In this case it isn't about damage infliced it's about punishment. Imagine if the neighbor kid threw a rock through your window once a week, but every week his parents sent a check for twice the amount the window cost to replace. Surely you wouldn't care if the kid kept doing it; after all, it's not costing you anything.
Punative damages are designed to be excisive to prevent occurances in the first place. To be fair they got off light, the maximum charge of $300 per spam would put them at $2.2 billion.
Well, until someone invents a 4-D monitor (and the necissary brain structure to comprehend it) a projection into 3-D space is the best we can do.
To use your analogy of a 3-D sliding puzzle in a 2-D world; a 3-D sliding puzzle would be a cube (with six sides) and only one square missing. Projected down to a 2-D surface we would see three of the sides (distorted from their square shape). When rotated, the sides would change shape and size, and dissapear and reapear. We can never see more than three sides at a time.
The easiest way to understand projection down to lower dimensions is to imagine a 3-D object in the sun. When you rotate it, the shadow of the object changes shape, even though the object itself does not.
Imagine a wheel being spun; it's shadow starts as a line, then becomes an elipse, then a perfect circle, then back again.
As scary as programs like this are (and they are scary) we need to start thinking about when, not if, these kinds of things happen. At least I can see a giant transmitter strapped to my ankle. In 10 years it will be possible to pick up a box of microscopic RFID tags for relatively little cost. In 20 years it will probably be possible to create microscopic GPS systems that radio back their location.
We know someone, somewhere will develope and sell this or similar technology and we need to know how we are going to answer back. Lobby congress to allow jaming technology? Doubtful that will happen. Create scanners so we can atleast know when we are being tracked? More likely, but only a partial solution.
Hopefully someone smarter than me can think of a solution to what I think is an inevitable problem.
It's possible, I sopose, but I doubt they would have risked the PR. At the time they were taking a serious beating due to network failures at a time when people were truly counting on them.
People couldn't contact their loved ones because the networks were all but crashed and, for a change, people were pissed about it. Imagine if someone had accused them of using the disaster to pad their profits...
I'm not sure the exact costs that the carriers incure when people send a text message but I do remember this:
After the freeway collapse in Mineapollis last year, the cell companies told people to text rather than call in large emergencies because it uses significantly less resources.
We've been sacrificing computing power for efficiency for years. New Server CPUs tout thier energy savings atleast as much, and quite often more than they tout their computational power. As electricity gets more expensive and data centers continue to grow this trend can only continue; it's simply too expensive to a warehouse full of server racks unless you focus on efficiency.
I'm waiting for the first company to put a data center a few hundred feet under water, where the water temp is low. You'd be surrounded by the worlds biggest heat sink. The environmentalists would have a hissy fit but that's never stopped industry before, and of course you could argue that you are saving electricty on cooling.
Actually her grandson had pulled over for the specific reason that she could safely add cream and sugar to the coffee. When she tried to remove the lid, she spilled the cup onto her pants and the seat. The pants soaked up the coffee, holding it against her legs causing 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and 2nd degree burns over another 16%.
Sounds like she has a case, except that she also sat in the puddle of nearly boiling coffee for 90 seconds. I suspect (given her age at the time) that either she could not get up off the seat quickly or had reduced sensativity in the burned areas. If it had been someone younger they would probably have jumped up almost immediately, resulting in a much smaller burned area.
You're completely ignoring my point; there are more costs associated with putting out a CD than manufacturing.
Let's say you have a fantastically succesful song that goes diamond (10,000,000 sold) and has $1 million in total revenues. Now take out marketing and recording costs and unless you are already an extremely well established band, (little to no marketing costs) you will be in the red.
Ten cents per song would be awesome for the consumer but it would be totally unsustainable for the artists.
Music takes a negligible amount of labor to reproduce in digital formats. Emphasis mine. Just because you can make a copy of something for 5 cents doesn't mean that each copy should cost 5 cents. Distribution and manufacturing are only a small part of the expenses involved in putting out a mass media CD.
I'm not saying that a new CD should cost $20, but to say that since the cost to produce is negligable that the cost to the consumer should be similarly low is not valid. One dollar per Non-DRM song seems pretty reasonable to me, although I think that the money should go to the artists and mixers, not record company execs.
