Driverless cars won't be commercially viable for 10+ years, won't be mass produced for 20+ years, and won't be ubiquitous for 30+ years. To which I say to this article...since when have the current people in charge given two ****s about future generation's problems?
So we used to rely on humans to follow intuition, self correcting pattern recognition, and decades and decades of training and history to track a handful of people. Now we want to use computers using simplistic, rigid, and relatively new. Run by people who are NOT "spys". They track everybody in a slim hopes(of which proof they have yet to produce to the public) of catching a "bad guy".
My big question look at that is....why does the old regime of hard nosed "real" intel guys put up with that? I mean Bin Laden was NOT found with PRISM or any of those other programs. He was found with good old fashioned ground intel work. Do those field ops just not care and view it as just as much noise as the public does as well?
My biggest question is why have AT&T, Verizon, Ect, not started offering "Records Burning" of all past billing/GPS/Phone record item?
Tired of the Government able to look at your records older than 180 days without your consent? Well have we got a deal for you! for only $7.99* a month have all your old GPS points, Phone call logs, and billing records deleted** from all prying eyes! Sign up now and your first week is free!
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This has been one of the least active congresses in history. Have to do something to fill the time in the day other than think of more way to blame the opposite party for all your woes.
If a woman gets drunk and drives, we hold her responsible for her own actions. If she hits somebody and causes property, or life, damage she doesn't get to just walk away and say "well I was drunk so I can't be held responsible". NOBODY in their right mind would seek to alter that. Nobody would say you shouldn't be held accountable for drunk driving.
So why it is ok for a woman to not accept responsibility for having sex drunk? If you make the "conscience" decision to screw some guy because of beer goggles you shouldn't get to just change your mind after the fact. "No sorry your honor, on reflection I didn't really mean to drive dunk and hit billy with my car. Since I didn't mean to I should be just let go. thanks!"
Sudden Attack is a F2P game. Which means they make money by getting people to buy items in game and potentially through in game ads. AKA cheating in a full retail game is DIFFERENT than cheating in a F2P game. Because in a full game it is just annoying for player, in a F2P game they are literally(or potentially depending) taking money straight out of the Developers pocket. The cheating itself potentially drives away customers, depriving them of money. What if they are cheating by giving themselves all of the unlocked items? That is in this case essentially stealing from the devs. What if they are getting all the items and then GIVING those to other players? That is potentially taking money straight from the devs even more, maybe even a real chunk between the three of them.
The point is that cheating in a F2P game has drastically harsher effects than cheating in Counter-Strike or Halo. And just because it is a video game doesn't mean actions can't have real world monetary consequences. The biggest question to me is did they use third party tools to hack the games or servers, or just use in game exploits that anybody could do with a vanilla client?
The answer to which documents get marked SECRET is rather obvious. Its the ones the officers think that if the public saw would make the NYPD look bad. So obviously the SECRET documents are the ones the public should 100% see...
Maybe the ID people saw this as an "out" to get this rule overturned? I mean what if this "religious exemption" was added by some ass politician and the actual regulators of the photo ID really resisted. This could be a way for them to hopefully get sued and then get said law overturned. At least I would hope that it is something like that...
I guess our problems with Motorola and their unresponsiveness to issues with their RMS system isn't just a single company problem. Cold comfort for us.
Of course the number of times a cop approaches a person accidentally with a gun drawn should be zero. But no reasonable person would ever say that even with proper training and an alteration of procedures/culture would that ever be truly zero. SHIT HAPPENS. My point is that exaggerating the relativity of events like that helps nobody and can turn people off to the rest of your message when they know your lead in is false.
The point wasn't that you need physical play in order to be quantified as a "sport". The point was that, sans the more rigorous motion games, golf requires leaps and bounds more physical activity than sitting on your couch and moving your fingers around.
As you stated the number of plates read per second is huge, and the number of "hits" is also a healthy number. But the number of times somebody has been approached by a mistake with guns drawn is less than a handful. AKA statistically very small. Which means "most" officers are doing their jobs correctly. Honestly I really don't like such extreme hyperbole from techdirt. "We" don't need that in our news, we get it enough from the major news networks.
I am not saying that eSports can't find a place in the world. But part of the "religion" of sports comes from connecting with the players and the game they are playing. People who are the biggest fans of sports usually at least casually have played said sport, especially nostalgic playing when they were a child. You don't get that with current video games. My point isn't that eSports can't do well, my point is that it will not come anywhere close to the popularity of real sports because of the turn over rate. Almost no games last on the "pro-circuit" for more than a few years, and even the ones that do nobody actually plays with their real friends anymore. That is a HUGE problem for eSports and mainstream adoption.
There are two real problem with esports right now. The biggest one is that gaming is constantly evolving. No one game can hold on long enough to stay in popularity. Even Starcraft in S.Korea barely had a strong 10 year run. Compare that to today's popular sports and you can see why there are rabid "from birth" sports fans. Real life can't get better resolution, shader details, or aliasing effects. Not to mention various physics models improvements, netcode, or interface improvements. For esports to reach the heights of football, football, basketballe, ect then there needs to be a model of consistency first. Because with the incredible rare exception(WoW, Starcraft, Street Fighter 2) absolutely nobody plays plays the same game for more than 6 months to two years if you are lucky.
I know tons of people who still go out and shoot around in basketball. But I don't know anybody who still plays Super Smash Brothers Melee even if the pro events are entertaining. eSports just won't be able to gain the popularity of "normal" sports until this problem is "solved".
