Actualy these types of things have been around for ages with Apple. They are VERY trigger happy when it comes to protecting their secrets. The only big difference is that as they gain more market/mind share (and as the internet grows), the chance of some one managing to reveal Apple's secrets, and so we see more instances of Apple doing 'evil' things.
However I don't think that has anything to do with animating fluids... (unless we start talking about blisters or congealing blood from REALLY bad burns).
100% correct, however it looks ugly nomatter how you put it up. I was considering ussing other variables and making a key or something, but descided enough peopel would get it this way and jsut left it (And I am lazy)
Because Gates IS MS in most people's minds. Also most people are not familiar with why MS is 'evil' they just know that it is 'cool' to say so. However people are familiar with Warren Buffett's donation to the B&MG foundation, what that they have been doing in the past few years.
How J&J has been at the top for the past 7 years confounds me in all honesty, unless the scorrign is bassed on something that looks like: (PeopleThatKnowTheName + 2*GoodDeedsDone) - 2*BadDeedsDone = Rating.
J&J is a non-entitie on my radar (aside from a friend who works for a company that does contract work for them).
The fact that most "unsubscribe" links are just ways of letting spammers know that the E-Mail is a live one is the reason I use the spam button.
also, the articly basicly just lists a number of things that mark spam as spam. IF you are doing any of those thigns you are NOT legitimate, you are spam.
not keeping up with unsubscribe? well that is then unsolisited email and it is spam.
His problems stemed from the fact that his handeler knew jack and squat about internet crimes and would force on him things that he thought were wrong (ie likely to get him found out as working for the FBI, likely to screw up other things, etc)
It does not actualy violate the constitution. The constitution just says that a warrent must be:particularly describing the place to be searched. Of course precedent (and possibly even law, though I am not sure) says you can't do this.
The thing being is that I finaly actualy reread tfa and it says NOTHING about warrents, jsut that they are doign this b/c they can, and THAT is unconstitutional.
Umm, govn't can create laws that FURTHER limit their powers.
Silly Example: Warrents are provided for in the constitution. The legislative branch could pass a law that states "Warrents may be issued at any time, however they may only be executed on mondays". This law is not unconstitutional (silly, but not unconstitutional), and thus any evidenced gained from a warrent executed on Tuesday would be inadmissible in court, however it would not be unconstitutional.
You are correct about plain sight, however plain sight often gets people messed up with the idea that you can't open stuff up. For instance, if I am looking for drugs, and I find AP bullets (those are illegal, aren't they?) in pill bottles, then it is admissable.
As for datamining to strip searching: One of the precedents is that warrents are supposed to cover the smallest area possible (Searchign house? garage? office? what?), and what you are lookign for exactly. Datamining CAN be done as a strip search (examine EVERYTHING), however if you are sepecificly tryign to get me on sharing the latest britney spears album via bittorrent (disseminating that shoudl have me locked up), then there is no reason to be looking at web traffic or emails, and those SHOULD be inadmissable (if they are, I don't know, I should honestly look into it, I am not as familiar with wiretapping laws as I am with standard physical warrents/search/seziure/etc).
Also, the argument over searchign one house (taping one IP) vs an entire street (an IP Block) does not work all that well.
The idea is that they have a court order for the ISP to turn over the IP, however for some reason (I can't come up with a hypothetical that covers it) the ISP can (not will) NOT give out the IP. At that point they would be alowed to do a 'full pipe' search (however, even if this is legal, I still think that the datamining should be limited in scope).
Yup, I am still running 2K, however I am getting close to the point that I might actualy have to upgrade as more and more companies are no longer making drivers for 2k/XP, in stead they are "XP only" and will refuse to install under 2K (I got around this with ATI by ussing Omega, but it is still anoying).
And if I do upgrade I will probably grab Vista, just for all these games that will eventualy come out for "Vista Only".
See, the problem is that you could easily interpert that (with out stretchign it much) to fit full pipe:
particularly describing the place to be searched They have done that. They know the problem is with in this range of IPs, however they can not narow it down because the ISP can not help them with it.
and the persons or things to be seized This is where it is sorta tricky. This part has been interpereted to say that anytihng found durign a reasonable execution (aka, no searchign in pill bottles for stollen TVs) of a warrent is admissable. So if they only need to be checking web pages visited, and they start sniffing P2P traffic, that should be inadmissable, however if they fidn something durring a reasonable execution of the warrent, then it would be.
