Making bucks off the intellectual property of others would be burning copies of the game and selling them. This is not, at least not illegally. They are not selling part of the game but merely a service. An analogy would be companies that sell conversion vans or modded cars. I got a conversion Ford van modded by Superior, a company in Kentucky. They obviously made money off the deal, but they did not sell the Ford van, they sold the enhancements.
That's all this is: paying somebody else to play the game for you so you can benefit without doing the work.
How did this get modded as flamebait??? It's an extremely valid point; ever tried tech supporting for your idiot neighbors? Although it's cool and all to see an ISP supporting this, I wouldn't want it for the same reasons: technologically-impaired people demanding that I fix their internet connection and people using my bandwidth.
The innovation you're looking for is counter-productive. It's more beneficial to everyone if "details" are added to the browser rather than having an entire new system of communication "innovated" every few years. The WWW was innovation, the browser was innnovation, and at this point, I don't see much more innovation possible without replacing something. Obviously, it's not easy to forsee innovation, but how exactly do you want something to change your life? Personally, I'm waiting for an innovative OS UI to be developed, which will lead to innovations in the method of working and browsing under it.
No, more like 1 in 6 know about the RIAA and MPAA...none of the people I know hear about it, except when I tell them, and I have to explain what they are. They generally don't care either.
People talk about boycotting the RIAA, but I don't think it will happen for a while, at least. Just because Slashdot gets the news doesn't mean the TV, newpaper, population do. They just want their music...
I disagree. Ever argued with a not-so-bright programmer about why ANSI C is better than Borland C, or Microsoft C? They don't care, they don't understand, and all your arguments of "It's better because it's...uh...standard!" fall on deaf ears. Or have you tried to convince someone to write standardized HTML so that you don't need IE to render it correctly?
Most people don't care about theoreticals. They care about what they can see and what affects them. If you show them their page in Lynx and Mozilla and Opera, perhaps they will understand the need for standardization. If you show them that no one else can compile their program, they might start writing standardized code.
The point is, people aren't going to understand that they have hackable systems unless you hack them and say, "Look what I found!" By proving the flaws in their systems you inspire them to fix them, creating secure systems.
Like they say, there's no teacher like bad experience.
I have Tetris 2, but it's been a long time since I've played it. I remember it more as a Dr. Mario-type game, where there are blocks in your way that you have to clear to win, rather than multiple falling blocks.
It's fun to play Tetris on the highest speed and high, so that the blocks don't have very far to fall. It maybe impossible, but it's addictively fun and builds more reflexes than you probably have a need for.
Perhaps we need multi-block tetris. You could either have multiple blocks on the same field, or even somehow have multiple fields with separate blocks. Or, if you want to get suicidal, imagine 3 playing fields, each with its own block set, but the same controls control all the blocks identically. The reason this would not become too chaotic is because once a block on one field hit the bottom, the others could be controlled without affecting that one. Basically, the player would have to stagger them so that he/she could control each block independently. That's kind of interesting, actually...
Not plausible, merely because I can't imagine that Die Hard 15: Die Harder Still would become "lost" with the MPAA still in existance. More likely, they would reissue it every 5 years in a Golden Edition, a Director's Cut edition, a Platinum Edition, a Titanium Edition, a Neodymium Edition, a "THX-Premium-Triple-Plus-Good Sound and Picture" edition, a "Classic Movies" edition, a "Vintage 2010s" edition, a Dysprosium Edition, a "100 Years of Movies" edition, and a few "Action/Adventure Gems" movie packs, etc.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but do you really think that the MPAA would 1) disappear or 2) let one of their multimillion dollar movies be lost to the sands of time? Mwhahahah, you pathetic anti-**AA terrorist!
This is something I've always wondered. When I buy a CD, it doesn't come with a license agreement. It doesn't say, "You are only licensed to listen to this on your CD player and not make copies." It says unauthorized copies are violations of applicable laws or something to that effect, but how does that count as a license. It appears to be sold, not licensed.
Of course, if music is licensed implicitly, which is obviously must be, why can't we license everything? I'll license this chair to you: you can sit in it but you may not stand on it. Standing on it is a violation of applicable laws and may result in a $250,000 fine and/or imprisonment.
Actually, Superman the Escape at Six Flags is steel....
Superman The Escape (Six Flags Magic Mountain) is tied with Tower of Terror (Dreamworld, Australia) for the #2 drop at 328' 1", and the Steel Dragon 2000 is 4th, at (exactly) 306' 9".
