Congress might also want to evaluate the transparency of this cute Google video, which assured the public of Street View's privacy safeguards, but gave no hint of the controversial WiFi collection.
Childs is an idiot and yes, idiots go to jail. lets see him argue with Bubba about access to his ass.
I realize this is off topic, but it's a pet peeve of mine. Jail rape does happen on a wide scale, and it's a travesty. Making jokes about it seems to be the norm, but it shouldn't be. We don't actually sentence people to rape, because that's barbarous - right?
"It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see."
I for one am sick of every open medium being censored in the hopes of keeping kids from learning about the naughty bits. Couldn't they just keep these in a separate, awesome part of the app store?
...the last time Kevin Smith made a headline it was "Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith", and I don't think he did that on twitter.
As part of the nerd media/. is in fact part of Kevin Smith's personal army, so we muster our outrage to avenge him. Boo Southwest! Mean ol' corporation!
I'm sure we can look forward to a vigorous debate, where both sides bring up excellent points. I certainly cannot say where the slashdot community will land on this question, and the article certainly doesn't give any hints! Thanks, Ben, for your valuable question, and I hope you find the answers both challenging and enlightening.
Well, singers have a direct stake in the system. They benefit from copyrights, and they are the innovators meant to be protected by it. Just because you haven't studied policy for years doesn't mean you don't have valid perspectives. Artists DO have a unique view to share! (on this issue, anyway; I don't mean to say that Bono really has anything important to contribute on the sexy cars issue)
Of course the greater reason this is here is that it will move papers/mad clicks. If Tiger Woods wanted to give his view on copyright and innovation right now, you betcha the NYT would oblige him with an op-ed.
Who said they were smart? Power is not intelligence, and it's certainly not rationality. I would love to live in a world where Taoist sages allowed the people to look after themselves, but the world is run by greedy, power-hungry people, not a few of whom have serious mental issues that would be called sociopathy or narcissism in poorer people.
The suit also specifies the ways in which other companies have made their games accessible. For instance, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft allows the use of third-party mods in its game, which has led to the creation of several programs to include accessibility aids in the game. The suit also mentions Pin Interactive's action adventure PC game Terraformers, saying high-contrast 3D graphics modes, an audio compass, and voice-over detailing items collected in the game all serve to make the game more accessible.
Sony could make it more accessible at little cost, but they haven't, and the market isn't about to compel them. Applying the ADA really doesn't sound unreasonable. He's not asking for drastic changes or anything:
The suit, which doesn't mention SOE games by name but appears to focus on massively multiplayer online titles, requests the addition of visual cues to point gamers to their destinations for gamers with "disability impaired visual processing."
That's not difficult to implement - Sony should have done this on their own.
True, but one would imagine this would skew the results in countries where drugs or prostitution are illegal more than it would where they aren't.
As for the citations requested above, I don't know much about prostitution, but Glenn Greenwald wrote a white paper for the Cato Institute in which he discusses Portugal's success with decriminalization of all drugs. There's a link to it on this page: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887 .
On a side note I don't know how much piracy is being turned into a vice. My sense is that very few people associate any shame with it.
In evolutionary terms that makes you a failure. It's as if your genes never existed, since they stop here and go no further. But even if we ignore that.....
And of course we should, since 'loyalty to my genes' is not an emotion anybody feels, let alone lives life by.
There's a difference between charging for a song, and extortion. $1 per song isn't too bad if the song was CD-quality and had no time limit on usage (i.e. rest of my life). But to charge $1 for a poor-quality lossy-compressed song whose license-of-use can be revoked any time "they" feel like it is pure theft in my opinion.
It's no more theft than copying music, and slightly less. There's a difference between charging for a song and extortion, which is that one is a completely voluntary luxury exchange, and the other involves men with bats. Infringe copyrights if you want to (I do!), but don't dress it up with rationalizations.
I'll take that bet. The US (or any other) government doesn't like profitable business models that attack other, even more profitable business models. Napster may have been making a profit, but that doesn't mean the folks in Washington liked it. And that was something that most voters approved of!
The US government really doesn't like profitable business models from other countries that depend on slowing down our economy (say, by installing malware on all our computers).
The QWERTY keyboard, which was actually designed to slow folks down (and to make typing "typewriter" fast!) is long overdue for death. If you want a speed boost or to give your wrists a break, try Dvorak. Check out Jared Diamond's "The Curse of QWERTY" on the matter.
