But you won't get anarchy for very long. Someone will figure out how to get a bigger bunch of idiots to obey him and then with those he'll proceed to control more and more people.
"What I was trying to get at was that it's not the employer's responsibility to make certain that the employee is sufficiently compensated for their work. It's the employee's responsibility to negotiate for themselves compensation which they feel is sufficient."
That said, I think not being an asshole should be everyone's responsibility.
So what if it is not legally required (probably shouldn't be, because that leads to worse things;) ).
I rather have a world where it can and should be assumed that the other party is not usually out to swindle you. I always figured it should be a valid target for civilization.
Otherwise it's not a big improvement compared to the "law of the jungle".
If you're talking about future tech and you are going to get that invasive, you might as well carry around or implant a "super PDA/wearable server" sort of device that holds your personal digital certs[1].
Because once you have a device suitable for reading thought "macros" you can easily have a device that would help do "virtual telepathy" and "virtual telekinesis", and typical "super PDA/wearable server" functions.
You'd have photographic memory etc - just link a distinct thought pattern with the image, and the next time you think of that person it'll be easy to have the image pop up - just like part of your memory. And you can send links to those objects to your friends (given decent apps and protocols, you'd be able to have fine grained access control to your "memories" and so easily share specific objects with strangers or whole groups of them with groups of other people).
Of course if Copyright laws and other laws don't change you could end up having to pay more than a penny for your "own thoughts". And Big Brother would be pretty happy if stuff like Palladium/DRM are a core part of it.
I think people should be more careful on what they _tolerate_ now. Because they might end up being like a frog being boiled slowly.
[1] Should have more than one cert for different purposes- ID, small/volume monetary transactions, big item monetary transactions.
It's _theft_ or at least its a LOT closer to theft than "pirates" copying stuff, which the *AA like to brainwash people about.
Because when you copy stuff, the original is still available.
But when you steal something, that something is less accessible or available to the public.
So when you prevent stuff from entering the public domain as it would have (or worse retroactively take away), you are effectively stealing from the public.
But not as good at taking CO2 out of the atmosphere as planting lots of trees or other plants and using them to make paper, and then burying the used paper (not recycling it).
Uh, I think you misunderstand. I think it's more of you should avoid encrypting the _same_ data with different ciphers, or different keys.
Whereas the OP is talking about encrypting already encrypted data.
If you are using decent[1] ciphers encrypting something that's encrypted is unlikely to make it easier to decrypt. Otherwise cryptologists would be running stuff through other ciphers all the time, just to make stuff easier to decrypt, doh.
(I also had to install VLC for someone just so he could play a DVD he legally bought).
AFAIK the region locks were never about preventing piracy. They were about greed for power and money.
Anyone who believed it was about preventing piracy was either ignorant or stupid. Because pirates could just make bit-for-bit copies of the DVD and the DVDs would work EXACTLY as the originals (not talking about the small time pirates who just make 50 copies or something silly - talking about those who stamp out thousands of copies).
Copying encrypted/encoded data is like photocopying a document written in a language you don't understand. It doesn't matter. Just pass the copied document to the "player/translator" who will understand the copy just like it will understand the original.
However it does seem the pirates tend to make region-free DVDs - it could be a side effect of making DVD5 stuff (single layer = cheaper). But DVD9 versions are often available and do command higher prices too - and those are region-free as well.
The pirate versions often don't have stupid stuff like this. Nor do they have stupid DVD region limitations (which prevent you from repeatedly watching DVDs you legally bought from two different regions, on your legally purchased DVD drive).
Of course people like me would use VLC and return DVD drives that don't work with it (apparently not all drives would allow the bypass).
But to other people having such problems (there are a fair number), I'd suggest they buy the pirate versions.
Same goes for the Philips stuff. If the pirates rip the ads out more people would be using their products.
Speaking on putting leaders lives on the line, I'd prefer for there to be referendums before any country can start an offensive war.
Because if the referendum fails, the idea is the wiseguy leaders who proposed or thought up the war get put on Death Row (another referendum is then taken in due course to decide which of the leaders get redeemed - if too many people decide to just stay home or do other stuff during the "holiday" instead of voting, those leaders get executed).
