the French Constitutional Council has just made it illegal to film violence unless you are a professional journalist (or to distribute a video containing violence).
so where's the line between amateur videographer, and aspiring reality-tv cameraman? Or maybe we need a venn diagram with professional journalist in there somewhere too.
In a perfect world, sure. In the real world, intent is all you need. Ever heard of conspiracy?. An overt "precursor" act (i.e. meeting with a hit-man, in the case of conspiracy to commit murder) is required to prove conspiracy, but that precursor act is basically just proof of intent, like this mind-reading device.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I think being convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime still requires some sort of action,
Is that not what I wrote? In the example of the "conspiracy to commit murder", if you meet with a hit man (i.e. undercover cop) and discuss where/when, they'll arrest you. Even if he's the one that will be doing the murdering, not you. You get busted because you're the one planning it. Ergo, your thoughts are illegal.
You can prove intent, but intent is not enough to get a conviction: you need the act to have been committed or attempted too.
In a perfect world, sure. In the real world, intent is all you need. Ever heard of conspiracy?. An overt "precursor" act (i.e. meeting with a hit-man, in the case of conspiracy to commit murder) is required to prove conspiracy, but that precursor act is basically just proof of intent, like this mind-reading device.
There is no crime of having intent to rob, but there is one of robbery (theft) or of entering a house with intent to rob (burglary). If people start being prosecuted for mere intentions, then you need to fix the law, not worry about mind-reading devices (which after all are just the messenger).
You're incorrect in your assumptions, but I do agree, the law *is* broken.
That's a good tip. Do you know of a way to zoom in better with the sniper rifle (other than the on/off d-pad)? it seems kind of neutered in its effectiveness without a scalable zoom, as goldeneye-style long-range kills are a heck of a lot of fun.
researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity _ in this case, adding versus subtracting."
A big portion of the work of prosecution in this country is spent proving intent. For example, the funny-looking guy that hangs out at the playground. Is he a creep, or is he just a birdwatcher? Obviously, a scanning device would figure that out pretty quick.
(... And I guarantee you that's the same kind of argument they'll make when pushing this thing, too. Because it's all about protecting the children. even at the expense of your fourth amendment rights.)
Trust me on this -no one is going to be offended by your recognition of the fact that their skin has a darker pigment than your own (yes, I can tell that you're not black).
Look, to be perfectly honest, I don't see race. People tell me I'm white and I believe them, because police officers call me "sir".
If you don't like the driving try upgrading your driving skill before writing it off. I hated it at first, but by 2-stars it's much better.
It still sucked at 3.5 stars for me, and by that time I had finished the game, and there were no more enemies to run down to improve it.
I don't mean to just bag on the game, since they put a lot of work in creating a fantastic sandbox to play in. The only problem is, they didn't put toys that are ultimately all that fun in that sandbox.
The demo floating around on XBL features some good old-fashioned ultraviolence perpetrated by a Caucasian protagonist (the player, natch) against your stereotypical Latino gangbangers.
Have you seen the demo first-hand, or is that just something you heard from a friend of a friend? Every download of the demo I've played (and the retail game) has an african-american as the default character.
they bundled the Halo 3 key with Crackdown so that more people would be exposed to the simple greatness this game contains... To be sure, the game has deep flaws; not much of a story, a few racial stereotypes, and somewhat unsatisfying boss fights marr the experience.
Yeah, basically, the boss fights are almost all the same. The driving isn't nearly on par with GTA. The "skill penalty" imposed for bad behavior is lame, and hinders enjoyment of just being out and about.
RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?... They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways.
So then the proper title should be "Can Apple take Dell or Gateway on the Desktop". With the release of bootcamp, Apple's competing against Dell and Gateway in the Premium consumer hardware space (which Dell/Gateway suck at anyway) so it's no wonder Apple's winning.
The flip side of that is that as commodity beigeboxes, Dell and Gateway do great in the corporate world, which is a space Apple has yet to penetrate to any large degree, because the customer doesn't fit their product space.
Information Week is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista.
Anyone with a job title like that is sure to be a Master Debater.
'Spatial memory' is how you orient yourself in space and remember how to get to places in the outside world. Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly
That's because in space, nobody can hear you scream.
A new web tool is scanning the net for signs of copyright infringement... 'For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system.
So, basically, their web tool is scanning for things that don't yet exist. Bully!
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the French Constitutional Council has just made it illegal to film violence unless you are a professional journalist (or to distribute a video containing violence).
so where's the line between amateur videographer, and aspiring reality-tv cameraman? Or maybe we need a venn diagram with professional journalist in there somewhere too.
Christ I hate how people think that iPod's are the only thing someone would hook up to car's sound system via aux-in.
What do you mean? Apple *invented* the 3.5mm minijack.
you could have an easier time negotiating your pay using a fact-based rather than a feelings-based approach.
Tip #1: get salary info from friends with similar experience in a similar job before the interview Tip #2: whoever mentions a number first, loses.
Is that not what I wrote? In the example of the "conspiracy to commit murder", if you meet with a hit man (i.e. undercover cop) and discuss where/when, they'll arrest you. Even if he's the one that will be doing the murdering, not you. You get busted because you're the one planning it. Ergo, your thoughts are illegal.
