>>To further defend Google, it's not completely clear that good business ethics means pulling your business activity out of every country whose government seems oppressive, corrupt or unjust.
Taxes should apply as normal to real money paid for access to objects in environments.
You already do this when you purchase Microsoft Products. You don't buy anything but rights to access the code under specific conditions.
The only thing needed to track is real world cash.
Stupid Examples:
1) I take my cable connection and count all the bits I dump to/dev/null and claim losses on all the data I failed to analyze. After all there are many companies monitoring traffic and providing reports.
2) Tracking virtual ecomomies mean someone other than the government is printing money.
This is a setup to selling in game advertisements. Once they get a demographic they have a defined audience and can start finding paths and selling spots.
What is needed is reverse PR on all of these items that deliberatly limit function through configuration. If everything item that has deliberatly limited functionality was described as such then the people making it would get the message and the general public would be alerted to what has been done.
Windows Vista is CrippleWare, deliberatly limited in functionality by the maker through the addition or subtraction of simple elements.
I believe this saves Apple from the anti-trust case in France that was considering Apple as monopolizing the market. As other vendors can now sell to the Ipod this technology saves Apple from that lawsuit.
There really is only one measure of a game. That is the profit to the manufacturer.
All soci-whatever-isms are taken up by the market behavior. End consumer, store positioning and "culture reaction" are all taken in by the final sales.
Wether the game feeds violence, care-bear-ishness or whatever.
To bad there was not someone there to question why, with no top level priority or level of service indicators on the internet, it is possible for MORPG's to function across the world with instant reactions for millions of gamers. Yet the government is unable to provide timely emails.
This is not a priority service thing, or net neutrality thing. This about doing the basic infrastructure right.
Ok. The MORPG's are huge and probably pay for fixed bandwidth pipes to HQ from multiple interfaces to the internet in general. But that means they know the load the put on the system and are doing the infrastructure right. If the government can't do their network infrastucture right, that is the governments internal problem, not a call for more laws.
The whole thing is a protection racket. The more they can make you afraid of the consequenses and aware of the "threat" the more you are willing to pay for protection. The whole thing is based on a vulnerable infrastructre.
If there was a solid infrastructre that was trusted the whole industry would disappear. The industry is based on the Microsoft Operating system and its designed vulnerabilities. The industry would not exist without the flaws in the Microsoft Operating systems and workflow. If Microsoft fixed its stuff, or if people migrated to a solid infrastucture the industry would disappear. I am sure the industry as a whole is looking at Linux as a big threat, it could destroy their whole reason for existing.
As a whole the Linux client is not a market for this industry. They need to make Linux/OSS users feel the threat so we will by their product.
I searched "WoW macro useItem" Both Google and Windows Live suggested "WoW macro use Item"
Windows Live returned 14 hits Google returned about 491
Windows Live included 3 commercial links. Google returned no commercial links.
Two of the commercial links were for sites selling bugs, hacks and exploits which when used are violations of the TOS and EULA you agree to when using the game.
Thanks Microsoft for promoting violation of EULA agreements. We know where you stand on this.
We use the following systems under the legal licenses listed. We are not aware of any violations of the agreements by the companies and constantly monitor employees to ensure no laws or licenses are violated.
Pencils - Federal Copyright laws Xerox copy machine - Federal Copyright Laws Windows XP - Vendore License. Updated monthly, hard copy stored in vault. 3 interns manage the database and 2 lawyers on retainer to review. Linux - GPL. 2 pages attached.
Still IE problem exploitable by bad web sites
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If code at Googles end could allow access to user system passwords then this could be replicated by other web sites. We are not safe. Only Google has cleaned its act up. Malicious web sites could still exploit the problem.
"the flaw allowed people to access files and passwords on a computer via any website when viewed with IE while running Google Desktop." "Gillon said he created a test Web page that, when viewed in Internet Explorer on a computer running Google Desktop, allowed him to search that computer for passwords. The researcher said the vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow ahacker to steal private information from a victim's computer."
Texas is suing Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging the company illegally installed spyware on millions of music CDs that Attorney General Greg Abbott says can make computers "vulnerable to computer viruses and other forms of attack."
