You could also put in the EULA of such software that members of RIAA, their agents, or relatives are prohibited from using said services.
If they are found then they themselves are in copyright breach and could be sent a cease and desist order.
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Turbine Entertainment has been pretty hush-hush about it, but it sounds as though they have a big chunk of the project completed.
There is a blurb about AC 2 being demoed here.
From other reports I have read, it appears they are looking at supporting both Windows and the X-Box. Sorry, probably no Linux clients.
In this interview, they do discuss some of the cooler improvements they have in the works, such as having clouds form over a period of weeks into thunderstorms.
A little late to respond to you, but I just got back in town.
Stick your Ray-Ban's up to the remote control for your TV. If you use the remote, does it still work? Assuming of course, you have an infra-red remote, which 99% are.
Oh dont worry this kind of shit happens all the time. Thats why I'm under curfew right now (Cincinnati), because some people are piss-heads, everyone gets punished.
No dice. Religions STILL kill many people. Even if it is sanctioned by the church or not, it is still a motivating factor. How many muslims were killed by christians in serbia in the last 15 years? What about india and pakistan? What about china's supression of religion, doesn't that count as a religious motive for torturing and killing others? North Ireland: protestants and catholics. Isreal: Jews and Muslims.
I say, look at almost every major conflict going on in the world, and you will almost assuredly find that religion is playing a major part in it.
Still though, we do agree on one thing. The CoS is dangerous and modern day snake oil through and through. I think that was the lesson all of us learned to today if we weren't already clued in.
What about cameras watching emissions from your house?
Currently it is legal for the police to videotape you in your home using an infra-red camera. No warrant neccessary. The courts have stated that you do not have an expectation of privacy to the infra-red waves that leave your house.
So if you dont like that, get better insulation.
So.... when all the frontal lobe lobotomies were performed in the first half of the last century it was sheer coincidence that they came out of the surgery with little to no emotional response?
Well according to/. we've got the following theories:
Article: acid rain
Second hand smoke,
ray guns and a bad attitude,
bad dino indigestion,
Alien massacre for their breeding program,
and mine:
They all stayed up late one night, watched The Thin Red Line and Requiem for a Dream over and over until they decided there was no reason to live, then promptly crawled underneath the nearest rock, and died.
Ah its good to see/. is at the forefront of modern day science.
I think I saw that same question posed in Carl Sagan's Cosmos, or maybe it was a Brief History of Time, dunno. But anyway... I am sure there are more, but here are the big reasons that I can think of.
1) Maybe they killed themselves. War is a big part of our life cycle, I guess it stands to reason that many civilizations nuke themselves or destroy themselves by accident before they begin colonizing other places.
2) Cosmic catastrophe. I'm sure a supernova has probably killed SOMETHING out there, I guess it stands to reason that a gamma ray burst from a nearby star killed a few space faring species. Bad part is, if some sort of space catastrophe occurs thats big enough to take out a planet, theres a good chance it will take out a whole lot more than that, which would seriously cripple a colonization effort in the early stages.
3)Technical difficulties. I still havent heard a good method of preventing tiny rocks hurtling through space at hundreds of thousands of kilometers an hour from poking nasty little holes into the generation ship. Compound that over time and it may be hard to keep the intregrity of a ship for very long. We really dont know.. We do know our satellites end up with little itsy bitsy holes all the time and they aren't there for very long. offtopic, but i thought it was kinda cool how they did that in the movie Pitch Black.
4)Inbreeding. How many people would you need to keep a good gene pool going? There's lots of people on this planet and I am beginning to see signs of some serious inbreeding going on here. Its scary. Or maybe its just because I live near Kentucky. Seriously though, the rigors of space travel, the constant worry of radiation affecting genes and stuff has to make it real damn difficult to pull off interstellar travel.
5) Lack of motivation. Maybe some species just really dont care about leaving their planet. They get too caught up in the "Fix the problems here first" mentality and never really go anywhere until either number 1 or 2 arrives.
