English is like a data protocol with such a big shitload of grammatical integrity checks and redundancy that most of the time you can be understood quite well even if you mess it up.
Aiding and abetting censorship versus exposing your employees to imprisonment or worse at the hands of an oppressive government.
I think Google's saintly mission did plenty to expose China for the pack of thieves and thugs it really is, and lo and behold even the US State department's involved now.
Now it's time for Google to get the hell out of dodge before any of their workers wind up disappeared.
They've already done loads better than they could have had they stayed out to begin with and simply let a less scrupulous search engine take their place.
China is better off for having had Google's presence, if only until the government blew a gasket and told them to GTFO before any more of their people were enlightened.
No, but using those assets in attacks against civilians (hell, even military/government) might count.
Naturally it's a slippery slope that makes censorship more convenient as a side effect.
Consider also, that the USAF has gotten into cyber-defense. That's the freaking AIR FORCE. Now, I must ask...why bother unless cyber-attacks actually have the potential to cause extensive damage?
Just look at what happened to Blue Security. They put spam down so well that a pissed off spammer lobbed an electronic nuke at them.
The guys that took out Blue were able to do so because they had a freaking ARMY of computers. An army, by the way, that they built up through illegal means. Now, accumulating firepower through theft, that does sound like a form of terrorism to me.
Life can be worth infinity and you'd still need to take into account the cost.
In particular, opportunity cost of NOT spending that money on someone else, perhaps in a more efficient manner.
Bear in mind that resources devoted to keeping one person alive are resources that cannot be devoted to keeping other people alive.
Withholding services can kill a terminal patient just as easily as withholding comparatively much cheaper food and water from healthy people can get them starved to death, or worse into a bed right next to that terminal patient.
Respect for human life aside, I think money is better spent on prevention, and on keeping that "patient" from winding up in an expensive hospital bed in the first place. That saves their life, and to boot lets them live happily, and with enough money left over to similiarly save a dozen other people as well.
Lives versus dollars will never make a good comparison. However, lives versus lives might.
That's what happens when you woo corporate bigwigs who then turn around and thunder the slick crap down on the techies from on high.
The bosses love it because it looks cool, the techies hate it because they have to fight a crap-filled pretty package, and the vendor loves it because they've got the bosses paying them for the privilege of torturing their underlings.
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I think the second law is a good thing, really.
Getting a cold drink is nice but I don't think I want absolute zero material going down my throat, thankyouverymuch.
Crap I lost...
English is like a data protocol with such a big shitload of grammatical integrity checks and redundancy that most of the time you can be understood quite well even if you mess it up.
The scary thing is that if corporate media whores get their way unfettered that might actually come true.
I guarantee that Google will get muddy very fast if they let any of their employees get jailed.
What choice do I have when our greedy bankers have mopped up all the money so that I can't afford to buy american anymore?
"Don't Be Evil"
Aiding and abetting censorship versus exposing your employees to imprisonment or worse at the hands of an oppressive government.
I think Google's saintly mission did plenty to expose China for the pack of thieves and thugs it really is, and lo and behold even the US State department's involved now.
Now it's time for Google to get the hell out of dodge before any of their workers wind up disappeared.
They've already done loads better than they could have had they stayed out to begin with and simply let a less scrupulous search engine take their place.
China is better off for having had Google's presence, if only until the government blew a gasket and told them to GTFO before any more of their people were enlightened.
Not to mention the rich guys at the top really don't feel like dripping.
No, but using those assets in attacks against civilians (hell, even military/government) might count.
Naturally it's a slippery slope that makes censorship more convenient as a side effect.
Consider also, that the USAF has gotten into cyber-defense. That's the freaking AIR FORCE. Now, I must ask...why bother unless cyber-attacks actually have the potential to cause extensive damage?
Depends on if the country's government looked the other way with the backbone that was aiding and abetting.
And for once it WOULD be a good idea.
Just look at what happened to Blue Security. They put spam down so well that a pissed off spammer lobbed an electronic nuke at them.
The guys that took out Blue were able to do so because they had a freaking ARMY of computers. An army, by the way, that they built up through illegal means. Now, accumulating firepower through theft, that does sound like a form of terrorism to me.
That's not unique to copyright.
It's part and parcel of being able to buy your way through a trial.
Just like with intel and amd, microsoft is helped by competition.
MS needs some challenge in the market or it will have the DOJ on its arse.
Point one is currently in dispute.
SCO v. Novell
...considering that the SCO v. Novell trial is just around the corner.
It's called patching up the bruises that MS left behind when it hit them below the belt.
Thus saith Cliff's Keynotes
Whales might shed dead cells off their hides, and having an expendable regenerative hull certainly makes cleaning easier.
It's one fringe benefit for snakes shedding skins.
You bring up a good point about resistance versus viscous liquids, such as oil or ink or tar.
Life can be worth infinity and you'd still need to take into account the cost.
In particular, opportunity cost of NOT spending that money on someone else, perhaps in a more efficient manner.
Bear in mind that resources devoted to keeping one person alive are resources that cannot be devoted to keeping other people alive.
Withholding services can kill a terminal patient just as easily as withholding comparatively much cheaper food and water from healthy people can get them starved to death, or worse into a bed right next to that terminal patient.
Respect for human life aside, I think money is better spent on prevention, and on keeping that "patient" from winding up in an expensive hospital bed in the first place. That saves their life, and to boot lets them live happily, and with enough money left over to similiarly save a dozen other people as well.
Lives versus dollars will never make a good comparison. However, lives versus lives might.
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Having a large faucet doesn't help if the water company can't spit out enough water.
Try testing it against a neighbor that has the same service and you'll get a good test of the actual hardware capacity.
Testing further away exercises the network, but eventually your water's going to flow through someone else's tubes.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
That's what happens when you woo corporate bigwigs who then turn around and thunder the slick crap down on the techies from on high.
The bosses love it because it looks cool, the techies hate it because they have to fight a crap-filled pretty package, and the vendor loves it because they've got the bosses paying them for the privilege of torturing their underlings.
Supposing that a hacker knocks out a power grid...or jams up a medical database? Or...gets into a military system?
Causing damage or disruption in a server might not be directly dangerous, but it can make things indirectly quite hazardous indeed.
A hospital might lose power and patients in the middle of surgery could die. That's probably why hospitals have backup generators though.
Medical databases getting corrupted could easily get someone a fatal drug dose of the wrong type, or quantity.
And hacking into the army, possibly launching an attack. Well, duh.
Computers these days are quite capable of causing harm if they're malfunctioning, thank you.
With FOSS, letting the world improve the source provides immense leverage potential.
How long will it take TiVo to use this decision as a hammer agaiinst MythTV?