civil perhaps, but the "criminal" is probably in a different state than the "victim," which would make it a crime committed across state lines, and therefore a federal matter, and therefore under the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Also, they'll probably argue that it's theft or wire fraud and therefore a felony.
There is one legitimate purpose, though it is still annoying:
I went to some site once (golly, I just can't remember what the name of the site is, but I'm sure you've heard of it) where there was subscription access, but for those of us too cheap for such nonsense, there was an ad you had to watch before being granted access to the web site. After watching Hugh Hefner tell me why I should drink Jack Daniels (I still can't remember what site), I was granted access. Actually it was pretty well-written... After a few minutes of trying to circumvent the ad, I gave in and just watched it.
By the way, flash is RETARDED. Homosexuals are gay:-)
How amazingly creative. It's just too bad the latency is probably on the order of seconds, otherwise this could seriously be used for a great many wonderful things.
I suppose it can still be used for a great many wonderful things, just a lot slower. I want a water-based binary adder on my desk.
I thought the xor was particularly clever, particularly how a single gate can be used to calculate both (a xor b) and (a and b), out of the pipe at the top of the gate.
pdf makes documents printable, which is what the government wants, since printed documents are the ones that are best as far as law is concerned. A pdf document always prints the same. HTML documents almest never print the same.
I agree with your opinion of flash, though. It is pretty lame.
It's happened in the past, yes. The temperature will rise, then fall sharply, then we'll be in an ice age. Frankly, I'm not at all frightened by this prospect. I suppose I might be if I lived in one of those non-G7 countries from whom we're protecting our wealth, but hey, the USA will be able to afford food and shelter despite the cold, so I'm pretty safe no matter what. Besides, if I can predict when the ice age will hit and a good way of coping with that ice age, I can make a lot of money. After all, I'm an American and I like to profit.
So apparently, it's ok for Americans to break Russian law if they're in the U.S., but not ok for Russians to break U.S. law, even while in Russia
Yep. There's no American law against breaking Russian laws. In fact, there's no American law against violating non-American citizens rights that Americans would be guaranteed in the constitution. If you're not an American citizen and you are arrested in the United States, you aren't guaranteed a jury of your peers, etc. Usually the punishment is extradition, but when no country will take you back, you get to rot in American prison without trial for the rest of your life. (Sadly, 60 minutes doesn't post old stories on the internet, so I can't put up a link for more information.)
I've always wanted to see a movie directed by Bill S. Preston, esq.
Sadly, though, I fear this movie may fall short of the glory of Bill and Ted. It just doesn't sound as excellent, though a few gratuitous "we are Wyld Stallyns" exclamations might improve my opinion.
I'll start by admitting that I have little experience with fortran and with the applications thereof.
That being said, what experience I do have is that fortran is excessively difficult to write and lacking in some of the basic features I'd expect a programming language (I'm not familiar with fortran 95, but fortran 77::shudder:: doesn't support recursion, lexical scoping, etc., to my knowledge)
I can understand teaching fortran 77 to allow people do program for old interfaces and deal with the old code that would be expensive to rewrite, but why would you revise fortran to make it more usable? Why not just use C?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think fortran should not be taught in college (it is required for some majors here) except in the context of the historical significance of fortran.
Actually, quite well. I actually use the radial context menus on Mozilla set to only activate when the right mouse button is dragged. Essentially, this allows for "normal" operation in most cases, and mouse gesture operation with right dragging (plus I get a little reminder gui if I don't remember what gesture to do).
I use a Microsoft optical trackball (the one with the thumb ball) and I've migrated almost exclusively to mouse gestures and it works great. One nice thing is that the length of the strokes of the gesture don't matter, so you can spin the trackball and use a larger gesture or just one small stroke and you get the same response.
Aside from the fact that it's not worth the effort on the part of the satellite providers (not enough mac users want satellite internet), it's also not worth it for the mac user (unless no other means of broadband connectivity is available) Satellite modems, despite their large bandwidth, have huge latencies (even light takes time to travel) and just aren't worth the price (which is generally the same or more than cable/dsl.
Perhaps mac users know better than to want satellite ISPs...
Of course you can't just ban something simply because it could be used for ill. Surely, taking blood samples from people with polio could be used to infect other people, but it could also vaccinate a generation.
It doesn't matter if there's a copy of your DNA on file anywhere... anyone with a tissue sample (and 600 grand) could presumably get a map of your genome.
Your genome is probably of more use to you than to anyone else, particularly if you can patent yourself (then nobody could clone you, reproduce portions of your traits, etc., without your permission).
