"cyber Pearl Harbor" might not be as bad a name for what is coming as people think....
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor as a preemptive strike to try and keep the USA out of WWII. This of course was a gross miscalculation that they later regretted.
We now have the US government looking to make preemptive strikes against the internet as a whole..... Question is, will they realize before it is too late that it is them in the bombers launching the attack?
Yes it is a gunshot wound, but without more details that means nothing. Technically if a bullet grazes you and gives you a little cut, that is a "gunshot wound", but it is hardly worth a hospital visit.
I am assuming this case was a bit more serious but the point is a "gunshot" is about like a knife wound. It can range from a little booboo that needs a kiss to make it better to "oh shit I'm gonna die".
Well, how about the Bluetooth headsets with built in cams that have been available for years now? They look like the ones people wear to talk on the phone and just have added fun of a cam that records to your phone.
Re: It's not "Make Porn Disappear Online", only in public spots.
" it's EASILY DO-ABLE with a hosts file in your free Linux firewall"
That statement right their proves beyond a doubt that you have no clue what your talking about. Nice try with the tossing around technical words you picked up though. Trouble is it means nothing.
As if I needed anything else to convince me I need a new job, I find that China pays people more to surf porn than I get paid to maintain computers for my current company. This is just depressing.
"suggesting that President Clinton committed a criminal act. It's a new low for you, which is incredible."
Suggesting President Clinton HASN'T committed a criminal act requires such an amazing level of hiding under a rock that I'm beginning to wonder if you people haven't discovered some form of dimension hopping. Take a look at the USA criminal code, then find me a person who has not broken some law.
Sounds like a rather neat idea. There are certainly a good handful of bugs they would have to work out. For example:
Someone taking goods and never delivering.
Someone using it as a way to case out a place (Delivered really nice TV to that house, need to come back later....)
Then you also have to figure out how to deal with issues like if I order 5 bags of cement and my delivery person is 90 year old lady who can't handle more than 10 pounds at a time.
Fighting online only is nothing like fighting automobiles. Cars actually offered advantages. Unlike online only.
I would also like to point out that is a poor analogy anyways on account of the fact there are still a lot of great horses out there for those who don't like cars.
Point is, Most games do not need to be "online" and so it is stupid to put them there. I love sitting down and playing a good single player game to relax. I do not want any multi-player functions.
I might just be giving them far too much credit, but I can personally see why they would not come out and say they flat out never would sue. That is basically just giving a blanket license to every patent they own to everyone in the world.
I do think they probably should have stepped up though and maybe said something along the lines of flat out they will never attack an open source group. That way they still can prevent someone, like say Apple, from just using tons of googles patients without licenses.
So... unless I am understanding this wrong. The only signature that matters on the transfer of the copyright is the one of the old owner. So, Didn't they basically just say that Allen Cooper just had ownership of a ton of porn just fall in his lap?
How about that for stolen identity. Find that no they didn't clean out your bank, in fact they gave you a lot of stuff.
Well I don't doubt that they would go up. I mean just look at some of the early posts about this. The DRM was so wonderful it made those that preorder run out and buy a second copy!
Of course.... anyone with a brain realizes that while initial sales of this game were high, it is going to crash spectacularly and hurt future games. So this increase in stock is only temporary.
"So you think the mere offer to take control over a piece of property is the same thing as having already taken control over it?"
Well, I think it is a bold faced lie to say you had no control over something after it has been offered to you. Basically following your logic, government can take something without warrant and then just play a massive shell game saying "Oh, we don't really have it, Fred down in storage does"
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor as a preemptive strike to try and keep the USA out of WWII. This of course was a gross miscalculation that they later regretted.
We now have the US government looking to make preemptive strikes against the internet as a whole..... Question is, will they realize before it is too late that it is them in the bombers launching the attack?
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I am assuming this case was a bit more serious but the point is a "gunshot" is about like a knife wound. It can range from a little booboo that needs a kiss to make it better to "oh shit I'm gonna die".
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4) Have a list of all porn site in the world
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Re: It's not "Make Porn Disappear Online", only in public spots.
That statement right their proves beyond a doubt that you have no clue what your talking about. Nice try with the tossing around technical words you picked up though. Trouble is it means nothing.
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Suggesting President Clinton HASN'T committed a criminal act requires such an amazing level of hiding under a rock that I'm beginning to wonder if you people haven't discovered some form of dimension hopping. Take a look at the USA criminal code, then find me a person who has not broken some law.
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Someone taking goods and never delivering.
Someone using it as a way to case out a place (Delivered really nice TV to that house, need to come back later....)
Then you also have to figure out how to deal with issues like if I order 5 bags of cement and my delivery person is 90 year old lady who can't handle more than 10 pounds at a time.
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I would also like to point out that is a poor analogy anyways on account of the fact there are still a lot of great horses out there for those who don't like cars.
Point is, Most games do not need to be "online" and so it is stupid to put them there. I love sitting down and playing a good single player game to relax. I do not want any multi-player functions.
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I do think they probably should have stepped up though and maybe said something along the lines of flat out they will never attack an open source group. That way they still can prevent someone, like say Apple, from just using tons of googles patients without licenses.
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You ever look around at most utilities? In a lot of places, such as my house, there is only one ISP. There are tons of "legal" monopolies.
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Porn owner?
How about that for stolen identity. Find that no they didn't clean out your bank, in fact they gave you a lot of stuff.
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Of course.... anyone with a brain realizes that while initial sales of this game were high, it is going to crash spectacularly and hurt future games. So this increase in stock is only temporary.
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Well, I think it is a bold faced lie to say you had no control over something after it has been offered to you. Basically following your logic, government can take something without warrant and then just play a massive shell game saying "Oh, we don't really have it, Fred down in storage does"
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You know.... kind of like having our fleet of ships parked in a shallow harbor assuming their is no way it could be attacked there.
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