According to my research, there are a lot of criminals being referenced in the phonebook websites worldwide, making it easier for them to communicate. Please take those sites down too.
Sincerely,
Killjoy_NL
The only slight difference being that the phonebook contains the same ratio of innocent people to guilty people as society, a torrent site specialising in exchanging illegally copied movies does not. Also, a phone book does not list next to each name the particular crime that individual specialises in, a torrent site lists each illegally posted movie next to the persons name you can download it from.
Torrent sites like the one in question exist to facilitate the illegal exchanging of files. If you think this is actually a good thing (I do) then just come out and say it not hide behind some childish stupid excuse that does not hold any water with the vast majority of the population.
Whatever your attitude to piracy, you must realise that comparing a phone book to a torrent site is a joke. I have spent enough time on torrent sites to know that the vast majority of posts are illegally ripped movies that the poster does not have the legal authority to share. I also know that most torrent sites are very heavily moderated so if someone posts a duff file that is not actually a rip of the film it says it is then it is usually deleted. If they can be moderated to do this then there is an active moderator who knows exactly what is being posted, since the posting of something that is protected by copyright is illegal then in most legal jurisdictions the moderator is complicit in the crime and may be held to be an accessory.
BTW, I actually support the idea of copyright reform I just think your analogy was terrible.
That being said, I hope these 40 year old gamers aren't still living in their's mother's basement. Seriously.
You obviously still far too young to realise what you said is quite offensive to many people. I am 37 years old, not 40 you insensitive clod. NEVER round ages up.
Now, given the reports of how slimy and secretive the Skype binary can be, I'd be happy to see an open implementation; but I suspect that the possibility won't rock the boat from MS' perspective...
The strength of Skype is it's user base, that is why it was so expensive to MS. A messaging client is only as good as its user base. They bought skype for its users and market penetration and that it why it leaves everything else in it dust. If I could use a rival client to communicate with people on the skype network I would drop skype in a heartbeat, especially when I am using Linux as their Linux client it dire. Likewise the androids client. I will be very glad if this results in a rival client, ideally an open source one.
I do think however that Microsoft will already be screaming at an army of lawyers to shut this guy up quickly. You are entirely wrong when you say this will not rock the boat from their perspective, and you will see this in hours or days rather than weeks.
But in general, graphics performance is noticeably slower on Linux due to the lower quality of graphics drivers. The gfx card manufacturers don't feel the need to spend that much time writing drivers for Linux.
Actually if you read the article you find out that the biggest problems are with the open source drivers or the ATI provided ones. The NVIDIA provided closed source driver had no issues and only seemed slightly slower although this was probably due to then using a much older NVIDIA card for their test.
It seems that NVIDIA is the way to go for anyone using 3d intensively under Linux.
I would strongly recommend not trying this in the UK.
We have a special way of dealing with this in our criminal justice system called "Detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Her_Majesty%27s_pleasure). You will probably be let out in the end, but you have no idea when that will be. The insanity defence is not so popular in the UK as it is in the States, I think this might have something to do with it.
I can think of worse things that prisoners could be forced to do. Heck, even stamping license plates or cleaning trash on the sides of highways seems like it would be more work than playing WoW. Isn't the whole problem for whoever wrote that article that the prison officials are making money off of it? That's always the case with prisons though... While I can see how this is weird, I don't see why anyone would be pissed off about it.
Did you read the bit about the guards beating the crap out of you with rubber hoses if you did not live up to your days gold quota. I think that would probably make me pretty pissed off.
Then there is the fact that this is as well as the hard labour, not instead of. This sounds like something the prison bosses have thought up as a way of making cash on the side, the prisoners still have to do the hard labour of digging trenches in an open cast coal mine all day.
That is not what I heared, I heared Amazon's servers are on a lot of blacklists because their IP's are used to sent spam. So even legitimate email can't get out.
(maybe my information is outdated)
This is probably not because they have been hacked, its probably because someone figured an easy way to send spam was to sign up for a cloud account. Hackers have already figured out that you can use the cloud as a brute force cracking tool so using it as spam relay is also too easy, all you need is a credit card to pay for the time you use and any fool can get a prepaid untraceable mastercard to use.
But they are public figures. If they don't like it, they can go crawl back up into the womb...
Which is exactly where Ryan Giggs children would have to go to escape this current furore.
People like Imogen Thomas crave being in the public eye above all else, so will do anything she can to stay there. Who the hell else would actually apply to be a big brother contestant?