Of course, I just started, which is why the above is written in zealot mode, and though I can attest to the comfort I haven't seen a speed boost yet. But I'll give it time...
One, Jesus, my chair just broke. Ok, anyway, one, it didn't say there were only 1286 files, it said that of 1286 files they found using words associated with kiddie porn 42% of them actually were kiddie porn. Now how this is supposed to be relevent (searching "kiddie porn" brings up kiddie porn!) I don't know, but it's not even suggesting what you're saying.
The sad part is there are loads of people who will believe your nonsense without even bothering to rtfa.
Well, given the fact that the page appeared to link to Citibank and indeed opened the Citibank main page behind the verification window, it'd be more like someone inside the bank wearing a Citibank jacket asking you for your account number and PIN.
You seem to have a rather negative view of people. The fact is, I'd rather have Mob Rule than Elite rule, which is what we (oh so Ameri-centric, I know) have right now. I can talk to the mob.
Places that have attempted real and wide-spread democracy (not just in government, but elsewhere, in schools, workplaces, etc.) have had pretty fair success. Granted, the best example I can think of right now is maybe the Zapatistas in Chiapas (though there are plenty of others, Paris in May 68, the anarchist part of Republican Spain, the aarchs in Agleria, Italian social centers, etc.), but that doesn't mean it couldn't work.
I really think the only way that people will get engaged with the rest of the world and maybe be a little less alienated (again, Americentric), is to spread democracy everywhere.
And as for tempering mood swings, psh, if that was true we wouldn't have the Patriot Act, for instance.
So one night sneak out, friend, past the sniper-bounties, past the laser-eyed meese, to free America, where you will buy bulk CD-Rs without the tax. When history pauses to remember the brave souls of the Underground CD-Railroad, it shall start with Mantrid (250133).
Now the 10 dollar question: will it have just Opus, or will it have just about all the characters? As I recall, Outland started with just Opus and the other characters found their way in until it was basically a Sunday Bloom County with weirder backgrounds.
The US has a planned economy right now. The difference between the US's economy and a socialist economy is that giant corporations plan out the economy, not the government. I think Ken Macleod pointed out that the commies had black markets, and corporatists had black planning.
Also, the government doesn't awake to responsibility. People do, and once people's movements become big enough governments finally move just enough to keep them docile.
That's just the sort of attitude which has the remnants of free humanity holed up in the centre of the Earth, with the machines boring towards them.
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EVERY anarchist supports overthrowing the (and every) government. This establishes precedent for supressing all of them (more; did you know it's illegal for a foreign anarchist to enter the country?).
And as for protesting, well, one, it says he was arrested, not convicted, and two, there's a bit of a difference between civil disobedience and throwing bombs.
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Three to four hours of TV per night will turn your brain to cheese, people!
Agreed. But the question is, is it worse to watch TV than to game? I'm inclined to think gaming is better for you because:
No ads. Well, in theory. People who watch TV consume more, does the same hold true for gamers? I doubt it, if only because when I'm gaming I tend to forget things like consuming/eating/moving.
Not as passive. One could argue, of course, that for compulsive online gamers it becomes rote (power game power game power game), but nevertheless, you're actively interacting rather then just sort of receiving what they spoonfeed you.
Social interaction. God, when I visit my Aunt's it always ends up being everyone gathering around the tv and watching it. That's as social as tv gets: maybe a shared laugh. But online gaming is social. Sure, real-life interaction is more desirable, but one can learn social skills in these games that translate to real world (of course, it can go the opposite way too; witness my roommate, who played too much WC3 and now says 's t f u' at people).
I rather think the world would be better off if there was no TV; sure we'd lose Kids in the Hall, but that's worth it in exchange for losing Friends or whatever dreck Fox is pushing. Games are at least a little better than Survivor.
Why not just use Opera for Mac? Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed, it's got it all. Sure, you can't get the most recent version for Mac, but after spending a week using Safari at my Dad's place, unless this version significantly changes everything about it, Opera 6 is a definate improvement.
Either post real news or post funny fakes, but don't combine the two, it just confuses people-which are real, which aren't? And that ruins the whole 'news for nerds' part. If you're bound and determined to do multiple April Fools stories, just give up April 1st for real news, it can wait a day.
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Congress might also want to evaluate the transparency of this cute Google video, which assured the public of Street View's privacy safeguards, but gave no hint of the controversial WiFi collection.