How long do we have to get off this planet before number 1 or 2 arrives for us?
6) Maybe out of respect? We're finding out (I think) that life turns its head up where we least expect it. Maybe the other species have chosen not colonize planets that already have some form of life on them, which (my idi0t prediction) is going to be the majority of habitable planets out there.
7) Maybe we are them. Who knows? Maybe in the generation ship we all de-evolved from so much inbreeding the ultra slick automation systems could have kicked us out onto this cozy planet and then steered itself into the sun, or it crashed into a volcano or something.
I personally think our best chances for survival would be to build a kind of giant sling and hurl rocks filled with bacteria from our own planet in random directions outward. We just keep firing hundreds, thousands, millions of these. A few are bound to hit some planet and begin a life cycle of their own. Maybe in say... 4-5 billion years the evolutionary product of our bacteria will wonder why dont they see signs of other intelligent life?
Its a good question. A spooky question, but a good one.
We've got the 'management seminar' thing going on right now. The result of this has been an 'intense investigation to find out what the employees really want'. So, instead of getting real raises this year, we all got an inflationary rate raise, 2-3%, BUT we now get to wear jeans on Friday! woohoooo!!!! (yes, i'm dripping with sarcasm)
I'm sorry, but wearing jeans on Friday does NOT facilitate me buying a house or investing more into my retirement.
So now I am looking to leave the company and the job, the first I actually liked, because management has been convinced that what I need more than money is jeans.
To qoute American Beauty:
"Never underestimate the power of denial."
That prevents the laws of the country from butting heads with the rights of the citizens.
Any laws you break while still within the scope of your constitutional rights are, quite simply, unconstitutional laws.
You have to assume that if data was lost on the server, that the users of the server would complain. Since hes not getting complaints, then it is reliable.
As far as tape backup not working.. It is truely impossible to know if your backup is going to work... ever. But yes, there things such as CRC checks, MD5 sums, etc that try to guarantee some reliability. And no, those are not 100% foolproof either. Moot point really. We all trust technology to some extent. We hop on a plane, drive a car, keep nuclear missles pointed at one another. We trust technology not to screw up and send us plumetting into a mountainside or vaporizing 15 million people in the blink of an eye. We can be fairly confident stuff is working, thats why we ride a plane, drive a car, and keep missles pointed at each other. With that, I'm sure if the tapes were fucked, he'd know about it by now.
As far as a machine sitting in the corner for 3 years... no big deal. Dust isnt really that much of a problem anyhow unless you've got fans in the pc's and I have several machines with no fans in them at all. They arent 1.1 GHz machines by any means, but then again, Novell doesnt require it.
That's part of the problem with The Council of Europe's Draft Cybercrime Treaty, authored by the 41-nation body in consultation with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Please note, "Council of Europe" != US.
Last time I checked, Sweeden was a part of Europe.
Yes, I do agree this is a completely silly treaty written by people who take advantage of others fears and use them for political gain.
Unfortunately, ignorance seems to ignore national boundaries.
IIRC, didnt MS yoink the BSD stacks for use in Win95? If that is the case, maybe they are simply waiting for the BSD's to "work out the bugs" in their IPv6 implementations. Then voila...free stack.
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You could also put in the EULA of such software that members of RIAA, their agents, or relatives are prohibited from using said services.
If they are found then they themselves are in copyright breach and could be sent a cease and desist order.
Turbine Entertainment has been pretty hush-hush about it, but it sounds as though they have a big chunk of the project completed.
There is a blurb about AC 2 being demoed here.
From other reports I have read, it appears they are looking at supporting both Windows and the X-Box. Sorry, probably no Linux clients.
In this interview, they do discuss some of the cooler improvements they have in the works, such as having clouds form over a period of weeks into thunderstorms.
A little late to respond to you, but I just got back in town.
Stick your Ray-Ban's up to the remote control for your TV. If you use the remote, does it still work? Assuming of course, you have an infra-red remote, which 99% are.
