The movie industry is about 100 years older than the game industry, so all these controversies have had time to sort themselves out. All the really controversial movies happened in the 40s and 50s, back when you weren't allowed to show direct violence (take a close look at the shower scene in Psycho), men topless, or a married couple sleeping in the same bed.
From a devil's-advocate perspective, I suppose the real-world equivalent of protest via domain names would be like buying a store, putting up the golden arches, and when someone comes in looking for cheeseburgers you give them anti-McDonalds pamphlets instead. That would be a clear-cut case of trademark infringment, causing customer confusion, and so on. This case is no different from other domain name complaints, except that the little guy won.
There's footage of this monstrosity on one of the DVDs... Imagine a kid's wagon carrying a giant birthday cake topped with a police blinker instead of a candle.
The reason this is not considered news is that it's been like that for DECADES and most people put up with it. The benefit for all that cost is that the license fee supports the BBC, whose programming is vastly superior to what you get on American PBS or network television (or so I understand, not being a Brit myself).
The original did not have fast load times (although they were shorter than DX2's). Also, there were a lot of times in DX1 when I would have liked an opportunity to just turn around and go back instantly instead of doing it after wasting 2 load times.
You could copy one comment without infringing. If you copied the entire topic, including all thread relationships and user metadata, that would be infringing. For anything in between, a human judge would make the decision.
Also, if you somehow convinced all the users here to go to your site and post a set of threads identical to this topic, it would not be infringing despite being identical to the Slashdot dataset.
You might want to compare the relative sizes and population densities of the two countries before asking why one can't match the other in infrastructure investment.
Your bank transactions are already going through either your tappable phone line or your tappable cable box. Just use application-level encryption (SSL), which they should be using anyway. As it becomes easier to get wired in general, it's inevitably going to become easier to get wired secretly and/or without permission. Wifi is an extreme example of this, but the technology and users are already adapting.
For that matter, it might be harder to tap into BPL, because you don't die when you fuck up splicing a coax or telephone line.
How many people make their living *entirely* from writing free software? It's probably in the low double or triple digits. How many programmers (and college people intending to become them) are there? Millions, at least. How do you get into that position? Write an incredibly cool program, which can take years, and make it the best in its category in the world, which takes huge amounts of work and luck. That's not a feasible life strategy; if you told that to your advisor or career counselor you'd be laughed out of the office.
It may not have been terrorism, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't throw the book at him (with something other than the patriot act). You really shouldn't fuck with 911 service; he could easily have contributed to loss of life if someone couldn't get through to emergency services.
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What might be more useful, and even MORE controversial and ethically complex, is developing an implant that would suppress those thoughts before the offender has a chance to act on them at all.
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The movie industry is about 100 years older than the game industry, so all these controversies have had time to sort themselves out. All the really controversial movies happened in the 40s and 50s, back when you weren't allowed to show direct violence (take a close look at the shower scene in Psycho), men topless, or a married couple sleeping in the same bed.
Can you boot off a CF card reader? That seems to be the only thing floppies are used for any more.
From a devil's-advocate perspective, I suppose the real-world equivalent of protest via domain names would be like buying a store, putting up the golden arches, and when someone comes in looking for cheeseburgers you give them anti-McDonalds pamphlets instead. That would be a clear-cut case of trademark infringment, causing customer confusion, and so on. This case is no different from other domain name complaints, except that the little guy won.
It's outrageous that God hasn't released open-source drivers for my stomach yet. How am I supposed to eat only Free Food now?
There Will Come Soft Rains.
There's footage of this monstrosity on one of the DVDs... Imagine a kid's wagon carrying a giant birthday cake topped with a police blinker instead of a candle.
The best part about maddox is that in one of his rants, he rails against the idiocy of people who bitch about things they hate on their web sites.
The reason this is not considered news is that it's been like that for DECADES and most people put up with it. The benefit for all that cost is that the license fee supports the BBC, whose programming is vastly superior to what you get on American PBS or network television (or so I understand, not being a Brit myself).
The original did not have fast load times (although they were shorter than DX2's). Also, there were a lot of times in DX1 when I would have liked an opportunity to just turn around and go back instantly instead of doing it after wasting 2 load times.
You could copy one comment without infringing. If you copied the entire topic, including all thread relationships and user metadata, that would be infringing. For anything in between, a human judge would make the decision.
Also, if you somehow convinced all the users here to go to your site and post a set of threads identical to this topic, it would not be infringing despite being identical to the Slashdot dataset.
L3 is just the next larger cache after L2. Where it is in the physical circuitry is an implementation detail.
That wouldn't be so bad... plumbing has a decent upload rate. And its users' contributions are at least as good as a lot of Net content these days...
You might want to compare the relative sizes and population densities of the two countries before asking why one can't match the other in infrastructure investment.
Your bank transactions are already going through either your tappable phone line or your tappable cable box. Just use application-level encryption (SSL), which they should be using anyway. As it becomes easier to get wired in general, it's inevitably going to become easier to get wired secretly and/or without permission. Wifi is an extreme example of this, but the technology and users are already adapting.
For that matter, it might be harder to tap into BPL, because you don't die when you fuck up splicing a coax or telephone line.
I don't know what crack-ass Safari you're running, but it works fine on both my Macs.
It really depends on the company and location. I get 384 up to Time Warner in NYC for $50/month.
How many people make their living *entirely* from writing free software? It's probably in the low double or triple digits. How many programmers (and college people intending to become them) are there? Millions, at least. How do you get into that position? Write an incredibly cool program, which can take years, and make it the best in its category in the world, which takes huge amounts of work and luck. That's not a feasible life strategy; if you told that to your advisor or career counselor you'd be laughed out of the office.
The best part about that quote is that according to the Stonecutters that is the right number.
It may not have been terrorism, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't throw the book at him (with something other than the patriot act). You really shouldn't fuck with 911 service; he could easily have contributed to loss of life if someone couldn't get through to emergency services.
Judging from their games, I think it's because they tripped a few times.
"Attempted murder! Now what is that, really! Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry?"
That would technically be an air submersible.
What might be more useful, and even MORE controversial and ethically complex, is developing an implant that would suppress those thoughts before the offender has a chance to act on them at all.
It's even less help if you don't know the man or apropos commands.
Not a dupe, but a tripe! Oh, wait...