I'm sort of concerned about the logging of all my IM's. I suppose I know on a logical level that all that stuff is being stored, regardless of the IM client. But I prefer to live in the cloud that tells me my IMs are private and if I don't log 'em, they don't get logged.
Wouldn't certain countries have to abandon their fear of opening new reactors? After all, building nuclear reactors in some developing nations violates security restrictions. Some European countries already have a decent take rate on nuclear power, at least from what I've heard, I'm too lazy to do any research.
Do you mean the children Tipper Gore was seeking to protect with the PMRC? The children that Bill Clinton was protecting backing the V-chip? The children that Democrat senators are protecting by introducing anti-video game legislation?
Don't think that conservatives have a strangle hold on snooping on Americans and restricting rights.
Worse yet, if the software no longer exists to unlock a DRM-protected file, its contents may be lost forever -- exactly the thing libraries are intended to prevent.
I would think that's where the people that enjoy breaking DRM protection comes into play. It would be nice to get a government sanction to break into content for the fun of it. Or at least I'm assuming it'd be nice for people that can actually do it:)
I'm sure that all the fansubbed Japanese language versions of the film floating the internets isn't making them hurry the thing out the door either.
Nobody ever hurried translations back in the day before you could hop on the Internet and download the stuff. It was rough to get Japanese language films back in the day, at least in areas that didn't have a big anime following. I doubt the Internet is pushing them one way or the other.
Be careful what you ask for. The ALA reports on books that are chalenged. Tom Sawyer is on the list. Although it doesn't list the reason, I recall hearing that it was for racist views.
I've become addicted to Overlawyered and after reading some of the stunts that lawyers pull, this doesn't surprise me. I understand the argument for having dissenting views for a healthy dialog. But the truth is a lot of lawyers are in it to (surprise, surprise) make money. And if you're not going to help them make money, you can head elsewhere.
The end users are still indemnified. They're not getting sued. Microsoft never said THEY were indemnified. There's an article here that covers some recent changes to the indemnity clause that business licensees get. I dunno if that extends to people with individual licenses, though.
It's not only for our own good, but it's cool! After all, if you're going to get something new going, it has to be appealing in as many ways as possible.
The government learned a long time ago that a population in fear will put up with a lot. Whether it's fear of a "domino effect" of communism, fear of swine flu, SARS, avian flu, millitias, terrorists, what have you. It's sadly too simplistic to make it a partisan issue, both parties have shown great aptitude in manipulating the population through fear.
That being said, it's sad that the country is pretty much giving the president a wash on this. But then, nobody said much about the USA PATRIOT act either. We had what, two senators vote against it the first time around?
"Gas Powered isn't concerned about his previous failures because his other movies were 'so low-budget"
Isn't this roughly akin to the guy that's been divorced six times blaming all his ex-wives for the problems? It seems to me there's one common factor between all of Boll's movies (besides the fact they suck), and that factor is Boll.
"Businesses have an obligation to truthfully disclose the content of their products - whether in the food we eat or the entertainment we consume"
Now we can sue film makers to disclose all the goofs and inside jokes that show up in films, instead of waiting for people to single step through DVDs to find 'em!
I don't know about balanced, but IGN rates some games at 5 or less and they've got a spot for reader reviews as well. Granted, they don't rate a lot that low (at least not the reviewers) but the ones they do are probably sucktastic.
As many companies as have already been suckered into investing in Infinium Labs, and as much bad press as they've gotten, you'd think VCs would be keeping away. I thought we learned something five years ago. I mean besides VCs will fall for anything.
Actually... Given the way they defined gamer (anybody that has played any sort of video game on any platform at all in the last six months), it's a safe bet that everybody in that age range qualifies. After all, they might be counting the games kids play in schools to help with learning (dunno how common those are in the UK). Besides, all these statistics end up with some level of skew based on sample size.
There's no way this sort of thing would pass. Texas is in the midst of some funding issues/scandals. And considering I live in Texas and this is the first I've heard of this guy, this is a cheap way to get some publicity for his campaign. Either that or I need to pay more attention to local politics.
From TFA: Though not specifically mentioned, it appears that Bethesda's acquisition of the license will have no effect on Perpetual Entertainment's currently in development Star Trek Online massively multiplayer role-playing game. Many multiformat media licensors, such as Marvel, have treated massively multiplayer online games as a separate issue in the past.