But if I sleep with her does it suddenly make it fair game for the gutter press to camp out on my lawn and harass me? Maybe it would make a great story to show me looking fat and ugly and use that as an example of how far she had fallen, but that is kind of harsh on me no? I never asked to be in the public eye.
This is a fictitious example (except about me being fat and ugly anyway) but it does show how many people end up in the public eye without actually wanting to be there. Slashdot is usually full of people saying everyone has a right to privacy from google, do we not have a right to privacy from the gutter press just because they took an interest in us too? Not everyone who is in the public eye ends up there by choice.
I can think of several business men who have done nothing wrong but ended up as public figures simply by being successful. Do we have the right to read about their latest love interest just to satisfy our curiosity? Does the press have the right to pursue that love interest clamouring for a photo they know the person in question does not want taken any more than google have a right to photograph the front of peoples houses?
Apart from young geeky types who have not yet realised that there are millions of other people brighter than them with more experience. I was like that once, as I am sure were many other people here. It is only when you learn a bit more you discover how little you actually know as every answer only brings with it more questions.
I'm sorry, but if you need to ask Slashdot on something like this than your not qualified to do what you want to do.
I get the impression you have never worked for a small startup. In small startup businesses often the best thing they have going for them is a single good idea. These good ideas do not often come from the best technical brains, who can implement something in the ideal way.
Nothing personal but your only going to have hours to days before your website is hosting malware or gets turned into a spam relay.
Not necessarily. If he goes with the cloud solution I would in fact be very surprised if this happened since Amazon or whoever would be responsible for protecting him from everything other than coding errors and those are very hard to find via automated means. That means it takes an actual human being to hear about his site and take an interest in hacking it, if you are not taking credit card or other personal details from people or doing anything to irk the hacker community this may never happen.
None of this is to say that doing things badly is a good idea, but sometimes it is necessary in order to bring something to market quickly and test its commercial viability. Once an idea has proven itself you can invest the extra cash in doing it right. This is where the cloud really comes into its own since it scales up very easily to cope with a horrible mess of bloated, thrown together code.
In version 2 of the product you then build it the way it should have been built originally but with the benefit of more planning time and learning from your previous mistakes. There is no point in trying to make version 1 perfect since you do not know everything you need to in order to accomplish that aim from a business perspective and never will without some experience. You just make sure you factor the short lifespan of the initial version into your costs.
Just search on Twitter for Imogen Thomas, the girl he had his affair with. His name will likely pop up in the first few tweets.
Imogen Thomas then decided to try and blackmail him into paying her 100,000 pounds to keep quiet. He has refused to pay and so she is desperate to tell her story to our gutter press instead.
I have little sympathy for him but I have even less for her. He has kids and they will also suffer as a result of this slapper and her greed (and his stupidity for having an affair in the first place)
It's not like there are fuel rods in the ocean and mushroom clouds kicking off.
Sorry to rain on your parade but if you read the full article you would know that there may actually be bits of fuel rod now in the ocean. Quoting from the full article: "Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak."
It strikes me that if the water managed to leak then what happened to the molten fuel that melted the hole in the first place?
If you can think of any positive result that can come from releasing them at this time, please share because I'm at a loss.
Satisfaction at seeing the hated person bloodied up, I guess? Let's call it a Colosseum-Complex.
This does not help the rest of the worlds image of Americans though. I found the pictures of you all cheering at someones death kind of disturbing. I am very glad he was shot (captured would have been fine too though) but I just find the idea of cheering at someone else's death distasteful.
Corollary - investors who put faith in good companies are rewarded. investors who do not are not.
The problem is that many of these investors did not have much choice, they were simply working for Nortel and their pension was in company stock. If I work for a company and get a company pension I have very little choice how that is invested on my behalf. Some of these people losing out have probably worked 20 or 30 years thinking their retirement was covered and have just discovered they are redundant and also looking forward to a pennyless old age.
Actually not quite pennyless, but capped at £28,000 per year in the UK and $54,000 in the US. Also in the US people will only be able to claim their pension at the age of 65, so if you are 55 and have just retired or are about to you now have no money and have to try and rejoin the job market. The IT and mobile device sector is not exactly the best place to have to find work if you are in your late 50's.
I dont know why they have such short lease times as 1-3 hours but i do know it often creates problems, especially if the reason for the short leases are lack of addresses on the subnet in question. In that case you have to chose between address conflicts or lack of a sufficient pool of avaliable addresses.
The case in point is regarding wifi devices. It might make perfect sense to give wired machines a long DHCP lease since they are less likely to be highly mobile but wifi is different. Think about how many people pass through the princeton campus on a daily basis and how long they are likely to hang around. If I just pop in to university to hand in an assignment does it really make sense for me to hold on to an IP address all day or for several days?
