Er, no, you need to re-read it. It doesn't say The right of the people to be secure in their persons, papers, and effects, while in their houses, it says The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,. That is the person, the house, the paper and the effects are all protected, independently. If you put something in the garbage, you have given it up to be placed in open land. However, if I put it on a remote, password protected server, it is still most definitely protected from unauthorised access and a warrant is required.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Specifically papers and unreasonable searches means the government does not get to look at my private documents without a warrant. Back when this amendment was written, if the government wanted to snoop on your documents, it would have to look at your papers, and this amendment would force them to get a warrant. Nowadays most of our documents are electronic, and we transmit them about over networks. Clearly, had the authors of the 4th amendment been alive today they would include "snooping on your email" as "unreasonable searches of your papers".
Alternatively, there is a fire and the RFID system says everyone was beeped out of the gate because little Johnny is carrying little Jimmy's shirt, while Jimmy burns to death alone and confused.
Or a firefighter dies rescuing a shirt, when its owner is outside having a smoke (maybe even caused the fire).
There are two fundamental problems with this system - forget the moral implications - just stick to the facts.
1. Automation breeds complacency.
2. Kids are not fucking stupid.
Complacency is fine if the system really is foolproof: it works and it does what each user expects. Unfortunately, this system is not.
I advocate a campaign of civil disobedience where everyone carries around RFID transmitters that give out incorrect information. While we're on the subject, I would also advocate putting everyone's finger prints online and offering a service to print copies of other peoples finger prints onto gel pads. If the government wants to store private details, the only way to stop them is by making them not-private.
I have a launch 360. Its fine. I also have a launch PS2 and its fine too. And a launch Wii. I did once witness a PS-One start smoking. This was back before programmers were told not to make the disc seek too much:)
I rescued the little sisters and got tons of adam from tanenbaum, about 200 for every three sisters rescued, so that leaves you short 40 compared to killing them. Still, I just can't complain about my trusty wrench, so I've not yet been tempted by that Incinerate 3. Short of icing them, nothing seems to have the stopping power of the wrench. Hell, I hit guys in the face with the grenade launcher at point-blank and they don't die. Burn them and they run around screaming and then lose their loot. Ice them and they stand still and then lose their loot. Now if the bees turned them into Eddie Izard I'd use it a lot more often.
6. Those "minigames" got pretty damn annoying pretty quick. Every hackable device has the same puzzle setup. Once you hacked every device type once, you have seen the setup for every minigame. It doesn't differ, except in the minor ways you solver it. Give us some alternate minigames or cut the whole experience out.
But at least if you do all the research you can hack the turrets and security bots instantly... (just press X).
Latency and bandwidth are issues. Which is why I don't rely on a browser to get my shit done. My email is pushed to my phone and when its ready, I look at it. Zero latency: its on the phone. When I update contacts, or my calendar, its synced with my server. When I make changes online, or on my laptop, they are synched to my phone, automatically. My exercise program? On my phone using Documents To Go.
OTOH, when I want to browse and download tunes or watch movies, I get about 1Mbit/s. Try that on EDGE. I know, because when my phone can't get 3G (HSDPA) it drops down to EDGE speeds.
This article is a joke. How the hell did it make it onto/.?
This is just a deliberately outrageous proposal so that their real goals don't seem so bad. Like when we had a guy yesterday saying that $9250 per song wasn't so bad because it could have been $150,000. This is how parents deal with children. Interesting that it seems to work on the majority of the adult population (including many/.ers).
Its a pretty sad state of affairs when someone against the RIAA argues that getting your life totally destroyed is ok because it could have been worse, that $750 is "low" because it could have been $150,000. I know someone that was assaulted - shit beaten out of them - and they got 50 quid ($100).
Basically you're saying that if a fascist government wants to control you all they have to do is set penalties that range from outrageous violations all the way to unbelievable, inconceivable, violations and then just choose the outrageous ones because people will say "well its ok because its low!".
So tell me Mr Xtracto, how do you feel about your punishment of being fucked in the ass by a gibbon on viagra because you failed to come to a full stop at a stop sign? "Well, jamie, its ok, because the punishment is in the "low" side of the possible spectrum. It could have been an elephant".
I actually enjoyed SWG when it first came out, before they completely changed the skill system. I could play casually with my mates, who played hard-core, and still contribute to the experience in meaningful ways, e.g. healing a TKA just before he died, saving him from a long walk back. I built a shuttle port thats still in use.
I suppose the fact that I'm not hard-core, however, may be why they rejigged it. OTOH, I had three paid-for subscriptions, which they lost when that happened.
I haven't bought a PS3 yet. My PS2 sits under my TV and I hardly play it. I don't need backwards compat. Lowering the price is much more important for me. I already have a blue-ray player (and an HD-DVD player), so that's not a big factor. Price price price. Keep working on it Sony!
its been decades (literally) since I had to recreate a search or sort algorithm by hand
But you could do it right? You are smart enough to recreate a simple algorithm from first principles, on the fly? This is not about memory. This is about whether or not you're so dependent on copying code that you've forgotten how to actually think. It sounds to me like you thought the questions were beneath you, and I'm sure that the interviewers picked up on that.
