At least Bush had a war to justify his need to breach privacy. Obama has no legitimate reason and yet he's going to do it.
This means that the war must be over! Hooray!
When are you all going to learn that government is inherently bad; that it is inherently corrupt. And while there are a couple of functions it should provide to maintain civilization, the smaller we keep it the better... for all of us.
When are you going to learn that government is the only thing stopping corporations from turning [completely] into the mafia. The smaller we keep it the larger corporate lobbying has an effect, and the faster the hurdles we put up to stop shady business get knocked back down, much to the peril of public safety, human rights, small business, market stability, the environment, and any class other than the top 2%.
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The only things a truly free market fixes are the prices.
I don't know about you, but I do not read or speak Cantonese or Mandarin (if that is what that was) and thus found it difficult to figure out what is what on that site.
You also seem to not know how to use an internet translator...
Regardless, I didn't see Britney Spears or anyone even remotely non-asian on that website (the lil' pictures) so I have to assume it is all Chinese music.
Oh really? What about the section titled " [Japan and South Korea Pop]" or another titled " [Europe and the United States Songs]"? Also, turns out Britney Spears is listed as #5 under "[Europe and the United States singers]", you just didn't bother to mouse over the tabs. China only cares about copyright violation only when they're the ones on the losing end, but this is nothing new.
On a side note, I wonder how much the US national debt is compared to the total amount of software, music and movies China has pirated over the years. Both would astronomical, but are we talking Pluto, or Alpha Centauri?
P.S. mod grandparent [debile] up, blatant hypocrisy is blatant.
Just want to know what would happen if a NY cop were to do the exact same thing, if he would have a job the following day?
Bullshit. You claim to live in NY, yet you know nothing of unions? Especially the police unions. If they can keep people on even though they took bribes, they could surely do it for complaining about them.
Free shows and movies online won't last forever, though.
IME, when something free dies on the internet, two more just like it instantly spawn.The internet is the world's largest distribution and advertising medium and you would be a fool not to try and use it [for free], if only for market exposure.
At some point, expect paywalls to appear, at least for 'premium content' or selected episodes of a season or whatever. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Whats wrong with 'premium content'? Doesn't that already exist on every source of media, hell every facet of life anyway? The "paywalls" argument I've heard again and again over the past two decades and it still ranks among the lowest things I fear actually happening, right after that 2012 bs.
Notice the features being marketed: concurrent CUDA kernels, high performance IEEE double-precision floating point performance, multi-level caching and expanded shared memory, high performance atomic global memory operations.
You say this like it is somehow a bad thing.
NVIDIA doesn't care about you anymore.
Are you always this melodramatic, or maybe you work for ATI or something?
Excepting a small hardcore, gamers are either playing graphically trivial MMOs (*cough*WoW*cough*) or have moved to consoles.
Really? So I now qualify as "hardcore" because I casually play games like Unreal 3 and Arkham Asylum? You are so very wrong. The PC game market has taken a hit along with everything else (except short selling) because of the economy, but it is still a billion dollar industry thats really only to get bigger.
% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than (speed limit+x)/(speed limit)*distance
should have been
% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than distance * (1/speed limit - 1/(speed limit+x))
I've always thought that when, over the entire lifetime of an individual, (% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than (speed limit+x)/(speed limit)*distance, then one should drive at x over the speed limit (x could be 0 or negative).
Because the first two variables.... er, vary so much because they are dependent to any and every individual diving situation, the most practical decision is up to the driver's judgment. However, drivers' "judgment" is largely responsible for the first two variables even existing in the first place.
Note that in tailgating, one is both driving at the speed limit and increasing the probability of an accident occurring and is therefore entirely counterproductive (unless you drive race cars).
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people.
That was in 1270s.
There, fixed that for you =)
Aahhh, the halcyon days where one only had to operate the Halifax Gibbet, and not some fancy and oh-so-hard-to-use guillotine.
you should be making sure that the traffic patterns aren't unique and discernable. In other words, using steganography. All this "confusion" stuff I read in the article gives the user a distinct pattern of behavior that can identify the user as actively using said software.
