Not wanting to downplay everyone's favourite bad guys - the Nazis - but arguably Stalin was responsible for the most brutal totalitarian state.
"People could be imprisoned in a Gulag camp for crimes such as unexcused absences from work, petty theft, or anti-government jokes. About half of the political prisoners were sent to Gulag prison camps without trial; per official data, there were more than 2.6 million imprisonment sentences in cases investigated by the secret police, 1921-1953." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
There are no restrictions on you contacting him after the trial is finished right? Couldn't you send him a letter and tell him to appeal.
I think that the jury should be allowed to ask questions, so long as they are legitimate (same rules as for questions the prosecution/defence lawyer could ask).
Who exactly do you register with? The only thing I'm registered as is as an instructor, and the main reason for that is to prove I'm not a kiddy fiddler. Is there some list I should be on?
So. Climbing Everest is hard, but I don't expect someone to pay me to do it. If I choose to spend my life doing a thankless, underpaid and unrewarding job do I deserve some kind of payout? No. So just because you do art and art is 'special' you deserve something that you wouldn't grant to anyone else? It's bullshit.
If you were doing something people on the whole wanted enough to pay for it then you would be getting paid for it. Otherwise you've just made a stupid decision in your career choice. If money is _all_ you are doing it for then maybe you would be wiser to take up flipping burgers. If you are doing it because that is what you enjoy then bully for you. I don't get paid to do things I enjoy, and neither does anyone else, so what makes you special. I pay to do things I enjoy (some of which benefit other people) by having a job, which produces something people are willing to pay for.
I think a lot of artists have an inflated sense of self-worth. Yes it's a talent, but it's not actually that rare a talent. Many, many people can draw pretty pictures, write happy stories and play musical instruments, and just the same as the people that can flip burgers, they get what society deems that to be worth. I'd like what I do to be worth 10x as much as it is, but that just isn't the case, so why should artists get some kind of special protection (that extends past not just their working life, but their actual life)?
British armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen. I think if you went and did a quick survey of squaddies you'd probably find most of them much more willing to stick up for the Queen than for Gordon Brown. I think that may cause some slight issues if the government really went to try something stupid...
This reminds me of a comment on a Similar article from the register, in response to a UK tabloid newspaper reporting that you could see various military installations on google maps (and helpfully including the photos, latitude/longitude etc.) Anyway, this comment has kept me amused for a good few days:
"Let's face it, if the people who are supposed to be protecting us FROM the likes of Al Qaeda are intimidated by having pictures of their highly guarded bases out there, we're doomed. Can you really imagine anyone with the firepower and skill to attack the SAS in their own base being deterred by only having a blurred photo of where they'd be confronting a couple of hundred highly skilled, heavily armed special forces troops? Err... no."
I don't have any statistics to back this up with, but at a guess isn't one of the more likely reasons for you to die in an American school rampaging lunatic students?
When you think that these 'students' have spent years undercover pretending to learn when in fact they've been studying the layout of the school and identifying targets it becomes clear that the safest option is probably to ban all students from schools.
It's not the low stances of tai chi, it's having your knee alignment wrong. Knees are perfectly capable of flexing in the correct direction an awful lot of times. If the alignment of your body is wrong, this will put pressure on the ligaments on the side of your knees, which will damage them. This applies to almost any sport. The main thing is to keep your toes pointing in the same direction as your knee. If you do a tai chi session and your knees hurt it's not over exertion or lack of strength (that should come across as muscular, not joint pain), it's that the technique you are doing (or worse being taught) is poor.
I was thinking along the lines of: What this paper means is that you can spend billions of dollars sequencing the gut bacteria of thousands of different people and all you'll get is shit.
I thought the point is that there is a minute portion of nuclear material in the coal, and that rather than it being sequestered it is simply released into the atmosphere. Unlike the Nuclear plant where the radioactive material is contained.
Whether the amount that is released after scrubbers etc. is significant or not I don't know, but I think that the above argument is what is normally put forth and it would be interesting to see some statistics.
Surely it won't do as much damage as strip mining for coal will though. There are fools who believe there are zero emissions from Nuclear, but they are no different to the fools that think there are zero emissions from electric cars. That said if Nuclear power provided for the whole infrastructure (including somehow providing power to the entire supply chain) then the emissions would be tremendously reduced, which is probably a good thing.
Well, I'd suggest not, but there are plenty of people who take their advice from 'alternative' therapies, from the internet, from their religion and from spam email.
