I think you're being a bit optimistic - my flatmate co-wrote a number 5 album, he got ~$10k for the first year's sales and about $1k a year from then on, it's hardly a fortune.
Pretty sure they've done it via the BT DNS, the IP leads straight there with no problem. This looks like BT are doing the bare minimum to comply with the courts. Completely blocking the site in the UK is pretty impractical anyway, in this case the laws "reasonable steps" equates to the techie's "virtually ineffective". The lack of basic computer knowledge amongst UK law lords and politicians is depressing and a tad scary.
I'm all in favour of copyright, the artists/funders have to see some sort of profit from their work, but they're concentrating on the difficult stuff (stopping violations completely) and ignoring the easy stuff (make paying for it easier and better than pirating it).
Interesting idea even if I think you've gone too far. I'd suggest 2001 if you want to throw him in at the deep end but still have themes suitable for kids. And if he's not seen Spielberg's version of Jurassic Park then DO NOT LET HIM until he's read the book (Michael Crighton), the film is good, but as ever...
And there's no way anybody should be discussing ethics and the evil men do with an eight year old. Heaven forbid they learn something and stop making the same dumb mistakes the rest of the species has. You did read to the end of the book didn't you? The whole point is "kid learns for himself that genocide and war are Bad Things, and helps save a species".
It's been removed from at least one library for being unsuitable due to the fight-in-the-shower scene. Utterly wonderful book, I discovered it last year at the ripe old age of 36 and can't believe I missed it as a kid.
I'd highly recommend Asimov's "Lucky Starr" series (aka "Space Ranger"), full length kids novels that are absolutely enthralling, even re-reading them as an adult. They may well be out of print now, but abebooks.com (.co.uk) is your friend. They're no longer astronomically accurate, featuring the oceans of Venus for example, but unless you find a really old edition there's a little disclaimer from the good Doctor explaining this and encouraging further reading.
See also Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series, Orson Scott Card's wonderful "Ender's Game" (with the 8 year old we all were as the hero) and anything by Nicholas Fisk or John Wyndam.
And to make sure non-techies don't accidentally opt-in, require a registry hack and a self generated salted hash. Why is the bad stuff "easy" while it's "difficult" to maintain privacy?
Science and religion (and philosophy for that matter) share many features, but the whole point of science is to protect against the incorrect or misleading statements of the others. So it's completely possible (and fairly common) for a scientist to hold religious beliefs, as long as science is practiced correctly then the religious beliefs will have zero impact on the results.
Bingo. I don't use Facebook because it doesn't offer me anything I consider to be of equivalent value to my data (not to mention the fact that I don't like the way the company operates when it comes to privacy control). Google's services on the other hand, yes, they are worth it for me. So Google get my data, Facebook don't, Google makes a few cents from my data, Facebook doesn't get the "$800 per user/year" figure that's bandied about.
It can snap you out of an infinite brain loop though. I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck on a problem, but solved it pretty quickly after having a smoke. Ditto alcohol, adrenalin and caffeine, anything to get your brain out of the rut it's in. I've also had some insights while using the strongest hallucinogen known, dreaming. Agreed, being perpetually stoned isn't going to help in the long run, but many people working on logic based problems will admit to moderate drug use when they hit a mental block.
People go to jail for "unauthorised" use of such skills. There's nothing wrong with using them on systems where you have permission to, such as penetration testing, and I'm willing to bet MS employ a good few people to do just that. And, of course, when you hand your perfectly legal research over to the government or military then it's up to them to use it responsibly. Which, of course, they will.
But given that the noise is fundamentally based on quantum mechanical events, can this really claim to be classical rather than a clever way to generate a quantum key?
Yeah. You know what, you should really stick it to them by buying a bunch of drugs from me at a bargain knock-down price that undercuts Big Pharma! Go on, it'll really piss them off, and I guarantee that there's not much rat poison, baking powder and whatever dust I found in the attic in my "remedies"!
Agreed. I play Battlefield with a mate who's actually very good, but will rage quit out of a game if we're losing because "the other players are cheating". His definition of cheating so far includes:
Using shotguns
Sniping
Being good with helicopters
Pinning us down and mortaring us
Being better than us (probably)
It's a war simulator, there's only one thing I can think of in the game that breaks the Geneva convention, and that's shooting people on parachutes before they hit the ground.
You mean it looks like it was developed by somebody who skimmed the fancy graphic design because they were concentrating on a secure and stable OS? We can only hope - I realise the graphic design of the UI is an element in usability, but it's been given precedence over getting the bugs ironed out in some quarters...
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I think you're being a bit optimistic - my flatmate co-wrote a number 5 album, he got ~$10k for the first year's sales and about $1k a year from then on, it's hardly a fortune.
Pretty sure they've done it via the BT DNS, the IP leads straight there with no problem. This looks like BT are doing the bare minimum to comply with the courts. Completely blocking the site in the UK is pretty impractical anyway, in this case the laws "reasonable steps" equates to the techie's "virtually ineffective". The lack of basic computer knowledge amongst UK law lords and politicians is depressing and a tad scary.
