Being helpful is stupid. Unless you actually do know every law whose jurisdiction applies and that you have not broken any of them - which seems rather unlikely.
All you can do is incriminate yourself.
And of course some cops aren't beyond just making shit up so reducing the time spent with them is good in itself.
And yes it would be nice to live in a society in which helping the police made sense, but we don't.
My wallet currently contains about $700 in cash (which I admit is more than usual) and a number of plastic cards that can be used to buy even more expensive things with just a signature that nobody looks at.
You really think I'm going to keep my damn slashdot password more secure than those things?
The baby doesn't figure it out that's why it's such a damn struggle for some mothers. If the baby did then the mother wouldn't have to do anything but shove her breast near its mouth.
And yet there's thousands of books about breast feeding. People take classes on it. People struggle with it because the baby won't latch on properly. Heck people make a living as a "lactation consultant".
Of course they aren't enough. But the students are going to pay for them somehow. They could stick 400 copies in the library instead of 4 but that'd be an additional cost to recover on the fees anyway so the students still pay for it.
And I didn't use a new edition of the book every semester. I used what I thought was the best book for the material to be covered and looked to see if there was a better one every few years - it'd need to be siginificantly better to make it worthwhile changing though that level of improvement required decreased with each passing year.
But in a "sword" fight in which you and your opponent both have some ability to see into the future surely swordplay might be a little different - you aren't trying to hit him you are simply getting him to do an action other than than the one that will lead to an inevitable chain of actions and him hitting you 2 minutes later?
Wake me when it can detect an opening in the opponent's defense and strike at it.
I suggest you don't bother reading slashdot. If a technology has to be at that level beefore you want to even hear about it then maybe you should get your tech news from the History Chanel?
You should replace then with "Bubba". He's 6'6" and just walks around in your house, ready to put out any fire that may start. You get used him standing in the corner of the bathroom while you shower pretty quick.
You leave fingerprints and DNA behind and hence a big database of them is useful for the police to have in solving crimes. Of course you don't want your information in there because false positives happen at the very least.
But an Iris scan is really only useful in finding the a database match for the person standing in front of you. Good for ID purposes, not that useful for the police - they'd much rather have your fingerprints or DNA so they can compare it with the stuff they find at crime scenes.
All I said was "Whether they meet their stated goals or not is irrelevant to whether they have to in every case in order to do so."
How exactly is that different from "The claim that copy protection laws aren't meeting their goals is different than the claim that the goal must be met in each instance for it to be met generally."?
The sure seem to be saying the exact same thing to me.
So how is the sentence I said a strawman argument, exactly?
Given I haven't made a claim about copy protection laws meeting their goals one way or the other I can't see how I could be making a strawman argument about that...
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I'm google is terrified of you blocking them and will now pass all their interfaces changes and feature changes to you for approval.
Which is completely irrelevant to the guys running the malware itself updating their proxy to filter the warning message out.
The government pays the interest on government bonds, so investing government money in government bonds would be a remarkably pointless exercise.
Being helpful is stupid. Unless you actually do know every law whose jurisdiction applies and that you have not broken any of them - which seems rather unlikely.
All you can do is incriminate yourself.
And of course some cops aren't beyond just making shit up so reducing the time spent with them is good in itself.
And yes it would be nice to live in a society in which helping the police made sense, but we don't.
Maybe he has a better handle on probability than you?
Or a lower value on other people.
Clearly you have super powers. Congratulations. Pitty you use them for such useless crap.
The rest of can't because google says it is incompatible and they're "working" on it.
My wallet currently contains about $700 in cash (which I admit is more than usual) and a number of plastic cards that can be used to buy even more expensive things with just a signature that nobody looks at.
You really think I'm going to keep my damn slashdot password more secure than those things?
No.
The baby doesn't figure it out that's why it's such a damn struggle for some mothers. If the baby did then the mother wouldn't have to do anything but shove her breast near its mouth.
And yet there's thousands of books about breast feeding. People take classes on it. People struggle with it because the baby won't latch on properly. Heck people make a living as a "lactation consultant".
So nothing is intuitive then?
Of course they aren't enough. But the students are going to pay for them somehow. They could stick 400 copies in the library instead of 4 but that'd be an additional cost to recover on the fees anyway so the students still pay for it.
And I didn't use a new edition of the book every semester. I used what I thought was the best book for the material to be covered and looked to see if there was a better one every few years - it'd need to be siginificantly better to make it worthwhile changing though that level of improvement required decreased with each passing year.
You'll likely have more luck with the History Channel, unless perfumes are what you are interested in.
University libraries likely do, when I taught we put a few copies of the text for the class into the reserve.
Why shouldn't amazon offer an additional service to students?
the fact that the used toy lightsabers didn't give that away?
But in a "sword" fight in which you and your opponent both have some ability to see into the future surely swordplay might be a little different - you aren't trying to hit him you are simply getting him to do an action other than than the one that will lead to an inevitable chain of actions and him hitting you 2 minutes later?
I suggest you don't bother reading slashdot. If a technology has to be at that level beefore you want to even hear about it then maybe you should get your tech news from the History Chanel?
You should replace then with "Bubba". He's 6'6" and just walks around in your house, ready to put out any fire that may start. You get used him standing in the corner of the bathroom while you shower pretty quick.
Do you live in Libya?
I flew to the US the other day, no pat down. Heck I didn't have to take my shoes off when going through the security scan checkpoint.
The rest (well some parts of it) of the world is signigicantly less retarded than the US on such matters.
You do that then. The rest of us aren't a majority in Congress all by ourselves.
Why?
It doesn't stop snooping on the traffic. It doesn't stop someone who knows what a MAC address is from connecting.
All it seems to do is make it more difficult to connect a new machine on the wifi when friends visit or you buy a new laptop.
Because paypal lies to collect interest for as long as possible, which given interests rates are close to 0% is fair enough?
Yes, it's much much better than a game. It's a toy.
Monopoly versus lego.
Everybody is allowed to lie to you with impunity.
Well unless you are a cop.
You leave fingerprints and DNA behind and hence a big database of them is useful for the police to have in solving crimes. Of course you don't want your information in there because false positives happen at the very least.
But an Iris scan is really only useful in finding the a database match for the person standing in front of you. Good for ID purposes, not that useful for the police - they'd much rather have your fingerprints or DNA so they can compare it with the stuff they find at crime scenes.
All I said was "Whether they meet their stated goals or not is irrelevant to whether they have to in every case in order to do so."
How exactly is that different from "The claim that copy protection laws aren't meeting their goals is different than the claim that the goal must be met in each instance for it to be met generally."?
The sure seem to be saying the exact same thing to me.
So how is the sentence I said a strawman argument, exactly?
Given I haven't made a claim about copy protection laws meeting their goals one way or the other I can't see how I could be making a strawman argument about that...
No I'm the real thing, not a model.