I'll bet they're caring now, and I'll bet there are some heads rolling in the legal department right now.
No shit. And, since this Livejournal entry made slashdot front page, the entire world and beyond knows. The only logical conclusion: the MPAA is preparing self termination out of shame and drafting the necessary papers as we speak.
but at the same time rather worrysome what a simple email to the ISP can do, even if it's for a good cause. Why not sue them and make things bullet-proof and at the same time strengthen the GPL in court, rather than sorting things out vigilantism-style? A pile of court-issued takedowns might be a more impressive repellant against future violations of the GPL (or any other such license) than a pile of social-engineering-issued takedowns. Don't associate "social engineering" with the negative connotation of spam/phising/etc. as I used it; instead, read it in its original meaning: someone requested a blocking of content from an ISP, essentially (TFA is void of details) only with convincing arguments but no hard proof that the GPL was indeed violated.
Exactly. The Anti-terror craze has long reached German lawmakers, and they are in a rage creating law after law (though not as bad as in the US and UK) and seeing what survives the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the court that decides if laws are against the German Grundgesetz (Basic Law, comparable to the US Constitution).
In the case of the "Federal Trojan", it was decided in 02/07 that such measures are illegal to conduct, and decisions made by the Bundesverfassungsgericht are equivalent to laws. So what they're doing now, they're keeping the discussion (and the fear-mongering) alive and continue to develop the trojan despite it being illegal, in an effort to undermine that decision. Most notorious for this behaviour is, of all people, our Minister of Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble. He repeatedly clamored and still clamors for this and other measures which are explicitely forbidden by the Grundgesetz and the Bundesverfassungsgericht, for example shooting down abducted planes. He's one of the single largest threats to what he has to protect by job description, namely the Grundgesetz.
I agree. TFA packaged the company's name 48 times in exactly as many mostly one-sentence paragraphs. Yes, I did count. PCMAG should disclose, did they ask that company for help in that report, or was it the other way around?
4) If banning 1 person under 18 from smoking 1 cigarette is justified (even if they were the last smoker on Earth), and the health effects would be the same for an average adult who smoked N cigarettes, then banning 1 adult from smoking those N cigarettes would also be justified (again, even if they were the last smoker on Earth).
5) If banning 1 person over 18 from smoking would be justified, then the same logic would apply to every person over 18, which would imply banning smoking for all people over 18.
In statement 5, you dropped the very important clause "(from smonking) those N cigarettes", therefore extending conclusion 4 to any number of cigarettes, not just "N or more". Therefore, you violated your own rule of "every statement follows logically from the previous statement". Now, I understand you wanted this problem to serve as an example for testing argument techniques, but remember: garbage in, garbage out. Your example was faulty with respect to the rules of the method you wanted to discuss, so you can't be certain to draw correct conclusions about that specific method.
Hey, you wanted mathematical precision, so there you have it. Maybe take it as a piece of evidence that social interaction (of which laws are a part of) does not always care about logic and mathematical precision to the maximum extent possible.
At what point will/did Thompson's lawsuits change from bad press, to annoyance, and finally to free publicity? For everyone interested in meta-information about video games, it probably has never been a question for more than five minutes, but what about the really critical market of casual gamers, parents, etc. pp. ?
google for "grand theft -rockstar" and you will find some interesting links on page one.
For one, the Wiki definition says "Grand Theft" is a legal term. "Grand Theft Auto" is a 1977 movie. Now, Grand Theft Auto the movie and Grand Theft Auto the game can hardly be mixed up, but I absolutely agree that the creators of GTA the game should not be able to claim monopoly on all terms "Grand Theft foo".
The GTA series makes fun of pretty much anything even remotely fitting into the game and they're not shy about it (think a huge pink plastic dildo found in a police station restroom), and now that. What a shame.
That would require some form of brightness sensor that a)would drive up costs and b) could be easily defeated by just taping over the seonsor area. Covering the whole of the reading area with tiny sensors seems a little like overkill (not that this would ever have stopped DRM proponents, but still).
Assuming you unstated unit of currency is a US dollar or something worth more per unit (not hard these days *cough*) AND "hundreds of copies" is no more than 1000, then I have to diagnose a merely tenuous grasp on Economics on your part. That, or you just love gadgets, which makes this your place then. Carry on.
Either way, to not embarass yourself, you should stop insulting people that satisfy a market subset that has more elements than {You}
You should have realized by now that everything with even remote military applications has better chances of receiving research money. In the US at least.