I'm all in favour of copyright, the artists/funders have to see some sort of profit from their work, but they're concentrating on the difficult stuff (stopping violations completely) and ignoring the easy stuff (make paying for it easier and better than pirating it).
Bitch all you want about the /. moderation system, but that is correct in every possible way with the exception of a new Funny/Informative rating.
In this case, it's "patent good". You want the money from this idea? Sure, write it all down here please. It's public, by the way. Cheers.
No, but I do want the research to help robots perform as accurately as a human.
Interesting idea even if I think you've gone too far. I'd suggest 2001 if you want to throw him in at the deep end but still have themes suitable for kids. And if he's not seen Spielberg's version of Jurassic Park then DO NOT LET HIM until he's read the book (Michael Crighton), the film is good, but as ever...
Fantastic books, even to re-read as an adult. The moment with the peas and the axle grease in "Oceans Of Venus" caught me out a 10 and again at 33.
Seconded, and he even does a few books aimed specifically at kids, "Wee Free Men" for example.
And there's no way anybody should be discussing ethics and the evil men do with an eight year old. Heaven forbid they learn something and stop making the same dumb mistakes the rest of the species has. You did read to the end of the book didn't you? The whole point is "kid learns for himself that genocide and war are Bad Things, and helps save a species".
It's been removed from at least one library for being unsuitable due to the fight-in-the-shower scene. Utterly wonderful book, I discovered it last year at the ripe old age of 36 and can't believe I missed it as a kid.
I'd highly recommend Asimov's "Lucky Starr" series (aka "Space Ranger"), full length kids novels that are absolutely enthralling, even re-reading them as an adult. They may well be out of print now, but abebooks.com (.co.uk) is your friend. They're no longer astronomically accurate, featuring the oceans of Venus for example, but unless you find a really old edition there's a little disclaimer from the good Doctor explaining this and encouraging further reading.
See also Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series, Orson Scott Card's wonderful "Ender's Game" (with the 8 year old we all were as the hero) and anything by Nicholas Fisk or John Wyndam.
And to make sure non-techies don't accidentally opt-in, require a registry hack and a self generated salted hash. Why is the bad stuff "easy" while it's "difficult" to maintain privacy?
Science and religion (and philosophy for that matter) share many features, but the whole point of science is to protect against the incorrect or misleading statements of the others. So it's completely possible (and fairly common) for a scientist to hold religious beliefs, as long as science is practiced correctly then the religious beliefs will have zero impact on the results.
Bingo. I don't use Facebook because it doesn't offer me anything I consider to be of equivalent value to my data (not to mention the fact that I don't like the way the company operates when it comes to privacy control). Google's services on the other hand, yes, they are worth it for me. So Google get my data, Facebook don't, Google makes a few cents from my data, Facebook doesn't get the "$800 per user/year" figure that's bandied about.
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TL;DR - it gets you out of the Deja Foobar ;)
It can snap you out of an infinite brain loop though. I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck on a problem, but solved it pretty quickly after having a smoke. Ditto alcohol, adrenalin and caffeine, anything to get your brain out of the rut it's in. I've also had some insights while using the strongest hallucinogen known, dreaming. Agreed, being perpetually stoned isn't going to help in the long run, but many people working on logic based problems will admit to moderate drug use when they hit a mental block.
People go to jail for "unauthorised" use of such skills. There's nothing wrong with using them on systems where you have permission to, such as penetration testing, and I'm willing to bet MS employ a good few people to do just that. And, of course, when you hand your perfectly legal research over to the government or military then it's up to them to use it responsibly. Which, of course, they will.
But given that the noise is fundamentally based on quantum mechanical events, can this really claim to be classical rather than a clever way to generate a quantum key?
Yeah. You know what, you should really stick it to them by buying a bunch of drugs from me at a bargain knock-down price that undercuts Big Pharma! Go on, it'll really piss them off, and I guarantee that there's not much rat poison, baking powder and whatever dust I found in the attic in my "remedies"!
Ammunition isn't as effective against Ebola, however. In fact it makes things worse, what with the spattering and all.
Hit it hard and hit it fast, it's the same epidemiological solution to a zombie uprising.
Agreed. I play Battlefield with a mate who's actually very good, but will rage quit out of a game if we're losing because "the other players are cheating". His definition of cheating so far includes:
Using shotguns
Sniping
Being good with helicopters
Pinning us down and mortaring us
Being better than us (probably)
It's a war simulator, there's only one thing I can think of in the game that breaks the Geneva convention, and that's shooting people on parachutes before they hit the ground.
It depends - some systems add artificial lag to all players to bring everyone down to the level of the laggiest player (within reason, I'd imagine).
You mean it looks like it was developed by somebody who skimmed the fancy graphic design because they were concentrating on a secure and stable OS? We can only hope - I realise the graphic design of the UI is an element in usability, but it's been given precedence over getting the bugs ironed out in some quarters...