You Americans slashdotted our register!!!!!! we do not take kindly too terrorism, now prepare to feel our wrath as we DoS your country until you hand over Hemos and all his supporters
Of course they are.. Most of them have somesort of story behind them, and all of them - even pong, use some sort of representation to portray a situation. Some of them even have mini-films in them or plot based gameplay.
If your trying to make this into a legal issue so no-one can censor games because they are art then good:) but it probably won't work
but why is censoring art any different from censoring anything else? Just because ideas are not portrayed with creativity does that mean you should be able to censor them? Or vice a versa.
If parents don't want their kids playing violent games or watching films etc, then thats their business, not the governments.
IMHO the worlds view on censorship (and IP) is totally backwards.
Hire low cost labor (maybe from brazil?) and use them as a manual picture changer for pre-printed images.
Install screensaver. smash hole in wall, install monitor in hole.
Find someone that makes TFT wall-paper - you can light the room with it too, but just remember, don't use Windows(tm) to power it or you could be left in the dark HEHEHEHEHAHAHAHA:-D err... no:-(
Didn't anyone see this coming - don't you watch movies????
Anyway, its not europe, it was all the idea of the French, they were unhappy about the whole Yahoo thing and now they've seen all the other Nazi sites, so they wan't to get to work on those (mod _that_ down as racist hate-speech) all the other british people here will agree with me:)
Orwells predictions about the constitutional rights are coming true again (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others)
I think people like George 'there should be limits to freedom' Bush always thought there was to much freedom in the world, but no politician was gonna risk messing with the Constitutional Rights, unless of course there was some kind of major incident involving say terrorists, something that could be used to secure alsorts of laws.. but then nothing like that would ever happen, i mean, the government would never be so incompetant as to let airline security get poor enough so someone could hi-jack 4 planes in the same day. Even if i did happen, they would almost certainly apologise for their stupidity and feel so guilty that they would resign.
so let me just check:
i have the right to say anything i like except stuff that has already been said, and copyrighed by someone else? so if someone copyrighted loads and loads of stuff in bulk then i wouldn't be able to.... OHHHHHHHHH _now_ i get all the double-click patenting and stuff:)
"All web content is availiable from any country, but we don't ship the following goods to France, because they are frogs: Gas masks, German Weapons, German Spam (tinned), Germans."
Unlike Star Trek (tm) where holographic docters, even though they are computer programs, cannot be backed up or copied (making the entire plot of several episodes meaningless) in the real world data can be copied any number of times.
I have long time made a simple vow - i won't buy music cds. Its a very simple thing to grasp: Refusing to buy cds is my legal right, as is for example refusing to buy anything coloured purple. Seeing as i won't buy cds, anything i do has no effect on my cd-buying potential. And causes no money to be lost. Therefore, downloading music off the internet is acceptable seeing as i was not going to buy the cd of it, so i will either: a) download and listen to some music or b) not listen to that music ever. A similar thing happens when you listen to the radio - as the radio station has no way of knowing when _i_ am listening to them, i can for example, turn of the radio for 30 secs everytime they go to commercials. The radio station compiles its listener base from other sources and therefore gets payed for the adverts if i am watching or not.
This moves on to another point - seeing as in America and Europe, speech/expression is legally free, and music is speech/(expression), restricting what musical content i can access or express on the internet is restriction of my freedom of speech.
If i was to perform some original music and put it on the internet that would be fine, but, if i was to perform an existing 'copyrighted' piece of music to such perfection that a court could not tell the difference between my performance and the original performance, than that would be restricted speech/expression, but, seeing as no speech/expression can be restricted if it is all free, i have the right to listen to anything regardless.
Hmmm... thats very interesting Mr Clyde-Frog, thats very interesting indeed. Some explosives and a copper coil you say?... Could this device fit in a box? maybe a box small enough to post to Microsoft HQ?
