They may be trying to protect their freedoms with regard to certain politically touchy subjects, like for example whether a 16 year old can get an abortion or contraceptives without parents hearing about it.
Funny how those people's idea of 'protecting their freedom' invariably involves restricting someone else's.
I'm really not seeing much of a downside here. The greatest feature of public-key cryptography is its potential to undermine the state's ability to interfere with communications.
The idea that one should have to apologize for whatever horrible things a bunch of other people who just happen to be from within the same arbitrary lines drawn on a map did seems itself to be pretty deeply rooted in the personal identity == national culture meme.
Stop bobbing your head like that. We VUX do not share that range of motion and it appears as though your neck is broken and you are a jabbering corpse.
Heh. As someone who was once a 16 year old freshman at an Ivy league school, I can authoritatively state that I was *way* too nerdy to partake of any of that until well after I graduated.
Yes, but the original riddle doesn't specify a chicken egg. It just says egg. Obviously, eggs not further specified preceded chickens by millions of years for any reasonable definition of 'chicken'.
The GPL only requires modifications to source be released if *binaries* are released too. It seems unlikely that anyone would want to release their proprietary secret algorithmic trading program or whatever in any form, source or binary.
Agreed. I'd probably immediately make plans to leave a job that banned listening to music. Certainly, my productivity would plummet to nothing unless I had a private office; I can't focus at all with other humans audible.
The crypto behind this has been a solved problem since the 1990s. Just try implementing it without ending up in prison. You can't issue digital cash that's worth anything without there being some means of exchanging it for existing forms of currency, and that means your system will have to make contact with the state-controlled economy at some point, thus revealing your identity. Look at what happened to e-gold for implementing a system with far weaker anonymity properties.
x86 is for useless twits who need to do things like rep stosb and can't handle delay slots. Anyone who can't learn MIPS by age 13 should be shot. It's for their own good.:)
Heh, here I was wondering if you could identify different positions from the spectrum, and apparently everyone else is already been thinking about it in those terms. For once, sex comes up on Slashdot in a way that's hilarious rather than creepy.
This times a suitable transfinite cardinal. Also, the rate at which negative emotions are created has probably actually increased due to the effect you describe. Obligatory fake happiness sure makes me want to dismember people.
Probably not true in the form the OP stated; he didn't even specify the capacities of the plants in question. However, it is true that, on a per unit energy produced basis, coal-burning power plants produce significantly more radioactive waste than a nuclear fission plant does - and, unlike the fission reactor, the coal power plant pours it all into the atmosphere. See Scientific American - Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste.
It's a *fly*, for fuck's sake. Are you so intellectually sterile you can't believe in simple curiousity, and must suspect some nefarious ulterior motive in its place?
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They may be trying to protect their freedoms with regard to certain politically touchy subjects, like for example whether a 16 year old can get an abortion or contraceptives without parents hearing about it.
Funny how those people's idea of 'protecting their freedom' invariably involves restricting someone else's.
From fortune(6):
Well, if they can check their underwear for tylenol....
Because as soon as someone's under 18, all the standards change in a way precisely engineered to exclude all possibility of common sense.
I'm really not seeing much of a downside here. The greatest feature of public-key cryptography is its potential to undermine the state's ability to interfere with communications.
Aside from the not bathing and never admitting fault bits, that sounds like a vast improvement over the general run of 'well-adjusted' lackwits.
The idea that one should have to apologize for whatever horrible things a bunch of other people who just happen to be from within the same arbitrary lines drawn on a map did seems itself to be pretty deeply rooted in the personal identity == national culture meme.
Stop bobbing your head like that. We VUX do not share that range of motion and it appears as though your neck is broken and you are a jabbering corpse.
You already can see it with just the standard-issue eyeballs.
Heh. As someone who was once a 16 year old freshman at an Ivy league school, I can authoritatively state that I was *way* too nerdy to partake of any of that until well after I graduated.
Yes, but the original riddle doesn't specify a chicken egg. It just says egg. Obviously, eggs not further specified preceded chickens by millions of years for any reasonable definition of 'chicken'.
The GPL only requires modifications to source be released if *binaries* are released too. It seems unlikely that anyone would want to release their proprietary secret algorithmic trading program or whatever in any form, source or binary.
Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.
Two words: violet wand.
Agreed. I'd probably immediately make plans to leave a job that banned listening to music. Certainly, my productivity would plummet to nothing unless I had a private office; I can't focus at all with other humans audible.
The crypto behind this has been a solved problem since the 1990s. Just try implementing it without ending up in prison. You can't issue digital cash that's worth anything without there being some means of exchanging it for existing forms of currency, and that means your system will have to make contact with the state-controlled economy at some point, thus revealing your identity. Look at what happened to e-gold for implementing a system with far weaker anonymity properties.
And now, since the government's signing key is universally trusted, they can:
The fact that your list doesn't even include a really-anonymous, no helpfully 'verified' information level is rather telling.
*sigh*
x86 is for useless twits who need to do things like rep stosb and can't handle delay slots. Anyone who can't learn MIPS by age 13 should be shot. It's for their own good. :)
Heh, here I was wondering if you could identify different positions from the spectrum, and apparently everyone else is already been thinking about it in those terms. For once, sex comes up on Slashdot in a way that's hilarious rather than creepy.
Since when does a riding crop weigh 1 kg? One of these, maybe.
Pffft. You mean Linux From Scratch, right?
This times a suitable transfinite cardinal. Also, the rate at which negative emotions are created has probably actually increased due to the effect you describe. Obligatory fake happiness sure makes me want to dismember people.
Probably not true in the form the OP stated; he didn't even specify the capacities of the plants in question. However, it is true that, on a per unit energy produced basis, coal-burning power plants produce significantly more radioactive waste than a nuclear fission plant does - and, unlike the fission reactor, the coal power plant pours it all into the atmosphere. See Scientific American - Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste.
More likely, VoidCrow was just thinking of Continuously compounded interest (or perhaps the Black-Scholes PDE
It's a *fly*, for fuck's sake. Are you so intellectually sterile you can't believe in simple curiousity, and must suspect some nefarious ulterior motive in its place?
I'd give anything for mod points right now. :)