Also, if you look at today vs 100 years ago, we enjoy far less freedom than our grandparents. Have you ever been afraid to ask question for fear of being investigated for terrorism (This situation has a actually occurred to me, though it was pretty groundless.).
Modern technology allows a lot more fine detail to be saved. If you go check out a book from the library, the FBI can easily find out what you got. 50 years ago, that was far more difficult. I'm very careful about what books I check out now.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
Huh. Well this is obviously untrue. More Americans enjoy far more liberty today than at any period in American history, perhaps in human history. Yeah, it's not perfect, but we're doing a lot better than our grandparents did, despite the extra government we choose to have.
Just because it chooses not to act now doesn't mean it couldn't later.
Nah. What makes it newsworthy is that the snoops are patenting tools which can detect their own snoopage.
Counter-snooping this way is now a patent infringement as well as anything else, and the laws seem much tougher for that crime. Pursue 'em for one thing, nail 'em to the wall with another.
So, what you're saying is that they came up with the poison (the use of this technique), and the antidote (the counter-use), which is also a poison (patent infringement)...this should be good...
When I was in college, my roommate and I managed to prove that in order to die, one has to live forever. Basically, it started with two premises: Xeno's Paradox, and the question of "If I get scared half to death twice, do I die?". We simplified a lot, but basically we ended up concluding that in order to be scared all the way to death, one would have to be scared half to death an infinite number of times. Of course, this would take an infinite amount of time. Therefore, to be scared all the way to death, one would have to live forever.
Needless to say, while we had some laughs, the rest of our calculus class looked at us like we were retarded.
Good luck with that. Meanwhile, those of us that have given up on the political process, given up any thoughts that "we, the people" will ever do anything about the daily abuse of our rights by politicians, given up any thoughts that most people even have a clue about any political issue beyond which candidate has the best hair, given up on the populace showing any sign of intelligence at all... we'll be having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the way, if you'd like to join us, because life's too short to wait for society to sort itself out.
You could always just secede. But then they'd have you against the wall for something.
That was my model for the sample conversation, but I've seen it occur elsewhere, not involving firearms. Firearms lend themselves well to this comparison, mostly due to the legislative thought(?) process. I'm sure all sorts of examples abound.
Really, the situation involves X and Y. X is pretty much illegal all the time. Y is something that sometimes occurs with X (is either instrumental or incidental to carrying out activity X, but not requred for X to occur). Y isn't always illegal, and usually it has mostly legitimate uses.
For instance, assault is illegal, whether or not one uses a pointy stick. But a pointy stick can be used for a lot of things, such as pointing, digging, stabbing, scratching, writing, etc (i.e. it is a tool). Do the already illegal actions justify strictly controlling the use of pointy sticks in all situations?
The thing that is awful about led lamps is that most of them are run straight off the AC voltage and have massive 100% brightness flickers. If you are moving it's like a strobe. You don't see it in car lights since they are run off DC. but most, perhaps not all, AC socket lamps I've seen have really bad flicker.
I also how they have secondary lenses since LED's can be very directional the way they are typically resin cast.
You know, it's not that big a jump to have a bridge-rectifier and ripple-smoother capacitor between the power source and the array of LEDs. Just a thought...
I get asked on a fairly regular occasion if I'm Amish when I wear my uniform (or sometimes if I'm a pirate, depending on what uniform I'm in). This summer, I finally turned the tables in a silly way: I asked an Amish fellow if he was a reenactor:)
aren't very self-respecting, since you referred to your uniform as a costume.
It's period to call your ordinary clothes a "costume". Using "costume" only to mean dress-up is a modern shift in meaning.
I would have assumed it would refer to dressing up for a special occasion, too. But typically, "costume" implies something outlandish or out of the ordinary.
Why is this listed troll? There is still an active contention that the IRS is illegal under the 16th amendment (and there are also several active movements to repeal the 16th amendment).
Conversion percentage [above 1%] is irrelevant when you have an unlimited supply. With 1000C+, and an ocean of H20 in close proximity....
Nice try, but ocean water isn't unlimited. There's just a lot of it. More of it than we care to use, but not truly unlimited (and somewhat scarce on a universal level).
I even find it awkward that no popular linux distribution checks and proposes security updates at bootup.
I have an ASUS laptop that runs Ubuntu 8.04. I turned it on, turned on the Wi-Fi radio, and started Firefox to look up something about reenactment costuming. After a few minutes, I noticed the update icon in the tray. One of the updates was Mozilla Firefox 3.05. I clicked download and apply, and it was done. So yes, Ubuntu automatically "checks and proposes security updates".
Reenactment costuming? Are you Amish or something?
