Or how about the freedom to actually b able to go about your business under the presumption that any accusation is substantiated before proof, and accusation ALONE not enough to have you affected?
The positive comments, I suspect, are from people that have never experienced a free-to-play game.
And this comment, I suspect, is ignorant at best. Maybe the cheers are coming from not just those who tried TF2 during a free weekend, but from those who are not quite cynical about things.
There is invariably a swarm of players from developing nations that can't or won't speak a server's primary language, play on machines that chug at 999ms+, and choke servers.
That happens WITHOUT a game being free to play. Garry's Mod - where you have to pay to have the game, and play it... the server I play on [rANdOM - their Fretta, Trouble in Terrorist Town, Flood, and Zombie Survival servers specifically] face that shit all the time. We're DoS'd / DDoS'd randomly - some weeks it can be as much as 5 times in a week, one week it was every single day, sometimes twice a day. We deal with script kiddies, micspamming namechanging trolls, and foreigners, and people who don't DoS the server, but still cause it to lag.
To believe this is limited to free-to-play games is retarded.
I wouldn't be surprised if server owners find some way to identify non-premium players and lock them out, nor would I fault them.
I'd be more in agreement if they actually showed interest in fact checking, going on more evidence than just mere accusation, and showed a flying damn in at least a consumer-company level concept of due process - something that deals worked out with the likes of the RIAA, MPAA, usually lack.
Rampant copright violation =/= rampant murder =/= justiication to throw due process to hell. By ignorance and hypocrisy,do you mean people like you who try to draw a false contradiction by taking a small comment and applying who said it to everybody, and creating a false contradiction? Asshattery.
Generally stories about copyright infringement and such are packed to the brim with breathtakingly stupid comments in the vein of "I shouldn't have to pay for anything".
[citation needed]
At least, I see posts explaining the conditions in which one is willing to pay, and opposition to their tactics, but that type of comment is rare. And I'm here all the time pretty much. You are grossly generalizing based potentially on a miniscule % of comments exactly like that.
Problem as well is that groups like PETA distort what they see, taking things out of context, or even staging particular events that help to hurt the truth in the messages they send.
[And really, your last line is nothing but a troll. I eat meat, perfect health, some do and are not, but eating meat somehow cancer, low sperm count, obesity and heart disease? can you say [citation needed]? ]
"If the company is adhering to the rules of the law, they wouldn't have to worry about being defamed by people"?
No... just.. no. If the people can make it look convincing enough - either by staging, or taking what they do see so out of context, whether or not they are following these laws is rendered irrelevant.
Those people don't realize the idiocy of the statement. I'd go on a philosophical, technical rant explaining it all but I've done that too many times on the internet as it is. >_ Time for me to stop annoying people via nitpicking, I guess.
... no batter where the argument is made it doesn't make ANY sense since no HUMAN BEING with ANY degree of privacy can also have NOTHING to hide - the two are walking contradictions when paired together.
I just wish this phrase would die a very fast and painful death by retardation... instead of subjecting myself to the retardation of ANYBODY using it..
... so? It may be for everybody, that does not however make it immune frm scrutiny.
Jeeez, what is with the gross generalizations some people like to take about/., or any site?/. IS NOT A HIVE MIND.
By sensible, you mean the comments that make up false things about the/. community, take arguments out of context, and basuically ignore facts for baseless hyperbole? *laughs*
That isn't dodging - your entire point is nothing more than repeating the same doom and gloom crap that has been spouted since just before the BETAMAX DECISION. People will pay - even those who pirate something. Piracy has existed fro decades now, and people still pay. Downloading legally free content - copyrighted or not - has always been legal, and yet those projects that seek donations still get some, it is not ALL OR NOTHING like you seem to believe.
No, we also need a provision where when a cop abuses his position in such a way where enough circumstantial evidence is present [like the witnesses in this case] the persons being abused have full right to restrain him, defend, etc as if he were a civilian.
