Though it's an interesting point, the fact that he was in his car on the side of the road. The only way you can get into a car on the side of the road is if you drove that car(most likely), so in order to drive the car you must have a license. The cop is morally responsible to make sure that someone who doesn't have a license(a repeat drunk drive for example) isn't on the road, so maybe the question is what powers do the police have to police the road to make sure everyone is safe versus the right for people to maintain their privacy? I wish there was an easy answer to that, on one hand you don't want a police state, but on the other hand, you don't want 15 year olds cruising down the road in their mom's station wagon.
I'd like to hear what other people think on this topic.
Actually, I wish they would have made this like the IQue Nintendo released in China, all they would have had to of done is add a little bit of USB storage and a somewhat safe way to add games to it at video stores. The hardware is already there, they could have made a bunch of money selling all the sega genesis games for a slightly larger investment. I for one would love to play genesis games(of my choosing, not some part of a lame collection) for about $5 a piece.
Somehow, Kyle's dad will be the only one that wins in this case.
The RIAA really should have used Jimmy the "Don't use p2p networks" panda instead of suing.
Yeah, but people have already been arrested for sharing movies/video games on Winny, and the encryption ROYALLY blows(it's actually a fixed string embedded in every release, every user uses the same string, they could have easily put some better encryption in there, but as far as I know, they haven't).
I haven't researched much on freenet, but I'm assuming since it's open source their encryption/anonymity methods are a little better than Winny's.
Within 5 years, I predict that most machines will use RAM memory for all system storage. A backup power system will be required, but system speeds will go through the roof due to faster data access times.
Yeah, but addressibility comes into play. Today's most powerful consumer computers can only address 8GB of memory(Apple G5's, whether or not they are the most "powerful" isn't the point, but they are one of the few consumer level 64 bit machines out there), in order for this to come to fruition, assuming that data storage needs stay constant, we are going to have to go to 128 bit/256 bit chips/busses(busi?) to address this all, and considering intel's reluctance on the 64 bit platform, that's a little hard to believe.
But you do raise a point, maybe if memory gets cheap and fast enough, permanant ramdisk caches of the OS/some of your favorite apps etc could really speed things up, but the non-volatile disk(whether or not it will be a hard drive resembling the ones today will be another debate) isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Can I drive around in a truck with a loudspeaker on the roof making political speeches all night long in your neighborhood?
They actually do this in Japan, it's very annoying(not only politicians, but people selling keroseone and Chinese dumplings too) Let's hope it doesn't happen in the US.
Is there really any open source handwriting recognition software that would be as accurate as microsofts? It seems like an area of niche knowledge, and probably the beast from Redmond has hired most of the experts in the field, so without the handwriting recognition, why go for a tablet?
You are confusing something though, remember that the written language is supposed to model the spoken language, not vica-versa. The Japanese imported the Kanji about 1700 years ago from Korean. But since the Japanese language is not Chinese(I have studied both, they are not even remotely related) the Japanese had to approximate Chinese pronounciation for a lot of words and concepts, some of which had no Japanese equivalent at the time. That is why a lot of words end up sounding the same, Chinese(that the Japanese were first introduced to, Pekingese, I do believe it's an old form)has about 400 possible syllables, and 4 tones for each, compared to about 50 possible syllables for the Japanese language.
That is why you have so many words that sound the same, I think you are confusing the written language with it's origins. Japanese is one of the few languages that modified the spoken language to match the written(though not very heavily) versus almost all other cultures in the world which modified the written language to suit the spoken language. That's probably because Japan, like Korea, Vietnam, etc did not have much contact with outside cultures, and thus adopted the Chinese characters as their writing system. China tried to get others to their west(India, the Middle East etc) to use the Chinese characters, but they all preferred the phonetic systems. Eventually, when confronted with the realization that Chinese wasn't suitable for writing everday Japanese that the Japanese invented a phonetic system, based on the chinese characters. Though initially, the hiragana and katakana was actually considered a woman's way of writing, men would write in Chinese.
With my brand new video game featuring my mom's Ford station Wagon! All the kids will want to hang with me!
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All my physics text book had(and I'm being completely serious here) was a bunch of drawings of men looking at little girls in short skirts(the worst was when they were describing tension and had a man staring directly at the behind of a 7 year old girl when she was bent over in an elevator), shirtless boys, and monkeys. What wonderful human beings these physists must have been.
Yeah, but initial price figures have it 40,000 yen+(which, given the current exchange rates, that is close to $400, I wouldn't put my money(pun intended) on psp just yet.
Though I think as Linux gets more and more converts(hopefully) the situation will improve because the foobar2000 manufacturer wants to move as many units as he can. If Linux is a popular desktop, then he will write drivers for it as soon as it's released. It will kinda be like a snowball effect I think.
Ummm....let me get this straight, you think that no IP goes into your SUV...... you are the biggest MORON I have ever seen on slashdot, or in the world for that matter. A ton of IP, sometimes stored on endlessly copyable digital media goes into the SUV, and guess what, YOU PAY FOR IT! So should you then be entitled just to pay for the materials of the SUV instead of paying for the designs etc, well guess what, I worked in a steel mill doing programming, there is IP in the steel even. So I want you to go and prove to me how different the IP on media is versus the IP on an SUV, I want you to go and steal an SUV, but leave about $5k less than what it's worth to the person you stole it, then go to court saying that you are entitled not to pay for IP. I want to see what happens. You obviously feel that you should not have to pay for it, actions speak louder than words.
Well, a revolution in distrubuted game servers could also do the trick. You could theoretically just send the client spews of raw image data(and send back inputs), but it's super expensive. This is the reason the thin client never took off. However,(this is actually an area of research that I am involved in), there is another option. Basically, when the game is distributed, you make sure that each copy of the game is different enough such that a cheat that works for hacker x won't work for script kiddy Y. You change around things in memory, modify constants(without changing the output obviously) etc. Right now it's kinda still in it's theoretical stages(I have a very basic Java obfuscator completed, but it doesn't do much). The idea is, talented people are going to be able to break the game no matter what you do, however it only becomes a problem when they release their work and script kiddies by the masses can run it. You stop the script kiddies, and you stop 90% of the problem(they could still release the whole game, but what cracker is going to waste that much bandwidth for the sake of script kiddies).
Just my 2 cents, tell me what ya think.
There are legitimate people(universities etc) who have looked at this code, if there was a license violation, we would have known about it beforehand....
Actually, the threat is that they can't get into the *RIGHT* hands, the keys would be ideally secured in hardware and changed every so often. One key would open one document, but thats no different than it is today if people encrypt their files. Who knows the key is what makes trusted computing a bastard.
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Though you have to wonder where he got the name McBride? Last names in the west seem to be based on what your family used to do for a living way back when. Maybe the McBride's where drive-through whores?
Once again, nothing is stopping you or any other artist from contributing to OSS, OSS doesn't just entail software developers. A lot of starting artists I'm sure would love to contribute because it would look great in their portfolio. They probably just aren't really aware of the opportunity to do so, so it's up to the supporters of OSS to show them there is a world out there where than can basically do shameless advertising/portfolio stuffing.
That being said, it would be nice if companys would contribute some of their old models/textures to the OSS movement, ie when Quake III(just an example, Id might already do this for all I know) stops selling well, they should contribute some of the models(and code!) to the OSS movement.
Well, if they don't like the program and it's costs, DON'T USE IT! Use (and contribute to) OSS instead. It's like people complaining that Adobe prices photoshop too high so they are forced to pirate it. Well, the Gimp is out there for free, and if you want a feature implemented, the Gimp is open source, you are free to add whatever features you want. Simple as that. You know, I don't want to plunk down $35k for an SUV because I don't think they are worth that much, but does that give me the right to go out and steal one? Of course not. We are lucky to have such a dedicated OSS community. On some projects, the quality might not be as high as you like, but YOU have the power to change that.
I hate how people seem to have this sense of entitlement to software. The software company doesn't exist for your benefit, as it shouldn't. Most of it's not essential to live and succeed, and the stuff that is(OS, internet browser, and Office program) all have both closed and open source versions. If you feel that the closed source version is what you want, then go out and buy a copy. If you don't want to pay that much for it, or you just don't plain want it, go with open source. Or create your own. Maybe if you were the one who created content you might be much less supportive of the pirate community.
