What about photos of the car? Am I depriving the designers then? What about mental images of the car? How about then? Nobody is deprived if the design can be copied perfectly at no cost whatsoever to the original designers.
Else, how can kit cars be sold?
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Z-Rated are no longer the top-performance tires and the "z rating" is kind of an anachronism now that a whole pile of modern vehicles can exceed 280/300/320 kph. Now it's in terms of V- and Y- ratings and sometimes the actual maximum speed must be determined by speaking with the manufacturer, or sometimes listed right on the tire. They'll have a "ZR" rating listed on them in this case, along with their "usual" H-, V-, W-, or Y- ratings.
"Perhaps you'd also like to stock up your kitchen cupboard with canned food"... to be fair, this is a good practice regardless, in case of emergency, and especially if you live in a place where the weather can be a physical threat.
Repeat after me: endlessly copyable digital media is not the same as a physical, limited-available physical object like an SUV.
Would you have the same problem if a device were made that you could aim at an SUV and which would make a complete and perfect copy of it at little or no cost to the owner of that SUV?
Of course not. The SUV owner isn't deprived in the slightest.
He stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of actual, physical Cisco hardware. Don't feel sorry for him--feel sorry for other software reversers who make no money from their wrongdoing but do it out of a sense of social justice and a desire for Robin Hood-like notoriety.
If an author can sue every single ISP for damages, everywhere, we enter a nasty realm of "okay time to shut anything that might be infringing down."
What ISP can afford to filter every newsgroup manually? What ISP can sit there and act on anything but complaints?
An author deserves protection, but the person responsible for posting it is the one liable--not the ISPs who provide the avenue by which an author's works are distributed.
What's the matter, Harlan? Not enough money lining your pockets from your successful writing/consulting/speaking career?
You're damn fucking straight a company owes me something: Simple human dignity. If you treat an employee like a fucking scumbag, they're far more likely to act like one.
And who's the troll? I have no problem putting food on the table, and I won't have a problem doing so for many years to come.
If the only way to communicate with personal relations is via company email, the company has no right to listen in to the latest saga in that employee's personal health problems.
You think you own personal communications between a man and his wife? How about a man and his lawyer?
And you didn't answer my question, troll fuckwad. I've got lots of karma to burn; what about the toilets, you piece of shit? Ah, I see you side-stepped. Why? Because I'm right.
Hey. Idiot. It's irrelevant whether you're doing things on company time. The company doesn't OWN the employee during the hours he's working for them. He does NOT become a zombie drone-slave, and there's this little thing called basic human rights that each of us enjoy--since, as you may or may not be aware, we all live in a first-world country that supposedly treasures freedom.
The owner of the email is the employee, and the only one with the right to read it is the recipient, unless it's corporate email.
Period.
Since you seem to have trouble understanding the concept of an individual's privacy, and I'm very well aware that braindead idiots like you have no problem rationalising, let me ask you: Do you think the company has a right to put a camera in the same toilet you're taking a dump in, since it's a company toilet, company toilet paper, a company stall, all in a company bathroom?
Get a clue, fuckwad. People like you are the same people who freely give away simple basic human dignity in the name of capitalism. YOU are the reason that companies can get away with everything they can get away with. YOU, and every other fuckstick who thinks just like you.
So there's an easier way out of this. Tell whoever's asking that the mailbox is empty. Read the email yourself for curiosity's sake, delete it with a secure over-write, and be done with it.
Why wrestle with the morality of the situation when you aren't even qualified to do so, and might put yourself in legal trouble by cooperating in case this employee sues your ass off in court?
Better not to get involved. Don't waste your time.
So? It's your own communication and you have an expectation of privacy unless your business specifically states something like, "Emails are being monitored for quality control purposes" or similar telephone conversations.
You're stupid to think that just because someone else owns the lines, you suddenly don't have any privacy. The telephone company owns the lines you use to tell the latest dirty secret to your wife.. by your logic, they have a right to listen in.
1. It will have to be as reliable as the most reliable component that it's replacing. This won't happen.
2. Upgrade of a single component would no longer be possible. This will piss people off who don't want to buy a whole new unit just to play the latest game.
3. Monolithic is stupid.
Simple solution: build components designed to integrate perfectly with one another and sell them as just that--components.
