It's lose lose if you only look at the person on trial, not anyone else affected by the crime.
There's a lot to be said about a rape victim not being made to describe in detail, in front of 200 people in court and a variety of press, how she was raped. Then of course there's the cross examination where she's accused of being a liar or a slut...
Likewise subject families of murder victims to spending weeks hearing about their loved one's horrible final moments.
The plea bargain system has it's flaws but there's a lot of good that can come of ensuring guilty people with nothing to lose don't force a pointless trial.
Ever since the Tories came into power, they've become almost a hysterical tabloid (albeit a left wing one). Everything is The Tories fault, you'd better check under your childrens bed before you tuck them in, Thatcher could be lying there in waiting (she took their milk, now she's come for their souls!!!).
Hugely out of context quotes, calls for people to resign on a daily basis (usually for petty issues), an insane amount of spin on almost every domestic political article. They've become a parody of themselves.
Still, I lost the last traces of respect I had for the Grauniad when they published a piece by Gerry Adams who was criticising the British army for civilian casualties in Afganistan. Every comment that pointed out the hypocrisy of this got deleted (I'd estimate about 50% of them were deleted).
Just the other day, I learnt that the awful smell of natural gas is actually because of something they add to gas and that it wouldn't smell if they didn't have it! Now, whenever my pilot light goes off or I don't quite turn the oven off, my house absolutely stinks! The smell's so bad that last time it happened, when I wanted to smoke, I had to go outside, and get well away from the house to escape the smell!
Why can't the government accept that not everyone uses these so called 'dangerous substances' like they seem to think they should be used?
Yeah... You should totally buy MS instead, they have an outstanding history of ethical practices!
Nintendo would also never screw people over. Aside from trying to brick flashed wiis, removing GC compatibility from Wiis, quietly adding region coding to DS models and having the worst restrictions on downloaded content...
It was probably around 2000 when I noticed that pinball designs were starting to make a noticeable effort to try and keep playtime short (I remembering Revenge from Mars annoying me but that had the contributing factor of it being a short table) and arcades starting to charge £1 a go made it even worse (when I first started playing it was 30p a go).
It's just a shame that the Pinball makers (or possibly arcade owners) got greedy and they started designing pinball machines to get through as much cash as possible. Multiple ramps aiming near straight down between the flippers, wide gutters, non-existent ball saved indicators. A play session that lasts less than a couple of minutes isn't fun.
I'd be interested to try out Stern Pinball machines. For one, it's a worthy cause to support but also their table designs are pretty neat (even if they use a small selection of base layouts when designing them).
One trick these pinball museums seem to miss is making them actual museums rather than just freeplay arcades, I'd love for them to have more informative exhibits, maybe a glass fronted workshop with someone restoring and repairing machines, details about have various features work (bumpers, dot matrix displays etc).
They had already committed the crime, the sting was to get them to give away their identity so they could be prosecuted for it. It's a legitimate tactic.
Had a Vertex 2. After 3 months it died overnight without warning, No PC I hooked it up to would even recognise the drive. Data was totally inaccessible, first time I've ever had this with a drive. Didn't appreciate having to RMA a drive with all my data left on it, appreciated even less that I had to send it recorded delivery to the Netherlands out of my own pocket.
I love how they state on their website that the mean time for failure is something like 130 years.
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Which is how it should be.
The universe is constant, it doesn't change. You don't really need to consider if old results reflected the state of the universe at the time.
The law however, is not constant and can be changed at the whim of politicians. To retroactively change laws to find someone not guilty seems innocent enough, but that would also mean you could change laws to find someone guilty of a crime that didn't exist when they did an act.
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Pardons were granted because people in WW1 were wrongly accused and executed on a large scale without anything approaching a fair legal process, not because the crime itself was wrong. There were stories of people being shot purely because they turned around once they went 'over the top'.
His family are/were convinced that he didn't actually commit suicide, just that he was really careless with toxic chemicals.
