While you might have the technical ability to do something, it does not necessarily mean you have the legal right to do something.
Gary McKinnon had the technical ability to get into certain computer systems and look at the data (he did not delete stuff), but he didn't have the legal right to do it, so he's facing extradition to the USA and potentially quite a number of years in prison.
Amazon had the technical ability to get into certain computer systems (Kindles) and delete the data. And Amazon deleted data without permission from people who thought they owned those certain computer systems.
I'm not a lawyer but whether that's legal depends on who owns those Kindles, and whether Amazon has been given extra special powers to delete data from systems they don't own.
FWIW, Amazon says "buy" Kindle, they don't say "rent".
Car repossessors still have to follow certain steps to repossess a car - they typically cannot break into garages to repossess the car - it has to be in an open area, in some cases they have to notify the buyer that they are going to repossess the car.
Similarly when a Bank seizes back property there are certain procedures they have to follow.
Another thing - the initial problem was with Amazon's _Partner_ selling stuff they shouldn't have, not Amazon themselves.
Just because a shop in Amazon Mall sells me stuff they shouldn't have doesn't mean that Amazon can send their Mall Guards to sneak into my house and remove it on behalf of that shop, even if Amazon Mall is afraid they might get sued.
If the shop has done something illegal, Amazon Mall could report it to the police - the cops are the ones who have powers to seize and destroy stuff. Lets all only have to deal with one bunch of thugs running around ok?
Maybe I'm insane, but if I left my house unlocked, and nothing was stolen, nothing damaged and nothing was planted except that sort of note (no threats etc), I wouldn't bother with the police.
I'd rather take my chances with someone who left a note and didn't steal stuff than deal with the police.
After all, when my cousin's house was burgled, his wife's PDA was still around before the cops came. But after the cops left, the PDA was gone.
And when some guy's sports shop was burgled, the cops came and took some stuff and told the guy to report it as stolen to the insurance company...
Strange, I'm a Christian and I don't see evidence in the Bible that Jesus ever bothered to cast demons out of _places_. My reading is he drove demons out from _people_.
Since they have so much time on their hands, maybe you could ask them to go feed the hungry, provide drinks to the thirsty, hospitality to strangers, care for the sick, or visit the imprisoned.
Heh I like this part: "Also, the remarkable experiment studies infection in humans, using real parasites and real mosquitoes yet in a controlled and safe clinical trial setting"
The control group don't get anything though, so I wonder what they did to keep it safe.
I think the reason is more because the supermarkets get tomatoes that were plucked while they weren't ripe. And those tomatoes were bred for looks, shelf-life, productivity but not taste.
Phosphate fertilizers tend to have radioactivity from trace elements like polonium.
Some plants like tobacco concentrate these substances in their leaves. If you consume their leaves regularly, you might increase your chances of getting cancer.
Quote: "There was a 1977 study that found, of the daily intake of the polonium 210 in a smoker, 77.3 per cent came from food and 17 per cent from tobacco."
Now depending on what the source animals have been eating, the manure used for organic fertilizer might have a lot less polonium than the usual phosphate stuff.
Thing is those phosphate fertilizers have been so popular that they're "everywhere", even your organic stuff might have as much polonium.
Lastly, even fully organic stuff can be radioactive. For example brazil nuts tend to concentrate radium (they also concentrate beneficial minerals).
I agree. Instead of explicitly asking you what you'd like to do, the interface should make it easier for you to do stuff.
Similarly I feel AI researchers should focus more on human augmentation, and delay the "create a new entity" stuff.
There are lots of problems if you actually end up creating a new entity - ethical, social etc. It's like forcing ourselves to answer hard questions before we are ready.
But anyway, seems Nvidia has discontinued HybridPower for the desktop. Nvidia's excuse is that the newer cards will idle more efficiently. Not sure how true that will be in the near future:).
In practice China strips a lot of prisoners of their political rights (in theory they only get stripped of political rights if they committed certain types of crime - which was what I was trying to say).
Quote: "In Shanghai's Qingpu Prison, 723 prisoners out of 2,700 have the right to vote and all of them voted yesterday."
That's pretty crappy compared to many other countries.
But the USA with only 2 states out of 50 has some way to go too. Maybe the US should give Puerto Ricans better voting rights while they're at it.
I believe sometimes during "rush hour" they change the timing on the lights to actually slow traffic down.
The reason is there's no point having a huge bunch of cars rush into an already very jammed area.
It's a bit like the "macro" form of coasting to a red light - the red light being the jammed area, and the coasting = the red lights they annoy you with;).
