You're really not paying attention are you? There are people in jail for 25 years for not paying parking tickets.
The problem is that any three felonies will get you put away for 25 years, and many legally insignificant events can result in felony charges.
Its not hard to find examples of really stupid 3-strikes cases, especially in California and if you haven't done any research on the topic I dare say you don't deserve an opinion on the issue.
where the library exists but ld.so.conf doesn't know it or where several variations exist but not the right one.
And that pretty much sums up all of my uses for ldd. There's only two things I regularly want to know from ldd -- is this program dynamically compiled, and which copy of those libraries is it grabbing (path-wise).
You mean like the PS3 using standard USB, OpenGL, HDMI, SATA and a variety of other standards? Or their music players supporting everything from their recommended AAC down to MP3? Just because Sony is an innovative company constantly trying to come up with new and better ways to do things doesn't mean they're proprietary-only.
Before you say it, when Sony came out with the memory stick, there was nothing comparable on the market in size, speed and features.
PS my PS3 supports CompactFlash and SD cards as well, and actually allows me to copy the music I rip from CDs with it to other devices or memory cards unlike other lock-in manufacturers.
You make one device for every region and package a different AC adapter for each. Its simple, easy and makes things work.
Personally I'd just like to see maximum size limitations on them -- if it weighs more than "x" make it a power block (sits on floor with normal power cable, like laptops usually have), etc.
Explain the existence of regedit to me then. You've also obviously never administered a large Windows network of any form -- command-line usage of 'net' and other commands is very normal for usage tasks.
"ipconfig/all" is still much more informative than any combination of dialogs.
Being able to drag any window without finding the title bar is being spoiled.
In this case it also helps get around minor UI issues at low resolutions.
Holding alt and dragging with your mouse is no more a secret handshake in Linux than Win+E or Win+R is in Windows. You may not know them personally, but they're well documented and almost any geek will show them to you.
PS Win+R opens the Run dialog and Win+E opens an explorer window.
As you suggested, I've always understood that the easiest thing to do in these cases is to use a perfectly valid and strong algorithm for your encryption, etc. but to use less-than-secure keys.
This is one of the reasons I've always supported trusted computing -- even though many other F/OSS people see it as evil. Trusted computing lets me have some control over what runs on my own hardware, and helps to prevent against this type of attack vector.
And while funny, what possible search would've lead to those results?
Go Google something generic sometime like "mom" or "health" or "driving" and see how good Google is at filtering out "I was driving yesterday and saw my mom working the side of the road. The potential effects on her health worried me" from someone's personal website.
I'm quite certain you'll find that like the web, there are nuggets of good stuff on twitter -- they're just hard to find.
Most of us using Google may forget the days when crawling through dozens of pages of irrelevant search results was necessary to find the data we were looking for.
Google does an excellent job of maintaining a high signal to noise ratio with websites, I don't doubt they'll do the same for tweets.
I'd expect the digital equivalent of: "Why did you show up at your ex boyfriend's office when you have a restraining order against him?"
Facebook doesn't allow non-friends to poke (it hasn't for a long time) so I'd question why the person you have a restraining order is on your friends list at all.
While it would be nice of Sony to 'force' demos to be available, I do prefer that they treat their publishers with a little respect and the store has a big huge "Demo" category where you can look at game demos all you like. They're even sorted alphabetically.
Of course most of us browse the "what's new" every week, so we're going to see your game anyway. That advertising block is almost never clicked by yours truly.
This is the same prior knowledge concept that the credit card company used when talking to me recently about a potentially fraudulent purchase on my account.
The agent called, said they were from my credit card company and if I wouldn't mind, please hang up and call the 800 number on the back of my credit card and request extension xyz to continue the phone call.
If I receive an E-mail from a major website claiming I need to log in, the same thing happens. I go to my browser and type in the address myself (or you could grab it from a bookmark if you use those). I don't trust links in most Emails.
