Hopefully we can inject some common sense and get funding to push forward for Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactors (Google Talks). There are so many upsides and so few downsides.
If your outward defense for not keeping this treaty a secret is "people would be 'walking away from the table'", then perhaps the political marketplace is telling you something. Our world leaders seem to pride themselves in endlessly espousing the advantages of free markets; so, why would it not work in this case? There isn't enough political capital to push this treaty through without such measures because it's not wanted. Not to mention hard to enforce, costly, and overly intrusive. It's bad for everyone involved (except perhaps the corporations who will provide enforcement products and services) - the consumers, the politicians, the governments, the overburdened law enforcement agencies.
I don't see how his argument carries any validity whatsoever.
I continue to be amazed that nVidia doesn't bring their drivers up to standard with xRandR and Xinerama interaction. They have to know that setups with more than two monitors are becoming more common, not to mention allowing people the flexibility to use Xinerama instead of their TwinView.
I have four monitors in a strange setup. A row with three, 18, 23 widescreen, 18. Then, above the 23 I have an identical 23, but it's upside down.
Needless to say, it's a tremendous struggle to get it all working in Linux, and it's pretty much automatic in Windows.
Sometimes I wonder (or perhaps hope is a better word) if these corporations are buying up all of these absurd patents just to show how unfathomably absurd software patents are.
Secondly, I am pretty sure many websites and forums have been doing "Secret Santa" for at least a decade now. That always involves collecting information from more than just the "seller" and the "buyer" in order to complete an online transaction.
ACTA Proposal (2007) was leaked by Wikileaks more than a year ago. Granted, this was a rough draft of a rough draft, but the principles are still the same.
The over the top celebration that you see with homsexuals (who I will defend to my dying breath) is probably borne out of the same traits that caused civil rights leaders to resort to violence and Islamic radicals to resort to terrorism. When humans feel cornered by some force which they percieve to a threat (especially an existential threat), then they tend to react in a more extreme way. Not that I equate the above scenarios, I'm just saying that it's human nature to fight back when you're way of life is threatened.
As an aside, if you really think Gitmo is the only establishment of it's kind operated by the United States, I have a CIA plane loaded full of cocaine and cash I'd like to sell you.
Lawrence Lessig already warned us about this, though he predicted it would occur after whatever this 'cyber-security emergency' is. See the short video here.
Dr. Tim Palmer wrote a wonderful paper in which he makes an argument which would result in similar implications (disregarding the particular solution of using cellular automata): the Invariant Set Hypothesis. I haven't read t'Hooft's paper yet, but I have read and (attempted) understood this paper. He argues that there may be an invariant set behind quantum mechanics that is scale-variant but repetitive (this, if you knew the invariant set, it would be scale invariant). I'm not sure if this the same kind of determinism, but I suspect not.
I find it kind of funny (ironic, Alanis?) that using software to 'game the system' and create money out of thin air is dealt with swiftly and with 'surgical precision', and when Goldman Sachs does the same thing with the stock markets, they are dealt with by being provided protection from the SEC and FBI.
I see the tags 'butthurt' and 'whaaaaaaaaa', but no 'thanksforyourtime'. Why won't anyone show any gratitude for the years of work he's generously offered to the project?
That example is very apropos. However, in Ultima Online, there is a good counterexample: recall (teleporting) to a location that was outside a city was very often risky, especially to popular spots. For instance, it was rather stupid to mark runes right outside of mines because usually there would be someone there waiting for you.
There has been some interesting progress in visualizing some of the interesting (or spooky) quantum mechanical effects.
http://visualphysics.org
The software which generates it is available for free. It uses mathematics based in Quaternions to visualize the mathematics behind spacetime, standard model groups,etc.
When all things are at stake, than all things remain possible.
