IIRC it's a crime in Britain to refuse to hand over encryption keys when required by the police. So why don't they just seize the hard drives and ask for the key? If the suspect gives it up, all is well. If he refuses, then the police don't need to hold him without charge for even one day, much less 90, because they now have a charge to pin on him.
Just like noone could do anything about businesses with 'black only' and 'white only' entrances and seating areas.
That's right, it was perfectly legal for a long time for businesses to discriminate, and blacks had no legal recourse whatsoever. Then we passed laws against that. Similarly, it's currently legal for private schools to require their students to agree to whatever (legal) terms they want. If we decide that we don't want this, then we can pass laws guarenteeing students' freedom of speech. But, AFAIK, that hasn't happened yet.
The constitution of the US guarantees us certain rights, and in that guarantee is an implication that if some powerful group tries to abridge those rights, the US government is obliged to protect the infringed upon.
No, the Constitution only guarentees that the government won't infringe certain rights (specifically, "Congress shall make no law..."). We're perfectly free to sign them over to private institutions if we so desire. If you don't believe that, try breaking an NDA and see what happens to you in court.
The Constitution doesn't guarentee unconditional free speech to all citizens. It just forbids the government from restricting speech. Private institutions are free to ask whatever terms they want, as long as they're not illegal.
IANAL, but if these are private schools, the ACLU has no case (and no objection in the first place). There's nothing wrong with a private institution asking that you agree to certain terms in order to attend school there.
AFAIK, it imports emails from Outlook (and other programs) and history from IE/Firefox. Not sure about chat logs. But it's not like you're not warned; after all, the whole reason you would install it is so that it can index these files.
This about.com article has a fairly good explanation of why evolution is considered falsifiable. As for a half-way mutated species, all species can be considered halfway mutated; evolution is continuous.
You should try San Andreas. On PC. The targeting is fine (mouse + keyboard, just like any other FPS) and the missions are much more interesting than Vice City / GTAIII (once you get past the first few introductory missions). And you get to fly a fighter jet - what else can you ask for?
Not even that; the number of downloads gives you no concrete information at all about the number of users. There could be zero users or billions (most likely not more than 6 billion or so, though).
If you want community, go to k5 or Fark. Slashdot has never been intended as community site. The editors limit meta discussion; all stories posted are about specific news items and offtopic comments get modded down. I'm not saying this is a bad thing; there's a place for tech discussion and a place for community, and it happens that/. is the former.
FWIW, MS could easily (if not legally, maybe) build a 360 client to the iTMS. Not that they would ever want to, since it competes with all the WMA music stores out there.
The iTunesDB format used by the iPod has been reversed-engineered by several other vendors (including EphPod as well as several GPL projects). It'd be trivial for MS to write a WMP plugin for the 360 to sync with iPods, if they wanted to.
And they don't have to be able to play FairPlay files; most people's collections consist almost entirely of (ripped or downloaded) MP3s. While that's obviously not the case for everyone, it's certainly common enough to justify iPod support even without Fairplay.
Starcraft is still played today, by millions of people. And, although I haven't played in the past year or so, I've never noticed maphacks being a major problem.
Apple's been including a basic case with full-sized iPods since the beginning of time. I always keep my 2-year-old 3G iPod in the case, and it's very easily pocketable. It's also a bit scratched, but nothing really noticable unless you're looking for it.
To confirm that, I'm typing this on a 3-year-old machine with a Radeon 9700 PRO, Audigy, and dual Athlon MP 2200 processors. It's played every game I've ever tried it with just fine, including Far Cry, Doom III, Half-Life 2, and Unreal 2004. Although, to be fair, a 4-year-old XBox will also play Doom III (if not quite as well) and it cost about 1/6 of what this machine cost.
Most music listeners keep their media players constantly loaded. If I want to open iTunes, all it takes is a click on the taskbar and it pops right up. It's certainly no slower than opening a terminal window. And once iTunes is up, all I have to do is type "Stormb" in the search box (or however much of the name it takes to uniquely determine the album). Click the first song, and iTunes will play the whole album in sequence. Total time: 3 seconds. It's much faster than fiddling with a command line (it takes more than one second to type 123 mp3/Di[tab]/St[tab]/*; I'm a fairly fast typer and it took me five).
Now on the other end, when I get a new CD, I just stick it in, click "import", and I'm done. If I otherwise acquire MP3 files, I just drag them into iTunes and it automatically copies them to my library folder, sorts them into a directory structure, and copies them to my iPod on next sync. Meanwhile, you're manually managing the directory structure and renaming all your new music to fit your naming conventions, which takes a lot more time for really no benefits. What do you do if you want to shuffle-play a certain album, or your entire library? I'm sure it's possibly with some elaborate perl wizardry, but you can't seriously tell me it's easier than clicking the "shuffle" button.
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IIRC it's a crime in Britain to refuse to hand over encryption keys when required by the police. So why don't they just seize the hard drives and ask for the key? If the suspect gives it up, all is well. If he refuses, then the police don't need to hold him without charge for even one day, much less 90, because they now have a charge to pin on him.