You complain that they don't value thinking skills as much as they value recall, and yet your response to their search question was "I'd look it up" - i.e. retrieve it from a memory store - and not "Let me think about that and do it right now". And doing math is not memory either. Your complaint and your facts simply do not match up.
There are plenty of "seasoned pros" who are actually "seasoned script kiddies", i.e. just very very good at searching, copying and pasting, and there are "seasoned pros", who were extremely smart snot noses when they were young, and are now extremely smart old-farts. And then there are old-farts who expect to be treated differently because they are older and somehow superior human beings. If I was Google, I'd be looking for the smart ones who can work with the little-uns.
Gabriel asked if it was wrong for consumers to make copies of music which they have purchased, even just one copy. Pariser replied, "When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said.
The game is really innovative, and I think it adds a family element that is so far missing from both the Xbox 360 and the PS3.
My eldest daughter is four. We play video games together. The games we play the most are:
Feeding Frenzy (XBox Arcade) - or "Fishy game" as it is known in our house
LEGO Star Wars 2 on 360 - she directed me to design a pink princess with pink lightsaber
Wario Ware on Wii - she only plays the levels with girls faces on the map tho
Wii Sports - my wife plays this too because she can beat me at bowling
This last one is interesting. It confirms that people play video games they can win. All it takes to get a woman to play a video game is to find a game she can beat her husband at:-)
So, this is a story about LBP moving PS3's because of its family appeal and you got modded up to 4 for saying that you, who is neither married nor has kids, would rather have a PS3 than a Wii. And the only game you've wanted this generationis MGS4.
Errrr, ok. Nice modding everyone.
I've got a wife and 2 kids. We play Wario Ware, Rabbid Rabbits, and Wii Sports on the Wii, and my 4 yr old likes to play LEGO Star Wars with me on the 360. If a family doesn't already have a PS3, there is no f***ing way a single game is going to cause them to spend $499 on a console just to play it. Period. If they don't have a Wii, they'd spend their $250 on that, and if they do, why would they buy a PS3?
... on my 4Gb 2.4Ghz Quad Core w/7950 GTX2. It is only just bearable on my 2GHz Core 2 Duo 2Gb laptop. God help those poor bastards picking it up on $499 shit boxes.
So do you also believe that the Federal Reserve shouldn't be run by a private company, but should, like the military and roads, be run by elected officials of the government?
And this is different to what is happening right now how?
I am wondering why you would advocate this for fiscal policy, but not for roads, health-care, the military etc? Roads are short-lived things are they? How about my health? And there's no evidence of the military being used for policital gain I'm sure.
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Er, no, you need to re-read it. It doesn't say The right of the people to be secure in their persons, papers, and effects, while in their houses, it says The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,. That is the person, the house, the paper and the effects are all protected, independently. If you put something in the garbage, you have given it up to be placed in open land. However, if I put it on a remote, password protected server, it is still most definitely protected from unauthorised access and a warrant is required.
Totally agree. And you can sue them.
Specifically papers and unreasonable searches means the government does not get to look at my private documents without a warrant. Back when this amendment was written, if the government wanted to snoop on your documents, it would have to look at your papers, and this amendment would force them to get a warrant. Nowadays most of our documents are electronic, and we transmit them about over networks. Clearly, had the authors of the 4th amendment been alive today they would include "snooping on your email" as "unreasonable searches of your papers".
Ok, I probably should know this, but I have a Super Mario 64 cartridge with all 120 stars. How do I back up the save game?
Were there booth cherubs?
Alternatively, there is a fire and the RFID system says everyone was beeped out of the gate because little Johnny is carrying little Jimmy's shirt, while Jimmy burns to death alone and confused.
Or a firefighter dies rescuing a shirt, when its owner is outside having a smoke (maybe even caused the fire).
There are two fundamental problems with this system - forget the moral implications - just stick to the facts.
1. Automation breeds complacency.
2. Kids are not fucking stupid.
Complacency is fine if the system really is foolproof: it works and it does what each user expects. Unfortunately, this system is not.
I advocate a campaign of civil disobedience where everyone carries around RFID transmitters that give out incorrect information. While we're on the subject, I would also advocate putting everyone's finger prints online and offering a service to print copies of other peoples finger prints onto gel pads. If the government wants to store private details, the only way to stop them is by making them not-private.
I have a launch 360. Its fine. I also have a launch PS2 and its fine too. And a launch Wii. I did once witness a PS-One start smoking. This was back before programmers were told not to make the disc seek too much :)
I rescued the little sisters and got tons of adam from tanenbaum, about 200 for every three sisters rescued, so that leaves you short 40 compared to killing them. Still, I just can't complain about my trusty wrench, so I've not yet been tempted by that Incinerate 3. Short of icing them, nothing seems to have the stopping power of the wrench. Hell, I hit guys in the face with the grenade launcher at point-blank and they don't die. Burn them and they run around screaming and then lose their loot. Ice them and they stand still and then lose their loot. Now if the bees turned them into Eddie Izard I'd use it a lot more often.
