I'll agree to some extent with your comment. A lot of the people who critice WP out of hand really annoy me, they are not being rigorous - which is what they accuse WP of in the first place.
Still, a lot of the time you see things that if you know a lot about a topic you know are wrong - or at least not as right as it could be... I try to edit it sometimes but it ends up being a lot of effort and then (often) someone changes it to make it worse and an editing war takes place.
Even so, I wouldn't cite WP in a paper. I think in a real academic work its best to take the work of someone who has a Ph.D. partly because it at least shows that the person is respected and their work has been reviewed and found to be to a very high standard... you can use wp like a really good search engine though when people have references
thanks for the advice, I might get rayman now... can I ask a follow up question to the first one though, well, two follow ups;
1) what batteries does the wii mote take, is it just 2 AA and does it come with them? (I figured I should try and buy them before hand if I need them) and
2) if you get one complete controller with the system (the mote and nunchuk bit) if you want an extra controller is it better to buy another mote and nunchuk bit or can you just get away with 2 motes and one of the nunchucks? (buying both is about £30 so its a bit expensive...)
I'm not sure how an independent expert witness would work because you could easily get one who thought that something was obvious and one who thought that one the same thing wasn't. Basically it would still seem random to us.
I think they need to look at something more radical than just "moving the deck chairs on the titanic", maybe get rid of the whole system - think outside the box - I'm sure that there is a better way of achieving their objectives
I always say that occarina of time and majora's mask were really two parts of the same game, play both right through. Best games ever. I personally think that Majora's mask is a little better out of the two... still they are both fantastic.
I've got happy memories which will last me a life time from these games, I feel happy recomending them.
Oh dear, speaking for God now are you? shouldn't we wait for Him to do the judging? How about tollerence and forgiveness? Why do you hate your brother for one action which might be a missdeed but does not go against the most important laws in the 10 commandments?
"Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know no murderer has eternal life in him" (1 John 3, 15).
Now why don't you think a little more and judge a little less...
"This has declined because coverage of other terrorist groups on TV has shown them that Terrorist incidents are massive own-goals in terms of publicity"
Interesting, but wrong. They are still blowing up places, a homebase got it just the other day - it just doesn't get reported now. They did mention it in this weeks private eye though. Not a lot has changed in NI, hell, M. Stone tried to blow up their parliament yesterday (which is the strangest thing I've ever seen... why did he do that?)
I agreee that it could be good to get people in the third world to do classification job, if we paid them $2 a day then that would be a really good wage for some of these kids. Unfortunately these computers aren't for the most in need, ironically if we gave the absolute poor who couldn't afford water these OLPC computers then they could do this and buy their own well/cows/goats, which would help with both self esteem and with living conditions (I guess that works as a good refutation of that old troll about them needing other things more...)
To tell you the truth I don't even mind if they pay people in the slightly better off countries who are getting this to break CAPTCHA, I'd rather needy people had it than some ass-hat spammer, and its going to get mechanically broke sooner or later anyway, it was never more than a patch which would never last
well, Nintendo has done something similar with the Wii, you can have a new one sent out to you and then send your old one back to them or they will pay to have your old one fixed. That seems fair.
WoW banned some linux users, but it realised and then unblocked them and gave them free play time. That seems fair.
Indeed it wouldn't. It is also worth noting that nothing like this has ever happened in the UK, so no one knew to check for it. Not only that but it is very difficult to get hold of (some people have been posting that there are ways of getting it as a private citizen but channel4 news suggested that you would need a nuclear reactor to get this quantity of the stuff).
And the sad part is, there is nothing we can do about this...
...they see what has happened over the last 4 weeks as strengthening the open source position, Its nice to see that M$ FUD is ignored exactly as it should be - not only by companies like IBM who understand what M$ is like on these matters - but also other companies who I thought might be a little put off by the attack on linux and thinly vieled threats
Has M$ shot itself in the foot with this deal? I think Novell's marked share will go down in the home sector but I suppose they are (just) on the right side, so if they can make linux look like a more attractive choice, all the better
I think you're right on the whole, when I first started using Linux I ran into a little of the "OMG N00Bz!!!" type thing but I did find that when I started using Fedora the people on the forum are really helpful and always have a lot of time for people (even so I have seen a couple of RTFM flames), I now like to give back because of all the help I got when I was first starting out with it and have never said any of the things that originally made me nervous about going onto linux to people, instead just being prepared to put in an extra 5 mins to say exactly how you do something in detail.
"360 helmet cams for police."
This will make it easier to record people who actually are committing crimes as well as stopping the police from doing illegal searches or tasering people (because all the evidence of their acts will be there for the court to see). Police state? no.
"RFID tags in department stores"
That they remove when you buy the product - it stops theft and causes no problems for anyone else. Police state? no.
