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Um, that line is simply defining what "source code" means, i.e.: C files and not binaries. I don't think there's any developer out there who'll argue that "source code" means "source code change history".
The credit card companies have to PAY for their insurance, you know. It's not just some magical fountain of money.
If credit card chargebacks go up too much, their insurance premiums will go up, too. The insurance companies need to make money.
So credit card companies have every reason to keep fraud low, so their insurance premiums would be lower.
(This is all assuming you're right about them using insurance companies for this in the first place. I kinda doubt that, because insurance is worthwhile to prevent something big from bankrupting you. For lots of small charges, it'd be more cost-effective for the CC companies to pay out-of-pocket, instead of letting insurance companies get a cut, no?)
The parent post is from someone who actually knows what they're talking about, and it's got a score of 1 right now. Would any moderators care to correct this?
I'm from California, and people complained about how high the sales tax is at over 8%. I went to Massachusetts and it was only 5%. Then I came to the UK, and it's a whopping 17.5%! I guess I don't think of that 8% as so much any more.
Of course, I get free health coverage here....:P
As you can see from this Corona entry, this project came into existence 6 years ago! And that C|Net article didn't seem to have any news, really. It just said that Morgan Freeman's working on it, which was already the case 6 years ago... And according to Corona, they still only have an exploratory deal so far with Paramount.. certainly no go-ahead yet, thus, no real news.
How long before our TVs watch what WE'RE doing so advertisers can see what effect they're having?
I don't have a link handy, but I recall hearing about advertisers installing devices on freeways to detect what radio station you're listening to, so they can target advertising...
How long will it be before the car authenticates the chip in the tire so you can only use authorized brands of tires? If a third party makes a compatible tire, the car manufacturer can sue them for "hacking into our Tire Management System"....
I think the confusion here is that he didn't come up with the idea of geosynchronous satellites.. he came up with the idea of using them for communication. I don't have a reference, but it was something he worked out when he was working communications in the military, I think.
Geosynchronous satellites were nothing new.. It was the idea that, with them, you could greatly extend your communication range in an easy way that was new.
Please note the parent post. The article was really misleading in talking about a "memo", which sounds all official-like, when in fact it's just a Free Software Users Group's memo to the gov't.
Saying this memo is significant and praising India is like pointing out a Michael Moore memo to President Bush and calling it similar to a Congressman having a clue...
Science fiction has always meant to comment on the present more than predict the future. Pretty much ALL science fiction becomes dated, but that doesn't make them bad. Minority Report is VERY relevant to our world today, and that is what it's trying to be.
This comment has spared me from bothering to look up an instance of God ordering rape, since it points out Numbers 31:17-19. Rape is implied in ownership of women. (In fact, in many countries in the world today, "marital rape" is taken for granted as an okay thing.) Which reminds me: I forgot to mention God's sanctioning of slavery in the Bible as well.
But if I understand all you people correctly, that would constitute a massive disregard for the psycho's 'rights' and 'freedom'. And that person running around claiming God told him to kill everyone is trampling on YOUR 'freedom'. So who's 'freedoms' are being more trampled on?
Firstly, I'm one person, not "people". I speak for myself. Secondly, you're making a strawman attack. I've never said that I'm for total freedom of everyone. That's called anarchy, and I"m not for it by any means. I'm for social constructs. I'm for legal systems based on negotiation and compromise.
Yes, we do have to give a little "freedom" to live together. I give up the freedom not to go around stealing people's stuff and killing people for the security of knowing that my own stuff won't be stolen, and that people won't be killing me. Just where the line between freedom and security ought to be drawn is a matter of constant debate, of course. I for one have never said that I don't want any security.
As a born-again Christian, I don't see how I can EVER separate my public life from my private life: my God desires/demands that my public life reflect my personal beliefs. I'm not going to run around killing people, but if I pray in a restaurant, who's business is it?
Again, I think you're attacking a strawman. I for one have not the slightest issue with your praying in a restaurant. I don't think there's any law against that, either. I have no problem with your religious beliefs influencing your public life, either. I don't even have a problem, per se, with people's religious beliefs affecting matters of public policy. (I am not theoretically opposed to people opposing contraception education for religious reasons, for instance, however much I may disagree.) What I am against is gov't policy specifically endorsing a religious belief.
