They will be using friend codes, but Each Wii has a unique code (IIRC you can find it on the notice board), AFAIK it's not game by game as with the DS. You can already use it to let your Mii's "mingle" on other Wiis.
Yeah, that's what they said. Then Pokemon Battle Revolution came out in Japan as the first online game, and the games' friend codes were separate from the Wiis'
I'm all for friend codes, Nintendo believe their main fanbase are too young not to have this protection, and if you have a problem with that, Xbox Live is more aimed towards you (although whether or not the games are is a different matter). But if the online games continue to use separate friend codes, it'll just be a pain in the ass. Nobody wins.
Bzzt, wrong. We all share the roads, and we have to obey the traffic laws. But if a pedestrian doesn't obey them and steps out into traffic, he dies. If a motorist doesn't obey them and hits a pedestrian, he'll get stuck either having to fill out insurance paperwork or going to jail for a while.
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Life is too short not to be drunk out of your mind day and night.
Nice sig. So if you were a drunk pedestrian who wondered out onto the road, got hit by a speeding van, you'd take full responsibility for your actions, right?
I'm not criticising North America's abundance of places where jaywalking is illegal (although I'm sure I'm not the only Brit who considers this a horror story), but it isn't a free pass to be an asshole driver. If it were illegal in the UK in urban areas, I wouldn't relax entering a big city centre because "Oh, but it's their fault if they walk out in front of me."
No they haven't, they're blocking something else. Whenever something's is blocked, happens, searching for the URL returns the same complaint message. An good example is 4chan's/b/
If you are a parent, and your child gets abused by some predator through a social networking website, you are a bad parent. If you are unaware about the dangers of MySpace to your kids, you need to get out from under that rock, and start taking responsiblity to keep track of what your kids are doing.
I glimpsed over TFA, the girls are aged 14 and 15. I am speaking as a 17 year old saying that 14 is maybe borderline, but every 15 year old girl I know in school is definitely smart enough not to meet up with someone on the internet like that. The lawsuit is retarded, but I'd definitely not blame the parents. Law may have to define an age below which everyone is automatically stupid (18/21/etc.), but in reality this certainly isn't true.
Granted, the parents probably didn't do what I'd expect them to do, which is simply tell them not to meet up with people over the Internet. They may be bad parents for THAT, but not for not checking every single damn URL accessed and email sent by them.
If just one person is saved by making automobiles illegal, its worth it.
if just one person is saved by outlawing air travel, it's worth it.
if just one child's life is saved by replacing teachers with robots, it's worth it.
Those three examples all have immediate disadvantages on our ways of life (might have to think about the robots one for a bit though). The grandparent is right, the only disadvantages of this system is if legitimate sites are getting blocked, which only the conspiracy theorists claim anyway. I'm in Britain where my ISP use the Cleanfeed system. The only thing I've even noticed is when part of 4chan got blocked (the part where child pornography is supposedly occasionally posted, you surely can't blame them for that block). As of right now, even though it's still in the system, BT have unblocked it.
I agree with the nephew post saying we should be going after the distributors and producers, but this can be ineffective for sites outside of western countries.
The issue here is that some people seem unable to correctly identify the "actual criminals" preforming an "actual criminal act" in one of the two above examples. Hint: it's not the person stitting motionless gazing at an image.
Yeah, it's the person gazing at the image who's not so motionless.
Given that that is not a realistic worry, it looks like your problem is a (mental) health problem after all.
I don't want to reply with a "Looks like you've never heard of $town-you've-never-heard-of", but not all of us are lucky enough to live in Denmark or whatever the latest "Happiest country" is, and hardly any of us really want to move. Crime rate IS high in several cities in most countries.
This caught my attention. Not because it's potentially offensive, but because I doubt this holds in the UK, and possibly other countries. For example, the Wikipedia article on Independent Schools says the following:
Independent schools are entirely free to select their own pupils (subject to the general legislation against various forms of discrimination)
I don't think this is to say that they have to take anyone with a severe learning disability, but I'm sure this is to say that if they aren't careful when considering someone with for example, Dyslexia or Asperger's Syndrome, they could be screwed:-P
The report's co-writer Dr David Murakami-Wood told BBC News that, compared to other industrialised Western states, the UK was "the most surveilled country".
