"Haha! This small thing has gunpowder written on it! You shall all die!
I faked it in a difficult manner by bringing gunpowder tea onboard instead of just writing it on the bottle or using something that looks slightly like gunpowder and just saying what it is!"
If you actually read things, you'd realize that people are talking about the exclusive console version of the game. It's getting released on the PC no matter what. id isn't stupid.
Student 1: Hey man, the mp3s are down... how the hell am I going to get my muzak. Student 2: Didn't you hear, the RIAA shut them down! Student 1: Crap. We should probably start something up to replace them, then. Student 2: You didn't let me finish, they're getting sued for 97.8 trillion dollars! Student 1: Hmm... on the other hand, maybe we should make a website about cats.
There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
I wonder what the weight difference between putting ablative surfacing under all the tiles as a backup and creating a completely independant ejectable cabin would be.
I can personally say that this is wrong and will not harm the music corporations. [...] Defective CDs or DVDs are marked defective and generally (depending on the manufacturer) discarded. They simply send us a replacement on their next shipment to us.
That harms the music corporations right there, though. It makes them eat the cost of a CD. This isn't exactly a monumental price, but it is something. Also, it would be a way to communicate something. If CD returns on DRMed CDs went up dramatically, there would be some solid numbers on the people this annoys.
Heh heh, a socialist leaning, pacifist country's primary governmentally owned channel will be unbiased?
Hmm... The CBC is obviously not unbiased, nothing is, but they aren't particularly biased toward the government. I've always liked how they publish all their journalistic standards, how they pay sources, conflict of interest stuff and that sort of information in an easy to find place: http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/htmen/policies/journali stic/index.htm
Hmm... interesting idea... but then how do you know when yours is better than someone else's? Is a Turnip better than a Carrot? Then you'd need to list everything good enough to run your game, instead of just a minimum.
Am I the only person that thinks that System Requirement scheme sounds horrifically complicated and painful. How exactly, do you plan to describe a computer in a single character?
It simplifies things down to a small number of levels (or to a level of complexity that's stupid, like having to remember that you have a level 3.25 B R23 computer). What happens if you have a processer intensive game that requires little hardware video and sound acceleration? How does that compare to a game that has a great deal of hardware acceleration and requires very little processor power. At least the current system is able to specifically list individual requirements. If, however, you plan to rank individual requirements on a scale of some sort, how does that simplify anything at all?
These ideas obviously aren't new - I understand Canada has a "tax" on blank CDRs and other countries have similar laws in place or under consideration - although this German proposal is quite extreme.
Why, exactly, is tax in quotations? That doesn't begin to make a lick of sense. Anyway, technically, it's a levy.
It seems the option they have taken is the one of least benefit to the users. As someone who pays for CDs, I am paying a "tax" to subsidise the pirates. And I get nothing new for the money - I am just unwillingly propping up their obsolete business model.
I actually like the Canadian model, as you do get something in return. I have to pay a small levy on CDs and I can then legitimately copy any music I'd like for personal use. I can't redistribute this in any way, however. This causes fun twists like being able to legally be handed a friend's CD and a CDR that they've purchased, then use their computer to copy the CD. This CDR can then be taken and used by you. Your friend can also copy the CDR and then give you the original. If your friend burns to the CDR, with you standing there, and gives you the CDR, it's now illegal. As long as you're the one who copies it, it doesn't matter where the original came from.
I don't, however, agree with the way the rules for being eligable to recieve a refund are set up, nor the way the money is managed. I also think the amount in the more recent proposals are ludicrous.
Wow, you thought Wing Commander's graphics were 'normal' when it came out? It was beautiful when it came out (three years before Doom). Wing Commander Armada, which came out the year Doom did, was quite a bit more impressive, though.
Why would law enforcement need a warrant to access a public FTP site? Sure, they'd probably need to put a valid e-mail address in, but they're more than capable of legally accessing a publicly available server without needing a warrant. That'd be like saying a Police officer can't go into a public building without a warrant. Sure, he can't search things with impunity, but he can go in and act in a civil manner. If he's asked to leave, he will, but he can still come in to begin with.
