Gamers are a huge slice of the general population, so the range of weight, intelligence, and motivation is the same as the general population.
If you'd ever seen even a short clip of a big esports event, you would have noticed that.
Moreover, if you had any knowledge of sports games, like NBA, Madden Football, or Fifa, you'd know that they aren't simulations of playing the actual game.
Yet you are ignorant and probably have an aol email address. The world passed you by. Join the AARP and deal with it.
No a "bad" thing, but an illegal thing. You wouldn't want releasing top-secret information about the military, like launch codes or the defense capabilities of Air Force 1, or criminal investigations, like cases being built against against the mob, to be made public regularly and with impunity, would you?
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
He blithely released far more information than would have been necessarily to reveal domestic intelligence activities. He went and told the world about every foreign operation the intelligence sector was doing, as far as he knew.
So, he handed critical top-secret information to foreign governments, some of whom seek to do us harm, compromising, when not simply destroying, our operations. "...giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere..."
Because VINs and slips of paper are so easy to read from a distance.
License plates help enforce the current registration of vehicles. If you don't believe that a huge number of people would be driving unregistered vehicles without them, you've lived a very sheltered life.
There are a fair number of unregistered vehicles on the road already. Car insurance requires that a vehicle be properly registered. Unregistered drivers are thus uninsured. It's a public safety issue.
Besides, as is said, driving isn't a right, it's a privilege. You want to drive on public roads, you jump through the government's hoops.
There are also other security and privacy issues. If someone is distributing a pirated version of the game, you can't rely on the app being updated properly, you can't be sure that the app is connecting to the proper servers, etc.
And while we're at it, a free app does not equal FOSS. It's still Nintendo's property, and isn't licensed to other people to do what they wish about it. If an unofficial instance of its app encounters problems, because it hasn't been updated, then Nintendo will get the blame.
Yet another example of TechDirt basing their stories on other news stories and imaginary legal motives without bothering to research the tech side of things. Is there no one on the TD staff with any engineering knowledge? Does no one read actual tech news rather than non-technical reporting on tech industry topics?
Full-account access is indeed a privacy nightmare. Moreover, claiming it's a 'glitch' is marketing spin, to make it seem like a qa issue. It was not the latter.
When you develop apps like this for a platform, you are asked what permissions you want and given a very simple menu. Reckless and lazy developers simply don't bother to think about what they actually need and go with full-access or something otherwise over reaching, like how nearly every app wants access to your contacts or some such.
This is an endemic problem in app development. Sometimes it's done intentionally, because any kind of data could have big returns in the future. Usually it's done because developers don't want to think about it and don't care to think about consequences. There has been a big push for years to educate developers on how to do permissions properly. It's a major security and privacy issue in the software world.
At the very least, Niantic has been grossly negligent. Apps don't mis-function and accidentally grant full permissions, and marketplaces don't accidentally alter the settings. The permission settings are things the developers set.
In the U.S., there is a right to privacy. The Constitution exhaustively enumerates the powers of government, not the rights of citizens. It only lists a few of the latter. Misreading the Constitution such that any right not listed is deemed not to exist motivated the passage of the 9th Amendment.
"Ninth Amendment - Unenumerated Rights. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Actually, they produce a lot of skits that end up being "cut for time." They are performed and recorded in the studio, while the t.v. audience watches ads. You can see some of them on the SNL Youtube channel. So no problem with a few extra minutes of programming.
How obtuse. You pay for the service that is provided in your region. If you don't like what you get in, say, Sweden, don't subscribe. You're not paying for what you weren't even offered.
That would be such a tiny number of people, that no one at Netflix would notice. This fantasy that all but a every small number of people use VPNs at home is right up there with the annual announcements that next year will be the year of the Linux Desktop.
What you say is true, but making the service "illegal" speaks to much more than a concern about quality of care. The service has already been shown to be accurate, so they can't argue that it's fraudulent or sloppy. There's no basis for pushing laws against it beyond defending their territory. If it were simply an inferior service, they could market their services better and actually compete.
I'll never abandon my optometrist, but back in grad school, the best I could get was a drunk in a mall who worked for some chain. I would have gladly taken a simpler exam rather than spend hours traveling to a doctor who was incompetent.
They probably try to make a public health argument, but I'd say that the ability to get proper glasses easily is many times more important to the public than checking for signs of glaucoma.
Authors don't hold the copyrights, publishers do via their contracts with authors.
What wasn't discussed in this article is that the issue isn't about authors at all, but about publishers feeling that it threatens their marketing of books. Representatives of the Guild have said that explicitly.
