I was writing an email to a friend in Entourage and used the term "kickass" which Entourage flagged as being a misspelled word. One of the alternatives it suggested was "kikes."
I wonder if this is one of the words they will be getting rid of.
Postal was a decent game...I played it on the mac and quite enjoyed it, especially the holiday expansion pack ("Don't shoot Santa!") but I have to think Loki is doing this to raise their PR level...even bad PR is good PR when you're stuck in chapter 11.
Or perhaps its just a harbinger of things to come from their programmers.
Is there so little going on that we are forced to trot out a story from yesterday with no further clarification than before?
I thought/. stories only got repeated when two editors who don't read/. post the same thing. Now they are knowingly reposting stories? I didn't realize slashdot had a sweeps week.
I have no idea what would be involved in an undertaking such as this, but porting the MAME code to ps/2 would absolutel rock. One disc could hold a ton of games (especially if it were DVD-R). It might also make for a good first project...a port as opposed to a ground up rewrite.
It was interesting to see Slashdot move from a secondary source to a primary source. Throughout the day, I would check it for updates that folks had posted, and to all those individuals who constantly posted working links. I spoke with my wife several times throughout the day, and as she was only familiar with the standard sources (CNN, MSNBC, etc) I was able to give her URL's that worked. While those kept changing throughout the day, Slashdot remained available and useful.
Kudos to the slashdot team for their tireless efforts here...while work came to a halt everywhere, you guys managed to troubleshoot problems that would have given ordinary people fits on an average day. I am amazed at how quickly you adapted and improved, even though you no doubt would have preferred just to watch TV in saddened silence like the rest of us.
This is one of the least understandable stories I have seen on here. I guess it is up to us to speculate what the hell that article means. There is definitely something we aren't being told here. To say they are remvoving the software because it is an expensive industry to be in (for their customers) does not make a lot of sense.
As near as I can tell it boils down to this: They fear being sued by a customer that lost a lot of money because of their software. Sounds like a smoke screen to me.
It seems that the human body may end up a bit more compact after a 10,000 g acceleration. If that's the case, the astronauts had better carry pictures of themselves to Mars, so that the martians won't think we are all a bunch of toothless midgets.
This isn't a case of libel. Libel involves a published, malicious statement, and in most cases requires that the publisher knows it isn't true. If they knew it wasn't true, they would not have bothered. A mistake in fact is hardly libel. To say that they did it "for the express purpose of causing damage to that citizen" is wildly presumptuous. They did it because they felt that citizen was breaking the law. were they wrong about it? Perhaps. I would say the guy has a good case for getting credited for two days of lost service, but beyond that it is unlikely he will get any relief.
One would however like to think that ISP's would do their own research before shutting down access willy nilly. However, internet access isn't a right. People seem to forget that due process is only guaranteed in the courts. Furthermore, the ISP's agreement most likely has some sort of clause specifying the relationship as "at will", meaning they can end it at any time without reason. You add all this up and you have an unfortunate mistake, but one that appears to have been remedied quickly.
In the Spring of 1994, an 18-year-old Michael Fay, was caned in Singapore for spray painting cars. Many in the United States expressed outrage at the primitive brutality of the punishment.
You're confusing the issues here...the case of the Fay kid was one of punishment, not crime. The kid broke the law, and deserved to be punished. At issue was how he should be punished. The Dmitry case is not a question of punishement, but of crime...and all signs point to the idea that Dmitry did in fact break the law. A bad law? That is for the courts to decide, and right now Dmitry is the only one who has standing to challenge that law.
If no one is ever charged with breaking a law, the courts are powerless to throw it out. That is one of the reasons so many outdated and silly laws still exist. No one is charged with the crime so it never comes up for apellate review. Dmitry really needs to be convicted in order for the courts to strike down all or part of the DMCA.
As far as sequels better than the original, I have to go with Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo. Far better character development than the frst, and a Steinbeck-meets-Oscar Wilde plot. And who could forget Adolfo Quinones' reprise of Ozone, the street smart rebel with a heart of gold.
What happens when you get a sample of some General's voice and then use a synthesiser to call up the poor kid on guard duty and get him to let a bunch of terrorists enter the base?
Obviously if this does happen, then all their bases...aww, forget it. --
The point they seem to be missing is that most video gamers are not capable of the moves they do in video games. Fast paced fighting of any sort requires training and a degree of athleticism that most gamers likely don't have (Katz's assertions not withstanding). Ultimately these video games are about fantasy. Look at any decent combo in Tekken and try to figure out how to replicate it...it won't be easy. And if your motions don't actually need to replicate the moves in the games, then what's the point? Some kid will merely think he can fight like a Shao Lin, right up until he gets his ass kicked as he realizes his Riverdance-like moves don't actually do any damage in the analog world. --
You can avoid this problem by doing what I do...vigilantly maintain maxed-out, shitty credit. That way no one can make charges to existing accounts or open new ones.
