What if you have disease foo? Do you want everyone to know? What if there's a social stigma or something?? What if you're not a slashdotter and actually have lots of friends and you don't want them to know about disease foo???
Without expressed permission of the individual, none of their personally identifiable information can be transmitted/transferred between other people.
What about between people that are not companies?
There, fixed that for both of you. IANAL, but IIRC companies are people under the law. Also, WTF does "expressed permission" mean? As opposed to... "impressed permission"? Was that supposed to say "express written permission"?
Let's face it, this idea of MS as a marketing company is just code for saying MS is no good technically. Some people can't accept the idea that MS customers might actually like MS products, so they use this concept of MS as a marketing wiz to explain their success.
Most Microsoft users I've encountered seem to fall into one or more of these categories:
They don't like MS products, but are troubled by vendor lock-in
They don't like MS products, but don't believe there's such a thing as a free lunch (i.e. they won't use an OS which doesn't cost money)
They don't like MS products, but want to use something "mainstream" for some bizarre reason
They've never heard of Linux
They've never heard of luser friendly Linux (read: Ubuntu)
On the contrary, larger meteorites have more momentum and more kinetic energy. Hence more energy needs to be bled off via drag. Also, surface area:volume ratio tends to decrease as objects get larger (mass:volume ratio is density, which is usually fairly large, and pretty consistent given we are usually dealing with large pieces of metal). So larger meteors shouldn't slow to terminal velocity if they're already moving very fast. The question is what the definition of "is^H^H larger" is.
That all said, I apologize if I missed any sarcasm, but it appeared to me that someone on the internets was wrong, and I have a moral obligation to correct that if I see it.
It's pretty hard to argue that copying something is morally wrong to begin with, and buying something then unlocking it is legally wrong; at least in the United States (See DCMA on DRM)
You get "Hero" status for starting a thread and getting two replies? (That's a rhetorical question; I did RTFColbertnationBoard and he is marked as "Hero")
[snip] they could probably pull it off and get terrible performance.
There, fixed that for you. I'm using a notebook (x86, Inspiron B130 from Dell, etc.) and don't get "halfway decent performance" under VirtualBox. Admittedly it isn't a particularly good notebook, but it's a notebook alright.
If you type "sex" into a search engine with no qualifiers or anything, you are begging for sexually explicit content. If someone wanted to read about sex discrimination "or how to determine the sex of a snake or something", they would have searched for that.
What are you talking about?? We're concerned about keyloggers, which are client side. HTTPS doesn't come into play until the keylogger already has your password. This lets them have all passwords, not just passwords for school-sponsered sites. Finally, this has nothing to do with criminal activity. Would you like your college to know your bank account info, and handle it poorly?
Note: I am operating under the assumption that previous posters made: that the so-called "client" thing is in fact a keylogger/malware.
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How else would we do it without consuming the same amount of electricity?
With a dedicated super computer ? A dedicated super computer is likely to consume a lot less energy per FLOP than your average home PC.
Would be interesting to see how GPGPU performance per watt compared to top500 super computers...
At least distributed computing relies on computers that would have been on anyway.
In a world without fences and walls, who needs windows and gates?
Personally I could do without Windoze and Gates.
What if you have disease foo? Do you want everyone to know? What if there's a social stigma or something?? What if you're not a slashdotter and actually have lots of friends and you don't want them to know about disease foo???
IANAL. company==person that is a company. Or at least that's what the law says, but it's notoriously inconsistent with reality so...
What about between people that are not companies?
There, fixed that for both of you. IANAL, but IIRC companies are people under the law. Also, WTF does "expressed permission" mean? As opposed to ... "impressed permission"? Was that supposed to say "express written permission"?
Let's face it, this idea of MS as a marketing company is just code for saying MS is no good technically. Some people can't accept the idea that MS customers might actually like MS products, so they use this concept of MS as a marketing wiz to explain their success.
Most Microsoft users I've encountered seem to fall into one or more of these categories:
She doesn't. IANAL. copyright != patent. A copyright covers
the form or manner in which they [ideas and information] are expressed.
(qtd. from Wikipedia. How ironic.)
I've never once used a single scrap from calculus (computer science major).
Why does A=pi*r^2? Because integral from 0 to r of 2*pi*a*da=pi*r^2. See disk integration for the sphere equations.
By hand, on graph paper with pen/pencil, with an egg timer, and a d20 (or dN) to pick the next tile.
That means the Japanese are due sooner for their next period of crap than the domestics are.
That assumes that history will repeat itself. Current economic conditions are unprecedented; this normally reasonable assumption is no longer valid.
Please go watch Mythbusters on that one... it doesn't work.
On the contrary, larger meteorites have more momentum and more kinetic energy. Hence more energy needs to be bled off via drag. Also, surface area:volume ratio tends to decrease as objects get larger (mass:volume ratio is density, which is usually fairly large, and pretty consistent given we are usually dealing with large pieces of metal). So larger meteors shouldn't slow to terminal velocity if they're already moving very fast. The question is what the definition of "is^H^H larger" is.
That all said, I apologize if I missed any sarcasm, but it appeared to me that someone on the internets was wrong, and I have a moral obligation to correct that if I see it.
Oblig.
IANAL. Sue for malpractice.
It's pretty hard to argue that copying something is morally wrong to begin with, and buying something then unlocking it is legally wrong; at least in the United States (See DCMA on DRM)
IANAL, but the constitutionality of the DMCA hasn't been squarely addressed. (be sure to read the last few paragraphs if you RTFLink at all)
You get "Hero" status for starting a thread and getting two replies? (That's a rhetorical question; I did RTFColbertnationBoard and he is marked as "Hero")
You sure about that?
[snip] some sort of addon/extension system [snip]
You mean like this?
[snip] they could probably pull it off and get terrible performance.
There, fixed that for you. I'm using a notebook (x86, Inspiron B130 from Dell, etc.) and don't get "halfway decent performance" under VirtualBox. Admittedly it isn't a particularly good notebook, but it's a notebook alright.
[snip]another[snip]
There, fixed that for you.
Did the Indian gov't ask Microsoft to block "sex"?
Unfortunately, the general population is actually that stupid. Please be less subtle.
Why is TPB in Microsoft's index?
If you type "sex" into a search engine with no qualifiers or anything, you are begging for sexually explicit content. If someone wanted to read about sex discrimination "or how to determine the sex of a snake or something", they would have searched for that.
What are you talking about?? We're concerned about keyloggers, which are client side. HTTPS doesn't come into play until the keylogger already has your password. This lets them have all passwords, not just passwords for school-sponsered sites. Finally, this has nothing to do with criminal activity. Would you like your college to know your bank account info, and handle it poorly?
Note: I am operating under the assumption that previous posters made: that the so-called "client" thing is in fact a keylogger/malware.