It's highly likely that if this had happened on September 10, 2001, there wouldn't have been this kind of uproar. But in a post-9/11 U.S.A., the authorities have to assume things like this could be terrorist in nature and respond as if they were. Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
That is ridiculous. The real fact is that there was nothing that indicated weapons, terrorism, or anything else suspicious about them. I mean, the new default now is that anytime you see anything odd, you assume its a bomb and call in the bomb squad? Please. All that means is that terrorists will disguise their bombs in REASONABLE objects, like a USPS package, or a U-haul truck, or a shoe (any of those sound familiar?). Or to use some fictional but quite feasible ideas, a potted plant, a trash can, or a "yard clippings" bag. He would NOT disguise a bomb in a box adorned with an image created from (expensive) blue LED's, that's fucking stupid, and just proves that the assumption that anything that is "different" is more likely to be a bomb than an ordinary everyday object is equally stupid. Boston overreacted, the Boston PD Chief or Comissioner or even Mayor should take some responsibility for this overreaction. Creativity should not be stifled out of blind, ignorant fear.
The difference being that Slashdot is not a government. You can use another news site if you don't like Slashdot's policies and decisions. China doesn't allow most citizens to leave the country freely.
No, but I get plenty of physical spam mail, and I try not to put my address on anything if I can avoid it. Sure, you can make it illegal to keep sending to a recipient after being asked to stop, but the sheer cost and bureaucracy of investigating every case will make it moot.
I mean, it's a good metaphor. Regardless of the medium (electrical or optical) the internet really kind of IS a series of tubes of varying capacity, interconnecting a bunch of nodes.
Why the hell are people modding up this bully? He opens by calling me names because I'm against the current incarnation of US copyright law, then goes on to ACKNOWLEDGE the exact reason I'm against it- the ridiculous length extensions. Then he creates a little straw man fantasy world wherein I'm AGAINST copyright but FOR patent and trademark law (which wasn't even mentioned in my original post- and I do in fact have my gripes with them too) and beats the hell out of that straw-man. At this point he's arguing with himself, not me.
What a tool. He sure as hell doesn't deserve all this modding up.
The second one is, artists do need to eat, but nowadays we have a glut of artists producing music solely for money, and the quality of that work is crap. Utter crap. See: Britney Spears.
Ok, but how is that relevant to copyright? Is it more ok to illegally copy music if you don't like it? I mean, if you don't like Britney Spears, why would you want to violate her copyright anyway?
As far as I know, the latter wasn't paid. How does that figure into your equation?
Sure, there are plenty of hobbyist musicians, but they have to be getting money from somewhere- likely a day job. Since you seem to be offering this up as a no-royalties success story of sorts, it would reason that in your perfect world, all musicians would work a forty hour week at their day job and then come home and spend their remaining free time making music for you to enjoy. I think that many artists would really like the option to be able to earn their living from their music, and thus be able to more fully dedicate themselves to it. How does that figure into your equation?
No, but its not coincidental that modern copyright came into existence with the Statute of Anne, in the early 1700's, around the same time that the industrial revolution was being born, and the original Gutenberg Press design was being overhauled into a machine that could truly mass-produce.
When a single modestly-priced machine was available to reproduce any written work in the neighborhood of a thousand of copies per hour, it became clear that without a law to protect the original creator, a publisher with capital to purchase such machines could profit far more than the creator.
Granted, I'm against the US' current copyright laws, but the simple fact is that China IS rampant with copyright violation that does nothing but make the illegal publishers rich. It works for now because richer western nations (which are rich by VIRTUE of capitalism, as opposed to China's communist oppression which crushed China's economy until recent capitalist reforms) are supporting these creators of original works. If the whole world suddenly started pirating the way China does, these original creators would stop making works- there would be no incentive, and even artists need to eat.
Seriously, if you don't believe me, ask someone who spends a lot of time in Hong Kong. Piracy in the US is absolutely nothing compared to there.
However, this distinction is becoming less clear as some western-style RPG's make it to console... Oblivion, for example. I think the JRPG name distinguishes it from the other more clearly.
Yes, it's a Japanese RPG, developed by Squaresoft. It's worth noting that the J in JRPG doesn't denote the nationality of the creators so much as the style of RPG. Squaresoft's RPG mostly fall under the JRPG heading.
a) The student chose to seat himself upon the floor when the officers were trying to escort him out (per his own lawyer's account to an LA Times reporter). Near the beginning of the video you can hear the student asking the officer to take his hand off his shoulder, then the officers asking him please stand up. All before the student starts screaming (which may have been when he was tasered).
b) He was defying a standing policy of requesting proof of ID in the campus library after 11PM. It is undoubtedly in place to prevent late-night attacks, muggings, and rapes. He chose to not leave after being asked for ID multiple times and then asked to leave if he could not show ID. The reasons for this policy are very real, ignoring it could be be dangerous for students in the building late at night. Why protest enforcement of such a policy, on private grounds?
c) From the point where he voluntarily hits the ground, the police are mostly just asking him to get up. This is because they were still ina libarary, with a man who refused to show ID and refused to leave, for a period of time long enough for campus staff to hound him repeatedly before calling campus security, who then called police.