That's true, but so does Mozilla, which the GP claims not to have problems with.
That's right, it was perfectly legal for a long time for businesses to discriminate, and blacks had no legal recourse whatsoever. Then we passed laws against that. Similarly, it's currently legal for private schools to require their students to agree to whatever (legal) terms they want. If we decide that we don't want this, then we can pass laws guarenteeing students' freedom of speech. But, AFAIK, that hasn't happened yet.
The constitution of the US guarantees us certain rights, and in that guarantee is an implication that if some powerful group tries to abridge those rights, the US government is obliged to protect the infringed upon.
No, the Constitution only guarentees that the government won't infringe certain rights (specifically, "Congress shall make no law..."). We're perfectly free to sign them over to private institutions if we so desire. If you don't believe that, try breaking an NDA and see what happens to you in court.
The Constitution doesn't guarentee unconditional free speech to all citizens. It just forbids the government from restricting speech. Private institutions are free to ask whatever terms they want, as long as they're not illegal.
IANAL, but if these are private schools, the ACLU has no case (and no objection in the first place). There's nothing wrong with a private institution asking that you agree to certain terms in order to attend school there.
AFAIK, it imports emails from Outlook (and other programs) and history from IE/Firefox. Not sure about chat logs. But it's not like you're not warned; after all, the whole reason you would install it is so that it can index these files.
Blizzard's software is not a rootkit, so no.
It won't, of course (excepting various hacks), but any cell phone capable of syncing with iTunes will almost certainly support FairPlay.
And for some more concrete examples, see here.
This about.com article has a fairly good explanation of why evolution is considered falsifiable. As for a half-way mutated species, all species can be considered halfway mutated; evolution is continuous.
It wasn't a claim or accusation, it was a bit of speculation. No need to take offense.
You should try San Andreas. On PC. The targeting is fine (mouse + keyboard, just like any other FPS) and the missions are much more interesting than Vice City / GTAIII (once you get past the first few introductory missions). And you get to fly a fighter jet - what else can you ask for?
Not even that; the number of downloads gives you no concrete information at all about the number of users. There could be zero users or billions (most likely not more than 6 billion or so, though).
If you want community, go to k5 or Fark. Slashdot has never been intended as community site. The editors limit meta discussion; all stories posted are about specific news items and offtopic comments get modded down. I'm not saying this is a bad thing; there's a place for tech discussion and a place for community, and it happens that /. is the former.
AFAIK, most private schools say exactly that.
FWIW, MS could easily (if not legally, maybe) build a 360 client to the iTMS. Not that they would ever want to, since it competes with all the WMA music stores out there.
And they don't have to be able to play FairPlay files; most people's collections consist almost entirely of (ripped or downloaded) MP3s. While that's obviously not the case for everyone, it's certainly common enough to justify iPod support even without Fairplay.
Starcraft is still played today, by millions of people. And, although I haven't played in the past year or so, I've never noticed maphacks being a major problem.
Correction: "all your eggs in one basket" isn't an analogy, it's an implicit metaphor, and it means exactly what the GP used to it mean.
Not that the Greeks had much of a problem with child molestation.
Apple's been including a basic case with full-sized iPods since the beginning of time. I always keep my 2-year-old 3G iPod in the case, and it's very easily pocketable. It's also a bit scratched, but nothing really noticable unless you're looking for it.
To confirm that, I'm typing this on a 3-year-old machine with a Radeon 9700 PRO, Audigy, and dual Athlon MP 2200 processors. It's played every game I've ever tried it with just fine, including Far Cry, Doom III, Half-Life 2, and Unreal 2004. Although, to be fair, a 4-year-old XBox will also play Doom III (if not quite as well) and it cost about 1/6 of what this machine cost.
By "pirate" I meant "download a cracked full version", which sounds easier to me than fooling around with LD_PRELOAD.
At that point you might as well save yourself the trouble and pirate the damn thing.
Most music listeners keep their media players constantly loaded. If I want to open iTunes, all it takes is a click on the taskbar and it pops right up. It's certainly no slower than opening a terminal window. And once iTunes is up, all I have to do is type "Stormb" in the search box (or however much of the name it takes to uniquely determine the album). Click the first song, and iTunes will play the whole album in sequence. Total time: 3 seconds. It's much faster than fiddling with a command line (it takes more than one second to type 123 mp3/Di[tab]/St[tab]/*; I'm a fairly fast typer and it took me five). Now on the other end, when I get a new CD, I just stick it in, click "import", and I'm done. If I otherwise acquire MP3 files, I just drag them into iTunes and it automatically copies them to my library folder, sorts them into a directory structure, and copies them to my iPod on next sync. Meanwhile, you're manually managing the directory structure and renaming all your new music to fit your naming conventions, which takes a lot more time for really no benefits. What do you do if you want to shuffle-play a certain album, or your entire library? I'm sure it's possibly with some elaborate perl wizardry, but you can't seriously tell me it's easier than clicking the "shuffle" button.