Even better, use Modify Headers and set your X-Forwarded-For to a US IP address (say, 12.13.14.15). You still get a direct connection that way, with latency or man-in-the-middle privacy issues.
Nobody ever hated the start menu. They just hated that it was called the start menu. People forgot about the counter-intuitive nomenclature the first time they used it, because the paradigm makes perfect sense.
It's not that I'm not buying the game because I can't cheat. I'm not buying the game because it has been built from the ground up to support a business model that has all the drawbacks of free2play without being free2play.
Cheating in single player games used to be considered a gamer's right before these abusive hand-in-your-pocket monetization schemes were thought up.
I don't know how you can be so comfortable when Congress has shown it's not above meddling with the Internet... and has full intention to do it again. The current situation is dangerously unpredictable - one victory is all they need, and we can't keep winning battles like SOPA forever.
It's plainly obvious that the Internet should not be controlled by any one country. Especially by the US, which has proven itself capable of selling out even it's own interests to please pressure groups. Let me tell you I have less fear of China's influence over the UN then of Hollywood's influence over the US government.
Sorry, but if there must be a central authority I can't think of a better one then the UN. Maybe if the US was a little less afraid of erosion of empire they could share control with the "good" nations through treaties, but honestly I think that's less likely to happen at this point.
If *nix was as popular as Windows it would certainly become a more attractive TARGET for malware, but there is nothing to suggest that the new target would be as viable as the old one.
To think otherwise is to believe all operating systems are exactly as secure as each other, which - considering the massive complexity of the systems and their great architectural differences - is just completely absurd.
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I believe the point is that if it is sold on the App Store we know it cannot be a stand alone browser by virtue of Apple's store policy.
Did they just decide to package the site in a stand-alone application because... someone doesn't understand the difference between a site you view in a browser (albeit a site you use to find other sites), and the browser itself which accesses and renders those sites?
A compromise between Microsoft and Motorola isn't going to help anybody else though is it? It further entrenches patents as an offensive weapon, and the next upstart that comes along and dares to compete with them will be crushed by the unholy alliance.
The British surveillance society meme is not just perpetrated by slashdot and the Daily Mail - the BBC gets in on the action too. According to this report there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the country. 4.2 million cameras doesn't sound excessive to you?
I'm thinking that the engineer knows all this, but he cynically adopted an iconic skin to generate support. The plan being to first get a budget then let practicalities of design take over.
Funnily enough, a sensible design for the suggested configuration would look more like an upsized Corellian transport. I'm surprised he didn't sell the idea as building the Millennium Falcon.
What? I'm not sure what you are getting at but if you seem to be disagreeing with the events as they transpired in the court room. I suggest you follow groklaw.
The judge decided that he will rule on whether or not APIs can be copyrighted, not the jury. He has not yet reached a decision.
He directed the jury to assume for the purposes of deliberation that they could be, and to find if Google infringed based on that assumption.
This finding of theoretical copyright infringement is meaningless without Judge Alsup also finding that API's can be copyrighted, however if the jury found not-guilty it would mean Alsup would not need to rule on that question.
No, he directed to jury to find if Google is guilty of copyright infringement assuming the API could be copyrighted. If the jury found Google not did not infringe, the court would not have to rule on the validity of the copyright of API... saving the court's time.
While a million and a half subs would be a problem any MMO developer would love to have, some are quite happy making good coin with less. EVE online has been a sustainable success with less then half a million.
Minor niggle - Google did not call their implementation Java. They have been quite consistent in their message that it is NOT Java. This is because Java is protected by trademark, and Sun required to you implement the full Java specification before allowing you to call your implementation Java.
They are innocent because the before the FBI came along, gave them the means and manipulated their delusions, these people were not terrorists.
The FBI didn't just make sure there was no bullets, that was exactly what the article debunks by contrasting sting operations designed to catch actual known drug dealers. The prosecutor admits there are no actual known terrorists. So security theatre demands they find a mentally unstable "suspect", gave them a gun and convince them to pull the trigger. Creating a terrorist out of thin air.
"You're not going to be able to go to a street corner and find somebody who's already blown something up," he said. Therefore, the usual goal is not "to find somebody who's already engaged in terrorism but find somebody who would jump at the opportunity if a real terrorist showed up in town." - David Raskin, federal prosecutor.
So they admit that procedure is manufacturing terrorists out of otherwise innocent (albeit disenfranchised) people.
To be fair, it's mostly our Government ripping us of with cars. Massive excise taxes on anything brought into the country are supposed to protect our precious local car industry from collapse (if Commodores and Falcons had to actually compete with Euro and Japanese cars on an open market there would be no Commodores or Falcons.)
This is why so many people buy cars in NZ and ship them to Aus. You end up paying 30%-50% less.
Thing is, I don't believe it's sci-fi's job to sell technology at all. Even the most positive stories should be tempered with a bit of pessimism.
SF is supposed to ask questions about what technology does to society, and what that means to the society being changed... stories that are all sunshine and rainbows are nothing more then speculative fantasy.
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Um...
My favorite example is the A-10, they are shooting for 80 years out of that airframe. And it's still an impressive machine.
...without latency or man-in-the-middle issues. Sorry.
Even better, use Modify Headers and set your X-Forwarded-For to a US IP address (say, 12.13.14.15). You still get a direct connection that way, with latency or man-in-the-middle privacy issues.
