Ok, I understand the "human face" issue, and agree partly. I get a human checkout person at the supermarket if at all possible, for instance. But there's two issues here:
1) The GG bridge has been running at capacity for years, and a redesign to carry more traffic (a second deck, for instance) would ruin it's value as a symbol and monument. And it'd be ugly.
2) As anyone who lived in the area can tell you, toll booths are SLOW. It's the major cause of the twice-daily jam on the bridge.
I think losing the booths trumps redesigning the bridge or putting up with the traffic. I'm sure there's some other low-training high-paying government job they could be doing.
I think that was covered by the admission that Unix "crypt" was used. Unless it's just us old fogeys that remember that Unix passwords had an 8 character limit.
Man, I feel old. I'm going to go home and yell at the kids playing in my yard.
...by converting government fleets to electric, which would be far more effective for driving the industry, show that the government is taking a leadership role, and be more intellectually honest besides. I suspect, though, that they meant for you and me to drive little 50 mile range electric things while the ruling class continues to drive gas-guzzlers.
True! That is very true, and I'm sure he's having a devil of a time right now.
But -- pay attention here -- the cat is out of the bag. And I think original poster's point is that if you don't give geeks some reasonable access to a device, to do something innocuous (install Linux) that doesn't muck with your DRM, they will break your paltry encryption and publish the hack. Regardless of the personal consequences. 'S how geeks are. And the rest of us will turn the hack into haiku and t-shirts and spread it all over the net and sundry, and you'll never EVER get that particular cat back in that particular bag.
That being the case, and acknowledging that he's in a heap 'o' trouble, and whether or not Sony has the high ground here, Sony could have saved themselves a lot of grief by just keeping the damned "Other OS" feature on. Can we agree on that?
> Bottom line, if you don't allow people to install linux, enough people will be motivated to break your system to do just that, also opening the can-of-worms that is pirated software.
> Yes, but do you really need such a powerful car just to drive your body to work?
Um, no. Nobody asked me what I drive to work. Today I took the bug. (35mpg) When the weather is fair, I take the motorcycle. (55+mpg)
The other whining gits in this thread screeching at the top of their little-girl voices seem to think that ownership of a heavy work vehicle precludes the driver gets some perverse satisfaction out of hundred buck fillups at the pump. If you're celebrity environmentalist Ashton Kutcher, that might be true. But even if I didn't think that was profoundly stupid, it's way above my pay grade.
My point, in it's entirety, was that if there existed a vehicle that would do the same job, for a reasonable price, or even a reasonable markup, that got 200mpg, I'd be right there in line. I own a truck because I have work that requires it. I don't sleep with it. I speculate that even people who own a truck or SUV because they think they're cool, don't like paying at the pump any more than I do. Maybe that's what's really needed -- a 1,700 pound mostly-plastic and styrofoam hybrid that looks like an H2. (Watch out for the sail area.) Who knows, maybe it'll catch on. Although I personally think, Mr. Kutcher excepted, a lot of people driving work vehicles are mistaken by pencil-necks as having some perverse desire to solo in the largest vehicles they can fit on the road just to personally piss them off.
These concept cars and special projects are valuable because they advance the art, and maybe some tiny part of that will eventually roll into vehicles actually driven by the rank and file. Wake me when we get there. In the mean time, watching the vitriol (present company excepted) makes for an amusing read.
Sure. The moment they build a vehicle that gets 200 mpg whilst carrying our family and three rescue dogs, towing the trailer I use to gather firewood, and doesn't cost like a lamborghini, I'm all over that sucker.
> 'The Dungeon Master is tasked with giving directions to other players, which Muraski testified mimics the organization of a gang.'"
It also mimics the organization of.... FOOTBALL.
Or wait, hang on, I got it:
High school football has now been found to encourage gang-like behavior. "The quarterback is tasked with giving directions to other players, which mimics the organization of a gang".
Or, let's go at it from another direction.
Muraski claims that those pasty-faced guys in XXXL cargo pants and severely overstretched "Green Lantern" t-shirts you see rolling funny dice at the comic store are just one step away from roaming the streets wrecking terror and mayhem on the populace at large. If they can just catch their breath.
Or, let's try it this way.
Muraski claims that young adults with the predilection to violent behavior and a tendency to roam the streets in groups, are attracted to a geeky game played almost entirely by out-of-shape nerds with no social skills.
Ok, one more.
Muraski testifies to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that teamwork is antisocial behavior and should be discouraged whenever possible.
> Since 3D cinema pretty clearly empirically does "work" for most reasonable definitions of the word "work", arguments that it theoretically cannot work are obviously evidence of either bad theory or pointless misuses of language, or both.
My first thought on reading the headline is "I saw Green Hornet last weekend in 3D and I'm pretty sure it was working." Admittedly virtually everything about the experience sucked but there was definitely a 3D effect of sorts.
I suspect he's using "work" in a different context. And I don't necessarily disagree. Once the novelty wore off, I stopped being interested, and now only pay the funny glasses tariff when daughter insists.
...would have been that the Wachowski brothers have announced that they're going to remake Matrix 2 and 3 except they'd actually have a story worth telling this time.
> Can we apply an exception for the highway chase, sort of like the exception for the light-saber duel that is the only part of SWI that exists?
I would reluctantly say, no. I personally can't bring myself to acknowledge the highway chase because of its association with the rest of Matrix 2, if it existed.
This goes triple for the light saber duel in some Star Wars prequel if it actually existed. (As far as I'm concerned, the last Star Wars film was released 31 years ago.)
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Ok, I understand the "human face" issue, and agree partly. I get a human checkout person at the supermarket if at all possible, for instance. But there's two issues here:
1) The GG bridge has been running at capacity for years, and a redesign to carry more traffic (a second deck, for instance) would ruin it's value as a symbol and monument. And it'd be ugly.
2) As anyone who lived in the area can tell you, toll booths are SLOW. It's the major cause of the twice-daily jam on the bridge.
I think losing the booths trumps redesigning the bridge or putting up with the traffic. I'm sure there's some other low-training high-paying government job they could be doing.
> Am I too old for knowing immediately what the root cause for this was?
Yes.
(Me too.)
I think that was covered by the admission that Unix "crypt" was used. Unless it's just us old fogeys that remember that Unix passwords had an 8 character limit.
Man, I feel old. I'm going to go home and yell at the kids playing in my yard.
Be damned. Same here. Exactly.
> Every now and then the phone company can randomly send a text message.
I think they already do that. It's usually an ad for some sort of AT&T add-on.
Good enough for text.
The functionality I already have will be fine, thanks.
Tether a satellite phone?
True! That is very true, and I'm sure he's having a devil of a time right now.
But -- pay attention here -- the cat is out of the bag. And I think original poster's point is that if you don't give geeks some reasonable access to a device, to do something innocuous (install Linux) that doesn't muck with your DRM, they will break your paltry encryption and publish the hack. Regardless of the personal consequences. 'S how geeks are. And the rest of us will turn the hack into haiku and t-shirts and spread it all over the net and sundry, and you'll never EVER get that particular cat back in that particular bag.
That being the case, and acknowledging that he's in a heap 'o' trouble, and whether or not Sony has the high ground here, Sony could have saved themselves a lot of grief by just keeping the damned "Other OS" feature on. Can we agree on that?
> Bottom line, if you don't allow people to install linux, enough people will be motivated to break your system to do just that, also opening the can-of-worms that is pirated software.
In other words, don't mess with the penguin!
> Yes, but do you really need such a powerful car just to drive your body to work?
