Oh yes, because people who cheat are ALWAYS bad, and it has nothing to do with the fact that their partner might be completely unsuitable for them and/or positively damaging to them.
Get a divorce first, a girlfriend afterwards. It's not brain surgery.
Signing a petition and voting are not comparable. Signing a petition and registering to vote are comparable. The whole point behind both acts is to verify eligibility. There is no need to know who voted for what candidates/issues, just that the person voted only once -- eligibility to vote has already been determined by the time the vote is actually cast.
With a petition, eligibility to sign can only be determined after signing has occurred. There is no second step to a petition like there is with voting. With a petition, eligibility determination and signing are intrinsically connected.
Aside: Anyone know why Loki folded? A quick search only states "financial troubles", which is not really helpful.
Loki folded for a couple reasons:
1) Gross negligence by its founder (Scott Draeker). He and his wife were spending a huge portion of Loki's revenues on personal items, while not spending much (if anything) on growing the business.
2) To a lesser extent, Loki focused on the same bad business model that is probably plaguing LGP: being a porting house for obsolete Windows games rather than a conduit for original material. Sadly enough, Loki could probably have been long-term successful if not for #1 above.
The biggest obstacle here for LGP and its current business model is that it has to grovel at Windows games publishers' dinner tables in order to get pre-chewed table scraps at brand-new prices that appeal to a small segment of the Linux gaming population. This ensures that LGP can never achieve real success.
As much as we may dislike the ruling, there is no inherent conflict between copyright and free speech. Both are clearly represented in the Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Amendment 1:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Obviously, if the Constitution treated copyright as a blanket violation of free speech, the part of Article 1, Section 8 that established copyright could not exist. The question is then: can Congress extend those protections retroactively? The implication of Article 1, Section 8 is that Congress can define whatever term it considers to be "a limited time", a Constitutional plot hole that has recently been abused by Congress, but which the Supreme Court has decided is entirely within the purview of Congress.
If this Microsoft operating system is going to be incompatible with the other Microsoft operating systems, why not just switch to something else now and be done with it? Compatibility is the only advantage Microsoft software has, and that is being thrown out with the bathwater.
Parameterized SQL, or prepared statements, completely prevent SQL injection attacks. They might also speed things up in some circumstances. Why not simply use them exclusively?
Because there's money to be made selling snake oil to bad programmers. Why give them a simple solution for free, when you can sell them an expensive delusion instead?
I wonder what I am eating that requires a supercomputer?
Doesn't the fast food industry use supercomputers to count the calories of its products, and to annually calculate the number of clogged arteries of its patrons?
Blizzard forever lost me as a customer when they removed LAN play from their games, and sued the bnetd developers for restoring the feature. As far as I'm concerned, Blizzard and Microsoft are part of the same Axis of Evil (but for different reasons).
Stupid stuff like this is why I will never buy any Apple products.
Ever.
It took too many years to get rid of one abusive corporate monopolist, and I'm not about to surrender my hard-earned freedom to another corporate monopolist wannabe.
I think a doctrine of calling inaction after authorized actions denial of service is the kind of thing that is so overbroad it could lead to all kinds of unfairness - a maintenance guy sees a leaky roof in a server room, gets transferred to another building and doesn't tell anyone about it and a week later the computers in that room get flooded, is he now criminally responsible for that denial of service?
More accurately, a maintenance guy knows the server room roof leaks a lot and can potentially cause tremendous harm to the highly expensive contents of the room. All the roofing tools and materials are in an impenetrable locked room, and he is the only one with the keys. He knows he is going to be reassigned, is ordered by his boss to hand over the keys, and refuses. That is a denial of (roofing) service attack, and should rightfully be punishable under the law.
If the roof subsequently leaks and destroys the equipment, then he should be held liable since he is actively preventing the roof from being serviced. That is the situation that the city faced with Terry Childs, and the city acted responsibly.
#include// Yes, we've upgraded from Disclaimer to Disclaimer++
Connecting to Sony's servers for the upgrade establishes a direct connection to the company performing the vandalism on the consoles. That seems to me to establish a direct business relationship between the console owner and Sony, just as someone smashing a car with a sledge-hammer would establish a direct link between the car owner and the car vandal.
Once you have made the formal claim for a stop payment it should be resolved in a couple of days, if your bank does not support you in this, it is time to change banks.
This is the most sensible advice I've seen on this thread. When my Commerce Bank debit card details were compromised, and several unauthorized charges started appearing on my bill, I called the number of the back of my debit card to report the losses. The bank immediately reversed all the charges and offered to send me a new card through overnight delivery.
I told them to cancel my compromised card, and to send me a new one. They told me I would be without access to my funds via debit card until I activated the new one, but that it should be here within 24 hours (it was at my house in less than 12 hours). I was responsible for $0 of the unauthorized amount, and life went on normally.
