MS made Windows, Acer built the exploit. Considering that Acer built the computer they could have compromised any OS, they could e.g. ship a Linux with all browsers modified to offer an interface to websites that can do the same.
Those with their model numbers containing an N ship with Linux (e.g. TravelMate 2482NWXMI). A local PC store has them, they list the OS as "Linpus Linux". I doubt that you'll see them stocked by many retailers, though.
I don't know about you but I wouldn't try running sea water through thin pipes, especially when those pipes go into my computer. Tap water is bad enough already, salt water is just asking for a desaster.
If electronics get wet I leave them to dry and hope they work afterwards. I wouldn't try an oven or anything because I'd expect moving air to work a lot better than hot air, even if I didn't know that a microwave will fry the electronics or only heats the water molecules.
Do you think all criminals are going all the way out? In gun-controlled countries you see criminals robbing banks with BB guns to avoid a sentence for illegal possession of firearms. A mugger relies on the Police's unwillingness to move out for such a petty crime, an armed mugger is no longer a petty criminal and would get police attention very quickly. A criminal can decide to get a gun but in the process both makes himself more interesting to the police and increases any sentences he may face if caught. You'd get a gun to murder an enemy gang/mob member but not for mugging people.
Game releases are roughly distributed according to the sales ratio which means if all three sold equally well we'd have to buy all three to get all (or even the largest part of) the games. If the distribution was more skewed like it is with the PS2 we'd only need to buy one console to ge the vast majority of the games. That means less console buying and more money left for the games.
I think it's because of the us vs. them mentality. Some people do believe in a Hollywood-esque division between good and evil and that of course they are on the good side. They fail to differentiate between factions opposing them (some would think the Axis of Evil is really some form of alliance working together against America) and they fail to analyze their opponent's motivations (or believe reasons as stupid as "they hate our freedoms"). This shows even in politics where it's always us vs. the liberals. No matter what political faction the speaker actually represents, anyone else is a "liberal" and of course everyone else has the same political view and believes in every (often mutually exclusive) belief the speaker attributes to liberals.
In other news on/.: a game maker is making a game about nazis gas chambers: a simulator of people choking to death and a second game about kidnapping and raping people.
Welcome to Germany and Japan, respectively. Both games have been made and while the first one only enjoys popularity among neo-nazis, the latter is what passes for interactive porn in Japan (and it forms an entire genre there).
All it takes is EA saying "you know what, Madden is just a little too big this year to fit on the 360 so we're going to have to cut you out".
EA isn't stupid, the 360 and PS3 version costs a lot to develop and the 360 has a much larger userbase which means they'd kill their sales numbers for it. EA didn't tell Sony that the PS2 is too weak for Madden or Nintendo that the GC uses too small a disc, EA will cut material that doesn't fit on a disc rather than cutting a version from their lineup. They don't skip a system unless they expect more profit from doing so (if the expected sales numbers are too small or if they expect to kill off a competitor like Sega that way). EA isn't this big because they get caught up in that silly tug-o-war over console sales numbers, they got this big because their development pipeline allows them to cover all available platforms at minimal cost and thereby ensuring that EVERYBODY can buy EA games.
No, selling a game is the equivalent of making that information public. It's like saying you're allowed to write your newspaper but not sell it to others. The freedom of expression also applies to being able to share that expression with anyone willing to listen. Forbidding people from listening despite both the speaker and listener agreeing on the exchange is censorship and the law is not allowed to do that when it comes to the freedom of expression. Outlawing listening is just semantics to avoid outlawing speaking while reaching the same effect, preventing one member of society to express his ideas to others.
Electronic paper has a color-changing surface that resembles paper. I suppose the storage would refer to the fact that you'd need only one sheet of that "paper" to display however many pages of text you want. Since it's usually used on devices meant to display books it would probably come with some form of mass storage to store the books. Knowing journalists and marketin that's probably what they meant.
Some of them involve rape which is unsuitable for children whether you think plain sex is bad for them or not. Though ratings should reflect the difference between consenting adults and raping elementary school children that are blood related to your character.
The US Freedom of Speech law does not include exceptions that would allow banning sales to minors. The only reason they can outlaw selling porn to minors is because of the legal loophole to define porn as not speech and I'd argue that while this may be a commonly agreed rule and morally correct it does violate the first amendment and should be overturned.
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MS made Windows, Acer built the exploit. Considering that Acer built the computer they could have compromised any OS, they could e.g. ship a Linux with all browsers modified to offer an interface to websites that can do the same.
My mom's got an Acer (Aspire 5051AWXMI) and had to burn the recovery disc herself. The system did pester her with warnings before she did that.
Those with their model numbers containing an N ship with Linux (e.g. TravelMate 2482NWXMI). A local PC store has them, they list the OS as "Linpus Linux". I doubt that you'll see them stocked by many retailers, though.
