Whoever wrote the anti-wired article is obviously someone with a vested interest IN the Iphone. You notice they take issue with how the Wired article claims only 200,000 Iphones were sold in Japan, but they claim 300,000 400,000 were shipped. Shipped and sold are different as anyone can tell you, its comparing apples and oranges. This person is intellectually dishonest. As for the original wired article, I have no idea about its veracity, but I know this person is dishonest.
Good point, I dont consider Oblivion a "fun" game either, its boring as watching paint dry mate! I actually started playing Final Fantasy IV while waiting for day to change to night and eventually just turned the game off. Oh yeah, World of warcraft isnt fun either (its a chat room with graphics)....for fun games see Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas co-op, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Warioware, Resident Evil 4, Final Fantasy V, Castlevania Symphony of the night, Super Monkey ball (monkey target).
Never buy a sony console at launch, there are always bugs. I had to replace both my original playstation one and two. However, this really isnt that big a deal, 196 games out of a library of three thousand or more games isnt so bad, and I bet sony will eventually fix most of these issues in an update , or it will be fixed in a later revision of the hardware unfortunately for early adopters (like the ability to read cd-r and dvd-r disks and adding progressive scan was in the playstation 2).
If I have a 100 million people in my country and 10% of them have broadband, that is equvalent of 100% of a country of 10 million people having broadband...that means nothing. The united states is a very large country with a very large population. As a statistics professor, Its not "being fair" to mention installed lines, thats like comparing the murder rate in a city with 10 million with 15 murders to a city with 100,000 with 10 murders and saying the city with 100,000 is safer because their are less murders 33.3% fewer murders!
I am just starting to use linux, and I am making a dedicated effort to make it work. However, setting up my wireless network card is nothing but pure hell...and its been going on for weeks. Installing drivers in linux is the most painful, horrible computer related experience I have ever had to deal with. In windows, you plug it in, it just works. I tried installing madwifi and I absolutely could not get it to work, even with the make command it still said that I had to set KERNELPATH, which I did. I researched and tried my hardest, but the instructions for installing the wifi driver instructed me to connect to the internet and use the "yum" command to download the driver which wsa impossible, and the help included in SUSE, Red Hat Core and Slackware were all pretty horrible in helping fix this problem. Ubuntu would not even load. Any operating system that demands people to use a command prompt to install drivers, and then still doesnt want to work is going to lose, period. Beyond that, the file system is extremely confusing compared to windows rather simple and intuitive organizational scheme (hard drives are under mnt and my files are under home?) I think that Red Hat Core is the best one of the lot, but beyond a dedicated bunch of geeks like me I doubt many people are willing to put in the effort to use linux, especially if they only have one computer.
I was waiting for something to happen in Elder Scrolls oblivion due to the day night cycle (somehow that makes the game more fun.....:( and started playing Final Fantasy IV advance. I played IV for an hour and never played oblivion again, Final fantasy IV is such a good game, and the combat system is so much better than any straight up role playing game I have played lately, its worth celebrating as far as I am concerned, run out and buy the new GBA version of this, it has a bunch of new content in it after you beat the game.
I am a professional criminologist, and I can tell you that the decision to make 0.08 the legal limit was not determined by any scientific research, it was determined by politicians seeking reelection by seeing who could better protect the public from the dangers of crime. In the instance of drunken driving, they rely on unsound measures, such as lowering the blood alcohol levels to absurdly low points rather than actually since it is a test that is easy to administer and hard to contest in court rather than trying to actually determine whether a person is actually to drunk to drive a vehicle. 0.08 is usually not even two beers for the average person.
Some people's bodies can withstand a very high blood alcohol level before anyone would guess they are drunk, while a single beer would cause others to passout. The idea that some breathalyzer test can determine drunkeness is more a convience than a fact.
I get time warner and all I get is 33k upload and around three hundred something download. That is just pathetic for $45 dollars a month. BUt I dont dare complain, because then they will wonder why I need all that bandwidth!
