Odds are high that the remedy will simply be to cease distribution and fix the problem. Perhaps some court costs and settlement money.
The odds the court would require them to release the source for everything under the GPL is almost laughably absurd.
For starters that would almost invariably trigger a bunch of OTHER license violations for other libraries and packages they used. No court is going to enforce the GPL by demanding the company violate all its other suppliers licenses. Its just ridiculous on its face.
Perhaps for 2k vs 60k... but what about 30k vs 60k.
You get into a very good flute long before you reach the top of what you can spend. And flutes are fundamentally pretty simple. What do you think they are really holding back on a 30,000 dollar flute?
nstruments on the other hand all sound different. The price is really not point. [...] More expensive does not automatically sound better.
So they what IS the point? They sound "different" but the difference would not be recognized as better. Why pay $40,000 for something that is not better?
If a professional musician took a 30k flute and played it, and then played a 60k flute and 2 different 20k flutes, all for other professional musicians -- you are asserting they could tell they were different instruments.
But could they tell by blind listening which was 60k and which was 20k and which was 30k? Or would they simply know that there were 4 different flutes?
One of the more classic ones was a double-blind test for violins
Yes, I cited that test in my original post.
but they were able to pick of which the test subjects they were playing
Not even that.
Next, Fritz and Curtin gave the recruits a more natural task. They saw all six violins, laid out in random order on a bed. They had 20 minutes to play any violin against any other and to choose the one theyâ(TM)d most like to take home. They also picked the best and worst instruments in terms of four qualities: range of tone colours; projection; playability; and response.
This time, a clear favourite emerged. The players chose one of the new violins (âoeN2â) as their take-home instrument most often, and it topped the rankings for all four qualities. As before, O1 received the most severe rejections. Overall, just 38 percent of the players (8 out of 21) chose to take an old violin home, and most couldnâ(TM)t tell if their instrument was old or new. As Fritz and Curtin write, this âoestands as a bracing counterexample to conventional wisdom.â
Re-read my post -- I never said parity. I want the H1B employees to come at a premium.
Look at the situation in Canada with TFW
The Canadian TFW program has depressed wages; and one of its signature features was the ability to import 'low cost labor". It doesn't really exemplify your point.
That aside, I concede the hold employers have over TFW employees itself creates its own problems. But if they were paying a significant premium for TFW employees; it wouldn't be much different than "over paying locals" in terms of motivating them to "toe the line".*
(Its "toe" not "tow" by the way, as in metaphorically to stand with their toes against a hypothetical line -- a symbol of conformity to rules / authority)
Double blind is simple. It is quite easy for a good ear to be able to reliably tell different quality instruments apart.
Yeah, that's EXACTLY what audiophiles say too. Hence the desire to see it properly validated by a double blind. I'm not saying muscians couldn't tell quality instruments apart, but just where the threshold is... that's an open question.
Can they tell a 1k flute from a 5k flute? 5k from a 15k one? What about a 15k flute vs a 30k flute? 30k flute from a 60k flute? How much can you pay for a flute? How many musicians will say can tell it from a 25k one? How many can actually tell Double blind?
She received a degree in flute performance with that $2k flute, but as she put it, a lot of her time was spent "fighting the instrument" to make things sound right; with the professional flute she could spend more time on other things like listening to the rest of the orchestra or reading ahead to be a better sightreader.
So what would a 60k flute do for her?
I don't dispute there are tiers; and I agree that 2k is fairly entry level for a *decent* instrument. But what's the difference between a 10k, 25k, and 50k flute? Would a pro still have no trouble telling them apart? I'm skeptical.
I guess I am used to the world of electronic music where even a top-of-the-line keyboard would probably only cost $2-3k tops and a fairly good one from a name like Yamaha or Roland could probably be picked up for around $1k or so.
The person your replying to was just being a snob; a cheap but perfectly adequate beginners/student/school band grade trombone is readily available for a few hundred bucks, and a respectable quality instrument can be had for a couple thousand bucks at retail. There's definitely a different quality, longevity, and craftsmanship between entry level student stuff and higher quality instruments, but the difference between a $2000 flute and a $60000 flute? I'd love to see a double blind.
Musical instruments get to be like audiophile gear; someone will always charge a ridiculous amount, because someone else will pay it and then claim its better.
The Stradivarious is still more valuable for its historical significance, and the collectibility / prestige aspect -- but in terms of actual acoustic quality? Didn't stand up to a double blind test.
