On which country on the earth these are totally free actions?
I'd like to think every single one except China. But since I can't say that with 100% confidence, let's just say: The vast majority.
Every country have their own regulations to protect their own sensitivity to a matter. In US it's racism, in Europe it's mostly ethnical discrimation of genocide.
Bullshit! Nobody in US has ever been jailed for being a racist. Why do you think Ku Klux Klan still exists?`And whatever you mean by "ethnical discrimation of genocide", I can't even start to guess, as it makes no sense at all.
In China their worries are different due to their history.
Such as being an oppressive communist state, with only a farcical political facade that tries to imitate representative democracy.
Yes it is annoying to some. But that's the price of living whealty. That's the price of surviving with limited resources.
Make up your mind. Are they wealthy, or are they surviving on limited resources?
If anyone thinking wars, which created those worries, are due to greed of people,
I fail to see what you are getting at here
else our bodies won't store any energy, will it?
Now, I really fail to see any meaning at all. Please consider therapy.
I believe I have heard some story similar to this in the 1980s. So I guess either Nestle must have cleaned up their act by now, or (as is quite common) the claims were unsubstantiated. For some reason, some people love to hate multinational food companies (e.g. Nestle, McDonalds,...) Which pretty much means that whenever a story with a negative bias for them shows up in the news, it will never go away.
but I think we'd all agree that our immune systems are constantly fighting bacterial infections and viruses, and it's when our immune system isn't strong enough to fight something that it "wins," so to speak, right? This is the premise for homeopathic cancer treatments and such,
The immune system fights diseases => correct!
Homeopathic treatment of cancer is based on knowledge about the immune system => wrong!
Homeopathy is based on the delusion that water somehow "remembers" remedies it is mixed with, even when diluted so much that not even a single molecule of the original substance is left. As such, it is the most efficient demonstration of the efficiency of placebo in existence, as millions of people are willing to testify that it works.
You don't get addicted to C. It's hard to overdose on C.
You do get addicted to alcohol. It's not particularly hard to overdose on it either. Neither alcohol or Vitamin C helps cure diseases.
the liver has to treat alcohol, for example, as a toxin. The liver doesn't have to treat C as a toxin, because it isn't one.
The liver doesn't classify stuff as toxins or not. It just tries to metabolize substances the body doesn't need. Research shows that some alcohol is beneficial to the body (just as some Vitamin C is beneficial), so I fail to get your point.
But my point was, with a given [snip] those side-effects come with normal doses [snip]. If you take a normal dose of Tylenol for a long time, your liver starts to dislike you...
But a normal dose of Vitamin C, or whatever "natural" remedy you are raving about, does not reduce pain, lower fever, etc... Obviously, if the risk of the side-effects of Tylenol are worse than the symptoms of the disease you have, you should not take it. If you can come up with a medicine that cures everything, and has no side-effects, please do so. In the meantime, stop blaming the world for not living up to your ideals. Tylenol works for what it's designed for.
But with something like vitmins or minerals, those are things that the body NEEDS and that we are usually deficient in, so taking "normal" doses for extended periods of time (e.g., your whole life) has no adverse effects.
If you are deficient in vitamins and/or minerals, you get sick. Very few people in rich western countries are getting deficiency diseases like scurvy today. Thus there is no rationale for saying people are usually deficient in them.
Tylenol, however, is not a deficiency. I don't get sick because I am deficient in drugs, medication, etc. I don't get a cold because I haven't had enough. I get sick because my immune system was down, and quite possibly because I'm deficient in something that my body needs
Unlike what you seem to believe, people have always gotten sick. Even healthy people get sick. The millions who died from the black plague didn't get sick because their immune system was deficient. They got sick because the black plague was a new powerful disease that even the immune system of otherwise healthy people didn't know how to fight.
Also, you are probably eating more healthy today, than humans ever has throughout history (that is, unless you choose to live from coke, burgers, and french fries only). Blaming the modern agricultural system for producing unhealthy food is like blaming the auto industry for making cars so much slower than horses. Let me put this straight, unless you can prove otherwise, I'm 99.999999% that you are not suffering from a deficiency disease.
Your irrational fear of "being deficient" in certain nutrients, is just that; irrational fear. By eating a normal and varied diet, and exercising regularly, you will become far more healthy than by continuing to delude yourself that you need vitamin pills to survive.