So it looks like probably not. It sounds like Bethesda will have plenty on their plate without it. I just hope the games are worth something.
It gets more complicated than that... The article goes on to say that each regional total was reported for every House district. So the number of votes per region (four regions) got reported for every district. It doesn't get real specific, and I'm not up on how Alaska districts are laid out. For example, I don't know if the votes per region were reported for every district that falls in that region, or if the weird multiplying hit some regions (or districts) and not others.
There are 40 House districts, so whatever fuzzy math got used had to be really odd. I can't come up with a simple way to make it all work out. It's worth mentioning that the disctricts aren't evenly distributed through the regions (one region has 4), so it's bound to get even fuzzier.
The "no profit" loophole was closed by the DMCA. Now the MPAA is fleeing to a locked door. This is going to be fun.
It'll only get fun if the film maker decides to try to take it somewhere. Right now it looks like the film wasn't harmed financially, and I don't think the film maker has a major studio backing him with financial and legal muscle. He'll probably milk it for publicity, and it'll all go away. Or at most be something we point to for the next five years or until the MPAA does something else stupid, whichever comes first.
I imagine having the ability to draw in cooler air from outside the case would make for a fair advantage but this would require a redesign of the basic case which manufacturers are loathed to do.
Intel has a spec for TAC (Thermally Advantaged Chassis) that a lot of vendors are conforming to. It's basically a design guide that offers recomendations to ensure good air flow.
It depends on the skills of the person manipulating the image, and the image quality. The higher resolution the picture, the easier it is to zoom in and spot anomalies. If the picture is craptastic to begin with, it's harder to see the differences (tough to tell if the blurring is a result of someone mucking with the picture, or just poor quality).
The biggest roadblock to telling whether an image is real or not is time, in my opinion. If you generally trust the person providing the photos and they're not too unbelievable, you probably won't spend time trying to figure out whether it's reliable or not.
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I'm sort of concerned about the logging of all my IM's. I suppose I know on a logical level that all that stuff is being stored, regardless of the IM client. But I prefer to live in the cloud that tells me my IMs are private and if I don't log 'em, they don't get logged.
I hope you weren't compared to patent squatters, our military deserve far better than that.
No... They weren't *that* mean. Besides, we could've complained to the JAG about that.
I was in the military. I've been compared to worse when I wake up in the morning.
Wouldn't certain countries have to abandon their fear of opening new reactors? After all, building nuclear reactors in some developing nations violates security restrictions. Some European countries already have a decent take rate on nuclear power, at least from what I've heard, I'm too lazy to do any research.
Won't anybody think of the children?
Do you mean the children Tipper Gore was seeking to protect with the PMRC? The children that Bill Clinton was protecting backing the V-chip? The children that Democrat senators are protecting by introducing anti-video game legislation?
Don't think that conservatives have a strangle hold on snooping on Americans and restricting rights.
Worse yet, if the software no longer exists to unlock a DRM-protected file, its contents may be lost forever -- exactly the thing libraries are intended to prevent.
:)
I would think that's where the people that enjoy breaking DRM protection comes into play. It would be nice to get a government sanction to break into content for the fun of it. Or at least I'm assuming it'd be nice for people that can actually do it
I'm sure that all the fansubbed Japanese language versions of the film floating the internets isn't making them hurry the thing out the door either.
Nobody ever hurried translations back in the day before you could hop on the Internet and download the stuff. It was rough to get Japanese language films back in the day, at least in areas that didn't have a big anime following. I doubt the Internet is pushing them one way or the other.
Sure... Only in the US. Surely nobody in Australia would sue after diving off a bridge with a no diving sign. And they won, too.
Be careful what you ask for. The ALA reports on books that are chalenged. Tom Sawyer is on the list. Although it doesn't list the reason, I recall hearing that it was for racist views.
I've become addicted to Overlawyered and after reading some of the stunts that lawyers pull, this doesn't surprise me. I understand the argument for having dissenting views for a healthy dialog. But the truth is a lot of lawyers are in it to (surprise, surprise) make money. And if you're not going to help them make money, you can head elsewhere.
The end users are still indemnified. They're not getting sued. Microsoft never said THEY were indemnified. There's an article here that covers some recent changes to the indemnity clause that business licensees get. I dunno if that extends to people with individual licenses, though.
