Why would any console maker in their right mind include it? People simply didn't use it on the PS3 (I'd be amazed if it got 0.1% of users using it regularly). Then you got people using it as a method of hacking into the PS3, forcing their hand to remove it. People then used it as (frankly stupid) justification hacking the PS3 to play pirated games and hack the PS3 servers.
No mainstream console maker will ever include Linux or an ability to unsigned low level code again thanks to these people. Sony did more than anyone had done to make their console more open and look what it got them.
I've seen a lot of fake media files require you to purchase a licence you get a "this requires a licence, do you want to retreive it" type yes/no dialogue and only take you to a website on a yes click.
I'm calling BS on your claim it does anything more than this. If MP3s were exploitable outside of encouraging you to visit a questionable site, you'd see a whole lot more malware infected MP3s sent as email attatchments. It's not unthinkable this could be exploited but I doubt it's any easier exploting that than just generally finding a vulnerability in a common codec. Especially with DEP and ASR.
Why do climate scientists pretend they're the only ones who get targetted by death threats?
Scientists who test on animals, doctors involved in abortions, stem cell research, cloning, studies that disprove religious beliefs, studies that looks at racial or sex differences, studies that show drugs to be harmful, any study that directly effects people's livelihoods. All of these are areas of study that provoke angry reactions, some of them far far worse than anything climate scientists have ever received.
Scientists studying in these other areas however, do not use this as an excuse to shirk their legal responsibility to make public the research that was funded by the tax payer.
Hasn't this already been confirmed as complete bullshit? I seem to remember you could get a google cache of the server information at the time which pretty much refuted all of the 'evidence' that Sony was running an insanely out of date server config? Why does this crap keep getting posted?
Ah, in the UK, emergency numbers are strictly for a crime in progress or for serious emergencies. Anything else tends to result in you getting a lecture or a fine and being one of the examples in the annual "silly things people dialed 999 for" slow news day stories.
If cops just showing up was a life threatening situation you'd end up with a feedback loop requiring infinate numbers of officers to attend.
He called 911 when he got a call from the cops saying they were coming around. Unless he's psychic and can see the future, it is not an emergency and he should call the station, not an emergency line.
What if, for example, there's a dispite over acceptable levels of force used? Would you then treat the cop as lying even if he genuinely thought his level of force was acceptable and it took a long court case to determine it wasn't?
The law books are vast tomes purely because offences can't be simply defined and once you get into that level of detail, you may as well go with existing legislation rather than complicate the laws and regulations further.
Why are you calling 911 as routine for non-emergencies? You should call the station rather than hog a line that someone may need to report something life threatening.
It would be 100% reduction because you wouldn't be able to recruit any police officers.
Everyone makes mistakes, even the best cops, over a 30 year period are going to make a few bad judgements (even if there's a 0.01% chance of them making a bad call). No amount of training will eliminate mistakes, especially given that they're involved in high stress situations involving unpredictable situations where their personal safety may be at risk and they have to follow a thick book filled with laws and regulations.
So tell me, how do you plan to recruit 700,000 police officers, who are very intelligent, have impeccable judgement, are capable of showing an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law, are willing to put their lives on the line, are happy knowing that a single mistake will end their career, lose their pension and give them an unspeakably hellish 5 years in prison? All for a typical salary of $45,000?
Applying your reasoning. A nurse/doctor/surgeon fails to spot a condition or makes a judgement call that proves to be wrong and a patient dies from complications that result. Do you think they should be tried for murder?
Hey look at that, someone who knows nothing about law!
Victims of a crime are not required to lift a finger to prevent themselves being a victim for an act to be criminal. If you leave your door unlocked, it's still a crime if someone robs your house, if you're a drunk woman walking home from a bar alone late at night at a crime hotspot, it doesn't suddenly mean you're fair game to be attacked.
Besides which, your solution is poor and wouldn't even work. Google often crawl sites with disguised bots (to detect if sites are serving different content to bots to game the searches), you're relying on google not to change their bots and that would do nothing to remove sites from their cache.
"Nobody got hurt" isn't a defence. I'd imagine a whole lot of informants were shit scared (with fairly good reason) because of these leaks, that's more than enough to show in a court that real harm has been done.