From what I gather from the article, it is actually the opposite of what you though it was:
Chinese authorities monitor UltraSurf carefully and try to identify signatures that can be used to set filters, so the software sends out useless traffic to make noise that makes it difficult to characterize the legitimate traffic, he says.... UltraSurf programmers play a cat-and-mouse game with Chinese censors trying to block its traffic, so the team working on it has to continually alter its methods to adapt to each innovation in the Great Firewall, he says. "We have a great understanding of the Great Firewall and how to defeat it."
It could have been clearer if he had used the word "deceive" instead of "confuse", or if you had actually read the article. Oh wait sorry, forgot where I was.
First off, the Russians would never launch their nukes at the US; they are worth far too much money, if only as nuclear fuel. China would never nuke the US because then who would be left to pay their massive debts? Who is left? Who it was designed for: rogue states that may only have one or two missiles in their arsenals, in which case this laser has the ability to potentially save millions of lives. Most of them would even be tax payers probably.
Actually if wikipedia stopped being about consensus and switched to voting a lot of these problems would disappear.
Because everyone knows that internet voting is safe and totally unexploitable.
I enjoy the fact that when Wikipedia was nearly completely open it was repeatedly slammed for being too open and the content regarded unreliable, and when editors start to take over it gets slammed for not being open enough. Even when it was "open" the reversion rate was around 5-10% for first time users, so I'm not much surprised that, given that it has grown so much, that less actual information and more trolls and idiots appear the reversion rate increases. I'd feel safe to say that nearly 25% of new stuff posted on Wikipedia by "new" users is horrible garbage that no one cares about anyway and probably should be deleted.
Although, I will agree that the editors of Wikipedia are, and always have been, slightly delusional and egotistical, some far more than others.
I would think most of the "trickle down", like any other manufacturing company, would come from the fact that with the more expensive line of cars they now have the basic infrastructure to begin planing new models with possibly many parts in common with the old model, thus reducing the price of both design and hard manufacturing.
While it is true that Lithium-ion batteries seem to have stagnated in price for nearly a decade, by the time the Model S comes out, maybe even in order for the Model S to be able to come out, we may see lead carbon batteries paired with an Ultracapacitor become viable. Or maybe Lithium-ion batteries may actually decrease in price as they as promised for about 9 years now, possibly due to lower consumer demand.
It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
One could just change the media it is stored on once per decade or as necessary, or keep it on Google Mail or something. I'd hate to think they'd be gone without warning, but who knows. I can't imagine how keeping track of a physical notebook could be harder than a digital one.
I cried at the end of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; now they aren't going to get the help they need at military school! How else could they ever hope to stop being "delinquents"?
Then I looked at your name, and suddenly it all became clear. Hahah! Ironic because by the same logic my opinion is also moot! Wait, but by saying that... Uh...
Anyway, although it does seem that his involvement, while not lowering quality imho, does seem to doom some shows. Why is that?
1: You're not allowed to harass people, even if you do so by speaking.
If this is true, why are many local and national KKK and Neo Nazi groups allowed to continue their activities? Even their existence is a slap in the face to the respective groups they directly insult.
If you mean harass a specific person and not a group, then how does distributing pamphlets and a website achieve this, aside from annoy most every one they come into contact with? I don't see how those two men doing this is somehow more of an offense than when Neo Nazis do the same at their rallies.
As for "homophobic propaganda" not being protected clearly you have not seen our GOP ad campaign here in Texas.
An American pint is actually a copy of a British pint in 1707. The British later changed over to Imperial in 1824. Also, pretty much all of Southern Australia uses a 425 ml pint, and they call the normal 570 ml Australian pint an "Imperial pint", even though its slightly larger than an actual Imperial pint.
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At least Bush had a war to justify his need to breach privacy. Obama has no legitimate reason and yet he's going to do it.
This means that the war must be over! Hooray!
When are you all going to learn that government is inherently bad; that it is inherently corrupt. And while there are a couple of functions it should provide to maintain civilization, the smaller we keep it the better... for all of us.
When are you going to learn that government is the only thing stopping corporations from turning [completely] into the mafia. The smaller we keep it the larger corporate lobbying has an effect, and the faster the hurdles we put up to stop shady business get knocked back down, much to the peril of public safety, human rights, small business, market stability, the environment, and any class other than the top 2%.