I am a bit on an Android and Google fan but this is clearly an issue if the bug is as reported and should have been fixed when it was raised in December last year.
One of the problems seems to be that the lease times are shorter than most phones are in sleep mode and the easiest remedy would be extending the lease time for the affected Android devices.
Extending the lease time will only delay the time before this issue crops up. If I am granted a 24 hour DHCP lease then go to bed it is still going to be an issue as my phone my well be in sleep mode all night but still on campus. The next day the same behaviour is still a problem so all you have done is delay it slightly. If you have lots of students on campus for days at a time the only way to mitigate this is to extend the lease time up to weeks and that is just ridiculous for wifi devices.
It is also worth remembering that extending the lease may not fix the other DHCP issues like using two IP addresses at the same time after a new IP address is assigned. It should make damn sure that all services use the new IP, not half and half.
Personally i have never seen this behavior from an Android device, perhaps it has a connection to a specific DHCP implemenation.
If you read the bug report you might notice that he explains they watch their DHCP servers log very carefully and he acknowledges that this may differ from most organisations. I am not sure why they do this but they probably have their reasons.
I genuinely hope this progresses to the logical extreme of "buy multiplayer direct from us", because then I won't have to subsidize/pay for something I don't use. And the publishers will realise how lousy the carbon copy multiplayer side of their tired franchise is when it's reviewed separately, and stop stapling it on to a watered down campaign just to keep a game in people's disc trays until the DLC comes out or the servers shut down.
I would like to see they day where I can just buy the multiplayer bit as I find playing against any sort of artificial opposition just too damn dull. Even the best AI never matches a human being. I also like playing against other human beings so I can hear them moan about me being a hacker or cheating like a little girl when they lose.
This quote was originally made about a nation marching people off to the gas chambers. To use it propping up an argument about not playing a computer game is kind of lame and sullies the memory of the millions marched to their deaths. Losing the ability to play a game (copied or otherwise) is not the same as losing your life.
I'm still not quite sure why a used game buyer shouldn't be allowed the same benefits as a new game buyer, but in order to come to a resolution a suggestion has to eventually be accepted. This is a descent step to something that is acceptable.
-AI
Any online player would be insane to buy a used game anyway. The previous owner could be selling it as they have been caught using a hack and banned.
Wow, you have absolutely no understanding of economics at all.
And you have done such a wonderful job of explaining to me why that I should just take your word for it? Or dismiss you as a child carping on about stuff.
I was referring to the many games companies who keep threatening to drop the PC games market and just concentrate on consoles. I guess they have no understanding of economics either.
Everyone loves to jump to the conclusion that DRM in games is always going to break. I have only ever experienced this once.
And now scale your experiences up. A DRM scheme that undergoes even basic testing will always work in the most common cases, but there will always be some set of people for whom it doesn't work correctly. These people now have the software that they've paid for exhibiting bugs because of the DRM.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the biggest complaints about DRM come from people who know that the perfect DRM system with no bugs would also affect them in some way
If, by some miracle, you find someone who can write a completely bug-free DRM system, don't waste their talents on writing DRM - they're well into the top 0.001% of all developers, so get them to work writing bug-free code in your real product. Any DRM scheme adds complexity, and those of us who write software know that anything that adds complexity is going to add bugs. Some of the bugs may be minor, some may affect only a single user, but a single legitimate customer having a negative experience caused by code that has no benefit to any legitimate customers is something that I find unacceptable. This is why I don't allow DRM to be included with anything that I create.
Typical, its easy to get a +5 here, just whine on about how bad DRM is. But I bet some of those people modding you up are also running bittorrent downloading tons of games they will never pay a penny for.
But I was making purely hypothetical argument that you conveniently sidestepped: Would a perfect DRM system stop you doing something you currently do? I think the answer from most people here is usually yes in which case most peoples objection is not actually to the technological method of enforcing copyright, it is with the concept of copyright on a digital product that can be infinitely copied for almost no extra cost.
I think it is important to separate the two and try deal with them individual issues as once you open you mind to the idea of copyright law being a good thing in some cases you might find that the idea of DRM becomes more acceptable.
I view DRM software as something that could have benefit to me as a consumer. It helps provide the companies producing games I like with piece of mind that they are making as much money from products I am happy to pay for as they can. That gives them the incentive to carry on producing good products in future and not completely abandon the PC in favour of consoles where DRM is replaced with physical changes that have to be made to the consoles themselves in order to play copied discs and such like. These things can still be bypassed, but simply by making it a little harder it put many people off in case of issues like voiding a warranty.