PS, on the flip side, the MSRP for a Roland V-Piano Grand is around 25,000. So your top end for an electronic keyboard was a bit low.
Kids should have at least a couple of months out of the year when they can just not worry about their studies and have fun and BE KIDS.
My kids switched to an all year school. They get a December, March, and August off instead of 2 weeks for christmas, 2 weeks spring break, and 2 months summer.
Do the math. Its the same number of school days. They still get to be kids.
The solution to H1B visa employees is to simply have combination of a wage requirement plus an annual tariff on H1B visa employees such that the total cost of the H1B visa employee is higher than the median employee costs.
If the companies still want H1B visa employees then there is a genuine shortage, and they'll pay what it takes to get employees.
If suddenly they don't want piles H1B visas and start hiring locally, well.. that tells us there wasn't really a shortage.
Given H1B employees tend to get paid less though, I expect that's the main reason they are desirable.
Been pretty much absolutely rock solid for me. I've never had to reboot it for wifi issues and I use it with Macs, PCs XP, Vista, 7 and 8.1, androids, ios devices, even a windows phone, plus WiiU, a couple 3DS etc.
Not necessarily the best choice or anything, if I were buying a router today, I'd look for one that was well supported by OpenWRT, had the hardware characteristics i wanted (simultaneous dual band, ram, etc) and good user reviews.
You don't have to hack them, you don't have to bother them. I've had mine for about 10 years now, to replace my old 1st-gen WRT54g, where I was doing stupid shit like trying to build an HTTP & media server into it, which was a conceptually flawed idea for an wireless-access-point.
The flipside of that is running an old pentium 4 as your media server is that its a noisy energy hog. I mean, unless you needed a white noise generator and space heater anyway...
"Nope. Just use it for an WAP, not as a server." which was the correct decision.."
Until Apple releases a dual purpose device right? Like the airport time capsule.
That said, there IS something to be said for separating the WAP and Media server from the Edge Router/Firewall. I like my edge device to be simple; and I've considered adding a dedicated router and converting my current openWRT into even more of an intranet toy.
Ok... I admit I'm speculating. I don't really follow "e sports" at all, but that's what a lot of the magic the gathering top players looked like back when I played.
They were not really societies take on "men who men wanted to be and women wanted to be with"
That's not to say that esports players won't attract its own audience and groupies, any subculture has that, but going mainstream -- it will need broader appeal. Its more than just overcoming ideas that video games are "childish" -- it would require somehow overcoming the fact that video games players do not conform to our biological / evolutionary cued measures of attractive / capable / healthy / etc.
I think it is important that he has now helping Putin's PR machine and I think it betrays who this guy really is.
Its pretty well established that he got trapped there by the USA while he was attempting to get SOMEWHERE ELSE. So if your cheesed about him being in Russia, the blame squarely falls on the USA for trapping him there.
He's a self indulged, self important young man who thought to highly of himself, choose to break the law for the fame and has now come to realize it wasn't a very good idea because his life is ruined now.
In the real world its pretty clear from interviews he knew what he was getting into. Its also pretty clear from the cycle of lying the NSA has done to congress as a result of the revelations that there was no fixing it from within. You seem to be in denial.
Mark my words carefully.
Yeah, he's fucked. We agree on that. That just makes what he did that much more heroic -- because he did the right thing when he knew up front it was clearly going to ruin his life. I'd hope for a better outcome for him, because he doesn't deserve punishment for what he did, but he's getting it anyway.
If he goes to trial he will be found guilty, not because the courts are unfair, but because he broke the law.
The law once made sheltering black people fleeing slavery illegal too. And at another time another underground railroad that transported Jews out of Germany was also illegal.
The railroad operators... just self indulged, and self important people who should have grown up and realized the errors they were making right? They should have exhausted the options, not burned any bridges by breaking the law, and the ones who were caught and executed for it... nobody to blame but themselves.
I've made my position clear multiple times now. I'm done debating this with you (or anybody else who responds to this post.)
Or put another way:
See, I keep my mental mind extra secure. Nothin' gets in. -- Riley, The Boondocks
1) It has a firmware that's pretty small, and finding something like an inspection routine that cryptographically evaluates every packet really would kind of stick out to anybody looking.
