It's funny to see that so many people including me have almost erased most memories of this atrocious movie (look down the thread and many people are making the exact same joke that the parent and this is the first thing that came to my mind two). I think its the first time I remember to have see this film since I the day after I saw it in cinema. I say the day after, because I had to tell everybody around me how this film sucked so they do not loose their time and then when I felt that my civic duties were accomplished, I was able to forget it.
When you go on the Barnes an Noble site and you make a search for "Hacking the Xbox", a classic book for Xbox Modders, you find this disturbing result...
I don't think Sully can have any influence on Apple as long as Jobs remain in command.
After seeing the hate and grudge that Jobs still have against Scully I thing Steve Jobs simply don't wants to hear about the Newton. That device is Scully's baby and Jobs wants the thing to remain dead. The first thing he did when he returned to Apple was to kill the project and I suspect that this choice wasn't only a business rational decision. I admire Jobs but for what I have read about him I can say that he purposely missed in the past some business opportunities simply based of is personal preferences.
Logan has already gotten a response from Nintendo after submitting his creation to them--they were quite impressed!"
And they answered him:
Dear Logan,
We are quite impressed by your resourcefulness and ingeniousity. Its always remarkable to see that individuals with limited resources can make more original and inspiring toys than the average established big corporation. Nevertheless your limited resources guarantee us that you probably wont be able to defend correctly in court against a giant monster with unlimited legal war chest like us. For that reason we simply decided to sue you ass to the bone.
Surrender immediately (and by immediately we mean in the next 15 minutes) all the Nintendo modified material, the tools you used to do your exploit, the residence were the manipulation of our proprietary design as been done and your first new born girl.
Any attempt to delay or negotiate the terms of this request will be considered as an hostile act against Nintendo Corp. and all of is partners. We are currently seeking permission from court to shoot you on sign and this formality will be accomplish in the next minutes. Our black suited agents in black SUV's are already on their way to your home
Resistance is futile
Again, congratulation for you impressive fun home made gizmo and have a nice day.
Sincerely yours.
Al Suy Ouras
Nintendo legal department director and VP of the kitties and puppies crushing department
I agree with you and to maybe emphasizes your idea I see the urine option in a situation where the person have zero access to water and where if he did not have the option the reabsorb is body fluids he would certainly die. Maybe in a desert like situation.
Reabsorbing some of the water is body fluids could maybe give him a couple of extra days of survival, just enough to find real water or to be found by is troops. In extreme situations if you want to survive, sometimes the only solution is not perfect.
I agree with the court's decision, the mod chips violate the law. The law must be enforced.
If you don't like the law, make sure that it is enforced vigorously, write your politicians. Join in acts of civil disobediance if you are adamant about it. Make sure the media is watching. Buy and install mod chips, get yourself arrested, and tell the judge that the law requires you to be fined thousands of dollars. Get your friends to all do it.
Well that's exactly where my post leads. The court decision is a logical consequence of the law that have been created, so yes "mod chips violate the law". That law as been created by some individuals who in my opinion listened to much to the lobby forces of the industry and did not think enough of the little guys. The prohibition was also a law (I am not saying that those cases are identical, analogies should be used to illustrate a principle not to win a point) but that law even if well intentioned wasn't very well crafted.
Debating online is part of the things to do to make people aware of what I think is a problem and also to gather other points of views on the subject. One thing important to know is that I am Canadian so those laws don't touch me directly but they do indirectly because of the many links betwen our two countrys. That's why I am interested by the subject, because Canada is right now working on refreshing is copyright laws and we can end up with a "Canadian DMCA" very soon. I don't only debate online, through my life I have been active defending students rights in my university in many levels and organisations I am involved in politics at the municipal level, provincial level and federal level. My goal is not to meet "important people" but to get involve in comities where we develop the political platforms of our party. I prefer this approach to make my points and convince other people in position of power and find it way much more effective than making illegal stuff and making of me a martyr and then being thrown in jail hoping to succeed in some impossible to win court case where I have to fight against people with almost unlimited legal war chests and who participated to craft those same laws that they will use to prossecute me.
"Mod chips have only one signficant purpose: Copyright infringement.
Mod chips do not permit you to make your own games, you need a devkit to do that."
There is an Open Source, Free, Legal Xbox Development Kit. And not only that but once you installed Linux on the Xbox you can program with regular development tools because you do not program for the "W2K modified for Xbox" that natively run on a Xbox anymore but for Linux.
