I would still advocate and encourage and applaud the breaking of such a law if the U.S. had it, too.
An egregious law is an egregious law, no matter what language it's worded in or what country it applies to. Some laws just inherently deserve to be broken and ignored by all reasonable freedom-loving citizens, especially since we live in a time now in which passing such legislation is no longer tantamount to career suicide for arrogant, statist politicians.
French programmers could just develop their software under assumed pen-names and publish their free software on servers overseas outside of the French government's jurisdiction. It's a sucky law if it passes, but if it does pass, I'm eager as hell to see it broken en masse to the point of it being unenforceable. Stereotypes about surrendering notwithstanding, of course...
But just because everyone laughs at someone doesn't mean he's correct. Just ask Bozo the clown.
I'm sorry, good sir, but Dr. Bozo The Clown's Theory of Duo-Quantum Hypersuperfluatic Nanoantimatter holds so much more water to it than this current "String Theory" pseudoscience flying around journals these days. But no, just because he was a clown, with his big red shoes and big red nose and puffy bright-red balding afro, and his ability to make children laugh and smile, the physicists couldn't help but laugh at him and rudely spray him with seltzer every time he wanted to address a large crowd at Stanford University. Every time he tried to write his proofs and formulae on a whiteboard for all to see, his bow-tie spun around with a loud whistling sound and smacked him square in the face, and the physicists -- did they help? Did they offer to so less as to straighten his tie? NO! THEY THREW BANANA CREAM PIES AT HIM WHILE HE WAS ALREADY DOWN!! How immature of the physics community, which is supposed to be populated by mature, reasonable, professional adults, to berate and insult such an unfortunate, misunderstood clown whose innate and profound understanding of Duo-Quantum Hypersuperfluatic Nanoantimatter yielded ideas and revolutionary theories way ahead of the physics community's time. To that I say -- shame on physicists everywhere for destroying this good clown's potential irrefutable and would-be-generous contributions to society and science. And I say to Mr. Hawking, if you are reading this: insulting Bozo the Clown's fake eyebrows as, and I quote, "looking. Like. That. Transvestite. Divine. From. John. Waters'. Movies.", was a wholly new low that left me dismayed at the hostile and graceless state of the physics status quo as it stands today, especially for one who purports to be a refined and sophisticated English gentleman.
Funny you call them drug "crimes" when it's just governments' legislated assaults against free markets and the unrepealable inevitabilities of supply and demand. Sadly, conservatism is the new Marxism:(
When I had friends, I couldn't get a damn thing done; they would always pester me, and if I turned down an offer to go out and socialize, they'd whine and whimper at me and try to make me feel like an insensitive asshole for using choice. I'm glad I moved back to California to get away from all of them once an for all. I care more about my projects and hobbies than I do about seeing some overpriced Jim Carrey movie (since he was the Vin Diesel of the 1990's) on a Friday night.
The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning.
I'm reminded of when I was in high school. I'm definitely introverted, and when I'd get into one of those exchange 'yo mama' insults (yo mama is so fat / so skinny / so ugly / etc) to each other contests with rival classmates. I'd always come to a complete halt when I'd get a really good one thrown at me... but like, three weeks later, I'm still dwelling on it and I'd finally come up with a devastating and awesome comeback that, by itself, would have totally owned back tenfold... but being three weeks later, it was obsolete for the relevant "yo mama" insult contest that it was related to. So I would, at best, hope for an opportunity to use it in the future, which was why I usually initiated those to begin with. And still, they would end the same way, and begin the same way. Graduating highschool was my only way out.
I sort of wish I'd used my brainpower on studying math or something instead of coming up with "yo mama" insults, maybe then I wouldn't have had such a rough time in Calculus and Statistics as I did during my time majoring in computer science in university.
I remember when I was a kid, I'd build elaborate mazes out of legos, and then before closing the maze shut, I'd put a centipede in one part of the maze, and I'd find a big fat carpenter ant (I'd always name it Theseus) and put it somewhere else in the maze. Have lunch, watch a couple episodes of You Can't Do That On Television and Maya The Bee, and come back to see the results. I have concluded that centipedes will always win in a fight against a carpenter ant, but a carpenter ant still has a good chance of escaping from the maze so long as it negotiates a lucky route. God damn, I loved Legos.
I'd also build little cities and find a rock full of pill bugs, and put the pill bugs in the city, and then totally go Godzilla on the place.
It doesn't matter, because this story is fake. Notice it was put out by PRWeb, an open-access news publishing service that just happens their articles are also published on Yahoo -- you may have seen them in the news a year or two ago when a rumor about Andy Kaufman still being alive was taken seriously by many people, a rumor that was given credence just because Yahoo! had mirrored it.
What's sad is, I've only seen at most three or four other posts in this entire story pointing out the fakeness and past history of PRWeb, out of over 300 posts. No, no... what's sad is, Slashdot actually posting this story, as if the story had any credibility in the first place.
1. Watch The Matrix, Hackers, Virtuosity, The Minority Report and a few hours of the SciFi channel to spot new but unimplemented UI features
I'm still throwing a tantrum that we don't have Jetsons technology in homes today. Why should I WALK to the refrigerator when I can just hop on a conveyor belt? Do I look like an Olympic athlete for crying out loud?
I'd prefer to see those responsible put behind bars, for at least two or three years. Every other virus writer, rootkit-using hacker, or other species of malicious computer-diseaser has gone to jail for the same crime -- there's no reason this should be treated any different.
Is this the same Enternet company who wrote the simple Enternet 300 DSL connection program for routerless users? I remember my ISP would bundle that program with the DSL modems you got for free when you signed up for broadband (are they called DSL "modems" or something else? lol). I wonder how far back their affiliation in spyware goes... I might have to dig up my old computer and take a look-see:/
So that's what those cylinder things are. Capacitors! I always thought those things were just decorations, to make boards look more "techy" -- the PC equivalent of greebles, if you will. Maybe that also explains why my motherboard failed when I chucked a toy Death Star at it.
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What frightened the bejesus out of me is I read the title as "Space Liches".
Not being a Sony employee I can't answer why, but having played almost 3 years worth of another SOE product, Everquest Online Adventures -- probably THE most NEGLECTED MMORPG in the history of gaming -- I can tell you that you shouldn't have been surprised. For the first year of that game, it had frequent updates and it even had an expansion pack, EQOA Frontiers. After the Frontiers-specific quests were tweaked and bugs fixed, the quality of the game declined; a couple of corrupt GMs were caught giving rare items to certain players (not from events or quests, but just because they were close buddies), some of the programming team was relocated to work on -- you guessed it -- SWG and EQ2, and updates were few and far in-between. They seem to be trying to pick themselves up yet again with new epic quests, but it took them way too long to do something like this, and there's still unlocked content on the Frontiers CD they're taking FOREVER to get live; also most of the recent updates are targeted to those who are in large guilds who are capable of downing uber-tough bosses -- even though EQOA was originally touted as "Everquest for the casual gamer" it seems to no longer live up to that qualification. That, combined with the fact that this was by a company whose affiliate publishes music CDs that root peoples' computers against their consent, I don't think I'll ever spend any more money on Sony game titles (or any Sony media for that matter).
Don't be surprised to see the quality in SWG decrease now that it seems to have lived through and past its first year, and the best they'll do is keep it on life support once they, like they seemed to have done with EQOA, make the software itself out-of-print.
Right, because we have to make sweeping assumptions over what something "sounds" like.
So any Californian who goes to Japan to teach English for a year is automatically the "rich elite"? Californian architect or engineer who assist in a series of buildings constructed in Egypt is automatically a "rich person"? Oh but I guess it's not worth caring about, because fixing it "might" make a handful of "rich people" happy.
And some people wonder why there's such a blatant ideological divide in this country. Sad.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if certain bloated, wiretap-happy government agencies (they know who they are) are also nervous about private companies and organizations adopting IPv6 without legally requiring for some kind of backdoor decryption in the IPsec portion.
Sounds stupid right? All the more reason to assume that some government agency is thinking about it.
Althought, truth be told - why exactly is the government telling us this?
It's the psyops card. I'm skeptical that technology like this is fully 100% possible, but the aura of "top secretness" around federal departments like this give them the leverage to make 007-esque urban legends about themselves that could "wow" the enemy or even the country's own citizens. Somewhat like the nagging mother who uses the "Don't misbehave -- I have eyes in the back of my head" line when she wants to keep her toddlers obedient.
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When I would make articles like the year 2326, Wikipedia was my favorite place to play.
I would still advocate and encourage and applaud the breaking of such a law if the U.S. had it, too.
An egregious law is an egregious law, no matter what language it's worded in or what country it applies to. Some laws just inherently deserve to be broken and ignored by all reasonable freedom-loving citizens, especially since we live in a time now in which passing such legislation is no longer tantamount to career suicide for arrogant, statist politicians.
