Actually, the first movie's Matrix was at 1999, so logically it would have reached 2002... so it's perfectly reasonable that Trinity, while in the Matrix, would use a program (and SSH exploit) from today.
In a scene where the bullet-time effect seems completely unnecessary, it might be that the scene was partially or completely computer-animated. A collision at high speed would look awful done in CG. (For example, the Agent jumping on the hood of the car would look bad at normal film speed.) A solution that doesn't look completely contrived, is to slow it down with bullet-time and make it look good.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe downloading Inuyasha episodes was as wrong as downloading music?
You said it yourself, music and movies take money to produce. Anime is no different. Downloading anime off P2P is no more legal or right than downloading music.
Besides, you don't "need" P2P... I love anime, but I don't get to see very much. I don't suffer from withdrawal or anything. Beside that... if I'm not mistaken, Inuyasha is shown on Cartoon Network.
As for your comment per software downloads: there is a very big reason that software isn't as heavily downloaded as music and movies... music and movies can't carry viruses. I seem to recall someone who got a virus from a warez copy of Norton Antivirus - software piracy carries its own immediate consequences. Unlike music, where someone generally has to find out that you have music on your computer to punish you, the software can burn you the moment it gets executed.
I'm not telling you to encrypt photons - I'm telling you to close the shade.
If you're filming things with your nifty wireless camera that you don't feel comfortable with people watching, then use a more secure method (like, say, a wired camera). If what you're doing requires wireless capability, and you recognize that, chances are you could find a more secure way to do it.
Going with your example... because people could point cameras into the window, if it mattered to you, you would want to close the windowshade, so people couldn't take pictures of you anymore. That's what I do - literally, in real life.
It's been stated that Joe Sixpack might not understand this, but really, you're installing a miniature "radio station" that transmits video feed. If someone with a receiver picks up the signal, they're not doing anything wrong.
If you're going to go wardriving, trying to find these signals, then you're starting to go into a gray area. Even then, though, you don't know whether someone put this camera up for their personal use, or as a goodwill to all the voyeurs in the world.
That's not an entirely suitable analogy. Now, if you were to have a car without any sort of key system, then yes, you ARE asking for someone to steal it.
In addition, if I steal your car, you don't have the car anymore. On the other hand, if I watch the broadcasted signal from your X10, you can still get the signal. You haven't lost anything. You might say that you lost your privacy, but like I said, if you're going to set up a wireless camera with no encryption, you didn't have privacy to begin with.
As for the bit about people not understanding... I can recognize insecure setups, and not just geeky stuff. There's a classic example of this. If Joe Sixpack keeps his Playboy magazines in a drawer, it would be wrong for neighborhood children to go looking for them. But if he just leaves them on the coffee table with the window open, then it's hardly reprehensible for said children to notice, because he didn't try to hide them.
Am I hard to understand? If Joe thinks that leaving his porn out in the open is privacy, then he's wrong, and he deserves whatever he gets as a result. And don't tell me that it's different because it's a wireless camera feed. Just because something deals with technology doesn't excuse you from being ignorant.
There is a difference between what is being discussed and invasion of privacy. If I encrypt the feed, breaking it would be an invasion of privacy; however, the only "privacy" you get for broadcasting unencrypted signal is privacy from people without receivers.
It's like if I walk down the street and people use X-ray glasses to stare at my crotch - that is an invasion of privacy. But this is the equivalent of me walking down the street with my dick dangling merrily. If I show it for the world to see, it's pretty dumb to get mad at people who look.
Even an entity that does nothing especially harmful will, eventually, somehow piss off at least one armed and violent psychopath.
But an entity that starts doing stupid, stupid shit like this is going to start pissing off more rational armed violent people. As they get more and more nefarious, it will get to the point where everybody hates them, and everyone will try to kill them in their own way.
That said, there's also the point that one person who doesn't mind being a martyr can take up arms and bust into RIAA headquarters to try and take them down by force. Imagine if a hundred people felt that they would do more good taking down the RIAA than living the rest of their lives like good little sheep.
Granted, it's an extreme idea - a VERY extreme idea - and it would probably take years upon years of the RIAA doing progressively worse shit, but eventually someone is going to get angry enough at them to try and kill them.
Actually, "spamming" has preserved at least some of its original meaning - if you fill a newsgroup or chatroom with unwanted messages, people will still say it got spammed (or, more accurately, "stop spamming asshat").
To the casual observer, these shows may look surprisingly like anime in style. However, after becoming overly popular, Pokemon was disowned as anime. Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh, however, were disowned after the first episode of each series.
It is important to note that while it is exceedingly popular these days, the Yu-Gi-Oh card game is really just a shit version of Magic: The Gathering and therefore does not exist. (Insert Iraqi Information Minister joke here.)