This product will never be accepted with a name like Ubuntu, this is why nerds will always lose to suits, marketing research. Corporate types spend money trying to figure out what the average joe actually wants and is willing to accept, and name their products well, a name like Ubuntu will never catch on, they might as well have named it festering bed sore linux.
Windows, its simple, it works, it implies it ha. OSx, its implies your programs are in some sort of windows. OSx, again simple, implies its an operating system. Ubuntu, is this an african rice dish? The end boss from Final fantasy V? I have no idea what it is, or even how to spell it to look it up on google, in fact I had to check my spelling from the orignal post to make sure I didnt misspell it.
I never said the democrats are great, I cant stand the idea of Hilarly Clinton being president. Its the party of No ideas (the democrats) versus the party of bad ideas (the republicans). Its a sad sad state of affairs were in where both parties are trying to out do each other to make a mess of things.
My point however was that how can anyone look at Bush and say this guy cares about anything else than the powers of his own office? He looks at the constitution the way a burglar looks at a security system. Every chance he gets he wants to increase the monitoring of Americans, whether it be to stop terrorism, or child pornography or whatever the excuse of the day is that if you disagree with it your an evil doer. Its just wrong and I had to say something, if saying something like this makes me a trolls than we should all be trolls!
This administration is doing everything it can to erode our privacy rights, take away due process and legal protections, increase governmental secrecy and decrease governmental accountability. All this ironically in the name of our saftey and freedom.
The Bush administration is eroding our privacy rights through warantless wiretapping of American Citizens phone calls, and we dont know if its only international phone calls because there has been no investigation of this, we only have the people who are violating the FISA statue's word on this. FISA was set up for exactly this purpose. Not only that, they have a database of nearly every phonecall made in America, and they are using it to monitor phonecalls made by reporters to find leaks in their own administration without warrants. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=83880
As for our legal protections, this administration wants to be able to detain indefinitely without trial anyone suspected of terrorism, Jose Paddilla is a American born citizen and though he will now be tried as a criminal due to the threat of his case going to the supreme court. This administration wished to detain him indefinitely without trial prior to that threat. That is scary and unprecedented. Were not talking about legal resident aliens, or people who illegal gained entry into the country, this guy was born here as a citizen and under the constitution he deserves a trial, every citizen deserves a trial, thats a fundamental right.
As for increased government secrecy and decreased accountability we have documents being reclassified under the freedom of information act, and non-compliance for freedom of informaiton act requests. Its not just security related concerns, but corrupt things like whether a power plant is up to code and is likely to have an accident, hand outs to his industrialist buddies. Another nice tidbit hidden from the public for a long time by Bush's rewritting of the Freedom of Information act is a memo from Exxon mobil to the Bush white house demonstrating the influence of oil companies on this administration's global warming policy's. All of this having nothing to do with national security but being withheld from the public just because it protects monied interests or can embarrass elected officials.
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Why dont these companies put them on the Nintendo Revolution or Xbox Arcade or PC and charge like 50 cents a download ? That might be a good alternative, all they have to do is adapt dosbox for these consoles for the really old games...for the CD based games I have no idea.
People who talk frequently on the cell phone are almost as bad as people who drink and drive when it comes to getting in car accidents, yet we demonize drunken drivers and act outraged when the government wants to stop people from talking on the cell phone while driving. I teach criminology and the statistics show that the rate of traffic accidents while drinking and driving is slightly higher than talking on the cellphone, meaning talking on the cellphone is really dangerous.
I think its because people consider drinking morally wrong and something undesirable people do, but cellphones are usually work related and something upper class people do all the time, thus the outrage and reluctance to pass laws attacking their use while driving. In a word driven by objective reality, the punishment for talking on a cellphone while driving would less than drinking and driving, but would reflect the fact that its a serious threat to road saftey, so a fine on the order of speeding would not be out of line and would save thousands of lives every year. Yes, the inconvienince of you not being able to talk on your cellphone will save lives, period.
How is this different than when Microsoft or some other large corporation deletes emails or shreds incriminating documents? Thats a crime, its impeding an investigation or obstructing justice, hell thats one of two counts that they impeached President Clinton on and are trying Scotter Libby on, so yeah its a crime.
