Encryption wouldn't do much good when a judge will just order you to reveal the password(s) under pain of a contempt charge and jail until you concede, regardless of claims of bad memory, etc.
Can't you plead the 5th when asked to give passwords? I've always wondered about that... Can you be forced to give information to the authorities? From my understanding you cannot be forced to testify against yourself.
Or maybe the "right to remain silent" doesn't always apply to certain situations?
Actually, Shadowbane was kind of fun for what it was. I participated in a few player city raids killing off their trees, but in general it was kind of the same constraints that made me want it to be Ultima Online. It was like EQ but with city building and unconstrained PvP. I played for a about a few months and they just felt it was the same old same old... Either we went out and killed mobs or we brutually destroyed somone's city or we got pk'd while hunting mobs and vice versa.
You're placing the blame on the wrong people. The blame is with the Me generation who want everything right now. Instead of working and EARNING things from their effort, they'd rather spend cash to get instant gratification. If you want to play that type of game, go buy a single player game with built in godmode.
Truth be told, I don't play MMOGs anymore, but I can tell you that it results from the following two reason (which are related to gold farming).
1. I'm tired of killing things over and over again to level. 2. I'm not willing to spend money on paying other people to do this for me.
I've been playing MUDs since Legend of the Red Dragon and I'm sick... so sick and tired of the same old formula. Kill 1,000 rats and get to level 10. Kill 10,000 Goblins and get to level 20. Kill 30,000 orcs and get to level 30.
After Muds, UO, EQ, Shadowbane, and WoW I am just sick and tired of killing things with not a simple damn end game or something like direct player interaction.
Truth be told, Ultima Online was the funnest MMOG I have ever played until they care beared and tried to copy EQ down to every last detail. I want to play a game for at the most 3 months and have my characters stats to what I want to be. The rest of the game should be a sandbox and player interaction (housing, crafting, player vs player, factions and basically player made content).
If I want to kill things over and over again to get a higher level so I can get a more powerful sword so I can kill more powerful things so I can level to get a more powerful sword yet again... You are right, I can play Diablo 2 or Baldur's Gate... Or maybe Fallout 2 which has more story and enjoyment than most of thes MMOGs today.
Ralph Koster is right... We need to shift focus away from mass genocide of rats and orcs and make the games more than just leveling. We need virtual worlds. Not single player hack and slash games with a chat interface with other players.
The games are broken and until they find a better system of advanment, neither the MMOG companies nor the gold farmers will see any of my money.
How is this empowering? Sounds more like selfish to me. Stop playing my game!
If you live in China or some other nation where $.25 per hour for a job is a dream come true, this is very empowering. Its either this or work a slave wage job in an unsafe factory or mine. That or turn to crime...
Sure it ruins our games, but we are talking about people who don't have it good as us that have more money than we know what to do with so we spend it on "virtual" items.
These people aren't doing this for fun... They are doing it to feed their families or eek a living. (well maybe not all of them)
I don't blame them because they found a way to exploit a living.
I blame the game companies for making a game that is so tedious to play and level that people are willing to pay others to do it for them.
One can only hope that the amount of effort it takes to make these (even if for benevolent reasons) is expensive/difficult enough to keep all but the most altruistic applications out of the mix.
Hrm... Wouldn't it be easier to cultivate Anthrax or make Nerve Gas for military applications?
Well truth be told aerosol attacks are highly ineffective for military applications.
UHHH? Which part of the Middle East were we occupying before 9/11?
Well it is a more consensual thing, but one of the reasons of 9/11 was Al Queada's desire to get the Americans out of Saudi Arabia so they could topple the Saudi Royal family.
Secondly, our support for Isreal is pretty much seen as American backed occupation. And don't forget what happened with Iran and the Shah.
My suggestion is that we stop publicly supporting Israel. Doesn't mean you can send money, weapons, and secret CIA type of assistance, but not so out in the open.
