While I wouldn't quite have put it in those terms, I too am quite surprised by the completely childish attitude of MS. What's wrong with those people ? Was making one file that hard ?
Mosquitoes trapped in amber wouldn't be great sources of DNA - it would have still decomposed over time. Not in the "something ate it" sense of the word, but in the "radioactive particles" sense of the word. So you're saying we should really be looking for mosquitoes trapped in lead ?
The other carriers could implement visual voicemail too if they were able to carry the iphone. And there I was thinking could use visual voicemail for quite a while with my Sony phone (or any 3G phone for that matter). Oh wait, silly me, I'm not in the US (aka the backwater of personal telecoms).
You don't know that the poster had permission to post the code in the first place. The obvious thing to do would be to sue the web site and let the judge sort it out in that case.
"Hey, that guy stole our code ! look, even the comments are the same, we want (raise pinkie) a MILLION DOLLARS !"
Parfitt has an interesting argument on this. [... ] Or to put in another way- the 'you' having your current thoughts is going to be gone and replaced by someone with your identity having the thoughts you would have in five minutes whether you copyport or not. A similar argument was that "you do go to sleep at night with no guarantee that you're the same 'you' in the morning yet do so daily".
I still would have second thoughts before stepping into a teleport contraption.:)
How do you know you wouldn't just experience being painfully killed: poof, bye-bye, assume afterlife, nonexistence, or reincarnation, depending on your beliefs.
I doubt that what would happen would be a matter of personal belief...;) but I disgress...
Meanwhile, the copy of you with all your memories (or, all from before the "teleporter") doesn't realize that you have experienced death-- or even that s/he isn't you but a copy. It would be the same to everyone you know-- they wouldn't be able to tell that you'd been replaced by a dopoulganger. Your replacement, not knowing any better, would assure everyone that the process was completely safe and painless, and that "you" came to the other end just fine.
The only person that would know the difference is you, except you're not around anymore to know or tell. You're dead.
If the system is designed to transmit data, then the person is indeed destroyed, if the system transmits matter (as in "wormhole" kind of thingie, except you'd come out whole except as badly mangled sub-particles) the person would presumably be the same.
My question with those teleporter things always was, what if the thing misfires and keeps the local copy ? How do you decide which is the right one ?
The question of "what makes an individual" has also been tackled many times in scifi, notably lately by Alastair Reynolds in his Revelation Space series (which you might want to take a look at if you haven't heard of it yet) where a few people have been scanned (destructively) into computer simulations. In his world, those simulations are considered akin to the same thing. The situation is quite similar to the teleportation scenario.
Regarding lock-in, though, the online banking industry here standardized on an ActiveX plugin before SSL was common, so anyone who wants to bank online has to be on MS Windows. It sucks here. IIRC SSL was built into the Netscape browsers as soon as 94. I'm not sure ActiveX even existed back then. Granted the first versions of SSL weren't very good but the secured versions quickly followed. Anyway I doubt the reason for that strange Korean particularity is because of the unavailability of SSL. There must have been another reason.
What I don't get is why people still act as if Russia wasn't a dictatorship while it clearly is.
It puts on a lazy show of elections like any dictatorship is expected to do, even goes as far as not having the party in power not win with 97% of votes but that doesn't change anything to the reality of what's going on there. Made up wars (although the "western" democracies seem to do that a lot lately), numerous murders, broadlight corruption at every level of the state...
That the states play the "our good friend Putin" game because of the hydrocarbons flowing out of Russia is one thing, but that a lot of people still somewhat believe it's a "rough" democracy still baffles me (not that the parent poster sems to believe so).
Ubiquitous encryption does make law enforcement harder. So it's just a matter of how much you value security versus privacy. What security ? I'm not threatened by people using encryption since I don't own Big Media (tm) shares.
And as for "evil people", whether they have crypto freely available or not doesn't change anything. Good crypto is available everywhere already. Whether it's outlawed or not people will still use it. Should it vanish overnight for some reason, there are alternatives (one time pads, courriers, etc.).
All of the various hysterical measures taken in the recent years have presumably had marginal effect on security. Except that a lot of people feel less safe from their police with its increased powers nowadays.
Makes sense to me. A little splash of bleach and that petri dish won't have any live cells in it. Yet bleach is NOT suitable for internal use. Chemotherapy works in pretty much the same way. You pump what is basically a fairly nasty cell toxic into the body and hope it kills the cancerous cells faster than it kills the rest of the body (I did simplify a bit). Sometimes you have to try several combinations to find the one that targets your particular strain best. You still kill quite a few regular cells though.
