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Comment: Wake me up they have vacuum dirigibles (Score 3, Interesting) 157

by sabernet (#46750379) Attached to: Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded?



Submitted by The Bad Astronomer

Comment: Seems tied to user table (Score 2) 258

by sabernet (#45187829) Attached to: Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments...

The errors match those gotten with a borked cookie. Also, not knowing there was an outage, I signed my account out, but it no longer recognizes my password nor sends the reset email(I know my p/w absolutely, was just testing the reset), effectively locking me out entirely.

I have a sinking "we've been hacked" feeling. Otherwise, I suppose I'll just have to be more productive today!

Comment: Re:If you notice... (Score 2) 510

by sabernet (#44926189) Attached to: Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS

It would be useful if you educated yourself about the topic at hand before commenting on it(yes, I know, "You must be new here").

OnLive and Gaikai aren't multiplayer systems. Rather, you pay to play a game from a remote location, presumably on some powerful rack mounted hardware, which would stream the video to your client software. The keypresses from the client being equally streamed upwards to the servers.


Nokia Officially Lists Patents Google's VP8 Allegedly Infringes 180

Posted by timothy
from the broken-system-is-broken dept.

Comment: Re:same as Hadopi... (Score 1) 183

by sabernet (#43164107) Attached to: European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal

"So you believe "freedom of expression" isn't an absolute right? We're starting to chip away at the veneer."

Not sure that required much chipping. Seeing as I unabashedly said so in my own post: when I said "In regards to that separate argument, I do feel some limits on speech can be reasonably agreed"

So...kudos on failing to read my post. I'm sure you're very proud.

"Freedom of expression means they have a right to think that copyright law is wrong, that they have a right to go around saying that copyright law is wrong, but not to actually break copyright law."

Except they didn't. They provided a facilitator, no doubt. But never hosted any of the content. The law, as existed in Sweden during their trial, did not consider the act of simple facilitation illegal. So what they were doing was expression. Making a freedom of expression play here was entirely justified.

And I would certainly disagree with any law outlawing facilitation of a crime. By that token, VCRs and DVRs would have been outlawed long ago. If one were to extend that to other areas, one could claim kitchen knife makers are facilitating domestic/spousal murder and that fertilizer companies facilitate terrorism.

Comment: Re:same as Hadopi... (Score 5, Insightful) 183

by sabernet (#43161467) Attached to: European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal

They are as nuanced as my statement would indicate. If the defamation is an untruth or a willful alteration of context meant(as in, literally "meant" as in the presence of mens rea) to cause literal, quantifiable harm to someone otherwise innocent of the accusation(s), I believe in the curbing of that instance of the defamer's freedom of expression in that case for the purpose of defending that person against that slander.

Again, this is my personal opinion on the matter.

Comment: Re:same as Hadopi... (Score 3, Insightful) 183

by sabernet (#43161217) Attached to: European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal

Erm, you seem to mistaken. Not sure if just shilling or willfully ignorant, but "free speech" means "free to speak", therefore the freedom to say whatever you want, anywhere(sorry, should I have prefaced that with a snarky "Clue:?")

Whether you feel that brings about too many problems(shouting "Fire!" in a crowded room) and wish to regulate certain portions of it is a different argument. But "Free speech" is exactly that.

In regards to that separate argument, I do feel some limits on speech can be reasonably agreed upon if it is required to protect the safety of people should that speech serve no other purpose but to harm the innocent by a literal and quantifiable definition of harm(in other words, "harmful thoughts" or anything upsetting a status quo should not be sufficient grounds on which to curb the freedom of expression, nor should one's "sensitivity" to a topic, but the aforementioned yelling of "Fire!" to incite a harmful panic upon a crowded room would be as would knowingly be taunting a diagnosed case of depression into committing suicide).

What you appear to be proposing is that economic interests if a party wishing to perpetually control distribution of data should also trump it. That is certainly an argument to be made, but please do not attempt to mask it,

Comment: BT Controller does what the poster wanted (Score 1) 36

by sabernet (#43041081) Attached to: Google Super Sync Sports Turns Your Phone Into A Gamepad


Not affiliated with it, though I have used it.

Comment: Re:It was not just hardware (Score 1) 94

by sabernet (#42987517) Attached to: Carmack On VR Latency

The Nintendo Virtual Boy failed due to being an undesirable product to most of the population(not me, I loved the thing....but I do think it was a bad idea and definitely way to pricey when it came out). It had nothing to do with safety concerns.

Having said that, there was a study way back which claimed stereoscopic displays would negatively impact the development of children less than 6 years old. There was also the concern of staring at a dark+red display too long since the display(unlike the Occulous) didn't really focus to infinity(though it did have some adjustable optics). So the VB had a health warning about letting six year old children play. It also paused automatically every 10 mins of play time to allow the player to lift their head and focus.

This didn't help sales. But it wasn't a health decision so much as a public paranoia issue that had just a minimal impact on what was otherwise an unfeasible product anyways.

The study about affecting the very young have since been refuted, however, Nintendo still allows parents who fear it to lock out the 3D effect on the 3DS via parental locks. I have no idea if 3D TVs these days extend the same courtesy.

Comment: Re:About time! (Score 1) 159

by sabernet (#42922549) Attached to: Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices

While software isn't quite as bad, I do know that physical goods can be doubled in price in Canada when the company in question is in the US, even when the company in question manufactures and/or ships from Canada.

This tactic is used to "subsidize" the price for Americans by making every other country pick up the slack. I quote "subsidize" since, in the end, it just means "We can maintain our very high profits while still pricing the competition out of existence within our very large domestic market."


Nokia Redirecting Traffic On Some of Its Phones, Including HTTPS 200

Posted by Soulskill
from the you-can-trust-us dept.

Comment: Re:Laches (Score 1) 268

by sabernet (#41944157) Attached to: Toshiba Pursues Copyright Claim Against Laptop Manual Site

I was claiming that the length or existence of copyright is affected not one iota by how vigorously defended it is. It's a bit of a stretch to say the claim related to "back damages" which may or may not be affected by previous enforcement efforts, since it is at the whim of the presiding judge.