So again, you have the freedom to act in accordance with your religious beliefs, but I have the right to act in accordance with mine. And, in reality, we will compromise, even if we're not fully satisfied. That's how real life works.
His 10 commandments seem pretty consistent with what I would assume you consider 'good'
You conveniently ignored the many God-sanctioned/encouraged massacres and genocides in the Old Testament that were mentioned in the post that you replied to. They pretty much go completely against his "thou shalt not kill" bit.
You do eventually argue that these actions are justified because God is inherently just. The problem is: How do we know what is and is not sanctioned by God? How do you know that Osama wasn't instructed by God to do what he does just as people were instructed to rape and pillage whole cities by God in the Bible?
The de facto answer, of course, is "He is worshipping a false God and/or is delusional." But I bet he would say the same about you. Who's to say that he's wrong? Because he supports mass murder and is thus not credible? You just openly acknowledged your support for the massacre of whole cities because the Bible says that they were sanctioned by God....
In fact, anyone with different religious beliefs would hold a different set of morals from you. And that's the fundamental problem: People have different views about what's moral.
In order to function as a society, we hold many mostly shared morals, often compromising to live together. If a few people claim they are doing something in the name of God, and others don't agree, the others won't let them do it. Are these people claiming that are "above God"? No. They are claiming that they are above the people who are claiming to act in the name of God.
It's convenient to say that religion is the highest morality until you realize that many others will claim the same thing, but with different religions. The alleged word of God is being delivered through fallable mortals, so we have to treat the messages as fallable as well.
You know, it really ought to be the parent of this post, the AC post, that should be modded up, not the post by papasui. Just because someone in China is buying it doesn't mean that it's good for the people in China. And, more importantly, papasui, everyone here is always complaining about how undemocratic China is.. If so, how can you condemn all its citizens for what a few people, even if it's the gov't, do?
If anyone other country out there wanted to house the US's toxic waste I'm not gonna feel sorry for them because their nation is ran by idiots.
This comment makes NO SENSE! If a country is run by idiots, that's all the MORE reason to feel sorry for its inhabitants!
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that any country whose gov't you don't like is also automatically populated by idiots. (See note about democracy above.)
Maybe we should do it for the same reason we do any other basic science: Because we don't KNOW what it could bring, but it COULD bring a lot.
And people are much better at noticing interesting things on the spot than a specifically pre-engineered probe.
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Um, that line is simply defining what "source code" means, i.e.: C files and not binaries. I don't think there's any developer out there who'll argue that "source code" means "source code change history".
According to Webster's napalm is not sodium palmitate, but naphthene palmitate.
How do you know /. isn't sending the IP of every AC post to the FBI?
Yes, but higher prices mean lower sales, mean lower profits.
The relationship between cost and price is not that simple. It's why margins on different products can vary so widely.
The credit card companies have to PAY for their insurance, you know. It's not just some magical fountain of money. If credit card chargebacks go up too much, their insurance premiums will go up, too. The insurance companies need to make money. So credit card companies have every reason to keep fraud low, so their insurance premiums would be lower. (This is all assuming you're right about them using insurance companies for this in the first place. I kinda doubt that, because insurance is worthwhile to prevent something big from bankrupting you. For lots of small charges, it'd be more cost-effective for the CC companies to pay out-of-pocket, instead of letting insurance companies get a cut, no?)
The parent post is from someone who actually knows what they're talking about, and it's got a score of 1 right now. Would any moderators care to correct this?
I'm from California, and people complained about how high the sales tax is at over 8%. I went to Massachusetts and it was only 5%. Then I came to the UK, and it's a whopping 17.5%! I guess I don't think of that 8% as so much any more. Of course, I get free health coverage here.... :P
As you can see from this Corona entry, this project came into existence 6 years ago! And that C|Net article didn't seem to have any news, really. It just said that Morgan Freeman's working on it, which was already the case 6 years ago... And according to Corona, they still only have an exploratory deal so far with Paramount.. certainly no go-ahead yet, thus, no real news.
Um... if you mention cartoons, then why not other fiction shows? They claim to be fake, too.. and people accept special effects just fine...
I don't have a link handy, but I recall hearing about advertisers installing devices on freeways to detect what radio station you're listening to, so they can target advertising...
