The majority of pro-gun arguments I've heard are based on the idea that the US government is going to turn all Nazi and try to repress the people in a way that only an armed uprising can prevent. Frankly, if anyone is being paranoid it's the people who believe the US government is fundamentally broken and buy a few guns instead of, you know, trying to fix it within the current legal and political frameworks. I think the paranoid side is fairly clear.
You had it easy. When I were a lad we had to have our house painted Facebook blue, we were all issued with RFID "like" stamps we had to use at least 300 times a day before we were allowed any food, all rubbish had to be signed and scanned before it could be sent to Permanent Storage, and every tuesday evening Mark Zuckerberg would come round and we had to pick the athlete's foot flakes from between his toes.
Precisely. Yes, I agree with the general idea that this should generally be a civil matter, but there are cases where jail time is appropriate. I'm pretty sure there are clauses in my online banking T&C which would be considered serious fraud if I breached them. The problem is prosecutors trying to set themselves up as "internet specialists" by pushing for convictions under unsuitable laws instead of going for the simple, pre-existing (but less interesting on a CV/resume) fraud laws.
YouTube keep pestering me to enter my real name too (I suspect as part of integration into G+), but they've always offered "I don't want to, or can't, use my real name". If they force the issue they'll get a deleted account instead of my name, however.
It's similar to the idea of a spamerang - whenever you receive spam you add the sending address to a big, open, online list. The idea being that eventually the vast majority of spam is sent to other spammers. Yes, I realise there's 101 problems with this (hence spam is still around) but anything that converts a feeling of mild impotent rage into a feeling of vengeful satisfaction is a good thing in my book.
I've got a OTK generator as part of a very basic UK personal current account, they've been around for about a decade now, and are becoming more widespread. It's used instead of / as well as standard "enter characters 1, 5 and 9 of your memorable name" system.
I use precisely this technique for presenting discount vouchers to people who have signed up to a restaurant mailing list, identical system but for white hat purposes:
1 - send an email to the relevant contacts, including an embedded image at domain.com/voucher.php?id=xyz where "xyz" is a unique account ID.
2 - when the recipient receives the email the voucher that is displayed has their name on it, the image is generated on-the-fly using the unique ID to get the name right.
3 - (this is the important bit) - if anyone logs into domain.com/voucher.php without passing a correct ID then they simply see a voucher marked as invalid, and a link to where they can sign up. In my case it stops non-members getting a voucher, in the spammers case it stops a non-target (including investigators) from seeing the exploit being presented to a "customer", most likely someone from a list of known phishing mugs.
The major issue is handing over access keys to a corporate VPN to a random bloke in another country. Frankly, I'm quite impressed with the general concept, but introducing a huge security breach isn't going to make you popular, he should have just had the guy email him code and the ctrl-V it himself, cutting the security breach out, he'd probably never have been caught unless there was something unexpected in the code.
Fair call, I should clarify: Yes, the clustering happens because of gravity, but not because they were all spread out and gravity pulled them into a structure. The density fluctuations which cause a "structure" were there in the first few moments of the universe, what gravity does is amplify the effect and make the structure more obvious. If there was no gravity these would still be "structures", but they'd be identifiable as fractionally denser areas of matter rather than big, obvious, visible-from-billions-of-light-years-away structures. The structure is caused by the initial state of the universe, gravity makes it even more obvious.
From the sounds of it this is a case of proximity rather than being gravitationally bound:
Since 1982 it has been know that quasars tend to group together in clumps or ‘structures’ of surprisingly large sizes, forming large quasar groups or LQGs.
Most things in space tend to cluster together - dust around stars forms planets, stars group together in galaxies, there's a hierarchy of galactic clusters and super clusters, and some of the largest scale structures can contain tens of thousands of galaxies. These large scale structures aren't caused by gravity pulling galaxies together, it's more of an inbuild clustering effect which originates in slight density fluctuations in the very early universe.
