the 'alternative opportunities' that they are required to offer are the shit that RIAA/MPAA bosses are selling. they are basically being FORCED to sell products for those organizations. thats it.
hear that title now : "College Opportunity and Affordability Act"
if you look at it, all the keywords are there. wow, now see : "OPPORTUNITY" a positive word. "AFFORDABILITY" another good, positive word. "COLLEGE" wow, higher education too.
if you read it, you may be tempted to think this is something that provides opportunity, affordable college education and such. HOW can it be bad ?
they do that all the time. check this now : Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
examining it gives you all the necessary feelings : "digital" - wow it has to be something progressive. Millenium - oh boy, we are in 21st century yay. "copyright" -> it has "right" in it, so it has to be good. if you add the bait that is "it will provide/protect jobs" while advertising for it, you are sure to fool the public.
but of course, for them to be fooling american public for SO long with same ploys, and successfully too, there has to be a number of preconditions, providing for the fooling. i am not sure which hold true :
a) American people are UTTERLY stupid
b) American people "dont care"
c) American people care little, but only for selfish reasons - see "it will protect jobs". and plan very short sighted.
d) American people are powerless
f) All of the above
g) Mixture from all the above in varying degrees.
with that logic, anyone has the right to file a case in any court to ban distribution of particular brands of automobiles, guns, fireworks. for there are sure brands that are being used for malicious ends more than their competitors.
basically preventing glider mean that they will be obliged to do the same to other macro programs as well.
and they are setting a VERY harmful precedent here, by persuading a possibly technically ignorant judge to some stupid decision. (i would like to remind you here how a 80 year old judge recently dismissed google's concerns about privacy as 'senseless' and ordered google to hand over all info on youtube users to viacom).
no there is no bottom line, and its not 'plain and simple'.
we cant tolerate any game company, any game, any game fan base to make a mess in court and cause trouble for almost all software and i.t. for the decades to come, just out of their own self aggrandizement.
with your logic, even leave aside blizzard's, it constitutes a copyright violation if i hit ctrl alt del and end the Wow client by terminating it in task manager.
the STUPID, the OVERLY MORONIC argument blizzard is using is that the program 'modifies the wow software running in THE MEMORY'.
of course, that is trying to fool the old, senile court judges. everyone who has used computers a bit knows that when a program runs in memory, MANY aspects of it are modified on constant basis, and a few million times a second or more. windows kernel code modifies the wow software running in the memory, wow software ITSELF modifies itself in the memory, its memory footprint changes, it reads and writes data from disk, and to network and modifies itself accordingly.
a computer's memory is something too complicated for a lawyer to fathom. they shouldnt sweat it.
lets see, they want to BAN an automation software. on grounds that they may be used to automate their game.
im sure they are aware that normal windows macroing programs can also be used to automatize wow. but for some *obscure* reason, they are not disclosing that information to court, and ask the court to ban macro programs worldwide.
Since the border search statute was enacted in 1789, customs officials have been authorized to stop and examine any vehicle, person, or baggage arriving in the United States on suspicion that merchandise is concealed which is subject to duty or which cannot be legally imported into the United States.
stop, and examine and ON suspicion. not confiscate WITHOUT suspicion.
The policies cover 'any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,' including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover 'all papers and other written documentation,' including books, pamphlets and 'written materials commonly referred to as "pocket trash..."'
ALL PAPERS AND OTHER WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION ?
so if i need to get stuff related to my corporation in to u.s., a fucktard on the border can confiscate my SENSITIVE documents, even stuff containing confidential customer information, just at will and WITHOUT SUSPICION ?
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ?
so a troll came to a forum/topic, and posted some controversial, incorrect stuff.
and you didnt 'fall for it', and therefore proved that you can 'see through' that behaviour. and that you're an internet veteran.
good for you.
bad for public.
someday some youngster or someone who doesnt have much info on that particular topic is going to come to that thread through a search engine result, read that troll post, and get at best confused, if not mislead.
go to his journal at slashdot, drop a comment below one of his posted journal items (they act like/. articles), and give him an email address of yours. shuffle it against spam, like slashdot does to our email everytime.
we dont know anything. we dont know whether there was an intentional wrongdoing on subcontractor's part even. or some employee sent to get pics of some place just have acted irresponsible. or anything else.
but we have a lot of preconceived judgment flying around about google in this thread, and in general discussion here. its the thing thats bugging me.
why dont you drop him a line and offer it ? one man may not be able to keep track of zillions of people to drop a line to, but each one of those people can drop a line to that man.
forums were there long before web 2.0. popular scripts and communities built on phpbb, invision date much earlier than the bullcrap buzzword that is the '2.0'.
what the hell is 2.0 i STILL dont have an absolute idea, despite i am doing web development for a living.
an internet that is easier to control and less free. they have been trying all kinds of approaches to make public accept something that they can put to that end, for some time.