How long will it be before the car authenticates the chip in the tire so you can only use authorized brands of tires? If a third party makes a compatible tire, the car manufacturer can sue them for "hacking into our Tire Management System"....
Thanks for your actually informative answer, Gorimek. I was getting to think I'd never get one. :P
So there's no law in Norway against double jeopardy? In the States, if you're acquitted, there can be no appeals...
Geosynchronous satellites were nothing new.. It was the idea that, with them, you could greatly extend your communication range in an easy way that was new.
Saying this memo is significant and praising India is like pointing out a Michael Moore memo to President Bush and calling it similar to a Congressman having a clue...
Mod parent up, please.
Don't they have prior art then? There must be a reason why that argument didn't work..
If you read the article, you'll see that they now use metal hydrides that "soak up" hydrogen, rather than pressurized tanks.
"Bow to Shredder! Tonight I dine on turtle soup!"
The word was in a quote of what jonerik said. CmdrTaco didn't write it.
Science fiction has always meant to comment on the present more than predict the future. Pretty much ALL science fiction becomes dated, but that doesn't make them bad. Minority Report is VERY relevant to our world today, and that is what it's trying to be.
This comment has spared me from bothering to look up an instance of God ordering rape, since it points out Numbers 31:17-19. Rape is implied in ownership of women. (In fact, in many countries in the world today, "marital rape" is taken for granted as an okay thing.) Which reminds me: I forgot to mention God's sanctioning of slavery in the Bible as well.
Firstly, I'm one person, not "people". I speak for myself. Secondly, you're making a strawman attack. I've never said that I'm for total freedom of everyone. That's called anarchy, and I"m not for it by any means. I'm for social constructs. I'm for legal systems based on negotiation and compromise.Yes, we do have to give a little "freedom" to live together. I give up the freedom not to go around stealing people's stuff and killing people for the security of knowing that my own stuff won't be stolen, and that people won't be killing me. Just where the line between freedom and security ought to be drawn is a matter of constant debate, of course. I for one have never said that I don't want any security.
Again, I think you're attacking a strawman. I for one have not the slightest issue with your praying in a restaurant. I don't think there's any law against that, either. I have no problem with your religious beliefs influencing your public life, either. I don't even have a problem, per se, with people's religious beliefs affecting matters of public policy. (I am not theoretically opposed to people opposing contraception education for religious reasons, for instance, however much I may disagree.) What I am against is gov't policy specifically endorsing a religious belief.
So again, you have the freedom to act in accordance with your religious beliefs, but I have the right to act in accordance with mine. And, in reality, we will compromise, even if we're not fully satisfied. That's how real life works.
You conveniently ignored the many God-sanctioned/encouraged massacres and genocides in the Old Testament that were mentioned in the post that you replied to. They pretty much go completely against his "thou shalt not kill" bit.
You do eventually argue that these actions are justified because God is inherently just. The problem is: How do we know what is and is not sanctioned by God? How do you know that Osama wasn't instructed by God to do what he does just as people were instructed to rape and pillage whole cities by God in the Bible?
The de facto answer, of course, is "He is worshipping a false God and/or is delusional." But I bet he would say the same about you. Who's to say that he's wrong? Because he supports mass murder and is thus not credible? You just openly acknowledged your support for the massacre of whole cities because the Bible says that they were sanctioned by God....
In fact, anyone with different religious beliefs would hold a different set of morals from you. And that's the fundamental problem: People have different views about what's moral.
In order to function as a society, we hold many mostly shared morals, often compromising to live together. If a few people claim they are doing something in the name of God, and others don't agree, the others won't let them do it. Are these people claiming that are "above God"? No. They are claiming that they are above the people who are claiming to act in the name of God.
It's convenient to say that religion is the highest morality until you realize that many others will claim the same thing, but with different religions. The alleged word of God is being delivered through fallable mortals, so we have to treat the messages as fallable as well.
This comment makes NO SENSE! If a country is run by idiots, that's all the MORE reason to feel sorry for its inhabitants!
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that any country whose gov't you don't like is also automatically populated by idiots. (See note about democracy above.)
Maybe we should do it for the same reason we do any other basic science: Because we don't KNOW what it could bring, but it COULD bring a lot. And people are much better at noticing interesting things on the spot than a specifically pre-engineered probe.