A kid that small probably pressed the trigger with his/her whole hand. It is extremely tragic and I want to send my condolances to the family. No one parent or not would wish or plan an incident like this, I hope they recover from this.
Don't forget the bottleneck is the bandwidth and latency of your connection. Right now very few ISP's strive or even guarantee a certain level of performance and you need 5mb/s connection just to get 720p. So if I bought a new system right now for around lets say $600 I would be able to take pretty much any game off the shelf and play at 1080p no lag and won't kill my monthly cap in a week. 4 years from now lets say Crysis $n+1 comes out and brings some crazy new concepts in that make me have to play it at 1280x1024 (still better than 720p) whats so bad with that? Until fiber is at your door step and you have 500GB+ bandwidth a month it's really just a waste of money and time. The $15/month is really just renting additional hardware to augment your own but they still are only able to provide service less than a PS3 for $300 and a 360 for about the same. So your really better off getting a console, if you want to play PC games then 720p isn't going to cut it for most since you can probably take a mid-high level rig from 4 years ago and play Crysis or any other game at the same resolution.
How do games not become obsolete? Thats like saying FF10 is worth exactly the same as FF14 because the value does not decrease since it does not become obsolete or less desirable over time. Then you mention you would buy FF10 for $5... WTF? From who? SquareEnix won't sell it to you unless you make a big fuss, oh you mean someone would have to sell their *used* copy of the game to you for a fraction of the original price! See now that completely relates to your argument!
If someone makes a game and sells 10,000 copies then a while later 1,000 people decide they don't want the game at all any more and sell the game for a couple of bucks to someone else there are still only 10,000 copies. Maybe if you made a better game you would have sold 20,000 copies or maybe those 1,000 people wouldn't have sold their copies for about 20% of the original price. Either way nothing is stolen and the fact remains their game was only good enough to sell 10,000 copies. Complaining that someone 'deserves' to sell 11,000 copies is completely up to the person who made the purchase. If that is what you believe then if you purchase a game and realize it sucks, your bored of it or otherwise that copy is yours and you can do with it as you wish. That is called capitalism and market self regulation. You have the power to do what you like but I also have the power to do what I like, if you have a problem with that well there is not much I want to do for you, but if you believe I should give up my power to the companies unconditionally you can go fuck yourself:)
The developers are getting paid to develop, so how is this a bad thing for umm developers? How do we know it's not a move on the part of the game house to hold out and make Nvidia pay their developers to add a bit to the game? And how is adding more features to a game a bad thing? Won't someone think of the poor developers who are given more money to do their jobs?
They definitely have HOA's in Canada but mostly just in the suburbs and cities. Canada has a lot of land outside the suburbs where you can get an acre lot easily, you can do what ever you like on it but there are definitely areas just like this one lives in where if enough people in your neighborhood whine enough they can have your house painted, kill a renno plan or tell you what kind of tree to plant in your front yard. It just matters who you live beside;)
He would have been liable if he gave it to anyone else so in this world of lawsuits he said the right answer, no. He gave them to the mayor so why didn't the proper owners come by and pick them up? Was the mayor involved in a conspiracy of some kind? You have to realize there are many contracts and legalities involved with a job like this so if he couldn't find someone that could be liable as per his contract and the mayor couldn't find anyone then who is legally responsible for them? The mayor is saying since he doesn't know how to administer the system there was nothing he could do with the passwords. This happened on July 12/08 and the mayor was given the passwords a week later. If he did just give them out and some data loss occurred he would be held liable on a federal level. So what would you do in that situation?
Getting your name and occupation isn't really that difficult. Find a company, search for email addresses, send some out to people in other departments looking for a contact in your department, bonus points for getting someone who knows what contractors / vendors you deal with. Send an email to your email address quoting said vendors, throw in a back splash and header graphic and you might have the guy's attention. I personally don't think many admins will open ports and white list ip blocks but that doesn't make a lot of sense to begin with, you're more likely to get temp vpn access to a certain server or sub net but to start poking holes in mail ports is kind of retarded. With VPN access you can do better scanning for vulnerabilities and taking having a finer control of the whole process. If an admin is really that dumb how can you be certain he/she is going to open the ports properly to begin with? They'll likely open the ports to everyone *but* you. This seems like a possible joke or a social experiment then some high profile espionage attempt to turn some corporate intranet into a Spam relay. If anyone did get "hacked" by this attack I would hope the persons who pressed the buttons would be shown the door or put through a very lengthy class that shows them how to do their job.