--
The only things a truly free market fixes are the prices.
Slashdot americanism knee-jerk on anything about China is just amazing.
It's almost amazing as the Slashdot anti-"americanism" knee-jerk... wait, what were we lampooning again?
I don't know about you, but I do not read or speak Cantonese or Mandarin (if that is what that was) and thus found it difficult to figure out what is what on that site.
You also seem to not know how to use an internet translator...
Regardless, I didn't see Britney Spears or anyone even remotely non-asian on that website (the lil' pictures) so I have to assume it is all Chinese music.
Oh really? What about the section titled " [Japan and South Korea Pop]" or another titled " [Europe and the United States Songs]"? Also, turns out Britney Spears is listed as #5 under "[Europe and the United States singers]", you just didn't bother to mouse over the tabs. China only cares about copyright violation only when they're the ones on the losing end, but this is nothing new.
On a side note, I wonder how much the US national debt is compared to the total amount of software, music and movies China has pirated over the years. Both would astronomical, but are we talking Pluto, or Alpha Centauri?
P.S. mod grandparent [debile] up, blatant hypocrisy is blatant.
Just want to know what would happen if a NY cop were to do the exact same thing, if he would have a job the following day?
Bullshit. You claim to live in NY, yet you know nothing of unions? Especially the police unions. If they can keep people on even though they took bribes, they could surely do it for complaining about them.
Free shows and movies online won't last forever, though.
IME, when something free dies on the internet, two more just like it instantly spawn.The internet is the world's largest distribution and advertising medium and you would be a fool not to try and use it [for free], if only for market exposure.
At some point, expect paywalls to appear, at least for 'premium content' or selected episodes of a season or whatever. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Whats wrong with 'premium content'? Doesn't that already exist on every source of media, hell every facet of life anyway? The "paywalls" argument I've heard again and again over the past two decades and it still ranks among the lowest things I fear actually happening, right after that 2012 bs.
You've got that backwards; ECON has been crashing long before CS even existed.
They don't work hard.
What?
They spend money irresponsibly, they live for the moment (I know people who make $75,000/year and are in debt)
Oh, I see now. You and I have very different definitions of "poor".
So it seems like the response should be this: wow, human nature is pretty violent. What should we do?
I dont know about you, but I like to play a good FPS to blow off steam.
Its always entertaining when trolls troll trolls...
At least thats what I hope is happening here.
AMERIKKKA SUCKS!!11!1! am i popular yet?
Notice the features being marketed: concurrent CUDA kernels, high performance IEEE double-precision floating point performance, multi-level caching and expanded shared memory, high performance atomic global memory operations.
You say this like it is somehow a bad thing.
NVIDIA doesn't care about you anymore.
Are you always this melodramatic, or maybe you work for ATI or something?
Excepting a small hardcore, gamers are either playing graphically trivial MMOs (*cough*WoW*cough*) or have moved to consoles.
Really? So I now qualify as "hardcore" because I casually play games like Unreal 3 and Arkham Asylum? You are so very wrong. The PC game market has taken a hit along with everything else (except short selling) because of the economy, but it is still a billion dollar industry thats really only to get bigger.
% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than (speed limit+x)/(speed limit)*distance
should have been
% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than distance * (1/speed limit - 1/(speed limit+x))
I've always thought that when, over the entire lifetime of an individual, (% chance you cause an accident and/or get a ticket at x over the limit - % chance at speed limit) * cost of accidents and/or tickets (in time) is less than (speed limit+x)/(speed limit)*distance, then one should drive at x over the speed limit (x could be 0 or negative).
Because the first two variables.... er, vary so much because they are dependent to any and every individual diving situation, the most practical decision is up to the driver's judgment. However, drivers' "judgment" is largely responsible for the first two variables even existing in the first place.
Note that in tailgating, one is both driving at the speed limit and increasing the probability of an accident occurring and is therefore entirely counterproductive (unless you drive race cars).
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people. That was in 1270s.
