At a certain point, and quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference. As long as a cop is required to tail someone, a surveillance society would require hiring everyone into the police force. By enabling cheap, unlimited surveillance, you've effectively allowed the police force to go on an infinite number of fishing expeditions.
Stallman wants people to provide software in the way he and his flock want it provided. How people use it is irrelevant. His point is that in an open ecosystem, people can choose to use software however they like, whether it's by connecting to monolithic vertically integrated software stacks or by striking out on their own. Apple didn't provide the choice; if you wanted Apple UI, you had to buy into Apple's whole product line, because you had no other options, particularly on their mobile devices.
In more technical terms, the feds have sovereign immunity; unless a law is passed explicitly waiving the protection against a lawsuit, or the federal government voluntarily consents to the suit, you can't sue them. They don't have to quash the suit, they needn't do a thing for sovereign immunity to apply by default. And to my knowledge, there is no such law relating to IP infringement by the federal government.
IIRC, CFCs can stay active for up to fifty years. So we've got a while before the effect of the ban becomes pronounced. Heck, we only just banned CFC based asthma inhalers this year. I remember being really surprised that my inhaler was CFC based a few years ago.
We have that here in Maryland too. It's pretty common. You can choose who you buy your electricity from, but you still have to pay a separate fee to the distributor. And there is only one distributor in any given area. I was quite careful with my word choice, I said distributor, not generator or provider.
Thus far, the government hasn't done anything to control carbon dioxide aside from making a few noises about the need to. Scientists have been telling people about the problem for decades. Private industry did nothing, because it costs money not to release pollutants, and paying that cost means lower numbers on your next earnings report, a shareholder revolt, and your company going out of business because it was undercut by someone who didn't mind passing the pollution buck to everyone else. I'd welcome some government interference there, whether its cap and trade (which has worked amazingly well in encouraging a free market to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, and by extension acid rain) or a blanket carbon tax (a bit heavy handed, but at least it assigns some sort of cost to make it clear that pollution isn't actually free).
The day you figure out how to solve the tragedy of the commons (and ideally prevent the creation of a new corporate-style hereditary nobility) is the day I give an unregulated free market a chance.
Only in the small number of markets where multiple large airports service a single population. Anywhere else, a local monopoly is identical to a government monopoly. Claiming there'd be competition is like claiming that you have competition in the electrical distribution market; sure you can switch providers, you just need to sell your house and move somewhere else.
Actually, Mitochodrial Eve lived around 200,000 years ago. You're probably thinking of the most recent common ancestor of modern day humans, estimated to have lived between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago. But that doesn't actually imply there were no other ancestors, only that this particular ancestor is shared by all; there are still many other ancestors that are not commonly shared. It's no basis for supporting the biblical creation myth.
Keep in mind, they aren't even trying to claim he watched it. You have hundreds of sneakernet couriers moving messages around, you'll end up with some porn on your USB sticks. I don't know (or care) whether Bin Laden himself watched it.
Not that it's likely to change your mind, but you're wrong. As it stands right now, Bush economic decisions account for about $7 trillion of the current debt, compared to $1.7 trillion that can be laid at Obama's feet (and that includes the tax cut extensions forced in December by the right). And given that Obama came in just as the economy hit bottom, you can hardly blame him for reduced tax receipts, even if you disagree with stimulus spending as a means to avert a depression.
Because if terrorists had a reliable key distribution network, they'd already be an army, not a loosely organized criminal band with minimal transportation infrastructure? One time pads are only as good as your distribution system. And the moment you run out of key bits and reuse them, your system is broken.
Before you ask, no this wasn't always the case. Before we spread to every corner of the globe, you usually had the opportunity to opt out of government entirely by leaving existing civilization. The options on that front have largely disappeared, unless you really like the coast of Antarctica as a home.
Going too far in either direction leads to authoritarian systems. Reasonable alternatives exist on the spectrum, but you won't find them at either extreme. That said, a single line is insufficient to define political systems (even a 2-D grid has some weaknesses), but approaching the edge of just about any spectrum (1-D or 2-D) will eventually circle back to authoritarianism, in practice. Too much freedom allows for monopolies to develop and a corporate oligarchy to replace (de facto if not de jure) the existing government, while too little freedom leads there directly (it doesn't really matter whether you call it communism or fascism, the end result is that people have little say in their own lives).
If you notice, he never said his religious friends. He said his creationist friends. Which can safely be assumed to fall into the raving lunatic bucket you describe.
