I would have thought it all boiled down to simply ego. The googlites have become victims of their own marketing hype and have come to believe they can never fail and that they are the 'deciders' for everyone else. So they went out on a major limb, cut themselves off from the community that supports Firefox and, well, fell out of the tree.
Now of course the big catch with going with Firefox is a lack of control for Google and, Google has a rather nasty habit of wanting to pry into the private digital lives of every person upon the face of this planer and the Firefox community tend to take the opposite view, wanting to protect their own and everybody else's privacy, so conflict was inevitable.
This failure will definitely hurt the perception of google's value ie. they are not really all that good at selling their own stuff, so how good are they at selling someone else's. Perhaps their search engine success was just a metric of how lazy and bad their competitors had become, rather than their own selling abilities.
The catch being, that people have become accustomed to flash so they accept it. Also as for developers, to make a transition to silverfish, they would have to pay the costs of developing for both platforms, and web designers would have to code for both platforms and companies would have to pay those costs, else the end users are just as likely to skip the additional download and go to a competing web site. For anything to replace flash it has to be FOSS ie. produce a real genuine long term saving to cover the cost of transition.
What is funny about all this is M$ re-writing history, even recent history, by calling this stage 2. You see they were not really 'serious' about selling silverfish in stage 1, so they haven't failed, it was all just a big hyuck, now they are really serious, well at least until stage 3. When they will be really truly serious about selling silverfish, rather than stage 1 - the intro, stage 2 - the clarification, it's all about the developers, stage 3 - Seinfeld and Gates make a comeback;D.
It is logical it is the top down approach. First you tackle those at the top as your priority, then you extend that down. The opposite direction, plainly doesn't work, as those at the top just get more minions to take the blame and the punishment. The genuine contempt the US government is treating the general public with is beyond all reason, confiscation of assets for copyright infringement, so threaten families with eviction if the children copy a music track, a music track that is more often than not of absolutely no moral value to society.
It is disgusting they now choose to equate the value of people homes, with some thing that some drunken drugged up minstrel has tossed up after a weekend of excesses. The whole industry is parasitical, it adds nothing to society, it neither, houses nor feeds nor clothes, nor contributes to the positives worthwhile values of society. As for the idea that somehow recorded dead music, somehow equals live music that people share, when they say sing around a fire or, share in a dance hall with family and friends. Sure, when it is targeted a readily manipulated children it can bleed their families of money they can ill afford to spend on something of no real value in these harsh economic times, oh that's right, who gives a fuck.
Wrong, TV broadcast are in fact not filtered at all, they broadcast what they choose to broadcast and take legal responsibility for doing so, just as you would would expect adults to be able to choose what they wish to broadcast on the internet and take responsibility for doing so.
That is an enormous misdirection because TV transmission are not in fact filtered at all. People choose what they want to broadcast and should that broadcast conflict with legal requirements they are charged with a crime, go to court and if found guilty pay a fine. So attempting to force filters is not really about adhering to sound moral judgement, it is all about locking people out of access, about creating monopolies where none existed and about 'controlling' free speech sic.
They reality is children should not be given access to an adult public network and the filtering needs to occur at a hardware level and force a connection only to restricted content limited access, school networks, ensuring any content that is made accessible to children is constantly reviewed and any child to child interactions are monitored fro abuse.
You seriously want an internet that is safe for children then create a separate for children internet, it is utter stupidity to attempt to make an adult network tame for children. For a start, how many adds should a child be subject to, what nature of adds should a child be subject to, how frequently should a child be exposed to an add, are adult adds suitable for children and, in a child's psychologically formative years how manipulative are those adds allowed to be.
So for a start all adds that could 'possibly' be viewed by children should be assessed for suitability by qualified people for harmful, manipulative and inappropriate content. This really points to the biggest stumbling block for a children only supervised internet, greed because the major advertisers don't wont to be blocked from being able to manipulate the choice of children, hmm, psychological child molesters.
That statement is clearly untrue. As is always the nature with greed, it is insatiable. No matter how much they get paid they will always, I repeat, always want more and more and more. The biggest lie of all is that somehow paying a greedy person enough means they wont steal and that flies in the face of reality. If a persons sole motivation is greed, then logically not only will the work 24/7/365 to increase their salary by what ever means possible but they will also spend every free moment coming up with additional ways of lining their own pockets at the expense of the company, it's shareholders, it's employees and, it's customers.
So what you are really after is a person who takes pride in the quality of their work, who demonstrates a clear record of honour and integrity and who has the requisite skills, knowledge and experience. Here is a hint for hiring executives, any CEO etc. who is willing to rip off the customers to inflate the profits of their company is even more willing to rip off their company in their own favour and, if for a second you don't believe that to be true then you are allowing greed to blind good judgement.
In fact logically speaking keeping the salary of executives as low as possible whilst maintaining a strict review of qualifications and experience means you are more likely to attract executives who want to pursue the position for reason other than greed ie. job satisfaction, job challenge, they choose to in part define themselves by the qualities of the company they are a part of and in part pride of placement.
In fact greed is about the very worst motivation that you could use to attract a corporate executive, unless of course you are an existing company director specifically seeking executive officers who will assist you in stealing as much as possible from the shareholders and customers and how many times has that and is that happening, we all know the answer to that, all far to often.
In this context where there clearly was a premeditated and planned intent to avoid the legal requirements of maintaining records of government correspondence. Their intent was to arrange a method of communications, that they could hide from the public, clearly their intent was criminal, as such the full weight of the law should be measured out, other wise they make a mockery of their own laws.
Underlying that is the enormous ego of creating your own personal governor for life email address on public web mail servers, really childish. In fact the whole episodes smacks of juvenile plots to deceive and hide the mischief that they clearly did intend. So in this case, it is actually worse than just deleting records, which as it turns out they have been deleted but, also it shows intent to create a illegal method of conducting government correspondence. Whilst the method was a rather simple and amateurish, it speaks largely of their incompetence and, does alter the nature of their criminal intent.
What Blizzard, it is just a front for Vivendi. The release of this storey seems more like a feeler so they can see what they can actually get away with. One thing they have to be really careful is the whole startcraft game play style has been done to death since starcraft originally came out and that game play style has become pretty dull and boring. Just dressing up the graphics and then dumping that same old same old, game play style really wont cut it, let alone trying to increase the returns on the engine by splitting them game into three, terran, zerg and protoss.
So it all boils down to, want to play the zerg, pay extra, want to play the protoss pay some more again. A bit bored with that style of gameplay, then at least you now have an excuse to give the whole thing a big miss. I am finding that whole out of scale, miniature toys, tiny maps etc. all somewhat stale and have though they might have gone for a bit more realistic mechanics, considering what other games it has to compete with.
I think you fail to understand the at sociopathy and psychopathy are not matters of choice, they are definitive medical conditions, something that people can not be trained out of or have it beaten out of them. The have real physical brain defects that make it impossible for them to emphasise with other people, they have little or no conscience for the harm or suffering they cause, again not by choice nut purely by a physical brain defect.
Much the same as I would expect you to appreciate that people who are colour blind people due to a physical defect, you just need to appreciate that brain defects of varying degrees can also occur and just as a colour blind person can not be trained to see the certain colours, so people with certain brain defects can not be trained to feel certain emotions. So you are the tyrant that would seek to punish them for what they can't control because you decide they are refusing to be trained, rather than treating the medical condition or by not putting them in a position where that medical condition will cause them to harm other people.
Unfortunately at this time negative elements within human society, those with very destructive psychological traits, tend to preclude the possibility of humanity successfully achieving life amongst the stars, prior to those negative elements either managing to kill off themselves and the rest humanity or triggering a general dumbing down (pretty but stupid) trend in human and human societal evolution. Humanity and it's society evolve together basically either in a positive more enlightened sharing basis or negative personal greed basis.
The really strange thing about all of this. There is absolutely no real way of validating that the adds were of any value or that they had opposite effect and actually put people off. The big thing is not to sell products but to convince sellers that the adds work and that they buy the space.
So you can imagine the sales demo, where the people selling add space demonstrate the screens where the adds appear and waffles on how the gamer must focus and see the add, of course the naive person buying the add space is not actually playing the game so they don't get a real impression of how a gamer is likely to react to that add.
So a gamer plays a game and is pretty solidly focused on the game play, tends to ignore and block out anything that doesn't affect game play and, you really think a billboard appearing in one small section of the screen that doesn't provide any required game information, will have any real impact at all. Bullshit does often sell, it just really depends who the B$ advertising is targeted at, the people selling product and buying add space or customer who might have been looking for that product in the past.
Technically speaking the proxy server logs as also records of communications of the government. So using web mail and clearly proxy logs is deleting email records that they are required by law to keep. So no they get not keep all email records, the specifically deleted all web mail transmissions records by deleting proxy server records, which are of themselves also records of government communications.
Technically speaking the technology is now appearing that will force change. A simple genetic test for sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies and a permanent block being placed upon those individuals from ever running for public office, of becoming company executives , or pretty much being banned from any position where they can gain control of or exploit other people.
Which pretty much means all those current arse holes at the top will be permanently prevented from ever getting there again and, oh boy, will they lie, cheat, kill and steal kill to prevent that from happening. It is likely to happen but that implementation period is likely to be painful and bloody.
The biggest driver of evolution will always be catastrophic changes to the environment. Evolution advances rapidly when space in made available for mutations develop into empty spaces within the food chain in specific locals. It is very likely that the biggest driver for human evolution has been the relatively frequently recurring ice ages in recent geologic history.
