I'm so sorry that you disagree with me. But let me get right to your "sum-up":
Congress nor the Judicary, nor the Executive Branch nor anyone has any right, regardless of law, case law, or common law, to restrict ANY speech, at all in any form. Do you understand that? Its absolute. Its unending. Its unyielding. What if it leads to nuclear war? Too bad. What if it leads to more terrorism? Too bad. What if it means the end of life, the universe, everything? TOO BAD.
I just don't think this is true. I'd bet you that NONE of the sitting Supreme Court Justices would agree with you. The Constitution has a self-implied responsibility to protect ITSELF, that is, to ensure its longevity and protection from destruction. It is not "absolute." It is CONSTITUTIONALLY based on the interpretation of the Supreme Court. And look at those guys! Do you think they're going to "interpret" that, as you say, even if it leads to nuclear war or more terrorism, it's "TOO BAD"? No way. They're going to come down against terrorism every time. And they have that right -- the Supreme Court is every much a part of the Constitution as the 1st Amendment is!
This is based on the argument that
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
is sufficiently cloudy on access to information about airports, nuclear reactors and power stations. I see "freedom of speech" in there, but I don't see "freedom of access to information" present. I don't see how "Speech = access to info". Perhaps you could enlighten me.
Hold on here. Why do you need detailed information about nuclear reactors or airports? These are government installations and are currently thought to be very vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
The Constitution does not, anywhere, guarantee "freedom of information." Further, our country is not only beholden to the Constitution, it is bound by hundreds of years of precedent-setting legal cases, legislation, and military and common law. I believe there is a legally demonstrable *CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER* to allowing just anyone to have access to this kind of information.
If you're writing a paper, doing a scientific study or have some other legitimate reason to access this information, you could probably get permission to access it. Otherwise, no, you don't need to know about it right now. And yes, I think the government has the right to keep certain information secret to protect lives.
Where the fuck did anyone get the idea that the Constitution permits an absolute right to access this kind of information?
Oh my fucking god. If I hear one more person complain about the misuse of the term "hacker" vs "cracker" I'm going to scream.
This argument is essentially the same as hearing a high school kid tell you "I'm not a skater, I'm a stoner." It's just a matter of semantics, and one that most people don't really care about anyway.
To most people, the word "hacker" denotes illegal activity. OK? You can argue all you want about what label gets slapped on you. But most people in the country hear "hacker", they think of some fat white guy trying to do illegal shit with a computer. IT IS TIME TO ACCEPT THIS AND MOVE ON TO MORE IMPORTANT BATTLES.
If you are fighting a battle to educate the world that "hackers" are harmless and "crackers" are evil, you are wasting your time on a meaningless fight. To most people, it's the exact difference between "trekkers" and "trekkies" -- who gives a fuck? Just stay out of computers that don't belong to you.
There are more important things going on right now, people. Don't rehash this whole stupid "i'm a hacker, he's a cracker" argument. Give that one up. Focus on the important shit. And believe me, there's plenty of important shit.
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Thanks, and hey, it's OK because I'm becoming increasingly convinced that actually, the Slashdot moderation scoring system deserves a "+1 Funny" because it is a total fucking joke.
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In this time of crisis, we need to be very careful not to show hatred or violence to other Muppets. Just because Bert wants to destroy humanity, that doesn't mean all the Muppets do. In fact, the majority of Muppets are peace-loving citizens.
I know you've all read the news stories by now. Someone shouted "Dirty Muppet!" and threw a bottle at Grover as he was crossing the street.
Ernie is under 24-hour protection at an undisclosed location. And in the most perverse story of all, someone tried to force-bathe Oscar the Grouch.
I hope you'll all attend the rally on Sesame Street later on this week, to show support for the Muppets. Remember: we are trying to destroy Bert, not all the Muppets.
Bert's last communication was a videotaped rant, calling on all "Muppets, puppets, marionettes and animated characters" to rise up and destroy civilization. He was last seen with cast members of Today's Special and The Great Space Coaster, asking for their support.
... and it told me almost nothing I need to know. OK, thanks for letting me know it's broken. And I agree with you, copy protection is a bad idea. But what about the game itself?
I especially didn't appreciate how you spent the entire final three paragraphs reviewing your own review, patting yourself on the back for being courageous enough to tell it like it is.
I'm a fan of the Myst series, too. So what about the game? What did you think of the storyline? You couldn't run Myst III. Did you give up? When you say Ubisoft is "stringing customers along," does that mean something happened to you, personally? Or is based on hearsay and online message forums?
Your review was utterly biased towards Wintel users. Do you know if Mac users will have the same kind of problems?
Hypercard was a great, easy-to-use, groundbreaking program. I once wrote a series of web server CGI's with it! (I passed info back and forth between Webstar and Hypercard by using Applescript.)
But I sure couldn't recommend to Apple that they spend development dollars on renovating this program.
First, what about the Cocoa / Interface Builder tool on OS X? Talk about powerful GUI building & rapid app development.