"We have more CCTV cameras and we have looser laws on privacy and data protection," he said.
What, the Data Protection Act 1998 is lose? Banks facing unlimited fines because some clerks can't be bothered to shred papers? I'm not saying they're bad laws, but they're a lot stricter than the US's. And how less loose can you get without completely destroying freedom of speech?
The parent and grandparent have a great idea, but there's still one thing that needs to be countered - people vandalising or littering in these things.
Maybe they could install cameras in all of them and have a nice complaint system (i.e. customer complains, check camera for previous customer, issue heavy fine - kinda like DVD rentals). But unless this is actually enforced, there's nothing to stop you entering a robocar with something nasty in it. Such as McDonalds:-)
Child pornography is illegal due to the fact that a child cannot consent to sex. The video therefore becomes evidence of an illegal act.
That doesn't hold in every country. In the UK, 16 and 17 year olds can have sex, but cannot participate in porn (since 2003). Also, we have the Indecent pseudo-photo thing. I don't think it's illegal for underage pixels to participate.
Yes, maybe Pac-Man isn't suitable for 2 or 3 year olds. However if she actually read what the E rating meant, she'd know it's suitable for children age 6 and up.
If she came up with a whole load of undeniable proof, then maybe PEGI would be editing that 3+ SVG image into a 5+ one. But - and I'm really not a fan of the ESRB (the M/AO split is retarded) - she can't complain about a 6+ rated game's effect on 2 year olds.
The legal guardians are responsible for gradually teaching the kids what's what.
That argument stops working as soon as the children are trusted to be out of the house alone. I'm not American, but as a Brit, I presume it's way below age 18. In the USA, 15 year old Timmy can go out and buy GTA legally (if he can find a store that will sell it to him, which could be difficult I'll admit). Is that the parents' faults? Should they be watching his every move? I'm still a minor (17), and it would sure as hell be an invasion of privacy to me.
I don't know if you guys forget that minors include late teenagers, or if it's normal for parents to not give them privacy at all in America, but over here even over protective parents will let a 15 year old go to the video game store on their own, and not snatch the GAME bag from them as soon as they come home. That's why it's illegal for the 15 year old to be sold Manhunt over here.
Chances are that during the first 15 minutes of speaking to machines (before reaching a human), one of them told Vincent that his call would be recorded
The best scenario was that Paypal recording (sorry, don't have a link) where the machine opens up with "This call may be recorded." The caller abused this ambiguity to say he was given permission to record.
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That's because it gives them the brain damage
Yeah, that's what they said. Then Pokemon Battle Revolution came out in Japan as the first online game, and the games' friend codes were separate from the Wiis'
I'm all for friend codes, Nintendo believe their main fanbase are too young not to have this protection, and if you have a problem with that, Xbox Live is more aimed towards you (although whether or not the games are is a different matter). But if the online games continue to use separate friend codes, it'll just be a pain in the ass. Nobody wins.
Life is too short not to be drunk out of your mind day and night.
Nice sig. So if you were a drunk pedestrian who wondered out onto the road, got hit by a speeding van, you'd take full responsibility for your actions, right?
I'm not criticising North America's abundance of places where jaywalking is illegal (although I'm sure I'm not the only Brit who considers this a horror story), but it isn't a free pass to be an asshole driver. If it were illegal in the UK in urban areas, I wouldn't relax entering a big city centre because "Oh, but it's their fault if they walk out in front of me."
You think THAT'S bad? Remember the time Peter won a date to Mexico with Gary Coleman?
No they haven't, they're blocking something else. Whenever something's is blocked, happens, searching for the URL returns the same complaint message. An good example is 4chan's /b/
Don't you mean namelabel?
I glimpsed over TFA, the girls are aged 14 and 15. I am speaking as a 17 year old saying that 14 is maybe borderline, but every 15 year old girl I know in school is definitely smart enough not to meet up with someone on the internet like that. The lawsuit is retarded, but I'd definitely not blame the parents. Law may have to define an age below which everyone is automatically stupid (18/21/etc.), but in reality this certainly isn't true.
