That said, it would sure look a lot more legitimate, to both Sony corporate and the people in this thread, if there was a custom firmware that just ran homemade software without loading pirated isos.
Then again, I don't know much about the PSP, so this may be impossible. I know in the DS scene this is usually the way legitimate homebrew software developers distance themselves from the pirates.
Fuck if I know. I guess the media likes people with name recognition. "This guy wrote Jurassic Park, he must know what he's talking about!" "Yeah, well, this guy used to be Vice President! He must know what he's talking about even more!"
Ah, Chrichton. Because writing Jurassic Park is the only scientific credential that actually matters.
With all due respect, he's got an M.D., he's not a climatologist. I don't call a plumber when I'm sick; I don't ask an M.D.'s opinion on climate change.
No, I meant what he said. When it comes down to it, you only need to make the machine secure enough so that it's less of a hassle, risk, and expense to just tie it to the back of a pickup truck and pull it out of the wall. A four-digit code doesn't do that. Biometrics probably would.
I imagine it's a lot easier to type in a PIN stolen from a database than it is to, um, change your thumbprint or the pattern of the veins in your retina to one stolen from a database.
Biometrics, of course. Fingerprint scanning, retinal scanning, voice recognition, or whatever. It's the only way to really verify. The problem is how expensive it would be to refit existing ATMs.
The 14th also allowed for anyone born in the U.S. to be an automatic citizen, preventing the formation (or, rather, continuance) of a permanent hereditary underclass, and it made the Bill of Rights apply to state governments instead of just the Federal government. Ever wonder why, despite the fact that the First Amendment starts with the words "Congress shall make no law..." your state government shall also make no law violating it? Well, the 14th Amendment. Prior to the 14th Amendment, state governments shat all over First Amendment rights (and others in the Bill of Rights) on a fairly regular basis. I'd say its done more good than harm.
But then, I don't have this strange delusion that state governments are more trustworthy than the Federal government. I mean, they aren't less trustworthy either, but let's be serious.
Check out the new address bar in Firefox 3: you can just type words into it and it will search your history based on the site's title, sorted by frequency of access, and bring up those results, instead of just a list of URLs.
Oh, it'd be great for both parties. Then I could say "I'm voting Obama because I want national heath care" and hear economic arguments instead of "zomfg he's a secret muslim!"
Man, if you don't think the 13th Amendment was "a fundamental change to the nature of the union", I've got nothing left to say to you. The 13th was passed in exactly the same way as the 14th, with a significant number of the defeated rebel States not voting on it in Congress and ratification of it a condition to readmittance to the United States.
No, more of a "Geez, it doesn't seem worth the expense and trouble to buy this Glock to rob the store when the clerk probably doesn't have a gun. I'll use the switchblade instead; I can get one of those cheaper anywhere."
Now, there may be some flaws in that reasoning, sure, but it doesn't take too much brainpower to see what he was talking about.
Cigarrettes are legal but you can't take them into hospitals or public schools either. There is a difference between public property and government-owned property. If you think there isn't, then go walk into the President's bedroom uninvited.
So the right to have an abortion is bullshit whereas the right to own a gun is God-given. Nice personal freedoms, there. Way to go with your own intellectual honesty.
What the hell is with the current collection of issues in the present political divide, anyway? How is "the right to own a gun" on the same team as "ban abortions and gay marriage"? This doesn't make any sense to me.
Sometimes people want to install Linux on a computer without Internet access. Crazy, I know. MSTTCorefonts can't be distributed on the distro CD, so that computer wouldn't have a way to get them.
Wait, you think Slashdot editors actually read the article? I'd say "you must be new here", but then somebody with a 4-digit UID would be legally obligated to come over and bitch-slap me.
If we'd built some breeder plants, we could recycle the waste. 90% of nuclear "waste" from current plants is usable fissile material. But Jimmy fucking Carter, in his infinite wisdom, banned research and development of breeder reactors in the 1970s.
Yes, it just doesn't need to build a second gas turbine, which was the alternative to building these windmills. They can't throw out the original one, but that was never the plan. The idea was always one gas turbine + wind farm would be better than two gas turbines.
I assure you that the libertarian far right does exactly the same thing: conspiracy theroism and paranoia knows no political affiliation; only the details change.
For some reason people like to endlessly bitch that windmills are "eyesores", as if this in and of itself is reason not to use them. They don't look unsightly to me.
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That said, it would sure look a lot more legitimate, to both Sony corporate and the people in this thread, if there was a custom firmware that just ran homemade software without loading pirated isos.
Then again, I don't know much about the PSP, so this may be impossible. I know in the DS scene this is usually the way legitimate homebrew software developers distance themselves from the pirates.