Of course with so many of these things it's what people want to hear: People would like there to be magical cures. People like a conspiracy - to feel that they know something everyone else doesn't - such as that MMR is actually an overall negative and hence they won't have their kids vaccinated.
No, because GCC is what is doing the final compile, so the result should be identical. The version of GCC compiled with ICC may be better optimized, but the program itself should run the same. In fact you answer this point in your own post: there are myriad ways to create functionally equivalent code with different machine code sequences. gcc_gcc_gcc and icc_gcc_gcc are functionally equivalent in this example.
So assuming no tampering gcc_gcc_gcc and icc_gcc_gcc are functionally equivalent. Now assuming that both original icc and gcc have been compromised and will introduce a patch to gcc_gcc and icc_gcc when it is compiled. Since icc will operate differently to gcc, the patch must be different, and hence the gcc_gcc and icc_gcc will operate differently. Thus when they are used to compile gcc the final time the output will be different.
It took a moment to get my head round, but the OP is correct, this will show that something fishy is going on.
I think the point he was making was that if you give up your rights then you might as well have let the terrorists win. The belief that the only way to beat terrorism is to become like them is one of the most worrying things I see in people and their governments.
The expression 'Live free or die trying' springs to mind: Probably the easiest way to defeat the terrorists is to create armed militias, to lock up anyone who looks at a US flag funny, to subject every citizen to searches at every available opportunity to imprison without fair trial anyone and everyone who has the most tenuous of links to anyone tenuously linked to the perpetration terror. Finally it would be necessary to destroy the peoples and the homelands of peoples who would seek to harm us. I've heard statements like that last sentence before, care to guess where from? The choice we have is either to become like them, or to stand bold, proud and defiant in front of our freedoms.
People talk of giving their lives for their country, and that is what you must be willing to do, not on the front lines of a war, but in your own homes, at work and in your daily lives. You must be willing to accept that there will always be someone who hates you irrationally and will seek to kill you, and you have to accept that in order to enjoy freedom. You are competing against people who have a fanatical belief in what they are doing, and who will willingly give their lives for the cause. We too must believe in our freedoms above all else, and must be willing to give our lives for the cause of their preservation.
It's a patent on a calculator. The machine adds the values that are taken from each card, rather than the waiter. How is it not bleeding obvious.
Some things should be a given when using electronics. Basic mathematical operations such as adding and taking away (no matter how big/small/accurate/fast the calculation) should not be enough to make a patent unique.
Wasn't the same true of tanks when they were first proposed in WW1? If I remember correctly the commanders had so little belief in them that the troops who were meant to be following behind were kept so far back that the enemy lines closed up behind the tanks after they had successfully broken through.
Not that I think killer robots are a good idea, more that every time a new technology is proposed some people always say it is pointless, and others can't believe the world existed before it, and that only time will show which group is correct.
1: Create ISP performance benchmark using metrics based on p2P functionality 2: Popularise metric so that customers use it in order to choose between ISPs 3: ISP are placed in a position where subscriber numbers are directly affected by p2p service levels. 4: ? 5: Profit!
I've met people who worked for a local council in the UK. They got sold a thin-client system for some unknown reason. Unfortunately the pace of procurement in the public sector is a touch slower than the pace of technology. By the time they got it all installed the hardware and networking was hopelessly out of date, whilst the software was switched to a recent version of MS Orifice. From power on to getting into Outlook to answer an email did take an hour since everyone turned up at the same time and switched their computers on.
Equally when I started Uni anyone who wasn't in the Electronics and CompSci department had to deal with some pretty ancient hardware - mostly P2-400s (in 2003) running windows 98. These were dog slow at the best of time, and the best solution to security they had come up with was to download a fresh drive image on each logout. This was just about bearable when it was in its usual random-access sort of usage, but when an entire class chucked out and 30-60 people logged off at once it slowed down a bit. And then you'd find out that you'd actually sat down at the busted machine that was in an infinite loop. Ah, happy days.
Surely just a good torrent site where you know that everything tracked is provided by the artists, and the copyright status is known and allows sharing etc. would do the trick. In fact something like it probably exists already.
I'd suggest, although it's not a direct solution to spam, something along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash would be a good place to start. I can't remember where I found the exact paper, but essentially it allowed completely anonymous electronic financial transactions. However if necessary a 'coin' could be marked with an additional signature from an investigative agency. This mark would be undetectable to the recipient, but could be traced, allowing illegal cash flow (e.g. money laundering) to be detcted. Thus somebody buys their dodgy pills or dodgy porn with traceable cash and the entire supply chain can be exposed.
