Christians are on top. If in roman times when Christians were getting the beats. Had they access to explosives i'm sure suicide bombers would be held in equally high regard. The whole middle east was owned buy arabs, now its run by jewish and americans. Both of whom have hundreds and hundreds of times the military capacity. They are getting beat so badly they'll take anything as a minor victory. When they are getting killed in 10:1 ratios, when they have to fire homemade rockets at 20million dollar jets that has to make you desperate. Isreal has >500 combat ready aircraft, when it invaded lebanon they had 2 military helicopters and a few news choppers with gunners in them. Its the equivalent to the overwhelming advantage the british had when they were empire building.
/. has editors? I thought the robotic overlords just scanned the articles for keywords and posted. Given the fact it says Stallman, GNU, free, OLPC and wireless multiple times i'm surprised there hasn't been a repost yet.
99% of the time the goal is to make the legal process take forever. So you have to pay legal fees, often can't work because they are mailing you 600page books of things you have to research and you still have living expenses. Your company will be stalled. Then they just wait for you to crack or run out of money. Even if all you do is hold up prior art the law isn't so simple. They'd have a long investigation on whether or not it truely is prior art, whether we can tell or not if it came first as humans can know nothing. That this supposed knowledge is just a flawed combination of our senses. My point is it doesnt matter if there is a case or not their only goal is to stall. Most people arent willing to give up their lives for often over 8months to show up some asshat. You end up in the hole near a million dollars, your company is certainly disbanded at this point and the company you stood up to has already hit 20victims since.
The only option in these cases is class-action. Or bend over and take it, film the experience and send it to the EFF who will hopefully have some luck finding you some cream.
The way it works in reality is that both side lose about 400~800 grand and then they'll withdraw. You might recoup some of the loss but it still wont be profitable. Cept for the IP lawyers....
And you care why? Honestly data-mining isn't a bad thing. I'd rather be spammed about things vaguely relevant to me than random shit. Better to get video game and tv show ads than gay porn and viagra... and breast enhancement ads. I fail to see the harm in giving out information which can't be traced back to me. Its just an algorithm its not like anyone will be reading your emails.
to be fair the box cutters where to hijack a plane. Thats like saying i can cut the cables with a stack of paper with numbers printed on them, i'm sure i could pay someone to cut it but i'm not clubbing the cable with a wad of soggy bills. Though i totally agree with you, I'm sure i could cut the wires to with an 1820s diving helmet. Terrorists don't need to be skilled just imaginative.
Not only that, its enforced pointlessness. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
Its the only section that you can't shutoff from showing up on the main page. Obviously just forgotten but still ironic they'd miss the only section a significant number of members will shut off.
I understand that of course. But come on, doing some snooping couldnt hurt. If 10million spam mails were sent in the name of company-X there is a decent chance they are involved. But they just arrest the worm maker rather than investigate the companies being advertised. The investigation would catch people doing what you suggested as well. My complaint is i've heard nothing about investigations of this nature.
Not even in the states was he the most popular. The american idol girl got 70million votes and GWB only got 60~. And from a global perspective GWB is vehemently hated and no1 has heard of the american idol people. And Oprah gets more viewers than GWB's adress the nation speeches. Infact i'm sure more people have seen 2girls1cup than GWBs speeches....
Chasing after security vulnerabilities and hackers is ridiculous. There wouldnt be spam-botnets if you hit the people paying the hackers. Killing a bot or imprisoning a hacker causes a tiny blip. If we charged every company being advertised in the spam the problem would go away. Spam wouldnt be profitable anymore.
If a possibly bad object goes through the screen flashes red the thing stops and it beeps. It'll detect any bad material (explosives, drugs w/e) as well as recognize most guns/knives. The person sitting there is just an extra.
Don't worry about it. They'll fight biotech as hard as they can. Science will prevail eventually after being delayed 10years. Some life saving cures will come out undoubtedly. Then they'll be talking about how they are totally different from those dinosaurs against biotech and ask for their pill that they obviously deserve.
Then they will pick different bits of scripture to quote showing how God wanted biotech and things will move on.
