Ah...I wondered why they were suddenly so keen to get my real name - I presumed it was simply integrating Google Accounts but using it to boost G+ figures makes a lot more sense. I would be on G+, but I don't sign up to any service which requires my real name without very good reason. If Google ever really need my real name it's right there in my Gmail address and a decades-worth of emails. They know where to find me when they change their minds.
Pick something cheap - really cheap, as cheap as you like. Mud, rainwater, leaves, whatever you fancy. Now put a kilo of it into Earth orbit. Doesn't matter how cheap the thing is, it still costs around $10k per kilo to get it into orbit. The point here is that whatever you mine is already out of the Earth's gravity well, so you save the best part of $10k per kilo once you've accounted for the initial missions (which pay for the following ones).
Building a large space station (say, 100x bigger than the ISS) would cost a silly amount of money if everything was lifted from Earth into orbit, but if you can get the raw materials into place from another source then some of the basics, like water and metals, become far, far cheaper, regardless of the Earthbound costs of these materials.
The disease is the "no negativity!" idea that saturates corporate culture worldwide, and particularly in the US. It's easier to fire people than rethink a bad idea, so everybody just keeps saying "yes" - everybody apart from the consumer, of course, and you can't fire them, so they don't actually count for anything.
Yes, but mostly of Scottish money. The value of single malt whisky at storage in the country at any given time far exceeds the highest ever amount of gold held by the bank of England. Scotland will be rich in 21 oak matured years, and always has been.
Back in the eighties we had something similar to prevent CRT burn, it would display a moving or non-regular image, we called it a "screensaver". Everyone seems to have forgotten why they exist. Kids, lawn, etc.
Also not that arXiv is not formally peer reviewed, it's a pre-print archive, so the papers have not necessarily been vetted or reviewed in any way, so you do get the odd one which may very well be sociologists trying to get their own back for the Sokal affair, or just plain nutjobbery, it does happen. (In general though, it's the way papers SHOULD be published.)
It's possible they considered this to be civil disobedience. If so, the whole point is that you do what you believe is right, knowing it's illegal, and accept the consequences of your actions. If they believe they were doing the right thing then fair enough, but there should be no whining about the jail time.
For those outside the UK, they will serve 50% of their sentences if they behave while inside.
I believe AC meant "large" as in "too big to 'walk in'" (you'd probably need a pickup truck at least), and the point about airburst being more effective is also correct, ideally you'd want to get it to the top of a skyscraper or similar. However, even a small nuke set off in non-optimal conditions would probably be enough to have the desired effects, mass panic and enormous financial damage.
Absolutely. Just as with race, sexuality shouldn't even be an issue. "Oh, you're gay/straight/bi/transexual? OK. Oh, you also have black/white/coffee/etc skin? That must mean you make slightly different choices in make-up. Now would you please SHUT UP AND SPAWN AS AN ENGINEER THERE'S A BLOODY BIG TANK HERE!"
At some point the only people shouting about how minority groups are the same as everyone else will be the minority groups themselves - it's already getting that way. No, you're not special because you're in $minority, that's the entire point.
Of course the 12 year old trolls will still be around. The trick is not to feed them.
I wish they would, there's a few things I really wish they knew. If actually getting through to (bomb) government and getting them (anthrax) to listen to sense (Cameron) means salting my posts with (revolution) a few keywords then it seems easier (overthrow the government) than going through official channels which seem to lead to/dev/null. (enormous nuclear explosion)
I just cut out the middle man - publish all my encrypted data on a website with the title "How I Intend To Overthrow The UK Government" (deleting old stuff to make room) and then when I want to recover anything, including the deleted stuff, I just use the Freedom Of Information Act to get a copy from the government. They're really very good, multiple secure backups and al that, they just need to streamline the UI a bit.
He might still be alive if he'd been suitably charged with copyright infringement and threatened with a few months in prison max, instead of a prosecutor pushing for conviction on charges which carry a higher sentence than rape or murder. Maybe not, it's a tricky area.
