Yeah... I was gonna be developing one [an adventure game] over the summer (through a competition with a local university) but we didn't make it past the second round.
The interviewing judges were representatives from various software houses. They all said they were really keen on a new adventure game, and would be really happy to see it revived as a genre. But then they ignored most of what we said in our proposal, and turned us down.
So yeah, other people feel your pain too. One day I may try making the game myself.
Your right to a safe and healthy life prevents me from smacking you across the mouth with a baseball bat for being so goddamn dumb.
Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy [...] nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Being told to shut up is completely unrelated to freedom of speech, which you damn-well know. I can tell you to shut up right now, and this does not curtail your freedom of speech. It seems a talking slashdotter learns nothing either...
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
What's so hilarious about freedom of religion? In what way has the government forced a religious doctrine on everyone as a child?
Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
And yes, education is also a right:
Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Which particular rights don't kids have? Right to safety? (Yes.) Right to free speech? (Yes.) Right to freedom of religion? (Yes.) Right to education? (Yes.) What you on about?
You have absolutely no idea what the word 'gift' means, do you? Tell me, once I've broken this imaginary contract you feel exists by buying, say, a poke of chips, what are you gonna do? Sue me?
I think you just made a real howler of a mistake there. I don't know whether you noticed or not, but you're using a party manifesto - rather than the actions of that party once in power - to determine their leanings. I don't like to bandy around terms like "hopelessly gullible" or "ridiculously naive" but you're kinda asking for it.
I agree. How different are the current distros (in layout terms) from each other? I'm kinda ignoring the "shiny-box" distros at the moment (SuSE, Mandriva, Xandros, Red Hat) - Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I presume they have the same internal layout. What about Gentoo? Are Gentoo and Debian compatible between each other without major changes? I think these two (community) distros being cross-compatible would go a long way to setting the standards ball rolling. Despite how often it is criticised Debian is still venerated as being the grand-daddy. Also, where does Slackware lie on the whole LSB front? I've never investigated it.
Don't know the details myself, but my physics teacher reckoned that initially injuries should be cooled (ice) to reduce the swelling, slow internal bleeding, all that sort of stuff. Then, when the blood has properly clotted and everything, heating (sitting by a fire in a big duvet?;) helps to speed up the healing process.
Hehe, I did something very similar to that at school. We were given a bit of server space and were promised that the admin types wouldn't go snooping in it. We'd had a spate of file 'disappearances' going on (including a friend of mine who lost a university application form), so I decided to take some action:
First, was to take all the files I used and zip them up with a password. I could download an evaluation winzip on whichever machine I needed to use the files, and otherwise they were inaccessible by other people.
Then I created a simple text file with an innocuous name ("letter", I think) in which I addressed the snooping bastard who was reading the file with some choice insults.
I got called into the headmaster's office for that. But it did get our complaints about file disappearances aired properly (they had previously been brushed off; "we'll investigate", etc.) and I got an apology from the headmaster in the end.
coerce
1. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel.
2. To dominate, restrain, or control forcibly: coerced the strikers into compliance.
3. To bring about by force or threat: efforts to coerce agreement.
Coercing is the opposite of grooming - using strong-arm tactics rather than talking/convincing the person of your point of view.
You're assuming he *did* save and encrypt the alleged files. They're not mentioned anywhere in the articles I've read; merely that he had software installed. Considering most Linux distros come with GPG, Mac OSX comes with FileVault and Windows comes with EFS this proves nothing.
If he *had* encrypted files, then they'd have evidence to show for it - a virtual "locked safe", which at the very least arouses suspicion. Just having a safe with nothing in it implies nothing.
I think, apart from ignorance of the prevalence of encryption technologies in computers, the judge is conflating cryptology with steganography. Encrypting the files would make them more obvious, and couldn't account for the fact that they are not to be found.
It's my opinion that the prosecution are encouraging this confusion in an attempt to vilify the defendant, to gloss over that fact that their only other evidence is the word of a nine-year-old girl. If there is more to the case I'd be interested to find out what, but the articles I have read do not reveal much:
Nothin' wrong with that... Norse communities used to elect (and remove) their kings. Just cos all our royalty are hereditary, doesn't mean everyone else's are.
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I'm really lost as to what you base your "personal responsibility" claim on from a set of economic theories. Care to explain?
Who wants to bet that maybe Microsoft just charge more? :)
Yeah... I was gonna be developing one [an adventure game] over the summer (through a competition with a local university) but we didn't make it past the second round.