French programmers could just develop their software under assumed pen-names and publish their free software on servers overseas outside of the French government's jurisdiction. It's a sucky law if it passes, but if it does pass, I'm eager as hell to see it broken en masse to the point of it being unenforceable. Stereotypes about surrendering notwithstanding, of course...
But just because everyone laughs at someone doesn't mean he's correct. Just ask Bozo the clown.
I'm sorry, good sir, but Dr. Bozo The Clown's Theory of Duo-Quantum Hypersuperfluatic Nanoantimatter holds so much more water to it than this current "String Theory" pseudoscience flying around journals these days. But no, just because he was a clown, with his big red shoes and big red nose and puffy bright-red balding afro, and his ability to make children laugh and smile, the physicists couldn't help but laugh at him and rudely spray him with seltzer every time he wanted to address a large crowd at Stanford University. Every time he tried to write his proofs and formulae on a whiteboard for all to see, his bow-tie spun around with a loud whistling sound and smacked him square in the face, and the physicists -- did they help? Did they offer to so less as to straighten his tie? NO! THEY THREW BANANA CREAM PIES AT HIM WHILE HE WAS ALREADY DOWN!! How immature of the physics community, which is supposed to be populated by mature, reasonable, professional adults, to berate and insult such an unfortunate, misunderstood clown whose innate and profound understanding of Duo-Quantum Hypersuperfluatic Nanoantimatter yielded ideas and revolutionary theories way ahead of the physics community's time. To that I say -- shame on physicists everywhere for destroying this good clown's potential irrefutable and would-be-generous contributions to society and science. And I say to Mr. Hawking, if you are reading this: insulting Bozo the Clown's fake eyebrows as, and I quote, "looking. Like. That. Transvestite. Divine. From. John. Waters'. Movies.", was a wholly new low that left me dismayed at the hostile and graceless state of the physics status quo as it stands today, especially for one who purports to be a refined and sophisticated English gentleman.
Funny you call them drug "crimes" when it's just governments' legislated assaults against free markets and the unrepealable inevitabilities of supply and demand. Sadly, conservatism is the new Marxism :(
By partying and having the kind of fun that religious wackos deem "sinful" I guess?
When I had friends, I couldn't get a damn thing done; they would always pester me, and if I turned down an offer to go out and socialize, they'd whine and whimper at me and try to make me feel like an insensitive asshole for using choice. I'm glad I moved back to California to get away from all of them once an for all. I care more about my projects and hobbies than I do about seeing some overpriced Jim Carrey movie (since he was the Vin Diesel of the 1990's) on a Friday night.
The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning.
I'm reminded of when I was in high school. I'm definitely introverted, and when I'd get into one of those exchange 'yo mama' insults (yo mama is so fat / so skinny / so ugly / etc) to each other contests with rival classmates. I'd always come to a complete halt when I'd get a really good one thrown at me... but like, three weeks later, I'm still dwelling on it and I'd finally come up with a devastating and awesome comeback that, by itself, would have totally owned back tenfold... but being three weeks later, it was obsolete for the relevant "yo mama" insult contest that it was related to. So I would, at best, hope for an opportunity to use it in the future, which was why I usually initiated those to begin with. And still, they would end the same way, and begin the same way. Graduating highschool was my only way out.
I sort of wish I'd used my brainpower on studying math or something instead of coming up with "yo mama" insults, maybe then I wouldn't have had such a rough time in Calculus and Statistics as I did during my time majoring in computer science in university.
I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well. Um, this 7-11, right? If you take a penny from the tray...
I remember when I was a kid, I'd build elaborate mazes out of legos, and then before closing the maze shut, I'd put a centipede in one part of the maze, and I'd find a big fat carpenter ant (I'd always name it Theseus) and put it somewhere else in the maze. Have lunch, watch a couple episodes of You Can't Do That On Television and Maya The Bee, and come back to see the results. I have concluded that centipedes will always win in a fight against a carpenter ant, but a carpenter ant still has a good chance of escaping from the maze so long as it negotiates a lucky route. God damn, I loved Legos.
I'd also build little cities and find a rock full of pill bugs, and put the pill bugs in the city, and then totally go Godzilla on the place.
"...John Bennett, president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)..."
