And as an occasional viewer of adult content(not child porn) how in the world can I tell if the girl I am looking at is 19 (legal) or 17 (illegal)
More percisely, how can you tell if she's turning 18 tommower or turned 18 yesterday? One of those makes you a sex offender for life, the other is perfectly legal. Both are equally moral in the eyes of the majority, but try to get the laws changed in any way other than more harsh and people think you're some kind of kid rapist.
And if you wanted a real answer, look for 18 USC 2257 compliance. It at least gives you some kind of plausible denial (not that that will get you far in court). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protection_and_ Obscenity_Enforcement_Act if you want to read more about 18USC2257, but basically it requires overly strict data retention policies and puts porn stars at high risk.
On a related note, if you google for "18 usc 2257" like I just did to find the wikipedia link, you find plenty of sites like met-art and all the other legal-but-looks-like-jailbait sites. Funny how those are legal, but a 17.999 year old who looks 25 is illegal because "pedophiles get enticed by it" or some such drivel.
I should post this anonymously, but meh, more people need to speak out.
Probably, but you'd be transfering a reencode, which is really frowned upon in the copyright infringement scene. You also don't need to go through that many steps, instead you just watch the movie on your computer and record the playback with a tool like Fraps. I've seen that method to get around WMV's DRM on porn, but on movies it would just get nuked for being a transcode.
HDCP and the 'secure pathway' stuff tries to stop this, for what its worth, but I just don't predict that working long.
Which is cool, because if it was a real torrent with a real movie in it you'd likely be violating copyright laws and the MPAA could sue you. Good thing its a fake.
I heard "you stole my idea" a lot too, usually referring to independently thinking up the same thing but doing so quicker than the other person. Just goes to show you, the word gets misused a LOT.
Is rape stealing? You're depriving someone the right to choose who she had sex with. Don't see people trying to call rapists theives.
Is murder stealing? You're depriving someone the right to live, a far more important right than anything else we have. Again, never really hear it as theft.
The only right that can be called theft when deprived is the right to ownership. It's not just a legal distinction, it's a literal one. The only reason it's even argued is because people see theft as a big scary association, but "copyright infringement" as some boring term for lawyers in big fancy suits. Same reason neither of the above crimes get called theft even though they're depriving someone of rights -- Murderer, rapist, etc are all harsher terms so to call them theft would be downplaying them the way calling copyright infringement stealing is upplaying it.
It runs windows PPC and has wifi. Charges/syncs over usb, not to mention bluetooth and has a card slot. Could definitely play mp3s on it, or stream tv if you're into that sort of thing.
I always found that really retarded. You would think Microsoft would want everything looking consistent(and not like the clusterfuck that is GTK/QT/other widgets in X desktops). Instead they make office not even use your windows theme, or even simple preferences. Why do any apps do this, let alone such a popular one by microsoft? It's bad enough seeing IM clients think they need there own skinning engine, but a word processor? Come on.
Because Apu can close the store and do the modding himself. You're forgetting the most important rule of security, trust no one.
Above that, if you threw on a blue jumpsuit with a visa logo sewed onto the breast pocket and had some shiny tools hanging off a toolbelt, I bet Apu would let you do whatever you wanted to "service your machine". Bonus points if you have a few people go in to complain about the atm not working right.
I had what you were referring to ~6 years ago. Slackware with/usr/ports from freebsd (there was a sourceforge project for/usr/ports that worked on linux. Slashdot ran a story on it, way back when).
Having said that.. It really wasn't worth it. Compared to my current Debian machines, I'd take apt hands down. Scripted source base distros are pointless unless you're modifying the sourcecode-- The optimizations are negligible (or lost due to the compile time exceeding the saved execution time) and as far as ease of use... Apt wins hands down. Want to go ahead and customize something? Apt-get source.
It's also a lot harder to modify or fix when you want to change something. Admittedly my only experience with extensive raw ansi stuff is through bash, so I'm sure thats part of it.
http://catheadlabs.com/semi/menu.txt if anyones curious for an example. This was back when brained.org was still around, for anyone that remembers those days. I think theres a few raw escapes in there so watch out for them if you copy/paste.
I agree fully and hate censorship being thrown around like that, but it does show what the general population's consensus is, and all these people get to vote.
