It is not the ISP's responsibility to ensure that junior doesn't see pr0n.
There are several consumer software products which are relatively inexpensive that do the job of filtering web content. Hell, many companies bundle this in with their consumer firewall software. If parents desire web content filtering, they should be able to go to the store and buy software that will do the job.
No government, at any level, should be forcing the ISP to do the job of the parents.
The police can tamper with my property, track my movements specifically, and keep it secret from me without a warrant?
This ruling spits in the face of the 4th. Amendment. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise, and I hope that this ruling is thrown out by a judge in a higher court who actually still cares about civil liberties.
People who would be law abiding citizens in a place with sane laws lose their privacy and get subjected to draconian laws at the whim of a Government that begins to resemble a tyrany a bit more every year with the latest War on Whatever.
On the other hand, real criminals with malicious intent will simply ignore regulations and find a way around law enforcement.
This settlement is a joke, and it is no wonder why most people aren't bothering. As far as I can discern, in exchange for making a claim, I get a $15 voucher towards MS software.
So instead of $299.99, that copy of Windows XP Pro is $284.99 for Joe Consumer. Also as pennance, they give free copies of Windows and Office to schools (and probably somehow get a tax write off).
Lawyers get rich(er) and Microsoft strengthens their monopoly as a result.
Having played RO for a few months, I feel the need to dissuade anyone from playing it.
The "cute anime feel" wears off quickly and then it just becomes another level grinding game, and a really bad one at that.
RO has a sloppily thrown together game world, NPCs who speak in "Engrish," extreme lag, the most immature community ever, and GMs who treat their jobs as one big game and ignore the massive botting and "hacking" problems.
She was open for some changes necessary to adapt the book to the screen. She thought they had a guy who had worked on the LOTR movies on board, but that ended up not being the case. She was probably hoping that her books would get a similar treatment as LOTR.
Le Guin probably saw the LOTR movies, and thought that producers were finally willing to adapt a fantasy book correctly. In LOTR the characters and events are, for the most part, true to the original version. Most fans of the books were pleased with the end results, with only some minor gripes here and there. Only the most hard core fans of the books were up in arms about changes Jackson made.
Unfortunately, it was not to be the case that Earthsea would get a similar treatment. I didn't see the series, but they obviously created something that was not even close to what Le Guin was hoping for or had originally created.
Should she have fought harder for more creative input? I would say that given today's world, yes. In reality, she shouldn't have to. The producers had the luxury othat Le Guin seemed to want to be more active in how this thing would turn out. If I were making a film or series based on a book, and had that luxury, I would want the original author consulting every major decision.
This "hacker" never actually stole CC data, but still got nine years.
If Ken Lay is even given jail time, I doubt that he'll be doing 9 years. He'll probably get 1 year max at the place with the golf course and squash court.
I think much of the complaint is not how much time the hacker is getting, but how little time other people who take part in similar crimes but without the "hacking" element.
It seemed to be one huge advertisement for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Even the stupid flash layout had a "South Central" / Ghetto / Tagger motif going on.
I can't even imagine what the actual show was like, but I do know that Snoop Dogg and a game awards show shouldn't mix.
Aside from the overhype for GTA, I have other issues with the awards a mile long. It is clear that they don't have any real gamers there deciding what award categories should exist, or which games should actually be nominated. (Mortal Kombat Whatever is the best fighting game? Have you people even played Guilty Gear?)
The problem I see is that there seem to be many things that could make the buyer's money back that have yet to be implemented, according to the posted message board link.
It seems the buyer does have what could be good plans for this island, but can't do everything he wants yet because MindArk hasn't implemented that stuff in the game yet.
And as many of us know who have played certaom MMORPGs, some of the things promised have never come.
As I said in a response to another post, management doesn't seem to want "real" CS people. They want codemonkeys trained in the language or buzzword of the month, or are looking for an excuse to send the work overseas.
This is the situation we are in.
Management: We need people who know COBOL.
Retired COBOL Guru: I've retired, and am really tired working for you corporate schmucks, but I'll be willing to sign on as a consultant.
Management: Too expensive!
Younger CS Person: I don't know COBOL, but I'm a computer scientist who understands the theory behind languages. I am confident that I can learn COBOL quickly, and any other language you might need me to learn in the future.
Management: We don't want to spend extra money in training, plus real CS people are still too expensive.
Outsourcing Company: It just so happens that I have a bunch of teenagers in India who will work for cheap. I can train them in COBOL cheaply. Let me remind you that you also get a tax break from the Government for hiring Indians.
Management: India? Sounds good! We can increase executive pay with the money we save. Where do we sign?
It seems that job requirements tend to list experience with X-Language, which is whatever they are using big.
Trying to explain to an HR person that you understand the theory behind programming and are a "Computer Scientist," have larned dozens of languages, and can learn any language they want to use now and in the future... it doesn't seem to work.
They want you to have previous professional experience with X-Language or X-Buzzword nowadays. I'm not even sure why they require Computer Science degrees anymore, since it seems they want codemonkeys trained in X-Language rather than real CS people.
Sony makes a game called NFL GameDay. It isn't as good as Madden, but is cheaper.