Just as in future, the major drivers for human evolution will be those same ice ages recurring or, on own impact upon the environment being so great as to alter the environment sufficiently from the conditions under which we evolved as to force evolutionary adaptation to the new altered environment. Other changes in bacteria or viruses could also force associated changes in humans and, of course not to forget catastrophic impact.
Although evolution occurs across millions of years, there will be numerous periods, millennia, where evolution is accelerated fro particular species due to particular environmental conditions, so not much gradual change, but periods of relative stability interspersed with periods of accelerated change.
So as it has occurred in the past, a catastrophic event will either accelerate human evolution or end it, extinction being the only reason for a species to cease evolving. Crazy short haired rock throwing monkeys are really going to have to get over the idea that this universe needs or wants them to survive;D.
Naughty, naughty, all the legislation counts not just the bits you like
So under exemptions - (ii) the availability for use of works for nonprofit archival, preservation, and educational purposes;
With regard to copyright law c) Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.--(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including FAIR USE , under this title.
So under the DMCA there are specific exclusions, where you can "descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure".
It really all relates to political appointees, those who get their positions purely as a result of which political candidate they supported not on their skills and qualifications. This is not to be confused with skilled employees with in government who attained their position in much the same fashion as skilled employees in private industry. So the political appointees are always looking for those magic box solutions where the computer will do their job for them because they are not sufficiently competent to do it themselves.
Note these exact same things happen in corporations, where corrupt executives will promote their criminal accomplices in the corporation as they go higher up the corporate ladder, as well as of course the inevitable nepotistic placements, who else will employee the pretty but stupid spawn. So it is most definately not a government problem but, typical in most industries.
My solution when getting harassed for magic box solutions, I just politely remind them if the computer is going to do their job for them, then why would the company continue to employ and pay them. Doesn't work for political appointees of course they are just shameless frauds, much the same as the politicians who appoint them. What a way for political leaders to be viewed by the rest of the world, http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2008/09/15/1221330684259.html, childhood love of cows indeed, now that is to funny to be criminal, well, as long as it is some else's country.
That is just not real, having a public presence or not does not in any way alter the ability of people to slander you. In truth it does however provide them a measure of truth to add to their lies in order to obfuscate the slander. Privacy on the internet is all about legislation and forcing change, and at the moment, there is momentum to more strongly protecting peoples privacy. So at this time if foolishly enough you feel that you might as well become a sheeple and let corporations own and sell you right to privacy, you are really going against the dawning trend.
Sure corporate marketdroids are shoving all sorts of B$ memes into the net to try to justify their perverse invasiveness but, it is just typical psychological manipulative crap. You don't accept that kind of behaviour from other individuals so why would anybody accept it from for profit strangers whose only motive is greed, although I am starting to suspect people who are drawn to those industries also tend to the peeping tom/voyeur in their makeup, as it is all getting rather perverted.
I am sure a lot of geeks/nerds know of individuals out their who draw a lot of perverse pleasure from prying into other peoples lives and which industries the tend to drift to data mining; expected and computer security; they like to keep their secrets while prying into yours.
So I go in the opposite direction, not only hang onto every bit of digital privacy you can, but also seek to protect other users privacy as well a seeking legislation to enforce protections of digital privacy and start handing out some major penalties to the various voyeur corporations, greed is not sufficient excuse. Now as to corporations who think you privacy is unimportant, lets start seeing those ass hats, running their companies completely out in the open, no private meetings, public web cams in every office and boardroom, all paper work publicly accessible on line, as well as of course their own private lives should all be broadcast to the web. Let me guess, corporations and their executives are entitled to their privacy and secrets but every else will be screwed over and they have the lobbyists to try to enforce it.
All dictatorships are stable, as long as anybody who protests in imprisoned, tortured and executed, see stability. Now as for Yugoslavia your only choice if you didn't want to live under a dictatorship was escape, no emigration but specifically escape, an open air prison were you were not allowed to leave and if you got caught you would be put in prison.
So I don't deny there are two sides to that coin, the exploiters and the exploited. As it turns out both my parents escaped from that country and sought freedom and democracy in another country. As for those who remained in Yugoslavia and the ensuing violence, the violence was initiated by those who wished to prevent change and maintain the status quo, where they had power. So the only real difference in the dying and suffering is whether it is public and out in the open or hidden and done behind closed doors and people just disappear.
In light of jobs being the issue, then a change is required to copyright laws. Obviously the sorter the duration of copyright, the more that must be created to create income. Long term copyright duration must stifle the creation of additional content, you are speeding huge amounts of tax payer dollars in order to maintain anti-free speech monopolies on content and preventing it from reaching the public domain, when you should be doing the exact opposite. Spend less money on protection, much shorter duration for copyright and many more people will be employed creating new content.