Your Linux box's GUI might look different but I doubt much else would change: Linux was inspired by Minix, GNU, and UNIX, not anything from Microsoft.
Fuck if I know. I guess the media likes people with name recognition. "This guy wrote Jurassic Park, he must know what he's talking about!" "Yeah, well, this guy used to be Vice President! He must know what he's talking about even more!"
It's the fucking name-obsessed news media.
Ah, Chrichton. Because writing Jurassic Park is the only scientific credential that actually matters.
With all due respect, he's got an M.D., he's not a climatologist. I don't call a plumber when I'm sick; I don't ask an M.D.'s opinion on climate change.
On the other hand, McCain has also consistently supported telecom immunity, so I guess we're pretty much fucked.
No, I meant what he said. When it comes down to it, you only need to make the machine secure enough so that it's less of a hassle, risk, and expense to just tie it to the back of a pickup truck and pull it out of the wall. A four-digit code doesn't do that. Biometrics probably would.
I imagine it's a lot easier to type in a PIN stolen from a database than it is to, um, change your thumbprint or the pattern of the veins in your retina to one stolen from a database.
Perhaps I'm missing something.
Biometrics, of course. Fingerprint scanning, retinal scanning, voice recognition, or whatever. It's the only way to really verify. The problem is how expensive it would be to refit existing ATMs.
VMs are notoriously shitty at hardware-accelerated graphics.
But hey, if that ever changes...
The 14th also allowed for anyone born in the U.S. to be an automatic citizen, preventing the formation (or, rather, continuance) of a permanent hereditary underclass, and it made the Bill of Rights apply to state governments instead of just the Federal government. Ever wonder why, despite the fact that the First Amendment starts with the words "Congress shall make no law..." your state government shall also make no law violating it? Well, the 14th Amendment. Prior to the 14th Amendment, state governments shat all over First Amendment rights (and others in the Bill of Rights) on a fairly regular basis. I'd say its done more good than harm.
But then, I don't have this strange delusion that state governments are more trustworthy than the Federal government. I mean, they aren't less trustworthy either, but let's be serious.
Check out the new address bar in Firefox 3: you can just type words into it and it will search your history based on the site's title, sorted by frequency of access, and bring up those results, instead of just a list of URLs.
I thought it was pretty neat, anyway.
Oh, it'd be great for both parties. Then I could say "I'm voting Obama because I want national heath care" and hear economic arguments instead of "zomfg he's a secret muslim!"
Man, if you don't think the 13th Amendment was "a fundamental change to the nature of the union", I've got nothing left to say to you. The 13th was passed in exactly the same way as the 14th, with a significant number of the defeated rebel States not voting on it in Congress and ratification of it a condition to readmittance to the United States.
The 13th Amendment was passed in the same manner as the 14th, you know. Should we get rid of it, as well?
No, more of a "Geez, it doesn't seem worth the expense and trouble to buy this Glock to rob the store when the clerk probably doesn't have a gun. I'll use the switchblade instead; I can get one of those cheaper anywhere."
Now, there may be some flaws in that reasoning, sure, but it doesn't take too much brainpower to see what he was talking about.
Cigarrettes are legal but you can't take them into hospitals or public schools either. There is a difference between public property and government-owned property. If you think there isn't, then go walk into the President's bedroom uninvited.
So the right to have an abortion is bullshit whereas the right to own a gun is God-given. Nice personal freedoms, there. Way to go with your own intellectual honesty.
What the hell is with the current collection of issues in the present political divide, anyway? How is "the right to own a gun" on the same team as "ban abortions and gay marriage"? This doesn't make any sense to me.
Sometimes people want to install Linux on a computer without Internet access. Crazy, I know. MSTTCorefonts can't be distributed on the distro CD, so that computer wouldn't have a way to get them.
It's not an article, it's a press release from the plaintiff's attorneys.
I mean, I guess press releases are sort of formatted kinda like news articles, but that doesn't mean they count.
Wait, you think Slashdot editors actually read the article? I'd say "you must be new here", but then somebody with a 4-digit UID would be legally obligated to come over and bitch-slap me.
If we'd built some breeder plants, we could recycle the waste. 90% of nuclear "waste" from current plants is usable fissile material. But Jimmy fucking Carter, in his infinite wisdom, banned research and development of breeder reactors in the 1970s.
Thank you for proving my point.
Yes, it just doesn't need to build a second gas turbine, which was the alternative to building these windmills. They can't throw out the original one, but that was never the plan. The idea was always one gas turbine + wind farm would be better than two gas turbines.
I assure you that the libertarian far right does exactly the same thing: conspiracy theroism and paranoia knows no political affiliation; only the details change.
For some reason people like to endlessly bitch that windmills are "eyesores", as if this in and of itself is reason not to use them. They don't look unsightly to me.