In other news, Google may be releasing their own branded digital toilet. A toilet that lets you "log in" to your Google account before you do your business would allow Google's complex waste analysis algorithms (codenamed CrapSense) to serve up relevant ads (printed on GTicker toilet paper) based on what you have eaten recently, your hydration level, or anything else Google can track.
Who here honestly thinks requiring the CD in the drive actually helps prevent piracy? Anyone? All it takes is one enterprising programmer to start up the game with a debugger active, and NOOP out the part where it checks for the CD. Then, suddenly, EVERYONE has access to the game!
EVERYONE does not get access to the game. There are a lot of people who would have no clue how to go to gamecopyworld, find the crack for the right version, rename the old exe, and install it. Beyond that, there are a lot of people who do know how, but are worried about getting a rootkit or a virus or something like that.
So yeah, I think requiring the CD in the drive does help prevent piracy (even more so for games that feature online play) I agree that it's an irritant, it's just not one that would ever stop me from buying a game.
Which leads to two questions : who wrote this shit, and were they getting paid per syllable?
It was the same person that wrote the dialogue for research breakthroughs in Alpha Centauri.
the text-based shell is the nexus of computational control and the point at which proper articulation of will can transform commands into consequences - Col. Corazon Santiago Spartan Programmer's Manual
The other problem here is that under the law, lawyers are officers of the court, and as such, judges are to hold them accountable for filing frivolous lawsuits. More often than not, there is an Old Boy's Club mentality involved and many judges are not willing to reprimand a lawyer who is clearly unethical or seeking to seriously strain the intent of the law.
To compound the problem, most legislatures, the only government bodies with any real power to affect appointed judges, have refused to hold the judges accountable, and have instead, pretended to be powerless, even going so far as to hope that judges will legislate some of the more controversial things that they themselves would be risking re-election were they to try it. It's all rather sad.
Don't worry; I imagine our world is quickly converging on the day when if you can't honestly do both and feel good about it, you'll just need to blink twice to tell your implant to up the dose of your favorite psychotropic drug*.
* which will probably be named something like Happy or Bliss, which is kind of sad**...
** <blink> <blink>
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Of course, sure you can sniff my data with copper, but most likely you won't be doing it parked in front of my house, but rather at your own house which settles the whole notion of me dragging you out through your car window and kicking your ass there in the street.
This is how one man came to realize that the thing that actually ticked him off, was not packet sniffing, but curbside parking...
you never hear anyone even mention engineers in movies or tv series. it's got to do with the social culture of the states. 100% of the political leaders in China have an engineering or science degree. In the states? none! (source: IEEE spectrum magazine June 2005).
You have incorrectly interpreted the constitution as an enumeration of rights.
Can I ask where I did this?
It is an enumeration of what the government is allowed and not allowed to do
That's a bit simplistic. The constitution is definitely not an enumeration of rights; it is the document by which 13 sovereign states surrendered (and limited) some measure of their sovereignty to form a central government. The constitution is the document that defines the Central Government. Without it, the central government does not exist and has no legal power.
This document speaks nothing of natural rights.
Nor did I, except to refute the parent poster's statement that there are some natural rights that are considered to be inviolable. Regarding slavery, at least within the United States, that is not particularly true.
because there are some natural rights that are considered to be inviolable.
Like what?
Read the 13th Amendment, Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Prior to this document, a person could choose to be sold into slavery. After this was written, only the government could convict you into slavery. There was no recognition of a natural right. If anything, this amendment recognizes that our freedom is a gift of the government, and that beyond their will, we are not free at all.
As an aside, it has been noted many times, that income tax is a form of slavery, as the essence of slavery is to control (by force of arms or imprisonment) the product of a man and to choose (quite arbitrarily based on American history) what fruit of his labor he may keep for himself.
Quick, can someone post a current weather report for Hell, please?
It's windy here right now, Craig, but as you can see on the horizon, the storm clouds are gathering. As we go to the satellite, you can see in the southern region of Hell, Dvorak's comments have unleashed a massive cold front, which is quite different from the hot air that we're used to from him. That by itself wouldn't be a huge problem, but to the North, in Gehenna, we've got the fallout caused by the Slashdotter agreeing with Dvorak. We've never seen that before, and Craig, I don't have to tell you, nobody knows what these two systems will do when they get together. In the mean time I'll be here. Back to you, Craig.
