and yet blizzard outlawed generics by pulling "this sort of idiotic game".
printer manufacturers got the same thing done with ink cartridges, and console manufacturers have outlawed the electronics equivalent of "building out a hot-rod".
For instance, you can scientifically prove that God doesn't exist all you want given the small amount of information we know about our universe.
well, we know where you get your bias against science.
Science tries to prove testable positives. You know a theory is "wrong" if the observations don't match the hypothesis. Even then, it doesn't necessarily mean the theory must be completely disregarded (example: newtonian and quantum mechanics coexist today).
You can't "disprove" god with science because god is not rationally testable. You can't "prove" it either because of that, though, and as such no man of science will accept "the will of god" as an explanation for something, or a reason to perform/avoid certain actions.
Really? For science I rather find the more we understand, the more we realize we don't understand.
This is true. But this also increases our understanding, not decreases it. known unknowns > unknown unknowns. Scientific theories only hold out until something else comes along with more facts that change our understanding.
To a degree, yes. But a new theory doesn't usually completely obviate the old one. Newtons F=MA still works for the vast majority of the time for things us humans are likely to come into contact with, it just begins to break down as you approach the speed of light. Special relativity only becomes relevant in special cases.
You do realize the continued use of an "incomplete" theory like this is getting in the way of things like interstellar travel and artificial gravity.
It's a general pattern than nothing worth exploring is simply explained. My guess is the true equation is rather large, with variables which diminish to zero at the macro level.
I guess McCarthy wasn't conservative either. He was a Republican. People need to stop this Republican == conservative thing. Although you have educated me: I didn't really think the party was corrupted THAT long ago. And I didn't realize that he was so far ahead of his time:(
hopefully things such as meta-parties will give rise to "common sense".
One particular instance I remember was in the mid 90's.
They found one of the most in tact t-rex skeletons on indian land, worked out a deal with the tribe for millions, paid them, and extracted the skeleton.
after they go through the expense and time of, you know.. extracting, cleaning, cataloguing, and assembling the skeleton, here comes the tribe again wielding some assanine one-sided law. They tie the thing up in litigation, and "legally rob" the institution in question of the find in the end, selling it yet again.
Native americans have abused anti-discrimination laws to double-cross and interfere with scientific organizations and kept potentially ground breaking archaeological finds tied up in murderous litigation for decades.
i'd also like to add that, unlike congressmen, judges actually put those briefs to "some" sort of reading and consideration, instead of hitting the "delete" button or sending them to the building's incinerator.
This is not suing someone for downloading a song. This is about putting the song up for everyone on the Internet to download - potentially at least thousands or tens of thousands of people.
How many tens of millions of dual cassette decks were sold? blank audio/video tapes?
The truth is this "point" is nothing more than a straw man. The implication that the numbers are somehow different in digital than in analogue is utter bunk.
When it's a matter of money or business in this country (especially with so many lobbyists helping craft these laws) who do you think is going to win?
The customers, because in business the customers are always right, and in the end economic forces trump even the greatest military machines.
They tried it with booze, it failed, they admitted their mistake and repealed the law.
They tried it with drugs, but this time the baby boomers, in their petulance, refuse to repeal the laws. This ruins the lives of select numbers, but the majority keep right on toking.
Now they're trying it with MP3's, and this time they don't even have a prayer. They can't argue it's poisonous like they could with drugs or booze, and they can't argue it's corrupting our children because they're demanding you pay for them.
It's not going to happen. For every mother you scare into "shielding" her child from the nasty filesharing networks, there will be 4 more enlightened parents who lived through napster and teach their kids how to circumvent the controls.
Call 911 and tell them to come and arrest the person holding a gun at your head, forcing you to play.
Sheesh.
Gold farmers wreck the game because even if the amount of money is Zimbabwe-like infinite, the process of accruing it is via time-consuming gameplay harvesting limited but replenishing resources. Now, a farmer and/or bot "harvesting" these resources repeatedly effectively removes that resource from "ordinary" players, ie. the ones Blizzard made the game for.
When these resources are sold for real-world money, you have a company in a way leeching business from Blizzard's creation by inconveniencing "real" players.
first, the gold is infinite, then the farmers are removing this infinite supply from ordinary players?
And somehow the sale of WoW gold, which is of zero value without a WoW account, is costing blizzard money?
Maybe if the epic flight didn't cost 5k gold people wouldn't buy gold.
Since they opened quel'danas, the SSO dailies have dramatically lowered the "exchange rate" for gold.
Farmers have all but vanished.
Quite frankly I think it's a BAD thing.
There are no primal fires on the auction house because the chinese farmers who were paid to do it aren't there, and nobody in their right mind would farm it for gold.