Oh dont worry this kind of shit happens all the time. Thats why I'm under curfew right now (Cincinnati), because some people are piss-heads, everyone gets punished.
No dice. Religions STILL kill many people. Even if it is sanctioned by the church or not, it is still a motivating factor. How many muslims were killed by christians in serbia in the last 15 years? What about india and pakistan? What about china's supression of religion, doesn't that count as a religious motive for torturing and killing others? North Ireland: protestants and catholics. Isreal: Jews and Muslims.
I say, look at almost every major conflict going on in the world, and you will almost assuredly find that religion is playing a major part in it.
Still though, we do agree on one thing. The CoS is dangerous and modern day snake oil through and through. I think that was the lesson all of us learned to today if we weren't already clued in.
That post was funny, not a troll!
rosie_bhjp
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What about cameras watching emissions from your house?
Currently it is legal for the police to videotape you in your home using an infra-red camera. No warrant neccessary. The courts have stated that you do not have an expectation of privacy to the infra-red waves that leave your house.
So if you dont like that, get better insulation.
rosie_bhjp
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic there.
So.... when all the frontal lobe lobotomies were performed in the first half of the last century it was sheer coincidence that they came out of the surgery with little to no emotional response?
rosie_bhjp
Well according to /. we've got the following theories:
/. is at the forefront of modern day science.
Article: acid rain
Second hand smoke,
ray guns and a bad attitude,
bad dino indigestion,
Alien massacre for their breeding program,
and mine:
They all stayed up late one night, watched The Thin Red Line and Requiem for a Dream over and over until they decided there was no reason to live, then promptly crawled underneath the nearest rock, and died.
Ah its good to see
rosie_bhjp
Good Question, heres an idi0ts answer:
I think I saw that same question posed in Carl Sagan's Cosmos, or maybe it was a Brief History of Time, dunno. But anyway... I am sure there are more, but here are the big reasons that I can think of.
1) Maybe they killed themselves. War is a big part of our life cycle, I guess it stands to reason that many civilizations nuke themselves or destroy themselves by accident before they begin colonizing other places.
2) Cosmic catastrophe. I'm sure a supernova has probably killed SOMETHING out there, I guess it stands to reason that a gamma ray burst from a nearby star killed a few space faring species. Bad part is, if some sort of space catastrophe occurs thats big enough to take out a planet, theres a good chance it will take out a whole lot more than that, which would seriously cripple a colonization effort in the early stages.
3)Technical difficulties. I still havent heard a good method of preventing tiny rocks hurtling through space at hundreds of thousands of kilometers an hour from poking nasty little holes into the generation ship. Compound that over time and it may be hard to keep the intregrity of a ship for very long. We really dont know.. We do know our satellites end up with little itsy bitsy holes all the time and they aren't there for very long. offtopic, but i thought it was kinda cool how they did that in the movie Pitch Black.
4)Inbreeding. How many people would you need to keep a good gene pool going? There's lots of people on this planet and I am beginning to see signs of some serious inbreeding going on here. Its scary. Or maybe its just because I live near Kentucky. Seriously though, the rigors of space travel, the constant worry of radiation affecting genes and stuff has to make it real damn difficult to pull off interstellar travel.
5) Lack of motivation. Maybe some species just really dont care about leaving their planet. They get too caught up in the "Fix the problems here first" mentality and never really go anywhere until either number 1 or 2 arrives.
How long do we have to get off this planet before number 1 or 2 arrives for us?
6) Maybe out of respect? We're finding out (I think) that life turns its head up where we least expect it. Maybe the other species have chosen not colonize planets that already have some form of life on them, which (my idi0t prediction) is going to be the majority of habitable planets out there.
7) Maybe we are them. Who knows? Maybe in the generation ship we all de-evolved from so much inbreeding the ultra slick automation systems could have kicked us out onto this cozy planet and then steered itself into the sun, or it crashed into a volcano or something.