There, fixed that for you =)
Aahhh, the halcyon days where one only had to operate the Halifax Gibbet, and not some fancy and oh-so-hard-to-use guillotine.
you should be making sure that the traffic patterns aren't unique and discernable. In other words, using steganography. All this "confusion" stuff I read in the article gives the user a distinct pattern of behavior that can identify the user as actively using said software.
From what I gather from the article, it is actually the opposite of what you though it was:
Chinese authorities monitor UltraSurf carefully and try to identify signatures that can be used to set filters, so the software sends out useless traffic to make noise that makes it difficult to characterize the legitimate traffic, he says. ... UltraSurf programmers play a cat-and-mouse game with Chinese censors trying to block its traffic, so the team working on it has to continually alter its methods to adapt to each innovation in the Great Firewall, he says. "We have a great understanding of the Great Firewall and how to defeat it."
It could have been clearer if he had used the word "deceive" instead of "confuse", or if you had actually read the article. Oh wait sorry, forgot where I was.
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First off, the Russians would never launch their nukes at the US; they are worth far too much money, if only as nuclear fuel. China would never nuke the US because then who would be left to pay their massive debts? Who is left? Who it was designed for: rogue states that may only have one or two missiles in their arsenals, in which case this laser has the ability to potentially save millions of lives. Most of them would even be tax payers probably.
Actually if wikipedia stopped being about consensus and switched to voting a lot of these problems would disappear.
Because everyone knows that internet voting is safe and totally unexploitable.
I enjoy the fact that when Wikipedia was nearly completely open it was repeatedly slammed for being too open and the content regarded unreliable, and when editors start to take over it gets slammed for not being open enough. Even when it was "open" the reversion rate was around 5-10% for first time users, so I'm not much surprised that, given that it has grown so much, that less actual information and more trolls and idiots appear the reversion rate increases. I'd feel safe to say that nearly 25% of new stuff posted on Wikipedia by "new" users is horrible garbage that no one cares about anyway and probably should be deleted.
Although, I will agree that the editors of Wikipedia are, and always have been, slightly delusional and egotistical, some far more than others.
internet skelator operasucks browsersonplanets tech software story
Wait, what? Also
in a piece loosely aimed at determining whether these browsers are yet ready to steal significant numbers of users from Firefox, Safari, IE etc.
When I aim loosely, I usually miss.
I would think most of the "trickle down", like any other manufacturing company, would come from the fact that with the more expensive line of cars they now have the basic infrastructure to begin planing new models with possibly many parts in common with the old model, thus reducing the price of both design and hard manufacturing.
While it is true that Lithium-ion batteries seem to have stagnated in price for nearly a decade, by the time the Model S comes out, maybe even in order for the Model S to be able to come out, we may see lead carbon batteries paired with an Ultracapacitor become viable. Or maybe Lithium-ion batteries may actually decrease in price as they as promised for about 9 years now, possibly due to lower consumer demand.
It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
One could just change the media it is stored on once per decade or as necessary, or keep it on Google Mail or something. I'd hate to think they'd be gone without warning, but who knows. I can't imagine how keeping track of a physical notebook could be harder than a digital one.
I cried at the end of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; now they aren't going to get the help they need at military school! How else could they ever hope to stop being "delinquents"?
Or a consult with Joss Whedon.
Then I looked at your name, and suddenly it all became clear. Hahah! Ironic because by the same logic my opinion is also moot! Wait, but by saying that... Uh...
Anyway, although it does seem that his involvement, while not lowering quality imho, does seem to doom some shows. Why is that?
1: You're not allowed to harass people, even if you do so by speaking.
If this is true, why are many local and national KKK and Neo Nazi groups allowed to continue their activities? Even their existence is a slap in the face to the respective groups they directly insult.
If you mean harass a specific person and not a group, then how does distributing pamphlets and a website achieve this, aside from annoy most every one they come into contact with? I don't see how those two men doing this is somehow more of an offense than when Neo Nazis do the same at their rallies.
As for "homophobic propaganda" not being protected clearly you have not seen our GOP ad campaign here in Texas.
An American pint is actually a copy of a British pint in 1707. The British later changed over to Imperial in 1824. Also, pretty much all of Southern Australia uses a 425 ml pint, and they call the normal 570 ml Australian pint an "Imperial pint", even though its slightly larger than an actual Imperial pint.