Given that he was at an Internet cafe, I do have to wonder why they let him stay for 50 hours straight.
If you assume the workers at the cafe only work 8 hour shifts (and don't socialize with people from other shifts), it is quite possible a place open 24 hours might not notice that someone has been there for 10 hours or more unless the computer he's on logs his time.
Blake: What are the surface conditions on Horizon? Zen: Negative information. Blake: Population? Zen: Negative information. Blake: Well, is there any information on Horizon? Zen: Negative. Blake: Well, is the information on Horizon classified? Zen: Negative information. Vila: Well, that was a whole lot of nothing.
Overtime for all to prevent the coming armageddon!*
* Offer valid only in case of armageddon.
(Seriously, I know of one case where triple overtime was promised for people on staff overnight for Y2K readiness where, come the next day, the administration reneged.)
I think it's kinda funny, you don't, but it really has nothing to do with the game Halo itself.
Sure it does:
Simmons: Seriously though, why are we out here? Far as I can tell it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere. No way in or out.
Grif: Mm-hmm.
Simmons: The only reason we set up a red base here is because they have a blue base over there. And the only reason they have a blue base over there is because we have a red base here.
Grif: Yeah, that's 'cause we're fighting each other.
Simmons: No, no, but I mean even if we were to pull out today and they were to come take our base they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Whoop-de-fucking-do.
Grif: What's up with that anyway? I mean, I signed up to fight aliens. Next thing I know Master Chief blows up the whole Covenant armada and I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, fighting a bunch of blue guys.... Talk about a waste of resources! I mean, we should be out there finding new and intelligent forms of life. You know, fight them!
Simmons: Yeah, no shit. That's why they should put us in charge.
2. If successful independent films started coming out of X-boxes or other consoles at any significant rate, there'd be royalty, DMCA, and/or copyright lawsuits from the console makers.
What makes you think Microsoft owns the copyright to every game played on the XBOX? Those rights lie with the game manufacturer. And where's the defeating of a protective measure that would bring the DMCA into play? This is done by capturing non-Macrovisioned analog outputs. Or is any recording device now considered a circumvention device?
I want to engage in pretenious opinion spewing now.
That's as may be, but I personally wouldn't support the death penalty for trespass or theft.
Well there's at least one state that disagrees with you on that. Obscure quote:
"You are sittin' in my son's room, in front of my son's computer, in my house, and you're in Texas, boy. I'd be well within my rights to shoot you where you sit."
Who says your interceptor has to be stationary? Just drive slow on the interstate until a potentially interesting conversation passes you, then you keep pace.
Note that this mouse does not currently ship with new computers
And I suspect it won't until the new Intel machines ship. It's designed to appeal to Windows switchers who will want to dual-boot Mac OS X with Windows XP or Vista on Apple's new hardware and not be stuck with a mouse that cripples their Windows experience.
I haven't had the experience of using one yet, but the speaker vibrations may indeed be carried tactilely by the shell. An enterprising hardware modder may decide to make it have more bass.
Now that is strange. You'd think that that would reference the trademark, not the copyright. Apple isn't using the Mighty Mouse animated character as the device's mascot (like Time Warner Cable does with Road Runner), only the name, which would be trademarked.
Personally, I think non-Unix users are really missing out on the highlight-to-copy, middle-button-as-paste functionality. But that's me.
Maybe so for the middle-button-as-paste, but I could do without the Unix highlight-to-copy functionality. Click in another window without first making sure your mouse isn't moving at all it and suddenly your clipboard contents get replaced. Copy and paste becomes as precarious an act as carrying twenty banana cream pies. The UI should not require the user to give up caffeine.
And forget about pasting on top of highlighted text to replace that text.
If she bought an M-rated game in 2004 for her then 14-year-old grandson, why isn't an AO-rated game for her now 15-year-old grandson in 2005 just as appropriate? So the game grows with the player.
I do have a 57% chance that the grandson is now 15, unless he was actually 57 (born on February 29th, 1948), but that would be silly.
She sought unspecified damages on behalf of herself and all consumers nationwide, saying the company should give up its profits from the game for what amounted to false advertising, consumer deception and unfair business practices.
It should be up to each purchaser to decide whether they felt deceived. She does not speak for me. Rockstar can keep the profit for the copy I bought. I'd feel the same even if I didn't know about Hot Coffee before my purchase.