You don't need any sort of "freedom of speech" to agree with the general consensus-- Nobody is ever going to stop you from parroting their views and agreeing with everyone. Hell, at worst you'll just end up being elected to an office.
Now, if you want to actually go against the grain and vocalize something controversial that most people wouldn't agree with or find acceptable, THAT is when you need freedom of speech protecting you.
As for this game specificially, I don't know enough about it to say anything. If it really puts you in the kids mindset by telling the story and really putting you in the experience it could be a great thing to help people understand something few can. Or maybe it will be a really bad game hidden under the veil of some columbine references. Too early to tell. Think of it like this: Theres a world of difference between what most would consider child porn and Taxi Driver, but "a movie about a 12 year old prostitute" could cover them both and if you immediately discard it based on it being a touchy subject, you'll never know.
Not nearly as bad as the video game magazine review business. Whens the next time microsoft would potentially ship another 'gift'? Probably a year at least, if not more. Do bloggers stay at the top of their popularity that long?(I honestly don't know, don't follow the scene).
Compare that to magazines, where if you give a bad review one month the next month you don't get preview copies of the only games people actually care about. As a result.
I say trash vista all you want, assuming its accurate. They can't take it back, and you probably won't end up missing out on anything in the future. The important thing is to be accurate. It's going to suck when any good review gets written off as bought out.
Despite what you may believe, this does not put priority on your playing time, it makes it even less important than those people who do play daily (since it is them that will contribute the most revenue to the game, via actual money, mindshare, or viral support).
We both pay the same $/month. Only difference is some of us play so much that it strains blizzards servers and some of us are an insignificant amount of hours/month.
Matter of taste, I guess, but I'd sell my left nut for a working apt-get on windows that repackages all needed apps. I've ran windows for all my desktop use for years now, mostly due to the availability of software I need, and hardware I use working easier and better. But man I hate windows's software install process.
Google for an app installer. Hope it's current. Run it, click next until your finger bleeds. Go around trying to find every little place it installed unneeded icons and shrotcuts, any additional spyware, where it actually put its files if you want to change something (program files\app\? program files\developer\app\? program fles\app - version?), and then repeat this any time theres a new version (that you have to find out about on your own).
Compared to apt, where you just type "apt-get install [app name]" and have it downloaded and installed froma trustable location, put in standardized paths, have a good default config, have all your docs where you need them, and everything JustWorks(tm).
And for the record, the poster above me was right about the licensing. A good starting point to read up on it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_pat ent_issues As functionally useful as playing mp3s is, as a distro I'd much rather ship a legal product than one that will get me sued.
You forgot the third option, which is not upgrading and sticking with xp
So really its:
A graphics driver that has been tested as being compatible with as many system configurations as possible?
A graphics driver that drops you to a command prompt because it doesn't like the particular distro specific version of a lib file you use?
A graphics driver that is provided by the manufacturer and the install notes for the drivers right off the cd tell you to click "continue anyways", who cares if it completely destabalizes your system.
I'd take the first option hands down. Even better if we can sign our own drivers for internal use, but even without it doesn't matter.
The only example is something that would be pretty silly to do, but you could keep a disk image and qemu/vmware/virtualpc/whatever on there. Will probably degrade your usb drive pretty quick, but would not work on a cd-r.
I guess just anything where you'd want session/settings to stay portable rather than stick with the computer, like firefox with all your cookies staying on the drive instead of having to disable them all the time.
Speaking of which, as I understand it* garage doors just send a small 8bit signal as the code to open or close. Couldn't this be trivially brute forced in a matter of seconds? We're talking 64 possible codes here.. And if you can brute force it, couldn't you also severely amp up the power with a high gain antenna and start causing serious havoc in some neighborhoods? Bonus points if rigged to a timer and hidden somewhere that can't be traced back to you.
*: My understanding of this is based entirely on merely seeing the insides of a garage door opener once when I was about 14.
While most of the software is the same, what this adds is the potential for software that rewrites, and in general just better potential to run things straight from the usb stick. With CDs you tend to want to just copy/install to harddrive to run, which isn't always an option.
Personally, I have my usb thumbdrive plugged in the back of my router and used for storage, and am running samba on the router to share it with the network.