However, I would argue that in the process of installing a rootkit (and doing who knows what else) the cracker _did_ break my vault. I didn't feel safe trusting that firewall once it had been compromised.
The fact that you don't trust it doesn't make it any less secure than it was before, assuming you resore your previous setup. If you want more security, you have to pay for it. You can't just make a hacker arbitrarily responsible for the costs it takes you to get yourself to a level of protection where you feel safe.
Besides, even if I had simply restored from a known-good backup, that would have cost me time and effort.
Which is a perfectly legitimate damage that a hacker should be found responsible for. Purchasing new hardware or software, and improving your security is not.
So the time that I took to build another gateway box with more up to date software and a tighter ruleset was not important.
That's not the hacker's fault at all, though... How is the fact that you decided you wanted a more secure system in any way his fault? That's like charging a guy who robbed a bank for a better safe when he didn't actually break it. You could quite easily go on using the same box, same software, and same ruleset.
If I broke into your house and you didn't have an alarm system, it'd be ludicrous to have me be responsible for buying you one.
I agree that it's less of a crime, however your logic is rather odd. You basically said that things that are easier should be punished less harshly than things that are hard.
Shooting someone in the back of the head is quite a bit easier than stealing a car. By your logic the latter should carry the greater punishment.
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and you can't discredit the Neo-nazis by calling them "hackers".
The easier method would probably be to discredit them by calling them Nazis.
"Haha! This small thing has gunpowder written on it! You shall all die!
I faked it in a difficult manner by bringing gunpowder tea onboard instead of just writing it on the bottle or using something that looks slightly like gunpowder and just saying what it is!"
If you actually read things, you'd realize that people are talking about the exclusive console version of the game. It's getting released on the PC no matter what. id isn't stupid.
Looking at the headline, my first though was "Wow, what special tax needs do midgets have?"
The Chinese government is by no stretch of the imagination "their" government
I really think you need to work on your imagination.
Are people eager to jump in and replace them?
Student 1: Hey man, the mp3s are down... how the hell am I going to get my muzak.
Student 2: Didn't you hear, the RIAA shut them down!
Student 1: Crap. We should probably start something up to replace them, then.
Student 2: You didn't let me finish, they're getting sued for 97.8 trillion dollars!
Student 1: Hmm... on the other hand, maybe we should make a website about cats.
Who else would he be talking about :)
I rarely hear radio DJs talking over the begining or ends of songs.
There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
I wonder what the weight difference between putting ablative surfacing under all the tiles as a backup and creating a completely independant ejectable cabin would be.
So can most DVD players, though. There are also stand-alone VCD players. This isn't a special product in that sense.
Hmm... I rarely hear that at all.
I can personally say that this is wrong and will not harm the music corporations.
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Defective CDs or DVDs are marked defective and generally (depending on the manufacturer) discarded. They simply send us a replacement on their next shipment to us.
That harms the music corporations right there, though. It makes them eat the cost of a CD. This isn't exactly a monumental price, but it is something. Also, it would be a way to communicate something. If CD returns on DRMed CDs went up dramatically, there would be some solid numbers on the people this annoys.
Of course, your second point is completely valid.
I thought it was kind of funny how you managed to screw up the correction :)
"Well I for one am not going spend money one something that I can't use where I want."
The problem with /. readers is they think they are the smartest people in the world.
And the rest of you are obviously wrong, as we all know that I am the smartest person in the world.
Heh heh, a socialist leaning, pacifist country's primary governmentally owned channel will be unbiased?
i stic/index.htm
Hmm... The CBC is obviously not unbiased, nothing is, but they aren't particularly biased toward the government. I've always liked how they publish all their journalistic standards, how they pay sources, conflict of interest stuff and that sort of information in an easy to find place: http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/htmen/policies/journal
Wow, that'd be a great name. I'd be all for having a Sickly Froglok.