But at other times, they should encourage free-flowing traffic (especially before the evening "rush hour" - you'd want to get as many cars out of the city before the "gridlock" effect sets in).
The Chinese people tend to have a different view of authoritarian governments, just like they have a different view of strict authoritarian fathers and rulers.
As long as things don't start getting really crappier, "Big Daddy" can watch over them and tell them what to do and what not to do.
Perhaps someone should go do proper anonymous surveys to see how satisfied/dissatisfied the Chinese people are with their Government, and also do the same in other countries like the USA. The Chinese people might be a lot less dissatisfied than many Westerners assume.
Very many are clearly very proud of what their country has achieved, and I won't be surprised if they think their Gov was responsible for it.
The rest might not give a damn as long as they keep making money, and their families have enough food and goodies.
FWIW, Singapore also has a fairly authoritarian government. Chewing gum is banned (except chewing gum of therapeutic value). Most of the people there don't really care either. Some may grumble a bit, but if things on average get better for them, they're not going to hold huge protests.
Note to Dictators, most people will put up with you and all sorts of evils, as long as you maintain law and order, and you can give them enough "bread and circuses".
They do have elections in China. Yes they effectively only have one party, but at the lower levels there can be multiple candidates that citizens can vote to be their representatives.
I doubt most of the Chinese people really care that there's only one Party.
Maybe after a while the Chinese voters would be voting for two different factions in the One Party, and most American voters who bother to vote will still keep on voting for one of the Two Parties. Then the two systems will start to look very similar:).
BTW, I've seen election regulations in the USA that give special treatment/advantages to the Two Parties that are not given to other parties. I find that rather strange.
p.s. unlike in the USA, in China prisoners who have not committed categories of crimes are still eligible to vote or even be candidates (in theory anyway;) ).
Various studies have been done over the years. It's just not politically correct to say so.
In countries where there's a significant health care system (either the NHS style or subsidies), smokers cost less than healthy people (especially when you factor in the tobacco taxes).
The facts are a healthy person WILL eventually die. Go look at the pie chart showing what people die of. You can only adjust the size of the slices in the pie, you cannot avoid the death.
If people live a healthy lifestyle, it's far less likely for them to die of heart disease.
So guess what they _eventually_ die of? Either they die of cancer, or they eventually rot away slowly in a nursing home suffering from dementia. Or worse, they get a stroke and linger on for years paralyzed.
All these are expensive - unless you say "OK we're not going to pay for that", but you could also say that to the smokers.
And these healthy folks might be so healthy that they have a few expensive but successful treatments first before they die.
Whereas the smokers and the obese are probably going to kick the bucket at the first medical crisis that happens soon after their most productive years.
I'm not a smoker and not obese, and I find it ridiculous that people keep demonizing smokers and making their lives difficult (don't allow them to smoke in pubs etc) and at the same time they worry about "aging population". That's amazingly stupid and contradictory.
Just make it illegal for minors to smoke (or to be encouraged to smoke, sold tobacco etc), and inform everyone that smoking is bad for health and will kill them earlier. Then slap on enough taxes, and they pay for their costs and other people as well.
Maybe we could also give posthumous awards to the top contributing smokers who die early after making immense contributions to society - something like the Purple Heart. Call it the Black Lung or something;).
Atually stuff can be done to help people against their will.
However this is generally avoided since it's usually against the law (places like China could be different though;) ).
In general people are only allowed to stop others from taking the final step of self destruction.
After all, is it legal to use force to stop an alcoholic from drinking? How about using force to stop someone from stabbing themselves? Or stop someone from chopping their own fingers off? Or stop them from getting a really awful tattoo?:)
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While you might have the technical ability to do something, it does not necessarily mean you have the legal right to do something.
Gary McKinnon had the technical ability to get into certain computer systems and look at the data (he did not delete stuff), but he didn't have the legal right to do it, so he's facing extradition to the USA and potentially quite a number of years in prison.
Amazon had the technical ability to get into certain computer systems (Kindles) and delete the data. And Amazon deleted data without permission from people who thought they owned those certain computer systems.
I'm not a lawyer but whether that's legal depends on who owns those Kindles, and whether Amazon has been given extra special powers to delete data from systems they don't own.
FWIW, Amazon says "buy" Kindle, they don't say "rent".
Car repossessors still have to follow certain steps to repossess a car - they typically cannot break into garages to repossess the car - it has to be in an open area, in some cases they have to notify the buyer that they are going to repossess the car.
Similarly when a Bank seizes back property there are certain procedures they have to follow.
Another thing - the initial problem was with Amazon's _Partner_ selling stuff they shouldn't have, not Amazon themselves.
Just because a shop in Amazon Mall sells me stuff they shouldn't have doesn't mean that Amazon can send their Mall Guards to sneak into my house and remove it on behalf of that shop, even if Amazon Mall is afraid they might get sued.
If the shop has done something illegal, Amazon Mall could report it to the police - the cops are the ones who have powers to seize and destroy stuff. Lets all only have to deal with one bunch of thugs running around ok?
This about law and order.
Nah don't waste it on the asus. Reserve the old non OEM XP Pro for something else. If you ever need a virtual machine with XP on it, use it on that.
Maybe I'm insane, but if I left my house unlocked, and nothing was stolen, nothing damaged and nothing was planted except that sort of note (no threats etc), I wouldn't bother with the police.
I'd rather take my chances with someone who left a note and didn't steal stuff than deal with the police.
After all, when my cousin's house was burgled, his wife's PDA was still around before the cops came. But after the cops left, the PDA was gone.
And when some guy's sports shop was burgled, the cops came and took some stuff and told the guy to report it as stolen to the insurance company...
Go figure.
Yeah I'm amazed the study managed to get approved and done.
Chloroquine itself is also fairly toxic.
Thing is, is the immunity limited to Plasmodium falciparum or do they also end up immune to Plasmodium vivax and the rest?
Strange, I'm a Christian and I don't see evidence in the Bible that Jesus ever bothered to cast demons out of _places_. My reading is he drove demons out from _people_.
Since they have so much time on their hands, maybe you could ask them to go feed the hungry, provide drinks to the thirsty, hospitality to strangers, care for the sick, or visit the imprisoned.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2025:34-46;&version=31;
> Just make the car capable of driving itself.
;).
Or let the guide dog drive
Heh I like this part: "Also, the remarkable experiment studies infection in humans, using real parasites and real mosquitoes yet in a controlled and safe clinical trial setting"
The control group don't get anything though, so I wonder what they did to keep it safe.
I think the reason is more because the supermarkets get tomatoes that were plucked while they weren't ripe. And those tomatoes were bred for looks, shelf-life, productivity but not taste.
Phosphate fertilizers tend to have radioactivity from trace elements like polonium.
Some plants like tobacco concentrate these substances in their leaves. If you consume their leaves regularly, you might increase your chances of getting cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/tobacco-firms-kept-quiet-on--polonium-role-in-cigarettes-907194.html
Quote: "There was a 1977 study that found, of the daily intake of the polonium 210 in a smoker, 77.3 per cent came from food and 17 per cent from tobacco."
Now depending on what the source animals have been eating, the manure used for organic fertilizer might have a lot less polonium than the usual phosphate stuff.
Thing is those phosphate fertilizers have been so popular that they're "everywhere", even your organic stuff might have as much polonium.
Lastly, even fully organic stuff can be radioactive. For example brazil nuts tend to concentrate radium (they also concentrate beneficial minerals).
I agree. Instead of explicitly asking you what you'd like to do, the interface should make it easier for you to do stuff.
Similarly I feel AI researchers should focus more on human augmentation, and delay the "create a new entity" stuff.
There are lots of problems if you actually end up creating a new entity - ethical, social etc. It's like forcing ourselves to answer hard questions before we are ready.
> why isn't Reiser 4 in the damn kernel already?
Vendor lock-in.
Dunno these reviews seem to say something different:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/708/5/
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3305&p=7
But anyway, seems Nvidia has discontinued HybridPower for the desktop. Nvidia's excuse is that the newer cards will idle more efficiently. Not sure how true that will be in the near future :).
> It's clear you don't know what you're talking about because this is true in the US as well.
Only two US states allow prisoners to vote.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word "prisoner"? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prisoner
In practice China strips a lot of prisoners of their political rights (in theory they only get stripped of political rights if they committed certain types of crime - which was what I was trying to say).
Quote: "In Shanghai's Qingpu Prison, 723 prisoners out of 2,700 have the right to vote and all of them voted yesterday."
That's pretty crappy compared to many other countries.
But the USA with only 2 states out of 50 has some way to go too. Maybe the US should give Puerto Ricans better voting rights while they're at it.
> I'm hoping that in the future on can turn off the discreet GPU when not using it, then one could get the benefits of both.
You could in the past too. Nvidia calls that "HybridPower".
> what on earth can the i5 do with 82 times as much power?
Run Crysis? Boot Vista?
How about using tubes?
You could put stuff like wires in the tubes. Or just use them as waveguides.
