Bad police work is bad police work, no matter the criminal.
Here's a clue: be upset with the stupid officers that could've followed procedure and actually nabbed the guy instead of being lazy and screwing up the case instead of the judge for enforcing the law.
You want to back that up instead of essentially defaming Canadian judges in general?:-)
In my experience reading the news, Canadian judges definitely get the Internet a lot more than their American counterparts and its not surprising with Canadian households being much more "connected" than American ones.
The Canadian judge who ruled on Copyright infringement with P2P used a photocopier-in-a-library analogy which was also apt and well thought-out. I'm proud to be Canadian in these times.
This is really not that exciting of a ruling in terms of the legal history of defamation IMHO, but it is a great example of judge "getting it" in how old laws apply to new technologies.
Up here in Canada it only applies to drugs though, afaik. If you're aware that a renter is operating a grow-house, you're bound to report them to the police. That's all.
Exactly -- when I made some touch-screen software for a company, one of the first things I wrote in was a delay timer to disable the 'okay' and 'cancel' buttons immediately after a window appears or disappears for about a quarter of a second.
In testing, some users would click the screen twice by accident, the first one saying okay to a window that was in front of another screen with a button directly where the 'okay' had been, possibly cancelling a screen they didn't mean to cancel.
Normal operating procedure for everyone but Nintendo. As I understand it, Nintendo has almost always sold their consoles at a profit, being less driven to have the latest and greatest but rather the best licensing arrangements for games instead.
Ironically the two times I remember Nintendo bragging about having better hardware than the 'other guys' were the N64 and the Gamecube, arguably both miserable failures compared to other console systems at the time.
They still made a profit off each unit sold, IIRC though.
The stupid thing is still selling like hotcakes, why bother dropping the price? Supply and demand my friend. While any geek worth their salt may be able to realize that a PS3 or a 360 is 'more value' than a Wii, dollar for dollar in hardware, the Wii has specific games and playability that appeals to people willing to pay for it.
When people stop buying them at full bang, I'm sure they'll drop the price $50 to increase sales.
That last paragraph proves you don't know what you're talking about.
The PS3 has only 7 of the 8 SPUs enabled to improve yields, it has nothing to do with redundancy. If they required all 8 SPUs to be functional they'd have had lower initial Cell processor yields from the factory, that's all.
The PS3's overall processing power for certain workloads is a lot higher than you make it out to be. You can quit the FUD.
Totally off-topic I know, but I was impressed when Sony got full DivX compatibility for streaming video and not with some proprietary streaming server either.
I'm surprised Nintendo doesn't offer something similar officially.
So the copy of Linux I have running in Xen isn't real Linux? How about the copy I run in qemu on a Windows machine? That's not real Linux either?
Its real Linux no matter how it accesses the hardware, all the facilities of Linux are there. Period.
Sony has chosen not to expose certain parts of the hardware through the hypervisor running Linux to protect their market and I respect them for that. They've provided a much higher level of legitimate access than anyone else ever has (other than themselves, on the PS2).
$10 a plate for decent dinner food = $20. $5 each for drinks = $30. Taxes + tip and you're already over the estimate you gave me.
No offense if you've actually got a local place that serves quality food and drink for less than $50 a couple, including tax and tip, out the door, but I haven't found any I'd want to eat at a second time.
Feel free to come up with a cogent argument against it that doesn't also preclude the teaching of almost all literature.
In my humble opinion, most intelligent people notice how incredulously stupid these things sound all on their own. Also, there's nothing wrong with teaching children to ask for facts and logic to back up those opinions.
Reading the bible tells you what the people running the crusades were supposed to believe and/or follow as their higher calling, whether you believe it or not isn't relevant.
Reading the bible and realizing that the modern-day church as created by the disciples from the teachings of Jesus ought not to be going around wiping people off the planet for their disbelief. I believe "shaking the dust from your shoes as you leave town" was the instruction, alongside loving those who persecute you.
There is no biblical teaching that should lead to anything like the hatred perpetrated by the Crusaders and others.
Whereas in my world of free speech, everyone deserves air time for their beliefs and if they can't express them clearly or if they make no sense, then its their loss.
If however your own beliefs can't stand up to someone else's being shared, maybe you should re-test your own.
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Honestly, that's what I said. Go read it again.
There is a protocol to handle this already, and Twitter could've easily used it instead of randomly handing people whatever username came to mind.
Bad police work is bad police work, no matter the criminal.
Here's a clue: be upset with the stupid officers that could've followed procedure and actually nabbed the guy instead of being lazy and screwing up the case instead of the judge for enforcing the law.
These are YOUR freedoms too.
You want to back that up instead of essentially defaming Canadian judges in general? :-)
In my experience reading the news, Canadian judges definitely get the Internet a lot more than their American counterparts and its not surprising with Canadian households being much more "connected" than American ones.
The Canadian judge who ruled on Copyright infringement with P2P used a photocopier-in-a-library analogy which was also apt and well thought-out. I'm proud to be Canadian in these times.
This is really not that exciting of a ruling in terms of the legal history of defamation IMHO, but it is a great example of judge "getting it" in how old laws apply to new technologies.
