Will the M (17+) rating of the game save Rockstar?
Maybe not, but the name of the game - "Grand Theft Auto" - will save them. It's going to be hard to argue that the Hot Coffee scene harms her grandson more than grandly thieving autos does.
Incidentally, I'd like to see the parents who cluelessly bought these for their kids get busted for giving porn to a minor.
To update, or not to update: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the PSP to suffer The browsers and patches of outrageous Sony, Or to take mods against a sea of PSPs, And by opposing hack them? To crash: to turn off; No more; and by turning off to say we end The video-game and the thousand electric shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To hibernate, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to DreamWeaver...
This is a good thing because it'll show that parents are buying their kids the inappropriate games. Consider the law a "pilot program" for an equivalent national law. There will be almost no fines - and anyone who's in the media, make sure to spin this as meaning that no kids were buying M games already, because the wacko liberal senators will try to interpret this as meaning that the law is effective.
Most retailers I've seen already block those under 17. This would be a one-year age difference only - and I don't think there are many 17-year-olds without parents or friends who'd be inconvenienced by this.
Well, a petaflop may be a brain-second (assuming the article is correct), but a petaflops is one petaflop per second = 1 brain-second / second = 1 brain.
I'm not quite comfortable measuring computing power in brains.
...some cantennas violate FCC rules on how much power can be emitted in what amount - and almost all aren't FCC certified. But I thought we knew that. Nobody's going to bother you for using a cantenna in your own home, but it is likely illegal to wardrive with an unapproved antenna. (Now possession vs. use I'm not sure of - but that's minor.)
I mean, if you could talk to the base station without exceeding the limits, why do you need any more than a commercial antenna? Don't tell me that companies willingly sell antennas well under the approved limit...
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (x) Eternal arms race involved in all "filtering" approaches (x) No one will be able to find the guy [to kill him].... (x) [He was] defenseless against brute force attacks
and most importantly,
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Just being a buffer overflow that happens to enter via USB doesn't make it the exploit here. Xbox-Linux uses a file on the HD that exploits an overflow in a game's load file - it just so happens that most people bring the file in via a USB stick. What they're talking about here is having the USB device's driver itself be the exploit - when the OS tries to load the device's driver, then the OS buffer (not the game's application buffer) will overflow.
There are plenty of buffer overflows. Someone could make an overflow of the networking stack - send a bad packet to a System Link game and load Linux over the network. There's a couple of exploits that use an overflow in the Dashboard font files. Actually, unless you use a modchip or figure out the MS private key, I'm pretty sure the only way to run Linux is through a buffer overflow. The point in the article here is that the USB specification may have a buffer overflow, not that buffer overflows are dangerous (which we already knew).
Nuremberg is the English name. Unless you're suggesting that we shouldn't use Cologne, Munich, Vienna, Prague etc. - or even Germany - in favor of Koeln, Muenchen, Wien, Praha, Deutschland, etc. (sp?)
Then again, "Germany Over Everything" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Almost right..except that MechAssault bootstrap still works on my newer Xbox (which doesn't support the MechAssault installation). I've played Live a bunch and I've booted from the "Emergency Linux" savegame in MechAssault. If it doesn't work for you then your Mechassault CD is too new, not your Xbox.
Anyway, it's not so much the disabling of Linux that I'm worried about (I can always reformat), but Frankie's statement last week that "I would delete anything on my Xbox that shouldn't be there, and I would do that today." He says "anything", not "any Halo 2 files". (Of course in TFA he mentions Halo 2 files by name, but it's not absolutely clear that non-Halo 2 files don't trigger the Banhammer.)
Has anyone gotten banned for having non-Halo 2 mods on their Xbox, e.g., disablable modchips, software mods, cheats for other games, installed Linux? I think I have the font exploit somewhere (not that it worked for me) and I know I have the "Emergency Linux" MechAssault hack - will Bungie bother me about these, or does it only look for Halo 2 hacks?
Meh. You can install Linux on an MS Xbox, and the console costs only $150, not $200 like this setup. Not to mention that the Xbox has a built-in hard drive, DVD-ROM, video out, USB, a working Ethernet port...and it's an x86 processor as opposed to an ARM, so you're more likely to find precompiled applications for it.
"It is beyond dispute that, at a minimum, the Constitution guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise..." Justice Kennedy, lead opinion, Lee v. Weisman, 505US 577 (1992)
This is quite easily readable as freedom FROM religion, freedom from the government imposing or coercing people into ANY religion.
That's "separation of church and state". But nobody should be messing with my private ability to choose a religion and worship it through means that don't involve the government. The point was that Cox (let's bring this gently back on topic) can gladly show whatever religious channels it likes - whether it be Vatican TV or Wiccan News Network - but LUS, a governmental organization, can't show religious channels because if they show one normal Christian channel, they'll have to show millions of other channels for everything from Scientology to Falun Gong (and we have bona fide organizations of both cults in Lafayette). Otherwise they'd be favoring one religion over another, and the government can't do that (only private corporations can).
Anyway, it's not like it mattters, because I don't think LUS has any immediate plans to compete with Cox's TV service - only its high-speed Internet service. And even if they did show a religious channel, I doubt that the culture here would encourage such a lawsuit by a minority religion. And even if they did sue, I doubt they have the following and material to make their own TV channel.
I'm entering my senior year at Lafayette High, and I stand by my estimate. However, I said "high school classmates" - not the entire graduating class. These are the people I know, not a survey of the entire school, and my numbers may be skewed because many of them I know from church, and many are in the gifted program. (Not that being gifted has anything to do with being religious, but I think gifted students may be more responsible about going to church. I do know that there are a few who go to church just out of habit and aren't very religious. You may be right that once they've left for a while, they may be less likely to go to church. I didn't say that Lafayette was the Vatican.:-) )
My only point in the comparison was to say that the majority of the vehement posters on Slashdot are vehemently anti-religious, so their criticism can't be directly translated to south Louisiana.
You want your God to come to you on Television? Or do you want to get off your collective couches and do charity work like Christ would do? Religion on TV is crappy TV and crappy religion.
This is a very true point. But I don't want God to come to me on TV. I want the gospel to be able to reach others who aren't yet religious.
Then why don't you ignore the keyboard for 2 years and then come back?
It's not like they can release a keyboard design one day and have it in production the next....Their FAQ says they "hope it will be released in 2006". If there's still vaporware and hype in, oh, 2008 or so, then you have a valid point.
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Will the M (17+) rating of the game save Rockstar?
Maybe not, but the name of the game - "Grand Theft Auto" - will save them. It's going to be hard to argue that the Hot Coffee scene harms her grandson more than grandly thieving autos does.
Incidentally, I'd like to see the parents who cluelessly bought these for their kids get busted for giving porn to a minor.
To update, or not to update: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the PSP to suffer
The browsers and patches of outrageous Sony,
Or to take mods against a sea of PSPs,
And by opposing hack them? To crash: to turn off;
No more; and by turning off to say we end
The video-game and the thousand electric shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To hibernate, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to DreamWeaver...
This is a good thing because it'll show that parents are buying their kids the inappropriate games. Consider the law a "pilot program" for an equivalent national law. There will be almost no fines - and anyone who's in the media, make sure to spin this as meaning that no kids were buying M games already, because the wacko liberal senators will try to interpret this as meaning that the law is effective.
Most retailers I've seen already block those under 17. This would be a one-year age difference only - and I don't think there are many 17-year-olds without parents or friends who'd be inconvenienced by this.
Well, a petaflop may be a brain-second (assuming the article is correct), but a petaflops is one petaflop per second = 1 brain-second / second = 1 brain.
I'm not quite comfortable measuring computing power in brains.
...some cantennas violate FCC rules on how much power can be emitted in what amount - and almost all aren't FCC certified. But I thought we knew that. Nobody's going to bother you for using a cantenna in your own home, but it is likely illegal to wardrive with an unapproved antenna. (Now possession vs. use I'm not sure of - but that's minor.)
I mean, if you could talk to the base station without exceeding the limits, why do you need any more than a commercial antenna? Don't tell me that companies willingly sell antennas well under the approved limit...
Ah, the ghost of Ayn Rand raises her screechy little methadrine-fueled head.
Don't blame Ayn. She may be crazy, but she's not this crazy.
Did you read Atlas Shrugged? It was about some people going on strike. And the book was supportive of the strikers.
This discussion has been severely lacking Soviet Russia jokes, so I'm going to try to rectify that...
In Soviet Russia, home refinances YOU!
In Soviet Russia, you enlarge pills!
In Soviet Russia, the mob blacklists YOU!
You forgot,
....
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all "filtering" approaches
(x) No one will be able to find the guy [to kill him]
(x) [He was] defenseless against brute force attacks
and most importantly,
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Just being a buffer overflow that happens to enter via USB doesn't make it the exploit here. Xbox-Linux uses a file on the HD that exploits an overflow in a game's load file - it just so happens that most people bring the file in via a USB stick. What they're talking about here is having the USB device's driver itself be the exploit - when the OS tries to load the device's driver, then the OS buffer (not the game's application buffer) will overflow.
There are plenty of buffer overflows. Someone could make an overflow of the networking stack - send a bad packet to a System Link game and load Linux over the network. There's a couple of exploits that use an overflow in the Dashboard font files. Actually, unless you use a modchip or figure out the MS private key, I'm pretty sure the only way to run Linux is through a buffer overflow. The point in the article here is that the USB specification may have a buffer overflow, not that buffer overflows are dangerous (which we already knew).