By the way, I think that it would be hard to out-cushy Google. Their campus is like Club Med and I have a hard time believing that they get anything close to maximum productivity out of their workforce because of it.
you forget that software is a CREATIVE field. creation process is something mankind has never been able to totally figure out, how it works are a mystery.
you can neither measure creativity, or systematize it, nor do anything 'structured' with it.
a google employee engaging in nerf gun fights in %10 of its work hours can put something creative to the table that a, say, microsoft employee who works in %110 of his working hours in legacy corporate style cant. and this can turn the tables.
and this is actually what its been like for the last ~12 years.
you are one of them morons who is not able to understand that just as every country's economy is linked in global world, each person's well being and spending power also linked to well being of a country's economy.
basically bottom line is that you are unable to understand enough of those douchebags not able to spend due to going bankrupt, you are also going to go under if government doesnt do anything.
please, get a ticket to neptune and leave us alone. no, better get a ticket on voyager iii.
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the 'alternative opportunities' that they are required to offer are the shit that RIAA/MPAA bosses are selling. they are basically being FORCED to sell products for those organizations. thats it.
hear that title now : "College Opportunity and Affordability Act"
if you look at it, all the keywords are there. wow, now see : "OPPORTUNITY" a positive word. "AFFORDABILITY" another good, positive word. "COLLEGE" wow, higher education too.
if you read it, you may be tempted to think this is something that provides opportunity, affordable college education and such. HOW can it be bad ?
they do that all the time. check this now : Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
examining it gives you all the necessary feelings : "digital" - wow it has to be something progressive. Millenium - oh boy, we are in 21st century yay. "copyright" -> it has "right" in it, so it has to be good. if you add the bait that is "it will provide/protect jobs" while advertising for it, you are sure to fool the public.
but of course, for them to be fooling american public for SO long with same ploys, and successfully too, there has to be a number of preconditions, providing for the fooling. i am not sure which hold true :
a) American people are UTTERLY stupid
b) American people "dont care" c) American people care little, but only for selfish reasons - see "it will protect jobs". and plan very short sighted.
d) American people are powerless
f) All of the above
g) Mixture from all the above in varying degrees.
youll find that southeastern asian parliaments differ very much from western european counterparts.
wait until you see the singapore or korean parliament footages. circus doesnt describe it.
even in turkish parliament there has been a lot of fights, and one representative was killed even, by a stray fist landing unintendedly.
with that logic, anyone has the right to file a case in any court to ban distribution of particular brands of automobiles, guns, fireworks. for there are sure brands that are being used for malicious ends more than their competitors.
basically preventing glider mean that they will be obliged to do the same to other macro programs as well.
so what matters is the extent that it makes easy.
if someone uses a windows macro program, which are legally sold, its gonna be ok ?
who or what will determine the 'ease' level a particular macro program gives the user ?
excuse me, but such excuses are bullshit.
it violates terms of service. not copyright.
and they are setting a VERY harmful precedent here, by persuading a possibly technically ignorant judge to some stupid decision. (i would like to remind you here how a 80 year old judge recently dismissed google's concerns about privacy as 'senseless' and ordered google to hand over all info on youtube users to viacom).
no there is no bottom line, and its not 'plain and simple'.
we cant tolerate any game company, any game, any game fan base to make a mess in court and cause trouble for almost all software and i.t. for the decades to come, just out of their own self aggrandizement.
with your logic, even leave aside blizzard's, it constitutes a copyright violation if i hit ctrl alt del and end the Wow client by terminating it in task manager.
it doesnt infringe on anyone's copyrights.
the STUPID, the OVERLY MORONIC argument blizzard is using is that the program 'modifies the wow software running in THE MEMORY'.
