Sounds like a stupid semantic difference. When a professor stands in front of a class and talks about tor, he's merely "telling them about it", and not "teaching", like if he was talking about, i dunno, PGP?
Either way, it never happened, the police said no such thing, and from his description of what he thinks tor even is (a browser plug in, really?) I bet his students know more about computers than he does.
Sounds like he teaches "lefty bullshit 101". I'm glad I never took the "comp sci" course where we sat around listening to some hippy pontificate about censorship. My comp sci courses were all about math and logic and algorithms and cpu design and shit like that.
The detectives wanted to know whether the other user was a former student of mine, and why I was using Tor.
I read that as in they know who he was, know his name, and possibly are talking to the professor as a part of THAT investigation (that the other user was participating in some online scam).
Either way, you can tell what node is sending out the traffic. One in this guys private office (so, duh, wonder who's using it), and the other possibly a terminal in the library, or through a wifi hotspot, etc.
Saying that PopCap could rise to the "prominence" of Blizzard or EA sort of connotes that they'd be as well-known or popular, which I doubt will happen.
PopCap's future is on cell phones, ipods, zunes, or any other little gizmo with just enough power to stack blocks, or web browsers. I play popcap games on my treo, and you'll see them pop up on everything.
They could easily rival EA and blizzard financially, and they could easily ship more units, but Bejewelled 3 will never be as "glorious" and talked about as Halo 3.
Last I heard, Motorolas 68K processors still outsell Intel and AMD on volume, by orders of maginitude. But we dont talk about it, because all those embedded microwave oven controllers, pocket calculators, etc, aren't high-tech or interesting. There's a parallel here - some puzzle game that could concievably be ported to the Atari 2600 is hardly captivating news for a gamer. He's unlikely to run out and pay 60 bucks to get it for his PS3, but a low price point and addictive play will make them ubiquitious on mobile devices.
I wonder how they'll play the IP game. If you copyright one "match the colors" game, do you copyright them all? To me there are only a handful of really distinct varieties of puzzle games. Stacking-ones like tetris, color matching ones like hexic or bejewelled, etc.. I hope PopCap doesn't plan to become the 300 lb gorilla running around claiming they own the rights to the concept "match 3 in a row"
No, it's not his network, and they aren't his rules, even if he did "co-chair the comittee to decide what color to keep the folder that the proposed amendments to the original proposal were in and they kept it grey".
Good for him, he had a reasonable chat with the detectives and they dropped it. I just cant stand the rhetoric about "rights" and "academic freedoms".
If the police visited him at home, because of his use of tor on his own connection that he paid for - then you got a story. But this guys a guest on someone elses network.
If I let you connect to my AP, then I reserve every right to tell you I don't want you using tor, or kazaa, or bittorrent, or playing WoW, or what the hell ever.
As for police telling him what to teach? He just threw that in there for drama and FUD. Since when the fuck do campus police go around telling professors what they can and cant teach? I don't believe that part of the story is even true. I don't believe the police asked him not to teach his students about it.
I hate empty rhetoric, I hate embellishments, I hate academic dishonesty, and I especially hate it from professors. It made my time at university infuriating. I was there to study math and computers, and instead, I'm constantly bombarded with lefty bullshit propoganda (not that I'd prefer righty bullshit - I just wanted to learn calculus, chemistry, comp sci, and other subjects that deal in facts)
So whatever, this guy talked himself out of trouble. Big whoop. He can get off the fucking cross now, all that happened was a cop came to talk to him about some suspicious behaviour he was engaged in.
Once I was hanging around at night, waiting for a buddy, and a cop stopped to talk to me to ask what I was doing. STOP THE PRESSES MY STORY MUST BE TOLD.
The guy says he infrequently uses tor. I wonder what he would use it for - if it was anonymity paranoia, he'd use it all the time.
It's useless for anything but light web browsing, so it's not like he's downloading MPAA movies on torrents with it.
I guess he uses it for child porn like everybody else.
I too wish I had 'tenure' and could get all indignant and talk about some goofball "right" to do whatever I want when I'm a guest on someone elses (my employers) network.
