Most EULA's contain restrictions that are illegal in most parts of the world - no reverse engineering, don't get to read the EULA until you've broken the packaging et cetera - so I guess they aren't worth the paper they're written on.
I personally don't understand the double standard with sex vs. violence. If we declare sexual material to be dangerous to a young person's mind, why isn't violent material held up to the same standard, and forbidden by law?
This goes some way to explaing why a non American didn't get the point of this story - in the UK sex and violence do fall under the same categories with respect to videos and video games.
There is self policing by ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association) but video games also fall under the auspices of the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). Whilst the ELSPA ratings are purely voluntary (Damn - I even use google as my spell checker!) the BBFC ones have legal force.
Looking at my PSone games (my PS2 games are too tame) I see that 'Resident Evil' and 'DOOM' merit a 15 and 'Duke Nukem' gets the maximum 18 suggesting that violence is rated less than sexual content over here.
Emotional maturity is not a function of age
Indeed, but parents (the ones with the votes) probably are in favour or laws preventing their kids from buying material they deem unsuitable. If the parents are die hard libertarians then they can buy what they want for their kids as long as they take responsibility for whatever their kids do subsequently.
Porn and Doom didn't turn my teenage self into a sex-crazed homicidal maniac. Maybe I didn't get enough!
Me too! Personally I don't believe that pr0n and DOOM turn anyone into into sex-crazed homicidal maniacs - the nutters were that way inclined anyway IMHO.
HEMOS: A federal judge said local governments can limit children's access to violent or sexually explicit video games
I'm not American so forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't children's access to violent or sexually explicit videos/books/sex shows/whore houses already limited over there as in the rest of the world and further more isn't this regarded as a good thing?
Ford own Volvo therefore Volvo engine == Ford engine so yes you can get a Ford engined Volvo. The question should be can you get a Volvo with a Mercedes engine?
I do wonder how they wound up with three stars for the Mac's video editing and four for the VAIO's.
There were a couple other oddities in there as well. They complained about OS X demanding personal information at the first start up (it accepts fake stuff or you can quit the app) but don't mention XP's phone home forced registration nonsense.
They also moan about iPhoto not having the facilities of Photoshop Elements - duh, go buy Photoshop Elements then. It's not as if it's expensive.
So in theory you cannot publish instructions on how to make TNT, nitroglycerine or Mercury Fluminate in the UK.
Bullshit, the UK government itself has even published detailed plans for building your own nuclear bomb. There is no problem with publishing recipes for explosives - making them is a different matter!
In THEORY if we have the source we can remove all the limitations....
Problem is you don't have all the source. Yes, you have the complete Linux source but PS-Linux is running on a hardware abstraction layer - it's the source to the HAL you'll need to remove the limitations and Sony aren't handing that out.
60? That's nothing! UK driving licences last until you're 70 - mine expires in 2043. It's just a piece of paper too - no laminate, no picture, no hologram. The new EU ones have all the privacy invading stuff so I'm not in a hurry to get one of those!
Like it or not, since the majority of web users use Internet Explorer, it makes sense to design a site that displays properly in that browser.
Precisely, maybe Slashdot's arrogant refusal to do anything about this bug should be one of the 101 dumbest business decisions. Who in their right mind will pay per page load if that page could be rendered unreadable?
I use IE at work and don't have a choice about that - saying you should switch browsers is ridiculous. In fact it's just as bad as those lame sites that force you to use IE - I prefer Mozilla and Opera at home and it annoys me if I have to fire up IE to read a site. And it's just as annoying to be using IE and have to fire up another browser to read slashdot.
You've been given one fix involving the lameness filter and came up with some nonsense about preventing people from posting lists of dot files! WTF - how often does that happen? The lameness filter stops anyone from posting code and that doesn't seem to bother you. Then you were given another fix that doesn't use the lameness filter and still you sit on your asses doing sweet FA. Clue to the clueless - this is not a way to run a business.
This would include changing your licencing status from NT Workstation to NT Server
The Administrator can change the two registry keys that determine the version - the catch is SYSTEM (the real superuser) notices and changes them back. The easiest way to hack workstation to server is to use a second install of NT to edit the first install's registry whilst it is offline. Also if you open RegEdt32 as SYSTEM then you can get inside the HKLM/SAM|SECURITY keys.
Half the nation probably dies of some malnurishment related disease
Well, actually they probably don't - food is plentiful and cheap in India. (even allowing for the low average wage). BTW perhaps an Indian could spell 'malnourishment'...
And how do you explain the fact a billion people cannot compete in any international atheletic endeavour?
OK they're not a world sporting superpower but there is Sachin Tendulkar - but you USians probably don't know too much about cricket.
There was a big drop in call charges in India in the new year. The phone lines support 56k modems - I was reading slashdot from Hyderabad this christmas. Indeed a year and a bit ago I would have had more luck getting an affordable DSL connection in an Indian city than the UK! Broadband has got better in the UK but it still sucks if you don't live in a large city.
As for power a UPS is essential for a computer over there but 8 hours a day is just not true - on average there seemed to be a cut every other day for half an hour max - not great but bearable.