of course, that is trying to fool the old, senile court judges. everyone who has used computers a bit knows that when a program runs in memory, MANY aspects of it are modified on constant basis, and a few million times a second or more. windows kernel code modifies the wow software running in the memory, wow software ITSELF modifies itself in the memory, its memory footprint changes, it reads and writes data from disk, and to network and modifies itself accordingly.
a computer's memory is something too complicated for a lawyer to fathom. they shouldnt sweat it.
its not a gaming company anymore eh ?
lets see, they want to BAN an automation software. on grounds that they may be used to automate their game.
im sure they are aware that normal windows macroing programs can also be used to automatize wow. but for some *obscure* reason, they are not disclosing that information to court, and ask the court to ban macro programs worldwide.
Since the border search statute was enacted in 1789, customs officials have been authorized to stop and examine any vehicle, person, or baggage arriving in the United States on suspicion that merchandise is concealed which is subject to duty or which cannot be legally imported into the United States.
stop, and examine and ON suspicion. not confiscate WITHOUT suspicion.
without any suspicion of wrongdoing
The policies cover 'any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,' including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover 'all papers and other written documentation,' including books, pamphlets and 'written materials commonly referred to as "pocket trash..."'
ALL PAPERS AND OTHER WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION ? so if i need to get stuff related to my corporation in to u.s., a fucktard on the border can confiscate my SENSITIVE documents, even stuff containing confidential customer information, just at will and WITHOUT SUSPICION ? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ?
so a troll came to a forum/topic, and posted some controversial, incorrect stuff.
and you didnt 'fall for it', and therefore proved that you can 'see through' that behaviour. and that you're an internet veteran.
good for you.
bad for public.
someday some youngster or someone who doesnt have much info on that particular topic is going to come to that thread through a search engine result, read that troll post, and get at best confused, if not mislead.
i dont know. i just gave an example. microsoft is comparably more conservative, legacy than google in my opinion.
go to his journal at slashdot, drop a comment below one of his posted journal items (they act like /. articles), and give him an email address of yours. shuffle it against spam, like slashdot does to our email everytime.
we dont know anything. we dont know whether there was an intentional wrongdoing on subcontractor's part even. or some employee sent to get pics of some place just have acted irresponsible. or anything else.
but we have a lot of preconceived judgment flying around about google in this thread, and in general discussion here. its the thing thats bugging me.
dont forget that it will be MEGA bad publicity for hasbro to follow the course they are following now.
internet events affect real world sales. dont forget that.
hahahahahahaah.
very funny mr posterbob funnypants.
why dont you drop him a line and offer it ? one man may not be able to keep track of zillions of people to drop a line to, but each one of those people can drop a line to that man.
i often spend karma in order to point out such mismoderation. what am i going to do with it anyway ? take it to grave ?
if everyone did a bit of that, moderation would get much much better.
well, then thats the next step they need to deal with.
forums were there long before web 2.0. popular scripts and communities built on phpbb, invision date much earlier than the bullcrap buzzword that is the '2.0'.
what the hell is 2.0 i STILL dont have an absolute idea, despite i am doing web development for a living.
let me tell you what this is all about :
an internet that is easier to control and less free. they have been trying all kinds of approaches to make public accept something that they can put to that end, for some time.
By the way, I think that it would be hard to out-cushy Google. Their campus is like Club Med and I have a hard time believing that they get anything close to maximum productivity out of their workforce because of it.
you forget that software is a CREATIVE field. creation process is something mankind has never been able to totally figure out, how it works are a mystery.
you can neither measure creativity, or systematize it, nor do anything 'structured' with it.
a google employee engaging in nerf gun fights in %10 of its work hours can put something creative to the table that a, say, microsoft employee who works in %110 of his working hours in legacy corporate style cant. and this can turn the tables.
and this is actually what its been like for the last ~12 years.
you are one of them morons who is not able to understand that just as every country's economy is linked in global world, each person's well being and spending power also linked to well being of a country's economy.
basically bottom line is that you are unable to understand enough of those douchebags not able to spend due to going bankrupt, you are also going to go under if government doesnt do anything.
please, get a ticket to neptune and leave us alone. no, better get a ticket on voyager iii.