If the syn is blocked by the firewall, then the pc won't know that it ever existed. The ack will look like it came from out-of-the-blue. That is, if the ack makes it through the firewall as well.
"I'm afraid that calling morality not a state interest is going to have some disturbing consequences."
Not really. Most laws that cover moral issues also deal with harm to people. It's illegal to murder someone because it's the extreme in causing harm. Murder also happens to be immoral. Theft is illegal because you're depriving someone of their property. It also happens to be immoral. Reading a legal porn mag in your bedroom does not cause harm to anyone, just as two people committing sodomy consentually does not cause harm either. Some people feel this is immoral but because it's not harming anyone, the Justices feel it's none of their business. You can't force your morals on other people but you can take steps to prevent harm, like seat belt and helmet laws, or to punish those to do harm.
Laws that protect people from harm are easy to define and pass. We've defined different levels of killing from 1st degree murder to murder in self-defense with different punishments or no punishments at all. Laws that govern morality in the privacy of one's home when nobody is being harmed is not. The point I think they were trying to make is that the state has no right to tell people what they can and can't do if it's not causing harm to anyone.
Hey man no need to get sensitive about it...it's okay if your MMOG character is your girlfriend...don't take it personal man....does she look like Britney?
and once again, please learn to read and comprehend what you read before posting drivel. Do a search for that phrase, or even just "music does" and you'll find the only place it exists is in your post. (I searched while browsing -1) I've never said that downloading music doesn't hurt artists so please keep your lies to yourself and your lessons from Goebbel at home. Your witch hunt is going badly as there are no witches to hunt.
I never said I illegally download music. I never said it was ok. The biggest problem with this whole issue is that those who defend the RIAA automatically assume that anyone who sees the issue clearly for what it is must also be illegally downloading music. I also never tried to justify or rationalize copyright infringement. I merely stated a fact about it, that it is not theft. I myself do not download music because the music I like I get hear live every friday and saturday night. If the band is good enough I buy their cd's and usually a tshirt and stickers too. I would rather spend $40 or $50 on a live band that took the time to entertain me to my face than spend $20 on a cd from a band that is signed on a major label. You can't beat live local music no matter how much marketing and hype you put into it. I'm also not the typical braindead teen who can't like anything that's not on MTV. I also make my own music and my response to all the bullshit about copyrights and theft is to give away my music for free. Music is meant to be shared and it is in human nature to share music. Just because some corporations refuse to embrace a new business model and toss the old dead one away doesn't mean human nature just goes away also.
Your RIAA supporters really need to get your collective heads out of your collective asses, learn to read then take some reading comprehension classes, and THEN come out and play with the big boys who are actually in touch with reality.
I do, and my music is all free. The CD's I make at home and hand out have in huge letters everywhere "NOT FOR SALE".
You don't need a record deal to sell music either. That is so antiquated. Pearl Jam sells a shitload of cd's just by touring and most of the cd's I own come from local bands that pass through town. The problem with that model is that if a band sucks they don't sell cd's. If a band sucks and gets a label then they do sell cd's. I don't support suck music.
What depriving of sales? Continued spreading of the fallacy that copyright infringement = lost sales.
Anyone can walk down to a store that sells software and look at the price of the titles in question. A POS game or CD that sells for $8 in walmart most certainly won't be calculated at $8 when the charges are brought. They'll call it $50 or some crap.
It scares me that people have come to believe that they can know how much they would have sold if not for copyright infringement and that they feel missing out on a little money is the same thing as being raped or murdered.
Last time I checked, CD sales were up while piracy hasn't had much of a dent put in it. Your sales model is dead. When the sales model dies you either evolve with it or die yourself. Trying to take everyone else down with your sinking ship is childish and immature.
Anyone who tries to legislate human nature is not only destined to fail but it destined to cause their own destruction in the process. There is no force more powerful than human nature and it is in human nature to share music with one another and has been happening since humans first discovered music. We hang out with our instruments and have jam sessions. We visit each other's homes and listen to each others CD's. We make copies of music for each other whether it was made by us or someone else. We are also willing to pay for music, especially when nobody is trying to make us feel like rapists and murderers for sharing. When you try to take away human nature, human nature fights back with a ferocity that surpasses greed in ways that will, and are, making heads spin.
http://www.gnutella.com/news/5267 August 14, 2002 California Senator Kevin Murray is continuing his push to repeal the 'Seven-Year Rule', which allows record companies to lock artists into unfair limitless contracts for their artistic works.