This may be a controversial idea, but fuck it - this putting cops on such a high pedestal that they can't possibly do wrong is EXACTLY WHY we are in this fucking mess in the first place - conditioned so when bad cops act bad we don't have any ability - psychologically, or legally - to properly defend ourselves. So much so that people will now, probably, accuse me of wanting to support assaulting cops likle morons. No, I don't advocate that, but if somebody is abusing their badge - and physically abusing others, why the fuck should they mot be physically restrained, etc like anybody else?
Uh... Godwin merely is about the likelihood of naziism being referenced to increasing as a discussion. THAT'S IT. Nowhere does it say any analogies are invalid, or any of that other shit people who abuse Godwin usually bring up.
... you do know the difference between being indirectly exposed to unfocused radiation when separated by layers of aluminums, plastic polymers, insulation, etc, and being directly exposed to concentrated ionizing radiation where your thin clothing is the only thing separating you from the radiation... right?
Not calling it stealing isn't obfruscating anything, it is by the very logical and factual analysis that copying a sog, movie, piece of software is different than the social and legal construct of taking and depriving somebody of something they had [and no longer had]. "taking something without payng for it" is NOT the definition by any logical stretch, not along, since that definition is TOO open ended, and leads to all sorts of absurdity regarding commonly legal/moral situations.
Tracing an IP address stands a pretty good chance of leading yoiu to the primary account owner.
But account owner =/= person infringing using it though. Anybody who has a fundemental understandign of how TCP/IP protocols work can deduce this rapidly without requiring any sort of mathematical proof.:D
But nothing in the law has to be perfect.
Nevermind the ability to reduce the amount of false positives then?
Well, in the strictest form of the word, p[privacy is about the RIGHT to hide something - there is no such thing as "nothing" to hide since privacy by construction is purely concealment. IMO the real framing of the question is "So privacy is only important if I'm doing bad / illegal things?"
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Or how about the freedom to actually b able to go about your business under the presumption that any accusation is substantiated before proof, and accusation ALONE not enough to have you affected?
The positive comments, I suspect, are from people that have never experienced a free-to-play game.
And this comment, I suspect, is ignorant at best. Maybe the cheers are coming from not just those who tried TF2 during a free weekend, but from those who are not quite cynical about things.
There is invariably a swarm of players from developing nations that can't or won't speak a server's primary language, play on machines that chug at 999ms+, and choke servers.
That happens WITHOUT a game being free to play. Garry's Mod - where you have to pay to have the game, and play it... the server I play on [rANdOM - their Fretta, Trouble in Terrorist Town, Flood, and Zombie Survival servers specifically] face that shit all the time. We're DoS'd / DDoS'd randomly - some weeks it can be as much as 5 times in a week, one week it was every single day, sometimes twice a day. We deal with script kiddies, micspamming namechanging trolls, and foreigners, and people who don't DoS the server, but still cause it to lag.
To believe this is limited to free-to-play games is retarded.
I wouldn't be surprised if server owners find some way to identify non-premium players and lock them out, nor would I fault them.
I would - since they're working on stupid "logic"
I'd be more in agreement if they actually showed interest in fact checking, going on more evidence than just mere accusation, and showed a flying damn in at least a consumer-company level concept of due process - something that deals worked out with the likes of the RIAA, MPAA, usually lack.
Rampant copright violation =/= rampant murder =/= justiication to throw due process to hell. By ignorance and hypocrisy,do you mean people like you who try to draw a false contradiction by taking a small comment and applying who said it to everybody, and creating a false contradiction? Asshattery.
Generally stories about copyright infringement and such are packed to the brim with breathtakingly stupid comments in the vein of "I shouldn't have to pay for anything".
[citation needed]
At least, I see posts explaining the conditions in which one is willing to pay, and opposition to their tactics, but that type of comment is rare. And I'm here all the time pretty much. You are grossly generalizing based potentially on a miniscule % of comments exactly like that.
Nope.
Potential copyright infringement =/= potential thevery.
Somebody hang a sign on this AC advertising a lack of factual tact and logic in his arguments.
Your logic fails. Stealing money and copying 1s and 0s are not the same. Hence why they are covered under different bodies of law.
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That and SEGA's use of crap transistors makes it a bit annoying, but other than that, a kickass system.
