yeah but the question you have to ask your self. Do you really want Binladin to be made a martyr to a group of religious fanatics? Once he's dead it will only rally their cause even further.
Don't see the issue here. It is Sony's choice to offer their DEV kits so Developers only for a reason. They are in it to make money. You just happen to be a pissed off consumer who feels they have been butt hurt by the corporate machine.
Heck looking at the price of the DEV kit for Sony only costs between 2,000 to 10,000 USD. You must work for a pretty crappy school, because how can a school not afford that? A four year university should be way more than able to afford 30-40 seats of that software.
LOL yeah we don't need patent lawyers we need competent judges in the drivers seats. Tech law means jack if the guy your talking to is completely uneducated on how his computer/network/software works. Not only that but they should have been in the IT field for more than 10+ years.
We don't need more judges that just go "Uh when I hit this button the computer turns on" while he is pointing at his monitor thinking its the entire PC.
Not really. It's a service agreement, and like all smart companies put this loop hole into their "contracts" or service agreements to make sure they can facilitate anything that needs to be changed.
This is from Netflix's website:
"Changes to Terms of Use
Netflix, Inc., reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms of Use in our sole and absolute discretion. The most current version of these Terms of Use can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" located at the bottom of the pages of the Netflix website. The most current version of the Terms of Use will supersede all previous versions. You can see changes from previous versions of the Terms of Use by clicking here."
It's the 2nd paragraph in their terms of service agreement that ALL people have to agree to in order to get their service.
You sir sound like one of these parents who fail to do their job in disciplining their own child/children, and would rather hand that responsibility off to someone else. It is no one else's job to discipline a child other than the parents. Schools have no right to discipline a child unless it is in or on school property while that child is in their care. You just don't dump your child off somewhere to someone going "HERE YEAH GO make this child a responsible adult, and I'll come back at to get them then."
Also on your point of your job being impacted by anything that I do outside the doors of my place of business is false. If I go to a bar, and I get completely crap faced. While I am there I make a complete fool of myself. The people there know I work at my place of business. They don't automatically go "OMG that company hires these types of people". No they do not that is the furthest thing from their minds, and the same is said of those that do not know me. Now if I go to something that is part of a company event, and I do the same thing then yes it will affect my job. The same could be said about me. If I see someone do something stupid even if I know where they work. I don't go "OMG they hired this guy to work there."
Last time I checked it was not the schools job to teach children the ways of the world or life's lessons. You are thinking about church. Schools are merely here to educate future generations so when they graduate, and enter "life" they aren't complete morons. Often times that isn't the case they still come out dumber then a box of crap. Life's lessons are merely a bi-product of the social interactions of human beings, and the different interactions of their environmental situations. That is how children are taught the rights, and wrongs of the world. Even then going even earlier in child development it is the parents responsibility to make sure that their children know right and wrong. Educators cannot teach that.
But to discipline a child for what goes on outside of school halls, and school grounds is not the responsibility of the school faculty. Nor should it ever be their responsibility. This is another way for parents to get out of disciplining their children. If the person was that pissed off at the fact that some child made fun of him he should take the situation up with the parents. Then let the parents punish the child how they see fit.
Or how about this. If the teacher just opened them selves up for it. I had a teacher in school that would come in to class every Monday hung over. Hell had another teach ask a student flat out in class if he would like to go to the Bahama's with her in the middle of class. Hell I had another teacher grope girls in typing class by leaning over one should rubbing his arms on them, and looking down their shirts. Heck same guy would stare at each of the girls as they walked by. So if the person did that kind of stuff, and student brought that to light guess what they left them selves open to it.
So getting all butt hurt, and trying to all epic nerd rage on a kid for someone they say out side of class is BS.
All this is, is a case of an adult getting butt hurt over the fact that some snot nosed brats insulted them on the internet. So instead of trying to sue the family over the defamatory speech of their child. This adult would rather show how butt hurt they are, and try to exact their "Godly Principle Powers" over said child. For what ever reason they have this god complex cause they rule over a bunch of minors.
@Adam
No people just need to buck up, and stop getting so butt hurt over retarded subjects like this. Oh wait I said retarded now Sarah Palin will tell me not to use the "R" word, and then tell me I need to resign from my job. Another cause of someone getting butt hurt of something someone else had said.
When I was in my senior year of school, and had to take Government. We discussed what was legal, and illegal to do in school. Funny thing is we were told that our rights as people in the real world do not stop at the door. The schools are trying to break students right to freedom of speech.
So are you going to pay me Mr. Sarcastic-Mike just like everyone else out there. If happen to take a crap, and finger paint with it to create a work of art.
Even though the painting is made out of my own fecal matter, and I call it my Cultural Expression. Pictures of it start flying all over the news, internet, and any other medium of communication. Just by me saying it's cultural expression are you really going to pay me to look at it, or smell it for that matter? By god I think you should.
Figure with all network downtime past 88 hours per year, and all the natural disasters, wars, etc... that happen around the globe every year. I really thought that number would be higher...
How does an IT meltdown occur? As I see it, and have been taught technology grows in a linear rate making the next step in evolution every 10 years or so. Then again that was a few years ago, and could be faster today. Or I could be wrong all together. Hey it's what I was taught.
That is different that what is talked about in the story. In the case of that when you purchase something, and you can't read the EULA, or Service Agreement then obviously no it shouldn't be enforced. To think so would be asinine. No one in their right minds would agree to something they don't know about. Wait that's not correct. People buy stuff, and agree to things every day with out knowing exactly what they are agreeing to...
In the case of the story above if you have the chance to click a link to read a sites terms of service, or a software EULA before you agree then you need to read them plain and simple.
