Why bother finding someone with the same biometrics as another person?
Just get ahold of the other person, take their fingers and eyes, and then disappear them. I thought that was rather obvious.
These new ID cards will be fantastic at catching one-off murderers and car thieves. They'll be even better at giving terrorists and other organised crime new ways of operating.
"Thanks Osama"? Do you really believe that he had anything to do with this, apart from providing your government with a good excuse to put these things in? Keep in mind that Osama Bin Laden has never even set foot in Britain. As someone so disconnected from Britain, it is your own government's fault if they allow him to change how your country runs.
Blame your government. Terrorists can "attack" freedom, but only governments can destroy it.
You could even contact the anti-piracy groups (you know, MPAA, RIAA, and so on) in each country and see if they will help advertise the "fess up" date. They look stupid if they do, and stupid if they don't.
Any "obscurity" can be thought of as an extra layer of security. It shouldn't be relied upon, but it does work to an extent.
People who know the "secret" will be able to see through the obscurity, while others need to spend time analyzing. It's not that different from "secret passwords", which are what most consumer-level devices and services use. A password is just a stronger "obscurity" than what you have in mind.
I guess the problem is coordinating it so that everyone does it. If only a few people end up going through with it, it really sucks to be them.:P
Perhaps a future date should be set, say in a year from now, where everyone turns up at police stations around the world to turn themselves in for copyright infringement. In addition, no one should take ID with them as leaving all ID at home will increase the amount of work necessary to process everyone - they can't simply hand out fines, that way.
Unfortunately, things don't work how you think they do.
No one cares who implemented feature X first, or who thought it up. That makes no difference to the end product. The important part is that the end product does have feature X.
If Microsoft have now caught up to something Apple did years ago, then you can no longer hold that against them. You need to find features that Microsoft hasn't implemented yet, and pick on those. No one really cares about "well, Apple had mice before Windows did" points because they are now irrelevant.
The problem here is that this law isn't going to be enforced properly.
By sneaking in these laws, they prosecute one or two people in the country every now and then. The laws stay in place, people don't care about them because they figure it "won't happen to them", and the movie/music companies are able to bribe politicians into creating even more ridiculous laws.
If only they would attempt to enforce this law en-masse, they would end up with at least 10% (probably more) of the population in jail. Then people would start caring about this and everything would be set right.
Instead, they're going to slowly introduce even worse laws, but only prosecute a tiny percentage of the population. It is an unfortunate situation.
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Progress is being made. The problem is that Apple chose to ditch X11, and in doing so, ditched a whole lot of UNIX software that was made to use X11.
Not really. The fact that Windows is so common means that when Windows isn't affected, there IS less of an effect.
Suppose on a network, 20% of hosts are Windows and 80% are Linux. If a worm is spreading through Windows, it will have to scan through more computers (on average) to find another Windows host to infect. Having to scan more hosts per host that you infect slows down the infection rate.
But at the Game Developers Conference here on Tuesday, the rumor is that Microsoft plans on announcing Wednesday a developers kit that would make it possible for anyone to build games for the console, or for PCs, and that the kit will cost only about $100.
In Chess, the objective is to checkmate the King. Usually, this means that players need to value their pieces and prevent them from being taken. Sometimes, however, pieces are sacrificed for the greater goal of checkmating the opponent's King.
Microsoft's business does not rely on just the MSN portal, but Google's does. Google is expanding, however, which poses a threat to all of Microsoft's business. If Microsoft could manage to kill off all of the "areas" that Google is in, regardless of whether Microsoft is also in those areas, the result for Microsoft would most likely be a net gain. From a risk-management perspective, Microsoft would be wise to make some large sacrifices to see Google die.
I'm not saying that this is the strategy that Microsoft is taking, just that it would make perfect sense for them to push this idea, assuming they could...
... and Slashdot didn't fix it, and instead, carried the screw-up.
Yeah, but this is a good thing.
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While this was one of the main things keeping modchips legal (as modchips SHOULD be legal), it is a good thing that restrictions like this are starting to be dropped. There's no good reason why games shouldn't work in every region.
Absolutely. Otherwise you have second-class citizens (if they don't support open standards), and government divisions that are not obviously part of the government. (when they start using.com)
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Shouldn't be a problem for who?
Are they armed? How long until they are?
Why bother finding someone with the same biometrics as another person?
Just get ahold of the other person, take their fingers and eyes, and then disappear them. I thought that was rather obvious.
These new ID cards will be fantastic at catching one-off murderers and car thieves. They'll be even better at giving terrorists and other organised crime new ways of operating.
"Thanks Osama"? Do you really believe that he had anything to do with this, apart from providing your government with a good excuse to put these things in? Keep in mind that Osama Bin Laden has never even set foot in Britain. As someone so disconnected from Britain, it is your own government's fault if they allow him to change how your country runs.