Widespread use of Tor could be a huge headache for network-security administrators, particularly in higher education. My university alone has more than 21,000 students. Imagine what would happen if even a tenth of them and a similar percentage of faculty and staff members started using Tor regularly. With all the spam scams, phishing scams, identity theft, and related criminal enterprises going on around the world -- many of which involve remotely hijacking university-owned computers -- we could approach technological anarchy on the campus.
So he knows that tor could effectivly ruin his universities network if everyone used it, but he's better and special. He has the RIGHT to use it, of course, nobody else should. It's a tool only for the gifted.
I'm not sure what the story is here, the right to use tor on someone elses network? Does he have that right? It's not his network. I've used tor at home, but completely understand I cant use it at work, and if during my university days, had it existed (maybe it did but whatever), and was told I couldnt use it, I'd just deal with that.
You don't need tor to browse the web anonymously - I dont see how anybody came to him because he was doing so - but they came because they saw it as a malicious app, giving and recieving connections from all sorts of shady IP's worldwide.
The US government is a customer of lockheed, and no more owns the rights to F-22 IP than I own the rights to the design of the transmission in my mustang. They may have deals in place to exclusively sell to the US military, but that doesnt make the military own the design.
As for the rest of your complaint, too bad, but it'll improve the game experience in the end. So it's not a TBF-avenger, it's a "TBB-evengor".
The Burnout series doesn't have any real car models, and is still a fun game. Other games with licensed models (NFS) are hampered, because the license owners dont want the game developer to depict a porsche all smashed up with its bumper hanging off.
Licensing is a big deal now that video games are on top of the entertainment industry. But, in the end, do I really care that the virtual car I'm driving around is labelled a "Fernorri Fasterelli"?
Also, I doubt the FAA gives a fuck about video game licensing, and are more worried about getting info into the hands of people needing to maintain aircraft built by now defunct companies.
So if I ditch the laser mouse for my old razor boomslang, with mouse ball, it's a sport?
If you can live on a diet of cheezers and dr pepper, let your body atrophy to the point that you cant stand under your own power, and still perform as well, you are not engaged in any sort of sport.
We can argue semantics all day long, but any activity you can perform just as well in with a rigourous training regimen of cheez-its and mountain dew, is not a sport in any way, shape or form.
PS2 is not a sport, bowling is not a sport, and golf is not a sport.
Only the lamest of the lame want to watch some guy play video games.
Valve is really blowing it. "Episodic content" to me, means a few months between episodes, not a few years.
I played HL2 late, by the time I got around to it, ep 1 was out, and I was all into the story, so I played it. That was probably a year ago, and I've completely forgotten how episode 1 ended (i was on a train or something?)
I wont have any interest left when episode 2 finally comes out. Plus, if it's competing for my dollars during the christmas season, I can surely say I wont be buying it. If I had bought HL2 on release, I'd have had no interest by the time EP1 came out.
And fuck these boxed sets. I guess Valve just doesnt like me as a customer. I dont want to buy HL2 again, I'm done with it. I dont want DoD or TFP or wiggy wiggy wah. I absolutely hate online play. Don't try to package all these online multi-games with it, I don't want them. I guess I can just get what I want off of steam, but it's still goofy. But I dont think I can do that if I just wanted it for the 360 or PS3 - which could deliver true episodic content, as in, I buy the game, and each month a nifty new mission downloads for me.
On top of it all, 20 bucks is a lot for a FPS that gives you 4-5 hours of play. I beat EP1 in one sitting, and was left feeling a little ripped off. It felt like the free version of quake I'd downloaded so long ago. I was looking for somewhere to enter a code to unlock the rest of the game.
I wonder what ever happend to Sin episodes? There was a boring paint-by-numbers fps if I ever saw one.
Shareholders always have a voice, they always have the final voice, whether they are voting shares or not.
If Google doesnt continue to post growth at every quarter, shareholders bail, stock goes down.
A publically traded company must do whatever it takes to continue to show growth. Even if that means violating some goofy slogan they came up with.
A lot would say that google breaks it often, censoring chinese searches and such.