I also have an intrinsic objection to paying for something that someone else wheedles out of so like the idea of DRM from that perspective. I am quite happy when I see faredodgers being caught on trains too. I know they are not actually causing any extra expense to be incurred by the train company by them travelling as the train was going to make the journey anyway but why should I pay and they not? If they can't afford it, they should stay at home.
If you can't afford a computer game, then don't play it. This is how capitalism works and encourages you to go out an earn more money to afford the luxuries you can't afford.
The problem with introducing fake error messages, is that they cause confusion with real error messages. Now you'll potentially have legitimate customers wondering what's wrong with their graphics card or drivers, when it's the DRM that's at fault. And DRM is often not reliable, and will typically assume a copy is invalid, if it fails to validate a game.
Everyone loves to jump to the conclusion that DRM in games is always going to break. I have only ever experienced this once. My mother board broke and I had to replace it and then GTA4 noticed and made me reinstall. It made me reinstall by constantly making the game unplayable through me being drunk whenever I got into a car. It did not take me very long to figure this out by a bit of googling.
I also understood why they did it. Me changing my MB was very hard to differentiate from me zipping up the installed folder and performing a registry export of everything the installer changed and then posting this to all my friends.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the biggest complaints about DRM come from people who know that the perfect DRM system with no bugs would also affect them in some way. I know it is nice to find out a game is crap before you shell out cash for it, and some game developers make this easy by publishing playable demos. Those companies that do this are far more likely to get my money. If they choose not to make a playable demo available, then no way am I buying it unless I hear good things from people I trust.
That is my only legal choice but it hurts them in the pocket because they lose out on a sale. It also means that I miss some perfectly good games that I would have played and liked but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make in order to not be a criminal over something so trivial as playing a computer game.
I have to fully support copyright law as it is the only thing protecting open source software from being exploited by private companies who would ignore the GPL if they could. There is no difference in law between the licence you agree to in order to play a computer game and the GPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
Wind and solar are pipe dreams. I don't care if I get modded down for saying that. I don't care if it goes against popular opinion, or flies in the face of all the pro-solar, pro-wind propaganda of late. And I don't care if it upsets the environmentalists. It's true. Even if you could come up with enough money to build the infrastructure to deploy and maintain the kind of huge solar and wind farms you would need all over the country/world, they'll still only cover a fraction of our present-day needs.
Just building the transmission lines for that kind of project is going to be overshadow the scale of the whole TVA project. And who's going to pay for it? Do you think the American people (or the people of other countries) are willing to make *real* sacrifices for that, when it really comes down to it? Oh sure, ask any American if they support solar/wind and they'll say "Yes." But try rephrasing it as "Would you support a 50% income tax increase to pay for investments in solar/wind infrastructure?" and see what they answer.
Believe me, I would love nothing better than a country running exclusively on clean energy, with solar panels and turbines everywhere. But the more I look at the issue, and the kinds of numbers involved, the more I don't see how it's ever going to be practical (not until the coal runs out anyway).
And that's not even getting into the issue of countries and areas that don't get enough unobstructed sunlight and wind. What's going to happen to them in this utopia?
Firstly, you are probably right. We cannot possibly generate the same amount we do at the moment if we use just wind and solar power.
The arguments for solar power though are not about replacing the current methods we have, they are about supplementing them. You mention transmission lines in your post when talking about building them, but you do not need to with wind and solar as they can be used at the point electricity is used to supplement the national grid. Transmission lines are the least efficient part of our current power grid.
There is a large part of the US that could spend a few dollars on solar panels and a small wind turbine for their roof and then vastly cut down on their own electric bill. They might not reduce it to zero but they could reduce it by a large margin. Also, over here in the UK when people do this they can sell their surplus (day rate, more expensive) electricity to the grid when they are not using it and then use that as a credit against the cheaper night time electricity they actually use.
Solar and wind power might never replace all our current nuclear power plants, but they are not meant to. Instead they can be used to supplement it, and as energy prices go up and up it makes more and more economic sense.
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Dear Police,
According to my research, there are a lot of criminals being referenced in the phonebook websites worldwide, making it easier for them to communicate.
Please take those sites down too.
Sincerely,
Killjoy_NL
The only slight difference being that the phonebook contains the same ratio of innocent people to guilty people as society, a torrent site specialising in exchanging illegally copied movies does not. Also, a phone book does not list next to each name the particular crime that individual specialises in, a torrent site lists each illegally posted movie next to the persons name you can download it from.