Just because its a computer doesnt mean its not a crime, I hate this concept that someone computers are a sacred space where the law doesnt apply any more, that allows corporations to get away with murder because the laws regarding digital records are intentionally vague. For example everybody on slashdot freaked out when they said they wanted to regulate political donations online, they regulate political donations offline, so why not? Now bribery is done through a website thats the only difference.
Is it possible to make a computer without and Chipset "trusted computer" DRM in its chipset? If so what chipset would I have to use and what company makes it? Can I just buy a mac preconfigured without it or do even Macs come with this DRM now, in case one of my non-technical friends wants a new computer without DRM.
As Ben Franklin said "Those who surrender their freedom in the name of saftey deserve neither"The point is if these people are know terrorists, why cant the president get a warrant to electronically monitor them? Your whole arguement is false. You act as though we only have a choice between allowing Bush to do as he pleases with no oversight at all or not even attempting to catch terrorists, did you even consider the idea that there are legal methods of wiretapping terrorists? The FISA court allows 72 hours AFTER the wiretapping begins to get a warrant, so are Bush's targest of wiretapping so flimsy that he cant even manage to get evidence after three days of wiretapping? Also the idea that exposing this program somehow endangers our national security is a joke, like we are supposed to believe it somehow matters to Al-queda whether they are being monitored through the FISA court or through exectuive discretion.
There was a Quaker church that was spied on by the Department of defense in Florida without a warrant, they had no connection to Al-Queda and they had NSA agents infiltrate the church and they conducted no violent protests. Only their philosophy, which was anti the Iraq war, made them a target of the NSA. You can be a target since there is no oversight of this spying program, they wiretapped these church going people, why not you?
As for their legal arguements, they have no basis. They argue that FISA has exceptions in wartime and that constutional ambiguities should be cleared up by executive authority. What this essentially means is that congress has no power over the president during wartime, and since we are in a war on terror that has no end in sight we have essentially a dictator in power who is not beholden to the laws passed by our congress. Today it may be a wiretapping law, yestarday it was the torture ban he said he did not have to follow if he did not wish, and tomorrow it could be your financial records. That is why this president has never vetoed a single bill, any law he does not like he just does not follow.
The entire basis of our government is the separation of power, how can we regulate the discretion of a single man? The president is not a dictator, and there are legal means of wiretapping. Anyone who believes this president should be allowed to wiretap at will is pissing on the constitution and our freedoms.
Looking at it form a statistical stand point they are correct. If more people are using broadband internet connections but the number of people using peer to peer file sharing services is the same, then they can consider this a success because the PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IS DOWN because of all the people who could possibly file sharing at high speeds, a lower percentage are than before they began these law suits. Also a major flaw of this study is that it does not mention if people are still using peer to peer file sharing networks are sharing more or less files than they used too, which would indicate that they were being deterred by the threat of lawsuits.
Anyone who says these lawsuits are not having some effect needs a refresher course in mathematics because they dont understand how to calculate a percentage.
I think the xbox 360 is region coded, so all those xbox 360 systems that are sitting on a shelf in japan are useless to gamers in USA, unless you like to import every single game you buy. Some games I guess work accross region codes but I would not bet the barn (or $400 bucks) on it.
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Quote: We still long for the day when we can pick up a handful of games from Japan and play them on our home consoles, without the life risks associated with dodgy voltage step-downs. With the Xbox 360, it looks like we could be moving closer to our dream. Although we haven't been able to get hold of any US games ourselves, word from Japan says that a handful of American Xbox 360 titles do not have a region lock, and work fine on a Japanese region console.
The supposed region-free titles discovered include Call of Duty 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Gun and Tony Hawk: American Wasteland, suggesting that the console's stance on region locking is the same as on the original Xbox, leaving the decision up to the publisher.
There's no news yet on whether any foreign region games work on a PAL Xbox 360, but we'll be sure to let you know as soon as we get our hands on some US titles.
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If this website that gets millions of people comming to it every day allows people to second guess movie reviewers regarding something as completely irrelevant as a bad movie why cant it allow stories that might actually change the people's minds and the world like discussions about the war in Iraq and the whether the war crimes were committed in the lead when America decided to premptively decided to attack Iraq. Joachim von Ribbentrop was hung at the Nuremberg mostly due to his role for "crimes against peace" which included the lead up and invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland without any just cause, which it seems that America had no just cause to invade Iraq since they didnt threaten us and no connection to september 11th or weapons of mass destruction or intention of harming us. Shouldnt we hold ourselves to the same standard we hold the rest of the world too? I think we should start thinking of trying the Bush administration as War Criminals...thats a better Slashdot story than stupid Aeon Flux.
I really want a Nintendo DS....I thought mabey next year they would release a Nintendo DS-SP or something like that so I bought a Gameboy Micro (which I am very happy with and is a great system), however in the few months since I purchased the Gameboy Micro so many good games have come out for the Nintendo DS....Mario & Luigi, Mario Kart, Sonic Rush, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, etc. Well I am not sure if I want to keep waiting, but I would like a smaller system.
I dont own a xbox360, nor will I since I have carpeting and Am afraid the thing will burn my house down or singe my cat. I cant even imagine how much electricity that power supply must eat compared to my gamecube or playstation 2...probably more than both of them combined! That thing is big enough to be a game system unto itself.
I have a carpet, therefore my home does not meet the minimum specifications for owning a xbox360, how idiotic is that...I love carpeting it keeps my feet warm. But the worst part is that idiots will still line up to buy this engineering fiasco, that out of the gate doesnt work properly...you think they would have tried it out at somebody's house since its a HOME CONSOLE.
Seriously, I can play by revision number wipeout 5, twisted metal 6 (or seven?), star wars battlefront 2, Ridge racer 8 (its the eigth revision released), ape escape 4, or Grand theft auto 5. Luminies is original, as is untold legents (original but horrible), Metal gear acid is also original. Why sony doesnt make any original games for this system is beyond me...I rented "infected" just to get and original game, and man is it pretty redundant, and I also rented "legend of heroes" and its pretty generic RPG, but seeing as its the ONLY decent RPG for the system that means its okay. What few orignal games there exist are not the best games. The PSP library really stinks, and I am a avid gamer and own every major system except a Nintendo DS, and the PSP has even a worse catalogue of releases than the Gamecube, or even the Gameboy Advance which has been replaced by its successor the Nintendo DS and still is comming out with more and better and more original games than the PSP (Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, Gunstar Heroes, Rivera, Sigma Star Saga). Just buy a Playstation 2 or a Xbox, and buy the games you want for those systems, they will look and control better than the PSP version since the controls on the PSP are pretty awful, since besides the games on the PSP being watered down ports of sequels for home consoles, the analog control nub is way over responsive and the digital pad is the one of the worst I have ever used and makes fighting games nearly impossible, which sucks because Darkstalkers Chronicles (anohter sequel) is a great fighting game but I cant pull off any fancy moves. I will admit I play it quite a bit, but thats only because I bought star wars battlefront 2 for it and I Play it while I am waiting for DVD's to burn or stuff to download...not its a decent way to kill time...but the game is so much better on the xbox its crazy. As with most PSP games they cut out major portions of the game, no online mode, no story mode, missing maps, missing vehicles, missing playable characters etc....its really watered down.
Nintendo DS has way better games, I am just waiting for the Nintendo DS SP so i wont have to carry around a dual screen system the size of a freaking brick...seriously. If you want something that plays music and movies, buy a video Ipod, a video ipod is the same price as a PSP and a decent sized memory stick or a PSP and a game....and my ipod is used way more than my psp. My combination of Ipod video and Gameboy micro pretty much solves all my travel entertainment needs, I can play excellent and original games on my gameboy micro and can I play movies and music from the ipod and can fit roughly 100 times more than on the PSP and can output them to a tv at friends houses via the ipod av cable, which the psp cannot do. And both the Ipod and the gameboy micro take up the same room in my pocket as the psp.
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Whoever wrote the anti-wired article is obviously someone with a vested interest IN the Iphone. You notice they take issue with how the Wired article claims only 200,000 Iphones were sold in Japan, but they claim 300,000 400,000 were shipped. Shipped and sold are different as anyone can tell you, its comparing apples and oranges. This person is intellectually dishonest. As for the original wired article, I have no idea about its veracity, but I know this person is dishonest.
Good point, I dont consider Oblivion a "fun" game either, its boring as watching paint dry mate! I actually started playing Final Fantasy IV while waiting for day to change to night and eventually just turned the game off. Oh yeah, World of warcraft isnt fun either (its a chat room with graphics) ....for fun games see Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas co-op, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Warioware, Resident Evil 4, Final Fantasy V, Castlevania Symphony of the night, Super Monkey ball (monkey target).
Never buy a sony console at launch, there are always bugs. I had to replace both my original playstation one and two. However, this really isnt that big a deal, 196 games out of a library of three thousand or more games isnt so bad, and I bet sony will eventually fix most of these issues in an update , or it will be fixed in a later revision of the hardware unfortunately for early adopters (like the ability to read cd-r and dvd-r disks and adding progressive scan was in the playstation 2).
If I have a 100 million people in my country and 10% of them have broadband, that is equvalent of 100% of a country of 10 million people having broadband...that means nothing. The united states is a very large country with a very large population. As a statistics professor, Its not "being fair" to mention installed lines, thats like comparing the murder rate in a city with 10 million with 15 murders to a city with 100,000 with 10 murders and saying the city with 100,000 is safer because their are less murders 33.3% fewer murders!
I am just starting to use linux, and I am making a dedicated effort to make it work. However, setting up my wireless network card is nothing but pure hell...and its been going on for weeks. Installing drivers in linux is the most painful, horrible computer related experience I have ever had to deal with. In windows, you plug it in, it just works. I tried installing madwifi and I absolutely could not get it to work, even with the make command it still said that I had to set KERNELPATH, which I did. I researched and tried my hardest, but the instructions for installing the wifi driver instructed me to connect to the internet and use the "yum" command to download the driver which wsa impossible, and the help included in SUSE, Red Hat Core and Slackware were all pretty horrible in helping fix this problem. Ubuntu would not even load.
Any operating system that demands people to use a command prompt to install drivers, and then still doesnt want to work is going to lose, period. Beyond that, the file system is extremely confusing compared to windows rather simple and intuitive organizational scheme (hard drives are under mnt and my files are under home?) I think that Red Hat Core is the best one of the lot, but beyond a dedicated bunch of geeks like me I doubt many people are willing to put in the effort to use linux, especially if they only have one computer.
I was waiting for something to happen in Elder Scrolls oblivion due to the day night cycle (somehow that makes the game more fun.....:( and started playing Final Fantasy IV advance. I played IV for an hour and never played oblivion again, Final fantasy IV is such a good game, and the combat system is so much better than any straight up role playing game I have played lately, its worth celebrating as far as I am concerned, run out and buy the new GBA version of this, it has a bunch of new content in it after you beat the game.
I am a professional criminologist, and I can tell you that the decision to make 0.08 the legal limit was not determined by any scientific research, it was determined by politicians seeking reelection by seeing who could better protect the public from the dangers of crime. In the instance of drunken driving, they rely on unsound measures, such as lowering the blood alcohol levels to absurdly low points rather than actually since it is a test that is easy to administer and hard to contest in court rather than trying to actually determine whether a person is actually to drunk to drive a vehicle. 0.08 is usually not even two beers for the average person.
Some people's bodies can withstand a very high blood alcohol level before anyone would guess they are drunk, while a single beer would cause others to passout. The idea that some breathalyzer test can determine drunkeness is more a convience than a fact.
I get time warner and all I get is 33k upload and around three hundred something download. That is just pathetic for $45 dollars a month. BUt I dont dare complain, because then they will wonder why I need all that bandwidth!
This product will never be accepted with a name like Ubuntu, this is why nerds will always lose to suits, marketing research. Corporate types spend money trying to figure out what the average joe actually wants and is willing to accept, and name their products well, a name like Ubuntu will never catch on, they might as well have named it festering bed sore linux.
