Um... no? If that were the case, the method would not work in the first place!
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Nope. By craptographic standards there's probably already a known attack that easily breaks such a cipher. If not, a good cryptoanalyst could come up with one in a couple of days.
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We don't go around calling water, waters or aquii do we?
Yes, we do. "Waters" is a perfectly correct and frequently-used word. Googling for "waters" gives over 6 million hits.
If it were a country ruled by an insane dictator, then probably yes, especially if that same dictator has used the same type of weapons on his own civilians, then of course we are going to get him sto stop.
Actually, no. You'd sit and watch for two decades in embarassed silence about the fact that you put him into power and gave him the money to buy the chemical weapons with. THEN, when there's an incompetent president wanting to appear successful and urged on by people to ruin the country by throwing money at the weapons makers they own stocks of, THEN you'll conveniently remember it and use it to manufacture consent.
I am sorry, but communism is contradictory to evolution.
It is not. And of it were, why would that be a problem?
Our lives are governed by the forces of nature, and this requires that the weakest die out childless, the strongest survive.
Bullshit. NOT being governed by forces of nature and instead adapting our environment to our needs (instead of the other way round) is what separates humans from animals.
In capitalism the survival of the fittest is achieved with money - homeless and unemployed can not afford to have children.
Bullshit. Having money is no indication whatsoever of fitness, because most of the time it's inherited.
There always has to be poverty, there is no way to avoid it.
Says who?
Guys with plenty of money can afford more wives and / or lovers and have more offspring, so that their genes get propagated. Beautiful women marry rich guys, so their children have better prospects of survival. How does it work in communism ?
Why should it have to?
How do you model the social hierarchy there? Is there any social hierarchy in communism ?
Not much of one. That's the point, really.
Don't be ridiculuous.
If anything is ridiculous it's your naive social darwinism.
Ah well, if it was a troll, it was a good one. If it was serious, it's a nice example of how to combine an authoritarian personality with neo-con propaganda and a total lack of independant thinking.
Then you have to worry about those with poor or no hearing, as well as those with poor or no sound equipment.
Um... no. Of course you'd offer the visual and a aural tests as ALTERNATIVES, thereby only leaving people who are BOTH blind and deaf to worry about. For them, a riddle or puzzle (which would have to be text-only to work on a braille display) could be a third alternative.
And then you wake up and notice how Goldman Sachs predicts China to overtake the US economically in 2039 "Within four years China will have overtaken Germany; Japan by 2015 and crossed the US by 2039 to become the world's largest economy ( All in U.S dollar terms)"
Don't forget that China has 5 times the USA's population, 10 times Japan's and 16 times that of Germany. It's not at all surprising or threatening that their GDP would be bigger. However, that huge population won't be content with the lack of democratic controls or labour protection laws forever...
RAID1 is *not* a backup method. It protects you only against hardware failure, not against accidental deletion, malicious deletion (be it through virus, a hacker or a disgruntled employee) or a power spike toasting the entire array.
and it's not like Microsoft are going to stop supporting it any time soon.
Um... actually, yes, they will. Seven years is pretty soon for some applications, especially if it's a closed source product and "end of lifecycle" means that you can get *no* security and bug fixes at all, no matter how much you'd be willing to pay for it.
the computers will carry out what they perceive to be the highest goal, or highest challenge.
Why should they? Even among humans, challenge comes last in the hierarchy of needs (Maslow), after bodily needs are satisfied and secured and social acceptance is achieved. And there's no compelling reason to assume that once machines achieve intelligence, they will operate on the same basic motivations as humans.
But whats best about the changes MS made to Windows XP is the multi-threaded boot process. Other than the kernel load the userland stuff is mostly all multi-threaded even on boot. This means services and whatnot are starting concurrently without waiting for other things to finish. Its somewhat less safe - a failed service could potentially cause others to hang and lock the system and/or cause a reset - however, I've yet to see that problem in the field. The net result is that on a typical AMD/P4 Windows XP box you can get to a login prompt/welcome screen in under 30 seconds, often under 20. Yup, I absolutely love XP's lightning-bootup. But the main thing that made it possible was the implementation of non-exclusive read locking of the registry, without which the multithreaded approach would have been useless. I don't think it's any less safe - there are well-known techniques for avoiding deadlocks that should be applicable.