If people had more money to spend they would not be in debt and there would not be a credit crisis, hence bullshit copyright laws will not generate additional revenue as there is no additional money to spend, rising fuel costs, food prices and stagnant wages have put an end to that. Unless in the typical idiocy of right wing politicians they seriously expect people to starve their children so that their children can buy the latest crap music CD that saturation advertising tells the children they must have in order not to be a worthless loser.
The deepest diving subs do not use air to surface but lighter than water hydrocarbons, as at higher pressure the air compresses more, displaces far less water, so they can only make one trip to the bottom, then drop ballast and rise to the surface. An incompressible positively buoyant craft can make many trips to the bottom, the catch is the deeper it want to go, the more force is required ie. the faster in must fly through the water, oddly similar to planes.
Of course to correct your other error, you could of course stop a plane in mid flight and blow the tanks and remain airborne, as long as they were tanks of helium and you contained the output in a aerodynamic balloon (for the transition from forward flight to displacement floating). Just not your day is it;).
The catch with that is change does not occur unless, instability forces it. A minority of people speaking out who a willing to accept the risks of doing so are the ones who force positive change. The only other change that occurs, is negative change, the ones who wish to maintain a facade of traditional values, of religious observance, while they corruptly loot the country to sate their own greed and lusts. That is the reality and the religious crap is just that 'crap' a diversion to keep the poor general populace focused on other issues, rather than their livings conditions versus the living conditions of the rich and greedy or that the legal system is distorted to provide one set of laws to protect the elite and another set of laws to persecute the rest.
Change can happen very fast, it is naturally always disruptive, that is the nature of change and it is most destructive when it is blocked from happening and comes as a dam bursting. Do you know when this happens, it happens when the corrupt leaders at the top are focussed on keeping everything they have stolen and will do anything to keep the corrupt system going as it is, with nothing but platitudes of offer for the rest of the population.
Any government with sedition laws sucks, there is no excuse, they are full of it and those leaders should be treated with contempt by every one who values freedom and democracy. Slavery was a cultural thing for centuries in a lot of countries, north, south, east and west and today very thought of sickens and infuriates most reasonable people, so culture is just a weak excuse not a valid reason, neither is racism ie. they are all citizens of Malaysia so it is Malays who rule the country, Malays who control the economy and Malays who prosper in the legal and medical profession, if you see it any other way, recognise yourself, you are racist and a bigot.
The growth in FOSS is inevitable over the long term. At this time it will be accelerated subject to the duration of the recession, once we hit global depression, the next upgrade cycle will inevitably be FOSS driven. The real force behind it is falling proprietary software sales, they simply can not keep their staff going with out revenue, no staff, no new product, no updates and they are crap at service at support (they treat it as a profit draining overhead), which is where of course FOSS excels (because that is what they basically sell).
So as it shifts from short term recession into long term depression, so the take up of FOSS will accelerate, as big spending, private jet owning, bloated executive ego having, proprietary software companies start tipping over, as everyone else stops buying and paying (cost to install and retrain) for upgrades. Also hardware sales will slow down and things like the UMPC/Netbooks will finally start selling for a far more competitive price, fully preloaded with FOSS software, all configured and installed properly.
It is always tied to upgrade cycles, the big hint that things are changing in that regard, is after 6 years of the previous versions of the windows OS and M$ Office companies were unwilling to upgrade and still refuse to upgrade and, the harder M$ push by fucking around with bad patches, shutting off support and attempting to force companies to upgrade by refusing to sell the sell the old versions and leaving companies with unstable mixed networks, the more likely companies are to shift away from M$ to FOSS in retaliation ie. if your supplier is going to try to force you to upgrade your whole system at high cost in harsh economic times then you might as well spend that money on retraining and system conversion to free software (a one time cost).
To be fair, by far the majority of companies do not act in this fashion. They respect the privacy of their staff, they respect the privacy of their customers and of course they respect the privacy of total strangers. Only one very narrow segment of the industry continuously and very perversely invades the privacy of every one they can upon a massively and previously unheralded basis and think it is appropriate to attempt to psychologically manipulate people based upon their personal information in order to generate a profit at all costs.
There would be an increase in radiation reaching the planets surface, so staying indoors a little more often during the switch over would be recommended. Also any solar flares that happened to discharge material towards the earth would cause a bit more damage, overall all nothing to dramatic.
The only real problem, the smallest critters, bacteria, algae, viruses and, fungi, the additional radiation load would likely trigger some disruptive mutations, which could be rather troublesome. Other than that, the only real problem would be navigation and, a whole bunch of Australians, pointing out 'whose bloody down under now' and, everybody would have to get new maps http://freakymartin.com/2007/12/25/map-of-the-world-from-australia-3-photos/.
You are obviously lost, perhaps this forum is not really meant for you. Computer hacker in geek/nerd speak is technically neutral, neither good nor bad, cracker on the other hand is definitively bad and has always been considered so. Just as the individuals who know and understand this have re-defined the language in terms of the use of nerd and geek from negative to positive, so we, not the knuckle dragging jockstraps, define the use of the term hacker.