Torrent sites like the one in question exist to facilitate the illegal exchanging of files. If you think this is actually a good thing (I do) then just come out and say it not hide behind some childish stupid excuse that does not hold any water with the vast majority of the population.
Whatever your attitude to piracy, you must realise that comparing a phone book to a torrent site is a joke. I have spent enough time on torrent sites to know that the vast majority of posts are illegally ripped movies that the poster does not have the legal authority to share. I also know that most torrent sites are very heavily moderated so if someone posts a duff file that is not actually a rip of the film it says it is then it is usually deleted. If they can be moderated to do this then there is an active moderator who knows exactly what is being posted, since the posting of something that is protected by copyright is illegal then in most legal jurisdictions the moderator is complicit in the crime and may be held to be an accessory.
BTW, I actually support the idea of copyright reform I just think your analogy was terrible.
That being said, I hope these 40 year old gamers aren't still living in their's mother's basement. Seriously.
You obviously still far too young to realise what you said is quite offensive to many people. I am 37 years old, not 40 you insensitive clod. NEVER round ages up.
Why not make a SIP / Skype Gateway and sell the service / product? Why not market it as "universal" VOIP client.
It might make transitioning away from Skype to SIP much easier.
Where people see a problem, I see opportunity.
So did Fring, look what happened.
Now, given the reports of how slimy and secretive the Skype binary can be, I'd be happy to see an open implementation; but I suspect that the possibility won't rock the boat from MS' perspective...
The strength of Skype is it's user base, that is why it was so expensive to MS. A messaging client is only as good as its user base. They bought skype for its users and market penetration and that it why it leaves everything else in it dust. If I could use a rival client to communicate with people on the skype network I would drop skype in a heartbeat, especially when I am using Linux as their Linux client it dire. Likewise the androids client. I will be very glad if this results in a rival client, ideally an open source one.
I do think however that Microsoft will already be screaming at an army of lawyers to shut this guy up quickly. You are entirely wrong when you say this will not rock the boat from their perspective, and you will see this in hours or days rather than weeks.
But in general, graphics performance is noticeably slower on Linux due to the lower quality of graphics drivers. The gfx card manufacturers don't feel the need to spend that much time writing drivers for Linux.
Actually if you read the article you find out that the biggest problems are with the open source drivers or the ATI provided ones. The NVIDIA provided closed source driver had no issues and only seemed slightly slower although this was probably due to then using a much older NVIDIA card for their test.
It seems that NVIDIA is the way to go for anyone using 3d intensively under Linux.
I would strongly recommend not trying this in the UK.
We have a special way of dealing with this in our criminal justice system called "Detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Her_Majesty%27s_pleasure). You will probably be let out in the end, but you have no idea when that will be. The insanity defence is not so popular in the UK as it is in the States, I think this might have something to do with it.
I can think of worse things that prisoners could be forced to do. Heck, even stamping license plates or cleaning trash on the sides of highways seems like it would be more work than playing WoW. Isn't the whole problem for whoever wrote that article that the prison officials are making money off of it? That's always the case with prisons though... While I can see how this is weird, I don't see why anyone would be pissed off about it.
Did you read the bit about the guards beating the crap out of you with rubber hoses if you did not live up to your days gold quota. I think that would probably make me pretty pissed off.
Then there is the fact that this is as well as the hard labour, not instead of. This sounds like something the prison bosses have thought up as a way of making cash on the side, the prisoners still have to do the hard labour of digging trenches in an open cast coal mine all day.
That is not what I heared, I heared Amazon's servers are on a lot of blacklists because their IP's are used to sent spam. So even legitimate email can't get out.
(maybe my information is outdated)
This is probably not because they have been hacked, its probably because someone figured an easy way to send spam was to sign up for a cloud account. Hackers have already figured out that you can use the cloud as a brute force cracking tool so using it as spam relay is also too easy, all you need is a credit card to pay for the time you use and any fool can get a prepaid untraceable mastercard to use.
But they are public figures. If they don't like it, they can go crawl back up into the womb...
Which is exactly where Ryan Giggs children would have to go to escape this current furore.
People like Imogen Thomas crave being in the public eye above all else, so will do anything she can to stay there. Who the hell else would actually apply to be a big brother contestant?
But if I sleep with her does it suddenly make it fair game for the gutter press to camp out on my lawn and harass me? Maybe it would make a great story to show me looking fat and ugly and use that as an example of how far she had fallen, but that is kind of harsh on me no? I never asked to be in the public eye.