It costs $200 million to make some movies. If people stop paying to make the movies then that type of movie will not get made in the future.
1. Many large budget movies lately have been sucking and maybe should go away. 2. Directors with vision will still get money somehow because they make good movies (Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg for example) 3. People will still pay to watch movies in theaters and buy DVDs.
Seriously... I think a lot of crap gets churned out in the theaters is because Movie Execs throw money left and right and into fireplaces because some hack director *coughs* Uwe Boll *coughs* gave a fancy powerpoint presentation.
If these piss poor movie makers didn't get those big budgets we'd see more room for smaller more entertaining movies with reasonable budgets.
But then again... Maybe that would just lead to more smaller budget crap movies.
I dunno... If I start a business like Infinium Labs and get $67 million dollars to produce something that doesn't even get close to market... I think I wouldn't mind it.
Lets say tomorrow China acheives a singularity event (figures out how to build self replicating robots). They now become the conquistadors and our Supercarriers, Nukes, and tactical bombers are nothing but natives spears against them.
Islam merely haven't had their Martin Luther (yet).
1. Islam is not translatable into other languages (or at least not supposed to be) 2. Islam does not have a central church. 3. The Quaran is a single non-editable peice of work.
You can't add or subtract from it like you can the Bible... You can't have various translations of it nor can you interpet it in such ways. (actually the Quaran has a nice part about saying some of what is says cannot be interpeted because only God can understand)
But let me also point out that Martin Luther didn't make Christianity into a moderate religion either. He was a very hateful person (anti-jewish) and really got politics on his side with a few German princes resulting in a very nasty religious war in central Europe for a while between reformers and counter reformers.
I think it became more moderate as living conditions improved and higher level thinkers began to promote "rationalism" in the early 1700's and promoted secularism in government. This removed power from the church and we found ourselves not going off to foreign lands to kill people because they believed in a different god. We still found ourselves going to foreign lands because our king or government said so, but it was over things like national borders and economics.
You do realize that they won the crusades, don't you? It is inconvenient for the "blame the West for everything" worldview, but my ancestors got their asses kicked.
Actually, I believe the Mongols pretty much had their hand in the decline of Middle Eastern culture. Since they had the bad habbit of killing every last person in every city they came too.
The only reason they didn't get to Europe is because Ghengis Khan died and they all decided to go hom. They did wipe out a rather large army of Polish knights after the 1250's mind you.
I have been hit with that Chase $20 email about 40 times this weekend. I have to wonder how stupid they think we really are....quite a bit apparently....
Worrying about this is like worrying about opening a worm-hole and letting dinosaurs back onto the earth because some physicist wrote a book about time-travel.
"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
Basically you are a tribesman who just told the witchdoctor he was mad because he felt that is might be possible (based on knowledge from other tribes and research) that whitemen with boom sticks might show up one day and deliver world of hurt to our way of life. We could get back to worrying about next seasons crop, but that won't make a hill of difference if these things did happen.
Maybe we should invest in trying to invent gunpowder or better weapons... Or maybe ally ourselves with other tribes.
Ignoring the problem won't make the conquistadors go away.
The three primary versions of the principle, as stated by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler (1986), are:
* Weak anthropic principle (WAP): "The observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probable but they take on values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirements that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so."
* Strong anthropic principle (SAP): "The Universe must have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in its history."
* Final anthropic principle (FAP): "Intelligent information-processing must come into existence in the Universe, and, once it comes into existence, it will never die out."
Basically if something was possible naturally that would cause us not to exist, we wouldn't be around to notice so these things haven't happened because we are hear to notice. As in the universe being favorable to naturally occurring gray goo.
This doesn't preclude something may happen in the future that would cause us to cease to exist though... Which may or may not be possible depending on which version (weak or strong) you believe).
I will also point that that we already have proof that nanotechnology is possible... The human body.
Otherwise our red and white blood cells wouldn't really be all that useful at such a small size.