If life is inevitable then that is actually very scary for the future of the human race. Think about it, everything we have seen of the cosmos seems to indicate we're alone. SETI has heard nothing, astronomers have yet to find a dyson sphere, and most worrying there is no evidence of Von Nueman probes (self replicating probes could colonize every solar system in the galazy in about 100 million years).
There is a Great Filter somewhere before a species reaches interstellar intelligence. If we are lucky, the Filter is behind us; life could be extreamly dificult to start, multicellular organizms on earth may have been a fluke, intelligence a freak occurance. The other option is that the Great Filter is still to be met; nanotechnological disaster, nuclear/biological war, environmental disaster.
I used to think that intelligence was inevitable in a galaxy the size of ours but if it were there would be evidence of them. The distances are incredibly huge but the time-spans are even more so. If humanity survives the next ten thousand years, I believe we will be well on our way to putting a probe in every solar system in the Galaxy. Send out a single probe, when it reaches its destination it builds ten copies of itself and sends them out. It isn't that hard, NASA drew up rough plans for it decades ago and I'm confident the plans will be viable within my lifetime.
If life is inevitable, why aren't there any visitors in our neighborhood? There are many theoretical answers to that question but the only compelling one to me is that we are alone.
Oh sure, that works for you people on the coast but what about the rest of us? That's why we should be focussing on cow-whale hybrids http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1710223&from=rss that can live on land and still provide us with delicious whale meat and oil.
"We use the one line of code rule. If you took one line of code from UnixWare and used it in a derivative work, that work would become subject to a UnixWare license," Maciaszek said.
If you follow their philosophy it should be pretty easy to find proof. I refuse to believe that they actually think this, they must be trying to convince poeple that have absolutely no experience in computer science (judge and/or jury). Otherwise, I can garauntee they are guilty of hundreds of cases of copyright infringement of other people's work.
Please... don't feed the trolls, it isn't worth it. How do I know he's a troll? He's at -1 without anyone modding him. If that doesn't convince you look at his user page, -1's all the way down.
Wow, reading the description of the Monomyth it's like the writers of Final Fantasy X sat down with a copy "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and worked through each of the steps one by one.
1. The Call to Adventure: Sin attacks Zanarkand 2. Supernatural Aid: Auran helps Tydus survive the attack 3. The Belly of the Whale: Sin appears to "eat" Tydus, transporting him to Spira 4. The Road of Trials: The pilgrimage to collect Aeons 5. The Meeting with the Goddess: Yuna and Tydus get romantic 6. Atonement with the Father: Tydus learns to accept that Jeckt wasn't a total ass 7. Apotheosis (described as the hero's ego is disintegrated in a breakthrough expansion of consciousness. Quite frequently the hero's idea of reality is changed; [...] allowing the hero to sacrifice himself.): Tydus learns that Zanarkand is a dream of the Fayth and is prepared to sacrifice the last remnent of his father despite having learned of his father's affection for him. 8. The Ultimate Boon: Sin is destroyed and Spira is given the Eternal Calm. 9. Rescue from Without: With sin destroyed Tydus is sent back the Zanarkand.
What's also interesting is that you can see the same pattern repeated endlessly in the other heros of the story. Yuna, Braska, and Aurun all have obvious monomyth story arcs. Perhaps that is what gives the game it's feeling of depth that so many other games lack.
If the law is impractical or not is really beside the point. This kind of vaguely defined censorship will only lead to companies erring on the side of caution to make sure the don't get fined. Think about books that you have read and think about how many of them have a certain amount of sexually explicit content. We're not just talking about Hentia comic books here, we're quite possibly talking about Classics of every genre.
The 1984, Lolita, the Dune Series, not to mention practically every "romance" novel every written all have sexually explicit material and would be banned from sale to anyone under 18. I think you're going to find more teenage girls missing Daniel Steele than teenage boys missing their Manga.
It is absolutely impossible to play the game without killing people. Infact it's impossible to play the game without killing unarmed/unthreatening people. As of yet, I have not been forced to kill a police officer but I am not far into the game. The earlier games did eventually have situations which were impossible to pass through without killing presumably honest cops (as opposed to crooked ones trying to kill you).