Fight or Flight are the natural responses to things we don't like. Some fight (especially if they have no realistic possibility to evade), others prefer to stay away from the whole mess and try to divert the mind with other things. Books, movies, alternate realities can really just be other words for the Flight response. Besides, even if you are perfectly fine with the state of things, then after you have hunted and gathered the proverbial food for the day, you can often choose to goof off. But unless you put yourself into a drug-induced coma (I won't even go into the sex thing here), our mind wants to be busy, because that's what it was designed for.
Is there some sort of shortage of MP3 players/mobile phones or something?
The iPod/iPhone is useless other than an entity for journalists to write stories about so they can look "plugged in" to the mobile music player/phones market. Many companies have attempted to maintain a presence there, but they usually don't last because the market is already over-saturated. Why would Apple's offering be any different? Just because they're Apple, so everything they do is automatically better?
Maybe Apple is looking for an entry into the burgeoning over-priced gadget market.
Criticizing Google for an no-even-announced product is fine and dandy, but like with Apple, it would be foolish to underestimate them at making a large impact at a market that seems to be divided up and settled already.
What I liked most about Bioshock was how it took those many ideas from all the stellar titles in the action genre: the implant system from Deus Ex (plasmid system), the Gravity Gun from HL2 (Telekinesis plasmid), sneaking and hacking from various "Thief" descendants, and, my personal favourite, the camera from Beyond Good and Evil, complete with the exact same piano notes played when taking a good picture. Despite those many games that served as inspiration, all those elements combine seamlessly and are held together by a narration style that never distracts from or interrupts the game flow. Outstanding voice actors conveying an interesting background story, nice graphics, only very few, minor bugs (that I have experienced, anyway), moral choices that actually matter and a very good balance of suspense and open action. I could go on. It's not a revolutionary game as the usual hype wants it to be, but evolutionary it's darn close to being the perfect shooter of our time.
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I'll bet they're caring now, and I'll bet there are some heads rolling in the legal department right now.
No shit. And, since this Livejournal entry made slashdot front page, the entire world and beyond knows. The only logical conclusion: the MPAA is preparing self termination out of shame and drafting the necessary papers as we speak.
but at the same time rather worrysome what a simple email to the ISP can do, even if it's for a good cause. Why not sue them and make things bullet-proof and at the same time strengthen the GPL in court, rather than sorting things out vigilantism-style? A pile of court-issued takedowns might be a more impressive repellant against future violations of the GPL (or any other such license) than a pile of social-engineering-issued takedowns. Don't associate "social engineering" with the negative connotation of spam/phising/etc. as I used it; instead, read it in its original meaning: someone requested a blocking of content from an ISP, essentially (TFA is void of details) only with convincing arguments but no hard proof that the GPL was indeed violated.
Is everyone still asleep from partying in their mom's basement?
He Is Not A Lawyer.
MS can afford to loose money
When they do, I hope some of that money stampedes in my general direction!
0 0 0 0? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Exactly. The Anti-terror craze has long reached German lawmakers, and they are in a rage creating law after law (though not as bad as in the US and UK) and seeing what survives the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the court that decides if laws are against the German Grundgesetz (Basic Law, comparable to the US Constitution).
In the case of the "Federal Trojan", it was decided in 02/07 that such measures are illegal to conduct, and decisions made by the Bundesverfassungsgericht are equivalent to laws. So what they're doing now, they're keeping the discussion (and the fear-mongering) alive and continue to develop the trojan despite it being illegal, in an effort to undermine that decision. Most notorious for this behaviour is, of all people, our Minister of Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble. He repeatedly clamored and still clamors for this and other measures which are explicitely forbidden by the Grundgesetz and the Bundesverfassungsgericht, for example shooting down abducted planes. He's one of the single largest threats to what he has to protect by job description, namely the Grundgesetz.
when technology allows brain implants and wireless brain-to-brain communication. Oh joy.
The password was hunter2?
Excuse me for having missed the memo, but why is anti-monopolistic regulation in general or in this particular case a bad thing?
To me he looks more like he fights a war on reality. The only thing possibly worth worrying about is that he's not been laughed off the stage yet.
I agree. TFA packaged the company's name 48 times in exactly as many mostly one-sentence paragraphs. Yes, I did count. PCMAG should disclose, did they ask that company for help in that report, or was it the other way around?
No I'm not
4) If banning 1 person under 18 from smoking 1 cigarette is justified (even if they were the last smoker on Earth), and the health effects would be the same for an average adult who smoked N cigarettes, then banning 1 adult from smoking those N cigarettes would also be justified (again, even if they were the last smoker on Earth).