That wouldn't be very reassuring.
Childs is an idiot and yes, idiots go to jail. lets see him argue with Bubba about access to his ass.
I realize this is off topic, but it's a pet peeve of mine. Jail rape does happen on a wide scale, and it's a travesty. Making jokes about it seems to be the norm, but it shouldn't be. We don't actually sentence people to rape, because that's barbarous - right?
I suppose there's some sort of argument pro or con of climate change in this... exercise for the reader.
I'm pretty sure there is absolutely no argument for or against climate change in the Nazi suppression of Jewish scientists.
"It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see."
I for one am sick of every open medium being censored in the hopes of keeping kids from learning about the naughty bits. Couldn't they just keep these in a separate, awesome part of the app store?
...the last time Kevin Smith made a headline it was "Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith", and I don't think he did that on twitter.
As part of the nerd media /. is in fact part of Kevin Smith's personal army, so we muster our outrage to avenge him. Boo Southwest! Mean ol' corporation!
I'm sure we can look forward to a vigorous debate, where both sides bring up excellent points. I certainly cannot say where the slashdot community will land on this question, and the article certainly doesn't give any hints! Thanks, Ben, for your valuable question, and I hope you find the answers both challenging and enlightening.
Well, singers have a direct stake in the system. They benefit from copyrights, and they are the innovators meant to be protected by it. Just because you haven't studied policy for years doesn't mean you don't have valid perspectives. Artists DO have a unique view to share! (on this issue, anyway; I don't mean to say that Bono really has anything important to contribute on the sexy cars issue)
Of course the greater reason this is here is that it will move papers/mad clicks. If Tiger Woods wanted to give his view on copyright and innovation right now, you betcha the NYT would oblige him with an op-ed.
Who said they were smart? Power is not intelligence, and it's certainly not rationality. I would love to live in a world where Taoist sages allowed the people to look after themselves, but the world is run by greedy, power-hungry people, not a few of whom have serious mental issues that would be called sociopathy or narcissism in poorer people.
The suit also specifies the ways in which other companies have made their games accessible. For instance, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft allows the use of third-party mods in its game, which has led to the creation of several programs to include accessibility aids in the game. The suit also mentions Pin Interactive's action adventure PC game Terraformers, saying high-contrast 3D graphics modes, an audio compass, and voice-over detailing items collected in the game all serve to make the game more accessible.
Sony could make it more accessible at little cost, but they haven't, and the market isn't about to compel them. Applying the ADA really doesn't sound unreasonable. He's not asking for drastic changes or anything:
The suit, which doesn't mention SOE games by name but appears to focus on massively multiplayer online titles, requests the addition of visual cues to point gamers to their destinations for gamers with "disability impaired visual processing."
That's not difficult to implement - Sony should have done this on their own.
True, but one would imagine this would skew the results in countries where drugs or prostitution are illegal more than it would where they aren't.
As for the citations requested above, I don't know much about prostitution, but Glenn Greenwald wrote a white paper for the Cato Institute in which he discusses Portugal's success with decriminalization of all drugs. There's a link to it on this page: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887 .
On a side note I don't know how much piracy is being turned into a vice. My sense is that very few people associate any shame with it.
In evolutionary terms that makes you a failure. It's as if your genes never existed, since they stop here and go no further. But even if we ignore that.....
And of course we should, since 'loyalty to my genes' is not an emotion anybody feels, let alone lives life by.
There's a difference between charging for a song, and extortion. $1 per song isn't too bad if the song was CD-quality and had no time limit on usage (i.e. rest of my life). But to charge $1 for a poor-quality lossy-compressed song whose license-of-use can be revoked any time "they" feel like it is pure theft in my opinion.
It's no more theft than copying music, and slightly less. There's a difference between charging for a song and extortion, which is that one is a completely voluntary luxury exchange, and the other involves men with bats. Infringe copyrights if you want to (I do!), but don't dress it up with rationalizations.
I'll take that bet. The US (or any other) government doesn't like profitable business models that attack other, even more profitable business models. Napster may have been making a profit, but that doesn't mean the folks in Washington liked it. And that was something that most voters approved of!
The US government really doesn't like profitable business models from other countries that depend on slowing down our economy (say, by installing malware on all our computers).
The QWERTY keyboard, which was actually designed to slow folks down (and to make typing "typewriter" fast!) is long overdue for death. If you want a speed boost or to give your wrists a break, try Dvorak. Check out Jared Diamond's "The Curse of QWERTY" on the matter.