Term limits means: more campaigning, less actual work done. Less power in the hands of politicians, more in the hands of unelected lobbyists and power brokers. I'd rather that power be in the hands of someone we can vote out, thanks.
Incumbents tend to win 93% to 95% of elections. The problem is with actually voting them out, since they're entrenched. The idea behind term limits would be to root them out of those trenches (the partial idea).
Well I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure them cows don't produce 3% more milk with each passing year, nor do they yield 3% more meat. You can say what you want about wealth, but there is a fixed amount of natural, life-sustaining resources in the world, and printing more money isn't going to change that.
Wrong. The cows do, in fact, produce more milk every year (not the individual cow, but the average cow). More importantly the dairy industry becomes more efficient every year, making it possible to have more cows using fewer resources..
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
Production and efficiency in a single industry can only increase for so long before the results become absurd or impossible.
The average dairy cow in the US produces ~20,000 pounds of milk annually (rounded for simplicity). If we pretend we can get 3% improvements annually, then after 100 years we'll have nineteen times the milk we started with. At the end of 200 years, each cow is producing a pound of milk every four and a quarter seconds. In 300 years, 4.5 pounds/second. You'd have to stick a pipe down its throat just to prevent dehydration.
And as far as more cows using fewer resources goes, you run up against basic physics. Calories in >= calories out. Efficiency improvement is constrained by the universe.
You have two cows....
Don't forget that a cow has to produce a calf (with a 50% chance of being a bull) who consumes some of that milk. But then the calf grows up, and if it is a cow, it will also produce milk. Also, a cow's milk production decreases with age.
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No, receiving calls/texts is free.
No, it isn't.
Also, if you look at today vs 100 years ago, we enjoy far less freedom than our grandparents. Have you ever been afraid to ask question for fear of being investigated for terrorism (This situation has a actually occurred to me, though it was pretty groundless.).
Modern technology allows a lot more fine detail to be saved. If you go check out a book from the library, the FBI can easily find out what you got. 50 years ago, that was far more difficult. I'm very careful about what books I check out now.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
Huh. Well this is obviously untrue. More Americans enjoy far more liberty today than at any period in American history, perhaps in human history. Yeah, it's not perfect, but we're doing a lot better than our grandparents did, despite the extra government we choose to have.
Just because it chooses not to act now doesn't mean it couldn't later.
Nah. What makes it newsworthy is that the snoops are patenting tools which can detect their own snoopage.
Counter-snooping this way is now a patent infringement as well as anything else, and the laws seem much tougher for that crime. Pursue 'em for one thing, nail 'em to the wall with another.
So, what you're saying is that they came up with the poison (the use of this technique), and the antidote (the counter-use), which is also a poison (patent infringement)...this should be good...
When I was in college, my roommate and I managed to prove that in order to die, one has to live forever. Basically, it started with two premises: Xeno's Paradox, and the question of "If I get scared half to death twice, do I die?". We simplified a lot, but basically we ended up concluding that in order to be scared all the way to death, one would have to be scared half to death an infinite number of times. Of course, this would take an infinite amount of time. Therefore, to be scared all the way to death, one would have to live forever.
Needless to say, while we had some laughs, the rest of our calculus class looked at us like we were retarded.
"Work with the system and get it legalized."
Good luck with that. Meanwhile, those of us that have given up on the political process, given up any thoughts that "we, the people" will ever do anything about the daily abuse of our rights by politicians, given up any thoughts that most people even have a clue about any political issue beyond which candidate has the best hair, given up on the populace showing any sign of intelligence at all... we'll be having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the way, if you'd like to join us, because life's too short to wait for society to sort itself out.
You could always just secede. But then they'd have you against the wall for something.
Let me guess: gun control?
That was my model for the sample conversation, but I've seen it occur elsewhere, not involving firearms. Firearms lend themselves well to this comparison, mostly due to the legislative thought(?) process. I'm sure all sorts of examples abound.
Really, the situation involves X and Y. X is pretty much illegal all the time. Y is something that sometimes occurs with X (is either instrumental or incidental to carrying out activity X, but not requred for X to occur). Y isn't always illegal, and usually it has mostly legitimate uses.
For instance, assault is illegal, whether or not one uses a pointy stick. But a pointy stick can be used for a lot of things, such as pointing, digging, stabbing, scratching, writing, etc (i.e. it is a tool). Do the already illegal actions justify strictly controlling the use of pointy sticks in all situations?
I'll add mine to the pile. I changed mine to non-22 (still 1024) and the attacks stopped. It's just not worth it for them to port scan.
Note to self: Brute force your SSH on port 1024...
"Just because you don't have some trait doesn't mean that other people don't."
I have two dongs.
