From a military or industrial perspective, this is useful. This is one step away from a self-organizing mine field, or sensor array. By allowing them to choose the proper *scatter*, you can very easily release a set of bots in the field to do anything from look for oil in the water to finding illegal aliens crossing the border. True, these little guys are not going to be the used solution, but they are providing the conceptual testing that will lead to more expensive and larger machines doing real work. Once you have the proven behaviors, it is a a simpler matter to add them to other machines to give the machines we currently use the same behaviors. I don't see them doing lawn work anytime soon, but in the military and industrial world, there are many applications where these behaviors would be ideal.
Bush lied to the congress. Bush orchestrated a campaign of deception to convince the American Public that a clear and present danger was presented by Sadam. Bush and Libby outed a CIA operative. Did he get congressional authorization for all of that?
He got the authorization based on the lies and the coercion of others in positions of trust to provide questionable if not false *facts*. I believe lying to start a war is a crime against humanity. At the very least it is illegal for a US citizen to do such.
Another politician, another lie. I could start quoting Bush, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Ford, Nixon,...
They all made statements with the same stupidity as this. This is about law, not truth. If he can wrangle it that in *legal* terms, it is not hostile, then legally,it is not. Which is all he needs. As far as what it means in english (not legalsleaze), yeah, its as hostile as a punch in the nose. You have to remember for a politicians to get to the top, they normally have to get very good at legal sleaze. If they are not, they are not going to be able to support the people who pave their way with gold.
I use something like Motoblur on my android. Some of the applications that would seem unlikely to do much are performance drains. When I disable them, its like a brand new phone. So, I know where he is coming from. He is right. Motorola may have issues, but so do many apps.
I don't want gaming companies to stop what they are doing. I am saving so much money and both of my children spend a lot more time in the real world. I used to buy ~$500 in games a year. And more for consoles and game rigs. It was a lot of fun, but the stuff coming out is less and less appealing, and the communities are more and more like some big city slum middle school playground. I get more fun out of writing stored procedure for business shills.
So, thank you to EA, Atari and others for writing crappier games and making them more inaccessible. Thank you for pandering the lowest common denominator as much as you can.
When I was 12, I wrote a decompiler for the Z80, I reverse engineered the Model III Rom and I networked the computers using tape cassettes. What this kid did was probably easier, and I don't think I am really that smart. I had time and focus on my side. No way I could have done the same today. I have no time and no time to focus.
The problem is, the process in place does not test for an "individual's" DNA. It tries to match a set of sites together between two different DNAs and calls it a positive if they match. In large numbers (as in databases), you are going to have many matches. All a match means in the methodology used in current forensics is that the person CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. In no way can it ever mean the samples are from the same person. That would take a very different type of test.
So this database is basically meaningless with the current information we have. It will result in a large number of false positives. It will result in false convictions and will destroy peoples life by introducing credible doubt as to a person's innocence. Fishing expeditions have ruined many people's lives, and they have no recourse against an incompetent prosecutor or the tarnished reputation left by the remotest appearance of illegal behavior.
The science behind these tests proves they are not valid for convictions, only for proving innocence. So, maintaining any database based on the current sampling method is a useless waste of time and money.
Now, if they changed the comparison method, and made it a truly unique identifier of an individual, that would be a different story.
It's MIT, that gang of losers are going to try to justify their bloated tuitions and lack of real-world experience with, "But I graduated from MIT!"
Actually having worked with MIT grads and growing up with some who went to and graduated, I have never known anyone from MIT who fits your description. I have known many individuals who were so intimate with the underpinnings of concepts that what passed as difficult for most smart people passed as trivial for them. But, there are always exceptions.
Shooting through walls (not spraying, but single shots)
Shooting across maps (beyond range of any gun in map)
Being able to see entire map in spite of fog of war
Boosting *hit points*
Boosting damage
Boosting Income
Boosting build speed
...
Now, maybe these are all normal, but to me they are not. I have seen people use them from their side of the console, so I know what they are. Have I beat people using them? Sometimes. But the reality is that many people cheat (morals) and some people do not at the top. Heck, just think of steroids and other *preformance* enhancing drugs. It is not like only gamers do it..
One we saw just this week on Halo Wars. This kid had a full army of fully upgraded units at ~2:40 into the game with 3 full bases fully built out. Right... That must be skill.
A long time ago, I tried to learn Chinese. It is a beautiful language, and one I wish I had learned. I had a real devil of a time not calling someone's mother a horse though. I kept getting the inflections wrong.
Everyone is missing the real problem here. The evidence in any digital (online, server,...) case is the DATA. The hardware is almost useless. You might need things like MAC addresses and such, but the real stuff is the data. So, confiscating hardware is NOT needed. Confiscating DATA is what is needed. And the beauty of data is it copies so easily. So, the servers are evidence is uneducated BS. It always has and always will be. The data is the evidence.