Which is an angle the defence lawyer should be playing. There's so much "reasonable doubt" involved in a case like this that if it goes before a jury there's a good chance they'll acquit.
Indeed. Frequency and timing are simply two of many variables which have to be balanced to provide true profanic power. It's well known that mastery of a second language is complete when you can swear with a native speaker's flair, because you need to understand the social background to the language - something which is a huge challenge for a fucktard computer.
Roof nets are more expensive than replacement workers, they're only used to save the share price from falling when people complain about high suicide rates, catching the workers is just a side-effect.
Makes sense. Why have just the one big screen that can display information when you could have a whole department devoted to a system that can push information to a wide range of tablets with different operating systems, software installations and capabilities. It's far more fun trying to work around the 30% of students who don't have LaTeX installed, the 42% without Flash, the 19% without an HTML5 browser and the guy who should be expelled because he prefers a notebook and pen.
Yes, you can override it to fire or not fire, but when the system is functioning as intended then it holds the firing pin until the time is right. Yes, it all happens on a faster scale which is dwarfed by the human input times, but for a few brief milliseconds the software takes over the firing decision.
Yup, target shot with.22 rifles for a couple of years, I also understand that the shooter's heartbeat and respiratory state play a role. I'd certainly agree that the "decision time" when a human takes a shot is quite long, you squeeze the trigger while you keep the sights on and at some point it goes bang, but it's not a "yes/no" pull on the trigger. I don't believe that this system would be any more dangerous than a human (it could well be safer), but I do maintain the final decision is made by software. (Interesting semi-technical book on the theme: Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots)
Or a system which places the "outside world" correctly as you move around, which either needs a large amount of space to move around in, or a moving/tilting floor.
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The majority of pro-gun arguments I've heard are based on the idea that the US government is going to turn all Nazi and try to repress the people in a way that only an armed uprising can prevent. Frankly, if anyone is being paranoid it's the people who believe the US government is fundamentally broken and buy a few guns instead of, you know, trying to fix it within the current legal and political frameworks. I think the paranoid side is fairly clear.
You had it easy. When I were a lad we had to have our house painted Facebook blue, we were all issued with RFID "like" stamps we had to use at least 300 times a day before we were allowed any food, all rubbish had to be signed and scanned before it could be sent to Permanent Storage, and every tuesday evening Mark Zuckerberg would come round and we had to pick the athlete's foot flakes from between his toes.
A lot of "experienced" drivers are, in fact, "lucky so far".
You've lost me - if you're suggesting I should be prosecuted for fraud instead of under the T&C breach then that was exactly my point.
Precisely. Yes, I agree with the general idea that this should generally be a civil matter, but there are cases where jail time is appropriate. I'm pretty sure there are clauses in my online banking T&C which would be considered serious fraud if I breached them. The problem is prosecutors trying to set themselves up as "internet specialists" by pushing for convictions under unsuitable laws instead of going for the simple, pre-existing (but less interesting on a CV/resume) fraud laws.
I'll certainly say people shouldn't actually do it, but I stand by the "vengeful satisfaction from impotent rage" being a bonus.
Yeah! 'cos taking antiviral drugs is usually a lot of fun!
(Also in reply to idontgno) - yes, that's one of the 101 things that are wrong with it, as I pointed out. 100 to go...
YouTube keep pestering me to enter my real name too (I suspect as part of integration into G+), but they've always offered "I don't want to, or can't, use my real name". If they force the issue they'll get a deleted account instead of my name, however.
It's similar to the idea of a spamerang - whenever you receive spam you add the sending address to a big, open, online list. The idea being that eventually the vast majority of spam is sent to other spammers. Yes, I realise there's 101 problems with this (hence spam is still around) but anything that converts a feeling of mild impotent rage into a feeling of vengeful satisfaction is a good thing in my book.
