"only call and recieve calls"? wtf? what else do you want a phone to do, phone-wise? for everything else, you have the linux. play games, run office applications, watch movies, surf the web (assuming some sort of networking is available).
the only other hardware you might see in a phone these days is a camera, and i can damn well do without that.
I am curious just how bright the screen might be... I used a small lens to project my GP2X screen (3.5") onto the back of a bus seat with an approx 11" diagonal viewing area and it still had better contrast than I (an admitted non-videophile) need. I would love to try the same with this little gadget.
I missed the registration deadline AGAIN. I had an excuse last year, I had never lived in a state with a deadline before. This year it's all my fault, but it still sucks.
Wine is cool occasionally for a few old games, but if you really want to support linux gaming then only play linux games. More and more great games are linux native these days. Support the companies that make them, give them your feedback and your money.
Existing "modern" (read: not something a windows gamer would call "crappy linux game") games that I play on native linux clients every week: Neverwinter Nights UT 2004 Quake 4 (and 3) Doom 3 Savage Enemy Territory Medal of Honor
Upcoming awesome linux native games: Savage 2 UT 2007 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
The console wars are making companies put more work into making portable games, that can only help the number of linux ports.
Right now I am doing nothing particularly special. I have 6 virtual desktops. 1 is kvirc and a terminal. 2 is firefox (11 tabs), azureus, kate, thunderbird, gftp, and a terminal app with 2 tabs. 3 is kate and 4 terminals, each with 2 tabs, this is my code development environment, currently with all sorts of gimp stuff open. 4 is openoffice with 4 windows (writer, writer, calc, impress). 5 is empty, its where games go. 6 is actually running gimp under development on 3.
Desktop 2 is cluttered because I recently downgraded from 9 desktops and it was where most of the missing stuff ended up. I will likely move azureus and thunderbird over with kvirc on desktop 1, and single-window my kate with whats on desktop 3 some time soon.
That is a total of 18 windows (counting gimp as one), with about 30 "tabs" (browser tabs, files open in kate, tabbed terminals). This is my average load. At any given time I may have a few terminals closed, or more or less tabs, or extra software running for whatever.
PS: Of course I also have a half dozen things running in the KDE kicker panel, system monitor, calendar, etc.
Does PEBKAC include you not reading the description of the problem? He wasn't talking about the main page, or the search page. He was talking about the two-frame page you get after clicking on a single search result, the one with the image and 'see see full size' link at the top, and the source page at the bottom.
He didn't have to forge a boarding pass. 18 USC 2 says that simply by aiding someone else to forge a boarding pass he is himself guilty of the same crime. For crimes against anyone except the government you have to criminally conspire to be guilty of A crime, and probably not even the same crime as the guy who actually 'pulled the trigger'. But for crimes against government agencies the two are combined. The question is where you draw the line for "aids". If Schumer did then Soghoian did. If Soghoian didn't then Schumer didn't. I happen to think that they both did. A jury might think differently. I also think that a number of the laws in this chain are downright wrong and overly broad.
Possibly. If so, it is moot, since 18 USC 2 only makes aiding in the commission of a crime itself a crime if the base crime is against "the United States" (elsewhere defined as any governmental agency, in this case the base crime is defined in law as being against the TSA). Without that law then you have to prove conspiracy, which has a much higher burden.
Anyone using the tool is committing a crime. Are you saying that the author of the tool did not participate in "planning and executing" the use of the tool?
I wish I could kick kdawson's ass. My very first story submission to be accepted, and he ruins all my links. The UTF8 garbage in the URLs is whatever his editor did to the "----" substrings.
Boiling down some of the legalese, the charges (if any are filed) will be "conspiracy to knowingly present a false and fictitious claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof in violation of USC 18 (secs. 2, 371, 1036, 1343, 2318) and USC 49 (secs. 46314 and 46316) and 49 CFR (secs. 1540.103 and 1540.105)" (edited for brevity).
kdawson broke my links in whatever he uses to "edit". the UTF8 characters near the end (prior to "000") should be "----" instead of whatever his editor rendered them into.
Unfortunately, saving someone 90 seconds while they break the law qualifies as "aiding in the commission of a crime". All the getaway driver is doing is saving them 30 minutes of walking home from the bank.
I would like to see a site that normalizes other sites' rankings. Take every score that gamemagazine.com has given and fit it to a bell curve, then adjust that curve to a Normal distribution from 0% to 100%.
There is no "actual Game" in Second Life. It is just a world. All there is to do is build and trade stuff. BUT, thousands of people build stuff that you can interact with to play whatever games they have coded. There are thousands of board games, interactive shooters and rpgs, etc. And you can write your own games if you want. Build a hedge maze, stock it with dragons, and set people loose in it.
$5000 per machine? Why? A $100 PC in a $50 arcade cabinet with a $20 printer could do everything that a perfect voting machine needs to do, and thats thrown together from consumer parts. If someone isn't building this 'perfect' voting machine for under $200 then something is wrong.
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"only call and recieve calls"? wtf? what else do you want a phone to do, phone-wise? for everything else, you have the linux. play games, run office applications, watch movies, surf the web (assuming some sort of networking is available).
the only other hardware you might see in a phone these days is a camera, and i can damn well do without that.
I am curious just how bright the screen might be... I used a small lens to project my GP2X screen (3.5") onto the back of a bus seat with an approx 11" diagonal viewing area and it still had better contrast than I (an admitted non-videophile) need. I would love to try the same with this little gadget.