This is a fictitious example (except about me being fat and ugly anyway) but it does show how many people end up in the public eye without actually wanting to be there. Slashdot is usually full of people saying everyone has a right to privacy from google, do we not have a right to privacy from the gutter press just because they took an interest in us too? Not everyone who is in the public eye ends up there by choice.
I can think of several business men who have done nothing wrong but ended up as public figures simply by being successful. Do we have the right to read about their latest love interest just to satisfy our curiosity? Does the press have the right to pursue that love interest clamouring for a photo they know the person in question does not want taken any more than google have a right to photograph the front of peoples houses?
Nobody knows everything.
Apart from young geeky types who have not yet realised that there are millions of other people brighter than them with more experience. I was like that once, as I am sure were many other people here. It is only when you learn a bit more you discover how little you actually know as every answer only brings with it more questions.
I believe it is known as the arrogance of youth :)
I'm sorry, but if you need to ask Slashdot on something like this than your not qualified to do what you want to do.
I get the impression you have never worked for a small startup. In small startup businesses often the best thing they have going for them is a single good idea. These good ideas do not often come from the best technical brains, who can implement something in the ideal way.
Nothing personal but your only going to have hours to days before your website is hosting malware or gets turned into a spam relay.
Not necessarily. If he goes with the cloud solution I would in fact be very surprised if this happened since Amazon or whoever would be responsible for protecting him from everything other than coding errors and those are very hard to find via automated means. That means it takes an actual human being to hear about his site and take an interest in hacking it, if you are not taking credit card or other personal details from people or doing anything to irk the hacker community this may never happen.
None of this is to say that doing things badly is a good idea, but sometimes it is necessary in order to bring something to market quickly and test its commercial viability. Once an idea has proven itself you can invest the extra cash in doing it right. This is where the cloud really comes into its own since it scales up very easily to cope with a horrible mess of bloated, thrown together code.
In version 2 of the product you then build it the way it should have been built originally but with the benefit of more planning time and learning from your previous mistakes. There is no point in trying to make version 1 perfect since you do not know everything you need to in order to accomplish that aim from a business perspective and never will without some experience. You just make sure you factor the short lifespan of the initial version into your costs.
An excellent blog covering these sorts of issues is here: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Rob :)
Just search on Twitter for Imogen Thomas, the girl he had his affair with. His name will likely pop up in the first few tweets.
Imogen Thomas then decided to try and blackmail him into paying her 100,000 pounds to keep quiet. He has refused to pay and so she is desperate to tell her story to our gutter press instead.
I have little sympathy for him but I have even less for her. He has kids and they will also suffer as a result of this slapper and her greed (and his stupidity for having an affair in the first place)
It's not like there are fuel rods in the ocean and mushroom clouds kicking off.
Sorry to rain on your parade but if you read the full article you would know that there may actually be bits of fuel rod now in the ocean. Quoting from the full article: "Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak."
It strikes me that if the water managed to leak then what happened to the molten fuel that melted the hole in the first place?
If you can think of any positive result that can come from releasing them at this time, please share because I'm at a loss.
Satisfaction at seeing the hated person bloodied up, I guess? Let's call it a Colosseum-Complex.
This does not help the rest of the worlds image of Americans though. I found the pictures of you all cheering at someones death kind of disturbing. I am very glad he was shot (captured would have been fine too though) but I just find the idea of cheering at someone else's death distasteful.
People VOLUNTARILY share this information.
How can it be voluntary if you do not really know who you share it with? Do they ever tell you exactly who they shared your data with or will?
Corollary - investors who put faith in good companies are rewarded. investors who do not are not.
The problem is that many of these investors did not have much choice, they were simply working for Nortel and their pension was in company stock. If I work for a company and get a company pension I have very little choice how that is invested on my behalf. Some of these people losing out have probably worked 20 or 30 years thinking their retirement was covered and have just discovered they are redundant and also looking forward to a pennyless old age.
Actually not quite pennyless, but capped at £28,000 per year in the UK and $54,000 in the US. Also in the US people will only be able to claim their pension at the age of 65, so if you are 55 and have just retired or are about to you now have no money and have to try and rejoin the job market. The IT and mobile device sector is not exactly the best place to have to find work if you are in your late 50's.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5536942.ece
http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/story/5596907/
I dont know why they have such short lease times as 1-3 hours but i do know it often creates problems, especially if the reason for the short leases are lack of addresses on the subnet in question. In that case you have to chose between address conflicts or lack of a sufficient pool of avaliable addresses.