So in geek/nerd speak to clarify good or bad in relation to hacker, white hat or black hat is appended. Imagine, allowing mass media hockey puck 'mom' journalists from those colleges for dummies to define our language for us, what are ya thinkin, next you all be lettin em become president, 'er', wink, giggle.
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I would have thought it all boiled down to simply ego. The googlites have become victims of their own marketing hype and have come to believe they can never fail and that they are the 'deciders' for everyone else. So they went out on a major limb, cut themselves off from the community that supports Firefox and, well, fell out of the tree.
Now of course the big catch with going with Firefox is a lack of control for Google and, Google has a rather nasty habit of wanting to pry into the private digital lives of every person upon the face of this planer and the Firefox community tend to take the opposite view, wanting to protect their own and everybody else's privacy, so conflict was inevitable.
This failure will definitely hurt the perception of google's value ie. they are not really all that good at selling their own stuff, so how good are they at selling someone else's. Perhaps their search engine success was just a metric of how lazy and bad their competitors had become, rather than their own selling abilities.
What is funny about all this is M$ re-writing history, even recent history, by calling this stage 2. You see they were not really 'serious' about selling silverfish in stage 1, so they haven't failed, it was all just a big hyuck, now they are really serious, well at least until stage 3. When they will be really truly serious about selling silverfish, rather than stage 1 - the intro, stage 2 - the clarification, it's all about the developers, stage 3 - Seinfeld and Gates make a comeback ;D.
It is logical it is the top down approach. First you tackle those at the top as your priority, then you extend that down. The opposite direction, plainly doesn't work, as those at the top just get more minions to take the blame and the punishment. The genuine contempt the US government is treating the general public with is beyond all reason, confiscation of assets for copyright infringement, so threaten families with eviction if the children copy a music track, a music track that is more often than not of absolutely no moral value to society.
It is disgusting they now choose to equate the value of people homes, with some thing that some drunken drugged up minstrel has tossed up after a weekend of excesses. The whole industry is parasitical, it adds nothing to society, it neither, houses nor feeds nor clothes, nor contributes to the positives worthwhile values of society. As for the idea that somehow recorded dead music, somehow equals live music that people share, when they say sing around a fire or, share in a dance hall with family and friends. Sure, when it is targeted a readily manipulated children it can bleed their families of money they can ill afford to spend on something of no real value in these harsh economic times, oh that's right, who gives a fuck.
Wrong, TV broadcast are in fact not filtered at all, they broadcast what they choose to broadcast and take legal responsibility for doing so, just as you would would expect adults to be able to choose what they wish to broadcast on the internet and take responsibility for doing so.
That is an enormous misdirection because TV transmission are not in fact filtered at all. People choose what they want to broadcast and should that broadcast conflict with legal requirements they are charged with a crime, go to court and if found guilty pay a fine. So attempting to force filters is not really about adhering to sound moral judgement, it is all about locking people out of access, about creating monopolies where none existed and about 'controlling' free speech sic.
They reality is children should not be given access to an adult public network and the filtering needs to occur at a hardware level and force a connection only to restricted content limited access, school networks, ensuring any content that is made accessible to children is constantly reviewed and any child to child interactions are monitored fro abuse.
You seriously want an internet that is safe for children then create a separate for children internet, it is utter stupidity to attempt to make an adult network tame for children. For a start, how many adds should a child be subject to, what nature of adds should a child be subject to, how frequently should a child be exposed to an add, are adult adds suitable for children and, in a child's psychologically formative years how manipulative are those adds allowed to be.
So for a start all adds that could 'possibly' be viewed by children should be assessed for suitability by qualified people for harmful, manipulative and inappropriate content. This really points to the biggest stumbling block for a children only supervised internet, greed because the major advertisers don't wont to be blocked from being able to manipulate the choice of children, hmm, psychological child molesters.
That statement is clearly untrue. As is always the nature with greed, it is insatiable. No matter how much they get paid they will always, I repeat, always want more and more and more. The biggest lie of all is that somehow paying a greedy person enough means they wont steal and that flies in the face of reality. If a persons sole motivation is greed, then logically not only will the work 24/7/365 to increase their salary by what ever means possible but they will also spend every free moment coming up with additional ways of lining their own pockets at the expense of the company, it's shareholders, it's employees and, it's customers.
So what you are really after is a person who takes pride in the quality of their work, who demonstrates a clear record of honour and integrity and who has the requisite skills, knowledge and experience. Here is a hint for hiring executives, any CEO etc. who is willing to rip off the customers to inflate the profits of their company is even more willing to rip off their company in their own favour and, if for a second you don't believe that to be true then you are allowing greed to blind good judgement.
In fact logically speaking keeping the salary of executives as low as possible whilst maintaining a strict review of qualifications and experience means you are more likely to attract executives who want to pursue the position for reason other than greed ie. job satisfaction, job challenge, they choose to in part define themselves by the qualities of the company they are a part of and in part pride of placement.
