Why would the Chinese want back doors in anything that would possibly used domestically? It opens them up to attacks too. While corruption is rampant in China, stupid is not.
Any strange relationships between this company and the military are simply old fashion corruption if you ask me. It makes far more sense.
Yes, and I'm certain that drug kingpins would buy the cellphone with their own, entirely legitimate photo ID.
Aye, you touch on a good point. This will just create a demand among criminals for freshly stolen phones. Steal a phone, use it illegally for a day or two and toss it in a greyhound bus bound for opposite coast to fuck with gps surveillance attempts.
I am working on a project that would allow our customers to test our sending different PCL commands to LAN printers.
I will be looking forward to the first error is encountered by a user. You will hear someone in the cubical farm say, "PCL PC Load letter? What the fuck is PCL PC Load letter?!?"
any proposed law should have to sit, unchanged, for a set period of time (weeks) before being voted on. (New changes reset the clock.)
Where I an opponent of a particular law, I could keep making trivial changes to it right before the timeout expired to perpetually keep it from being voted on. Because almost any law you can think of will have a least 1 opponent, no laws would ever get passed.
You call them bullies because you don't agree with them, but other people do agree with them.
You say they are wrong, they say you are wrong. Who can be the ultimate judge of what is right and what is wrong?
I call bullshit. We aren't speaking about their social views vs. mine, so don't give me that whishy-washy 'opinions are relative' crap. This is about respecting other people's rights to express themselves.
I call them bullies because they try to control what others do, NOT because I disagree with the views that they support.
They are violating the constitutionally protected freedom of speech, and that is wrong.
If a small group of people really really cares about something, and the rest of us don't care too much, it's basic social wisdom to compromise in favor of the people who really do care.
I am offended by the material that FOX news spews out, but I always thought that as part of a free society that they had a right to express their view of things. Were I to complain about their content and organize people to bury the FCC in letters, I would be censoring them and denying their freedom of speech. Unlike the socially conservative right, I do not infringe on other's rights to express themselves when I don't like what they have to say. I want to see swearing on TV. I want Kevin Smith writing shows. I want to see George Carlin's old shows run on TV.
Your 'social wisdom' is simply caving to a small minority of vocal bullies that want to control what others see and do.
Yeah, kids these days are using rot26 instead. Twice as secure.
Thats a good step, but because of the improvement of computation technology in the last few years, I am am using rot104, which is four times the strength of rot26. I am planning a move to rot208 sometime this year, but it is non-inconsequential with any real volume of data. But the fact is, you need to keep ahead of the curve to insure that the alphabet soup agencies can't read your wow chat logs...
He is looking for the names of people who have criticized him? Really? Because I am pretty sure that by doing this, half the Internet will be speaking poorly of him. And I for one, am drinking the cool-aid.
Fuck Attorney General Tom Corbett and his public corruption investigation. Fuck him in his stupid ass. He is fucking clown shoes.
The real problem is the sentencing guidelines. A true child rapist should go away for life in prison. Then this wouldn't be an issue. I am not talking about statutory rapists, I mean the ones who really prey on children.
Woah, my hypocritical bullshit detector just flashed defcon 5...
You should a child rapist be put in prison for any longer than any other sort of rapist? How is it any more acceptable to rape a 21 year old woman than it is a child? This sounds like a typical 'OMG, we must protect the children' hysteria that clouds and distorts this sort of discussion. I don't care if you rape a 3 year old girl or a 35 year old man who is a master of 14 martial arts, a persons degree of ability to defend themselves does not mitigate the crime.
I am a developer, and I work under these exact conditions. We have two banks of desks grouped together in the middle of a open room. It is very conducive to collaboration, and it can get noisy when people get going. There is some group goofing off that occurs, but no more so than any other work arrangement I have seen. Most of us have some headphones, and so getting some quiet to focus inst really a problem.