On that same note then you could say that ol' "Kenny Boy" Lay shouldn't do any time, just some fines and a little volunteering with the kiddies down at Enron field? Where is the detterent? Kenny Boy wasn't a "physical threat to the community" as you state. I think he should have to go to jail for what he did though.
If someone doesn't want to pay for games, there are plenty of OSS games out there, if they don't like the quality, the source is right there, they can improve it themselves. Nobody is forcing you to buy these games, humans have survived without them for a long time, I think that the current generation of humans is no different. However I do think that game companys should continue to release shareware versions of their programs, takes away the try before you buy argument of the software pirates.
Depends on the situation. It's much more economically viable(and slightly less socially acceptable for a woman to take a "salary man" job) for a woman to work part time and raise children in Japan than it seems to be in the US. After having talked to a lot of Japanese, both male and female though, I can tell you at least from the people I talked to(all less than 22 years old), very few of the women have ever played video games, suprising coming from the video game capital of the world.
I know I'm running a flame risk here, but I for one applaud this arrest. It's people like this that enable companies to rationalize(in lawyers terms anyway) DRM rights systems, which annoy the living crap out of people who actually pay for these things and like to support developers/artists/whatever
Now the fact that he got caught showed just how dumb he was. Trying to steal hardware like that always leaves too many traces around, and if the company has the money, it will influence law enforcement to do the investigation. I dunno if this will start a "scared straight" program with warezers, or maybe they'll just keep to their little gated communities now. Hopefully a high-profile case of a really prolific pirates will ensure that game companies don't need to go the way of the RIAA, at least not anymore than they have.
In EA's games, basketball players wear Adidas or Nike and run past a McDonald's banner on the court; Old Spice deodorant highlights football college players of the game;
So their target audience is fat sweaty men in tear away pants?
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Though it's an interesting point, the fact that he was in his car on the side of the road. The only way you can get into a car on the side of the road is if you drove that car(most likely), so in order to drive the car you must have a license. The cop is morally responsible to make sure that someone who doesn't have a license(a repeat drunk drive for example) isn't on the road, so maybe the question is what powers do the police have to police the road to make sure everyone is safe versus the right for people to maintain their privacy? I wish there was an easy answer to that, on one hand you don't want a police state, but on the other hand, you don't want 15 year olds cruising down the road in their mom's station wagon.
I'd like to hear what other people think on this topic.
Actually, I wish they would have made this like the IQue Nintendo released in China, all they would have had to of done is add a little bit of USB storage and a somewhat safe way to add games to it at video stores. The hardware is already there, they could have made a bunch of money selling all the sega genesis games for a slightly larger investment. I for one would love to play genesis games(of my choosing, not some part of a lame collection) for about $5 a piece.
Somehow, Kyle's dad will be the only one that wins in this case.
The RIAA really should have used Jimmy the "Don't use p2p networks" panda instead of suing.
Yeah, but people have already been arrested for sharing movies/video games on Winny, and the encryption ROYALLY blows(it's actually a fixed string embedded in every release, every user uses the same string, they could have easily put some better encryption in there, but as far as I know, they haven't).
I haven't researched much on freenet, but I'm assuming since it's open source their encryption/anonymity methods are a little better than Winny's.
Within 5 years, I predict that most machines will use RAM memory for all system storage. A backup power system will be required, but system speeds will go through the roof due to faster data access times.
Yeah, but addressibility comes into play. Today's most powerful consumer computers can only address 8GB of memory(Apple G5's, whether or not they are the most "powerful" isn't the point, but they are one of the few consumer level 64 bit machines out there), in order for this to come to fruition, assuming that data storage needs stay constant, we are going to have to go to 128 bit/256 bit chips/busses(busi?) to address this all, and considering intel's reluctance on the 64 bit platform, that's a little hard to believe.
