Nobody needs to protect "the internet", you just have to protect "your computer". If there are any security flaws they should be fixed in software. Regulation won't stop crackers/phishers, they already operate without regards to the law.
What's so difficult about porting between Win/360 & PS3? Do they even have to do anything extra? It's the same engine and the same game, don't they interpret the same assets in the same way?
The CRTC has other problems too, they try and shape programming, and control how much "foreign" content is shown. Really, in a world where we need to be a lot closer to each other and have a wider perspective, they are trying to enforce quite the opposite. Perhaps cornering a means of obtaining "foreign" content such as Bittorrent is an issue very close to their heart for that reason.
What channels do they watch? What shows do they watch? Do they use TiVo or do they just channel surf? There are perfectly productive, informative, and educational reasons to watch TV. There is also good entertainment and derivative formulaic uninspired drivel. Simply saying "More TV = unhappy" is very vague.
You can't use this idea for data that you create or data that you download that was never put onto CD in the first place. This is presumably for backing up data, so it's not a big deal if you lose data that is already pressed onto hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of discs.
Why should manufacturers spend extra money if people will just buy new Windows 7 compatible hardware, and then just blame MS for the incompatibilities between the OS versions?
When you say something in anger in meatspace, people hold you accountable and may consider what you say as threatening, and there can be consequences, especially in the workspace. Also, people want an audience, and when they're really pissed off they want everyone to know about it. This stuff can be healthy. Of course there are other people where the anger grows inside them and they just post snide remarks and try to piss on peoples' parades and ruin people's days, these people feed their anger and become bitter. It's all about why you're doing it and if you're trying to get rid of some angry feelings and vent, or if you're festering.
You mean they have the technology now for a computer to be able to tell if you bought something before? I guess then they can tell that I've already got a license to use the MP3 codec, so now when I download a program that tries to sell me an MP3 license, they can automatically discount it from the price, or automatically enable it in the referred program!
And since only a few percentage of computers ship with high-end graphics cards, we should just eliminate them altogether. Makes sense now that we're living in the twilight zone. 30% of your userbase asks for something? Who cares!
That's exactly how Sony used PS2 marketing to crush the Dreamcast before it was even released, even though early titles such as Ready 2 Rumble for PS2 were a lot better on the Dreamcast, and PS2 launch titles were mostly crap while Dreamcast already had an excellent library of top games.
So if the party in power have access to private information on those who are campaigning, doesn't that give them an unfair advantage and raise the bar unfairly to those who are not friendly with those in power? Is it not also illegal to access private information of an individual without a warrant? Why does the public not have access to this information if the current power has access, if the information does not require secrecy insofar as the scope of information kept secret because it would put the country at risk?
The US Army views things through a certain lens where the major thing they consider about anything is "How will terrorists use it?" The truth is, there are nefarious ways to use almost everything, even a pencil. You can't prevent bad things from happening just by thinking up how they may happen. If someone wants to badly enough, they can achieve grand things. That goes for good and bad. It takes the apathy of many people, or even someone who may charm angsty groupies, or whatever. Why spend time being afraid and worrying about what may happen? We can't possibly take preventative measures against absolutely every manner of causing harm or allowing ingress. This isn't news, it's just the army doing their... "job" I guess...
You're missing out on doing it all on your Wii, for one thing, which may be the only system some people have, and for some, the less devices the better. Especially if you have to bring it to/from college.
They're really doing well without Microsoft as it is. Taking into account the conflict of interest on MS's end to help out a competing product, what would be the incentive for the SAMBA team to work directly with those who may not have their best interests at heart?
Really, who is going to pay me to scratch whatever itch I feel like? Who is going to pay me for all of the stuff I particularly feel like doing? While it may be valuable to me and my friends, it holds no intrinsic value as seen by entities that regularly hire and produce individuals to produce "content". The content produced by everyone in their free time is not the same content that people are being paid to produce. Companies that don't know how to tap into this market will be made extinct by it, and my guess is that the dinosaurs spinning this yarn about OSS and user created content going in the toilet are probably really really hoping it will all come true.