If all you've seen of anime is Cartoon Network, that's not really a great example of the medium.
Cartoon Network has many issues.
- They edit the anime - and not like a CD, where the offensive parts and ONLY the offensive parts are removed or covered. They remove entire scenes. To their credit, their nifty Digital Bikini has preserved many scenes, but still...
- They also edit the dialogue. It's "cleaned up", and then edited to fit the mouth movements of the characters onscreen. While it's necessary (unless you like your anime like a lousy kung-fu movie), if badly done, it can turn a show into crap.
- In some cases they try to change the show. For instance, the notorious treatment of Card Captor Sakura: the original version is obviously targeted at girls, and yet Nelvana attempted to make it appeal to boys, too. (And if anyone thinks I'm being pompous, watch an episode of Card Captor Sakura and tell me that's not a series for girls.)
(To Cartoon Network's credit, they haven't done this too much - but it's not like they could. The only shoujo they've played is Tenchi Muyo!, and that show has many "male-friendly elements" (hint: come in multiples of two).)
- They make dubious choices of which anime to broadcast. Now, I'm not going to pretend that I'm some sort of anime guru and suggest anime to broadcast. But I will say that if you're trying to attract more mature audiences, Dragonball Z is the wrong thing to broadcast. I don't feel compelled to go into a dissertation of why Dragonball Z is anus, but you know what? Dragonball Z is anus.
One of these days I should get some huge, no-neck bouncer from a bar to pretend that he's a 12 year old girl in a chatroom, set up a meeting with a 40 year old man, and pound him into the pavement.
Forget "reality TV." Reality is much more entertaining, particularly when it involves 350-pound men called "Tiny" kicking the ass of child molestors.
...if Warhammer becomes a product primarily sold online. Comic shops aren't going out of business just because online stores sell Games Workshop products.
What's that got to do with anything, you ask. Well, I'm getting to it. A comic shop near me was having an "anime fest", where they showed a lot of anime for free.
I went there and spent $10 on candy, Bawls, and Magic cards; I also spent $10 on a Gundam model kit.
The point is, I went for anime, and spent just as much on completely unrelated items as I did on anime-related merchandise. So similarly, even if a comic/gaming shop didn't sell GW products, even if they were only selling generic supplies and scenery... if they set up a few tables for Warhammer players, they could make money off of impulse buys and related equipment, while preserving the community.
Of course, the thermite would go directly through the drive -- and the ceiling, and the floor underneath, and so on. (The shit burns at 1500 degrees, IIRC.)
If you live in a high-rise apartment, the damage would be incredible.
Of course, that might be a reason for some to do it.
There is, however, a decent excuse for such behavior. As an example, I will use the recently released CD, "Meteora" by Linkin Park.
The first single released off of Meteora caught my ear, so to speak, so I hunted it down on KaZaA and burned a CD. This is illegal, and I recognize that.
This was about a month before the CD came out. The day it came out I bought the special edition of the CD.
All I did was get one song earlier than I was "supposed to." Never mind that the release date is completely arbitrary after the band finishes the album.
Load times are irrelevant, what about page rendering times?
Load time is relevant. Frequently, an application will require the use of a web browser (Blizzard Entertainment's locally stored help websites come to mind). This means that you have spent the load time again. On my computer, Mozilla takes longer to load than most games (like Diablo II). It might not seem too long, but it's frustrating when I can call up Internet Explorer in seconds.
People on Slashdot loathe IE, but it does what it's supposed to - load web pages. I've used Mozilla, and none of the extra features that are frequently extolled - specifically pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing - excite me enough to tolerate the load time. (Tabs, whoop de doo, multiple windows and the taskbar work just as well.)
And as for customizability, IE offers what I need - the ability to turn off scripting and then turn it on for select sites; the ability to turn off all the features that annoy me; and the ability to display a chosen font - I absolutely loathe Times New Roman, preferring the cleaner look of Verdana. In addition, the options take the standard Windows interface instead of the Netscape preferences - which I hate even more than Times New Roman. Both are really matters of personal preference to me, but they're big matters to me - I no longer use OpenOffice.org because the preferences dialog annoys me so much.
The people I know like to rag on the French a lot for their attitude toward war, but I try not to go too hard on them.
Personally, I think that as a country, they have bad memories of World War II, and therefore tend to take the side of the country being invaded. I may be wrong, though.
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Actually, the first movie's Matrix was at 1999, so logically it would have reached 2002... so it's perfectly reasonable that Trinity, while in the Matrix, would use a program (and SSH exploit) from today.