Apparently his lab was such a mess and he was so sloppy that it would've been more in character to have been a tragic accident than suicide. These were the people who knew him best too.
For those who are interested, the BBC did a really good documentary on Bletchly park. Went into great detail about the code breaking process and, unlike most programs, actually showed in detail how the codes worked and how you could break them.
Their house, their rules. Want to use PSN or get continuing support from them, you obey their conditions.
Don't like new rules? You're not forced to accept them. You just lose Online access and continued support for your version but you don't lose anything you already have.
They mentioned it at a few trade shows and it's mentioned in instruction manuals (that you can only read after buying the console). It wasn't marketed at all, it was never a key feature.
It's amazing this rubbish keeps getting spread. No one has been able to produce marketing about OtherOS, it's not mentioned on any of the boxes (there would be plenty of images if it was). The court case regarding OtherOS was chucked out because they weren't able to demonstrate this.
Unless they wanted to run the latest Call of Duty on those PS3s, they have no reason to ever need to upgrade and can keep using Linux for as long as they like.
There's not even an issue with units breaking, it's easy as hell to get replacement parts for PS3s of all models.
Buying a PC instead of a games console if that's what you want?
The whole OtherOS thing has basically ensured that no console manufacturer will ever allow Linux installs or unsigned code on their consoles.
Let me put it this way: What benefit did Sony get from OtherOS? Now compare that to the negative publicity to when it was removed. It was always a goodwill feature, never something marketed (if you disagree, feel free to post a PS3 retail box that mentions OtherOS).
Indeed, it was simply a newsletter warning businesses of potential crime risks. Given that protesters had occupied a vacant bank building and there's always a risk of peaceful protest not becoming peaceful (especially given this come a short time after the Tottenham riots), it was a perfectly valid thing to put in a police newsletter.
It's somewhat amusing how social media tends to go on about Fox News' inaccurate, biased reporting but the way this story spread throughout the web and is now 'fact' just proves that no matter where people are in the political spectrum, if something stirs outrage and fits in with how they view certain things, they'll readily believe it with barely any questioning.
Say you've a face photo, that's got 6 possible active areas (eyes, nose, mouth, ears). Four taps would mean 216 combinations. Not amazing.
However what if you allowed multiple gestures? If you, for example, forced every tap two be a swipe between two of the possible areas that changes a 1/6 chance of getting it to a 1/30 chance (1 in 6 of getting the start, 1 in 5 of the finish). Add that to the taps, that's a 1/36, add a circle around an area, 1 in 42 (there are probably other motions you can do but I'll leave it at that.
That means, provided a user doesn't stick to taps, you've odds of 1 in 3111696 of randomly guessing how a face was interacted with in 4 motions. Compared to 1 in 9999 for a pin
It's less prone to shoulder search too. It's far easier to see and remember '1823' than 'circle around left eye, nose to right ear, left ear to mouth, tap right eye', the smudges and fingerprints on the screen are harder to understand too.
That would be prophetic... if it wasn't for the fact that DVD players at that time already had private keys kept away from their owners and that the current generation of games consoles at that time were also locked down.
Trusted Computing? Despite people like him getting hysterical about it, it still remains a feature designed for businesses who can turn it on if they wish to have the added security it provides, not something ever designed for consumer use.
It's safe to assume that if it was on any box from any region, it would've been widely circulated. As of yet, I've not seen any external packaging or marketing material that advertises the OtherOS feature.
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It's lose lose if you only look at the person on trial, not anyone else affected by the crime.
There's a lot to be said about a rape victim not being made to describe in detail, in front of 200 people in court and a variety of press, how she was raped. Then of course there's the cross examination where she's accused of being a liar or a slut...
Likewise subject families of murder victims to spending weeks hearing about their loved one's horrible final moments.
The plea bargain system has it's flaws but there's a lot of good that can come of ensuring guilty people with nothing to lose don't force a pointless trial.