Second, as others have mentioned, there are already plenty of third-party options that come close to (or surpass) Hypercard in function, power, and ease. Apple should instead spend a little money on convincing them to port their software to OS X, as opposed to spending money on porting Hypercard -- a very nice, but aged and now superfluous -- media authoring tool.
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I just don't think this is true. I'd bet you that NONE of the sitting Supreme Court Justices would agree with you. The Constitution has a self-implied responsibility to protect ITSELF, that is, to ensure its longevity and protection from destruction. It is not "absolute." It is CONSTITUTIONALLY based on the interpretation of the Supreme Court. And look at those guys! Do you think they're going to "interpret" that, as you say, even if it leads to nuclear war or more terrorism, it's "TOO BAD"? No way. They're going to come down against terrorism every time. And they have that right -- the Supreme Court is every much a part of the Constitution as the 1st Amendment is!
This is based on the argument that
is sufficiently cloudy on access to information about airports, nuclear reactors and power stations. I see "freedom of speech" in there, but I don't see "freedom of access to information" present. I don't see how "Speech = access to info". Perhaps you could enlighten me.
Hold on here. Why do you need detailed information about nuclear reactors or airports? These are government installations and are currently thought to be very vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
The Constitution does not, anywhere, guarantee "freedom of information." Further, our country is not only beholden to the Constitution, it is bound by hundreds of years of precedent-setting legal cases, legislation, and military and common law. I believe there is a legally demonstrable *CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER* to allowing just anyone to have access to this kind of information.
If you're writing a paper, doing a scientific study or have some other legitimate reason to access this information, you could probably get permission to access it. Otherwise, no, you don't need to know about it right now. And yes, I think the government has the right to keep certain information secret to protect lives.
Where the fuck did anyone get the idea that the Constitution permits an absolute right to access this kind of information?
Oh my fucking god. If I hear one more person complain about the misuse of the term "hacker" vs "cracker" I'm going to scream.
This argument is essentially the same as hearing a high school kid tell you "I'm not a skater, I'm a stoner." It's just a matter of semantics, and one that most people don't really care about anyway.
To most people, the word "hacker" denotes illegal activity. OK? You can argue all you want about what label gets slapped on you. But most people in the country hear "hacker", they think of some fat white guy trying to do illegal shit with a computer. IT IS TIME TO ACCEPT THIS AND MOVE ON TO MORE IMPORTANT BATTLES.
If you are fighting a battle to educate the world that "hackers" are harmless and "crackers" are evil, you are wasting your time on a meaningless fight. To most people, it's the exact difference between "trekkers" and "trekkies" -- who gives a fuck? Just stay out of computers that don't belong to you.
There are more important things going on right now, people. Don't rehash this whole stupid "i'm a hacker, he's a cracker" argument. Give that one up. Focus on the important shit. And believe me, there's plenty of important shit.
Thanks, and hey, it's OK because I'm becoming increasingly convinced that actually, the Slashdot moderation scoring system deserves a "+1 Funny" because it is a total fucking joke.
In this time of crisis, we need to be very careful not to show hatred or violence to other Muppets. Just because Bert wants to destroy humanity, that doesn't mean all the Muppets do. In fact, the majority of Muppets are peace-loving citizens.
I know you've all read the news stories by now. Someone shouted "Dirty Muppet!" and threw a bottle at Grover as he was crossing the street.
Ernie is under 24-hour protection at an undisclosed location. And in the most perverse story of all, someone tried to force-bathe Oscar the Grouch.
I hope you'll all attend the rally on Sesame Street later on this week, to show support for the Muppets. Remember: we are trying to destroy Bert, not all the Muppets.
Bert's last communication was a videotaped rant, calling on all "Muppets, puppets, marionettes and animated characters" to rise up and destroy civilization. He was last seen with cast members of Today's Special and The Great Space Coaster, asking for their support.
... and it told me almost nothing I need to know. OK, thanks for letting me know it's broken. And I agree with you, copy protection is a bad idea. But what about the game itself?
I especially didn't appreciate how you spent the entire final three paragraphs reviewing your own review, patting yourself on the back for being courageous enough to tell it like it is.
I'm a fan of the Myst series, too. So what about the game? What did you think of the storyline? You couldn't run Myst III. Did you give up? When you say Ubisoft is "stringing customers along," does that mean something happened to you, personally? Or is based on hearsay and online message forums?
Your review was utterly biased towards Wintel users. Do you know if Mac users will have the same kind of problems?
Hypercard was a great, easy-to-use, groundbreaking program. I once wrote a series of web server CGI's with it! (I passed info back and forth between Webstar and Hypercard by using Applescript.)
But I sure couldn't recommend to Apple that they spend development dollars on renovating this program.
First, what about the Cocoa / Interface Builder tool on OS X? Talk about powerful GUI building & rapid app development.
Second, as others have mentioned, there are already plenty of third-party options that come close to (or surpass) Hypercard in function, power, and ease. Apple should instead spend a little money on convincing them to port their software to OS X, as opposed to spending money on porting Hypercard -- a very nice, but aged and now superfluous -- media authoring tool.
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