Besides which, it's not like insurgents leave handy notes saying "We killed this guy because of wikileaks!". Insurgents are known to target collaboraters and even if 100% of the names were removed, it's still possible to have a pretty good guess as to people's IDs based on places and other details. If someone was killed over these leaks, it'd be just another civilian who died in the conflict. It's not as if the military would publically say "John Smith was killed because he was an informant", I'd imagine it wouldn't make life all to pleasent for his widow or kids.
What exactly did we learn? That field reports tend to be inaccurate because being shot at kinda affects your ability to write masterful prose? Most of the incident reported in the leaks were known about already, it's just nobody cared about them. The big scandal, the helicoptor incident, despite it initially being edited in the most sensationalist way possible (with the full version only being released silently later), it showed helicopter pilots following procedure in an areas with reported gunfire when dealing with what looked to be a group of insurgents. It was a tragic mistake ultimately but it was hardly a case of gunhappy pilots not caring about who they kill, yes if you paused it correctly and looked real close, you could see a portion of one of the kid's clothes but that's with hindsight, unlimited time and no pressure or danger.
Forcing everyone to make cables HDMI cables that only have HDMI connectors is very good for the consumers.
Why? Because it means Sony, Nintendo, MS can't stick some weird shaped HDMI port on their consoles that forces me to spend 5 times as much to buy a cable that fits. It stops me having the farcical USB situation where you have dozen or so different shapes, some of which are so similar, the only way to know you've put the wrong cable in a device is when you get a "power has been cut to your USB ports as a short circuit was detected".
It may sound like it's a tyranical way of clawing money from manufacturers but if it means I can use the same £5 cable in every piece of electronics I own, I'm all for it.
Record companies would cease to exist if artists didn't sign.
They get away with this because artists frankly are stupid and are selling themselves (and other artists) down the river by blindly agreeing for poor contracts.
I don't have any issue with that (although, as I said, it fails to mention that royalties are much better for artists in all other forms of music delivery).
It's just the headline "Sell 1 million albums, owe $500k" is asinine and implies the artists are actually paying the record company to release their record.
I really hate stories that moan "publishers are evil, they take your advance out of your royalties"!
There's a reason they're called "advances". You're getting advanced on (potential) future earnings, why is this scandalous?
Music publishers make a killing out of CD sales at the expense of the artist. This has always been true. That's not the only way artists get money though.
However they also get you on the radio where there's a straight 50:50 split of the royalties between the writers and the studio for the song. Then there are the concerts where artists make the huge amounts of money. Without publishers promoting you, you stand little chance little chance of getting a venue with a 5 figure capacity.
You mean the same dictionary that has the following underneath that meaning?
(in a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate political and social reform:a liberal democratic state (Liberal)relating to Liberals or a Liberal Party, especially (in the UK) relating to the Liberal Democrat party.
HMRC's press office dismisses the £6bn tax write-off as an "urban myth". But the Eye's calculations on the lost income are based on publicly available accounts which detail the vast wealth of Vodafone's Luxembourg subsidiary. They add in the lost income that comes from the Revenue allowing Vodafone to continue with other tax-reducing wheezes. The Revenue, by contrast, offers questioners nothing beyond bluster and unsubstantiated assertion.
Translation: the headline £6bn figure is only partially made up of the money HMRC said they hadn't been paid and they got that money in court. The rest of the money wasn't paid because they'd used legal means to pay less tax.
There's a difference between that and just not paying taxes as required by the law.
As much as it's geeky and cool, these weapons would be incredibly poor for real world usage, to the point where they're detrimental.
The remote controlled mini ATV. What's the range? I'd guess given the electronics they have access to, 50m or so (and you can't hide behind cover). Also, presumably in an actual gunfight you won't be able to have a guy standing next to it to hold up the ammo belt so it doesn't get caught on the car or run over. Then there's rough terrain, recoil, and the fact it's in a dry, host, dusty envoironment.
The remote controlled turret? The spread of the bullets it fires is insane, It'd be easy to imagine a Pulp Fiction style scenario where the bullets completely fail to hit the enemy, you certainly couldn't reliably aim it at someone a mid distance away. Then there's the incredibly narrow viewing. The vehicle would be far far safer with a manned gun, you're more likely to see an enemy, more likely to hit him and if the gun jams, you're not fucked.
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Why would any console maker in their right mind include it? People simply didn't use it on the PS3 (I'd be amazed if it got 0.1% of users using it regularly). Then you got people using it as a method of hacking into the PS3, forcing their hand to remove it. People then used it as (frankly stupid) justification hacking the PS3 to play pirated games and hack the PS3 servers.