In fact greed is about the very worst motivation that you could use to attract a corporate executive, unless of course you are an existing company director specifically seeking executive officers who will assist you in stealing as much as possible from the shareholders and customers and how many times has that and is that happening, we all know the answer to that, all far to often.
Underlying that is the enormous ego of creating your own personal governor for life email address on public web mail servers, really childish. In fact the whole episodes smacks of juvenile plots to deceive and hide the mischief that they clearly did intend. So in this case, it is actually worse than just deleting records, which as it turns out they have been deleted but, also it shows intent to create a illegal method of conducting government correspondence. Whilst the method was a rather simple and amateurish, it speaks largely of their incompetence and, does alter the nature of their criminal intent.
What Blizzard, it is just a front for Vivendi. The release of this storey seems more like a feeler so they can see what they can actually get away with. One thing they have to be really careful is the whole startcraft game play style has been done to death since starcraft originally came out and that game play style has become pretty dull and boring. Just dressing up the graphics and then dumping that same old same old, game play style really wont cut it, let alone trying to increase the returns on the engine by splitting them game into three, terran, zerg and protoss.
So it all boils down to, want to play the zerg, pay extra, want to play the protoss pay some more again. A bit bored with that style of gameplay, then at least you now have an excuse to give the whole thing a big miss. I am finding that whole out of scale, miniature toys, tiny maps etc. all somewhat stale and have though they might have gone for a bit more realistic mechanics, considering what other games it has to compete with.
I think you fail to understand the at sociopathy and psychopathy are not matters of choice, they are definitive medical conditions, something that people can not be trained out of or have it beaten out of them. The have real physical brain defects that make it impossible for them to emphasise with other people, they have little or no conscience for the harm or suffering they cause, again not by choice nut purely by a physical brain defect.
Much the same as I would expect you to appreciate that people who are colour blind people due to a physical defect, you just need to appreciate that brain defects of varying degrees can also occur and just as a colour blind person can not be trained to see the certain colours, so people with certain brain defects can not be trained to feel certain emotions. So you are the tyrant that would seek to punish them for what they can't control because you decide they are refusing to be trained, rather than treating the medical condition or by not putting them in a position where that medical condition will cause them to harm other people.
Unfortunately at this time negative elements within human society, those with very destructive psychological traits, tend to preclude the possibility of humanity successfully achieving life amongst the stars, prior to those negative elements either managing to kill off themselves and the rest humanity or triggering a general dumbing down (pretty but stupid) trend in human and human societal evolution. Humanity and it's society evolve together basically either in a positive more enlightened sharing basis or negative personal greed basis.
The really strange thing about all of this. There is absolutely no real way of validating that the adds were of any value or that they had opposite effect and actually put people off. The big thing is not to sell products but to convince sellers that the adds work and that they buy the space.
So you can imagine the sales demo, where the people selling add space demonstrate the screens where the adds appear and waffles on how the gamer must focus and see the add, of course the naive person buying the add space is not actually playing the game so they don't get a real impression of how a gamer is likely to react to that add.
So a gamer plays a game and is pretty solidly focused on the game play, tends to ignore and block out anything that doesn't affect game play and, you really think a billboard appearing in one small section of the screen that doesn't provide any required game information, will have any real impact at all. Bullshit does often sell, it just really depends who the B$ advertising is targeted at, the people selling product and buying add space or customer who might have been looking for that product in the past.
Technically speaking the proxy server logs as also records of communications of the government. So using web mail and clearly proxy logs is deleting email records that they are required by law to keep. So no they get not keep all email records, the specifically deleted all web mail transmissions records by deleting proxy server records, which are of themselves also records of government communications.
Technically speaking the technology is now appearing that will force change. A simple genetic test for sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies and a permanent block being placed upon those individuals from ever running for public office, of becoming company executives , or pretty much being banned from any position where they can gain control of or exploit other people.
Which pretty much means all those current arse holes at the top will be permanently prevented from ever getting there again and, oh boy, will they lie, cheat, kill and steal kill to prevent that from happening. It is likely to happen but that implementation period is likely to be painful and bloody.
The biggest driver of evolution will always be catastrophic changes to the environment. Evolution advances rapidly when space in made available for mutations develop into empty spaces within the food chain in specific locals. It is very likely that the biggest driver for human evolution has been the relatively frequently recurring ice ages in recent geologic history.
Just as in future, the major drivers for human evolution will be those same ice ages recurring or, on own impact upon the environment being so great as to alter the environment sufficiently from the conditions under which we evolved as to force evolutionary adaptation to the new altered environment. Other changes in bacteria or viruses could also force associated changes in humans and, of course not to forget catastrophic impact.