The other benefit is if 70% of Country A are actually in favour of attacking Country B, then soldiers and people of Country B can feel a lot easier about wiping Country A out, and its even easier to justify nukes.
This way you know that people really want war. And then they'll get exactly what they ordered.
Whereas the current system seems to be people get dragged into wars they're half hearted about or don't even want.
If turns out the leaders bluffed or deceived the population they get executed.
If it turns out a war was actually justified but the leaders got executed, the leaders get a posthumous award and their families get pensions - just like can happen for soldiers.
I'm not a soldier nor ever intend to be one (I don't really see the point of killing someone I have nothing really against, just because one or more leaders think its a great idea ), but I think this is a lot more fair.
There is a big difference between field/industry specific "technical" jargon and buzzwords. The former is NOT obfuscation at all.
Myocardial Infarction has a fairly specific meaning, and is very useful for _concisely_ conveying that meaning to medics. Whereas saying someone has a heart problem isn't specific enough.
Same goes when you are saying a benchmark is an OLAP benchmark and another is an OLTP benchmark to some IT guy.
Whereas when those people say something like "leveraging disintermediation paradigms" they are usually using a lot to say very little.
I wouldn't even say it's the difference between info compression and info decompression, because often with business buzzwords, there is very little info.
To me it's more like these people are expected to open their mouths and move them. But they know the more they actually say, the more they'd get in trouble (either because they don't really know much, or because they don't want to be pinned down on what they say later on), so they have to talk and say nothing much. Same for printed material - they have to fill column inches of a PR release or press interview.
There's a significant difference between saying someone has Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, vs Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Whereas AFAIK there is very little difference in practice between: "envisioneer compelling synergies" and "architect impactful initiatives".
Everyone with sense just watches what the person saying that sort of stuff actually _does_ after that. e.g. who gets sacked, who gets promoted, who gets dead-ended, and what policies change.
And none of that might actually be related to what was said.
Your laptop is only worth the _fence_value_ to the thieves/robbers.
You can reduce the fence value of your laptop by magnitudes if you had a hard to remove design/decoration airbrushed or painted onto your laptop.
It most certainly doesn't have to be ugly - if you've seen those electric guitar decorations/artwork.
And it doesn't necessarily have to reduce the legal resale value - it may actually increase the legal resale value depending on the quality of the artwork;).
Well, I figure a megawatt laser that can blow up a missile hundreds of miles away, could be used to take out inconvenient leaders.
If you can ionize air with that beam, you can pass it by a thundercloud on the way to the target and make it look like it was a normal lightning bolt, and thus an "act of God".
Even if the tech is not good enough to hit a fast moving missile, it should be able to easily hit someone walking about or even standing about in a public area - you could even aim it manually.
Perhaps this is what the tech was actually intended for in the first place. But of course that can't be since assassination is a no-no right?;).
Another problem with the US system (and other similar systems):
You can't vote "NO!" to a candidate. You can only vote "Yes!".
So even if 55% dislike candidate A, but only 25% are fine with candidate A, if the 55% can't agree on who to vote "Yes!" to (or they stay at home in disgust) instead, candidate A has a good chance of winning.
Now I claim more people would vote if they could vote "No!".
It'll be worth it even if the candidate still wins - but with a net negative total;).
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But you won't get anarchy for very long. Someone will figure out how to get a bigger bunch of idiots to obey him and then with those he'll proceed to control more and more people.
Heh, so you must be like one of the alleged five owners of nonWRX Subarus ;).
;).
I don't have a Subaru, but I was wondering if Subaru was one of those car companies which sell far more high end cars than low end ones
When did C have strong type checking?
It's normal for you to misuse stuff without casting. If you're lucky gcc might grumble about it.
"What I was trying to get at was that it's not the employer's responsibility to make certain that the employee is sufficiently compensated for their work. It's the employee's responsibility to negotiate for themselves compensation which they feel is sufficient."
;) ).
That said, I think not being an asshole should be everyone's responsibility.
So what if it is not legally required (probably shouldn't be, because that leads to worse things
I rather have a world where it can and should be assumed that the other party is not usually out to swindle you. I always figured it should be a valid target for civilization.
Otherwise it's not a big improvement compared to the "law of the jungle".