What is preventing Sony from threatening to revoke EA's lisence to make PS2 games unless EA grants Sony a royalty free sub-lisence? It seems that EA needs Sony more than Sony needs EA.
From the sounds of it (though we know how news spin can warp a story), they were selling pirated games preinstalled on the X-Boxen.
Why is this a criminal offense? It would have been just as easy for Microsoft to send them a C&D and sue their asses. Why is taxpayer money going towards protecting the copyrights of megacorps?
If I wrote a small piece of software by myself, and found someone violating my copyright, I would be forced to sue them to protect my copyright. I doubt I could get the cops to raid them. Megacorps, on the other hand, get to use law enforcement to take down violators.
Can someone with detailed legal knowledge explain this to me?
Offshoring isn't going away, even as the economy picks up. Unless there are some radical changes in world politics or economies, offshoring is always going to be a threat to technicians, programmers, etc., no matter how skilled you are or how well you do your job.
You may want to consider switching to Business and keeping CS as a major.
Another career that seems to be blooming is nursing. I currently live in a smaller town and even here there are tons of openings for nurses and other non-doctor on-site medical people. There are plans to build a hospital a few miles from where I work, which is expected to create tons of jobs in this field.
I have heard that some areas are short on teachers, but this may not be the case where you want to work. If I were to do it all over again, I'd probably go this route and become a high school teacher.
Since I'm the "Computer Person" in the family, I get calls from family members all the time asking for help with spyware (or problems that are obviously caused by spyware). A scan with Ad-Aware usually reveals dozens of pieces of spyware and similar programs.
I'm sure OEMs get swamped with these types of calls too.
Many of these "advocacy" groups nail the game industry over games like GTA, etc. and cry for strict government regulation, etc., to "protect the children."
But it seems like it is parents placing these games into the hands of children, for the most part. I did not mean that this was good or bad, what I meant was that this is a decision for the parents.
This report card implies that the industry has the responsibility of making sure that "mature" games never fall into the hands of someone under 18, ever.
People begin to automatically assume that whenever little Timmy plays GTA, the evil industry is to blame, without consideration that little Timmy's parents may have allowed it.
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I don't think your former roomate represents the standard EQ player, letalone the standard EQ addict.
It is not the ISP's responsibility to ensure that junior doesn't see pr0n.
There are several consumer software products which are relatively inexpensive that do the job of filtering web content. Hell, many companies bundle this in with their consumer firewall software. If parents desire web content filtering, they should be able to go to the store and buy software that will do the job.
No government, at any level, should be forcing the ISP to do the job of the parents.
Joking aside, it wouldn't surprise me.
Ask any JET who teaches/taught at Japanese Middle School, and you'll soon learn that Japanese schools aren't as great as we're all lead to believe.
An instant classic. I think that was even better than Troops...
Well, it can't be EA. Then he'd be working 120 hours a week.
Tales of Symphonia was better than Final Fantasy X by about a million miles.
The police can tamper with my property, track my movements specifically, and keep it secret from me without a warrant?
This ruling spits in the face of the 4th. Amendment. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise, and I hope that this ruling is thrown out by a judge in a higher court who actually still cares about civil liberties.
People who would be law abiding citizens in a place with sane laws lose their privacy and get subjected to draconian laws at the whim of a Government that begins to resemble a tyrany a bit more every year with the latest War on Whatever.
On the other hand, real criminals with malicious intent will simply ignore regulations and find a way around law enforcement.
If you don't like the monthly fee, don't play the game. Pretty easy, wasn't it?
This settlement is a joke, and it is no wonder why most people aren't bothering. As far as I can discern, in exchange for making a claim, I get a $15 voucher towards MS software.
So instead of $299.99, that copy of Windows XP Pro is $284.99 for Joe Consumer. Also as pennance, they give free copies of Windows and Office to schools (and probably somehow get a tax write off).
Lawyers get rich(er) and Microsoft strengthens their monopoly as a result.
Having played RO for a few months, I feel the need to dissuade anyone from playing it.
The "cute anime feel" wears off quickly and then it just becomes another level grinding game, and a really bad one at that.
RO has a sloppily thrown together game world, NPCs who speak in "Engrish," extreme lag, the most immature community ever, and GMs who treat their jobs as one big game and ignore the massive botting and "hacking" problems.
Not yet, but I imagine that it soon will be. The Government thinks it is a better parent than you and knows what is best for your family.
She was open for some changes necessary to adapt the book to the screen. She thought they had a guy who had worked on the LOTR movies on board, but that ended up not being the case. She was probably hoping that her books would get a similar treatment as LOTR.
Le Guin probably saw the LOTR movies, and thought that producers were finally willing to adapt a fantasy book correctly. In LOTR the characters and events are, for the most part, true to the original version. Most fans of the books were pleased with the end results, with only some minor gripes here and there. Only the most hard core fans of the books were up in arms about changes Jackson made.
Unfortunately, it was not to be the case that Earthsea would get a similar treatment. I didn't see the series, but they obviously created something that was not even close to what Le Guin was hoping for or had originally created.