Of course the beauty of such a slogan as "do no evil" is that it's completely subjective, and corporate folks love parsing their way out of shit. "Oh no, it's a good thing for america we sent out all those C&D notices, and its a good thing for you we developed this technology to shove ads straight up your asshole with a mechanical arm installed in every public toilet."
Google will do what corporations do - try to make money, even if it means fucking you over. Google "fans" (fans of any corporation are fucking morons, unless they're maybe paid employees) will parse their way out of it every time. It's good google censors searches at the behest of the chinese govt, or at least it's not "evil".
Microsoft was the upstart rebel company that knocked the big evil monopoly IBM, which had held computing with a iron grip, right the fuck off it's perch, and we all cheered.
Even before DOS days, they brought us personal computing, my C64 proudly displayed PET BASIC Copyright Micro Soft of Palo Alto, CA.
We were absolutely elated when they hosed IBM on DOS licensing, and then again with OS/2. Bill Gates was our hero.
When Google hits the tipping point - we will hate them too.
That's a bad analogy though. Prostitution is better. Just walking up to the undercover cop and offering to give her money for sex gets you busted as a john, whether you go "really seriously your honor, i was just doing it as a joke to show how unfair THE MAN IS" or not.
Nobody connects to a particular torrent unless they plan to participate in it. This is a reasonable assumption. The media companies shouldn't have to prove you downloaded a full copy of the work, merely that you showed the intent to. IMO connecting to a torrent of "toy story 2" shows your intent to download a copy of "toy story 2", as well as to assist in further distribution of illicit copies, which is inherent in the bittorrent protocol.
Sounds like a good way to cause shit for yourself. People who use torrents for piracy are MORONS. What happened to the pubs, private channels, and fun with fxp?
*newz u can uze* BUT PIRACY IS STILL ILLEGAL AND TORRENTS ARENT ANYWHERE NEAR ANONYMOUS */newz u can uze*
Why mandatory tougher sentences for people dealing drugs inside a school zone?
Because parents and teachers can't be next to their children 24 hours a day, and we don't want somebody trying to sell them crack.
I also don't want my kids buying alcohol, cigarettes or porn. I cannot be there with them every time they are in a store. I rely on the law to prevent the clerk from selling them these things.
I don't believe in this act, but I don't buy the "everything your kid says or does is your fault because there is no way people other than the parent can influence their kids."
I want people who go out of their way to entice my children into buying crack, alcohol, tobacco or pornography to be held accountable. I want the guy who starts up a pokemon forum as a front to hit on and flirt with preteen boys held accountable.
I just think this act is useless. But, it is absolutely the governments job to protect its citizenry.
Ever wonder why you're alive? The government keeps you that way, by threatening those sick of you with punishment for what they call "murder".
Should I be arrested for calling you every night and threaten to shoot you and your children, even if I don't actually own a gun?
The fact that North Korea is saying they have nukes is threat enough to warrant attention.
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More correctly, he can't make it GPL3. It's already been released, and he can't add restrictions to it after the fact, I don't see how he could make it GPL3 any more than he could decide to close the source and charge 699 bucks per CPU to use it.
Unless he wanted to write a brand new kernel from scratch, which would be a kick-ass idea. I wouldn't miss linux' monolithic dinkerishisness.
You can't do anything with it. I can't modify or use it. I can't get video off my series 2 tivo any way other than the god-awful tivotogo pita encryption scheme. I can't slam in a 500gb hdd and tweak it into a networked storage device, etc.
They comply with the letter of the "law", but not it's spirit. There's nothing open or free about tivo.
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Sounds like a stupid semantic difference. When a professor stands in front of a class and talks about tor, he's merely "telling them about it", and not "teaching", like if he was talking about, i dunno, PGP?
Either way, it never happened, the police said no such thing, and from his description of what he thinks tor even is (a browser plug in, really?) I bet his students know more about computers than he does.
Sounds like he teaches "lefty bullshit 101". I'm glad I never took the "comp sci" course where we sat around listening to some hippy pontificate about censorship. My comp sci courses were all about math and logic and algorithms and cpu design and shit like that.
The detectives wanted to know whether the other user was a former student of mine, and why I was using Tor.