2) Many people run all sorts of traffic logging etc, promiscuous mode in front of the router etc. Unless you theorize that all network hardware and software is in on it, the command and control traffic would be visible; and someone would have seen it by now. As in... why is my router sending traffic to X, when its just a dedicated point to point VPN to Y.
So you are OK with Snowden giving material aid in Putin's PR machine and damaging the USA's interest world wide?
The USA's own actions are what has damaged its interests. And the USA's continued actions are what's keeping him there. The USA really only has itself to blame here, at every level of the problem.
He's not furthering his aims in exile,
I completely disagree.
he's saving his skin working at cross purposes to his stated aim by helping Putin's PR machine.
Boo fucking hoo. He's in Russia because the USA trapped him there. If it bothers you that much that he's there grant him full immunity from prosecution; and stop trying to have any plane he might be on diverted and searched. Bet you he leaves on his own.
Look, It doesn't matter if what he did was right or wrong morally, he violated his contract with the government and must answer for that,
One always has the discretion whether or not to "press charges". The government is not "required" to prosecute Snowden for his so-called breach of contract, any more than it is required to prosecute James Clapper for lying to congress under oath (which it is highly unlikely to do despite violating the law, and even admitting to it...).
If you believe what he did is right, then like rebels of the past who broke the laws of the day he needs to be ready to stand up and face the consequences. and make his case to further the cause.
What would that accomplish? He can clearly do more for his cause in exile than he can in prison. Only a fool would argue otherwise.
Do you also think the Dalai Lama should return from exile to China? The longer he waits just proves he's not really interested in the cause, and just looking to prolong his 15 minutes of fame right?
There's always disclaimers about how your multiplayer experience may vary.
That primarily disclaims things outside Sony's control, in particular:
a) "the behaviour of the other players"
A "PG" game with mutliplayer that allows text or voice chat... well it might not be PG in multiplayer depending who you are playing with. Most games disclaim that, or even say that "Multiplayer is Not Rated".
b) The network (latency, etc) -- if you are on satellite in Hawaii multiplayer network performance is going to suck more for you than it does for me. Sony knows what the hardware is in a PS3 or 4... but it can only make a 'best effort' with respect to the network.
I'm not convinced that anyone is going to let them use that particular disclaimer to get out of "graphics" issues.
Recall that we learned all we to know [..] in kindergarten.
That once you trade some marbles, the marbles you traded are someone elses now? You don't get to control what he does with them, take them back, or demand something additional for them after the fact?
1) it works together with your iOS device, which means you need to have it with you -- kind of defeating the purpose 2) it requires your iOS device to be jailbroken -- which seemingly voids your warranty 3) it is a paid application that can be found on Cydia for $2.50
Yeah... that seems like a good solution.
I mean, if anything, its actually worse than this one to get get skype on 10.5 now:
The "available options," belong to the vendor until the customer pays for them. Right?
That's the question. But think about it for half a second.
Scenario 1: If I buy a base model computer, notice it has an unused slot, and add a PCI card... am I stealing from the vendor? I didn't buy the card I put into that slot from him. What if he sells the same card I bought? Am I *STEALING* from him by adding an "available option" from another source?
Scenario 2: If I buy yet another computer, and this time I want to do some GPU computing, but the version of the drivers installed don't have it enabled. The vendor again makes, for a price, drivers available that have it enabled. But its a bog standard nvidia card -- I can get the reference drivers from them, and the feature comes online. Am I stealing? The hardware I bought already had the capability; is it theft for me to install (or write) software to use it?
Scenario 3: I buy a bog standard high end consumer router from Netgear or Dlink, install OpenWRT on it and can now do all kinds of things with it that I'd normally have to buy much higher priced gear from the vendor to do. Am I "stealing" from the vendor?
Scenario 4: One more computer, same GPU computing requirement, this time the vendor even installed the GPU enabled drivers, but went into the registry and disabled it. He offers, for $$ he'll enable GPU computing for me. Or I can just edit the registry and turn it on. Am I stealing now? I bought the hardware, and the copy of the software.
Why on earth does the vendor still retain rights over what registry settings are set?
If I wipe the computer and install linux and use it as a server when the vendor only sold me a "desktop PC for facebook" am I stealing because I didn't buy his "datacenter server PC" what if the 2 pc's turn out to be exactly the same, and the only difference all along was price?