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Oh, come on... copy-cats
It doesn't matter, because this story is fake. Notice it was put out by PRWeb, an open-access news publishing service that just happens their articles are also published on Yahoo -- you may have seen them in the news a year or two ago when a rumor about Andy Kaufman still being alive was taken seriously by many people, a rumor that was given credence just because Yahoo! had mirrored it.
What's sad is, I've only seen at most three or four other posts in this entire story pointing out the fakeness and past history of PRWeb, out of over 300 posts. No, no... what's sad is, Slashdot actually posting this story, as if the story had any credibility in the first place.
1. Watch The Matrix, Hackers, Virtuosity, The Minority Report and a few hours of the SciFi channel to spot new but unimplemented UI features
I'm still throwing a tantrum that we don't have Jetsons technology in homes today. Why should I WALK to the refrigerator when I can just hop on a conveyor belt? Do I look like an Olympic athlete for crying out loud?
I'd prefer to see those responsible put behind bars, for at least two or three years. Every other virus writer, rootkit-using hacker, or other species of malicious computer-diseaser has gone to jail for the same crime -- there's no reason this should be treated any different.
Also, being named "Fernando" is a +2 bonus to your Charisma.
You have no idea how thankful I am that people with your understanding of legal rights hold no position in the legal system
Are you sure about that?
Is this the same Enternet company who wrote the simple Enternet 300 DSL connection program for routerless users? I remember my ISP would bundle that program with the DSL modems you got for free when you signed up for broadband (are they called DSL "modems" or something else? lol). I wonder how far back their affiliation in spyware goes... I might have to dig up my old computer and take a look-see :/
Or, take money from a political party, and use a pseudonym for your blog and host your blog on a system that's outside of the U.S.'s jurisdiction.
It's not really inflammatory if you can't help imagining the speaker saying it in a high-pitched, nasal voice.
So that's what those cylinder things are. Capacitors! I always thought those things were just decorations, to make boards look more "techy" -- the PC equivalent of greebles, if you will. Maybe that also explains why my motherboard failed when I chucked a toy Death Star at it.
What frightened the bejesus out of me is I read the title as "Space Liches".
Not being a Sony employee I can't answer why, but having played almost 3 years worth of another SOE product, Everquest Online Adventures -- probably THE most NEGLECTED MMORPG in the history of gaming -- I can tell you that you shouldn't have been surprised. For the first year of that game, it had frequent updates and it even had an expansion pack, EQOA Frontiers. After the Frontiers-specific quests were tweaked and bugs fixed, the quality of the game declined; a couple of corrupt GMs were caught giving rare items to certain players (not from events or quests, but just because they were close buddies), some of the programming team was relocated to work on -- you guessed it -- SWG and EQ2, and updates were few and far in-between. They seem to be trying to pick themselves up yet again with new epic quests, but it took them way too long to do something like this, and there's still unlocked content on the Frontiers CD they're taking FOREVER to get live; also most of the recent updates are targeted to those who are in large guilds who are capable of downing uber-tough bosses -- even though EQOA was originally touted as "Everquest for the casual gamer" it seems to no longer live up to that qualification. That, combined with the fact that this was by a company whose affiliate publishes music CDs that root peoples' computers against their consent, I don't think I'll ever spend any more money on Sony game titles (or any Sony media for that matter).
Don't be surprised to see the quality in SWG decrease now that it seems to have lived through and past its first year, and the best they'll do is keep it on life support once they, like they seemed to have done with EQOA, make the software itself out-of-print.
Right, because we have to make sweeping assumptions over what something "sounds" like.
So any Californian who goes to Japan to teach English for a year is automatically the "rich elite"? Californian architect or engineer who assist in a series of buildings constructed in Egypt is automatically a "rich person"? Oh but I guess it's not worth caring about, because fixing it "might" make a handful of "rich people" happy.
And some people wonder why there's such a blatant ideological divide in this country. Sad.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if certain bloated, wiretap-happy government agencies (they know who they are) are also nervous about private companies and organizations adopting IPv6 without legally requiring for some kind of backdoor decryption in the IPsec portion.
Sounds stupid right? All the more reason to assume that some government agency is thinking about it.
Althought, truth be told - why exactly is the government telling us this?
It's the psyops card. I'm skeptical that technology like this is fully 100% possible, but the aura of "top secretness" around federal departments like this give them the leverage to make 007-esque urban legends about themselves that could "wow" the enemy or even the country's own citizens. Somewhat like the nagging mother who uses the "Don't misbehave -- I have eyes in the back of my head" line when she wants to keep her toddlers obedient.