Yep, I got a MacBook Pro for the hardware. It's got a webcam, wireless, all the ports I need, it's got a nice CPU and video hardware, it's quiet, and I like the extras such as illuminated keyboard, multi-touch trackpad. Pieces don't just come off the laptop, it has a good build and looks nice, it's not heavy. The warranty and AppleCare options are nice. And I run Linux as my main OS.
When you arrest certain people, it doesn't remove the profitability of the activity, it doesn't remove the tools or knowledge used to perpetrate the activity, and it doesn't remove the infected computers already carrying out payloads. Maybe for a few who are deeply involved individuals with a lot to risk, they will reconsider what they're involved in, but there must be a large population who still consider it profitable and worth the risk.
Yeah but with Microsoft, they'll just say it's a feature of another product, and other products will cost more if they include it, or they won't have it at all, in which case it will look like the competition has less features and costs more.
Yeah sure, what they do with the network is fine. But control over a network and control over a device are two different things! If they modify pieces of data that pass through them, I guess it's their right as we are using them as a conduit and they say there is no guarantee that it should behave in a way we expect it to, it's their property and they set it up to behave the way they want. However if they're sending us data that modifies our device without consent, no, that's not their right. It's my property. Our device can behave however we want it to and choose to modify it. They can block it at the server or alter data in their own server that we choose to send to them. But they cannot just take over our devices and change things around and delete shit and alter functionality.
I'm sure there's hackers trying to break in to the FBI's computing system all the time, it's just now it's probably gotten so easy and there are so many holes and loose ends to tie up with security, and even if there are people who know what they're doing there, there is no real grand plan for their computer system or security and nobobdy knows how to bring it all together. They're probably also concerned with illegally hacking into other nations' computers and our own. Why should we care about what's wrong with their security (I mean, there are a few things we want to know as well), and how could they even fix it anyway?
After all, tons of non-americans grew up with these shows. They'll buy it in droves!
In reality, we should be giving these away to other countries to attract them, and they will be more likely to want other american shows and movies based on past favorites, which are regularly re-made and re-released anyway so that they can charge americans for it over again as well.
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Nobody needs to protect "the internet", you just have to protect "your computer". If there are any security flaws they should be fixed in software. Regulation won't stop crackers/phishers, they already operate without regards to the law.
What's so difficult about porting between Win/360 & PS3? Do they even have to do anything extra? It's the same engine and the same game, don't they interpret the same assets in the same way?
The CRTC has other problems too, they try and shape programming, and control how much "foreign" content is shown. Really, in a world where we need to be a lot closer to each other and have a wider perspective, they are trying to enforce quite the opposite. Perhaps cornering a means of obtaining "foreign" content such as Bittorrent is an issue very close to their heart for that reason.
What channels do they watch? What shows do they watch? Do they use TiVo or do they just channel surf? There are perfectly productive, informative, and educational reasons to watch TV. There is also good entertainment and derivative formulaic uninspired drivel. Simply saying "More TV = unhappy" is very vague.
Let the lobbying begin. Money, spin, and rhetoric ftw.
You can't use this idea for data that you create or data that you download that was never put onto CD in the first place. This is presumably for backing up data, so it's not a big deal if you lose data that is already pressed onto hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of discs.
Why should manufacturers spend extra money if people will just buy new Windows 7 compatible hardware, and then just blame MS for the incompatibilities between the OS versions?
When you say something in anger in meatspace, people hold you accountable and may consider what you say as threatening, and there can be consequences, especially in the workspace. Also, people want an audience, and when they're really pissed off they want everyone to know about it. This stuff can be healthy. Of course there are other people where the anger grows inside them and they just post snide remarks and try to piss on peoples' parades and ruin people's days, these people feed their anger and become bitter. It's all about why you're doing it and if you're trying to get rid of some angry feelings and vent, or if you're festering.
How is the cost ballooned? They offer it for cheaper!
You mean they have the technology now for a computer to be able to tell if you bought something before? I guess then they can tell that I've already got a license to use the MP3 codec, so now when I download a program that tries to sell me an MP3 license, they can automatically discount it from the price, or automatically enable it in the referred program!
And since only a few percentage of computers ship with high-end graphics cards, we should just eliminate them altogether. Makes sense now that we're living in the twilight zone. 30% of your userbase asks for something? Who cares!