But you do raise a point, maybe if memory gets cheap and fast enough, permanant ramdisk caches of the OS/some of your favorite apps etc could really speed things up, but the non-volatile disk(whether or not it will be a hard drive resembling the ones today will be another debate) isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
It Soviet Russia, rat genetically modifies you!
Can I drive around in a truck with a loudspeaker on the roof making political speeches all night long in your neighborhood?
They actually do this in Japan, it's very annoying(not only politicians, but people selling keroseone and Chinese dumplings too) Let's hope it doesn't happen in the US.
Is there really any open source handwriting recognition software that would be as accurate as microsofts? It seems like an area of niche knowledge, and probably the beast from Redmond has hired most of the experts in the field, so without the handwriting recognition, why go for a tablet?
You are confusing something though, remember that the written language is supposed to model the spoken language, not vica-versa. The Japanese imported the Kanji about 1700 years ago from Korean. But since the Japanese language is not Chinese(I have studied both, they are not even remotely related) the Japanese had to approximate Chinese pronounciation for a lot of words and concepts, some of which had no Japanese equivalent at the time. That is why a lot of words end up sounding the same, Chinese(that the Japanese were first introduced to, Pekingese, I do believe it's an old form)has about 400 possible syllables, and 4 tones for each, compared to about 50 possible syllables for the Japanese language.
That is why you have so many words that sound the same, I think you are confusing the written language with it's origins. Japanese is one of the few languages that modified the spoken language to match the written(though not very heavily) versus almost all other cultures in the world which modified the written language to suit the spoken language. That's probably because Japan, like Korea, Vietnam, etc did not have much contact with outside cultures, and thus adopted the Chinese characters as their writing system. China tried to get others to their west(India, the Middle East etc) to use the Chinese characters, but they all preferred the phonetic systems. Eventually, when confronted with the realization that Chinese wasn't suitable for writing everday Japanese that the Japanese invented a phonetic system, based on the chinese characters. Though initially, the hiragana and katakana was actually considered a woman's way of writing, men would write in Chinese.
With my brand new video game featuring my mom's Ford station Wagon! All the kids will want to hang with me!
All my physics text book had(and I'm being completely serious here) was a bunch of drawings of men looking at little girls in short skirts(the worst was when they were describing tension and had a man staring directly at the behind of a 7 year old girl when she was bent over in an elevator), shirtless boys, and monkeys. What wonderful human beings these physists must have been.
I'm still waiting on OSS-Open source steel, when I can run a blast furnace in my garage, I will be a very happy panda!
Yeah, but initial price figures have it 40,000 yen+(which, given the current exchange rates, that is close to $400, I wouldn't put my money(pun intended) on psp just yet.
Though I think as Linux gets more and more converts(hopefully) the situation will improve because the foobar2000 manufacturer wants to move as many units as he can. If Linux is a popular desktop, then he will write drivers for it as soon as it's released. It will kinda be like a snowball effect I think.
Ummm....let me get this straight, you think that no IP goes into your SUV...... you are the biggest MORON I have ever seen on slashdot, or in the world for that matter. A ton of IP, sometimes stored on endlessly copyable digital media goes into the SUV, and guess what, YOU PAY FOR IT! So should you then be entitled just to pay for the materials of the SUV instead of paying for the designs etc, well guess what, I worked in a steel mill doing programming, there is IP in the steel even. So I want you to go and prove to me how different the IP on media is versus the IP on an SUV, I want you to go and steal an SUV, but leave about $5k less than what it's worth to the person you stole it, then go to court saying that you are entitled not to pay for IP. I want to see what happens. You obviously feel that you should not have to pay for it, actions speak louder than words.
Well, a revolution in distrubuted game servers could also do the trick. You could theoretically just send the client spews of raw image data(and send back inputs), but it's super expensive. This is the reason the thin client never took off.
However,(this is actually an area of research that I am involved in), there is another option. Basically, when the game is distributed, you make sure that each copy of the game is different enough such that a cheat that works for hacker x won't work for script kiddy Y. You change around things in memory, modify constants(without changing the output obviously) etc. Right now it's kinda still in it's theoretical stages(I have a very basic Java obfuscator completed, but it doesn't do much). The idea is, talented people are going to be able to break the game no matter what you do, however it only becomes a problem when they release their work and script kiddies by the masses can run it. You stop the script kiddies, and you stop 90% of the problem(they could still release the whole game, but what cracker is going to waste that much bandwidth for the sake of script kiddies).