Ever since the Tories came into power, they've become almost a hysterical tabloid (albeit a left wing one). Everything is The Tories fault, you'd better check under your childrens bed before you tuck them in, Thatcher could be lying there in waiting (she took their milk, now she's come for their souls!!!).
Hugely out of context quotes, calls for people to resign on a daily basis (usually for petty issues), an insane amount of spin on almost every domestic political article. They've become a parody of themselves.
Still, I lost the last traces of respect I had for the Grauniad when they published a piece by Gerry Adams who was criticising the British army for civilian casualties in Afganistan. Every comment that pointed out the hypocrisy of this got deleted (I'd estimate about 50% of them were deleted).
Yeah, screw the government.
Just the other day, I learnt that the awful smell of natural gas is actually because of something they add to gas and that it wouldn't smell if they didn't have it! Now, whenever my pilot light goes off or I don't quite turn the oven off, my house absolutely stinks! The smell's so bad that last time it happened, when I wanted to smoke, I had to go outside, and get well away from the house to escape the smell!
Why can't the government accept that not everyone uses these so called 'dangerous substances' like they seem to think they should be used?
Yeah... You should totally buy MS instead, they have an outstanding history of ethical practices!
Nintendo would also never screw people over. Aside from trying to brick flashed wiis, removing GC compatibility from Wiis, quietly adding region coding to DS models and having the worst restrictions on downloaded content...
Nintendo have also removed Gamecube comparability with newer Wii models.
They also introduced region coding to the Nintendo DS in later models
It was probably around 2000 when I noticed that pinball designs were starting to make a noticeable effort to try and keep playtime short (I remembering Revenge from Mars annoying me but that had the contributing factor of it being a short table) and arcades starting to charge £1 a go made it even worse (when I first started playing it was 30p a go).
It's just a shame that the Pinball makers (or possibly arcade owners) got greedy and they started designing pinball machines to get through as much cash as possible. Multiple ramps aiming near straight down between the flippers, wide gutters, non-existent ball saved indicators. A play session that lasts less than a couple of minutes isn't fun.
I'd be interested to try out Stern Pinball machines. For one, it's a worthy cause to support but also their table designs are pretty neat (even if they use a small selection of base layouts when designing them).
Do they have The Addams Family?
One trick these pinball museums seem to miss is making them actual museums rather than just freeplay arcades, I'd love for them to have more informative exhibits, maybe a glass fronted workshop with someone restoring and repairing machines, details about have various features work (bumpers, dot matrix displays etc).
They had already committed the crime, the sting was to get them to give away their identity so they could be prosecuted for it. It's a legitimate tactic.
Had a Vertex 2. After 3 months it died overnight without warning, No PC I hooked it up to would even recognise the drive. Data was totally inaccessible, first time I've ever had this with a drive. Didn't appreciate having to RMA a drive with all my data left on it, appreciated even less that I had to send it recorded delivery to the Netherlands out of my own pocket.
I love how they state on their website that the mean time for failure is something like 130 years.
Which is how it should be.
The universe is constant, it doesn't change. You don't really need to consider if old results reflected the state of the universe at the time.
The law however, is not constant and can be changed at the whim of politicians. To retroactively change laws to find someone not guilty seems innocent enough, but that would also mean you could change laws to find someone guilty of a crime that didn't exist when they did an act.
Pardons were granted because people in WW1 were wrongly accused and executed on a large scale without anything approaching a fair legal process, not because the crime itself was wrong. There were stories of people being shot purely because they turned around once they went 'over the top'.
His family are/were convinced that he didn't actually commit suicide, just that he was really careless with toxic chemicals.
Apparently his lab was such a mess and he was so sloppy that it would've been more in character to have been a tragic accident than suicide. These were the people who knew him best too.