Heck, I'd definitely want to know to what genetic diseases I were predisposed, particularly with the future possibility of retroviral engineering. Of course this does present the issue of potential genetic classism with those who can afford to make themselves in their own image and those who have to live the natural way, but that's far beyond the forseeable future.
no. When a woman says no, that's like putting up a fence around your pool or a sign up on your private property. If a woman didn't say no and then changed her mind later, that would be an appropriate analogy, but then again the woman would, legally speaking, be screwed.
microsoft mice are indeed good hardware. (yes yes I know microsoft doesn't actually make anything, but rather rebrands the products of others -- that's good business) The difference is that microsoft mice adhere to generally accpted standards, while winmodems simply created a new proprietary standard to make them cheaper (and, incidentally, less efficient). The problem is not that Microsoft would make networking hardware (they don't make anything, remember), but that they would introduce a new standard in worthless soft-hardware, which is just silly.
If a kid jumps into my swimming pool (which isn't fenced in) and drowns, I am responsible because a swimming pool is an attractive nuisance. I don't see any difference between the pool and an insecure wireless LAN, so I'd have to think the WLAN is an attractive nuisance and therefore the responsibility of the owner, not the so-called thief.
Good thing the students are learning in a university that when a means of sharing ideas can be used for ill that it must be stopped entirely. We wouldn't want them distributing their own thoughts. It's best to squash free thought while it's still budding.
Well it's good to know that I can continue playing Quake 3 after nuclear winter kills off all other life. With all that space I can live for a long time, and I wouldn't want to die of boredom.
Wow. Nice tirade. You might consider the possibility that that's one of the reasons solar power is not commonplace. You might also consider the possibility that further investment in research into solar power might produce more effective methods, eh? There are already quantum dot methods, but they're still in development.
Also, keep in mind that where solar power is implemented, it is NOT with photoelectric silicon cells, but rather with mirrors focusing light onto a big tank full of water.
Yes, I prefer automated phone systems. You can always depend on a machine to do exactly what it's programmed to do. You cannot always depend on a human. Far too often I have spoken to incompetent persons who put me on hold, tried to figure out the answer to my question, and then ended up making something up so I would hang up and the next person to answer my next call would have to think.
Really.
Granted, there are questions that can't be answered by machines, like those that require thinking, so hire a person for that and make the phone tree have an option to talk to a person only when necessary.
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civil perhaps, but the "criminal" is probably in a different state than the "victim," which would make it a crime committed across state lines, and therefore a federal matter, and therefore under the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Also, they'll probably argue that it's theft or wire fraud and therefore a felony.
In Soviet Russia, protocol integrates you.
There is one legitimate purpose, though it is still annoying:
:-)
I went to some site once (golly, I just can't remember what the name of the site is, but I'm sure you've heard of it) where there was subscription access, but for those of us too cheap for such nonsense, there was an ad you had to watch before being granted access to the web site. After watching Hugh Hefner tell me why I should drink Jack Daniels (I still can't remember what site), I was granted access. Actually it was pretty well-written... After a few minutes of trying to circumvent the ad, I gave in and just watched it.
By the way, flash is RETARDED. Homosexuals are gay
How amazingly creative. It's just too bad the latency is probably on the order of seconds, otherwise this could seriously be used for a great many wonderful things.
I suppose it can still be used for a great many wonderful things, just a lot slower. I want a water-based binary adder on my desk.
I thought the xor was particularly clever, particularly how a single gate can be used to calculate both (a xor b) and (a and b), out of the pipe at the top of the gate.
pdf makes documents printable, which is what the government wants, since printed documents are the ones that are best as far as law is concerned. A pdf document always prints the same. HTML documents almest never print the same.
I agree with your opinion of flash, though. It is pretty lame.
It's happened in the past, yes. The temperature will rise, then fall sharply, then we'll be in an ice age.
Frankly, I'm not at all frightened by this prospect. I suppose I might be if I lived in one of those non-G7 countries from whom we're protecting our wealth, but hey, the USA will be able to afford food and shelter despite the cold, so I'm pretty safe no matter what.
Besides, if I can predict when the ice age will hit and a good way of coping with that ice age, I can make a lot of money. After all, I'm an American and I like to profit.
So apparently, it's ok for Americans to break Russian law if they're in the U.S., but not ok for Russians to break U.S. law, even while in Russia
Yep. There's no American law against breaking Russian laws. In fact, there's no American law against violating non-American citizens rights that Americans would be guaranteed in the constitution. If you're not an American citizen and you are arrested in the United States, you aren't guaranteed a jury of your peers, etc. Usually the punishment is extradition, but when no country will take you back, you get to rot in American prison without trial for the rest of your life. (Sadly, 60 minutes doesn't post old stories on the internet, so I can't put up a link for more information.)
I've always wanted to see a movie directed by Bill S. Preston, esq.
Sadly, though, I fear this movie may fall short of the glory of Bill and Ted. It just doesn't sound as excellent, though a few gratuitous "we are Wyld Stallyns" exclamations might improve my opinion.