Similarly, Superman the Escape is #2 at 415' tall and Tower of Terror is 377' 4" tall, putting Steel Dragon 2000 in 4th again, with 318' 3"
Dodonpa (Japan) is #2 at 106.9 mph, Superman The Escape and Tower of Terror are tied at 100 mph, and the Steel Dragon 2000 returns for #5 at 95 mph.
Not sure about angle of descents, but there are a few tied at 90 degrees, and its hard to get much steeper than that!
The longest steel coaster is Steel Dragon 2000, at 8133' 2". Daidarasaurus (Japan) is #2 at 7677' 2" , and Millennium Force (Cedar Point) is #5 at 6595'.
And though I'm not certain, I'm pretty sure the Colossus (Thorpe Park, England) has the most inversions, with a twin corkscrew, vertical loop, cobra roll, and five zero-g heart rolls. Sounds fun.
And yes, those are only the steel records...didn't check all the wooden records against them.
Just what I needed, clothes that can change style at my command! If I get a shirt made of electronic paper, one minute it can be red, the next blue, and then I can make it look tie-dyed!
Now, whenever I wear the same shirt every day of the week, nobody will know!
I don't really consider the IRS to have customers, since it doesn't provide any goods or services. Actually, I think they might have some services, but those are only the better to take your money with!:-)
Their live performances are generally considered better than studio recordings. I don't know how they record in the studio, but I wouldn't be surprised if they recorded it all together.
In Soviet Russia, the people who tell on other "bad" people are only delaying the inevitable, because there is a finite number of people and an infinite number of anti-soviet bastards! Argghhh!
The problem with this is the flexibility that is oh-so-nice with my digital library of music. I can switch from Les Miserables to Culture Club to Dave Matthews to Ben Folds Five in a second. I can play one song from every CD I have.
Try doing that with your library-style system. In theory, it's plausible, but in reality, all sub-optimal music sharing things are doomed. If you could "borrow" somebody's Lamborghini any time you wanted without getting in trouble, would you stop taking it and instead get a 80's Toyota Camry rent-a-car just because someone else considers it legal?
My point is that people won't want to give up what they already have and feel they are entitled to.
Heat causes cancer? Last I checked, cancer was caused by radioactive particles colliding with one's cells and causing mutations. Moreover, I believe the cells have to be replicating DNA at the time, but not quite sure about that.
Of course, then there are all the checks that the cell has on the integrity of the DNA, so the cell will lyse itself and it does not develop into cancer. Furthermore, many mutations are NOT cancerous.... Regardless, heat does not cause cancer.
Regarding microwaves, they don't actually cause heat. The frequency of a microwave coincidentally happens to be the natural frequency of water, causing the water molecules, which are polar, to flip between the two possible orientations they exist in. Heat and the movement of molecules is directly related, so when the molecules move faster, whatever is being microwaved gets hotter.
So in actuality, microwaves cause heat, but only in stuff with water molecules. Try a fork or something fun like that.
No, not everyone knows what the RIAA is doing. Most people I talk to don't even know what it is. When I tell them, they are like, "oh," and don't care. Oh well, they don't read Slashdot obviously. But I'll bet they download music just the same.
I know what the little lock pad on the bottom of my browser is for...
I guess they are now. Sorry, I didn't check before I posted. But they weren't last time I bought something from them, which was about a year ago....Kinda ironic I thought, that such a geeky site was so unsecure.:-)
Sure, killing someone with a gun is bad. But is it as bad as ANNIHILATING THE ENTIRE PLANET just so that you can figure out this whole black hole concept that's eluding physicists? Have some foresight.
Sure, I can handle the truth, but I don't have much use for it after I have been reduced to subatomic particles in the quest to find it.
Censoring information is either 1) preventing people from hearing it or 2) Preventing other people from telling them.
Mostly the article talks about how certain scientific research could lead to catastrophic accidents that would be detrimental to our existance. So it's censorship in the idea that it wants to "remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" in the sense that is it objectionable to the environment, world, universe, etc.
It's not saying that we shouldn't know about the research, but that it shouldn't happen at all.
This is slightly off-topic, but it relates to the whole "too lazy to fix the security problems" issue. At my high school (private, don't know how exactly it is in public schools), it was well-known that the lockers could be kicked open. For those of you unfamiliar with this technique, it goes something like this: Apply toe of shoe to bottom of locker handle with upward pressure so that the locker door swings open.