One problem with printed game manuals is that they don't change with the game. Want a laugh? go read the manuals that came with Diablo2 or vanilla WoW. Games can get patched and tweaked to the point that dead tree format instructions aren't even remotely close to what the current game is. PDFs on the other hand can be patched with game content.
And FWIW I don't see anything in the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement [microsoft.com] about giving users a way to control their data. Nor in the Yahoo Privacy Center [yahoo.com].
But sales/profits/whatever doesn't make something art.
Never said it did. Level up your reading comprehension and try again.
I am saying that if video games aren't aren't 'Art', then he is the most revered critic of the biggest 'art' industry in the world. My implication is that if he accepts that video games are art, then (in his mind), his position of importance is lessened somewhat.
I think if he were to admit that video games are art, that would make him the definitive critic of the SECOND most prevalent/biggest/whatever 'art form' industry on earth, since I recall reading that video games have eclipsed movies in global sales/profits/whatever.
To me it sounds like a semantic argument based off of pure ego.
what are trailers? they provide about the same relative amount of the product before paying for it
Well put. My take on the matter is these guys are real idiots. A demo is basically a marketing tool, designed to get your product into people's hands. If they like the sample you give them they buy more. While there will be some small market segment of rabid fanbois that will pay for a demo just to start on the game a month early, most people won't bite.
Music artists are beginning to realize that albums (which yield them modest returns at best) are really just marketing tools to get people to go see their live shows (which yield them larger returns). These clowns are trying to go the other direction? wow.
Its a time investment to install and try out a new game. I am not going to pay money to experience 'advertising'
Doing sequels at two-year intervals, however, are little hard to get into because it's really the same story; "Bad guys try, but Superman" is unstoppable.
This is exactly why I hate Superman: He is an incredibly boring character. He is physical unstoppable, indestructible, and he has no real character flaws. The only thing that can hurt him is a incredibly rare element that everybody and their brother has access to, can make, or trips over while walking along a beach.
Of course any sequels to the origin myth are going to be problematic: The character itself is a mess, with no really development arc.
If North Korean troops start pouring through the DMZ, the US military is going to consider all of its contingency plans to keep its ~150,000+ soldiers from being killed or captured, and there is a 100% chance one of those contingency plans includes using nuclear weapons. In all likelihood it is one of the reasons why it hasn't happened yet.
NK is not even remotely a conventional match for US troops. They cannot keep the lights on at night, let alone maintain air superiority against stealth fighters. Nukes would not be considered if NK attempted a land grab.
They are being held in reserve, to make sure NK knows good and well the consequences of building and employing a few fission weapons. This is a carrot/stick move that might encourage them into non-proliferation compliance. We have all the reason in the world to want this, because we would completely steamroll them in a conventional war, and we wouldn't suffer the negative publicity of a nuclear war.
What Star Wars really needs is for Lucas to give up control, let someone else take over, and maybe bring out a new trilogy that returns the movies to the feel of the original trilogy.
GL decides to retire and become a recluse. He gives up all rights to SW to Steven Spielburg. Spielburg decides to remake episodes 1-3 and hires Joss Wheedon to re-write them from scratch. It could happen....
but since this holds the companies accountable for a minimum of data security at least they will do something whereas they would normally do nothing.
Amen to that. And, to expound on the the though, a lot of federal regulations are there for a reason, usually because someone was doing the very thing is prohibited to the detriment of the public's best interest. Rules are often there because there are always a few self interested jerks.
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Any differences are the Chinese backdoor.
Why would the Chinese want back doors in anything that would possibly used domestically? It opens them up to attacks too. While corruption is rampant in China, stupid is not.
Any strange relationships between this company and the military are simply old fashion corruption if you ask me. It makes far more sense.
Yes, and I'm certain that drug kingpins would buy the cellphone with their own, entirely legitimate photo ID.
Aye, you touch on a good point. This will just create a demand among criminals for freshly stolen phones. Steal a phone, use it illegally for a day or two and toss it in a greyhound bus bound for opposite coast to fuck with gps surveillance attempts.
