> Does anyone on/. honest believe anything seriously juicy or even particularly interesting would *ever* be released to the public
Considering there are numerous levels of classification above Top Secret (i.e. Cosmic Clearance), and that the President is not even allowed access to some of them, to answer your question: Sadly, no.
Peace Offices used to recognize it in the early 20th century. Post 9/11 they don't care if you are "right", they only want their extortion fees, and will abuse their power becaue they can.
If you are single, and want to stand up for whats right, and Your Rights, then I would consider it. If you have a family (wife and/or kids), your family's stability is more important.
Swearing at your own ignorance doesn't make other people's truth any less false, grasshopper.
You are ignorant of many facts,
First, Pre-9/11 I had acquaintances in Canada, Mexico, and US that would travel without a "license." Post-9/11 cops weren't interested in your rights and would regularly over-step their jurisdiction.
Second, go read the US Tenth Amendment sometime, you might learn something.
Third, go "read" Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd ed. or earlier. It has many interesting definitions of person, family car doctrine, etc.
Fourth, go talk to lawyers and ask them "Can you explain why _ALL_ law is based on contract law?". For example, can you _show_ me the law that _requires_ a person to have a SSN? There is NO law that _requires_ a person to do all the things that they _think_ they need to. The problem is that they have so many government contracts, that it is a ALL or NOTHING process.
In this day and age, there are more important things to worry about then stupid government officials that try to micro-manage your life.
> If you want to drive your car on a public road, you are subject to various laws. You need to register your vehicle, you need license plates, you need to get it inspected periodically, you need a driver's license, you need insurance. The specifications of your vehicle are governed by a number of different groups... And you agree to let various people crawl around inside your car to make sure it operates correctly... And if it doesn't meet their specifications, you are not allowed to drive it on public roads. If you try to, you can be arrested and/or fined.
No you don't. I drove a car for years without doing any of that crap. Got pulled over twice, and let go, because I had _NO_ contract with the government nor its police offices. It's all about Contract Law and Jurisdiction.
Please research the legal status of "Family Car Doctrine" before spouting such nonsense. You have the _right_ to travel.
Any other "restrictions" placed upon you are because YOU accepted them.
-- "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
> more specifically the Michelson-Morley experiment on a pool of liquid mercury, coming up with the interferometry experimental measurement/conclusion that the Earth is not moving through the aether. Therefore the concept of aether was a superfluous one as far as science and Occam's razor was concerned and was abandoned.
So you have seen Dark Energy and Dark Matter then?
Sony (SCEI) is paranoid about security. Everything technical about the PS3 is on a need-to-know basis.
From a marketing / developers point of view, I agree it would be nice to have something like XNA so more developers could write/port their games, but due to the above, that is not going to happen. By keeping the system closed to even authorized developers they are going after the assumption that they will keep the quality of games high. In contrast to the DS which has a ton of "shovelware" games.
> USENET was always better than the web-based forums littering the Internet today.
You must be new here...
I _like_ the meta-information on threads that/. provides:
1) "tags" of Informative, Funny, Insightful, etc, and 2) the "Score" applied to threads.
> Even SlashDot would benefit from being a newsgroup on USENET instead of the continuing horrors of a user interface inflicted upon readers over the years.
Agreed. Just provide a fast & lite interface that works, instead of more bloated crap that loads slower and slower.
I really wish I could read/. in Thunderbird as threaded mode, and be able to see the Meta-Information.
> Apple usually comes out on top because at least its horrible, draconian software is stable and usable.
Agreed, Apple is the lesser of the 2 evils.
At least they removed DRM from iTunes. That's a pretty ballsy move, considering they didn't "have to."
While not perfect, (locking down the iPhone), considering the alternative (suing someone who broke encryptian instead of fixing the issue, 'unsavable'.swf movies, etc), it's not much of a contest in my view.
If it is an an X-byte patch, where X is some small number, then they might.
These days you usually see the WHOLE decrypted+patched.exed. In that case, no.
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> I don't know of a single software dev who doesn't end up adding significant hacks/customizations to their editor to make the tool fit their working style better.
*cough* Like hex-editing Notepad++ to support 6 pt fonts... (faster then building from source:)
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> Does anyone on /. honest believe anything seriously juicy or even particularly interesting would *ever* be released to the public
Considering there are numerous levels of classification above Top Secret (i.e. Cosmic Clearance), and that the President is not even allowed access to some of them, to answer your question: Sadly, no.
> And I will still lack the rhythm to play this awesomeness.
The great thing about everyone, including experts / profession musicians, is that they were _ALL_ noobs at one point too.
Start on easy -- work your way up.
--
There really is no other substitute for practice. Talent will only get you so far.
Sounds like the same.
Peace Offices used to recognize it in the early 20th century. Post 9/11 they don't care if you are "right", they only want their extortion fees, and will abuse their power becaue they can.
If you are single, and want to stand up for whats right, and Your Rights, then I would consider it.
If you have a family (wife and/or kids), your family's stability is more important.
> x/50 is not the same as x/2! :)
Thanks for the correct! Brain was racing ahead of fingers :-)
> the reality is that most people are more affected by watching sex than by watching violence
1. [[Citation]]
2. affected negatively? positively?
reddit is the dig of /.
> and had no need to remember the conversion when they learned it in science class.
That's because they teach a crappy remembrance system...
