communist party).
Fixing those problems is extremely difficult, since some of them are international politics and warfare.
The quick fix is to use a defined password (e.g. "Hunter") and have the child change it in a predictable way (e.g. add a 2 at the end.) It's not secure as a random alphanumeric, but it is good enough to prevent casual password guessing. If you want, you could even log unauthorized access attempts as well so that attempts to guess the password get picked up. This is the same method I used to create one of my earlier passwords, and so far, nobody has guessed it (but certain sites don't like it since it didn't contain a number, capital letter, or non-alphanumeric.)
And the old paper hole punch trick to make double sided floppies out of single sided ones. If I remember correctly, I think I saved more than 50 cents a floppy this way. I think it was more like a buck. That's a neat trick. It's also a great way to make the disks more unreliable than they are - those floppies would only properly work at 360K/720K and would collect bad sectors much more rapidly when formatted to 1.2M/1.44M.
Why exactly isn't One-click an algorithm? It covers an algorithm where a single click gets translated into an order. An algorithm is a set of well defined instructions to complete a task, one-click fits nicely into this. Let's scale this down: - A company sells widgets, and only widgets. - To place an order, you can click "Buy widget", "buy 10-pack", or otherwise select a quantity using another means. - Here, you don't build a cart - you select the quantity (in one click) and order. - The website may have the ability to cache your previous order information in a cookie - which is the whole point of using cookies in the first place.
Tell me - how is "one-click" innovative beyond the original standard of cookies?
Unfortunately both IE6 (I don't have IE7 here, anybody care to check that?) Paypal.com appears with a green background in the address bar with IE7. The ISP's interface doesn't provide the green background in the address bar, only the regular colour. This is based on the certificate itself, and isn't adjustable by the user.
After checking help, it seems that Paypal uses extended verification, although that's another name for Microsoft trusting Verisign's Class 3 certificates.
Verifiable security sure, but not practical security. I very much doubt that anybody would notices a wrong SSL certificate, they click 'ok' and continue with whatever they where about to do. You can't verify if an SSL certificate is "wrong" since browsers don't really tell you anything about the certificate.
As an example, https://slashdot.org/ has SSL. A typosquatter registers https://slasdot.org/ with SSL as well. Since they are both signed, browsers will automatically trust the certificate without letting the user that he encountered the slasdot.org certificate for the first time.
While the IE7 phishing filter can snag the latter site, it's merely a reactive defence rather than automatically treating new SSL certificates as "new". You don't need an alert box to pop-up, all that's needed is a method of switching a yellow-background address bar to/from a green-background address bar on a per-certificate basis. You could even do the same to non-SSL sites as well on per-DNS/IP/Subnet basis.
There are only 2 situations here: Actually, you missed one. The person has legal access to documents because they are publically available.
If I'm right, I think this was a person guessing the file-name of a press release when it was uploaded to a public server when the main page didn't contain a reference to the release. If so, it would make it more difficult to make a criminal conviction - based on sites such as Notpron, I doubt URL rewriting is much of an issue.
a friend of mine who is a fellow bookworm were talking several years back, and i told him about how i hadn't been touched by the plot of final fantasy 7 in the way that a lot of other people had (there's a touching bit where the female lead character dies and i had heard from several people who had said they'd been deeply moved by it). As your friend mentioned, both of you actually read. This generally means that you've been exposed to a larger quantity of plot events and twists that some games are now beginning to implement.
The scene you mentioned where the character dies is considered a cliche and isn't as touching as it could be. In particular, I find it silly rather than touching because of the following:
Phoenix Down allows you to revive characters that get killed. You tend to go through a lot of them anyway.
Like most other characters, they become more powerful as they gain levels. If you check the stats, she should have survived it instead of being receiving Paranoia treatment done by most GMs.
Even though the enemy is extremely powerful, he doesn't have an attack that does 9999 damage. At best, he can fling a damage-capped planet destroying attack multiple timnes (destroying the exact same planets in the process).
It's much more difficult for games to achieve the same level as art, since the railroading required to tell a story is in direct conflict with the primary concept of RPGs.
So it would be better to get a handgun permit and take that to the employer? I know that's a joke, but when I checked the application form for firearm permits (at least within my country), a criminal conviction doesn't disqualify you from obtaining such firearms.
As far as they are concerned, the application form wants to ensure that you aren't a hazard to other people. The boxes in question only ask about violent crimes, crimes involving firearms or drug trafficking. Also, the boxes also use the term "charged", which means that it involves cases of false accussations. Criminal record checks don't care about charges unless they are outstanding, and otherwise follow the alleged innocent-until-proven-guilty rule.