Ray has Type II diabetes so he has to be really careful with his health. According to him he has been able to make the symptoms go away with his diet and suppliment habbits. They can't really tell that he has it anymore, but he's not going to switch back to his old diet anytime soon.
What I hate and fear is people who would force you to take sides, people who would tell you to hate someone because he's American or Muslim. Generalization is evil. When you start considering someone as a member of a (hateful) community rather than an individual person, you start eroding your perception of him as a human being. There lies the danger, there lies the slippery slope to nazism.
I think the point he was trying to say is that their extremists act much like Nazi's and yet they are tolerated.
Take this question for example:
Can you be a Nazi and not hate Jews?
Yes you can... In fact there were countless examples of Nazi Party Members in WWII Germany weren't that all keen on the Anti-Jewish rhetoric, but were more on the party line because they wanted jobs, retribution for the loss in WWI, or a Greater Germany. These things had nothing to do with anti-semitism and yet the Nazi party carried out genocide and no one stopped them (or raised their concern).
The point of the matter is that just because the majority doesn't believe these things and have a moderate point of view, doesn't mean they can be lead by extremists who are going to cross that line.
This doesn't apply to just Islam, but all cultures, religions, and political parties.
Any moderate majority can be swayed into being extremists... It doesn't take that much.
The problem is that such inventiveness and scholarly pursuits largely stopped/stagnated as Muslim countries and culture turned inward.
I believe that happened after the time of the crusades or the Mongol invasions (and genocides) in the 1250's. You know... When they didn't have the luxury the sit around and work on science.
Although the strage thing is, that Muslims tend to dislike the Crusades more than the Mongol invasion even though the Mongols had a worse scale on the massacre side.
Although, the Mongols did wipe out about 10,000 polish knights in Eastern europe at the end of their campaign before turning back.
If you want to make Ubuntu user friendly, how about making it so that you can bypass GRUB instead of being locked out of your system just because it has an error? That to me is the epitome of bad programming.
Did you report it? They do have quality feed back.
Nobody is forcing you to go to mars. Don't project your fears on to other people.
With every kilogram counted as tens of thousands of dollars to send into orbit, it would cost exponentionally more to send a human and his/her supplies than a robot. Not counting life support systems, you also have to life food, water, and anything else to keep a human alive for 5 months to 2 years. (not to mention hopefully some for of entertainment)
Sure, I'm all for manned spaceflight as the next person, but with Nasa's current budget they'd be lucky to be able to afford to send a hamster to Mars (unless we see more funding!)
Robots tend to be more economical and safer right now. Hopefully, they'll pave the way for manned flight in the next few decades.
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For all of the FSF's talk against bad copyright policy and software restrictions, this license introduces their own set as if to say, "we don't like their way; so you should definitely do it our way instead."
RMS and the FSF aren't saying saying "All your old GPLv2's are invalid and now you must upgrade to our new GPLv3!!!"
They are giving developers the options to restrict what others from restricting the next guy down the line from doing something with their work.
You don't have to use GPLv3 if you don't want to.
If someone else releases their work with a GPLv3 license and it bothers you...
Then tough. The original author has the right to release it under any license he wants be it BSD, closed source, or GPL.
If Linus doesn't want to use GLPv3 then it is his right. He can keep v2 forever. The GPL license doesn't belong to RMS. He just made up the wording of the contract that others can use to release software with.
No one is being forced to anything they don't want to...
Well other than the people who are being restricted from adding DRM and various freedom restricting to other people's work released in GPLv3.
Well if you really want that DRM so bad... Then make your own program from scratch. Don't use someone elses open source code whose express wish is to not have his work used in ways he did not mean it to.
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Encryption wouldn't do much good when a judge will just order you to reveal the password(s) under pain of a contempt charge and jail until you concede, regardless of claims of bad memory, etc.