“We just carried out a survey and one out of four people are happy to have a chip planted under their skin for very trivial uses for example to pass gates more quickly at a discotheque for example and to be able to pay for things more quickly in the supermarket,” said Scheer. “The wilingness of the population to accept our technology is certainly given.”(emphasis mine)
It really reveals the parts of the communities that apparently agree with this to likely be young people (discotheques) and maybe a few mothers (supermarkets) but really where is the meat and potatoes in this survey? Lets see some numbers, video and charts, at lest pretend you really did this. We don't know how many people were actually asked (maybe just 4) and how they were asked. As far as security of implanted chips go its already been proven to be a joke, you could put a reader in your pocket and have a field day in a subway or busy restaurant. Its like having your credit card stuck to your forehead and now it seems they won't even require a signature when the payment is made. Surveys can easily be cherry picked by asking unclear questions and selling the answers to the person taking the survey and we don't even know how many people were asked. People like this continue this type of business should be put away for a very long time, this is not the first time the manufacturer of a device found survey results that said their idea is a good one.
I have to say as an owner of a 3GS battery life watching mp4's is amazing. I've used it on its own watching video in the car and hooked up via media cable (RCA) to my TV and both seem to play 10% battery life / hr viewing. I've watched 2 movies each about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs long and still had 50%+ left. As far as streaming goes I get about 400-600KBs average from Fido/Rogers and it's not very likely you'll be streaming anything over 420i so it shouldn't be that bad with 3G. If you're looking for a higher res video then I'm not sure how it will handle but the mp4 hardware decoding really helps out on this device(can't say the same for other iPhone models though).
You have to admit it is a bit freaky when you get to the Xbox section of the document. They have timestamps & IP's for how long you are in the 360 dashboard, how long you played a game and its title, your Xbox serial number, credit card number and anything else linked to the account. Lucky for me I don't have a 360 but to say there is nothing sensitive might just be your opinion.
Best thing for Google to do is to make Youtube display results but for certain countries that laws like this reply have the video "unavailable until reviewed" for 90% of their videos and take their sweet time reviewing them. If the people being blocked don't like it they can fight to change the laws other wise they can just watch lolcats (after of course said felines are contacted and grant permission).
The sim is really the only part of the phone apple didn't design. It is a standard part that is roughly the same for all phones because it comes from specs from the FCC or your local equivalent. It would be like a wifi chipset it just deals with radio protocols and encryption. The main point is that the only benifit to outsourcing to China is labour costs, you have to provide specs for everything. When they are not only making the overall design but all the individual components are being manufactured right next door to each other it's just about working with what you've got (which in this case is not that bad). A hand full of engineers patch work some extras or start up a ghost shift and just pay / hide material costs and you're up and running. With overall performance getting pretty good you can't really go wrong. They just have to make it Linux compatible in some way and the community will likely take care of most of the support. For that price and some mobile OS that I can find software you have a product. We've given a lot to the Chinese and if there is ever a plateau they've got silicon valley by the balls.
If one qualified programmer can write a bug and it takes at least one qualified programmer to find that bug then how can it actually be damaging to have many look for the bug, once it is identified even by a "non qualified" programmer others can address the issue much quicker. He seems to try to relate literal depth in the code to the comment "bugs are shallow", while some bugs maybe subtle and complex like all software after QA, first release and further have been completed others maybe be found much later on in the development cycle but they have to be looked for. Most professional (paid to work on the software in question) programmers write the software, debug, submit to QA and hands are pretty much off until they hear back. Something may come to mind later on that he/she may go back and change but who's to say someone professional or not is sitting back and actually discovers a flaw on his own time? Is that necessarily a bad thing? The change still has to be submitted to and committed by the (qualified) team that wrote it in the first place to change their software release. So in short you can't really question "Linus's Law" in this regard because it's only adding to the project, either by feature requests or bug reports. This keeps the software relevant and popular which is a good thing... right?
You worry about Google taking your data when with current regulations all ISP's take your info just the same without any more benefit to you. Google has proven one thing, information is valuable, you think all the ISP's with privacy laws being as they are wouldn't sell some logs for cash? We have passed the point where privacy is anticipated and that is the fault of the public but at least with google you know it's going to happen, then again they have the same thing but better service. It is up to everyone to want privacy on the Internet but for now you reap what you sow, you let them say your privacy is not a concern and the largest ROI goes to the largest ISP(they collect the most stats) so new ones don't get much backing. We've got ourselves into the lesser of evils mind set and don't act on the idea we the public decide what happens, this leads to things like this. Google is buying up fiber because they are worried current ISP's will charge per "service" (video, VOIP, audio, etc) and screw them over on a very large scale, so it's worth it i guess. Google's service will likely be the best because it's in their best interest to be the best and on the plus side they have the money and the know-how to make it happen.
As far as "Gnet" is concerned Google has the position now to make people switch and no one wants to be left out (ISP's or consumers) of Google's search. Wires can be bought, sold, dug up, and laid down the only thing that will change that is our opinion;)
The issues cited in TFA are from here and here, both refer to a company licensing a shot of Obama while in China to create a billboard in Times Square selling a jacket identical to the one he had on at the time of the picture. The company in question referred to their product as "The Obama Jacket" on their website under the picture mentioned above. No where in either articles did they mention Copyright but the NY Times mentions the company in question bought the license for the photograph from them stating,
Paul Colford, a spokesman for The A.P., said that Weatherproof had paid it the appropriate license fee for the billboard image, “but the agreement is that it requires the licensing party, in this case the Weatherproof Garment Company, to obtain the necessary clearances — that is their obligation.”
So it seems the issue is not really about copyright but endorsements, you can take the unedited picture and make a poster out of it, put it in Times Square but you can't put words in the mouth of the subject with out the permission of the subject, they are saying Obama endorses the jacket when they have never asked the President if he in fact does endorse it or would like to. So the claim is not about copyright of a work but about the opinions expressed by the people represented within them. Just because I release a picture of a person I have taken does not allow you to infer your opinions onto subject, both CNN and the Times underline this is not a First Amendment issue but
"From a legal point of view, it's not legal," she said. "It is a violation of Mr. Obama's right of publicity, his right to control his appearance and his likeness"
No where in the text of either article was the word "Copyright" or even "Copy" for that matter. Thanks to the editors for jumping the gun and proving the Slashdot editors creed "TL;DR".
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A kid that small probably pressed the trigger with his/her whole hand. It is extremely tragic and I want to send my condolances to the family. No one parent or not would wish or plan an incident like this, I hope they recover from this.
Don't forget the bottleneck is the bandwidth and latency of your connection. Right now very few ISP's strive or even guarantee a certain level of performance and you need 5mb/s connection just to get 720p. So if I bought a new system right now for around lets say $600 I would be able to take pretty much any game off the shelf and play at 1080p no lag and won't kill my monthly cap in a week. 4 years from now lets say Crysis $n+1 comes out and brings some crazy new concepts in that make me have to play it at 1280x1024 (still better than 720p) whats so bad with that? Until fiber is at your door step and you have 500GB+ bandwidth a month it's really just a waste of money and time. The $15/month is really just renting additional hardware to augment your own but they still are only able to provide service less than a PS3 for $300 and a 360 for about the same. So your really better off getting a console, if you want to play PC games then 720p isn't going to cut it for most since you can probably take a mid-high level rig from 4 years ago and play Crysis or any other game at the same resolution.
How do games not become obsolete? Thats like saying FF10 is worth exactly the same as FF14 because the value does not decrease since it does not become obsolete or less desirable over time. Then you mention you would buy FF10 for $5 ... WTF? From who? SquareEnix won't sell it to you unless you make a big fuss, oh you mean someone would have to sell their *used* copy of the game to you for a fraction of the original price! See now that completely relates to your argument!
If someone makes a game and sells 10,000 copies then a while later 1,000 people decide they don't want the game at all any more and sell the game for a couple of bucks to someone else there are still only 10,000 copies. Maybe if you made a better game you would have sold 20,000 copies or maybe those 1,000 people wouldn't have sold their copies for about 20% of the original price. Either way nothing is stolen and the fact remains their game was only good enough to sell 10,000 copies. Complaining that someone 'deserves' to sell 11,000 copies is completely up to the person who made the purchase. If that is what you believe then if you purchase a game and realize it sucks, your bored of it or otherwise that copy is yours and you can do with it as you wish. That is called capitalism and market self regulation. You have the power to do what you like but I also have the power to do what I like, if you have a problem with that well there is not much I want to do for you, but if you believe I should give up my power to the companies unconditionally you can go fuck yourself :)
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The developers are getting paid to develop, so how is this a bad thing for umm developers? How do we know it's not a move on the part of the game house to hold out and make Nvidia pay their developers to add a bit to the game? And how is adding more features to a game a bad thing? Won't someone think of the poor developers who are given more money to do their jobs?
Sounds like a Slashdot wedding to me...
Common man after the last time ... the lamp shade, two Chihuahuas and the weed waker, do you really have to ask?
They definitely have HOA's in Canada but mostly just in the suburbs and cities. Canada has a lot of land outside the suburbs where you can get an acre lot easily, you can do what ever you like on it but there are definitely areas just like this one lives in where if enough people in your neighborhood whine enough they can have your house painted, kill a renno plan or tell you what kind of tree to plant in your front yard. It just matters who you live beside ;)
He would have been liable if he gave it to anyone else so in this world of lawsuits he said the right answer, no. He gave them to the mayor so why didn't the proper owners come by and pick them up? Was the mayor involved in a conspiracy of some kind? You have to realize there are many contracts and legalities involved with a job like this so if he couldn't find someone that could be liable as per his contract and the mayor couldn't find anyone then who is legally responsible for them? The mayor is saying since he doesn't know how to administer the system there was nothing he could do with the passwords. This happened on July 12/08 and the mayor was given the passwords a week later. If he did just give them out and some data loss occurred he would be held liable on a federal level. So what would you do in that situation?
Funny how he never loses it all though.
Getting your name and occupation isn't really that difficult. Find a company, search for email addresses, send some out to people in other departments looking for a contact in your department, bonus points for getting someone who knows what contractors / vendors you deal with. Send an email to your email address quoting said vendors, throw in a back splash and header graphic and you might have the guy's attention. I personally don't think many admins will open ports and white list ip blocks but that doesn't make a lot of sense to begin with, you're more likely to get temp vpn access to a certain server or sub net but to start poking holes in mail ports is kind of retarded. With VPN access you can do better scanning for vulnerabilities and taking having a finer control of the whole process. If an admin is really that dumb how can you be certain he/she is going to open the ports properly to begin with? They'll likely open the ports to everyone *but* you. This seems like a possible joke or a social experiment then some high profile espionage attempt to turn some corporate intranet into a Spam relay. If anyone did get "hacked" by this attack I would hope the persons who pressed the buttons would be shown the door or put through a very lengthy class that shows them how to do their job.
“We just carried out a survey and one out of four people are happy to have a chip planted under their skin for very trivial uses for example to pass gates more quickly at a discotheque for example and to be able to pay for things more quickly in the supermarket,” said Scheer. “The wilingness of the population to accept our technology is certainly given.”(emphasis mine)
It really reveals the parts of the communities that apparently agree with this to likely be young people (discotheques) and maybe a few mothers (supermarkets) but really where is the meat and potatoes in this survey? Lets see some numbers, video and charts, at lest pretend you really did this. We don't know how many people were actually asked (maybe just 4) and how they were asked. As far as security of implanted chips go its already been proven to be a joke, you could put a reader in your pocket and have a field day in a subway or busy restaurant. Its like having your credit card stuck to your forehead and now it seems they won't even require a signature when the payment is made. Surveys can easily be cherry picked by asking unclear questions and selling the answers to the person taking the survey and we don't even know how many people were asked. People like this continue this type of business should be put away for a very long time, this is not the first time the manufacturer of a device found survey results that said their idea is a good one.
I have to say as an owner of a 3GS battery life watching mp4's is amazing. I've used it on its own watching video in the car and hooked up via media cable (RCA) to my TV and both seem to play 10% battery life / hr viewing. I've watched 2 movies each about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs long and still had 50%+ left. As far as streaming goes I get about 400-600KBs average from Fido/Rogers and it's not very likely you'll be streaming anything over 420i so it shouldn't be that bad with 3G. If you're looking for a higher res video then I'm not sure how it will handle but the mp4 hardware decoding really helps out on this device(can't say the same for other iPhone models though).
Apparently the samples are anonymous so linking a blood sample won't work in this case.
You have to admit it is a bit freaky when you get to the Xbox section of the document. They have timestamps & IP's for how long you are in the 360 dashboard, how long you played a game and its title, your Xbox serial number, credit card number and anything else linked to the account. Lucky for me I don't have a 360 but to say there is nothing sensitive might just be your opinion.
Best thing for Google to do is to make Youtube display results but for certain countries that laws like this reply have the video "unavailable until reviewed" for 90% of their videos and take their sweet time reviewing them. If the people being blocked don't like it they can fight to change the laws other wise they can just watch lolcats (after of course said felines are contacted and grant permission).
Why not translate a press and hold into a temporary hover? If I press and hold for 5 seconds I get a hover event for 5 seconds. A tap still == click.
The sim is really the only part of the phone apple didn't design. It is a standard part that is roughly the same for all phones because it comes from specs from the FCC or your local equivalent. It would be like a wifi chipset it just deals with radio protocols and encryption. The main point is that the only benifit to outsourcing to China is labour costs, you have to provide specs for everything. When they are not only making the overall design but all the individual components are being manufactured right next door to each other it's just about working with what you've got (which in this case is not that bad). A hand full of engineers patch work some extras or start up a ghost shift and just pay / hide material costs and you're up and running. With overall performance getting pretty good you can't really go wrong. They just have to make it Linux compatible in some way and the community will likely take care of most of the support. For that price and some mobile OS that I can find software you have a product. We've given a lot to the Chinese and if there is ever a plateau they've got silicon valley by the balls.
touche.
If one qualified programmer can write a bug and it takes at least one qualified programmer to find that bug then how can it actually be damaging to have many look for the bug, once it is identified even by a "non qualified" programmer others can address the issue much quicker. He seems to try to relate literal depth in the code to the comment "bugs are shallow", while some bugs maybe subtle and complex like all software after QA, first release and further have been completed others maybe be found much later on in the development cycle but they have to be looked for. Most professional (paid to work on the software in question) programmers write the software, debug, submit to QA and hands are pretty much off until they hear back. Something may come to mind later on that he/she may go back and change but who's to say someone professional or not is sitting back and actually discovers a flaw on his own time? Is that necessarily a bad thing? The change still has to be submitted to and committed by the (qualified) team that wrote it in the first place to change their software release. So in short you can't really question "Linus's Law" in this regard because it's only adding to the project, either by feature requests or bug reports. This keeps the software relevant and popular which is a good thing ... right?
You worry about Google taking your data when with current regulations all ISP's take your info just the same without any more benefit to you. Google has proven one thing, information is valuable, you think all the ISP's with privacy laws being as they are wouldn't sell some logs for cash? We have passed the point where privacy is anticipated and that is the fault of the public but at least with google you know it's going to happen, then again they have the same thing but better service. It is up to everyone to want privacy on the Internet but for now you reap what you sow, you let them say your privacy is not a concern and the largest ROI goes to the largest ISP(they collect the most stats) so new ones don't get much backing. We've got ourselves into the lesser of evils mind set and don't act on the idea we the public decide what happens, this leads to things like this. Google is buying up fiber because they are worried current ISP's will charge per "service" (video, VOIP, audio, etc) and screw them over on a very large scale, so it's worth it i guess. Google's service will likely be the best because it's in their best interest to be the best and on the plus side they have the money and the know-how to make it happen.
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As far as "Gnet" is concerned Google has the position now to make people switch and no one wants to be left out (ISP's or consumers) of Google's search. Wires can be bought, sold, dug up, and laid down the only thing that will change that is our opinion
So it seems the issue is not really about copyright but endorsements, you can take the unedited picture and make a poster out of it, put it in Times Square but you can't put words in the mouth of the subject with out the permission of the subject, they are saying Obama endorses the jacket when they have never asked the President if he in fact does endorse it or would like to. So the claim is not about copyright of a work but about the opinions expressed by the people represented within them. Just because I release a picture of a person I have taken does not allow you to infer your opinions onto subject, both CNN and the Times underline this is not a First Amendment issue but
No where in the text of either article was the word "Copyright" or even "Copy" for that matter. Thanks to the editors for jumping the gun and proving the Slashdot editors creed "TL;DR".
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Using "u" and "ur" should be subject to summary execution.
Looks like you're the first one. Come over here and sit in this chair.