Although evolution occurs across millions of years, there will be numerous periods, millennia, where evolution is accelerated fro particular species due to particular environmental conditions, so not much gradual change, but periods of relative stability interspersed with periods of accelerated change.
So as it has occurred in the past, a catastrophic event will either accelerate human evolution or end it, extinction being the only reason for a species to cease evolving. Crazy short haired rock throwing monkeys are really going to have to get over the idea that this universe needs or wants them to survive ;D.
Naughty, naughty, all the legislation counts not just the bits you like
So under exemptions - (ii) the availability for use of works for nonprofit archival, preservation, and educational purposes;
With regard to copyright law c) Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.--(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including FAIR USE , under this title.
So under the DMCA there are specific exclusions, where you can "descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure".
It really all relates to political appointees, those who get their positions purely as a result of which political candidate they supported not on their skills and qualifications. This is not to be confused with skilled employees with in government who attained their position in much the same fashion as skilled employees in private industry. So the political appointees are always looking for those magic box solutions where the computer will do their job for them because they are not sufficiently competent to do it themselves.
Note these exact same things happen in corporations, where corrupt executives will promote their criminal accomplices in the corporation as they go higher up the corporate ladder, as well as of course the inevitable nepotistic placements, who else will employee the pretty but stupid spawn. So it is most definately not a government problem but, typical in most industries.
My solution when getting harassed for magic box solutions, I just politely remind them if the computer is going to do their job for them, then why would the company continue to employ and pay them. Doesn't work for political appointees of course they are just shameless frauds, much the same as the politicians who appoint them. What a way for political leaders to be viewed by the rest of the world, http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2008/09/15/1221330684259.html, childhood love of cows indeed, now that is to funny to be criminal, well, as long as it is some else's country.
That is just not real, having a public presence or not does not in any way alter the ability of people to slander you. In truth it does however provide them a measure of truth to add to their lies in order to obfuscate the slander. Privacy on the internet is all about legislation and forcing change, and at the moment, there is momentum to more strongly protecting peoples privacy. So at this time if foolishly enough you feel that you might as well become a sheeple and let corporations own and sell you right to privacy, you are really going against the dawning trend.
Sure corporate marketdroids are shoving all sorts of B$ memes into the net to try to justify their perverse invasiveness but, it is just typical psychological manipulative crap. You don't accept that kind of behaviour from other individuals so why would anybody accept it from for profit strangers whose only motive is greed, although I am starting to suspect people who are drawn to those industries also tend to the peeping tom/voyeur in their makeup, as it is all getting rather perverted.
I am sure a lot of geeks/nerds know of individuals out their who draw a lot of perverse pleasure from prying into other peoples lives and which industries the tend to drift to data mining; expected and computer security; they like to keep their secrets while prying into yours.
So I go in the opposite direction, not only hang onto every bit of digital privacy you can, but also seek to protect other users privacy as well a seeking legislation to enforce protections of digital privacy and start handing out some major penalties to the various voyeur corporations, greed is not sufficient excuse. Now as to corporations who think you privacy is unimportant, lets start seeing those ass hats, running their companies completely out in the open, no private meetings, public web cams in every office and boardroom, all paper work publicly accessible on line, as well as of course their own private lives should all be broadcast to the web. Let me guess, corporations and their executives are entitled to their privacy and secrets but every else will be screwed over and they have the lobbyists to try to enforce it.
All dictatorships are stable, as long as anybody who protests in imprisoned, tortured and executed, see stability. Now as for Yugoslavia your only choice if you didn't want to live under a dictatorship was escape, no emigration but specifically escape, an open air prison were you were not allowed to leave and if you got caught you would be put in prison.
So I don't deny there are two sides to that coin, the exploiters and the exploited. As it turns out both my parents escaped from that country and sought freedom and democracy in another country. As for those who remained in Yugoslavia and the ensuing violence, the violence was initiated by those who wished to prevent change and maintain the status quo, where they had power. So the only real difference in the dying and suffering is whether it is public and out in the open or hidden and done behind closed doors and people just disappear.
In light of jobs being the issue, then a change is required to copyright laws. Obviously the sorter the duration of copyright, the more that must be created to create income. Long term copyright duration must stifle the creation of additional content, you are speeding huge amounts of tax payer dollars in order to maintain anti-free speech monopolies on content and preventing it from reaching the public domain, when you should be doing the exact opposite. Spend less money on protection, much shorter duration for copyright and many more people will be employed creating new content.
If people had more money to spend they would not be in debt and there would not be a credit crisis, hence bullshit copyright laws will not generate additional revenue as there is no additional money to spend, rising fuel costs, food prices and stagnant wages have put an end to that. Unless in the typical idiocy of right wing politicians they seriously expect people to starve their children so that their children can buy the latest crap music CD that saturation advertising tells the children they must have in order not to be a worthless loser.