Arguing that the vendor owns the possibility of you doing things with it that you didn't expressly pay the vendor for leads to absurdities. Next thing you'll be saying I owe Adidas money because I'm playing basketball in shoes I only paid for walking and running capabilities with. If Adidas sells the exact same shoe but in a box with the labels "Walking, Running, Basketball" and charges more for it, am I now stealing?
Anonymity gives A the advantage of being difficult to catch.
Anonymity gives B the advantage that less details about B are available to A for bullying.
If B were truly anonymous, then A would not be able to Bully him. Go ahead, try bullying an anonymous coward on slashdot. The idea doesn't even make sense.
At best you can bully someone who is pseudo anonymous -- like a registered slashdot user. But again, they can just change pseudonyms and escape the bully.
So the only time bullying on the internet is even relevant is if his victim is already sufficiently non-anonymous that he can't trivially get away. Given that tons of bullying already occurs on the internet -- we can conclude that the victims have already been effectively de-anonymized.
Now outlaw online anonymity.
Ok.
A is a criminal, he will not think twice before using VPN / proxy / tor.
So what? His pseudo identity will be booted / ip banned, his comments deleted etc. Using a VPN or Tor and being abroad might prevent you from getting arrested but it won't get your content into the forums your are trying to bully from.
You'll be immediately flagged as anon, and your content blocked and deleted.
Very similar to guns. Not sure why you don't see it.
Nothing like guns. "Polite society" can trivially banish and ignore the 'anon' person, and there's nothing he can do about it.
The guy with the gun can't simply be tossed out... because he has a gun.
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Odds are high that the remedy will simply be to cease distribution and fix the problem. Perhaps some court costs and settlement money.
The odds the court would require them to release the source for everything under the GPL is almost laughably absurd.
For starters that would almost invariably trigger a bunch of OTHER license violations for other libraries and packages they used. No court is going to enforce the GPL by demanding the company violate all its other suppliers licenses. Its just ridiculous on its face.
Its just FUD and full on stupidity.
At least that's how I interpret GP.
Perhaps for 2k vs 60k... but what about 30k vs 60k.
You get into a very good flute long before you reach the top of what you can spend. And flutes are fundamentally pretty simple. What do you think they are really holding back on a 30,000 dollar flute?
"They're more the "hold pointless hearings to make it seem like you're doing something and then go out on recess" kind of folks. "
aka -- goofing off :)
nstruments on the other hand all sound different. The price is really not point. [...] More expensive does not automatically sound better.
So they what IS the point? They sound "different" but the difference would not be recognized as better. Why pay $40,000 for something that is not better?
If a professional musician took a 30k flute and played it, and then played a 60k flute and 2 different 20k flutes, all for other professional musicians -- you are asserting they could tell they were different instruments.
But could they tell by blind listening which was 60k and which was 20k and which was 30k? Or would they simply know that there were 4 different flutes?
One of the more classic ones was a double-blind test for violins
Yes, I cited that test in my original post.
but they were able to pick of which the test subjects they were playing
Not even that.
Next, Fritz and Curtin gave the recruits a more natural task. They saw all six violins, laid out in random order on a bed. They had 20 minutes to play any violin against any other and to choose the one theyâ(TM)d most like to take home. They also picked the best and worst instruments in terms of four qualities: range of tone colours; projection; playability; and response.
This time, a clear favourite emerged. The players chose one of the new violins (âoeN2â) as their take-home instrument most often, and it topped the rankings for all four qualities. As before, O1 received the most severe rejections. Overall, just 38 percent of the players (8 out of 21) chose to take an old violin home, and most couldnâ(TM)t tell if their instrument was old or new. As Fritz and Curtin write, this âoestands as a bracing counterexample to conventional wisdom.â
http://blogs.discovermagazine....
Congress will goof off for 3 months, then rush to pretend like they were investigating it.
Even at wage/cost parity
Re-read my post -- I never said parity. I want the H1B employees to come at a premium.
Look at the situation in Canada with TFW
The Canadian TFW program has depressed wages; and one of its signature features was the ability to import 'low cost labor". It doesn't really exemplify your point.
That aside, I concede the hold employers have over TFW employees itself creates its own problems. But if they were paying a significant premium for TFW employees; it wouldn't be much different than "over paying locals" in terms of motivating them to "toe the line".*
(Its "toe" not "tow" by the way, as in metaphorically to stand with their toes against a hypothetical line -- a symbol of conformity to rules / authority)
Double blind is simple. It is quite easy for a good ear to be able to reliably tell different quality instruments apart.