Currently, the music industry is the only industry legally allowed to hold their personal-services contracts beyond the maximum length of seven years (as per California state law). The law limiting the length of personal-services contracts in California was created to ensure that people could not be turned into "indentured servants" by having a limitless unfair contract term put upon them which they are unable to escape from.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a public statement last week outlining the five concessions they are willing to make to satisfy the concerns of artists' groups (such as the Recording Artist Coalition or RAC) which are currently negotiating the matter with the RIAA. In response to this "outline of concessions", Senator Murray has publicly stated his concern with what the RIAA calls "compromises" are in fact tailored to represent demands of the labels and not that of the artists.
"For the RIAA to present their demands as compromises or concessions was an insult to the recording artists, attorneys, and managers that have been working for months to resolve this issue." - Senator Kevin Murray
If you're going to mention slashdot on your resume, make sure it says something like "spends free time correcting the stories on slashdot". If you're going for an editors position, they'll hire you on your bravery, willpower, and masochism alone.
You can't imagine how having tons of junk and barrels would improve the strategy gameplay in NS? What about combining movable objects with webbing? What about using barrels and junk to remove webbing or make it easier to spot? The possibilities are endless. Just webs and objects alone would drastically affect game play.
There are a few things that are beyond common knowledge.
1. posting a link on slashdot will cause that link to see a massive surge in traffic
2. posting multiple links to different pages in a website will multiply this already huge effect
3. the slashdot effect will almost always take down a site and/or cost the site owner thousands of dollars in bandwidth
Knowing these things couldn't one argue that posting a non-coralized or non-cached link on slashdot is the equivalent of a malicious DDOS attack which could cause legal repercussions? Would it really be that hard to take the tag and make it automatically coralized?
AFTER being chastized by the world, AFTER it became known that Bush's 2nd inaugural party was going to cost $40 million (yes, 2nd party). Raising the amount isn't being done out of true charity for the hundreds of thousands of people who died or for the millions who lost everything, it's being done as damage control. That's whats so sad about it.
I remember pointcast and loved it. I also remember reading stories about how corporate networks were dying on the hour every hour because so many employees installed it and it didn't have a system to randomize the update time. http://www.forbes.com/1999/11/08/feat.html
Oh, no mistake. That issue came out, literally, months ago. I was just providing the date. Kinda surprised nobody scanned the images and posted them. A google search didn't turn much up. Maybe that says something about how excited (or not) people are about Quake IV.
If they had been playing GTA, they would have recognized the audio from the game. You're also confusing cause and corrolation. You play violent games because you already enjoy or are attracted to that type of violence. If you weren't then the game would offend you and you wouldn't play it. I am attracted to games like Halo but the type of violence in GTA isn't appealing to me so I don't play it. Games may increase someone's already existing level of aggression but they cannot create it from nothing and they certainly never CAUSE it.
Can something be bleeding edge when it goes through as many delays as HL2 did? I know that I was bleeding on the edge of my chair waiting for it for so long that I practically amputated both legs. Good thing I don't need legs to play it.
I could be meant as easy revenue in the repair department. There's nothing like charging someone $80 to remove some screws and change a battery. Of course by the time the battery dies the warranty will be dead too.
The temperatures in NY don't get low enough for you to worry about anything but condensation, as previous posters mentioned. When I was in the Air Force, the computers we used to troubleshoot avionics loved the cold. The shop could not get above 70F or we would start seeing problems. A buddy of mine went to Iceland and they opened all the doors to the shop one day in winter and got the shop to around -10F. He said the computers never ran better. You would have to get the computer pretty damn cold before you started seeing failures. We're talking the kind of cold that the cpu can't even think about warming up. Condensation, bugs, and critters are your only concerns.
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If the syn is blocked by the firewall, then the pc won't know that it ever existed. The ack will look like it came from out-of-the-blue. That is, if the ack makes it through the firewall as well.
Sure, if you ignore the fact that many plants require a certain amount of direct sunlight.
"I'm afraid that calling morality not a state interest is going to have some disturbing consequences."