Windows, its simple, it works, it implies it ha. OSx, its implies your programs are in some sort of windows. OSx, again simple, implies its an operating system. Ubuntu, is this an african rice dish? The end boss from Final fantasy V? I have no idea what it is, or even how to spell it to look it up on google, in fact I had to check my spelling from the orignal post to make sure I didnt misspell it.
I never said the democrats are great, I cant stand the idea of Hilarly Clinton being president. Its the party of No ideas (the democrats) versus the party of bad ideas (the republicans). Its a sad sad state of affairs were in where both parties are trying to out do each other to make a mess of things.
My point however was that how can anyone look at Bush and say this guy cares about anything else than the powers of his own office? He looks at the constitution the way a burglar looks at a security system. Every chance he gets he wants to increase the monitoring of Americans, whether it be to stop terrorism, or child pornography or whatever the excuse of the day is that if you disagree with it your an evil doer. Its just wrong and I had to say something, if saying something like this makes me a trolls than we should all be trolls!
This administration is doing everything it can to erode our privacy rights, take away due process and legal protections, increase governmental secrecy and decrease governmental accountability. All this ironically in the name of our saftey and freedom.
The Bush administration is eroding our privacy rights through warantless wiretapping of American Citizens phone calls, and we dont know if its only international phone calls because there has been no investigation of this, we only have the people who are violating the FISA statue's word on this. FISA was set up for exactly this purpose. Not only that, they have a database of nearly every phonecall made in America, and they are using it to monitor phonecalls made by reporters to find leaks in their own administration without warrants.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=83880
As for our legal protections, this administration wants to be able to detain indefinitely without trial anyone suspected of terrorism, Jose Paddilla is a American born citizen and though he will now be tried as a criminal due to the threat of his case going to the supreme court. This administration wished to detain him indefinitely without trial prior to that threat. That is scary and unprecedented. Were not talking about legal resident aliens, or people who illegal gained entry into the country, this guy was born here as a citizen and under the constitution he deserves a trial, every citizen deserves a trial, thats a fundamental right.
As for increased government secrecy and decreased accountability we have documents being reclassified under the freedom of information act, and non-compliance for freedom of informaiton act requests. Its not just security related concerns, but corrupt things like whether a power plant is up to code and is likely to have an accident, hand outs to his industrialist buddies. Another nice tidbit hidden from the public for a long time by Bush's rewritting of the Freedom of Information act is a memo from Exxon mobil to the Bush white house demonstrating the influence of oil companies on this administration's global warming policy's. All of this having nothing to do with national security but being withheld from the public just because it protects monied interests or can embarrass elected officials.
Why dont these companies put them on the Nintendo Revolution or Xbox Arcade or PC and charge like 50 cents a download ? That might be a good alternative, all they have to do is adapt dosbox for these consoles for the really old games...for the CD based games I have no idea.
People who talk frequently on the cell phone are almost as bad as people who drink and drive when it comes to getting in car accidents, yet we demonize drunken drivers and act outraged when the government wants to stop people from talking on the cell phone while driving. I teach criminology and the statistics show that the rate of traffic accidents while drinking and driving is slightly higher than talking on the cellphone, meaning talking on the cellphone is really dangerous.
I think its because people consider drinking morally wrong and something undesirable people do, but cellphones are usually work related and something upper class people do all the time, thus the outrage and reluctance to pass laws attacking their use while driving. In a word driven by objective reality, the punishment for talking on a cellphone while driving would less than drinking and driving, but would reflect the fact that its a serious threat to road saftey, so a fine on the order of speeding would not be out of line and would save thousands of lives every year. Yes, the inconvienince of you not being able to talk on your cellphone will save lives, period.
How is this different than when Microsoft or some other large corporation deletes emails or shreds incriminating documents? Thats a crime, its impeding an investigation or obstructing justice, hell thats one of two counts that they impeached President Clinton on and are trying Scotter Libby on, so yeah its a crime.