It really isn't hard to understand why they have a "hard-on for Google". Its because they think that if Google didn't point to said content, then literally nobody would be able to find said content. Basically it would be like if suddenly map makers started marking Drug houses on maps. And instead of going after said drug houses they instead went after the map makers because "nobody could find drugs if they didn't know what house to go to".
I wish we could somehow get at "hard" numbers for Steam. Really look at the impact making it available on Steam itself(maybe look at the effect of lowing the price) has on PC gaming piracy. I would take a guess that the safe and easy access to games Steam has allowed has done way more to stop piracy than any DRM ever has.
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But that is a future problem
To which I say to this article...since when have the current people in charge given two ****s about future generation's problems?
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What happened to the "Intelligence" part?
Now we want to use computers using simplistic, rigid, and relatively new. Run by people who are NOT "spys". They track everybody in a slim hopes(of which proof they have yet to produce to the public) of catching a "bad guy".
My big question look at that is....why does the old regime of hard nosed "real" intel guys put up with that? I mean Bin Laden was NOT found with PRISM or any of those other programs. He was found with good old fashioned ground intel work. Do those field ops just not care and view it as just as much noise as the public does as well?
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Love these kinds of things
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This seems like a perfect way to make money
Tired of the Government able to look at your records older than 180 days without your consent? Well have we got a deal for you! for only $7.99* a month have all your old GPS points, Phone call logs, and billing records deleted** from all prying eyes! Sign up now and your first week is free!
*Plus applicable state and federal taxes and administative fees.
**Only mostly deleted till they ask really nicely
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If they were drunk driving...
NOBODY in their right mind would seek to alter that. Nobody would say you shouldn't be held accountable for drunk driving.
So why it is ok for a woman to not accept responsibility for having sex drunk?
If you make the "conscience" decision to screw some guy because of beer goggles you shouldn't get to just change your mind after the fact.
"No sorry your honor, on reflection I didn't really mean to drive dunk and hit billy with my car. Since I didn't mean to I should be just let go. thanks!"
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On a deeper look
AKA cheating in a full retail game is DIFFERENT than cheating in a F2P game. Because in a full game it is just annoying for player, in a F2P game they are literally(or potentially depending) taking money straight out of the Developers pocket.
The cheating itself potentially drives away customers, depriving them of money.
What if they are cheating by giving themselves all of the unlocked items? That is in this case essentially stealing from the devs.
What if they are getting all the items and then GIVING those to other players? That is potentially taking money straight from the devs even more, maybe even a real chunk between the three of them.
The point is that cheating in a F2P game has drastically harsher effects than cheating in Counter-Strike or Halo. And just because it is a video game doesn't mean actions can't have real world monetary consequences.
The biggest question to me is did they use third party tools to hack the games or servers, or just use in game exploits that anybody could do with a vanilla client?
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The answer is rather simple
Its the ones the officers think that if the public saw would make the NYPD look bad.
So obviously the SECRET documents are the ones the public should 100% see...
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I mean what if this "religious exemption" was added by some ass politician and the actual regulators of the photo ID really resisted. This could be a way for them to hopefully get sued and then get said law overturned.
At least I would hope that it is something like that...
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Just not us
Cold comfort for us.
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My point is that exaggerating the relativity of events like that helps nobody and can turn people off to the rest of your message when they know your lead in is false.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Athletes
Sorry wiggling your fingers around does not compare to driving a ball on target 250+ yards.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Athletes
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The first Paragraph is very misleading
Which means "most" officers are doing their jobs correctly.
Honestly I really don't like such extreme hyperbole from techdirt. "We" don't need that in our news, we get it enough from the major news networks.
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Re: Re: Athletes
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Re: Re: The current problem with esports
But part of the "religion" of sports comes from connecting with the players and the game they are playing.
People who are the biggest fans of sports usually at least casually have played said sport, especially nostalgic playing when they were a child. You don't get that with current video games.
My point isn't that eSports can't do well, my point is that it will not come anywhere close to the popularity of real sports because of the turn over rate. Almost no games last on the "pro-circuit" for more than a few years, and even the ones that do nobody actually plays with their real friends anymore. That is a HUGE problem for eSports and mainstream adoption.
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The current problem with esports
The biggest one is that gaming is constantly evolving. No one game can hold on long enough to stay in popularity. Even Starcraft in S.Korea barely had a strong 10 year run. Compare that to today's popular sports and you can see why there are rabid "from birth" sports fans.
Real life can't get better resolution, shader details, or aliasing effects. Not to mention various physics models improvements, netcode, or interface improvements.
For esports to reach the heights of football, football, basketballe, ect then there needs to be a model of consistency first.
Because with the incredible rare exception(WoW, Starcraft, Street Fighter 2) absolutely nobody plays plays the same game for more than 6 months to two years if you are lucky.
I know tons of people who still go out and shoot around in basketball. But I don't know anybody who still plays Super Smash Brothers Melee even if the pro events are entertaining.
eSports just won't be able to gain the popularity of "normal" sports until this problem is "solved".
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Re:
Its because they think that if Google didn't point to said content, then literally nobody would be able to find said content.
Basically it would be like if suddenly map makers started marking Drug houses on maps. And instead of going after said drug houses they instead went after the map makers because "nobody could find drugs if they didn't know what house to go to".
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I wish Steam would share numbers
I would take a guess that the safe and easy access to games Steam has allowed has done way more to stop piracy than any DRM ever has.
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