Then there other legitimate uses to name a few:
Backup of the games that you purchase:
Do you have kids? Kids throw there cds and carry them in a bags with rock and nails. Like for anything else they usually learn after they break a couple of ones but you still have to pay for the first ones. The mod chip allow you to play the backup you make. Without the mod chip your backup is useless. I think this is a legitimate use
Installing Linux
With a mod chip you can install Linux and from there you can install a plethora of new options to your Xbox and transform it in a Media Center. According to toms Hardware review this media center is even better than most "top-of-the-range DVD player's" that you can buy.
Hardware mods
Install a bigger hardware, plug a keyboard an a mousse.
Now I know it's also possible to do many of those things without a mod chip by simply flashing the bios with a special homebrew bios but it is a delicate operation and then you can't play your games anymore. The mod chip allow you to tinker with your Xbox and continue to use it as a gaming console.
Now I know that the DMCA restrict to do many of those things and the debate is not if the DMCA allow us to do them or not but if the DMCA is a blatant abuse that protect the corporations but do not care of the regular citizen.
From my part I am 31 years old 5'11 and weight 205 pounds and trained presently for my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I came from a poor family in a tough neighborhood and went to a tough high schools but I never went to prison and I do not plan to go either. My goal in this short life is to do successful and constructive things and help people around me. Not insult them without provocation or attack them. If you went to prison you probably witnessed more dramatic situations than a flame war on slashdot and I can somewhat understand that you don't consider it a big deal insulting people around (you are using the word moron in almost a third of your posts and even in your profile description) but I still don't agree with your attitude and find it childish, 55 years or not.
When I come on slashdot I do like to debate with people who have different opinions. The beginning of your post was in that sense and I have no problem with that. On another hand your gratuitous attacks at the end of your comment disgust me totally. People who come to slashdot to vent their frustration on the other with cheap easy canned insults the same way that others beat their wife or weak people just because they can repulse me to the highest levels. In other words I hate Internet bully's as much as I hate real ones.
I also hate caned easy attacks on public people like politicians, scientists, successful businessman's or humanists. I find it very lame to say that everything related to Linus and Steve Jobs is gold and everything related to Bill Gates its turd. I like to have a much more sophisticated way of thinking that involved analyzing the situation instead of following the crowd or the pseudo-anti-crowd. That as been said this comment as been composed on a Linux system.
All good ideas and I am sure that many people will come with some other good ones but please, the most important is to give the option to easily Turn Them Off! For example I would like to be able to turn on and of JavaScript from a button on the browser. The same way it would be nice to be able to customize a toolbar where you had an on off buttons for those features that I maybe don't want to use all the time.
Feel better now kid? Your comment is a triumphant demonstration of your education, "savoir vivre" and intellect.
You truly deserve an official award for your witty analyze and constructive conclusion. Can you give me your trailer park address so we can deliver it?
Because truly, I think you most be also very brave to insult people like that as you hide masturbating behind your computer.
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nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece: 'By hitting the highlights of baseball games, we get to view only the best parts of multimedia life. And who knows what's next? Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'"
After Witty Comments Removing Filter:
nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece.
Yeah and also that damn Einstein who stole the work of Newton first then butchered most of the stuff and claimed that it was obsolete and gave us that relativity thingy. Because we all know that all the inventions and discoveries of human kind are never based on the previous discoveries of the people before us. Of course this is absolutely not the basic principle of existence of our whole civilization. We all Gates haters know that.
I am so exited about this "New technologies" that we never heard of. (Except continuously from the sun CEO since the beginning of the 90s). I have always dream to redact my highly sensitive business plan in some computer somewhere where I have no control or clue of who have access to it.
I could put all my personal compromising pictures, videos, all my personal data and credit cards info, my PHD thesis that I have redacted during 10 years and any other highly precious or/and sensitive data. Of course I will trust them totally because they will never loose anything on some server crash incident and their systems will be 100% hacker proof and employees snooping proof.
I think that your post resume everything a sane person have to know about this movie and any other discussion is a waste of server space. Ok people; move on to the next story! Nothing to see here.
I remember that after the deception of seeing "Star Wars Episode one" I was thinking well at least there is the two next matrix that will kick ass... I was so wrong. Like you I love the first one but the two other have nothing to do with the original.
Now I have switched my trust to Star Wars again and I am crossing my fingers and hoping that the name won't be something like: "Star Wars III - Jar Jar Binks Chronicles."
George, you are our only hope... (so basically where toast)
Claiming that Reagan ended the cold war is the equivalent of stating that Al Gore invented the internet; Both politically played an important role in those events but none did it by themselves and none started the process.
The only difference here is that the Gore thing was some badly formulated sentence that he pronounced once in an interview, for what he never meant to give the meaning that the propaganda machine of some party gave it and that he rapidly corrected in subsequent interviews.