"Video surveillance on most streets"
Might help reduce crime or help with conviction rates but they are not connected nor are people watching them all the time. Police state? no.
""Smart" passports"
Well, they are a stupid idea (although I think it has a lot to do with presures from America to aid with entry of our people) but they in no way make it a police state most people will only carry them when they go on holidy out of the country. Police state? no.
"And now this"
This, that doesn't record your finger prints and can't keep them. It won't give the police to arrest anyone save for those who shouldn't be driving, and it is only like this because we don't require people to carry their ID with them when they drive (they give you a period of a few days to produce it if they require), so this can be seen as protecting people's rights not to have to carry papers everywhere.
Its that the system forces people to stay at school for far too long when some people obviously don't want to. I left school at 16 - like everyone else in the UK - and then chose to go to college (which here is 16-18) and now I'm just finishing my degree.
I honestly would have hated to stay at school for another 2 years, school is almost intrinsically crap. It has loads of people who are pretty much forced to be there but don't really want to learn and don't have any enthusiasm, they make school unenjoyable for everyone, is it any wonder that a lot of people just want to leave?
I thought it would sell out on day 1, but what I worry about as an English man who hasn't pre-ordered is if we'll see stocks pick up before christmas. Ideally it'd be good to be able to buy one off the self after less than a week... but with hearing that the bulk of their stocks are going to North America I'm left a little worried - I might have to preorder after all.
interesting, and you're right... I always thought that it was based around the level of development within the economy and socio-political relations. Still, appart from being slightly wrong, I'll stand by the spirit of what I said but addapt it slightly just to refer to the countries in between 1st and 3rd world
Indeed, it seems like a small minority are first world (USA as the most obvious example), most are second world and a very small minority, if any (depending on how you define these things) are third world.
These were never meant for people who are so poor they can't get water; these are for people who have established these and now want to get in on the big money act... I'm a little saddened that people would make these FUD claims against a good project based on either a lie or a lack of understanding. Sure there might be some criticisms you could legitimately level against it (like not thinking that computers help education, or the fear of cracking leading to massive bot nets) and then we could discuss them... but this is just terrible.
The MPAA wants to be the de facto law maker in the US over the whole of copyright law (and the RIAA for the music). They have been allowed to do this by the government, and to some extent by the people who keep buying this shit.
Yeah, I got that too...
Still, this is not the same at all, my laptop has both linux and windows on - it is the SAME system. Why should they be telling me how I can use software that I've paid for if I'm not harming the game?
This is just the same bullshit EULA stuff that piss most of us off so much about Windows. Would you have bought a SNES at all if Ninty said that you can't move what room the system is in or use it on more than one TV? This is the same sort of crap.
A free used game? $20? that's not going to be a PS3 game then is it, so what can they get... a PS2 game? or maybe a fairly old DVD, doesn't seem worth waiting that long for to pre-order it. I wonder who is to blame here though, has GameStop just made a mistake ordering (or selling too many pre-orders before they knew the figures) or is Sony further cutting back?.. if so this seems very bad indeed for them
Well, its obviously not practical for us all to do this, and with such a low UID it seems like I can trust you. In any case;
1) How is this software legal to distribute in the way that it is being done? Can she supply information about why it is legal, even i she won't say where it came from?
2) Even if it is legal for us to download it and posses it, how can we usefully examine the software unless hack it it in such a way which will probably break the DMCA (or other laws)
If she won't say where she got it from then I'm going to assume that it is illegal. Also if this is illegal then isn't/. now also guilty under the DMCA, and possibly other laws?
I think that this might be a little dodgy too, but I won't install anything unless it comes in open-source and at least one person I trust - or me for very simple programs - has looked over the source code. Practically for me this means all my software comes through yum via the fedora repos.
I'm a little disapointed that/. has encouraged people to do this which is suspicious at best
you really should check out the comments on the photo diary, there are some pretty funny comments and a little "spot the DS" competition going on. Sony's Phil Harrison won't be happy
I too share your concern as a person who read that far easier than I would have hoped I could...
Your idea for passwords in l33t doesn't seem that great, sure it might be moderately secure but it might be harder to remember than just having something like "-85,/" before a simple word as a password, the word is really easy to remember and that stuff before it shouldn't be too difficult. This makes it at least as hard to brute force (ie. nearly impossible) and saves a little on the remembering.
Also, as a side note, "txt" speak is so much harder to read than l33t... at least l33t makes gramatical sense. Damn young 'uns
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I'll agree to some extent with your comment. A lot of the people who critice WP out of hand really annoy me, they are not being rigorous - which is what they accuse WP of in the first place.
