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Comment Re:Need to show intent (Score 1) 274

Taking pictures of yourself does not, on its own, show intent to use them as child pornography.

Well, you're demonstrating the intent to generate pictures that the courts define as child pornography (unless you drop the camera and it accidentally goes off I suppose). Or is CP defined by distribution?

Cf. software licensing where you can take GPL code and fuck it five ways from Sunday but as long as you don't distribute your changes nobody cares.

Comment Re:You are DAMN RIGHT she should be charged (Score 1) 274

Because someone accused of pedophilia saying they're innocent always works so well, yeah.

that should otherwise be raised to think in better terms than "arrest everyone when they do wrong".

I know what you're trying to get at, but it's a better idea to make the law actually work than to sometimes just ignore people who are breaking it, which is what you're saying.

Comment Re:Title Is Misleading (Score 1) 67

I made no claim about what the software needs to run.

A) I read "mockup" as "nonfunctional version." If it works, I would've said something more along the lines of "they hacked up a X-compatible."
B) Saying "hardware X" tells me that it specifically *doesn't* have all the required software to act functionally similar. If it did, you'd just call it "an X."

From Wikipedia:

In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup is a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.[1] Mock-ups are used by designers mainly to acquire feedback from users.

Note that if it were functional, it would be called a prototype, not a mockup. It sounds like mockups are only really useful for wind tunnel tests, general design feedback, etc.

makes very specific assumptions about the hardware it runs on... so a "hardware mockup" is required

Or, presumably, an emulator.

Comment Re:Title Is Misleading (Score 1) 67

bought a hardware mockup of an Xbox One that the group built using source code stolen from Microsoft's Game Developer Network Portal

*twitch* You don't make a hardware mockup out of source code. An editor somewhere needs to be slapped.

Either it's a "hardware mockup" and it doesn't work because it doesn't have the software, or it's just a "mockup" and maybe it does work. Next, they'll be telling me it's Digital and has All The p's.

Comment Re:FP? (Score 1) 942

don't know where you got those numbers

the Wikipedia article, the caption to the graphic on the right.

In March 2008 the IFAB attempted to standardise the size of the football pitch for international matches and set the official dimensions of a pitch to 105 m long by 68 m wide.[5] However, at a special meeting of the IFAB on 8 May 2008, it was ruled that this change would be put on hold pending a review and the proposed change has not been implemented.

Well, it's Wikipedia so who knows.

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