Off topic: I have no problem with the American word sidewalk, in fact I think it's quite intuitive. But do you really call things sidewalks that aren't actually...sidewalks?
I do know what kids tend to play, I also know some kids with access to those games, and what my family is like is highly irrelevent (unless my family thinks logically and yours doesn't), because I was not implying any disagreement with kids getting violent games in anything I said.
Hmm. I think I might object if I had a 10 yo playing Animal Crossing II with a friend who also owned a copy of Murder By Dagger: Destruction Apocolypse IV...
My point is that how would a single unified friend code make anything worse? If Timmy and Bobby can both get their hands on some multiplayer murder game, how would a per-game friend code make them any less likely to play than a "Golden Friend Code", which is what you implied in your original post?
The only logical scenario I can think of is that in this hypothetical murder game the single player is alright for a kid but not the multiplayer. If so, I'd like to know how many games come under this category...
What are you talking about? Golden Sun let's you save (almost?) anywhere, any time and any number of times, and it even has three save slots. It never autosaves.
Nonetheless, to the grandparent: I'm interested to know what games you're talking about that save to non-volatile memory continuously. Usually you'll either have to bypass checkpoints to save, or do something like a clean shutdown for the save to actually be stored.
You do realise the 10 year old would have to buy said hypothetical murder game as well? Unless it's a multiplayer only game that won't let you get past the title screen without anyone else to play with, I think Friend Codes are the least of anyone's worries.
I enjoy the friend code system, but I hate the concept of not a single unified friend code. It's a mild inconvenience I'll admit, but an unnecessary one.
a) being exposed to too much porn without any actual, real sexual relationships to compare it to totally screws up your view of what actual sexual relationships are like. This is a good reason to try to limit young teens' porn consumption until they're a little older and have a little more experience. I know some people with seriously f-ed up ideas of how sex should be, or what they expect their partner to be cool with doing...simply because they watch too much porn and don't talk to enough actual women. Fantasy, people. It's fantasy.
That's not specific to viewing too much as a teen without experience.
Chandler: I was just at the bank, and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault.
Joey: Same kind of thing happened to me! Woman pizza delivery guy come over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
Chandler: What, no, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
Joey: Noo! Nothing!
Chandler: Y'know what, we have to turn off the porn.
Joey: I think you're right.
Yeah, I know I'm probably going to be modded -1 Offtopic, but this is the most relevent Slashdot story in a while.
There's a petition for the BBFC to not have powers to ban video games on the 10 Downing Street petition site, with Manhunt 2 the main inspiration for the petition. Now I know that online petitions rarely do something, but this isn't petitionsonline.com. It's got over 200 signatures, so the least we'll get is a response from the government (the ID cards petition got one supposedly from Tony Blair himself). It's got 4 days left, so we should have a response by then.
In USA, people fear the government, in mainland EU, the government fear the people.
Fixed.
I know there's no such thing as "mainland EU", but as someone living in the UK, I'm not allowing you to complement our country as such. I mean on the current topic, the consumers do seem to be protected more than in the US (BBC Watchdog just humilliates any company who breaks the law), but the fear seems to follow the USA model.
f) it is now 2007, and linux is far ahead of windows in hardware discovery, and with a few exceptions doesn't even require you to install drivers (now where's the win98 driver floppy for my printer?).
Your FUD is several years out of date. Please try a modern linux distro and come back with some valid complaints.
The irony is just immense. Please try a modern Windows install (I don't even mean Vista) and come back with some valid retorts.
Normally when I read Slashdot comments suggesting complaining to the government, I just pass them by thinking "it'll do nothing". Chances are, that applies here, but I like to believe that the parent is right and that there are enough Brits on Slashdot to make the voices heard.
Here's my question. When are router manufacturers going to start requiring people to use WPA security? I got a Wii a couple weeks ago, and used the wireless part of my wireless router for the first time. Setup of WPA was very easy.
Funny that you mentioned the Wii, given that the Nintendo DS has no WPA functionality whatsoever. Now personally I don't know which Wifi types are secure or not, but I've seen a hell of a lot of people complain about WEP's lack of security in discussion about the Nintendo DS.
I always hoped that Nintendo would rectify this by allowing one to use the Nintendo Wii as an access point for DSs only, since if you enable WiiConnect24 it's an always-on device (and it'd also have the added benefit of not having to buy a Wireless router at all to use the Nintendo DS online, if you bought the Wii LAN adapter). But right now, all the points in my house use WEP due to my Nintendo DS.