Rather than plugging ID cards and biometrics and all that crap, this would actually be a brilliant system to see implemented, that actually increases anonymity and facilitates law enforcement. Surely a net win?.
I'm curious too, but more along the lines of: - If I get torrent files over SSL or similar - And only access trackers via encrypted methods - And use RC4 encryption on the transfers (to obscure the content)
How are they going to prove I downloaded anything. Even if they manage to show you downloaded a torrent, how can they correlate that to actual data being downloaded.
The chain of evidence for this sort of thing seems to be incredibly weak.
Because if the rest of the world likes you, they might stop thinking up ways to blow you up. When you say please don't build any Nuclear missiles they might actually listen. Hell there's a chance that people won't take the whole 'giving people democracy thing' as such a bad joke if you actually came across as well meaning and decent. It's not just the Europeans you need to consider, but if you did, then next time you decide to start a war you might get help from someone other than the Brits.
And if you're going to throw out insults (the OP never mentioned by whom or where that reputation might be held btw.) they could at least be real insults. That said kudos for coming up with a word that isn't in the urban dictionary.
How amusing it would be to see all those who left Europe for the new world, for freedom and for the chance to create a better place come crawling back home after a couple of generations because they couldn't get it to work.
I'm in the UK and yet somehow I find that comment almost offensive. It's almost completely against the reason your country fought a war of independence from us; that you should put up and accept things that seem unfair. Isn't choice a wonderful thing: It certainly is, and whilst you are out spreading democracy to the rest of the world whether they want it or not here you are at home suggesting that those who have a different opinion on the way things should be just fuck off somewhere else.
While you're at it, why not tell the Ethiopians to move somewhere where there's water and food. The North Koreans to move to South Korea. The Palestinians to move to, err....hmm.. uh, you think of somewhere.
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Not wanting to downplay everyone's favourite bad guys - the Nazis - but arguably Stalin was responsible for the most brutal totalitarian state.
"People could be imprisoned in a Gulag camp for crimes such as unexcused absences from work, petty theft, or anti-government jokes. About half of the political prisoners were sent to Gulag prison camps without trial; per official data, there were more than 2.6 million imprisonment sentences in cases investigated by the secret police, 1921-1953." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
Now that is scary. How close to that are we?
There are no restrictions on you contacting him after the trial is finished right? Couldn't you send him a letter and tell him to appeal.
I think that the jury should be allowed to ask questions, so long as they are legitimate (same rules as for questions the prosecution/defence lawyer could ask).
Who exactly do you register with? The only thing I'm registered as is as an instructor, and the main reason for that is to prove I'm not a kiddy fiddler. Is there some list I should be on?
Since a lot of the stabbings seem to be gang related, I think you will find that it will remain teenagers getting shot.
So. Climbing Everest is hard, but I don't expect someone to pay me to do it. If I choose to spend my life doing a thankless, underpaid and unrewarding job do I deserve some kind of payout? No. So just because you do art and art is 'special' you deserve something that you wouldn't grant to anyone else? It's bullshit.
If you were doing something people on the whole wanted enough to pay for it then you would be getting paid for it. Otherwise you've just made a stupid decision in your career choice. If money is _all_ you are doing it for then maybe you would be wiser to take up flipping burgers. If you are doing it because that is what you enjoy then bully for you. I don't get paid to do things I enjoy, and neither does anyone else, so what makes you special. I pay to do things I enjoy (some of which benefit other people) by having a job, which produces something people are willing to pay for.
I think a lot of artists have an inflated sense of self-worth. Yes it's a talent, but it's not actually that rare a talent. Many, many people can draw pretty pictures, write happy stories and play musical instruments, and just the same as the people that can flip burgers, they get what society deems that to be worth. I'd like what I do to be worth 10x as much as it is, but that just isn't the case, so why should artists get some kind of special protection (that extends past not just their working life, but their actual life)?
British armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen. I think if you went and did a quick survey of squaddies you'd probably find most of them much more willing to stick up for the Queen than for Gordon Brown. I think that may cause some slight issues if the government really went to try something stupid...