Compare and contrast to the SIMPLE way that you can do in your head:
miles -> km: x*2*2*2*2/10
i.e. 60 miles = 60*2*2*2*2/10 = 120*2*2*2/10 = 240*2*2/10 = 480*2/10 = 960/10 = 96 km
km -> miles: x/50 + x/10
i.e. 100 km = 100/2 + 100/10 = 50+10 = 60 miles
--
Why Math just isn't taught properly anymore.. A Mathematician's Lament
Swearing at your own ignorance doesn't make other people's truth any less false, grasshopper.
You are ignorant of many facts,
First, Pre-9/11 I had acquaintances in Canada, Mexico, and US that would travel without a "license." Post-9/11 cops weren't interested in your rights and would regularly over-step their jurisdiction.
Second, go read the US Tenth Amendment sometime, you might learn something.
Third, go "read" Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd ed. or earlier. It has many interesting definitions of person, family car doctrine, etc.
Fourth, go talk to lawyers and ask them "Can you explain why _ALL_ law is based on contract law?". For example, can you _show_ me the law that _requires_ a person to have a SSN? There is NO law that _requires_ a person to do all the things that they _think_ they need to. The problem is that they have so many government contracts, that it is a ALL or NOTHING process.
In this day and age, there are more important things to worry about then stupid government officials that try to micro-manage your life.
> If you want to drive your car on a public road, you are subject to various laws. You need to register your vehicle, you need license plates, you need to get it inspected periodically, you need a driver's license, you need insurance. The specifications of your vehicle are governed by a number of different groups... And you agree to let various people crawl around inside your car to make sure it operates correctly... And if it doesn't meet their specifications, you are not allowed to drive it on public roads. If you try to, you can be arrested and/or fined.
No you don't. I drove a car for years without doing any of that crap. Got pulled over twice, and let go, because I had _NO_ contract with the government nor its police offices. It's all about Contract Law and Jurisdiction.
Please research the legal status of "Family Car Doctrine" before spouting such nonsense. You have the _right_ to travel.
Any other "restrictions" placed upon you are because YOU accepted them.
--
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
>> These people are BREAKING THE LAW, ... Prove me wrong.
> The rationalizations given will be
You missed one:
I don't agree with bad laws.
Maybe the film industry needs to learn that you DON'T need copyright at ALL to make large amounts of money:
Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0
--
Dark Matter/Energy by another other name is still the Aether
> Taking something without paying is stealing.
DFTT...
time, ideas, air, sunlight, ...
> Rationalism is not an ideology. It cannot be.
It mostly certainly can be.
See: Pseudo-skepticism.
http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/talk/talk.html
_Anything_ can be turned into a religion.
> Blind Faith makes a virtue out of not thinking.
There, fixed that for you.
e.g. You have faith that the sun will come up tomorrow, since you have no proof (about future events) that it will, only a premise.
500 MB? Yeah seriously, WTF?
> Each full page is a giant image...
Oh, that would explain it... a jpeg of each page at 300 dpi...
> Is WoW, for example, really a "video" game?
No, because it has no clearly defined "win" nor "lose" state; hence a toy. MMORPGs are the fast-food junk-candy dumbed-down version of real games.
--
I've shipped games on DS, PS1, PS2, PC, Wii. What have you "gone gold" on?
No, just your app ... ... of the canonical hello world. :-)
> more specifically the Michelson-Morley experiment on a pool of liquid mercury, coming up with the interferometry experimental measurement/conclusion that the Earth is not moving through the aether. Therefore the concept of aether was a superfluous one as far as science and Occam's razor was concerned and was abandoned.
So you have seen Dark Energy and Dark Matter then?
The aether never went away, it just got renamed.
Sony (SCEI) is paranoid about security. Everything technical about the PS3 is on a need-to-know basis.
From a marketing / developers point of view, I agree it would be nice to have something like XNA so more developers could write/port their games, but due to the above, that is not going to happen. By keeping the system closed to even authorized developers they are going after the assumption that they will keep the quality of games high. In contrast to the DS which has a ton of "shovelware" games.
SC2 used .mod files, and had a built in .mod player.
I know, because I ripped most of them, saved them, and was able to play them on a NeXT machine that had a mod player :)
> USENET was always better than the web-based forums littering the Internet today.
You must be new here...
I _like_ the meta-information on threads that /. provides:
1) "tags" of Informative, Funny, Insightful, etc, and
2) the "Score" applied to threads.
> Even SlashDot would benefit from being a newsgroup on USENET instead of the continuing horrors of a user interface inflicted upon readers over the years.
Agreed. Just provide a fast & lite interface that works, instead of more bloated crap that loads slower and slower.
I really wish I could read /. in Thunderbird as threaded mode, and be able to see the Meta-Information.
Ob. "If you are a pirate this is what you get: but if you are a paying customer, this is what you get:"
http://blog.glitner.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GxzeV.jpg
> Apple usually comes out on top because at least its horrible, draconian software is stable and usable.
Agreed, Apple is the lesser of the 2 evils.
At least they removed DRM from iTunes. That's a pretty ballsy move, considering they didn't "have to."
While not perfect, (locking down the iPhone), considering the alternative (suing someone who broke encryptian instead of fixing the issue, 'unsavable' .swf movies, etc), it's not much of a contest in my view.
That depends on the nature of the crack.
If it is an an X-byte patch, where X is some small number, then they might.
These days you usually see the WHOLE decrypted+patched .exed. In that case, no.
> I don't know of a single software dev who doesn't end up adding significant hacks/customizations to their editor to make the tool fit their working style better.
*cough* Like hex-editing Notepad++ to support 6 pt fonts ... (faster then building from source :)
> Sometimes kicking and screaming, as in the case of continental drift, but the evidence always wins in the end.
Add the Red Shift = Distance fallacy, by Hubble's assistant, Halton Arp.
* http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm