Even better, tack something onto another must pass bill that says no riders whatsoever. Then wait for the people in Congress to take a while scratching their heads about that one.
I'm fine with them using data for marketing. I'm not fine with it being used against me. There's a clear line between using data to advertise to a person more efficently, and using that same data to persecute, or even blackmail that same person. What one person trusts with Amazon they wouldn't trust the government with, and with good reason. Unfortunately, since the government is so corrupt these days, you can't trust anyone with the data now, since it's just a subpeona away from being in the hands of the government, who would likely use that data to keep tabs and possibly blackmail it's opponents. It's a shame, Amazon is a good company, but I don't think even they could keep this data out of the government's hands.
'It is not a chemical dependency, but it's got everything of an obsessive-compulsive disorder and all of the other stuff that comes with chemical dependency.' Tim, a 21-year-old from Utrecht, said he had hardly left his bedroom for five years because he was so obsessed by his computer games. "
If it has all the conditions of obsessive-compulsive disorder, then guess what it might be? It might just be, gasp, obsessive-compulsive disorder! Blaming a videogame on something which they admit, looks like OCD, is very irresponsible, not to mention downright stupid. It's like a person blaming high blood loss from a cut gotten while mowing the lawn on the lawnmower, when they have a condition that makes it hard for cuts to heal fast enough to stop high blood loss. The lawnmower didn't cause the condition that caused you to lose a lot of blood due to your cut, so why should videogames be blamed for obsessive-compulsive? Sure, it may have dragged the OCD into the open, but if it wasn't videogames, then something else would have dragged it out. Better to become obessed with videogames than something like, say, obessive gambling.
If someone is actually trafficking minors, they should be arrested for that. However, if they're promoting it by saying positive things about it, and not trafficking minors themselves, and have nothing to do with trafficking minors (besides talking about them in a positive light), that's disturbing, but it's the cost of free speech. Block one instance of free speech, and the rest will follow. I'm sorry, but no matter how repulsive the speech, as long as they are not commiting bodily harm or depriving others of life or liberty with their words, it should not be censored.
Exactly. Generally, I believe this is more of a case of Nintendo trying to make sure that a child doesn't get ahold of someone else's friend list, and get sued by the parent for not protecting the child online. By letting you transfer your DS WiFi profile to another local DS, it allows for a person to use another DS to go online with the game. But if the game isn't being played on the DS that it's registered to, there's a good chance the game was bought used, and someone else had played it online before. Hence, it deletes the friend codes so that there's little chance the other person will get ahold of the other's friend lists.
...At a time when the government is spying on many of the communications that are present, is it really a suprise that all of a sudden, wanting new things is apparently a disorder now? I mean, without that drive for new things, and ways to innovate, the government wouldn't have to spend so much money on new ways to see what people are doing on new ways to communicate. Once this officially becomes a disorder and a new drgu is made, I'd expect the government to add more spying to current technology, as since wanting new things is a disorder and people are being treated for it, few are going to innovate to get around it.
The problem is, it would end up like buying other things that require ID. People will look at you, and they'll judge you if they see you buying an M rated videogame. You decide not to buy it because you'd rather not have to show your ID and admit to buying a game that the community looks down on. If not that, then there's a chance after they pass this, that people who buy vilent games would get put on a government watch list. You know, just in case they're terrorists in training. It's a chilling effect, plain and simple.
I'm sure Jack Thompson will bring this "detox" center up in trying to prove that video games are as harmful as cigarettes or alcohol. And people will believe him, mainly the loudest people. We don't need to give them more ammo to shoot us with. Hell, were there comic book detox centers, or did that ever get this far?
If the Chinese wanted the Windows source code so badly, all they'd have to do is take all the Windows bug reports with the offending code attached, and piece all the code snippets together. Voila, instant Windows source code.
The things that only work in iPods are files "protected" by FairPlay DRM, and those only come from iTMS -- iTunes defaults to unprotected AAC for ripping.
Interestingly enough, I can't find an option in iTunes that allows you to rip your CDs to protected AAC format. Even stranger, Windows Media Player allows you to rip to a protected WMA format, or not.