I don't demand the existence of a God based on what I 'feel'
No one's talking about 'feel'-ing. That's a convenient word to debase those who disagree with you fundamentally enough. I think... they feel. I reason... they hope and dream
Open and subject to change based upon available evidence => faith in perceptions
Based upon a great deal of observational evidence as well as deductive reasoning => faith in perception again as well as faith in logic
You have faith. You believe your eyes work the same every day and that you see that same thing everyone else sees. You believe the reasonings of a chemical mind brought about by random chance and genetic mutation. You might just be dreaming. You might be crazy. You might not even exist, and I might be crazy (John Nash-like) sitting in a shed with newspaper strips fastened to the wall banging on a two-by-four instead of a keyboard.
I'm not trying to convert you. I'm just trying to point out that faith is at the center of all knowledge, that "knowledge recapitulates bias", and that bias, is a byproduct of faith.
It's all faith, no matter what you believe, no matter what you "know". At some point back in the chain of events there exist a number of things that cannot be "proved" anymore thant the existence of God can be "proved". You cannot put the moment of the universe's inception into a laboratory, you cannot put God into an analyzer. You know this. In the end, your belief in a version of the beginnings of the universe through faith and faith alone.
I can't remember if that article mentions it, but this will also force them to produce expansion packs with content sufficient to entice most players to purchase it. It puts the risk in the right place, for once. With most games, the risk is that you will buy the game and invest a hefty monthly fee only to potentially find that the company that made the game is not putting enough time and energy into fixing the prohlems and enhancing the games to make it enjoyable on an ongoing basis. (Or shorter and sweeter: you take all the risks)
With Guild Wars, besides the initial cost of the game, (which is no higher than with any other new MMORPG) all of the risk resides with NCSoft to keep the game compelling to a large audience and to produce content that will keep you buying into the game in the future. If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, you walk away and you've lost nothing.
I say, it's a good deal. YMMV. Good questions btw, skepticism is a good place to start.
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In other news, Google may be releasing their own branded digital toilet. A toilet that lets you "log in" to your Google account before you do your business would allow Google's complex waste analysis algorithms (codenamed CrapSense) to serve up relevant ads (printed on GTicker toilet paper) based on what you have eaten recently, your hydration level, or anything else Google can track.
Imagine the possibilities.
Who here honestly thinks requiring the CD in the drive actually helps prevent piracy? Anyone? All it takes is one enterprising programmer to start up the game with a debugger active, and NOOP out the part where it checks for the CD. Then, suddenly, EVERYONE has access to the game!
EVERYONE does not get access to the game. There are a lot of people who would have no clue how to go to gamecopyworld, find the crack for the right version, rename the old exe, and install it. Beyond that, there are a lot of people who do know how, but are worried about getting a rootkit or a virus or something like that.
So yeah, I think requiring the CD in the drive does help prevent piracy (even more so for games that feature online play) I agree that it's an irritant, it's just not one that would ever stop me from buying a game.
I like my name. It's been my identity. It's simultaneously an indicator of my taste in movies and what I do for hobbies.
Sadly, After you get hit by lightning, you'll change your name to Johnny5.
Which leads to two questions : who wrote this shit, and were they getting paid per syllable?
It was the same person that wrote the dialogue for research breakthroughs in Alpha Centauri.
the text-based shell is the nexus of computational control and the point at which proper articulation of will can transform commands into consequences
- Col. Corazon Santiago Spartan Programmer's Manual
Dragonflies and bees use resilin to beat their wings all day long
I like where this is going...
Yeah, Ornithopter, babeee!!!
and what is the name of this plugin that provides all the features of firefox?
[drumroll............]
It's name is... ahem... Firefox....
The other problem here is that under the law, lawyers are officers of the court, and as such, judges are to hold them accountable for filing frivolous lawsuits. More often than not, there is an Old Boy's Club mentality involved and many judges are not willing to reprimand a lawyer who is clearly unethical or seeking to seriously strain the intent of the law.
To compound the problem, most legislatures, the only government bodies with any real power to affect appointed judges, have refused to hold the judges accountable, and have instead, pretended to be powerless, even going so far as to hope that judges will legislate some of the more controversial things that they themselves would be risking re-election were they to try it. It's all rather sad.
Maybe i am new here, but what other kind of year is there other than sort years
Well, there's stable-sort years, which show up when history repeats itself.
I don't honestly know whether to laugh or cry
Don't worry; I imagine our world is quickly converging on the day when if you can't honestly do both and feel good
about it, you'll just need to blink twice to tell your implant to up the dose of your favorite psychotropic drug*.
* which will probably be named something like Happy or Bliss, which is kind of sad**...
** <blink> <blink>
Of course, sure you can sniff my data with copper, but most likely you won't be doing it parked in front of my house, but rather at your own house which settles the whole notion of me dragging you out through your car window and kicking your ass there in the street.
This is how one man came to realize that the thing that actually ticked him off, was not packet sniffing, but curbside parking...