A big problem with electricity in India is the amount of theft - bare wires from the junction box into someones house - nice!
I'm sure I'll be pestered along the way by so called warnings about "damage" to my computer if I enter such and such a directory:-)
All that moaning when you start poking around the System32|WinNT directories really pisses me off. It's like 2001 A Space Odyssey - Please Dave don't do that, I can't function without IE 6.0...
Why is the parent modded as 'Troll' - someone has been at the RIAA crack pipe? Anyway gowen makes a fair point: broadband in the UK is pisspoor.
<RANT>
BT recently announced they are going to cut prices but the big problem is availability - I'm lucky and I have ADSL but I know so many people who want it, can afford it but BT can't be arsed to provide it. This isn't people living in tiny villages either - unless you live in a city BT just don't give a fcuk.
It's the 21st century BT! Every resident of a small town should have broadband access but it'll take at least a decade for BT to get off their arses and do anything about it
</RANT>
For one, to name a recent example (Falun Gong), if I were to join my cult in a peaceful demonstration on Times Square, most likely, the authorities would let me do this without sending in the army.
But if I were to start a cult in Waco Texas and keep to my own private property I should obviously expect the government to storm in guns a blazing...
Running as non-root makes it difficult to make configuration changes, because the GUI tools generally just fail instead of prompting you for the root password when needed
Of course on Mac OS X the GUI tools prompt for an admin group password. Nice GUI and nice security - no r00t account by default.
Chinese have the most experience in ruling a *huge* country, and so far they were successful in holding it together. So don't rock the boat. One can live happily in China, as long as he does not play politics.
India has almost as large a population and they have managed to have a democracy for more than 50 years. People there take their politics very seriously and are not rounded up and jailed (or worse) for their troubles. There is no excuse for China's lamentable human rights record.
I would think that the NT source is the last thing the ReactOS guys want to see. To be legal it has to be a genuine reverse engineering effort. The judge hasn't forced MS to GPL their code yet! If there was any hint of them copying MS source code they would be slayed by the lawyers.
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Most EULA's contain restrictions that are illegal in most parts of the world - no reverse engineering, don't get to read the EULA until you've broken the packaging et cetera - so I guess they aren't worth the paper they're written on.
I personally don't understand the double standard with sex vs. violence. If we declare sexual material to be dangerous to a young person's mind, why isn't violent material held up to the same standard, and forbidden by law?
This goes some way to explaing why a non American didn't get the point of this story - in the UK sex and violence do fall under the same categories with respect to videos and video games.
There is self policing by ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association) but video games also fall under the auspices of the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). Whilst the ELSPA ratings are purely voluntary (Damn - I even use google as my spell checker!) the BBFC ones have legal force.
Looking at my PSone games (my PS2 games are too tame) I see that 'Resident Evil' and 'DOOM' merit a 15 and 'Duke Nukem' gets the maximum 18 suggesting that violence is rated less than sexual content over here.
Emotional maturity is not a function of age
Indeed, but parents (the ones with the votes) probably are in favour or laws preventing their kids from buying material they deem unsuitable. If the parents are die hard libertarians then they can buy what they want for their kids as long as they take responsibility for whatever their kids do subsequently.
Porn and Doom didn't turn my teenage self into a sex-crazed homicidal maniac. Maybe I didn't get enough!
Me too! Personally I don't believe that pr0n and DOOM turn anyone into into sex-crazed homicidal maniacs - the nutters were that way inclined anyway IMHO.
HEMOS: A federal judge said local governments can limit children's access to violent or sexually explicit video games
I'm not American so forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't children's access to violent or sexually explicit videos/books/sex shows/whore houses already limited over there as in the rest of the world and further more isn't this regarded as a good thing?
The above post looked fine in preview :(
Oh well, try again...
#include < stdio.h>
int main() {
   printf("Not long");
   while(1)
     printf("\b\t\t");
   return 0;
}
Ford own Volvo therefore Volvo engine == Ford engine so yes you can get a Ford engined Volvo. The question should be can you get a Volvo with a Mercedes engine?
Better still try:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  printf("Not long");
  while(1)
    printf("\b\t\t");
  return 0;
}
I do wonder how they wound up with three stars for the Mac's video editing and four for the VAIO's.
There were a couple other oddities in there as well. They complained about OS X demanding personal information at the first start up (it accepts fake stuff or you can quit the app) but don't mention XP's phone home forced registration nonsense.
They also moan about iPhoto not having the facilities of Photoshop Elements - duh, go buy Photoshop Elements then. It's not as if it's expensive.
i doubt the people who literally wrote the book on sex and porn would spend a lot of effert punishing people who looked for it.
;)
Very true, go into any internet cafe in India and take a look at the browser history and there will be as much pr0n in there as your machine at home
So in theory you cannot publish instructions on how to make TNT, nitroglycerine or Mercury Fluminate in the UK.
Bullshit, the UK government itself has even published detailed plans for building your own nuclear bomb. There is no problem with publishing recipes for explosives - making them is a different matter!