The previous situations where the 4th amendment protections were subverted or revoked, or habeas corpus was revoked - all of them potentially threatened our existence (Revolutionary War, Civil War, 1st and 2nd World War - and even the Cold War). Neither the Iraq war or the war on terror is one of existence. We are fighting wholly inferior opponents with wholly inferior technology. If the war turns badly, we can annihilate our opponent thousands of times over. Even if they succeed in a major (nuclear, biological, chemical) terror attack, it will still very likely be a small scale event. You can be certain the retaliation will instead measure on the Richter scale.
I disagree with Benjamin Franklin's above quote. It should read:
"... those who desire total security at the expense of some liberty, deserve neither."
It's a sensible thing to give up the right to be individually free to build nuclear weapons or superviruses: the resulting insecurity from allowing lots of these things can result in a total loss of everything - security, liberty, and life. It is not a sensible thing to give up private communication and search and seizure because of (relatively) cheap, regional war halfway across the glove.
Is it because if they had a proper disclaimer which asked the user's age before use of a particular Sony product, it would raise suspicion about what exactly the product was doing behind the scenes?
I was trying to be funny. Here is some more up-to-date gameplay footage, and it's still worlds apart from the trailer. I guess to some extent that's to be expected, but the trailer is downright beautiful and the game is still typical.
I can offer nothing about the game itself, but I was pretty amazed at the difference between the trailer (in "HD") and the gameplay footage. I am not sure if I'm more amazed at the trailer footage itself or how silly the gigantic valley between advertising and product expands.
I would play the hell out of the "trailer" game regardless of how bugged and grind-y it is.
The problem with FISA was that the 'lawyers' for the Bush regime had purportedly found that the President could disregard any law he liked by exercising the 'inherent powers' of the Presidency. FISA did not have a sufficiently strong exclusivity clause to absolutely knock that defense out. So the compromise reached was to let the telcos off the hook in return for the administration allowing the replacement bill to specify exclusivity.
I wrote a paper (link) about this issue in May of 2006. It's not rigorous or polished, but it gets the point across. I basically attempted to analyze point-by-point the justification as laid out by Alberto Gonzales to justify the legality of the program. In his brief, he states a dozen or so reasons, starting out with very specific ones and ending up with the "executive powers" and "wartime powers" components, and the AUMF components.
The problem with all of these, of course, is that we *weren't* at war when the program was started (somwhere in Q1 2001). It began at least six months before 9/11, before the AUMF (as if that were a decleration of war anyhow) in Afghanistan, and even further before the AUMF for Iraq.
Furthermore, isn't the 'nuclearpower' tag incorrect since these devices are specifically useful for nuclear weaponry, and pretty much useless for power generation?
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Hopefully we can inject some common sense and get funding to push forward for Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactors (Google Talks). There are so many upsides and so few downsides.
I don't see how his argument carries any validity whatsoever.
I have four monitors in a strange setup. A row with three, 18, 23 widescreen, 18. Then, above the 23 I have an identical 23, but it's upside down.
Needless to say, it's a tremendous struggle to get it all working in Linux, and it's pretty much automatic in Windows.
Secondly, I am pretty sure many websites and forums have been doing "Secret Santa" for at least a decade now. That always involves collecting information from more than just the "seller" and the "buyer" in order to complete an online transaction.
ACTA Proposal (2007) was leaked by Wikileaks more than a year ago. Granted, this was a rough draft of a rough draft, but the principles are still the same.
The over the top celebration that you see with homsexuals (who I will defend to my dying breath) is probably borne out of the same traits that caused civil rights leaders to resort to violence and Islamic radicals to resort to terrorism. When humans feel cornered by some force which they percieve to a threat (especially an existential threat), then they tend to react in a more extreme way. Not that I equate the above scenarios, I'm just saying that it's human nature to fight back when you're way of life is threatened.
Nobody wins in persecution or war. There may be victors, but we all still lose in the long run.
As an aside, if you really think Gitmo is the only establishment of it's kind operated by the United States, I have a CIA plane loaded full of cocaine and cash I'd like to sell you.
Lawrence Lessig already warned us about this, though he predicted it would occur after whatever this 'cyber-security emergency' is. See the short video here.
It's an interesting read, anyhow.