But at least if you do all the research you can hack the turrets and security bots instantly... (just press X).
Latency and bandwidth are issues. Which is why I don't rely on a browser to get my shit done. My email is pushed to my phone and when its ready, I look at it. Zero latency: its on the phone. When I update contacts, or my calendar, its synced with my server. When I make changes online, or on my laptop, they are synched to my phone, automatically. My exercise program? On my phone using Documents To Go.
OTOH, when I want to browse and download tunes or watch movies, I get about 1Mbit/s. Try that on EDGE. I know, because when my phone can't get 3G (HSDPA) it drops down to EDGE speeds.
This article is a joke. How the hell did it make it onto /.?
This is just a deliberately outrageous proposal so that their real goals don't seem so bad. Like when we had a guy yesterday saying that $9250 per song wasn't so bad because it could have been $150,000. This is how parents deal with children. Interesting that it seems to work on the majority of the adult population (including many /.ers).
Its a pretty sad state of affairs when someone against the RIAA argues that getting your life totally destroyed is ok because it could have been worse, that $750 is "low" because it could have been $150,000. I know someone that was assaulted - shit beaten out of them - and they got 50 quid ($100).
Basically you're saying that if a fascist government wants to control you all they have to do is set penalties that range from outrageous violations all the way to unbelievable, inconceivable, violations and then just choose the outrageous ones because people will say "well its ok because its low!".
So tell me Mr Xtracto, how do you feel about your punishment of being fucked in the ass by a gibbon on viagra because you failed to come to a full stop at a stop sign? "Well, jamie, its ok, because the punishment is in the "low" side of the possible spectrum. It could have been an elephant".
I actually enjoyed SWG when it first came out, before they completely changed the skill system. I could play casually with my mates, who played hard-core, and still contribute to the experience in meaningful ways, e.g. healing a TKA just before he died, saving him from a long walk back. I built a shuttle port thats still in use.
I suppose the fact that I'm not hard-core, however, may be why they rejigged it. OTOH, I had three paid-for subscriptions, which they lost when that happened.
Links please.
Yeah, thats pretty embarrassing. ;)
They had you right C on a whiteboard? Ok, well, that's just stupid.
I haven't bought a PS3 yet. My PS2 sits under my TV and I hardly play it. I don't need backwards compat. Lowering the price is much more important for me. I already have a blue-ray player (and an HD-DVD player), so that's not a big factor. Price price price. Keep working on it Sony!
But you could do it right? You are smart enough to recreate a simple algorithm from first principles, on the fly? This is not about memory. This is about whether or not you're so dependent on copying code that you've forgotten how to actually think. It sounds to me like you thought the questions were beneath you, and I'm sure that the interviewers picked up on that.
You complain that they don't value thinking skills as much as they value recall, and yet your response to their search question was "I'd look it up" - i.e. retrieve it from a memory store - and not "Let me think about that and do it right now". And doing math is not memory either. Your complaint and your facts simply do not match up.
There are plenty of "seasoned pros" who are actually "seasoned script kiddies", i.e. just very very good at searching, copying and pasting, and there are "seasoned pros", who were extremely smart snot noses when they were young, and are now extremely smart old-farts. And then there are old-farts who expect to be treated differently because they are older and somehow superior human beings. If I was Google, I'd be looking for the smart ones who can work with the little-uns.
Pretty Good Privacy. I'd rather have Absolutely Fucking Bulletproof Privacy.
My eldest daughter is four. We play video games together. The games we play the most are:
This last one is interesting. It confirms that people play video games they can win. All it takes to get a woman to play a video game is to find a game she can beat her husband at :-)
So, this is a story about LBP moving PS3's because of its family appeal and you got modded up to 4 for saying that you, who is neither married nor has kids, would rather have a PS3 than a Wii. And the only game you've wanted this generationis MGS4.
Errrr, ok. Nice modding everyone.
I've got a wife and 2 kids. We play Wario Ware, Rabbid Rabbits, and Wii Sports on the Wii, and my 4 yr old likes to play LEGO Star Wars with me on the 360. If a family doesn't already have a PS3, there is no f***ing way a single game is going to cause them to spend $499 on a console just to play it. Period. If they don't have a Wii, they'd spend their $250 on that, and if they do, why would they buy a PS3?
... on my 4Gb 2.4Ghz Quad Core w/7950 GTX2. It is only just bearable on my 2GHz Core 2 Duo 2Gb laptop. God help those poor bastards picking it up on $499 shit boxes.
So do you also believe that the Federal Reserve shouldn't be run by a private company, but should, like the military and roads, be run by elected officials of the government?
Two points: