Basically the zip gives you the sanitized version for public consumption, the legal data request gives you absolutely everything. I think it also includes a right to have data altered if it's inaccurate (intended to let you fix mistakes in their data that could be harmful to you, especially bad with companies like those who give credit ratings).
I don't know about your ISP but mine deliberately doesn't give you the same IP again after a disconnect (and disconnects at least once every 24 hours) so that you cannot reliably serve stuff from your IP address.
How about "only fuck with targets that the intel agencies sniffing in the darknet don't mind seeing fucked with" like targets in countries hostile to the US?
On the other hand in Germany the courts have ruled that the extended data retention spans are unconstitutional. Of course they have also ruled our federal voting laws to be unconstitutional and the politicians have done nothing about that.
I have to ask what exactly they expect people to use such a service for. How many people need to hide their IP address from servers badly enough to invoke a third party like this when they aren't planning anything nefarious? Without a court order that IP address cannot be matched to a person anyway and people who are just using general caution would likely prefer a service that uses its basic design for reducing your traceability, not the promises of a single third party (after all who's to say that third party is more trustworthy than whoever else could get your data?).
I kinda doubt that they're going to make the GPS units free, especially when we're talking about OEM devices. Car manufacturers LOVE overcharging for stuff like that.
And besides, as videogames have shown us adding advertisements doesn't mean the price will go down, it just means the execs' pockets get lined more.
For EULAs it doesn't matter that they don't grant you permission, it's not their property at this point (not their physical property and intellectual property is not enough to stop you from using the software).
But what do I gain from an EULA? The copyright law already has specific provisions allowing you to install and run the software without needing any licenses.
But should it be assumed that something as unnecessary as an EULA has to be accepted to use the program? They're using a technical trick - that they can prevent the program from running/installing if you don't click on a button that binds you to a contract - to make you agree to a completely unnecessary contract that does nothing except fuck you over. Contrary to their propaganda an EULA is not a legal necessity for handling computer programs and copyright law. If the EULA contract failed to form for some reason that still would not make it illegal to install and use the program and as such the end user doesn't give a fuck if the counter offer leads to no contract forming.
People are voting for that skewing to continue. Hell, I see Americans argue that the government is so bad and the corporations so good that the govt should stay away from the whole thing and let it follow its natural progression. People believe this is a GOOD thing and vote accordingly.
Mario games establish a world that could only be related to reality if you were on some serious drugs. Gears on the other hand tries to be a serious artistic statement (that's what the developers say).
Dude, the Unreal Engine can do a whole lot more than you can see in a console game like Gears. They just aren't going to do better than the consoles on the consoles.
What the Unreal Engine 3 apparently cannot do is good online multiplayer, that netcode tends to screw with game balancing due to its lacking lag compensation. In some games that means you can pretty much nullify hitscan weapons by staying on the move, most players cannot adequately compensate for the lag themselves so they miss a lot of shots, greatly lowering their DPS. The saddest part about that is how the UE2 used in Duke Nukem Forever doesn't have that problem.
And before you blame the consoles, I've seen the fucking WII do proper lag compensation in Golden Eye.
The Wii's controls are pretty close to mouse controls, playing Golden Eye in multiplayer is like playing Modern Warfare 2 on the PC with a weapon balance that's more fun.
Does it count as HD resolution if the game is actually rendered in sub-HD resolutions and upscaled to 720p because the game's too taxing for the console?
Gears 3 has severe framerate issues in cutscenes. To the point where I'm thinking I need to upgrade the graphics card in my Xbox.
Really? I didn't enjoy Halo 3 at all with the two hits you can take before you have to hide and recharge your shields (i.e. downtime). Space Marine, on the other hand, is good fun. Especially in multiplayer with the way the assault space marines switch everything up (and that has to do with the specific jetpack implementation, jetpacks in Space Marine are FAST with their ground pound move but they don't allow hovering so they're a quick repositioning tool). There's also Hard Reset for the people who just want shooting, no chainswording. I'm looking at Renegade Ops as well but probably on the PC (cheaper, especially in the four-pack).
Gears isn't really doing it for me so far, I haven't played much of it yet though. It's not as engaging as Bulletstorm so far.
Lower Saxony had municipal elections on the 11th, you can check the PP's wiki for the list of towns and counties they got elected in. They more than doubled their number of representatives on that day and there are plenty of small towns on the list.
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Basically the zip gives you the sanitized version for public consumption, the legal data request gives you absolutely everything. I think it also includes a right to have data altered if it's inaccurate (intended to let you fix mistakes in their data that could be harmful to you, especially bad with companies like those who give credit ratings).
Oh I read the book version of that episode. Their explanation was a shadow made of antimatter that would make people touching it burn.
I don't think the writers got anything better than an F in physics.
