He's been pigeonholed in movies so long he refuses to look beyond his boundaries. Whether a story is interactive or not has no bearing on whether it is art. What makes it art is if the beholder draws meaning from it. Nothing more, nothing less.
So when the supporting numbers are well and truly shown to be bogus can we invalidate all the legislation that they inspired as well? Hahah, yeah joking.
Notice that somewhere along the way with PC purchases that generally you lost your ability to resell your purchase? Just another casualty in the piracy wars. At least I can go into EB Games and buy used Xbox 360 titles, PC titles nope and the PC title section seems to be getting smaller and smaller...
If any of their games were selling particularly well I'm sure they'd be shouting from the rooftops: "See it works!" But they're not so I imagine its for the par at least. What will be really interesting is the five year outlook, I've already decided to do my part to kill Ubisoft: I will never buy another one of their games, theres always something else to choose.
Exactly how is this proverbial scanning software supposed to tell the difference between an illegal file and a legitimate one? Based on file name? Based on hash? Easily defeated and ineffective. The only way to truly tell if a file is infringing is to have a Turing complete artificial intelligence to watch it, listen to it, read it, or play it. Nothing short will do. Since websites hosting questionable content are having such difficulty separating out the files when forced to we can only conclude that Turing quality AI is not available yet. So, although the design specs call for a magic wand none are available.
There is an article related to this on TechDirt: Here. Basically everything from vandalism to espionage is being lumped under "Cyberwar." With vandalism being much the more prevalent. The issue of "Cyberwar" itself is mostly made for good talking points in the media, after all anything that drives readership drives advertisers and funding. Think you can actually get at a GPS satellites operating system over the internet?
Fuck you. See: Capitalism: A Love Story for an alternate view of your perfect "capitalist" world. Capitalism is eating its young just like a certain manifesto writing dude predicted.
Everything is lumped into one number right now. How about multiple feedbacks? One of them could be the ratio of people who agree/disagree, others could be a measurement of how insightful a comment was and yet others could be how inflammatory one is. Lumping everything together into a single number and then letting that number determine how visible a comment is is the problem. People right now are moderating based on their own emotional investments not on an objective basis - perhaps quite a few don't even know how to try to be objective. If the moderation system can't be fixed - and right now it has issues all the time - then the pragmatic thing to do is ignore it and browse at -1. You lose an audience when what you have to say is true and unpopular or you reinforce prejudice when what you have to say is popular and false. This happens all the time here. Mismoderation is an issue, but is it enough of an issue to get addressed?
Slasdot's moderation system tends to mod based on popularity than what is actually labeled as "insightful" or "troll". Perhaps there should be agree/disagree moderations and those scores would not be able to either promote a comment above the viewing threshold or consign it to oblivion of not seen... But then that would be abused too: the only thing that will keep bad moderators away is if moderation was only granted to fair people and if you moderated unfairly you lost moderation privileges forever - there is always someone else to try giving the points to.
One browser can be taken down by others? I thought they should have been competing on technical excellence instead of name recognition. Nobody was complaining when it was IE being taken down by Firefox! Falling into the trap that I like it so everyone should is just weakening yourself in the long-term. If something better than Firefox appears then the logical choice is bu-bye Firefox! But people are rarely logical and tend to just do what others are doing.
See my comments were moderated to oblivion. Slashdot for all its egalitarian lip-service is succumbing to trolls with mod-points. When you are forced to not discuss wider issues that relate to the story is censorship. If those mods had any semblance of bullshit that is censorship they would have just not modded the comments. Troll? Hah, I know I'm not: 2+2=5 does not make it so.
I'm talking about contempt of court. You can be thrown in jail if the judge doesn't like the way you are chewing gum. Its the judges law when you are in his court not the Law. That is the issue.
Contempt of court is such a mis-justice in that its application is arbitrary. Basically if the judge doesn't like you for any reason they can take away your liberty. I think a lot of judges themselves deserve contempt but I don't see them being locked up.