Yeah, that's EXACTLY what audiophiles say too. Hence the desire to see it properly validated by a double blind. I'm not saying muscians couldn't tell quality instruments apart, but just where the threshold is... that's an open question.
Can they tell a 1k flute from a 5k flute? 5k from a 15k one? What about a 15k flute vs a 30k flute? 30k flute from a 60k flute? How much can you pay for a flute? How many musicians will say can tell it from a 25k one? How many can actually tell Double blind?
She received a degree in flute performance with that $2k flute, but as she put it, a lot of her time was spent "fighting the instrument" to make things sound right; with the professional flute she could spend more time on other things like listening to the rest of the orchestra or reading ahead to be a better sightreader.
So what would a 60k flute do for her?
I don't dispute there are tiers; and I agree that 2k is fairly entry level for a *decent* instrument. But what's the difference between a 10k, 25k, and 50k flute? Would a pro still have no trouble telling them apart? I'm skeptical.
I guess I am used to the world of electronic music where even a top-of-the-line keyboard would probably only cost $2-3k tops and a fairly good one from a name like Yamaha or Roland could probably be picked up for around $1k or so.
The person your replying to was just being a snob; a cheap but perfectly adequate beginners/student/school band grade trombone is readily available for a few hundred bucks, and a respectable quality instrument can be had for a couple thousand bucks at retail. There's definitely a different quality, longevity, and craftsmanship between entry level student stuff and higher quality instruments, but the difference between a $2000 flute and a $60000 flute? I'd love to see a double blind.
Musical instruments get to be like audiophile gear; someone will always charge a ridiculous amount, because someone else will pay it and then claim its better.
http://blogs.discovermagazine....
The Stradivarious is still more valuable for its historical significance, and the collectibility / prestige aspect -- but in terms of actual acoustic quality? Didn't stand up to a double blind test.
PS, on the flip side, the MSRP for a Roland V-Piano Grand is around 25,000. So your top end for an electronic keyboard was a bit low.
Kids should have at least a couple of months out of the year when they can just not worry about their studies and have fun and BE KIDS.
My kids switched to an all year school. They get a December, March, and August off instead of 2 weeks for christmas, 2 weeks spring break, and 2 months summer.
Do the math. Its the same number of school days. They still get to be kids.
I'd find it particularly difficult to sleep wearing a facehugger.
You must be doing it wrong. Per your wikia link:
" the Facehugger cuts off the blood supply to the victim's brain, knocking them out within seconds"
You really should sleep fine. :)
The solution to H1B visa employees is to simply have combination of a wage requirement plus an annual tariff on H1B visa employees such that the total cost of the H1B visa employee is higher than the median employee costs.
If the companies still want H1B visa employees then there is a genuine shortage, and they'll pay what it takes to get employees.
If suddenly they don't want piles H1B visas and start hiring locally, well.. that tells us there wasn't really a shortage.
Given H1B employees tend to get paid less though, I expect that's the main reason they are desirable.
Meh, I use, lets see...
dlink dir-835 with open-wrt
Been pretty much absolutely rock solid for me. I've never had to reboot it for wifi issues and I use it with Macs, PCs XP, Vista, 7 and 8.1, androids, ios devices, even a windows phone, plus WiiU, a couple 3DS etc.
Not necessarily the best choice or anything, if I were buying a router today, I'd look for one that was well supported by OpenWRT, had the hardware characteristics i wanted (simultaneous dual band, ram, etc) and good user reviews.
You don't have to hack them, you don't have to bother them. I've had mine for about 10 years now, to replace my old 1st-gen WRT54g, where I was doing stupid shit like trying to build an HTTP & media server into it, which was a conceptually flawed idea for an wireless-access-point.
The flipside of that is running an old pentium 4 as your media server is that its a noisy energy hog. I mean, unless you needed a white noise generator and space heater anyway...
"Nope. Just use it for an WAP, not as a server." which was the correct decision.."
Until Apple releases a dual purpose device right? Like the airport time capsule.
That said, there IS something to be said for separating the WAP and Media server from the Edge Router/Firewall. I like my edge device to be simple; and I've considered adding a dedicated router and converting my current openWRT into even more of an intranet toy.
All that plus the fact that the average video game champion is about as physically imposing as Jeremy Freedman
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki...