I read that as in they know who he was, know his name, and possibly are talking to the professor as a part of THAT investigation (that the other user was participating in some online scam).
Either way, you can tell what node is sending out the traffic. One in this guys private office (so, duh, wonder who's using it), and the other possibly a terminal in the library, or through a wifi hotspot, etc.
Saying that PopCap could rise to the "prominence" of Blizzard or EA sort of connotes that they'd be as well-known or popular, which I doubt will happen.
PopCap's future is on cell phones, ipods, zunes, or any other little gizmo with just enough power to stack blocks, or web browsers. I play popcap games on my treo, and you'll see them pop up on everything.
They could easily rival EA and blizzard financially, and they could easily ship more units, but Bejewelled 3 will never be as "glorious" and talked about as Halo 3.
Last I heard, Motorolas 68K processors still outsell Intel and AMD on volume, by orders of maginitude. But we dont talk about it, because all those embedded microwave oven controllers, pocket calculators, etc, aren't high-tech or interesting. There's a parallel here - some puzzle game that could concievably be ported to the Atari 2600 is hardly captivating news for a gamer. He's unlikely to run out and pay 60 bucks to get it for his PS3, but a low price point and addictive play will make them ubiquitious on mobile devices.
I wonder how they'll play the IP game. If you copyright one "match the colors" game, do you copyright them all? To me there are only a handful of really distinct varieties of puzzle games. Stacking-ones like tetris, color matching ones like hexic or bejewelled, etc.. I hope PopCap doesn't plan to become the 300 lb gorilla running around claiming they own the rights to the concept "match 3 in a row"
No, it's not his network, and they aren't his rules, even if he did "co-chair the comittee to decide what color to keep the folder that the proposed amendments to the original proposal were in and they kept it grey".
Good for him, he had a reasonable chat with the detectives and they dropped it. I just cant stand the rhetoric about "rights" and "academic freedoms".
If the police visited him at home, because of his use of tor on his own connection that he paid for - then you got a story. But this guys a guest on someone elses network.
If I let you connect to my AP, then I reserve every right to tell you I don't want you using tor, or kazaa, or bittorrent, or playing WoW, or what the hell ever.
As for police telling him what to teach? He just threw that in there for drama and FUD. Since when the fuck do campus police go around telling professors what they can and cant teach? I don't believe that part of the story is even true. I don't believe the police asked him not to teach his students about it.
I hate empty rhetoric, I hate embellishments, I hate academic dishonesty, and I especially hate it from professors. It made my time at university infuriating. I was there to study math and computers, and instead, I'm constantly bombarded with lefty bullshit propoganda (not that I'd prefer righty bullshit - I just wanted to learn calculus, chemistry, comp sci, and other subjects that deal in facts)
So whatever, this guy talked himself out of trouble. Big whoop. He can get off the fucking cross now, all that happened was a cop came to talk to him about some suspicious behaviour he was engaged in.
Once I was hanging around at night, waiting for a buddy, and a cop stopped to talk to me to ask what I was doing. STOP THE PRESSES MY STORY MUST BE TOLD.
The guy says he infrequently uses tor. I wonder what he would use it for - if it was anonymity paranoia, he'd use it all the time.
It's useless for anything but light web browsing, so it's not like he's downloading MPAA movies on torrents with it.
I guess he uses it for child porn like everybody else.
I too wish I had 'tenure' and could get all indignant and talk about some goofball "right" to do whatever I want when I'm a guest on someone elses (my employers) network.
He says himself
Widespread use of Tor could be a huge headache for network-security administrators, particularly in higher education. My university alone has more than 21,000 students. Imagine what would happen if even a tenth of them and a similar percentage of faculty and staff members started using Tor regularly. With all the spam scams, phishing scams, identity theft, and related criminal enterprises going on around the world -- many of which involve remotely hijacking university-owned computers -- we could approach technological anarchy on the campus.
So he knows that tor could effectivly ruin his universities network if everyone used it, but he's better and special. He has the RIGHT to use it, of course, nobody else should. It's a tool only for the gifted.
