I'd guess 2020-30ish. Depends if they find a really clean way of doing this.
No is going to get a prosthetic body from a local "chop shop" if they are going to get really bad infections at the spots its tied to their flesh and bone.
The forget that fact.. ok, want me to state an example? You're going to a party, you and your girlfriend (let's just imagine this can happen for a while) are driving there. Will there be an argument over who gets to sit in the passenger seat?... no thanks:)
My suggestion is to let her win whatever argument she wants to have and then you can be both in the back seat on the drive home from the alcohol induced party and let the car drive.
Oh wait a minute this is slashdot... Well as long as you have a DVD player in the back seat and some kleenex and lotion you should be fine.
More people leaving MS and oining Google means more google greatness:)
Unless of course Microsoft's plan all along was to slowly replace all Google employees with former Microsoft ones. And when the code word is leaked they'll all revolt and start a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Of course the plan could back fire after the MS employees have their cold hearts melted by Google's love in some sort of 80's carebare-ish type of montage at the last moment.
I don't care how interesting his phone call was to him, he had no right to involve me in it, and that was the choice he made when he tried to operate a car and a phone at the same time.
Chances are you'd be hit anyways even if he wasn't using his cell phone so don't blame the technology.
In the absence of valid information during a decision making process it would be foolish not to assume the worst.
So we are going to go about our daily lives and assume just because we don't have enough information about a web site that we are all going to die horrible ebola related deaths while a nuclear fire rains down on us while nano-bots turn us to grey goo?
Its like not getting a call from your wife/girlfriend when you expected one and then assuming she was kidnapped, raped, murdered and thrown into a dumpter and you call 911 for help when all along she just left her cell phone at home by mistake.
Seriously, I thought this thing was viral marketing or a live action game of some sort... Just because a site throws encyrption looking codes and has maps with dots on it does not make a threat to our existance.
Remember, when you assume the worst sometimes you make the situation worse by either poor health from all that stress, getting fined by the authorities for harrassing them over non-issues, or pissing off your friends and loved ones who think your are a paranoid person who won't give them any space.
Until you clear cut evidence that something bad is going to or taking place then that is when you need to act on it. Besides it you act on abscene of information a real enemy would use that against you and force you into doing things because you are paranoid and then striking you when you finally let your guard down.
Also, what credentials does this guy have beyond being a web designer. i.e., what gives him the guts to carry out an 'experiment' like that and quantitatively derive results from it from an authoritative sociological standpoint?
Who need credentials? The guy wanted to make a point and it turned out people just overhyped something that could have just been a live action game going on.
Seriously, he wasn't granted government or college grants to pull this off.
Heck anyone could have did it. I think he was trying to say that we as a people are being super paranoid to an extend that we look at non-novel events and take them out of context. Its as much as a social expiriment as Andy Kaufman made a tv show that looked like its vertical sync was messed up so people would get up and try to fix their TV while the show was going on.
He's basically saying... "Hey guys! You just made a fool of yourself and I didn't help you do this one bit!"
People are simply afraid of what they don't know or don't understand. In the absence of information or explanation, it is often wise to assume the worst - indeed, doing so helped our ancestors survive, which is why such behavior is now instinctive.
Actually, one anthropologist pointed out at one time (can't remember the link), people who died in combat during the pre-1700 eras were more likley to have more children than people who were came back from battle. They thought it might be something to the lines that reckless people have more sex and therefore pass on their genes.
Secondly, fear will often get you killed in certain situations when bravery or calm thinking will get you through the situation.
Besides who wants to sit around and fear the uknown of what you have control over. Its like worrying about what happens after you die. Something man cannot understand nor will it make a difference if you sit around and live in fear all day.
Not sure why they moded you over rated since it would be the first thing I would do...
But I think the problem is since the bootloader is putting the entire OS into a virtual machine there are not infected dlls to speak of. Heck... Bootloader might even use a filesystem you can't read, but you should be able to still see that extra partion or MBR whatever the highjack OS is using.