Um, no. Nobody asked me what I drive to work. Today I took the bug. (35mpg) When the weather is fair, I take the motorcycle. (55+mpg)
The other whining gits in this thread screeching at the top of their little-girl voices seem to think that ownership of a heavy work vehicle precludes the driver gets some perverse satisfaction out of hundred buck fillups at the pump. If you're celebrity environmentalist Ashton Kutcher, that might be true. But even if I didn't think that was profoundly stupid, it's way above my pay grade.
My point, in it's entirety, was that if there existed a vehicle that would do the same job, for a reasonable price, or even a reasonable markup, that got 200mpg, I'd be right there in line. I own a truck because I have work that requires it. I don't sleep with it. I speculate that even people who own a truck or SUV because they think they're cool, don't like paying at the pump any more than I do. Maybe that's what's really needed -- a 1,700 pound mostly-plastic and styrofoam hybrid that looks like an H2. (Watch out for the sail area.) Who knows, maybe it'll catch on. Although I personally think, Mr. Kutcher excepted, a lot of people driving work vehicles are mistaken by pencil-necks as having some perverse desire to solo in the largest vehicles they can fit on the road just to personally piss them off.
These concept cars and special projects are valuable because they advance the art, and maybe some tiny part of that will eventually roll into vehicles actually driven by the rank and file. Wake me when we get there. In the mean time, watching the vitriol (present company excepted) makes for an amusing read.
How quickly we resort to abuse.
Sure. The moment they build a vehicle that gets 200 mpg whilst carrying our family and three rescue dogs, towing the trailer I use to gather firewood, and doesn't cost like a lamborghini, I'm all over that sucker.
> 'The Dungeon Master is tasked with giving directions to other players, which Muraski testified mimics the organization of a gang.'"
It also mimics the organization of.... FOOTBALL.
Or wait, hang on, I got it:
High school football has now been found to encourage gang-like behavior. "The quarterback is tasked with giving directions to other players, which mimics the organization of a gang".
Or, let's go at it from another direction.
Muraski claims that those pasty-faced guys in XXXL cargo pants and severely overstretched "Green Lantern" t-shirts you see rolling funny dice at the comic store are just one step away from roaming the streets wrecking terror and mayhem on the populace at large. If they can just catch their breath.
Or, let's try it this way.
Muraski claims that young adults with the predilection to violent behavior and a tendency to roam the streets in groups, are attracted to a geeky game played almost entirely by out-of-shape nerds with no social skills.
Ok, one more.
Muraski testifies to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that teamwork is antisocial behavior and should be discouraged whenever possible.
Sure, I'll buy that...
I wonder if you could manipulate the data to make it seem like your car didn't exist?
> Since 3D cinema pretty clearly empirically does "work" for most reasonable definitions of the word "work", arguments that it theoretically cannot work are obviously evidence of either bad theory or pointless misuses of language, or both.
My first thought on reading the headline is "I saw Green Hornet last weekend in 3D and I'm pretty sure it was working." Admittedly virtually everything about the experience sucked but there was definitely a 3D effect of sorts.
I suspect he's using "work" in a different context. And I don't necessarily disagree. Once the novelty wore off, I stopped being interested, and now only pay the funny glasses tariff when daughter insists.
Green Hornet sucked. 3D just made it suck harder.
> Can we apply an exception for the highway chase, sort of like the exception for the light-saber duel that is the only part of SWI that exists?
I would reluctantly say, no. I personally can't bring myself to acknowledge the highway chase because of its association with the rest of Matrix 2, if it existed.
This goes triple for the light saber duel in some Star Wars prequel if it actually existed. (As far as I'm concerned, the last Star Wars film was released 31 years ago.)
You are missing nothing. There was no 2 and 3. Once I thought there was, but I'm sure it was a nightmare.
It's possible that this is not what you meant, but I'm pretty sure "they're old" is not a valid excuse to swindle.
Hopefully it's repeatable this time.
Maybe I didn't communicate that properly. You can cancel your AOL Account and keep your AOL email address.