Maybe he just started messing with the unstable stuff in the last few weeks he was there?
Yes, it's likely that they could just cart the explosives out pound by pound and dispose of it normally. But they don't have perfect knowledge and think it's too risky.
It's not security theater because it isn't security. It's just bomb disposal, which you clearly know more about then all their exports. It's the opposite of security theater since force evacuating people from their houses and burning down a house isn't going make people feel more secure, it's going to make them feel less secure.
Sure burning down the house isn't nice for the owners, then again it's California the various chemicals already there probably mean the site has to cleansed with lava before dogs are allowed near it anyway.
It's a rental, it's not uncommon for the landlord to have a gardner look after the outside since tenants tend to not give a shit about keeping the plants alive.
You could trigger a trip wire and blow the whole thing up with you inside it (the guy had filled his house with junk and explosives, why not some booby traps).
It takes much longer, in order not to be sued into oblivion when something does go wrong you now need to evacuate the neighbourhood for weeks.
When something does catch fire accidentally you know have a chemical fire in gale force winds blowing towards the nearest population center since it's blind luck what the weather is like.
No his logic is that 30 years is long enough for society to grant them protection for their game. They've had a long enough run with it and it's well past time for pacman to enter into the public domain.
Of course copyright hasn't been that short since 1830...
The guy can just file a counter notice and google has to put it back (and of the guy will then be sued into oblivion since it's a blatant copy and he refers to the main character as "pacman" for the Namco lawyers to slam dunk with).
Google's just doing what they are supposed to do. If you don't like that than find some Congress critters you can afford to bribe and have the law changed.
They are constrainted by the paths and when they have to make a choice they pick the one that gives the shortest straight line distance to their destination.
In other words they are retarded, which is good because there are four of them and they'd box the player in in about 10 seconds if they weren't.
And along with those benefits you also get the benefit that the subscription based software on the computer can be have its subscription setup to renew automitically against the card. That way your anti-virus won't unexpectedly expire.
If loud advertisements are so bad then people won't watch them and won't buy the products advertised in them. The television stations and product producers that use them will hence go out of business due to lack of sales.
Sure they mightn't ever work out why they went out of business and try a bunch of random things before they do. But the television stations and product producers left are the ones that don't use loud advertisement, so the end result is the same.
The bright orange rodents don't need to be told that their color is what is getting them eaten. They don't change their color - they all die leaving the ones that are better camoflaged.
That this hasn't happened likely means people don't actually care that much about loud advertisement. Sure they care enough to complain to the government, but not enough to not watch the show.
By not watching television stations that show loud commercials. Stations that show loud commercials will thus have smaller audiences than those that do not and hence be more protifable.
Or by not buying products advertised with loud commercials.
The whole idea of the "invisible hand" is that you don't need to inform them of why you aren't buying their product. Just as the Hawk doesn't have to tell the well camuflaged rodents why it eats them less than the bright orange ones. They will "get the message" - via the ones doing the "bad" thing going out of business/being eaten.
If they do that then they aren't just routers, and the non-router part is doing the DNSing and DHCPing.
ISPs intercepting DNS is soemthing they could use a router to do, but the router is still not doing any DNS it's just routing packets that happen to be related to DNS.
There was no qualifier of "unelectable as President of the United States", just plain unelectable. Which is a strange thing to call someone who has been elected to Congress 11 times.
For President he is likely unelectable, he's too conservative (in the traditional sense, not what passes for conservative these days). He'll also be 77 in 2012, so in his 80s during his first term if elected then.
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The guy knows where he put stuff.
The guy knows what the stuff is.
Maybe he just started messing with the unstable stuff in the last few weeks he was there?
Yes, it's likely that they could just cart the explosives out pound by pound and dispose of it normally. But they don't have perfect knowledge and think it's too risky.
It's not security theater because it isn't security. It's just bomb disposal, which you clearly know more about then all their exports. It's the opposite of security theater since force evacuating people from their houses and burning down a house isn't going make people feel more secure, it's going to make them feel less secure.
Sure burning down the house isn't nice for the owners, then again it's California the various chemicals already there probably mean the site has to cleansed with lava before dogs are allowed near it anyway.
It's California, having a house that explodes due to vibrations would be exciting to say the least.