I'm not sure what the story is here, the right to use tor on someone elses network? Does he have that right? It's not his network. I've used tor at home, but completely understand I cant use it at work, and if during my university days, had it existed (maybe it did but whatever), and was told I couldnt use it, I'd just deal with that.
You don't need tor to browse the web anonymously - I dont see how anybody came to him because he was doing so - but they came because they saw it as a malicious app, giving and recieving connections from all sorts of shady IP's worldwide.
The US government is a customer of lockheed, and no more owns the rights to F-22 IP than I own the rights to the design of the transmission in my mustang. They may have deals in place to exclusively sell to the US military, but that doesnt make the military own the design.
As for the rest of your complaint, too bad, but it'll improve the game experience in the end. So it's not a TBF-avenger, it's a "TBB-evengor".
The Burnout series doesn't have any real car models, and is still a fun game. Other games with licensed models (NFS) are hampered, because the license owners dont want the game developer to depict a porsche all smashed up with its bumper hanging off.
Licensing is a big deal now that video games are on top of the entertainment industry. But, in the end, do I really care that the virtual car I'm driving around is labelled a "Fernorri Fasterelli"?
Also, I doubt the FAA gives a fuck about video game licensing, and are more worried about getting info into the hands of people needing to maintain aircraft built by now defunct companies.
So if I ditch the laser mouse for my old razor boomslang, with mouse ball, it's a sport?
If you can live on a diet of cheezers and dr pepper, let your body atrophy to the point that you cant stand under your own power, and still perform as well, you are not engaged in any sort of sport.
Score +1 for the humanity.. Lucky for us, her kid died too and took her DNA with him.
We'll fish that honkin steamer out of the gene pool eventually.
It's not.
We can argue semantics all day long, but any activity you can perform just as well in with a rigourous training regimen of cheez-its and mountain dew, is not a sport in any way, shape or form.
PS2 is not a sport, bowling is not a sport, and golf is not a sport.
Only the lamest of the lame want to watch some guy play video games.
... "difficult"
No I think it has more to do with paying MS for the little bit of QA that lets them put the "certified for Vista" sticker on the box.
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I have a handful of old NES carts that never bore the "Nintendo Seal of Quality", and they worked fine too.
This is just slashdot at it's lamest level of its-not-news-but-we-can-bash-msft-if-we-spin-it-i
Google is working on a big truck you can just dump stuff on.
Sorry, I thought that quote was funnier than the "series of tubes" ones - or well, both in context.
Except mine is called "A big truck you can just dump stuff on"
DX10 is coming to XP too, I thought.
Valve is really blowing it. "Episodic content" to me, means a few months between episodes, not a few years.
I played HL2 late, by the time I got around to it, ep 1 was out, and I was all into the story, so I played it. That was probably a year ago, and I've completely forgotten how episode 1 ended (i was on a train or something?)
I wont have any interest left when episode 2 finally comes out. Plus, if it's competing for my dollars during the christmas season, I can surely say I wont be buying it. If I had bought HL2 on release, I'd have had no interest by the time EP1 came out.
And fuck these boxed sets. I guess Valve just doesnt like me as a customer. I dont want to buy HL2 again, I'm done with it. I dont want DoD or TFP or wiggy wiggy wah. I absolutely hate online play. Don't try to package all these online multi-games with it, I don't want them. I guess I can just get what I want off of steam, but it's still goofy. But I dont think I can do that if I just wanted it for the 360 or PS3 - which could deliver true episodic content, as in, I buy the game, and each month a nifty new mission downloads for me.
On top of it all, 20 bucks is a lot for a FPS that gives you 4-5 hours of play. I beat EP1 in one sitting, and was left feeling a little ripped off. It felt like the free version of quake I'd downloaded so long ago. I was looking for somewhere to enter a code to unlock the rest of the game.
I wonder what ever happend to Sin episodes? There was a boring paint-by-numbers fps if I ever saw one.
Shareholders always have a voice, they always have the final voice, whether they are voting shares or not.
If Google doesnt continue to post growth at every quarter, shareholders bail, stock goes down.
A publically traded company must do whatever it takes to continue to show growth. Even if that means violating some goofy slogan they came up with.