The deepest diving subs do not use air to surface but lighter than water hydrocarbons, as at higher pressure the air compresses more, displaces far less water, so they can only make one trip to the bottom, then drop ballast and rise to the surface. An incompressible positively buoyant craft can make many trips to the bottom, the catch is the deeper it want to go, the more force is required ie. the faster in must fly through the water, oddly similar to planes.
Of course to correct your other error, you could of course stop a plane in mid flight and blow the tanks and remain airborne, as long as they were tanks of helium and you contained the output in a aerodynamic balloon (for the transition from forward flight to displacement floating). Just not your day is it ;).
The catch with that is change does not occur unless, instability forces it. A minority of people speaking out who a willing to accept the risks of doing so are the ones who force positive change. The only other change that occurs, is negative change, the ones who wish to maintain a facade of traditional values, of religious observance, while they corruptly loot the country to sate their own greed and lusts. That is the reality and the religious crap is just that 'crap' a diversion to keep the poor general populace focused on other issues, rather than their livings conditions versus the living conditions of the rich and greedy or that the legal system is distorted to provide one set of laws to protect the elite and another set of laws to persecute the rest.
Change can happen very fast, it is naturally always disruptive, that is the nature of change and it is most destructive when it is blocked from happening and comes as a dam bursting. Do you know when this happens, it happens when the corrupt leaders at the top are focussed on keeping everything they have stolen and will do anything to keep the corrupt system going as it is, with nothing but platitudes of offer for the rest of the population.
Any government with sedition laws sucks, there is no excuse, they are full of it and those leaders should be treated with contempt by every one who values freedom and democracy. Slavery was a cultural thing for centuries in a lot of countries, north, south, east and west and today very thought of sickens and infuriates most reasonable people, so culture is just a weak excuse not a valid reason, neither is racism ie. they are all citizens of Malaysia so it is Malays who rule the country, Malays who control the economy and Malays who prosper in the legal and medical profession, if you see it any other way, recognise yourself, you are racist and a bigot.
The growth in FOSS is inevitable over the long term. At this time it will be accelerated subject to the duration of the recession, once we hit global depression, the next upgrade cycle will inevitably be FOSS driven. The real force behind it is falling proprietary software sales, they simply can not keep their staff going with out revenue, no staff, no new product, no updates and they are crap at service at support (they treat it as a profit draining overhead), which is where of course FOSS excels (because that is what they basically sell).
So as it shifts from short term recession into long term depression, so the take up of FOSS will accelerate, as big spending, private jet owning, bloated executive ego having, proprietary software companies start tipping over, as everyone else stops buying and paying (cost to install and retrain) for upgrades. Also hardware sales will slow down and things like the UMPC/Netbooks will finally start selling for a far more competitive price, fully preloaded with FOSS software, all configured and installed properly.
It is always tied to upgrade cycles, the big hint that things are changing in that regard, is after 6 years of the previous versions of the windows OS and M$ Office companies were unwilling to upgrade and still refuse to upgrade and, the harder M$ push by fucking around with bad patches, shutting off support and attempting to force companies to upgrade by refusing to sell the sell the old versions and leaving companies with unstable mixed networks, the more likely companies are to shift away from M$ to FOSS in retaliation ie. if your supplier is going to try to force you to upgrade your whole system at high cost in harsh economic times then you might as well spend that money on retraining and system conversion to free software (a one time cost).
To be fair, by far the majority of companies do not act in this fashion. They respect the privacy of their staff, they respect the privacy of their customers and of course they respect the privacy of total strangers. Only one very narrow segment of the industry continuously and very perversely invades the privacy of every one they can upon a massively and previously unheralded basis and think it is appropriate to attempt to psychologically manipulate people based upon their personal information in order to generate a profit at all costs.
There would be an increase in radiation reaching the planets surface, so staying indoors a little more often during the switch over would be recommended. Also any solar flares that happened to discharge material towards the earth would cause a bit more damage, overall all nothing to dramatic.
The only real problem, the smallest critters, bacteria, algae, viruses and, fungi, the additional radiation load would likely trigger some disruptive mutations, which could be rather troublesome. Other than that, the only real problem would be navigation and, a whole bunch of Australians, pointing out 'whose bloody down under now' and, everybody would have to get new maps http://freakymartin.com/2007/12/25/map-of-the-world-from-australia-3-photos/.
You are obviously lost, perhaps this forum is not really meant for you. Computer hacker in geek/nerd speak is technically neutral, neither good nor bad, cracker on the other hand is definitively bad and has always been considered so. Just as the individuals who know and understand this have re-defined the language in terms of the use of nerd and geek from negative to positive, so we, not the knuckle dragging jockstraps, define the use of the term hacker.
So in geek/nerd speak to clarify good or bad in relation to hacker, white hat or black hat is appended. Imagine, allowing mass media hockey puck 'mom' journalists from those colleges for dummies to define our language for us, what are ya thinkin, next you all be lettin em become president, 'er', wink, giggle.