I believe sometimes during "rush hour" they change the timing on the lights to actually slow traffic down.
;).
The reason is there's no point having a huge bunch of cars rush into an already very jammed area.
It's a bit like the "macro" form of coasting to a red light - the red light being the jammed area, and the coasting = the red lights they annoy you with
But at other times, they should encourage free-flowing traffic (especially before the evening "rush hour" - you'd want to get as many cars out of the city before the "gridlock" effect sets in).
But do those 2500 messages include spam or are they just the mails that get through the existing spam filters?
Otherwise my understanding of the 0.3% false positive is where 100% = the total number of emails.
Which is rather unacceptable given the handling of false positives, and the total number of emails could be very high when you include spam.
> China is not an Asian version of America
You are right.
The Chinese people tend to have a different view of authoritarian governments, just like they have a different view of strict authoritarian fathers and rulers.
As long as things don't start getting really crappier, "Big Daddy" can watch over them and tell them what to do and what not to do.
Perhaps someone should go do proper anonymous surveys to see how satisfied/dissatisfied the Chinese people are with their Government, and also do the same in other countries like the USA. The Chinese people might be a lot less dissatisfied than many Westerners assume.
Very many are clearly very proud of what their country has achieved, and I won't be surprised if they think their Gov was responsible for it.
The rest might not give a damn as long as they keep making money, and their families have enough food and goodies.
FWIW, Singapore also has a fairly authoritarian government. Chewing gum is banned (except chewing gum of therapeutic value). Most of the people there don't really care either. Some may grumble a bit, but if things on average get better for them, they're not going to hold huge protests.
Note to Dictators, most people will put up with you and all sorts of evils, as long as you maintain law and order, and you can give them enough "bread and circuses".
They do have elections in China. Yes they effectively only have one party, but at the lower levels there can be multiple candidates that citizens can vote to be their representatives.
See: http://www.chinaelections.net/about-us.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
I doubt most of the Chinese people really care that there's only one Party.
Maybe after a while the Chinese voters would be voting for two different factions in the One Party, and most American voters who bother to vote will still keep on voting for one of the Two Parties. Then the two systems will start to look very similar :).
BTW, I've seen election regulations in the USA that give special treatment/advantages to the Two Parties that are not given to other parties. I find that rather strange.
p.s. unlike in the USA, in China prisoners who have not committed categories of crimes are still eligible to vote or even be candidates (in theory anyway ;) ).
Various studies have been done over the years. It's just not politically correct to say so.
;).
In countries where there's a significant health care system (either the NHS style or subsidies), smokers cost less than healthy people (especially when you factor in the tobacco taxes).
The facts are a healthy person WILL eventually die. Go look at the pie chart showing what people die of. You can only adjust the size of the slices in the pie, you cannot avoid the death.
If people live a healthy lifestyle, it's far less likely for them to die of heart disease.
So guess what they _eventually_ die of? Either they die of cancer, or they eventually rot away slowly in a nursing home suffering from dementia. Or worse, they get a stroke and linger on for years paralyzed.
All these are expensive - unless you say "OK we're not going to pay for that", but you could also say that to the smokers.
And these healthy folks might be so healthy that they have a few expensive but successful treatments first before they die.
Whereas the smokers and the obese are probably going to kick the bucket at the first medical crisis that happens soon after their most productive years.
I'm not a smoker and not obese, and I find it ridiculous that people keep demonizing smokers and making their lives difficult (don't allow them to smoke in pubs etc) and at the same time they worry about "aging population". That's amazingly stupid and contradictory.
Just make it illegal for minors to smoke (or to be encouraged to smoke, sold tobacco etc), and inform everyone that smoking is bad for health and will kill them earlier. Then slap on enough taxes, and they pay for their costs and other people as well.
Maybe we could also give posthumous awards to the top contributing smokers who die early after making immense contributions to society - something like the Purple Heart. Call it the Black Lung or something
Atually stuff can be done to help people against their will.
;) ).
:)
However this is generally avoided since it's usually against the law (places like China could be different though
In general people are only allowed to stop others from taking the final step of self destruction.
After all, is it legal to use force to stop an alcoholic from drinking? How about using force to stop someone from stabbing themselves? Or stop someone from chopping their own fingers off? Or stop them from getting a really awful tattoo?
Actually that can work well if your therapist is there to ensure you have taken your naltrexone before you drink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Method
I'm certain dnsmasq does not have good security history.
Google for: dnsmasq vulnerability
Smugness to spare? My smugness was overflowing more than BIND9 buffers.
:).
Great opportunity to vent some smugness today