Is this really a sign of victory or defeat? If the article had said that storm decreased to 5% its largest size because of such and such efforts it would be a victory but it doesn't say what caused the reduction. It seems to imply that Storm is being removed by other malicious software, not the efforts of researchers.
For all we know this is just the operators of Storm paring down the system to a more usable, less scary size or hibernating large portions of the network so that if a bot killer is implemented they still have 95% to recover. It could also be the "selling off" that everyone was talking about earlier except instead of selling the botnets power they actually sold off access to the computers themselves (We'll open the backdoor to install your software then remove ourselves so you have freedom to act). Unless they can find a good reason that the network is shrinking this actually makes me more nervous, not less.
What's even more ironic is that the game specifically says "Driving in this condition is a bad idea, better call a cab". The scene in question is designed to teach you how to use the cabs in the game. If you drive anyway the police will arrest you, even open fire on your car if hurt someone and refuse to stop. The game is actually very clearly anti-drunk driving.
The web will always be in its infancy, that's what makes the web what it is. It is constantly changing, adapting, mutating, adjusting to the needs and wants of its users.
Suicide is ugly. It tears the victim's survivors to pieces. They don't know what to think, what to feel. They want to be angry that the person would do this to them. They want to be sad that the person is gone. They feel guilty because they think there is something they should have done, should have noticed. Most of all, they want it to never have happened.
Ask yourself if you really believe his death was an accident, because anything else you find is only going to hamper the family's pain (not just grief, pain. If you find an explanation it will only breed guilt or anger, they will take even longer to move through those emotions that they would have otherwise.
I was married for two months when my father-in-law commited suicide last December. My wife still cries herself to sleep about once every other week. I understand that they want closure, but they aren't going to find it; and anything they do find will only make acceptance harder.
To quote myself...
Of course, research should be done on the cause and effect relationship before laws are passed Here's what I am saying: there is enough anectdotal evidence to warrant research into the effects of Violent Porn on Violent Sexual Behavior. Passing the laws without the research is, as far as I am concerned, an unwarrented breach of liberty. However, that is not the way most people see it, most especially polititians.
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In this case it isn't about damage infliced it's about punishment. Imagine if the neighbor kid threw a rock through your window once a week, but every week his parents sent a check for twice the amount the window cost to replace. Surely you wouldn't care if the kid kept doing it; after all, it's not costing you anything.
Punative damages are designed to be excisive to prevent occurances in the first place. To be fair they got off light, the maximum charge of $300 per spam would put them at $2.2 billion.
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Well, until someone invents a 4-D monitor (and the necissary brain structure to comprehend it) a projection into 3-D space is the best we can do.
To use your analogy of a 3-D sliding puzzle in a 2-D world; a 3-D sliding puzzle would be a cube (with six sides) and only one square missing. Projected down to a 2-D surface we would see three of the sides (distorted from their square shape). When rotated, the sides would change shape and size, and dissapear and reapear. We can never see more than three sides at a time.
The easiest way to understand projection down to lower dimensions is to imagine a 3-D object in the sun. When you rotate it, the shadow of the object changes shape, even though the object itself does not.
Imagine a wheel being spun; it's shadow starts as a line, then becomes an elipse, then a perfect circle, then back again.
As scary as programs like this are (and they are scary) we need to start thinking about when, not if, these kinds of things happen. At least I can see a giant transmitter strapped to my ankle. In 10 years it will be possible to pick up a box of microscopic RFID tags for relatively little cost. In 20 years it will probably be possible to create microscopic GPS systems that radio back their location.
We know someone, somewhere will develope and sell this or similar technology and we need to know how we are going to answer back. Lobby congress to allow jaming technology? Doubtful that will happen. Create scanners so we can atleast know when we are being tracked? More likely, but only a partial solution.
Hopefully someone smarter than me can think of a solution to what I think is an inevitable problem.
It's possible, I sopose, but I doubt they would have risked the PR. At the time they were taking a serious beating due to network failures at a time when people were truly counting on them.
