I was thinking the exact same thing. Well, as long as they teach "alternative, competing theories" like a mystical being, wholly unknown to us except through prayer,
intersceded during the Triassic period to create an irreducibly complex eye, and then went back to his own business, then everything should be just fine.
(not a very good try at sarcasm, but trying)
Science?! Darwin. Need I say more? Darwin was an idiot, global warming is false, none of you understand how we have to save the Iraqi's and 9/11, Just because the repubs have pooped on themselves the last 7 years and have crap on their face doesnt mean the Dems are any better. Im a free-thinking guy and part of my free-thinking tells me that the Bible is correct, that doubters are just trying to be cool with that rock-and-roll-its-cool-to-question-authority. Well, Im not a SHEEP, I think FOR MYSLF, i just happen to not question authority. God, you guys are such sheep. Questioning authority, pushing "science" down everyone's throat. Bring back the middle-eastern nomadic culture and my three sons to help me raise the sheep and a wife in the kitchen. Stupid treehuggers with that free math and science bullshit.
I mean, even your grammar disagrees with you here: "one cannot never win against the police." Cannot never. That means it is impossible for someone to never win against the police. Meaning that at least once in your life, you will win against the police. This is the problem with small-minded people like the fellow here. They pick one fucking word, ignoring the spirit of what the original poster is saying, and then act as if they won the whole thing. There's another class of people who argue like this: Conservatives.
DId you ever care if a Nazi SS Officer felt bad if he saw his friend die in the line of duty? We DONT CARE ABOUT THEM WHEN THEY ACT LIKE NAZI'S , GET IT?
You really don't get it do you?
Having said all of that: Email is not an encrypted protocol by default! The method above is a good method for preventing sniffing on the last hop between you and Gmail (which is why I use it when I'm on an unsecured wifi connection to prevent easy eavesdropping). However, once the mail server sends the message on the open network... it is 100% cleartext. If you want real encryption, get PGP, this advice was true long before Slashdot got its panties in a bind over ISP's 'snooping' on your traffic.
WTF are you talking about. If HTTPS only secured the last hop to your local computer, all credit card transactions and #'s would be visible everywhere, from ebay, amazon, paypal traffic. This makes no sense.
But I have this "crazy Idea" that the government and the people who allow the government to rule over it, are supposed to have a reciprocal, mutual relationship.
That means, for the most part, each "side" has roughly the same "power", whether it is access of information, transparency and accountability, mutual oversight,
and technology. If they detect something crooked on "our" side, we grant them the power to bring that person down; vice versa, we have to have the ability to detect something crooked on thier side as well. Allowing police to implant spyware and having spyware blockers go along with this, while normally a citizen is not supposed to implant spyware and can face prison for this - this is very asymetric. There is a growing amount of asymetry between the police, corrosion of civil rights, and its not conspiracy to believe this; this is factual. Along time ago, armored knights on mounts were uesd to suppress serfs / slaves by crooked rulers in England; When the crossbow came out, *any* peasant could take down a knight with a well placed shot. They were quick to outlaw the crossbow. This is an example of how its important to fight for things that keep symmetry, and how we have to be vigilant and guard against asymmetry. Democracy isnt self-maintaining, and its not suprising how many Republicans are so quick to side with the police, thinking they are just well-reasoned citizens against crackpot-conspiracy theorists, when it is they who haven't studied the history of suppression, the meaning and importance of what our founding fathers were fighting for, and the spirit that belies the Declaration and Constitution: an open society, and a free society. Facism has always been with us, and ive noticed many "fascist" comments from many slashdotters, and I'm amazed at how utterly devoid they are of an education behind that attitude they have. Yes, they don't stress much history, American history as a Comp Sci major, but please, lets try to be smart and not devolve into little imps.
Not an expert in either, but expressing Swarm Theory in abstracts and application is basically Machine Learning concepts, such
as Reinforcement? And the whole simple-rules-produce complex intelligent output demonstrated in both machine control (ball-balancing, process
regulation, game AI, etc) and also the whole Steven Wolfram: A New Kind of Science - cellular automata for more simple-rules
goodness?