Still, a lot of the time you see things that if you know a lot about a topic you know are wrong - or at least not as right as it could be... I try to edit it sometimes but it ends up being a lot of effort and then (often) someone changes it to make it worse and an editing war takes place.
Even so, I wouldn't cite WP in a paper. I think in a real academic work its best to take the work of someone who has a Ph.D. partly because it at least shows that the person is respected and their work has been reviewed and found to be to a very high standard... you can use wp like a really good search engine though when people have references
thanks for the advice, I might get rayman now... can I ask a follow up question to the first one though, well, two follow ups;
1) what batteries does the wii mote take, is it just 2 AA and does it come with them? (I figured I should try and buy them before hand if I need them) and
2) if you get one complete controller with the system (the mote and nunchuk bit) if you want an extra controller is it better to buy another mote and nunchuk bit or can you just get away with 2 motes and one of the nunchucks? (buying both is about £30 so its a bit expensive...)
Cheers,
I'm not sure how an independent expert witness would work because you could easily get one who thought that something was obvious and one who thought that one the same thing wasn't. Basically it would still seem random to us.
I think they need to look at something more radical than just "moving the deck chairs on the titanic", maybe get rid of the whole system - think outside the box - I'm sure that there is a better way of achieving their objectives
I always say that occarina of time and majora's mask were really two parts of the same game, play both right through. Best games ever. I personally think that Majora's mask is a little better out of the two... still they are both fantastic.
I've got happy memories which will last me a life time from these games, I feel happy recomending them.
Oh dear, speaking for God now are you? shouldn't we wait for Him to do the judging? How about tollerence and forgiveness? Why do you hate your brother for one action which might be a missdeed but does not go against the most important laws in the 10 commandments?
"Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know no murderer has eternal life in him" (1 John 3, 15).
Now why don't you think a little more and judge a little less...
but does anyone have any games the recomend for the Wii, I'm pre-ordered zelda today but was also interested in that red steel game... what's good?
(In case your wondering I live in the UK and we get it on the 8th of December)
"This has declined because coverage of other terrorist groups on TV has shown them that Terrorist incidents are massive own-goals in terms of publicity"
Interesting, but wrong. They are still blowing up places, a homebase got it just the other day - it just doesn't get reported now. They did mention it in this weeks private eye though. Not a lot has changed in NI, hell, M. Stone tried to blow up their parliament yesterday (which is the strangest thing I've ever seen... why did he do that?)
I agreee that it could be good to get people in the third world to do classification job, if we paid them $2 a day then that would be a really good wage for some of these kids. Unfortunately these computers aren't for the most in need, ironically if we gave the absolute poor who couldn't afford water these OLPC computers then they could do this and buy their own well/cows/goats, which would help with both self esteem and with living conditions (I guess that works as a good refutation of that old troll about them needing other things more...)
To tell you the truth I don't even mind if they pay people in the slightly better off countries who are getting this to break CAPTCHA, I'd rather needy people had it than some ass-hat spammer, and its going to get mechanically broke sooner or later anyway, it was never more than a patch which would never last
well, Nintendo has done something similar with the Wii, you can have a new one sent out to you and then send your old one back to them or they will pay to have your old one fixed. That seems fair.
WoW banned some linux users, but it realised and then unblocked them and gave them free play time. That seems fair.
If they can afford it why not sony?
Indeed it wouldn't. It is also worth noting that nothing like this has ever happened in the UK, so no one knew to check for it. Not only that but it is very difficult to get hold of (some people have been posting that there are ways of getting it as a private citizen but channel4 news suggested that you would need a nuclear reactor to get this quantity of the stuff).
And the sad part is, there is nothing we can do about this...
...they see what has happened over the last 4 weeks as strengthening the open source position, Its nice to see that M$ FUD is ignored exactly as it should be - not only by companies like IBM who understand what M$ is like on these matters - but also other companies who I thought might be a little put off by the attack on linux and thinly vieled threats
Has M$ shot itself in the foot with this deal? I think Novell's marked share will go down in the home sector but I suppose they are (just) on the right side, so if they can make linux look like a more attractive choice, all the better
I think you're right on the whole, when I first started using Linux I ran into a little of the "OMG N00Bz!!!" type thing but I did find that when I started using Fedora the people on the forum are really helpful and always have a lot of time for people (even so I have seen a couple of RTFM flames), I now like to give back because of all the help I got when I was first starting out with it and have never said any of the things that originally made me nervous about going onto linux to people, instead just being prepared to put in an extra 5 mins to say exactly how you do something in detail.
that doesn't make it a police state... lets see
"360 helmet cams for police."
This will make it easier to record people who actually are committing crimes as well as stopping the police from doing illegal searches or tasering people (because all the evidence of their acts will be there for the court to see). Police state? no.