So exactly how are you going to broadcast these signals? Either someone must give you a private key, or you must make a new one. If someone hands over their private key (because your paperwork is good enough), it's not secure (see CSS on DVD). If you must make a new one, GPS owners need to enter the public key by themselves, which doesn't work. Either way, you are fucked.
It [i]could[/i] work if public key encryption was used for authentication, and the messages were timestamped and geolocated to prevent replay attacks.
Uhm, either all GPS devices and all such public service transmitters would need the encryption code, which is not secure. Or, the process would rely on users actually typing in the public part of an authentication code for the area they visited, which would mean the system would never work because most users would find that a hassle.
Why would you have a "terrorist attack" code for a traffic warning system? Okay, so I can see how maybe they might close off streets for emergency personnel, but couldn't you just leave the code at that - "Roads Closed"? I mean, if you go telling drivers that there's a terrorist attack ahead of you, they're going to panic, freak out, and maybe get into a car wreck.
The emergency personnel is also driving by GPS. When they see a "roadblock" code, they try to find a different route. If they see a "terrorist attack" code, they know they are on the correct course.
The signs describe the original names that you need to get around. That means they will correspond to the letters written on a map, the address of the hotel given you by the travel agency, or the instructions you need to give to a local taxi driver. Even if some words do sound a bit foreign, they are more helpful than words that sound like they're from your home town, but nobody else understands.
...is why Microsoft wants a better barcode to put more data on DVDs. Doesn't DVDs already have space for 4.7GB? If so, I'm sure they could store some data on the disk itself, without inventing a new form of barcodes.
I really like the idea of putting barcodes on every street corner I would find this invauable while travelling in a city I don't know.
They already have these things called signs that show you the name of the street. It's possible to read these signs using no other equipment than your eyes. And unlike barcodes, you can even read them from your car, without having to stop, exit the car, and hold a barcode-scanner up to a wall. Also, signs are more fault tolerant, as the human eye is usually able to decode the meaning, even when the sign has been the object of vandalism. For people who want even greater versatility they have these things called map, compass, and even GPS.
Right because k increases linearly with weight but with the square of speed. Therefore a heavier bullet packs more energy than a fast one?
Yes, for exactly the same reason that 1kg feathers will have higher kinetic density when dropped from the top of Empire State Building, than 1kg iron will have when dropped from the same place.
For example, iirc, M60 rounds will penetrate tank armor at a close enough range, but that is because they are a) fast (carry a lot of energy) and b) tough (don't break apart on impact).
You are correct. You want different caracteristics for a bullet intended to pierce armor, than for a bullet intended to damage carbon-based multicellular lifeforms.
Device, or process. Specifically, a process of relaying a story having a unique plot. Not granted as yet, but it hasn't been rejected either.
Then again, the authors covered their asses, and included various variations of "information storage medium containing information of a story having...". I'm not sure process alone would have been patentable. But who am I to grok this legalese. I'm not a lawyer, and not even an American.
In a way, I really hope the patent is granted. Only when laymen are able to understand how ridiculous software patents are, something will be done with the patent system.
What would make the most damage to your body? A clean hole straight through from a bullet that survives the impact, or a huge gaping hole from a bullet that disintegrates?
...is, as you have concluded yourself, completely useless.
Basically, you should go for the system that is easiest for you to manage. All electronic locks (and all locks in general) are easy to break, if you want to. Quite surprisingly, the more expensive locks, are often easier to break (it can be done with a screwdriver instead of a crowbar (or if your doorframe is better: power tools). And if the lock is better than that, there are always windows, or even walls.
If what you need is security, you need more than one lock to keep the bad guys out. And remember that the people most likely to break in to a better-than-average secured building is either the owner or people hired by the owner (insurance fraud); or employees or people hired by employees (or ex-employees). Your job is to not make it worth the risk. A local security company can also help with alarm systems and routine inspections. And remember the rule above, everyone, including security personnel, cleaning personnel, and so on, constitutes "employees" from a security standpoint.
Software patents are written in obscure ways because they don't really exist. A software patent is always describing a system consisting of a computer and software, as only devices are patentable. And they have to make it sound complex, otherwise there would be nothing to patent. There are probably other workarounds the lawyers have to consider to make software patents possible. The legalese is there for a reason, it's because software patents aren't valid by law, only by some court decision made a long time ago, and every lawyer has to make their patent application look like that one!
You can't argue with common sense against stuff like this. That's why lawyers are paid to do the job for you.
Though it is prohibitively expensive no doubt, I wonder how it would fare as a bullet?
Badly. Bullets should be (a) heavy, and (b) tear apart easily. That way they (a) contain lots of kinetic energy, and (b) rips the target to pieces.
Military ammo usually lacks quality (b) because it's better to disable an enemy soldier than to kill him, both for the psychological effect at the enemy, who has to watch him suffer; and because his buddies will be busy rescuing him instead of fighting. Oh, and because the Geneva convention says so, they seem to think it's somehow more "humane" to cripple soldiers than to kill them.
If you have trouble finding explanations for how linux works, it's quite remarkable that you are able to grok how windows works AND being completely unable to use google. In fact, I don't believe you. If you had said you didn't want to learn something new, because you already had invested a lot of time in windows, I'd believe you. But that you can't find more about linux on teh Intarweb is far beyond disbelief. Either you must have absorbed your windows knowledge through osmosis or some other process not involving intelligence; or you have recently suffered a stroke or something that damaged your brains ability to work; or you are simply a troll. My money is on the latter. Because stuff to learn about linux is just a click away.
There IS no buzz for Linux outside of technologists BECAUSE there has been no Marketing to speak of.
Wrong. There is not buzz for linux outside of technologists, because the benefits linux brings, are only recognizable to technologists. The average user isn't going to care about open source unless he understands how to program. The average user isn't going to care about better technical solutions, unless they are glossed over by a facade as pretty as windows. And the average user sure as hell won't accept an OS so stupidly useless that it doesn't even work with the plugin that the webpage told you that you needed to download. What kind of "better" is that?
Sure, given enough time, linux, or at least open source, is going to win. There is no other logical progression from here. But that could take a long time. Currently linux is popular among many programming students. Earlier it was popular mainly among unix hackers. It is slowly spreading "downwards". Soon it will be popular with power users. Eventually normal users will get it too. In the meantime, linux will need to improve it's usability.
I'd say most people outside of the small fraternity of computer security folk would really prefer the insecure product, until its consequences hit them.
What consequences? You talk like something gruesome is going to happen to anyone that loses data. But for most of us, it's just an inconvenience. Old budgets and technical stuff with zero interest for anyone outside the project. If someone finds it, he's probably going to delete it and fill it up with mp3's instead.
Besides, relying on encryption, because you're constantly walking around losing USB-thumbsticks with confidential data on it, is not the solution. If you are physically losing confidential storage media, you should work on physical security first. Don't lose it!
Security must be balanced. Just because it's possible to imagine "perfect" encryption on a thumbdrive, doesn't mean it makes much sense. There are other factors, such as convenience, compatibility with different computing platforms, and so on, to consider. Besides, you should always plan for what to do if the data is lost. Encryption won't protect against social engineering, and there might be spies inside your company too. If your data is so important that you can't afford to lose it, you shouldn't carry it on a thumbstick in the first place.
(But seriously, I would be more surprised to see someone come back from the dead. How would you do that? Your body is a rotting corpse, or even probably cremated... Your brain-functions are dead too. You're dead!)
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I'd like to think every single one except China. But since I can't say that with 100% confidence, let's just say: The vast majority.
Bullshit! Nobody in US has ever been jailed for being a racist. Why do you think Ku Klux Klan still exists?`And whatever you mean by "ethnical discrimation of genocide", I can't even start to guess, as it makes no sense at all.
Such as being an oppressive communist state, with only a farcical political facade that tries to imitate representative democracy.
Make up your mind. Are they wealthy, or are they surviving on limited resources?
I fail to see what you are getting at here
Now, I really fail to see any meaning at all. Please consider therapy.
Hey watch the bloodsugar! No wonder you've got diabetes!
I believe I have heard some story similar to this in the 1980s. So I guess either Nestle must have cleaned up their act by now, or (as is quite common) the claims were unsubstantiated. For some reason, some people love to hate multinational food companies (e.g. Nestle, McDonalds, ...) Which pretty much means that whenever a story with a negative bias for them shows up in the news, it will never go away.
Don't count on it. Most of these pills contain sugar, so you could end up fat.
The immune system fights diseases => correct!
Homeopathic treatment of cancer is based on knowledge about the immune system => wrong!