What is the point of a wireless network in these cases? do people really need to access their files from the bog? i think not. What if i drove around with a reasonably powerful transmitter and jammed the frequency? would every company in the city be screwed? Also, how do people who are imcompetant get good jobs? i would be interested to know, as i feel that i am a tiny bit less incompetant than most and would like to be in a high position (i can write in joined-up and make coffee on my own!!!).
Its not funny, its a serious issue, Natalie Portman _is_ hot, and some people just don't understand how hot she is. I actually hated episode one and two will probably be just as bad, but i will be forced to part with cash because i must get my fix of Miss Portman on a big screen.
Every day, people are turned to crime to pay for their Portman fixations, something must be done about it.
Is this something you consider funny? - seeing peoples' lives ruined because Natalie Portman is to hot? maybe your the sort of person that drowns little puppies and kittens too? CNN has every right to inform us on this.
You can also donate money to help people who have suffered from prolonged exposure to Natalie Portmans beauty, and keep kids off the streets by donating to www.np-rehab.org
UK terrestrial has had the teletext/cefax signal for more than 20 years, all you have to do is press a button on most tvs and you can see which station it is, as for any digital station, there simply is no excuse, they _definatly_ have the ability to send data to the tv to let the viewer know what there watching with out having to put in a logo, plus, logos look terrible when they are digitally compressed with the cheap stuff most providers get away with.
Is it really worth having a logo on your screen for the rest of your life, just so you can tune the tv in easily a couple of times? no, (shut up, it isn't).
Not only that, but (moving back to evil compression) when i watch stuff i downloaded southpark etc.) i have to put up with the stupid blurry comedy central logo, i mean, the cheek - i get my programs legally of gnutella, yet i still have to put up with the logos. it sucks.
We don't have any logos on terrestrial tv here (uk) (no channel 5 does not count). but the BBC is starting to push it with news-24. One day those capitalist pigs will be shot like the err capitalist pigs they are, and i will personally destroy all tv logos over the world BA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA
Its a virus - it hides behind a legitimate program, performs some sort of check, then delivers a payload. If thats not a virus, then i don't know what is. Just because Apple may 'claim' its a mistake, is no excuse. People have gone to prison for less so i say, give them a big fat law suit.
"This is a devastating statistic for those who believe that America's greater commitment to individualism translates into greater individual freedom. In reality, the social democracies of Northern Europe are the freest societies in the world."
Places America pretty low on the freedom scale
(google: UN freedom index)
Also, a very interesting node on e2:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=3855 79 &lastnode_id=124
were Sweden came out top and America didn't even make number 10 lol:)
Looks like your too late, you better hope someone anthraxes Bush before he does any more damage
The web is a platform for free exchange of information.
How many websites have you seen where the designer has no clue as to how people will be using it? surely it would be much better to give us the raw data (e.g a stock/catalog database) and have the software on our computer (the client) do all the pretty graphics/formatting/searching to our needs.
Thats not innovation. The HTML/TP etc.. standards were designed for a reason, they are open, human readable, low-bandwidth, and simple. Look for example at gnu.org, its fast and simple and you can find what your looking for. If you _really_ want to jazz up gnu.org, goto your browser settings, fiddle with the colours and fonts and then play some music in the background, while flash animation has its uses (stick death). The stateless, text-oriented forms-supported model's day has not passed.
The days of stupid interfaces designed by dumb people who think easy-to-use means lots of big buttons, that drag you through pointless graphics and bandwidth hogging crap and then give you 50 banner ads have passed.
no no no... your post was good, but i think people were questioning your sarcasm, some may have thought that you actually _liked_ america, heres how its done:
[begin example]
Yeah!!!! go capitalism!!! down with the commies!!!
I wish i lived in america, so i could to pledge alegence to the fag of the united states... Long live Microsoft and McDonalds, let my money go into the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Bribe the Supreme Court Fund" Bush rules, kill those Afgans, ('accidently') Cruise missile their villages, Cluster bomb their fields, drop food on mines (comment on my spelling). Freedom for allllllllll.....