On another hand the Reagan thing is something that republicans are repeating over and over without any shame of the exaggeration like if repeating it enough times will make it more believable.
Don't you think that this guy deserve the credit for the changes in is country who made possible the scenario of a peaceful end to the cold war?... as he also deserve the credit for the economic collapse of is country;)
Can someone prove me once and for all that a kid who see how humans reproduce will end up all messed up. For what I remember as soon as I was interested in girls, me and my friends did found a way to put our hands on some kind of porn stuff (videos, magazines) and for what I remember I was maybe 10 or something.
What is the problem with that? In most species the ones who are not shown how to reproduce are the one who end up messed up (look about animals in captivity and you will understand) and I am convince in some way that the purist extremist are indeed messed up. Maybe they should have consumed more porn when they where younger?
I agree that maybe some extremely degrading stuff with bestiality and people taking a dump on each other with some bondage are far from been educative and can probably give a distorted view about sex to kids and I don't want my kids to see that kind of stuff. But for simple porn I don't see any problem.
Try to constantly interrupt a super bowl match by stealing the ball, parking you car in the middle of the field and throwing buckets full of paint on the players. According to your logic I should be allowed to do that because this is only a game plus like other people say they should fix the security instead of blaming me.
In an idealistic way of thinking you are right but as a customer I don't care if they fix the bugs, the well chair of their grandma or sacrifice some virgins in a volcano. What I care is that they find a solution to the problem. Cheating as ruined this game and they did have to do something not for them but for all the customers who want to play this game and paid for it. In my list cheaters are even lower scum than spamers. They ruined my pleasure and I think its now justice that they pay the price.
Maybe now that they are getting serious I will reinstall CS. If I see that it's for real that they cleaned up the community, I'll even gona buy condition Zero.
Slashdot Mirror
It's funny to see that so many people including me have almost erased most memories of this atrocious movie (look down the thread and many people are making the exact same joke that the parent and this is the first thing that came to my mind two). I think its the first time I remember to have see this film since I the day after I saw it in cinema. I say the day after, because I had to tell everybody around me how this film sucked so they do not loose their time and then when I felt that my civic duties were accomplished, I was able to forget it.
Is copyright infringment now a terrorist act?"
When you go on the Barnes an Noble site and you make a search for "Hacking the Xbox", a classic book for Xbox Modders, you find this disturbing result...
Hacking Xbox = Terrorism
(look red box at the left)
I don't think Sully can have any influence on Apple as long as Jobs remain in command.
After seeing the hate and grudge that Jobs still have against Scully I thing Steve Jobs simply don't wants to hear about the Newton. That device is Scully's baby and Jobs wants the thing to remain dead. The first thing he did when he returned to Apple was to kill the project and I suspect that this choice wasn't only a business rational decision. I admire Jobs but for what I have read about him I can say that he purposely missed in the past some business opportunities simply based of is personal preferences.
Logan has already gotten a response from Nintendo after submitting his creation to them--they were quite impressed!"
And they answered him:
Dear Logan, We are quite impressed by your resourcefulness and ingeniousity. Its always remarkable to see that individuals with limited resources can make more original and inspiring toys than the average established big corporation. Nevertheless your limited resources guarantee us that you probably wont be able to defend correctly in court against a giant monster with unlimited legal war chest like us. For that reason we simply decided to sue you ass to the bone.
Surrender immediately (and by immediately we mean in the next 15 minutes) all the Nintendo modified material, the tools you used to do your exploit, the residence were the manipulation of our proprietary design as been done and your first new born girl.
Any attempt to delay or negotiate the terms of this request will be considered as an hostile act against Nintendo Corp. and all of is partners. We are currently seeking permission from court to shoot you on sign and this formality will be accomplish in the next minutes. Our black suited agents in black SUV's are already on their way to your home
Resistance is futile
Again, congratulation for you impressive fun home made gizmo and have a nice day. Sincerely yours.
Al Suy Ouras
Nintendo legal department director and VP of the kitties and puppies crushing department
I agree with you and to maybe emphasizes your idea I see the urine option in a situation where the person have zero access to water and where if he did not have the option the reabsorb is body fluids he would certainly die. Maybe in a desert like situation. Reabsorbing some of the water is body fluids could maybe give him a couple of extra days of survival, just enough to find real water or to be found by is troops. In extreme situations if you want to survive, sometimes the only solution is not perfect.
I agree with the court's decision, the mod chips violate the law. The law must be enforced.
If you don't like the law, make sure that it is enforced vigorously, write your politicians. Join in acts of civil disobediance if you are adamant about it. Make sure the media is watching. Buy and install mod chips, get yourself arrested, and tell the judge that the law requires you to be fined thousands of dollars. Get your friends to all do it.