If you're talking about future tech and you are going to get that invasive, you might as well carry around or implant a "super PDA/wearable server" sort of device that holds your personal digital certs[1].
Because once you have a device suitable for reading thought "macros" you can easily have a device that would help do "virtual telepathy" and "virtual telekinesis", and typical "super PDA/wearable server" functions.
You'd have photographic memory etc - just link a distinct thought pattern with the image, and the next time you think of that person it'll be easy to have the image pop up - just like part of your memory. And you can send links to those objects to your friends (given decent apps and protocols, you'd be able to have fine grained access control to your "memories" and so easily share specific objects with strangers or whole groups of them with groups of other people).
Of course if Copyright laws and other laws don't change you could end up having to pay more than a penny for your "own thoughts". And Big Brother would be pretty happy if stuff like Palladium/DRM are a core part of it.
I think people should be more careful on what they _tolerate_ now. Because they might end up being like a frog being boiled slowly.
[1] Should have more than one cert for different purposes- ID, small/volume monetary transactions, big item monetary transactions.
If you're french you probably wouldn't have to post that anonymously even if you wanted to be president.
It's _theft_ or at least its a LOT closer to theft than "pirates" copying stuff, which the *AA like to brainwash people about.
Because when you copy stuff, the original is still available.
But when you steal something, that something is less accessible or available to the public.
So when you prevent stuff from entering the public domain as it would have (or worse retroactively take away), you are effectively stealing from the public.
But where's your proof that humans aren't just one of those evolutionary dead-ends?
Roaches have been around for millions of years, and given their design they'll probably be around longer than we will.
There are tons of "going extinct" species which have been evolving for a long time as per your remark.
For example: the cheetah. Cheetahs run fast and all that, but they are very "fragile" in terms of species survival.
Good yes.
But not as good at taking CO2 out of the atmosphere as planting lots of trees or other plants and using them to make paper, and then burying the used paper (not recycling it).
If you're that bothered why don't you just use both - one within the other?
Uh, I think you misunderstand. I think it's more of you should avoid encrypting the _same_ data with different ciphers, or different keys.
;)
Whereas the OP is talking about encrypting already encrypted data.
If you are using decent[1] ciphers encrypting something that's encrypted is unlikely to make it easier to decrypt. Otherwise cryptologists would be running stuff through other ciphers all the time, just to make stuff easier to decrypt, doh.
[1] Decent != ROT13.
If we are going to be stuck with patents, can someone form an organisation that patents the evil stuff and makes it extremely expensive to do?
(I also had to install VLC for someone just so he could play a DVD he legally bought).
AFAIK the region locks were never about preventing piracy. They were about greed for power and money.
Anyone who believed it was about preventing piracy was either ignorant or stupid. Because pirates could just make bit-for-bit copies of the DVD and the DVDs would work EXACTLY as the originals (not talking about the small time pirates who just make 50 copies or something silly - talking about those who stamp out thousands of copies).
Copying encrypted/encoded data is like photocopying a document written in a language you don't understand. It doesn't matter. Just pass the copied document to the "player/translator" who will understand the copy just like it will understand the original.
However it does seem the pirates tend to make region-free DVDs - it could be a side effect of making DVD5 stuff (single layer = cheaper). But DVD9 versions are often available and do command higher prices too - and those are region-free as well.
The pirate versions often don't have stupid stuff like this. Nor do they have stupid DVD region limitations (which prevent you from repeatedly watching DVDs you legally bought from two different regions, on your legally purchased DVD drive).
Of course people like me would use VLC and return DVD drives that don't work with it (apparently not all drives would allow the bypass).
But to other people having such problems (there are a fair number), I'd suggest they buy the pirate versions.
Same goes for the Philips stuff. If the pirates rip the ads out more people would be using their products.
" you can in essence select your own pope with his cardinals, bishops and priests "
Yeah and everyone can be their own God sitting on their own throne in their own heaven.
All by themselves.
Or everyone ends up split into N groups all thinking they're right, but all being wrong.
Learn to live together, or live apart.
I suggest learning to "live together" has some merits.
Please provide evidence for what you claim those phrases mean.
There are reasonably authoritative sources for MI, CML and AML, and also OLAP and OLTP. Just google and you'll find them.