Bottom line: the debit card is only as risky as the bank with which you choose to do business. Get a bank that doesn't suck, and your debit card is a safe financial instrument.
This runs on the iPhone which Apple won't allow Java code to run on.
That's a technicality. The only thing holding Java back from running on the iPhone is Apple's corporate politics. Technologically, Java is capable. As such, I'd give the point to Java.
Qt is another multi-platform technology that predates (and, like Java, betters) what is being described in this article. Contrary to the article, Java and Qt are much better for cross-platform development, and predate this attempt by more than a decade. This article is way late to the party.
People need to take charge of elections and actively support smaller and more responsive government.
If only we had candidates that ran on a smaller and more responsive government without being sold out to special interest groups. Democrats are sold out to the copyright lobbies, and Republicans are sold out to the Christian fundamentalists. Independents rarely stand a chance.
Perhaps you need a tutorial on how to use your toolchain to compile C++ and OpenGL programs or linux?
It isn't that simple. Both C++ and OpenGL only cover a small segment of what is needed for 3D applications and games. There is a lot of stuff not covered by either of those that are very much platform specific (controllers, sound, networking, etc.).
That said, NeHe's tutorials are still perfectly fine since most (if not all) of them have Linux conversions of the platform-specific stuff that you can download at the end of each tutorial.
Had he been a real Jedi, he would have just waved his hand and said "You don't have to remove your hood", to which security would have said "You don't have to remove your hood" and waved him on through.
The Jedi mind trick only works on weak minds, not security guards. After all, not just anyone can be a security guard.
I don't understand why anyone thinks this will put an end to Flash, Silverlight, etc., since HTML5 doesn't specify allowed CODECs. All this means is that those proprietary codecs will be specified with an HTML5 tag. Everything else will remain the same.
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Oh yes, because people who cheat are ALWAYS bad, and it has nothing to do with the fact that their partner might be completely unsuitable for them and/or positively damaging to them.
Get a divorce first, a girlfriend afterwards. It's not brain surgery.
Signing a petition and voting are not comparable. Signing a petition and registering to vote are comparable. The whole point behind both acts is to verify eligibility. There is no need to know who voted for what candidates/issues, just that the person voted only once -- eligibility to vote has already been determined by the time the vote is actually cast.
With a petition, eligibility to sign can only be determined after signing has occurred. There is no second step to a petition like there is with voting. With a petition, eligibility determination and signing are intrinsically connected.
Aside: Anyone know why Loki folded? A quick search only states "financial troubles", which is not really helpful.
Loki folded for a couple reasons:
1) Gross negligence by its founder (Scott Draeker). He and his wife were spending a huge portion of Loki's revenues on personal items, while not spending much (if anything) on growing the business.
2) To a lesser extent, Loki focused on the same bad business model that is probably plaguing LGP: being a porting house for obsolete Windows games rather than a conduit for original material. Sadly enough, Loki could probably have been long-term successful if not for #1 above.
The biggest obstacle here for LGP and its current business model is that it has to grovel at Windows games publishers' dinner tables in order to get pre-chewed table scraps at brand-new prices that appeal to a small segment of the Linux gaming population. This ensures that LGP can never achieve real success.
As much as we may dislike the ruling, there is no inherent conflict between copyright and free speech. Both are clearly represented in the Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
and Discoveries;
Amendment 1:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
Obviously, if the Constitution treated copyright as a blanket violation of free speech, the part of Article 1, Section 8 that established copyright could not exist. The question is then: can Congress extend those protections retroactively? The implication of Article 1, Section 8 is that Congress can define whatever term it considers to be "a limited time", a Constitutional plot hole that has recently been abused by Congress, but which the Supreme Court has decided is entirely within the purview of Congress.
But what we really need to do is talk about this with them and come to an understanding...
You cannot reason with insane people. The very nature of their thought patterns prohibit it.
If this Microsoft operating system is going to be incompatible with the other Microsoft operating systems, why not just switch to something else now and be done with it? Compatibility is the only advantage Microsoft software has, and that is being thrown out with the bathwater.
Parameterized SQL, or prepared statements, completely prevent SQL injection attacks. They might also speed things up in some circumstances. Why not simply use them exclusively?
Because there's money to be made selling snake oil to bad programmers. Why give them a simple solution for free, when you can sell them an expensive delusion instead?
I mean should the cook at McDonalds be put in Jail because he knows he's poisoning civilians with fatty food and giving them diabetes?
That is an opt-in suicide, whereas spam is unsolicited torture. There a Big Difference.
the original Mortal Kombat movie was awesome.
It was particularly awesome when it ended.
though I suspect there's an upper limit to the cost of the add...
I believe it's no more than 1 clock cycle.
I wonder what I am eating that requires a supercomputer?