Not really. Most laws that cover moral issues also deal with harm to people. It's illegal to murder someone because it's the extreme in causing harm. Murder also happens to be immoral. Theft is illegal because you're depriving someone of their property. It also happens to be immoral. Reading a legal porn mag in your bedroom does not cause harm to anyone, just as two people committing sodomy consentually does not cause harm either. Some people feel this is immoral but because it's not harming anyone, the Justices feel it's none of their business. You can't force your morals on other people but you can take steps to prevent harm, like seat belt and helmet laws, or to punish those to do harm.
Laws that protect people from harm are easy to define and pass. We've defined different levels of killing from 1st degree murder to murder in self-defense with different punishments or no punishments at all. Laws that govern morality in the privacy of one's home when nobody is being harmed is not. The point I think they were trying to make is that the state has no right to tell people what they can and can't do if it's not causing harm to anyone.
Hey man no need to get sensitive about it...it's okay if your MMOG character is your girlfriend...don't take it personal man....does she look like Britney?
I think you're confused. Slashdotters have MMORG characters AS girlfriends.
and once again, please learn to read and comprehend what you read before posting drivel. Do a search for that phrase, or even just "music does" and you'll find the only place it exists is in your post. (I searched while browsing -1)
I've never said that downloading music doesn't hurt artists so please keep your lies to yourself and your lessons from Goebbel at home. Your witch hunt is going badly as there are no witches to hunt.
Sheep always fall for that trap. LOL I love it!
I never said I illegally download music. I never said it was ok. The biggest problem with this whole issue is that those who defend the RIAA automatically assume that anyone who sees the issue clearly for what it is must also be illegally downloading music. I also never tried to justify or rationalize copyright infringement. I merely stated a fact about it, that it is not theft. I myself do not download music because the music I like I get hear live every friday and saturday night. If the band is good enough I buy their cd's and usually a tshirt and stickers too. I would rather spend $40 or $50 on a live band that took the time to entertain me to my face than spend $20 on a cd from a band that is signed on a major label. You can't beat live local music no matter how much marketing and hype you put into it. I'm also not the typical braindead teen who can't like anything that's not on MTV. I also make my own music and my response to all the bullshit about copyrights and theft is to give away my music for free. Music is meant to be shared and it is in human nature to share music. Just because some corporations refuse to embrace a new business model and toss the old dead one away doesn't mean human nature just goes away also.
Your RIAA supporters really need to get your collective heads out of your collective asses, learn to read then take some reading comprehension classes, and THEN come out and play with the big boys who are actually in touch with reality.
Let's all repeat this.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS NOT THEFT.
If it was, then the guy who opened a competing store that took away some of my sales is stealing from me too. That's theft, not competition, right?
"..If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it" -Joseph Goebbels
I do, and my music is all free. The CD's I make at home and hand out have in huge letters everywhere "NOT FOR SALE".
You don't need a record deal to sell music either. That is so antiquated. Pearl Jam sells a shitload of cd's just by touring and most of the cd's I own come from local bands that pass through town. The problem with that model is that if a band sucks they don't sell cd's. If a band sucks and gets a label then they do sell cd's. I don't support suck music.
Get with the times. You're stuck in 1980.
What depriving of sales? Continued spreading of the fallacy that copyright infringement = lost sales.
Anyone can walk down to a store that sells software and look at the price of the titles in question. A POS game or CD that sells for $8 in walmart most certainly won't be calculated at $8 when the charges are brought. They'll call it $50 or some crap.
It scares me that people have come to believe that they can know how much they would have sold if not for copyright infringement and that they feel missing out on a little money is the same thing as being raped or murdered.
Last time I checked, CD sales were up while piracy hasn't had much of a dent put in it. Your sales model is dead. When the sales model dies you either evolve with it or die yourself. Trying to take everyone else down with your sinking ship is childish and immature.
Anyone who tries to legislate human nature is not only destined to fail but it destined to cause their own destruction in the process. There is no force more powerful than human nature and it is in human nature to share music with one another and has been happening since humans first discovered music. We hang out with our instruments and have jam sessions. We visit each other's homes and listen to each others CD's. We make copies of music for each other whether it was made by us or someone else. We are also willing to pay for music, especially when nobody is trying to make us feel like rapists and murderers for sharing. When you try to take away human nature, human nature fights back with a ferocity that surpasses greed in ways that will, and are, making heads spin.
http://www.gnutella.com/news/5267
August 14, 2002
California Senator Kevin Murray is continuing his push to repeal the 'Seven-Year Rule', which allows record companies to lock artists into unfair limitless contracts for their artistic works.
