That's certainly not the type of liberal we see on Slashdot, those always preach that we should leave everything to the free market to solve and that the government should do absolutely nothing and people don't need help, if they can't help themselves they can die, etc etc.
Too many people can act stupid and not suffer the consequences - spill hot coffee on yourself, sue McDonalds and get rich. "Forget" to chew your food? Sue the cook for not adequately warning you to chew it. I for one LOVE America. But it's times like these when we have to come to the harsh realization that absolute freedom is not the best choice. There will always be STUPID people making STUPID decisions, and the only way to impede the retardedness of this nation is to impose laws and limits that protect us from ourselves.
For cases like that it'd be enough if judges were more willing to say "shouldn't have done that then" and assume that one needs to possess a certain amount of common sense to properly interact with objects these days so touching a stove plate won't be considered something you need to be warned about.
Also possibly party affiliation? just kidding, but this is not a kneejerk reaction, even if you don't agree and want the national ID.
Makes me wonder why people, when they are so paranoid about the govt even knowing they exist, will happily put their political stance on a central list that any wannabe Hitler could take and go hunting with.
And a national ID card is simply another avenue for identity theft.
It's not like you can't fake any currently used ID system. The national ID would simply force all ID fraud to use falsified national IDs instead of falsifying the easiest document that works (if e.g. a credit card company has cards that are easily faked and others accept them as ID then compromising the card would be sufficient for ID theft). To use an analogy, instead of having your data signed with any certificate you have to get it signed with a specific certificate. I'd assume that would reduce the number of security holes and you could focus on making the national ID harder to fake without having to worry about some crappy card compromising the system.
Also I don't get why people scream like a national ID comes with a GPS device that automatically sends your position to the NSA every 5 seconds.
The US needs its voting system. How else can you have such vast power swings between two parties that effectively have the populace split 50/50? If there was proportional representation the composition of the US government would never change much and people would realize that voting is just a futile stalemate.
Because you're already showing ID pretty much everywhere, just instead of a standardized document you show your credit card, driver's license or social securiy card or whathaveyou?
If the 360 was as resilient as the other consoles he'd be on his 5th or 6th one with those, too. So either the 360 tends to fail by itself or is very bad at handling environments other consoles take with no problems.
Do you think a trade embargo is going to hurt a dictator? He'll just cuddle up with all the goods they get and tell the populace they aren't getting anything because the Evil Imperialists are embargoing them and the only way to stop that is to support El Presidente in his fight against the Evil Imperialists.
Legal insurance would be an insurance that pays your legal bills. Or is that one of the results of the "evil socialist government" here in Germany? And yes, that does apply to civil cases.
As for an impartial expert, who would pay for such a thing? Certainly not the court.
The court appoints it and then sends the bill to the losing party.
Either way, it's impossible to argue that region codes prevent copying and the battle would be about whether regional locking is part of copyright which should be something the judge knows about.
Also wouldn't the judge demand an impartial expert? Doesn't make sense to me to let either party introduce an expert unilaterally, that just invites abuse like you describe it.
It's guaranteed to not be a legal mandate since the courts won't even permit restricting sales to minors. Whether stores have such a deal I don't know.
The DMCA was created to prevent non-infringing uses from being an argument in court, it only requires that one of the chip's features is permitting piracy, not that that's its only use.
What kind of fight would there be? Region coding does NOTHING about illegal copies and AFAIK noone tried to pass it off as a copyright protection in the US. If the modchip can be used for more than region breaking then it's infringing independently of that but AFAIK products like the Freeloader for the Gamecube (breaks only the region code) are still legal in the US.
Yeah, like the "free market" will be unbiased. If you leave it to those people all you get is a brochure of product ads and loads of spam, even if it means the death of Wikipedia.
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They could probably have patented the gameplay and with the current state of the USPTO even gained approval.
Personally I use the term Rail Playing Game but that works, too.
One issue I found is that if you disable standby Wii Connect24 it won't let you use the channels when the machine is running, either.
That's certainly not the type of liberal we see on Slashdot, those always preach that we should leave everything to the free market to solve and that the government should do absolutely nothing and people don't need help, if they can't help themselves they can die, etc etc.