Well that's exactly where my post leads. The court decision is a logical consequence of the law that have been created, so yes "mod chips violate the law". That law as been created by some individuals who in my opinion listened to much to the lobby forces of the industry and did not think enough of the little guys. The prohibition was also a law (I am not saying that those cases are identical, analogies should be used to illustrate a principle not to win a point) but that law even if well intentioned wasn't very well crafted.
Debating online is part of the things to do to make people aware of what I think is a problem and also to gather other points of views on the subject. One thing important to know is that I am Canadian so those laws don't touch me directly but they do indirectly because of the many links betwen our two countrys. That's why I am interested by the subject, because Canada is right now working on refreshing is copyright laws and we can end up with a "Canadian DMCA" very soon. I don't only debate online, through my life I have been active defending students rights in my university in many levels and organisations I am involved in politics at the municipal level, provincial level and federal level. My goal is not to meet "important people" but to get involve in comities where we develop the political platforms of our party. I prefer this approach to make my points and convince other people in position of power and find it way much more effective than making illegal stuff and making of me a martyr and then being thrown in jail hoping to succeed in some impossible to win court case where I have to fight against people with almost unlimited legal war chests and who participated to craft those same laws that they will use to prossecute me.
"Mod chips have only one signficant purpose: Copyright infringement.
Mod chips do not permit you to make your own games, you need a devkit to do that."
There is an Open Source, Free, Legal Xbox Development Kit. And not only that but once you installed Linux on the Xbox you can program with regular development tools because you do not program for the "W2K modified for Xbox" that natively run on a Xbox anymore but for Linux.
Then there other legitimate uses to name a few:
Backup of the games that you purchase:
Do you have kids? Kids throw there cds and carry them in a bags with rock and nails. Like for anything else they usually learn after they break a couple of ones but you still have to pay for the first ones. The mod chip allow you to play the backup you make. Without the mod chip your backup is useless. I think this is a legitimate use
Installing Linux
With a mod chip you can install Linux and from there you can install a plethora of new options to your Xbox and transform it in a Media Center. According to toms Hardware review this media center is even better than most "top-of-the-range DVD player's" that you can buy.
Hardware mods
Install a bigger hardware, plug a keyboard an a mousse.
Make an Xbox Cluster
Xbox Cluster
Now I know it's also possible to do many of those things without a mod chip by simply flashing the bios with a special homebrew bios but it is a delicate operation and then you can't play your games anymore. The mod chip allow you to tinker with your Xbox and continue to use it as a gaming console.
Now I know that the DMCA restrict to do many of those things and the debate is not if the DMCA allow us to do them or not but if the DMCA is a blatant abuse that protect the corporations but do not care of the regular citizen.
FYI AFAIK I think this is better:
PHP co-founder is aware of RMS (and the FSF) an told about it in the context of the MySQL LGPL to GPL licesing problem.
In other news, L8R I need to go to the ATM machine and punch in my PIN number, TTYL!
IAC BAIK
BFN
For acronyms translation
I for once welcome North Korea in the 90's. Next step the "dot kp" bubble
From my part I am 31 years old 5'11 and weight 205 pounds and trained presently for my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I came from a poor family in a tough neighborhood and went to a tough high schools but I never went to prison and I do not plan to go either. My goal in this short life is to do successful and constructive things and help people around me. Not insult them without provocation or attack them. If you went to prison you probably witnessed more dramatic situations than a flame war on slashdot and I can somewhat understand that you don't consider it a big deal insulting people around (you are using the word moron in almost a third of your posts and even in your profile description) but I still don't agree with your attitude and find it childish, 55 years or not.
When I come on slashdot I do like to debate with people who have different opinions. The beginning of your post was in that sense and I have no problem with that. On another hand your gratuitous attacks at the end of your comment disgust me totally. People who come to slashdot to vent their frustration on the other with cheap easy canned insults the same way that others beat their wife or weak people just because they can repulse me to the highest levels. In other words I hate Internet bully's as much as I hate real ones.
I also hate caned easy attacks on public people like politicians, scientists, successful businessman's or humanists. I find it very lame to say that everything related to Linus and Steve Jobs is gold and everything related to Bill Gates its turd. I like to have a much more sophisticated way of thinking that involved analyzing the situation instead of following the crowd or the pseudo-anti-crowd. That as been said this comment as been composed on a Linux system.
All good ideas and I am sure that many people will come with some other good ones but please, the most important is to give the option to easily Turn Them Off! For example I would like to be able to turn on and of JavaScript from a button on the browser. The same way it would be nice to be able to customize a toolbar where you had an on off buttons for those features that I maybe don't want to use all the time.