And then you call your credit card company and explain those are fraudulent purchases and they refund them using their fraud insurance program. They also don't have you talk to police (despite a crime having been committed) because its bad for business, and they want people to believe credit cards and banking data is completely safe to use.
If your bank won't give you your money back no questions asked, just tell them you're filing a report on the fraud with a local detective and they'll change stories.
It seems to me then that you're just a Sony hater with a single case to harp on.
I can name dozens of incidents where Microsoft did much worse things (including breaking the law). IBM has done more than one 'evil' thing to computers in its lifetime, as have Dell and many others.
I might add, Sony didn't start lobbing around lawsuits when they were found to be using partial rootkit code either, unlike some vendors in their own situations.
Last I checked, of all the major console vendors, only Sony's allows me to rip a CD down to the unit and then copy the resulting MP3/AAC files to an MP3 player or USB drive afterward. Explain that if you think they're so antagonistic.
They made a mistake. One. Sony screwed up, they fixed it, its over. "Get over it" comes to mind.
Also, that incident was way overblown -- any knowledgeable computer person knows full well that Sony probably contracted someone to make them a copy protection solution and that someone thought the rootkit system in question would be a good way to bypass normal Windows security in order to make sure the copy protection software worked as designed.
Sony, being a much more responsible company that they're given credit for among geeks (who for some reason claim to boycott the PS3 but not Microsoft's products) pulled those CDs and fixed the problem after it was disclosed.
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You're really not paying attention are you? There are people in jail for 25 years for not paying parking tickets.
The problem is that any three felonies will get you put away for 25 years, and many legally insignificant events can result in felony charges.
Its not hard to find examples of really stupid 3-strikes cases, especially in California and if you haven't done any research on the topic I dare say you don't deserve an opinion on the issue.
Since ldd ships with glibc-common on my system, I'm quite certain its a lot more common than the platform SDK is on Windows computers.
And that pretty much sums up all of my uses for ldd. There's only two things I regularly want to know from ldd -- is this program dynamically compiled, and which copy of those libraries is it grabbing (path-wise).
Its not small compared to USB and there's no need for most of it, since USB can already handle most of its functionality.
For the rest, there's a headphone jack.
You mean like the PS3 using standard USB, OpenGL, HDMI, SATA and a variety of other standards? Or their music players supporting everything from their recommended AAC down to MP3? Just because Sony is an innovative company constantly trying to come up with new and better ways to do things doesn't mean they're proprietary-only.
Before you say it, when Sony came out with the memory stick, there was nothing comparable on the market in size, speed and features.
PS my PS3 supports CompactFlash and SD cards as well, and actually allows me to copy the music I rip from CDs with it to other devices or memory cards unlike other lock-in manufacturers.
You make one device for every region and package a different AC adapter for each. Its simple, easy and makes things work.
Personally I'd just like to see maximum size limitations on them -- if it weighs more than "x" make it a power block (sits on floor with normal power cable, like laptops usually have), etc.
Explain the existence of regedit to me then. You've also obviously never administered a large Windows network of any form -- command-line usage of 'net' and other commands is very normal for usage tasks.
"ipconfig /all" is still much more informative than any combination of dialogs.
Being able to drag any window without finding the title bar is being spoiled.
In this case it also helps get around minor UI issues at low resolutions.
Holding alt and dragging with your mouse is no more a secret handshake in Linux than Win+E or Win+R is in Windows. You may not know them personally, but they're well documented and almost any geek will show them to you.
PS Win+R opens the Run dialog and Win+E opens an explorer window.
As you suggested, I've always understood that the easiest thing to do in these cases is to use a perfectly valid and strong algorithm for your encryption, etc. but to use less-than-secure keys.
This is one of the reasons I've always supported trusted computing -- even though many other F/OSS people see it as evil. Trusted computing lets me have some control over what runs on my own hardware, and helps to prevent against this type of attack vector.
I've always used bridge mode on modems of either type from ISPs. I never trust an ISP's modem/router combo.