"With each action Bush ever more enrages the Muslims. And there are a billion of them. And sooner or later they will have a Saladin who will pull them together, and they will come after us. And it won?t be pretty."
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The point is that you are NOT a doctor (if you are, you should have your licence revoked.) Only someone's doctor or other qualified individual who knows someone's history, metabolism, eating habits, etc. is qualified to assist someone trying to lose weight. Even a best friend--who would know about a person's allergies or other history--is a better source of advice than you are.
In fact, many of your points may do harm to someone whose body can't tolerate the kinds of stresses that a diet puts on them.
I never said what you said was false. I said to the random readers out there that they should consider your post to be mindless drivel and go and speak with their doctor.
I find it amusing that with your supposed expertise you're offering advice on radical dieting technique to people you know next to nothing about. You, of all people, should know that offering this kind of advice without at the very least a "please see your doctor and ask them about this" can be very dangerous to certain individuals.
Thus, you're stupid, regardless of whether a thousand studies back you up--because those thousand studies have nothing to do with the individuals you're preaching to.
Re:Yay! Anecdotal Evidence! It must be true!
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Dude, you're in no position to be offering methods by which other people make drastic changes to their lifestyles, and making such suggestions is just about the most dangerous thing you could do for them.
I hope you didn't miss the point entirely, even though it was heavy enough to hit the broad side of a freekin' barn:
What was normal in an ancestral environment is not necessarily good for us now, and the great-grandparent poster's attempt at using the "let's live as cavemen did, we'll be healthier" is pure bunk.
Let me deal more with the tangential point you replied to:
The switch to an agricultural society allowed the gradual transformation into the modern, hygenic, and ultimately longer and more comfortable and relatively disease-free lives we now lead.
The immediate switch may or may not have been worse for us; however you don't actually state a case which suggests the effect of (possibly) poorer living conditions was a direct result of *poorer nutrition* BUT NOT the dramatic increase of disease and filth vectors in the newly crowded living environments.
And, agricultural societies fared far better, procreation-wise, than hunter gatherers did. That's why we're not hunter-gatherers anymore. By "how well they did" I'm talking about procreational success and the slow climb into modern, long-life, high average standard of living times.
I'd put money on the farmer communities kicking ass on the hunter-gatherers.
Quite frankly I'd rather be living in a society where I have guaranteed access to medical doctors and modern farms rather than running around and picking berries just so my kids don't starve.
Re:More medical advice, worth absolutely nothing.
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Please don't consider the parent post as anything but random drivel of someone who thinks he's an armchair doctor and knows what's good for you.
PLEASE don't turn to Slashdot for anything even remotely resembling advice--you'll get burned every. Single. Time.
PLEASE see your doctor and get an expert's advice. They know you, will examine you, will find out your medical history, and will have access to modern medical equipment which can aid in greatly improving your health in ways that the parent poster apparently is incapable of comprehending.
Anecdotes are NOT PROOF unless you're a die-hard acupuncturist. Advice given by someone who doesn't give two shits about you, personally, is worth exactly this: NOTHING.
Re:Yay! Anecdotal Evidence! It must be true!
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Some Slashdot reader says he's never seen any evidence that the Atkins diet is bad for you! That means it's good for you!
Some Slashdot reader who you've never seen before, who doesn't know your medical history, has never examined you, has never considered your situation in the context of X years of intense medical study, doesn't even care if you live or die and won't hear about it either way, is telling you that the Atkins diet worked for him. That means the Atkins diet is Right For YOU!
Some Slashdot reader is instructing you on the fine art of what *you*, specifically, should eat to be healthy! That means it must be true!
Some Slashdot reader is telling you that the greatest help for attempting a radical change in your body is a fucking WEBSITE! That means the website is better than your own doctor! It must be true!
Don't buy into it. Speak to your doctor! Please!
BEST ADVICE FOR ALL SLASHDOT READERS
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DO NOT get medical advice on how to radically change your weight, eating habits, nor lifestyle from a group of armchair wannabe-doctor biochemists and other assorted ners (a.k.a. Slashdot readers) who think that their relatively high IQ and overwhelming arrogance somehow qualifies them to give out potentially dangerous medical advice to people they've never met before.
DO NOT allow yourself to be seduced by the oft-abused mantra "If I can do it it must be good!"
