Let me get this straight - it's okay for kids to rent or buy games that play down the results of firing a weapon at someone/thing, but it's not okay for kids to see what a gun can really do?
I grew up with guns, and I knew from an early age that what they did was *nasty*. Shooting something doesn't make it "fade out", and shooting a limb doesn't make a living thing die.
This isn't to say that kids should be allowed to play SoF (not my kids, none of my business), but if it was *my* kids, I wouldn't let them play a game that downplays the consequences of weapon use either.
Oh, and just because plants can't run away doesn't mean they want you to eat them. I'm an equal opportunity predator.
Wasn't LucasFilm one of the big proponents of Divx? If I were really cynical, I'd say that he's mad about having lost out on the really big cash cow that Divx releases of his movies would have been, and he's "punishing" fans of his movies for not blindly adopting the format that he promoted.
Of course, he can't *say* that - it would p*ss off way too many people. So he just puts all his titles on a DVD treadmill - it'll come out Real Soon Now, when he has a chance to Do It Right.
Just watch, if people ever get tired of the Do It Right excuse, he'll pull out DeCSS, and protecting his interests.
FWIW, friends of mine in the ISP business have said that the only reason we're running out of addresses in IPv4 is that the address space is being abused. Companies buy a bunch of Class C addresses, then decide that a Class B would be easier to manage and buy one of those. That's okay, except that sometimes these companies keep the Class C addresses as well, even though they're not using them.
Rumour has it that whoever's in charge of doling these things out (IANA?) is considering recalling addresses if they aren't used within some time limit (like 6 months or a year).
Well almost. Mine's got a 9" screen and something like a real keyboard on it. It's only 928MHz, but I can telnet to my linux box and do whatever I like from there. If I could get something current from the office I could probably even run X on it.
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Let me get this straight - it's okay for kids to rent or buy games that play down the results of firing a weapon at someone/thing, but it's not okay for kids to see what a gun can really do?
I grew up with guns, and I knew from an early age that what they did was *nasty*. Shooting something doesn't make it "fade out", and shooting a limb doesn't make a living thing die.
This isn't to say that kids should be allowed to play SoF (not my kids, none of my business), but if it was *my* kids, I wouldn't let them play a game that downplays the consequences of weapon use either.
Oh, and just because plants can't run away doesn't mean they want you to eat them. I'm an equal opportunity predator.
I was wondering about this myself - can an e-mail really be considered "legal nofication"? Who here could not have forged this message?
I'd say do nothing until you receive a letter in a more verifiable form, like via registered mail, a courier, or served by a police officer.
Of course, if they were using a decent mail user agent they could have at least digitally signed it.
Wasn't LucasFilm one of the big proponents of Divx? If I were really cynical, I'd say that he's mad about having lost out on the really big cash cow that Divx releases of his movies would have been, and he's "punishing" fans of his movies for not blindly adopting the format that he promoted.
Of course, he can't *say* that - it would p*ss off way too many people. So he just puts all his titles on a DVD treadmill - it'll come out Real Soon Now, when he has a chance to Do It Right.
Just watch, if people ever get tired of the Do It Right excuse, he'll pull out DeCSS, and protecting his interests.
FWIW, friends of mine in the ISP business have said that the only reason we're running out of addresses in IPv4 is that the address space is being abused. Companies buy a bunch of Class C addresses, then decide that a Class B would be easier to manage and buy one of those. That's okay, except that sometimes these companies keep the Class C addresses as well, even though they're not using them.
Rumour has it that whoever's in charge of doling these things out (IANA?) is considering recalling addresses if they aren't used within some time limit (like 6 months or a year).
Well almost. Mine's got a 9" screen and something like a real keyboard on it. It's only 928MHz, but I can telnet to my linux box and do whatever I like from there. If I could get something current from the office I could probably even run X on it.