I personally think our best chances for survival would be to build a kind of giant sling and hurl rocks filled with bacteria from our own planet in random directions outward. We just keep firing hundreds, thousands, millions of these. A few are bound to hit some planet and begin a life cycle of their own. Maybe in say... 4-5 billion years the evolutionary product of our bacteria will wonder why dont they see signs of other intelligent life?
Its a good question. A spooky question, but a good one.
rosie_bhjp
"Tell us about the rocket pack, or the girl will suffer!"
Cinemaware rocked.
rosie_bhjp
How happy is a person that has to point out others are not very happy?
We could go on and on...
He was attacked on his own beliefs and defended them. Nothing wrong about that. If he didn't, whats the point of conversation?
rosie_bhjp
Smack! You hit the nail right on the head.
We've got the 'management seminar' thing going on right now. The result of this has been an 'intense investigation to find out what the employees really want'. So, instead of getting real raises this year, we all got an inflationary rate raise, 2-3%, BUT we now get to wear jeans on Friday! woohoooo!!!! (yes, i'm dripping with sarcasm)
I'm sorry, but wearing jeans on Friday does NOT facilitate me buying a house or investing more into my retirement.
So now I am looking to leave the company and the job, the first I actually liked, because management has been convinced that what I need more than money is jeans.
To qoute American Beauty:
"Never underestimate the power of denial."
Rosie_bhjp
Thanks!
/. posts I have read in quite a while.
That has to be one of the funniest
rosie_bhjp
That is supposed to be an impossibility.
"Congress shall pass no law..."
That prevents the laws of the country from butting heads with the rights of the citizens. Any laws you break while still within the scope of your constitutional rights are, quite simply, unconstitutional laws.
rosie_bhjp
it may be a bit off topic from the subject matter, but its hardly flamebait.
Which moderator has lead in their water?
rosie_bhjp
Yes, yes they do. ;)
rosie_bhjp
I couldn't agree more. The more % of cpu time you have idle while playing a game is that much more detail that can be thrown in the next version.
rosie_bhjp
You can choose whether or not you wish to be contacted. And, IMHO, 20,000 security interested geeks are not the type of people you should lie to. ;)
rosie_bhjp
You have to assume that if data was lost on the server, that the users of the server would complain. Since hes not getting complaints, then it is reliable.
As far as tape backup not working.. It is truely impossible to know if your backup is going to work... ever. But yes, there things such as CRC checks, MD5 sums, etc that try to guarantee some reliability. And no, those are not 100% foolproof either. Moot point really. We all trust technology to some extent. We hop on a plane, drive a car, keep nuclear missles pointed at one another. We trust technology not to screw up and send us plumetting into a mountainside or vaporizing 15 million people in the blink of an eye. We can be fairly confident stuff is working, thats why we ride a plane, drive a car, and keep missles pointed at each other. With that, I'm sure if the tapes were fucked, he'd know about it by now.
As far as a machine sitting in the corner for 3 years... no big deal. Dust isnt really that much of a problem anyhow unless you've got fans in the pc's and I have several machines with no fans in them at all. They arent 1.1 GHz machines by any means, but then again, Novell doesnt require it.
rosie_bhjp
That's part of the problem with The Council of Europe's Draft Cybercrime Treaty, authored by the 41-nation body in consultation with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Please note, "Council of Europe" != US.
Last time I checked, Sweeden was a part of Europe.
Yes, I do agree this is a completely silly treaty written by people who take advantage of others fears and use them for political gain.
Unfortunately, ignorance seems to ignore national boundaries.
rosie_bhjp
IIRC, didnt MS yoink the BSD stacks for use in Win95? If that is the case, maybe they are simply waiting for the BSD's to "work out the bugs" in their IPv6 implementations. Then voila...free stack.
rosie_bhjp
I vote for Urphallus.
Then we should properly rename Neptune to Choad.
After all, it would be the planet in between Uranus and Urphallus.
Opportunities like this do not come along that often, they must be taken advantage of!
rosie_bhjp