Just because its a computer doesnt mean its not a crime, I hate this concept that someone computers are a sacred space where the law doesnt apply any more, that allows corporations to get away with murder because the laws regarding digital records are intentionally vague. For example everybody on slashdot freaked out when they said they wanted to regulate political donations online, they regulate political donations offline, so why not? Now bribery is done through a website thats the only difference.
Is it possible to make a computer without and Chipset "trusted computer" DRM in its chipset? If so what chipset would I have to use and what company makes it? Can I just buy a mac preconfigured without it or do even Macs come with this DRM now, in case one of my non-technical friends wants a new computer without DRM.
As Ben Franklin said "Those who surrender their freedom in the name of saftey deserve neither"The point is if these people are know terrorists, why cant the president get a warrant to electronically monitor them? Your whole arguement is false. You act as though we only have a choice between allowing Bush to do as he pleases with no oversight at all or not even attempting to catch terrorists, did you even consider the idea that there are legal methods of wiretapping terrorists? The FISA court allows 72 hours AFTER the wiretapping begins to get a warrant, so are Bush's targest of wiretapping so flimsy that he cant even manage to get evidence after three days of wiretapping? Also the idea that exposing this program somehow endangers our national security is a joke, like we are supposed to believe it somehow matters to Al-queda whether they are being monitored through the FISA court or through exectuive discretion.
There was a Quaker church that was spied on by the Department of defense in Florida without a warrant, they had no connection to Al-Queda and they had NSA agents infiltrate the church and they conducted no violent protests. Only their philosophy, which was anti the Iraq war, made them a target of the NSA. You can be a target since there is no oversight of this spying program, they wiretapped these church going people, why not you?
As for their legal arguements, they have no basis. They argue that FISA has exceptions in wartime and that constutional ambiguities should be cleared up by executive authority. What this essentially means is that congress has no power over the president during wartime, and since we are in a war on terror that has no end in sight we have essentially a dictator in power who is not beholden to the laws passed by our congress. Today it may be a wiretapping law, yestarday it was the torture ban he said he did not have to follow if he did not wish, and tomorrow it could be your financial records. That is why this president has never vetoed a single bill, any law he does not like he just does not follow.
The entire basis of our government is the separation of power, how can we regulate the discretion of a single man? The president is not a dictator, and there are legal means of wiretapping. Anyone who believes this president should be allowed to wiretap at will is pissing on the constitution and our freedoms.
Looking at it form a statistical stand point they are correct. If more people are using broadband internet connections but the number of people using peer to peer file sharing services is the same, then they can consider this a success because the PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IS DOWN because of all the people who could possibly file sharing at high speeds, a lower percentage are than before they began these law suits. Also a major flaw of this study is that it does not mention if people are still using peer to peer file sharing networks are sharing more or less files than they used too, which would indicate that they were being deterred by the threat of lawsuits.
Anyone who says these lawsuits are not having some effect needs a refresher course in mathematics because they dont understand how to calculate a percentage.
Yeah how much did it cost to go to your school? If you think its easier for black people to get a job because their black your living in fantasy land
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I think the xbox 360 is region coded, so all those xbox 360 systems that are sitting on a shelf in japan are useless to gamers in USA, unless you like to import every single game you buy. Some games I guess work accross region codes but I would not bet the barn (or $400 bucks) on it.
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Computer and Videogames report although we haven't been able to get hold of any US games ourselves, word from Japan says that a handful of American Xbox 360 titles do not have a region lock, and work fine on a Japanese region console.
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We still long for the day when we can pick up a handful of games from Japan and play them on our home consoles, without the life risks associated with dodgy voltage step-downs. With the Xbox 360, it looks like we could be moving closer to our dream.
Although we haven't been able to get hold of any US games ourselves, word from Japan says that a handful of American Xbox 360 titles do not have a region lock, and work fine on a Japanese region console.
The supposed region-free titles discovered include Call of Duty 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Gun and Tony Hawk: American Wasteland, suggesting that the console's stance on region locking is the same as on the original Xbox, leaving the decision up to the publisher.
There's no news yet on whether any foreign region games work on a PAL Xbox 360, but we'll be sure to let you know as soon as we get our hands on some US titles.