Credit card holders don't go after people, they call it in to their CC company and get it removed as online fraud for free.
If your CC doesn't have fraud protection, it sucks.
More importantly, if you were going to steal something with someone else's CC, you'd be less likely to get caught if you used a fraud-protected CC.
Up here in Canada it only applies to drugs though, afaik. If you're aware that a renter is operating a grow-house, you're bound to report them to the police. That's all.
Exactly -- when I made some touch-screen software for a company, one of the first things I wrote in was a delay timer to disable the 'okay' and 'cancel' buttons immediately after a window appears or disappears for about a quarter of a second.
In testing, some users would click the screen twice by accident, the first one saying okay to a window that was in front of another screen with a button directly where the 'okay' had been, possibly cancelling a screen they didn't mean to cancel.
Normal operating procedure for everyone but Nintendo. As I understand it, Nintendo has almost always sold their consoles at a profit, being less driven to have the latest and greatest but rather the best licensing arrangements for games instead.
Ironically the two times I remember Nintendo bragging about having better hardware than the 'other guys' were the N64 and the Gamecube, arguably both miserable failures compared to other console systems at the time.
They still made a profit off each unit sold, IIRC though.
The stupid thing is still selling like hotcakes, why bother dropping the price? Supply and demand my friend. While any geek worth their salt may be able to realize that a PS3 or a 360 is 'more value' than a Wii, dollar for dollar in hardware, the Wii has specific games and playability that appeals to people willing to pay for it.
When people stop buying them at full bang, I'm sure they'll drop the price $50 to increase sales.
And Windows is the mostly widely used OS on the Internet. McDonald's is the largest restaurant chain in the world. Any questions?
I don't see how mass appeal has anything to do with quality.
I too noticed PHP around 1999 - 2000 and found it very nice to use compared to Cold Fusion and other languages at the time.
I've since moved on to Python for almost everything, Zope in particular being a very powerful web development language.
As opposed to something like:
int f(x,j)
{
for (i=0; i10; i++)
{
if (i==6) return -1;
}
return 0;
}
int g(x)
{
for (j=0; j10; j++)
{
if(f(x,j) != 0) return -1;
}
}
(and so on)
I see no reason to use goto's to handle multiple loop situations; that's why we get function calls.
Except that, the GM, to whom you replied originally, was talking about a specific set of circumstances to which your reply was invalid.
Sure, your reply applies to the article, but go reply to it instead then.
That last paragraph proves you don't know what you're talking about.
The PS3 has only 7 of the 8 SPUs enabled to improve yields, it has nothing to do with redundancy. If they required all 8 SPUs to be functional they'd have had lower initial Cell processor yields from the factory, that's all.
The PS3's overall processing power for certain workloads is a lot higher than you make it out to be. You can quit the FUD.
Totally off-topic I know, but I was impressed when Sony got full DivX compatibility for streaming video and not with some proprietary streaming server either.
I'm surprised Nintendo doesn't offer something similar officially.
So the copy of Linux I have running in Xen isn't real Linux? How about the copy I run in qemu on a Windows machine? That's not real Linux either?
Its real Linux no matter how it accesses the hardware, all the facilities of Linux are there. Period.
Sony has chosen not to expose certain parts of the hardware through the hypervisor running Linux to protect their market and I respect them for that. They've provided a much higher level of legitimate access than anyone else ever has (other than themselves, on the PS2).
$10 a plate for decent dinner food = $20. $5 each for drinks = $30. Taxes + tip and you're already over the estimate you gave me.
No offense if you've actually got a local place that serves quality food and drink for less than $50 a couple, including tax and tip, out the door, but I haven't found any I'd want to eat at a second time.
Feel free to come up with a cogent argument against it that doesn't also preclude the teaching of almost all literature.
In my humble opinion, most intelligent people notice how incredulously stupid these things sound all on their own. Also, there's nothing wrong with teaching children to ask for facts and logic to back up those opinions.
Reading the bible tells you what the people running the crusades were supposed to believe and/or follow as their higher calling, whether you believe it or not isn't relevant.
Reading the bible and realizing that the modern-day church as created by the disciples from the teachings of Jesus ought not to be going around wiping people off the planet for their disbelief. I believe "shaking the dust from your shoes as you leave town" was the instruction, alongside loving those who persecute you.
There is no biblical teaching that should lead to anything like the hatred perpetrated by the Crusaders and others.
You don't know any people who struggle to pay the rent and feed their children too, do you?
The cost per hour of entertainment isn't relevant ... the straight cost is.
You do realize there are war companies in the USA and other places in the world who sell mercenary services to countries and companies already, right?
The dinner will make my wife happy.
Happy wife trumps hours of entertainment lol.
Whereas in my world of free speech, everyone deserves air time for their beliefs and if they can't express them clearly or if they make no sense, then its their loss.
If however your own beliefs can't stand up to someone else's being shared, maybe you should re-test your own.
Well if you believe that God himself actually wanted the Crusades to happen, I could understand that comment.
What God's followers do in his name is not the same as what it is he wants done by his followers.
Reading the Bible helps clear a lot of these misunderstandings up.