Blame your government. Terrorists can "attack" freedom, but only governments can destroy it.
I realise you were not being serious, but despite that... If the shareholders wanted their money back, they could just sell the shares.
That's exterminate.
You could even contact the anti-piracy groups (you know, MPAA, RIAA, and so on) in each country and see if they will help advertise the "fess up" date. They look stupid if they do, and stupid if they don't.
Any "obscurity" can be thought of as an extra layer of security. It shouldn't be relied upon, but it does work to an extent.
People who know the "secret" will be able to see through the obscurity, while others need to spend time analyzing. It's not that different from "secret passwords", which are what most consumer-level devices and services use. A password is just a stronger "obscurity" than what you have in mind.
I guess the problem is coordinating it so that everyone does it. If only a few people end up going through with it, it really sucks to be them. :P
Perhaps a future date should be set, say in a year from now, where everyone turns up at police stations around the world to turn themselves in for copyright infringement. In addition, no one should take ID with them as leaving all ID at home will increase the amount of work necessary to process everyone - they can't simply hand out fines, that way.
Why bother finishing off the game when they have just realised (with World of Warcraft) how much money a single MMORPG game can make them?!
From Blizzard's point of view, they've just discovered a Warcraft goldmine that has 999,999,999,999 gold!
That means it's time to... SEND THE PEONS!
Unfortunately, things don't work how you think they do.
No one cares who implemented feature X first, or who thought it up. That makes no difference to the end product. The important part is that the end product does have feature X.
If Microsoft have now caught up to something Apple did years ago, then you can no longer hold that against them. You need to find features that Microsoft hasn't implemented yet, and pick on those. No one really cares about "well, Apple had mice before Windows did" points because they are now irrelevant.
The problem here is that this law isn't going to be enforced properly.
By sneaking in these laws, they prosecute one or two people in the country every now and then. The laws stay in place, people don't care about them because they figure it "won't happen to them", and the movie/music companies are able to bribe politicians into creating even more ridiculous laws.
If only they would attempt to enforce this law en-masse, they would end up with at least 10% (probably more) of the population in jail. Then people would start caring about this and everything would be set right.
Instead, they're going to slowly introduce even worse laws, but only prosecute a tiny percentage of the population. It is an unfortunate situation.
Progress is being made. The problem is that Apple chose to ditch X11, and in doing so, ditched a whole lot of UNIX software that was made to use X11.
Not really. The fact that Windows is so common means that when Windows isn't affected, there IS less of an effect.
Suppose on a network, 20% of hosts are Windows and 80% are Linux. If a worm is spreading through Windows, it will have to scan through more computers (on average) to find another Windows host to infect. Having to scan more hosts per host that you infect slows down the infection rate.
They're giving him $20 credit and 7% off all his future 911 calls.
Dirt cheap compared to what Microsoft are charging? I don't think so...
But at the Game Developers Conference here on Tuesday, the rumor is that Microsoft plans on announcing Wednesday a developers kit that would make it possible for anyone to build games for the console, or for PCs, and that the kit will cost only about $100.
This is one reason why web-based applications might not be such a good idea:
The connection was refused when attempting to contact 207.67.194.7.
I'm sure many other people can come up with other reasons, such as error 500...
Can't... it's required for Windows Update! If you don't update, you're screwed!
Can't be secure with ActiveX, can't be secure without ActiveX... but what would happen if ActiveX didn't exist?
That won't fix the problem completely. To complete the fix, iexplore.exe should be replaced with a program that runs firefox.exe instead.
In Chess, the objective is to checkmate the King. Usually, this means that players need to value their pieces and prevent them from being taken. Sometimes, however, pieces are sacrificed for the greater goal of checkmating the opponent's King.
Microsoft's business does not rely on just the MSN portal, but Google's does. Google is expanding, however, which poses a threat to all of Microsoft's business. If Microsoft could manage to kill off all of the "areas" that Google is in, regardless of whether Microsoft is also in those areas, the result for Microsoft would most likely be a net gain. From a risk-management perspective, Microsoft would be wise to make some large sacrifices to see Google die.
I'm not saying that this is the strategy that Microsoft is taking, just that it would make perfect sense for them to push this idea, assuming they could...
... and Slashdot didn't fix it, and instead, carried the screw-up.
While this was one of the main things keeping modchips legal (as modchips SHOULD be legal), it is a good thing that restrictions like this are starting to be dropped. There's no good reason why games shouldn't work in every region.
Actually, I'm an Australian, so I was referring to the New South Wales SEO. Thanks, though! I hope someone in the US can find your information useful.
Do you want me to tell you to do that?
Absolutely. Otherwise you have second-class citizens (if they don't support open standards), and government divisions that are not obviously part of the government. (when they start using .com)
Phwoar. Hot French buckaneer Alizee!! For some reason, putting it in those terms does even more for me than when it was "French pirate babe Alizee!"
:-)
Good work!