5) If banning 1 person over 18 from smoking would be justified, then the same logic would apply to every person over 18, which would imply banning smoking for all people over 18.
In statement 5, you dropped the very important clause "(from smonking) those N cigarettes", therefore extending conclusion 4 to any number of cigarettes, not just "N or more". Therefore, you violated your own rule of "every statement follows logically from the previous statement".
Now, I understand you wanted this problem to serve as an example for testing argument techniques, but remember: garbage in, garbage out. Your example was faulty with respect to the rules of the method you wanted to discuss, so you can't be certain to draw correct conclusions about that specific method.
Hey, you wanted mathematical precision, so there you have it. Maybe take it as a piece of evidence that social interaction (of which laws are a part of) does not always care about logic and mathematical precision to the maximum extent possible.
At what point will/did Thompson's lawsuits change from bad press, to annoyance, and finally to free publicity? For everyone interested in meta-information about video games, it probably has never been a question for more than five minutes, but what about the really critical market of casual gamers, parents, etc. pp. ?
google for "grand theft -rockstar" and you will find some interesting links on page one.
For one, the Wiki definition says "Grand Theft" is a legal term. "Grand Theft Auto" is a 1977 movie. Now, Grand Theft Auto the movie and Grand Theft Auto the game can hardly be mixed up, but I absolutely agree that the creators of GTA the game should not be able to claim monopoly on all terms "Grand Theft foo".
The GTA series makes fun of pretty much anything even remotely fitting into the game and they're not shy about it (think a huge pink plastic dildo found in a police station restroom), and now that. What a shame.
That would require some form of brightness sensor that a)would drive up costs and b) could be easily defeated by just taping over the seonsor area. Covering the whole of the reading area with tiny sensors seems a little like overkill (not that this would ever have stopped DRM proponents, but still).
Assuming you unstated unit of currency is a US dollar or something worth more per unit (not hard these days *cough*) AND "hundreds of copies" is no more than 1000, then I have to diagnose a merely tenuous grasp on Economics on your part. That, or you just love gadgets, which makes this your place then. Carry on.
Either way, to not embarass yourself, you should stop insulting people that satisfy a market subset that has more elements than {You}
You should have realized by now that everything with even remote military applications has better chances of receiving research money. In the US at least.
Why all the trouble blocking rss-this or blog-that? Deploy the backhoes and goatse your infrastructure!
Fight or Flight are the natural responses to things we don't like. Some fight (especially if they have no realistic possibility to evade), others prefer to stay away from the whole mess and try to divert the mind with other things. Books, movies, alternate realities can really just be other words for the Flight response. Besides, even if you are perfectly fine with the state of things, then after you have hunted and gathered the proverbial food for the day, you can often choose to goof off. But unless you put yourself into a drug-induced coma (I won't even go into the sex thing here), our mind wants to be busy, because that's what it was designed for.
Is there some sort of shortage of MP3 players/mobile phones or something?
The iPod/iPhone is useless other than an entity for journalists to write stories about so they can look "plugged in" to the mobile music player/phones market. Many companies have attempted to maintain a presence there, but they usually don't last because the market is already over-saturated. Why would Apple's offering be any different? Just because they're Apple, so everything they do is automatically better?
Maybe Apple is looking for an entry into the burgeoning over-priced gadget market.
Criticizing Google for an no-even-announced product is fine and dandy, but like with Apple, it would be foolish to underestimate them at making a large impact at a market that seems to be divided up and settled already.
(get your own laywer)
And while you're at it, after you have been granted permission, do the world a favor and send him along for the ride.
What I liked most about Bioshock was how it took those many ideas from all the stellar titles in the action genre: the implant system from Deus Ex (plasmid system), the Gravity Gun from HL2 (Telekinesis plasmid), sneaking and hacking from various "Thief" descendants, and, my personal favourite, the camera from Beyond Good and Evil, complete with the exact same piano notes played when taking a good picture. Despite those many games that served as inspiration, all those elements combine seamlessly and are held together by a narration style that never distracts from or interrupts the game flow. Outstanding voice actors conveying an interesting background story, nice graphics, only very few, minor bugs (that I have experienced, anyway), moral choices that actually matter and a very good balance of suspense and open action. I could go on. It's not a revolutionary game as the usual hype wants it to be, but evolutionary it's darn close to being the perfect shooter of our time.