Feeding a troll, but my uid actually has nothing to do with Power Rangers (predates the whole series by a year or two, and the "shadow ranger" by a lot more to my knowledge). All I know is that a few years ago, my mostly unique user name was being stolen by every damn 13 year old on the planet. Of course, if you're referring to the actual number as some sort of internet penis measuring contest, I lurked as AC for years before creating an account. Oh boy, I'm clearly a three year old in disguise. Get over yourself.
How did you miss all the other bullshit Sony has been pulling for the last decade and a half? Microsoft has a generally improving trajectory (from a low starting point no question), while Sony puts effort into finding new ways to lower the bar. I swore off them five or six years ago and haven't regretted it for an instant.
It was planned to be 3? I got the impression it was planned to be a 7 book series from the beginning. Happens to sync up nicely with the repeated patterns of 7 in the books (the most obvious being the gods of the primary religion described in the books). If it was ever planned to be 3, he abandoned that quite quickly.
Space planes are not exactly stealthy; heat emissions, contrails, etc., make them show up really clearly. Unless China managed to also make it the stealthiest plane ever designed, we'd know about it.
Except he wasn't arguing the specific case (Enigma), he was arguing the general case (cryptanalysis was critical to victory in WW2). Take a look at the history of the Battle of Midway, specifically the impact that Joseph Rochefort's team had. No, it didn't win the battle on its own, even with advance knowledge Nimitz was still outnumbered, but winning the battle without it would have been impossible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AES's strength has nothing (or little) to do with P==NP. AES is private key cryptography, and doesn't rely on exponential time-to-solve mathematical problems. You're probably thinking of RSA (and other related public key crypto systems) where the central problem (factoring the product of two large primes) is NP (though unlike 3-SAT, it's probably not NP-complete). RSA is used for key exchange to enable the primary crypto channel (in AES or another private key crypto system), so for stuff like online shopping a break in RSA is effectively equivalent to a break in AES, but it's not actually breaking AES, you're just grabbing the key before it even gets used.
According to this article, bits of the NT 3.5 stack had a BSD origin, but those were progressively removed and rewritten in Win95 and post 3.5-NT operating systems. And the stack was thrown out and rewritten from scratch for Vista (partially due to IPv6 related demands). Even by the XP timeframe the remaining BSD code would have boiled down to trivialities.
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At a certain point, and quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference. As long as a cop is required to tail someone, a surveillance society would require hiring everyone into the police force. By enabling cheap, unlimited surveillance, you've effectively allowed the police force to go on an infinite number of fishing expeditions.
Or block the particular js files that put up the blocking image.
Stallman wants people to provide software in the way he and his flock want it provided. How people use it is irrelevant. His point is that in an open ecosystem, people can choose to use software however they like, whether it's by connecting to monolithic vertically integrated software stacks or by striking out on their own. Apple didn't provide the choice; if you wanted Apple UI, you had to buy into Apple's whole product line, because you had no other options, particularly on their mobile devices.
In more technical terms, the feds have sovereign immunity; unless a law is passed explicitly waiving the protection against a lawsuit, or the federal government voluntarily consents to the suit, you can't sue them. They don't have to quash the suit, they needn't do a thing for sovereign immunity to apply by default. And to my knowledge, there is no such law relating to IP infringement by the federal government.
IIRC, CFCs can stay active for up to fifty years. So we've got a while before the effect of the ban becomes pronounced. Heck, we only just banned CFC based asthma inhalers this year. I remember being really surprised that my inhaler was CFC based a few years ago.
We have that here in Maryland too. It's pretty common. You can choose who you buy your electricity from, but you still have to pay a separate fee to the distributor. And there is only one distributor in any given area. I was quite careful with my word choice, I said distributor, not generator or provider.
Thus far, the government hasn't done anything to control carbon dioxide aside from making a few noises about the need to. Scientists have been telling people about the problem for decades. Private industry did nothing, because it costs money not to release pollutants, and paying that cost means lower numbers on your next earnings report, a shareholder revolt, and your company going out of business because it was undercut by someone who didn't mind passing the pollution buck to everyone else. I'd welcome some government interference there, whether its cap and trade (which has worked amazingly well in encouraging a free market to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, and by extension acid rain) or a blanket carbon tax (a bit heavy handed, but at least it assigns some sort of cost to make it clear that pollution isn't actually free).
The day you figure out how to solve the tragedy of the commons (and ideally prevent the creation of a new corporate-style hereditary nobility) is the day I give an unregulated free market a chance.
Only in the small number of markets where multiple large airports service a single population. Anywhere else, a local monopoly is identical to a government monopoly. Claiming there'd be competition is like claiming that you have competition in the electrical distribution market; sure you can switch providers, you just need to sell your house and move somewhere else.
