Isn't any string of numbers random ? It is just how probable to get that string that is relevant. And whether the output of the generator can be predicted or not.
The question is, shouldn't a patent be awarded only for something non-trivial even for experts in that field ?
I mean this is hardly a genius work. You write a function that depends on the values of the accelerometer and voila you get the proper orientation! What am I missing here?
There is a huge difference between showing my papers in order to get into a high security building and going out with a friend to a restaurant for lunch...
Well goodie then, bit by bit they will demand more and more services to be moved to new "secure", until all is left on the old internet is unlawful sites. And by then it will be easy to argue for the prohibition of it and if that anyone is using it, then this person is a criminal. So thanks, but no thanks.
What about SLAP(is it called that ?) ?? or something similar.
I am not sure what SLAP is, but sometimes I saw people mention this, it's a way of dealing with rich and powerful adversaries in court.
Wrong metaphor my friend. A good one would be the Pentagon papers. If Visa/MC want to play that game, they can. But they have to suffer the consequences, and those consequences would be getting kicked out from the EU market. The US can do whatever it pleases them, but not Visa/MC.
EU is not some small country somewhere in the third world. Even though EU economy isn't bigger than USA's. It would kill Visa/MC should they pull out of the EU.
That is the point, they can't have it both ways. Beside as far as I know, Wikileaks did not break any EU or even American law, so there is no 'illegal' activity for them to check against.
"the iPad 2 finally has solid competition in terms of both hardware and OS performance."
That's good news, more competition, better options for the rest of us.
My passwords(for important things like the disk encryption one or my work email) are at least 13~15 characters long, including Upper-Lower cases, numbers and special characters, and no dictionary words. Now I did my part, so how about the people on the server side ?
Democracy is not about just just the majority deciding(as your comment incline). If 90% of US voters decided that is legal to kill someone just because they looked funny in your direction, that wouldn't make it a democracy, or if they voted that only professed Christians can hold any job. Democracy is about preserving your rights against the tide of the majority. - Or that's how I see Democracy.
If you don't have experience we won't hire you ? I might be naive, but isn't by getting a job you get the experience? Yes I do agree that you don't hire someone who just got out of college to code for the next super secret OS, but you can't expect everyone to be the that good right away.
What about that other research that was done a while ago, that confirmed that not all languages follow the same mental rules ? Or maybe that came later ?
My memory on this is a bit sketchy, but it is interesting to see if these 2 findings can influence the result of the other.
Yahweh is not for the Christians only! Beside I am in no way signaling out Christianity. And Whether or not the true "Christian" message contain or doesn't contain hatred for homosexuality is not the issue here, and I don't want to go with *different* interpretations of holy text issue. For example Islam "whether Muslims accept it or not" is based on the Old testament, so with Islam too you have this explicit (as in the old testament) vilification of homosexuality. My point was (Wether the believers now believe in this or not) that as far as I know, homosexuality was never an issue in the old world (it was even accepted as normal in ancient Greece), and there is no general proof that it ever was a problem outside of Mesopotamia. So the whole point is that our modern hatred/rejection of homosexuality is based on an argument that goes as following: It is against Nature/God forbid it. Now again who say that ? Oh well it is the different followers of Yahweh.
But homophobia is something that came with our Imaginary friend Yahweh. So, this is something that proves that during our history we might have been more tolerant as it suggested by the article.
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Isn't any string of numbers random ? It is just how probable to get that string that is relevant. And whether the output of the generator can be predicted or not.
The question is, shouldn't a patent be awarded only for something non-trivial even for experts in that field ? I mean this is hardly a genius work. You write a function that depends on the values of the accelerometer and voila you get the proper orientation! What am I missing here?
It doesn't matter if it is open or close source. You are an idiot if you download anything from an untrusted source, point and end of discussion.
There is a huge difference between showing my papers in order to get into a high security building and going out with a friend to a restaurant for lunch...
Well goodie then, bit by bit they will demand more and more services to be moved to new "secure", until all is left on the old internet is unlawful sites. And by then it will be easy to argue for the prohibition of it and if that anyone is using it, then this person is a criminal. So thanks, but no thanks.
What about SLAP(is it called that ?) ?? or something similar. I am not sure what SLAP is, but sometimes I saw people mention this, it's a way of dealing with rich and powerful adversaries in court.
Monopolies and Cartels, which is the case of Visa and Mastercard.
Wrong metaphor my friend. A good one would be the Pentagon papers. If Visa/MC want to play that game, they can. But they have to suffer the consequences, and those consequences would be getting kicked out from the EU market. The US can do whatever it pleases them, but not Visa/MC.
EU is not some small country somewhere in the third world. Even though EU economy isn't bigger than USA's. It would kill Visa/MC should they pull out of the EU.
That is the point, they can't have it both ways. Beside as far as I know, Wikileaks did not break any EU or even American law, so there is no 'illegal' activity for them to check against.
Well too bad, the law in the EU explicitly ask the companies to behave as the Grandparent poster explained.
Waiting for politicians to have some reason is not going to work, other means should be considered by the general populate.
"the iPad 2 finally has solid competition in terms of both hardware and OS performance." That's good news, more competition, better options for the rest of us.
try this: www.google.com/ncr
My passwords(for important things like the disk encryption one or my work email) are at least 13~15 characters long, including Upper-Lower cases, numbers and special characters, and no dictionary words. Now I did my part, so how about the people on the server side ?
I've always wondered what the heck with version numbers... Can someone please explain what is the difference between 3.0 and 2.6.40 ?
How the hell can you abuse a translating service ? To rickroll people of different cultures ?
What about them ? maybe issue a fix for them.
Democracy is not about just just the majority deciding(as your comment incline). If 90% of US voters decided that is legal to kill someone just because they looked funny in your direction, that wouldn't make it a democracy, or if they voted that only professed Christians can hold any job. Democracy is about preserving your rights against the tide of the majority. - Or that's how I see Democracy.
If you don't have experience we won't hire you ? I might be naive, but isn't by getting a job you get the experience? Yes I do agree that you don't hire someone who just got out of college to code for the next super secret OS, but you can't expect everyone to be the that good right away.
it just depends on the encryption and all. And wether there is a backdoor or not. They are lying, the question is to whom ?
What about that other research that was done a while ago, that confirmed that not all languages follow the same mental rules ? Or maybe that came later ? My memory on this is a bit sketchy, but it is interesting to see if these 2 findings can influence the result of the other.
Yahweh is not for the Christians only! Beside I am in no way signaling out Christianity. And Whether or not the true "Christian" message contain or doesn't contain hatred for homosexuality is not the issue here, and I don't want to go with *different* interpretations of holy text issue. For example Islam "whether Muslims accept it or not" is based on the Old testament, so with Islam too you have this explicit (as in the old testament) vilification of homosexuality. My point was (Wether the believers now believe in this or not) that as far as I know, homosexuality was never an issue in the old world (it was even accepted as normal in ancient Greece), and there is no general proof that it ever was a problem outside of Mesopotamia. So the whole point is that our modern hatred/rejection of homosexuality is based on an argument that goes as following: It is against Nature/God forbid it. Now again who say that ? Oh well it is the different followers of Yahweh.
But homophobia is something that came with our Imaginary friend Yahweh. So, this is something that proves that during our history we might have been more tolerant as it suggested by the article.