The Nintendo Monopoly will probabably never happen again. There were numerous very unusual circumstances that coincided (atari's console demise and subsequent rebirth of arcade, the ignoring of sega by a console-oblivious public, etc.) to create those circumstances.
I don't know much, but most articles that I've read point to history and say that the market can contain two successful consoles at a time. Nintendo is certain to survive, given their showing at E3, low price, and profitability (they have the best business model), not to mention the GBA. I suspect that the PS2 will be the other survivor.
And, as for being a jerk in the past, IBM was the absolute worst for many years. They were the microsoft of the 60's-80's. I think they are now one of the absolute coolest companies. Competition does wonderful things to work ethics.
and, btw, one of the reasons cited for nintendo's resurgence is that they are starting to treat their developers well, while sony is now treating theirs like, well, you know.
Rogue Squadron (Rogue Commander? Something like that) is LucasArts and is the Reason I Will Buy The Game Cube. It received excellent reviews at E3.
It could be that the story ran on cnn.com (which it did) and got very few hits (which it probably did... think "russian hacker arrested by fbi"), and the news editors said "well, we don't really need to run this on the news because the public isn't interested."
While they do occasionally run stories that do not interest the public, we can't always expect them to do that. I'm sure they do not care about chandra levy either (although they have a sick fascination with the kennedys).
Unfortunately, even though I hate protests, I think they are the way to go. Get Dmitri to go on a hunger strike or something. I hate to say this, but it's true... this guy getting arrested is *exactly* the kind of ammunition we need to fight the DMCA.
Yeah, but 99% of the FBI's troubles seem to lie with bad processes. I worked at a college with only about 1,000 computers, and we were 'losing' things all the time:)
And about the wen ho lee thing... I'm not sure what the scandle was, but he got off easy... I don't know, maybe that's the scandle?
I was pointing out that it would be absurd for the FBI to request more oversight, in light of typical/. comments saying the FBI is evil, or the embodiment of big brother, etc.
The less oversight they have, the more effective they probably feel they can be in fighting crime. It's up to the people (us) and the courts to put checks in place... I just don't feel it's right to demonize the FBI when they seek less oversight in instances like this. (Even though I think they're wrong... we'll see)
Do you know how many people won't go see movies in the theatre because they say "Oh, I can just wait six months and rent it."
What would happen to the copyright holders if people said, instead "Oh, I can just wait three years and download it for 10 cents."
Also, this kind of disfavors indie movies... big hollywood movies (planet of the apes) tend to make most of their money up front, while indie films make much less money consistently over a period of time. Also, in terms of movies, this most disadvantages *good* movies, which are the only movies that continue to make money after four or five years.
Also, short software patents are a good idea, but I can envision patenting something mechanical and it taking ten years to develop the processes need to mass-produce it, by which time you will have lost your patent:P
I would say, less than five years for software patent, fifteen for normal patent, life of the artist for copyright and 20 years for corporate copyright.
The point that I'm making is that while *we* would ask for more oversight for the FBI, in absence of abuse it is absurd for us to expect *them* to want more oversight.
I'm usually one of the FBI hawks here (I'd always thought it would be cool to work for them).
But, I think it's reasonable to agree that they probably need to get a wiretap to install the detection software.
However, I don't think they're evil. They have no need to control their own authority because they aren't planning to misuse it, hence the arguing for the search warrant only.
I don't agree on the disclosal of the methods, however. It's probably simple... enough to fool a criminal. If we know what it does, I don't really see why we need to know how it does that.
While your arguments about bug-fixes are valid, you have to consider the fact that PC games and console games are really different.
I'm a big PC-gamer, and while I'll still shell out 200 dollars for a console that I only want one game for (Rogue Squadron for GameCube), there is no Homeworld or Dungeon Keeper II for consoles. (and, if they are, they are ports. Ports Suck.)
I'm trying to avert a PC v. Console war. I think their will always be both, and both have many advantages. But, in some sort of dao of video-gaming, neither will destroy the other in the near future (if/until convergence, blah blah blah).
While it might mean something different by definition, the popular view of semi-automatic is that a trigger pull fires the gun, ejects the bullet from the chamber, loads the next bullet, and primes the trigger.
In PA, for example, you can't use a semi-automatic rifle for hunting. It must be bolt, pump, lever, etc. Meaning after the bullet is fired you must, by hand, eject the bullet and load the next one (although, with rifles, doing this will usually also prime the trigger).
If someone creates an open-source implementation of.NET that's compatible with Microsoft's, it will help make the.NET standard accepted, so Microsoft will sell
more of it and.NET equivalents (free or not) will die disappear even faster
Actually, I think one of the best ideas for free software propagation is to mimic proprietary stuff (like microsoft). If you can do the same thing, run on any operating system, and be open source and free (beer), you'll encourage people to switch to linux. And that makes you a killer app.
Lots of people are saying things ignorant of the fact that the res on these is probably no better than about one meter or half a meter (not good enough to see people). At least that's the best pictures anybody is taking right now.
Besides, if you have ever thought that anything that can be viewed from the sky is private you have been in a cave on the moon since the cuban missle crisis. There are commercial companies as well as *publicy* available pictures of lots of stuff like this.
Your rights of privacy are overridden by the rights of everybody else to fly more than 400 feet over your property and take pictures. Suck it up.
The FBI did have somewhat 'contaminated' reviewers. However, I believe most of the other reviewers dropped out because the FBI was too strict.
However, I attribute this to government-bureaucracy (sp?) type stuff, not to purposeful FBI wrongdoing. Government contracts are a pain, and you can't just jump in if you don't know what you're doing. Likewise, it's likely that the reviewing team chosen would have people that worked with the government in their team. It's not malevolence... just domain knowledge.
Living near D.C., and knowing many people that work for the government, I *do* trust them.
Armey's objection to Carnivore is that when it's attached to an ISP's servers, it captures the communications of all of the ISP's users, not just the one(s) the warrant
was issued for.
According to the article 'critics have charged' this.
This kind of automatically assumes malevolence and deceit on the side of the FBI. They have said it will not. They had independent reviewers look at it who said as much. Yeah, I know they weren't quite independent (blah blah blah).
The crux of the matter is that the FBI cannot use information in court garnered without a proper warrant. If they can't use it in court, why are they collecting it? To post on the internet? Because they give it to the CIA so that they'll kill us? To go in a secret government database? To determine who goes in 'Who's Who Among Email Senders'? Come on.
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Untrue. Wiretapping is old as dirt and is still considered unreasonable.
Should vehicular homicide not be a crime because cars hadn't been invented? Should wiretapping not be a crime because recording devices hadn't been invented? Should we disallow laws about guns, because if the constitution had been written 800 years earlier they might have been left out?
The founding fathers may have been libertarians, but they were certainly not luddites.
That's nice, but imagine a bug uncovered in a static library by another system change... you would have to patch Every Program that used that static library:P.
I think it would be cooler to have a more solid versioning system (especially since I get such a kick out of configuration management).
And all this makes me think about is how interesting it would be to write software that correctly and simultaneously handles n versions of the same code.
That is, in essence, exactly what he ruled. You can't enter evidence that was illegally obtained, therefore the judge considers this legal. Since they did violate a
Russian law, they must not be subject
By nature, courts usually only administer the law of the jurisdiction to which they pertain. Evidence must be legally obtained, but there is no need for the judge to make sure it was legally obtained with respect to the laws of other countries, only the U.S.
Several people have brought that up... I don't see what that has to do with anything (other than that it was mentioned in the article.)
Well, if you break into an account of somebody in a foreign country with no U.S. associations, it is unlikely you'll be thrown in jail. The FBI did need a warrant to look at the information once in was on US soil, however. Civilians cannot obtain warrants.
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Yeah, I always wonder that too ... they have a lot of smart people but have such horrible business practices :)
I don't know much, but most articles that I've read point to history and say that the market can contain two successful consoles at a time. Nintendo is certain to survive, given their showing at E3, low price, and profitability (they have the best business model), not to mention the GBA. I suspect that the PS2 will be the other survivor.
And, as for being a jerk in the past, IBM was the absolute worst for many years. They were the microsoft of the 60's-80's. I think they are now one of the absolute coolest companies. Competition does wonderful things to work ethics.
and, btw, one of the reasons cited for nintendo's resurgence is that they are starting to treat their developers well, while sony is now treating theirs like, well, you know.
Rogue Squadron (Rogue Commander? Something like that) is LucasArts and is the Reason I Will Buy The Game Cube. It received excellent reviews at E3.
By being famous ... not much of a compensation, but far superior to the compensation of most of the wrongly imprisoned.
Heh. It's just that going on a hunger strike has about the most effect of anything a single person can do (see northern ireland).
While they do occasionally run stories that do not interest the public, we can't always expect them to do that. I'm sure they do not care about chandra levy either (although they have a sick fascination with the kennedys).
Unfortunately, even though I hate protests, I think they are the way to go. Get Dmitri to go on a hunger strike or something. I hate to say this, but it's true ... this guy getting arrested is *exactly* the kind of ammunition we need to fight the DMCA.
And about the wen ho lee thing ... I'm not sure what the scandle was, but he got off easy ... I don't know, maybe that's the scandle?
I was pointing out that it would be absurd for the FBI to request more oversight, in light of typical /. comments saying the FBI is evil, or the embodiment of big brother, etc.
The less oversight they have, the more effective they probably feel they can be in fighting crime. It's up to the people (us) and the courts to put checks in place ... I just don't feel it's right to demonize the FBI when they seek less oversight in instances like this. (Even though I think they're wrong ... we'll see)
Do you know how many people won't go see movies in the theatre because they say "Oh, I can just wait six months and rent it."
What would happen to the copyright holders if people said, instead "Oh, I can just wait three years and download it for 10 cents."
Also, this kind of disfavors indie movies ... big hollywood movies (planet of the apes) tend to make most of their money up front, while indie films make much less money consistently over a period of time. Also, in terms of movies, this most disadvantages *good* movies, which are the only movies that continue to make money after four or five years.
Also, short software patents are a good idea, but I can envision patenting something mechanical and it taking ten years to develop the processes need to mass-produce it, by which time you will have lost your patent :P
I would say, less than five years for software patent, fifteen for normal patent, life of the artist for copyright and 20 years for corporate copyright.
The point that I'm making is that while *we* would ask for more oversight for the FBI, in absence of abuse it is absurd for us to expect *them* to want more oversight.
But, I think it's reasonable to agree that they probably need to get a wiretap to install the detection software.
However, I don't think they're evil. They have no need to control their own authority because they aren't planning to misuse it, hence the arguing for the search warrant only.
I don't agree on the disclosal of the methods, however. It's probably simple ... enough to fool a criminal. If we know what it does, I don't really see why we need to know how it does that.
Geekalicious...
I'm a big PC-gamer, and while I'll still shell out 200 dollars for a console that I only want one game for (Rogue Squadron for GameCube), there is no Homeworld or Dungeon Keeper II for consoles. (and, if they are, they are ports. Ports Suck.)
I'm trying to avert a PC v. Console war. I think their will always be both, and both have many advantages. But, in some sort of dao of video-gaming, neither will destroy the other in the near future (if/until convergence, blah blah blah).
We actually usually do pretty well, despite never having too much money.
Wooha.
Oh, the same Oscar that 'Titanic' won over 'L.A. Confidential' and 'As Good as it Gets?'? :)
In PA, for example, you can't use a semi-automatic rifle for hunting. It must be bolt, pump, lever, etc. Meaning after the bullet is fired you must, by hand, eject the bullet and load the next one (although, with rifles, doing this will usually also prime the trigger).
Actually, I think one of the best ideas for free software propagation is to mimic proprietary stuff (like microsoft). If you can do the same thing, run on any operating system, and be open source and free (beer), you'll encourage people to switch to linux. And that makes you a killer app.
I'm so tired and light-headed I've turned into The President Of The United States.
Besides, if you have ever thought that anything that can be viewed from the sky is private you have been in a cave on the moon since the cuban missle crisis. There are commercial companies as well as *publicy* available pictures of lots of stuff like this.
Your rights of privacy are overridden by the rights of everybody else to fly more than 400 feet over your property and take pictures. Suck it up.
However, I attribute this to government-bureaucracy (sp?) type stuff, not to purposeful FBI wrongdoing. Government contracts are a pain, and you can't just jump in if you don't know what you're doing. Likewise, it's likely that the reviewing team chosen would have people that worked with the government in their team. It's not malevolence ... just domain knowledge.
Living near D.C., and knowing many people that work for the government, I *do* trust them.
Except for that old hanlon's razor thing ;)
According to the article 'critics have charged' this.
This kind of automatically assumes malevolence and deceit on the side of the FBI. They have said it will not. They had independent reviewers look at it who said as much. Yeah, I know they weren't quite independent (blah blah blah).
The crux of the matter is that the FBI cannot use information in court garnered without a proper warrant. If they can't use it in court, why are they collecting it? To post on the internet? Because they give it to the CIA so that they'll kill us? To go in a secret government database? To determine who goes in 'Who's Who Among Email Senders'? Come on.
Untrue. Wiretapping is old as dirt and is still considered unreasonable.
Should vehicular homicide not be a crime because cars hadn't been invented? Should wiretapping not be a crime because recording devices hadn't been invented? Should we disallow laws about guns, because if the constitution had been written 800 years earlier they might have been left out?
The founding fathers may have been libertarians, but they were certainly not luddites.
The supreme court decision did not say thermal imaging could not be used ... it only said a warrant would be required.
Protections against misuse of carnivore would be good.
Eliminating carnivore would make the FBI less effective. Unless you would like more terrorists and kidnappers running around.
I think it would be cooler to have a more solid versioning system (especially since I get such a kick out of configuration management).
Mmmmm. Configuration Management.
:)
By nature, courts usually only administer the law of the jurisdiction to which they pertain. Evidence must be legally obtained, but there is no need for the judge to make sure it was legally obtained with respect to the laws of other countries, only the U.S.
Several people have brought that up... I don't see what that has to do with anything (other than that it was mentioned in the article.)
Well, if you break into an account of somebody in a foreign country with no U.S. associations, it is unlikely you'll be thrown in jail. The FBI did need a warrant to look at the information once in was on US soil, however. Civilians cannot obtain warrants.