Thank god I got a head start on this in college. Little did I know when I was buying rounds for my friends that i was actually safeguarding my identity. --
You might want to try contacting the computer crimes division of your local police department. they may be able to take the emails, look at the headers for the ip it was sent from, determine which isp (unless they are using yours) it came from, and see if the isp has either a) a caller id number for the time the email was sent or b) the username on the account (assuming it wasn't yours). Of course, all this requires warrants and such (rightfully so), so you probably won't get too far. But it would be worth a phone call to find out IMO. --
I used to see sports reporters use these all the time when I was in college. All they needed to do was hook up the phone line to send their story. Meanwhile, we were using our more cumbersome windows laptops, trying to get PC Anywhere to cooperate. What I would have given for one of those things.
My point is, as long as there are POTS lines, these things will have a place. --
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Maybe this guy is smarter than we give him credit for...by writing an article showing off his ignorance, he can now take a tax deduction on all the equipment he bought.
Of course if ignorance were tax deductible for everyone, the government would surely go broke. --
I suppose its en vogue to bash the big corporation, but in reality all they could do was use the law as written to defend their rights. The final determination was made by the FBI that a crime had in fact taken place. I think to expect them to sit back and watch while someone explains how to crack their encryption and do nothing when a legal remedy exists is unrealistic. --
This is how laws get changed. Geeks bitching on message boards don't change a thing. But someone accused of breaking a bad law and one that may be unconstitutional...Dmitry has a chance of making a difference. If convicted, he will have standing to challenge the law as written. So don't complain that he got arrested; thats how the law works. You break it, you get arrested. But _do_ complain loudly about the law itself. Perhaps there is a defense fund for him. Donate to it. That is the only thing that will likely make a difference here.
Some other ideas that may make a small difference:
Make sure your local media is covering this. Write your congressman. Buy a senator. Write a letter to the editor. Find Alan Dershowitz's email address and write him. --
Good point. I suppose Empower could also be taken as "M" Power. Very interesting...
Of course, it still doesn't answer the "why linux on a Palm" question. Perhaps one could use several palms together...in some sort of "cluster"...but what to call it.... --
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Am I the only one that thought of the new South Park character upon reading that headline?
"Can you imagine what it would be like to be way way too dry?"
I was writing an email to a friend in Entourage and used the term "kickass" which Entourage flagged as being a misspelled word. One of the alternatives it suggested was "kikes."
I wonder if this is one of the words they will be getting rid of.
How I yearn for those halcyon days of July 2001. A simpler, more innocent time.
AltaVista lets me visit there.
Postal was a decent game...I played it on the mac and quite enjoyed it, especially the holiday expansion pack ("Don't shoot Santa!") but I have to think Loki is doing this to raise their PR level...even bad PR is good PR when you're stuck in chapter 11.
Or perhaps its just a harbinger of things to come from their programmers.
Is there so little going on that we are forced to trot out a story from yesterday with no further clarification than before?
/. stories only got repeated when two editors who don't read /. post the same thing. Now they are knowingly reposting stories? I didn't realize slashdot had a sweeps week.
I thought
I have no idea what would be involved in an undertaking such as this, but porting the MAME code to ps/2 would absolutel rock. One disc could hold a ton of games (especially if it were DVD-R). It might also make for a good first project...a port as opposed to a ground up rewrite.
It was interesting to see Slashdot move from a secondary source to a primary source. Throughout the day, I would check it for updates that folks had posted, and to all those individuals who constantly posted working links. I spoke with my wife several times throughout the day, and as she was only familiar with the standard sources (CNN, MSNBC, etc) I was able to give her URL's that worked. While those kept changing throughout the day, Slashdot remained available and useful.
Kudos to the slashdot team for their tireless efforts here...while work came to a halt everywhere, you guys managed to troubleshoot problems that would have given ordinary people fits on an average day. I am amazed at how quickly you adapted and improved, even though you no doubt would have preferred just to watch TV in saddened silence like the rest of us.
This is one of the least understandable stories I have seen on here. I guess it is up to us to speculate what the hell that article means. There is definitely something we aren't being told here. To say they are remvoving the software because it is an expensive industry to be in (for their customers) does not make a lot of sense.
As near as I can tell it boils down to this: They fear being sued by a customer that lost a lot of money because of their software. Sounds like a smoke screen to me.
What a great game...although aside from teaching them that if they don't bathe they will die from a snakebite, I'm not sure how much this will help.
It seems that the human body may end up a bit more compact after a 10,000 g acceleration. If that's the case, the astronauts had better carry pictures of themselves to Mars, so that the martians won't think we are all a bunch of toothless midgets.
This isn't a case of libel. Libel involves a published, malicious statement, and in most cases requires that the publisher knows it isn't true. If they knew it wasn't true, they would not have bothered. A mistake in fact is hardly libel. To say that they did it "for the express purpose of causing damage to that citizen" is wildly presumptuous. They did it because they felt that citizen was breaking the law. were they wrong about it? Perhaps. I would say the guy has a good case for getting credited for two days of lost service, but beyond that it is unlikely he will get any relief.