I expect countries with active censorship to simply ban hidemyass.com and be done with it.
I don't know about your ISP but mine deliberately doesn't give you the same IP again after a disconnect (and disconnects at least once every 24 hours) so that you cannot reliably serve stuff from your IP address.
How about "only fuck with targets that the intel agencies sniffing in the darknet don't mind seeing fucked with" like targets in countries hostile to the US?
On the other hand in Germany the courts have ruled that the extended data retention spans are unconstitutional. Of course they have also ruled our federal voting laws to be unconstitutional and the politicians have done nothing about that.
I have to ask what exactly they expect people to use such a service for. How many people need to hide their IP address from servers badly enough to invoke a third party like this when they aren't planning anything nefarious? Without a court order that IP address cannot be matched to a person anyway and people who are just using general caution would likely prefer a service that uses its basic design for reducing your traceability, not the promises of a single third party (after all who's to say that third party is more trustworthy than whoever else could get your data?).
That's not a GPS unit, that's your phone, connected to your mother-in-law.
I kinda doubt that they're going to make the GPS units free, especially when we're talking about OEM devices. Car manufacturers LOVE overcharging for stuff like that.
And besides, as videogames have shown us adding advertisements doesn't mean the price will go down, it just means the execs' pockets get lined more.
So it requires a gullible user. There's not exactly a shortage of those.
For EULAs it doesn't matter that they don't grant you permission, it's not their property at this point (not their physical property and intellectual property is not enough to stop you from using the software).
But what do I gain from an EULA? The copyright law already has specific provisions allowing you to install and run the software without needing any licenses.
But should it be assumed that something as unnecessary as an EULA has to be accepted to use the program? They're using a technical trick - that they can prevent the program from running/installing if you don't click on a button that binds you to a contract - to make you agree to a completely unnecessary contract that does nothing except fuck you over. Contrary to their propaganda an EULA is not a legal necessity for handling computer programs and copyright law. If the EULA contract failed to form for some reason that still would not make it illegal to install and use the program and as such the end user doesn't give a fuck if the counter offer leads to no contract forming.
Federal law explicitly allows EA to use clauses like this and it supercedes any state or local laws.
People are voting for that skewing to continue. Hell, I see Americans argue that the government is so bad and the corporations so good that the govt should stay away from the whole thing and let it follow its natural progression. People believe this is a GOOD thing and vote accordingly.
Mandatory arbitration has been tested in company vs consumer situations by the SCOTUS. They said it's fine.
You may need a vacuum for time-based measurements but what about plain old triangulation?
You can see their body shapes pretty clearly in Gears 3, they're pretty much just wearing vests. Their arms are exposed and inhumanly thick.
Mario games establish a world that could only be related to reality if you were on some serious drugs. Gears on the other hand tries to be a serious artistic statement (that's what the developers say).
Dude, the Unreal Engine can do a whole lot more than you can see in a console game like Gears. They just aren't going to do better than the consoles on the consoles.
What the Unreal Engine 3 apparently cannot do is good online multiplayer, that netcode tends to screw with game balancing due to its lacking lag compensation. In some games that means you can pretty much nullify hitscan weapons by staying on the move, most players cannot adequately compensate for the lag themselves so they miss a lot of shots, greatly lowering their DPS. The saddest part about that is how the UE2 used in Duke Nukem Forever doesn't have that problem.
And before you blame the consoles, I've seen the fucking WII do proper lag compensation in Golden Eye.
The Wii's controls are pretty close to mouse controls, playing Golden Eye in multiplayer is like playing Modern Warfare 2 on the PC with a weapon balance that's more fun.
Does it count as HD resolution if the game is actually rendered in sub-HD resolutions and upscaled to 720p because the game's too taxing for the console?
Gears 3 has severe framerate issues in cutscenes. To the point where I'm thinking I need to upgrade the graphics card in my Xbox.
Really? I didn't enjoy Halo 3 at all with the two hits you can take before you have to hide and recharge your shields (i.e. downtime). Space Marine, on the other hand, is good fun. Especially in multiplayer with the way the assault space marines switch everything up (and that has to do with the specific jetpack implementation, jetpacks in Space Marine are FAST with their ground pound move but they don't allow hovering so they're a quick repositioning tool). There's also Hard Reset for the people who just want shooting, no chainswording. I'm looking at Renegade Ops as well but probably on the PC (cheaper, especially in the four-pack).
Gears isn't really doing it for me so far, I haven't played much of it yet though. It's not as engaging as Bulletstorm so far.
No, the game that comes to mind is DefCon.
Lower Saxony had municipal elections on the 11th, you can check the PP's wiki for the list of towns and counties they got elected in. They more than doubled their number of representatives on that day and there are plenty of small towns on the list.