According to another article on Threat Post, it sounds like Sony is essentially saying that this is a problem because it allows for people to run pirated games to be run on a jailbroken PS3. I may not be a legal expert or have read the Digital Millenium Copyright Act cover to cover, but what's illegal about that? Jailbreaking and Pirating are two completely different things. Trying to nail someone for Jailbreaking on the grounds that it leads to Pirating sounds like more of a PR ploy than a legal action to me.
I understand why they don't like it. I just think its absurd that they're taking any action other than trying to make the system more secure.
And for the record, if you ask me, once you buy something, you should be able to do whatever you want with it so long as you're not directly infringing on copyrights (I know as I write this that that's a pretty muddy statement). But there's a clear difference between buying a car and using it to model, reproduce and sell the patented parts vs everything from giving the car a new paint job to installing a nitrus system and sliding into a smooth Tokyo drift.
This really seems like Apple is taking a step backwards to me. While the closed system of the iDevices does provide a relatively bug free experience, there are bugs. And when it doubt, home button. I used to an iPhone user and loved it when I had it, then I switched to Android, which I really love. Recently I got an iPad for work and it has really surprised me how cumbersome it is to use by comparison, largely due to the lack of permanent buttons like Home and Back. I really can't imagine how much more cumbersome it will be to use once the home button is gone.
By the way, what's the deal with tech companies starting out as innovative and ending up with their head in their asses? Steve, are you worried that you missed something up there the last go around in the late 90s?
I'm sure there aren't any other applications of the technology being used here. Completely useless doing research unless it cures cancer. What a bunch of... Trolls?
Let's shut down Google and enter in that Cancer Cure equation. About time that thing got solved. I just love how computers can solve everything on their own. Makes me feel so obsolete.
While video games are good at allowing people fight off nightmares, is there any correlation between playing video games just before bed and having nightmares? Also, makes you wonder, how does this state of awareness in the dream world affect your actual sleep. I would think it would make REM and a good night's rest more difficult to achieve. But of course that's just a thought.
You are aware that you're comparing Hardware to Software right? How many programming languages has Apple killed to date? HTML5 doesn't make Flash obsolete, and neither with will Steve Jobs. If any informed reader took the time to examine Steve's six reasons for abandoning Flash, they'd find that Jobs has clearly fallen off the deep end. His logic is filled with holes that only the Apple cool-aide drinkers will overlook.
All of this goes on top of the fact that if Apple's mobile technology determines the future of the web, we're all screwed.
I've never had my DSL/Cable connection go out on . . .
Re:Human Error and Logic
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Robots in Medicine
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Anyway you look at it - it all comes down to human error. A doctor, nurse, programmer. The most rational way to look at it is what's going to help us save the most lives. There's always going to be human error, we can't prevent that.
Think about where the 'robot' is getting the prescriptions - what if someone puts the wrong medication in the wrong storage area of the machine? (I presume the machine's got a number of different med's to deal with) It'd be the same if the nurse somehow grabbed the wrong bottle from the shelf.
Bottom line: faster + more efficient = more lives saved
Unfortunately the equation gets a lot more complex when you factor in fear, doubt, and lawsuits.
There's always going to be someone to say, "if only it wasn't for that damn machine!"
But then there's always going to be someone to say, "if only it wasn't for . . . the countless other things that can go wrong in life."
I believe it was in The Autobiography of Tesla, that Tesla had calculated (maybe a little bit of an over estimate) that if he had left his "earthquake machine" running, for some period of time I don't recall, that he would have split the world in half.
Of course you have to consider that at this time Telsa was pretty popular and the city of New York had allowed him to basically use as much of the city's energy as he pleased.
Of course he also put this city through a major black out (possibly with the "earthquake machine" again it's been quite some time since I read this).
Man am I sick and tired of this politically incorrect bullshit!
"The companies doing it claim that consumer rights trump the artists rights in this case,"
Based on what?!? Now granted there are a few cases where consumer "rights" should out weigh those of the artist, such as the mp3 wars and bootlegs.
After all how is little Johnny going to see that uncut version of Basic Instinct or listen to his favorite Gwar album if his nun of a mother won't let him get rent or buy a copy for himself.
That's what bootlegs and pirating are all about... the little guys.
And of course bootleggers don't normally edit the film.
Unfortunatly that's illegal. But now you move into selling and renting sensored copies of films; which is arguably LEGAL?!? Blasphemy! Who needs to see the sensored version of Animal House??? Brief and unnecessary nudity? Foul language that's used at inappropriate times? PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT!!!
You ask me, they've got the whole thing backwards.
Riping off the uncut should be legal, Ripping off and cutting should be illegal (except in the privacy of you own home; I am talking about the American way here, aren't I?)