This reminds me of a comment on a Similar article from the register, in response to a UK tabloid newspaper reporting that you could see various military installations on google maps (and helpfully including the photos, latitude/longitude etc.) Anyway, this comment has kept me amused for a good few days:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/google_earth_base_shocker/comments/
"Let's face it, if the people who are supposed to be protecting us FROM the likes of Al Qaeda are intimidated by having pictures of their highly guarded bases out there, we're doomed. Can you really imagine anyone with the firepower and skill to attack the SAS in their own base being deterred by only having a blurred photo of where they'd be confronting a couple of hundred highly skilled, heavily armed special forces troops? Err... no."
I don't have any statistics to back this up with, but at a guess isn't one of the more likely reasons for you to die in an American school rampaging lunatic students?
When you think that these 'students' have spent years undercover pretending to learn when in fact they've been studying the layout of the school and identifying targets it becomes clear that the safest option is probably to ban all students from schools.
It's not the low stances of tai chi, it's having your knee alignment wrong. Knees are perfectly capable of flexing in the correct direction an awful lot of times. If the alignment of your body is wrong, this will put pressure on the ligaments on the side of your knees, which will damage them. This applies to almost any sport. The main thing is to keep your toes pointing in the same direction as your knee. If you do a tai chi session and your knees hurt it's not over exertion or lack of strength (that should come across as muscular, not joint pain), it's that the technique you are doing (or worse being taught) is poor.
I was thinking along the lines of:
What this paper means is that you can spend billions of dollars sequencing the gut bacteria of thousands of different people and all you'll get is shit.
I thought the point is that there is a minute portion of nuclear material in the coal, and that rather than it being sequestered it is simply released into the atmosphere. Unlike the Nuclear plant where the radioactive material is contained.
Whether the amount that is released after scrubbers etc. is significant or not I don't know, but I think that the above argument is what is normally put forth and it would be interesting to see some statistics.
The wikipedia section on Radon in the environment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_and_radon_in_the_environment is quite interesting, apparently it's the second greatest cause of lung cancer death in the US, which I didn't know.
Surely it won't do as much damage as strip mining for coal will though. There are fools who believe there are zero emissions from Nuclear, but they are no different to the fools that think there are zero emissions from electric cars. That said if Nuclear power provided for the whole infrastructure (including somehow providing power to the entire supply chain) then the emissions would be tremendously reduced, which is probably a good thing.
Well, I'd suggest not, but there are plenty of people who take their advice from 'alternative' therapies, from the internet, from their religion and from spam email.
Of course with so many of these things it's what people want to hear: People would like there to be magical cures. People like a conspiracy - to feel that they know something everyone else doesn't - such as that MMR is actually an overall negative and hence they won't have their kids vaccinated.
No, because GCC is what is doing the final compile, so the result should be identical. The version of GCC compiled with ICC may be better optimized, but the program itself should run the same. In fact you answer this point in your own post: there are myriad ways to create functionally equivalent code with different machine code sequences. gcc_gcc_gcc and icc_gcc_gcc are functionally equivalent in this example.
So assuming no tampering gcc_gcc_gcc and icc_gcc_gcc are functionally equivalent. Now assuming that both original icc and gcc have been compromised and will introduce a patch to gcc_gcc and icc_gcc when it is compiled. Since icc will operate differently to gcc, the patch must be different, and hence the gcc_gcc and icc_gcc will operate differently. Thus when they are used to compile gcc the final time the output will be different.
It took a moment to get my head round, but the OP is correct, this will show that something fishy is going on.
I think the point he was making was that if you give up your rights then you might as well have let the terrorists win. The belief that the only way to beat terrorism is to become like them is one of the most worrying things I see in people and their governments.
The expression 'Live free or die trying' springs to mind: Probably the easiest way to defeat the terrorists is to create armed militias, to lock up anyone who looks at a US flag funny, to subject every citizen to searches at every available opportunity to imprison without fair trial anyone and everyone who has the most tenuous of links to anyone tenuously linked to the perpetration terror. Finally it would be necessary to destroy the peoples and the homelands of peoples who would seek to harm us. I've heard statements like that last sentence before, care to guess where from? The choice we have is either to become like them, or to stand bold, proud and defiant in front of our freedoms.
People talk of giving their lives for their country, and that is what you must be willing to do, not on the front lines of a war, but in your own homes, at work and in your daily lives. You must be willing to accept that there will always be someone who hates you irrationally and will seek to kill you, and you have to accept that in order to enjoy freedom. You are competing against people who have a fanatical belief in what they are doing, and who will willingly give their lives for the cause. We too must believe in our freedoms above all else, and must be willing to give our lives for the cause of their preservation.