In THEORY if we have the source we can remove all the limitations....
Problem is you don't have all the source. Yes, you have the complete Linux source but PS-Linux is running on a hardware abstraction layer - it's the source to the HAL you'll need to remove the limitations and Sony aren't handing that out.
60? That's nothing! UK driving licences last until you're 70 - mine expires in 2043. It's just a piece of paper too - no laminate, no picture, no hologram. The new EU ones have all the privacy invading stuff so I'm not in a hurry to get one of those!
I get caught by the emacs version of this sometimes:
o Fill in reams and reams of text into an edit box.
o Select a few words
o Ctrl-W
o Aaaaarrrggghhh!
The iPod contains a little breakout game. A reminder of Steve J giving Steve W the shaft!
Like it or not, since the majority of web users use Internet Explorer, it makes sense to design a site that displays properly in that browser.
Precisely, maybe Slashdot's arrogant refusal to do anything about this bug should be one of the 101 dumbest business decisions. Who in their right mind will pay per page load if that page could be rendered unreadable?
I use IE at work and don't have a choice about that - saying you should switch browsers is ridiculous. In fact it's just as bad as those lame sites that force you to use IE - I prefer Mozilla and Opera at home and it annoys me if I have to fire up IE to read a site. And it's just as annoying to be using IE and have to fire up another browser to read slashdot.
You've been given one fix involving the lameness filter and came up with some nonsense about preventing people from posting lists of dot files! WTF - how often does that happen? The lameness filter stops anyone from posting code and that doesn't seem to bother you. Then you were given another fix that doesn't use the lameness filter and still you sit on your asses doing sweet FA. Clue to the clueless - this is not a way to run a business.
This would include changing your licencing status from NT Workstation to NT Server
The Administrator can change the two registry keys that determine the version - the catch is SYSTEM (the real superuser) notices and changes them back. The easiest way to hack workstation to server is to use a second install of NT to edit the first install's registry whilst it is offline. Also if you open RegEdt32 as SYSTEM then you can get inside the HKLM/SAM|SECURITY keys.
Half the nation probably dies of some malnurishment related disease
Well, actually they probably don't - food is plentiful and cheap in India. (even allowing for the low average wage). BTW perhaps an Indian could spell 'malnourishment'...
And how do you explain the fact a billion people cannot compete in any international atheletic endeavour?
OK they're not a world sporting superpower but there is Sachin Tendulkar - but you USians probably don't know too much about cricket.
There was a big drop in call charges in India in the new year. The phone lines support 56k modems - I was reading slashdot from Hyderabad this christmas. Indeed a year and a bit ago I would have had more luck getting an affordable DSL connection in an Indian city than the UK! Broadband has got better in the UK but it still sucks if you don't live in a large city.
As for power a UPS is essential for a computer over there but 8 hours a day is just not true - on average there seemed to be a cut every other day for half an hour max - not great but bearable.
A big problem with electricity in India is the amount of theft - bare wires from the junction box into someones house - nice!
I'm sure I'll be pestered along the way by so called warnings about "damage" to my computer if I enter such and such a directory :-)
All that moaning when you start poking around the System32|WinNT directories really pisses me off. It's like 2001 A Space Odyssey - Please Dave don't do that, I can't function without IE 6.0...
Quick pop quiz: what does GW stand for?
Gee Whizz
Why is the parent modded as 'Troll' - someone has been at the RIAA crack pipe? Anyway gowen makes a fair point: broadband in the UK is pisspoor.
<RANT>
BT recently announced they are going to cut prices but the big problem is availability - I'm lucky and I have ADSL but I know so many people who want it, can afford it but BT can't be arsed to provide it. This isn't people living in tiny villages either - unless you live in a city BT just don't give a fcuk.
It's the 21st century BT! Every resident of a small town should have broadband access but it'll take at least a decade for BT to get off their arses and do anything about it
</RANT>
For one, to name a recent example (Falun Gong), if I were to join my cult in a peaceful demonstration on Times Square, most likely, the authorities would let me do this without sending in the army.
But if I were to start a cult in Waco Texas and keep to my own private property I should obviously expect the government to storm in guns a blazing...
Running as non-root makes it difficult to make configuration changes, because the GUI tools generally just fail instead of prompting you for the root password when needed
Of course on Mac OS X the GUI tools prompt for an admin group password. Nice GUI and nice security - no r00t account by default.
Chinese have the most experience in ruling a *huge* country, and so far they were successful in holding it together. So don't rock the boat. One can live happily in China, as long as he does not play politics.
India has almost as large a population and they have managed to have a democracy for more than 50 years. People there take their politics very seriously and are not rounded up and jailed (or worse) for their troubles. There is no excuse for China's lamentable human rights record.
I would think that the NT source is the last thing the ReactOS guys want to see. To be legal it has to be a genuine reverse engineering effort. The judge hasn't forced MS to GPL their code yet! If there was any hint of them copying MS source code they would be slayed by the lawyers.
Surely you want the Quake 2 characters and Clippy on the desktop at the same time? Let the Q2 mothers tear that paperclip to pieces!