Happens once every 50~100 years nobody seems to mind that the infallible word of god is so easily changed.
Note (various religions have opposed): Basically ALL astronomy, biology, brain/mind, basically ALL chemistry, evolution(still in the works), Creation of the earth, age of the universe, the sun will come up without the aid of human sacrifice,... dinosaurs? psychology, electricity.... Feel free to add more.
Computer nerds seem to have a hacker mindset too *gasp* since so many hackers turn out to be nerds.
Aside from that i believe engineers like to take things apart and like challenging themselves. They like defeating systems. In waterloo last week there was a tech fair and 2 of them were robot controlled guns (paintball). The point wasnt that they wanted to kill people, its just they are engineers. They want to do things other people could never figure out. This drive is a good thing. As well they view everything from an engineer POV. Yesterday sitting on the bus i remember thinking how poorly the flip up seats were designed and drew up plans for a better one in my head. Looking at security systems the same thing happens. I can see how this could be related to terrorism (defeating security systems).
Terrorists however approach it from a totally different angle. They want to do damage and try to find a way to do so.
So what it really comes down to is engineer/nerd brains are overactive.
Also, engineers != religious. The idea is laughable
"I never would share music! Why should I have to pay?"
This makes the assumption that music sharing is ethically wrong. It isn't a tax to pay for the law breakers. In a democratic society if everyone wants something they get it. So the tax is there to make certain artists get paid for their work. Like public school it simply makes music a government/tax paid for service. But you wouldnt argue that public schools are immoral.
Once filesharing becomes legal the # of people using it will rise obviously. Unless you want to argue that there are people that have the internet but don't listen to music.
Aside from the distribution system which obviously needs to be worked out there is no problem with this.
I hate people that think something is immoral simply because it is against the law.
Stealing healthcare in the US is wrong. In canada you can't steal healthcare because its paid for. You are saying that file sharing should be legalized without compensation... which is the same as saying Canada and most of europe is evil charging for something that should be legal?
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Christians are on top. If in roman times when Christians were getting the beats. Had they access to explosives i'm sure suicide bombers would be held in equally high regard. The whole middle east was owned buy arabs, now its run by jewish and americans. Both of whom have hundreds and hundreds of times the military capacity. They are getting beat so badly they'll take anything as a minor victory. When they are getting killed in 10:1 ratios, when they have to fire homemade rockets at 20million dollar jets that has to make you desperate. Isreal has >500 combat ready aircraft, when it invaded lebanon they had 2 military helicopters and a few news choppers with gunners in them. Its the equivalent to the overwhelming advantage the british had when they were empire building.
/. has editors? I thought the robotic overlords just scanned the articles for keywords and posted. Given the fact it says Stallman, GNU, free, OLPC and wireless multiple times i'm surprised there hasn't been a repost yet.
99% of the time the goal is to make the legal process take forever. So you have to pay legal fees, often can't work because they are mailing you 600page books of things you have to research and you still have living expenses. Your company will be stalled. Then they just wait for you to crack or run out of money. Even if all you do is hold up prior art the law isn't so simple. They'd have a long investigation on whether or not it truely is prior art, whether we can tell or not if it came first as humans can know nothing. That this supposed knowledge is just a flawed combination of our senses. My point is it doesnt matter if there is a case or not their only goal is to stall. Most people arent willing to give up their lives for often over 8months to show up some asshat. You end up in the hole near a million dollars, your company is certainly disbanded at this point and the company you stood up to has already hit 20victims since.
The only option in these cases is class-action. Or bend over and take it, film the experience and send it to the EFF who will hopefully have some luck finding you some cream.
The way it works in reality is that both side lose about 400~800 grand and then they'll withdraw. You might recoup some of the loss but it still wont be profitable. Cept for the IP lawyers....
And you care why? Honestly data-mining isn't a bad thing. I'd rather be spammed about things vaguely relevant to me than random shit. Better to get video game and tv show ads than gay porn and viagra... and breast enhancement ads. I fail to see the harm in giving out information which can't be traced back to me. Its just an algorithm its not like anyone will be reading your emails.
to be fair the box cutters where to hijack a plane. Thats like saying i can cut the cables with a stack of paper with numbers printed on them, i'm sure i could pay someone to cut it but i'm not clubbing the cable with a wad of soggy bills. Though i totally agree with you, I'm sure i could cut the wires to with an 1820s diving helmet. Terrorists don't need to be skilled just imaginative.
