Trust me, I do know the guys that work at Netmar, and they would not just kick you off the service without notice for something petty.
Put it in the contract. "The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of the Netmar management" doesn't cut it.
Play by the rules and you have superior hosting at a good price.
You can't expect someone to play by the rules when your AUP says "we can make up any rules we want".
I'm not sure what you guys want. Maybe you all are just anarchists that don't believe in laws.
What I want is very simple. You don't take down my site unless I'm doing something obviously illegal. If it's not obviously illegal, you aren't an accessory, and I'll take the full blame if it turns out to be illegal.
Most of all what I want is a promise that you won't intentionally disable my site unless I'm doing something illegal with it.
I believe you're probably wrong on this one. No current applied design could solve Go, or chess for that matter. But there's those really annoying quantum computers that can solve for every case at once that may, in the next 20 years, provide us for the "solution" to chess, and possibly Go.
I'd be willing to bet that I'm not wrong, but I do admit that my limited knowledge of quantum computers is not sufficient to prove it (without waiting 20 years).
Aside from breaking copyrights, child porn is the only other deal-killer I can think of if you choose a provider who already sells bandwidth to extreme fetish porn sites.
Spam. You'd probably have a harder time finding a host for a spam site than any other, including child porn.
in go, just like in chess, there are a limited number of moves
Just like in anything. English text has a limited number of sentences, but that doesn't mean a computer can speak it.
a computer could analyze every one of these billions(?) of sequences and choose one that lead to victory every time
Billions? No, you're way way off. You reach billions by the time you get up to the 5th move. Billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions is a little closer. To say that a computer could analyze them all is to severely stretch the meaning of "could". No computer currently in existence, or even conceivable in design could solve the problem in the time remaining before the sun burns out. I'm going to make the bold assertion that Go as a game will never be solved.
What I'd like to see is Kramnik, Deep Blue, and Fritz vs. Kasparov, Deep Blue, and Fritz. Basically, the grandmaster can use the computer to explore possibilities and make calculations, but ultimately the move decision is his.
It's been well known since, well, before I was born, that a computer could easily trounce a human in any game involving only tactics.
Would you call "Go" a game of tactics? It took me about a month to be able to beat GnuGo, and I can now beat it while giving it a horribly ridiculous number of handicaps. I could probably beat any computer program currently in existence, and given a couple years of practice, so could just about anyone.
Michael says frankse says the BBC says NASA scientists think "these fragments of matter come from "retired" quasars, galaxies containing supermassive black holes that once shone with astonishing brilliance."
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Trust me, I do know the guys that work at Netmar, and they would not just kick you off the service without notice for something petty.
Put it in the contract. "The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of the Netmar management" doesn't cut it.
Play by the rules and you have superior hosting at a good price.
You can't expect someone to play by the rules when your AUP says "we can make up any rules we want".
I'm not sure what you guys want. Maybe you all are just anarchists that don't believe in laws.
What I want is very simple. You don't take down my site unless I'm doing something obviously illegal. If it's not obviously illegal, you aren't an accessory, and I'll take the full blame if it turns out to be illegal.
Most of all what I want is a promise that you won't intentionally disable my site unless I'm doing something illegal with it.
I believe you're probably wrong on this one. No current applied design could solve Go, or chess for that matter. But there's those really annoying quantum computers that can solve for every case at once that may, in the next 20 years, provide us for the "solution" to chess, and possibly Go.
I'd be willing to bet that I'm not wrong, but I do admit that my limited knowledge of quantum computers is not sufficient to prove it (without waiting 20 years).
Where's your AUP?
Aside from breaking copyrights, child porn is the only other deal-killer I can think of if you choose a provider who already sells bandwidth to extreme fetish porn sites.
Spam. You'd probably have a harder time finding a host for a spam site than any other, including child porn.
Oops, that might turn out to be a Gnirut Test, where the Human has to prove that he/she *is* indistinguishable from a computer !
I'd like to see a computer figure out how you came up with the term Gnirut test, then I'd be impressed.
in go, just like in chess, there are a limited number of moves
Just like in anything. English text has a limited number of sentences, but that doesn't mean a computer can speak it.
a computer could analyze every one of these billions(?) of sequences and choose one that lead to victory every time
Billions? No, you're way way off. You reach billions by the time you get up to the 5th move. Billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions is a little closer. To say that a computer could analyze them all is to severely stretch the meaning of "could". No computer currently in existence, or even conceivable in design could solve the problem in the time remaining before the sun burns out. I'm going to make the bold assertion that Go as a game will never be solved.
What I'd like to see is Kramnik, Deep Blue, and Fritz vs. Kasparov, Deep Blue, and Fritz. Basically, the grandmaster can use the computer to explore possibilities and make calculations, but ultimately the move decision is his.
It's been well known since, well, before I was born, that a computer could easily trounce a human in any game involving only tactics.
Would you call "Go" a game of tactics? It took me about a month to be able to beat GnuGo, and I can now beat it while giving it a horribly ridiculous number of handicaps. I could probably beat any computer program currently in existence, and given a couple years of practice, so could just about anyone.
They've even collected good evidence that the speed of light has changed over time...
Umm... Please back that statement up.
Its much easier to go to tower and spend 15 bucks on a cd than spend an hour of my time searching for a full cd.
Sure, but you probably make more than $15/hour. Most of the people downloading mp3s don't.
There's something special about taking a monorail to your favorite brothel.
Do subscribers see these advertisement-stories?
How the fuck is that offtopic? Asshole editors.
Michael says frankse says the BBC says NASA scientists think "these fragments of matter come from "retired" quasars, galaxies containing supermassive black holes that once shone with astonishing brilliance."
Slashdot editors don't have to pay a recycle tax for the articles they keep repeating over and over.
I can't wait. "We searched you because the computer told us to." Trust the Computer.
I can't wait. "We didn't implement this system because chrisd said it would be bad." Trust crisd.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=drubbing+&op=s tories
OK, that was offtopic, but why not fix the original one while you're at it?
Why are you posting if your sig supports T(H)GSB?
Isn't John Katz participating in the Totally Failed Slashdot Blackout (TFSB)?
How the fuck is that offtopic?
Why is your score 0?
I guess the solution is to stop communicating. See, T(H)GSB is a good idea after all!
What's the URL for Slashot?
Those participating in the blackout should not be moderating. Did you notice the quote of the day at the bottom: Are we on STRIKE yet?