And that children, concludes our Fairy Tale.
You consider the life of a virtual character equivalent to that of an actual person? How misguided.
Define actual.
you never hear anyone even mention engineers in movies or tv series. it's got to do with the social culture of the states. 100% of the political leaders in China have an engineering or science degree. In the states? none! (source: IEEE spectrum magazine June 2005).
Interested in living there?
Apparently the Marketing Dept in Hell is hiring again and this article is just a proof of concept.
Sun is ticked about their new slogan.
The mouse is the button.
You have incorrectly interpreted the constitution as an enumeration of rights.
Can I ask where I did this?
It is an enumeration of what the government is allowed and not allowed to do
That's a bit simplistic. The constitution is definitely not an enumeration of rights; it is the document by which 13 sovereign states surrendered (and limited) some measure of their sovereignty to form a central government. The constitution is the document that defines the Central Government. Without it, the central government does not exist and has no legal power.
This document speaks nothing of natural rights.
Nor did I, except to refute the parent poster's statement that there are some natural rights that are considered to be inviolable. Regarding slavery, at least within the United States, that is not particularly true.
because there are some natural rights that are considered to be inviolable.
Like what?
Read the 13th Amendment, Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Prior to this document, a person could choose to be sold into slavery. After this was written, only the government could convict you into slavery. There was no recognition of a natural right. If anything, this amendment recognizes that our freedom is a gift of the government, and that beyond their will, we are not free at all.
As an aside, it has been noted many times, that income tax is a form of slavery, as the essence of slavery is to control (by force of arms or imprisonment) the product of a man and to choose (quite arbitrarily based on American history) what fruit of his labor he may keep for himself.
You need to install Tabbrowser Extensions, my favorite Firefox extension.
Quick, can someone post a current weather report for Hell, please?
It's windy here right now, Craig, but as you can see on the horizon, the storm clouds are gathering. As we go to the satellite, you can see in the southern region of Hell, Dvorak's comments have unleashed a massive cold front, which is quite different from the hot air that we're used to from him. That by itself wouldn't be a huge problem, but to the North, in Gehenna, we've got the fallout caused by the Slashdotter agreeing with Dvorak. We've never seen that before, and Craig, I don't have to tell you, nobody knows what these two systems will do when they get together. In the mean time I'll be here. Back to you, Craig.
I think you made the parent post's point for him...
But there is nothing stopping big brother from 'asking' for the privately collected data. For whatever reason.
A lot of issues very quickly demonstrate how we should limit the government (Federal in particular) rather than placing limits elsewhere.
I don't demand the existence of a God based on what I 'feel'
No one's talking about 'feel'-ing. That's a convenient word to debase those who disagree with you fundamentally enough. I think... they feel. I reason... they hope and dream
Open and subject to change based upon available evidence => faith in perceptions
Based upon a great deal of observational evidence as well as deductive reasoning => faith in perception again as well as faith in logic
You have faith. You believe your eyes work the same every day and that you see that same thing everyone else sees. You believe the reasonings of a chemical mind brought about by random chance and genetic mutation. You might just be dreaming. You might be crazy. You might not even exist, and I might be crazy (John Nash-like) sitting in a shed with newspaper strips fastened to the wall banging on a two-by-four instead of a keyboard.
I'm not trying to convert you. I'm just trying to point out that faith is at the center of all knowledge, that "knowledge recapitulates bias", and that bias, is a byproduct of faith.
It's all faith, no matter what you believe, no matter what you "know". At some point back in the chain of events there exist a number of things that cannot be "proved" anymore thant the existence of God can be "proved". You cannot put the moment of the universe's inception into a laboratory, you cannot put God into an analyzer. You know this. In the end, your belief in a version of the beginnings of the universe through faith and faith alone.
Your story also differs in that it might actually provoke an insteresting discussion...
It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago."
Some of them many, many, times...
On the brighter side, if this comment fares well, I can post it again when this article gets duped.
Read this
I can't remember if that article mentions it, but this will also force them to produce expansion packs with content sufficient to entice most players to purchase it. It puts the risk in the right place, for once. With most games, the risk is that you will buy the game and invest a hefty monthly fee only to potentially find that the company that made the game is not putting enough time and energy into fixing the prohlems and enhancing the games to make it enjoyable on an ongoing basis. (Or shorter and sweeter: you take all the risks)
With Guild Wars, besides the initial cost of the game, (which is no higher than with any other new MMORPG) all of the risk resides with NCSoft to keep the game compelling to a large audience and to produce content that will keep you buying into the game in the future. If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, you walk away and you've lost nothing.
I say, it's a good deal. YMMV. Good questions btw, skepticism is a good place to start.