A lot would say that google breaks it often, censoring chinese searches and such.
Of course the beauty of such a slogan as "do no evil" is that it's completely subjective, and corporate folks love parsing their way out of shit. "Oh no, it's a good thing for america we sent out all those C&D notices, and its a good thing for you we developed this technology to shove ads straight up your asshole with a mechanical arm installed in every public toilet."
Google will do what corporations do - try to make money, even if it means fucking you over. Google "fans" (fans of any corporation are fucking morons, unless they're maybe paid employees) will parse their way out of it every time. It's good google censors searches at the behest of the chinese govt, or at least it's not "evil".
Where were you?
Microsoft was the upstart rebel company that knocked the big evil monopoly IBM, which had held computing with a iron grip, right the fuck off it's perch, and we all cheered.
Even before DOS days, they brought us personal computing, my C64 proudly displayed PET BASIC Copyright Micro Soft of Palo Alto, CA.
We were absolutely elated when they hosed IBM on DOS licensing, and then again with OS/2. Bill Gates was our hero.
When Google hits the tipping point - we will hate them too.
No this is more like an optical data latch if you must reach for analogies.
Where do you get CMOS? Do you see any complimentary metal oxide semiconductors in there? And it behaves nothing like a transistor.
That's a bad analogy though. Prostitution is better. Just walking up to the undercover cop and offering to give her money for sex gets you busted as a john, whether you go "really seriously your honor, i was just doing it as a joke to show how unfair THE MAN IS" or not.
Nobody connects to a particular torrent unless they plan to participate in it. This is a reasonable assumption. The media companies shouldn't have to prove you downloaded a full copy of the work, merely that you showed the intent to. IMO connecting to a torrent of "toy story 2" shows your intent to download a copy of "toy story 2", as well as to assist in further distribution of illicit copies, which is inherent in the bittorrent protocol.
Sounds like a good way to cause shit for yourself. People who use torrents for piracy are MORONS. What happened to the pubs, private channels, and fun with fxp?
*newz u can uze*
BUT PIRACY IS STILL ILLEGAL AND TORRENTS ARENT ANYWHERE NEAR ANONYMOUS
*/newz u can uze*
Why mandatory tougher sentences for people dealing drugs inside a school zone?
Because parents and teachers can't be next to their children 24 hours a day, and we don't want somebody trying to sell them crack.
I also don't want my kids buying alcohol, cigarettes or porn. I cannot be there with them every time they are in a store. I rely on the law to prevent the clerk from selling them these things.
I don't believe in this act, but I don't buy the "everything your kid says or does is your fault because there is no way people other than the parent can influence their kids."
I want people who go out of their way to entice my children into buying crack, alcohol, tobacco or pornography to be held accountable. I want the guy who starts up a pokemon forum as a front to hit on and flirt with preteen boys held accountable.
I just think this act is useless. But, it is absolutely the governments job to protect its citizenry.
Ever wonder why you're alive? The government keeps you that way, by threatening those sick of you with punishment for what they call "murder".
from his clammy, sticky, hands!
7"3 and knows muyay thai and kung fu and is a seventh level dan of balh blah.
Seanbaby is every bit as talented as Uwe Boll is. He's the Uwe Boll of internet comedy.
Haha fart jokes haha
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Should I be arrested for calling you every night and threaten to shoot you and your children, even if I don't actually own a gun?
The fact that North Korea is saying they have nukes is threat enough to warrant attention.
More correctly, he can't make it GPL3. It's already been released, and he can't add restrictions to it after the fact, I don't see how he could make it GPL3 any more than he could decide to close the source and charge 699 bucks per CPU to use it.
Unless he wanted to write a brand new kernel from scratch, which would be a kick-ass idea. I wouldn't miss linux' monolithic dinkerishisness.
You can't do anything with it. I can't modify or use it. I can't get video off my series 2 tivo any way other than the god-awful tivotogo pita encryption scheme. I can't slam in a 500gb hdd and tweak it into a networked storage device, etc.
They comply with the letter of the "law", but not it's spirit. There's nothing open or free about tivo.