I would rather have the government seize my stuff and use it for the general public than have a greedy corporation force it out of me and only use it to line executive pockets.
Seizure is bad, but if I have no choice about who takes it, give me the government over corporate america any day.
Statistically speaking, one should have an overage of I pieces if everything is randomly distributed.
To make a 4-line clear, you need 40 squares. Each piece takes 4 squares, so you'd need 1 in 10 pieces to be I pieces. As that's just shy of the 1 in 7 you'd get from random distribution.
Anyone having persistent shortages of I pieces is either astronomically unlucky or is playing an unrandom game.
As a parent you own your kid and can do whatever you damn please except cause injury or neglect.
No property rights, no privileges, no nothing. You can strip them down sell their stuff and yank them off to hawaii and the government shouldn't intervene.
Mouse potatoes are, like couch potatoes, prone to health problems that a little sunshine and exercise would do wonders for.
I, sadly, fall into this category myself. I happen to be a diabetic with blood sugar levels sometimes spiking into the 500's. Dollars to doughnuts (mmm....doughnuts....*droooool*), a sedentary lifestyle and crap diet put me there.
There is no such thing as true anarchy, not for any foreseeable period of time.
What society often fails to realize is that government is a necessary evil, because a true utopia is impossible.
All it takes is one power-hungry tyrant to swoop down upon the sheepish masses and seize control by force and you have a dictatorship, if only because people would rather be slaves than corpses.
And since people are inherently selfish, they will be happy to do anything they can get away with, and many of them will not even care if they cause harm, or even if the harm they cause outweighs the benefit they reap. In fact, the whole science of economics hinges on this human tendency to self-interest.
Furthermore, anyone who is in power, be it by force, election, bribe, or otherwise, has a vested interest in advancing himself.
So power is inevitable. Any situation that lacks it will quickly be exploited by the strong and the anarchy shall cease to be. Far better to have the throne occupied by a good king than to leave it open to a strong-arming mercenary.
That includes by corporations who barge in politically on the government when the government doesn't take strong stands.
What should be happening is that customers who get malware infested laptops should get a refund, AND that the OEM asshats who produced them should get dinged for damages.
I would consider this a classic opportunity to apply product liability, and I would consider preinstalled malware as a defect.
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No.
Lawyers argue every possible point to avoid getting frozen out during an appeal.
"Speak now or forever hold your piece"
It might be a bit of minor suffering for the greater good.
According to Tragedy of the Commons, everyone pursuing their own self interest often leads to net global harm.
I commend slashdot for sticking to their guns and not caving to the pressure to cruft.
I'm using browsers that get 100/100 on Acid3 and those don't have trouble.
Two words:
Monopoly Power.
How do they decide which last name to use if you're gay?
Welcome to america.
Which is precisely why it won't work.
The entrenched professionals will never let it fly.
I would rather have the government seize my stuff and use it for the general public than have a greedy corporation force it out of me and only use it to line executive pockets.
Seizure is bad, but if I have no choice about who takes it, give me the government over corporate america any day.
Khan's la-o-tian you insensitive clod!
Statistically speaking, one should have an overage of I pieces if everything is randomly distributed.
To make a 4-line clear, you need 40 squares. Each piece takes 4 squares, so you'd need 1 in 10 pieces to be I pieces. As that's just shy of the 1 in 7 you'd get from random distribution.
Anyone having persistent shortages of I pieces is either astronomically unlucky or is playing an unrandom game.
So basically we have pentium's covering each other's asses?
Explain to me how an eavesdropper is proper party to a communication?
Simple
As a parent you own your kid and can do whatever you damn please except cause injury or neglect.
No property rights, no privileges, no nothing. You can strip them down sell their stuff and yank them off to hawaii and the government shouldn't intervene.
It's a pity when one must make a martyr out of himself to be heard.
Perhaps this could be the start of a shot heard round the world against our evil red-coat corporate overlords?
Ha ha!
If you had published it it would have become what's known as PRIOR ART.
This is why I think that iTune's recent "DRM" of plastering the downloader's identity into their own MP3's was actually quite harmless and good.
The only way someone other than the owner would get ahold of the file is if it was stolen or if the owner uploaded it or shared it somewhere.
And that's if we're lucky.
I would rather have that then have a government mandated infrastructure that everything has to go through.
Let's get quantum cryptography and hope to high heaven it doesn't get outlawed.
How is that a bad thing?
Mouse potatoes are, like couch potatoes, prone to health problems that a little sunshine and exercise would do wonders for.
I, sadly, fall into this category myself. I happen to be a diabetic with blood sugar levels sometimes spiking into the 500's. Dollars to doughnuts (mmm....doughnuts....*droooool*), a sedentary lifestyle and crap diet put me there.
There is no such thing as true anarchy, not for any foreseeable period of time.
What society often fails to realize is that government is a necessary evil, because a true utopia is impossible.
All it takes is one power-hungry tyrant to swoop down upon the sheepish masses and seize control by force and you have a dictatorship, if only because people would rather be slaves than corpses.
And since people are inherently selfish, they will be happy to do anything they can get away with, and many of them will not even care if they cause harm, or even if the harm they cause outweighs the benefit they reap. In fact, the whole science of economics hinges on this human tendency to self-interest.
Furthermore, anyone who is in power, be it by force, election, bribe, or otherwise, has a vested interest in advancing himself.
So power is inevitable. Any situation that lacks it will quickly be exploited by the strong and the anarchy shall cease to be. Far better to have the throne occupied by a good king than to leave it open to a strong-arming mercenary.
That includes by corporations who barge in politically on the government when the government doesn't take strong stands.
to anyone who does perl programming
input =~ m/([0-9]{3})-*([0-9]{3})-*([0-9]{4})/;
SSN = $1 . $2 . $3;
Sadly if you throw enough lawyers at the devs it becomes a moot point when they settle and/or back down.
Ouch, that comment STINGS...
What should be happening is that customers who get malware infested laptops should get a refund, AND that the OEM asshats who produced them should get dinged for damages.
I would consider this a classic opportunity to apply product liability, and I would consider preinstalled malware as a defect.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22/judge_grants_restraining_order_against_sc_ag_over_craigslist/