You can prove intent, but intent is not enough to get a conviction: you need the act to have been committed or attempted too.
In a perfect world, sure. In the real world, intent is all you need. Ever heard of conspiracy?. An overt "precursor" act (i.e. meeting with a hit-man, in the case of conspiracy to commit murder) is required to prove conspiracy, but that precursor act is basically just proof of intent, like this mind-reading device.
There is no crime of having intent to rob, but there is one of robbery (theft) or of entering a house with intent to rob (burglary). If people start being prosecuted for mere intentions, then you need to fix the law, not worry about mind-reading devices (which after all are just the messenger).
You're incorrect in your assumptions, but I do agree, the law *is* broken.
That's a good tip. Do you know of a way to zoom in better with the sniper rifle (other than the on/off d-pad)? it seems kind of neutered in its effectiveness without a scalable zoom, as goldeneye-style long-range kills are a heck of a lot of fun.
researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity _ in this case, adding versus subtracting."
A big portion of the work of prosecution in this country is spent proving intent. For example, the funny-looking guy that hangs out at the playground. Is he a creep, or is he just a birdwatcher? Obviously, a scanning device would figure that out pretty quick.
(... And I guarantee you that's the same kind of argument they'll make when pushing this thing, too. Because it's all about protecting the children. even at the expense of your fourth amendment rights.)
Trust me on this -no one is going to be offended by your recognition of the fact that their skin has a darker pigment than your own (yes, I can tell that you're not black).
Look, to be perfectly honest, I don't see race. People tell me I'm white and I believe them, because police officers call me "sir".
If you don't like the driving try upgrading your driving skill before writing it off. I hated it at first, but by 2-stars it's much better.
It still sucked at 3.5 stars for me, and by that time I had finished the game, and there were no more enemies to run down to improve it.
I don't mean to just bag on the game, since they put a lot of work in creating a fantastic sandbox to play in. The only problem is, they didn't put toys that are ultimately all that fun in that sandbox.
The demo floating around on XBL features some good old-fashioned ultraviolence perpetrated by a Caucasian protagonist (the player, natch) against your stereotypical Latino gangbangers.
Have you seen the demo first-hand, or is that just something you heard from a friend of a friend? Every download of the demo I've played (and the retail game) has an african-american as the default character.
they bundled the Halo 3 key with Crackdown so that more people would be exposed to the simple greatness this game contains ... To be sure, the game has deep flaws; not much of a story, a few racial stereotypes, and somewhat unsatisfying boss fights marr the experience.
Yeah, basically, the boss fights are almost all the same. The driving isn't nearly on par with GTA. The "skill penalty" imposed for bad behavior is lame, and hinders enjoyment of just being out and about.
RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? ... They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways.
So then the proper title should be "Can Apple take Dell or Gateway on the Desktop". With the release of bootcamp, Apple's competing against Dell and Gateway in the Premium consumer hardware space (which Dell/Gateway suck at anyway) so it's no wonder Apple's winning.
The flip side of that is that as commodity beigeboxes, Dell and Gateway do great in the corporate world, which is a space Apple has yet to penetrate to any large degree, because the customer doesn't fit their product space.
Dem crackahs ALWAYS be gettin' all up in my WordPress yo. Fo'realz!
I thought the politically-correct term for "cracker" was "caucasian-american"?
I feel sorry for anyone buying drives on the low end of that range. A MTTF of 1 hour really sucks.
Well, they don't call it "Best Borrow" for no reason.
The data sheets for the drives indicated MTTF between 1 and 1.5 million hours.
Yeah, but I bet they didn't say what planet those hours are on.
I've seen some user reviews that maybe they are not all they're cracked up to be. Most of the complaints seem to be of the 'Manual sucks' variety.
That's not a very nice thing to say about Manuel. You know, he's trying the best he can.
NeoSmart Technologies has published a scathing editorial regarding 3 high-profile mistakes by Symantec Corp. -- all in less than a week
Maybe they're not mistakes... maybe it's just a form of viral marketing.
Information Week is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista.
Anyone with a job title like that is sure to be a Master Debater.
'Spatial memory' is how you orient yourself in space and remember how to get to places in the outside world. Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly
That's because in space, nobody can hear you scream.
She terms the targets of such efforts folk devils, items branded dangerous and immoral that serve to focus blame and fear.
That's an interesting term for it, but don't folk devils play the fiddle?
A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the Xbox 360 Security Protection Hypervisor.
Is that like some primitive version of what Geordi Laforge wears?
Actually, if you stop to think about it from both sides of the equation, doesn't that cover nearly ALL of the population?
Yeah, so what we really need is a group for owners, and a group for those of us that just rent.
CVG reports that future Rockstar titles will feature NaturalMotion technologies in an effort to make the games more realistic.
That's great news. Because peoples' main complaint with RockStar games is that the movements aren't realistic enough.
Geometry Wars is the best game ever for fans of old-school shooters like centipede, asteroids, & galaga
A new web tool is scanning the net for signs of copyright infringement ... 'For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system.
So, basically, their web tool is scanning for things that don't yet exist. Bully!