[end example]
So to sum up... X-Windows is fine, no problem with that. Mac OS X are actually using the roman numeral X instead of 10.. therefore OS 11 will be XI etc... except the PR who thought of this master plan will have left and no-one will remember why they really called it X, so the next version will be X-2/or X-II. Windows XP - if someone could tell me what X.P. stood for i would be happy, otherwise i think they are just seeking attention.
I like the non-commercial approach where there are no deadlines to meet or tacky marketing PR people to mess up and new versions x.x.2 x.x.4 etc... appear every month or so to fix bugs.
+ He programed Aibo to copy dance moves from some crapy boy-band, which sony own thus violating copyrights. Also, Aibo did it so well, that their jobs where at risk
+ He was getting to close to discovering that after dark and when knowone is looking, Aibo finds the nearest phone line, sticks it's..cough.. plugs itself in and uploads video, audio, and GPS data to Sony HQ.
+ The encryption method they use is actually the same system that will be adopted for the SSSCA, and Sony were just future proofing.
+ He managed to disable the "Aibo kill owner" command that activates when Aibo detects someone pirating Sony material and tries to kill them using a hidden array of deadly weapons.
No... they'll just get the SSSCA in and then you guys can have HDTV/DVDs with jail-time if you so much as open the DVD-player case, while the rest of the world will get to live with crappy 480 DVD 'cause we refused to give up or rights.
Slashdot Mirror
Memememmemememe
What's the date/dest?
I'm looking for flights near the err White House, if you have tickets for these flights in your _own_ name, i am very interested
You Americans slashdotted our register!!!!!! we do not take kindly too terrorism, now prepare to feel our wrath as we DoS your country until you hand over Hemos and all his supporters
(and bomb the ms training camps)
Of course they are.. Most of them have somesort of story behind them, and all of them - even pong, use some sort of representation to portray a situation. Some of them even have mini-films in them or plot based gameplay.
:) but it probably won't work
If your trying to make this into a legal issue so no-one can censor games because they are art then good
but why is censoring art any different from censoring anything else? Just because ideas are not portrayed with creativity does that mean you should be able to censor them? Or vice a versa.
If parents don't want their kids playing violent games or watching films etc, then thats their business, not the governments.
IMHO the worlds view on censorship (and IP) is totally backwards.
Hire low cost labor (maybe from brazil?) and use them as a manual picture changer for pre-printed images.
:-D err... no :-(
Install screensaver. smash hole in wall, install monitor in hole.
Find someone that makes TFT wall-paper - you can light the room with it too, but just remember, don't use Windows(tm) to power it or you could be left in the dark HEHEHEHEHAHAHAHA
Didn't anyone see this coming - don't you watch movies????
:)
Anyway, its not europe, it was all the idea of the French, they were unhappy about the whole Yahoo thing and now they've seen all the other Nazi sites, so they wan't to get to work on those (mod _that_ down as racist hate-speech) all the other british people here will agree with me
Orwells predictions about the constitutional rights are coming true again (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others)
I think people like George 'there should be limits to freedom' Bush always thought there was to much freedom in the world, but no politician was gonna risk messing with the Constitutional Rights, unless of course there was some kind of major incident involving say terrorists, something that could be used to secure alsorts of laws.. but then nothing like that would ever happen, i mean, the government would never be so incompetant as to let airline security get poor enough so someone could hi-jack 4 planes in the same day. Even if i did happen, they would almost certainly apologise for their stupidity and feel so guilty that they would resign.
Remind me again, what a record company does? so far all i have is:
Take someone who on their own would be a worthless pile of crap -> make them into a star and get everyone to buy their music
kind of like what Microsoft does to grad students?
But this is surely good - everyone knows that American police stations come with microphones builtin, now they just have to admit it.
I think so...
:)
so let me just check:
i have the right to say anything i like except stuff that has already been said, and copyrighed by someone else? so if someone copyrighted loads and loads of stuff in bulk then i wouldn't be able to.... OHHHHHHHHH _now_ i get all the double-click patenting and stuff
umm... thats what i said...
oh, you were agreeing with me, my mistake
Yahoo's policy should read:
"All web content is availiable from any country, but we don't ship the following goods to France, because they are frogs: Gas masks, German Weapons, German Spam (tinned), Germans."