He said religion makes it easier to do evil, not that religion is a necessity to do evil.
He left the opacity slider at 80%
The idea is not to reconstruct arbitrary information from a blurred image, it's to "decrypt" text that was blurred.
The only question I have left is why SeaWorld would need a laser in first place.
I don't know about you but I wouldn't try running sea water through thin pipes, especially when those pipes go into my computer. Tap water is bad enough already, salt water is just asking for a desaster.
Reminds me of verbal instructions in the military:
Make sure the garage door is open before attempting to park the tank.
Stop climbing when you reach the end of the pole.
Start swimming if the water depth exceeds 1.20m.
If electronics get wet I leave them to dry and hope they work afterwards. I wouldn't try an oven or anything because I'd expect moving air to work a lot better than hot air, even if I didn't know that a microwave will fry the electronics or only heats the water molecules.
Usually the microwave's manual will explicitely warn you not to put metals into it, probably mentioning electronics along the way.
They ought to label every object in Nethack like that.
I recall peanut butter being labeled "May contain traces of peanut".
Do you think all criminals are going all the way out? In gun-controlled countries you see criminals robbing banks with BB guns to avoid a sentence for illegal possession of firearms. A mugger relies on the Police's unwillingness to move out for such a petty crime, an armed mugger is no longer a petty criminal and would get police attention very quickly. A criminal can decide to get a gun but in the process both makes himself more interesting to the police and increases any sentences he may face if caught. You'd get a gun to murder an enemy gang/mob member but not for mugging people.
Game releases are roughly distributed according to the sales ratio which means if all three sold equally well we'd have to buy all three to get all (or even the largest part of) the games. If the distribution was more skewed like it is with the PS2 we'd only need to buy one console to ge the vast majority of the games. That means less console buying and more money left for the games.
I think it's because of the us vs. them mentality. Some people do believe in a Hollywood-esque division between good and evil and that of course they are on the good side. They fail to differentiate between factions opposing them (some would think the Axis of Evil is really some form of alliance working together against America) and they fail to analyze their opponent's motivations (or believe reasons as stupid as "they hate our freedoms"). This shows even in politics where it's always us vs. the liberals. No matter what political faction the speaker actually represents, anyone else is a "liberal" and of course everyone else has the same political view and believes in every (often mutually exclusive) belief the speaker attributes to liberals.
In other news on /.: a game maker is making a game about nazis gas chambers: a simulator of people choking to death and a second game about kidnapping and raping people.
Welcome to Germany and Japan, respectively. Both games have been made and while the first one only enjoys popularity among neo-nazis, the latter is what passes for interactive porn in Japan (and it forms an entire genre there).
All it takes is EA saying "you know what, Madden is just a little too big this year to fit on the 360 so we're going to have to cut you out".
EA isn't stupid, the 360 and PS3 version costs a lot to develop and the 360 has a much larger userbase which means they'd kill their sales numbers for it. EA didn't tell Sony that the PS2 is too weak for Madden or Nintendo that the GC uses too small a disc, EA will cut material that doesn't fit on a disc rather than cutting a version from their lineup. They don't skip a system unless they expect more profit from doing so (if the expected sales numbers are too small or if they expect to kill off a competitor like Sega that way). EA isn't this big because they get caught up in that silly tug-o-war over console sales numbers, they got this big because their development pipeline allows them to cover all available platforms at minimal cost and thereby ensuring that EVERYBODY can buy EA games.
No, selling a game is the equivalent of making that information public. It's like saying you're allowed to write your newspaper but not sell it to others. The freedom of expression also applies to being able to share that expression with anyone willing to listen. Forbidding people from listening despite both the speaker and listener agreeing on the exchange is censorship and the law is not allowed to do that when it comes to the freedom of expression. Outlawing listening is just semantics to avoid outlawing speaking while reaching the same effect, preventing one member of society to express his ideas to others.
Electronic paper has a color-changing surface that resembles paper. I suppose the storage would refer to the fact that you'd need only one sheet of that "paper" to display however many pages of text you want. Since it's usually used on devices meant to display books it would probably come with some form of mass storage to store the books. Knowing journalists and marketin that's probably what they meant.
Usually it uses the internal storage but it has an SD card slot that can hold game saves.
Some of them involve rape which is unsuitable for children whether you think plain sex is bad for them or not. Though ratings should reflect the difference between consenting adults and raping elementary school children that are blood related to your character.
The US Freedom of Speech law does not include exceptions that would allow banning sales to minors. The only reason they can outlaw selling porn to minors is because of the legal loophole to define porn as not speech and I'd argue that while this may be a commonly agreed rule and morally correct it does violate the first amendment and should be overturned.
Electronic paper is a display device, not storage.
Even genetic programming would need selection criteria, these are its "wants".