When did it go back to SCOX from SCOXE or whatever it had changed to?
Nuremberg is the English name. Unless you're suggesting that we shouldn't use Cologne, Munich, Vienna, Prague etc. - or even Germany - in favor of Koeln, Muenchen, Wien, Praha, Deutschland, etc. (sp?)
Then again, "Germany Over Everything" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Mr Menezes was from the city of Gonzaga in Minas Gerais
which we all know is another name for Minas Morgul...I think the police had plenty of reason to suspect him...
Stupid italics close tag. And I had even checked for typos before hitting submit...
CoyboyNeal
Ahem. Pots who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the kettle they're calling black.
Almost right..except that MechAssault bootstrap still works on my newer Xbox (which doesn't support the MechAssault installation). I've played Live a bunch and I've booted from the "Emergency Linux" savegame in MechAssault. If it doesn't work for you then your Mechassault CD is too new, not your Xbox.
Anyway, it's not so much the disabling of Linux that I'm worried about (I can always reformat), but Frankie's statement last week that "I would delete anything on my Xbox that shouldn't be there, and I would do that today." He says "anything", not "any Halo 2 files". (Of course in TFA he mentions Halo 2 files by name, but it's not absolutely clear that non-Halo 2 files don't trigger the Banhammer.)
Mod parent down. Unless you've ever done anything useful with WSH. Even DOS batch files are more capable.
The only useful thing WSH can do is mess with COM objects, which is kinda useless by itself.
Has anyone gotten banned for having non-Halo 2 mods on their Xbox, e.g., disablable modchips, software mods, cheats for other games, installed Linux? I think I have the font exploit somewhere (not that it worked for me) and I know I have the "Emergency Linux" MechAssault hack - will Bungie bother me about these, or does it only look for Halo 2 hacks?
Meh. You can install Linux on an MS Xbox, and the console costs only $150, not $200 like this setup. Not to mention that the Xbox has a built-in hard drive, DVD-ROM, video out, USB, a working Ethernet port...and it's an x86 processor as opposed to an ARM, so you're more likely to find precompiled applications for it.
You should've logged in to post...that comment would've gotten you a lot of kARMa.
So why isn't this article in "Your Rights Online"?
"It is beyond dispute that, at a minimum, the Constitution guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise..."
Justice Kennedy, lead opinion, Lee v. Weisman, 505US 577 (1992)
This is quite easily readable as freedom FROM religion, freedom from the government imposing or coercing people into ANY religion.
That's "separation of church and state". But nobody should be messing with my private ability to choose a religion and worship it through means that don't involve the government. The point was that Cox (let's bring this gently back on topic) can gladly show whatever religious channels it likes - whether it be Vatican TV or Wiccan News Network - but LUS, a governmental organization, can't show religious channels because if they show one normal Christian channel, they'll have to show millions of other channels for everything from Scientology to Falun Gong (and we have bona fide organizations of both cults in Lafayette). Otherwise they'd be favoring one religion over another, and the government can't do that (only private corporations can).
Anyway, it's not like it mattters, because I don't think LUS has any immediate plans to compete with Cox's TV service - only its high-speed Internet service. And even if they did show a religious channel, I doubt that the culture here would encourage such a lawsuit by a minority religion. And even if they did sue, I doubt they have the following and material to make their own TV channel.
I'm entering my senior year at Lafayette High, and I stand by my estimate. However, I said "high school classmates" - not the entire graduating class. These are the people I know, not a survey of the entire school, and my numbers may be skewed because many of them I know from church, and many are in the gifted program. (Not that being gifted has anything to do with being religious, but I think gifted students may be more responsible about going to church. I do know that there are a few who go to church just out of habit and aren't very religious. You may be right that once they've left for a while, they may be less likely to go to church. I didn't say that Lafayette was the Vatican. :-) )
My only point in the comparison was to say that the majority of the vehement posters on Slashdot are vehemently anti-religious, so their criticism can't be directly translated to south Louisiana.
You want your God to come to you on Television? Or do you want to get off your collective couches and do charity work like Christ would do? Religion on TV is crappy TV and crappy religion.
This is a very true point. But I don't want God to come to me on TV. I want the gospel to be able to reach others who aren't yet religious.
Then why don't you ignore the keyboard for 2 years and then come back?
It's not like they can release a keyboard design one day and have it in production the next....Their FAQ says they "hope it will be released in 2006". If there's still vaporware and hype in, oh, 2008 or so, then you have a valid point.
Of course the sad thing is LA is probably one of the last places that need this.
Just to clarify, this is Lafayette, LA [Louisiana], not Los Angeles, California.