Unless they take the approach the Guild Wars did - communal towns/cities, where there are shops etc, but combat is disabled. Unique instances of the main game world for when you leave town, either with other players, or NPC followers.
You get the MM part of MMORPG if you want it, but aren't forced to put up with annoying people whilst "in game" and can just go it alone if you want.
which requires persons to supply decrypted information (which had been previously encrypted by the owner) and/or the cryptographic key to government representatives. Failure to disclose these items is a criminal offence, with a maximum penalty of two years in jail.
It's possible, but I suspect that it'd fall flat on its face.
If the card companies can block 'illegal' transactions, why couldn't they stop Nigerian Scammers dead in their tracks? Or any other CC scams that are out there...
Even if they could block the transactions, the new mp3 sites would just say 'use PayPal' to get around the block.
It's less if a judges copy gets nuked. What about the embedded systems in the next few years? ATM machines, set top boxes, anything the government decides is 'critical infrastructure'.
Yeah, how are the MPAA et al going to watermark the pirated copies? They'd have to watermark every version (true there are only a few out there) and then get it uploaded onto the P2P networks. But the P2P software would recognise the file as being different from the original.
Ooh - If they do manage to corrupt copies of files with this watermarking - what's to stop the P2P networks searching for it and not allowing that content to be uploaded?
I suspect the reason that MS haven't included Media Player as a 64 bit version is to do with the EU's recent court case against them, for bundling it as part of the OS...
Would you want to spend money on tightly integrating it into the OS, then have to undo it all if the EU rules against you?
"He was charged with interfering with a flight crew under the USA Patriot Act. He also was charged with lying to federal officers. The charges carry a maximum jail sentence of 25 years."
I'm assuming that a large chunk of the 25 years has come from lying to the FBI...
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>And how many times have you done that yourself again?
Yes, I've linked to many sites before without permission. The difference is, if I do it, their server doesn't suffer meltdown 5 minutes after the page is updated!
It could well be. But if they design the infrastructure correctly it won't be a problem. They could lay fibre between the command centres and then use gigabit localy - that should cover most bandwidth requirements. Not sure about the crypto they'd be using though - probably something hideously classfied...
Then again, that would involve a govenment spending money instead of going with the lowest bidder.
> I want to know why Bill Gates thinks it can't be built in.
It can't be built in due to the anti-trust lawsuit MS is/was in over intergrating IE, Media Player and all the rest into Windows.
MS don't want another suit to appear for 'trying to cripple the AV industry' by providing an AV software package with Windows. Sophos et al, would not be happy and they'd unfreee the Super-Lawyers and let them loose!
> Killing someone because of trespassing? Someone that's almost surely unarmed!? That's the last solution I would've chosen, if at all.
True, you cold always buy one of the "less-lethal" weapons: Google search.
They're definately available to the police, so I'm assuming the public would be allowed them? I'm not a US citizen though, so I could be wrong...
I'm thinking along the lines of the scene in the Jackass movie, where Knoxville gets hit in the stomach with a gel round and stops moving for about 10 minutes - and survives.
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Unless they take the approach the Guild Wars did - communal towns/cities, where there are shops etc, but combat is disabled. Unique instances of the main game world for when you leave town, either with other players, or NPC followers.
You get the MM part of MMORPG if you want it, but aren't forced to put up with annoying people whilst "in game" and can just go it alone if you want.
".apple"
Let the inevitable legal warfare commence as the two Apple's bicker over who gets the TLD!
Yup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000
Specifically Part III:
which requires persons to supply decrypted information (which had been previously encrypted by the owner) and/or the cryptographic key to government representatives. Failure to disclose these items is a criminal offence, with a maximum penalty of two years in jail.
Not in the UK (and presumably the rest of Europe) If someone calls/texts me, they get charged. I only pay for outgoing calls/text messages.
It also doesn't work in England, with a "Sorry England. Full episodes coming soon" screen...
And from the URL, it'll probably not work in other countries either.
It's possible, but I suspect that it'd fall flat on its face.
If the card companies can block 'illegal' transactions, why couldn't they stop Nigerian Scammers dead in their tracks? Or any other CC scams that are out there...
Even if they could block the transactions, the new mp3 sites would just say 'use PayPal' to get around the block.
It's less if a judges copy gets nuked. What about the embedded systems in the next few years? ATM machines, set top boxes, anything the government decides is 'critical infrastructure'.
Unlikely, otherwise anyone with an ADSL router would be safe.
They probably request 'all machines' connected to the IP address.
> Terrorists in the UK have already gained access to our driving license database
Erm, 'terrorists'?? Animal rights activists more like.
They've thrown bricks through windows, painted cars and put a hosepipe through a letterbox.
I know terrorism is the word of the decade and all, but that's really pushing the definition of the word!
> The benefits of a port might be...
Being able to have a single machine that will run games and be able to surf the net without having to worry about the latest windows exploit...
Or use a shorthand system i.e.
main login: ML7
mainframe access: I12
To me, these would tell me _exactly_ what the passwords were, but to a passer by, they are meaningless.
Could be useful on farms, or if you have a dog in the house and don't want to crawl out of bed first thing!
Yeah, how are the MPAA et al going to watermark the pirated copies? They'd have to watermark every version (true there are only a few out there) and then get it uploaded onto the P2P networks. But the P2P software would recognise the file as being different from the original.
Ooh - If they do manage to corrupt copies of files with this watermarking - what's to stop the P2P networks searching for it and not allowing that content to be uploaded?
I suspect the reason that MS haven't included Media Player as a 64 bit version is to do with the EU's recent court case against them, for bundling it as part of the OS...
Would you want to spend money on tightly integrating it into the OS, then have to undo it all if the EU rules against you?
From the article:
"He was charged with interfering with a flight crew under the USA Patriot Act. He also was charged with lying to federal officers. The charges carry a maximum jail sentence of 25 years."
I'm assuming that a large chunk of the 25 years has come from lying to the FBI...
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Yay, now they've been /.'d - lets see if we can obiliterate their bandwidth as well as the spammers...
>And how many times have you done that yourself again?
Yes, I've linked to many sites before without permission. The difference is, if I do it, their server doesn't suffer meltdown 5 minutes after the page is updated!
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It could well be. But if they design the infrastructure correctly it won't be a problem. They could lay fibre between the command centres and then use gigabit localy - that should cover most bandwidth requirements. Not sure about the crypto they'd be using though - probably something hideously classfied...
Then again, that would involve a govenment spending money instead of going with the lowest bidder.
> I want to know why Bill Gates thinks it can't be built in.
It can't be built in due to the anti-trust lawsuit MS is/was in over intergrating IE, Media Player and all the rest into Windows.
MS don't want another suit to appear for 'trying to cripple the AV industry' by providing an AV software package with Windows. Sophos et al, would not be happy and they'd unfreee the Super-Lawyers and let them loose!
> Killing someone because of trespassing? Someone that's almost surely unarmed!? That's the last solution I would've chosen, if at all.
True, you cold always buy one of the "less-lethal" weapons: Google search.
They're definately available to the police, so I'm assuming the public would be allowed them? I'm not a US citizen though, so I could be wrong...
I'm thinking along the lines of the scene in the Jackass movie, where Knoxville gets hit in the stomach with a gel round and stops moving for about 10 minutes - and survives.
Maco
xxxx