Note, I am not sayign I am for or against this as I honestly don't have enoguh information on it. I lean away from it as it DOES look like it is way to much of an invassion of privacy, but I can't say 100%.
The big deal for me is how the heck could an ISP NOT be able to tell you what IP you need to look at? If you have the name/house/whatever the ISP should easily be able to pull up what IP(s) that person/place currently has assigned to them. If you are working back from an IP you found doing something illegal, then the ISP should know who that IP was assigned to at the given time, and give you the current IP (assuming non-static). I don't really like the ISPs trackign what we are doing and when, but I know they are, so why would this 'full pipe' warrent ever show up?
Normaly I just ignore ACs trolling against me (I get it alot, generaly for the fact that I can't spell or type worth a damn), but wow, your response to the troll was pure awsome, and actualy had me laughing more then the GPP, thank you (not for deffending me, as I have no need for deffence against poor trolling, but for making me laugh, as that is one of the greatest services on earth)
Wikipiedia (or any encyclopedia) is a good STARTING place for information, however fom there you sohuld really look through the links that are cited in the article itself, see what you think of theri validity, and possibly cite them directly if that is where you info ends up coming from.
And remember, Wikis get vandalized, if you read somethign that SOUNDS acurate, it could just be a good trick that no one has caught yet.
yah, I figgured as much, Andrew Looney has created a vast nubmer of games in his own right, and I know there are a few other people working there. I just tossed the name out there as one of the indy developers I know of.
It is actualy easier to use a D8/D10 for scatter simply by having the bottom or top point set as the pointer, and if I remember you need to assign a number (or a few) as "hit".
Well, if you have 3 people in the house, and they all sit down and watch 2hrs of prime time together, there is your 6 hrs (ofcourse that is only 2 hrs of bulb life).
The factor in the peopel that have mini TVs in their kitchens running when ever they are there (0 hrs of bulb life), the people that have their TV running 24/7 (Any one that does that with a DLP deserves to be payign $200-300 every 6 months) etc etc.
And then there is the regular TV watching (Lil'Timmy watchign Sat mornign cartoons, Pop watching the 10 o'clock news, Maw with her cooking show etc etc etc), most of wich is not goign to be done on the DLP.
the only way I can see to burn out a DLP fast is via video games, Sports buffs and movie junkies (I don't need to watch Dan Rather in HD, but the latest action flick is probably worth it)
Also, the simpeler you can make the physical pieces of the game the better off you are I think. Can the "board" be cloth or some such? Will the pieces idealy be simple or complex (checkers, WH40K pieces, or soem where inbetween)?
The other thing to do is to go to Cons (SF/F and gaming). So long as they have a gaming room (for board/card games) you can find a good number of people who are in the field. Most of them will be Reps, but even they are good to talk to, and some times you will run into the actualy developers (or other people more closely tied to the company), especialy at larger cons. Just make sure you have a working copy of your game (I would suggest tryign to make it look good, over trying to emulate a proffessional distribution).
Well, I have played more Redsteel then elebits (only a couple quick MP games of elebits). I realyl like redsteel and will be getting it. Graphics realy don't meen much to me, and the voice acting just makes me laugh every so often (I love the guys who are AMBUSHING ME yellign about me shootign them:P).
I need to paly a bit more elebits before I descide if I want it or not.
Exactly, if you want a list of FAILED perifs here: R.O.B. Trackmeet pad Power Glove U-Force Eye Toy Sega CD
If you can find me a list of ones that have worked I will be impressed, the only ones I can add to webrunner's list would be the Nintendo Zapper (admitedly, only 2 games I can remember), and the Guitar Hero controllers (Again, only for a specific game).
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Actualy these types of things have been around for ages with Apple. They are VERY trigger happy when it comes to protecting their secrets. The only big difference is that as they gain more market/mind share (and as the internet grows), the chance of some one managing to reveal Apple's secrets, and so we see more instances of Apple doing 'evil' things.
you burn your hand something horrible.
However I don't think that has anything to do with animating fluids... (unless we start talking about blisters or congealing blood from REALLY bad burns).
100% correct, however it looks ugly nomatter how you put it up. I was considering ussing other variables and making a key or something, but descided enough peopel would get it this way and jsut left it (And I am lazy)
ah well, this was a long time ago.