Abbott said the spyware installs files onto the computers on which the CDs are played.
How about an OS that just plays a music CD
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If the CD is a valid music CD and will play in a standard player,
Why is the operating system trying to run a program from the CD?
You should be able to set the OS to treat music CD's as music CD's and ignore any other content.
This is all due to MS advanced features messing the user over. Pressure should also be placed on Microsoft to treat music CDs as music CDs.
Perhaps a configuration to easily switch between 1. Play Music 2. Access any Autorun features 3. Offer option of 1 or 2
Lets take this as an example. Assume it is possible to test for a predisposition for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS).
It is therefore possible to prescreen employees for susceptability for CTS. Such employees should therefore be provided with additional testing and support to reduce their chance of actually getting CTS. The company would be falling down in its duty to employees.
Or are we looking at Gattica were only perfect people can be employed. I doubt any sort of genetic screening for anything but "specific at risk liability" jobs (such as narcolepsy for bus drivers) will be allowed.
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>>To further defend Google, it's not completely clear that good business ethics means pulling your business activity out of every country whose government seems oppressive, corrupt or unjust.
So you want Google to move out of the US?
Taxes should apply as normal to real money paid for access to objects in environments.
/dev/null and claim losses on all the data I failed to analyze. After all there are many companies monitoring traffic and providing reports.
You already do this when you purchase Microsoft Products. You don't buy anything but rights to access the code under specific conditions.
The only thing needed to track is real world cash.
Stupid Examples:
1) I take my cable connection and count all the bits I dump to
2) Tracking virtual ecomomies mean someone other than the government is printing money.
See subject,
This is a setup to selling in game advertisements. Once they get a demographic they have a defined audience and can start finding paths and selling spots.
Enjoy, this game, powerd by fruity-soft-beverage
Wow, did someone watch Metropolis recently.
I can't wait for all my WoW repair bills to be tax deductable.
If earning WoW gold is income,
then expenses incured must be deductable.
Comming soon:
Tax Loophole investment gaming. Play the game for 10 minutes and get a $10k tax deduction.
What is needed is reverse PR on all of these items that deliberatly limit function through configuration. If everything item that has deliberatly limited functionality was described as such then the people making it would get the message and the general public would be alerted to what has been done.
Windows Vista is CrippleWare, deliberatly limited in functionality by the maker through the addition or subtraction of simple elements.
Love Nethack, not played in a while. Used to code-nethack-code-nethack.
g ames/hunt/
Tried the "modern" pixelated graphics, prefer the ascii goodness.
Going to have to see if I can get some PvP friends to try "hunt"
http://ftp.public-internet.co.uk/pub/OpenBSD/src/
Sort of the original PvP networked game.
If you ran out of ammo you could always stab someone in the back.
I believe this saves Apple from the anti-trust case in France that was considering Apple as monopolizing the market. As other vendors can now sell to the Ipod this technology saves Apple from that lawsuit.
There really is only one measure of a game. That is the profit to the manufacturer.
All soci-whatever-isms are taken up by the market behavior.
End consumer, store positioning and "culture reaction" are all taken in by the final sales.
Wether the game feeds violence, care-bear-ishness or whatever.
Nice to dig that up.
To bad there was not someone there to question why, with no top level priority or level of service indicators on the internet, it is possible for MORPG's to function across the world with instant reactions for millions of gamers. Yet the government is unable to provide timely emails.
This is not a priority service thing, or net neutrality thing. This about doing the basic infrastructure right.
Ok. The MORPG's are huge and probably pay for fixed bandwidth pipes to HQ from multiple interfaces to the internet in general. But that means they know the load the put on the system and are doing the infrastructure right. If the government can't do their network infrastucture right, that is the governments internal problem, not a call for more laws.
And of course anyone that is able to view the contents of you secret file after using any of these protection acts is in violation of the DMCA.
This post is encrypted using ROT13 twice.
Anyone reading it in clear text is in violation of the DMCA and should immediatly report to processing.
Anyone notice the link at the bottom of the article?
Links to slashdot submit article. http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
Cute.