It's hard for me to speculate about whether that was wrong or out of the ordinary, since the one time I got caught in the computer lab without my pass, I just left and came back with it later. But I think he was given plenty of chances and was mostly just spoiling for an argument and bit off more than he could chew.
The unspoken implication being that anyone who is considered a crackpot, liar, or cheat by a government's law enforcement could not be a legitimate inventor? Or that their inventions are faulty? The device should be judged on its own merits.
I'm speaking in terms of performance games for network gaming. When it came down to it, it didn't really matter whether you had a 3d card, you could kick ass either way. Now its a necessity.
Currently, you're right. Eventually these will come down in price. The first batch of 3d GPU equipped video cards also seemed extravagantly expensive for the small gains they really delivered. I think that within a few years offloaded network stacks will become relatively inexpensive and commonplace.
In the meantime, this product will exist in the domain of the bleeding-edge early adopter crowd.
Sweet. ANOTHER responder who didnt bother to RTFA. Sure, your computer has a.135ms response time under ideal operating conditions. This card's advantages come into play when your computer is under heavy duress and your SOFTWARE TCP/IP stack is thus sharing the proc with an app (such as a networked game) that's pushing your CPU to 100% utilization... The whole point is that the stack is offloaded to the card, so your network functions have minimal interaction with the CPU.
You might as well argue that a GPU is useless because your CPU can push 80FPS easily while sitting at your desktop.
"Violent pornography hurts poeple so it should be illegal."
This is laughably untrue. Most publicly available violent porn is made consensually- people do not often make violent porn nonconsensually and then distribute it. Porn doesnt hurt people, people hurt people.
I wasn't aware that a service will still be started automatically when you open an application that requires it, if it is set to "Manual". I was under the impression that "Manual" means you have to start it manually- i.e. unless the app you are running is smart enough to call that service on its own (and few do) you'll need to start it up of your own volition.
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It's highly likely that if this had happened on September 10, 2001, there wouldn't have been this kind of uproar. But in a post-9/11 U.S.A., the authorities have to assume things like this could be terrorist in nature and respond as if they were. Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
That is ridiculous. The real fact is that there was nothing that indicated weapons, terrorism, or anything else suspicious about them. I mean, the new default now is that anytime you see anything odd, you assume its a bomb and call in the bomb squad? Please. All that means is that terrorists will disguise their bombs in REASONABLE objects, like a USPS package, or a U-haul truck, or a shoe (any of those sound familiar?). Or to use some fictional but quite feasible ideas, a potted plant, a trash can, or a "yard clippings" bag.
He would NOT disguise a bomb in a box adorned with an image created from (expensive) blue LED's, that's fucking stupid, and just proves that the assumption that anything that is "different" is more likely to be a bomb than an ordinary everyday object is equally stupid.
Boston overreacted, the Boston PD Chief or Comissioner or even Mayor should take some responsibility for this overreaction. Creativity should not be stifled out of blind, ignorant fear.
it gives you a sledgehammer that could be called a maul.
flamebait.
The difference being that Slashdot is not a government. You can use another news site if you don't like Slashdot's policies and decisions. China doesn't allow most citizens to leave the country freely.
No, but I get plenty of physical spam mail, and I try not to put my address on anything if I can avoid it. Sure, you can make it illegal to keep sending to a recipient after being asked to stop, but the sheer cost and bureaucracy of investigating every case will make it moot.
at 1/2 capacity :(
I mean, it's a good metaphor. Regardless of the medium (electrical or optical) the internet really kind of IS a series of tubes of varying capacity, interconnecting a bunch of nodes.
Not that I know of...
http://www.govt.nz/record?tid=6&recordid=6163
i dont know what idiot modded you down for "troll" in an obvious harmless joke, but i feel for you man :(
i thought it was funny.
Why the hell are people modding up this bully? He opens by calling me names because I'm against the current incarnation of US copyright law, then goes on to ACKNOWLEDGE the exact reason I'm against it- the ridiculous length extensions. Then he creates a little straw man fantasy world wherein I'm AGAINST copyright but FOR patent and trademark law (which wasn't even mentioned in my original post- and I do in fact have my gripes with them too) and beats the hell out of that straw-man. At this point he's arguing with himself, not me.
What a tool. He sure as hell doesn't deserve all this modding up.
The second one is, artists do need to eat, but nowadays we have a glut of artists producing music solely for money, and the quality of that work is crap. Utter crap. See: Britney Spears.
Ok, but how is that relevant to copyright? Is it more ok to illegally copy music if you don't like it? I mean, if you don't like Britney Spears, why would you want to violate her copyright anyway?
As far as I know, the latter wasn't paid. How does that figure into your equation?