What's next, suing McDonalds for using recycled Playboys in the manufacture of their Happy Meal boxes?
To get the free version of Windows, a customer must fill out a counterfeit report identifying the source of the software, provide a proof of purchase and send in a counterfeit CD of the software. If customers don't have all of that information, they can still fill out a counterfeit report and receive a copy of Windows XP Home Edition for $99 or a copy of Windows XP Professional Edition for $149, Lazar said.
Switching to translation mode: "Be a Microsoft informer. Betray your family & friends. Fabulous prizes to be won."
"We want to have our life choreographed, cataloged, witnessed and archived," Stakutis said. "Now we are heading to a world where this is possible without effort."
Indeed, next comes the government contract to expand and fully exploit this information. Soon, local law enforcement will be using this data to do their jobs more efficiently and stopping people for questioning just because they've "strayed from the herd".
And they'll do it without directly violating your privacy because they won't see the data that was the basis of the alert. As long as no one but the black box doing the mining sees your private information and doesn't disclose any of it with its findings, it's not going to be seen as a violation of your privacy. Privacy violations will become defined as disclosure of one person's information to another person, and machines running automated processes will be exempt by definition.
Thanks for the idea. I think I'll go put out a mod for Barbie's Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue now! According to the site (which requires cookies), it should get pulled from shelves just for being so very bad.
I find it interesting that Best Buy is pulling it from their shelves. The copy I purchased post-Hot Coffee, pre-rerating, and still shrinkwrapped has the price tag affixed atop the rating on the front of the package.
Sure, the rating on the back is still there, but there will be those that buy it without looking at the back, and that those who won't check the back wouldn't have noticed it on the front either (i.e. you have to be looking for it to care to notice it).
But it does seem a bit hypocritical to object to selling AO-rated games but will hide the M-rated games' rating with their price tag.
I oppose the rerating, but I also wish they'd kept it on the shelves relabeled as AO so that it would be there to encourage parents to pay attention to the ESRB ratings! Then maybe they'll take the responsibility for exposing their pre-17-year-olds to the M-games content and only be able to be upset about their 17-year-olds being exposed to Hot Coffee.
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Given that he was at an Internet cafe, I do have to wonder why they let him stay for 50 hours straight.
If you assume the workers at the cafe only work 8 hour shifts (and don't socialize with people from other shifts), it is quite possible a place open 24 hours might not notice that someone has been there for 10 hours or more unless the computer he's on logs his time.
Blake: What are the surface conditions on Horizon?
Zen: Negative information.
Blake: Population?
Zen: Negative information.
Blake: Well, is there any information on Horizon?
Zen: Negative.
Blake: Well, is the information on Horizon classified?
Zen: Negative information.
Vila: Well, that was a whole lot of nothing.
Sounds like a brand of hair growth products.
Or hair removal.
And you don't want to get those two mixed up!
Overtime for all to prevent the coming armageddon!*
* Offer valid only in case of armageddon.
(Seriously, I know of one case where triple overtime was promised for people on staff overnight for Y2K readiness where, come the next day, the administration reneged.)
Sure it does:
2. If successful independent films started coming out of X-boxes or other consoles at any significant rate, there'd be royalty, DMCA, and/or copyright lawsuits from the console makers.
What makes you think Microsoft owns the copyright to every game played on the XBOX? Those rights lie with the game manufacturer. And where's the defeating of a protective measure that would bring the DMCA into play? This is done by capturing non-Macrovisioned analog outputs. Or is any recording device now considered a circumvention device?
I want to engage in pretenious opinion spewing now.
And someone modded it as Insightful?
That's as may be, but I personally wouldn't support the death penalty for trespass or theft.
Well there's at least one state that disagrees with you on that. Obscure quote:
"You are sittin' in my son's room, in front of my son's computer, in my house, and you're in Texas, boy. I'd be well within my rights to shoot you where you sit."
Who says your interceptor has to be stationary? Just drive slow on the interstate until a potentially interesting conversation passes you, then you keep pace.
I thought it was easy to lose money in the sofa cushions before, but millimeter-dollars?
Bring back the big Ike dollars.
Note that this mouse does not currently ship with new computers
And I suspect it won't until the new Intel machines ship. It's designed to appeal to Windows switchers who will want to dual-boot Mac OS X with Windows XP or Vista on Apple's new hardware and not be stuck with a mouse that cripples their Windows experience.
