I mean, it's great and all, learning about what's going on, but if we find out what parts of our brains deal with choice, couldn't someone eventually make a device that can suppress some parts of the choice mechanism, and it might just happen to fall into a corrupt government's hands? If that happens, it would only be a matter of time before the government would have the devices installed into your brains at birth in order to "prevent new terrorists"...
...When mostly the Xbox 360 is made for things like High Definition Television, and many of the games are heavily geared towards older people. Considering that Microsoft has generally made the XBox quite a bit about online play also furthers the distance from what's being said here. Most parents don't want their younger kids doing things online without their supervision or at all, due to much media attention, so trying to make online play the main attraction of it (and making it cost money to do so) would seem to be leaning towards a more mature audience.
Power corrupts. That's all there is to it. Add money from corrupt companies in (I'm looking at you RIAA), and it's a recipe for disaster to everyone but those with power and money. Even then, those people may find themselves regretting their decisions.
I bet those that criticize Bush will be the 1st in line to criticize him if the terrorists attack here in the USA
They say they're spying on us to defend us from terrorists. If terrorists can still attack, then who were they watching in the first place? Probably not the terrorists.
In any case, I really hope this news gives a nudge to the US, saying "see? The chinese use it, why shouldn't we?"
Not really. If anything, this could give Microsoft more ammo to tell the government Linux is wrong. "China uses Linux, and China is oppressive, therefore, Linux is helping oppress people. That's why we should use Windows instead." I'm not saying that Microsoft would directly say that, but I'm betting Microsoft will at least try to use this news to their advantage.
Will Google Ads replace normal ads on a page if you're connecting with Google? That seems to be the only way I can really see Google making money off of this, and that seems to be slightly against their "Do No Evil" policy. And I don't think they'll have users install a bar that shows ads at the top of their screens at all times. Remember services like NetZero? They didn't work, so how would Google manage working this?
Oh my god, I'm already getting the shivers from Google deprivation just hearing those words. Hold me, I'm scared... Need Google... need Google... need Google...
Actually, it's pretty much the same thing with copyrights. You agree to them if you use whatever they're applied to, even if you don't know all the terms of it. Creative Commons shouldn't be any different in such an enforcement, even though it's meant to open up more rights than normal copyright. Ignorance of the terms really isn't an excuse, regardless of what license it's under.
I'd say the difference between streaming content and video podcasts is simple: Unavoidable ads versus avoidable ads. If you place a stream up, everyone watching the stream will have to wait for the ads instead of fastforwarding through them. With video podcasts, people can either fastfoward through the ads , and some people might just download the programs but never watch them, thus wasting the server's bandwidth since the person downloaded something they didn't really care about.
They won't be getting any info on the people searching, meaning it will be impossible for them to determine who is an adult and who is a child. Hence, they would take the next step, and have the identifying info required. And if a court saw Google giving away info without the indetification, they would figure it would be okay for them to add the identifying info, because it's "just one more little step".
And there lies the problem. Once one of us is quarantined, everyone will want us all quarantined. And once that happens, no one will care about us, and they'll never develop a cure. Hence, we'll be locked up forever, never allowed to see the outside world again.
First thing, why would they spend so much money on such hardware to power this when the equipment could be damaged in the air, and second, how long daily would people have to deal with downtime if these balloons are their only way to connect?
So what, we go on a witch hunt and have each child checked? Then what? Throw them in the loony bin, mark them so people know to stay away from them? Maybe we'll just paint a big bullseye on their backs. Either way, what you're suggesting would cause a lot fo children to be alienated and emotionally destroyed. Why the hell would you willingly destroy a child? And don't you dare give me that "If they're autistic they don't feel emotions like normal people" bullshit.
Read the page source; he's not getting pagerank for this. That's why the rel="nofollow" is there, to prevent people from complaining. Doesn't look like it worked in the least bit.
Seriously, 5 billion lost? People that download music and movies would rarely actually buy the music or movies if they had no other choice. This is just more bullshit propaganda spread by the **AA.
not all circuits available for online play, due to lag reasons.
That could also put a strain on the server, seeing as most of the tracks they left out had some quasi-random elements to them, which I'm sure the host generated when playing local multiplayer. However, there is no definite host online, so the generating would fall to the server, most likely, and that probably would be incredibly strainful if over 1,000 matches were being played.
Just my two cents, not sure if it would work that way, but I think that might have happened if they put those tracks in.
I just deleted my del.icio.us account. I don't want my Gmail account to end up like my anicent Yahoo mail account; not even able to be used because a billion spam emails make it past the filter every second.
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I mean, it's great and all, learning about what's going on, but if we find out what parts of our brains deal with choice, couldn't someone eventually make a device that can suppress some parts of the choice mechanism, and it might just happen to fall into a corrupt government's hands?