In general parlance, could someone who plays in increments of less than 15 minutes be considered a 'gamer'?
Actually, I think they got their definitions backwards.
Could a peice of software be considered a "game" if it takes more than 15 minutes to play before you start to enjoy it?
I think that is what is meant by causual gamer. You pick up a game and in 90 seconds you are enjoying yourself and not after 90 minutes of hack and slashing... Oh and don't forget that if you can't simply save and put the game down without loosing enjoyement in 15 minutes of you decided to quit (ie save points, having to remember what exactly you were doing, and where you were going) then it isn't a casual game either.
They'll find a hack for Windows, they'll buy Windows, or more than likely they'll just buy a new PC that comes with Windows legally bundled.
Well... If you are already pirating windows, I seriously doubt you are going to have any desire to buy a license or a new computer just because you can't get security updates. Which of course means more zombie boxes for DoSers and Spammers.
But that isn't the real problem because if you pirate its your problem and not Microsofts. However, I'm more concenred about the stories I've been hearing that the WGA either breaks windows or its performation or won't accept legitimate keys of your copy of XP.
So legitimate customers who paid for their copy are getting hosed.
...a inter stellar space faring civilization that would be able to visit us would not use lasers or radio waves to communicate. In order to travel that far of time and space they will need to find some sort of other method like worm holes or something else that gets around E=MC^2 limitations.
Otherwise we'd be able to get a signal, but by the time we send a message back the other civilization could be dead and gone as well as us.
Take Two and Rockstar should have known the possible consequences of what they were doing.
Not really. It would be like a construction working putting pin ups of Playboy or Hustler between the drywall and insulation and then you finding it 5 years lader when you are knocking down a wall.
I mean the construction work is at fault, but is the company who did it really to blame? Unless the contractor foreman sat there and watched the guy do it, then you can't really blame the company with anything other than poor managment.
Its not like it is company policy or a design issue to do these things.
It may have been an oversite... Like during construction one of the workers was making obscene woodcarvings in the studs of the house (no pun intended) and the foreman comes over and says "Hey you can't put that there! Get rid of it!" and instead of removing the studs with the obscene word carvings, the construction worker puts drywall over it to save himself time.
That is most likley what happened with hot coffee. The programmers put it in there thinking it would be cool and the manager says "Guys we can't have this in game! we'll get an AO rating!" and the programmers just wall it up like the lazy construction worker since it would require more effort to hunt down and remove all the code than just remove its accessbility.
Still... We shouldn't be wasting tax money over this issue in persuing selective morality in the courts. We want ethics in our courts so it would be best suited to going after Take Two's alledged fraud.
No. There is still piracy because CDs and downloads are still way over priced for their convenience.
Cds need to be $5 or less and downloads need to be $.75 or cheaper (heck they should be a nickel).
If this is too expensive for them to make then they need to make their production and promotion costs cheaper and not take it up with the government. I don't want my taxes being spoon fed into people who I wouldn't even consider to be worth the effort even to steal their music much less buy it.
Most of the real musicians I support through CD purchases aren't with RIAA (or whatever European equivalent) and won't be seeing this "tax" money anyways.
The money is they redistributed to registered copyright owners, proportionally to the royalties they earn from other, more easily quantifiable sources (sales, public performances, etc.). Not perfect, but that's the best way they could find. (emphasis mine)
Seems like a system somewhere I've read about...
"A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."
Now this name of this system eludes me, but I think we fought several wars over fighting letting this style of government spread... Now what could the name of that system be??
Seriously, folks... This is nothing more than a planned economy type of deal and I doubt many independent or foreign musicians will see a drop of that money. If the labels only lower their prices and let capitalism go with the flow everything would fall into place. Piracy only exists in markets where it is more convenient and cheaper to copy.