Should she have fought harder for more creative input? I would say that given today's world, yes. In reality, she shouldn't have to. The producers had the luxury othat Le Guin seemed to want to be more active in how this thing would turn out. If I were making a film or series based on a book, and had that luxury, I would want the original author consulting every major decision.
This "hacker" never actually stole CC data, but still got nine years.
If Ken Lay is even given jail time, I doubt that he'll be doing 9 years. He'll probably get 1 year max at the place with the golf course and squash court.
I think much of the complaint is not how much time the hacker is getting, but how little time other people who take part in similar crimes but without the "hacking" element.
It seemed to be one huge advertisement for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Even the stupid flash layout had a "South Central" / Ghetto / Tagger motif going on.
I can't even imagine what the actual show was like, but I do know that Snoop Dogg and a game awards show shouldn't mix.
Aside from the overhype for GTA, I have other issues with the awards a mile long. It is clear that they don't have any real gamers there deciding what award categories should exist, or which games should actually be nominated. (Mortal Kombat Whatever is the best fighting game? Have you people even played Guilty Gear?)
Right. We don't need .asia, we already have: .jp .cn .kr .kp .my .tw .sg .th
and such. These idiots are just trying to push through "hot new domain names" to sell to chumps during the next "huge internet landgrab."
The problem I see is that there seem to be many things that could make the buyer's money back that have yet to be implemented, according to the posted message board link.
It seems the buyer does have what could be good plans for this island, but can't do everything he wants yet because MindArk hasn't implemented that stuff in the game yet.
And as many of us know who have played certaom MMORPGs, some of the things promised have never come.
As I said in a response to another post, management doesn't seem to want "real" CS people. They want codemonkeys trained in the language or buzzword of the month, or are looking for an excuse to send the work overseas.
This is the situation we are in.
Management: We need people who know COBOL.
Retired COBOL Guru: I've retired, and am really tired working for you corporate schmucks, but I'll be willing to sign on as a consultant.
Management: Too expensive!
Younger CS Person: I don't know COBOL, but I'm a computer scientist who understands the theory behind languages. I am confident that I can learn COBOL quickly, and any other language you might need me to learn in the future.
Management: We don't want to spend extra money in training, plus real CS people are still too expensive.
Outsourcing Company: It just so happens that I have a bunch of teenagers in India who will work for cheap. I can train them in COBOL cheaply. Let me remind you that you also get a tax break from the Government for hiring Indians.
Management: India? Sounds good! We can increase executive pay with the money we save. Where do we sign?
It seems that job requirements tend to list experience with X-Language, which is whatever they are using big.
Trying to explain to an HR person that you understand the theory behind programming and are a "Computer Scientist," have larned dozens of languages, and can learn any language they want to use now and in the future... it doesn't seem to work.
They want you to have previous professional experience with X-Language or X-Buzzword nowadays. I'm not even sure why they require Computer Science degrees anymore, since it seems they want codemonkeys trained in X-Language rather than real CS people.
Just speculation...
Sony makes a game called NFL GameDay. It isn't as good as Madden, but is cheaper.
What is preventing Sony from threatening to revoke EA's lisence to make PS2 games unless EA grants Sony a royalty free sub-lisence? It seems that EA needs Sony more than Sony needs EA.
From the sounds of it (though we know how news spin can warp a story), they were selling pirated games preinstalled on the X-Boxen.
Why is this a criminal offense? It would have been just as easy for Microsoft to send them a C&D and sue their asses. Why is taxpayer money going towards protecting the copyrights of megacorps?
If I wrote a small piece of software by myself, and found someone violating my copyright, I would be forced to sue them to protect my copyright. I doubt I could get the cops to raid them. Megacorps, on the other hand, get to use law enforcement to take down violators.
Can someone with detailed legal knowledge explain this to me?
Offshoring isn't going away, even as the economy picks up. Unless there are some radical changes in world politics or economies, offshoring is always going to be a threat to technicians, programmers, etc., no matter how skilled you are or how well you do your job.
You may want to consider switching to Business and keeping CS as a major.
Another career that seems to be blooming is nursing. I currently live in a smaller town and even here there are tons of openings for nurses and other non-doctor on-site medical people. There are plans to build a hospital a few miles from where I work, which is expected to create tons of jobs in this field.
I have heard that some areas are short on teachers, but this may not be the case where you want to work. If I were to do it all over again, I'd probably go this route and become a high school teacher.
Since I'm the "Computer Person" in the family, I get calls from family members all the time asking for help with spyware (or problems that are obviously caused by spyware). A scan with Ad-Aware usually reveals dozens of pieces of spyware and similar programs.
I'm sure OEMs get swamped with these types of calls too.
Maybe I should re-phrase this.
Many of these "advocacy" groups nail the game industry over games like GTA, etc. and cry for strict government regulation, etc., to "protect the children."
But it seems like it is parents placing these games into the hands of children, for the most part. I did not mean that this was good or bad, what I meant was that this is a decision for the parents.
This report card implies that the industry has the responsibility of making sure that "mature" games never fall into the hands of someone under 18, ever.
People begin to automatically assume that whenever little Timmy plays GTA, the evil industry is to blame, without consideration that little Timmy's parents may have allowed it.