Actually, Mitochodrial Eve lived around 200,000 years ago. You're probably thinking of the most recent common ancestor of modern day humans, estimated to have lived between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago. But that doesn't actually imply there were no other ancestors, only that this particular ancestor is shared by all; there are still many other ancestors that are not commonly shared. It's no basis for supporting the biblical creation myth.
Keep in mind, they aren't even trying to claim he watched it. You have hundreds of sneakernet couriers moving messages around, you'll end up with some porn on your USB sticks. I don't know (or care) whether Bin Laden himself watched it.
Not that it's likely to change your mind, but you're wrong. As it stands right now, Bush economic decisions account for about $7 trillion of the current debt, compared to $1.7 trillion that can be laid at Obama's feet (and that includes the tax cut extensions forced in December by the right). And given that Obama came in just as the economy hit bottom, you can hardly blame him for reduced tax receipts, even if you disagree with stimulus spending as a means to avert a depression.
The Venn Diagram of terrorists who use crap encryption and those who read Slashdot has no overlap.
Because if terrorists had a reliable key distribution network, they'd already be an army, not a loosely organized criminal band with minimal transportation infrastructure? One time pads are only as good as your distribution system. And the moment you run out of key bits and reuse them, your system is broken.
Before you ask, no this wasn't always the case. Before we spread to every corner of the globe, you usually had the opportunity to opt out of government entirely by leaving existing civilization. The options on that front have largely disappeared, unless you really like the coast of Antarctica as a home.
Going too far in either direction leads to authoritarian systems. Reasonable alternatives exist on the spectrum, but you won't find them at either extreme. That said, a single line is insufficient to define political systems (even a 2-D grid has some weaknesses), but approaching the edge of just about any spectrum (1-D or 2-D) will eventually circle back to authoritarianism, in practice. Too much freedom allows for monopolies to develop and a corporate oligarchy to replace (de facto if not de jure) the existing government, while too little freedom leads there directly (it doesn't really matter whether you call it communism or fascism, the end result is that people have little say in their own lives).
If you notice, he never said his religious friends. He said his creationist friends. Which can safely be assumed to fall into the raving lunatic bucket you describe.
Thanks for explaining some of the history for those people who think Sony only "turned bad" recently. Even if that allusion is a bit overwrought...
Feeding a troll, but my uid actually has nothing to do with Power Rangers (predates the whole series by a year or two, and the "shadow ranger" by a lot more to my knowledge). All I know is that a few years ago, my mostly unique user name was being stolen by every damn 13 year old on the planet. Of course, if you're referring to the actual number as some sort of internet penis measuring contest, I lurked as AC for years before creating an account. Oh boy, I'm clearly a three year old in disguise. Get over yourself.
How did you miss all the other bullshit Sony has been pulling for the last decade and a half? Microsoft has a generally improving trajectory (from a low starting point no question), while Sony puts effort into finding new ways to lower the bar. I swore off them five or six years ago and haven't regretted it for an instant.
It was planned to be 3? I got the impression it was planned to be a 7 book series from the beginning. Happens to sync up nicely with the repeated patterns of 7 in the books (the most obvious being the gods of the primary religion described in the books). If it was ever planned to be 3, he abandoned that quite quickly.
Space planes are not exactly stealthy; heat emissions, contrails, etc., make them show up really clearly. Unless China managed to also make it the stealthiest plane ever designed, we'd know about it.
Except he wasn't arguing the specific case (Enigma), he was arguing the general case (cryptanalysis was critical to victory in WW2). Take a look at the history of the Battle of Midway, specifically the impact that Joseph Rochefort's team had. No, it didn't win the battle on its own, even with advance knowledge Nimitz was still outnumbered, but winning the battle without it would have been impossible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AES's strength has nothing (or little) to do with P==NP. AES is private key cryptography, and doesn't rely on exponential time-to-solve mathematical problems. You're probably thinking of RSA (and other related public key crypto systems) where the central problem (factoring the product of two large primes) is NP (though unlike 3-SAT, it's probably not NP-complete). RSA is used for key exchange to enable the primary crypto channel (in AES or another private key crypto system), so for stuff like online shopping a break in RSA is effectively equivalent to a break in AES, but it's not actually breaking AES, you're just grabbing the key before it even gets used.
According to this article, bits of the NT 3.5 stack had a BSD origin, but those were progressively removed and rewritten in Win95 and post 3.5-NT operating systems. And the stack was thrown out and rewritten from scratch for Vista (partially due to IPv6 related demands). Even by the XP timeframe the remaining BSD code would have boiled down to trivialities.
The Washington Post ran a series of articles on it a few months ago. See the project on their website for more info.