On the contrary; it's the most entertaining thing to happen to the show in years and has everybody talking about it. I bet the show's producers love him.
You really think women and the lower classes have inferior brains to upper class men? White upper class men are responsible for many inventions but it's not because whites, the upper classes, or men are inherently more intelligent - it's because historically they were the ones in the positions of privilege that gave them the education and time and resources to be able to invent. Women and the lower classes had no opportunity to be inventors - their lives were controlled and they had no access to scientific education or resources - until recently when that changed and we started seeing an explosion of inventions and discoveries by women, and the lower classes could go to university and become scientists, for example.
No they won't. In the future there will be superintelligent ants and they'll have ant passports and ant driving licences and ant credit cards and they'll be tied in to the same mortgages and travel restrictions and limits on their freedom as we have now. And the ant queen will be a figurehead and the real power will lie with the spiders.
Literally. It doesn't mention it in the article but on the BBC teatime news it said Yahoo had paid "dozens of millions of pounds" for the app, as well as hiring the kid. So somewhere over 24 million pounds, or 36.5 million dollars.
I'll just spell that out: THIRTY SIX AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
It's not counterproductive as they see it. They want you, the public, to know that if they want to get you they will get you. They are being bullies, not custodians of the law. They already got their intended chilling effect by making an example of this guy, and now everyone will be a little more nervous about what they post online - they don't need to prosecute you as well. But they might, and if a law is being applied selectively it should not be applied at all.
Keeping it because it might be useful is trumped by deleting it because it might be used maliciously. Every extra copy of the data makes it more insecure. Is his copy encrypted? Who else has access to his computer? Can he be trusted with it?
If you see someone's diary lying open you do not take photographs of it. If you find someone's data exposed you do not copy the data. It is not yours to keep.
I just have the hardest time getting used to seeing people spell math with a "s" on the end of it
It's so it balances out the word "Lego", honestly.
In the UK we have Maths and Lego. You swap the "s" over and have Math and Legos. From either side the other side looks strange and frightening and it makes you wonder how the people on the other side can get through a day while being so WRONG, but seeing as Math(s) and Lego(s) are two of the most wonderful things on Earth I say just accept it and move on.
why are we worried about this if the only ones who will really benefit are drug users?
What a cunt. They're human beings.
You think people who take drugs don't deserve to live? Fine. Go and live in a world without all the music, books and films created by drug users. No more Rolling Stones for you. No more Burroughs. No more Blake or Shelley. No Hunter S Thompson. No Carl Sagan. None of the beauty and insights and technical leaps forward that people who take drugs have given the world.
Human morals do not require a belief system with a basis in religion any more than monkey values in monkey society require a belief system with a basis in religion.
Your rant about non-Christians condoning honour killings I'll just leave where it is.
Where do you think morals were originally derived from?
They came about because they're good survival strategies - read The Selfish Gene.
And what belief system do you think binds these morals to the greater society?
I don't need to believe there is an invisible sky being to help my neighbour prune her hedges. A belief system is not required for someone to be part of a community. Society works not because everyone has the same beliefs, but because within all the differences between people there are commonalities, and helping others makes a society better.
For example, "love your neighbor as yourself" is universally understood to be a true religious principle - in that it goes well with you if you consider other people and look out for their interests as much as you would your own.
No, that's a good moral principle. All the religious parts of religion are bollocks.
It only apples to ISP's with over 400000 customers
And how long will that last?
Just change to one of the many other ISP's out there
Yes - just change to another, more expensive, ISP because a law is being introduced that makes your current ISP worse for no good technical reason.
When a bad law is introduced the correct response is to fight it, not to skirt around it. If you do that you are willingly giving up your rights. We are racing towards only having access to a subset of the internet in the UK and the lack of dissent is staggering.
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On the contrary; it's the most entertaining thing to happen to the show in years and has everybody talking about it. I bet the show's producers love him.
But he got a frosty reception and was given the cold shoulder.
