I thought about that too, but will the BIG AND ROUND number translate over to africa (where the customers are?) 100 bucks can translate to anything from 65,000 click-pops to half a million chits or even 3 hippo skins and a used coke can.
You try your logic in a court of law in almost any country in the world and you will be in the same situation as the person in the article, i.e. getting the book thrown at you. In Texas the judge would additionally cite you for contempt of court and could fine you and throw you in jail. You can be held indefinitely for contempt of court. The judge could have you sit in shackles and a pink jumpsuit the corner of his courtroom every day until you apologized and begged him pretty please to release you. If you acted out or disrupted the sessions he could have the bailiff taser you into submission and drag you to the holding cell for the rest of the day and add days, weeks or months to your sentence as punishment for every occurrence.
Think seriously about what actions you are defending.
Where I live, the majority of The People also believe that speeding in a car is not a crime, or at least they don't consider it wrong behavior.
There is nothing wrong with speeding. Perhaps you have an issue with people crashing into others and causing accidents? Luckily, we already have laws against that (vehicular manslaughter). Speeding laws criminalize something that does not cause anyone harm and of itself.
Sounds like that chinese propoganda poster "Civil disobedience is still disobedience." This is how we go about forcing change to unjust laws. Must I trot out the fact that helping slaves escape and women to vote was also once illegal?
And while your example of stock certificates and deeds is admittedly clever, those that duplicate them are doing so with the intent to deprive the owner of the original stock/property. Not so with piracy.
I think you're confusing the burden of proof (beyond a reasonable doubt vs preponderance of evidence). While the state's standard is lower in a civil case, you are most certainly innocent until they prove otherwise.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place? Why give these wankers any more ideas on how to cover up their theft?
Because the majority of The People do not beleive music theft to be a crime. We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
I'd certainly be interested in a way to shut it down manually as admin, if you know a way. If it ever bugs up and goes into "turtle mode", you're basically forced to do a reboot because it locks the internet and won't allow you to close it through task manager.
You could also advise them to simply google the.exe file. Every time I've tried this, the first 10 results have always been a group of sites that detail exactly what it's from and a recommendation to allow it or not. Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish and all.
Sure it takes more time, but the only real reason I even use a firewall is to keep winamp and media player from phoning home.
Not one of the six firewall programs the magazine tested, regardless of whether commercial or freeware, could prevent all attempts from the test programs at establishing outgoing connections between the PC and the internet
Yeah, what a drag that their software is not completely immaculate. Let us know when you code the world's first perfect application, sparky.
And how exactly does "not perfect" translate to "useless" again?
This guy does make a valid, albeit somewhat cryptic point.
In RTS games, more buttons/icons/commands are notorious for generating low ratings and sales due to the steep difficulty curve. But for FPS games, players are always trying to bend the rules by doing backwards flying cartwheels for an extra edge. They'd have no problem if you threw in a bunch of new, acrobatic keypresses. Fighter games, too. Maybe it's dependent on the gamer?
Can't say I've played the Civilization series, but perhaps the author's problem was picking an extreme of the genre.
The other RTS I've played (age of empires and mythology) are much more intuitive. Select worker, select building, click somewhere to build. If you want to add more, drag over an area of workers (or double-click for all visible), then right click on the building. If it's already built, they'll do whatever that building does when you click.
Generally, but since the population so despises these people, that fact is summarily ignored every time.
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My point was really in expressing the rampant idiocy of turning webpages into code. If even the smallest run-time error occurs and you don't catch it -- that's it, end of website! At least until you're made aware and can fix it.
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While I agree with your first point, it simply has to be reiterated thaWarning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/secret.php on line 7
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Isn't that the million-dollar question? There's no way to break only their privacy without breaking everyone's first and then hoping they'll just go after the original "them."
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I thought about that too, but will the BIG AND ROUND number translate over to africa (where the customers are?) 100 bucks can translate to anything from 65,000 click-pops to half a million chits or even 3 hippo skins and a used coke can.
An excellent riposte, sir.
Then maybe we shouldn't be a democracy anymore. At the very least, let's stop bullshitting ourselves.