DO NOT take to heart anything said here nor in the Salon article: YOUR results *WILL VARY* and the ONLY person qualified to give you advice that will drastically alter your life, your health and your eating habits is YOUR DOCTOR, and the THREE OTHER DOCTORS WHOM YOU SEE AFTER THAT.
DO NOT allow yourself to be swayed by the endless half-truths, poor logic, faulty reasoning, ridiculous posturing, and overall complete lack of intelligence that the comments in this article display!
DO remember that if you find a reason to go on a diet as a result of a comment here on Slashdot, PLEASE SIT THERE AND RE-READ the comment, and if *ANY*thing strikes you as a little off, or poorly explained, or even if it seems totally reasonable--THAT PERSON HAS NOT examined you, DOES NOT know your medical history, IS NOT AWARE of any risk factors your history, your habits, or your lifestyle might need to be considered when altering your daily habits.
DO NOT make yours the next horror story here on Slashdot because some dumbass thinks he knows what's best for you!
Please, I implore you!
Re:1970's? Try ancient history.
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Yay, more faulty logic. Right, let's live as cavemen--because soap and hygiene actually clears away all the good bacteria that we need to live healthy cavemen diets.
(We'll just ignore the vastly improved lifespans due to modern hygiene and disease control.. we were never meant to have soap in an ancestral environment, after all.)
Let's live as cavemen did, and starve ourselves of certain nutrients for long periods of time, regardless of how bad that's been shown to be for us, and how well primitive agriculture-based societies do (ie: food stores readily available) versus primitive hunter-gatherer societies.
Those masses of starving people are living the CAVEMAN diet! We should be living like they do!
Because, you know, a biochemist is the next best thing to a medical doctor, right? Right? He *knows* what's good for a body after those few years of biochem studies..! His biochem degree is EXACTLY what qualifies him to give out medical advice to anonymous people he's never met before!
Slashdot Mirror
Riiiiight.
What about photos of the car? Am I depriving the designers then? What about mental images of the car? How about then? Nobody is deprived if the design can be copied perfectly at no cost whatsoever to the original designers.
Else, how can kit cars be sold?
Z-Rated are no longer the top-performance tires and the "z rating" is kind of an anachronism now that a whole pile of modern vehicles can exceed 280/300/320 kph. Now it's in terms of V- and Y- ratings and sometimes the actual maximum speed must be determined by speaking with the manufacturer, or sometimes listed right on the tire. They'll have a "ZR" rating listed on them in this case, along with their "usual" H-, V-, W-, or Y- ratings.
"Perhaps you'd also like to stock up your kitchen cupboard with canned food" ... to be fair, this is a good practice regardless, in case of emergency, and especially if you live in a place where the weather can be a physical threat.
Repeat after me: endlessly copyable digital media is not the same as a physical, limited-available physical object like an SUV.
Would you have the same problem if a device were made that you could aim at an SUV and which would make a complete and perfect copy of it at little or no cost to the owner of that SUV?
Of course not. The SUV owner isn't deprived in the slightest.
Now run along...
He stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of actual, physical Cisco hardware. Don't feel sorry for him--feel sorry for other software reversers who make no money from their wrongdoing but do it out of a sense of social justice and a desire for Robin Hood-like notoriety.
Get the hell off the bittorrents if you don't plan on leaving the window open for a half hour or more afterwards.
Jerks.
If an author can sue every single ISP for damages, everywhere, we enter a nasty realm of "okay time to shut anything that might be infringing down."
What ISP can afford to filter every newsgroup manually? What ISP can sit there and act on anything but complaints?
An author deserves protection, but the person responsible for posting it is the one liable--not the ISPs who provide the avenue by which an author's works are distributed.
What's the matter, Harlan? Not enough money lining your pockets from your successful writing/consulting/speaking career?
Bah.
That the best you can do?
You're damn fucking straight a company owes me something: Simple human dignity. If you treat an employee like a fucking scumbag, they're far more likely to act like one.
And who's the troll? I have no problem putting food on the table, and I won't have a problem doing so for many years to come.
If the only way to communicate with personal relations is via company email, the company has no right to listen in to the latest saga in that employee's personal health problems.
You think you own personal communications between a man and his wife? How about a man and his lawyer?