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The ideal replacement would know that a direct attempt at censorship will not work, and instead resort to tactics such as stating that is merely a rehash of the previous iterations that provides nothing new or interesting.
He'd also state that these games are dangerous and will cause injuries in children: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=112893&cid=9568797
The cell phone I have has one level of protection - a PIN number that only needs to be entered when it turns on. As long as it's on, you can do anything you want with it, including modifying content or planting evidence. In addition, you can still access content on the phone by attaching it to a computer (without any need to enter a pin.)
As a result, I'm not storing any sensitive information on the phone.
The Palm Pilot was at least better in this regard, since it allowed seperating public and private information and requiring a pin when you wanted to access private data. However, this was a PDA rather than a cell phone.
Unlike an actual slippery slope, the clause doesn't create a massive window for the government to randomly and permanently seize power. Even the temporary laws passed under the Emergency Act are just temporary, even when the scope of a reasonable limit is increased. Section 33 provides an out to trample on any Candian citizens rights without ever needing review. If you think the "vote them out" argument works, well, may as well move to the US and see how that's working. Unlike the US, Canada is not a one-party system. Parties have been destroyed in the past and were no longer recognized as an official party within parliament. Furthermore, parties have been divided as well because the opposition party felt it was more important to hardline party members into a specific position rather than trying to maintain clout. Those twelve members showed that they can easily create their own political party.
It's the exact reason such laws expire after 5 years. If the previous party pushed something like that through, they'll have trouble getting it through again with only two seats in parliament.
Where did you get the idea where trampling rights of Canadians don't get review? It's done by the backbenchers that are being told by the party leaders that it needs to be done, since usage of those clauses attracts a lot of attention. As you know, these backbenchers are also easily replaced.
In this case, video games are being created as part of activism. When you play Airport Security, the nature of the game causes you to wonder about what's going on at those airports. When you later read an article where a person dies when tasered at the airport, you'll get a slightly larger emotional impact because of your previous experience with said security (in this case, a politically charged representation.)
There's also the McDonald's video game as well.
Seriously, if you believe that the example I gave shouldn't be allowed to stand, you might as well give children a carte blanche to commit murder. The law in question was designed to prevent young offenders known to have a pattern of criminal behaviour from committing additional crimes. Within 24 hours of it being struck down, the individual stole a car and caused a car accident. Or a popular law which violates the rights of a minority should be allowed to stand? There is no such thing. The closest match is Quebec's language laws, and those aren't popular.
By the way, did you read the copy of the charter in question?
The clause also only applies to some aspects of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Besides, if a government wanted to use a loophole, they'd just invoke the first clause which allows reasonable limitations on said rights and freedoms.
If you need access to locations of memory normally protected by a seg-fault, your operating system normally provides a means to do so.
Can you get the same result of speeding up webpage loading by prioritizing which items need to be downloaded? For example, you load the main HTML webpage first, then switch to the images/objects on the originating server, followed by third-party images and stuff.
Given that supressing object/image loading was a staple feature of Netscape (combined with an instant button that loads them), I'm really suprised that they left this to dry.
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It takes very little effort on my part.
for me, spam is not an issue. My first e-mail address was cluttered with spam, and the primary method to access it was through a 2400 baud modem. The interface later improved where you could use web-mail alongside a faster connection - however, the quantity of spam compared to legitimate messages still made it a lot of work to go through. (It also had a size limit for "possible junk" but didn't delete the most likely spam items.)
My second e-mail address, even though it has a 6.0 MB limit, eventually received enough spam on a daily basis that it became useless. This resulted in bouncing e-mails.
Speaking of the 6.0MB limit, it might not seem much for a single user. However, if you multiply it by the number of users on the system or receiving this level of spam, it is an order of magnitude larger - 6.0GB/day, or 180GB/month. At this time, bandwidth wasn't as cheap as it is now. i think all these anti-spam ideas miss the big picture: if no one bought products from spam, they wouldnt do it. we should be going after the idiots who reply to spam. That won't help, since there are too many idiots.
If anything, you should reply to spam as much as possible. It can be as simple as using a customized version of the LadVampire, or placing multiple false orders within their purchase systems.
This may be trivia to Google as a whole, but an individual user could get information from having his search history correlated with search histories of other users. While you might only need 6-months of data for this, some people may feel that their personalized results will be more accurate if they give more than this amount of data.
Trivia and information are based on a matter of perspective.
What should be the correct price of Microsoft Windows, "at cost"? As you know, there's costs required to initially develop the operating system, patch/update the operating system for potential issues that come up (and in some cases, localize the changes or description), do research on what to do next, and helping the class of users that can't find the any key on their keyboard.
With Linux, there's plenty of volunteers that cut on the development costs, but there's still a bit of overhead in some expenses.
