Does Halo have aimbots or it's not an issue for consoles? If playing on a network that allows hacked boxes, players can run with mods ("trainers") that can definitely at least spread the effective range and kill radius of a weapon so that a single griefer can completely disrupt a friendly non-Crazy game of King of the Hill.
Problem is, those providing the content still don't get it, and even want to restrict the freedom broadcast television affords with things like the Broadcast Flag. They want to broadcast their content and control it too, and mandate that everyone and everything play by their new rules. And they have enough momentum to scare device makers into build-in support for honoring a Broadcast Flag that still isn't legally mandated (like in TiVos).
I'd wager that a format that allowed unrestrained playing and the sharing of verbatim copies without editing (i.e. containing commercials) would gain general acceptance. They could easily offer that at DVD quality now and still make their hay on HD media. As long as it doesn't phone home, not even for updated ads.
So what's the point of going through the torture yourself? a. To sensitize you to what harm you'll be inflicting on a suspected perp to discourage abuse b. To desensitize you to what harm you'll be inflicting on a suspected perp in a controlled situation, thus encouraging its abuse in the field ("I withstood it; suck it up and have some more!") c. To train you so that if one gets used on you you won't be incapacitated d. Both b and c.
I go with d. Experiments have proven that escalation is the norm when dishing out pain, and when someone is regularly given power over others, they do not gain empathy for their subjects. Maybe if every use of the taser shocked both parties equally would abuse be curtailed. Enforcers have more empathy for their partners than the skels (or at least as long as taser duty is on rotation).
Consider also that the microwave gun may induce only a momentary intense burning sensation, but that's only if you can get out of the beam. In practice, it will be trained on a moving victim, tracking him so he can't evade. Longer exposures will do physical harm. Include the same microwave emitters on the weapon's grips.
Unwarranted use of deadly force might stop entirely if discharging a weapon caused injury to its operator by driving spikes from the grip into the hand. Someone truly in fear for their life engaging in self-defense should be willing to accept a personal injury as an immediate consequence for saving their own life at the expense of the other's. Maybe not that extreme. Certainly not a guillotine trigger or exploding firearm.
But just how gray of an area is requiring personal consequence in the use of deadly force in the defense of others? Discuss.
When I was tasered for security training (this is what it's like to be hit by your own deterrent) I've notice you never hear about such "training" before issuance of pepper spray/mace, nightsticks, or firearms.
BTW, where can I get a Faraday vest (search page for text)?
simply release your media in a format everyone can enjoy for free in a quality higher then the pirates are putting out, slip in some well targeted adverts, hey presto you just... ...invented broadcast television.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to pay for episodes if they contained unskippable ads. I wouldn't mind unskippable ads... if that meant I could watch the program while skipping the ads and have all the skipped ads play in one block at the end of the show (un-skipped), like HDNET.
So will this version finally remember the window size of a spreadsheet and not always open it maximized on the 2048x1536 head of my two-headed Mac? Nothing I do to it changes this behavior. I have to manually unmaximize and resize every damn time!
And how about how if you try to move to another cell while it is recalculating it keeps repeating the recalculation until you wait for the redraw to finish?
One thing I noticed in the DASD photo: It's totally inaccurate. -Nobody- has ever had those old cabinets with their doors shut. The thing I noticed in the DASD photo is that there was nothing in it to gauge scale. They could have been as small as this paper clip holder as far as I could tell... with really small badges, displays and buttons.
But then that paper clip holder itself could be huge containing large novelty size paperclips. But then at only 87 cents it would be a really great deal!
His take is his depiction as a target of a murder is a credible threat on his life or an incitement of such murder. Parody ceases to be protected when it becomes a credible threat on someone's life.
Unfortunately we live in such a fearful society that a preschooler scribbling a crude image of a handgun is considered a credible threat warranting her immediate expulsion and arrest.
The fictional game of Pogo the Monkey from GTA3, if actually created, would probably trigger scrutiny by the Secret Service.
EA Wallace Budge is one of the great authorities on Egyptology, but his work is badly out of date, and was actually never all that good. If nothing else, he has a tendency in his translations to treat Egyptian theology as monotheistic in the model of Christianity. In the Stargate movie, Daniel Jackson says 'I don't know why they keep printing him': The simple answer is that the copyright is expired, so it's cheap, and his name still shifts copy.
It does apply to the Music CD-R (there are apparently no Lightscribe Music CD-Rs at all) and not to the Data CD-R. It applies to the dual-deck cassette recorder but not the single-deck recorder.
AFAIK though it has not extended to flash memory and hard drives in the US, nor to any blank DVD media.
Imagine a JBOD-Jukebox of Music CD-Rs formatted for data sharing music. Now imagine the cost for multiple CD drives and latency for a changer instead. They have a vested interest in not letting tariffed media get too large and easy to use.