Speaking on putting leaders lives on the line, I'd prefer for there to be referendums before any country can start an offensive war.
Because if the referendum fails, the idea is the wiseguy leaders who proposed or thought up the war get put on Death Row (another referendum is then taken in due course to decide which of the leaders get redeemed - if too many people decide to just stay home or do other stuff during the "holiday" instead of voting, those leaders get executed).
The other benefit is if 70% of Country A are actually in favour of attacking Country B, then soldiers and people of Country B can feel a lot easier about wiping Country A out, and its even easier to justify nukes.
This way you know that people really want war. And then they'll get exactly what they ordered.
Whereas the current system seems to be people get dragged into wars they're half hearted about or don't even want.
If turns out the leaders bluffed or deceived the population they get executed.
If it turns out a war was actually justified but the leaders got executed, the leaders get a posthumous award and their families get pensions - just like can happen for soldiers.
I'm not a soldier nor ever intend to be one (I don't really see the point of killing someone I have nothing really against, just because one or more leaders think its a great idea ), but I think this is a lot more fair.
There is a big difference between field/industry specific "technical" jargon and buzzwords. The former is NOT obfuscation at all.
Myocardial Infarction has a fairly specific meaning, and is very useful for _concisely_ conveying that meaning to medics. Whereas saying someone has a heart problem isn't specific enough.
Same goes when you are saying a benchmark is an OLAP benchmark and another is an OLTP benchmark to some IT guy.
Whereas when those people say something like "leveraging disintermediation paradigms" they are usually using a lot to say very little.
I wouldn't even say it's the difference between info compression and info decompression, because often with business buzzwords, there is very little info.
To me it's more like these people are expected to open their mouths and move them. But they know the more they actually say, the more they'd get in trouble (either because they don't really know much, or because they don't want to be pinned down on what they say later on), so they have to talk and say nothing much. Same for printed material - they have to fill column inches of a PR release or press interview.
There's a significant difference between saying someone has Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, vs Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Whereas AFAIK there is very little difference in practice between:
"envisioneer compelling synergies" and "architect impactful initiatives".
Everyone with sense just watches what the person saying that sort of stuff actually _does_ after that. e.g. who gets sacked, who gets promoted, who gets dead-ended, and what policies change.
And none of that might actually be related to what was said.
Because
1) its available for the Mac
2) some people even say MS Office for Mac is better than the MS Office for windows.
Just make your laptop really distinctive.
;).
Your laptop is only worth the _fence_value_ to the thieves/robbers.
You can reduce the fence value of your laptop by magnitudes if you had a hard to remove design/decoration airbrushed or painted onto your laptop.
It most certainly doesn't have to be ugly - if you've seen those electric guitar decorations/artwork.
And it doesn't necessarily have to reduce the legal resale value - it may actually increase the legal resale value depending on the quality of the artwork
Keep in mind the victim got stabbed instead of getting shot.
On one version of vmware workstation, I found that changing the system date on a guest to something invalid crashed the whole vmware software.
I reported this, hopefully it has been fixed by now.
"The ADS would provide a nonlethal form of crowd control"
I heard the tests involved the volunteers removing their eyewear and other metallic stuff, and people who missed out certain stuff got badly burned.
So even if its nonlethal its not going to be as "rosey" as they seem to claim.
Well, I figure a megawatt laser that can blow up a missile hundreds of miles away, could be used to take out inconvenient leaders.
;).
If you can ionize air with that beam, you can pass it by a thundercloud on the way to the target and make it look like it was a normal lightning bolt, and thus an "act of God".
Even if the tech is not good enough to hit a fast moving missile, it should be able to easily hit someone walking about or even standing about in a public area - you could even aim it manually.
Perhaps this is what the tech was actually intended for in the first place. But of course that can't be since assassination is a no-no right?
Another problem with the US system (and other similar systems):
;).
You can't vote "NO!" to a candidate. You can only vote "Yes!".
So even if 55% dislike candidate A, but only 25% are fine with candidate A, if the 55% can't agree on who to vote "Yes!" to (or they stay at home in disgust) instead, candidate A has a good chance of winning.
Now I claim more people would vote if they could vote "No!".
It'll be worth it even if the candidate still wins - but with a net negative total