Compelling? Unless one of those features is a gun to my head I doubt it.
Nobody ever hated the start menu. They just hated that it was called the start menu. People forgot about the counter-intuitive nomenclature the first time they used it, because the paradigm makes perfect sense.
Just register for a postal vote. There is no restriction on who can do it... I waiting in a queue is for chumps.
The internet might be increasingly "always on" but one cannot say the same thing about the publisher's servers at the other end of the connection.
It's not that I'm not buying the game because I can't cheat. I'm not buying the game because it has been built from the ground up to support a business model that has all the drawbacks of free2play without being free2play.
Cheating in single player games used to be considered a gamer's right before these abusive hand-in-your-pocket monetization schemes were thought up.
I don't know how you can be so comfortable when Congress has shown it's not above meddling with the Internet... and has full intention to do it again. The current situation is dangerously unpredictable - one victory is all they need, and we can't keep winning battles like SOPA forever.
It's plainly obvious that the Internet should not be controlled by any one country. Especially by the US, which has proven itself capable of selling out even it's own interests to please pressure groups. Let me tell you I have less fear of China's influence over the UN then of Hollywood's influence over the US government.
Sorry, but if there must be a central authority I can't think of a better one then the UN. Maybe if the US was a little less afraid of erosion of empire they could share control with the "good" nations through treaties, but honestly I think that's less likely to happen at this point.
If *nix was as popular as Windows it would certainly become a more attractive TARGET for malware, but there is nothing to suggest that the new target would be as viable as the old one. To think otherwise is to believe all operating systems are exactly as secure as each other, which - considering the massive complexity of the systems and their great architectural differences - is just completely absurd.
I believe the point is that if it is sold on the App Store we know it cannot be a stand alone browser by virtue of Apple's store policy.
Did they just decide to package the site in a stand-alone application because... someone doesn't understand the difference between a site you view in a browser (albeit a site you use to find other sites), and the browser itself which accesses and renders those sites?
There *is* a reason they are launching on iOS.
A compromise between Microsoft and Motorola isn't going to help anybody else though is it? It further entrenches patents as an offensive weapon, and the next upstart that comes along and dares to compete with them will be crushed by the unholy alliance.
The British surveillance society meme is not just perpetrated by slashdot and the Daily Mail - the BBC gets in on the action too. According to this report there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the country. 4.2 million cameras doesn't sound excessive to you?
I'm thinking that the engineer knows all this, but he cynically adopted an iconic skin to generate support. The plan being to first get a budget then let practicalities of design take over.
Funnily enough, a sensible design for the suggested configuration would look more like an upsized Corellian transport. I'm surprised he didn't sell the idea as building the Millennium Falcon.
What? I'm not sure what you are getting at but if you seem to be disagreeing with the events as they transpired in the court room. I suggest you follow groklaw.
The judge decided that he will rule on whether or not APIs can be copyrighted, not the jury. He has not yet reached a decision.
He directed the jury to assume for the purposes of deliberation that they could be, and to find if Google infringed based on that assumption.
This finding of theoretical copyright infringement is meaningless without Judge Alsup also finding that API's can be copyrighted, however if the jury found not-guilty it would mean Alsup would not need to rule on that question.
No, he directed to jury to find if Google is guilty of copyright infringement assuming the API could be copyrighted. If the jury found Google not did not infringe, the court would not have to rule on the validity of the copyright of API... saving the court's time.
While a million and a half subs would be a problem any MMO developer would love to have, some are quite happy making good coin with less. EVE online has been a sustainable success with less then half a million.
Minor niggle - Google did not call their implementation Java. They have been quite consistent in their message that it is NOT Java. This is because Java is protected by trademark, and Sun required to you implement the full Java specification before allowing you to call your implementation Java.
They are innocent because the before the FBI came along, gave them the means and manipulated their delusions, these people were not terrorists.
The FBI didn't just make sure there was no bullets, that was exactly what the article debunks by contrasting sting operations designed to catch actual known drug dealers. The prosecutor admits there are no actual known terrorists. So security theatre demands they find a mentally unstable "suspect", gave them a gun and convince them to pull the trigger. Creating a terrorist out of thin air.
"You're not going to be able to go to a street corner and find somebody who's already blown something up," he said. Therefore, the usual goal is not "to find somebody who's already engaged in terrorism but find somebody who would jump at the opportunity if a real terrorist showed up in town." - David Raskin, federal prosecutor.
So they admit that procedure is manufacturing terrorists out of otherwise innocent (albeit disenfranchised) people.
To be fair, it's mostly our Government ripping us of with cars. Massive excise taxes on anything brought into the country are supposed to protect our precious local car industry from collapse (if Commodores and Falcons had to actually compete with Euro and Japanese cars on an open market there would be no Commodores or Falcons.)
This is why so many people buy cars in NZ and ship them to Aus. You end up paying 30%-50% less.
I'm not sure how you could read the article and miss that the bacteria's ability to process toxin was gained through an evolutionary process.
Thing is, I don't believe it's sci-fi's job to sell technology at all. Even the most positive stories should be tempered with a bit of pessimism.
SF is supposed to ask questions about what technology does to society, and what that means to the society being changed... stories that are all sunshine and rainbows are nothing more then speculative fantasy.