Considering all the abuses of privacy going on recently, who knows who gets to see the data collected by the smartshirts? What privacy are we getting about the data collected by the smartshirts? And would they even be required by law to keep that data confidental? There's too many privacy concerns, so until I feel secure enough in knowing that my private health information is not being sold or even placed into a national database, there's no way in hell I'm using those shirts.
Freedom is not a walk in the park. It requires alot more work than dictatorship, and alot more diligence. But in the end, it is worth it; it would be well for our politicians to remember that.
That's most likely the point. Take away the tools from someone, and they won't be able to fix the house. Take away the right to view and see different viewpoints, and they'll automatically believe the only source left: The government. If people only have one source, especially minors, they will almost always believe that single source, unless there is another source.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is my favorite browser, but Opera is pretty nice too. Looks like their Wii Opera will have a good amount of functionality (including AJAX, in many Web2.0 apps such as Gmail) according to their press release Luckily, I don't think the Opera browser on the Wii will end up like WebTV (*barf*) turned out to be, since the motion sensitive controller could be used to emulate a mouse. The question is, will Opera release a keyboard for their browser, will Nintendo release an all-purpose keyboard for other games, or will it be an onscreen keyboard?
...But considering our (The USA's) government is trying to allow torture for "illegal combatants", who's to say he won't be considered one and shipped off to a torture camp? Here in the USA, he'd probably be tried for some asinine terrorism chagre and sentenced to life in a torture camp or to death.
Actually, there's a term for this, and it's illegal in some places. It's called SLAPP, and it's generally abuse of the legal system to shut someone up. You can't exactly have free speech when in fear of someone suing you for doing so, and companies know and exploit this to their advantage.
Slashdot Mirror
"Amazon sues SCO for copyright infringement"
It'll be like a triangle of lawsuits!
Even better, tack something onto another must pass bill that says no riders whatsoever.
Then wait for the people in Congress to take a while scratching their heads about that one.
So BSoDs are now intelligent forms of life?
I'm fine with them using data for marketing. I'm not fine with it being used against me.
There's a clear line between using data to advertise to a person more efficently, and using that same data to persecute, or even blackmail that same person. What one person trusts with Amazon they wouldn't trust the government with, and with good reason.
Unfortunately, since the government is so corrupt these days, you can't trust anyone with the data now, since it's just a subpeona away from being in the hands of the government, who would likely use that data to keep tabs and possibly blackmail it's opponents.
It's a shame, Amazon is a good company, but I don't think even they could keep this data out of the government's hands.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script."
So you're not using Firefox anymore, because a program you don't download has it bundled?
If it has all the conditions of obsessive-compulsive disorder, then guess what it might be? It might just be, gasp, obsessive-compulsive disorder!
Blaming a videogame on something which they admit, looks like OCD, is very irresponsible, not to mention downright stupid. It's like a person blaming high blood loss from a cut gotten while mowing the lawn on the lawnmower, when they have a condition that makes it hard for cuts to heal fast enough to stop high blood loss. The lawnmower didn't cause the condition that caused you to lose a lot of blood due to your cut, so why should videogames be blamed for obsessive-compulsive? Sure, it may have dragged the OCD into the open, but if it wasn't videogames, then something else would have dragged it out. Better to become obessed with videogames than something like, say, obessive gambling.
If someone is actually trafficking minors, they should be arrested for that.
However, if they're promoting it by saying positive things about it, and not trafficking minors themselves, and have nothing to do with trafficking minors (besides talking about them in a positive light), that's disturbing, but it's the cost of free speech.
Block one instance of free speech, and the rest will follow. I'm sorry, but no matter how repulsive the speech, as long as they are not commiting bodily harm or depriving others of life or liberty with their words, it should not be censored.
Exactly. Generally, I believe this is more of a case of Nintendo trying to make sure that a child doesn't get ahold of someone else's friend list, and get sued by the parent for not protecting the child online.