Bullshit. My mentioning floods wasn't an attempt to "proove" anything in itself, it was just an example for damages caused by global warming. That GW does cause increased flooding is something most experts on climate will tell you.
Not so. That global warming is causing an increase in storms, floods and draughts is an easily observable fact. And I said that research may eventually show that we caused it. The point is that it does make sense to spend money to try and prevent global warming, even though we're not yet certain if we're having an impact at all, because finding out for sure may happen so late than by then we'll have suffere far, far bigger damages. It's called "hedging your bets".
we dont know crap about this planet's weather history. 3000 years is the only amount of time the dominant species has had to try and record things and weather was not of importance 90% of that time.
But it's reasonable to suffer far *more* billions of dollars in damage from more flooding, more storms, more draughts while waiting for conclusive evidence that may then tell us far too late that we could have prevented it easily when it was still a minor trend?
Java is slower than C you blockhead. How could it be any other way, given that Java is interpreted whereas C is compiled!?
Java has not usually been "interpreted" for years. And in its JIT compilation, it can use optimizations based on data available only at runtime, which could in some cases make it faster than precompiled C code. Admittedly, that's rare and most of the time Java is slower.
You may be thinking about patenting processes, ideas, DNA and other rubbish but the EU system isn't as abused or open to abuse as the US.
Actually, it is. Or at least trying very hard to be. The European Patent Office has been issuing software patents for years, even though it isn't allowed to. They can't be enforced yet, but that will change if the directive passes and is implemented.
Furthermore, the quality of the examination of patent application has decreased drastically for some time now.
A more common problem is that the applications used to create the data and/or their documentation do not exist any more, rendering the data as useless as if the physical media had been destroyed.
Um... no. That's a decade-old bromide that's becoming more untrue every year. Today we have downward compatibility and standardized, open data formats. I'm not saying that the problem can never occur, but it's not common and easy to avoid. Besides, even if you were stuck with a proprietary data format, you could most likely reverse-engineer it with moderate effort.
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Exactly because it's lossy compression there can be a big difference. You have to select very carefully which data to keep and which to throw away.
You meant: people are way too optimistic about its benefits and all but ignorant about the threats. Yup, sounds about right...
Of all the available options to get rid of the pest, this seems like the far most humane and effective way.
True. Now if only it were also the safest...
Um... no? If that were the case, the method would not work in the first place!
Nope. By craptographic standards there's probably already a known attack that easily breaks such a cipher. If not, a good cryptoanalyst could come up with one in a couple of days.
Yes, we do. "Waters" is a perfectly correct and frequently-used word. Googling for "waters" gives over 6 million hits.
Because the loss of faith in their product during a long trial would cost them more? Not an uncommon case at all.
And this is different from the current situation with IPV4 HOW??
Actually, no. You'd sit and watch for two decades in embarassed silence about the fact that you put him into power and gave him the money to buy the chemical weapons with. THEN, when there's an incompetent president wanting to appear successful and urged on by people to ruin the country by throwing money at the weapons makers they own stocks of, THEN you'll conveniently remember it and use it to manufacture consent.
It is not. And of it were, why would that be a problem?
Our lives are governed by the forces of nature, and this requires that the weakest die out childless, the strongest survive.
Bullshit. NOT being governed by forces of nature and instead adapting our environment to our needs (instead of the other way round) is what separates humans from animals.
In capitalism the survival of the fittest is achieved with money - homeless and unemployed can not afford to have children.
Bullshit. Having money is no indication whatsoever of fitness, because most of the time it's inherited.
There always has to be poverty, there is no way to avoid it.
Says who?
Guys with plenty of money can afford more wives and / or lovers and have more offspring, so that their genes get propagated. Beautiful women marry rich guys, so their children have better prospects of survival. How does it work in communism ?
