I was arguing that the laws have a positive effect on innovation. Even if I am right, it is not surprising that corporations or advocacy organizations would emerge to demand these laws. I'm not arguing that these laws have a negetive (or positive) effect on innnovation, merely pointing out a flaw in your logic.
So what you have to explain is why, in spite of the correlation, these laws have no effect on innovation. I would argue that there is no explanation simpler than causation. No, you made the claim, and I found a flaw in your logic. Now, you must try again to explain why this correlation exists, and you can't simply fall back on Ockham's Razor. (If I was really feeling argumentative I'd ask for sources showing a correlation, but I'll let you have a gimme)
Reasonably improbable? I think not. Most (all newer?) phones can even have just their microphone turned on remotely. I think it is actually "Highly Probable" that GPS features have the same override.
I would, without argument, pay $10 (hell, maybe even $15 if I really liked the cd) a cd if, I knew that the artist was getting 1/4 of it. And I don't mean getting 25% of it and then having all the production costs deducted from their share. 25% to the artist, then subtract costs (mark-up, marketing, recording and production) and the label gets the rest.
That's all I want the labels to do and I will buy music again.
Sorry, but you can't prove a cause and effect relationship simply by showing correlation. An equally simple explanation would be that the corporate intrests involved in these highly innovative societies have caused these laws to be put into effect.
I would agree that the OnStar kill switch is technically a much better solution. However, they refuse to allow law enforment use it with our prior permission from the owner, and OnStar just isn't present in most vehicles. So, this more dangerous solution (more dangerous than a high speed chase though?) is pretty much all law enforcement has at the moment.
There's nothing more free than the truth. If everyone knows what everyone is doing and becomes accustomed to it then everyone can freely do as they will without fear of punitive judgement, as long as they don't break any laws... which is another discussion (see recommendations above).
I think that's where you missed the boat. The argument he's trying to make is that the government should know everything and we should trust them to keep this info confidential. I don't really have much of a problem with total transparency, but to think that the government is going to open their databases to the public is silly. (and not just their databases on the public, I mean TOTAL transparency, no more classified information)
I, for one, am not welcoming our new all-knowing overlords.
I do believe, in the US at least, you can waive your right to trial by jury, and just have a judge rule on the case (I'm not sure if the prosecution can demand a trial by jury however. IANAL). Doesn't happen much though, because defense lawyers have a much harder time swaying a judge with bullshit than they do a jury.
That's assuming Heluim-3 makes up a significant percentage of the mass of the moon. There's no reason to ship more moon rocks back (Not in sizable quantities at least).
I haven't noticed them removing the filter. However, I never saw any evidence of it. I've using bittorrent for nearly 3 years now (all the while with Comcast) and routinely get download speeds of 800Kb/s on well seeded files. And I've never had a problem capping out my uploads (~45Kb/s) either. The only problem I've had with bittorent was Linksys's fault not Comcasts (more than 2 torrents at a time and down goes the router) BTW I live in WA.
How is that "clearly not the case"? Do you personally have some sort of insight into this specific person's mind, or does the fact that he retracted a paper that some have found to support Intelligent Design just rub you the wrong way?
Any decent scientist, when his attention is drawn to mistakes (by people using them to support a stance he does not agree with, or any other way) should at least retract the paper.
As for clarification, since the paper was written more the 50 years ago, I think I can safely assume that many more papers (without the evident mistakes) have been written on the subject. Hence, no clarification needed (it's already been done by others).
If I had mod points I would have just modded you flamebait and been done with it. Instead, I've take the bait.
Dropped calls (especially when the call waiting beep occurs), low audio quality, horrible equipment (24hrs then a reset or it losses sync), still no E911 (they continue to be unable to locate my address). I'm not saying it's horrible, just that it's the the bottom rung as far as phone service, but as long as it's cheaper than a land line I will continue to happily pay the bill.
And I would really hate to see then driven out of buisness by a few jealous telcos.
And we could always go back to an agricultural society. Do away with cell phones, automobiles, currency, electricity, indoor plumbing, the wheel, and fire. We could, but I don't want to.
