So most people realize, on some level, that the purpose of many of these rules is to make the people administering the network feel safer? For example, if you a company is sued by the RIAA/MPAA on the basis of someone on their network downloading music/movies illegally, they would have the protection of that being against their policies, so they can either fire that person for violating the policies, or pass on the lawsuit (for example, suing that person in turn).
Thus, if you know what you are doing, it doesn't matter if it is against the rules unless attention is drawn to it - and unless it is harmful, the worst that would happen is probably a slap on the wrist, and perhaps not even that.
Erm...
The right to participate in a constitutional democracy should only extend to those who wish to uphold the ideals it was founded on. In other words, if I believe that the sole purpose of the world is to amuse me (which I do), and then choose to design a device to make the world even more amusing, possibly by killing hundreds, thousands, or millions of other humans, I would not be permitted to participate in the voting process of the United States of America, because my actions would have contributed to/caused the deaths of other people, hence violating their right to live without being killed for little or no reason.
On the same note, if I believe that a given person was given a right by god to rule over me (which I do not), I should not be allowed to participate in the USA's government, as the idea of a person being given the right to rule by god goes contrary to the ideas of the founders of the USA. Or, at least, I should not be allowed to pursue a course of actions which would result in the united states being ruled by the previously mentioned person.
Of course, the patriot act (and the stuff which goes along with it) pretty much abolished any power the people have to govern themselves in the united states, when you think about it*, so these points don't really matter any more.
* The president can define Terrorism. This allows him to control the government by removing anyone who does not agree with him. Probably.
Think about it from the other angle: If you know that you are being watched, and hence that you will be protected from harm, you are more likely to take risks. For example, if you know that a vehicle will stop before it hits you, because of some sort of automatic stop button in it, you are much more likely to walk across the street when there are vehicles coming, because they will not hurt you (of course, the chance of this increases when you are in a hurry, or when your senses are clouded by alcohol or drugs). Of course, eventually you will be too confident in your own safety, and will step out too quickly and get hit by a car, and perhaps killed.
Clearly, if it is completely wrong all the time, it is simply predicting the unpredictable for an alternate universe. We must then prepare to invade this alternate universe to allow the computer to predict what we are doing.
Did you RTFM? All of those issues are very common, and only require a few changes to the config files to correct. As I recall, you need to set EVILUBUNTU=0 in morals.conf. There should be a GUI option for this in the next version, but until then you have to do it manually.
I would rather have Tempest, personally. You can get more power from it (although, admittedly, it tends to overload whatever I/O device you use, and capsize^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcrash your computer).
Because if they refer to Rootkits as Viruses, than Sony will sue them - because a music CD installing a rootkit is better than a music CD giving you a virus.
The issue is not hat you could not buy a space monkey with a QUID, it is that no one has a space monkey to sell you. I predict that, when you are able to buy a space monkey in space - and assuming that the QUID maintains its value - you will be able to buy it with a QUID. Well, not A QUID. Depending on how rare space monkeys are, you might need a few million QUIDs. Or perhaps you could buy a QUID with a space monkey...
Time to start using pigeons (or smoke signals) to get information...
I wonder what sort of compression would have to be used to get a fairly good speed connection?
There are already subtitling groups which do this. I believe that that practice is called Digisubbing, or something along those lines. While it allows them to released subbed versions of episodes much faster, they tend to be lower quality, and would need to be polished a lot to get to a point where they would be chosen over the more traditional, manual method of translating and subbing.
On the other hand, being able to get subs minutes after an episode is released would be very fun...
Who cares about Linux? It might be able to run Vista in real-time. Now that would be impressive... Just think about what it could do with Linux on it! Oh, wait...
The people who agreed to do this (lawyers, publicity people, who probably only know how to use a word processor and turn on a computer) did so without consulting the programmers/developers. If the programmers/developers are smart enough, they have already gone on record as saying that this is probably technologically impossible to do, and are speaking with their lawyers about arranging not to get in trouble if it doesn't work.
As normal, the people who make policy decisions live in their own little universe that has little relation to the world that the programmers/developers live in - in other words, the world the represents what actually happens.
Actually, with the recent push to replace physical money with credit cards (at least according to a lot of ads I've seen recently), and the increasing (okay, almost absolute) prominence of credit or debit cards for major purchases, you don't even control your money anymore. Corporations that are governed by laws, which, according to you, have been auctioned off, control most of your money, and, once they control the laws, can do whatever they want with it.
Basically, they let you think you have control of their money because it helps prevent rebellion against the government, which would collapse their entire system.
(None of the above should be taken as advice, fact, or as anything other than random musings from a parallel universe. If any of it happens to be true, it is simply by coincidence).