I havn't actually bothered to put much on it yet, but its nice to know I have the capability if I need to. Plus with 2gb for $30, how can you go wrong? If only that sale wasn't limited to 1 per customer..
I didn't RTFA so I don't know how targeted this has to be, but it sounds similar to why RFID is scary -- Lets say you need to be within 30 feet to read this (assuming theres no tricks with aentennas to boost that). That means all you need to do is place/hide readers all around a big city downtown spaced 30 feet apart and you could track exactly where people go. If theres no identifiable data broadcasting from the device its just a matter of deduction after they visit multiple stores that you can get customer list/logs/security cam footage from.
Not saying anyone is doing that or plans to do that, but security is about preventing potential abuse. If you only care about stopping whats actually being abused you're on the wrong side of a vicious cat and mouse game and will NEVER be safe.
Define proper? Conditional comments are a proprietary extension created by Microsoft with limited use. You can't even use them inside your css files, which completely makes them worthless for some uses. Namely the project I'm working on now which has multiple layouts offered by simple stylesheet changes. Each stylesheet also needs IE hacks on top of it. With things like the star hack this is as easy as adding a few extra rules. With conditional comments, I have to entirely rework my css include system.
Now the proper solution would be to just write valid html and wait for a browser to come out that renders it right, but I don't think any of us have that kind of patience. Certainly our management departments don't.
We need to rethink this idea that humans have evolved to be ABLE to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day, 200 days a year and function. They didn't.
More basic than that -- they can't. Evolution usually takes, oh, several million years?
For humans, maybe, I don't really know, but for evolution in general it depends entirely on average lifespan. For humans today further natural* evolution seems unlikely -- Our long lifespans, ability to control our environment (AC, heating, etc), and healthcare industry tend to counteract anything that would otherwise be a direct cause of evolution. Compare this to viruses which can evolve in a much smaller timespan due to constant reproduction and dying, and being forced to live in adverse environments.
* Thats assuming you don't count our genetic engineering as a form of evolution. It could be argued that getting to the point where you can do this stuff was part of evolution, and any product of that is just an extension of the evolution.
This is pretty much the exact reason we have region encoding on movies and games. If they can keep us from importing, they can sell it much cheaper in areas like that that would otherwise not pay $50 for a game.
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More percisely, how can you tell if she's turning 18 tommower or turned 18 yesterday? One of those makes you a sex offender for life, the other is perfectly legal. Both are equally moral in the eyes of the majority, but try to get the laws changed in any way other than more harsh and people think you're some kind of kid rapist.
And if you wanted a real answer, look for 18 USC 2257 compliance. It at least gives you some kind of plausible denial (not that that will get you far in court). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protection_and
On a related note, if you google for "18 usc 2257" like I just did to find the wikipedia link, you find plenty of sites like met-art and all the other legal-but-looks-like-jailbait sites. Funny how those are legal, but a 17.999 year old who looks 25 is illegal because "pedophiles get enticed by it" or some such drivel.
I should post this anonymously, but meh, more people need to speak out.
Probably, but you'd be transfering a reencode, which is really frowned upon in the copyright infringement scene. You also don't need to go through that many steps, instead you just watch the movie on your computer and record the playback with a tool like Fraps. I've seen that method to get around WMV's DRM on porn, but on movies it would just get nuked for being a transcode.
HDCP and the 'secure pathway' stuff tries to stop this, for what its worth, but I just don't predict that working long.
Which is cool, because if it was a real torrent with a real movie in it you'd likely be violating copyright laws and the MPAA could sue you. Good thing its a fake.
I heard "you stole my idea" a lot too, usually referring to independently thinking up the same thing but doing so quicker than the other person. Just goes to show you, the word gets misused a LOT.
Is rape stealing? You're depriving someone the right to choose who she had sex with. Don't see people trying to call rapists theives.
Is murder stealing? You're depriving someone the right to live, a far more important right than anything else we have. Again, never really hear it as theft.
The only right that can be called theft when deprived is the right to ownership. It's not just a legal distinction, it's a literal one. The only reason it's even argued is because people see theft as a big scary association, but "copyright infringement" as some boring term for lawyers in big fancy suits. Same reason neither of the above crimes get called theft even though they're depriving someone of rights -- Murderer, rapist, etc are all harsher terms so to call them theft would be downplaying them the way calling copyright infringement stealing is upplaying it.