Unlike Star Trek (tm) where holographic docters, even though they are computer programs, cannot be backed up or copied (making the entire plot of several episodes meaningless) in the real world data can be copied any number of times.
I have long time made a simple vow - i won't buy music cds. Its a very simple thing to grasp: Refusing to buy cds is my legal right, as is for example refusing to buy anything coloured purple. Seeing as i won't buy cds, anything i do has no effect on my cd-buying potential. And causes no money to be lost. Therefore, downloading music off the internet is acceptable seeing as i was not going to buy the cd of it, so i will either: a) download and listen to some music or b) not listen to that music ever. A similar thing happens when you listen to the radio - as the radio station has no way of knowing when _i_ am listening to them, i can for example, turn of the radio for 30 secs everytime they go to commercials. The radio station compiles its listener base from other sources and therefore gets payed for the adverts if i am watching or not.
This moves on to another point - seeing as in America and Europe, speech/expression is legally free, and music is speech/(expression), restricting what musical content i can access or express on the internet is restriction of my freedom of speech.
If i was to perform some original music and put it on the internet that would be fine, but, if i was to perform an existing 'copyrighted' piece of music to such perfection that a court could not tell the difference between my performance and the original performance, than that would be restricted speech/expression, but, seeing as no speech/expression can be restricted if it is all free, i have the right to listen to anything regardless.
robotic synth voice: eeeeeeuoo hhhaaaaveeee waaaaauuuunnn neeeeeeuwwwwww meeeeeessssaaage. meeeeeessssaaage seeeennnnt tweeeelveee foooorreeteeee tuuuuuueeee. meeeeeessssaaage reeeeeeaaads: heeeeeeeeeloooooou.
1 hour later/etc...
[translation - you have one new message, message sent: 12:42 message reads: "hello"]
and then you respond with voice recognition:
"hi"
> high
"no! HI"
> go, high
"HI"
> bye
"HIEEEE EEE"
> i
[type] "hi"
Hmmm... thats very interesting Mr Clyde-Frog, thats very interesting indeed. Some explosives and a copper coil you say?... Could this device fit in a box? maybe a box small enough to post to Microsoft HQ?
What is the point of a wireless network in these cases? do people really need to access their files from the bog? i think not. What if i drove around with a reasonably powerful transmitter and jammed the frequency? would every company in the city be screwed? Also, how do people who are imcompetant get good jobs? i would be interested to know, as i feel that i am a tiny bit less incompetant than most and would like to be in a high position (i can write in joined-up and make coffee on my own!!!).
Its not funny, its a serious issue, Natalie Portman _is_ hot, and some people just don't understand how hot she is. I actually hated episode one and two will probably be just as bad, but i will be forced to part with cash because i must get my fix of Miss Portman on a big screen.
Every day, people are turned to crime to pay for their Portman fixations, something must be done about it.
Is this something you consider funny? - seeing peoples' lives ruined because Natalie Portman is to hot? maybe your the sort of person that drowns little puppies and kittens too? CNN has every right to inform us on this.
You can also donate money to help people who have suffered from prolonged exposure to Natalie Portmans beauty, and keep kids off the streets by donating to www.np-rehab.org
UK terrestrial has had the teletext/cefax signal for more than 20 years, all you have to do is press a button on most tvs and you can see which station it is, as for any digital station, there simply is no excuse, they _definatly_ have the ability to send data to the tv to let the viewer know what there watching with out having to put in a logo, plus, logos look terrible when they are digitally compressed with the cheap stuff most providers get away with.
Is it really worth having a logo on your screen for the rest of your life, just so you can tune the tv in easily a couple of times? no, (shut up, it isn't).
Not only that, but (moving back to evil compression) when i watch stuff i downloaded southpark etc.) i have to put up with the stupid blurry comedy central logo, i mean, the cheek - i get my programs legally of gnutella, yet i still have to put up with the logos. it sucks.