No mainstream console maker will ever include Linux or an ability to unsigned low level code again thanks to these people. Sony did more than anyone had done to make their console more open and look what it got them.
I've seen a lot of fake media files require you to purchase a licence you get a "this requires a licence, do you want to retreive it" type yes/no dialogue and only take you to a website on a yes click.
I'm calling BS on your claim it does anything more than this. If MP3s were exploitable outside of encouraging you to visit a questionable site, you'd see a whole lot more malware infected MP3s sent as email attatchments. It's not unthinkable this could be exploited but I doubt it's any easier exploting that than just generally finding a vulnerability in a common codec. Especially with DEP and ASR.
Why do climate scientists pretend they're the only ones who get targetted by death threats?
Scientists who test on animals, doctors involved in abortions, stem cell research, cloning, studies that disprove religious beliefs, studies that looks at racial or sex differences, studies that show drugs to be harmful, any study that directly effects people's livelihoods. All of these are areas of study that provoke angry reactions, some of them far far worse than anything climate scientists have ever received.
Scientists studying in these other areas however, do not use this as an excuse to shirk their legal responsibility to make public the research that was funded by the tax payer.
Hasn't this already been confirmed as complete bullshit? I seem to remember you could get a google cache of the server information at the time which pretty much refuted all of the 'evidence' that Sony was running an insanely out of date server config? Why does this crap keep getting posted?
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Ah, in the UK, emergency numbers are strictly for a crime in progress or for serious emergencies. Anything else tends to result in you getting a lecture or a fine and being one of the examples in the annual "silly things people dialed 999 for" slow news day stories.
I bet Malware authors are already copying these messages in order to trick people into installing scareware.
If cops just showing up was a life threatening situation you'd end up with a feedback loop requiring infinate numbers of officers to attend.
He called 911 when he got a call from the cops saying they were coming around. Unless he's psychic and can see the future, it is not an emergency and he should call the station, not an emergency line.
It's never simple.
What if, for example, there's a dispite over acceptable levels of force used? Would you then treat the cop as lying even if he genuinely thought his level of force was acceptable and it took a long court case to determine it wasn't?
The law books are vast tomes purely because offences can't be simply defined and once you get into that level of detail, you may as well go with existing legislation rather than complicate the laws and regulations further.
Why are you calling 911 as routine for non-emergencies? You should call the station rather than hog a line that someone may need to report something life threatening.
It would be 100% reduction because you wouldn't be able to recruit any police officers.
Everyone makes mistakes, even the best cops, over a 30 year period are going to make a few bad judgements (even if there's a 0.01% chance of them making a bad call). No amount of training will eliminate mistakes, especially given that they're involved in high stress situations involving unpredictable situations where their personal safety may be at risk and they have to follow a thick book filled with laws and regulations.
So tell me, how do you plan to recruit 700,000 police officers, who are very intelligent, have impeccable judgement, are capable of showing an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law, are willing to put their lives on the line, are happy knowing that a single mistake will end their career, lose their pension and give them an unspeakably hellish 5 years in prison? All for a typical salary of $45,000?
Applying your reasoning. A nurse/doctor/surgeon fails to spot a condition or makes a judgement call that proves to be wrong and a patient dies from complications that result. Do you think they should be tried for murder?
Hey look at that, someone who knows nothing about law!
Victims of a crime are not required to lift a finger to prevent themselves being a victim for an act to be criminal. If you leave your door unlocked, it's still a crime if someone robs your house, if you're a drunk woman walking home from a bar alone late at night at a crime hotspot, it doesn't suddenly mean you're fair game to be attacked.
Besides which, your solution is poor and wouldn't even work. Google often crawl sites with disguised bots (to detect if sites are serving different content to bots to game the searches), you're relying on google not to change their bots and that would do nothing to remove sites from their cache.
"Nobody got hurt" isn't a defence. I'd imagine a whole lot of informants were shit scared (with fairly good reason) because of these leaks, that's more than enough to show in a court that real harm has been done.
Besides which, it's not like insurgents leave handy notes saying "We killed this guy because of wikileaks!". Insurgents are known to target collaboraters and even if 100% of the names were removed, it's still possible to have a pretty good guess as to people's IDs based on places and other details. If someone was killed over these leaks, it'd be just another civilian who died in the conflict. It's not as if the military would publically say "John Smith was killed because he was an informant", I'd imagine it wouldn't make life all to pleasent for his widow or kids.