News Source: ComputerandVideogames.com
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If this website that gets millions of people comming to it every day allows people to second guess movie reviewers regarding something as completely irrelevant as a bad movie why cant it allow stories that might actually change the people's minds and the world like discussions about the war in Iraq and the whether the war crimes were committed in the lead when America decided to premptively decided to attack Iraq. Joachim von Ribbentrop was hung at the Nuremberg mostly due to his role for "crimes against peace" which included the lead up and invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland without any just cause, which it seems that America had no just cause to invade Iraq since they didnt threaten us and no connection to september 11th or weapons of mass destruction or intention of harming us. Shouldnt we hold ourselves to the same standard we hold the rest of the world too? I think we should start thinking of trying the Bush administration as War Criminals...thats a better Slashdot story than stupid Aeon Flux.
I really want a Nintendo DS....I thought mabey next year they would release a Nintendo DS-SP or something like that so I bought a Gameboy Micro (which I am very happy with and is a great system), however in the few months since I purchased the Gameboy Micro so many good games have come out for the Nintendo DS....Mario & Luigi, Mario Kart, Sonic Rush, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, etc. Well I am not sure if I want to keep waiting, but I would like a smaller system.
I dont own a xbox360, nor will I since I have carpeting and Am afraid the thing will burn my house down or singe my cat. I cant even imagine how much electricity that power supply must eat compared to my gamecube or playstation 2...probably more than both of them combined! That thing is big enough to be a game system unto itself.
I have a carpet, therefore my home does not meet the minimum specifications for owning a xbox360, how idiotic is that...I love carpeting it keeps my feet warm. But the worst part is that idiots will still line up to buy this engineering fiasco, that out of the gate doesnt work properly...you think they would have tried it out at somebody's house since its a HOME CONSOLE.
Seriously, I can play by revision number wipeout 5, twisted metal 6 (or seven?), star wars battlefront 2, Ridge racer 8 (its the eigth revision released), ape escape 4, or Grand theft auto 5. Luminies is original, as is untold legents (original but horrible), Metal gear acid is also original. Why sony doesnt make any original games for this system is beyond me...I rented "infected" just to get and original game, and man is it pretty redundant, and I also rented "legend of heroes" and its pretty generic RPG, but seeing as its the ONLY decent RPG for the system that means its okay. What few orignal games there exist are not the best games. The PSP library really stinks, and I am a avid gamer and own every major system except a Nintendo DS, and the PSP has even a worse catalogue of releases than the Gamecube, or even the Gameboy Advance which has been replaced by its successor the Nintendo DS and still is comming out with more and better and more original games than the PSP (Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, Gunstar Heroes, Rivera, Sigma Star Saga). Just buy a Playstation 2 or a Xbox, and buy the games you want for those systems, they will look and control better than the PSP version since the controls on the PSP are pretty awful, since besides the games on the PSP being watered down ports of sequels for home consoles, the analog control nub is way over responsive and the digital pad is the one of the worst I have ever used and makes fighting games nearly impossible, which sucks because Darkstalkers Chronicles (anohter sequel) is a great fighting game but I cant pull off any fancy moves. I will admit I play it quite a bit, but thats only because I bought star wars battlefront 2 for it and I Play it while I am waiting for DVD's to burn or stuff to download...not its a decent way to kill time...but the game is so much better on the xbox its crazy. As with most PSP games they cut out major portions of the game, no online mode, no story mode, missing maps, missing vehicles, missing playable characters etc....its really watered down.
Nintendo DS has way better games, I am just waiting for the Nintendo DS SP so i wont have to carry around a dual screen system the size of a freaking brick...seriously. If you want something that plays music and movies, buy a video Ipod, a video ipod is the same price as a PSP and a decent sized memory stick or a PSP and a game....and my ipod is used way more than my psp. My combination of Ipod video and Gameboy micro pretty much solves all my travel entertainment needs, I can play excellent and original games on my gameboy micro and can I play movies and music from the ipod and can fit roughly 100 times more than on the PSP and can output them to a tv at friends houses via the ipod av cable, which the psp cannot do. And both the Ipod and the gameboy micro take up the same room in my pocket as the psp.