You double clicked on a game icon and it launched within two seconds
Well...either that, or you got a message saying that you needed to lower/raise the bit depth of your display, enable/disable some memory manager, or something similar. I kind of missed Windows 3.1 too, until I started playing with it in a VM and kept running into all the antiquated bits that I'd forgotten about...then it would make one of the classic "ding" sounds, and I'd forgive it in a wash of nostalgia.
Like shoddily built old houses and cars, people wrote the best laws they could at the time. When flaws are identified, then isn't the answer to amend and improve them? You're response seems to be just leave it and blame the original law writers for not getting it perfect the first time around.
I'm not against amending laws as improvements are found, I'm against changing laws that should already cover some specific antisocial behavior so that they basically list off all the tools that can be used to facilitate that behavior (in this case, adding "using a drone or UAV" specifically into the law).
Yeah but the law can't be that vague
It can't be as vague as just saying "peeping", but it can be as vague as describing the behavior that it's meant to prevent, in as much detail as necessary to be clear what is or isn't covered by the law, and attaching punishments to variations in the situation, if necessary.
Assault and battery won't stand up in court without evidence of injury. The problem with lasers is a lot of damage is done indirectly, ie distraction causing accidents, which is not covered by assault and battery laws. Hence new laws specifically targeted at the new threat, previously impossible with the technology of the day.
I was talking about direct injury by blinding with those examples. Other situations would be covered by other laws, of course. Causing a distraction in traffic leading to injury isn't a new situation; the fact that a laser was used isn't directly relevant to the situation.
Well that's the great thing about the Internet, you get to hear how it is in places that aren't where you're from.
And the same to you =) My point was that in my area, where they weren't outlawed, they still don't commonly cause problems, despite being cheap and widely available. It's a proof by example that a ban isn't the only effective way to handle abuse of a tool.
New Technology allows you to do new things in new ways, and hence actions may be against the principal of an existing law, but not captured by it's definition.
Then it's a shoddily-written law that targets the methods of doing the action, without addressing the action itself. Actions should be punishable; methods should not be, unless there's a special reason to change the punishment based on the method used to perform the action.
You also can't be as vague as saying "No peeping" because that's how people get off with excuses like "I wasn't peeping, I was peeking".
If I were a lawyer, or otherwise versed in the appropriate legal terminology, I would've used it. As it is, I stuck to vernacular English.
And those exist. The penalty for unlicensed drone use is not the same as manslaughter for example
I'm not talking about penalties. I'm talking about a threshold of occurrences before I think something should be done about the problem.
No laws existed against blinding people with lasers because why would you have a law for something that hadn't been invented?
Bullshit; a law exists. Assault and battery would both apply, and possibly aggravated assault, to emphasize the life-changing damage that blinding someone would cause.
so the authorities cracked down and banned them.
That doesn't seem to be true, at least in the U.S. Lasers of various powers are widely available. The change, as I perceive it, is that the novelty value wore off, and most people in society began to recognize that using a dangerous tool as a toy is irresponsible. That being said, I can still go to a pet store and buy a class-1 laser as a cat toy. I can buy a class-3 in a store, marketed for pointing to stars.
Sony has a lot of good devices/products.
Sony has some wonderful products. Shame that the company has made some of the decisions that it has.
As far as an OS, Linux covers all of the software that I need and most of the software that I want. Maybe I could do the work to get the rest running through Wine, but who has the time for that? I don't, so my various machines will keep their Windows partitions....but like the consoles, I'm sitting out of the upgrade cycle until they're actually selling a product that I'm interested in buying.
I think we do. Because drones open a whole new physical dimension that never previously existed.
Harassment is harassment. Peeping is peeping. I don't see the point of singling out one particular technology that can be abused. Kind of like how fraud is fraud; I don't think there should be a separate consideration for fraud occurring over phone lines versus data lines versus in-person. The original law should be made broad enough to cover all kinds of fraud to which it's meant to apply; same thing with ways that people can abuse toy helicopters and the like.
Er, yes they should, that is exactly how it should work. Or do you think we wait until 50% of drivers kill someone before we introduce any road rules?
I'd put different thresholds on imaginary privacy issues and safety issues likely to result in death. It's like putting a ban on walkie-talkies in the 90s because you could eavesdrop on cordless phone calls with them, versus issuing citations for not wearing a seatbelt in a car. They aren't really comparable situations. One is rare, of limited scope, and isn't likely to hurt anyone. The other is a preventative action that lowers traffic fatalities.
how is it you haven't switched to Linux or BSD or OSX yet?
I have, with the exception of games and other programs that don't have Linux equivalents.
And if you are supporting family members then how come in the last 15 or so years you haven't switched them to Linux or BSD or OSX or Android or iOS for their personal computing?
Because they want to do things that they can't on non-Windows OSes, the problems I have with Windows don't bother them, and because I respect my family enough to not change their computers to suit me better while making them suit their purposes more poorly.
game developers don't compile the good games for Linux, just buy them on PS4. PS4 *is* BSD just as Mac OSX *is* BSD.
Right, because Sony is a really great answer to Microsoft. Fuck Sony.
Variables don't; constants aren't.