If it was just as cheep but more convenient to buy music instead of steal it, then people would buy music instead of having to spend tons of their time downloading crappy quality mp3s. And putting DRM on your cds just makes piracy a more logical route. Let the market sort it out the correct way.
Not subsidize selective industry members in some type of socialist type of scheme.
Where are there parents while they spend so many hours per day at these places? I think that they should bare some responsibility for their children's actions.
To be fair, the parents are busy spending 15 hour work days making your iPods in slave like conditions. Are you feeling any better now?
(By the way: Don't bring up the Geneva Accords. They specifically exclude people who violate certain "rules of civilized warfare", such as fighting in uniform, correctly identifying themselves, targeting only war infrastructure rather than civilians, etc. Terrorists miss on many of these qualifications, and it only takes one. Such people are NOT SUPPOSED to get the convention-specified treatment of a prisoner of war. This was done deliberately in the original formulation of the accords, to create an incentive for fighters, armies, and the organizations that field them to obey the rules in turn.)
With that thinking, the German occupiers of France, Ukraine, and West Russia were legally within their rights to shoot French resitance members or Soviet Partisans on the spot who did not have proper uniforms.
The Germans were sticklers on this issue and would shoot downed Allied pilots who had take off their uniforms to avoid detection. (Of course to be fair, the German govenrment issued Volksturm armbands to civilian militas so they could be considered government combatants. And to be even more fair... US occupation forces in Germany did put Werewolf resistance members to death by firing squad instead of being treated like Pows.)
My point of this diatribe is just because the Geneva convention allows such behavior, doesn't make it right.
What happens if say in 75 years we end up in a war with a new superpower and end up with the same issue, but instead we are the ones being occupied (yeah I know a Red Dawn scenario is unlikley this days but lets say China catches up to us by 2050). Would you not hope that our resistance fighters would be treated the same as POWs?
I agree that these terrorists have done some pretty shitty things to us, but it doesn't mean we must become monsters in the process of administering justice. We must hold up our ideals least we become like those we are fighting.
What is the point of living in a safe world when have become destroyed everything we were originally fighting for in the process.
Adobe Acrobat Professional 5.0 (but its kind of harder in 7.0)
You can take a pdf someone sent you and use the embedded font and type your own text and modify the pdf to whatever you feel like. If of course the person embedded the fonts.
the thing about big brother was that you could see the face of the person watching you so you knew you were being watched...
but CCTV is just a camera and you don't know if anyone is paying attention
speaking of which there is a neat google hack that you can look at unsecured video cameras around the world. most of this are just public web cams people setup. most are in Japan or in Europe and even some of them have movable cameras
If the Chinese people don't like the way their government is restricting their access to information then they have a moral obligation to overthrow that government, either peacefully via voting in the next election, or by force using a militia formed from the people.
I don't know about the Chinese, but in America if we vote the wrong way, those diebold voting machines discards our vote.
Secondly, have you ever tried to revolt with a hunting rifle against a M1Abrams tank or B52 bomber? Its not that effective.
[/sarcasm off]
So the truth of the matter is that sometimes voting against or fighting against the power is pointless if the system is set against such a thing.
However, if you are subversive and fight within... You know... By passing the firewall... Working against the system, but without being detected. Getting your underground group into positions of political power and within the military. Well... Then you have a better chance of fighting the government.
Luckily, voting still matters in our country and second amendment does entail a bit more freedoms in case that doesn't work, but I can understand when certain people living in certain nations cannot excercise either option.
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I'd guess 2020-30ish. Depends if they find a really clean way of doing this.
No is going to get a prosthetic body from a local "chop shop" if they are going to get really bad infections at the spots its tied to their flesh and bone.
The forget that fact.. ok, want me to state an example? You're going to a party, you and your girlfriend (let's just imagine this can happen for a while) are driving there. Will there be an argument over who gets to sit in the passenger seat? ... no thanks :)
My suggestion is to let her win whatever argument she wants to have and then you can be both in the back seat on the drive home from the alcohol induced party and let the car drive.
