What does NYTimes view on Big Government have to do with Wikipedia photos? Jesus man...
Also, about healthcare. Just recently a man who was addicted to heroin needed a heart transplant but... See how this goes? There a people with much, much more potential life ahead of them to give that heart to, it would be immoral to give it to someone near the average life expectancy already.
Are you kidding? Are you really kidding? Clearly you are not a fan, because you don't know shit about Blizzard games.
Firstly, there is no charge for Battle.net, it has always been free. Secondly, the ads they place are shitty little Blizzard product ads ("Buy Warcraft: The Novel!").
Secondly, you are trying to compare the paradigm for a game from 1998 with a modern game. PLEASE. Warcraft 3 was plenty popular, and not as a "lan game". Starcraft's internet play was very shitty for a variety of reasons, all of which have been completely fixed or mitigated.
Thirdly, you don't know shit about piracy. Of course the cracked version will be out instantly. No one will want it. That is because the real attraction of Blizzard games is the multi-player. Presently, it is possible to pirate a game like Warcraft 3, get on a VPN or matchmaking service like GGC, and play pseudo-lan games. Removing lan effectively prevents this, making the task of enabling some sort of cracked multi-player version extremely difficult (probably won't happen for quite a few years, until the game is fading a bit anyways).
That malware is not interesting at all. I remember playing with SubSeven when I was in 7th grade (long long time ago) and it had ICQ notification and reverse bind options.
Slashdot is not a lobby group or think tank. It is a news aggregator. The blurbs it posts do not claim to be original work.
These lobby groups are front organizations for the Canadian versions of the RIAA and MPAA, and cite each other even though they are essentially the same organization. This is like a scientist create a fake identity to peer review his own papers, and/or to cite himself repeatedly.
I'm gonna have to be the one guy who disagrees I guess. In my opinion, L4D is already worth the cost - it is a genuinely novel game idea that was VERY well implemented. There are some very minor issues, but none that have gotten in the way of it being immensely fun and not growing old at all.
Interesting, because because 2001, the last hijacking of a US plain was 14 years ago (1994). That was a FedEx employee hijacking a FedEx cargo plane, so TSA/DHS wouldn't do shit to help that.
Before that, it was another 8 years (1986), and that didn't originate in the US.
So please, stop acting like plane hijackings/bombings are even nearly a threat to everyday people. You should spend your time worrying about how to protect yourself from lightning strikes, you are far more likely to be struck by lightning (on the ground, every day) than have your plane hijacked.
"I'd rather not my train blow up..." "I'd rather not the freeway blow up..." "I'd rather not the market blow up when I'm shopping..." "I'd rather not the school..."
Hell, let's just search everyone every time they leave their homes, as invasively as possible!
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What does NYTimes view on Big Government have to do with Wikipedia photos? Jesus man...
Also, about healthcare. Just recently a man who was addicted to heroin needed a heart transplant but...
See how this goes? There a people with much, much more potential life ahead of them to give that heart to, it would be immoral to give it to someone near the average life expectancy already.
Good analogy, but that seems to be based on a quite a parody of an agnostic person.
When it comes down to it, your interpretation of atheist is closer to mine of agnostic. It comes down to just quibbling over words.
Let's all just agree that organized religion sucks and live happily ever after!
Ah, but you miss the point. OLPC's are purely hand-crank powered, so electricity isn't a problem.
And the ultimate solution to ALL the other problems comes down to education, which is the point of OLPC.
It's not the JIT. It's the normal memory allocation it uses.
That Sunday Gazette isn't nearly as scary as the dreaded Gazebo...
This post is lifted directly from trollaxor.
http://www.trollaxor.com/2009/07/some-questions-comments-about-firefox.html
Please, when a post is as obviously a troll as this, mod it fucking troll.
Sounds like you want a "Javascript Firewall". Cool idea really.
Perhaps people who choose expletives are just more bad ass and can take the pain like men. Perhaps.
Are you kidding? Are you really kidding? Clearly you are not a fan, because you don't know shit about Blizzard games.
Firstly, there is no charge for Battle.net, it has always been free. Secondly, the ads they place are shitty little Blizzard product ads ("Buy Warcraft: The Novel!").
Secondly, you are trying to compare the paradigm for a game from 1998 with a modern game. PLEASE. Warcraft 3 was plenty popular, and not as a "lan game". Starcraft's internet play was very shitty for a variety of reasons, all of which have been completely fixed or mitigated.
Thirdly, you don't know shit about piracy. Of course the cracked version will be out instantly. No one will want it. That is because the real attraction of Blizzard games is the multi-player. Presently, it is possible to pirate a game like Warcraft 3, get on a VPN or matchmaking service like GGC, and play pseudo-lan games. Removing lan effectively prevents this, making the task of enabling some sort of cracked multi-player version extremely difficult (probably won't happen for quite a few years, until the game is fading a bit anyways).
That malware is not interesting at all. I remember playing with SubSeven when I was in 7th grade (long long time ago) and it had ICQ notification and reverse bind options.
I see a ton of analogies here, but none about cars! WTF?
That is a bad argument and you should feel bad.
The author's favorite "independent groups" are going to be grass roots organizations.
The Copyright Lobby's "independent groups" are all almost entirely funded by the CRIA and CMPDA.
Not the same at all.
Hah. Too bad I don't have mod points for "Troll".
Slashdot is not a lobby group or think tank. It is a news aggregator. The blurbs it posts do not claim to be original work.
These lobby groups are front organizations for the Canadian versions of the RIAA and MPAA, and cite each other even though they are essentially the same organization. This is like a scientist create a fake identity to peer review his own papers, and/or to cite himself repeatedly.
No no no...
Expert Exchange doesn't actually do that. It blurs the answers at the top. *But*, scroll to the very bottom and the whole thread is shown.
It is a shiesty ploy, but if you know what's up you can read any thread free.
I'm gonna have to be the one guy who disagrees I guess. In my opinion, L4D is already worth the cost - it is a genuinely novel game idea that was VERY well implemented. There are some very minor issues, but none that have gotten in the way of it being immensely fun and not growing old at all.
God, that is despicable.
Mods don't get satire I suppose.
Interesting, because because 2001, the last hijacking of a US plain was 14 years ago (1994). That was a FedEx employee hijacking a FedEx cargo plane, so TSA/DHS wouldn't do shit to help that.
Before that, it was another 8 years (1986), and that didn't originate in the US.
So please, stop acting like plane hijackings/bombings are even nearly a threat to everyday people. You should spend your time worrying about how to protect yourself from lightning strikes, you are far more likely to be struck by lightning (on the ground, every day) than have your plane hijacked.
Wow. Lets see where this goes.
"I'd rather not my train blow up..."
"I'd rather not the freeway blow up..."
"I'd rather not the market blow up when I'm shopping..."
"I'd rather not the school..."
Hell, let's just search everyone every time they leave their homes, as invasively as possible!
Have you used google lately? I haven't run across a link farm or "spam site" in google results in... years.
Holy god is this funny or scary?
"Fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them â" usually, to obtain property or services unjustly."
Fraud is actually a broad crime, the act performed to defraud doesn't need to specifically be illegal.
Sending large amounts of irregular wire transfers purely for the purpose of causing monetary damage would most certainly be a criminal act.
Of course not. But the Pirate Bay are Pirate Party members, obviously. So in a sense the Pirate Party is partly made up by the Pirate Bay.
I agree.