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About Ninja
Not as politically engaged as I would like. I'm quite glad the Internet provided me with forms of activism and political participation while allowing me to develop my daily activities. I do believe we are going through convoluted times but I see light in the end. Other than that I'm a technology enthusiast and I'd love to spend much more money trying new stuff!
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Re: Ten to Twenty BILLION?
A lot of crap to be cleaned nowadays =/
out_of_my_mind
But, it does seem ridiculously hypocritical for Hollywood to parade up and down the streets of DC insisting that its main focus is to make sure all the people who work on its movies get paid, including releasing propaganda commercials highlighting non-acting movie staff, and then go out of its way to not pay people doing work on films.
Silly Masnick. It's yet another proof the studios are dying because of all the freetards. They cannot pay everybody so they decided to pay for all those grocery store employees in their payrolls first so the world won't get so sour that soon.
Home copying is killing grocery stores!
You syncophants will be left crying in despair when all those grocery stores go out of business because of all the theft. So sayeth the oracle.
Re: Had a think about it
A. Those who can't afford
B. Those who can afford but will only buy if it's worth the money
C. Those who can afford but have a fixed budget meaning they need to give priorities while buying
D. Those who can afford but refuse to feed the MAFIAA
E. Those who can afford but are denied access (DRM, geo restrictions, large windows)
F. Those who won't buy whatever it happens
G. Etc
There are interfaces among those but it's much more complex. I'd say the only case where the sales are truly lost are E and F. Even A can generate sales in the long term (think poor students who get decent jobs later). And E is only possible if you are enough of an idiot to place such restrictions.
File sharing is natural. The lack of sales is a symptom of the MAFIAA's stupidity/bad business model.
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Lord Mandy must be crying in fear of seeing his baby being shot down before ever growing up... Speaking of which... Where is the moron these days? Is he dead yet?
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Open source and other successful stories that don't rely on Intellectual Property laws tend to be disregarded as failures or lack of development by the IP supporters simply because they don't make shitloads of money. I mean, how do you measure success?
So developer A produces some set of softwares that are freeware and make enough money to live comfortably but not in luxury while having a small extra for equipment maintenance and upgrading whereas developer B makes billions with the same type of software but with fancier UI and a few extras that facilitate the end-user lives.
Is dev A a failure? Or is he successful in building a decent software? And how does dev B make millions if there is software that do the same for free? Could we say dev B is successful in adding value to software already available for free?
It is very relative. For me both devs are as successful as any other person making a living of what they love to do as their main "jobs" and revenue. The difference here is that dev B only thrives with light IP protections in place while if there's a more lenient system both of them can thrive. Both of them will have to work to provide a decent product though.
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Indeed Epic win for the Taiwanese! What we need now is to reach a critical mass of awareness everywhere to stop the censorship flow and start reacting.
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Bah, it's rather easy. Just take the picture and ask permission on Facebook to tag them. If they deny then it's fine, no registry of their presence is taken.
Ahem.
Good luck enforcing that shit. How do you respect a law that's unenforceable and that you can easily break? You don't. See copyright.
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Well, it is said that the number of FISA orders range from 10-20 billion per year*.
* note that the number of FISA orders is counted in a range along with the number of toilet paper units sold throughout the world. Why? Well, it's classified.
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So you are telling me that they'll behave and never look at data without a warrant despite it being readily available. Right.
Then they say 9/11 could have been avoided if they had all that data. How do both statements fit together? The only possible way they could look at the data if available would be to have a court warrant which means they'd need to argue that there's a probable cause and this could only be done by normal police work which would have raised some data first.
Providing a warrant is given, the telcos store metadata as what was collected for a good while thus making such preemptive surveillance completely unnecessary. Their own arguments kill each other.
No really, just a peek.
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I've seen Sonic 4 for Xbox too and that title was one nice win if you ask me! I still got to buy it though =//
I'd consider the cost of developing a port to a new console is far less a burden than trying to develop a new game and hope to hell it sells
Final Fantasi VII. I'd sell my soul for a remake.
I'm with you, older games should be ported to newer systems.
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That's what I meant to say. Used games are harder to find and when you do find them it's not a really good deal.
Also, thanks for that link!
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That. Amusingly those AAA titles are just eye candy. I find that pretty simple games tend to offer better playability and awesome plots than any of said AAA titles. I still play snes, genesis games. Because they are that awesome despite their ugly pixelated graphics. Which brings me to a point I find relevant: they are now competing with older, OFFLINE, easily un-DRMed games. I find no real need to stick to bleeding edge titles, this vast pool of older games suits me enough.
As for the used market fears... Try to find an awesome game used. They are extremely hard to find. And honestly bad reviews will do a lot more damage than any supposed issues such market may present to the developer.
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Obviously. Even if you are sure to be law abiding you'll always have that pesky doubt deep down your mind that will erode you overtime. If you know you are monitored 100% of the time in your communications are you really going to say those naughty, pornographic things to your partner? Are you going to discuss your personal dilemmas? I wouldn't. Sometime in the future because I slipped somewhere this may be scrutinized by others. Or worse, hacked and released in the wild. No, you cannot rest with a surveillance state. This alone is enough to drive people insane.
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It's a bit hyperbolic
Until it becomes reality. Sadly.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Awesome joke!
It's a joke, right?
Ahem. I say the Pope would fit as the chair of a "Gay Parade Week" just as well as Chris Dodd fits this role. (Disclaimer: I support homosexual marriage. Disclaimer 2: I see the grin in your face and no, I'm not gay ;P).
Re: Re: Okay, it's BROKEN. Now how do we fix it?
The "sealing" ability would be abused as well =/
In any case how do you get rid of something in the Judicial sphere? Popular pressure? (I'm asking because the US appoints judges differently than here and I'm not familiar with the system)
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Have my insightful vote and my hats off.
Re: It's NOT "speculation based on nothing," it's LIES.
That. Conspiracy theories say that they knew it was coming and let it happen in order to put the current surveillance system in place. Furthermore there seem to be visual evidence that the Boston bombings were orchestrated by the Govt as well.
I'm not as quick as to swallow everything that's thrown at me but at least the Boston event has some pretty damning visual evidence that SOMETHING smells fishy.
The sad part is that the cynic in me refuses to dismiss those theories entirely.
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hasn't*
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I think he haven't read the Amendment at all. Allow me to help him:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
So we have two problems here. They do not have the right to know exactly who you talk with and when you talk to that person be it some hooker or your grandma (this would require in the distant past that the police followed and spied you). And it's not particularly describing because the data was collected in bulks.
Satisfied? Go away now, please.