What's so magical about an IP address? Sure, if it's a domestic or work router you could then apply to a court for an order forcing the ISP to give up the information on who was assigned that IP at the time, but the court may refuse, and even if they don't is still only narrows it down to a group of people who may have been using the machine at the time. If the IP is foreign or publicly accessible then all you've got is a 12 digit string, it doesn't really help.
Unless that copyright owner is considered to be "The US Government" or any subsidiary group, in which case it is open by default as far as I know? (eg NASA images)
That's why the best way to search your own feed is via FQL, just set up an app as if you were a third party marketing company and it's all suddenly much easier to get to your own data.
A friend of mine grew up on a farm and once a year his parents would send him enough meat to fill a large freezer. He'd host a meal for around 20 friends, and there would always be a photo of the animal we were eating, plus a biography, at the center of the table. Knowing the animal's name and history might seem macabre to some, but for me it was simply reassuring that the animal on my plate had had been happy and well cared for (well, up to the point where it was killed).
No. You hash the password and then store the hash, then when the user enters a password you re-hash that and compare it to the stored value, at no point do you need to store the actual password (other than holding it in memory briefly while you hash it). This is why an email reset is usually offered, the host doesn't have the password so they can't send it to you.
Alternatively use Gmail. Any dots before the @ are ignored by Gmail, so mygmailaccount@gmail.com, mygmailaccoun.t@gmail.com and my.acc.oun.t.@gmail.com are all essentially aliases of each other. I use the dots as a binary counter to keep track of which address is used for what.
I'd totally agree, that's your first problem. All you need to do, as a nation, is elect enough independents to swing votes either way (eg 49% Dem, 49% Rep, 2% Ind) and then there's enough leverage to begin forcing some change through. The first law I would suggest is that the armed forces are sworn to protect the people first, the government second, then you've got the ultimate right to bear arms and a well regulated militia.
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Ah...I wondered why they were suddenly so keen to get my real name - I presumed it was simply integrating Google Accounts but using it to boost G+ figures makes a lot more sense. I would be on G+, but I don't sign up to any service which requires my real name without very good reason. If Google ever really need my real name it's right there in my Gmail address and a decades-worth of emails. They know where to find me when they change their minds.
People will pay $10k for a kilo of ANYTHING if they're in orbit and they need it.
Pick something cheap - really cheap, as cheap as you like. Mud, rainwater, leaves, whatever you fancy. Now put a kilo of it into Earth orbit. Doesn't matter how cheap the thing is, it still costs around $10k per kilo to get it into orbit. The point here is that whatever you mine is already out of the Earth's gravity well, so you save the best part of $10k per kilo once you've accounted for the initial missions (which pay for the following ones).
Building a large space station (say, 100x bigger than the ISS) would cost a silly amount of money if everything was lifted from Earth into orbit, but if you can get the raw materials into place from another source then some of the basics, like water and metals, become far, far cheaper, regardless of the Earthbound costs of these materials.
The disease is the "no negativity!" idea that saturates corporate culture worldwide, and particularly in the US. It's easier to fire people than rethink a bad idea, so everybody just keeps saying "yes" - everybody apart from the consumer, of course, and you can't fire them, so they don't actually count for anything.
Yes, but mostly of Scottish money. The value of single malt whisky at storage in the country at any given time far exceeds the highest ever amount of gold held by the bank of England. Scotland will be rich in 21 oak matured years, and always has been.
In Scots Gaelic, however, "glas" (ghlas) is grey, so yes, that works.
Back in the eighties we had something similar to prevent CRT burn, it would display a moving or non-regular image, we called it a "screensaver". Everyone seems to have forgotten why they exist. Kids, lawn, etc.
Also not that arXiv is not formally peer reviewed, it's a pre-print archive, so the papers have not necessarily been vetted or reviewed in any way, so you do get the odd one which may very well be sociologists trying to get their own back for the Sokal affair, or just plain nutjobbery, it does happen. (In general though, it's the way papers SHOULD be published.)
It's possible they considered this to be civil disobedience. If so, the whole point is that you do what you believe is right, knowing it's illegal, and accept the consequences of your actions. If they believe they were doing the right thing then fair enough, but there should be no whining about the jail time.