I've never heard of anyone setting up a computer to repel rodents, but the idea of using sound waves as a mosquito repellant is actually fairly old. I'm from Minnesota, where the summertime masquitos get pretty bad; fortunately most, if not all, of the local radio stations will embed a high frequency sound into the radio transmission so that if you're outside listening to your favorite station, the bugs really aren't too bad.
The rats and cockroaches are definitely new to me though.
I got missled by the article. I was thinking that It was a video game about a television series... that'd be messed up.
Selling a game as episodes... now that's genius.
Non-Sarcasticly and a little embarised, "Thanks for clearing it up."
That had to be the most awe inspiring comment I've every seen.
I appologize for missing spelling celsius. And I must say your ablity to spellcheck in absolutly amazing. If you gave me your e-mail so I could send you all of my reports to spellcheck, that'd be fantastic! In fact if you could check this comment and get it back to me... let's say by noon on thursday... that'd be great, you pretentious prick.
That has to be the worst display of logic I've every seen. If everyone just did what they found enjoyable, the world would get nowhere.
Sure you can argue that there are a lot of people who do what they love for a living but then again, in the words of Office Space, "There would be no janitors, because no one would want to clean up shit if they had a million dollars."
No offence but there is a world aside from Television. And it's the classic American Lifestyle of watching TV and only doing things you "enjoy doing" that's flushing this country down the toilet. If you call watching 8 hours of TV a good use of time, I'd hate to see you wasting your time.
Might sound sexier than Centigrade, But not Celcius.
Damn! Now that's a sexy word!
This is a horrible idea
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Fahrenheit
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
Video games are great. Television is marvelous.
The problem? I don't know about everyone else but it seems that the "kids these days" do nothing but sit around and watch TV or sit around and play video games. Neither of the two really provide anything mentally stimulating...
(granted there are games and shows that do have redeeming qualities. But even still, if you sit and watch Jeopardy for 8 staight hours, you might learn somethhing, but you still just wasted 8 hours of your life watching Jeopardy).
...Point is the last thing anyone in this world need is the combination to the two most mind dulling activities known to man.
For the record I have nothing against Jeopardy or video games and have myself sat infront of the TV or PC doing either for an obscene amount of time.
Slashdot Mirror
According to another article on Threat Post, it sounds like Sony is essentially saying that this is a problem because it allows for people to run pirated games to be run on a jailbroken PS3. I may not be a legal expert or have read the Digital Millenium Copyright Act cover to cover, but what's illegal about that? Jailbreaking and Pirating are two completely different things. Trying to nail someone for Jailbreaking on the grounds that it leads to Pirating sounds like more of a PR ploy than a legal action to me.
I understand why they don't like it. I just think its absurd that they're taking any action other than trying to make the system more secure.
And for the record, if you ask me, once you buy something, you should be able to do whatever you want with it so long as you're not directly infringing on copyrights (I know as I write this that that's a pretty muddy statement). But there's a clear difference between buying a car and using it to model, reproduce and sell the patented parts vs everything from giving the car a new paint job to installing a nitrus system and sliding into a smooth Tokyo drift.
This really seems like Apple is taking a step backwards to me. While the closed system of the iDevices does provide a relatively bug free experience, there are bugs. And when it doubt, home button. I used to an iPhone user and loved it when I had it, then I switched to Android, which I really love. Recently I got an iPad for work and it has really surprised me how cumbersome it is to use by comparison, largely due to the lack of permanent buttons like Home and Back. I really can't imagine how much more cumbersome it will be to use once the home button is gone. By the way, what's the deal with tech companies starting out as innovative and ending up with their head in their asses? Steve, are you worried that you missed something up there the last go around in the late 90s?
Never thought I'd say this, but thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for Microsoft.
I'm sure there aren't any other applications of the technology being used here. Completely useless doing research unless it cures cancer. What a bunch of... Trolls? Let's shut down Google and enter in that Cancer Cure equation. About time that thing got solved. I just love how computers can solve everything on their own. Makes me feel so obsolete.
We're officially fresh out of credible news sources (excluding Slashdot of course).
While video games are good at allowing people fight off nightmares, is there any correlation between playing video games just before bed and having nightmares? Also, makes you wonder, how does this state of awareness in the dream world affect your actual sleep. I would think it would make REM and a good night's rest more difficult to achieve. But of course that's just a thought.
You are aware that you're comparing Hardware to Software right? How many programming languages has Apple killed to date? HTML5 doesn't make Flash obsolete, and neither with will Steve Jobs. If any informed reader took the time to examine Steve's six reasons for abandoning Flash, they'd find that Jobs has clearly fallen off the deep end. His logic is filled with holes that only the Apple cool-aide drinkers will overlook. All of this goes on top of the fact that if Apple's mobile technology determines the future of the web, we're all screwed.