That's exactly how Sony used PS2 marketing to crush the Dreamcast before it was even released, even though early titles such as Ready 2 Rumble for PS2 were a lot better on the Dreamcast, and PS2 launch titles were mostly crap while Dreamcast already had an excellent library of top games.
So if the party in power have access to private information on those who are campaigning, doesn't that give them an unfair advantage and raise the bar unfairly to those who are not friendly with those in power? Is it not also illegal to access private information of an individual without a warrant? Why does the public not have access to this information if the current power has access, if the information does not require secrecy insofar as the scope of information kept secret because it would put the country at risk?
The US Army views things through a certain lens where the major thing they consider about anything is "How will terrorists use it?" The truth is, there are nefarious ways to use almost everything, even a pencil. You can't prevent bad things from happening just by thinking up how they may happen. If someone wants to badly enough, they can achieve grand things. That goes for good and bad. It takes the apathy of many people, or even someone who may charm angsty groupies, or whatever. Why spend time being afraid and worrying about what may happen? We can't possibly take preventative measures against absolutely every manner of causing harm or allowing ingress. This isn't news, it's just the army doing their... "job" I guess...
You're missing out on doing it all on your Wii, for one thing, which may be the only system some people have, and for some, the less devices the better. Especially if you have to bring it to/from college.
They're really doing well without Microsoft as it is. Taking into account the conflict of interest on MS's end to help out a competing product, what would be the incentive for the SAMBA team to work directly with those who may not have their best interests at heart?
Really, who is going to pay me to scratch whatever itch I feel like? Who is going to pay me for all of the stuff I particularly feel like doing? While it may be valuable to me and my friends, it holds no intrinsic value as seen by entities that regularly hire and produce individuals to produce "content". The content produced by everyone in their free time is not the same content that people are being paid to produce. Companies that don't know how to tap into this market will be made extinct by it, and my guess is that the dinosaurs spinning this yarn about OSS and user created content going in the toilet are probably really really hoping it will all come true.
Yep, I got a MacBook Pro for the hardware. It's got a webcam, wireless, all the ports I need, it's got a nice CPU and video hardware, it's quiet, and I like the extras such as illuminated keyboard, multi-touch trackpad. Pieces don't just come off the laptop, it has a good build and looks nice, it's not heavy. The warranty and AppleCare options are nice. And I run Linux as my main OS.
When you arrest certain people, it doesn't remove the profitability of the activity, it doesn't remove the tools or knowledge used to perpetrate the activity, and it doesn't remove the infected computers already carrying out payloads. Maybe for a few who are deeply involved individuals with a lot to risk, they will reconsider what they're involved in, but there must be a large population who still consider it profitable and worth the risk.
So the real news here is that Wikipedia is about as accurate as science journals.
Yeah but with Microsoft, they'll just say it's a feature of another product, and other products will cost more if they include it, or they won't have it at all, in which case it will look like the competition has less features and costs more.
Yeah sure, what they do with the network is fine. But control over a network and control over a device are two different things! If they modify pieces of data that pass through them, I guess it's their right as we are using them as a conduit and they say there is no guarantee that it should behave in a way we expect it to, it's their property and they set it up to behave the way they want. However if they're sending us data that modifies our device without consent, no, that's not their right. It's my property. Our device can behave however we want it to and choose to modify it. They can block it at the server or alter data in their own server that we choose to send to them. But they cannot just take over our devices and change things around and delete shit and alter functionality.
"On the day these images were taken, one of the images seemed to be "out-of-phase" with other images, possibly indicating a dust devil occurrence"
OR... it's proof that these martian landings are staged and never really occurred in the first place!
I'm sure there's hackers trying to break in to the FBI's computing system all the time, it's just now it's probably gotten so easy and there are so many holes and loose ends to tie up with security, and even if there are people who know what they're doing there, there is no real grand plan for their computer system or security and nobobdy knows how to bring it all together. They're probably also concerned with illegally hacking into other nations' computers and our own. Why should we care about what's wrong with their security (I mean, there are a few things we want to know as well), and how could they even fix it anyway?
After all, tons of non-americans grew up with these shows. They'll buy it in droves!
In reality, we should be giving these away to other countries to attract them, and they will be more likely to want other american shows and movies based on past favorites, which are regularly re-made and re-released anyway so that they can charge americans for it over again as well.