Just my 2 cents, tell me what ya think.
There are legitimate people(universities etc) who have looked at this code, if there was a license violation, we would have known about it beforehand....
Actually, the threat is that they can't get into the *RIGHT* hands, the keys would be ideally secured in hardware and changed every so often. One key would open one document, but thats no different than it is today if people encrypt their files. Who knows the key is what makes trusted computing a bastard.
Though you have to wonder where he got the name McBride? Last names in the west seem to be based on what your family used to do for a living way back when. Maybe the McBride's where drive-through whores?
Once again, nothing is stopping you or any other artist from contributing to OSS, OSS doesn't just entail software developers. A lot of starting artists I'm sure would love to contribute because it would look great in their portfolio. They probably just aren't really aware of the opportunity to do so, so it's up to the supporters of OSS to show them there is a world out there where than can basically do shameless advertising/portfolio stuffing.
That being said, it would be nice if companys would contribute some of their old models/textures to the OSS movement, ie when Quake III(just an example, Id might already do this for all I know) stops selling well, they should contribute some of the models(and code!) to the OSS movement.
Well, if they don't like the program and it's costs, DON'T USE IT! Use (and contribute to) OSS instead. It's like people complaining that Adobe prices photoshop too high so they are forced to pirate it. Well, the Gimp is out there for free, and if you want a feature implemented, the Gimp is open source, you are free to add whatever features you want. Simple as that. You know, I don't want to plunk down $35k for an SUV because I don't think they are worth that much, but does that give me the right to go out and steal one? Of course not. We are lucky to have such a dedicated OSS community. On some projects, the quality might not be as high as you like, but YOU have the power to change that.
I hate how people seem to have this sense of entitlement to software. The software company doesn't exist for your benefit, as it shouldn't. Most of it's not essential to live and succeed, and the stuff that is(OS, internet browser, and Office program) all have both closed and open source versions. If you feel that the closed source version is what you want, then go out and buy a copy. If you don't want to pay that much for it, or you just don't plain want it, go with open source. Or create your own. Maybe if you were the one who created content you might be much less supportive of the pirate community.
On that same note then you could say that ol' "Kenny Boy" Lay shouldn't do any time, just some fines and a little volunteering with the kiddies down at Enron field? Where is the detterent? Kenny Boy wasn't a "physical threat to the community" as you state. I think he should have to go to jail for what he did though.
If someone doesn't want to pay for games, there are plenty of OSS games out there, if they don't like the quality, the source is right there, they can improve it themselves. Nobody is forcing you to buy these games, humans have survived without them for a long time, I think that the current generation of humans is no different. However I do think that game companys should continue to release shareware versions of their programs, takes away the try before you buy argument of the software pirates.
Depends on the situation. It's much more economically viable(and slightly less socially acceptable for a woman to take a "salary man" job) for a woman to work part time and raise children in Japan than it seems to be in the US. After having talked to a lot of Japanese, both male and female though, I can tell you at least from the people I talked to(all less than 22 years old), very few of the women have ever played video games, suprising coming from the video game capital of the world.
I know I'm running a flame risk here, but I for one applaud this arrest. It's people like this that enable companies to rationalize(in lawyers terms anyway) DRM rights systems, which annoy the living crap out of people who actually pay for these things and like to support developers/artists/whatever
Now the fact that he got caught showed just how dumb he was. Trying to steal hardware like that always leaves too many traces around, and if the company has the money, it will influence law enforcement to do the investigation. I dunno if this will start a "scared straight" program with warezers, or maybe they'll just keep to their little gated communities now. Hopefully a high-profile case of a really prolific pirates will ensure that game companies don't need to go the way of the RIAA, at least not anymore than they have.
In EA's games, basketball players wear Adidas or Nike and run past a McDonald's banner on the court; Old Spice deodorant highlights football college players of the game;
So their target audience is fat sweaty men in tear away pants?