Too many people can act stupid and not suffer the consequences - spill hot coffee on yourself, sue McDonalds and get rich. "Forget" to chew your food? Sue the cook for not adequately warning you to chew it. I for one LOVE America. But it's times like these when we have to come to the harsh realization that absolute freedom is not the best choice. There will always be STUPID people making STUPID decisions, and the only way to impede the retardedness of this nation is to impose laws and limits that protect us from ourselves.
For cases like that it'd be enough if judges were more willing to say "shouldn't have done that then" and assume that one needs to possess a certain amount of common sense to properly interact with objects these days so touching a stove plate won't be considered something you need to be warned about.
Also possibly party affiliation? just kidding, but this is not a kneejerk reaction, even if you don't agree and want the national ID.
Makes me wonder why people, when they are so paranoid about the govt even knowing they exist, will happily put their political stance on a central list that any wannabe Hitler could take and go hunting with.
And a national ID card is simply another avenue for identity theft.
It's not like you can't fake any currently used ID system. The national ID would simply force all ID fraud to use falsified national IDs instead of falsifying the easiest document that works (if e.g. a credit card company has cards that are easily faked and others accept them as ID then compromising the card would be sufficient for ID theft). To use an analogy, instead of having your data signed with any certificate you have to get it signed with a specific certificate. I'd assume that would reduce the number of security holes and you could focus on making the national ID harder to fake without having to worry about some crappy card compromising the system.
Also I don't get why people scream like a national ID comes with a GPS device that automatically sends your position to the NSA every 5 seconds.
I think you're confused, liberals are the guys that are opposed to any and all social programs. Liberals and socialists are opposing factions.
The US needs its voting system. How else can you have such vast power swings between two parties that effectively have the populace split 50/50? If there was proportional representation the composition of the US government would never change much and people would realize that voting is just a futile stalemate.
Perhaps to make it clear that it IS fraud rather than leaving that to the lawyers to argue?
Because you're already showing ID pretty much everywhere, just instead of a standardized document you show your credit card, driver's license or social securiy card or whathaveyou?
Yeah but in computer science that means an immediate approval.
SOC is already taken for System On Chip? Maybe ScOC. No idea what's the difference between an ScOC and an MPSOC.
If the 360 was as resilient as the other consoles he'd be on his 5th or 6th one with those, too. So either the 360 tends to fail by itself or is very bad at handling environments other consoles take with no problems.
Do you think a trade embargo is going to hurt a dictator? He'll just cuddle up with all the goods they get and tell the populace they aren't getting anything because the Evil Imperialists are embargoing them and the only way to stop that is to support El Presidente in his fight against the Evil Imperialists.
Also, nothing breaks old values faster than McDonald's and MTV.
Legal insurance would be an insurance that pays your legal bills. Or is that one of the results of the "evil socialist government" here in Germany? And yes, that does apply to civil cases.
As for an impartial expert, who would pay for such a thing? Certainly not the court.
The court appoints it and then sends the bill to the losing party.
Either way, it's impossible to argue that region codes prevent copying and the battle would be about whether regional locking is part of copyright which should be something the judge knows about.
Isn't that what you have legal insurance for?
Also wouldn't the judge demand an impartial expert? Doesn't make sense to me to let either party introduce an expert unilaterally, that just invites abuse like you describe it.
The ratio of truly great ones, no. But the average quality went upwards I think, the mediocre games of today are better than those of 20 years ago.
It's guaranteed to not be a legal mandate since the courts won't even permit restricting sales to minors. Whether stores have such a deal I don't know.
The DMCA was created to prevent non-infringing uses from being an argument in court, it only requires that one of the chip's features is permitting piracy, not that that's its only use.
What kind of fight would there be? Region coding does NOTHING about illegal copies and AFAIK noone tried to pass it off as a copyright protection in the US. If the modchip can be used for more than region breaking then it's infringing independently of that but AFAIK products like the Freeloader for the Gamecube (breaks only the region code) are still legal in the US.
EUCD ring a bell? Same thing as the DMCA, just worse.
Yeah but if you have Ati you can expect loads of bugs with OpenGL. That's the reason I have an NVidia card in my PC now.
Yeah, like the "free market" will be unbiased. If you leave it to those people all you get is a brochure of product ads and loads of spam, even if it means the death of Wikipedia.