Can't you plead the 5th when asked to give passwords? I've always wondered about that... Can you be forced to give information to the authorities? From my understanding you cannot be forced to testify against yourself.
Or maybe the "right to remain silent" doesn't always apply to certain situations?
Can anyone shed light on this?
But there will always be paper.
"But there will always be clay tablets."-Babalyonian Historian 5000B
Actually, Shadowbane was kind of fun for what it was. I participated in a few player city raids killing off their trees, but in general it was kind of the same constraints that made me want it to be Ultima Online. It was like EQ but with city building and unconstrained PvP. I played for a about a few months and they just felt it was the same old same old... Either we went out and killed mobs or we brutually destroyed somone's city or we got pk'd while hunting mobs and vice versa.
along with estimates of illegal file sharing activity for specific titles.
And how pray tell will you acheive this?
Root kits that phone home? IP logs from torrent sites? Or a magic 8ball? Or perhaps the good old fashioned dartboard?
Hrmm... Either they are commiting questionable practices or they are pulling magic numbers out of places where the sun don't shine.
I tend to think it will be the latter since it will be cheaper and no one who buys their service will be able to prove them wrong.
You're placing the blame on the wrong people. The blame is with the Me generation who want everything right now. Instead of working and EARNING things from their effort, they'd rather spend cash to get instant gratification. If you want to play that type of game, go buy a single player game with built in godmode.
Truth be told, I don't play MMOGs anymore, but I can tell you that it results from the following two reason (which are related to gold farming).
1. I'm tired of killing things over and over again to level.
2. I'm not willing to spend money on paying other people to do this for me.
I've been playing MUDs since Legend of the Red Dragon and I'm sick... so sick and tired of the same old formula. Kill 1,000 rats and get to level 10. Kill 10,000 Goblins and get to level 20. Kill 30,000 orcs and get to level 30.
After Muds, UO, EQ, Shadowbane, and WoW I am just sick and tired of killing things with not a simple damn end game or something like direct player interaction.
Truth be told, Ultima Online was the funnest MMOG I have ever played until they care beared and tried to copy EQ down to every last detail. I want to play a game for at the most 3 months and have my characters stats to what I want to be. The rest of the game should be a sandbox and player interaction (housing, crafting, player vs player, factions and basically player made content).
If I want to kill things over and over again to get a higher level so I can get a more powerful sword so I can kill more powerful things so I can level to get a more powerful sword yet again... You are right, I can play Diablo 2 or Baldur's Gate... Or maybe Fallout 2 which has more story and enjoyment than most of thes MMOGs today.
Ralph Koster is right... We need to shift focus away from mass genocide of rats and orcs and make the games more than just leveling. We need virtual worlds. Not single player hack and slash games with a chat interface with other players.
The games are broken and until they find a better system of advanment, neither the MMOG companies nor the gold farmers will see any of my money.
How is this empowering? Sounds more like selfish to me. Stop playing my game!
If you live in China or some other nation where $.25 per hour for a job is a dream come true, this is very empowering. Its either this or work a slave wage job in an unsafe factory or mine. That or turn to crime...
Sure it ruins our games, but we are talking about people who don't have it good as us that have more money than we know what to do with so we spend it on "virtual" items.
These people aren't doing this for fun... They are doing it to feed their families or eek a living. (well maybe not all of them)
I don't blame them because they found a way to exploit a living.
I blame the game companies for making a game that is so tedious to play and level that people are willing to pay others to do it for them.
One can only hope that the amount of effort it takes to make these (even if for benevolent reasons) is expensive/difficult enough to keep all but the most altruistic applications out of the mix.
Hrm... Wouldn't it be easier to cultivate Anthrax or make Nerve Gas for military applications?
Well truth be told aerosol attacks are highly ineffective for military applications.
UHHH? Which part of the Middle East were we occupying before 9/11?
Well it is a more consensual thing, but one of the reasons of 9/11 was Al Queada's desire to get the Americans out of Saudi Arabia so they could topple the Saudi Royal family.