Cheap as in 4.4GB for between 20 and 30 cents? That's the current price for DVD+Rs, as I recall (HD space is about 1GB for 20 - 30 cents). When you can get a 4GB flash card (SD is a nice form factor - easy to store and move around - so I'll say and SD card) for under 40 cents, it might be ready to compete with DVD+Rs for write once applications. Until then, I'll go with the DVDs, thanks.
And a lot of the toys they were(?) making turned out to be along the lines of chemical weapons, and a lot of their pollution is migrating to the west coast. Perhaps China has declared war with the USA already and no one has noticed yet? Or, more likely, no one is being allowed to notice yet (which raises the question of the wisdom of presenting this theory).
Because it starts spell-checking before the word is finished being typed. This is different from normal spell-checkers which wait, for example, until you type a space after the word before checking it. In other words, it would compare every word you type with it's database of commonly used words, as you type it, and give results based on the frequency of the words used.
Which is what OpenOffice does (when I correct a word I mistyped it remembers the original and the correction, and gives me the option to press tab (or enter), to select that word), and what my Cellphone does (it gives me a list of commonly used words containing the letters I've typed every time I type in a new letter), and what a lot of other stuff does.
I really hope that this patent gets overthrown as obvious.
If the person "stealing" the wireless access was actually breaking into it (eg, accessing a secured wireless router by cracking the password or hacking the router), than it might make sense for the law to get involved. However, in this case, using an unsecured wireless router amounts to picking up some money off the street and using it (not an exact analogy, but close). If you leave something where anyone can take it, without trespassing on your property (breaking in to your house, or computer), then there is no reason for someone to be arrested for taking or using it.
If the infrastructure cannot handle what they are selling, then they should not be selling it. It's very similar to renting out space in an apartment building by the pound, but selling more pounds of space than the building can take - because not everyone is going to be there are once, right? And then you force the people using the building to pay for upgrading it so that it can handle what they paid for.
No; if they had written their own code, the vulnerabilities would have varied between systems, making the effectiveness of an attack less than it is in a monoculture. Of course, had they done that, there would have been a slew of new and exiting vulnerabilities, which might be much more major.
It completely covered both of my monitors, but, luckily, I've got Firefox (and pretty much everything else) set up to crash whenever I switch desktops. A feature which finally has a use!
(And than I disabled Java, which completely fixed the issue).
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So most people realize, on some level, that the purpose of many of these rules is to make the people administering the network feel safer? For example, if you a company is sued by the RIAA/MPAA on the basis of someone on their network downloading music/movies illegally, they would have the protection of that being against their policies, so they can either fire that person for violating the policies, or pass on the lawsuit (for example, suing that person in turn). Thus, if you know what you are doing, it doesn't matter if it is against the rules unless attention is drawn to it - and unless it is harmful, the worst that would happen is probably a slap on the wrist, and perhaps not even that.
Erm ...
The right to participate in a constitutional democracy should only extend to those who wish to uphold the ideals it was founded on. In other words, if I believe that the sole purpose of the world is to amuse me (which I do), and then choose to design a device to make the world even more amusing, possibly by killing hundreds, thousands, or millions of other humans, I would not be permitted to participate in the voting process of the United States of America, because my actions would have contributed to/caused the deaths of other people, hence violating their right to live without being killed for little or no reason.
On the same note, if I believe that a given person was given a right by god to rule over me (which I do not), I should not be allowed to participate in the USA's government, as the idea of a person being given the right to rule by god goes contrary to the ideas of the founders of the USA. Or, at least, I should not be allowed to pursue a course of actions which would result in the united states being ruled by the previously mentioned person.
Of course, the patriot act (and the stuff which goes along with it) pretty much abolished any power the people have to govern themselves in the united states, when you think about it*, so these points don't really matter any more.
* The president can define Terrorism. This allows him to control the government by removing anyone who does not agree with him. Probably.
So the way around this issue is to give the seller an IOU, and then when they think you are crazy, pay the IOU with cash?
Or, even better: There is a big difference between 1,000,000 people and 1,000,000 accounts.
Think about it from the other angle: If you know that you are being watched, and hence that you will be protected from harm, you are more likely to take risks. For example, if you know that a vehicle will stop before it hits you, because of some sort of automatic stop button in it, you are much more likely to walk across the street when there are vehicles coming, because they will not hurt you (of course, the chance of this increases when you are in a hurry, or when your senses are clouded by alcohol or drugs). Of course, eventually you will be too confident in your own safety, and will step out too quickly and get hit by a car, and perhaps killed.
Clearly, if it is completely wrong all the time, it is simply predicting the unpredictable for an alternate universe. We must then prepare to invade this alternate universe to allow the computer to predict what we are doing.
Did you RTFM? All of those issues are very common, and only require a few changes to the config files to correct. As I recall, you need to set EVILUBUNTU=0 in morals.conf. There should be a GUI option for this in the next version, but until then you have to do it manually.