Currently, the music industry is the only industry legally allowed to hold their personal-services contracts beyond the maximum length of seven years (as per California state law). The law limiting the length of personal-services contracts in California was created to ensure that people could not be turned into "indentured servants" by having a limitless unfair contract term put upon them which they are unable to escape from.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a public statement last week outlining the five concessions they are willing to make to satisfy the concerns of artists' groups (such as the Recording Artist Coalition or RAC) which are currently negotiating the matter with the RIAA. In response to this "outline of concessions", Senator Murray has publicly stated his concern with what the RIAA calls "compromises" are in fact tailored to represent demands of the labels and not that of the artists.
"For the RIAA to present their demands as compromises or concessions was an insult to the recording artists, attorneys, and managers that have been working for months to resolve this issue." - Senator Kevin Murray
So does that mean Disney only uses cooked lobsters in it's movies?
If you're going to mention slashdot on your resume, make sure it says something like "spends free time correcting the stories on slashdot". If you're going for an editors position, they'll hire you on your bravery, willpower, and masochism alone.
You can't imagine how having tons of junk and barrels would improve the strategy gameplay in NS?
What about combining movable objects with webbing?
What about using barrels and junk to remove webbing or make it easier to spot?
The possibilities are endless. Just webs and objects alone would drastically affect game play.
There are a few things that are beyond common knowledge.
1. posting a link on slashdot will cause that link to see a massive surge in traffic
2. posting multiple links to different pages in a website will multiply this already huge effect
3. the slashdot effect will almost always take down a site and/or cost the site owner thousands of dollars in bandwidth
Knowing these things couldn't one argue that posting a non-coralized or non-cached link on slashdot is the equivalent of a malicious DDOS attack which could cause legal repercussions? Would it really be that hard to take the tag and make it automatically coralized?
AFTER being chastized by the world, AFTER it became known that Bush's 2nd inaugural party was going to cost $40 million (yes, 2nd party). Raising the amount isn't being done out of true charity for the hundreds of thousands of people who died or for the millions who lost everything, it's being done as damage control. That's whats so sad about it.
I remember pointcast and loved it. I also remember reading stories about how corporate networks were dying on the hour every hour because so many employees installed it and it didn't have a system to randomize the update time.
http://www.forbes.com/1999/11/08/feat.html
I'm just as happy now using BlogExpress
http://usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Oh, no mistake. That issue came out, literally, months ago. I was just providing the date. Kinda surprised nobody scanned the images and posted them. A google search didn't turn much up. Maybe that says something about how excited (or not) people are about Quake IV.
That PCGamer came out Sept 21st. The article above is the first to put the pictures on the net.
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This search from Epinons lists a lot of different brands but the only reviews are above. Check it out if you want to see more brands.
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If they had been playing GTA, they would have recognized the audio from the game.
You're also confusing cause and corrolation. You play violent games because you already enjoy or are attracted to that type of violence. If you weren't then the game would offend you and you wouldn't play it. I am attracted to games like Halo but the type of violence in GTA isn't appealing to me so I don't play it.
Games may increase someone's already existing level of aggression but they cannot create it from nothing and they certainly never CAUSE it.
Can something be bleeding edge when it goes through as many delays as HL2 did?
I know that I was bleeding on the edge of my chair waiting for it for so long that I practically amputated both legs. Good thing I don't need legs to play it.
I could be meant as easy revenue in the repair department. There's nothing like charging someone $80 to remove some screws and change a battery.
Of course by the time the battery dies the warranty will be dead too.
The temperatures in NY don't get low enough for you to worry about anything but condensation, as previous posters mentioned. When I was in the Air Force, the computers we used to troubleshoot avionics loved the cold. The shop could not get above 70F or we would start seeing problems. A buddy of mine went to Iceland and they opened all the doors to the shop one day in winter and got the shop to around -10F. He said the computers never ran better. You would have to get the computer pretty damn cold before you started seeing failures. We're talking the kind of cold that the cpu can't even think about warming up.
Condensation, bugs, and critters are your only concerns.
I just saw Sonic on a cardboard cutout at MdD's. I have no idea what it was promoting because it only kind-of caught my eye.