One would however like to think that ISP's would do their own research before shutting down access willy nilly. However, internet access isn't a right. People seem to forget that due process is only guaranteed in the courts. Furthermore, the ISP's agreement most likely has some sort of clause specifying the relationship as "at will", meaning they can end it at any time without reason. You add all this up and you have an unfortunate mistake, but one that appears to have been remedied quickly.
In the Spring of 1994, an 18-year-old Michael Fay, was caned in Singapore for spray painting cars. Many in the United States expressed outrage at the primitive brutality of the punishment.
You're confusing the issues here...the case of the Fay kid was one of punishment, not crime. The kid broke the law, and deserved to be punished. At issue was how he should be punished. The Dmitry case is not a question of punishement, but of crime...and all signs point to the idea that Dmitry did in fact break the law. A bad law? That is for the courts to decide, and right now Dmitry is the only one who has standing to challenge that law.
If no one is ever charged with breaking a law, the courts are powerless to throw it out. That is one of the reasons so many outdated and silly laws still exist. No one is charged with the crime so it never comes up for apellate review. Dmitry really needs to be convicted in order for the courts to strike down all or part of the DMCA.
As far as sequels better than the original, I have to go with Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo. Far better character development than the frst, and a Steinbeck-meets-Oscar Wilde plot. And who could forget Adolfo Quinones' reprise of Ozone, the street smart rebel with a heart of gold.
Simply brilliant.
What happens when you get a sample of some General's voice and then use a synthesiser to call up the poor kid on guard duty and get him to let a bunch of terrorists enter the base?
Obviously if this does happen, then all their bases...aww, forget it.
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Seem's like a perfect opportunity for TLC to do one of their shows featuring cold-case detectives. Ha ha ha.
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The point they seem to be missing is that most video gamers are not capable of the moves they do in video games. Fast paced fighting of any sort requires training and a degree of athleticism that most gamers likely don't have (Katz's assertions not withstanding). Ultimately these video games are about fantasy. Look at any decent combo in Tekken and try to figure out how to replicate it...it won't be easy. And if your motions don't actually need to replicate the moves in the games, then what's the point? Some kid will merely think he can fight like a Shao Lin, right up until he gets his ass kicked as he realizes his Riverdance-like moves don't actually do any damage in the analog world.
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You can avoid this problem by doing what I do...vigilantly maintain maxed-out, shitty credit. That way no one can make charges to existing accounts or open new ones. Thank god I got a head start on this in college. Little did I know when I was buying rounds for my friends that i was actually safeguarding my identity.
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I was going to change my birth date to something else, but all the others were taken. This is worse than trying to get an AOL screen name.
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You might want to try contacting the computer crimes division of your local police department. they may be able to take the emails, look at the headers for the ip it was sent from, determine which isp (unless they are using yours) it came from, and see if the isp has either a) a caller id number for the time the email was sent or b) the username on the account (assuming it wasn't yours). Of course, all this requires warrants and such (rightfully so), so you probably won't get too far. But it would be worth a phone call to find out IMO.
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I used to see sports reporters use these all the time when I was in college. All they needed to do was hook up the phone line to send their story. Meanwhile, we were using our more cumbersome windows laptops, trying to get PC Anywhere to cooperate. What I would have given for one of those things.
My point is, as long as there are POTS lines, these things will have a place.
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Maybe this guy is smarter than we give him credit for...by writing an article showing off his ignorance, he can now take a tax deduction on all the equipment he bought. Of course if ignorance were tax deductible for everyone, the government would surely go broke.
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This doesn't really seem to shed any light on the previous articles about this. Is this just another excuse to slap Microsoft around a little bit?
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I suppose its en vogue to bash the big corporation, but in reality all they could do was use the law as written to defend their rights. The final determination was made by the FBI that a crime had in fact taken place. I think to expect them to sit back and watch while someone explains how to crack their encryption and do nothing when a legal remedy exists is unrealistic.
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This is how laws get changed. Geeks bitching on message boards don't change a thing. But someone accused of breaking a bad law and one that may be unconstitutional...Dmitry has a chance of making a difference. If convicted, he will have standing to challenge the law as written. So don't complain that he got arrested; thats how the law works. You break it, you get arrested. But _do_ complain loudly about the law itself. Perhaps there is a defense fund for him. Donate to it. That is the only thing that will likely make a difference here.
Some other ideas that may make a small difference:
Make sure your local media is covering this. Write your congressman. Buy a senator. Write a letter to the editor. Find Alan Dershowitz's email address and write him.
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Good point. I suppose Empower could also be taken as "M" Power. Very interesting...
Of course, it still doesn't answer the "why linux on a Palm" question. Perhaps one could use several palms together...in some sort of "cluster"...but what to call it....
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