I've got a OTK generator as part of a very basic UK personal current account, they've been around for about a decade now, and are becoming more widespread. It's used instead of / as well as standard "enter characters 1, 5 and 9 of your memorable name" system.
They don't, that the point.
I use precisely this technique for presenting discount vouchers to people who have signed up to a restaurant mailing list, identical system but for white hat purposes:
1 - send an email to the relevant contacts, including an embedded image at domain.com/voucher.php?id=xyz where "xyz" is a unique account ID.
2 - when the recipient receives the email the voucher that is displayed has their name on it, the image is generated on-the-fly using the unique ID to get the name right.
3 - (this is the important bit) - if anyone logs into domain.com/voucher.php without passing a correct ID then they simply see a voucher marked as invalid, and a link to where they can sign up. In my case it stops non-members getting a voucher, in the spammers case it stops a non-target (including investigators) from seeing the exploit being presented to a "customer", most likely someone from a list of known phishing mugs.
The major issue is handing over access keys to a corporate VPN to a random bloke in another country. Frankly, I'm quite impressed with the general concept, but introducing a huge security breach isn't going to make you popular, he should have just had the guy email him code and the ctrl-V it himself, cutting the security breach out, he'd probably never have been caught unless there was something unexpected in the code.
Fair call, I should clarify: Yes, the clustering happens because of gravity, but not because they were all spread out and gravity pulled them into a structure. The density fluctuations which cause a "structure" were there in the first few moments of the universe, what gravity does is amplify the effect and make the structure more obvious. If there was no gravity these would still be "structures", but they'd be identifiable as fractionally denser areas of matter rather than big, obvious, visible-from-billions-of-light-years-away structures. The structure is caused by the initial state of the universe, gravity makes it even more obvious.
Most things in space tend to cluster together - dust around stars forms planets, stars group together in galaxies, there's a hierarchy of galactic clusters and super clusters, and some of the largest scale structures can contain tens of thousands of galaxies. These large scale structures aren't caused by gravity pulling galaxies together, it's more of an inbuild clustering effect which originates in slight density fluctuations in the very early universe.
Which is an angle the defence lawyer should be playing. There's so much "reasonable doubt" involved in a case like this that if it goes before a jury there's a good chance they'll acquit.
What prequels? Sheesh, you'll be rambling on about some "The Matrix" sequel or something next.
Indeed. Frequency and timing are simply two of many variables which have to be balanced to provide true profanic power. It's well known that mastery of a second language is complete when you can swear with a native speaker's flair, because you need to understand the social background to the language - something which is a huge challenge for a fucktard computer.
Roof nets are more expensive than replacement workers, they're only used to save the share price from falling when people complain about high suicide rates, catching the workers is just a side-effect.
Disclaimer: all figures pulled from thin air. If only I'd had a tablet handy, I could have found the real figures...
Makes sense. Why have just the one big screen that can display information when you could have a whole department devoted to a system that can push information to a wide range of tablets with different operating systems, software installations and capabilities. It's far more fun trying to work around the 30% of students who don't have LaTeX installed, the 42% without Flash, the 19% without an HTML5 browser and the guy who should be expelled because he prefers a notebook and pen.
Yes, you can override it to fire or not fire, but when the system is functioning as intended then it holds the firing pin until the time is right. Yes, it all happens on a faster scale which is dwarfed by the human input times, but for a few brief milliseconds the software takes over the firing decision.
And a steady brain.
Yup, target shot with .22 rifles for a couple of years, I also understand that the shooter's heartbeat and respiratory state play a role. I'd certainly agree that the "decision time" when a human takes a shot is quite long, you squeeze the trigger while you keep the sights on and at some point it goes bang, but it's not a "yes/no" pull on the trigger. I don't believe that this system would be any more dangerous than a human (it could well be safer), but I do maintain the final decision is made by software. (Interesting semi-technical book on the theme: Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots)
Or a system which places the "outside world" correctly as you move around, which either needs a large amount of space to move around in, or a moving/tilting floor.