Good questions, I'll be busy for a few days... (Will be watching TOOL in concert!!!!! and lots of other partying to be done!) I'll try to answer when I get back and have time.
Just one thing though... Buddhism is the only "religion" I've heard that is completely willing to change its tenets if they ever get proven wrong by science. Why does it matter if Buddhism is the only "religion" that can accomodate and modify its tenets? Certainly it makes it look better than other religions, but thats only to other religions.
Here's such a parallel. A panhandler comes up to you and asks for change. You are broke yourself and say you're sorry and go on your way. He says, wait! "I'm the only panhandler that can draw with my feet while playing guitar with my hands!" The response is: "So what? I still don't have money to give you."
But Hey Man! It'll "Just Get Better and Better" for the Iraqi's! I mean, once they get stores like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream or GAP, heck, even Wal-Mart, they'll TOTALLY THANK US for when Grandma and baby sister died from that wayward U.S. Missle!!
Sure its a little worse NOW, but hey FREEDOM ISNT FREE, mr. Osama Bin Democrat!
Insurance premiums is a ploy to nab a piece of the medical pie. Companies saw how much money doctors were making (justfiably or unjustfiably so), and said "we want some too", lobbied state Congresses to employ mandatory insurance premiums for all practicing doctors, and voila: Corporate bought law strikes again!
Anyone remember say around 1994 when Inkjets started to hit the scene en masse, the supplies needed to hook up the printers, stayed around the same price.. But then after a few years and the inkjets started to sell like wildfire and they sold inkjets at a loss, they realized they could make up the loss by doubling or tripling those related peripherals? Nowadays, you go to any CompUSA, OfficeDepot and try to pick up a 10foot USB cable, you will pay $40. That same cable minus the "gold plating" (like selling a car with "designer perfume and promising it will have a higher horsepower", except here they can take advantage of people's technical ignorance in general and of USB specification and what it means to follow any design specification) has a cost of production below a DOLLAR and with more than double-triple retail markup, still be had for under $3.
I absolutely guarantee if anyone were to dig into this, they would find a huge ugly scandal. HP, Epson, etc.. for purposely NOT supplying cables and I guarantee there is a trail of money from Belkin to HP/Epson/Canon and a trail of money to and from BestBuy/CircuitCity/OfficeDepot/CompUSA to the Printer Manufacturers and the sole one or two USB suppliers. This is ugly, and with this ruling would only help, not hurt those involved, if anyone ever got too curious!!
Amen. I too, am sick of this government that is selling our country away to either large corporations, labor-pool countries (China, India, Mexico, Brazil: republicans love these places), or to private hands one piece at a time, as fast as it possibly can.. Our rights, our resources, our built-in long-standing way of doing things. Evil fucking crooks.
I really want to know! Why are the Republicans on the wrong side of *EVERY* *SINGLE* *ISSUE*?
Is there NOTHING that they can do right? Good Lord, a 96 year-upheld-ruling now violated by neoconservatives?
Really, they are monsters, predators of the most evil kind. I mean, I can see why "conservative" might mean
"not wanting to make abortion legal"(Jesus told me the soul is infused at the point of conception), or
"home schooling because I don't want them liberal teachers teaching mah' boy Jonny that Darwinian monkey nonsense"
(represent the hillbilly populace) or even "Jon Stossel really knows what he's talking about when he talks
about the fraud of Global Warming because its a treehugger conspiracy, see some ice is actuallly growing in some
places!" or "Affirmative Action is racism because we already freed the darkies two hundred years ago, thanks to Abe Lincoln,
the Republican"
Sure, we can swallow all this for a number of reasons, we can live with it, we can tolerate the ignorance...
but removing the ban on price floors? Folks, price floors is a EUPHEMISM FOR COLLUSION
I hate to quote, but from Wikipedia:
In the United States, price fixing can be prosecuted as a criminal felony offence under section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Canada, it is an indictable criminal offence under section 45 of the Competition Act."
