strictly speaking your correct. But such a concept of free speech has never existed and nor should it, free speech has always been defined in legal terms as freedom to express your views and hear the views of others within reasonable restrictions, those restrictions differ slightly from country to country but personal attacks on individuals has always been excluded. (at least I can't think of any country that has freedom of speech and allows it)
No there is nothing wrong with being offensive, you can say all sorts of hatefull garbage. What you can't do is single out individuals and start making statements about them and expect it to have no consequences, their are justifiably laws that protect individuals from such attacks.
having consequences attached to attacking and demeaning others is not a violation of free speech. Free speech is meant to enable you to voice your views not as a means to attack someone without repercussion's
RSI for a large amount of people is little more than the modern day equivalent of a sickie. You would have better luck nailing down the root cause by monitoring pubs and and sporting events to find where the days out correspond.
In japanese culture the little privacy a person has is deeply valued, from a cultural perspective this is about as bad as it gets. The consumer trusted them with their information and they let it get stolen.
Identity theft services are basically insurance companies, Sony has to pay to provide a guarentee that if a users identity is stolen they will be covered for up to 1 million in damages. for the average person to go out and buy these services cost around $100 a year for a person and just like all other insurance you pay whether you need to claim or not.
I actually hate sony, but silly conspiracy theories just make the tinfoil hat brigade look stupid. The majority of the time the simplest answer is the correct one and to suggest that sony would choose a more embaressing and costly scenario to cover up a less embaressing and costly one is like migrating from tinfoil hats to full body suits of the stuff.
It doesn't make sense at all, a complete disaster where everything unrecoverable would be a far better story than 100 million accounts stolen both from a PR point of view and from a monetary point of view. The current situation will see them stuck in legal and financial problems for years to come not to mention a serious loss of faith with consumers.
It is a bad thing because in the scientific world we don't use the default of "some magic being created it" if we don't understand it. Science is about study and practise in order to uncover an understanding of the truth. At no stage should any scientific baseline start with the unicorns did it.
Patent trolls like easy targets, As the CEO he has just announced that he will bend over for any patent troll as long as they aren't to greedy and only ram their fist in up to the elbow. Their is no possible way this can be explained as maximising value as every patent troll will now have Redhat at the top of their lists for viable targets as potential cash cow.
And this rip is going to magically jump off the Blu ray disc onto your harddrive? or do you propose Apple users should be required to have a second non apple machine if they want to use current common technology formats.
besides the obvious memory advantage of running 64 bit their are a number of additonal security features that are not available in 32 bit. Examples of these include Data Execution Prevention (DEP), signed drivers by default and Kernel Patch protection. Those additional security measures break quite a few of the common methods used in malware.
You seem confused, the current situation in Australia is THEIR IS NO CHOICE. games are banned if they are of a violent, sexual or drug use related. for instance Mortal Kombat is banned as is Left for Dead 2. R18+ would at least allow the majority of games onto the market here instead of completely cock blocking them.
Actually it would be the reverse, more titles will be forced into the R18+ with less available to 9 year olds. If 9 year olds have the unsupervised cash to go into a shop and buy 60-100 dollar games (the price in Australia) then parents have already failed.
incidently I am all for both MA15+ AND R18+ being available. The problem is without the SA AG's support we cannot have any changes, a change to at least having R18+ while not perfect is at least a step forward.
NO, what I am describing is bloody parents doing their job for a change, instead of relying on incompetent governments to do it for them. Australia's current problem is not even adults can buy games that would receive a rating higher than MA15+, if it means abolishing MA15+ and having a R18+ I am all for it, even if that means 15-18 year olds have a harder time getting stuff (unlikely as they will get it anyway or get controlled access from parents).
Ummmm I think this is actually very good for children, It allows PARENTS to introduce the material to them as appropriate rather than kids running down to the local store and getting whatever they want. Parents should be responsible for raising their children not a government censorship system. R18+ would at least allow adult games to be sold to adults (something we have lacked in Aus) and where parents think appropriate given to their children. The government should not be responsible for how children are introduced to such content.
Hell, it would take at LEAST 1 day for a Sony rep to officially write up the disclosure in legally tin foil jargon and probably another for the notice to be translated into every language that Sony officially supports.
that there is a massive problem in itself, I think you are probably right but for their sake I hope your wrong as it says they were more concerned about their own arses than ensuring people were informed of the issue. In these cases the users at risk should be EVERYONES first priority, I hope it was just a case of it taking that long to sift through logs to track down what had happened and that then then immediately released the information (ie within a hour or 2 of knowing) otherwise I hope they get sued to hell and back.
They probably never envisioned getting the kind of attention from hackers that they did
Sony is a multi billion dollar enterprise with the personal and financial details of 60+ million users and you think they didn't envision themselves being a target? FFS if your right I hope they send every one of their company execs to jail for gross neglience.
the market is massively migrating to smartphone and netpad gaming. Believe it.
NO it isn't, the smartphone/netpad market is a completely seperate market, As is completely evident by all 3 consoles having one of the best years ever in the last 12 months and this generation of consoles being far and away the best selling ever. No one wants to replace playing a game on a 60 inch plasma with a smartphone, not to mention a smartphone isn't even price competitive with them.
They have voluntarily put their credit card with a company that knowingly installs root kits on your computer, They have already given up any pretext of credit card security.
It is not a hard issue to have with chrome at all. I work with 2 large government departments that BOTH have this issue, chrome website and update are blocked as it is not something that is supposed to be running on end machines and hence not in their whitelist of sites, but their are always a few users with local desktop admin rights that think it is their god given right to run whatever they want on their machine and put a copy on and NEVER update it.
It isn't about THEM reading it. It is about being aware what are the potential dangers out their, whether they are from a rogue user that has installed an old version of chrome on the corporate image or an external user that comes into your system remotely or merely interchanges data with your system, the vulnerability doesn't have to be on your own system to affect you.
Simple fact is many users do not upgrade even when the upgrade is free. People don't even bother to apply free security patches half the time so why would you expect them to also not be using older versions of free products?
The ISP censorship has hardly been shelved, The only reason it hasn't come in is that we don't have a majority government at the moment, Labor party have stated they still want to censor the internet, they just can't currently get the numbers to do it, thankfully with their financial mismanagement, scandals and now child pornography we should be seeing the last of both state and federal labor at the next elections.
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strictly speaking your correct. But such a concept of free speech has never existed and nor should it, free speech has always been defined in legal terms as freedom to express your views and hear the views of others within reasonable restrictions, those restrictions differ slightly from country to country but personal attacks on individuals has always been excluded. (at least I can't think of any country that has freedom of speech and allows it)
No there is nothing wrong with being offensive, you can say all sorts of hatefull garbage. What you can't do is single out individuals and start making statements about them and expect it to have no consequences, their are justifiably laws that protect individuals from such attacks.
having consequences attached to attacking and demeaning others is not a violation of free speech. Free speech is meant to enable you to voice your views not as a means to attack someone without repercussion's
RSI for a large amount of people is little more than the modern day equivalent of a sickie. You would have better luck nailing down the root cause by monitoring pubs and and sporting events to find where the days out correspond.
In japanese culture the little privacy a person has is deeply valued, from a cultural perspective this is about as bad as it gets. The consumer trusted them with their information and they let it get stolen.
Identity theft services are basically insurance companies, Sony has to pay to provide a guarentee that if a users identity is stolen they will be covered for up to 1 million in damages. for the average person to go out and buy these services cost around $100 a year for a person and just like all other insurance you pay whether you need to claim or not.
I actually hate sony, but silly conspiracy theories just make the tinfoil hat brigade look stupid. The majority of the time the simplest answer is the correct one and to suggest that sony would choose a more embaressing and costly scenario to cover up a less embaressing and costly one is like migrating from tinfoil hats to full body suits of the stuff.
It doesn't make sense at all, a complete disaster where everything unrecoverable would be a far better story than 100 million accounts stolen both from a PR point of view and from a monetary point of view. The current situation will see them stuck in legal and financial problems for years to come not to mention a serious loss of faith with consumers.
It is a bad thing because in the scientific world we don't use the default of "some magic being created it" if we don't understand it. Science is about study and practise in order to uncover an understanding of the truth. At no stage should any scientific baseline start with the unicorns did it.
Patent trolls like easy targets, As the CEO he has just announced that he will bend over for any patent troll as long as they aren't to greedy and only ram their fist in up to the elbow. Their is no possible way this can be explained as maximising value as every patent troll will now have Redhat at the top of their lists for viable targets as potential cash cow.