Mostly it was the freshman and sophomore lockers, because they were the oldest and worst quality. So that happened all the time, whether it was to get into a friends locker, to open a random locker, or just to open yours when you forgot the combo. My point is, stuff could get stolen. Stuff did get stolen, obviously. The administration's response? "Lockers cannot be opened without destroying them with a crowbar or by knowing the combination. So don't give out your combination."
Obviously, they were idiots. I don't know if they were merely ignorant (stupid!), or just didn't have a solution so they ignored it. Obviously replacing all the lockers would be expensive, and it might not even fix the problem. I don't know if anyone ever confronted them about it, but if I was a student who confronted my university about unknown charges or what have you with my account, and the administration said too bad, I'd be pretty mad. I realize that this is not the colleges themselves, but rather a 3rd party corporation, but I can't imagine the colleges dropping Blackboard just for this--it would be way too expensive.
I disagree. Obviously, if AOL was doing something horrible to their users, the user base would drop. Most people (non-techies) probably would not consider blocking e-mails from people they probably wouldn't get e-mail from bad. Grandma on AOL isn't going to know or care. She's not dropping AOL, where would she go?
It's like Microsoft. They can have stupid licensing agreements and nobody cares, they aren't going to switch. You can get screwed 5 ways by Microsoft and Joe Average User isn't going to care at all. This issue I think could be debatable. It hasn't affected me, personally, and I doubt that a majority of the AOL users would be affected either.
This is not to say that it is right, from an ethical point of view, but it IS AOL's network, and they can do whatever they want. I just feel that you put too much faith in AOL's users to restrain it.
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That's all this is: paying somebody else to play the game for you so you can benefit without doing the work.
Makes me wish I had mod points today...
The innovation you're looking for is counter-productive. It's more beneficial to everyone if "details" are added to the browser rather than having an entire new system of communication "innovated" every few years. The WWW was innovation, the browser was innnovation, and at this point, I don't see much more innovation possible without replacing something. Obviously, it's not easy to forsee innovation, but how exactly do you want something to change your life? Personally, I'm waiting for an innovative OS UI to be developed, which will lead to innovations in the method of working and browsing under it.
People talk about boycotting the RIAA, but I don't think it will happen for a while, at least. Just because Slashdot gets the news doesn't mean the TV, newpaper, population do. They just want their music...
Most people don't care about theoreticals. They care about what they can see and what affects them. If you show them their page in Lynx and Mozilla and Opera, perhaps they will understand the need for standardization. If you show them that no one else can compile their program, they might start writing standardized code.
The point is, people aren't going to understand that they have hackable systems unless you hack them and say, "Look what I found!" By proving the flaws in their systems you inspire them to fix them, creating secure systems.
Like they say, there's no teacher like bad experience.
I have Tetris 2, but it's been a long time since I've played it. I remember it more as a Dr. Mario-type game, where there are blocks in your way that you have to clear to win, rather than multiple falling blocks.
Perhaps we need multi-block tetris. You could either have multiple blocks on the same field, or even somehow have multiple fields with separate blocks. Or, if you want to get suicidal, imagine 3 playing fields, each with its own block set, but the same controls control all the blocks identically. The reason this would not become too chaotic is because once a block on one field hit the bottom, the others could be controlled without affecting that one. Basically, the player would have to stagger them so that he/she could control each block independently. That's kind of interesting, actually...
Oh well, just some random thoughts...
Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett is also an excellent read. Funny, interesting, insightful, and underrated at the same time!
C'est la vie
Sorry to burst your bubble, but do you really think that the MPAA would 1) disappear or 2) let one of their multimillion dollar movies be lost to the sands of time? Mwhahahah, you pathetic anti-**AA terrorist!
Of course, if music is licensed implicitly, which is obviously must be, why can't we license everything? I'll license this chair to you: you can sit in it but you may not stand on it. Standing on it is a violation of applicable laws and may result in a $250,000 fine and/or imprisonment.
Superman The Escape (Six Flags Magic Mountain) is tied with Tower of Terror (Dreamworld, Australia) for the #2 drop at 328' 1", and the Steel Dragon 2000 is 4th, at (exactly) 306' 9".
Similarly, Superman the Escape is #2 at 415' tall and Tower of Terror is 377' 4" tall, putting Steel Dragon 2000 in 4th again, with 318' 3"
Dodonpa (Japan) is #2 at 106.9 mph, Superman The Escape and Tower of Terror are tied at 100 mph, and the Steel Dragon 2000 returns for #5 at 95 mph.