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/Verizon-XV6700.htm
It runs windows PPC and has wifi. Charges/syncs over usb, not to mention bluetooth and has a card slot.
Could definitely play mp3s on it, or stream tv if you're into that sort of thing.
I always found that really retarded. You would think Microsoft would want everything looking consistent(and not like the clusterfuck that is GTK/QT/other widgets in X desktops). Instead they make office not even use your windows theme, or even simple preferences. Why do any apps do this, let alone such a popular one by microsoft? It's bad enough seeing IM clients think they need there own skinning engine, but a word processor? Come on.
Because Apu can close the store and do the modding himself.
You're forgetting the most important rule of security, trust no one.
Above that, if you threw on a blue jumpsuit with a visa logo sewed onto the breast pocket and had some shiny tools hanging off a toolbelt, I bet Apu would let you do whatever you wanted to "service your machine". Bonus points if you have a few people go in to complain about the atm not working right.
I had what you were referring to ~6 years ago. Slackware with /usr/ports from freebsd (there was a sourceforge project for /usr/ports that worked on linux. Slashdot ran a story on it, way back when).
Having said that.. It really wasn't worth it. Compared to my current Debian machines, I'd take apt hands down. Scripted source base distros are pointless unless you're modifying the sourcecode-- The optimizations are negligible (or lost due to the compile time exceeding the saved execution time) and as far as ease of use... Apt wins hands down. Want to go ahead and customize something? Apt-get source.
It's also a lot harder to modify or fix when you want to change something. Admittedly my only experience with extensive raw ansi stuff is through bash, so I'm sure thats part of it.
http://catheadlabs.com/semi/menu.txt if anyones curious for an example. This was back when brained.org was still around, for anyone that remembers those days. I think theres a few raw escapes in there so watch out for them if you copy/paste.
I agree fully and hate censorship being thrown around like that, but it does show what the general population's consensus is, and all these people get to vote.
Pretty sure it was.
You don't need any sort of "freedom of speech" to agree with the general consensus-- Nobody is ever going to stop you from parroting their views and agreeing with everyone. Hell, at worst you'll just end up being elected to an office.
Now, if you want to actually go against the grain and vocalize something controversial that most people wouldn't agree with or find acceptable, THAT is when you need freedom of speech protecting you.
As for this game specificially, I don't know enough about it to say anything. If it really puts you in the kids mindset by telling the story and really putting you in the experience it could be a great thing to help people understand something few can.
Or maybe it will be a really bad game hidden under the veil of some columbine references. Too early to tell. Think of it like this: Theres a world of difference between what most would consider child porn and Taxi Driver, but "a movie about a 12 year old prostitute" could cover them both and if you immediately discard it based on it being a touchy subject, you'll never know.
Not nearly as bad as the video game magazine review business. Whens the next time microsoft would potentially ship another 'gift'? Probably a year at least, if not more. Do bloggers stay at the top of their popularity that long?(I honestly don't know, don't follow the scene).
Compare that to magazines, where if you give a bad review one month the next month you don't get preview copies of the only games people actually care about. As a result.
I say trash vista all you want, assuming its accurate. They can't take it back, and you probably won't end up missing out on anything in the future. The important thing is to be accurate. It's going to suck when any good review gets written off as bought out.
They could have been uploading it to some gigabit site that all devices contact to look for software updates.
Probably not, but it's possible.
We both pay the same $/month. Only difference is some of us play so much that it strains blizzards servers and some of us are an insignificant amount of hours/month.
Matter of taste, I guess, but I'd sell my left nut for a working apt-get on windows that repackages all needed apps.
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I've ran windows for all my desktop use for years now, mostly due to the availability of software I need, and hardware I use working easier and better. But man I hate windows's software install process.
Google for an app installer. Hope it's current. Run it, click next until your finger bleeds. Go around trying to find every little place it installed unneeded icons and shrotcuts, any additional spyware, where it actually put its files if you want to change something (program files\app\? program files\developer\app\? program fles\app - version?), and then repeat this any time theres a new version (that you have to find out about on your own).