Why should it have to?
How do you model the social hierarchy there? Is there any social hierarchy in communism ?
Not much of one. That's the point, really.
Don't be ridiculuous.
If anything is ridiculous it's your naive social darwinism.
Ah well, if it was a troll, it was a good one. If it was serious, it's a nice example of how to combine an authoritarian personality with neo-con propaganda and a total lack of independant thinking.
No, you're going with misinformation.
Communism is the belief that people should earn what their work is worth, instead of most of it making some flithy rich guys even richer.
Not a problem if each of them is so difficult that it's far beyond the current state of the art in AI research.
Um... no. Of course you'd offer the visual and a aural tests as ALTERNATIVES, thereby only leaving people who are BOTH blind and deaf to worry about. For them, a riddle or puzzle (which would have to be text-only to work on a braille display) could be a third alternative.
Don't forget that China has 5 times the USA's population, 10 times Japan's and 16 times that of Germany. It's not at all surprising or threatening that their GDP would be bigger. However, that huge population won't be content with the lack of democratic controls or labour protection laws forever...
RAID1 is *not* a backup method. It protects you only against hardware failure, not against accidental deletion, malicious deletion (be it through virus, a hacker or a disgruntled employee) or a power spike toasting the entire array.
Um... actually, yes, they will. Seven years is pretty soon for some applications, especially if it's a closed source product and "end of lifecycle" means that you can get *no* security and bug fixes at all, no matter how much you'd be willing to pay for it.
Yes, they are.
Why should they? Even among humans, challenge comes last in the hierarchy of needs (Maslow), after bodily needs are satisfied and secured and social acceptance is achieved. And there's no compelling reason to assume that once machines achieve intelligence, they will operate on the same basic motivations as humans.
But whats best about the changes MS made to Windows XP is the multi-threaded boot process. Other than the kernel load the userland stuff is mostly all multi-threaded even on boot. This means services and whatnot are starting concurrently without waiting for other things to finish. Its somewhat less safe - a failed service could potentially cause others to hang and lock the system and/or cause a reset - however, I've yet to see that problem in the field. The net result is that on a typical AMD/P4 Windows XP box you can get to a login prompt/welcome screen in under 30 seconds, often under 20.
Yup, I absolutely love XP's lightning-bootup. But the main thing that made it possible was the implementation of non-exclusive read locking of the registry, without which the multithreaded approach would have been useless. I don't think it's any less safe - there are well-known techniques for avoiding deadlocks that should be applicable.
Bullshit. My mentioning floods wasn't an attempt to "proove" anything in itself, it was just an example for damages caused by global warming. That GW does cause increased flooding is something most
experts
on climate
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tell you.
Not so. That global warming is causing an increase in storms, floods and draughts is an easily observable fact. And I said that research may eventually show that we caused it. The point is that it does make sense to spend money to try and prevent global warming, even though we're not yet certain if we're having an impact at all, because finding out for sure may happen so late than by then we'll have suffere far, far bigger damages. It's called "hedging your bets".
Actually, we have data that goes at least 100,000 years back
But it's reasonable to suffer far *more* billions of dollars in damage from more flooding, more storms, more draughts while waiting for conclusive evidence that may then tell us far too late that we could have prevented it easily when it was still a minor trend?
Java has not usually been "interpreted" for years. And in its JIT compilation, it can use optimizations based on data available only at runtime, which could in some cases make it faster than precompiled C code. Admittedly, that's rare and most of the time Java is slower.
Actually, it is. Or at least trying very hard to be. The European Patent Office has been issuing software patents for years, even though it isn't allowed to. They can't be enforced yet, but that will change if the directive passes and is implemented.
Furthermore, the quality of the examination of patent application has decreased drastically for some time now.
Um... no. That's a decade-old bromide that's becoming more untrue every year. Today we have downward compatibility and standardized, open data formats. I'm not saying that the problem can never occur, but it's not common and easy to avoid. Besides, even if you were stuck with a proprietary data format, you could most likely reverse-engineer it with moderate effort.