Many Christians (and other theists, for that matter) think that evolution at all conflicts with theology. God created everything perfectly (man in his own image after all) the first time, and nothing changed after that. After all, God's image is perfect, isn't it?
What you are missing is that some people will throw out facts because it conflicts with their belief, which is in the literal Bible. Painting all Christians with the same brush is the same thing as calling all Muslims terrorists. Sure, it's true sometimes but not always. There are some progressive Christians, but there are still enough biblical literalists that it still causes major problems for the rest of them.
What about gaming? P2P for something higher quality than 720p DivX? Remote desktops? There are all kinds of things that faster networks enable, some of which are still being invented. Saying that the network is fast enough is like being an old farmer and saying your horse does a great job plowing, you don't need that newfangled tractor.
Even though I'm an atheist, I strongly believe that there are a number of things where doing nothing is much preferable to doing something. The most dangerous people are not the loafers, but the industrious who are wrong-headed. You want an example? Look at Iraq. I'm sure GW intended nothing but the best there, and even thought he was doing a good thing (and profiting on the side). Whoops.
That's only half of it. The other half are the parents who think the school should do everything for their little angels and if their kid is failing, it's the instructor's fault, not the fault of their kid who's more interested in ditching class or drugs or just being "cool" than he is in school.
Spam is in the eye of the beholder... hell, look at how many marketing emails that people request are subsequently marked as "spam" because they no longer want them, not because they somehow magically turned from "good" to "spam".
Besides, we're talking about companies sending these fake messages to their own employees, a local, controlled list. If it's your own network, it's not spam. It's an approved, system-wide message. Get off your high horse.
Sure, there are ways around it. But the point is that there shouldn't have to be. The legality of such applications should never be in question. Kick off the users, don't make any tool that circumvents an EULA illegal. If you do, we end up in a situation that lets any private enterprise write de facto law into their usage agreements.
The ends don't justify the means, though. I don't think that people using glider should keep their subscriptions. But I think that going after the company making the program is a gross abuse of the law, and sets a horribly dangerous precedent. If it stands, it essentially allows companies to make law simply by writing terms into their EULA. Do you really want THAT? I'm ok with some gamers getting pissed off if it means that we don't give private enterprise carte blanche to essentially dictate law.
They'll have to remain backwards compatible, which leaves a nice big hole open, and there are a bunch of lawsuits in both the EU and the US against Microsoft about their monopoly status, and most of the remedies involve Microsoft opening and documenting their communications protocols. Like MAPI and AD. Until MS stops pissing off governments it will be under a very big microscope, and they'll be expected to help projects like this be implemented with proper protocol documentation.
So... you're saying that because a lot of people pay through the ass to use something that still breaks and use suppose, you should pay for it and like it? Great logic there.
Support costs money, true. May as well not pay for the product if you have to pay to support it anyway, right?
They should. If Blizzard doesn't want to do business with people who violate contract, or want to sue the people who violate their contract, that's one thing. It's a completely different thing to use an asinine law to take down a company that just provides automation tools.
Going by Blizzard's logic, Dell should also have a big lawsuit against them because their computers were almost certainly used in this circumvention, and they contributed materially to it by allowing ungood code to run on the machines they sold to the consumers.
This lawsuit is NOT about how a person's actions broke the EULA. It's an abuse of copyright... they're suing a company that provided software. They're not kicking off the botting users, they're taking an end-run around the law trying to subvert it because it's easier than finding their users that are actually cheating.
To further your analogy... someone would basically have to use the DMCA to put coat-hanger manufacturers out of business, not to actually outlaw abortions.
Sure. So kick off the people abusing their terms of service. Suing the company making the bot is a completely different issue, and has (rather, SHOULD have) no legal grounds.
Looks like Greasemonkey is illegal now too, right? Especially if you get rid of those "right-click" or selection prevention scripts (I'm looking at you, snopes).
Most of the time it's a threshold. So if it's, say, 50*C or above, it's a 1. Anything below that is a 0. They do a very similar thing with off/on states for memory and such. It's a threshold, not a completely discrete value.
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I wonder if a magnetic tornado would cause pandelerium, and in that case, who would have your casserole dish?
Spell cheque ab use is no laughing mater
So... you're saying that you're not Mr. Spock?
Many Christians (and other theists, for that matter) think that evolution at all conflicts with theology. God created everything perfectly (man in his own image after all) the first time, and nothing changed after that. After all, God's image is perfect, isn't it?
What you are missing is that some people will throw out facts because it conflicts with their belief, which is in the literal Bible. Painting all Christians with the same brush is the same thing as calling all Muslims terrorists. Sure, it's true sometimes but not always. There are some progressive Christians, but there are still enough biblical literalists that it still causes major problems for the rest of them.
What about gaming? P2P for something higher quality than 720p DivX? Remote desktops? There are all kinds of things that faster networks enable, some of which are still being invented. Saying that the network is fast enough is like being an old farmer and saying your horse does a great job plowing, you don't need that newfangled tractor.
Maybe not to remote servers, but it sure does mean it to your local network. Which is key for P2P and other types of applications like that.
"The path to hell is paved with good intentions"
Even though I'm an atheist, I strongly believe that there are a number of things where doing nothing is much preferable to doing something. The most dangerous people are not the loafers, but the industrious who are wrong-headed. You want an example? Look at Iraq. I'm sure GW intended nothing but the best there, and even thought he was doing a good thing (and profiting on the side). Whoops.
That's only half of it. The other half are the parents who think the school should do everything for their little angels and if their kid is failing, it's the instructor's fault, not the fault of their kid who's more interested in ditching class or drugs or just being "cool" than he is in school.
Spam is in the eye of the beholder... hell, look at how many marketing emails that people request are subsequently marked as "spam" because they no longer want them, not because they somehow magically turned from "good" to "spam".
Besides, we're talking about companies sending these fake messages to their own employees, a local, controlled list. If it's your own network, it's not spam. It's an approved, system-wide message. Get off your high horse.
And a lot of times children eat dirt because they're mineral deficient, not because they're stupid.
Sure, there are ways around it. But the point is that there shouldn't have to be. The legality of such applications should never be in question. Kick off the users, don't make any tool that circumvents an EULA illegal. If you do, we end up in a situation that lets any private enterprise write de facto law into their usage agreements.
The ends don't justify the means, though. I don't think that people using glider should keep their subscriptions. But I think that going after the company making the program is a gross abuse of the law, and sets a horribly dangerous precedent. If it stands, it essentially allows companies to make law simply by writing terms into their EULA. Do you really want THAT? I'm ok with some gamers getting pissed off if it means that we don't give private enterprise carte blanche to essentially dictate law.
Like pot? Oh, wait...
They'll have to remain backwards compatible, which leaves a nice big hole open, and there are a bunch of lawsuits in both the EU and the US against Microsoft about their monopoly status, and most of the remedies involve Microsoft opening and documenting their communications protocols. Like MAPI and AD. Until MS stops pissing off governments it will be under a very big microscope, and they'll be expected to help projects like this be implemented with proper protocol documentation.
So... you're saying that because a lot of people pay through the ass to use something that still breaks and use suppose, you should pay for it and like it? Great logic there.
Support costs money, true. May as well not pay for the product if you have to pay to support it anyway, right?
You can't switch a camera off? Since when? I have wire snips, and if nothing else, I have duct tape. Hell, duct tape with a picture on it would work.
They should. If Blizzard doesn't want to do business with people who violate contract, or want to sue the people who violate their contract, that's one thing. It's a completely different thing to use an asinine law to take down a company that just provides automation tools.
Going by Blizzard's logic, Dell should also have a big lawsuit against them because their computers were almost certainly used in this circumvention, and they contributed materially to it by allowing ungood code to run on the machines they sold to the consumers.
This lawsuit is NOT about how a person's actions broke the EULA. It's an abuse of copyright... they're suing a company that provided software. They're not kicking off the botting users, they're taking an end-run around the law trying to subvert it because it's easier than finding their users that are actually cheating.
To further your analogy... someone would basically have to use the DMCA to put coat-hanger manufacturers out of business, not to actually outlaw abortions.
Sure. So kick off the people abusing their terms of service. Suing the company making the bot is a completely different issue, and has (rather, SHOULD have) no legal grounds.
Looks like Greasemonkey is illegal now too, right? Especially if you get rid of those "right-click" or selection prevention scripts (I'm looking at you, snopes).
My apologies, thanks for the link :) Much more understandable now. I haven't spend much time in Baltimore, so I was just going with what Google found.
Is this the park you speak of? It looks like they just paved most of the mall leaving room around a few trees, rather than a deer path type thing.
I think they call that a thermistor (minus the melty bit)
Most of the time it's a threshold. So if it's, say, 50*C or above, it's a 1. Anything below that is a 0. They do a very similar thing with off/on states for memory and such. It's a threshold, not a completely discrete value.