No offense, but the EFF doesn't have a very good track record with blizzard.
They got involved in BNETD and now it's illegal to make interoperable products online if the original vendor doesn't want competition (what vendor wants competition again?)
They have overreached in this case. Under this ruling ford can sue third party "pimp your ride" services because they fabricate parts which interact with patented ford parts.
In other words, legally say "Blizzard.... Go To Hell."
Well are you not a swell guy or what???
So what do you say to the guy that is NOT cheating? "Hey that is your problem, you oughta cheat too"
This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them. Why don't they just go write ther own Open source versions of WoW and play with themselves. I want to play the game WITHOUT having to resort to cheat.
Freedom of expression is outlined as a fundamental human right because of a need to protect UNPOPULAR speech.
Guns are designed to kill, that doesn't mean they should be banned.
This code should not be banned. code is expression, and expression should not be stifled.
I'm about the right age to have kids, and I vow to teach my kids at the earliest point at which they can comprehend how to use p2p, and use it effectively.
You forget that the generation having kids now is the same generation which had napster pillaged from them by a greedy rock band who used to sing about "halls of justice painted green" before they sold out.
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Agreed on the special effects as a "patch".
I seriously wonder if the writer's guild is still striking, because i swear I see more and more commercials which, if you listen "between the lines", are basically saying "this movie got great reviews on it's special effects! come to the theater and experience the massive explosions in sensurround!"
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and yet blizzard outlawed generics by pulling "this sort of idiotic game".
printer manufacturers got the same thing done with ink cartridges, and console manufacturers have outlawed the electronics equivalent of "building out a hot-rod".
For instance, you can scientifically prove that God doesn't exist all you want given the small amount of information we know about our universe.
well, we know where you get your bias against science.
Science tries to prove testable positives. You know a theory is "wrong" if the observations don't match the hypothesis. Even then, it doesn't necessarily mean the theory must be completely disregarded (example: newtonian and quantum mechanics coexist today).
You can't "disprove" god with science because god is not rationally testable. You can't "prove" it either because of that, though, and as such no man of science will accept "the will of god" as an explanation for something, or a reason to perform/avoid certain actions.
Really? For science I rather find the more we understand, the more we realize we don't understand.
This is true. But this also increases our understanding, not decreases it. known unknowns > unknown unknowns.
Scientific theories only hold out until something else comes along with more facts that change our understanding.
To a degree, yes. But a new theory doesn't usually completely obviate the old one. Newtons F=MA still works for the vast majority of the time for things us humans are likely to come into contact with, it just begins to break down as you approach the speed of light. Special relativity only becomes relevant in special cases.
You do realize the continued use of an "incomplete" theory like this is getting in the way of things like interstellar travel and artificial gravity.
It's a general pattern than nothing worth exploring is simply explained. My guess is the true equation is rather large, with variables which diminish to zero at the macro level.
Nice sig, you do realize there's nothing fair about the "fair tax" because the wealthy don't spend the majority of their money right?
The only thing the "fair tax" is "fair" to is the ultra-rich, by lowering their tax burden even more.
I guess McCarthy wasn't conservative either. He was a Republican. People need to stop this Republican == conservative thing. Although you have educated me: I didn't really think the party was corrupted THAT long ago. And I didn't realize that he was so far ahead of his time :(
hopefully things such as meta-parties will give rise to "common sense".
what is religious about dinosaur skeletons.
One particular instance I remember was in the mid 90's.
They found one of the most in tact t-rex skeletons on indian land, worked out a deal with the tribe for millions, paid them, and extracted the skeleton.
after they go through the expense and time of, you know.. extracting, cleaning, cataloguing, and assembling the skeleton, here comes the tribe again wielding some assanine one-sided law. They tie the thing up in litigation, and "legally rob" the institution in question of the find in the end, selling it yet again.
How long before they try to play repo man again.
the racism cuts both ways.
Native americans have abused anti-discrimination laws to double-cross and interfere with scientific organizations and kept potentially ground breaking archaeological finds tied up in murderous litigation for decades.
it's quite easy to take a sip from an open fire hose
i'd also like to add that, unlike congressmen, judges actually put those briefs to "some" sort of reading and consideration, instead of hitting the "delete" button or sending them to the building's incinerator.
This is not suing someone for downloading a song. This is about putting the song up for everyone on the Internet to download - potentially at least thousands or tens of thousands of people.
How many tens of millions of dual cassette decks were sold? blank audio/video tapes?
The truth is this "point" is nothing more than a straw man. The implication that the numbers are somehow different in digital than in analogue is utter bunk.