Secondly, our support for Isreal is pretty much seen as American backed occupation. And don't forget what happened with Iran and the Shah.
My suggestion is that we stop publicly supporting Israel. Doesn't mean you can send money, weapons, and secret CIA type of assistance, but not so out in the open.
It costs $200 million to make some movies. If people stop paying to make the movies then that type of movie will not get made in the future.
1. Many large budget movies lately have been sucking and maybe should go away.
2. Directors with vision will still get money somehow because they make good movies (Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg for example)
3. People will still pay to watch movies in theaters and buy DVDs.
Seriously... I think a lot of crap gets churned out in the theaters is because Movie Execs throw money left and right and into fireplaces because some hack director *coughs* Uwe Boll *coughs* gave a fancy powerpoint presentation.
If these piss poor movie makers didn't get those big budgets we'd see more room for smaller more entertaining movies with reasonable budgets.
But then again... Maybe that would just lead to more smaller budget crap movies.
Who cares about the VC Funding?
I dunno... If I start a business like Infinium Labs and get $67 million dollars to produce something that doesn't even get close to market... I think I wouldn't mind it.
No. I'm talking about other humans.
Lets say tomorrow China acheives a singularity event (figures out how to build self replicating robots). They now become the conquistadors and our Supercarriers, Nukes, and tactical bombers are nothing but natives spears against them.
Islam merely haven't had their Martin Luther (yet).
1. Islam is not translatable into other languages (or at least not supposed to be)
2. Islam does not have a central church.
3. The Quaran is a single non-editable peice of work.
You can't add or subtract from it like you can the Bible... You can't have various translations of it nor can you interpet it in such ways. (actually the Quaran has a nice part about saying some of what is says cannot be interpeted because only God can understand)
But let me also point out that Martin Luther didn't make Christianity into a moderate religion either. He was a very hateful person (anti-jewish) and really got politics on his side with a few German princes resulting in a very nasty religious war in central Europe for a while between reformers and counter reformers.
I think it became more moderate as living conditions improved and higher level thinkers began to promote "rationalism" in the early 1700's and promoted secularism in government. This removed power from the church and we found ourselves not going off to foreign lands to kill people because they believed in a different god. We still found ourselves going to foreign lands because our king or government said so, but it was over things like national borders and economics.
You do realize that they won the crusades, don't you? It is inconvenient for the "blame the West for everything" worldview, but my ancestors got their asses kicked.
Actually, I believe the Mongols pretty much had their hand in the decline of Middle Eastern culture. Since they had the bad habbit of killing every last person in every city they came too.
The only reason they didn't get to Europe is because Ghengis Khan died and they all decided to go hom. They did wipe out a rather large army of Polish knights after the 1250's mind you.
I have been hit with that Chase $20 email about 40 times this weekend. I have to wonder how stupid they think we really are....quite a bit apparently....
And I don't even have a Chase account!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_Context_Prob
Maybe we should invest in trying to invent gunpowder or better weapons... Or maybe ally ourselves with other tribes.
Ignoring the problem won't make the conquistadors go away.
Two words that explain this: "Anthropic Principle"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Basically if something was possible naturally that would cause us not to exist, we wouldn't be around to notice so these things haven't happened because we are hear to notice. As in the universe being favorable to naturally occurring gray goo.
This doesn't preclude something may happen in the future that would cause us to cease to exist though... Which may or may not be possible depending on which version (weak or strong) you believe).
I will also point that that we already have proof that nanotechnology is possible... The human body.
Otherwise our red and white blood cells wouldn't really be all that useful at such a small size.
Ray has Type II diabetes so he has to be really careful with his health. According to him he has been able to make the symptoms go away with his diet and suppliment habbits. They can't really tell that he has it anymore, but he's not going to switch back to his old diet anytime soon.