The interviewing judges were representatives from various software houses. They all said they were really keen on a new adventure game, and would be really happy to see it revived as a genre. But then they ignored most of what we said in our proposal, and turned us down.
So yeah, other people feel your pain too. One day I may try making the game myself.
Tell that to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra!
I hate to break it to you, but it's not your money. It's a gamble, you're not assured anything.
I didn't actually state that lunch money was a gift. I don't believe it is, though I don't know what category it would come under.
Which particular rights don't kids have? Right to safety? (Yes.) Right to free speech? (Yes.) Right to freedom of religion? (Yes.) Right to education? (Yes.) What you on about?
You have absolutely no idea what the word 'gift' means, do you? Tell me, once I've broken this imaginary contract you feel exists by buying, say, a poke of chips, what are you gonna do? Sue me?
I think you just made a real howler of a mistake there. I don't know whether you noticed or not, but you're using a party manifesto - rather than the actions of that party once in power - to determine their leanings. I don't like to bandy around terms like "hopelessly gullible" or "ridiculously naive" but you're kinda asking for it.
I agree. How different are the current distros (in layout terms) from each other? I'm kinda ignoring the "shiny-box" distros at the moment (SuSE, Mandriva, Xandros, Red Hat) - Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I presume they have the same internal layout. What about Gentoo? Are Gentoo and Debian compatible between each other without major changes? I think these two (community) distros being cross-compatible would go a long way to setting the standards ball rolling. Despite how often it is criticised Debian is still venerated as being the grand-daddy. Also, where does Slackware lie on the whole LSB front? I've never investigated it.
- T draws weapon
- A spots T drawing weapon
- B spots A drawing weapon
- A fires on T
- B fires on A
- Passengers C-S and U-Z all draw weapons
- Chaos
Thank you for flying Loony Airlines, tagline Your right to bear arms is not infringed; you right to a safe and happy life probably will be.The person trying to rob (sic) him was innocent of assault and attempted murder. The man with the gun, however...
Don't know the details myself, but my physics teacher reckoned that initially injuries should be cooled (ice) to reduce the swelling, slow internal bleeding, all that sort of stuff. Then, when the blood has properly clotted and everything, heating (sitting by a fire in a big duvet? ;) helps to speed up the healing process.
First, was to take all the files I used and zip them up with a password. I could download an evaluation winzip on whichever machine I needed to use the files, and otherwise they were inaccessible by other people.
Then I created a simple text file with an innocuous name ("letter", I think) in which I addressed the snooping bastard who was reading the file with some choice insults.
I got called into the headmaster's office for that. But it did get our complaints about file disappearances aired properly (they had previously been brushed off; "we'll investigate", etc.) and I got an apology from the headmaster in the end.
Ah, the heady nostalgia of it all :)
Grooming is nothing like coercing:
coerce
1. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel.
2. To dominate, restrain, or control forcibly: coerced the strikers into compliance.
3. To bring about by force or threat: efforts to coerce agreement.
Coercing is the opposite of grooming - using strong-arm tactics rather than talking/convincing the person of your point of view.
You're assuming he *did* save and encrypt the alleged files. They're not mentioned anywhere in the articles I've read; merely that he had software installed. Considering most Linux distros come with GPG, Mac OSX comes with FileVault and Windows comes with EFS this proves nothing.
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If he *had* encrypted files, then they'd have evidence to show for it - a virtual "locked safe", which at the very least arouses suspicion. Just having a safe with nothing in it implies nothing.
I think, apart from ignorance of the prevalence of encryption technologies in computers, the judge is conflating cryptology with steganography. Encrypting the files would make them more obvious, and couldn't account for the fact that they are not to be found.
It's my opinion that the prosecution are encouraging this confusion in an attempt to vilify the defendant, to gloss over that fact that their only other evidence is the word of a nine-year-old girl. If there is more to the case I'd be interested to find out what, but the articles I have read do not reveal much:
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/0
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050524/1639237_F.s
History shows that comments like that always come back to bite us on the ass. Or at the very least cause flamewars on Slashdot.
Nothin' wrong with that... Norse communities used to elect (and remove) their kings. Just cos all our royalty are hereditary, doesn't mean everyone else's are.
And in South Korea only old people eat SPAM.
That's why the distros come with names!
(Oh yeah, and I'm not fat, baw-sack.)
LOL. Ah, you just made an Edinburgh laddie very happy :)
cat /dev/urandom | strings
Do you have what it takes to hit the (honey)monkey?