To be clear, the only sales to be lost here would be the rare occasion, where someone discovered that a certain book wasn't about what they thought it was. It's a discovery tool; it allows one to find quotes and books on various subjects. You can only see a sample of the books online. Does anyone purchase every book they think might discuss some article, so that one can rifle through the bibliography and index?
The whole issue is about the publishers' control and the pretense of defending poor authors and predicting the downfall of culture is their 'think of the children and terrorists!' argument.
Nowhere in the article or the quotations does it speak about the officer's "rights" in a constitutional sense. In ordinary language, we say that someone "has every right to do this or that," when they have justification for their actions or just good reasons.
"Both parties agree Hernandez had every right to stop Solomon, but disagreed on the legality of the search." = He was justified in doing so, because it was within his power, and he made the decision to do so.
It's amazing how many people go apeshit and call others dumb, when they are themselves too obtuse to understand the context and varied meanings of utterances. That's six kinds of special stupid.
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If you'd ever seen even a short clip of a big esports event, you would have noticed that.
Moreover, if you had any knowledge of sports games, like NBA, Madden Football, or Fifa, you'd know that they aren't simulations of playing the actual game.
Yet you are ignorant and probably have an aol email address. The world passed you by. Join the AARP and deal with it.
Re: Barack Obama is a compulsive liar...
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"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
He blithely released far more information than would have been necessarily to reveal domestic intelligence activities. He went and told the world about every foreign operation the intelligence sector was doing, as far as he knew.
So, he handed critical top-secret information to foreign governments, some of whom seek to do us harm, compromising, when not simply destroying, our operations. "...giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere..."
Re: Eliminate License-Plates !
License plates help enforce the current registration of vehicles. If you don't believe that a huge number of people would be driving unregistered vehicles without them, you've lived a very sheltered life.
There are a fair number of unregistered vehicles on the road already. Car insurance requires that a vehicle be properly registered. Unregistered drivers are thus uninsured. It's a public safety issue.
Besides, as is said, driving isn't a right, it's a privilege. You want to drive on public roads, you jump through the government's hoops.
Your ideology needs a dose of reality.
Re: Re: Pirated APKs can contain malware
And while we're at it, a free app does not equal FOSS. It's still Nintendo's property, and isn't licensed to other people to do what they wish about it. If an unofficial instance of its app encounters problems, because it hasn't been updated, then Nintendo will get the blame.
Re: Pirated APKs can contain malware
As usual, this blog kind of sucks on the tech side of things.
When you develop apps like this for a platform, you are asked what permissions you want and given a very simple menu. Reckless and lazy developers simply don't bother to think about what they actually need and go with full-access or something otherwise over reaching, like how nearly every app wants access to your contacts or some such.
This is an endemic problem in app development. Sometimes it's done intentionally, because any kind of data could have big returns in the future. Usually it's done because developers don't want to think about it and don't care to think about consequences. There has been a big push for years to educate developers on how to do permissions properly. It's a major security and privacy issue in the software world.
At the very least, Niantic has been grossly negligent. Apps don't mis-function and accidentally grant full permissions, and marketplaces don't accidentally alter the settings. The permission settings are things the developers set.
Re: Re: Wrong approach, but...
"Ninth Amendment - Unenumerated Rights. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Re: A double-edged sword
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I'll never abandon my optometrist, but back in grad school, the best I could get was a drunk in a mall who worked for some chain. I would have gladly taken a simpler exam rather than spend hours traveling to a doctor who was incompetent.
They probably try to make a public health argument, but I'd say that the ability to get proper glasses easily is many times more important to the public than checking for signs of glaucoma.
Re: Re: Author's *Guild*?
What wasn't discussed in this article is that the issue isn't about authors at all, but about publishers feeling that it threatens their marketing of books. Representatives of the Guild have said that explicitly.
To be clear, the only sales to be lost here would be the rare occasion, where someone discovered that a certain book wasn't about what they thought it was. It's a discovery tool; it allows one to find quotes and books on various subjects. You can only see a sample of the books online. Does anyone purchase every book they think might discuss some article, so that one can rifle through the bibliography and index?
The whole issue is about the publishers' control and the pretense of defending poor authors and predicting the downfall of culture is their 'think of the children and terrorists!' argument.
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"Both parties agree Hernandez had every right to stop Solomon, but disagreed on the legality of the search."
= He was justified in doing so, because it was within his power, and he made the decision to do so.
It's amazing how many people go apeshit and call others dumb, when they are themselves too obtuse to understand the context and varied meanings of utterances. That's six kinds of special stupid.
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