And you didn't answer my question, troll fuckwad. I've got lots of karma to burn; what about the toilets, you piece of shit? Ah, I see you side-stepped. Why? Because I'm right.
What an idiot.
Hey. Idiot. It's irrelevant whether you're doing things on company time. The company doesn't OWN the employee during the hours he's working for them. He does NOT become a zombie drone-slave, and there's this little thing called basic human rights that each of us enjoy--since, as you may or may not be aware, we all live in a first-world country that supposedly treasures freedom.
The owner of the email is the employee, and the only one with the right to read it is the recipient, unless it's corporate email.
Period.
Since you seem to have trouble understanding the concept of an individual's privacy, and I'm very well aware that braindead idiots like you have no problem rationalising, let me ask you: Do you think the company has a right to put a camera in the same toilet you're taking a dump in, since it's a company toilet, company toilet paper, a company stall, all in a company bathroom?
Get a clue, fuckwad. People like you are the same people who freely give away simple basic human dignity in the name of capitalism. YOU are the reason that companies can get away with everything they can get away with. YOU, and every other fuckstick who thinks just like you.
Tard.
So there's an easier way out of this. Tell whoever's asking that the mailbox is empty. Read the email yourself for curiosity's sake, delete it with a secure over-write, and be done with it.
Why wrestle with the morality of the situation when you aren't even qualified to do so, and might put yourself in legal trouble by cooperating in case this employee sues your ass off in court?
Better not to get involved. Don't waste your time.
So? It's your own communication and you have an expectation of privacy unless your business specifically states something like, "Emails are being monitored for quality control purposes" or similar telephone conversations.
You're stupid to think that just because someone else owns the lines, you suddenly don't have any privacy. The telephone company owns the lines you use to tell the latest dirty secret to your wife.. by your logic, they have a right to listen in.
Duh!
Want to invade a frozen tundra landmass as though you could do something better with it than its own residents?
:-)
Shya right.. come on in, we'd welcome people like you. You don't have to make a fuss about it--just immigrate. Lamer.
Right.. because we all know how timely Slashdot is.
Duh!
1. It will have to be as reliable as the most reliable component that it's replacing. This won't happen.
2. Upgrade of a single component would no longer be possible. This will piss people off who don't want to buy a whole new unit just to play the latest game.
3. Monolithic is stupid.
Simple solution: build components designed to integrate perfectly with one another and sell them as just that--components.
"With each action Bush ever more enrages the Muslims. And there are a billion of them. And sooner or later they will have a Saladin who will pull them together, and they will come after us. And it won?t be pretty."
The point is that you are NOT a doctor (if you are, you should have your licence revoked.) Only someone's doctor or other qualified individual who knows someone's history, metabolism, eating habits, etc. is qualified to assist someone trying to lose weight. Even a best friend--who would know about a person's allergies or other history--is a better source of advice than you are.
In fact, many of your points may do harm to someone whose body can't tolerate the kinds of stresses that a diet puts on them.
I never said what you said was false. I said to the random readers out there that they should consider your post to be mindless drivel and go and speak with their doctor.
I find it amusing that with your supposed expertise you're offering advice on radical dieting technique to people you know next to nothing about. You, of all people, should know that offering this kind of advice without at the very least a "please see your doctor and ask them about this" can be very dangerous to certain individuals.
Thus, you're stupid, regardless of whether a thousand studies back you up--because those thousand studies have nothing to do with the individuals you're preaching to.
Dude, you're in no position to be offering methods by which other people make drastic changes to their lifestyles, and making such suggestions is just about the most dangerous thing you could do for them.
I hope you didn't miss the point entirely, even though it was heavy enough to hit the broad side of a freekin' barn:
What was normal in an ancestral environment is not necessarily good for us now, and the great-grandparent poster's attempt at using the "let's live as cavemen did, we'll be healthier" is pure bunk.
Let me deal more with the tangential point you replied to:
The switch to an agricultural society allowed the gradual transformation into the modern, hygenic, and ultimately longer and more comfortable and relatively disease-free lives we now lead.
The immediate switch may or may not have been worse for us; however you don't actually state a case which suggests the effect of (possibly) poorer living conditions was a direct result of *poorer nutrition* BUT NOT the dramatic increase of disease and filth vectors in the newly crowded living environments.
