do you really think there's squads of people out there hellbent on ruining the PS3 for everyone?
Sony released a cool piece of hardware and proceeded to nail it down further and further at each update. you think the 14yo's are trying to destroy the platform? take a look at how well Sony are doing at it first.
...when the errors are "outed" not by the people that claim to be the "authorities" but only when they are caught, credibility is lost.
this is often called "peer review". it is the scientific establishment's way of verifying that scientists are human and might possibly either overlook something or be partially blinded by the conclusions they wish to reach and might not devote sufficient research time to checking certain things that could debunk their path of several years' research. or might not.
this process of peer review has a proven track record over the years. it seems unlikely it would break down now.
you need to distinguish between the "hippies" and the "educated scientific types". there's certainly crossover, but the main distinction is a hippy thinks all chemicals are bad (and hence will buy things that say "free of chemicals" on them, in spite of how ridiculous that idea is when looked at logically. also, a hippy is afraid of nuclear power, when it's actually (like you say) the only sane technology we have (at the moment) to lower carbon emissions.
i have no problem with trying to reduce my own impact, even if the difference made is vanishingly small. i don't get the head-in-the-sand attitude so many have, except where people have a lot of their wealth invested in an industry that might be threatened by a reduction in emissions.
i don't normally read a tl;dr wall of grey on slashdot. if i had modpoints left i'd have applied them here, even if they're "wasted" on an AC.
i read the article with mind open, but also critical though cap on. i came away greatly unsatisfied, and a bit disappointed. like the "charges" against wikileaks, this article's central argument is based on a straw-man version of wikileaks, rather like the (new) Joker's soliloquy about chasing a hot dog van without knowing what he'll do when he gets the hot dogs - that is, assange just releasing everything that comes his way without any regard for what could happen - just to stir shit up.
there were also some outright factual errors, such as alleging that WL do not make their own analysis or write articles (duh, what's that big link that says "articles" mean on the left of the page?). some errors are so overt you have to wonder whether they are deliberate or just a consequence of very poor research. either option kills the argument for me - why would i want to listen to someone who ignores the most obvious evidence? are they hiding something or are they just stupid?
my libertarian stance would not allow this. although in most cases i do indeed hold myself to a higher standard than anyone i'd happen to argue with, i believe that every man or woman has the right to have sex for fun.
your advice appears very reactive and does not help the erosion of people's freedoms. it's the flipside of "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide", which i think any sane person (without an agenda) would agree is a dangerous attitude to have and leads to "slippery-slope" lawmaking.
don't get me wrong - i haven't been with a tremendous number of women, but even in my limited experience i've encountered situations that could be construed as being without consent if there were a careful re-writing of events from the other's point of view. and there'd be no way to prove either way. i find this quite scary.
certainly, if i was Assange, i would not be flashing my wares all over town. but hell, the guy's always been a nerd so i'm sure he was loving the novelty of being able to have any woman he wanted.
bake the tapes in a slow-cooker before you even think about playing them!
in my broadcast days i encountered a guy with the last working 2" J-format video deck in this side of the world. he actually had about 10 of these decks, all the size of an industrial fridge. he'd use parts from all 10 to keep one working.
he built a room-sized oven to slow-bake the tapes to re-activate the adhesives that had broken down, otherwise he'd destroy the tapes and mess up his only working machine.
he's still transferring 2-inch reels of old TV shows...
except there was never a time when software or music piracy was actually legal, unless you reach back to before copyright existed.
however, i do agree that it is disturbing that in so many aspects of everyday life a person will find it easier to break the law than to abide by it.
speed and parking fines spring to mind - the number of rules involved increases exponentially, and often the enforcement of such laws is more to do with revenue raising than safety.
IP laws are taking on the same colour. in many ways it would be convenient for a tacitly tyrannical government to allow it's citizens to routinely break the law, only to clean up on anyone who opposes them by choosing to enforce these laws.
i should patent the process of organising a root in a brothel with a bagful of money. the patent office could certainly use this information for itself.
in Australia it's perpenDICular to the body. anything above the right-angle is rated X.
a producer i know helped inadvertently establish this rule with his rather naughty short film. and yes, there were people holding protractors to the screen....however, this rule of thumb (penis) is ignored routinely if a director who has won something at cannes is involved.
this is why i do not like this argument - it implies the free market will average out all the arseholes into niceness, but as soon as companies start following similar "party lines", competition in this respect becomes useless. you're just choosing between walled gardens in slightly different colours and layouts.
nah, i'm in Australia. it's been bad here for a long time.
no union worth a crap either. we work because we want to live the dream. then we are worked until we hate it, for money that can barely keep the car running.
then they go under, and you go back to your old job and fuckin' love it:)
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huh?
have encryption, will crack. that's all it is.
do you really think there's squads of people out there hellbent on ruining the PS3 for everyone?
Sony released a cool piece of hardware and proceeded to nail it down further and further at each update. you think the 14yo's are trying to destroy the platform? take a look at how well Sony are doing at it first.