I am working on a project that would allow our customers to test our sending different PCL commands to LAN printers.
I will be looking forward to the first error is encountered by a user. You will hear someone in the cubical farm say, "PCL PC Load letter? What the fuck is PCL PC Load letter?!?"
any proposed law should have to sit, unchanged, for a set period of time (weeks) before being voted on. (New changes reset the clock.)
Where I an opponent of a particular law, I could keep making trivial changes to it right before the timeout expired to perpetually keep it from being voted on. Because almost any law you can think of will have a least 1 opponent, no laws would ever get passed.
But your sentiment is a good one.
You call them bullies because you don't agree with them, but other people do agree with them. You say they are wrong, they say you are wrong. Who can be the ultimate judge of what is right and what is wrong?
I call bullshit. We aren't speaking about their social views vs. mine, so don't give me that whishy-washy 'opinions are relative' crap. This is about respecting other people's rights to express themselves.
I call them bullies because they try to control what others do, NOT because I disagree with the views that they support.
They are violating the constitutionally protected freedom of speech, and that is wrong.
Tolkien referenced the 'two towers' long before 9/11, so he clearly knew about the plot. Any fool can plainly see that he was behind the whole thing.
If a small group of people really really cares about something, and the rest of us don't care too much, it's basic social wisdom to compromise in favor of the people who really do care.
I am offended by the material that FOX news spews out, but I always thought that as part of a free society that they had a right to express their view of things. Were I to complain about their content and organize people to bury the FCC in letters, I would be censoring them and denying their freedom of speech. Unlike the socially conservative right, I do not infringe on other's rights to express themselves when I don't like what they have to say. I want to see swearing on TV. I want Kevin Smith writing shows. I want to see George Carlin's old shows run on TV.
Your 'social wisdom' is simply caving to a small minority of vocal bullies that want to control what others see and do.
Yeah, kids these days are using rot26 instead. Twice as secure.
Thats a good step, but because of the improvement of computation technology in the last few years, I am am using rot104, which is four times the strength of rot26. I am planning a move to rot208 sometime this year, but it is non-inconsequential with any real volume of data. But the fact is, you need to keep ahead of the curve to insure that the alphabet soup agencies can't read your wow chat logs...
He is looking for the names of people who have criticized him? Really? Because I am pretty sure that by doing this, half the Internet will be speaking poorly of him. And I for one, am drinking the cool-aid.
Fuck Attorney General Tom Corbett and his public corruption investigation. Fuck him in his stupid ass. He is fucking clown shoes.
Come get me Tom. I dare you.
He may or may not be guilty of anything, so let's try to keep a cool head in the meantime.
He is a CEO, how could he NOT be guilty of something?
The real problem is the sentencing guidelines. A true child rapist should go away for life in prison. Then this wouldn't be an issue. I am not talking about statutory rapists, I mean the ones who really prey on children.
Woah, my hypocritical bullshit detector just flashed defcon 5...
You should a child rapist be put in prison for any longer than any other sort of rapist? How is it any more acceptable to rape a 21 year old woman than it is a child? This sounds like a typical 'OMG, we must protect the children' hysteria that clouds and distorts this sort of discussion. I don't care if you rape a 3 year old girl or a 35 year old man who is a master of 14 martial arts, a persons degree of ability to defend themselves does not mitigate the crime.
You lock up a tank by locking all the hatches internally but one, then putting a exterior padlock on that.
*picks up bic pen*
*walks toward nearest army base with M1 Abrams*
*Whistles to allay suspicion*
The whole I'm a PC I'm a Mac thing is BS. My understanding of the term PC is Personal Computer. That definition should be OS agnostic.
Interesting thought: If PC's are 'personal computers', would that make Macs, 'Impersonal computers'?
That would have been great prep for going to see a Daredevil movie.