Of course, I just started, which is why the above is written in zealot mode, and though I can attest to the comfort I haven't seen a speed boost yet. But I'll give it time...
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One, Jesus, my chair just broke. Ok, anyway, one, it didn't say there were only 1286 files, it said that of 1286 files they found using words associated with kiddie porn 42% of them actually were kiddie porn. Now how this is supposed to be relevent (searching "kiddie porn" brings up kiddie porn!) I don't know, but it's not even suggesting what you're saying.
The sad part is there are loads of people who will believe your nonsense without even bothering to rtfa.
Well, given the fact that the page appeared to link to Citibank and indeed opened the Citibank main page behind the verification window, it'd be more like someone inside the bank wearing a Citibank jacket asking you for your account number and PIN.
"Democracy is inherently evil"
You seem to have a rather negative view of people. The fact is, I'd rather have Mob Rule than Elite rule, which is what we (oh so Ameri-centric, I know) have right now. I can talk to the mob.
Places that have attempted real and wide-spread democracy (not just in government, but elsewhere, in schools, workplaces, etc.) have had pretty fair success. Granted, the best example I can think of right now is maybe the Zapatistas in Chiapas (though there are plenty of others, Paris in May 68, the anarchist part of Republican Spain, the aarchs in Agleria, Italian social centers, etc.), but that doesn't mean it couldn't work.
I really think the only way that people will get engaged with the rest of the world and maybe be a little less alienated (again, Americentric), is to spread democracy everywhere.
And as for tempering mood swings, psh, if that was true we wouldn't have the Patriot Act, for instance.
So one night sneak out, friend, past the sniper-bounties, past the laser-eyed meese, to free America, where you will buy bulk CD-Rs without the tax. When history pauses to remember the brave souls of the Underground CD-Railroad, it shall start with Mantrid (250133).
Now the 10 dollar question: will it have just Opus, or will it have just about all the characters? As I recall, Outland started with just Opus and the other characters found their way in until it was basically a Sunday Bloom County with weirder backgrounds.
The US has a planned economy right now. The difference between the US's economy and a socialist economy is that giant corporations plan out the economy, not the government. I think Ken Macleod pointed out that the commies had black markets, and corporatists had black planning.
Also, the government doesn't awake to responsibility. People do, and once people's movements become big enough governments finally move just enough to keep them docile.
Software written by humans is insecure by design.
That's just the sort of attitude which has the remnants of free humanity holed up in the centre of the Earth, with the machines boring towards them.
EVERY anarchist supports overthrowing the (and every) government. This establishes precedent for supressing all of them (more; did you know it's illegal for a foreign anarchist to enter the country?).
And as for protesting, well, one, it says he was arrested, not convicted, and two, there's a bit of a difference between civil disobedience and throwing bombs.
Hell, he's not even on the net
Agreed. But the question is, is it worse to watch TV than to game? I'm inclined to think gaming is better for you because:
No ads. Well, in theory. People who watch TV consume more, does the same hold true for gamers? I doubt it, if only because when I'm gaming I tend to forget things like consuming/eating/moving.
Not as passive. One could argue, of course, that for compulsive online gamers it becomes rote (power game power game power game), but nevertheless, you're actively interacting rather then just sort of receiving what they spoonfeed you.
Social interaction. God, when I visit my Aunt's it always ends up being everyone gathering around the tv and watching it. That's as social as tv gets: maybe a shared laugh. But online gaming is social. Sure, real-life interaction is more desirable, but one can learn social skills in these games that translate to real world (of course, it can go the opposite way too; witness my roommate, who played too much WC3 and now says 's t f u' at people).
I rather think the world would be better off if there was no TV; sure we'd lose Kids in the Hall, but that's worth it in exchange for losing Friends or whatever dreck Fox is pushing. Games are at least a little better than Survivor.
Why not just use Opera for Mac? Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed, it's got it all. Sure, you can't get the most recent version for Mac, but after spending a week using Safari at my Dad's place, unless this version significantly changes everything about it, Opera 6 is a definate improvement.
Either post real news or post funny fakes, but don't combine the two, it just confuses people-which are real, which aren't? And that ruins the whole 'news for nerds' part. If you're bound and determined to do multiple April Fools stories, just give up April 1st for real news, it can wait a day.
And if this is just not funny, work on that too.