Since there are wheelchairs that can climb stairs now, I would have no problem NOT putting in mini-elevators on my 3-step staircases.
Nope, 30 days before or nada here. Sucks.
Everyone knows you are supposed to let the cat click Accept, just in case some crazy judge somewhere rules click-through licenses binding some day.
I missed the registration deadline AGAIN. I had an excuse last year, I had never lived in a state with a deadline before. This year it's all my fault, but it still sucks.
Wine is cool occasionally for a few old games, but if you really want to support linux gaming then only play linux games. More and more great games are linux native these days. Support the companies that make them, give them your feedback and your money.
Existing "modern" (read: not something a windows gamer would call "crappy linux game") games that I play on native linux clients every week:
Neverwinter Nights
UT 2004
Quake 4 (and 3)
Doom 3
Savage
Enemy Territory
Medal of Honor
Upcoming awesome linux native games:
Savage 2
UT 2007
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
The console wars are making companies put more work into making portable games, that can only help the number of linux ports.
hail fellow munchkin, it is good to be among friends.
Right now I am doing nothing particularly special. I have 6 virtual desktops. 1 is kvirc and a terminal. 2 is firefox (11 tabs), azureus, kate, thunderbird, gftp, and a terminal app with 2 tabs. 3 is kate and 4 terminals, each with 2 tabs, this is my code development environment, currently with all sorts of gimp stuff open. 4 is openoffice with 4 windows (writer, writer, calc, impress). 5 is empty, its where games go. 6 is actually running gimp under development on 3.
Desktop 2 is cluttered because I recently downgraded from 9 desktops and it was where most of the missing stuff ended up. I will likely move azureus and thunderbird over with kvirc on desktop 1, and single-window my kate with whats on desktop 3 some time soon.
That is a total of 18 windows (counting gimp as one), with about 30 "tabs" (browser tabs, files open in kate, tabbed terminals). This is my average load. At any given time I may have a few terminals closed, or more or less tabs, or extra software running for whatever.
PS: Of course I also have a half dozen things running in the KDE kicker panel, system monitor, calendar, etc.
The Future Is Now.
Does PEBKAC include you not reading the description of the problem? He wasn't talking about the main page, or the search page. He was talking about the two-frame page you get after clicking on a single search result, the one with the image and 'see see full size' link at the top, and the source page at the bottom.
He didn't have to forge a boarding pass. 18 USC 2 says that simply by aiding someone else to forge a boarding pass he is himself guilty of the same crime. For crimes against anyone except the government you have to criminally conspire to be guilty of A crime, and probably not even the same crime as the guy who actually 'pulled the trigger'. But for crimes against government agencies the two are combined. The question is where you draw the line for "aids". If Schumer did then Soghoian did. If Soghoian didn't then Schumer didn't. I happen to think that they both did. A jury might think differently. I also think that a number of the laws in this chain are downright wrong and overly broad.
Possibly. If so, it is moot, since 18 USC 2 only makes aiding in the commission of a crime itself a crime if the base crime is against "the United States" (elsewhere defined as any governmental agency, in this case the base crime is defined in law as being against the TSA). Without that law then you have to prove conspiracy, which has a much higher burden.
Anyone using the tool is committing a crime. Are you saying that the author of the tool did not participate in "planning and executing" the use of the tool?
I wish I could kick kdawson's ass. My very first story submission to be accepted, and he ruins all my links. The UTF8 garbage in the URLs is whatever his editor did to the "----" substrings.
Boiling down some of the legalese, the charges (if any are filed) will be "conspiracy to knowingly present a false and fictitious claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof in violation of USC 18 (secs. 2, 371, 1036, 1343, 2318) and USC 49 (secs. 46314 and 46316) and 49 CFR (secs. 1540.103 and 1540.105)" (edited for brevity).
The conspiracy part doesnt come into play. Follow this logic (new links, since kdawson broke all the links in my original story):
Forging boarding passes is illegal (49 CFR 1540.103)
His site aided people in forging boarding passes.
Aiding in the commission of a crime against the US Govt carries the same penalties as committing the same crime yourself (18 USC 2).
Pretty straightforward. Arguing loopholes is left to the lawyers, but this isnt exactly "legalese".
kdawson broke my links in whatever he uses to "edit". the UTF8 characters near the end (prior to "000") should be "----" instead of whatever his editor rendered them into.
Unfortunately, saving someone 90 seconds while they break the law qualifies as "aiding in the commission of a crime". All the getaway driver is doing is saving them 30 minutes of walking home from the bank.
I would like to see a site that normalizes other sites' rankings. Take every score that gamemagazine.com has given and fit it to a bell curve, then adjust that curve to a Normal distribution from 0% to 100%.
Can you cite the requirement?
Andy Looney had a similar concept, with a 55 word limit.
Nanofiction
Replacing an "and" in the law with an "or" in your interpretation definitely gives you a lot of room to make shit up.
There is no "actual Game" in Second Life. It is just a world. All there is to do is build and trade stuff. BUT, thousands of people build stuff that you can interact with to play whatever games they have coded. There are thousands of board games, interactive shooters and rpgs, etc. And you can write your own games if you want. Build a hedge maze, stock it with dragons, and set people loose in it.
$5000 per machine? Why? A $100 PC in a $50 arcade cabinet with a $20 printer could do everything that a perfect voting machine needs to do, and thats thrown together from consumer parts. If someone isn't building this 'perfect' voting machine for under $200 then something is wrong.
I think you are a little behind.