It's a bit of a flamethrower vs. fly approach but, well, flamethrowers do work against fly s dont'ya know ?
Well, sometimes they do. Didn't work with my mother for example. But it *could* have... um, statistically speaking.
If this isn't a strong argument that blacklisting systems are unethical, I don't know what is. Imagine being targeted by vigilantes because you bought a house which was previously occupied by a sex offender and so the addreess is listed on the local sex offender registry. That's essentially what's happening here. Except that on the network, whole subnets are written off because of one or two addresses.
One house shouldn't be equal to a whole block (class C) or a whole town (class B) even though it makes life easier for the RBL maintainers.
AIDS isnt even all that bad anymore. You take some pills. Not that bad as in *if* you're in a rich country you can get a treatment that's quite uncomfortable and has lots of not very nice side effects and while it leaves you still alive (and therefore free to do science if you like), still leaves you with a depressed immune system which means you still have to take lots of silly precautions. So while I suppose that people with AIDS are happy not to be dead, it's still not a very comfortable illness to have. Not to mention that there's apparently still a heavy social ostracism against sick people even though you have to try fairly hard to catch it from a carrier.
Most heart conditions are probably easier to live with.
Oops. About the hedges, these do not really absorb much excesses. They fix the land and prevent landslides, keep the water in place until it dries. And they provide(d) a habitat for innumerable critters... A lot of which were also useful to us BTW.
or maybe, in germany the market itself works in the consumer's interest like it was supposed to... and they dont even need consumer orgs because they have real competition... i tell you, it is the horror ! Nah, the US would have invaded again if something like that was happening. Can't have rogue nations right in the middle of Europe.
So do our clocks leap forward or fall back during a leap second? What if it happens in the spring? Nothing happens to the spring, you just have to keep it wound. Don't you know *anything* about clocks ?
We used to have 120 pence to the pound in the UK. Much simpler when divvying up the bill at restaurants. Try dividing 100 by three people, four people, six people. Now try it with 120 or multiples thereof. But what about five and ten? Yeah - much harder with 120 (sarcasm). Quite, just the other day I had to divide 100 by 4 and had to have a lie down after that major feat of applied brain power (sarcasm).
Of course the original British system was much simpler than the decimalized one with two farthings = one ha'penny, to ha'penny = one penny, three pennies = a trupenny bit, two thrupence = a sixpence, two sixpence = one shilling (aka a bob), two bob = a florin, one florin and a sixpence = half a crown, four half crowns = ten bob notes, two ten bob notes = one pounds (also two hundred and fourty pennies) and one pound and a shilling = one guinea. No wonder they can't divide 100 by 4 anymore.
Or maybe other countries are in favor of giving consumer choices? Or is that anti-capitalist? If that was the purpose it would have been a consumer org starting the court action, not a rival telco.
For the Visa waiver program, I also need to fill out a form every time asking whether I am a nazi, have any infectious diseases or have the intention to commit terrorist acts. I always thought this was brilliant. Think of all the time saved on police work !
Shock? What shock? Nobody will know what the hell the kid's talking about. The shock will likely be on the kid's side anyway when he finds out that none of his friends talk to him anymore and when he finds himself stuffed in his locker at the end of most of his schooldays. Damn nerds speaking gibberish.
Another example of how Canadian customers get screwed: by charging 33% more for the same product (Our looney is at par with the greenback these days, or worth even more!) Try crossing the Pond and buying stuff in euros or in UK pounds one of these days. You'll find that despite what the markets say, 1USD = 1GBP or 1EUR (at least, if not more).
The markup for US stuff over here can be quite astounding (but then we're all so rich we can afford to pay double the prices).
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While I wouldn't quite have put it in those terms, I too am quite surprised by the completely childish attitude of MS. What's wrong with those people ? Was making one file that hard ?
Mosquitoes trapped in amber wouldn't be great sources of DNA - it would have still decomposed over time. Not in the "something ate it" sense of the word, but in the "radioactive particles" sense of the word. So you're saying we should really be looking for mosquitoes trapped in lead ?
Og has mammoth license. Is written on cave wall.
The proper name is "War on Security". It's not supposed to be used outside of Redmond though.
Oh wait, silly me, I'm not in the US (aka the backwater of personal telecoms).
