Brin is a self-declared "trans-humanist". That's someone who has deep sympathies with population reduction, eugenics and other neo-Malthusian 'visions' for the evolutionary good of humankind. I hate to think of the twisted values that transpose their "good" and "evil" assignments for someone with those aspirations.
Wikipedia:
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. [emphasis mine]
Sounds more like The Borg sans creepy-hive-mind-weirdness than population control to me.
Then it re-enforces the notion that we're living in universe that cheats. Like a simulation would.
We already have data that fits the theory so perhaps this space probe could show that it was wrong, somehow. It seems better to spend money chasing promising results, though.
Noting for reference that said link has nothing to do with simulated reality (e.g. The Matrix).
The idea is the signal is encrypted so it's a bit more complicated. Fortunately these guys have done all the dirty work for you if I understand this correctly.
Wait, the signal from the STB to the TV is encrypted? Are you sure you don't mean the coax from the wall to the STB? I don't think most TV's are smart enough to deal with non-pathetic crypto.
As for tapping off the STB-TV line, if it isn't HDMI, you could do that but you might have trouble getting full HD. If it is HDMI, you've got to fuck with the hardware/firmware/drivers to persuade the STB to send a signal at all, unless its broadcast flag is off in the first place.
I will say this in Java's favor, however: It's a language where the smartest can't write code that confuses the dumbest, [...].
In my AP computer science class, some of my classmates don't seem to grok the whole OO concept (i.e. if I create multiple interacting classes, it confuses them. They do however understand "[Type] foo=new [Type]();", but only for predefined types).
Did you just say that bigotry causes men to commit more crimes than women? Because that's what it read like, unless of course you read that one sentence and immediately hit the reply button without reading GP's post?
You could rewrite it as: Refusing to hand over access to a remote laptop management system is a bit different than refusing to hand over access to a remote router management system. Is it? Really?
Yeah, actually. The former is illegal (probably), the latter isn't.
Who is going to destroy their career to drag Palin into court on some petty charge of abusing procedure when they know they are going to be [...] vilified in the press?
Is this the same press that Bill O'Reilly is continually "calling out" for being too "liberal"?
If it were for laughs, why did he not try cracking email accounts of Hillary or Obama and instead chose Palin?
What bizarre alternate universe did you come from?
Just because the politically-motivated cracker was incompetent at exploiting the data politically or even at hiding his tracks doesn't affect the fact that Palin was a target because she was (and remains) a threat to the Progressive social & political agenda.
You could have a semi-secure way of doing it by answering from the perspective of someone else. If all your security questions are answered as if you were Monty Hall, who would guess THAT?
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Brin is a self-declared "trans-humanist". That's someone who has deep sympathies with population reduction, eugenics and other neo-Malthusian 'visions' for the evolutionary good of humankind. I hate to think of the twisted values that transpose their "good" and "evil" assignments for someone with those aspirations.
Wikipedia:
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. [emphasis mine]
Sounds more like The Borg sans creepy-hive-mind-weirdness than population control to me.
What happens if they don't find anything?
Then it re-enforces the notion that we're living in universe that cheats. Like a simulation would.
We already have data that fits the theory so perhaps this space probe could show that it was wrong, somehow. It seems better to spend money chasing promising results, though.
Noting for reference that said link has nothing to do with simulated reality (e.g. The Matrix).
A gravitational wave is a "ripple in space-time".
...according to general relativity, which has not been reconciled with quantum mechanics yet.
Gravity is a bad example because we honestly have no clue how it works.
A better example would be the electroweak interaction -- we actually know how that works.
Otherwise I agree with you.
That's funny, most news sources are slightly liberal (or at least not completely batshit Bill O'Reilly insane)...
That completely defeats the purpose of the block in the first place. Why did MPAA bother?
What about the "third way" and net-neutrality?
The idea is the signal is encrypted so it's a bit more complicated. Fortunately these guys have done all the dirty work for you if I understand this correctly.
Wait, the signal from the STB to the TV is encrypted? Are you sure you don't mean the coax from the wall to the STB? I don't think most TV's are smart enough to deal with non-pathetic crypto.
As for tapping off the STB-TV line, if it isn't HDMI, you could do that but you might have trouble getting full HD. If it is HDMI, you've got to fuck with the hardware/firmware/drivers to persuade the STB to send a signal at all, unless its broadcast flag is off in the first place.
I will say this in Java's favor, however: It's a language where the smartest can't write code that confuses the dumbest, [...].
In my AP computer science class, some of my classmates don't seem to grok the whole OO concept (i.e. if I create multiple interacting classes, it confuses them. They do however understand "[Type] foo=new [Type]();", but only for predefined types).
Just because a bunch of Java programmers are morons doesn't mean the language sucks.
What are you talking about? The prime directive was the Vulcans' idea, not ours.
If the judge finds out that the jury is considering nullification, he may throw the whole jury out before they reach a verdict.
Did you just say that bigotry causes men to commit more crimes than women? Because that's what it read like, unless of course you read that one sentence and immediately hit the reply button without reading GP's post?
You could rewrite it as: Refusing to hand over access to a remote laptop management system is a bit different than refusing to hand over access to a remote router management system. Is it? Really?
Yeah, actually. The former is illegal (probably), the latter isn't.
What if epsilon is one ulp? Then epsilon/2==0.0.
The only real impact is that the FCC will start using Title II instead of Title I.
They'll sue Google?
Since converting might strip out camera-related metadata, how exactly are they going to prove I used it?
And I'm also pretty sure the MPEG-LA doesn't want to see the issue end up in court, because they'd probably lose.
IANAL. Good point.
If it's so obvious, why don't the defense lawyers call lots of expert witnesses to show just how stupid the RIAA are?
You don't need "beyond a reasonable doubt" for copyright infringement, just "preponderance of the evidence".
Who is going to destroy their career to drag Palin into court on some petty charge of abusing procedure when they know they are going to be [...] vilified in the press?
Is this the same press that Bill O'Reilly is continually "calling out" for being too "liberal"?
If it were for laughs, why did he not try cracking email accounts of Hillary or Obama and instead chose Palin?
What bizarre alternate universe did you come from?
Just because the politically-motivated cracker was incompetent at exploiting the data politically or even at hiding his tracks doesn't affect the fact that Palin was a target because she was (and remains) a threat to the Progressive social & political agenda.
Palin is/was a threat to anyone? Really?
You could have a semi-secure way of doing it by answering from the perspective of someone else. If all your security questions are answered as if you were Monty Hall, who would guess THAT?
*Breaks into gknoy's email w/ Monty Hall info*
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