I'll start by admitting that I have little experience with fortran and with the applications thereof.
::shudder:: doesn't support recursion, lexical scoping, etc., to my knowledge)
That being said, what experience I do have is that fortran is excessively difficult to write and lacking in some of the basic features I'd expect a programming language (I'm not familiar with fortran 95, but fortran 77
I can understand teaching fortran 77 to allow people do program for old interfaces and deal with the old code that would be expensive to rewrite, but why would you revise fortran to make it more usable? Why not just use C?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think fortran should not be taught in college (it is required for some majors here) except in the context of the historical significance of fortran.
So how is this going to work with my track ball?
Actually, quite well. I actually use the radial context menus on Mozilla set to only activate when the right mouse button is dragged. Essentially, this allows for "normal" operation in most cases, and mouse gesture operation with right dragging (plus I get a little reminder gui if I don't remember what gesture to do).
I use a Microsoft optical trackball (the one with the thumb ball) and I've migrated almost exclusively to mouse gestures and it works great. One nice thing is that the length of the strokes of the gesture don't matter, so you can spin the trackball and use a larger gesture or just one small stroke and you get the same response.
Aside from the fact that it's not worth the effort on the part of the satellite providers (not enough mac users want satellite internet), it's also not worth it for the mac user (unless no other means of broadband connectivity is available) Satellite modems, despite their large bandwidth, have huge latencies (even light takes time to travel) and just aren't worth the price (which is generally the same or more than cable/dsl.
Perhaps mac users know better than to want satellite ISPs...
Linux is not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money--it started off bankrupt, in a way.
Is he a comic book character? Real people don't talk like this...
We will beat Linux on clusters. We can't beat them on price, but we have to add value.
Imagine a Microsoft cluster of these?
To the Batmobile!!
You're right. The possibility to cure every disease that ever has and ever will plague man is too small a benefit.
Of course you can't just ban something simply because it could be used for ill. Surely, taking blood samples from people with polio could be used to infect other people, but it could also vaccinate a generation.
It doesn't matter if there's a copy of your DNA on file anywhere... anyone with a tissue sample (and 600 grand) could presumably get a map of your genome.
Your genome is probably of more use to you than to anyone else, particularly if you can patent yourself (then nobody could clone you, reproduce portions of your traits, etc., without your permission).
Heck, I'd definitely want to know to what genetic diseases I were predisposed, particularly with the future possibility of retroviral engineering. Of course this does present the issue of potential genetic classism with those who can afford to make themselves in their own image and those who have to live the natural way, but that's far beyond the forseeable future.
no. When a woman says no, that's like putting up a fence around your pool or a sign up on your private property. If a woman didn't say no and then changed her mind later, that would be an appropriate analogy, but then again the woman would, legally speaking, be screwed.
microsoft mice are indeed good hardware. (yes yes I know microsoft doesn't actually make anything, but rather rebrands the products of others -- that's good business)
The difference is that microsoft mice adhere to generally accpted standards, while winmodems simply created a new proprietary standard to make them cheaper (and, incidentally, less efficient). The problem is not that Microsoft would make networking hardware (they don't make anything, remember), but that they would introduce a new standard in worthless soft-hardware, which is just silly.
If a kid jumps into my swimming pool (which isn't fenced in) and drowns, I am responsible because a swimming pool is an attractive nuisance.
I don't see any difference between the pool and an insecure wireless LAN, so I'd have to think the WLAN is an attractive nuisance and therefore the responsibility of the owner, not the so-called thief.
Good thing the students are learning in a university that when a means of sharing ideas can be used for ill that it must be stopped entirely. We wouldn't want them distributing their own thoughts. It's best to squash free thought while it's still budding.
Well it's good to know that I can continue playing Quake 3 after nuclear winter kills off all other life. With all that space I can live for a long time, and I wouldn't want to die of boredom.
Wow. Nice tirade. You might consider the possibility that that's one of the reasons solar power is not commonplace. You might also consider the possibility that further investment in research into solar power might produce more effective methods, eh? There are already quantum dot methods, but they're still in development.
Also, keep in mind that where solar power is implemented, it is NOT with photoelectric silicon cells, but rather with mirrors focusing light onto a big tank full of water.
Yes, I prefer automated phone systems. You can always depend on a machine to do exactly what it's programmed to do. You cannot always depend on a human. Far too often I have spoken to incompetent persons who put me on hold, tried to figure out the answer to my question, and then ended up making something up so I would hang up and the next person to answer my next call would have to think.
Really.
Granted, there are questions that can't be answered by machines, like those that require thinking, so hire a person for that and make the phone tree have an option to talk to a person only when necessary.
Wow, I didn't know Buffy was news for nerds (unless she's started doing her job topless...)
alien pr0n?