The only ISP I have respect for doing anything vaguely similar shipped out a Cisco router with their modem.
And while funny, what possible search would've lead to those results?
Go Google something generic sometime like "mom" or "health" or "driving" and see how good Google is at filtering out "I was driving yesterday and saw my mom working the side of the road. The potential effects on her health worried me" from someone's personal website.
I'm quite certain you'll find that like the web, there are nuggets of good stuff on twitter -- they're just hard to find.
Most of us using Google may forget the days when crawling through dozens of pages of irrelevant search results was necessary to find the data we were looking for.
Google does an excellent job of maintaining a high signal to noise ratio with websites, I don't doubt they'll do the same for tweets.
No, I don't. Since like any rational person, if I'm looking for demos, I just browse the demo category in the first place.
I'm quite certain you'll find most of the citizens of the country have very little to do with the firing of the weapons.
You'll also find very few people who think the nuking of a civilian population is a good thing from a historical perspective either.
I'd expect the digital equivalent of: "Why did you show up at your ex boyfriend's office when you have a restraining order against him?"
Facebook doesn't allow non-friends to poke (it hasn't for a long time) so I'd question why the person you have a restraining order is on your friends list at all.
While it would be nice of Sony to 'force' demos to be available, I do prefer that they treat their publishers with a little respect and the store has a big huge "Demo" category where you can look at game demos all you like. They're even sorted alphabetically.
Of course most of us browse the "what's new" every week, so we're going to see your game anyway. That advertising block is almost never clicked by yours truly.
Pricing doesn't need to be consistent and never has been. World markets are all different, earning and buying power change from place to place.
The same car in the USA, Canada and the UK will have different sticker prices based on perceived local value for example.
Except that unlike real life, on Facebook you can simply ban other users from having any interaction with you, and its quite simple too.
There should be no reason the complainant hadn't already done this and avoided this situation altogether.
This is the same prior knowledge concept that the credit card company used when talking to me recently about a potentially fraudulent purchase on my account.
The agent called, said they were from my credit card company and if I wouldn't mind, please hang up and call the 800 number on the back of my credit card and request extension xyz to continue the phone call.
If I receive an E-mail from a major website claiming I need to log in, the same thing happens. I go to my browser and type in the address myself (or you could grab it from a bookmark if you use those). I don't trust links in most Emails.
And then you call your credit card company and explain those are fraudulent purchases and they refund them using their fraud insurance program. They also don't have you talk to police (despite a crime having been committed) because its bad for business, and they want people to believe credit cards and banking data is completely safe to use.
If your bank won't give you your money back no questions asked, just tell them you're filing a report on the fraud with a local detective and they'll change stories.
Thoroughly enjoying the admittedly limited GT5:Prologue here. Can't wait for the full release.
It seems to me then that you're just a Sony hater with a single case to harp on.
I can name dozens of incidents where Microsoft did much worse things (including breaking the law). IBM has done more than one 'evil' thing to computers in its lifetime, as have Dell and many others.
I might add, Sony didn't start lobbing around lawsuits when they were found to be using partial rootkit code either, unlike some vendors in their own situations.
Last I checked, of all the major console vendors, only Sony's allows me to rip a CD down to the unit and then copy the resulting MP3/AAC files to an MP3 player or USB drive afterward. Explain that if you think they're so antagonistic.
They made a mistake. One. Sony screwed up, they fixed it, its over. "Get over it" comes to mind.
Sony isn't an AV company. Nice try though.
Also, that incident was way overblown -- any knowledgeable computer person knows full well that Sony probably contracted someone to make them a copy protection solution and that someone thought the rootkit system in question would be a good way to bypass normal Windows security in order to make sure the copy protection software worked as designed.
Sony, being a much more responsible company that they're given credit for among geeks (who for some reason claim to boycott the PS3 but not Microsoft's products) pulled those CDs and fixed the problem after it was disclosed.