It's a patent on a calculator. The machine adds the values that are taken from each card, rather than the waiter. How is it not bleeding obvious.
Some things should be a given when using electronics. Basic mathematical operations such as adding and taking away (no matter how big/small/accurate/fast the calculation) should not be enough to make a patent unique.
Wasn't the same true of tanks when they were first proposed in WW1? If I remember correctly the commanders had so little belief in them that the troops who were meant to be following behind were kept so far back that the enemy lines closed up behind the tanks after they had successfully broken through.
Not that I think killer robots are a good idea, more that every time a new technology is proposed some people always say it is pointless, and others can't believe the world existed before it, and that only time will show which group is correct.
1: Create ISP performance benchmark using metrics based on p2P functionality
2: Popularise metric so that customers use it in order to choose between ISPs
3: ISP are placed in a position where subscriber numbers are directly affected by p2p service levels.
4: ?
5: Profit!
I concur. I'm going to ignore the majority of the junk that's on it, so why force it on us? Anyone feel like forking it?
I've met people who worked for a local council in the UK. They got sold a thin-client system for some unknown reason. Unfortunately the pace of procurement in the public sector is a touch slower than the pace of technology. By the time they got it all installed the hardware and networking was hopelessly out of date, whilst the software was switched to a recent version of MS Orifice. From power on to getting into Outlook to answer an email did take an hour since everyone turned up at the same time and switched their computers on.
Equally when I started Uni anyone who wasn't in the Electronics and CompSci department had to deal with some pretty ancient hardware - mostly P2-400s (in 2003) running windows 98. These were dog slow at the best of time, and the best solution to security they had come up with was to download a fresh drive image on each logout. This was just about bearable when it was in its usual random-access sort of usage, but when an entire class chucked out and 30-60 people logged off at once it slowed down a bit. And then you'd find out that you'd actually sat down at the busted machine that was in an infinite loop. Ah, happy days.
Surely just a good torrent site where you know that everything tracked is provided by the artists, and the copyright status is known and allows sharing etc. would do the trick. In fact something like it probably exists already.
I'd suggest, although it's not a direct solution to spam, something along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash would be a good place to start. I can't remember where I found the exact paper, but essentially it allowed completely anonymous electronic financial transactions. However if necessary a 'coin' could be marked with an additional signature from an investigative agency. This mark would be undetectable to the recipient, but could be traced, allowing illegal cash flow (e.g. money laundering) to be detcted. Thus somebody buys their dodgy pills or dodgy porn with traceable cash and the entire supply chain can be exposed.
Rather than plugging ID cards and biometrics and all that crap, this would actually be a brilliant system to see implemented, that actually increases anonymity and facilitates law enforcement. Surely a net win?.
I think it may have been: http://www.emis.de/journals/AUA/acta8/Popescu-Oros.pdf or something referenced to/from it.
I'm curious too, but more along the lines of:
- If I get torrent files over SSL or similar
- And only access trackers via encrypted methods
- And use RC4 encryption on the transfers (to obscure the content)
How are they going to prove I downloaded anything. Even if they manage to show you downloaded a torrent, how can they correlate that to actual data being downloaded.
The chain of evidence for this sort of thing seems to be incredibly weak.
Because if the rest of the world likes you, they might stop thinking up ways to blow you up. When you say please don't build any Nuclear missiles they might actually listen. Hell there's a chance that people won't take the whole 'giving people democracy thing' as such a bad joke if you actually came across as well meaning and decent. It's not just the Europeans you need to consider, but if you did, then next time you decide to start a war you might get help from someone other than the Brits.
And if you're going to throw out insults (the OP never mentioned by whom or where that reputation might be held btw.) they could at least be real insults. That said kudos for coming up with a word that isn't in the urban dictionary.
How amusing it would be to see all those who left Europe for the new world, for freedom and for the chance to create a better place come crawling back home after a couple of generations because they couldn't get it to work.
I'm in the UK and yet somehow I find that comment almost offensive. It's almost completely against the reason your country fought a war of independence from us; that you should put up and accept things that seem unfair. Isn't choice a wonderful thing: It certainly is, and whilst you are out spreading democracy to the rest of the world whether they want it or not here you are at home suggesting that those who have a different opinion on the way things should be just fuck off somewhere else.
While you're at it, why not tell the Ethiopians to move somewhere where there's water and food. The North Koreans to move to South Korea. The Palestinians to move to, err.. ..hmm.. uh, you think of somewhere.