It's not only for our own good, but it's cool! After all, if you're going to get something new going, it has to be appealing in as many ways as possible.
But your child is an engineer.
The government learned a long time ago that a population in fear will put up with a lot. Whether it's fear of a "domino effect" of communism, fear of swine flu, SARS, avian flu, millitias, terrorists, what have you. It's sadly too simplistic to make it a partisan issue, both parties have shown great aptitude in manipulating the population through fear.
That being said, it's sad that the country is pretty much giving the president a wash on this. But then, nobody said much about the USA PATRIOT act either. We had what, two senators vote against it the first time around?
"Gas Powered isn't concerned about his previous failures because his other movies were 'so low-budget"
Isn't this roughly akin to the guy that's been divorced six times blaming all his ex-wives for the problems? It seems to me there's one common factor between all of Boll's movies (besides the fact they suck), and that factor is Boll.
"Businesses have an obligation to truthfully disclose the content of their products - whether in the food we eat or the entertainment we consume"
Now we can sue film makers to disclose all the goofs and inside jokes that show up in films, instead of waiting for people to single step through DVDs to find 'em!
I don't know about balanced, but IGN rates some games at 5 or less and they've got a spot for reader reviews as well. Granted, they don't rate a lot that low (at least not the reviewers) but the ones they do are probably sucktastic.
As many companies as have already been suckered into investing in Infinium Labs, and as much bad press as they've gotten, you'd think VCs would be keeping away. I thought we learned something five years ago. I mean besides VCs will fall for anything.
Actually... Given the way they defined gamer (anybody that has played any sort of video game on any platform at all in the last six months), it's a safe bet that everybody in that age range qualifies. After all, they might be counting the games kids play in schools to help with learning (dunno how common those are in the UK). Besides, all these statistics end up with some level of skew based on sample size.
There's no way this sort of thing would pass. Texas is in the midst of some funding issues/scandals. And considering I live in Texas and this is the first I've heard of this guy, this is a cheap way to get some publicity for his campaign. Either that or I need to pay more attention to local politics.
From TFA:
Though not specifically mentioned, it appears that Bethesda's acquisition of the license will have no effect on Perpetual Entertainment's currently in development Star Trek Online massively multiplayer role-playing game. Many multiformat media licensors, such as Marvel, have treated massively multiplayer online games as a separate issue in the past.
So it looks like probably not. It sounds like Bethesda will have plenty on their plate without it. I just hope the games are worth something.
It gets more complicated than that... The article goes on to say that each regional total was reported for every House district. So the number of votes per region (four regions) got reported for every district. It doesn't get real specific, and I'm not up on how Alaska districts are laid out. For example, I don't know if the votes per region were reported for every district that falls in that region, or if the weird multiplying hit some regions (or districts) and not others.
There are 40 House districts, so whatever fuzzy math got used had to be really odd. I can't come up with a simple way to make it all work out. It's worth mentioning that the disctricts aren't evenly distributed through the regions (one region has 4), so it's bound to get even fuzzier.
The "no profit" loophole was closed by the DMCA. Now the MPAA is fleeing to a locked door. This is going to be fun.
It'll only get fun if the film maker decides to try to take it somewhere. Right now it looks like the film wasn't harmed financially, and I don't think the film maker has a major studio backing him with financial and legal muscle. He'll probably milk it for publicity, and it'll all go away. Or at most be something we point to for the next five years or until the MPAA does something else stupid, whichever comes first.
I imagine having the ability to draw in cooler air from outside the case would make for a fair advantage but this would require a redesign of the basic case which manufacturers are loathed to do.
Intel has a spec for TAC (Thermally Advantaged Chassis) that a lot of vendors are conforming to. It's basically a design guide that offers recomendations to ensure good air flow.
It depends on the skills of the person manipulating the image, and the image quality. The higher resolution the picture, the easier it is to zoom in and spot anomalies. If the picture is craptastic to begin with, it's harder to see the differences (tough to tell if the blurring is a result of someone mucking with the picture, or just poor quality).
The biggest roadblock to telling whether an image is real or not is time, in my opinion. If you generally trust the person providing the photos and they're not too unbelievable, you probably won't spend time trying to figure out whether it's reliable or not.