What I hate and fear is people who would force you to take sides, people who would tell you to hate someone because he's American or Muslim. Generalization is evil. When you start considering someone as a member of a (hateful) community rather than an individual person, you start eroding your perception of him as a human being. There lies the danger, there lies the slippery slope to nazism.
I think the point he was trying to say is that their extremists act much like Nazi's and yet they are tolerated.
Take this question for example:
Can you be a Nazi and not hate Jews?
Yes you can... In fact there were countless examples of Nazi Party Members in WWII Germany weren't that all keen on the Anti-Jewish rhetoric, but were more on the party line because they wanted jobs, retribution for the loss in WWI, or a Greater Germany. These things had nothing to do with anti-semitism and yet the Nazi party carried out genocide and no one stopped them (or raised their concern).
The point of the matter is that just because the majority doesn't believe these things and have a moderate point of view, doesn't mean they can be lead by extremists who are going to cross that line.
This doesn't apply to just Islam, but all cultures, religions, and political parties.
Any moderate majority can be swayed into being extremists... It doesn't take that much.
The problem is that such inventiveness and scholarly pursuits largely stopped/stagnated as Muslim countries and culture turned inward.
I believe that happened after the time of the crusades or the Mongol invasions (and genocides) in the 1250's. You know... When they didn't have the luxury the sit around and work on science.
Although the strage thing is, that Muslims tend to dislike the Crusades more than the Mongol invasion even though the Mongols had a worse scale on the massacre side.
Although, the Mongols did wipe out about 10,000 polish knights in Eastern europe at the end of their campaign before turning back.
If you want to make Ubuntu user friendly, how about making it so that you can bypass GRUB instead of being locked out of your system just because it has an error? That to me is the epitome of bad programming.
Did you report it? They do have quality feed back.
Where are all the people building beautiful, elegant and functional furniture?
Did you check Google?
Nobody is forcing you to go to mars. Don't project your fears on to other people.
With every kilogram counted as tens of thousands of dollars to send into orbit, it would cost exponentionally more to send a human and his/her supplies than a robot. Not counting life support systems, you also have to life food, water, and anything else to keep a human alive for 5 months to 2 years. (not to mention hopefully some for of entertainment)
Sure, I'm all for manned spaceflight as the next person, but with Nasa's current budget they'd be lucky to be able to afford to send a hamster to Mars (unless we see more funding!)
Robots tend to be more economical and safer right now. Hopefully, they'll pave the way for manned flight in the next few decades.
For all of the FSF's talk against bad copyright policy and software restrictions, this license introduces their own set as if to say, "we don't like their way; so you should definitely do it our way instead."
RMS and the FSF aren't saying saying "All your old GPLv2's are invalid and now you must upgrade to our new GPLv3!!!"
They are giving developers the options to restrict what others from restricting the next guy down the line from doing something with their work.
You don't have to use GPLv3 if you don't want to.
If someone else releases their work with a GPLv3 license and it bothers you...
Then tough. The original author has the right to release it under any license he wants be it BSD, closed source, or GPL.
If Linus doesn't want to use GLPv3 then it is his right. He can keep v2 forever. The GPL license doesn't belong to RMS. He just made up the wording of the contract that others can use to release software with.
No one is being forced to anything they don't want to...
Well other than the people who are being restricted from adding DRM and various freedom restricting to other people's work released in GPLv3.
Well if you really want that DRM so bad... Then make your own program from scratch. Don't use someone elses open source code whose express wish is to not have his work used in ways he did not mean it to.
GPLv3 gives the original author this ability.
...the graphics in Second Life weren't oh-so-1995--
Thats harsh... Quake I didn't come out til 1997.
Secondly, the only online games by 1997 was Ultima Online, M59 and muds. I don't think they can compare at all in graphics.
If you said "oh-so-2000" then I'd agree.
The only movie i've looked forward to seeing lately is V for Vendetta and thats becuase its by the W brothers
You mean brother and sister?