In a scene where the bullet-time effect seems completely unnecessary, it might be that the scene was partially or completely computer-animated. A collision at high speed would look awful done in CG. (For example, the Agent jumping on the hood of the car would look bad at normal film speed.) A solution that doesn't look completely contrived, is to slow it down with bullet-time and make it look good.
Eh?
Did you ever stop to think that maybe downloading Inuyasha episodes was as wrong as downloading music?
You said it yourself, music and movies take money to produce. Anime is no different. Downloading anime off P2P is no more legal or right than downloading music.
Besides, you don't "need" P2P... I love anime, but I don't get to see very much. I don't suffer from withdrawal or anything. Beside that... if I'm not mistaken, Inuyasha is shown on Cartoon Network.
As for your comment per software downloads: there is a very big reason that software isn't as heavily downloaded as music and movies... music and movies can't carry viruses. I seem to recall someone who got a virus from a warez copy of Norton Antivirus - software piracy carries its own immediate consequences. Unlike music, where someone generally has to find out that you have music on your computer to punish you, the software can burn you the moment it gets executed.
I'm not telling you to encrypt photons - I'm telling you to close the shade.
If you're filming things with your nifty wireless camera that you don't feel comfortable with people watching, then use a more secure method (like, say, a wired camera). If what you're doing requires wireless capability, and you recognize that, chances are you could find a more secure way to do it.
Going with your example... because people could point cameras into the window, if it mattered to you, you would want to close the windowshade, so people couldn't take pictures of you anymore. That's what I do - literally, in real life.
It's been stated that Joe Sixpack might not understand this, but really, you're installing a miniature "radio station" that transmits video feed. If someone with a receiver picks up the signal, they're not doing anything wrong.
If you're going to go wardriving, trying to find these signals, then you're starting to go into a gray area. Even then, though, you don't know whether someone put this camera up for their personal use, or as a goodwill to all the voyeurs in the world.
That's not an entirely suitable analogy. Now, if you were to have a car without any sort of key system, then yes, you ARE asking for someone to steal it.
In addition, if I steal your car, you don't have the car anymore. On the other hand, if I watch the broadcasted signal from your X10, you can still get the signal. You haven't lost anything. You might say that you lost your privacy, but like I said, if you're going to set up a wireless camera with no encryption, you didn't have privacy to begin with.
As for the bit about people not understanding... I can recognize insecure setups, and not just geeky stuff. There's a classic example of this. If Joe Sixpack keeps his Playboy magazines in a drawer, it would be wrong for neighborhood children to go looking for them. But if he just leaves them on the coffee table with the window open, then it's hardly reprehensible for said children to notice, because he didn't try to hide them.
Am I hard to understand? If Joe thinks that leaving his porn out in the open is privacy, then he's wrong, and he deserves whatever he gets as a result. And don't tell me that it's different because it's a wireless camera feed. Just because something deals with technology doesn't excuse you from being ignorant.
There is a difference between what is being discussed and invasion of privacy. If I encrypt the feed, breaking it would be an invasion of privacy; however, the only "privacy" you get for broadcasting unencrypted signal is privacy from people without receivers.
It's like if I walk down the street and people use X-ray glasses to stare at my crotch - that is an invasion of privacy. But this is the equivalent of me walking down the street with my dick dangling merrily. If I show it for the world to see, it's pretty dumb to get mad at people who look.
I was actually thinking about the same thing.
Even an entity that does nothing especially harmful will, eventually, somehow piss off at least one armed and violent psychopath.
But an entity that starts doing stupid, stupid shit like this is going to start pissing off more rational armed violent people. As they get more and more nefarious, it will get to the point where everybody hates them, and everyone will try to kill them in their own way.
That said, there's also the point that one person who doesn't mind being a martyr can take up arms and bust into RIAA headquarters to try and take them down by force. Imagine if a hundred people felt that they would do more good taking down the RIAA than living the rest of their lives like good little sheep.
Granted, it's an extreme idea - a VERY extreme idea - and it would probably take years upon years of the RIAA doing progressively worse shit, but eventually someone is going to get angry enough at them to try and kill them.
Actually, "spamming" has preserved at least some of its original meaning - if you fill a newsgroup or chatroom with unwanted messages, people will still say it got spammed (or, more accurately, "stop spamming asshat").
I don't buy Spam, but not because that's what we call unsolicited business e-mail. I don't buy Spam because it tastes like shit.
Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon are not anime.
To the casual observer, these shows may look surprisingly like anime in style. However, after becoming overly popular, Pokemon was disowned as anime. Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh, however, were disowned after the first episode of each series.
It is important to note that while it is exceedingly popular these days, the Yu-Gi-Oh card game is really just a shit version of Magic: The Gathering and therefore does not exist. (Insert Iraqi Information Minister joke here.)