Let's say that instead of taking the Grade 10 math course, I worked for 1 hour/day at the McDonalds across the street. At $5/hr, it would substitute the 82 math classes with $410 - basically half of the tuition of a semester at college. (This is an extreme oversimplification, but is still valid.) I'm hard pressed to remember material in the Grade 10 course that I didn't otherwise learn earlier - such "new" material was more identifyable past Grade 11 but wasn't retainable on a longer scale since I didn't get to keep the textbook(s).
If you believe in the infamous homework ratio (e.g. 1:1), you could perhaps earn $820 instead of $410 - or flex the extra time onto either more difficult projects, burnout avoidance, or learning advanced topics (or discover tactics on topics that actually give you trouble). However, this cannot happen often due to the perceived homework load that some people have.
A support team I belonged to at one time was expected to troubleshoot basically any device sold by the company, including basic troubleshooting of Windows XP. The workstations were locked down to a degree where unauthorized software probably included Adobe Acrobat Reader, which was needed if you wanted to read the documentation for the various manufacturer products. As a side note, group policy said you couldn't right-click, open a command prompt (or even the run prompt) to remotly ping a device, save Linksys manuals to your desktop, etc.
If you aren't brain-dead with your IT policy, there will be no reason to attempt to circumvent such IT policy restrictions.
The correct international date format uses the ISO format of yyyy-mm-dd - for pi day, it's 31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164-06-28. Unlike the annual celebration, this one day event is something that you won't forget.
[...]can't pretty much everybody get a debit card tied back to a checking account? If I'm right, those behave almost like credit cards - however, I'm not comfortable using one. In the event that there's fraud, the money is not in your account while it's being resolved. This isn't an issue with credit cards, since it's merely your credit being "on hold" rather than having money taken away from you. If you don't have a credit card, you generally don't have as much money to use (making fraud very damaging.)
I've worked in a customer service call center where people were calling up about unauthorized charges on their credit card (and associated calls made by the fraudster trying to redirect the package). In some cases, these were really debit cards, which caused some transactions to fail or bounce.
Also, I didn't know that my ATM card qualifies as a debit card, and as such, I always did cash transactions.
Fixing those problems is extremely difficult, since some of them are international politics and warfare.
The quick fix is to use a defined password (e.g. "Hunter") and have the child change it in a predictable way (e.g. add a 2 at the end.) It's not secure as a random alphanumeric, but it is good enough to prevent casual password guessing. If you want, you could even log unauthorized access attempts as well so that attempts to guess the password get picked up. This is the same method I used to create one of my earlier passwords, and so far, nobody has guessed it (but certain sites don't like it since it didn't contain a number, capital letter, or non-alphanumeric.)
- A company sells widgets, and only widgets.
- To place an order, you can click "Buy widget", "buy 10-pack", or otherwise select a quantity using another means.
- Here, you don't build a cart - you select the quantity (in one click) and order.
- The website may have the ability to cache your previous order information in a cookie - which is the whole point of using cookies in the first place.
Tell me - how is "one-click" innovative beyond the original standard of cookies?
After checking help, it seems that Paypal uses extended verification, although that's another name for Microsoft trusting Verisign's Class 3 certificates.
As an example, https://slashdot.org/ has SSL. A typosquatter registers https://slasdot.org/ with SSL as well. Since they are both signed, browsers will automatically trust the certificate without letting the user that he encountered the slasdot.org certificate for the first time.
While the IE7 phishing filter can snag the latter site, it's merely a reactive defence rather than automatically treating new SSL certificates as "new". You don't need an alert box to pop-up, all that's needed is a method of switching a yellow-background address bar to/from a green-background address bar on a per-certificate basis. You could even do the same to non-SSL sites as well on per-DNS/IP/Subnet basis.
If I'm right, I think this was a person guessing the file-name of a press release when it was uploaded to a public server when the main page didn't contain a reference to the release. If so, it would make it more difficult to make a criminal conviction - based on sites such as Notpron, I doubt URL rewriting is much of an issue.
The scene you mentioned where the character dies is considered a cliche and isn't as touching as it could be. In particular, I find it silly rather than touching because of the following:
It's much more difficult for games to achieve the same level as art, since the railroading required to tell a story is in direct conflict with the primary concept of RPGs.
Take a look at box 16 at http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/online-en_ligne/form-assistance/PDFs/921_e.pdf
As far as they are concerned, the application form wants to ensure that you aren't a hazard to other people. The boxes in question only ask about violent crimes, crimes involving firearms or drug trafficking. Also, the boxes also use the term "charged", which means that it involves cases of false accussations. Criminal record checks don't care about charges unless they are outstanding, and otherwise follow the alleged innocent-until-proven-guilty rule.