Oh wait a minute this is slashdot... Well as long as you have a DVD player in the back seat and some kleenex and lotion you should be fine.
More people leaving MS and oining Google means more google greatness :)
Unless of course Microsoft's plan all along was to slowly replace all Google employees with former Microsoft ones. And when the code word is leaked they'll all revolt and start a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Of course the plan could back fire after the MS employees have their cold hearts melted by Google's love in some sort of 80's carebare-ish type of montage at the last moment.
I don't care how interesting his phone call was to him, he had no right to involve me in it, and that was the choice he made when he tried to operate a car and a phone at the same time.
Chances are you'd be hit anyways even if he wasn't using his cell phone so don't blame the technology.
Blame the driver.
In the absence of valid information during a decision making process it would be foolish not to assume the worst.
So we are going to go about our daily lives and assume just because we don't have enough information about a web site that we are all going to die horrible ebola related deaths while a nuclear fire rains down on us while nano-bots turn us to grey goo?
Its like not getting a call from your wife/girlfriend when you expected one and then assuming she was kidnapped, raped, murdered and thrown into a dumpter and you call 911 for help when all along she just left her cell phone at home by mistake.
Seriously, I thought this thing was viral marketing or a live action game of some sort... Just because a site throws encyrption looking codes and has maps with dots on it does not make a threat to our existance.
Remember, when you assume the worst sometimes you make the situation worse by either poor health from all that stress, getting fined by the authorities for harrassing them over non-issues, or pissing off your friends and loved ones who think your are a paranoid person who won't give them any space.
Until you clear cut evidence that something bad is going to or taking place then that is when you need to act on it. Besides it you act on abscene of information a real enemy would use that against you and force you into doing things because you are paranoid and then striking you when you finally let your guard down.
Example: Boy who cried wolf.
Also, what credentials does this guy have beyond being a web designer. i.e., what gives him the guts to carry out an 'experiment' like that and quantitatively derive results from it from an authoritative sociological standpoint?
Who need credentials? The guy wanted to make a point and it turned out people just overhyped something that could have just been a live action game going on.
Seriously, he wasn't granted government or college grants to pull this off.
Heck anyone could have did it. I think he was trying to say that we as a people are being super paranoid to an extend that we look at non-novel events and take them out of context. Its as much as a social expiriment as Andy Kaufman made a tv show that looked like its vertical sync was messed up so people would get up and try to fix their TV while the show was going on.
He's basically saying... "Hey guys! You just made a fool of yourself and I didn't help you do this one bit!"
People are simply afraid of what they don't know or don't understand. In the absence of information or explanation, it is often wise to assume the worst - indeed, doing so helped our ancestors survive, which is why such behavior is now instinctive.
Actually, one anthropologist pointed out at one time (can't remember the link), people who died in combat during the pre-1700 eras were more likley to have more children than people who were came back from battle. They thought it might be something to the lines that reckless people have more sex and therefore pass on their genes.
Secondly, fear will often get you killed in certain situations when bravery or calm thinking will get you through the situation.
Besides who wants to sit around and fear the uknown of what you have control over. Its like worrying about what happens after you die. Something man cannot understand nor will it make a difference if you sit around and live in fear all day.
Not sure why they moded you over rated since it would be the first thing I would do...
But I think the problem is since the bootloader is putting the entire OS into a virtual machine there are not infected dlls to speak of. Heck... Bootloader might even use a filesystem you can't read, but you should be able to still see that extra partion or MBR whatever the highjack OS is using.
Did they find that the laptop was under a stack of TPS reports at the office the entire time?
In general parlance, could someone who plays in increments of less than 15 minutes be considered a 'gamer'?
Actually, I think they got their definitions backwards.
Could a peice of software be considered a "game" if it takes more than 15 minutes to play before you start to enjoy it?