Do you ding your dongs?
The thing that is awful about led lamps is that most of them are run straight off the AC voltage and have massive 100% brightness flickers. If you are moving it's like a strobe. You don't see it in car lights since they are run off DC. but most, perhaps not all, AC socket lamps I've seen have really bad flicker.
I also how they have secondary lenses since LED's can be very directional the way they are typically resin cast.
You know, it's not that big a jump to have a bridge-rectifier and ripple-smoother capacitor between the power source and the array of LEDs. Just a thought...
I get asked on a fairly regular occasion if I'm Amish when I wear my uniform (or sometimes if I'm a pirate, depending on what uniform I'm in). This summer, I finally turned the tables in a silly way: I asked an Amish fellow if he was a reenactor :)
aren't very self-respecting, since you referred to your uniform as a costume.
It's period to call your ordinary clothes a "costume". Using "costume" only to mean dress-up is a modern shift in meaning.
I would have assumed it would refer to dressing up for a special occasion, too. But typically, "costume" implies something outlandish or out of the ordinary.
Reenactment costuming?
It appears you aren't familiar with one or more of cosplay, LARP, SCA, or Civil War I reenactment.
Familiar enough. Presumably, you're into Civil War Reenacting, but aren't very self-respecting, since you referred to your uniform as a costume.
Also, you obviously didn't get the joke. Noone has ever asked you if you were Amish when you were in your uniform?
In the antique business, it's not "used". It's "Previously enjoyed!"
Yeah, I don't know what I'd do without mine.
Without it, you might have to get a job or something.
Obligatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/322/
Why is this listed troll? There is still an active contention that the IRS is illegal under the 16th amendment (and there are also several active movements to repeal the 16th amendment).
Conversion percentage [above 1%] is irrelevant when you have an unlimited supply. With 1000C+, and an ocean of H20 in close proximity....
Nice try, but ocean water isn't unlimited. There's just a lot of it. More of it than we care to use, but not truly unlimited (and somewhat scarce on a universal level).
I even find it awkward that no popular linux distribution checks and proposes security updates at bootup.
I have an ASUS laptop that runs Ubuntu 8.04. I turned it on, turned on the Wi-Fi radio, and started Firefox to look up something about reenactment costuming. After a few minutes, I noticed the update icon in the tray. One of the updates was Mozilla Firefox 3.05. I clicked download and apply, and it was done. So yes, Ubuntu automatically "checks and proposes security updates".
Reenactment costuming? Are you Amish or something?
No worries, I'll mine your retained data for you.
Can we get a WinMine.exe out here?! Kaboom!
How did we go from DOD erasure to removing the platters to make a tree? The data could still be recovered in its current tree state!
Only if you traverse the tree.
Because /. is about tech news for nerds. Not a press release clearinghouse
Term limits means: more campaigning, less actual work done. Less power in the hands of politicians, more in the hands of unelected lobbyists and power brokers. I'd rather that power be in the hands of someone we can vote out, thanks.
Incumbents tend to win 93% to 95% of elections. The problem is with actually voting them out, since they're entrenched. The idea behind term limits would be to root them out of those trenches (the partial idea).
Does it fix this?
It fixes it. It also irons my socks and underwear, and leaves me squeaky clean and springtime fresh.
Well I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure them cows don't produce 3% more milk with each passing year, nor do they yield 3% more meat. You can say what you want about wealth, but there is a fixed amount of natural, life-sustaining resources in the world, and printing more money isn't going to change that.
Wrong. The cows do, in fact, produce more milk every year (not the individual cow, but the average cow). More importantly the dairy industry becomes more efficient every year, making it possible to have more cows using fewer resources..
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
Production and efficiency in a single industry can only increase for so long before the results become absurd or impossible.
The average dairy cow in the US produces ~20,000 pounds of milk annually (rounded for simplicity). If we pretend we can get 3% improvements annually, then after 100 years we'll have nineteen times the milk we started with. At the end of 200 years, each cow is producing a pound of milk every four and a quarter seconds. In 300 years, 4.5 pounds/second. You'd have to stick a pipe down its throat just to prevent dehydration.
And as far as more cows using fewer resources goes, you run up against basic physics. Calories in >= calories out. Efficiency improvement is constrained by the universe.
You have two cows.... Don't forget that a cow has to produce a calf (with a 50% chance of being a bull) who consumes some of that milk. But then the calf grows up, and if it is a cow, it will also produce milk. Also, a cow's milk production decreases with age.
They also called it "CAN-SPAM" which implies...
Just sayin'
I wonder who comes up with these acronyms?
Noone. They come up with a catchy name, then expand it to make the name sound official with a catchy acronym.