I would love to see a curriculum from this place. It would be interesting to see what types of things they learn. Does every team get the same project? If not, is every team tested on the same skillset (ie, could you have a team building a compiler and another building a web framework)?
Most of the roms are fairly well understood from a reverse engineering perspective; especially gen 1 (red/blue). That's how bugs that were known back in the day but people weren't sure /how/ (note how some like the item duplication bug or the Mew bug were sometimes called 'cheats') are now fully explainable (usually as memory management bugs).
...which eventually leads to figuring out how to write arbitrary values to RAM and jump the CPU to execute those values. Witness the Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack:
They've also reverse-engineered the RNG. You can capture a high-level Pokemon, and then brute-force the RNG on a common desktop PC faster than the game can generate it, so you will have a high chance of getting some rare thing to happen, provided you can hit the button within the proper tenth-of-a-second. I looked at writing this but got busy with other things.
Generation 4/5 also had a number of other ways to manipulate another RNG, that basically made capturing high-IV and shiny Pokemons almost trivial. People wrote Windows desktop applications to tell you exactly how many times to flip a coin to get the RNG exactly where you wanted it.
There's a big debate in the Pokecommunity whether or not this is cheating. You can probably figure out both sides big arguments already.
>Generation 4/5 also had a number of other ways to manipulate another RNG, that basically made capturing high-IV and shiny Pokemons almost trivial. People wrote Windows desktop applications to tell you exactly how many times to flip a coin to get the RNG exactly where you wanted it.
Great, you probably just got me playing again. There goes my free time ;)
Zach here from Abine (we make the Masked Cards). If you use our browser extension you can make disposable credit cards for your transactions right from online checkout pages. The best way to use a Masked Card is to create it for the exact amount of the transaction once you know the total. Then when you use it, the card instantly becomes worthless. In this way it works like a gift card.
We also have iPhone and Android app's where you can create these Masked Cards in stores as you're about to check out. Cashiers just need to be willing to type in the 16 digit # and expiration, which they usually are fine with.
Are there laws that prevent legal entities from trademarking commonly-used words? I mean, if you invent some word for your product, you have the right to copy it. But "startup"? What would stop people from trademarking "the" and "computer"? I may be missing the point or interpreting the law incorrectly though - please correct me.
Anyone is free to apply for a trademark for "the" or "computer". The applications would be promptly denied - well, promptly for a government bureaucracy.
You can trade mark any word if it is sufficiently distinctive and can uniquely identify you as the provider of that product and/or services. For example 'Computer' for canned goods would be fine, but obviously registering 'Computer' for computers themselves would not be distinctive.
You can also only enforce your mark against someone using a mark in the course of business (at least in the UK) which would obviously exclude a whole range of potential third party uses.
I'm from Canada, and there are attack ads everywhere. I can't stand them. Instead of using your money, your time and your effort trying to destroy another candidate, tell me why you're better. I think it's by and large one of the major reasons I have little faith or interest in the politics of my country.
Movie premiers streamed through the internet and delivered in home. Movie theaters would be second class citizens with people getting larger and more powerful entertainment systems in their houses.
I am starring your project as I think it could be very useful for me and many others.
Btw I think you should show Vegeta doing the Big Bang Attack as the project image - it would look cooler:-)
Why does government or industry have to intervene in your personal life? If you don't want to view pornographic material, don't search for it. Stay away from sites where you might see something like it. If you're a parent, educate your kid.
This is a waste of time and money. Plain and simple.
If you are a parent yourself, you will know that suggesting education is not enough. By your logic, why is there an age limit to alcohol consumption? Your whole reasoning could be used for that as well - and enforcing alcohol age limit also costs time and money...
The comparison to alcohol is actually very useful: in the US where the drinking age is high (and fairly strictly enforced), binge drinking and alcohol abuse is extremely common in the teenaged population.
Compare with other countries where alcohol usage is not taboo, where the drinking age is low (and/or unenforced), where teen alcohol abuse is a far, far lesser problem.
It turns out that making something taboo and setting up some rudimentary roadblocks to its acquisition does not have the effect on consumption that you think it does...
Speaking anecdotally, growing up in Canada there was no one under the drinking age who couldn't get alcohol if they wanted it. Hell, half of us didn't even like drinking, and we did it for the taboo-ness of it all.
The main problem is that somewhere some database will hold the information about citizens and a "likesPorn" flag. That information is personal. Alcohol and cigarettes both have age limits, but there is no database that people need to register into ("wantsBooz = TRUE") before being able to purchase their first drink.
Most countries don't have a 21+ year old age limit on alcohol. It's actually a rather poor idea and harms 18/19/20 year olds who attend college and get busted drinking. It's pretty silly to draw parallels between porn and alcohol. You've said you're a /r/nofap reader. You obviously have a bias against porn.
Alcohol is a drug which has measurable health impacts on children if they drink at a young age. I have yet to see a non-biased scientific study which deems porn (not just the rapey kind) as physically and psychologically damaging to children.
If porn was found to be - without a doubt - bad for a certain age group, then yes I would get behind something where the government would limit its access to minors. This law, however, further stigmatizes porn instead of embracing it as just another weird thing humans do for entertainment.
(I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to illegal pornography. "Porn" where people get raped or that deal with minors is illegal)
> If you are a parent yourself, you will know that suggesting education is not enough.
...why do you think this? If you raise a child to be intelligent and independent, education is pretty much the only effective way to keep them away from something.
Is a government mandated filter the best way to allow parents to go beyond just educating their children? As a childless person who isn't petrified of naked people, why should I pay for a service that's only any good for lazy parents?