"Hey, that guy stole our code ! look, even the comments are the same, we want (raise pinkie) a MILLION DOLLARS !"
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Or to put in another way- the 'you' having your current thoughts is going to be gone and replaced by someone with your identity having the thoughts you would have in five minutes whether you copyport or not. A similar argument was that "you do go to sleep at night with no guarantee that you're the same 'you' in the morning yet do so daily".
I still would have second thoughts before stepping into a teleport contraption.
How would we know it didn't happen this way:
How do you know you wouldn't just experience being painfully killed: poof, bye-bye, assume afterlife, nonexistence, or reincarnation, depending on your beliefs.
I doubt that what would happen would be a matter of personal belief...Meanwhile, the copy of you with all your memories (or, all from before the "teleporter") doesn't realize that you have experienced death-- or even that s/he isn't you but a copy. It would be the same to everyone you know-- they wouldn't be able to tell that you'd been replaced by a dopoulganger. Your replacement, not knowing any better, would assure everyone that the process was completely safe and painless, and that "you" came to the other end just fine.
The only person that would know the difference is you, except you're not around anymore to know or tell. You're dead.
If the system is designed to transmit data, then the person is indeed destroyed, if the system transmits matter (as in "wormhole" kind of thingie, except you'd come out whole except as badly mangled sub-particles) the person would presumably be the same.My question with those teleporter things always was, what if the thing misfires and keeps the local copy ? How do you decide which is the right one ?
The question of "what makes an individual" has also been tackled many times in scifi, notably lately by Alastair Reynolds in his Revelation Space series (which you might want to take a look at if you haven't heard of it yet) where a few people have been scanned (destructively) into computer simulations. In his world, those simulations are considered akin to the same thing. The situation is quite similar to the teleportation scenario.
Anyway I doubt the reason for that strange Korean particularity is because of the unavailability of SSL. There must have been another reason.
What I don't get is why people still act as if Russia wasn't a dictatorship while it clearly is.
It puts on a lazy show of elections like any dictatorship is expected to do, even goes as far as not having the party in power not win with 97% of votes but that doesn't change anything to the reality of what's going on there. Made up wars (although the "western" democracies seem to do that a lot lately), numerous murders, broadlight corruption at every level of the state...
That the states play the "our good friend Putin" game because of the hydrocarbons flowing out of Russia is one thing, but that a lot of people still somewhat believe it's a "rough" democracy still baffles me (not that the parent poster sems to believe so).
Still, technology is frightening (ooooh, lookat all em numbers)
I'm not threatened by people using encryption since I don't own Big Media (tm) shares.
And as for "evil people", whether they have crypto freely available or not doesn't change anything. Good crypto is available everywhere already. Whether it's outlawed or not people will still use it. Should it vanish overnight for some reason, there are alternatives (one time pads, courriers, etc.).
All of the various hysterical measures taken in the recent years have presumably had marginal effect on security.
Except that a lot of people feel less safe from their police with its increased powers nowadays.
(well, ok, silver originally, as the other posters said)
Sometimes you have to try several combinations to find the one that targets your particular strain best. You still kill quite a few regular cells though.
It's a bit of a flamethrower vs. fly approach but, well, flamethrowers do work against fly s dont'ya know ?
Well, sometimes they do. Didn't work with my mother for example. But it *could* have... um, statistically speaking.
One house shouldn't be equal to a whole block (class C) or a whole town (class B) even though it makes life easier for the RBL maintainers.
So while I suppose that people with AIDS are happy not to be dead, it's still not a very comfortable illness to have. Not to mention that there's apparently still a heavy social ostracism against sick people even though you have to try fairly hard to catch it from a carrier.
Most heart conditions are probably easier to live with.
Or, why don't we just redefine the second to deal with all of this in the first place? Wouldn't speeding up the earth be less of a hassle ?
Don't you know *anything* about clocks ?
Of course the original British system was much simpler than the decimalized one with two farthings = one ha'penny, to ha'penny = one penny, three pennies = a trupenny bit, two thrupence = a sixpence, two sixpence = one shilling (aka a bob), two bob = a florin, one florin and a sixpence = half a crown, four half crowns = ten bob notes, two ten bob notes = one pounds (also two hundred and fourty pennies) and one pound and a shilling = one guinea.
No wonder they can't divide 100 by 4 anymore.
(apologies to Pratchett and Gaiman)
Damn nerds speaking gibberish.
The markup for US stuff over here can be quite astounding (but then we're all so rich we can afford to pay double the prices).