And, agricultural societies fared far better, procreation-wise, than hunter gatherers did. That's why we're not hunter-gatherers anymore. By "how well they did" I'm talking about procreational success and the slow climb into modern, long-life, high average standard of living times.
I'd put money on the farmer communities kicking ass on the hunter-gatherers.
Quite frankly I'd rather be living in a society where I have guaranteed access to medical doctors and modern farms rather than running around and picking berries just so my kids don't starve.
Please don't consider the parent post as anything but random drivel of someone who thinks he's an armchair doctor and knows what's good for you.
PLEASE don't turn to Slashdot for anything even remotely resembling advice--you'll get burned every. Single. Time.
PLEASE see your doctor and get an expert's advice. They know you, will examine you, will find out your medical history, and will have access to modern medical equipment which can aid in greatly improving your health in ways that the parent poster apparently is incapable of comprehending.
Anecdotes are NOT PROOF unless you're a die-hard acupuncturist. Advice given by someone who doesn't give two shits about you, personally, is worth exactly this: NOTHING.
Some Slashdot reader says he's never seen any evidence that the Atkins diet is bad for you! That means it's good for you!
Some Slashdot reader who you've never seen before, who doesn't know your medical history, has never examined you, has never considered your situation in the context of X years of intense medical study, doesn't even care if you live or die and won't hear about it either way, is telling you that the Atkins diet worked for him. That means the Atkins diet is Right For YOU!
Some Slashdot reader is instructing you on the fine art of what *you*, specifically, should eat to be healthy! That means it must be true!
Some Slashdot reader is telling you that the greatest help for attempting a radical change in your body is a fucking WEBSITE! That means the website is better than your own doctor! It must be true!
Don't buy into it. Speak to your doctor! Please!
DO NOT get medical advice on how to radically change your weight, eating habits, nor lifestyle from a group of armchair wannabe-doctor biochemists and other assorted ners (a.k.a. Slashdot readers) who think that their relatively high IQ and overwhelming arrogance somehow qualifies them to give out potentially dangerous medical advice to people they've never met before.
DO NOT allow yourself to be seduced by the oft-abused mantra "If I can do it it must be good!"
DO NOT take to heart anything said here nor in the Salon article: YOUR results *WILL VARY* and the ONLY person qualified to give you advice that will drastically alter your life, your health and your eating habits is YOUR DOCTOR, and the THREE OTHER DOCTORS WHOM YOU SEE AFTER THAT.
DO NOT allow yourself to be swayed by the endless half-truths, poor logic, faulty reasoning, ridiculous posturing, and overall complete lack of intelligence that the comments in this article display!
DO remember that if you find a reason to go on a diet as a result of a comment here on Slashdot, PLEASE SIT THERE AND RE-READ the comment, and if *ANY*thing strikes you as a little off, or poorly explained, or even if it seems totally reasonable--THAT PERSON HAS NOT examined you, DOES NOT know your medical history, IS NOT AWARE of any risk factors your history, your habits, or your lifestyle might need to be considered when altering your daily habits.
DO NOT make yours the next horror story here on Slashdot because some dumbass thinks he knows what's best for you!
Please, I implore you!
Yay, more faulty logic. Right, let's live as cavemen--because soap and hygiene actually clears away all the good bacteria that we need to live healthy cavemen diets.
(We'll just ignore the vastly improved lifespans due to modern hygiene and disease control.. we were never meant to have soap in an ancestral environment, after all.)
Let's live as cavemen did, and starve ourselves of certain nutrients for long periods of time, regardless of how bad that's been shown to be for us, and how well primitive agriculture-based societies do (ie: food stores readily available) versus primitive hunter-gatherer societies.
Those masses of starving people are living the CAVEMAN diet! We should be living like they do!
Because, you know, a biochemist is the next best thing to a medical doctor, right? Right? He *knows* what's good for a body after those few years of biochem studies..! His biochem degree is EXACTLY what qualifies him to give out medical advice to anonymous people he's never met before!
Fucking 'tard.
Great reasoning. "Consider high carb--it's bad for you. Thus, no carb must be good for you."
Oh yea, sounds great!
Right. Limit them. Not eliminate them altogether.
Hey. Buddy. You're talking about overconsumption of simple sugars, not reasonable consumption of normal carbohydrates. Get your facts straight.