What exactly did we learn? That field reports tend to be inaccurate because being shot at kinda affects your ability to write masterful prose? Most of the incident reported in the leaks were known about already, it's just nobody cared about them. The big scandal, the helicoptor incident, despite it initially being edited in the most sensationalist way possible (with the full version only being released silently later), it showed helicopter pilots following procedure in an areas with reported gunfire when dealing with what looked to be a group of insurgents. It was a tragic mistake ultimately but it was hardly a case of gunhappy pilots not caring about who they kill, yes if you paused it correctly and looked real close, you could see a portion of one of the kid's clothes but that's with hindsight, unlimited time and no pressure or danger.
You don't know? Wow, you're almost as clueless as Ashley Highvale! Randal Alfredson must be rolling in his grave right now.
Forcing everyone to make cables HDMI cables that only have HDMI connectors is very good for the consumers.
Why? Because it means Sony, Nintendo, MS can't stick some weird shaped HDMI port on their consoles that forces me to spend 5 times as much to buy a cable that fits. It stops me having the farcical USB situation where you have dozen or so different shapes, some of which are so similar, the only way to know you've put the wrong cable in a device is when you get a "power has been cut to your USB ports as a short circuit was detected".
It may sound like it's a tyranical way of clawing money from manufacturers but if it means I can use the same £5 cable in every piece of electronics I own, I'm all for it.
Record companies would cease to exist if artists didn't sign.
They get away with this because artists frankly are stupid and are selling themselves (and other artists) down the river by blindly agreeing for poor contracts.
I don't have any issue with that (although, as I said, it fails to mention that royalties are much better for artists in all other forms of music delivery).
It's just the headline "Sell 1 million albums, owe $500k" is asinine and implies the artists are actually paying the record company to release their record.
I really hate stories that moan "publishers are evil, they take your advance out of your royalties"!
There's a reason they're called "advances". You're getting advanced on (potential) future earnings, why is this scandalous?
Music publishers make a killing out of CD sales at the expense of the artist. This has always been true. That's not the only way artists get money though.
However they also get you on the radio where there's a straight 50:50 split of the royalties between the writers and the studio for the song. Then there are the concerts where artists make the huge amounts of money. Without publishers promoting you, you stand little chance little chance of getting a venue with a 5 figure capacity.
All those planes that weigh less than 70kg with a pilot are sure to benefit!
I'll wait to see how it scales up.
I suspect that this suspect is suspect.
"Favouring individual liberty"
I'm pretty sure they consider animals individuals and their liberty is a pretty high priority for them.
You mean the same dictionary that has the following underneath that meaning?
(in a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate political and social reform:a liberal democratic state
(Liberal)relating to Liberals or a Liberal Party, especially (in the UK) relating to the Liberal Democrat party.
Because liberal groups would never send death threats to scientists right?
The point of view that the people who send death threats to scientists are mostly conservative would be news to scientists involved in animal testing.
HMRC's press office dismisses the £6bn tax write-off as an "urban myth". But the Eye's calculations on the lost income are based on publicly available accounts which detail the vast wealth of Vodafone's Luxembourg subsidiary. They add in the lost income that comes from the Revenue allowing Vodafone to continue with other tax-reducing wheezes. The Revenue, by contrast, offers questioners nothing beyond bluster and unsubstantiated assertion.
Translation: the headline £6bn figure is only partially made up of the money HMRC said they hadn't been paid and they got that money in court. The rest of the money wasn't paid because they'd used legal means to pay less tax.
There's a difference between that and just not paying taxes as required by the law.
As much as it's geeky and cool, these weapons would be incredibly poor for real world usage, to the point where they're detrimental.
The remote controlled mini ATV. What's the range? I'd guess given the electronics they have access to, 50m or so (and you can't hide behind cover). Also, presumably in an actual gunfight you won't be able to have a guy standing next to it to hold up the ammo belt so it doesn't get caught on the car or run over. Then there's rough terrain, recoil, and the fact it's in a dry, host, dusty envoironment.
The remote controlled turret? The spread of the bullets it fires is insane, It'd be easy to imagine a Pulp Fiction style scenario where the bullets completely fail to hit the enemy, you certainly couldn't reliably aim it at someone a mid distance away. Then there's the incredibly narrow viewing. The vehicle would be far far safer with a manned gun, you're more likely to see an enemy, more likely to hit him and if the gun jams, you're not fucked.