Now the REPUBLICANS in the Supreme Court PROTECT CORPORATIONS FROM VIOLATION OF U.S. LAW?
Alito and Roberts must be prosecuted for FEDERAL CONSPIRACY.. I'm sorry they should be put behind bars, or punished w/ a term of life imprisonment. and I would lead the prosecution.
Republican Debating Techniques 101 has adopted the "Oh-both-sides-are-equally-bad, they're all fancy politicians" as well, since the rise of scandals keeps mounting. Rather than abandon ship and admit defeat, they scorch the earth.
Right, there is a certain power structure set-up, as in who knows this contact person at this club, the manager who contacts the manufacturers, arranges the equipment rental and transportation, etc. Perhaps this could be delegated differently. If it is a necessity to have some kind of managerial staff for promotion, etc., why not have it partially subsidized? Say, 0.01% of the cost used in the Iraq War (had we not already spent that money on Cheney's friends). A free market can sometimes be too harsh, but necessary, say if the band was no good, then they shouldn't be promoted. But they bring in a good crowd, yet they struggle. Our society wants to care about music, and that should be official, and the committment from our society for acknowledging the value of music in our culture should be official.
While Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc... are in full technological advance, their culture and students placing larger emphasis on math and sciences, etc... etc.. etc... The best thing that we have to come up with, in this bright age of science and opportunity, for all the possiblities, fighting homelessness and poverty, diseases, exploring and financing philosophy the arts and other
THE BEST thing we can come up with as a country is regulating how people are latching onto other people's broadband?? That stopping DVD piracy is one of our CHIEF CONCERNS?
Imagine that to live so wealthily, to have so much with so much information, so much exploration, all this unprecendented in the HISTORY of MANKIND, and we think about
latching onto broadband? Pirated DVD's?
These people (the administration) are destroying our country. Theoretically, if we go by the standards of Federal Law, for every $10k of taxpayers money stolen like this, there should be roughly 2-3 years in jail. This means we should have all the administration, the FBI, the AG's, imprisoned for LIFE. IMO.
Suppose the Atlanta blue Skye LLC knew they were launching a claim that ignored basic realities, including basic realities of
the internet, that is distribution of information and how-to; If this can be shown to be the case, then
the Atlanta Blue Skye LLC should be open to frivoulous lawsuit charges. Here are the merits of such a case: 1) There are 1,420 web pages that include the term "Bypass Javascript" (from google.com) 2) As the other posts have mentioned, even major browsers have ways of disabling script.
This clearly represents the realm of basic technical understanding. To not know this, and then suppose that doing so would be illegal, is to ignore what has long been established by the major shapers and designers of the modern internet. This is what counts for frivolousness.
Lets not forget the spirit of copyright. It is actually a beautiful instrument as the earlier poster had mentioned : "Copyright and other intellectual property mechanisms exist to promote the sharing of novel and other valuable works".
According to Wikipedias History of Copyright Law, England's Statute of Anne (1710) promotes the author not distributor. The RIAA says it lobbies for the artist, but "The recording industry is able to pay exploitatively low percentages as all the record companies pay artists very similar amounts. Therefore if an artist wants to release their music there is no viable alternative other than to sign away their music to these organisations. This might eventually change in the future with the advent of web based music sales. Services may evolve to allow musicians to sell their music via the web without the need for a record company in its present form and consequently reap a fairer share of the profits from their music." (quote from the Record Industry wiki) Clearly this means the RIAA lobbies for the distributor, hence, this practice is in direct violation of the spirit of copyright, which on that alone, discredits any moral authority from the RIAA (aside from their already heinous behavior). There is no reason why we should not jail the RIAA. The RIAA is an active participant in corporate bought law, which comes down to bribery, a violation of United States Code, Title 18 (Criminal), Chapter 11, Section 201. Mitch Bainwol should be able to get sentenced from anywhere from 0-12 months, unfortunately, but its not in the realm of impossiblity. There is also a stautory maximum fine of $10k or $20k. Right from RIAA's About Us is the quote "The Washington Post has called Bainwol a "Top D.C. Lobbyist and Man in Demand."".