That's not tactile feedback.
I haven't had the experience of using one yet, but the speaker vibrations may indeed be carried tactilely by the shell. An enterprising hardware modder may decide to make it have more bass.
Now that is strange. You'd think that that would reference the trademark, not the copyright. Apple isn't using the Mighty Mouse animated character as the device's mascot (like Time Warner Cable does with Road Runner), only the name, which would be trademarked.
Personally, I think non-Unix users are really missing out on the highlight-to-copy, middle-button-as-paste functionality. But that's me.
Maybe so for the middle-button-as-paste, but I could do without the Unix highlight-to-copy functionality. Click in another window without first making sure your mouse isn't moving at all it and suddenly your clipboard contents get replaced. Copy and paste becomes as precarious an act as carrying twenty banana cream pies. The UI should not require the user to give up caffeine.
And forget about pasting on top of highlighted text to replace that text.
If she bought an M-rated game in 2004 for her then 14-year-old grandson, why isn't an AO-rated game for her now 15-year-old grandson in 2005 just as appropriate? So the game grows with the player.
I do have a 57% chance that the grandson is now 15, unless he was actually 57 (born on February 29th, 1948), but that would be silly.
She sought unspecified damages on behalf of herself and all consumers nationwide, saying the company should give up its profits from the game for what amounted to false advertising, consumer deception and unfair business practices.
It should be up to each purchaser to decide whether they felt deceived. She does not speak for me. Rockstar can keep the profit for the copy I bought. I'd feel the same even if I didn't know about Hot Coffee before my purchase.
What's next, suing McDonalds for using recycled Playboys in the manufacture of their Happy Meal boxes?
To get the free version of Windows, a customer must fill out a counterfeit report identifying the source of the software, provide a proof of purchase and send in a counterfeit CD of the software. If customers don't have all of that information, they can still fill out a counterfeit report and receive a copy of Windows XP Home Edition for $99 or a copy of Windows XP Professional Edition for $149, Lazar said.
Switching to translation mode: "Be a Microsoft informer. Betray your family & friends. Fabulous prizes to be won."
There I met a woman who had lived in Japan all her life, but was the grand parents of imported Korean labor.
Her clone gave birth to Korean laborers?
It covers basic cross-browser development techniques, and some developing strategies for overcoming the differences between both browsers.
Country and western?
Too late: boxen has already been published in a dictionary and referenced in other on-line dictionaries.
"We want to have our life choreographed, cataloged, witnessed and archived," Stakutis said. "Now we are heading to a world where this is possible without effort."
Indeed, next comes the government contract to expand and fully exploit this information. Soon, local law enforcement will be using this data to do their jobs more efficiently and stopping people for questioning just because they've "strayed from the herd".
And they'll do it without directly violating your privacy because they won't see the data that was the basis of the alert. As long as no one but the black box doing the mining sees your private information and doesn't disclose any of it with its findings, it's not going to be seen as a violation of your privacy. Privacy violations will become defined as disclosure of one person's information to another person, and machines running automated processes will be exempt by definition.
I'd be more concerned if there was an exploit to inject code into a PC with a wireless USB mouse.
Thanks for the idea. I think I'll go put out a mod for Barbie's Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue now! According to the site (which requires cookies), it should get pulled from shelves just for being so very bad.
I find it interesting that Best Buy is pulling it from their shelves. The copy I purchased post-Hot Coffee, pre-rerating, and still shrinkwrapped has the price tag affixed atop the rating on the front of the package.
Sure, the rating on the back is still there, but there will be those that buy it without looking at the back, and that those who won't check the back wouldn't have noticed it on the front either (i.e. you have to be looking for it to care to notice it).
But it does seem a bit hypocritical to object to selling AO-rated games but will hide the M-rated games' rating with their price tag.
I oppose the rerating, but I also wish they'd kept it on the shelves relabeled as AO so that it would be there to encourage parents to pay attention to the ESRB ratings! Then maybe they'll take the responsibility for exposing their pre-17-year-olds to the M-games content and only be able to be upset about their 17-year-olds being exposed to Hot Coffee.
Still, the article is a good overview of life from the marketer's perspective.
You got anything written from the vampire's point-of-view?
Oh, right. You already said "marketer's".
So rewarding you with health and money is not encouraging you?
That's not encouragement; that's reinforcement. Encouragement comes before, not after the event.