Oh yeah, no way they'll make a bunch of hackers do PT.. it might be easy for the guy who asked that question, but it's just unrealistic to expect "cyber warriors" to get a job that requires physical exercise when they can get a less life-intrusive job for similar pay. But the questioner was also right- the exception would affect morale among the rest of them and cause resentment. So the easy solution is just to lie, which is I guess what the general's doing. The air force is a big place, nobody's going to know the kids downstairs haven't been doing their pushups.
Yah, blu ray is just insane. Have fun with your giant TV- my montior is higher resolution, and my thinkpad is certainly cheaper than your plasma or LCD tv. HDMI cables are crazy expensive and you don't have the freedom to run them through a tivo or STB-- seriously, running everything through a nice set top box or media PC has been de facto since the VCR days, and you're just putting up with that freedom being taken away? Also TVs suck more power than overclocked nvidia cards so there's even more cost. Why would you pay so much more for 1080p? It's the same video, and you're selling your soul for extra resolution.
What, are you kidding? Blu-ray has horrifying DRM and doesn't really look that much better than DVDs with good postprocessing. I'd never even think of supporting DRMed blu-ray.
, and other usenet binaries, and the world's torrents.. all downloading through your ISP, which is a corporation. Anything on the internet comes through corporations- ISPs. How is that 85% figure surprising?
Wikileaks is wayy beyond scientology's grasp. I mean, the CoS would easily bomb a data center if they could find one, but wikileaks is worldwide and hidden.
Oh come on, what do you expect? When someone's hobby goes mainstream, and all the 12 year old boys think they're pown, you have to defend your honor. And try to respect the PC gamers, like you said it's a lot more competitive and a completely different mindset.. we play to win not to have fun. And it's a lot of work. Have fun getting fat and beaching yourself on the couch.
a "compromised" wikipedia is better than no wikipedia
Wikimedia disagrees, and has sworn to shut down wikipedia before selling advertising. Also, how is wikipedia only worth "hundreds of millions"? It's one of the top 10 most popular sites on the internet (according to blech Alexa).. didn't facebook and youtube sell for more than a billion?
Anonymity allows people to speak without fear of consequences, like getting thrown in a prison cell for criticising the government. We protect rights to anonymity so that can never happen.
Software? You mean those 1s and 0s right? They could just compile a nice data stealer, link in all the dependencies (theres probably some CS term for self-sufficient code) and put it on a ROM. When the time comes, just start reading off the ROM over whatever was being executed before. Modern CPUs are way over my head, but I assume there's some sort of hyper advanced analogue to not checking for interrupts and running on bare metal. The program executes, the chip halts or lets the OS panic into catatonia when it realizes half its memory is different from what it was 1 cycle ago, and the russians or whoever have our data-- very slick, but I would imagine it would be extremely expensive to redesign the chips ~~~~
We're just going to hack it anyway to run whatever 3rd party apps we want.. the EU is really going overboard IMO with forcing microsoft to make their OS how the EU wants it made. If microsoft wants to make Internet Explorer the only app that can access the internet, that's their prerogative.. nobody has to buy Windows. Even if there was no excellent free alternative, which there is.
It's the same problem as the analog stick- you can set the sensitivity really high but basically you're holding the stick or spinning the ball until the cursor eventually gets to where you want. Even if it's somehow faster than a mouse, you can't beat the isomorphism between the mousepad surface and screen space- the speed and accuracy of your mouse is limited only by how quickly you can move to the corresponding position on the mousepad. This elegant and efficient isomorphism beats out anything other input devices have to offer (in FPS anyway).
By the way OSC totally missed the mark on that one.. if government-owned mailing lists were locked down, people would just use different ones. Alt roots, darknets, whatever..
In ender's game, you needed to have citizen's access (presumably you pay your taxes, don't commit felonies) to speak on the public "'nets", but anyone could read.
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Oh yeah, no way they'll make a bunch of hackers do PT.. it might be easy for the guy who asked that question, but it's just unrealistic to expect "cyber warriors" to get a job that requires physical exercise when they can get a less life-intrusive job for similar pay. But the questioner was also right- the exception would affect morale among the rest of them and cause resentment. So the easy solution is just to lie, which is I guess what the general's doing. The air force is a big place, nobody's going to know the kids downstairs haven't been doing their pushups.