Feel better now kid? Your comment is a triumphant demonstration of your education, "savoir vivre" and intellect.
You truly deserve an official award for your witty analyze and constructive conclusion. Can you give me your trailer park address so we can deliver it?
Because truly, I think you most be also very brave to insult people like that as you hide masturbating behind your computer.
Slashdot News Before Filter:
nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece: 'By hitting the highlights of baseball games, we get to view only the best parts of multimedia life. And who knows what's next? Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'"
After Witty Comments Removing Filter:
nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece.
Yeah and also that damn Einstein who stole the work of Newton first then butchered most of the stuff and claimed that it was obsolete and gave us that relativity thingy. Because we all know that all the inventions and discoveries of human kind are never based on the previous discoveries of the people before us. Of course this is absolutely not the basic principle of existence of our whole civilization. We all Gates haters know that.
I am so exited about this "New technologies" that we never heard of. (Except continuously from the sun CEO since the beginning of the 90s). I have always dream to redact my highly sensitive business plan in some computer somewhere where I have no control or clue of who have access to it.
I could put all my personal compromising pictures, videos, all my personal data and credit cards info, my PHD thesis that I have redacted during 10 years and any other highly precious or/and sensitive data. Of course I will trust them totally because they will never loose anything on some server crash incident and their systems will be 100% hacker proof and employees snooping proof.
I cant wait no more! hook me, hook me please...
What would he do with a /. membership? I thought the article said he was "semi-literate."
He will do like all slashdotter... semi-read the articles.
If slashdot start to give an annual "honorific life membership" he should be one of the first to get the title. Kudos to the guy! :)
yeah, nothing except the same story line and plot and characters, and...oh never-mind, your a moron
???What the hell are you talking about???
Are you on crack?
I think that your post resume everything a sane person have to know about this movie and any other discussion is a waste of server space. Ok people; move on to the next story! Nothing to see here.
I remember that after the deception of seeing "Star Wars Episode one" I was thinking well at least there is the two next matrix that will kick ass... I was so wrong. Like you I love the first one but the two other have nothing to do with the original.
Now I have switched my trust to Star Wars again and I am crossing my fingers and hoping that the name won't be something like: "Star Wars III - Jar Jar Binks Chronicles."
George, you are our only hope... (so basically where toast)
Claiming that Reagan ended the cold war is the equivalent of stating that Al Gore invented the internet; Both politically played an important role in those events but none did it by themselves and none started the process.
... as he also deserve the credit for the economic collapse of is country ;)
The only difference here is that the Gore thing was some badly formulated sentence that he pronounced once in an interview, for what he never meant to give the meaning that the propaganda machine of some party gave it and that he rapidly corrected in subsequent interviews.
On another hand the Reagan thing is something that republicans are repeating over and over without any shame of the exaggeration like if repeating it enough times will make it more believable.
Don't you think that this guy deserve the credit for the changes in is country who made possible the scenario of a peaceful end to the cold war?
FTC already has so much information on their identities that to get anymore would be useless.
:)
Who's talking about a bounty for information? I am more thinking of dead or alive type of bounty.
Can someone prove me once and for all that a kid who see how humans reproduce will end up all messed up. For what I remember as soon as I was interested in girls, me and my friends did found a way to put our hands on some kind of porn stuff (videos, magazines) and for what I remember I was maybe 10 or something.
What is the problem with that? In most species the ones who are not shown how to reproduce are the one who end up messed up (look about animals in captivity and you will understand) and I am convince in some way that the purist extremist are indeed messed up. Maybe they should have consumed more porn when they where younger?
I agree that maybe some extremely degrading stuff with bestiality and people taking a dump on each other with some bondage are far from been educative and can probably give a distorted view about sex to kids and I don't want my kids to see that kind of stuff. But for simple porn I don't see any problem.
Try to constantly interrupt a super bowl match by stealing the ball, parking you car in the middle of the field and throwing buckets full of paint on the players. According to your logic I should be allowed to do that because this is only a game plus like other people say they should fix the security instead of blaming me.
In an idealistic way of thinking you are right but as a customer I don't care if they fix the bugs, the well chair of their grandma or sacrifice some virgins in a volcano. What I care is that they find a solution to the problem. Cheating as ruined this game and they did have to do something not for them but for all the customers who want to play this game and paid for it. In my list cheaters are even lower scum than spamers. They ruined my pleasure and I think its now justice that they pay the price.
Maybe now that they are getting serious I will reinstall CS. If I see that it's for real that they cleaned up the community, I'll even gona buy condition Zero.