Anyone else notice parent used the term '2D6' to flame someone over dnd. Busted :o
Not only that, its enforced pointlessness.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
Its the only section that you can't shutoff from showing up on the main page. Obviously just forgotten but still ironic they'd miss the only section a significant number of members will shut off.
I understand that of course. But come on, doing some snooping couldnt hurt. If 10million spam mails were sent in the name of company-X there is a decent chance they are involved. But they just arrest the worm maker rather than investigate the companies being advertised. The investigation would catch people doing what you suggested as well. My complaint is i've heard nothing about investigations of this nature.
Not even in the states was he the most popular. The american idol girl got 70million votes and GWB only got 60~. And from a global perspective GWB is vehemently hated and no1 has heard of the american idol people. And Oprah gets more viewers than GWB's adress the nation speeches. Infact i'm sure more people have seen 2girls1cup than GWBs speeches....
Chasing after security vulnerabilities and hackers is ridiculous. There wouldnt be spam-botnets if you hit the people paying the hackers. Killing a bot or imprisoning a hacker causes a tiny blip. If we charged every company being advertised in the spam the problem would go away. Spam wouldnt be profitable anymore.
If a possibly bad object goes through the screen flashes red the thing stops and it beeps. It'll detect any bad material (explosives, drugs w/e) as well as recognize most guns/knives. The person sitting there is just an extra.
Uhhh businesses from a government POV are more important than free pron. I can't see anyone putting up a reasonable debate that pron > economy ....
Don't worry about it. They'll fight biotech as hard as they can. Science will prevail eventually after being delayed 10years. Some life saving cures will come out undoubtedly. Then they'll be talking about how they are totally different from those dinosaurs against biotech and ask for their pill that they obviously deserve.
... dinosaurs? psychology, electricity.... Feel free to add more.
Then they will pick different bits of scripture to quote showing how God wanted biotech and things will move on.
Happens once every 50~100 years nobody seems to mind that the infallible word of god is so easily changed.
Note (various religions have opposed): Basically ALL astronomy, biology, brain/mind, basically ALL chemistry, evolution(still in the works), Creation of the earth, age of the universe, the sun will come up without the aid of human sacrifice,
Computer nerds seem to have a hacker mindset too *gasp* since so many hackers turn out to be nerds.
Aside from that i believe engineers like to take things apart and like challenging themselves. They like defeating systems. In waterloo last week there was a tech fair and 2 of them were robot controlled guns (paintball). The point wasnt that they wanted to kill people, its just they are engineers. They want to do things other people could never figure out. This drive is a good thing. As well they view everything from an engineer POV. Yesterday sitting on the bus i remember thinking how poorly the flip up seats were designed and drew up plans for a better one in my head. Looking at security systems the same thing happens. I can see how this could be related to terrorism (defeating security systems).
Terrorists however approach it from a totally different angle. They want to do damage and try to find a way to do so.
So what it really comes down to is engineer/nerd brains are overactive.
Also, engineers != religious. The idea is laughable
"I never would share music! Why should I have to pay?"
This makes the assumption that music sharing is ethically wrong. It isn't a tax to pay for the law breakers. In a democratic society if everyone wants something they get it. So the tax is there to make certain artists get paid for their work. Like public school it simply makes music a government/tax paid for service. But you wouldnt argue that public schools are immoral.
Once filesharing becomes legal the # of people using it will rise obviously. Unless you want to argue that there are people that have the internet but don't listen to music.
Aside from the distribution system which obviously needs to be worked out there is no problem with this.
I hate people that think something is immoral simply because it is against the law.
Stealing healthcare in the US is wrong. In canada you can't steal healthcare because its paid for. You are saying that file sharing should be legalized without compensation... which is the same as saying Canada and most of europe is evil charging for something that should be legal?