It's not the companies responsibility to make you read the terms of service, or EULA of a service or product. Saying that companies should be forced to do is just laziness. It's your responsibility to read the terms of what ever you are doing before you agree to them. If that means you have to click a link, and be directed to another page so be it. It was put there for a reason. Problem is 99% of all people are in to much of a hurry to read them, and when they get hit by its effects when they do something that breaks that agreement they get all pissy.
It shouldn't be the responsibility of either the ISP or the Registrar they are only there to provide a service. Since the whole file sharing thing start more and more companies have been on the bandwagon of making ISP's, and other entities the police of the internet. Bad example but its the only one I can think of right now on a whim. If I washed cars for a living. I provide a service of washing peoples cars. People start saying that it should be my job to force other people with dirty cars to get them washed. Dirty cars are offensive to them or they make it illegal or own, or operate a dirty car. It should be in no way shape form form my responsibility to make other people wash their cars.
Same should be said for ISP's or Registrars. They shouldn't go out of their way to police the internet for things such as that. If they did do you have any idea how much of the internet would be shut off, because some jack hole thinks that something should be illegal. If they wanted someone to police the internet by going out, and actively scanning network traffic to find illegal activities then why don't the government just create a new organization for it. They can call it DIP: Department of Internet Police. So that way people can say when they got caught "I GOT DIPPED"...
Well not only is it done all the time, and even more so since 9/11 but here in the states law enforcement does the tests them selves. They don't just load civilians up with C4, or Heroin with out their knowledge. Granted I can see doing so that way the person doesn't accidentally act suspicious, or look very nervous.
Just so long as you don't use it to scare your users. That way they don't get to freaked out that they start to block you on stuff that needs to happen.
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Heck looking at the price of the DEV kit for Sony only costs between 2,000 to 10,000 USD. You must work for a pretty crappy school, because how can a school not afford that? A four year university should be way more than able to afford 30-40 seats of that software.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/sony-introduces-a-new-ps3-dev-kit-for-bargain-shoppi n-developers/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/03/sony-announces-lower-cost-ps3-dev-tools.ar s
You have serveral news sources saying the same thing. SO your information is completely off bucko.
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Genius.
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We don't need more judges that just go "Uh when I hit this button the computer turns on" while he is pointing at his monitor thinking its the entire PC.
That's just my take on it.
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This is from Netflix's website:
"Changes to Terms of Use
Netflix, Inc., reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms of Use in our sole and absolute discretion. The most current version of these Terms of Use can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" located at the bottom of the pages of the Netflix website. The most current version of the Terms of Use will supersede all previous versions. You can see changes from previous versions of the Terms of Use by clicking here."
It's the 2nd paragraph in their terms of service agreement that ALL people have to agree to in order to get their service.
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Also on your point of your job being impacted by anything that I do outside the doors of my place of business is false. If I go to a bar, and I get completely crap faced. While I am there I make a complete fool of myself. The people there know I work at my place of business. They don't automatically go "OMG that company hires these types of people". No they do not that is the furthest thing from their minds, and the same is said of those that do not know me. Now if I go to something that is part of a company event, and I do the same thing then yes it will affect my job. The same could be said about me. If I see someone do something stupid even if I know where they work. I don't go "OMG they hired this guy to work there."
Last time I checked it was not the schools job to teach children the ways of the world or life's lessons. You are thinking about church. Schools are merely here to educate future generations so when they graduate, and enter "life" they aren't complete morons. Often times that isn't the case they still come out dumber then a box of crap. Life's lessons are merely a bi-product of the social interactions of human beings, and the different interactions of their environmental situations. That is how children are taught the rights, and wrongs of the world. Even then going even earlier in child development it is the parents responsibility to make sure that their children know right and wrong. Educators cannot teach that.
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Or how about this. If the teacher just opened them selves up for it. I had a teacher in school that would come in to class every Monday hung over. Hell had another teach ask a student flat out in class if he would like to go to the Bahama's with her in the middle of class. Hell I had another teacher grope girls in typing class by leaning over one should rubbing his arms on them, and looking down their shirts. Heck same guy would stare at each of the girls as they walked by. So if the person did that kind of stuff, and student brought that to light guess what they left them selves open to it.
So getting all butt hurt, and trying to all epic nerd rage on a kid for someone they say out side of class is BS.
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@Adam
No people just need to buck up, and stop getting so butt hurt over retarded subjects like this. Oh wait I said retarded now Sarah Palin will tell me not to use the "R" word, and then tell me I need to resign from my job. Another cause of someone getting butt hurt of something someone else had said.
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It's illegal
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Even though the painting is made out of my own fecal matter, and I call it my Cultural Expression. Pictures of it start flying all over the news, internet, and any other medium of communication. Just by me saying it's cultural expression are you really going to pay me to look at it, or smell it for that matter? By god I think you should.
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Only $6.2 Trillion?
How does an IT meltdown occur? As I see it, and have been taught technology grows in a linear rate making the next step in evolution every 10 years or so. Then again that was a few years ago, and could be faster today. Or I could be wrong all together. Hey it's what I was taught.
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In the case of the story above if you have the chance to click a link to read a sites terms of service, or a software EULA before you agree then you need to read them plain and simple.
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Shady
Don't be lazy.
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Same should be said for ISP's or Registrars. They shouldn't go out of their way to police the internet for things such as that. If they did do you have any idea how much of the internet would be shut off, because some jack hole thinks that something should be illegal. If they wanted someone to police the internet by going out, and actively scanning network traffic to find illegal activities then why don't the government just create a new organization for it. They can call it DIP: Department of Internet Police. So that way people can say when they got caught "I GOT DIPPED"...
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Re: Not uncommon...
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Just so long as you don't use it to scare your users. That way they don't get to freaked out that they start to block you on stuff that needs to happen.
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