I've never had my DSL/Cable connection go out on . . .
Anyway you look at it - it all comes down to human error. A doctor, nurse, programmer. The most rational way to look at it is what's going to help us save the most lives. There's always going to be human error, we can't prevent that.
Think about where the 'robot' is getting the prescriptions - what if someone puts the wrong medication in the wrong storage area of the machine? (I presume the machine's got a number of different med's to deal with) It'd be the same if the nurse somehow grabbed the wrong bottle from the shelf.
Bottom line: faster + more efficient = more lives saved
Unfortunately the equation gets a lot more complex when you factor in fear, doubt, and lawsuits.
There's always going to be someone to say, "if only it wasn't for that damn machine!"
But then there's always going to be someone to say, "if only it wasn't for . . . the countless other things that can go wrong in life."
-brother bummer & daddy downer
I believe it was in The Autobiography of Tesla, that Tesla had calculated (maybe a little bit of an over estimate) that if he had left his "earthquake machine" running, for some period of time I don't recall, that he would have split the world in half.
Of course you have to consider that at this time Telsa was pretty popular and the city of New York had allowed him to basically use as much of the city's energy as he pleased.
Of course he also put this city through a major black out (possibly with the "earthquake machine" again it's been quite some time since I read this).
Man am I sick and tired of this politically incorrect bullshit!
"The companies doing it claim that consumer rights trump the artists rights in this case,"
Based on what?!?
Now granted there are a few cases where consumer "rights" should out weigh those of the artist, such as the mp3 wars and bootlegs.
After all how is little Johnny going to see that uncut version of Basic Instinct or listen to his favorite Gwar album if his nun of a mother won't let him get rent or buy a copy for himself.
That's what bootlegs and pirating are all about... the little guys.
And of course bootleggers don't normally edit the film.
Unfortunatly that's illegal. But now you move into selling and renting sensored copies of films; which is arguably LEGAL?!? Blasphemy! Who needs to see the sensored version of Animal House??? Brief and unnecessary nudity? Foul language that's used at inappropriate times?
PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT!!!
You ask me, they've got the whole thing backwards.
Riping off the uncut should be legal,
Ripping off and cutting should be illegal
(except in the privacy of you own home; I am talking about the American way here, aren't I?)
The RADIO.
So are you agree or disagreeing with my previous comment?
I've never heard of anyone setting up a computer to repel rodents, but the idea of using sound waves as a mosquito repellant is actually fairly old. I'm from Minnesota, where the summertime masquitos get pretty bad; fortunately most, if not all, of the local radio stations will embed a high frequency sound into the radio transmission so that if you're outside listening to your favorite station, the bugs really aren't too bad.
The rats and cockroaches are definitely new to me though.
I got missled by the article. I was thinking that It was a video game about a television series... that'd be messed up. Selling a game as episodes... now that's genius. Non-Sarcasticly and a little embarised, "Thanks for clearing it up."
That had to be the most awe inspiring comment I've every seen.
I appologize for missing spelling celsius. And I must say your ablity to spellcheck in absolutly amazing. If you gave me your e-mail so I could send you all of my reports to spellcheck, that'd be fantastic! In fact if you could check this comment and get it back to me... let's say by noon on thursday... that'd be great, you pretentious prick.
That has to be the worst display of logic I've every seen. If everyone just did what they found enjoyable, the world would get nowhere.
Sure you can argue that there are a lot of people who do what they love for a living but then again, in the words of Office Space, "There would be no janitors, because no one would want to clean up shit if they had a million dollars."
No offence but there is a world aside from Television.
And it's the classic American Lifestyle of watching TV and only doing things you "enjoy doing" that's flushing this country down the toilet.
If you call watching 8 hours of TV a good use of time, I'd hate to see you wasting your time.
Might sound sexier than Centigrade,
But not Celcius .
Damn! Now that's a sexy word!
Video games are great.
...Point is the last thing anyone in this world need is the combination to the two most mind dulling activities known to man.
Television is marvelous.
The problem?
I don't know about everyone else but it seems that the "kids these days" do nothing but sit around and watch TV or sit around and play video games. Neither of the two really provide anything mentally stimulating...
(granted there are games and shows that do have redeeming qualities. But even still, if you sit and watch Jeopardy for 8 staight hours, you might learn somethhing, but you still just wasted 8 hours of your life watching Jeopardy).
For the record I have nothing against Jeopardy or video games and have myself sat infront of the TV or PC doing either for an obscene amount of time.
Good Day and Good Gaming.