Granted, the parents probably didn't do what I'd expect them to do, which is simply tell them not to meet up with people over the Internet. They may be bad parents for THAT, but not for not checking every single damn URL accessed and email sent by them.
Or to quote Dr. Nick on the matter
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!Hey, Slashdot called, they want their discussion back.
So I take it everything in your /tmp directory is owned by root, yeah?
If you actually read the URL you linked to, you'd see that it wasn't produced by Nintendo :p
But after seeing the Angry Nintendo Nerd's video on the Power Glove, I can agree that it kinda sucke.
Those three examples all have immediate disadvantages on our ways of life (might have to think about the robots one for a bit though). The grandparent is right, the only disadvantages of this system is if legitimate sites are getting blocked, which only the conspiracy theorists claim anyway. I'm in Britain where my ISP use the Cleanfeed system. The only thing I've even noticed is when part of 4chan got blocked (the part where child pornography is supposedly occasionally posted, you surely can't blame them for that block). As of right now, even though it's still in the system, BT have unblocked it.
I agree with the nephew post saying we should be going after the distributors and producers, but this can be ineffective for sites outside of western countries.
Yeah, it's the person gazing at the image who's not so motionless.
However .002 meters is the same as .002 yards.
I don't want to reply with a "Looks like you've never heard of $town-you've-never-heard-of", but not all of us are lucky enough to live in Denmark or whatever the latest "Happiest country" is, and hardly any of us really want to move. Crime rate IS high in several cities in most countries.
This caught my attention. Not because it's potentially offensive, but because I doubt this holds in the UK, and possibly other countries. For example, the Wikipedia article on Independent Schools says the following:
I don't think this is to say that they have to take anyone with a severe learning disability, but I'm sure this is to say that if they aren't careful when considering someone with for example, Dyslexia or Asperger's Syndrome, they could be screwed :-P
From TFA
What, the Data Protection Act 1998 is lose? Banks facing unlimited fines because some clerks can't be bothered to shred papers? I'm not saying they're bad laws, but they're a lot stricter than the US's. And how less loose can you get without completely destroying freedom of speech?
Err...yeah, what he said.
You can use some open source or Apple's PDF viewers to view the removed text y'know.
The parent and grandparent have a great idea, but there's still one thing that needs to be countered - people vandalising or littering in these things.
Maybe they could install cameras in all of them and have a nice complaint system (i.e. customer complains, check camera for previous customer, issue heavy fine - kinda like DVD rentals). But unless this is actually enforced, there's nothing to stop you entering a robocar with something nasty in it. Such as McDonalds :-)
Or not, because that'd be breaking Doctor-Patient confidentiality.
That doesn't hold in every country. In the UK, 16 and 17 year olds can have sex, but cannot participate in porn (since 2003). Also, we have the Indecent pseudo-photo thing. I don't think it's illegal for underage pixels to participate.
Yes, maybe Pac-Man isn't suitable for 2 or 3 year olds. However if she actually read what the E rating meant, she'd know it's suitable for children age 6 and up.
If she came up with a whole load of undeniable proof, then maybe PEGI would be editing that 3+ SVG image into a 5+ one. But - and I'm really not a fan of the ESRB (the M/AO split is retarded) - she can't complain about a 6+ rated game's effect on 2 year olds.
That argument stops working as soon as the children are trusted to be out of the house alone. I'm not American, but as a Brit, I presume it's way below age 18. In the USA, 15 year old Timmy can go out and buy GTA legally (if he can find a store that will sell it to him, which could be difficult I'll admit). Is that the parents' faults? Should they be watching his every move? I'm still a minor (17), and it would sure as hell be an invasion of privacy to me.
I don't know if you guys forget that minors include late teenagers, or if it's normal for parents to not give them privacy at all in America, but over here even over protective parents will let a 15 year old go to the video game store on their own, and not snatch the GAME bag from them as soon as they come home. That's why it's illegal for the 15 year old to be sold Manhunt over here.
Chances are that during the first 15 minutes of speaking to machines (before reaching a human), one of them told Vincent that his call would be recorded
The best scenario was that Paypal recording (sorry, don't have a link) where the machine opens up with "This call may be recorded." The caller abused this ambiguity to say he was given permission to record.