Interesting that parent was rated "Funny" - it's also insightful that the attempt to stop information can actually make things worse - a lot worse.
It's like trying to put out a gasoline fire with water. You can make it spread even faster! The complete denial action may work better, but being vague and confusing may be the best action.
The genie is out of the lamp so just live with it and duck. Legal action is just putting fuel on the fire.
The catch is what if there is an emergency in a school and people gets trapped and their cellphones won't work because they are jammed?
And if there are phones outside the school that are jammed by accident?
There are better ways to deal with this kind of bad behavior in class. If the students uses their phones during breaks it's their business and not the school's. (assuming they are using the phones for legal purposes.)
I would say that it's not the closed business model but the user experience that makes them a success. The user interface is actually not bad for inexperienced users but the limitations on the software and telecom operators that may be selected is what causes the jailbreaking.
If people were free to select operator and software then the jailbreaking would never occur. As it is there are people (me included) that avoids the Apple phones since they have those limitations.
And make sure that the contract contains clauses about hidden faults that can't be easily detected.
Maybe it's also time to strengthen the freedom of speech a bit. It must be possible to vent your opinions of things without risk being harassed by neither government nor companies.
As long as it isn't false accusations it should never have to go to court.
Don't forget the Astro Chicken game and the Radio Shock shop within the SQ game. How often do you see a game within a game? And let us have the satire shop names. They aren't really hurting the real world business.
Which is yet another evidence that you don't necessarily have a game to be 3D to be good.
The most important thing is that a game has a good plot and it allows for varying levels of skill. Nice graphics and features are nice to look at but it's not critical if the plot is good.
And b.t.w. Leisure Suit Larry would probably be a bit closer to X-rated if it was 3D...
When the budget cut has gone far enough to strip down all security, certificates expires, competence leaves ship and nobody really knows how it works anymore. Then the cybercriminals enters the systems and use them for their purposes.
And management sits there looking completely confused because they have cut down on the people knowing how to do security.
Especially bad is it if it's about having a system that handles large amounts of economic transactions and are storing credit card and personal information about a lot of people.
Some of the BADC data sets are restricted to non-commercial use only, so you need to flash your 'Academic Investigator' magic card at them to get it. These guys keep good metadata and license agreements and all that stuff. There's even some datasets from CRU, unrestricted (registration required).
Where does that leave the hobbyist researchers then?
Today most household computers are potent enough to be able to sift through amounts of data that we only could dream about a few years ago.
Don't forget that the collection of the raw data has been done through the money of the tax payers. It is of course possible to have a reasonable fee for obtaining a copy in some cases, but it may as well be put on the web these days.
And many companies runs their own certificates for internal use too.
It's time to consider that the warnings are just messing up the security awareness for people.
The point is that I can be using a site with an invalid certificate, but then I would expect the same protection against malicious actions from that site that a site running plain HTTP has. But if I encounter a site that I want/need to trust more I should be given the option to tune the trust level.
In many cases the certificates may be there just to deny the ability for the occasional snoop to get any useful information from the traffic.
Is it outlandish to think Microsoft makes contributions to OSS for subversion?
I have always the feeling that Microsoft sees the open source community as the fictional state of Elbonia. Throw them a bone now and then to keep them happy but also fill their pool with some more mud (think SCO and the FAT patent case) in the hope of drowning them.
The FUD actions from Microsoft like "getthefacts" and their process of locking in users to their way of thinking are what I dislike most. The positive thing that can be said about M$ is that they are able to mostly provide a consistent look&feel of their products. But there are cases where they are really messing around with things too to really make things confusing with existing technology like the storage of a lot of incomprehensible information in DNS. And their habit of hiding the real cause of problems from the user when a failure occurs and only provide a standard message that can mean that the problem was anything between a disconnected cable to a misconfiguration at the ISP.
Maybe the real answer is that game consoles aren't really that fancy anyway. If you want extreme graphics you need something better than what a TV can offer anyway.
Don't forget that the PAL frequency of 50Hz is to avoid interference with the power grid that works at 50Hz. And NTSC runs at 60Hz but has an even lower resolution vertically than PAL, so there is nothing to gain by selecting NTSC instead.
Anyway - almost every TV set sold today is able to have a better picture quality than the classic PAL or NTSC systems ever offered, so this problem is a passing problem.
Everyone already worried about the cookie-tracking habits are already using web browsers and add-ins that deletes the cookies after the end of the session.
So what's left is standalone sessions with a certain habit, but no easy way to detect a re-visit.
First it's important to notice that the number of generations for a tree over 500 years are fewer than for a human. So even a fifth generation can show very few differences. The trait may also stop other species from preying on the tree, even if it isn't obvious unless the trait disappears.
And if the cost of maintaining the treat is low it may not disappear for a long time.
Give it a few thousand years more and we'll see what happens. It is possible that it evolves into two forms, one with leaves that don't have barbs and one with barbs.
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And what shall all of us who remember SpaceQuest smile at every time we pass their shop?
For those that are left into the void - there was a featured shop named "Radio Shock" in one SpaceQuest episode!
Interesting that parent was rated "Funny" - it's also insightful that the attempt to stop information can actually make things worse - a lot worse.
It's like trying to put out a gasoline fire with water. You can make it spread even faster! The complete denial action may work better, but being vague and confusing may be the best action.
The genie is out of the lamp so just live with it and duck. Legal action is just putting fuel on the fire.
So it's illegal to wear a Burqa in Louisiana then.
Just wear a rubber mask of George W Bush or Reagan then... Put some small stones in one shoe to give yourself a limp and you are all set.
That's something you were as soon as you started to earn money.
There is always someone out to get your money one way or another.
