IANAL, but in Canada there is a legal idea called willful blindness which makes willfully denying yourself information that would reveal to you whether or not what you're doing is legal to be just as bad as knowing what you're doing is illegal. The establishment of willful blindness essentially provides the proper mens rea to convict someone of the crime in question. So it seems that Linus' strategy of 'see no evil' is a poor one from a legal standpoint.
I don't think they were exactly pie menus
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But back in the day the SNES game Secret of Mana had a similar system that was more suited to controllers.
I'm not a big fan of ringtones, but I think it's funny when someone's phone goes off in the middle of a meeting, and while it's spouting its silly themesong everybody looks at the person like they're a complete twit.
To follow up on my own comment, would you prefer that television shows had commercials grafted directly into the programming? That's the next step. Have you ever heard of choosing your battles? I certainly don't want to use my freedoms to restrict myself in the end; this seems somewhat self defeating to me.
I think the issue is one of convenience. With commercial skipping, yes it is an option, but it is also automated. This is different from what a person would do, because they can't 'skip' commercials. Every time a commercial comes on, you have to make some effort to avoid it, whether it be hitting mute or walking out of the room. Hence nothing is being skipped, but instead dealt with by you, the consumer.
Isn't it true that you can set commercial skipping once on your pvr and never have to think about it again? To me this seems to be the difference - the effort involved and the lack of a human element.
The biz operates on numbers; if something is popular, you get more of it. Explain to me how tv can cater to your precise needs without having a tv station for each person in the US. This doesn't seem very feasible to me.
How else are television broadcasters supposed to cover their costs?
If as a result of pvrs, nobody watches commercials anymore and the bottom falls out of the broadcasting industry, what do you propose to do with the countless people who were employed by said industry and now are jobless with mouths to feed? Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter? Having your freedoms is one thing, but destroying somebody's livelihood is another.
More exciting is conformance to a single ABI standard in combination with installation script support. This is a godsend for package maintainers; in the future they will only have to compile and package once, and your app is supported on multiple distros.
With companies like Bioware bringing support to the Linux platform, Linux will be more and more attractive to Joe Sixpack. Whoever said Linux would never survive on the desktop?
"Screening systems must address privacy and 'Big Brother' issues to the extent possible,"
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional police efforts to use noninvasive "sense-enhancing technology" that is not in general public use in order to collect data otherwise unobtainable without a warrant.
How is this? Isn't it the case that any sort of radiation you give off, others are free to read? I believe in your privacy and all, but it seems pretty obvious to me that by going into public you are implicitly submitting yourself to being scrutinised anywhere along the EM spectrum, not just the visible portion.
Sometimes the markup on these devices is ridiculous. No wonder they weren't selling in the first place, the people who would be interested in this device are the type of people that would know if they were getting hosed on it.
The major problem being that the service was way too expensive. Metricom used to charge $375 for the modem and $70 a month for unlimited Internet access...
The Ricochet modem is now $100, and unlimited monthly access costs $45.
As someone that's been with Ricochet from the start, I wonder if they're offering a $275 rebate on the modem now that it's so cheap?
I'd just like to point out that you can't send degradable stuff into space since there's nothing to degrade it, and even if you did degrade it, the matter would still be floating in space in a different form.
In response to the alarmist statement on the front page article: I'd just like to point out that a virus could never escape and eat our world's oil supply because viruses are incapable of performing any biological activities because they lack the necessary 'machinery'. Viruses hijack cellular machinery to propagate. Viruses don't even have a need for energy because they have no metabolism. It would have to be bacteria.
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IANAL, but in Canada there is a legal idea called willful blindness which makes willfully denying yourself information that would reveal to you whether or not what you're doing is legal to be just as bad as knowing what you're doing is illegal. The establishment of willful blindness essentially provides the proper mens rea to convict someone of the crime in question. So it seems that Linus' strategy of 'see no evil' is a poor one from a legal standpoint.
But back in the day the SNES game Secret of Mana had a similar system that was more suited to controllers.
Really needs to be repealed.
Now we have something to do besides freeze our asses off up here.
I'm not a big fan of ringtones, but I think it's funny when someone's phone goes off in the middle of a meeting, and while it's spouting its silly themesong everybody looks at the person like they're a complete twit.
To follow up on my own comment, would you prefer that television shows had commercials grafted directly into the programming? That's the next step. Have you ever heard of choosing your battles? I certainly don't want to use my freedoms to restrict myself in the end; this seems somewhat self defeating to me.
I think the issue is one of convenience. With commercial skipping, yes it is an option, but it is also automated. This is different from what a person would do, because they can't 'skip' commercials. Every time a commercial comes on, you have to make some effort to avoid it, whether it be hitting mute or walking out of the room. Hence nothing is being skipped, but instead dealt with by you, the consumer.
Isn't it true that you can set commercial skipping once on your pvr and never have to think about it again? To me this seems to be the difference - the effort involved and the lack of a human element.
The biz operates on numbers; if something is popular, you get more of it. Explain to me how tv can cater to your precise needs without having a tv station for each person in the US. This doesn't seem very feasible to me.
If as a result of pvrs, nobody watches commercials anymore and the bottom falls out of the broadcasting industry, what do you propose to do with the countless people who were employed by said industry and now are jobless with mouths to feed? Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter? Having your freedoms is one thing, but destroying somebody's livelihood is another.
More exciting is conformance to a single ABI standard in combination with installation script support. This is a godsend for package maintainers; in the future they will only have to compile and package once, and your app is supported on multiple distros.
I'm still waiting for OLED's.
... that Bioware uses KDE too?
With companies like Bioware bringing support to the Linux platform, Linux will be more and more attractive to Joe Sixpack. Whoever said Linux would never survive on the desktop?
That gives a whole new meaning to '/me puts on a tinfoil hat'
People in glass houses...
Sometimes the markup on these devices is ridiculous. No wonder they weren't selling in the first place, the people who would be interested in this device are the type of people that would know if they were getting hosed on it.
As someone that's been with Ricochet from the start, I wonder if they're offering a $275 rebate on the modem now that it's so cheap?
I thought they always told you not to force it.
The BURP gun just looks like a glorified penis pump.
I'd just like to point out that you can't send degradable stuff into space since there's nothing to degrade it, and even if you did degrade it, the matter would still be floating in space in a different form.
Jpeg compression is considered to be a lossy compression, so yes your data in your original image would be irrecoverable.
I think you mean the first letter before L.
In response to the alarmist statement on the front page article: I'd just like to point out that a virus could never escape and eat our world's oil supply because viruses are incapable of performing any biological activities because they lack the necessary 'machinery'. Viruses hijack cellular machinery to propagate. Viruses don't even have a need for energy because they have no metabolism. It would have to be bacteria.