I had a similar issue with Comcast. I had just gotten my cable modem and needed to activate it. However, my NIC wasn't working under Windows (for some reason I have to spoof the MAC address to make it work [thanks alot nVidia]) but it worked fine under linux. I knew from activating my parents cable modem that all I needed was to type in an IP address, but the address was nowhere to be found. All I had was an install cd. (a windows only install cd) I had to talk to four different reps before I even found one that knew what I was talking about. The first three gave me the line, "We don't officially support Linux, but we can send a tech out."
No that's just how they treat Vonage's voice signal (and I'm not 100% sure its all Comcast's fault) I've had Vonage with Comcast for quite a while now and if you are doing much more than just browsing websites, don't try to make a call. But at $25 a month (cheaper than VoIP thru Comcast, or a traditional land line [with no long distance at all!]) can I really complain? If you go with the lowest bid, you get what you pay for.
I know several people with Comcast's VoIP and they don't seem to have the same problem. Either their VoIP cable modem has better QoS than the horrible linksys router Vonage sent me or Comcast uses a different pipeline for their phone service.
Wrong the zeroth (not sure that's what Azimov called it) is that "A robot shall not harm humankind, nor through inaction allow it to be harmed." That one was never programmed into robots though. It took a couple thousand years and a robot that apparently could do some fuzzy logic to deduce it.
My father is a paramedic, and some of the jokes that circle the station after a particularly gruesome scene would probably make you vomit. These men aren't deranged, dark humor is a very real way to deal with tragic events. These men are psycologically evaluated from time to time and the psycologists never seem to have any problem with dark humor. One has gone so far as to tell my father it is a COMMON coping mechanism, especially when one is trying to remain abstracted from the trauma.
I'm not saying they make these jokes at funerals (that's just called tact) or in the presense of civilians, but pull your head out of your ass and realize that laughter is a powerful healing tool.
I would assume that would mean activating and deactivating it remotely. (I doubt they send a tech to physically disable it) So why couldn't they, when ordered by law enforcement (or by a competent hacker), enable it remotely?
Even if it were illegal to disable and routinely checked, couldn't you just wrap the reciever in copper mesh (or tinfoil if you prefer) and ground it to the frame. Just remove the mesh prior to inspection and replace afterwards. Or, if it is directly connected to the radio antenna, simply unplug it.
There while always be a work-around for those who put their mind to it.
Let's not forget that txt messages don't need to be sent real-time either. They can be delayed by up to a 30 seconds and most people wouldn't even notice. Try having 5 seconds of latency (hell, one second of latency) in a phone conversation. I would throw the damned phone at a wall. I really can't believe the scam that is per message charging.
$1 to generate a pdf with a barcode and e-mail it to you? The overhead cost is probably closer to $.01. Which would make the service cost a 10,000% mark-up. Now that sounds more like ticketmaster.
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Reasonably improbable? I think not. Most (all newer?) phones can even have just their microphone turned on remotely. I think it is actually "Highly Probable" that GPS features have the same override.
I would, without argument, pay $10 (hell, maybe even $15 if I really liked the cd) a cd if, I knew that the artist was getting 1/4 of it. And I don't mean getting 25% of it and then having all the production costs deducted from their share. 25% to the artist, then subtract costs (mark-up, marketing, recording and production) and the label gets the rest.
That's all I want the labels to do and I will buy music again.
Sorry, but you can't prove a cause and effect relationship simply by showing correlation. An equally simple explanation would be that the corporate intrests involved in these highly innovative societies have caused these laws to be put into effect.
I would agree that the OnStar kill switch is technically a much better solution. However, they refuse to allow law enforment use it with our prior permission from the owner, and OnStar just isn't present in most vehicles. So, this more dangerous solution (more dangerous than a high speed chase though?) is pretty much all law enforcement has at the moment.
I think that's where you missed the boat. The argument he's trying to make is that the government should know everything and we should trust them to keep this info confidential. I don't really have much of a problem with total transparency, but to think that the government is going to open their databases to the public is silly. (and not just their databases on the public, I mean TOTAL transparency, no more classified information)
I, for one, am not welcoming our new all-knowing overlords.
I do believe, in the US at least, you can waive your right to trial by jury, and just have a judge rule on the case (I'm not sure if the prosecution can demand a trial by jury however. IANAL). Doesn't happen much though, because defense lawyers have a much harder time swaying a judge with bullshit than they do a jury.
That's assuming Heluim-3 makes up a significant percentage of the mass of the moon. There's no reason to ship more moon rocks back (Not in sizable quantities at least).
*Sigh* If only it weren't so damned effective.
I haven't noticed them removing the filter. However, I never saw any evidence of it. I've using bittorrent for nearly 3 years now (all the while with Comcast) and routinely get download speeds of 800Kb/s on well seeded files. And I've never had a problem capping out my uploads (~45Kb/s) either. The only problem I've had with bittorent was Linksys's fault not Comcasts (more than 2 torrents at a time and down goes the router) BTW I live in WA.
Any decent scientist, when his attention is drawn to mistakes (by people using them to support a stance he does not agree with, or any other way) should at least retract the paper.
As for clarification, since the paper was written more the 50 years ago, I think I can safely assume that many more papers (without the evident mistakes) have been written on the subject. Hence, no clarification needed (it's already been done by others).
If I had mod points I would have just modded you flamebait and been done with it. Instead, I've take the bait.
And I would really hate to see then driven out of buisness by a few jealous telcos.
And we could always go back to an agricultural society. Do away with cell phones, automobiles, currency, electricity, indoor plumbing, the wheel, and fire. We could, but I don't want to.
I had a similar issue with Comcast. I had just gotten my cable modem and needed to activate it. However, my NIC wasn't working under Windows (for some reason I have to spoof the MAC address to make it work [thanks alot nVidia]) but it worked fine under linux. I knew from activating my parents cable modem that all I needed was to type in an IP address, but the address was nowhere to be found. All I had was an install cd. (a windows only install cd) I had to talk to four different reps before I even found one that knew what I was talking about. The first three gave me the line, "We don't officially support Linux, but we can send a tech out."
As a Vonage customer, I will continue to use their low quality service, so long as it still has the lowest pricetag.
I know several people with Comcast's VoIP and they don't seem to have the same problem. Either their VoIP cable modem has better QoS than the horrible linksys router Vonage sent me or Comcast uses a different pipeline for their phone service.
(Do I get geek points for that one?)
My father is a paramedic, and some of the jokes that circle the station after a particularly gruesome scene would probably make you vomit. These men aren't deranged, dark humor is a very real way to deal with tragic events. These men are psycologically evaluated from time to time and the psycologists never seem to have any problem with dark humor. One has gone so far as to tell my father it is a COMMON coping mechanism, especially when one is trying to remain abstracted from the trauma.
I'm not saying they make these jokes at funerals (that's just called tact) or in the presense of civilians, but pull your head out of your ass and realize that laughter is a powerful healing tool.
How, exactly, would they get encrypted HTML to render on a "standard browser?"
I would assume that would mean activating and deactivating it remotely. (I doubt they send a tech to physically disable it) So why couldn't they, when ordered by law enforcement (or by a competent hacker), enable it remotely?
There while always be a work-around for those who put their mind to it.
Let's not forget that txt messages don't need to be sent real-time either. They can be delayed by up to a 30 seconds and most people wouldn't even notice. Try having 5 seconds of latency (hell, one second of latency) in a phone conversation. I would throw the damned phone at a wall. I really can't believe the scam that is per message charging.
$1 to generate a pdf with a barcode and e-mail it to you? The overhead cost is probably closer to $.01. Which would make the service cost a 10,000% mark-up. Now that sounds more like ticketmaster.
That's why you pay 2-3 bucks for half a song as a ringtone, when you can but the hole damn thing on iTunes for $.99.
Overridden in the second between when the bomber is shot and when they let go of the switch? Maybe you should go into some detail.