If the music industry goes broke because of piracy ( i wager anyone to prove that this is a realistic threat, backed with charts and data ), then musicians will continue to play music and people who appreciate their music will find ways to support them. Our society, our culture supports music, and we will support musicians, not corporations who paid for $20 million dollar spot or a billboard ad on the back of a bus.
It may not mean that rock stars will get to live like "rock stars" but it will mean that music will always exist as long as people want to express themselves musically, for themselves and for the community they live in, no matter what happens.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. Well, as long as they teach "alternative, competing theories" like a mystical being, wholly unknown to us except through prayer, intersceded during the Triassic period to create an irreducibly complex eye, and then went back to his own business, then everything should be just fine.
(not a very good try at sarcasm, but trying) Science?! Darwin. Need I say more? Darwin was an idiot, global warming is false, none of you understand how we have to save the Iraqi's and 9/11, Just because the repubs have pooped on themselves the last 7 years and have crap on their face doesnt mean the Dems are any better. Im a free-thinking guy and part of my free-thinking tells me that the Bible is correct, that doubters are just trying to be cool with that rock-and-roll-its-cool-to-question-authority. Well, Im not a SHEEP, I think FOR MYSLF, i just happen to not question authority. God, you guys are such sheep. Questioning authority, pushing "science" down everyone's throat. Bring back the middle-eastern nomadic culture and my three sons to help me raise the sheep and a wife in the kitchen. Stupid treehuggers with that free math and science bullshit.
Having said all of that: Email is not an encrypted protocol by default! The method above is a good method for preventing sniffing on the last hop between you and Gmail (which is why I use it when I'm on an unsecured wifi connection to prevent easy eavesdropping). However, once the mail server sends the message on the open network... it is 100% cleartext. If you want real encryption, get PGP, this advice was true long before Slashdot got its panties in a bind over ISP's 'snooping' on your traffic. WTF are you talking about. If HTTPS only secured the last hop to your local computer, all credit card transactions and #'s would be visible everywhere, from ebay, amazon, paypal traffic. This makes no sense.
But I have this "crazy Idea" that the government and the people who allow the government to rule over it, are supposed to have a reciprocal, mutual relationship. That means, for the most part, each "side" has roughly the same "power", whether it is access of information, transparency and accountability, mutual oversight, and technology. If they detect something crooked on "our" side, we grant them the power to bring that person down; vice versa, we have to have the ability to detect something crooked on thier side as well. Allowing police to implant spyware and having spyware blockers go along with this, while normally a citizen is not supposed to implant spyware and can face prison for this - this is very asymetric. There is a growing amount of asymetry between the police, corrosion of civil rights, and its not conspiracy to believe this; this is factual. Along time ago, armored knights on mounts were uesd to suppress serfs / slaves by crooked rulers in England; When the crossbow came out, *any* peasant could take down a knight with a well placed shot. They were quick to outlaw the crossbow. This is an example of how its important to fight for things that keep symmetry, and how we have to be vigilant and guard against asymmetry. Democracy isnt self-maintaining, and its not suprising how many Republicans are so quick to side with the police, thinking they are just well-reasoned citizens against crackpot-conspiracy theorists, when it is they who haven't studied the history of suppression, the meaning and importance of what our founding fathers were fighting for, and the spirit that belies the Declaration and Constitution: an open society, and a free society. Facism has always been with us, and ive noticed many "fascist" comments from many slashdotters, and I'm amazed at how utterly devoid they are of an education behind that attitude they have. Yes, they don't stress much history, American history as a Comp Sci major, but please, lets try to be smart and not devolve into little imps.
Not an expert in either, but expressing Swarm Theory in abstracts and application is basically Machine Learning concepts, such as Reinforcement? And the whole simple-rules-produce complex intelligent output demonstrated in both machine control (ball-balancing, process regulation, game AI, etc) and also the whole Steven Wolfram: A New Kind of Science - cellular automata for more simple-rules goodness?