If all you've seen of anime is Cartoon Network, that's not really a great example of the medium.
Cartoon Network has many issues.
- They edit the anime - and not like a CD, where the offensive parts and ONLY the offensive parts are removed or covered. They remove entire scenes. To their credit, their nifty Digital Bikini has preserved many scenes, but still...
- They also edit the dialogue. It's "cleaned up", and then edited to fit the mouth movements of the characters onscreen. While it's necessary (unless you like your anime like a lousy kung-fu movie), if badly done, it can turn a show into crap.
- In some cases they try to change the show. For instance, the notorious treatment of Card Captor Sakura: the original version is obviously targeted at girls, and yet Nelvana attempted to make it appeal to boys, too. (And if anyone thinks I'm being pompous, watch an episode of Card Captor Sakura and tell me that's not a series for girls.)
(To Cartoon Network's credit, they haven't done this too much - but it's not like they could. The only shoujo they've played is Tenchi Muyo!, and that show has many "male-friendly elements" (hint: come in multiples of two).)
- They make dubious choices of which anime to broadcast. Now, I'm not going to pretend that I'm some sort of anime guru and suggest anime to broadcast. But I will say that if you're trying to attract more mature audiences, Dragonball Z is the wrong thing to broadcast. I don't feel compelled to go into a dissertation of why Dragonball Z is anus, but you know what? Dragonball Z is anus.
One of these days I should get some huge, no-neck bouncer from a bar to pretend that he's a 12 year old girl in a chatroom, set up a meeting with a 40 year old man, and pound him into the pavement.
Forget "reality TV." Reality is much more entertaining, particularly when it involves 350-pound men called "Tiny" kicking the ass of child molestors.
...if Warhammer becomes a product primarily sold online. Comic shops aren't going out of business just because online stores sell Games Workshop products.
What's that got to do with anything, you ask. Well, I'm getting to it. A comic shop near me was having an "anime fest", where they showed a lot of anime for free.
I went there and spent $10 on candy, Bawls, and Magic cards; I also spent $10 on a Gundam model kit.
The point is, I went for anime, and spent just as much on completely unrelated items as I did on anime-related merchandise. So similarly, even if a comic/gaming shop didn't sell GW products, even if they were only selling generic supplies and scenery... if they set up a few tables for Warhammer players, they could make money off of impulse buys and related equipment, while preserving the community.
And he posts this to /. over the Internet.
Of course, the thermite would go directly through the drive -- and the ceiling, and the floor underneath, and so on. (The shit burns at 1500 degrees, IIRC.)
If you live in a high-rise apartment, the damage would be incredible.
Of course, that might be a reason for some to do it.
If they do anything other than unencrypt it with the key, you could hit them with the DMCA.
Blue kids?
Shit, I want blue kids! Anyone have any spare wireless devices I can have?
Am I the only one who connects this to the "Fuck You, Clown" story?
That's actually a great idea for an anti RIAA letter. Lead up to a dramatic climax, then end it with a simple "Fuck You."
("Clown" is not required, since most of us take it for granted that Hilary Rosen is a clown.)
The link to the search was the funniest thing I've seen in weeks. Mod this guy up.
"Sampling" MP3s, yeah right.
There is, however, a decent excuse for such behavior. As an example, I will use the recently released CD, "Meteora" by Linkin Park.
The first single released off of Meteora caught my ear, so to speak, so I hunted it down on KaZaA and burned a CD. This is illegal, and I recognize that.
This was about a month before the CD came out. The day it came out I bought the special edition of the CD.
All I did was get one song earlier than I was "supposed to." Never mind that the release date is completely arbitrary after the band finishes the album.
People on Slashdot loathe IE, but it does what it's supposed to - load web pages. I've used Mozilla, and none of the extra features that are frequently extolled - specifically pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing - excite me enough to tolerate the load time. (Tabs, whoop de doo, multiple windows and the taskbar work just as well.)
And as for customizability, IE offers what I need - the ability to turn off scripting and then turn it on for select sites; the ability to turn off all the features that annoy me; and the ability to display a chosen font - I absolutely loathe Times New Roman, preferring the cleaner look of Verdana. In addition, the options take the standard Windows interface instead of the Netscape preferences - which I hate even more than Times New Roman. Both are really matters of personal preference to me, but they're big matters to me - I no longer use OpenOffice.org because the preferences dialog annoys me so much.
The people I know like to rag on the French a lot for their attitude toward war, but I try not to go too hard on them.
Personally, I think that as a country, they have bad memories of World War II, and therefore tend to take the side of the country being invaded. I may be wrong, though.