Just because its in an EULA doesn't make it right. Imagine if EULA's were gradually introduced for computers themselves and say over 20 years they became a defacto-standard. As the old hardware died off you would be stuck in the EULA without wanting to be there but forced to through network effects. I don't think there should be EULA's required to make hardware work at all because it contains the word License. I don't license my hardware, I buy it. This is a moral distinction.
Linux build from 8 years ago? XP is still widely in use so it is fair to mention it, the average Linux build on a home computer (the target of this attack - servers have to need for Adobe Reader) are well newer than 8 years! I guess having Free updates to newer versions makes it a lot easier to stay current. His second response agreed with me. The third called me a fag. The fourth said it was a bug in the spec when every PDF viewer - except Reader - on Linux doesn't follow that part of the spec for security, and his last point denies that running as root is more severe than a limited account along with stating that everyone but idiots shouldn't have been running as root since NT. Nevermind that all the software on XP is broken when you're not root.
The fact remains and is insoluble right now that Windows allows root access more easily than Linux. You have to go out of your way to be root on Linux, XP (a very common operating system still in use) gives you root as a matter of course. And you can compare XP and Linux because both are commonly used right now. Vista will elevate on a whim and I'm sure 7 would too, at least with Linux when something tries to elevate you wonder why where with Windows you'd be right the majority of the time just assuming it was written for XP (if you're even not root) and allowing it blindly.
KPDF (now Okular) has specifically forbidden this behavior forever because it is a security risk. I use Okular myself so I am not vulnerable to this issue. Since it has been known so long to be a security issue in Linux-land why has Adobe allowed it so long? XPDF also is not vulnerable to this issue and so on. So it appears to be a tempest in a tea-cup for Linux and just another day on Windows.
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He's been pigeonholed in movies so long he refuses to look beyond his boundaries. Whether a story is interactive or not has no bearing on whether it is art. What makes it art is if the beholder draws meaning from it. Nothing more, nothing less.
So when the supporting numbers are well and truly shown to be bogus can we invalidate all the legislation that they inspired as well? Hahah, yeah joking.
Notice that somewhere along the way with PC purchases that generally you lost your ability to resell your purchase? Just another casualty in the piracy wars. At least I can go into EB Games and buy used Xbox 360 titles, PC titles nope and the PC title section seems to be getting smaller and smaller...
If any of their games were selling particularly well I'm sure they'd be shouting from the rooftops: "See it works!" But they're not so I imagine its for the par at least. What will be really interesting is the five year outlook, I've already decided to do my part to kill Ubisoft: I will never buy another one of their games, theres always something else to choose.
Exactly how is this proverbial scanning software supposed to tell the difference between an illegal file and a legitimate one? Based on file name? Based on hash? Easily defeated and ineffective. The only way to truly tell if a file is infringing is to have a Turing complete artificial intelligence to watch it, listen to it, read it, or play it. Nothing short will do. Since websites hosting questionable content are having such difficulty separating out the files when forced to we can only conclude that Turing quality AI is not available yet. So, although the design specs call for a magic wand none are available.
There is an article related to this on TechDirt: Here. Basically everything from vandalism to espionage is being lumped under "Cyberwar." With vandalism being much the more prevalent. The issue of "Cyberwar" itself is mostly made for good talking points in the media, after all anything that drives readership drives advertisers and funding. Think you can actually get at a GPS satellites operating system over the internet?
Fuck you. See: Capitalism: A Love Story for an alternate view of your perfect "capitalist" world. Capitalism is eating its young just like a certain manifesto writing dude predicted.
...One of them could be the ratio of people who agree/disagree...
And arguably everyone not just those with mod points should be able to contribute to this one metric.
Everything is lumped into one number right now. How about multiple feedbacks? One of them could be the ratio of people who agree/disagree, others could be a measurement of how insightful a comment was and yet others could be how inflammatory one is. Lumping everything together into a single number and then letting that number determine how visible a comment is is the problem. People right now are moderating based on their own emotional investments not on an objective basis - perhaps quite a few don't even know how to try to be objective. If the moderation system can't be fixed - and right now it has issues all the time - then the pragmatic thing to do is ignore it and browse at -1. You lose an audience when what you have to say is true and unpopular or you reinforce prejudice when what you have to say is popular and false. This happens all the time here. Mismoderation is an issue, but is it enough of an issue to get addressed?