People couldn't contact their loved ones because the networks were all but crashed and, for a change, people were pissed about it. Imagine if someone had accused them of using the disaster to pad their profits...
I'm not sure the exact costs that the carriers incure when people send a text message but I do remember this:
After the freeway collapse in Mineapollis last year, the cell companies told people to text rather than call in large emergencies because it uses significantly less resources.
We've been sacrificing computing power for efficiency for years. New Server CPUs tout thier energy savings atleast as much, and quite often more than they tout their computational power. As electricity gets more expensive and data centers continue to grow this trend can only continue; it's simply too expensive to a warehouse full of server racks unless you focus on efficiency.
I'm waiting for the first company to put a data center a few hundred feet under water, where the water temp is low. You'd be surrounded by the worlds biggest heat sink. The environmentalists would have a hissy fit but that's never stopped industry before, and of course you could argue that you are saving electricty on cooling.
Actually her grandson had pulled over for the specific reason that she could safely add cream and sugar to the coffee. When she tried to remove the lid, she spilled the cup onto her pants and the seat. The pants soaked up the coffee, holding it against her legs causing 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and 2nd degree burns over another 16%.
Sounds like she has a case, except that she also sat in the puddle of nearly boiling coffee for 90 seconds. I suspect (given her age at the time) that either she could not get up off the seat quickly or had reduced sensativity in the burned areas. If it had been someone younger they would probably have jumped up almost immediately, resulting in a much smaller burned area.
You're completely ignoring my point; there are more costs associated with putting out a CD than manufacturing.
Let's say you have a fantastically succesful song that goes diamond (10,000,000 sold) and has $1 million in total revenues. Now take out marketing and recording costs and unless you are already an extremely well established band, (little to no marketing costs) you will be in the red.
Ten cents per song would be awesome for the consumer but it would be totally unsustainable for the artists.
I'm not saying that a new CD should cost $20, but to say that since the cost to produce is negligable that the cost to the consumer should be similarly low is not valid. One dollar per Non-DRM song seems pretty reasonable to me, although I think that the money should go to the artists and mixers, not record company execs.
If at first you don't succeed... buy a gun and go there in person.
Or from the wikipedia article on the Fermi Paradox. There's nothing wrong with repeating and expanding on other people's ideas in your own words.
200 billion stars, 6.5 billion years. The size and age of the Milky Way Galaxy. If life is inevitable, do you really think we would be the first?
If life is inevitable then that is actually very scary for the future of the human race. Think about it, everything we have seen of the cosmos seems to indicate we're alone. SETI has heard nothing, astronomers have yet to find a dyson sphere, and most worrying there is no evidence of Von Nueman probes (self replicating probes could colonize every solar system in the galazy in about 100 million years).
There is a Great Filter somewhere before a species reaches interstellar intelligence. If we are lucky, the Filter is behind us; life could be extreamly dificult to start, multicellular organizms on earth may have been a fluke, intelligence a freak occurance. The other option is that the Great Filter is still to be met; nanotechnological disaster, nuclear/biological war, environmental disaster.
I used to think that intelligence was inevitable in a galaxy the size of ours but if it were there would be evidence of them. The distances are incredibly huge but the time-spans are even more so. If humanity survives the next ten thousand years, I believe we will be well on our way to putting a probe in every solar system in the Galaxy. Send out a single probe, when it reaches its destination it builds ten copies of itself and sends them out. It isn't that hard, NASA drew up rough plans for it decades ago and I'm confident the plans will be viable within my lifetime.
If life is inevitable, why aren't there any visitors in our neighborhood? There are many theoretical answers to that question but the only compelling one to me is that we are alone.
Oh sure, that works for you people on the coast but what about the rest of us? That's why we should be focussing on cow-whale hybrids http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1710223&from=rss that can live on land and still provide us with delicious whale meat and oil.
"We use the one line of code rule. If you took one line of code from UnixWare and used it in a derivative work, that work would become subject to a UnixWare license," Maciaszek said.
If you follow their philosophy it should be pretty easy to find proof. I refuse to believe that they actually think this, they must be trying to convince poeple that have absolutely no experience in computer science (judge and/or jury). Otherwise, I can garauntee they are guilty of hundreds of cases of copyright infringement of other people's work.