Just wear a black mask and black dress and do it at night to be sure.
There is no law against being clad as a ninja yet. (as long as you leave the weapons at home)
The only unethical thing here is the Apple policy of deciding which software you may install on your iPhone.
First you may explain the term "churn" when it comes to telecom.
The only thing I get when running it to Googles translator is how to make butter.
The catch is what if there is an emergency in a school and people gets trapped and their cellphones won't work because they are jammed?
And if there are phones outside the school that are jammed by accident?
There are better ways to deal with this kind of bad behavior in class. If the students uses their phones during breaks it's their business and not the school's. (assuming they are using the phones for legal purposes.)
And some prefer Flac to make sure it's a lossless compression.
At least until Apple inserts a bomb in the software that blows the base stations at random when the phones are jailbreaked.
I would say that it's not the closed business model but the user experience that makes them a success. The user interface is actually not bad for inexperienced users but the limitations on the software and telecom operators that may be selected is what causes the jailbreaking.
If people were free to select operator and software then the jailbreaking would never occur. As it is there are people (me included) that avoids the Apple phones since they have those limitations.
And make sure that the contract contains clauses about hidden faults that can't be easily detected.
Maybe it's also time to strengthen the freedom of speech a bit. It must be possible to vent your opinions of things without risk being harassed by neither government nor companies.
As long as it isn't false accusations it should never have to go to court.
Can be considered healty now?
At least if you have a spinal injury or possibly other type of nerve damage?
Or will you have to eat a truckload of M&M before there is any effect?
Don't forget the Astro Chicken game and the Radio Shock shop within the SQ game. How often do you see a game within a game? And let us have the satire shop names. They aren't really hurting the real world business.
Which is yet another evidence that you don't necessarily have a game to be 3D to be good.
The most important thing is that a game has a good plot and it allows for varying levels of skill. Nice graphics and features are nice to look at but it's not critical if the plot is good.
And b.t.w. Leisure Suit Larry would probably be a bit closer to X-rated if it was 3D...
All hail Roger Wilco!
The closest we ever came to the Science Fiction humor and satire after SQ went stale was when we got the Men In Black movies.
And copyright shall if anything belong to the creator and not be transferable. That would solve a lot of problems.
In all - the copyright world seems to have a lot of weird unwanted results.
When the budget cut has gone far enough to strip down all security, certificates expires, competence leaves ship and nobody really knows how it works anymore. Then the cybercriminals enters the systems and use them for their purposes.
And management sits there looking completely confused because they have cut down on the people knowing how to do security.
Especially bad is it if it's about having a system that handles large amounts of economic transactions and are storing credit card and personal information about a lot of people.
Some of the BADC data sets are restricted to non-commercial use only, so you need to flash your 'Academic Investigator' magic card at them to get it. These guys keep good metadata and license agreements and all that stuff. There's even some datasets from CRU, unrestricted (registration required).
Where does that leave the hobbyist researchers then?
Today most household computers are potent enough to be able to sift through amounts of data that we only could dream about a few years ago.
Don't forget that the collection of the raw data has been done through the money of the tax payers. It is of course possible to have a reasonable fee for obtaining a copy in some cases, but it may as well be put on the web these days.
And many companies runs their own certificates for internal use too.
It's time to consider that the warnings are just messing up the security awareness for people.
The point is that I can be using a site with an invalid certificate, but then I would expect the same protection against malicious actions from that site that a site running plain HTTP has. But if I encounter a site that I want/need to trust more I should be given the option to tune the trust level.
In many cases the certificates may be there just to deny the ability for the occasional snoop to get any useful information from the traffic.
Is it outlandish to think Microsoft makes contributions to OSS for subversion?
I have always the feeling that Microsoft sees the open source community as the fictional state of Elbonia. Throw them a bone now and then to keep them happy but also fill their pool with some more mud (think SCO and the FAT patent case) in the hope of drowning them.
The FUD actions from Microsoft like "getthefacts" and their process of locking in users to their way of thinking are what I dislike most. The positive thing that can be said about M$ is that they are able to mostly provide a consistent look&feel of their products. But there are cases where they are really messing around with things too to really make things confusing with existing technology like the storage of a lot of incomprehensible information in DNS. And their habit of hiding the real cause of problems from the user when a failure occurs and only provide a standard message that can mean that the problem was anything between a disconnected cable to a misconfiguration at the ISP.
Maybe the real answer is that game consoles aren't really that fancy anyway. If you want extreme graphics you need something better than what a TV can offer anyway.
Don't forget that the PAL frequency of 50Hz is to avoid interference with the power grid that works at 50Hz. And NTSC runs at 60Hz but has an even lower resolution vertically than PAL, so there is nothing to gain by selecting NTSC instead.
Anyway - almost every TV set sold today is able to have a better picture quality than the classic PAL or NTSC systems ever offered, so this problem is a passing problem.
Everyone already worried about the cookie-tracking habits are already using web browsers and add-ins that deletes the cookies after the end of the session.
So what's left is standalone sessions with a certain habit, but no easy way to detect a re-visit.
And a lousy and useless hair on the body that many shaves off for vanity reasons.
I'm just waiting for the genetic fix that takes care of unwanted traits in humans - like body hair, obesity and depression.
We have the ability to genetically engineer a human today.
First it's important to notice that the number of generations for a tree over 500 years are fewer than for a human. So even a fifth generation can show very few differences. The trait may also stop other species from preying on the tree, even if it isn't obvious unless the trait disappears.
And if the cost of maintaining the treat is low it may not disappear for a long time.
Give it a few thousand years more and we'll see what happens. It is possible that it evolves into two forms, one with leaves that don't have barbs and one with barbs.