I'd go in a heartbeat. Ever since I was young I've wanted to be one of the first people to go to Mars. Life didn't turn out like I'd dreamed of (Programming instead of Air Force Pilot) but if given the chance, I'd still make the sacrifice. I would do anything to go on that first trip.
They are liable as long as they are considered a content provider.
As soon as the ISP's started filtering traffic they didn't like and affecting what data is on their network, they became content providers and could not ask for immunity. If they were to stop filtering/blocking/etc what goes over their tubes, they could probably ask to not be considered a content provider and then what happens on their tubes is not their fault; they would be just offering a service.
(This is how I see the US working; AU might be a tad different)
Are you talking about the NetFlix "Not Available on XBOX" issue?
If these items are available on their console and not on the XBOX, don't you think the PS3 would be a better choice? Why would Sony want to HELP the 360?
Seems like a very logical business decision to me...
That was the best comment thus far.
I second #3 by the way, or...
5. Shoot LHC at the solar panels. By the time it reaches Mars it's attenuation should be about that of a light breeze; just enough to clear off the dust from them.
As for Barr, I was leaning towards him but his stance on Roe v. Wade is turn overturn it. Nader (even though he's crazy old) seemed a better choice for me.
I got to the polls ~6:30am (opened at 6am) and probably 15 mins from getting in line to walking to my car. It took longer at the Dunkin' Donuts for my coffee...
I voted as well in NY and they had me sign my name in the book that lists registrations, and entered in my number in line (59) which, I'm assuming, was how many people have voted at that location including me up to that point. There was only one booth with the levers you pull down for who you vote for. I guess if they keep track of when each vote was entered, they can correlate it with you. However, I honestly don't care. As long as my vote isn't changed because they look me up and I'm a part of some group (ie. Male, Under 25, etc) that they don't like, then I'm OK with it.
Also, I'm glad we don't have the computer voting machines. Though, I don't quite trust that lever that opens the curtain to record my vote, either...
Education has no business being on their agendas. Education is a state right. They cannot make any laws that directly affect education; all they do is create laws that deny funding if a state doesn't follow certain rules. Stop punishing the educational system with demands in exchange for funding, give all equal funding, and allow each individual state to make their own decisions.
I'm not sure you can count Wii Sports as the best selling game of 2007... didn't it come bundled with the Wii? (I'm not sure, I don't own one)
But a few posts up someone posted his "Good Games Per Month" thing. The Wii/DS have very few games that are actually worth picking up. The Wiimote, most of the time, seems unresponsive and it's used way too often as a novelty product. All it does is make you look like a fool playing a game.
As for Twilight Princess, I own it for Gamecube. I don't think we can call it a Wii game. It's more of a port. I'm glad, too, because I really don't see any reason to own a Wii.
Back when I was in High School, a friend of my brother and I was in a similar situation. (RIP Justin)
Our high school just started a laptop program and their class was piloting it. I was a year ahead so wasn't in it. The school was very 1984 with their networking policies and, being the geeks we were, we tried to get around it using proxies etc. Well, my friend had an account with someone he knew online on a server in Canada. Well, unbeknown to our friend, it wasn't a legitimate account his friend gave him. With all the traffic from our school going through this server, the owner contacted the IT people and our friend got in trouble. There was talk of charges being pressed from the Canadian company.
Now, all of that seems a but overboard; though you can't prove he was or wasn't accessing this server by illegitimate means. To him, it was a valid account. Afterwards, our friend Justin was trying to access his school file account from home and was unable to get in. Using his own username/password, he kept being denied. He was trying to get some homework to work on at home. The school never told him that they cut off his network access. Later, they saw he was trying to get into the network and said he was hacking their server.... using his own username to access his own files. Anyway, the school board suspended him for a year and pressed charges. Luckily he wasn't found guilty but the suspension stuck.
Schools are way too overprotective and blow the smallest things out of proportion. I wish someone would take a suit like this to trial and get some precedent set for whistleblowers. Letting someone know that your security is crap should be appreciated. Now, what this young man actually wanted to do is ambiguous from the facts in TFA. But, in my limited experience, officials will exaggerate to get the unknowing population on their site as they did with my friend. The Police Officer who is saying that he wanted to profit from the data is probably making things up. They did the same with my friend. They want sympathy as well as to blame someone else for their incompetence. It happens every time something like this happens; especially when it involves a school.
I pre-ordered it months ago. It's one of a few games I've been eagerly anticipating for ANY game platform. It's the first group play game I've been interested in, actually. Sony has always had trouble in the "party game" dept and this seems to be a step forward.
Nintendo always had Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, etc and recently Rock Band and Guitar Hero have come out in this "genre." I never liked The Guitar Band games and the Wii is too much of a Fad (and the controller seems sluggish at best to me; I don't really like it) so getting Sony or MS to get some good group games is nice.
So, white chicks progressively get sluttier as tehy get older, black chicks start out slutty and can't really get sluttier from there, and thai chicks have cycles?
Well, if you think of it as time being a loop, then there is no time outside of time (er...) and once it ends, it is back at the beginning again and starts over.
Now, ask me to prove that and I'll just laugh. But, there are possible outcomes/beginnings that might be plausible. I think time being a loop is a lot more realistic than some twat in the sky creating us, but that's my opinion.
Actually, I wish browsers would fail miserably when they find a non-compliant error instead of working around it like with HTML.
In a program using [insert favorite (real)language here], when you have a syntax error it dies a horrible death. In testing, that's fine. You can fix it. Fixing things keeps them tidy and requires it to fit certain rules.
If your compiler saw ints=5; instead of int s = 5; and decided that ints should be a string, would you be happy? Then, when you wanted to do s = s + 6; and got 6 (because s hasn't been declared and your compiler decided that was ok, too) would you be happy? Would that suck to try and debug?
Oh, also. If all your files had the same hash, do you think they'd keep multiple copies of the same file? Either you'd have to make a new, different, file everyday or they'd only have to keep 500 1GB copies and be done with it.
Unfortunately, if it is a single message to 500 recipients, it will probably go to the "server" first and then boradcast out to everyone on the list. Therefore, the only way to be certain of your 500GB per person per day would be to send out 500 individual messages.
Do YOU have 500GB/day bandwidth to waste? Do 499 of your friends? I don't think this would work unless you could guarantee that your single message would be copied by the "server" which I would highly doubt. If it did, they deserve to be brought to their knees.
This is a great chance for ATI to get some market-share. If you don't know what nVidia cards are affected, are you going to chance it? I know I wouldn't. If ATI doesn't take advantage of this with price drops or something, their marketing dept. should be taken out back and finished off of-mice-and-men style...
How about create a new partition in whatever OS you're in, store whatever you want on it, and don't mount it? $10 says they don't know UNIX/Linux nor how to use the Computer Management tool in Windows. If they don't see it as a drive, they can't really look at it, can they?
Now, if they confiscate it, I'm sure the person looking it over would be able to so encryption might still be useful. But it's a quick and easy solution. I do it to hide... things... from family/friends
I grabbed "World Ends With You" for the DS and thought the stylus input was the same way. It was an interesting idea for input and works fine when you're just walking around but trying to fight enemies by moving the stylus around (the way they implemented it anyway) wasn't very responsive and very gimmick-y.
That's the main issue I have with the DS and Wii. A lot of games I see they use the wand/stylus in very odd ways to make them seem new and innovative when they just end up being shoddy and useless.
The dock is such a random piece of UI design. It sits in the middle of the screen and overlaps anything that is displayed. There's no way to make windows not go behind it (not that I know of) and they are always resizing windows manually so they don't get covered up.
The dock is a piece of shit (along with most of Apple's UI "improvements"). They can keep it for all I care.
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I'd go in a heartbeat. Ever since I was young I've wanted to be one of the first people to go to Mars. Life didn't turn out like I'd dreamed of (Programming instead of Air Force Pilot) but if given the chance, I'd still make the sacrifice. I would do anything to go on that first trip.
For more info, DMCA Section 512 - Safe Harbor http://www.benedict.com/Digital/Internet/DMCA/DMCA-SafeHarbor.aspx
They are liable as long as they are considered a content provider.
As soon as the ISP's started filtering traffic they didn't like and affecting what data is on their network, they became content providers and could not ask for immunity. If they were to stop filtering/blocking/etc what goes over their tubes, they could probably ask to not be considered a content provider and then what happens on their tubes is not their fault; they would be just offering a service.
(This is how I see the US working; AU might be a tad different)
Are you talking about the NetFlix "Not Available on XBOX" issue?
If these items are available on their console and not on the XBOX, don't you think the PS3 would be a better choice? Why would Sony want to HELP the 360?
Seems like a very logical business decision to me...
That was the best comment thus far. I second #3 by the way, or... 5. Shoot LHC at the solar panels. By the time it reaches Mars it's attenuation should be about that of a light breeze; just enough to clear off the dust from them.
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That's far short of being "each candidate" isn't it?
As for Barr, I was leaning towards him but his stance on Roe v. Wade is turn overturn it. Nader (even though he's crazy old) seemed a better choice for me.
I got to the polls ~6:30am (opened at 6am) and probably 15 mins from getting in line to walking to my car. It took longer at the Dunkin' Donuts for my coffee...
I voted as well in NY and they had me sign my name in the book that lists registrations, and entered in my number in line (59) which, I'm assuming, was how many people have voted at that location including me up to that point. There was only one booth with the levers you pull down for who you vote for. I guess if they keep track of when each vote was entered, they can correlate it with you. However, I honestly don't care. As long as my vote isn't changed because they look me up and I'm a part of some group (ie. Male, Under 25, etc) that they don't like, then I'm OK with it.
Also, I'm glad we don't have the computer voting machines. Though, I don't quite trust that lever that opens the curtain to record my vote, either...
Education has no business being on their agendas. Education is a state right. They cannot make any laws that directly affect education; all they do is create laws that deny funding if a state doesn't follow certain rules. Stop punishing the educational system with demands in exchange for funding, give all equal funding, and allow each individual state to make their own decisions.
That's not a shortage, that's people not being able to afford it. If they had the money, they could get health care.
I'm not sure you can count Wii Sports as the best selling game of 2007... didn't it come bundled with the Wii? (I'm not sure, I don't own one)
But a few posts up someone posted his "Good Games Per Month" thing. The Wii/DS have very few games that are actually worth picking up. The Wiimote, most of the time, seems unresponsive and it's used way too often as a novelty product. All it does is make you look like a fool playing a game.
As for Twilight Princess, I own it for Gamecube. I don't think we can call it a Wii game. It's more of a port. I'm glad, too, because I really don't see any reason to own a Wii.
Back when I was in High School, a friend of my brother and I was in a similar situation. (RIP Justin)
Our high school just started a laptop program and their class was piloting it. I was a year ahead so wasn't in it. The school was very 1984 with their networking policies and, being the geeks we were, we tried to get around it using proxies etc. Well, my friend had an account with someone he knew online on a server in Canada. Well, unbeknown to our friend, it wasn't a legitimate account his friend gave him. With all the traffic from our school going through this server, the owner contacted the IT people and our friend got in trouble. There was talk of charges being pressed from the Canadian company.
Now, all of that seems a but overboard; though you can't prove he was or wasn't accessing this server by illegitimate means. To him, it was a valid account. Afterwards, our friend Justin was trying to access his school file account from home and was unable to get in. Using his own username/password, he kept being denied. He was trying to get some homework to work on at home. The school never told him that they cut off his network access. Later, they saw he was trying to get into the network and said he was hacking their server.... using his own username to access his own files. Anyway, the school board suspended him for a year and pressed charges. Luckily he wasn't found guilty but the suspension stuck.
Schools are way too overprotective and blow the smallest things out of proportion. I wish someone would take a suit like this to trial and get some precedent set for whistleblowers. Letting someone know that your security is crap should be appreciated. Now, what this young man actually wanted to do is ambiguous from the facts in TFA. But, in my limited experience, officials will exaggerate to get the unknowing population on their site as they did with my friend. The Police Officer who is saying that he wanted to profit from the data is probably making things up. They did the same with my friend. They want sympathy as well as to blame someone else for their incompetence. It happens every time something like this happens; especially when it involves a school.
I pre-ordered it months ago. It's one of a few games I've been eagerly anticipating for ANY game platform. It's the first group play game I've been interested in, actually. Sony has always had trouble in the "party game" dept and this seems to be a step forward.
Nintendo always had Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, etc and recently Rock Band and Guitar Hero have come out in this "genre." I never liked The Guitar Band games and the Wii is too much of a Fad (and the controller seems sluggish at best to me; I don't really like it) so getting Sony or MS to get some good group games is nice.
So, white chicks progressively get sluttier as tehy get older, black chicks start out slutty and can't really get sluttier from there, and thai chicks have cycles?
Well, if you think of it as time being a loop, then there is no time outside of time (er...) and once it ends, it is back at the beginning again and starts over.
Now, ask me to prove that and I'll just laugh. But, there are possible outcomes/beginnings that might be plausible. I think time being a loop is a lot more realistic than some twat in the sky creating us, but that's my opinion.
WTF is a netbook? Is that kind of like "Blogosphere" and "Web 2.0"? Words people made up to look important and hip?
Go choke on a twitter
Actually, I wish browsers would fail miserably when they find a non-compliant error instead of working around it like with HTML.
In a program using [insert favorite (real)language here], when you have a syntax error it dies a horrible death. In testing, that's fine. You can fix it. Fixing things keeps them tidy and requires it to fit certain rules.
If your compiler saw ints=5; instead of int s = 5; and decided that ints should be a string, would you be happy? Then, when you wanted to do s = s + 6; and got 6 (because s hasn't been declared and your compiler decided that was ok, too) would you be happy? Would that suck to try and debug?
That's HTML.
Oh, also. If all your files had the same hash, do you think they'd keep multiple copies of the same file? Either you'd have to make a new, different, file everyday or they'd only have to keep 500 1GB copies and be done with it.
Unfortunately, if it is a single message to 500 recipients, it will probably go to the "server" first and then boradcast out to everyone on the list. Therefore, the only way to be certain of your 500GB per person per day would be to send out 500 individual messages.
Do YOU have 500GB/day bandwidth to waste? Do 499 of your friends? I don't think this would work unless you could guarantee that your single message would be copied by the "server" which I would highly doubt. If it did, they deserve to be brought to their knees.
This is a great chance for ATI to get some market-share. If you don't know what nVidia cards are affected, are you going to chance it? I know I wouldn't. If ATI doesn't take advantage of this with price drops or something, their marketing dept. should be taken out back and finished off of-mice-and-men style...
How about create a new partition in whatever OS you're in, store whatever you want on it, and don't mount it? $10 says they don't know UNIX/Linux nor how to use the Computer Management tool in Windows. If they don't see it as a drive, they can't really look at it, can they?
Now, if they confiscate it, I'm sure the person looking it over would be able to so encryption might still be useful. But it's a quick and easy solution. I do it to hide... things... from family/friends
I grabbed "World Ends With You" for the DS and thought the stylus input was the same way. It was an interesting idea for input and works fine when you're just walking around but trying to fight enemies by moving the stylus around (the way they implemented it anyway) wasn't very responsive and very gimmick-y.
That's the main issue I have with the DS and Wii. A lot of games I see they use the wand/stylus in very odd ways to make them seem new and innovative when they just end up being shoddy and useless.
"and the user is always resizing windows manually" sorry for the error
The dock is such a random piece of UI design. It sits in the middle of the screen and overlaps anything that is displayed. There's no way to make windows not go behind it (not that I know of) and they are always resizing windows manually so they don't get covered up.
The dock is a piece of shit (along with most of Apple's UI "improvements"). They can keep it for all I care.