Comment Re:Stallman Needs to Learn the Serenity Prayer (Score 1) 318
I am waiting for Stallman to figure out that movies and television shows are not free either.
I am waiting for Stallman to figure out that movies and television shows are not free either.
((Damn slashdot for now allowing us to modify comments...))
This is why some countries have a charge of perverting the course of justice. Refusing to decrypt a hard drive is no different to destroying evidence.
I think given the fifth amendment it would have to be used very carefully, but to me the idea that you can sit back and laugh at the police because you encrypted a drive seems to contradict the normal rules of evidence.
Firstly the just says the 5th amendment prohibits the government from requiring he provide evidence with which to charge and possibly convict the defendant. That was a fact set in stone.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,"
That's not the same as being ordered to provide access to forensic evidence. (Though if I recall, in some jurisdictions the courts have said that it does cover genetic sampling and it can only be done if the suspect does it voluntarily, I do not understand this interpretation. Your fingerprints and your genetic makeup do not constitute testimony, they are forensic evidence. But then IANAL... so my opinion is worthless...) It would seem that they have more than enough evidence to justify a search warrant, legally there's no difference between a locked filing cabinet and an encrypted hard drive, the problem is that the encrypted hard drive is a lot harder to break into.
Now if I was a judge in this kind of thing I'd be telling the guy that if he helps out and provides access to all the information he will be seen to be cooperating and it would help in sentencing, meanwhile if he refuses to cooperate and forces the court to wait for a decryption he will be seen as unrepentant and therefore subject to a much more severe sentence.
And you never hacked a fucking kernel in your life, you silly poseur.
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And this kids is what happens when you start drooling on the keyboard.
Unless you have a big enough bankroll... which I thought was the premise of the whole question.
You want to travel AND you want to grow as a developer? Well if you want to travel and enjoy yourself why take work with you. And if you want to grow y our development skills why not stay home and take classes or something.
I'm not sure why this is flamebait, but sadly I'd rather comment than moderate.
I would suggest breaking the time into phases: travel and study. Say spend a month wandering around, then pick a city and settle in for some serious study time.
Seems like the best of both worlds to me.
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Usage share of operating systems
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
However, this page says that the Opera market share is much higher than 0.5, putting it firmly in the desktop Linux range.... and still only a fraction of Vista.
Not exactly a great selling point "My product is even less popular than Windows Vista"
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Usage share of operating systems
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
How many Navajo speakers don't speak English? A few thousand at best? Most of them elderly.
That's not the point, but I suspect that those in "the great melting pot" don't get it most of the time.
This is not about money, this is not about showing Star Wars to the non-english speakers of the Navajo nation, the point is to make Navajo relevant to those who have inherited it.
Did english have words for space ships, robots and laser beams 100 years ago?
And English even stole the word "robot" from Czech!
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a crib-house whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James D. Nicoll
a large part of their target market is the working poor.
A lot of the working poor can't afford new game discs anyway, so they're not in the part of the market that the major video game publishers are targeting. Publishers would probably be content to "let them eat cake", figuring that $2.99 touch screen games on Google Play ought to be enough for them.
I think they underestimate how big that market segment is, something like a dozen of the people I've raided end-game WoW content with are living paycheck to paycheck. I have no personal knowledge of similar behavior in the console market but I've certainly seen comments in gaming forums to the same effect.
Exactly this. This whole approach is aimed at the elite (like me) who have an excellent connection and little concern about bandwidth usage. What the gaming industry is failing to take into account is that a large part of their target market is the working poor.
I'm assuming that they've amassed some good intelligence in the past decade or so of Xbox Live regarding their target audiences... it's entirely possible the elite are the ones who will benefit from it or more specifically the games that the elite play, and that those who don't fit in that category wouldn't be affected in anyway in that the games they would play, wouldn't require the extra horsepower in the first place.
DLC, good point.
Agreed. But that's not what they said, they said they're throwing a huge server infrastructure at this.
Given how vocal, and how well informed, the elite gamers are they have to be out of their freaking trees saying bullshit like this in public.
Always on. And what happens when you have a shit internet connection?
I guess if you have a shit internet connection you shouldn't buy and play online games?
The problem is that "online" and "connection" mean different things to different people. Apparently my relatively crappy 10Mbps connection is significantly better than most of the gaming community.
(I always have a little giggle that I get better ping times from Eastern Canada to a server in California then the average Texan.)
Always on. And what happens when you have a shit internet connection?
Exactly this. This whole approach is aimed at the elite (like me) who have an excellent connection and little concern about bandwidth usage. What the gaming industry is failing to take into account is that a large part of their target market is the working poor.
Someone else in this item brought up World of Warcraft and SimCity as examples of client-server games (Diablo III is another example of a single user game that should never have had a server). We all know how well the Diablo launch and SimCity launches went. Even WoW fails in certain circumstances. (I can't tell you how many times I've had WoW raids fail because the redneck tanking in Texas drops carrier. I don't know who the ISPs are in San Antonio, but it seems that even the mildest thunderstorm takes them out.)
Leaving games unplayable because of poor infrastructure or outages is not going to make people happy, we have tons of examples in the past. Why Microsoft thinks they're going to have a different experience with this is beyond me.
I think that eventually this kind of architecture will have enormous potential, but I don't see that we have the market penetration of sufficient high-quality, high-bandwidth networking.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