Slasdot's moderation system tends to mod based on popularity than what is actually labeled as "insightful" or "troll". Perhaps there should be agree/disagree moderations and those scores would not be able to either promote a comment above the viewing threshold or consign it to oblivion of not seen... But then that would be abused too: the only thing that will keep bad moderators away is if moderation was only granted to fair people and if you moderated unfairly you lost moderation privileges forever - there is always someone else to try giving the points to.
Maybe, but I browse at minus one so I see lots of popularity modding. Slashdot has deteriorated from even five years ago.
One browser can be taken down by others? I thought they should have been competing on technical excellence instead of name recognition. Nobody was complaining when it was IE being taken down by Firefox! Falling into the trap that I like it so everyone should is just weakening yourself in the long-term. If something better than Firefox appears then the logical choice is bu-bye Firefox! But people are rarely logical and tend to just do what others are doing.
See my comments were moderated to oblivion. Slashdot for all its egalitarian lip-service is succumbing to trolls with mod-points. When you are forced to not discuss wider issues that relate to the story is censorship. If those mods had any semblance of bullshit that is censorship they would have just not modded the comments. Troll? Hah, I know I'm not: 2+2=5 does not make it so.
If you refuse to go to the root of an issue I can't help you.
I'm talking about contempt of court. You can be thrown in jail if the judge doesn't like the way you are chewing gum. Its the judges law when you are in his court not the Law. That is the issue.
Contempt of court is such a mis-justice in that its application is arbitrary. Basically if the judge doesn't like you for any reason they can take away your liberty. I think a lot of judges themselves deserve contempt but I don't see them being locked up.
Just because its in an EULA doesn't make it right. Imagine if EULA's were gradually introduced for computers themselves and say over 20 years they became a defacto-standard. As the old hardware died off you would be stuck in the EULA without wanting to be there but forced to through network effects. I don't think there should be EULA's required to make hardware work at all because it contains the word License. I don't license my hardware, I buy it. This is a moral distinction.
This is justice for anyone who was actually affected by the removal. And feedback for Sony for future decisions.
Funny, TechDirt explains why this is good.
Linux build from 8 years ago? XP is still widely in use so it is fair to mention it, the average Linux build on a home computer (the target of this attack - servers have to need for Adobe Reader) are well newer than 8 years! I guess having Free updates to newer versions makes it a lot easier to stay current. His second response agreed with me. The third called me a fag. The fourth said it was a bug in the spec when every PDF viewer - except Reader - on Linux doesn't follow that part of the spec for security, and his last point denies that running as root is more severe than a limited account along with stating that everyone but idiots shouldn't have been running as root since NT. Nevermind that all the software on XP is broken when you're not root.
Since you don't have a clue and descended to name calling first I'll just state that you are an idiot and leave it at that.
To say that Windows and Linux are on par for security borders on incredulous.
The fact remains and is insoluble right now that Windows allows root access more easily than Linux. You have to go out of your way to be root on Linux, XP (a very common operating system still in use) gives you root as a matter of course. And you can compare XP and Linux because both are commonly used right now. Vista will elevate on a whim and I'm sure 7 would too, at least with Linux when something tries to elevate you wonder why where with Windows you'd be right the majority of the time just assuming it was written for XP (if you're even not root) and allowing it blindly.
KPDF (now Okular) has specifically forbidden this behavior forever because it is a security risk. I use Okular myself so I am not vulnerable to this issue. Since it has been known so long to be a security issue in Linux-land why has Adobe allowed it so long? XPDF also is not vulnerable to this issue and so on. So it appears to be a tempest in a tea-cup for Linux and just another day on Windows.
Try running most Windows XP software and see what happens.
My update-manager updates all my installed programs. Windows Update does Windows and Office, everything else is hodgepodge.
I am very familiar with Windows, it is one of the reasons I switched to Linux.
It is present in Adobe Reader, it has already been patched out of FoxIt and it never existed in XPDF.
Linux is not immune but the singular fact that you are not running as root mitigates a lot of possible damage.