So I was in my school's 6th form centre, just hanging around with some friends eating lunch. Went back upstairs, and one of my friends was pissed because someone stole his sandwich. Yup, he just put the sandwich down on a table, went into another room for a minute, came back and it was gone.
We were all clueless, and he was getting pretty pissed because none of us were admitting it (it wasn't us). So while we were making MY SANDWHICH jokes, he had to go to IT and check out the footage from the cameras, which completely identified the perpetrator.
(At this point I'll mention this is a private school who've done many things you'd cry about the police doing, like asking students - well, just me - to take down Youtube videos, but they've never abused the cameras)
Now don't get me wrong, it's true that a camera may not help in every situation. As mentioned in another post, it can help you identify the criminal, but that won't help if you're already dead. Point is, this does help with a hell of a lot of crimes, especially stealing and the like. And yeah, they could be abused, but so what? Law enforcement with guns have killed innocent people (I can name two UK examples), you don't see a huge campaign to disarm them. Innocent lives are worth a lot more than your embarrassment for doing something stupid.
The investigation showed solder joints between two components had broken, so a current could no longer pass through them. The breakage was found to occur because the joints loosen slightly every time the computer is turned on and off.
So they burned out the restarting coil? They should know that's not covered under Apple's warranty.
I doubt I'll succeed in convincing you that I'm trying to disprove the great-grandparent as opposed to just showing off, but two-fingered, 89wpm with 2 mistakes. I ALWAYS misspell deceive wrong (other than now thanks to Firefox's spellchecker), and I mistimed the shift key one time.
Okay I guess I was just showing off, but nonetheless, I agree that it's very easy to speedily type with 2 fingers without looking at the keyboard, although I do use other fingers unconsciously for keys other than the letters.
... it's only going to be a bit Wii late.:P Wow you completely fucked that one up. Should be 'Wii bit'. What's a 'bit Wii'? It turns your TV either all black or all white depending on how you move the mote?
Indeed. I thought US sitcoms had used enough stereotypes of Scottish people for everyone to know how to use the adjective "wee" in a sentence (and I mean "everyone"; the same US sitcoms teach the English about the Scottish:p), but looking at the current 70% funny, I guess not.
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Well whatever he's smoking will probably be taxed with the money going to convince people to quit.
... sidewalks leading up to your door...
Off topic: I have no problem with the American word sidewalk, in fact I think it's quite intuitive. But do you really call things sidewalks that aren't actually...sidewalks?
I think it's closer to a taxi driver taking what turns out to be a terrorist to the airport.
Is your comment supposed to be a homage to Top Gear, or are you just shamelessly stealing their lines verbatim?
Now, I never have purchased anything from this company...
Sure you didn't sign up to Happy Dude?
I guess stealing underpants didn't work out for them.
I do know what kids tend to play, I also know some kids with access to those games, and what my family is like is highly irrelevent (unless my family thinks logically and yours doesn't), because I was not implying any disagreement with kids getting violent games in anything I said.
Hmm. I think I might object if I had a 10 yo playing Animal Crossing II with a friend who also owned a copy of Murder By Dagger: Destruction Apocolypse IVMy point is that how would a single unified friend code make anything worse? If Timmy and Bobby can both get their hands on some multiplayer murder game, how would a per-game friend code make them any less likely to play than a "Golden Friend Code", which is what you implied in your original post?
The only logical scenario I can think of is that in this hypothetical murder game the single player is alright for a kid but not the multiplayer. If so, I'd like to know how many games come under this category...
What are you talking about? Golden Sun let's you save (almost?) anywhere, any time and any number of times, and it even has three save slots. It never autosaves.
Nonetheless, to the grandparent: I'm interested to know what games you're talking about that save to non-volatile memory continuously. Usually you'll either have to bypass checkpoints to save, or do something like a clean shutdown for the save to actually be stored.
You do realise the 10 year old would have to buy said hypothetical murder game as well? Unless it's a multiplayer only game that won't let you get past the title screen without anyone else to play with, I think Friend Codes are the least of anyone's worries.
I enjoy the friend code system, but I hate the concept of not a single unified friend code. It's a mild inconvenience I'll admit, but an unnecessary one.
Fixed.
That's not specific to viewing too much as a teen without experience.