I would rather have Tempest, personally. You can get more power from it (although, admittedly, it tends to overload whatever I/O device you use, and capsize^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcrash your computer).
Because if they refer to Rootkits as Viruses, than Sony will sue them - because a music CD installing a rootkit is better than a music CD giving you a virus.
The issue is not hat you could not buy a space monkey with a QUID, it is that no one has a space monkey to sell you. I predict that, when you are able to buy a space monkey in space - and assuming that the QUID maintains its value - you will be able to buy it with a QUID. Well, not A QUID. Depending on how rare space monkeys are, you might need a few million QUIDs. Or perhaps you could buy a QUID with a space monkey ...
You're right: there isn't. Assuming that you want to be able to carry it, that is.
Time to start using pigeons (or smoke signals) to get information ...
I wonder what sort of compression would have to be used to get a fairly good speed connection?
There are already subtitling groups which do this. I believe that that practice is called Digisubbing, or something along those lines. While it allows them to released subbed versions of episodes much faster, they tend to be lower quality, and would need to be polished a lot to get to a point where they would be chosen over the more traditional, manual method of translating and subbing. On the other hand, being able to get subs minutes after an episode is released would be very fun ...
Who cares about Linux? It might be able to run Vista in real-time. Now that would be impressive ... Just think about what it could do with Linux on it! Oh, wait ...
The fact that, while it is moving in the direction of a dictatorship, that I am not the dictator?
The people who agreed to do this (lawyers, publicity people, who probably only know how to use a word processor and turn on a computer) did so without consulting the programmers/developers. If the programmers/developers are smart enough, they have already gone on record as saying that this is probably technologically impossible to do, and are speaking with their lawyers about arranging not to get in trouble if it doesn't work. As normal, the people who make policy decisions live in their own little universe that has little relation to the world that the programmers/developers live in - in other words, the world the represents what actually happens.
Actually, with the recent push to replace physical money with credit cards (at least according to a lot of ads I've seen recently), and the increasing (okay, almost absolute) prominence of credit or debit cards for major purchases, you don't even control your money anymore. Corporations that are governed by laws, which, according to you, have been auctioned off, control most of your money, and, once they control the laws, can do whatever they want with it. Basically, they let you think you have control of their money because it helps prevent rebellion against the government, which would collapse their entire system. (None of the above should be taken as advice, fact, or as anything other than random musings from a parallel universe. If any of it happens to be true, it is simply by coincidence).
Cheap as in 4.4GB for between 20 and 30 cents? That's the current price for DVD+Rs, as I recall (HD space is about 1GB for 20 - 30 cents). When you can get a 4GB flash card (SD is a nice form factor - easy to store and move around - so I'll say and SD card) for under 40 cents, it might be ready to compete with DVD+Rs for write once applications. Until then, I'll go with the DVDs, thanks.
And a lot of the toys they were(?) making turned out to be along the lines of chemical weapons, and a lot of their pollution is migrating to the west coast. Perhaps China has declared war with the USA already and no one has noticed yet? Or, more likely, no one is being allowed to notice yet (which raises the question of the wisdom of presenting this theory).
Because it starts spell-checking before the word is finished being typed. This is different from normal spell-checkers which wait, for example, until you type a space after the word before checking it. In other words, it would compare every word you type with it's database of commonly used words, as you type it, and give results based on the frequency of the words used. Which is what OpenOffice does (when I correct a word I mistyped it remembers the original and the correction, and gives me the option to press tab (or enter), to select that word), and what my Cellphone does (it gives me a list of commonly used words containing the letters I've typed every time I type in a new letter), and what a lot of other stuff does. I really hope that this patent gets overthrown as obvious.
If the person "stealing" the wireless access was actually breaking into it (eg, accessing a secured wireless router by cracking the password or hacking the router), than it might make sense for the law to get involved. However, in this case, using an unsecured wireless router amounts to picking up some money off the street and using it (not an exact analogy, but close). If you leave something where anyone can take it, without trespassing on your property (breaking in to your house, or computer), then there is no reason for someone to be arrested for taking or using it.
And, even better, we are approaching a Technological Singularity (Wikipedia has a rather good article on it, and I saw a book about it a while ago).
If the infrastructure cannot handle what they are selling, then they should not be selling it. It's very similar to renting out space in an apartment building by the pound, but selling more pounds of space than the building can take - because not everyone is going to be there are once, right? And then you force the people using the building to pay for upgrading it so that it can handle what they paid for.
No; if they had written their own code, the vulnerabilities would have varied between systems, making the effectiveness of an attack less than it is in a monoculture. Of course, had they done that, there would have been a slew of new and exiting vulnerabilities, which might be much more major.
It completely covered both of my monitors, but, luckily, I've got Firefox (and pretty much everything else) set up to crash whenever I switch desktops. A feature which finally has a use! (And than I disabled Java, which completely fixed the issue).