I think that is what is meant by causual gamer. You pick up a game and in 90 seconds you are enjoying yourself and not after 90 minutes of hack and slashing... Oh and don't forget that if you can't simply save and put the game down without loosing enjoyement in 15 minutes of you decided to quit (ie save points, having to remember what exactly you were doing, and where you were going) then it isn't a casual game either.
(which is like $88 [newegg.com]).
I like the reviews:
****- Average Rating out of 215 voters
Pros: It's windows...
Cons: It's windows...
Other Thoughts: Did I mention it's windows.
They'll find a hack for Windows, they'll buy Windows, or more than likely they'll just buy a new PC that comes with Windows legally bundled.
Well... If you are already pirating windows, I seriously doubt you are going to have any desire to buy a license or a new computer just because you can't get security updates. Which of course means more zombie boxes for DoSers and Spammers.
But that isn't the real problem because if you pirate its your problem and not Microsofts. However, I'm more concenred about the stories I've been hearing that the WGA either breaks windows or its performation or won't accept legitimate keys of your copy of XP.
So legitimate customers who paid for their copy are getting hosed.
...a inter stellar space faring civilization that would be able to visit us would not use lasers or radio waves to communicate. In order to travel that far of time and space they will need to find some sort of other method like worm holes or something else that gets around E=MC^2 limitations.
Otherwise we'd be able to get a signal, but by the time we send a message back the other civilization could be dead and gone as well as us.
Given that, what does "Separation of church and state" really mean, anyway?
It means Chruches and religious doctrines should not interfere with government policy.
And government should not interfere with the policies and doctrines of churches.
It is as simple as that.
One can still be religious and political at the same time but they would neither be a pious man nor a secular man.
Take Two and Rockstar should have known the possible consequences of what they were doing.
Not really. It would be like a construction working putting pin ups of Playboy or Hustler between the drywall and insulation and then you finding it 5 years lader when you are knocking down a wall.
I mean the construction work is at fault, but is the company who did it really to blame? Unless the contractor foreman sat there and watched the guy do it, then you can't really blame the company with anything other than poor managment.
Its not like it is company policy or a design issue to do these things.
It may have been an oversite... Like during construction one of the workers was making obscene woodcarvings in the studs of the house (no pun intended) and the foreman comes over and says "Hey you can't put that there! Get rid of it!" and instead of removing the studs with the obscene word carvings, the construction worker puts drywall over it to save himself time.
That is most likley what happened with hot coffee. The programmers put it in there thinking it would be cool and the manager says "Guys we can't have this in game! we'll get an AO rating!" and the programmers just wall it up like the lazy construction worker since it would require more effort to hunt down and remove all the code than just remove its accessbility.
Still... We shouldn't be wasting tax money over this issue in persuing selective morality in the courts. We want ethics in our courts so it would be best suited to going after Take Two's alledged fraud.
Well, if you can't maintain them, don't spread your legs!
If they are law abiding Chinese citizens they are only allowed one child.
No. There is still piracy because CDs and downloads are still way over priced for their convenience.
Cds need to be $5 or less and downloads need to be $.75 or cheaper (heck they should be a nickel).
If this is too expensive for them to make then they need to make their production and promotion costs cheaper and not take it up with the government. I don't want my taxes being spoon fed into people who I wouldn't even consider to be worth the effort even to steal their music much less buy it.
Most of the real musicians I support through CD purchases aren't with RIAA (or whatever European equivalent) and won't be seeing this "tax" money anyways.
The money is they redistributed to registered copyright owners, proportionally to the royalties they earn from other, more easily quantifiable sources (sales, public performances, etc.). Not perfect, but that's the best way they could find. (emphasis mine)
Seems like a system somewhere I've read about...
"A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."
Now this name of this system eludes me, but I think we fought several wars over fighting letting this style of government spread... Now what could the name of that system be??
Seriously, folks... This is nothing more than a planned economy type of deal and I doubt many independent or foreign musicians will see a drop of that money. If the labels only lower their prices and let capitalism go with the flow everything would fall into place. Piracy only exists in markets where it is more convenient and cheaper to copy.