Chandler: I was just at the bank, and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault.Joey: Same kind of thing happened to me! Woman pizza delivery guy come over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
Chandler: What, no, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
Joey: Noo! Nothing!
Chandler: Y'know what, we have to turn off the porn.
Joey: I think you're right.
Yeah, I know I'm probably going to be modded -1 Offtopic, but this is the most relevent Slashdot story in a while.
There's a petition for the BBFC to not have powers to ban video games on the 10 Downing Street petition site, with Manhunt 2 the main inspiration for the petition. Now I know that online petitions rarely do something, but this isn't petitionsonline.com. It's got over 200 signatures, so the least we'll get is a response from the government (the ID cards petition got one supposedly from Tony Blair himself). It's got 4 days left, so we should have a response by then.
Russell Crowe: Well, we couldn't find cancer, but we found a man with cancer. *Punches old man* Take that, cancer! And that! *Punches again*
Even Nintendo don't know.
Fixed.
I know there's no such thing as "mainland EU", but as someone living in the UK, I'm not allowing you to complement our country as such. I mean on the current topic, the consumers do seem to be protected more than in the US (BBC Watchdog just humilliates any company who breaks the law), but the fear seems to follow the USA model.
Your FUD is several years out of date. Please try a modern linux distro and come back with some valid complaints.
The irony is just immense. Please try a modern Windows install (I don't even mean Vista) and come back with some valid retorts.
Yes, we get it.
Not to mention the integral of sin(x) is -cos(x). The grandparent's teachers must have been really patient with him ;-)
Off topic, but does anyone know why those tags are bundled with all region 1 DVDs?
Normally when I read Slashdot comments suggesting complaining to the government, I just pass them by thinking "it'll do nothing". Chances are, that applies here, but I like to believe that the parent is right and that there are enough Brits on Slashdot to make the voices heard.
Someone please, mod parent up.
Funny that you mentioned the Wii, given that the Nintendo DS has no WPA functionality whatsoever. Now personally I don't know which Wifi types are secure or not, but I've seen a hell of a lot of people complain about WEP's lack of security in discussion about the Nintendo DS.
I always hoped that Nintendo would rectify this by allowing one to use the Nintendo Wii as an access point for DSs only, since if you enable WiiConnect24 it's an always-on device (and it'd also have the added benefit of not having to buy a Wireless router at all to use the Nintendo DS online, if you bought the Wii LAN adapter). But right now, all the points in my house use WEP due to my Nintendo DS.
So I was in my school's 6th form centre, just hanging around with some friends eating lunch. Went back upstairs, and one of my friends was pissed because someone stole his sandwich. Yup, he just put the sandwich down on a table, went into another room for a minute, came back and it was gone.
We were all clueless, and he was getting pretty pissed because none of us were admitting it (it wasn't us). So while we were making MY SANDWHICH jokes, he had to go to IT and check out the footage from the cameras, which completely identified the perpetrator.
(At this point I'll mention this is a private school who've done many things you'd cry about the police doing, like asking students - well, just me - to take down Youtube videos, but they've never abused the cameras)
Now don't get me wrong, it's true that a camera may not help in every situation. As mentioned in another post, it can help you identify the criminal, but that won't help if you're already dead. Point is, this does help with a hell of a lot of crimes, especially stealing and the like. And yeah, they could be abused, but so what? Law enforcement with guns have killed innocent people (I can name two UK examples), you don't see a huge campaign to disarm them. Innocent lives are worth a lot more than your embarrassment for doing something stupid.
The investigation showed solder joints between two components had broken, so a current could no longer pass through them. The breakage was found to occur because the joints loosen slightly every time the computer is turned on and off.
So they burned out the restarting coil? They should know that's not covered under Apple's warranty.
I doubt I'll succeed in convincing you that I'm trying to disprove the great-grandparent as opposed to just showing off, but two-fingered, 89wpm with 2 mistakes. I ALWAYS misspell deceive wrong (other than now thanks to Firefox's spellchecker), and I mistimed the shift key one time.
Okay I guess I was just showing off, but nonetheless, I agree that it's very easy to speedily type with 2 fingers without looking at the keyboard, although I do use other fingers unconsciously for keys other than the letters.
... it's only going to be a bit Wii late.Indeed. I thought US sitcoms had used enough stereotypes of Scottish people for everyone to know how to use the adjective "wee" in a sentence (and I mean "everyone"; the same US sitcoms teach the English about the Scottish :p), but looking at the current 70% funny, I guess not.