Their efforts, as the NLC article clearly states, will be pointless (if not contradictory to their obvious underlying motives). Watch, business will go on as usual. If you want to point that out to them, that blog offers no way to comment on posts (surprise, surprise), so you should use the "Email" link (leads to a "Contact" page) to do so. I am, even if they ignore me, they can't ignore the masses (provided others help).
If you look at it differently you might notice that while the US doesn't explicitly restrict access, they do MONITOR it. This could be considered as bad as or worse than restriction, because if you're restricted, you have much more difficulty committing any act that is deemed objectionable by the government. When you're monitored, they know where you've been, what you've done and can use it against you if or whenever they choose. Have you been looking at content deemed illegal by the government? They might not make an issue of it right away, but commit murder and 'oh, look at what we have here...', suddenly you're ten times the threat you were before (as opposed to let's say.. an arbitrary and minimal '2x' threat prior to the murder).
Man. I was in the middle of writing a rather lengthy post meant to contradict you and then I RTFA. In short, you're right, but it's hardly a "reader" rather the method for constructing the feed of relevant data in the first place. In any case, I'm sure we can all agree that this is a worthless patent to begin with.
I forgot to mention the worse part. They never had any intention whatsoever of fixing the buggy port, all requests made by countless fans of the series to fix the issues were either ignored or told that there were no plans to ever patch the bugs.
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (originally for PC and by Ubisoft Montreal, it was then sent to Shanghai and redone from scratch for the Xbox 360 with an "attempted" PC port) was completely ruined by Ubisoft Shanghai. The original version that Montreal would have released was in the same style as the previous versions (which was just fine by me) and most likely actually would have WORKED. The released PC port was so buggy that it was an absolute and immediate flop.
They have their own search engines (Baidu), but Google is significant because it would impact *international collaboration*. This would be bad for all involved.
What governing body do you think claims it has to think of the children for us because we might think of them in the wrong light? The governing body in question most probably influences law, and without people to speak out against their idiocy, they dictate our permissions.
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Better yet - RTTFTL - Return To The Fucking Tutorial Level. Heh.
GBTTFTL - Go Back To The Fucking Tutorial Level. How's that one?
Their efforts, as the NLC article clearly states, will be pointless (if not contradictory to their obvious underlying motives). Watch, business will go on as usual. If you want to point that out to them, that blog offers no way to comment on posts (surprise, surprise), so you should use the "Email" link (leads to a "Contact" page) to do so. I am, even if they ignore me, they can't ignore the masses (provided others help).
No, Itninja blames the victim. If he's going to single out the victim, lets single out the one throwing stones.
The trick see, is to use child-safe pill-bottle caps on everything, including computer security-measures. Think of the children, people!
I'm Canadian and I've been living without a TV for several years now (and enjoying my freedom from it). :)
And to think we Canadians invented basketball.
If you look at it differently you might notice that while the US doesn't explicitly restrict access, they do MONITOR it. This could be considered as bad as or worse than restriction, because if you're restricted, you have much more difficulty committing any act that is deemed objectionable by the government. When you're monitored, they know where you've been, what you've done and can use it against you if or whenever they choose. Have you been looking at content deemed illegal by the government? They might not make an issue of it right away, but commit murder and 'oh, look at what we have here...', suddenly you're ten times the threat you were before (as opposed to let's say.. an arbitrary and minimal '2x' threat prior to the murder).
Count yourself lucky that they only banged the picture...
No! I declare war on your cheek with a salmon. Think of the children!
Thank you. Finally someone sane.
Man. I was in the middle of writing a rather lengthy post meant to contradict you and then I RTFA. In short, you're right, but it's hardly a "reader" rather the method for constructing the feed of relevant data in the first place. In any case, I'm sure we can all agree that this is a worthless patent to begin with.
They've just patented RSS feeds. Idiots.
I forgot to mention the worse part. They never had any intention whatsoever of fixing the buggy port, all requests made by countless fans of the series to fix the issues were either ignored or told that there were no plans to ever patch the bugs.
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (originally for PC and by Ubisoft Montreal, it was then sent to Shanghai and redone from scratch for the Xbox 360 with an "attempted" PC port) was completely ruined by Ubisoft Shanghai. The original version that Montreal would have released was in the same style as the previous versions (which was just fine by me) and most likely actually would have WORKED. The released PC port was so buggy that it was an absolute and immediate flop.
I hate business people with a passion.
They have their own search engines (Baidu), but Google is significant because it would impact *international collaboration*. This would be bad for all involved.
Some years ago this was Ontario. For one day.
With respect to free speech.
If they are human, they have the right.
I resent that.
Easy. Tyranny.
As a hairy Canadian geek I say woohoo!
But why can't I get laid?
My eyes are burning!
What governing body do you think claims it has to think of the children for us because we might think of them in the wrong light? The governing body in question most probably influences law, and without people to speak out against their idiocy, they dictate our permissions.
They should leak it to The Pirate Bay, problem solved.