It's a rental, it's not uncommon for the landlord to have a gardner look after the outside since tenants tend to not give a shit about keeping the plants alive.
because things can blow up when you pick them up.
You could trigger a trip wire and blow the whole thing up with you inside it (the guy had filled his house with junk and explosives, why not some booby traps).
It takes much longer, in order not to be sued into oblivion when something does go wrong you now need to evacuate the neighbourhood for weeks.
When something does catch fire accidentally you know have a chemical fire in gale force winds blowing towards the nearest population center since it's blind luck what the weather is like.
Plus it's much less fun.
The owner should just count his lucky stars that they don't charge him for the costs involved in burning it down and cleaning it up.
"AI appears more stupid and easier to foil today" doesn't have anything to do with minimalism, and all to do with the non-stupidity of the AI.
got a published article with a lot of citations in a high impact factor journal.
I'm sure he gives a shit what you think about it.
Because they advertised that you could both play games and run Linux on it. And some foolish people wanted to actually do both.
No his logic is that 30 years is long enough for society to grant them protection for their game. They've had a long enough run with it and it's well past time for pacman to enter into the public domain.
Of course copyright hasn't been that short since 1830...
You haven't seen an article about some company not providing the source of a GPLed code they modified and put in their router/media player/etc?
The guy can just file a counter notice and google has to put it back (and of the guy will then be sued into oblivion since it's a blatant copy and he refers to the main character as "pacman" for the Namco lawyers to slam dunk with).
Google's just doing what they are supposed to do. If you don't like that than find some Congress critters you can afford to bribe and have the law changed.
"better" not "the same".
out of a luddite village, hand them a 5 year old cell phone that can take video and they'll make a better video than that crap in 7.3 seconds.
More sophisticated?
They are constrainted by the paths and when they have to make a choice they pick the one that gives the shortest straight line distance to their destination.
In other words they are retarded, which is good because there are four of them and they'd box the player in in about 10 seconds if they weren't.
And along with those benefits you also get the benefit that the subscription based software on the computer can be have its subscription setup to renew automitically against the card. That way your anti-virus won't unexpectedly expire.
A few thousand years (ok tens of thousand probably) should suffice. Have some patience.
It doesn't matter if they don't know the reason.
If loud advertisements are so bad then people won't watch them and won't buy the products advertised in them. The television stations and product producers that use them will hence go out of business due to lack of sales.
Sure they mightn't ever work out why they went out of business and try a bunch of random things before they do. But the television stations and product producers left are the ones that don't use loud advertisement, so the end result is the same.
The bright orange rodents don't need to be told that their color is what is getting them eaten. They don't change their color - they all die leaving the ones that are better camoflaged.
That this hasn't happened likely means people don't actually care that much about loud advertisement. Sure they care enough to complain to the government, but not enough to not watch the show.
By not watching television stations that show loud commercials. Stations that show loud commercials will thus have smaller audiences than those that do not and hence be more protifable.
Or by not buying products advertised with loud commercials.
The whole idea of the "invisible hand" is that you don't need to inform them of why you aren't buying their product. Just as the Hawk doesn't have to tell the well camuflaged rodents why it eats them less than the bright orange ones. They will "get the message" - via the ones doing the "bad" thing going out of business/being eaten.
Of course you need a free market to start with.
Just use some of the power to run a really big air conditioner!
You do know where the Sahara is, right?
And where those "mozzie loony" terrorists have there camps and influence, right?
None of the things they do with DNS would cause anything like this to be their "worst nightmare".
Because generating PGP signatures without the private key is so trivial.
If they do that then they aren't just routers, and the non-router part is doing the DNSing and DHCPing.
ISPs intercepting DNS is soemthing they could use a router to do, but the router is still not doing any DNS it's just routing packets that happen to be related to DNS.
On a tangent, how is Houston not a major urban center, and hence exactly the same demographic as at least one of them :)
There was no qualifier of "unelectable as President of the United States", just plain unelectable. Which is a strange thing to call someone who has been elected to Congress 11 times.
For President he is likely unelectable, he's too conservative (in the traditional sense, not what passes for conservative these days). He'll also be 77 in 2012, so in his 80s during his first term if elected then.