Problem as well is that groups like PETA distort what they see, taking things out of context, or even staging particular events that help to hurt the truth in the messages they send.
[And really, your last line is nothing but a troll. I eat meat, perfect health, some do and are not, but eating meat somehow cancer, low sperm count, obesity and heart disease? can you say [citation needed]? ]
"If the company is adhering to the rules of the law, they wouldn't have to worry about being defamed by people"?
No... just.. no. If the people can make it look convincing enough - either by staging, or taking what they do see so out of context, whether or not they are following these laws is rendered irrelevant.
Those people don't realize the idiocy of the statement. I'd go on a philosophical, technical rant explaining it all but I've done that too many times on the internet as it is. >_ Time for me to stop annoying people via nitpicking, I guess.
... no batter where the argument is made it doesn't make ANY sense since no HUMAN BEING with ANY degree of privacy can also have NOTHING to hide - the two are walking contradictions when paired together. I just wish this phrase would die a very fast and painful death by retardation... instead of subjecting myself to the retardation of ANYBODY using it..
... so? It may be for everybody, that does not however make it immune frm scrutiny. Jeeez, what is with the gross generalizations some people like to take about /., or any site? /. IS NOT A HIVE MIND.
Ae you really saying there are no standards so far as aircraft system, and electronic device design, component design?
By sensible, you mean the comments that make up false things about the /. community, take arguments out of context, and basuically ignore facts for baseless hyperbole? *laughs*
That isn't dodging - your entire point is nothing more than repeating the same doom and gloom crap that has been spouted since just before the BETAMAX DECISION. People will pay - even those who pirate something. Piracy has existed fro decades now, and people still pay. Downloading legally free content - copyrighted or not - has always been legal, and yet those projects that seek donations still get some, it is not ALL OR NOTHING like you seem to believe.
No, we also need a provision where when a cop abuses his position in such a way where enough circumstantial evidence is present [like the witnesses in this case] the persons being abused have full right to restrain him, defend, etc as if he were a civilian.
This may be a controversial idea, but fuck it - this putting cops on such a high pedestal that they can't possibly do wrong is EXACTLY WHY we are in this fucking mess in the first place - conditioned so when bad cops act bad we don't have any ability - psychologically, or legally - to properly defend ourselves. So much so that people will now, probably, accuse me of wanting to support assaulting cops likle morons. No, I don't advocate that, but if somebody is abusing their badge - and physically abusing others, why the fuck should they mot be physically restrained, etc like anybody else?
Uh... Godwin merely is about the likelihood of naziism being referenced to increasing as a discussion. THAT'S IT. Nowhere does it say any analogies are invalid, or any of that other shit people who abuse Godwin usually bring up.
Well, when members of the public protective service fucks up, who else do we castrate, the DAIRY COW DOWN THE ROAD?
But what you can do with gaming console emulators is almost exclusively illegal.
Uh... no. Playing ROMS == not, it is how you GET THE RMS that causes the issue.
... you do know the difference between being indirectly exposed to unfocused radiation when separated by layers of aluminums, plastic polymers, insulation, etc, and being directly exposed to concentrated ionizing radiation where your thin clothing is the only thing separating you from the radiation... right?
Not calling it stealing isn't obfruscating anything, it is by the very logical and factual analysis that copying a sog, movie, piece of software is different than the social and legal construct of taking and depriving somebody of something they had [and no longer had]. "taking something without payng for it" is NOT the definition by any logical stretch, not along, since that definition is TOO open ended, and leads to all sorts of absurdity regarding commonly legal/moral situations.
You are not a lawyer.
Are you?
Tracing an IP address stands a pretty good chance of leading yoiu to the primary account owner.
But account owner =/= person infringing using it though. Anybody who has a fundemental understandign of how TCP/IP protocols work can deduce this rapidly without requiring any sort of mathematical proof. :D
But nothing in the law has to be perfect.
Nevermind the ability to reduce the amount of false positives then?
Well, in the strictest form of the word, p[privacy is about the RIGHT to hide something - there is no such thing as "nothing" to hide since privacy by construction is purely concealment. IMO the real framing of the question is "So privacy is only important if I'm doing bad / illegal things?"