I am certain that this will not be used to track your movements, unless they are vertical.
So it doesn't log which potholes you run over? Sorry, I'm not particularly afraid of having my movements tracked, but I'm trying to make sense of the quoted sentence...
your argument is not even remotely on center. Hotfile is a storage locker. They are paying for the bandwidth in advance and just charging users to use it.
It's not Hotfile's job to give two shits what is on their website, and it's also not their job to watch or monitor it for illegal or other activities. Section 230 among others covers them from that in it's entirety.
That's a point of view (or several). Saying that there is no reasonable other views possible, just shows your own narrow-mindedness.
Bulls eye, several times over. I look forwards to a time when "Internet" is a mesh of WiFis organically recovering from physical attempts at sabotage in seconds, but saying that one want us to "build a communications infrastructure that cannot be controlled from the top" is just silly. It's a matter of materials and economics - as long as we need to rely on kilometres of cables, we will need to rely on whoever controls the kilometres of cables (which for economical reasons will have to be just a few large players, i.e. states). If we rely on satellites we rely on whoever controls the satellites. I just hope it will remain infeasible to control radio waves in the air.
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Indeed, and I'd like to know what precisely is "quasi" about the "empirical"ness of it? Seems to me it is completely empirical and that neither "quasi", "empirical" nor "quasi-empirical" would have very much to do with scientific worth.
My company has been working 12 hour days for 18 months.
Hah, I hope you get really well paid and will retire (from that at least) before you're too old and decrepit too enjoy it. Myself, I'll not work more than eight hours on average and will pursue my sports, hobbies and friendships in the evenings and weekends. And you know what - I bet at the end of my life I (metaphorically speaking) will have contributed more to the enrichment of human culture than you.
That is to say it hasn't really evolved since the 60's (excepting the Dark Knight version) but only adds or deducts a few wings and shapes randomly, and modifies a few lines to keep up with contemporary automotive trends? That's how it looks to my untrained eye anyway.
Stop putting words in my mouth (and no insects either, thank you). Would it really be that difficullt to write "some scientists" or "one loony scientists" instead of expressions like the above that (though technically ambiguous) to most people sounds like that there is a consensus in the scientific community?
Falkvinge's emails were always riddled with simple grammatical errors and sometimes I've even wondered if he bothered to turn on the spell checker. Anna has always written much better.
(it's theft even though the copyright holder never had the money in their possession anyway)
you assert this boldly, but it's really an ongoing debate. I didn't want to start this argument though, so let me apologize for using the word "waste" and say that I would rather have written "extend". My meaning was to say that when I take a few steps back and look at it all, it seems kind of weird. With most other crimes there are quite straightforward justifications for what we have the justice system occupied with doing, but with copyright it becomes a bit of an ant hive. Just a feeling, I'm not saying I have the answers.
so I guess the phrase "worthless piece of plastic" added something to the sentence, but way to demonstrate how to attack pieces out of context. Thanks for playing.
Setting aside the possible sleaziness of this particular guy; seen from another perspective it's pretty fantastic how much resources and time we waste on seeking out and punishing people for reorganizing a tiny bunch of molecules on worthless pieces of plastic.
A: "the extent to which one takes advantage of the educational offerings of an institution"
("may be more important, in the long run, than")
B: "how prominently and proudly that institution's name is being displayed on the back windows of cars in the nation's wealthiest enclaves"
I would suggest that there is a correlation between the two. Furthermore everything isn't about expected future income - when you have a major choice before you it is probably better to think about what kind of person you will become, memories you will acquire, experiences; what social connections you will make, etc. That said, perhaps B isn't representing the best measure to go by but I would certainly recommend people to look at rankings when they make this choice. Preferably as domain specific as possible - an institution that is good with one subject may not be so good with another.
Pick a task first and then learn the relevant languages? There are so many languages around these days but in just a few different categories they are very similar. I'd say it's better to learn a little of everything and a lot of the underlying mechanisms. I've found Perl and Python extremely useful for example, but learning them was a matter of spending a few days accomplishing what I wanted accomplished. Of course there is infinite modules left to learn, so I'm not sure what "learning" should mean here.
Again in my limited experience, the windows world is mostly a matter of learning to understand windows. After you understand what kind of things are available to you on the OS level, does it really matter that much if it's Visual Basic, Visual C++ or Visual whatever?
Then on another side of course one needs to know things like object oriented development, but is that a matter of just "learning" something or isn't it rather a question of years of experience? Between two different sets of "years of experience" I suppose it makes a bit difference whether it's been in Java, C++ or some Visual Crap. But "years of experience" is unfortunately not something you can sit down and learn.
I suppose they add some things, but surely the process must roughly obey conservation of mass.. How much skin would I loose for a transfusion bag of blood? The thought gave me the chills. (yes yes, I know, between my life and my skin I would of course choose my life).
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I am certain that this will not be used to track your movements, unless they are vertical.
So it doesn't log which potholes you run over? Sorry, I'm not particularly afraid of having my movements tracked, but I'm trying to make sense of the quoted sentence...
your argument is not even remotely on center. Hotfile is a storage locker. They are paying for the bandwidth in advance and just charging users to use it.
This has nothing to do with IP or even copyright infringement for that matter. Additionally, the lawsuit here is another of MPAA's "we hope the judge is a technology moron" lawsuit.