If that happens, it would only be a matter of time before the government would have the devices installed into your brains at birth in order to "prevent new terrorists"...
After all, if they put up the code that has the bug in it for every bug found, people could piece together the entire Windows source code!
...When mostly the Xbox 360 is made for things like High Definition Television, and many of the games are heavily geared towards older people.
Considering that Microsoft has generally made the XBox quite a bit about online play also furthers the distance from what's being said here.
Most parents don't want their younger kids doing things online without their supervision or at all, due to much media attention, so trying to make online play the main attraction of it (and making it cost money to do so) would seem to be leaning towards a more mature audience.
Power corrupts. That's all there is to it. Add money from corrupt companies in (I'm looking at you RIAA), and it's a recipe for disaster to everyone but those with power and money. Even then, those people may find themselves regretting their decisions.
They say they're spying on us to defend us from terrorists. If terrorists can still attack, then who were they watching in the first place? Probably not the terrorists.
In any case, I really hope this news gives a nudge to the US, saying "see? The chinese use it, why shouldn't we?"
Not really. If anything, this could give Microsoft more ammo to tell the government Linux is wrong.
"China uses Linux, and China is oppressive, therefore, Linux is helping oppress people. That's why we should use Windows instead."
I'm not saying that Microsoft would directly say that, but I'm betting Microsoft will at least try to use this news to their advantage.
Will Google Ads replace normal ads on a page if you're connecting with Google? That seems to be the only way I can really see Google making money off of this, and that seems to be slightly against their "Do No Evil" policy.
And I don't think they'll have users install a bar that shows ads at the top of their screens at all times. Remember services like NetZero? They didn't work, so how would Google manage working this?
Oh my god, I'm already getting the shivers from Google deprivation just hearing those words. Hold me, I'm scared...
Need Google... need Google... need Google...
You forgot Microsoft's new product: The Chair Killer.
Actually, it's pretty much the same thing with copyrights. You agree to them if you use whatever they're applied to, even if you don't know all the terms of it. Creative Commons shouldn't be any different in such an enforcement, even though it's meant to open up more rights than normal copyright.
Ignorance of the terms really isn't an excuse, regardless of what license it's under.
I'd say the difference between streaming content and video podcasts is simple: Unavoidable ads versus avoidable ads. If you place a stream up, everyone watching the stream will have to wait for the ads instead of fastforwarding through them. With video podcasts, people can either fastfoward through the ads , and some people might just download the programs but never watch them, thus wasting the server's bandwidth since the person downloaded something they didn't really care about.
They won't be getting any info on the people searching, meaning it will be impossible for them to determine who is an adult and who is a child.
Hence, they would take the next step, and have the identifying info required. And if a court saw Google giving away info without the indetification, they would figure it would be okay for them to add the identifying info, because it's "just one more little step".
I would be prefectly willing to be quarentined.
And there lies the problem. Once one of us is quarantined, everyone will want us all quarantined. And once that happens, no one will care about us, and they'll never develop a cure. Hence, we'll be locked up forever, never allowed to see the outside world again.
First thing, why would they spend so much money on such hardware to power this when the equipment could be damaged in the air, and second, how long daily would people have to deal with downtime if these balloons are their only way to connect?
So what, we go on a witch hunt and have each child checked? Then what? Throw them in the loony bin, mark them so people know to stay away from them? Maybe we'll just paint a big bullseye on their backs.
Either way, what you're suggesting would cause a lot fo children to be alienated and emotionally destroyed. Why the hell would you willingly destroy a child?
And don't you dare give me that "If they're autistic they don't feel emotions like normal people" bullshit.
Read the page source; he's not getting pagerank for this. That's why the rel="nofollow" is there, to prevent people from complaining.
Doesn't look like it worked in the least bit.
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Suing their parents for 100 times the price of the original game, of course.
Seriously, 5 billion lost? People that download music and movies would rarely actually buy the music or movies if they had no other choice. This is just more bullshit propaganda spread by the **AA.
You could ask the same thing about domain squatters.
not all circuits available for online play, due to lag reasons.
That could also put a strain on the server, seeing as most of the tracks they left out had some quasi-random elements to them, which I'm sure the host generated when playing local multiplayer. However, there is no definite host online, so the generating would fall to the server, most likely, and that probably would be incredibly strainful if over 1,000 matches were being played.
Just my two cents, not sure if it would work that way, but I think that might have happened if they put those tracks in.
Self-Destroying Photos? Here come the damn pedophiles...
And another thing: what if blogs are the most useful content? Do blogs really work well in Google's algorithim.
The answer is: Yes.
Remember, you're allowed to knock up someone, but you're not allowed to watch porn that might prevent you from knocking up someone.
I just deleted my del.icio.us account. I don't want my Gmail account to end up like my anicent Yahoo mail account; not even able to be used because a billion spam emails make it past the filter every second.