Then again it might have been a typo squatter also.
But thanks for the check!
Because Gates IS MS in most people's minds. Also most people are not familiar with why MS is 'evil' they just know that it is 'cool' to say so. However people are familiar with Warren Buffett's donation to the B&MG foundation, what that they have been doing in the past few years.
How J&J has been at the top for the past 7 years confounds me in all honesty, unless the scorrign is bassed on something that looks like: (PeopleThatKnowTheName + 2*GoodDeedsDone) - 2*BadDeedsDone = Rating.
J&J is a non-entitie on my radar (aside from a friend who works for a company that does contract work for them).
because rubbermaid.com links to latex pr0n? (or atleast used to, at work, not gona test it)
/., things like that)
admitedly I type in the address if I am familiar with it (google, gmail, bestbuy, amazon,
The fact that most "unsubscribe" links are just ways of letting spammers know that the E-Mail is a live one is the reason I use the spam button.
also, the articly basicly just lists a number of things that mark spam as spam. IF you are doing any of those thigns you are NOT legitimate, you are spam.
not keeping up with unsubscribe? well that is then unsolisited email and it is spam.
His problems stemed from the fact that his handeler knew jack and squat about internet crimes and would force on him things that he thought were wrong (ie likely to get him found out as working for the FBI, likely to screw up other things, etc)
It was a fun read. Nothing all that interestign in it, but it really was kinda fun to read.
If they can get a warrent that says so, then yes.
:particularly describing the place to be searched. Of course precedent (and possibly even law, though I am not sure) says you can't do this.
It does not actualy violate the constitution. The constitution just says that a warrent must be
The thing being is that I finaly actualy reread tfa and it says NOTHING about warrents, jsut that they are doign this b/c they can, and THAT is unconstitutional.
Umm, govn't can create laws that FURTHER limit their powers.
Silly Example:
Warrents are provided for in the constitution.
The legislative branch could pass a law that states "Warrents may be issued at any time, however they may only be executed on mondays". This law is not unconstitutional (silly, but not unconstitutional), and thus any evidenced gained from a warrent executed on Tuesday would be inadmissible in court, however it would not be unconstitutional.
You are correct about plain sight, however plain sight often gets people messed up with the idea that you can't open stuff up. For instance, if I am looking for drugs, and I find AP bullets (those are illegal, aren't they?) in pill bottles, then it is admissable.
As for datamining to strip searching:
One of the precedents is that warrents are supposed to cover the smallest area possible (Searchign house? garage? office? what?), and what you are lookign for exactly. Datamining CAN be done as a strip search (examine EVERYTHING), however if you are sepecificly tryign to get me on sharing the latest britney spears album via bittorrent (disseminating that shoudl have me locked up), then there is no reason to be looking at web traffic or emails, and those SHOULD be inadmissable (if they are, I don't know, I should honestly look into it, I am not as familiar with wiretapping laws as I am with standard physical warrents/search/seziure/etc).
Also, the argument over searchign one house (taping one IP) vs an entire street (an IP Block) does not work all that well.
The idea is that they have a court order for the ISP to turn over the IP, however for some reason (I can't come up with a hypothetical that covers it) the ISP can (not will) NOT give out the IP. At that point they would be alowed to do a 'full pipe' search (however, even if this is legal, I still think that the datamining should be limited in scope).
Yup, I am still running 2K, however I am getting close to the point that I might actualy have to upgrade as more and more companies are no longer making drivers for 2k/XP, in stead they are "XP only" and will refuse to install under 2K (I got around this with ATI by ussing Omega, but it is still anoying).
And if I do upgrade I will probably grab Vista, just for all these games that will eventualy come out for "Vista Only".
See, the problem is that you could easily interpert that (with out stretchign it much) to fit full pipe:
particularly describing the place to be searched
They have done that. They know the problem is with in this range of IPs, however they can not narow it down because the ISP can not help them with it.
and the persons or things to be seized
This is where it is sorta tricky. This part has been interpereted to say that anytihng found durign a reasonable execution (aka, no searchign in pill bottles for stollen TVs) of a warrent is admissable.
So if they only need to be checking web pages visited, and they start sniffing P2P traffic, that should be inadmissable, however if they fidn something durring a reasonable execution of the warrent, then it would be.