The one time you're thankful that manufacturers are so negligent with firmware/BIOS updates :)
Yah, blu ray is just insane. Have fun with your giant TV- my montior is higher resolution, and my thinkpad is certainly cheaper than your plasma or LCD tv. HDMI cables are crazy expensive and you don't have the freedom to run them through a tivo or STB-- seriously, running everything through a nice set top box or media PC has been de facto since the VCR days, and you're just putting up with that freedom being taken away? Also TVs suck more power than overclocked nvidia cards so there's even more cost. Why would you pay so much more for 1080p? It's the same video, and you're selling your soul for extra resolution.
SCP? Still disco-era. Try sftp, might as well since we tunnel every other service under the sun through ssh.
What, are you kidding? Blu-ray has horrifying DRM and doesn't really look that much better than DVDs with good postprocessing. I'd never even think of supporting DRMed blu-ray.
, and other usenet binaries, and the world's torrents.. all downloading through your ISP, which is a corporation. Anything on the internet comes through corporations- ISPs. How is that 85% figure surprising?
I'm very reassured that nobody does. Those are mega irony quotes.
Wikileaks is wayy beyond scientology's grasp. I mean, the CoS would easily bomb a data center if they could find one, but wikileaks is worldwide and hidden.
it said who among us not girls hurhur firstpost?
Snake oil has legitimate medical uses!
Oh come on, what do you expect? When someone's hobby goes mainstream, and all the 12 year old boys think they're pown, you have to defend your honor. And try to respect the PC gamers, like you said it's a lot more competitive and a completely different mindset.. we play to win not to have fun. And it's a lot of work. Have fun getting fat and beaching yourself on the couch.
I've always thought those tools looked shady. Come on people, amazon s3 is not that expensive. Pony up.
Consumers would still line up with their wheelbarrows of cash and ignore the perfectly good independent artists.
The response of the people: hold on now, this seems unfair for microsoft. I'm not voting for him next election..
Anonymity allows people to speak without fear of consequences, like getting thrown in a prison cell for criticising the government. We protect rights to anonymity so that can never happen.
Software? You mean those 1s and 0s right? They could just compile a nice data stealer, link in all the dependencies (theres probably some CS term for self-sufficient code) and put it on a ROM. When the time comes, just start reading off the ROM over whatever was being executed before. Modern CPUs are way over my head, but I assume there's some sort of hyper advanced analogue to not checking for interrupts and running on bare metal. The program executes, the chip halts or lets the OS panic into catatonia when it realizes half its memory is different from what it was 1 cycle ago, and the russians or whoever have our data-- very slick, but I would imagine it would be extremely expensive to redesign the chips ~~~~
Nah, that was over 100 years ago.
We're just going to hack it anyway to run whatever 3rd party apps we want.. the EU is really going overboard IMO with forcing microsoft to make their OS how the EU wants it made. If microsoft wants to make Internet Explorer the only app that can access the internet, that's their prerogative.. nobody has to buy Windows. Even if there was no excellent free alternative, which there is.
It's the same problem as the analog stick- you can set the sensitivity really high but basically you're holding the stick or spinning the ball until the cursor eventually gets to where you want. Even if it's somehow faster than a mouse, you can't beat the isomorphism between the mousepad surface and screen space- the speed and accuracy of your mouse is limited only by how quickly you can move to the corresponding position on the mousepad. This elegant and efficient isomorphism beats out anything other input devices have to offer (in FPS anyway).
By the way OSC totally missed the mark on that one.. if government-owned mailing lists were locked down, people would just use different ones. Alt roots, darknets, whatever..
In ender's game, you needed to have citizen's access (presumably you pay your taxes, don't commit felonies) to speak on the public "'nets", but anyone could read.
Is that seriously the main flaw you find with this law? Would you rather they come up with a free-speech-restricting law that's more enforcable?
A few hundred? You are aware that there are at least ten thousand people connected to the internet..