"RFID tags in department stores"
That they remove when you buy the product - it stops theft and causes no problems for anyone else. Police state? no.
"Video surveillance on most streets"
Might help reduce crime or help with conviction rates but they are not connected nor are people watching them all the time. Police state? no.
""Smart" passports"
Well, they are a stupid idea (although I think it has a lot to do with presures from America to aid with entry of our people) but they in no way make it a police state most people will only carry them when they go on holidy out of the country. Police state? no.
"And now this"
This, that doesn't record your finger prints and can't keep them. It won't give the police to arrest anyone save for those who shouldn't be driving, and it is only like this because we don't require people to carry their ID with them when they drive (they give you a period of a few days to produce it if they require), so this can be seen as protecting people's rights not to have to carry papers everywhere.
Its that the system forces people to stay at school for far too long when some people obviously don't want to. I left school at 16 - like everyone else in the UK - and then chose to go to college (which here is 16-18) and now I'm just finishing my degree.
I honestly would have hated to stay at school for another 2 years, school is almost intrinsically crap. It has loads of people who are pretty much forced to be there but don't really want to learn and don't have any enthusiasm, they make school unenjoyable for everyone, is it any wonder that a lot of people just want to leave?
I thought it would sell out on day 1, but what I worry about as an English man who hasn't pre-ordered is if we'll see stocks pick up before christmas. Ideally it'd be good to be able to buy one off the self after less than a week... but with hearing that the bulk of their stocks are going to North America I'm left a little worried - I might have to preorder after all.
interesting, and you're right... I always thought that it was based around the level of development within the economy and socio-political relations. Still, appart from being slightly wrong, I'll stand by the spirit of what I said but addapt it slightly just to refer to the countries in between 1st and 3rd world
Indeed, it seems like a small minority are first world (USA as the most obvious example), most are second world and a very small minority, if any (depending on how you define these things) are third world.
These were never meant for people who are so poor they can't get water; these are for people who have established these and now want to get in on the big money act... I'm a little saddened that people would make these FUD claims against a good project based on either a lie or a lack of understanding. Sure there might be some criticisms you could legitimately level against it (like not thinking that computers help education, or the fear of cracking leading to massive bot nets) and then we could discuss them... but this is just terrible.
The MPAA wants to be the de facto law maker in the US over the whole of copyright law (and the RIAA for the music). They have been allowed to do this by the government, and to some extent by the people who keep buying this shit.
Fight the laws.
"My SNES games dont work on my NES WAAAH!!"
Yeah, I got that too...
Still, this is not the same at all, my laptop has both linux and windows on - it is the SAME system. Why should they be telling me how I can use software that I've paid for if I'm not harming the game?
This is just the same bullshit EULA stuff that piss most of us off so much about Windows. Would you have bought a SNES at all if Ninty said that you can't move what room the system is in or use it on more than one TV? This is the same sort of crap.
A free used game? $20? that's not going to be a PS3 game then is it, so what can they get... a PS2 game? or maybe a fairly old DVD, doesn't seem worth waiting that long for to pre-order it. I wonder who is to blame here though, has GameStop just made a mistake ordering (or selling too many pre-orders before they knew the figures) or is Sony further cutting back?.. if so this seems very bad indeed for them
Well, its obviously not practical for us all to do this, and with such a low UID it seems like I can trust you. In any case;
/. now also guilty under the DMCA, and possibly other laws?
1) How is this software legal to distribute in the way that it is being done? Can she supply information about why it is legal, even i she won't say where it came from?
2) Even if it is legal for us to download it and posses it, how can we usefully examine the software unless hack it it in such a way which will probably break the DMCA (or other laws)
If she won't say where she got it from then I'm going to assume that it is illegal. Also if this is illegal then isn't
I think that this might be a little dodgy too, but I won't install anything unless it comes in open-source and at least one person I trust - or me for very simple programs - has looked over the source code. Practically for me this means all my software comes through yum via the fedora repos.
/. has encouraged people to do this which is suspicious at best
I'm a little disapointed that
I just don't have any sounds on, I have a bleep sound when I get a new email, other than that I think a system should be seen and not heard
you really should check out the comments on the photo diary, there are some pretty funny comments and a little "spot the DS" competition going on. Sony's Phil Harrison won't be happy
I too share your concern as a person who read that far easier than I would have hoped I could...
Your idea for passwords in l33t doesn't seem that great, sure it might be moderately secure but it might be harder to remember than just having something like "-85,/" before a simple word as a password, the word is really easy to remember and that stuff before it shouldn't be too difficult. This makes it at least as hard to brute force (ie. nearly impossible) and saves a little on the remembering.
Also, as a side note, "txt" speak is so much harder to read than l33t... at least l33t makes gramatical sense. Damn young 'uns