If they need the hardware for hairs, fingerprints and such, then the data can always be copied to a temporary server so the business and other innocent users can continue. Once the business is proven illegal, shut the business down. Until then, it is not proven to be in violation of the law. This is one of our most cherished rights. (like Miranda rights used to be [RIP]).
Please don't tell me the FBI, or law enforcement in general can not copy data to a new server. If they are that inept, they have no place dealing with cyber-crimes.
So, if I perceive this correctly, consoles are normally purchased as cheap *throw-away* units, by parents for their kids so that the parents do not have to deal with them, or by people who do not have the income to go the PC game route...
What this leaves you with is an online society consisting mostly of un-parented children, ill-mannered dropouts, angry youths and socially challenged individuals. I can not prove it, but from my experiences, that sounds about right.
Your friend may be tops, but I have seen after game videos enough where impossible shots were made. Repeatedly. There are enough cheats out there, and cheating has proven to be easy enough on different platforms, that the cheats far outnumber the skilled ones. I have seen the cheats as well, so I know they are not a myth. From what I saw, they were easy to put in place and use.
Now, I don't use them (as my ratings all reflect), because I want to win on my own accord. Many people make the winning part far more important than honesty, honor or personal integrity. To quote one of the hacks,"Winning is the only thing. If they do not catch you, you still won." A natural reflection of our current society.
Don't worry. Nobody ever wanted to fly. If God had meant for humans to do it, we would have had wings.
Try something crazy. Just do it. If you earn nothing from it financially, you are bound to earn tons from it in the form of knowledge and skills.
I hated school to, for most of the same reasons. The other kids hated me. I kept setting the test curve high. And, I was a jock. I always wanted to be more stupid so the other kids would stop hating me. I had no idea then how stupid they were. I was always depressed, but noone ever saw it. I still hate most schools. I think under 12th grade is nothing more than a meat line. Too bad so many parents/politicians have their hands in the school without any regard for what school is. They are so worried about monkeys and Thomas Jefferson and prayer. I think most of them have forgotten what school is for and what school is not for.
Free markets are a pipe dream as they neither maximize profit nor minimize risk. No sanely managed company would encourage a free market unless they are shut out of that market.
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Microsoft has killed/destroyed far more popular products than it has made/kept successful.
From a military or industrial perspective, this is useful. This is one step away from a self-organizing mine field, or sensor array. By allowing them to choose the proper *scatter*, you can very easily release a set of bots in the field to do anything from look for oil in the water to finding illegal aliens crossing the border. True, these little guys are not going to be the used solution, but they are providing the conceptual testing that will lead to more expensive and larger machines doing real work. Once you have the proven behaviors, it is a a simpler matter to add them to other machines to give the machines we currently use the same behaviors. I don't see them doing lawn work anytime soon, but in the military and industrial world, there are many applications where these behaviors would be ideal.
Bush lied to the congress. Bush orchestrated a campaign of deception to convince the American Public that a clear and present danger was presented by Sadam. Bush and Libby outed a CIA operative. Did he get congressional authorization for all of that?
He got the authorization based on the lies and the coercion of others in positions of trust to provide questionable if not false *facts*. I believe lying to start a war is a crime against humanity. At the very least it is illegal for a US citizen to do such.
Another politician, another lie. I could start quoting Bush, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, ...
They all made statements with the same stupidity as this. This is about law, not truth. If he can wrangle it that in *legal* terms, it is not hostile, then legally,it is not. Which is all he needs. As far as what it means in english (not legalsleaze), yeah, its as hostile as a punch in the nose. You have to remember for a politicians to get to the top, they normally have to get very good at legal sleaze. If they are not, they are not going to be able to support the people who pave their way with gold.
I use something like Motoblur on my android. Some of the applications that would seem unlikely to do much are performance drains. When I disable them, its like a brand new phone. So, I know where he is coming from. He is right. Motorola may have issues, but so do many apps.
How did you get phished?
I don't want gaming companies to stop what they are doing. I am saving so much money and both of my children spend a lot more time in the real world. I used to buy ~$500 in games a year. And more for consoles and game rigs. It was a lot of fun, but the stuff coming out is less and less appealing, and the communities are more and more like some big city slum middle school playground. I get more fun out of writing stored procedure for business shills.
So, thank you to EA, Atari and others for writing crappier games and making them more inaccessible. Thank you for pandering the lowest common denominator as much as you can.
Marketing.
Ask anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s. Bright strobe lights in dark dance halls. You couldn't see anything when you first walked in.
I know, right? I mean, what kind of commie, hippie loser came up with the name "military-industrial complex" anyway?
For all those who do not know, this is a good place to start. His fears are neither unfounded, nor unfullilled.
When I was 12, I wrote a decompiler for the Z80, I reverse engineered the Model III Rom and I networked the computers using tape cassettes. What this kid did was probably easier, and I don't think I am really that smart. I had time and focus on my side. No way I could have done the same today. I have no time and no time to focus.
Cheaters never win
Obviously, you don't play on XBox Live.
The problem is, the process in place does not test for an "individual's" DNA. It tries to match a set of sites together between two different DNAs and calls it a positive if they match. In large numbers (as in databases), you are going to have many matches. All a match means in the methodology used in current forensics is that the person CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. In no way can it ever mean the samples are from the same person. That would take a very different type of test.
So this database is basically meaningless with the current information we have. It will result in a large number of false positives. It will result in false convictions and will destroy peoples life by introducing credible doubt as to a person's innocence. Fishing expeditions have ruined many people's lives, and they have no recourse against an incompetent prosecutor or the tarnished reputation left by the remotest appearance of illegal behavior.
The science behind these tests proves they are not valid for convictions, only for proving innocence. So, maintaining any database based on the current sampling method is a useless waste of time and money.
Now, if they changed the comparison method, and made it a truly unique identifier of an individual, that would be a different story.
LMAO!!!
Its all marketing anyway. If it makes you look, it makes them money.
It's MIT, that gang of losers are going to try to justify their bloated tuitions and lack of real-world experience with, "But I graduated from MIT!"
Actually having worked with MIT grads and growing up with some who went to and graduated, I have never known anyone from MIT who fits your description. I have known many individuals who were so intimate with the underpinnings of concepts that what passed as difficult for most smart people passed as trivial for them. But, there are always exceptions.
Impossible shots would be of the following
Now, maybe these are all normal, but to me they are not. I have seen people use them from their side of the console, so I know what they are. Have I beat people using them? Sometimes. But the reality is that many people cheat (morals) and some people do not at the top. Heck, just think of steroids and other *preformance* enhancing drugs. It is not like only gamers do it..
One we saw just this week on Halo Wars. This kid had a full army of fully upgraded units at ~2:40 into the game with 3 full bases fully built out. Right... That must be skill.
A long time ago, I tried to learn Chinese. It is a beautiful language, and one I wish I had learned. I had a real devil of a time not calling someone's mother a horse though. I kept getting the inflections wrong.
Everyone is missing the real problem here. The evidence in any digital (online, server, ...) case is the DATA. The hardware is almost useless. You might need things like MAC addresses and such, but the real stuff is the data. So, confiscating hardware is NOT needed. Confiscating DATA is what is needed. And the beauty of data is it copies so easily. So, the servers are evidence is uneducated BS. It always has and always will be. The data is the evidence.
If they need the hardware for hairs, fingerprints and such, then the data can always be copied to a temporary server so the business and other innocent users can continue. Once the business is proven illegal, shut the business down. Until then, it is not proven to be in violation of the law. This is one of our most cherished rights. (like Miranda rights used to be [RIP]).
Please don't tell me the FBI, or law enforcement in general can not copy data to a new server. If they are that inept, they have no place dealing with cyber-crimes.
So, if I perceive this correctly, consoles are normally purchased as cheap *throw-away* units, by parents for their kids so that the parents do not have to deal with them, or by people who do not have the income to go the PC game route...
What this leaves you with is an online society consisting mostly of un-parented children, ill-mannered dropouts, angry youths and socially challenged individuals. I can not prove it, but from my experiences, that sounds about right.
Your friend may be tops, but I have seen after game videos enough where impossible shots were made. Repeatedly. There are enough cheats out there, and cheating has proven to be easy enough on different platforms, that the cheats far outnumber the skilled ones. I have seen the cheats as well, so I know they are not a myth. From what I saw, they were easy to put in place and use.
Now, I don't use them (as my ratings all reflect), because I want to win on my own accord. Many people make the winning part far more important than honesty, honor or personal integrity. To quote one of the hacks,"Winning is the only thing. If they do not catch you, you still won." A natural reflection of our current society.
Don't worry. Nobody ever wanted to fly. If God had meant for humans to do it, we would have had wings. Try something crazy. Just do it. If you earn nothing from it financially, you are bound to earn tons from it in the form of knowledge and skills.
I hated school to, for most of the same reasons. The other kids hated me. I kept setting the test curve high. And, I was a jock. I always wanted to be more stupid so the other kids would stop hating me. I had no idea then how stupid they were. I was always depressed, but noone ever saw it. I still hate most schools. I think under 12th grade is nothing more than a meat line. Too bad so many parents/politicians have their hands in the school without any regard for what school is. They are so worried about monkeys and Thomas Jefferson and prayer. I think most of them have forgotten what school is for and what school is not for.
First time in years I snorted root beer. That was truly funny.
Free markets are a pipe dream as they neither maximize profit nor minimize risk. No sanely managed company would encourage a free market unless they are shut out of that market.