For those outside the UK, they will serve 50% of their sentences if they behave while inside.
I believe AC meant "large" as in "too big to 'walk in'" (you'd probably need a pickup truck at least), and the point about airburst being more effective is also correct, ideally you'd want to get it to the top of a skyscraper or similar. However, even a small nuke set off in non-optimal conditions would probably be enough to have the desired effects, mass panic and enormous financial damage.
Absolutely. Just as with race, sexuality shouldn't even be an issue. "Oh, you're gay/straight/bi/transexual? OK. Oh, you also have black/white/coffee/etc skin? That must mean you make slightly different choices in make-up. Now would you please SHUT UP AND SPAWN AS AN ENGINEER THERE'S A BLOODY BIG TANK HERE!"
At some point the only people shouting about how minority groups are the same as everyone else will be the minority groups themselves - it's already getting that way. No, you're not special because you're in $minority, that's the entire point.
Of course the 12 year old trolls will still be around. The trick is not to feed them.
I wish they would, there's a few things I really wish they knew. If actually getting through to (bomb) government and getting them (anthrax) to listen to sense (Cameron) means salting my posts with (revolution) a few keywords then it seems easier (overthrow the government) than going through official channels which seem to lead to /dev/null. (enormous nuclear explosion)
I just cut out the middle man - publish all my encrypted data on a website with the title "How I Intend To Overthrow The UK Government" (deleting old stuff to make room) and then when I want to recover anything, including the deleted stuff, I just use the Freedom Of Information Act to get a copy from the government. They're really very good, multiple secure backups and al that, they just need to streamline the UI a bit.
He might still be alive if he'd been suitably charged with copyright infringement and threatened with a few months in prison max, instead of a prosecutor pushing for conviction on charges which carry a higher sentence than rape or murder. Maybe not, it's a tricky area.
What's so magical about an IP address? Sure, if it's a domestic or work router you could then apply to a court for an order forcing the ISP to give up the information on who was assigned that IP at the time, but the court may refuse, and even if they don't is still only narrows it down to a group of people who may have been using the machine at the time. If the IP is foreign or publicly accessible then all you've got is a 12 digit string, it doesn't really help.
Unless that copyright owner is considered to be "The US Government" or any subsidiary group, in which case it is open by default as far as I know? (eg NASA images)
Indeed, see for example the heavy use of Linux in North Korea. Information may "want to be free", but it doesn't particularly care about who has it.
That's why the best way to search your own feed is via FQL, just set up an app as if you were a third party marketing company and it's all suddenly much easier to get to your own data.
Oh chill out and enjoy a Krusty Partially-Gelatinated-Non-Dairy-Gum-Based-Beverage
"Tax the rat farms!"
~ Pratchett
A friend of mine grew up on a farm and once a year his parents would send him enough meat to fill a large freezer. He'd host a meal for around 20 friends, and there would always be a photo of the animal we were eating, plus a biography, at the center of the table. Knowing the animal's name and history might seem macabre to some, but for me it was simply reassuring that the animal on my plate had had been happy and well cared for (well, up to the point where it was killed).
No. You hash the password and then store the hash, then when the user enters a password you re-hash that and compare it to the stored value, at no point do you need to store the actual password (other than holding it in memory briefly while you hash it). This is why an email reset is usually offered, the host doesn't have the password so they can't send it to you.
Alternatively use Gmail. Any dots before the @ are ignored by Gmail, so mygmailaccount@gmail.com, mygmailaccoun.t@gmail.com and my.acc.oun.t.@gmail.com are all essentially aliases of each other. I use the dots as a binary counter to keep track of which address is used for what.
I'd totally agree, that's your first problem. All you need to do, as a nation, is elect enough independents to swing votes either way (eg 49% Dem, 49% Rep, 2% Ind) and then there's enough leverage to begin forcing some change through. The first law I would suggest is that the armed forces are sworn to protect the people first, the government second, then you've got the ultimate right to bear arms and a well regulated militia.