It's not Hotfile's job to give two shits what is on their website, and it's also not their job to watch or monitor it for illegal or other activities. Section 230 among others covers them from that in it's entirety.
That's a point of view (or several). Saying that there is no reasonable other views possible, just shows your own narrow-mindedness.
Bulls eye, several times over. I look forwards to a time when "Internet" is a mesh of WiFis organically recovering from physical attempts at sabotage in seconds, but saying that one want us to "build a communications infrastructure that cannot be controlled from the top" is just silly. It's a matter of materials and economics - as long as we need to rely on kilometres of cables, we will need to rely on whoever controls the kilometres of cables (which for economical reasons will have to be just a few large players, i.e. states). If we rely on satellites we rely on whoever controls the satellites. I just hope it will remain infeasible to control radio waves in the air.
lawsuit coming in, 5, 4, 3 ....
Mummy... why is that software developer hurting slashdot?
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Science Fault Detected! Engaging TL;DR.
Indeed, and I'd like to know what precisely is "quasi" about the "empirical"ness of it? Seems to me it is completely empirical and that neither "quasi", "empirical" nor "quasi-empirical" would have very much to do with scientific worth.
My company has been working 12 hour days for 18 months.
Hah, I hope you get really well paid and will retire (from that at least) before you're too old and decrepit too enjoy it. Myself, I'll not work more than eight hours on average and will pursue my sports, hobbies and friendships in the evenings and weekends. And you know what - I bet at the end of my life I (metaphorically speaking) will have contributed more to the enrichment of human culture than you.
[silence] ...-quantum!
Dilbert:
Ashok: aaaaaaaa! [jumps out of window]
Pointy haired boss: I like it!
That is to say it hasn't really evolved since the 60's (excepting the Dark Knight version) but only adds or deducts a few wings and shapes randomly, and modifies a few lines to keep up with contemporary automotive trends? That's how it looks to my untrained eye anyway.
Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects
Stop putting words in my mouth (and no insects either, thank you). Would it really be that difficullt to write "some scientists" or "one loony scientists" instead of expressions like the above that (though technically ambiguous) to most people sounds like that there is a consensus in the scientific community?
may collapse by 2012 due to
That's not news. The Mayan's, or whatever, told us that like 1500 years ago or somethin'.
..why can't the gov't just give us the money.
Falkvinge's emails were always riddled with simple grammatical errors and sometimes I've even wondered if he bothered to turn on the spell checker. Anna has always written much better.
Nihilism at its best?
I think, therefore I am. Beyond that it all quickly becomes a blur of assumptions and prejudices.
(it's theft even though the copyright holder never had the money in their possession anyway)
you assert this boldly, but it's really an ongoing debate. I didn't want to start this argument though, so let me apologize for using the word "waste" and say that I would rather have written "extend". My meaning was to say that when I take a few steps back and look at it all, it seems kind of weird. With most other crimes there are quite straightforward justifications for what we have the justice system occupied with doing, but with copyright it becomes a bit of an ant hive. Just a feeling, I'm not saying I have the answers.
so I guess the phrase "worthless piece of plastic" added something to the sentence, but way to demonstrate how to attack pieces out of context. Thanks for playing.
Setting aside the possible sleaziness of this particular guy; seen from another perspective it's pretty fantastic how much resources and time we waste on seeking out and punishing people for reorganizing a tiny bunch of molecules on worthless pieces of plastic.
A: "the extent to which one takes advantage of the educational offerings of an institution"
("may be more important, in the long run, than")
B: "how prominently and proudly that institution's name is being displayed on the back windows of cars in the nation's wealthiest enclaves"
I would suggest that there is a correlation between the two. Furthermore everything isn't about expected future income - when you have a major choice before you it is probably better to think about what kind of person you will become, memories you will acquire, experiences; what social connections you will make, etc. That said, perhaps B isn't representing the best measure to go by but I would certainly recommend people to look at rankings when they make this choice. Preferably as domain specific as possible - an institution that is good with one subject may not be so good with another.
What To Do About Mobile Devices That Lie
"Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your mobile devices, and hitting them?"
I thought you paid to be listed first... what's impartial about it to begin with?
Pick a task first and then learn the relevant languages? There are so many languages around these days but in just a few different categories they are very similar. I'd say it's better to learn a little of everything and a lot of the underlying mechanisms. I've found Perl and Python extremely useful for example, but learning them was a matter of spending a few days accomplishing what I wanted accomplished. Of course there is infinite modules left to learn, so I'm not sure what "learning" should mean here.
Again in my limited experience, the windows world is mostly a matter of learning to understand windows. After you understand what kind of things are available to you on the OS level, does it really matter that much if it's Visual Basic, Visual C++ or Visual whatever?
Then on another side of course one needs to know things like object oriented development, but is that a matter of just "learning" something or isn't it rather a question of years of experience? Between two different sets of "years of experience" I suppose it makes a bit difference whether it's been in Java, C++ or some Visual Crap. But "years of experience" is unfortunately not something you can sit down and learn.
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I'm sure that's what the _filthy_ rich tell themselves from time to time :).
Ah, I think they need to add a few steps:
"Stupid people shouldn't have money anyway", to paraphrase Mr. Burns I think.
I suppose they add some things, but surely the process must roughly obey conservation of mass.. How much skin would I loose for a transfusion bag of blood? The thought gave me the chills. (yes yes, I know, between my life and my skin I would of course choose my life).