When it's a matter of money or business in this country (especially with so many lobbyists helping craft these laws) who do you think is going to win?
The customers, because in business the customers are always right, and in the end economic forces trump even the greatest military machines.
They tried it with booze, it failed, they admitted their mistake and repealed the law.
They tried it with drugs, but this time the baby boomers, in their petulance, refuse to repeal the laws. This ruins the lives of select numbers, but the majority keep right on toking.
Now they're trying it with MP3's, and this time they don't even have a prayer. They can't argue it's poisonous like they could with drugs or booze, and they can't argue it's corrupting our children because they're demanding you pay for them.
It's not going to happen. For every mother you scare into "shielding" her child from the nasty filesharing networks, there will be 4 more enlightened parents who lived through napster and teach their kids how to circumvent the controls.
I can "derive" tiny pieces out of a massive attack AAC file and use them to encode the text in the library of congress.
I hereby demand the government shutter the library of congress because it's infringing on massive attack's copyrights!
Call 911 and tell them to come and arrest the person holding a gun at your head, forcing you to play.
Sheesh.
Gold farmers wreck the game because even if the amount of money is Zimbabwe-like infinite, the process of accruing it is via time-consuming gameplay harvesting limited but replenishing resources. Now, a farmer and/or bot "harvesting" these resources repeatedly effectively removes that resource from "ordinary" players, ie. the ones Blizzard made the game for.
When these resources are sold for real-world money, you have a company in a way leeching business from Blizzard's creation by inconveniencing "real" players.
first, the gold is infinite, then the farmers are removing this infinite supply from ordinary players?
And somehow the sale of WoW gold, which is of zero value without a WoW account, is costing blizzard money?
Maybe if the epic flight didn't cost 5k gold people wouldn't buy gold.
first, it's OSS scripting that interacts with blizzard's "entertainment" code.
Then, it's OSS scripting that interacts with major microsoft apps, or reads the latest "MS ONLY" format.
Since they opened quel'danas, the SSO dailies have dramatically lowered the "exchange rate" for gold.
Farmers have all but vanished.
Quite frankly I think it's a BAD thing.
There are no primal fires on the auction house because the chinese farmers who were paid to do it aren't there, and nobody in their right mind would farm it for gold.
That's not a conservative ideology. It's a neocon ideology.
really?
what was "neo" about the mccarthy era?
No offense, but the EFF doesn't have a very good track record with blizzard.
They got involved in BNETD and now it's illegal to make interoperable products online if the original vendor doesn't want competition (what vendor wants competition again?)
they can ban people from THEIR SERVERS..
They have overreached in this case. Under this ruling ford can sue third party "pimp your ride" services because they fabricate parts which interact with patented ford parts.
Because they want to stop someone from publishing a way to fuck over most players of their games?
Yup, how evil of them.
as oppose to THEM fucking over most players of their games?
world of chorecraft.
OOPS! we were hacked! our source code was stolen!
OMG!! It's all over pirate bay! sorry!
In other words, legally say "Blizzard.... Go To Hell."
Well are you not a swell guy or what???
So what do you say to the guy that is NOT cheating? "Hey that is your problem, you oughta cheat too"
This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them. Why don't they just go write ther own Open source versions of WoW and play with themselves. I want to play the game WITHOUT having to resort to cheat.
Freedom of expression is outlined as a fundamental human right because of a need to protect UNPOPULAR speech.
Guns are designed to kill, that doesn't mean they should be banned.
This code should not be banned. code is expression, and expression should not be stifled.
Except, it's not legal if MDY claims this happens in court, when in reality the story is a bit fabricated.
Also, doing so before the court has a chance to accept or deny Blizzard's request may not help MDY's case at all, and end up costing them.
as if this hasn't stopped the MAFIAA from engaging in en masse RICO violations using the same tactics.
It's very hard to prove intent.
Select a "fall guy" to "leak" the code to pirate bay, let him get his finances in (legally unassailable) order, and away you go.
please use different terminology for your subject header.
I feel dirty just reading that..
first image - sex toys demanding answers to calculus questions....
at least theyre good fodder for rifftrax. i recommend the one for bourne identity
I'm about the right age to have kids, and I vow to teach my kids at the earliest point at which they can comprehend how to use p2p, and use it effectively.
You forget that the generation having kids now is the same generation which had napster pillaged from them by a greedy rock band who used to sing about "halls of justice painted green" before they sold out.
Agreed on the special effects as a "patch".
I seriously wonder if the writer's guild is still striking, because i swear I see more and more commercials which, if you listen "between the lines", are basically saying "this movie got great reviews on it's special effects! come to the theater and experience the massive explosions in sensurround!"