The case in point is regarding wifi devices. It might make perfect sense to give wired machines a long DHCP lease since they are less likely to be highly mobile but wifi is different. Think about how many people pass through the princeton campus on a daily basis and how long they are likely to hang around. If I just pop in to university to hand in an assignment does it really make sense for me to hold on to an IP address all day or for several days?
I am a bit on an Android and Google fan but this is clearly an issue if the bug is as reported and should have been fixed when it was raised in December last year.
One of the problems seems to be that the lease times are shorter than most phones are in sleep mode and the easiest remedy would be extending the lease time for the affected Android devices.
Extending the lease time will only delay the time before this issue crops up. If I am granted a 24 hour DHCP lease then go to bed it is still going to be an issue as my phone my well be in sleep mode all night but still on campus. The next day the same behaviour is still a problem so all you have done is delay it slightly. If you have lots of students on campus for days at a time the only way to mitigate this is to extend the lease time up to weeks and that is just ridiculous for wifi devices.
It is also worth remembering that extending the lease may not fix the other DHCP issues like using two IP addresses at the same time after a new IP address is assigned. It should make damn sure that all services use the new IP, not half and half.
Personally i have never seen this behavior from an Android device, perhaps it has a connection to a specific DHCP implemenation.
If you read the bug report you might notice that he explains they watch their DHCP servers log very carefully and he acknowledges that this may differ from most organisations. I am not sure why they do this but they probably have their reasons.
I genuinely hope this progresses to the logical extreme of "buy multiplayer direct from us", because then I won't have to subsidize/pay for something I don't use. And the publishers will realise how lousy the carbon copy multiplayer side of their tired franchise is when it's reviewed separately, and stop stapling it on to a watered down campaign just to keep a game in people's disc trays until the DLC comes out or the servers shut down.
I would like to see they day where I can just buy the multiplayer bit as I find playing against any sort of artificial opposition just too damn dull. Even the best AI never matches a human being. I also like playing against other human beings so I can hear them moan about me being a hacker or cheating like a little girl when they lose.
This quote was originally made about a nation marching people off to the gas chambers. To use it propping up an argument about not playing a computer game is kind of lame and sullies the memory of the millions marched to their deaths. Losing the ability to play a game (copied or otherwise) is not the same as losing your life.
I'm still not quite sure why a used game buyer shouldn't
be allowed the same benefits as a new game buyer,
but in order to come to a resolution a suggestion has
to eventually be accepted. This is a descent step to
something that is acceptable.
-AI
Any online player would be insane to buy a used game anyway. The previous owner could be selling it as they have been caught using a hack and banned.
Wow, you have absolutely no understanding of economics at all.
And you have done such a wonderful job of explaining to me why that I should just take your word for it? Or dismiss you as a child carping on about stuff.
I was referring to the many games companies who keep threatening to drop the PC games market and just concentrate on consoles. I guess they have no understanding of economics either.
Everyone loves to jump to the conclusion that DRM in games is always going to break. I have only ever experienced this once.
And now scale your experiences up. A DRM scheme that undergoes even basic testing will always work in the most common cases, but there will always be some set of people for whom it doesn't work correctly. These people now have the software that they've paid for exhibiting bugs because of the DRM.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the biggest complaints about DRM come from people who know that the perfect DRM system with no bugs would also affect them in some way
If, by some miracle, you find someone who can write a completely bug-free DRM system, don't waste their talents on writing DRM - they're well into the top 0.001% of all developers, so get them to work writing bug-free code in your real product. Any DRM scheme adds complexity, and those of us who write software know that anything that adds complexity is going to add bugs. Some of the bugs may be minor, some may affect only a single user, but a single legitimate customer having a negative experience caused by code that has no benefit to any legitimate customers is something that I find unacceptable. This is why I don't allow DRM to be included with anything that I create.
Typical, its easy to get a +5 here, just whine on about how bad DRM is. But I bet some of those people modding you up are also running bittorrent downloading tons of games they will never pay a penny for.
But I was making purely hypothetical argument that you conveniently sidestepped: Would a perfect DRM system stop you doing something you currently do? I think the answer from most people here is usually yes in which case most peoples objection is not actually to the technological method of enforcing copyright, it is with the concept of copyright on a digital product that can be infinitely copied for almost no extra cost.
I think it is important to separate the two and try deal with them individual issues as once you open you mind to the idea of copyright law being a good thing in some cases you might find that the idea of DRM becomes more acceptable.
I view DRM software as something that could have benefit to me as a consumer. It helps provide the companies producing games I like with piece of mind that they are making as much money from products I am happy to pay for as they can. That gives them the incentive to carry on producing good products in future and not completely abandon the PC in favour of consoles where DRM is replaced with physical changes that have to be made to the consoles themselves in order to play copied discs and such like. These things can still be bypassed, but simply by making it a little harder it put many people off in case of issues like voiding a warranty.
I also have an intrinsic objection to paying for something that someone else wheedles out of so like the idea of DRM from that perspective. I am quite happy when I see faredodgers being caught on trains too. I know they are not actually causing any extra expense to be incurred by the train company by them travelling as the train was going to make the journey anyway but why should I pay and they not? If they can't afford it, they should stay at home.
If you can't afford a computer game, then don't play it. This is how capitalism works and encourages you to go out an earn more money to afford the luxuries you can't afford.
The problem with introducing fake error messages, is that they cause confusion with real error messages. Now you'll potentially have legitimate customers wondering what's wrong with their graphics card or drivers, when it's the DRM that's at fault. And DRM is often not reliable, and will typically assume a copy is invalid, if it fails to validate a game.
Everyone loves to jump to the conclusion that DRM in games is always going to break. I have only ever experienced this once. My mother board broke and I had to replace it and then GTA4 noticed and made me reinstall. It made me reinstall by constantly making the game unplayable through me being drunk whenever I got into a car. It did not take me very long to figure this out by a bit of googling.
I also understood why they did it. Me changing my MB was very hard to differentiate from me zipping up the installed folder and performing a registry export of everything the installer changed and then posting this to all my friends.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the biggest complaints about DRM come from people who know that the perfect DRM system with no bugs would also affect them in some way. I know it is nice to find out a game is crap before you shell out cash for it, and some game developers make this easy by publishing playable demos. Those companies that do this are far more likely to get my money. If they choose not to make a playable demo available, then no way am I buying it unless I hear good things from people I trust.
That is my only legal choice but it hurts them in the pocket because they lose out on a sale. It also means that I miss some perfectly good games that I would have played and liked but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make in order to not be a criminal over something so trivial as playing a computer game.
I have to fully support copyright law as it is the only thing protecting open source software from being exploited by private companies who would ignore the GPL if they could. There is no difference in law between the licence you agree to in order to play a computer game and the GPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
Wind and solar are pipe dreams. I don't care if I get modded down for saying that. I don't care if it goes against popular opinion, or flies in the face of all the pro-solar, pro-wind propaganda of late. And I don't care if it upsets the environmentalists. It's true. Even if you could come up with enough money to build the infrastructure to deploy and maintain the kind of huge solar and wind farms you would need all over the country/world, they'll still only cover a fraction of our present-day needs.
Just building the transmission lines for that kind of project is going to be overshadow the scale of the whole TVA project. And who's going to pay for it? Do you think the American people (or the people of other countries) are willing to make *real* sacrifices for that, when it really comes down to it? Oh sure, ask any American if they support solar/wind and they'll say "Yes." But try rephrasing it as "Would you support a 50% income tax increase to pay for investments in solar/wind infrastructure?" and see what they answer.
Believe me, I would love nothing better than a country running exclusively on clean energy, with solar panels and turbines everywhere. But the more I look at the issue, and the kinds of numbers involved, the more I don't see how it's ever going to be practical (not until the coal runs out anyway).
And that's not even getting into the issue of countries and areas that don't get enough unobstructed sunlight and wind. What's going to happen to them in this utopia?
Firstly, you are probably right. We cannot possibly generate the same amount we do at the moment if we use just wind and solar power.
The arguments for solar power though are not about replacing the current methods we have, they are about supplementing them. You mention transmission lines in your post when talking about building them, but you do not need to with wind and solar as they can be used at the point electricity is used to supplement the national grid. Transmission lines are the least efficient part of our current power grid.
There is a large part of the US that could spend a few dollars on solar panels and a small wind turbine for their roof and then vastly cut down on their own electric bill. They might not reduce it to zero but they could reduce it by a large margin. Also, over here in the UK when people do this they can sell their surplus (day rate, more expensive) electricity to the grid when they are not using it and then use that as a credit against the cheaper night time electricity they actually use.
Solar and wind power might never replace all our current nuclear power plants, but they are not meant to. Instead they can be used to supplement it, and as energy prices go up and up it makes more and more economic sense.
I'm sorry; but you just reduced your mobile device purchasing options to ZERO with that one spec.
Why don't you try learning to really code, instead.
Lol, A guy called Macs4all slagging off flash :)
The guy wants to do Android development so you have nothing useful to contribute to this thread. Please go elsewhere.