Ok... I admit I'm speculating. I don't really follow "e sports" at all, but that's what a lot of the magic the gathering top players looked like back when I played.
They were not really societies take on "men who men wanted to be and women wanted to be with"
That's not to say that esports players won't attract its own audience and groupies, any subculture has that, but going mainstream -- it will need broader appeal. Its more than just overcoming ideas that video games are "childish" -- it would require somehow overcoming the fact that video games players do not conform to our biological / evolutionary cued measures of attractive / capable / healthy / etc.
because they're constantly subjected to rule changes
Nascar, F1, and other automotive leagues adjust the rules regularly as well... they seem to be popular.
I think it is important that he has now helping Putin's PR machine and I think it betrays who this guy really is.
Its pretty well established that he got trapped there by the USA while he was attempting to get SOMEWHERE ELSE. So if your cheesed about him being in Russia, the blame squarely falls on the USA for trapping him there.
He's a self indulged, self important young man who thought to highly of himself, choose to break the law for the fame and has now come to realize it wasn't a very good idea because his life is ruined now.
In the real world its pretty clear from interviews he knew what he was getting into. Its also pretty clear from the cycle of lying the NSA has done to congress as a result of the revelations that there was no fixing it from within. You seem to be in denial.
Mark my words carefully.
Yeah, he's fucked. We agree on that. That just makes what he did that much more heroic -- because he did the right thing when he knew up front it was clearly going to ruin his life. I'd hope for a better outcome for him, because he doesn't deserve punishment for what he did, but he's getting it anyway.
If he goes to trial he will be found guilty, not because the courts are unfair, but because he broke the law.
The law once made sheltering black people fleeing slavery illegal too. And at another time another underground railroad that transported Jews out of Germany was also illegal.
The railroad operators... just self indulged, and self important people who should have grown up and realized the errors they were making right? They should have exhausted the options, not burned any bridges by breaking the law, and the ones who were caught and executed for it... nobody to blame but themselves.
I've made my position clear multiple times now. I'm done debating this with you (or anybody else who responds to this post.)
Or put another way:
See, I keep my mental mind extra secure. Nothin' gets in. -- Riley, The Boondocks
Consider a router
1) It has a firmware that's pretty small, and finding something like an inspection routine that cryptographically evaluates every packet really would kind of stick out to anybody looking.
2) Many people run all sorts of traffic logging etc, promiscuous mode in front of the router etc. Unless you theorize that all network hardware and software is in on it, the command and control traffic would be visible; and someone would have seen it by now. As in ... why is my router sending traffic to X, when its just a dedicated point to point VPN to Y.
So you are OK with Snowden giving material aid in Putin's PR machine and damaging the USA's interest world wide?
The USA's own actions are what has damaged its interests. And the USA's continued actions are what's keeping him there. The USA really only has itself to blame here, at every level of the problem.
He's not furthering his aims in exile,
I completely disagree.
he's saving his skin working at cross purposes to his stated aim by helping Putin's PR machine.
Boo fucking hoo. He's in Russia because the USA trapped him there. If it bothers you that much that he's there grant him full immunity from prosecution; and stop trying to have any plane he might be on diverted and searched. Bet you he leaves on his own.
Look, It doesn't matter if what he did was right or wrong morally, he violated his contract with the government and must answer for that,
One always has the discretion whether or not to "press charges". The government is not "required" to prosecute Snowden for his so-called breach of contract, any more than it is required to prosecute James Clapper for lying to congress under oath (which it is highly unlikely to do despite violating the law, and even admitting to it...).
If you believe what he did is right, then like rebels of the past who broke the laws of the day he needs to be ready to stand up and face the consequences. and make his case to further the cause.
What would that accomplish? He can clearly do more for his cause in exile than he can in prison. Only a fool would argue otherwise.
Do you also think the Dalai Lama should return from exile to China? The longer he waits just proves he's not really interested in the cause, and just looking to prolong his 15 minutes of fame right?
There's always disclaimers about how your multiplayer experience may vary.
That primarily disclaims things outside Sony's control, in particular:
a) "the behaviour of the other players"
A "PG" game with mutliplayer that allows text or voice chat... well it might not be PG in multiplayer depending who you are playing with. Most games disclaim that, or even say that "Multiplayer is Not Rated".
b) The network (latency, etc) -- if you are on satellite in Hawaii multiplayer network performance is going to suck more for you than it does for me. Sony knows what the hardware is in a PS3 or 4... but it can only make a 'best effort' with respect to the network.