...when the errors are "outed" not by the people that claim to be the "authorities" but only when they are caught, credibility is lost.
this is often called "peer review". it is the scientific establishment's way of verifying that scientists are human and might possibly either overlook something or be partially blinded by the conclusions they wish to reach and might not devote sufficient research time to checking certain things that could debunk their path of several years' research. or might not.
this process of peer review has a proven track record over the years. it seems unlikely it would break down now.
um, what?
your point? WE don't breathe CO2. consider us as part of the mass extinction event.
i say a lot of these things regularly.
you need to distinguish between the "hippies" and the "educated scientific types". there's certainly crossover, but the main distinction is a hippy thinks all chemicals are bad (and hence will buy things that say "free of chemicals" on them, in spite of how ridiculous that idea is when looked at logically. also, a hippy is afraid of nuclear power, when it's actually (like you say) the only sane technology we have (at the moment) to lower carbon emissions.
i have no problem with trying to reduce my own impact, even if the difference made is vanishingly small. i don't get the head-in-the-sand attitude so many have, except where people have a lot of their wealth invested in an industry that might be threatened by a reduction in emissions.
care to produce this non-cherry-picked data?
i don't normally read a tl;dr wall of grey on slashdot. if i had modpoints left i'd have applied them here, even if they're "wasted" on an AC.
i read the article with mind open, but also critical though cap on. i came away greatly unsatisfied, and a bit disappointed. like the "charges" against wikileaks, this article's central argument is based on a straw-man version of wikileaks, rather like the (new) Joker's soliloquy about chasing a hot dog van without knowing what he'll do when he gets the hot dogs - that is, assange just releasing everything that comes his way without any regard for what could happen - just to stir shit up.
there were also some outright factual errors, such as alleging that WL do not make their own analysis or write articles (duh, what's that big link that says "articles" mean on the left of the page?). some errors are so overt you have to wonder whether they are deliberate or just a consequence of very poor research. either option kills the argument for me - why would i want to listen to someone who ignores the most obvious evidence? are they hiding something or are they just stupid?
my libertarian stance would not allow this. although in most cases i do indeed hold myself to a higher standard than anyone i'd happen to argue with, i believe that every man or woman has the right to have sex for fun.
your advice appears very reactive and does not help the erosion of people's freedoms. it's the flipside of "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide", which i think any sane person (without an agenda) would agree is a dangerous attitude to have and leads to "slippery-slope" lawmaking.
don't get me wrong - i haven't been with a tremendous number of women, but even in my limited experience i've encountered situations that could be construed as being without consent if there were a careful re-writing of events from the other's point of view. and there'd be no way to prove either way. i find this quite scary.
certainly, if i was Assange, i would not be flashing my wares all over town. but hell, the guy's always been a nerd so i'm sure he was loving the novelty of being able to have any woman he wanted.
Something like 30% of all US rape accusations turn out to be false.
[citation needed]
bake the tapes in a slow-cooker before you even think about playing them!
in my broadcast days i encountered a guy with the last working 2" J-format video deck in this side of the world. he actually had about 10 of these decks, all the size of an industrial fridge. he'd use parts from all 10 to keep one working.
he built a room-sized oven to slow-bake the tapes to re-activate the adhesives that had broken down, otherwise he'd destroy the tapes and mess up his only working machine.
he's still transferring 2-inch reels of old TV shows...
oops, i forgot about that. Lordi lord :)
except there was never a time when software or music piracy was actually legal, unless you reach back to before copyright existed.
however, i do agree that it is disturbing that in so many aspects of everyday life a person will find it easier to break the law than to abide by it.
speed and parking fines spring to mind - the number of rules involved increases exponentially, and often the enforcement of such laws is more to do with revenue raising than safety.
IP laws are taking on the same colour. in many ways it would be convenient for a tacitly tyrannical government to allow it's citizens to routinely break the law, only to clean up on anyone who opposes them by choosing to enforce these laws.
i should patent the process of organising a root in a brothel with a bagful of money. the patent office could certainly use this information for itself.
no, AC's only get any modding at all if they're saying something really interesting. you are not.
you get a big [citation needed] instead.
it could be said the main reason europe has not had another world war is as much to do with FIFA as it is to do with the UN.
umm... way to miss the entire point of this thread and TFA.
i'm not saying there are no other consoles out there.
name a console in the same class (or generation, or whatever you call it - i'm not a gamer) that allows you to play a game such as the one in TFA.
if you wanted to play porn games, what current console would you do it on? certainly not a wii. maybe a PC or mac (esp with the Kinect drivers).
in Australia it's perpenDICular to the body. anything above the right-angle is rated X.
a producer i know helped inadvertently establish this rule with his rather naughty short film. and yes, there were people holding protractors to the screen. ...however, this rule of thumb (penis) is ignored routinely if a director who has won something at cannes is involved.
replace the word "sex" with the word "violence" in your post and read it back to yourself.
then try to frame it in the context of this discussion.
the USA still looks like prudes AND idiots no matter how you look at it.
how often does a person think about sex?
how often does a person think about blowing someone's head off with a shotgun and teabagging their bleeding corpse?
why doesn't entertainment represent the ratio of sexual thoughts to violent thoughts that exist in the average person's mind?
i find it a bit strange.
time paradox.
If you don't like it, buy a different product.
name one that does the same thing.
this is why i do not like this argument - it implies the free market will average out all the arseholes into niceness, but as soon as companies start following similar "party lines", competition in this respect becomes useless. you're just choosing between walled gardens in slightly different colours and layouts.
lots of tech in that region.
lots of PS3s, iPods and other toys that would not stand up well to nuclear war.
the virus is benign unless you happen to be running the exact hardware configuration in the exact location (well, ip) as the Iranian centrifuges...
it's not like anyone suffered beyond maybe the bandwidth required to update their AV software.
that comment needs a Horatio and a YEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
Google patents "not being evil"
nah, i'm in Australia. it's been bad here for a long time.
no union worth a crap either. we work because we want to live the dream. then we are worked until we hate it, for money that can barely keep the car running.
then they go under, and you go back to your old job and fuckin' love it :)