Not sure about angle of descents, but there are a few tied at 90 degrees, and its hard to get much steeper than that!
The longest steel coaster is Steel Dragon 2000, at 8133' 2". Daidarasaurus (Japan) is #2 at 7677' 2" , and Millennium Force (Cedar Point) is #5 at 6595'.
And though I'm not certain, I'm pretty sure the Colossus (Thorpe Park, England) has the most inversions, with a twin corkscrew, vertical loop, cobra roll, and five zero-g heart rolls. Sounds fun.
And yes, those are only the steel records...didn't check all the wooden records against them.
Now, whenever I wear the same shirt every day of the week, nobody will know!
I don't really consider the IRS to have customers, since it doesn't provide any goods or services. Actually, I think they might have some services, but those are only the better to take your money with! :-)
Their live performances are generally considered better than studio recordings. I don't know how they record in the studio, but I wouldn't be surprised if they recorded it all together.
In Soviet Russia, the people who tell on other "bad" people are only delaying the inevitable, because there is a finite number of people and an infinite number of anti-soviet bastards! Argghhh!
Try doing that with your library-style system. In theory, it's plausible, but in reality, all sub-optimal music sharing things are doomed. If you could "borrow" somebody's Lamborghini any time you wanted without getting in trouble, would you stop taking it and instead get a 80's Toyota Camry rent-a-car just because someone else considers it legal?
My point is that people won't want to give up what they already have and feel they are entitled to.
Of course, then there are all the checks that the cell has on the integrity of the DNA, so the cell will lyse itself and it does not develop into cancer. Furthermore, many mutations are NOT cancerous.... Regardless, heat does not cause cancer.
Regarding microwaves, they don't actually cause heat. The frequency of a microwave coincidentally happens to be the natural frequency of water, causing the water molecules, which are polar, to flip between the two possible orientations they exist in. Heat and the movement of molecules is directly related, so when the molecules move faster, whatever is being microwaved gets hotter.
So in actuality, microwaves cause heat, but only in stuff with water molecules. Try a fork or something fun like that.
No, not everyone knows what the RIAA is doing. Most people I talk to don't even know what it is. When I tell them, they are like, "oh," and don't care. Oh well, they don't read Slashdot obviously. But I'll bet they download music just the same.
I guess they are now. Sorry, I didn't check before I posted. But they weren't last time I bought something from them, which was about a year ago....Kinda ironic I thought, that such a geeky site was so unsecure. :-)
Last I checked, Thinkgeek.com doesn't use encryption.... That didn't stop me from buying my super-geeky tshirts though! :-)
Sure, I can handle the truth, but I don't have much use for it after I have been reduced to subatomic particles in the quest to find it.
Mostly the article talks about how certain scientific research could lead to catastrophic accidents that would be detrimental to our existance. So it's censorship in the idea that it wants to "remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable" in the sense that is it objectionable to the environment, world, universe, etc.
It's not saying that we shouldn't know about the research, but that it shouldn't happen at all.
Mostly it was the freshman and sophomore lockers, because they were the oldest and worst quality. So that happened all the time, whether it was to get into a friends locker, to open a random locker, or just to open yours when you forgot the combo. My point is, stuff could get stolen. Stuff did get stolen, obviously. The administration's response? "Lockers cannot be opened without destroying them with a crowbar or by knowing the combination. So don't give out your combination."
Obviously, they were idiots. I don't know if they were merely ignorant (stupid!), or just didn't have a solution so they ignored it. Obviously replacing all the lockers would be expensive, and it might not even fix the problem. I don't know if anyone ever confronted them about it, but if I was a student who confronted my university about unknown charges or what have you with my account, and the administration said too bad, I'd be pretty mad. I realize that this is not the colleges themselves, but rather a 3rd party corporation, but I can't imagine the colleges dropping Blackboard just for this--it would be way too expensive.
It's like Microsoft. They can have stupid licensing agreements and nobody cares, they aren't going to switch. You can get screwed 5 ways by Microsoft and Joe Average User isn't going to care at all. This issue I think could be debatable. It hasn't affected me, personally, and I doubt that a majority of the AOL users would be affected either.
This is not to say that it is right, from an ethical point of view, but it IS AOL's network, and they can do whatever they want. I just feel that you put too much faith in AOL's users to restrain it.