Amen to that.
Dude, you're making Buddhism look bad. Don't stretch out something to fit something else.
But Hey Man! It'll "Just Get Better and Better" for the Iraqi's! I mean, once they get stores like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream or GAP, heck, even Wal-Mart, they'll TOTALLY THANK US for when Grandma and baby sister died from that wayward U.S. Missle!! Sure its a little worse NOW, but hey FREEDOM ISNT FREE, mr. Osama Bin Democrat!
Insurance premiums is a ploy to nab a piece of the medical pie. Companies saw how much money doctors were making (justfiably or unjustfiably so), and said "we want some too", lobbied state Congresses to employ mandatory insurance premiums for all practicing doctors, and voila: Corporate bought law strikes again!
Anyone remember say around 1994 when Inkjets started to hit the scene en masse, the supplies needed to hook up the printers, stayed around the same price.. But then after a few years and the inkjets started to sell like wildfire and they sold inkjets at a loss, they realized they could make up the loss by doubling or tripling those related peripherals? Nowadays, you go to any CompUSA, OfficeDepot and try to pick up a 10foot USB cable, you will pay $40. That same cable minus the "gold plating" (like selling a car with "designer perfume and promising it will have a higher horsepower", except here they can take advantage of people's technical ignorance in general and of USB specification and what it means to follow any design specification) has a cost of production below a DOLLAR and with more than double-triple retail markup, still be had for under $3. I absolutely guarantee if anyone were to dig into this, they would find a huge ugly scandal. HP, Epson, etc.. for purposely NOT supplying cables and I guarantee there is a trail of money from Belkin to HP/Epson/Canon and a trail of money to and from BestBuy/CircuitCity/OfficeDepot/CompUSA to the Printer Manufacturers and the sole one or two USB suppliers. This is ugly, and with this ruling would only help, not hurt those involved, if anyone ever got too curious!!
Amen. I too, am sick of this government that is selling our country away to either large corporations, labor-pool countries (China, India, Mexico, Brazil: republicans love these places), or to private hands one piece at a time, as fast as it possibly can.. Our rights, our resources, our built-in long-standing way of doing things. Evil fucking crooks.
I really want to know! Why are the Republicans on the wrong side of *EVERY* *SINGLE* *ISSUE*? Is there NOTHING that they can do right? Good Lord, a 96 year-upheld-ruling now violated by neoconservatives? Really, they are monsters, predators of the most evil kind. I mean, I can see why "conservative" might mean "not wanting to make abortion legal"(Jesus told me the soul is infused at the point of conception), or "home schooling because I don't want them liberal teachers teaching mah' boy Jonny that Darwinian monkey nonsense" (represent the hillbilly populace) or even "Jon Stossel really knows what he's talking about when he talks about the fraud of Global Warming because its a treehugger conspiracy, see some ice is actuallly growing in some places!" or "Affirmative Action is racism because we already freed the darkies two hundred years ago, thanks to Abe Lincoln, the Republican" Sure, we can swallow all this for a number of reasons, we can live with it, we can tolerate the ignorance... but removing the ban on price floors? Folks, price floors is a EUPHEMISM FOR COLLUSION I hate to quote, but from Wikipedia: In the United States, price fixing can be prosecuted as a criminal felony offence under section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In Canada, it is an indictable criminal offence under section 45 of the Competition Act." Now the REPUBLICANS in the Supreme Court PROTECT CORPORATIONS FROM VIOLATION OF U.S. LAW? Alito and Roberts must be prosecuted for FEDERAL CONSPIRACY.. I'm sorry they should be put behind bars, or punished w/ a term of life imprisonment. and I would lead the prosecution.
Republican Debating Techniques 101 has adopted the "Oh-both-sides-are-equally-bad, they're all fancy politicians" as well, since the rise of scandals keeps mounting. Rather than abandon ship and admit defeat, they scorch the earth.
conventional stoppage with something like the Patriot is somewhere between 40-70%, and ICBM's can't be stopped with so many dummy warheads.