And this rip is going to magically jump off the Blu ray disc onto your harddrive? or do you propose Apple users should be required to have a second non apple machine if they want to use current common technology formats.
besides the obvious memory advantage of running 64 bit their are a number of additonal security features that are not available in 32 bit. Examples of these include Data Execution Prevention (DEP), signed drivers by default and Kernel Patch protection. Those additional security measures break quite a few of the common methods used in malware.
You seem confused, the current situation in Australia is THEIR IS NO CHOICE. games are banned if they are of a violent, sexual or drug use related. for instance Mortal Kombat is banned as is Left for Dead 2. R18+ would at least allow the majority of games onto the market here instead of completely cock blocking them.
Actually it would be the reverse, more titles will be forced into the R18+ with less available to 9 year olds. If 9 year olds have the unsupervised cash to go into a shop and buy 60-100 dollar games (the price in Australia) then parents have already failed. incidently I am all for both MA15+ AND R18+ being available. The problem is without the SA AG's support we cannot have any changes, a change to at least having R18+ while not perfect is at least a step forward.
NO, what I am describing is bloody parents doing their job for a change, instead of relying on incompetent governments to do it for them. Australia's current problem is not even adults can buy games that would receive a rating higher than MA15+, if it means abolishing MA15+ and having a R18+ I am all for it, even if that means 15-18 year olds have a harder time getting stuff (unlikely as they will get it anyway or get controlled access from parents).
Ummmm I think this is actually very good for children, It allows PARENTS to introduce the material to them as appropriate rather than kids running down to the local store and getting whatever they want. Parents should be responsible for raising their children not a government censorship system. R18+ would at least allow adult games to be sold to adults (something we have lacked in Aus) and where parents think appropriate given to their children. The government should not be responsible for how children are introduced to such content.
Hell, it would take at LEAST 1 day for a Sony rep to officially write up the disclosure in legally tin foil jargon and probably another for the notice to be translated into every language that Sony officially supports.
that there is a massive problem in itself, I think you are probably right but for their sake I hope your wrong as it says they were more concerned about their own arses than ensuring people were informed of the issue. In these cases the users at risk should be EVERYONES first priority, I hope it was just a case of it taking that long to sift through logs to track down what had happened and that then then immediately released the information (ie within a hour or 2 of knowing) otherwise I hope they get sued to hell and back.
They probably never envisioned getting the kind of attention from hackers that they did
Sony is a multi billion dollar enterprise with the personal and financial details of 60+ million users and you think they didn't envision themselves being a target? FFS if your right I hope they send every one of their company execs to jail for gross neglience.
the market is massively migrating to smartphone and netpad gaming. Believe it.
NO it isn't, the smartphone/netpad market is a completely seperate market, As is completely evident by all 3 consoles having one of the best years ever in the last 12 months and this generation of consoles being far and away the best selling ever. No one wants to replace playing a game on a 60 inch plasma with a smartphone, not to mention a smartphone isn't even price competitive with them.
When it comes to the Wiipiracy and games I would happily take the bet that the dishonest ones number above the 99% mark.
They have voluntarily put their credit card with a company that knowingly installs root kits on your computer, They have already given up any pretext of credit card security.
It is not a hard issue to have with chrome at all. I work with 2 large government departments that BOTH have this issue, chrome website and update are blocked as it is not something that is supposed to be running on end machines and hence not in their whitelist of sites, but their are always a few users with local desktop admin rights that think it is their god given right to run whatever they want on their machine and put a copy on and NEVER update it.
It isn't about THEM reading it. It is about being aware what are the potential dangers out their, whether they are from a rogue user that has installed an old version of chrome on the corporate image or an external user that comes into your system remotely or merely interchanges data with your system, the vulnerability doesn't have to be on your own system to affect you.
Simple fact is many users do not upgrade even when the upgrade is free. People don't even bother to apply free security patches half the time so why would you expect them to also not be using older versions of free products?
The ISP censorship has hardly been shelved, The only reason it hasn't come in is that we don't have a majority government at the moment, Labor party have stated they still want to censor the internet, they just can't currently get the numbers to do it, thankfully with their financial mismanagement, scandals and now child pornography we should be seeing the last of both state and federal labor at the next elections.