So would have been a lot of alcohol....
I am a developer, and I work under these exact conditions. We have two banks of desks grouped together in the middle of a open room. It is very conducive to collaboration, and it can get noisy when people get going. There is some group goofing off that occurs, but no more so than any other work arrangement I have seen. Most of us have some headphones, and so getting some quiet to focus inst really a problem.
red shift is centrist
Funny, I always saw red shift as moving toward the left...
One problem with printed game manuals is that they don't change with the game. Want a laugh? go read the manuals that came with Diablo2 or vanilla WoW. Games can get patched and tweaked to the point that dead tree format instructions aren't even remotely close to what the current game is. PDFs on the other hand can be patched with game content.
And FWIW I don't see anything in the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement [microsoft.com] about giving users a way to control their data. Nor in the Yahoo Privacy Center [yahoo.com].
Hmmm, did you try searching with Google?
But sales/profits/whatever doesn't make something art.
Never said it did. Level up your reading comprehension and try again.
I am saying that if video games aren't aren't 'Art', then he is the most revered critic of the biggest 'art' industry in the world. My implication is that if he accepts that video games are art, then (in his mind), his position of importance is lessened somewhat.
Well put.
I think if he were to admit that video games are art, that would make him the definitive critic of the SECOND most prevalent/biggest/whatever 'art form' industry on earth, since I recall reading that video games have eclipsed movies in global sales/profits/whatever.
To me it sounds like a semantic argument based off of pure ego.
what are trailers? they provide about the same relative amount of the product before paying for it
Well put. My take on the matter is these guys are real idiots. A demo is basically a marketing tool, designed to get your product into people's hands. If they like the sample you give them they buy more. While there will be some small market segment of rabid fanbois that will pay for a demo just to start on the game a month early, most people won't bite.
Music artists are beginning to realize that albums (which yield them modest returns at best) are really just marketing tools to get people to go see their live shows (which yield them larger returns). These clowns are trying to go the other direction? wow.
Its a time investment to install and try out a new game. I am not going to pay money to experience 'advertising'
Doing sequels at two-year intervals, however, are little hard to get into because it's really the same story; "Bad guys try, but Superman" is unstoppable.
This is exactly why I hate Superman: He is an incredibly boring character. He is physical unstoppable, indestructible, and he has no real character flaws. The only thing that can hurt him is a incredibly rare element that everybody and their brother has access to, can make, or trips over while walking along a beach.
Of course any sequels to the origin myth are going to be problematic: The character itself is a mess, with no really development arc.
If North Korean troops start pouring through the DMZ, the US military is going to consider all of its contingency plans to keep its ~150,000+ soldiers from being killed or captured, and there is a 100% chance one of those contingency plans includes using nuclear weapons. In all likelihood it is one of the reasons why it hasn't happened yet.
NK is not even remotely a conventional match for US troops. They cannot keep the lights on at night, let alone maintain air superiority against stealth fighters. Nukes would not be considered if NK attempted a land grab.
They are being held in reserve, to make sure NK knows good and well the consequences of building and employing a few fission weapons. This is a carrot/stick move that might encourage them into non-proliferation compliance. We have all the reason in the world to want this, because we would completely steamroll them in a conventional war, and we wouldn't suffer the negative publicity of a nuclear war.
What Star Wars really needs is for Lucas to give up control, let someone else take over, and maybe bring out a new trilogy that returns the movies to the feel of the original trilogy.
GL decides to retire and become a recluse. He gives up all rights to SW to Steven Spielburg. Spielburg decides to remake episodes 1-3 and hires Joss Wheedon to re-write them from scratch. It could happen....
but since this holds the companies accountable for a minimum of data security at least they will do something whereas they would normally do nothing.
Amen to that. And, to expound on the the though, a lot of federal regulations are there for a reason, usually because someone was doing the very thing is prohibited to the detriment of the public's best interest. Rules are often there because there are always a few self interested jerks.