Compared to apt, where you just type "apt-get install [app name]" and have it downloaded and installed froma trustable location, put in standardized paths, have a good default config, have all your docs where you need them, and everything JustWorks(tm).
And for the record, the poster above me was right about the licensing. A good starting point to read up on it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_pa
As functionally useful as playing mp3s is, as a distro I'd much rather ship a legal product than one that will get me sued.
You forgot the third option, which is not upgrading and sticking with xp
So really its:
A graphics driver that has been tested as being compatible with as many system configurations as possible?
A graphics driver that drops you to a command prompt because it doesn't like the particular distro specific version of a lib file you use?
A graphics driver that is provided by the manufacturer and the install notes for the drivers right off the cd tell you to click "continue anyways", who cares if it completely destabalizes your system.
I'd take the first option hands down. Even better if we can sign our own drivers for internal use, but even without it doesn't matter.
The only example is something that would be pretty silly to do, but you could keep a disk image and qemu/vmware/virtualpc/whatever on there. Will probably degrade your usb drive pretty quick, but would not work on a cd-r.
I guess just anything where you'd want session/settings to stay portable rather than stick with the computer, like firefox with all your cookies staying on the drive instead of having to disable them all the time.
Speaking of which, as I understand it* garage doors just send a small 8bit signal as the code to open or close. Couldn't this be trivially brute forced in a matter of seconds? We're talking 64 possible codes here.. And if you can brute force it, couldn't you also severely amp up the power with a high gain antenna and start causing serious havoc in some neighborhoods? Bonus points if rigged to a timer and hidden somewhere that can't be traced back to you.
*: My understanding of this is based entirely on merely seeing the insides of a garage door opener once when I was about 14.
That bootcd looks really nice, but for the life of me I can't find a download link.. Am I overlooking something?
While most of the software is the same, what this adds is the potential for software that rewrites, and in general just better potential to run things straight from the usb stick. With CDs you tend to want to just copy/install to harddrive to run, which isn't always an option.
Personally, I have my usb thumbdrive plugged in the back of my router and used for storage, and am running samba on the router to share it with the network.
I havn't actually bothered to put much on it yet, but its nice to know I have the capability if I need to. Plus with 2gb for $30, how can you go wrong? If only that sale wasn't limited to 1 per customer..
I didn't RTFA so I don't know how targeted this has to be, but it sounds similar to why RFID is scary -- Lets say you need to be within 30 feet to read this (assuming theres no tricks with aentennas to boost that). That means all you need to do is place/hide readers all around a big city downtown spaced 30 feet apart and you could track exactly where people go. If theres no identifiable data broadcasting from the device its just a matter of deduction after they visit multiple stores that you can get customer list/logs/security cam footage from.
Not saying anyone is doing that or plans to do that, but security is about preventing potential abuse. If you only care about stopping whats actually being abused you're on the wrong side of a vicious cat and mouse game and will NEVER be safe.
Define proper? Conditional comments are a proprietary extension created by Microsoft with limited use. You can't even use them inside your css files, which completely makes them worthless for some uses. Namely the project I'm working on now which has multiple layouts offered by simple stylesheet changes. Each stylesheet also needs IE hacks on top of it. With things like the star hack this is as easy as adding a few extra rules. With conditional comments, I have to entirely rework my css include system.
Now the proper solution would be to just write valid html and wait for a browser to come out that renders it right, but I don't think any of us have that kind of patience. Certainly our management departments don't.
For humans, maybe, I don't really know, but for evolution in general it depends entirely on average lifespan. For humans today further natural* evolution seems unlikely -- Our long lifespans, ability to control our environment (AC, heating, etc), and healthcare industry tend to counteract anything that would otherwise be a direct cause of evolution. Compare this to viruses which can evolve in a much smaller timespan due to constant reproduction and dying, and being forced to live in adverse environments.
* Thats assuming you don't count our genetic engineering as a form of evolution. It could be argued that getting to the point where you can do this stuff was part of evolution, and any product of that is just an extension of the evolution.
This is pretty much the exact reason we have region encoding on movies and games. If they can keep us from importing, they can sell it much cheaper in areas like that that would otherwise not pay $50 for a game.