So now the bomb makers can design bombs to explode when a certain number of american passports are within range.
They don't need to correctly talk to the passports only determine that they are american passports.
/silly
Printing the progam is prohibited by this new license:
1) total printed output posses a mass significant to harm a human when dropped, thrown or otherwise imparted with velocity relative to the human.
2) paper reperesents a proven hazard to humans in the form of paper cuts.
As both forms can be used to harm a humans, both represent weaponization of the progam.
The whole thing is a protection racket. The more they can make you afraid of the consequenses and aware of the "threat" the more you are willing to pay for protection. The whole thing is based on a vulnerable infrastructre.
If there was a solid infrastructre that was trusted the whole industry would disappear. The industry is based on the Microsoft Operating system and its designed vulnerabilities. The industry would not exist without the flaws in the Microsoft Operating systems and workflow. If Microsoft fixed its stuff, or if people migrated to a solid infrastucture the industry would disappear. I am sure the industry as a whole is looking at Linux as a big threat, it could destroy their whole reason for existing.
As a whole the Linux client is not a market for this industry. They need to make Linux/OSS users feel the threat so we will by their product.
Results of a 1 of search comparison
I searched "WoW macro useItem"
Both Google and Windows Live suggested "WoW macro use Item"
Windows Live returned 14 hits
Google returned about 491
Windows Live included 3 commercial links.
Google returned no commercial links.
Two of the commercial links were for sites selling bugs, hacks and exploits which when used are violations of the TOS and EULA you agree to when using the game.
Thanks Microsoft for promoting violation of EULA agreements. We know where you stand on this.
Will Ferrell - Bush on Global Warming. Quicktime Video.
7
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=114
Dull Disclosure of Dependancies:
We use the following systems under the legal licenses listed.
We are not aware of any violations of the agreements by the companies and constantly monitor employees to ensure no laws or licenses are violated.
Pencils - Federal Copyright laws
Xerox copy machine - Federal Copyright Laws
Windows XP - Vendore License. Updated monthly, hard copy stored in vault. 3 interns manage the database and 2 lawyers on retainer to review.
Linux - GPL. 2 pages attached.
If code at Googles end could allow access to user system passwords then this could be replicated by other web sites. We are not safe. Only Google has cleaned its act up. Malicious web sites could still exploit the problem.
"the flaw allowed people to access files and passwords on a computer via any website when viewed with IE while running Google Desktop."
"Gillon said he created a test Web page that, when viewed in Internet Explorer on a computer running Google Desktop, allowed him to search that computer for passwords. The researcher said the vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow ahacker to steal private information from a victim's computer."
Well the paper might have originally described how free software works but what was done clearly shows how commercial software works.
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1996172.html
Texas is suing Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging the company illegally installed spyware on millions of music CDs that Attorney General Greg Abbott says can make computers "vulnerable to computer viruses and other forms of attack."
Abbott said the spyware installs files onto the computers on which the CDs are played.
If the CD is a valid music CD and will play in a standard player,
Why is the operating system trying to run a program from the CD?
You should be able to set the OS to treat music CD's as music CD's and ignore any other content.
This is all due to MS advanced features messing the user over. Pressure should also be placed on Microsoft to treat music CDs as music CDs.
Perhaps a configuration to easily switch between
1. Play Music
2. Access any Autorun features
3. Offer option of 1 or 2
http://www.sonymusic.ca/contact.html
Opps 500 Server error.
They want to hear from us. They should hear from us.
http://www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.html
Question, would companies like slashdot level traffice sent to their pages, especially if they are looking to get subscriptions?
Could this be a new spam technique, attempting to get pay articles referred to by popular web sites?
Lets take this as an example. Assume it is possible to test for a predisposition for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS).
It is therefore possible to prescreen employees for susceptability for CTS. Such employees should therefore be provided with additional testing and support to reduce their chance of actually getting CTS. The company would be falling down in its duty to employees.
Or are we looking at Gattica were only perfect people can be employed. I doubt any sort of genetic screening for anything but "specific at risk liability" jobs (such as narcolepsy for bus drivers) will be allowed.