By letting you transfer your DS WiFi profile to another local DS, it allows for a person to use another DS to go online with the game. But if the game isn't being played on the DS that it's registered to, there's a good chance the game was bought used, and someone else had played it online before. Hence, it deletes the friend codes so that there's little chance the other person will get ahold of the other's friend lists.
...At a time when the government is spying on many of the communications that are present, is it really a suprise that all of a sudden, wanting new things is apparently a disorder now? I mean, without that drive for new things, and ways to innovate, the government wouldn't have to spend so much money on new ways to see what people are doing on new ways to communicate.
Once this officially becomes a disorder and a new drgu is made, I'd expect the government to add more spying to current technology, as since wanting new things is a disorder and people are being treated for it, few are going to innovate to get around it.
Adults do that too still. Just look at congress.
The problem is, it would end up like buying other things that require ID. People will look at you, and they'll judge you if they see you buying an M rated videogame. You decide not to buy it because you'd rather not have to show your ID and admit to buying a game that the community looks down on.
If not that, then there's a chance after they pass this, that people who buy vilent games would get put on a government watch list. You know, just in case they're terrorists in training.
It's a chilling effect, plain and simple.
I'm sure Jack Thompson will bring this "detox" center up in trying to prove that video games are as harmful as cigarettes or alcohol. And people will believe him, mainly the loudest people. We don't need to give them more ammo to shoot us with.
Hell, were there comic book detox centers, or did that ever get this far?
If the Chinese wanted the Windows source code so badly, all they'd have to do is take all the Windows bug reports with the offending code attached, and piece all the code snippets together. Voila, instant Windows source code.
I believe Lifehacker had an article showing you how to set up a MediaWiki on a Windows machine.
I tried this, and it worked quite well.
The things that only work in iPods are files "protected" by FairPlay DRM, and those only come from iTMS -- iTunes defaults to unprotected AAC for ripping.
Interestingly enough, I can't find an option in iTunes that allows you to rip your CDs to protected AAC format.
Even stranger, Windows Media Player allows you to rip to a protected WMA format, or not.
Microsoft will gain control over the market of 5 people that like DRM!
Quick, someone sue them for monopolisic practices!
Does Microsoft NOT know they should be attempting to distance themselves from DRM?
Considering all the abuses of privacy going on recently, who knows who gets to see the data collected by the smartshirts? What privacy are we getting about the data collected by the smartshirts? And would they even be required by law to keep that data confidental?
There's too many privacy concerns, so until I feel secure enough in knowing that my private health information is not being sold or even placed into a national database, there's no way in hell I'm using those shirts.
Freedom is not a walk in the park. It requires alot more work than dictatorship, and alot more diligence. But in the end, it is worth it; it would be well for our politicians to remember that.
That's most likely the point. Take away the tools from someone, and they won't be able to fix the house. Take away the right to view and see different viewpoints, and they'll automatically believe the only source left: The government. If people only have one source, especially minors, they will almost always believe that single source, unless there is another source.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is my favorite browser, but Opera is pretty nice too. Looks like their Wii Opera will have a good amount of functionality (including AJAX, in many Web2.0 apps such as Gmail) according to their press release
Luckily, I don't think the Opera browser on the Wii will end up like WebTV (*barf*) turned out to be, since the motion sensitive controller could be used to emulate a mouse. The question is, will Opera release a keyboard for their browser, will Nintendo release an all-purpose keyboard for other games, or will it be an onscreen keyboard?
...But considering our (The USA's) government is trying to allow torture for "illegal combatants", who's to say he won't be considered one and shipped off to a torture camp? Here in the USA, he'd probably be tried for some asinine terrorism chagre and sentenced to life in a torture camp or to death.
...But for some reason when I plugged it in my computer started shooting sparks out of the USB port.
What did I do wrong?
Actually, there's a term for this, and it's illegal in some places. It's called SLAPP, and it's generally abuse of the legal system to shut someone up.
You can't exactly have free speech when in fear of someone suing you for doing so, and companies know and exploit this to their advantage.
...Will it run Linux?
...Does it run Linux?