I'm not convinced that anyone is going to let them use that particular disclaimer to get out of "graphics" issues.
Recall that we learned all we to know [..] in kindergarten.
That once you trade some marbles, the marbles you traded are someone elses now? You don't get to control what he does with them, take them back, or demand something additional for them after the fact?
Didn't they teach you that too?
Sorry, but when it takes that much narrative, it's because the guy was stealing.
Ok... TLDR version:
He wasn't stealing because he already literally physically owned the thing he is alleged to have stolen.
That it needs more narrative than that is because you are being deliberately obtuse... perhaps even outright dense.
From the link:
1) it works together with your iOS device, which means you need to have it with you -- kind of defeating the purpose
2) it requires your iOS device to be jailbroken -- which seemingly voids your warranty
3) it is a paid application that can be found on Cydia for $2.50
Yeah... that seems like a good solution.
I mean, if anything, its actually worse than this one to get get skype on 10.5 now:
http://gizmodo.com/you-can-now...
Or hey, they can install Virtual Box, Windows 7, and then install skype. Really... I don't know what they are complaining about. -facepalm-
The "available options," belong to the vendor until the customer pays for them. Right?
That's the question. But think about it for half a second.
Scenario 1: If I buy a base model computer, notice it has an unused slot, and add a PCI card ... am I stealing from the vendor? I didn't buy the card I put into that slot from him. What if he sells the same card I bought? Am I *STEALING* from him by adding an "available option" from another source?
Scenario 2: If I buy yet another computer, and this time I want to do some GPU computing, but the version of the drivers installed don't have it enabled. The vendor again makes, for a price, drivers available that have it enabled. But its a bog standard nvidia card -- I can get the reference drivers from them, and the feature comes online. Am I stealing? The hardware I bought already had the capability; is it theft for me to install (or write) software to use it?
Scenario 3: I buy a bog standard high end consumer router from Netgear or Dlink, install OpenWRT on it and can now do all kinds of things with it that I'd normally have to buy much higher priced gear from the vendor to do. Am I "stealing" from the vendor?
Scenario 4: One more computer, same GPU computing requirement, this time the vendor even installed the GPU enabled drivers, but went into the registry and disabled it. He offers, for $$ he'll enable GPU computing for me. Or I can just edit the registry and turn it on. Am I stealing now? I bought the hardware, and the copy of the software.
Why on earth does the vendor still retain rights over what registry settings are set?
If I wipe the computer and install linux and use it as a server when the vendor only sold me a "desktop PC for facebook" am I stealing because I didn't buy his "datacenter server PC" what if the 2 pc's turn out to be exactly the same, and the only difference all along was price?
Arguing that the vendor owns the possibility of you doing things with it that you didn't expressly pay the vendor for leads to absurdities. Next thing you'll be saying I owe Adidas money because I'm playing basketball in shoes I only paid for walking and running capabilities with. If Adidas sells the exact same shoe but in a box with the labels "Walking, Running, Basketball" and charges more for it, am I now stealing?
Anonymity gives A the advantage of being difficult to catch.
Anonymity gives B the advantage that less details about B are available to A for bullying.
If B were truly anonymous, then A would not be able to Bully him. Go ahead, try bullying an anonymous coward on slashdot. The idea doesn't even make sense.
At best you can bully someone who is pseudo anonymous -- like a registered slashdot user. But again, they can just change pseudonyms and escape the bully.
So the only time bullying on the internet is even relevant is if his victim is already sufficiently non-anonymous that he can't trivially get away. Given that tons of bullying already occurs on the internet -- we can conclude that the victims have already been effectively de-anonymized.
Now outlaw online anonymity.
Ok.
A is a criminal, he will not think twice before using VPN / proxy / tor.
So what? His pseudo identity will be booted / ip banned, his comments deleted etc. Using a VPN or Tor and being abroad might prevent you from getting arrested but it won't get your content into the forums your are trying to bully from.
You'll be immediately flagged as anon, and your content blocked and deleted.
Very similar to guns. Not sure why you don't see it.
Nothing like guns. "Polite society" can trivially banish and ignore the 'anon' person, and there's nothing he can do about it.
The guy with the gun can't simply be tossed out ... because he has a gun.