Re:Virtual rape = RL sexual assault
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That's why I chose the subject line carefully. I consider it to be a sexual assault. It becomes tricky where one or more of the players is not the same sex as their character, though.
If the game designers don't want virtual rape in their game, then they are perfectly empowered to make it impossible.
From the article, I get the impression that the offender hacked the game to make it possible, or at least easier ("used a coding trick to control them and then sodomized them").
Committing a sexual assault in an online game should be an offence in the real world, because it has real-world effects. It could be dealt with in-game by giving the offender a really bad STD, in addition to in-game police. In a fantasy game, they could take a leaf from the Glorantha game world, and have the rapist transform into a hairy goat-headed monster (this doesn't always happen, but it can happen to repeat offenders).
He's not talking about direct ripoff copies, but of someone hiring a hundred Indian graduates to churn out a workalike in three months. In some ways, there's very little difference between software and a physical device.
My brother's wife, who lived in China until about 3 years ago, is in her twenties, and she can read traditional Chinese fairly well. She doesn't think this is unusual for young Chinese. She can't write it, though.
Not to mention the different Chinese "dialects" (though the very usage of the word dialect is wrong because they aren't dialects but entirely differnet languages that use the same writing system)
There are two writing systems, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. Simplified Chinese is used in mainland China, traditional is used in Hong Kong and the New Territories. Basically, the symbol has a meaning, although that symbol is pronounced very differently in different regions. Most Mandarin Chinese can write Simplified and read both, but southerners can mostly only read Traditional. So, if it were translated into Traditional Chinese, nearly all Chinese could read it.
It shouldn't be too hard to rig up a bot program to the controls of a DK arcade machine. If you can write bots to automate Diablo II, then DK shouldn't be a problem. That would tell us if 1 million were possible.
Whose copyright?!? Surely, if is a GNU copyright notice, then SCO shouldn't be claiming the code.
Just because someone slaps a GPL on someone's code and distributes it, that doesn't take away the owner's rights. Whether or not SCO gave away their copyright when they distributed Linux is something of a grey area.
But the licence linked to in the previous story doesn't contain any language that would prohibit MS from downloading it and sueing him! What's his point?
They have released the full source to Qt on Linux under the GPL.
They have implemented a Windows graphics layer that allows Qt applications to run on Windows. They have not released this under the GPL, which is their right.
I wonder how much work would be involved in implementing a Windows graphics layer for Qt.
What happens when they need to make an emergency landing and there's a "soft wall" around the best landing spot?
Not too hard - the 'plane should broadcast the soft-wall violation, and the local air traffic control can decide whether or not to adjust the parameters or not. That's where a hacking vulnerability could be found - social engineering.
The U.S. was always dilligent and careful, mistakes were made due to the state of the art, not sloppiness. China's record of corruption and cutting corners on state projects is appalling. I'm really not looking forward to the Three Gorges dam filling up, I've heard a lot of scare stories about sloppy construction. (I just checked, it's full enough to test the generators now)
Okay, maybe you're right - in the books, shadow squares are the same material. Maybe they don't need to be.
The shadow squares rotate either slightly faster or slightly slower than the ring, but they're a lot closer to the sun, so their natural orbital period is slower than their rotation speed by a smaller proportion than the ring's. Maybe that would lead to lower stresses.
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Committing a sexual assault in an online game should be an offence in the real world, because it has real-world effects. It could be dealt with in-game by giving the offender a really bad STD, in addition to in-game police. In a fantasy game, they could take a leaf from the Glorantha game world, and have the rapist transform into a hairy goat-headed monster (this doesn't always happen, but it can happen to repeat offenders).
He's not talking about direct ripoff copies, but of someone hiring a hundred Indian graduates to churn out a workalike in three months. In some ways, there's very little difference between software and a physical device.
My brother's wife, who lived in China until about 3 years ago, is in her twenties, and she can read traditional Chinese fairly well. She doesn't think this is unusual for young Chinese. She can't write it, though.
No, copyright law still precludes this. A publisher has bought the rights to sell the translation, and you're taking their market away.
You're right, I failed to understand the issue.
It shouldn't be too hard to rig up a bot program to the controls of a DK arcade machine. If you can write bots to automate Diablo II, then DK shouldn't be a problem. That would tell us if 1 million were possible.
But the licence linked to in the previous story doesn't contain any language that would prohibit MS from downloading it and sueing him! What's his point?
Um... okay, I'm being dumb. It's later here than it is over there. It's 7pm and I'm still at work!
They have released the full source to Qt on Linux under the GPL.
They have implemented a Windows graphics layer that allows Qt applications to run on Windows. They have not released this under the GPL, which is their right.
I wonder how much work would be involved in implementing a Windows graphics layer for Qt.
Maybe they want the right kind of people to find the flaws, so it can be fixed.
The U.S. was always dilligent and careful, mistakes were made due to the state of the art, not sloppiness. China's record of corruption and cutting corners on state projects is appalling. I'm really not looking forward to the Three Gorges dam filling up, I've heard a lot of scare stories about sloppy construction. (I just checked, it's full enough to test the generators now)
but going by China's record on safety, I expect there's going to be some pretty fireworks.
Okay, maybe you're right - in the books, shadow squares are the same material. Maybe they don't need to be.
The shadow squares rotate either slightly faster or slightly slower than the ring, but they're a lot closer to the sun, so their natural orbital period is slower than their rotation speed by a smaller proportion than the ring's. Maybe that would lead to lower stresses.
Oops, my mistake.
Especially given that the Vorbis format supports bitrate peeling.
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