I find it kind of funny (ironic, Alanis?) that using software to 'game the system' and create money out of thin air is dealt with swiftly and with 'surgical precision', and when Goldman Sachs does the same thing with the stock markets, they are dealt with by being provided protection from the SEC and FBI.
A quick search at the USPTO reveals that Dick Cheney and Rudi Giuliani beat you to the 9th item on the list.
What? Cases don't just magically escalate to courts of differing jurisdiction.
At the time I posted the comment (4:09 PM, about 15 minutes after the original post), only the negative tags were there.
I see the tags 'butthurt' and 'whaaaaaaaaa', but no 'thanksforyourtime'. Why won't anyone show any gratitude for the years of work he's generously offered to the project?
That example is very apropos. However, in Ultima Online, there is a good counterexample: recall (teleporting) to a location that was outside a city was very often risky, especially to popular spots. For instance, it was rather stupid to mark runes right outside of mines because usually there would be someone there waiting for you.
FPGAs, you say? How about prototyping in Haskell? Here is a link to some videos describing the process.
There has been some interesting progress in visualizing some of the interesting (or spooky) quantum mechanical effects. http://visualphysics.org The software which generates it is available for free. It uses mathematics based in Quaternions to visualize the mathematics behind spacetime, standard model groups,etc.
The previous situations where the 4th amendment protections were subverted or revoked, or habeas corpus was revoked - all of them potentially threatened our existence (Revolutionary War, Civil War, 1st and 2nd World War - and even the Cold War). Neither the Iraq war or the war on terror is one of existence. We are fighting wholly inferior opponents with wholly inferior technology. If the war turns badly, we can annihilate our opponent thousands of times over. Even if they succeed in a major (nuclear, biological, chemical) terror attack, it will still very likely be a small scale event. You can be certain the retaliation will instead measure on the Richter scale.
I disagree with Benjamin Franklin's above quote. It should read:
"... those who desire total security at the expense of some liberty, deserve neither."
It's a sensible thing to give up the right to be individually free to build nuclear weapons or superviruses: the resulting insecurity from allowing lots of these things can result in a total loss of everything - security, liberty, and life. It is not a sensible thing to give up private communication and search and seizure because of (relatively) cheap, regional war halfway across the glove.
Is it because if they had a proper disclaimer which asked the user's age before use of a particular Sony product, it would raise suspicion about what exactly the product was doing behind the scenes?
I was trying to be funny. Here is some more up-to-date gameplay footage, and it's still worlds apart from the trailer. I guess to some extent that's to be expected, but the trailer is downright beautiful and the game is still typical.
I can offer nothing about the game itself, but I was pretty amazed at the difference between the trailer (in "HD") and the gameplay footage. I am not sure if I'm more amazed at the trailer footage itself or how silly the gigantic valley between advertising and product expands.
I would play the hell out of the "trailer" game regardless of how bugged and grind-y it is.
The problem with FISA was that the 'lawyers' for the Bush regime had purportedly found that the President could disregard any law he liked by exercising the 'inherent powers' of the Presidency. FISA did not have a sufficiently strong exclusivity clause to absolutely knock that defense out. So the compromise reached was to let the telcos off the hook in return for the administration allowing the replacement bill to specify exclusivity.
I wrote a paper (link) about this issue in May of 2006. It's not rigorous or polished, but it gets the point across. I basically attempted to analyze point-by-point the justification as laid out by Alberto Gonzales to justify the legality of the program. In his brief, he states a dozen or so reasons, starting out with very specific ones and ending up with the "executive powers" and "wartime powers" components, and the AUMF components.
The problem with all of these, of course, is that we *weren't* at war when the program was started (somwhere in Q1 2001). It began at least six months before 9/11, before the AUMF (as if that were a decleration of war anyhow) in Afghanistan, and even further before the AUMF for Iraq.
Furthermore, isn't the 'nuclearpower' tag incorrect since these devices are specifically useful for nuclear weaponry, and pretty much useless for power generation?