If it was just as cheep but more convenient to buy music instead of steal it, then people would buy music instead of having to spend tons of their time downloading crappy quality mp3s. And putting DRM on your cds just makes piracy a more logical route. Let the market sort it out the correct way.
Not subsidize selective industry members in some type of socialist type of scheme.
Where are there parents while they spend so many hours per day at these places? I think that they should bare some responsibility for their children's actions.
To be fair, the parents are busy spending 15 hour work days making your iPods in slave like conditions. Are you feeling any better now?
(By the way: Don't bring up the Geneva Accords. They specifically exclude people who violate certain "rules of civilized warfare", such as fighting in uniform, correctly identifying themselves, targeting only war infrastructure rather than civilians, etc. Terrorists miss on many of these qualifications, and it only takes one. Such people are NOT SUPPOSED to get the convention-specified treatment of a prisoner of war. This was done deliberately in the original formulation of the accords, to create an incentive for fighters, armies, and the organizations that field them to obey the rules in turn.)
With that thinking, the German occupiers of France, Ukraine, and West Russia were legally within their rights to shoot French resitance members or Soviet Partisans on the spot who did not have proper uniforms.
The Germans were sticklers on this issue and would shoot downed Allied pilots who had take off their uniforms to avoid detection. (Of course to be fair, the German govenrment issued Volksturm armbands to civilian militas so they could be considered government combatants. And to be even more fair... US occupation forces in Germany did put Werewolf resistance members to death by firing squad instead of being treated like Pows.)
My point of this diatribe is just because the Geneva convention allows such behavior, doesn't make it right.
What happens if say in 75 years we end up in a war with a new superpower and end up with the same issue, but instead we are the ones being occupied (yeah I know a Red Dawn scenario is unlikley this days but lets say China catches up to us by 2050). Would you not hope that our resistance fighters would be treated the same as POWs?
I agree that these terrorists have done some pretty shitty things to us, but it doesn't mean we must become monsters in the process of administering justice. We must hold up our ideals least we become like those we are fighting.
What is the point of living in a safe world when have become destroyed everything we were originally fighting for in the process.
Adobe Acrobat Professional 5.0 (but its kind of harder in 7.0)
You can take a pdf someone sent you and use the embedded font and type your own text and modify the pdf to whatever you feel like. If of course the person embedded the fonts.
the thing about big brother was that you could see the face of the person watching you so you knew you were being watched...
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but CCTV is just a camera and you don't know if anyone is paying attention
speaking of which there is a neat google hack that you can look at unsecured video cameras around the world. most of this are just public web cams people setup. most are in Japan or in Europe and even some of them have movable cameras
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3A%22V
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%2
Perhaps the earth is supposed to get warmer.
Supposed to? Supposed to!
We were supposed to die at old at 30 and live in caves, but you don't see us doing that anymore.
If the Chinese people don't like the way their government is restricting their access to information then they have a moral obligation to overthrow that government, either peacefully via voting in the next election, or by force using a militia formed from the people.
I don't know about the Chinese, but in America if we vote the wrong way, those diebold voting machines discards our vote.
Secondly, have you ever tried to revolt with a hunting rifle against a M1Abrams tank or B52 bomber? Its not that effective.
[/sarcasm off]
So the truth of the matter is that sometimes voting against or fighting against the power is pointless if the system is set against such a thing.
However, if you are subversive and fight within... You know... By passing the firewall... Working against the system, but without being detected. Getting your underground group into positions of political power and within the military. Well... Then you have a better chance of fighting the government.
Luckily, voting still matters in our country and second amendment does entail a bit more freedoms in case that doesn't work, but I can understand when certain people living in certain nations cannot excercise either option.
Don't think so, since it is not possible for you to use the font, not more than you could use a font sent to you on a paper copy.
Actually, you can if you have the full version of Adobe. Just not the letters that aren't in use.