Note, I am not sayign I am for or against this as I honestly don't have enoguh information on it. I lean away from it as it DOES look like it is way to much of an invassion of privacy, but I can't say 100%.
The big deal for me is how the heck could an ISP NOT be able to tell you what IP you need to look at?
If you have the name/house/whatever the ISP should easily be able to pull up what IP(s) that person/place currently has assigned to them.
If you are working back from an IP you found doing something illegal, then the ISP should know who that IP was assigned to at the given time, and give you the current IP (assuming non-static).
I don't really like the ISPs trackign what we are doing and when, but I know they are, so why would this 'full pipe' warrent ever show up?
Normaly I just ignore ACs trolling against me (I get it alot, generaly for the fact that I can't spell or type worth a damn), but wow, your response to the troll was pure awsome, and actualy had me laughing more then the GPP, thank you (not for deffending me, as I have no need for deffence against poor trolling, but for making me laugh, as that is one of the greatest services on earth)
you should have put bold on the first letters so that the slow people (me) would have gotten the joke a tad bit faster.
:)
other then that I applaud you
Wikipiedia (or any encyclopedia) is a good STARTING place for information, however fom there you sohuld really look through the links that are cited in the article itself, see what you think of theri validity, and possibly cite them directly if that is where you info ends up coming from.
And remember, Wikis get vandalized, if you read somethign that SOUNDS acurate, it could just be a good trick that no one has caught yet.
yah, I figgured as much, Andrew Looney has created a vast nubmer of games in his own right, and I know there are a few other people working there. I just tossed the name out there as one of the indy developers I know of.
however that book is a nice looking refference.
It is actualy easier to use a D8/D10 for scatter simply by having the bottom or top point set as the pointer, and if I remember you need to assign a number (or a few) as "hit".
Well, if you have 3 people in the house, and they all sit down and watch 2hrs of prime time together, there is your 6 hrs (ofcourse that is only 2 hrs of bulb life).
The factor in the peopel that have mini TVs in their kitchens running when ever they are there (0 hrs of bulb life), the people that have their TV running 24/7 (Any one that does that with a DLP deserves to be payign $200-300 every 6 months) etc etc.
And then there is the regular TV watching (Lil'Timmy watchign Sat mornign cartoons, Pop watching the 10 o'clock news, Maw with her cooking show etc etc etc), most of wich is not goign to be done on the DLP.
the only way I can see to burn out a DLP fast is via video games, Sports buffs and movie junkies (I don't need to watch Dan Rather in HD, but the latest action flick is probably worth it)
Oh, and when you type up your rule book, make sure you don't have as many typos as I do in my posts.
Depending on how complex your game is I would suggest tlakign to some of the indy publishers.
There are companies like Cheapass Games, Loony Labs(thoguh I think they do all their stuff in house), Playroom Entertainment to name a few off the top of my head.
Also, the simpeler you can make the physical pieces of the game the better off you are I think. Can the "board" be cloth or some such? Will the pieces idealy be simple or complex (checkers, WH40K pieces, or soem where inbetween)?
The other thing to do is to go to Cons (SF/F and gaming). So long as they have a gaming room (for board/card games) you can find a good number of people who are in the field. Most of them will be Reps, but even they are good to talk to, and some times you will run into the actualy developers (or other people more closely tied to the company), especialy at larger cons. Just make sure you have a working copy of your game (I would suggest tryign to make it look good, over trying to emulate a proffessional distribution).
Good luck!
Well, I have played more Redsteel then elebits (only a couple quick MP games of elebits). I realyl like redsteel and will be getting it. Graphics realy don't meen much to me, and the voice acting just makes me laugh every so often (I love the guys who are AMBUSHING ME yellign about me shootign them :P).
I need to paly a bit more elebits before I descide if I want it or not.
I ofcourse can't find the links atm, however:
PS3 DOES suppost 720p Tech Specs
What I think you are thinking of was the problem where it was downsampeling from 1080 to 480 instead of 720, and that was fixed in a firmware update.
Exactly, if you want a list of FAILED perifs here:
R.O.B.
Trackmeet pad
Power Glove
U-Force
Eye Toy
Sega CD
If you can find me a list of ones that have worked I will be impressed, the only ones I can add to webrunner's list would be the Nintendo Zapper (admitedly, only 2 games I can remember), and the Guitar Hero controllers (Again, only for a specific game).