We don't have any logos on terrestrial tv here (uk) (no channel 5 does not count). but the BBC is starting to push it with news-24. One day those capitalist pigs will be shot like the err capitalist pigs they are, and i will personally destroy all tv logos over the world BA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA
Its a virus - it hides behind a legitimate program, performs some sort of check, then delivers a payload. If thats not a virus, then i don't know what is. Just because Apple may 'claim' its a mistake, is no excuse. People have gone to prison for less so i say, give them a big fat law suit.
The UN Freedom Index:
5 79 &lastnode_id=124
:)
"This is a devastating statistic for those who believe that America's greater commitment to individualism translates into greater individual freedom. In reality, the social democracies of Northern Europe are the freest societies in the world."
Places America pretty low on the freedom scale
(google: UN freedom index)
Also, a very interesting node on e2:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=385
were Sweden came out top and America didn't even make number 10 lol
Looks like your too late, you better hope someone anthraxes Bush before he does any more damage
Capitalist Pig(tm)
The web is a platform for free exchange of information.
How many websites have you seen where the designer has no clue as to how people will be using it? surely it would be much better to give us the raw data (e.g a stock/catalog database) and have the software on our computer (the client) do all the pretty graphics/formatting/searching to our needs.
Thats not innovation. The HTML/TP etc.. standards were designed for a reason, they are open, human readable, low-bandwidth, and simple. Look for example at gnu.org, its fast and simple and you can find what your looking for. If you _really_ want to jazz up gnu.org, goto your browser settings, fiddle with the colours and fonts and then play some music in the background, while flash animation has its uses (stick death). The stateless, text-oriented forms-supported model's day has not passed.
The days of stupid interfaces designed by dumb people who think easy-to-use means lots of big buttons, that drag you through pointless graphics and bandwidth hogging crap and then give you 50 banner ads have passed.
no no no... your post was good, but i think people were questioning your sarcasm, some may have thought that you actually _liked_ america, heres how its done:
[begin example]
Yeah!!!! go capitalism!!! down with the commies!!!
I wish i lived in america, so i could to pledge alegence to the fag of the united states... Long live Microsoft and McDonalds, let my money go into the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Bribe the Supreme Court Fund" Bush rules, kill those Afgans, ('accidently') Cruise missile their villages, Cluster bomb their fields, drop food on mines (comment on my spelling). Freedom for allllllllll.....
[end example]
So to sum up... X-Windows is fine, no problem with that. Mac OS X are actually using the roman numeral X instead of 10.. therefore OS 11 will be XI etc... except the PR who thought of this master plan will have left and no-one will remember why they really called it X, so the next version will be X-2/or X-II. Windows XP - if someone could tell me what X.P. stood for i would be happy, otherwise i think they are just seeking attention.
I like the non-commercial approach where there are no deadlines to meet or tacky marketing PR people to mess up and new versions x.x.2 x.x.4 etc... appear every month or so to fix bugs.
+ He programed Aibo to copy dance moves from some crapy boy-band, which sony own thus violating copyrights. Also, Aibo did it so well, that their jobs where at risk
..cough.. plugs itself in and uploads video, audio, and GPS data to Sony HQ.
+ He was getting to close to discovering that after dark and when knowone is looking, Aibo finds the nearest phone line, sticks it's
+ The encryption method they use is actually the same system that will be adopted for the SSSCA, and Sony were just future proofing.
+ He managed to disable the "Aibo kill owner" command that activates when Aibo detects someone pirating Sony material and tries to kill them using a hidden array of deadly weapons.
Mac OS X
:(
WindowsXP
X-Windows?
Is there some kind of pattern.. What is it? Why is it? I'm scared
No... they'll just get the SSSCA in and then you guys can have HDTV/DVDs with jail-time if you so much as open the DVD-player case, while the rest of the world will get to live with crappy 480 DVD 'cause we refused to give up or rights.