Doesn't the fast food industry use supercomputers to count the calories of its products, and to annually calculate the number of clogged arteries of its patrons?
Blizzard forever lost me as a customer when they removed LAN play from their games, and sued the bnetd developers for restoring the feature. As far as I'm concerned, Blizzard and Microsoft are part of the same Axis of Evil (but for different reasons).
Most of us are well aware that at any time we could get hit with an earthquake of biblical proportions.
I realize that the bible is a thick book, but just how fat has that thing gotten?
No, there isn't an oil spill in the Gulf. There is a slight water spill in the Gulf oil pit.
Stupid stuff like this is why I will never buy any Apple products.
Ever.
It took too many years to get rid of one abusive corporate monopolist, and I'm not about to surrender my hard-earned freedom to another corporate monopolist wannabe.
I think a doctrine of calling inaction after authorized actions denial of service is the kind of thing that is so overbroad it could lead to all kinds of unfairness - a maintenance guy sees a leaky roof in a server room, gets transferred to another building and doesn't tell anyone about it and a week later the computers in that room get flooded, is he now criminally responsible for that denial of service?
More accurately, a maintenance guy knows the server room roof leaks a lot and can potentially cause tremendous harm to the highly expensive contents of the room. All the roofing tools and materials are in an impenetrable locked room, and he is the only one with the keys. He knows he is going to be reassigned, is ordered by his boss to hand over the keys, and refuses. That is a denial of (roofing) service attack, and should rightfully be punishable under the law.
If the roof subsequently leaks and destroys the equipment, then he should be held liable since he is actively preventing the roof from being serviced. That is the situation that the city faced with Terry Childs, and the city acted responsibly.
#include // Yes, we've upgraded from Disclaimer to Disclaimer++
Connecting to Sony's servers for the upgrade establishes a direct connection to the company performing the vandalism on the consoles. That seems to me to establish a direct business relationship between the console owner and Sony, just as someone smashing a car with a sledge-hammer would establish a direct link between the car owner and the car vandal.
Once you have made the formal claim for a stop payment it should be resolved in a couple of days, if your bank does not support you in this, it is time to change banks.
This is the most sensible advice I've seen on this thread. When my Commerce Bank debit card details were compromised, and several unauthorized charges started appearing on my bill, I called the number of the back of my debit card to report the losses. The bank immediately reversed all the charges and offered to send me a new card through overnight delivery.
I told them to cancel my compromised card, and to send me a new one. They told me I would be without access to my funds via debit card until I activated the new one, but that it should be here within 24 hours (it was at my house in less than 12 hours). I was responsible for $0 of the unauthorized amount, and life went on normally.
Bottom line: the debit card is only as risky as the bank with which you choose to do business. Get a bank that doesn't suck, and your debit card is a safe financial instrument.
Next time I get an email from a Nigerian prince, I'll make sure I send him my account information with pine instead of Outlook, so then I'll be safe.
If you read the email in Outlook, you may have automatically sent him everything he needs.
This runs on the iPhone which Apple won't allow Java code to run on.
That's a technicality. The only thing holding Java back from running on the iPhone is Apple's corporate politics. Technologically, Java is capable. As such, I'd give the point to Java.
Qt is another multi-platform technology that predates (and, like Java, betters) what is being described in this article. Contrary to the article, Java and Qt are much better for cross-platform development, and predate this attempt by more than a decade. This article is way late to the party.
People need to take charge of elections and actively support smaller and more responsive government.
If only we had candidates that ran on a smaller and more responsive government without being sold out to special interest groups. Democrats are sold out to the copyright lobbies, and Republicans are sold out to the Christian fundamentalists. Independents rarely stand a chance.
Perhaps you need a tutorial on how to use your toolchain to compile C++ and OpenGL programs or linux?
It isn't that simple. Both C++ and OpenGL only cover a small segment of what is needed for 3D applications and games. There is a lot of stuff not covered by either of those that are very much platform specific (controllers, sound, networking, etc.).
That said, NeHe's tutorials are still perfectly fine since most (if not all) of them have Linux conversions of the platform-specific stuff that you can download at the end of each tutorial.
I have heard that people like Rush Limbaugh have stated that they would leave the US if this bill was passed.
Oh, God, pretty please?
Unfortunately, he didn't say he wouldn't come back. Damn, there's always a catch.
Had he been a real Jedi, he would have just waved his hand and said "You don't have to remove your hood", to which security would have said "You don't have to remove your hood" and waved him on through.
The Jedi mind trick only works on weak minds, not security guards. After all, not just anyone can be a security guard.
Oh, wait..
I don't understand why anyone thinks this will put an end to Flash, Silverlight, etc., since HTML5 doesn't specify allowed CODECs. All this means is that those proprietary codecs will be specified with an HTML5 tag. Everything else will remain the same.