Please... don't feed the trolls, it isn't worth it. How do I know he's a troll? He's at -1 without anyone modding him. If that doesn't convince you look at his user page, -1's all the way down.
Wow, reading the description of the Monomyth it's like the writers of Final Fantasy X sat down with a copy "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and worked through each of the steps one by one.
1. The Call to Adventure: Sin attacks Zanarkand
2. Supernatural Aid: Auran helps Tydus survive the attack
3. The Belly of the Whale: Sin appears to "eat" Tydus, transporting him to Spira
4. The Road of Trials: The pilgrimage to collect Aeons
5. The Meeting with the Goddess: Yuna and Tydus get romantic
6. Atonement with the Father: Tydus learns to accept that Jeckt wasn't a total ass
7. Apotheosis (described as the hero's ego is disintegrated in a breakthrough expansion of consciousness. Quite frequently the hero's idea of reality is changed; [...] allowing the hero to sacrifice himself.): Tydus learns that Zanarkand is a dream of the Fayth and is prepared to sacrifice the last remnent of his father despite having learned of his father's affection for him.
8. The Ultimate Boon: Sin is destroyed and Spira is given the Eternal Calm.
9. Rescue from Without: With sin destroyed Tydus is sent back the Zanarkand.
What's also interesting is that you can see the same pattern repeated endlessly in the other heros of the story. Yuna, Braska, and Aurun all have obvious monomyth story arcs. Perhaps that is what gives the game it's feeling of depth that so many other games lack.
If the law is impractical or not is really beside the point. This kind of vaguely defined censorship will only lead to companies erring on the side of caution to make sure the don't get fined. Think about books that you have read and think about how many of them have a certain amount of sexually explicit content. We're not just talking about Hentia comic books here, we're quite possibly talking about Classics of every genre.
The 1984, Lolita, the Dune Series, not to mention practically every "romance" novel every written all have sexually explicit material and would be banned from sale to anyone under 18. I think you're going to find more teenage girls missing Daniel Steele than teenage boys missing their Manga.
It is absolutely impossible to play the game without killing people. Infact it's impossible to play the game without killing unarmed/unthreatening people. As of yet, I have not been forced to kill a police officer but I am not far into the game. The earlier games did eventually have situations which were impossible to pass through without killing presumably honest cops (as opposed to crooked ones trying to kill you).
Is this really a sign of victory or defeat? If the article had said that storm decreased to 5% its largest size because of such and such efforts it would be a victory but it doesn't say what caused the reduction. It seems to imply that Storm is being removed by other malicious software, not the efforts of researchers.
For all we know this is just the operators of Storm paring down the system to a more usable, less scary size or hibernating large portions of the network so that if a bot killer is implemented they still have 95% to recover. It could also be the "selling off" that everyone was talking about earlier except instead of selling the botnets power they actually sold off access to the computers themselves (We'll open the backdoor to install your software then remove ourselves so you have freedom to act). Unless they can find a good reason that the network is shrinking this actually makes me more nervous, not less.
What's even more ironic is that the game specifically says "Driving in this condition is a bad idea, better call a cab". The scene in question is designed to teach you how to use the cabs in the game. If you drive anyway the police will arrest you, even open fire on your car if hurt someone and refuse to stop. The game is actually very clearly anti-drunk driving.
The web will always be in its infancy, that's what makes the web what it is. It is constantly changing, adapting, mutating, adjusting to the needs and wants of its users.
Suicide is ugly. It tears the victim's survivors to pieces. They don't know what to think, what to feel. They want to be angry that the person would do this to them. They want to be sad that the person is gone. They feel guilty because they think there is something they should have done, should have noticed. Most of all, they want it to never have happened.
Ask yourself if you really believe his death was an accident, because anything else you find is only going to hamper the family's pain (not just grief, pain. If you find an explanation it will only breed guilt or anger, they will take even longer to move through those emotions that they would have otherwise.
I was married for two months when my father-in-law commited suicide last December. My wife still cries herself to sleep about once every other week. I understand that they want closure, but they aren't going to find it; and anything they do find will only make acceptance harder.