For those who are interested, the BBC did a really good documentary on Bletchly park. Went into great detail about the code breaking process and, unlike most programs, actually showed in detail how the codes worked and how you could break them.
Their house, their rules. Want to use PSN or get continuing support from them, you obey their conditions.
Don't like new rules? You're not forced to accept them. You just lose Online access and continued support for your version but you don't lose anything you already have.
They mentioned it at a few trade shows and it's mentioned in instruction manuals (that you can only read after buying the console). It wasn't marketed at all, it was never a key feature.
It's amazing this rubbish keeps getting spread. No one has been able to produce marketing about OtherOS, it's not mentioned on any of the boxes (there would be plenty of images if it was). The court case regarding OtherOS was chucked out because they weren't able to demonstrate this.
Unless they wanted to run the latest Call of Duty on those PS3s, they have no reason to ever need to upgrade and can keep using Linux for as long as they like.
There's not even an issue with units breaking, it's easy as hell to get replacement parts for PS3s of all models.
Buying a PC instead of a games console if that's what you want?
The whole OtherOS thing has basically ensured that no console manufacturer will ever allow Linux installs or unsigned code on their consoles.
Let me put it this way: What benefit did Sony get from OtherOS? Now compare that to the negative publicity to when it was removed. It was always a goodwill feature, never something marketed (if you disagree, feel free to post a PS3 retail box that mentions OtherOS).
Where in the constitution does it say that one group should have the right to deprive everyone else of a public resource?
Parks are there for everyone, not just for protesters.
Indeed, it was simply a newsletter warning businesses of potential crime risks. Given that protesters had occupied a vacant bank building and there's always a risk of peaceful protest not becoming peaceful (especially given this come a short time after the Tottenham riots), it was a perfectly valid thing to put in a police newsletter.
It's somewhat amusing how social media tends to go on about Fox News' inaccurate, biased reporting but the way this story spread throughout the web and is now 'fact' just proves that no matter where people are in the political spectrum, if something stirs outrage and fits in with how they view certain things, they'll readily believe it with barely any questioning.
shoulder search = shoulder surfing
Warning, incoming maths.
Say you've a face photo, that's got 6 possible active areas (eyes, nose, mouth, ears). Four taps would mean 216 combinations. Not amazing.
However what if you allowed multiple gestures? If you, for example, forced every tap two be a swipe between two of the possible areas that changes a 1/6 chance of getting it to a 1/30 chance (1 in 6 of getting the start, 1 in 5 of the finish). Add that to the taps, that's a 1/36, add a circle around an area, 1 in 42 (there are probably other motions you can do but I'll leave it at that.
That means, provided a user doesn't stick to taps, you've odds of 1 in 3111696 of randomly guessing how a face was interacted with in 4 motions. Compared to 1 in 9999 for a pin
It's less prone to shoulder search too. It's far easier to see and remember '1823' than 'circle around left eye, nose to right ear, left ear to mouth, tap right eye', the smudges and fingerprints on the screen are harder to understand too.
That would be prophetic... if it wasn't for the fact that DVD players at that time already had private keys kept away from their owners and that the current generation of games consoles at that time were also locked down.
Trusted Computing? Despite people like him getting hysterical about it, it still remains a feature designed for businesses who can turn it on if they wish to have the added security it provides, not something ever designed for consumer use.
Slow on one prediction, incorrect on another.
Except Sony hashed the passwords, encrypted the CC info and didn't store the security codes.
How long has it been and people are still spreading the "ZOMG PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT!!" rubbish?
I'm afraid you remember incorrectly, it definitely wasn't on 1st gen boxes. Here's what's on the EU boxes:
http://media.ps3scene.com/images/ps3-eu-launch-unit/02.jpg
It's safe to assume that if it was on any box from any region, it would've been widely circulated. As of yet, I've not seen any external packaging or marketing material that advertises the OtherOS feature.
It wasn't on PS3 game packaging, it was on the OtherOS packaging; the EULA.