Sure, there are plenty of hobbyist musicians, but they have to be getting money from somewhere- likely a day job. Since you seem to be offering this up as a no-royalties success story of sorts, it would reason that in your perfect world, all musicians would work a forty hour week at their day job and then come home and spend their remaining free time making music for you to enjoy. I think that many artists would really like the option to be able to earn their living from their music, and thus be able to more fully dedicate themselves to it.
How does that figure into your equation?
Other than the 100-ish year lifespan,
This is EXACTLY what I was referring to. It's a BROKEN. There was no need to be such a fucking jerk.
No, but its not coincidental that modern copyright came into existence with the Statute of Anne, in the early 1700's, around the same time that the industrial revolution was being born, and the original Gutenberg Press design was being overhauled into a machine that could truly mass-produce.
When a single modestly-priced machine was available to reproduce any written work in the neighborhood of a thousand of copies per hour, it became clear that without a law to protect the original creator, a publisher with capital to purchase such machines could profit far more than the creator.
Granted, I'm against the US' current copyright laws, but the simple fact is that China IS rampant with copyright violation that does nothing but make the illegal publishers rich. It works for now because richer western nations (which are rich by VIRTUE of capitalism, as opposed to China's communist oppression which crushed China's economy until recent capitalist reforms) are supporting these creators of original works. If the whole world suddenly started pirating the way China does, these original creators would stop making works- there would be no incentive, and even artists need to eat.
Seriously, if you don't believe me, ask someone who spends a lot of time in Hong Kong. Piracy in the US is absolutely nothing compared to there.
Or just till the next ice age? Seriously, it would reason that if the sea level lowers, it might become exposed again, right?
Pirates was a fun game that a lot of people enjoyed. Just because it wasn't yet another CIV game doesn't mean its dreck...
Whoops, my mistake. The president of Mistwalker is also a founder of Square, I got mixed up.
However, this distinction is becoming less clear as some western-style RPG's make it to console... Oblivion, for example. I think the JRPG name distinguishes it from the other more clearly.
Yes, it's a Japanese RPG, developed by Squaresoft. It's worth noting that the J in JRPG doesn't denote the nationality of the creators so much as the style of RPG. Squaresoft's RPG mostly fall under the JRPG heading.
a few points:
a) The student chose to seat himself upon the floor when the officers were trying to escort him out (per his own lawyer's account to an LA Times reporter). Near the beginning of the video you can hear the student asking the officer to take his hand off his shoulder, then the officers asking him please stand up. All before the student starts screaming (which may have been when he was tasered).
b) He was defying a standing policy of requesting proof of ID in the campus library after 11PM. It is undoubtedly in place to prevent late-night attacks, muggings, and rapes. He chose to not leave after being asked for ID multiple times and then asked to leave if he could not show ID. The reasons for this policy are very real, ignoring it could be be dangerous for students in the building late at night. Why protest enforcement of such a policy, on private grounds?
c) From the point where he voluntarily hits the ground, the police are mostly just asking him to get up. This is because they were still ina libarary, with a man who refused to show ID and refused to leave, for a period of time long enough for campus staff to hound him repeatedly before calling campus security, who then called police.
It's hard for me to speculate about whether that was wrong or out of the ordinary, since the one time I got caught in the computer lab without my pass, I just left and came back with it later. But I think he was given plenty of chances and was mostly just spoiling for an argument and bit off more than he could chew.
The unspoken implication being that anyone who is considered a crackpot, liar, or cheat by a government's law enforcement could not be a legitimate inventor? Or that their inventions are faulty? The device should be judged on its own merits.
I'm speaking in terms of performance games for network gaming. When it came down to it, it didn't really matter whether you had a 3d card, you could kick ass either way. Now its a necessity.
Currently, you're right. Eventually these will come down in price. The first batch of 3d GPU equipped video cards also seemed extravagantly expensive for the small gains they really delivered. I think that within a few years offloaded network stacks will become relatively inexpensive and commonplace.
In the meantime, this product will exist in the domain of the bleeding-edge early adopter crowd.
Sweet. ANOTHER responder who didnt bother to RTFA. Sure, your computer has a .135ms response time under ideal operating conditions. This card's advantages come into play when your computer is under heavy duress and your SOFTWARE TCP/IP stack is thus sharing the proc with an app (such as a networked game) that's pushing your CPU to 100% utilization...
The whole point is that the stack is offloaded to the card, so your network functions have minimal interaction with the CPU.
You might as well argue that a GPU is useless because your CPU can push 80FPS easily while sitting at your desktop.
"Violent pornography hurts poeple so it should be illegal."
This is laughably untrue. Most publicly available violent porn is made consensually- people do not often make violent porn nonconsensually and then distribute it.
Porn doesnt hurt people, people hurt people.
I wasn't aware that a service will still be started automatically when you open an application that requires it, if it is set to "Manual". I was under the impression that "Manual" means you have to start it manually- i.e. unless the app you are running is smart enough to call that service on its own (and few do) you'll need to start it up of your own volition.