Nobody with that much music on their player has actually spent fifteen or twenty thousand dollars though, so I have to agree with what one executive said, "Everyone knows those things are full of pirated music" (or words to that effect.) Oh sure, that's maybe not the legal definition of "piracy" but the point is well taken. There's another tact: what do you define as music? I don't mean as a matter of taste, but rather that there are other types of audio that can be encoded as MP3 or AAC files which provide more content per dollar. Podcasts can extend for an hour or more, be completely free, and have new content available daily, and there are many of them with overlapping interests. Then there's the ability to store non-playable content like essential application suites and password vaults.
(MP3 is part of the MPEG2 standard, a "lossy" standard) MP3 is short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. While the MPEG-2 standard may reference it and add some additional bit and sample rates, it is MPEG-1 technology.
I always thought with that big of an address space they could force everybody to have their own unique biometric hash and gps coordinates encoded in the ip address. Parkinson's Law: Programs expand to fill the memory available to hold them.
(And here I was hoping to post, "Reasonable limits aren't.")
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You got the point exactly.
Problem is, those providing the content still don't get it, and even want to restrict the freedom broadcast television affords with things like the Broadcast Flag. They want to broadcast their content and control it too, and mandate that everyone and everything play by their new rules. And they have enough momentum to scare device makers into build-in support for honoring a Broadcast Flag that still isn't legally mandated (like in TiVos).
I'd wager that a format that allowed unrestrained playing and the sharing of verbatim copies without editing (i.e. containing commercials) would gain general acceptance. They could easily offer that at DVD quality now and still make their hay on HD media. As long as it doesn't phone home, not even for updated ads.
b. To desensitize you to what harm you'll be inflicting on a suspected perp in a controlled situation, thus encouraging its abuse in the field ("I withstood it; suck it up and have some more!")
c. To train you so that if one gets used on you you won't be incapacitated
d. Both b and c.
I go with d. Experiments have proven that escalation is the norm when dishing out pain, and when someone is regularly given power over others, they do not gain empathy for their subjects. Maybe if every use of the taser shocked both parties equally would abuse be curtailed. Enforcers have more empathy for their partners than the skels (or at least as long as taser duty is on rotation).
Consider also that the microwave gun may induce only a momentary intense burning sensation, but that's only if you can get out of the beam. In practice, it will be trained on a moving victim, tracking him so he can't evade. Longer exposures will do physical harm. Include the same microwave emitters on the weapon's grips.
Unwarranted use of deadly force might stop entirely if discharging a weapon caused injury to its operator by driving spikes from the grip into the hand. Someone truly in fear for their life engaging in self-defense should be willing to accept a personal injury as an immediate consequence for saving their own life at the expense of the other's. Maybe not that extreme. Certainly not a guillotine trigger or exploding firearm.
But just how gray of an area is requiring personal consequence in the use of deadly force in the defense of others? Discuss.
BTW, where can I get a Faraday vest (search page for text)?
Now non-skippable ads I'd have a problem with.
So will this version finally remember the window size of a spreadsheet and not always open it maximized on the 2048x1536 head of my two-headed Mac? Nothing I do to it changes this behavior. I have to manually unmaximize and resize every damn time!
And how about how if you try to move to another cell while it is recalculating it keeps repeating the recalculation until you wait for the redraw to finish?
I know I tagged this as "dupe" on the Firehose yesterday.
But then that paper clip holder itself could be huge containing large novelty size paperclips. But then at only 87 cents it would be a really great deal!
"He had a spare."
His take is his depiction as a target of a murder is a credible threat on his life or an incitement of such murder. Parody ceases to be protected when it becomes a credible threat on someone's life.
Unfortunately we live in such a fearful society that a preschooler scribbling a crude image of a handgun is considered a credible threat warranting her immediate expulsion and arrest.
The fictional game of Pogo the Monkey from GTA3, if actually created, would probably trigger scrutiny by the Secret Service.
Lake Titicaca, o Lake Titicaca
It's in between Bolivia and Peru
Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca
With waters tranquil and blue
Lake Titicaca, o Lake Titicaca
Why do we sing of its fame?
Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca
We just like saying its name: TITICACA!
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Goodbye, link-flagging client-side stylesheet rules. Good times.
Cosgrove: Hey, Freakazoid! Wanna try my new non-stick gum?
Freakazoid: Do I ever!
Assuming your browser even recognizes the gopher URI, the obvious choice of gopher://thepiratebay.com/ fails to connect (for me today at least), and there's no gopher.thepiratebay.com either.
It does apply to the Music CD-R (there are apparently no Lightscribe Music CD-Rs at all) and not to the Data CD-R. It applies to the dual-deck cassette recorder but not the single-deck recorder.
AFAIK though it has not extended to flash memory and hard drives in the US, nor to any blank DVD media.
Imagine a JBOD-Jukebox of Music CD-Rs formatted for data sharing music. Now imagine the cost for multiple CD drives and latency for a changer instead. They have a vested interest in not letting tariffed media get too large and easy to use.
The point that it is "lossy" remains valid.
Looks like archie and gopher are safe.
(And here I was hoping to post, "Reasonable limits aren't.")
Ah well. Perhaps I should have been a bit cleverer and said, "There must be 110010 ways to lose your data."
There must be 50 ways to lose your data.