You try your logic in a court of law in almost any country in the world and you will be in the same situation as the person in the article, i.e. getting the book thrown at you. In Texas the judge would additionally cite you for contempt of court and could fine you and throw you in jail. You can be held indefinitely for contempt of court. The judge could have you sit in shackles and a pink jumpsuit the corner of his courtroom every day until you apologized and begged him pretty please to release you. If you acted out or disrupted the sessions he could have the bailiff taser you into submission and drag you to the holding cell for the rest of the day and add days, weeks or months to your sentence as punishment for every occurrence.
Think seriously about what actions you are defending.
Where I live, the majority of The People also believe that speeding in a car is not a crime, or at least they don't consider it wrong behavior.
There is nothing wrong with speeding. Perhaps you have an issue with people crashing into others and causing accidents? Luckily, we already have laws against that (vehicular manslaughter). Speeding laws criminalize something that does not cause anyone harm and of itself.
Victimless crimes are still crimes.
Sounds like that chinese propoganda poster "Civil disobedience is still disobedience." This is how we go about forcing change to unjust laws. Must I trot out the fact that helping slaves escape and women to vote was also once illegal?
And while your example of stock certificates and deeds is admittedly clever, those that duplicate them are doing so with the intent to deprive the owner of the original stock/property. Not so with piracy.
I think you're confusing the burden of proof (beyond a reasonable doubt vs preponderance of evidence). While the state's standard is lower in a civil case, you are most certainly innocent until they prove otherwise.
At least in theory, which this case demonstrates.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place? Why give these wankers any more ideas on how to cover up their theft?
Because the majority of The People do not beleive music theft to be a crime. We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
and to undergo some sort of therapy
lol, wut?
It's one or the other. Either he's responsible and gets punished or he's not and gets therapy to help him understand why.
Actually, I was hoping for some cheat codes to give a +constitution boost.
I'd certainly be interested in a way to shut it down manually as admin, if you know a way. If it ever bugs up and goes into "turtle mode", you're basically forced to do a reboot because it locks the internet and won't allow you to close it through task manager.
You could also advise them to simply google the .exe file. Every time I've tried this, the first 10 results have always been a group of sites that detail exactly what it's from and a recommendation to allow it or not. Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish and all.
Sure it takes more time, but the only real reason I even use a firewall is to keep winamp and media player from phoning home.
Cowardess? Sounds like a new D&D class.
can she cast magic missile?
Not one of the six firewall programs the magazine tested, regardless of whether commercial or freeware, could prevent all attempts from the test programs at establishing outgoing connections between the PC and the internet
Yeah, what a drag that their software is not completely immaculate. Let us know when you code the world's first perfect application, sparky.
And how exactly does "not perfect" translate to "useless" again?
There's also a simplified version of the game, which can even be played solo, called "Drinking."
Would you mind writing up a strategy guide for this one? I'm having a bit of trouble on level 6.
This guy does make a valid, albeit somewhat cryptic point.
In RTS games, more buttons/icons/commands are notorious for generating low ratings and sales due to the steep difficulty curve. But for FPS games, players are always trying to bend the rules by doing backwards flying cartwheels for an extra edge. They'd have no problem if you threw in a bunch of new, acrobatic keypresses. Fighter games, too. Maybe it's dependent on the gamer?
Can't say I've played the Civilization series, but perhaps the author's problem was picking an extreme of the genre.
The other RTS I've played (age of empires and mythology) are much more intuitive. Select worker, select building, click somewhere to build. If you want to add more, drag over an area of workers (or double-click for all visible), then right click on the building. If it's already built, they'll do whatever that building does when you click.
Generally, but since the population so despises these people, that fact is summarily ignored every time.
My point was really in expressing the rampant idiocy of turning webpages into code. If even the smallest run-time error occurs and you don't catch it -- that's it, end of website! At least until you're made aware and can fix it.
While I agree with your first point, it simply has to be reiterated thaWarning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/secret.php on line 7
unable to connect to msql server: Too many connections
When I first saw the "kah-lih-faaaawn-yuh" meme, I first thought they were making fun of the retarded kid from this movie.
Because many people now beleive if you are not helping them then you can only be a criminal.
Those involved should have their privacy broken.
Isn't that the million-dollar question? There's no way to break only their privacy without breaking everyone's first and then hoping they'll just go after the original "them."
ah, touche :)
When in the entire history of viruses has someone ever decided "hey, I'll make my virus 700 megabytes and take hours to spread from person to person!"