Hmm... interesting idea... but then how do you know when yours is better than someone else's? Is a Turnip better than a Carrot? Then you'd need to list everything good enough to run your game, instead of just a minimum.
Am I the only person that thinks that System Requirement scheme sounds horrifically complicated and painful. How exactly, do you plan to describe a computer in a single character?
It simplifies things down to a small number of levels (or to a level of complexity that's stupid, like having to remember that you have a level 3.25 B R23 computer). What happens if you have a processer intensive game that requires little hardware video and sound acceleration? How does that compare to a game that has a great deal of hardware acceleration and requires very little processor power. At least the current system is able to specifically list individual requirements. If, however, you plan to rank individual requirements on a scale of some sort, how does that simplify anything at all?
These ideas obviously aren't new - I understand Canada has a "tax" on blank CDRs and other countries have similar laws in place or under consideration - although this German proposal is quite extreme.
Why, exactly, is tax in quotations? That doesn't begin to make a lick of sense. Anyway, technically, it's a levy.
It seems the option they have taken is the one of least benefit to the users. As someone who pays for CDs, I am paying a "tax" to subsidise the pirates. And I get nothing new for the money - I am just unwillingly propping up their obsolete business model.
I actually like the Canadian model, as you do get something in return. I have to pay a small levy on CDs and I can then legitimately copy any music I'd like for personal use. I can't redistribute this in any way, however. This causes fun twists like being able to legally be handed a friend's CD and a CDR that they've purchased, then use their computer to copy the CD. This CDR can then be taken and used by you. Your friend can also copy the CDR and then give you the original. If your friend burns to the CDR, with you standing there, and gives you the CDR, it's now illegal. As long as you're the one who copies it, it doesn't matter where the original came from.
I don't, however, agree with the way the rules for being eligable to recieve a refund are set up, nor the way the money is managed. I also think the amount in the more recent proposals are ludicrous.
Wow, you thought Wing Commander's graphics were 'normal' when it came out? It was beautiful when it came out (three years before Doom). Wing Commander Armada, which came out the year Doom did, was quite a bit more impressive, though.
Why would law enforcement need a warrant to access a public FTP site? Sure, they'd probably need to put a valid e-mail address in, but they're more than capable of legally accessing a publicly available server without needing a warrant. That'd be like saying a Police officer can't go into a public building without a warrant. Sure, he can't search things with impunity, but he can go in and act in a civil manner. If he's asked to leave, he will, but he can still come in to begin with.
However, I would argue that in the process of installing a rootkit (and doing who knows what else) the cracker _did_ break my vault. I didn't feel safe trusting that firewall once it had been compromised.
The fact that you don't trust it doesn't make it any less secure than it was before, assuming you resore your previous setup. If you want more security, you have to pay for it. You can't just make a hacker arbitrarily responsible for the costs it takes you to get yourself to a level of protection where you feel safe.
Besides, even if I had simply restored from a known-good backup, that would have cost me time and effort.
Which is a perfectly legitimate damage that a hacker should be found responsible for. Purchasing new hardware or software, and improving your security is not.
So the time that I took to build another gateway box with more up to date software and a tighter ruleset was not important.
That's not the hacker's fault at all, though... How is the fact that you decided you wanted a more secure system in any way his fault? That's like charging a guy who robbed a bank for a better safe when he didn't actually break it. You could quite easily go on using the same box, same software, and same ruleset.
If I broke into your house and you didn't have an alarm system, it'd be ludicrous to have me be responsible for buying you one.
Damn, we must not have burnt them all the first time around. Better try harder this time :)
I agree that it's less of a crime, however your logic is rather odd. You basically said that things that are easier should be punished less harshly than things that are hard.
Shooting someone in the back of the head is quite a bit easier than stealing a car. By your logic the latter should carry the greater punishment.
stupid slashdot eating my bit :(-