Right, there is a certain power structure set-up, as in who knows this contact person at this club, the manager who contacts the manufacturers, arranges the equipment rental and transportation, etc. Perhaps this could be delegated differently. If it is a necessity to have some kind of managerial staff for promotion, etc., why not have it partially subsidized? Say, 0.01% of the cost used in the Iraq War (had we not already spent that money on Cheney's friends). A free market can sometimes be too harsh, but necessary, say if the band was no good, then they shouldn't be promoted. But they bring in a good crowd, yet they struggle. Our society wants to care about music, and that should be official, and the committment from our society for acknowledging the value of music in our culture should be official.
While Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc... are in full technological advance, their culture and students placing larger emphasis on math and sciences, etc... etc.. etc... The best thing that we have to come up with, in this bright age of science and opportunity, for all the possiblities, fighting homelessness and poverty, diseases, exploring and financing philosophy the arts and other THE BEST thing we can come up with as a country is regulating how people are latching onto other people's broadband?? That stopping DVD piracy is one of our CHIEF CONCERNS? Imagine that to live so wealthily, to have so much with so much information, so much exploration, all this unprecendented in the HISTORY of MANKIND, and we think about latching onto broadband? Pirated DVD's? These people (the administration) are destroying our country. Theoretically, if we go by the standards of Federal Law, for every $10k of taxpayers money stolen like this, there should be roughly 2-3 years in jail. This means we should have all the administration, the FBI, the AG's, imprisoned for LIFE. IMO.
Suppose the Atlanta blue Skye LLC knew they were launching a claim that ignored basic realities, including basic realities of the internet, that is distribution of information and how-to; If this can be shown to be the case, then the Atlanta Blue Skye LLC should be open to frivoulous lawsuit charges. Here are the merits of such a case: 1) There are 1,420 web pages that include the term "Bypass Javascript" (from google.com) 2) As the other posts have mentioned, even major browsers have ways of disabling script. This clearly represents the realm of basic technical understanding. To not know this, and then suppose that doing so would be illegal, is to ignore what has long been established by the major shapers and designers of the modern internet. This is what counts for frivolousness.
Lets not forget the spirit of copyright. It is actually a beautiful instrument as the earlier poster had mentioned : "Copyright and other intellectual property mechanisms exist to promote the sharing of novel and other valuable works". According to Wikipedias History of Copyright Law, England's Statute of Anne (1710) promotes the author not distributor. The RIAA says it lobbies for the artist, but "The recording industry is able to pay exploitatively low percentages as all the record companies pay artists very similar amounts. Therefore if an artist wants to release their music there is no viable alternative other than to sign away their music to these organisations. This might eventually change in the future with the advent of web based music sales. Services may evolve to allow musicians to sell their music via the web without the need for a record company in its present form and consequently reap a fairer share of the profits from their music." (quote from the Record Industry wiki) Clearly this means the RIAA lobbies for the distributor, hence, this practice is in direct violation of the spirit of copyright, which on that alone, discredits any moral authority from the RIAA (aside from their already heinous behavior). There is no reason why we should not jail the RIAA. The RIAA is an active participant in corporate bought law, which comes down to bribery, a violation of United States Code, Title 18 (Criminal), Chapter 11, Section 201. Mitch Bainwol should be able to get sentenced from anywhere from 0-12 months, unfortunately, but its not in the realm of impossiblity. There is also a stautory maximum fine of $10k or $20k. Right from RIAA's About Us is the quote "The Washington Post has called Bainwol a "Top D.C. Lobbyist and Man in Demand."".
If the music industry goes broke because of piracy ( i wager anyone to prove that this is a realistic threat, backed with charts and data ), then musicians will continue to play music and people who appreciate their music will find ways to support them. Our society, our culture supports music, and we will support musicians, not corporations who paid for $20 million dollar spot or a billboard ad on the back of a bus. It may not mean that rock stars will get to live like "rock stars" but it will mean that music will always exist as long as people want to express themselves musically, for themselves and for the community they live in, no matter what happens.