You really think women and the lower classes have inferior brains to upper class men? White upper class men are responsible for many inventions but it's not because whites, the upper classes, or men are inherently more intelligent - it's because historically they were the ones in the positions of privilege that gave them the education and time and resources to be able to invent. Women and the lower classes had no opportunity to be inventors - their lives were controlled and they had no access to scientific education or resources - until recently when that changed and we started seeing an explosion of inventions and discoveries by women, and the lower classes could go to university and become scientists, for example.
Eh? Over 15 minutes? Are you backing up to an AirPort Disk rather than a wired disk? The bottleneck there would be the wireless, not your computer.
I backup a 2012 MacBook Air every evening to a 1TB 5400RPM USB drive - plug it in, it detects it, and the backup is done in 3 minutes.
No they won't. In the future there will be superintelligent ants and they'll have ant passports and ant driving licences and ant credit cards and they'll be tied in to the same mortgages and travel restrictions and limits on their freedom as we have now. And the ant queen will be a figurehead and the real power will lie with the spiders.
So be nice to your spiders.
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Literally. It doesn't mention it in the article but on the BBC teatime news it said Yahoo had paid "dozens of millions of pounds" for the app, as well as hiring the kid. So somewhere over 24 million pounds, or 36.5 million dollars.
I'll just spell that out: THIRTY SIX AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
Words fail me.
With your name, have you considered becoming a crime-fighter, or super-hero?
No, they didn't. Any rational human being would have laughed them out of the station. People say tasteless things. Move on.
It's not counterproductive as they see it. They want you, the public, to know that if they want to get you they will get you. They are being bullies, not custodians of the law. They already got their intended chilling effect by making an example of this guy, and now everyone will be a little more nervous about what they post online - they don't need to prosecute you as well. But they might, and if a law is being applied selectively it should not be applied at all.
Keeping it because it might be useful is trumped by deleting it because it might be used maliciously. Every extra copy of the data makes it more insecure. Is his copy encrypted? Who else has access to his computer? Can he be trusted with it?
If you see someone's diary lying open you do not take photographs of it. If you find someone's data exposed you do not copy the data. It is not yours to keep.
Now that you've analysed your copy of the data, please delete it.
But on the last Opposite Day you said you absolutely definitely wanted to be told about the next one, so I thought that meant...
Never mind.
It's so it balances out the word "Lego", honestly.
In the UK we have Maths and Lego. You swap the "s" over and have Math and Legos. From either side the other side looks strange and frightening and it makes you wonder how the people on the other side can get through a day while being so WRONG, but seeing as Math(s) and Lego(s) are two of the most wonderful things on Earth I say just accept it and move on.
What a cunt. They're human beings.
You think people who take drugs don't deserve to live? Fine. Go and live in a world without all the music, books and films created by drug users. No more Rolling Stones for you. No more Burroughs. No more Blake or Shelley. No Hunter S Thompson. No Carl Sagan. None of the beauty and insights and technical leaps forward that people who take drugs have given the world.
In fact, no more computers for you. Piss off.
Funny how it always harmonises towards oppressive control.
Human morals do not require a belief system with a basis in religion any more than monkey values in monkey society require a belief system with a basis in religion.
Your rant about non-Christians condoning honour killings I'll just leave where it is.
They came about because they're good survival strategies - read The Selfish Gene.
I don't need to believe there is an invisible sky being to help my neighbour prune her hedges. A belief system is not required for someone to be part of a community. Society works not because everyone has the same beliefs, but because within all the differences between people there are commonalities, and helping others makes a society better.
No, that's a good moral principle. All the religious parts of religion are bollocks.
And how long will that last?
Yes - just change to another, more expensive, ISP because a law is being introduced that makes your current ISP worse for no good technical reason.
When a bad law is introduced the correct response is to fight it, not to skirt around it. If you do that you are willingly giving up your rights. We are racing towards only having access to a subset of the internet in the UK and the lack of dissent is staggering.
Michael Bay making a film IS the worst case scenario.
Seeing the images, running us through the thought process - lovely. More stories like this, please. It was fascinating and wonderful.
So no more penis, but also no spine.
In case you haven't seen it yet, the Tau manifesto proposes we should use Tau (2xPi) instead.
(crickets)