Homeopathy is based on the delusion that water somehow "remembers" remedies it is mixed with, even when diluted so much that not even a single molecule of the original substance is left. As such, it is the most efficient demonstration of the efficiency of placebo in existence, as millions of people are willing to testify that it works.
You do get addicted to alcohol. It's not particularly hard to overdose on it either. Neither alcohol or Vitamin C helps cure diseases.
The liver doesn't classify stuff as toxins or not. It just tries to metabolize substances the body doesn't need. Research shows that some alcohol is beneficial to the body (just as some Vitamin C is beneficial), so I fail to get your point.
But a normal dose of Vitamin C, or whatever "natural" remedy you are raving about, does not reduce pain, lower fever, etc... Obviously, if the risk of the side-effects of Tylenol are worse than the symptoms of the disease you have, you should not take it. If you can come up with a medicine that cures everything, and has no side-effects, please do so. In the meantime, stop blaming the world for not living up to your ideals. Tylenol works for what it's designed for.
If you are deficient in vitamins and/or minerals, you get sick. Very few people in rich western countries are getting deficiency diseases like scurvy today. Thus there is no rationale for saying people are usually deficient in them.
Unlike what you seem to believe, people have always gotten sick. Even healthy people get sick. The millions who died from the black plague didn't get sick because their immune system was deficient. They got sick because the black plague was a new powerful disease that even the immune system of otherwise healthy people didn't know how to fight.
Also, you are probably eating more healthy today, than humans ever has throughout history (that is, unless you choose to live from coke, burgers, and french fries only). Blaming the modern agricultural system for producing unhealthy food is like blaming the auto industry for making cars so much slower than horses. Let me put this straight, unless you can prove otherwise, I'm 99.999999% that you are not suffering from a deficiency disease.
Your irrational fear of "being deficient" in certain nutrients, is just that; irrational fear. By eating a normal and varied diet, and exercising regularly, you will become far more healthy than by continuing to delude yourself that you need vitamin pills to survive.
So exactly how are you going to broadcast these signals? Either someone must give you a private key, or you must make a new one. If someone hands over their private key (because your paperwork is good enough), it's not secure (see CSS on DVD). If you must make a new one, GPS owners need to enter the public key by themselves, which doesn't work. Either way, you are fucked.
Uhm, either all GPS devices and all such public service transmitters would need the encryption code, which is not secure. Or, the process would rely on users actually typing in the public part of an authentication code for the area they visited, which would mean the system would never work because most users would find that a hassle.
The emergency personnel is also driving by GPS. When they see a "roadblock" code, they try to find a different route. If they see a "terrorist attack" code, they know they are on the correct course.
Do you have any other questions?
The signs describe the original names that you need to get around. That means they will correspond to the letters written on a map, the address of the hotel given you by the travel agency, or the instructions you need to give to a local taxi driver. Even if some words do sound a bit foreign, they are more helpful than words that sound like they're from your home town, but nobody else understands.
...is why Microsoft wants a better barcode to put more data on DVDs. Doesn't DVDs already have space for 4.7GB? If so, I'm sure they could store some data on the disk itself, without inventing a new form of barcodes.
Only old people watch TV. Most young consumers are able to click on a link they find online.
They already have these things called signs that show you the name of the street. It's possible to read these signs using no other equipment than your eyes. And unlike barcodes, you can even read them from your car, without having to stop, exit the car, and hold a barcode-scanner up to a wall. Also, signs are more fault tolerant, as the human eye is usually able to decode the meaning, even when the sign has been the object of vandalism. For people who want even greater versatility they have these things called map, compass, and even GPS.
Yes, for exactly the same reason that 1kg feathers will have higher kinetic density when dropped from the top of Empire State Building, than 1kg iron will have when dropped from the same place.
You are correct. You want different caracteristics for a bullet intended to pierce armor, than for a bullet intended to damage carbon-based multicellular lifeforms.
Then again, the authors covered their asses, and included various variations of "information storage medium containing information of a story having...". I'm not sure process alone would have been patentable. But who am I to grok this legalese. I'm not a lawyer, and not even an American.
In a way, I really hope the patent is granted. Only when laymen are able to understand how ridiculous software patents are, something will be done with the patent system.
What would make the most damage to your body? A clean hole straight through from a bullet that survives the impact, or a huge gaping hole from a bullet that disintegrates?
...is, as you have concluded yourself, completely useless.
Basically, you should go for the system that is easiest for you to manage. All electronic locks (and all locks in general) are easy to break, if you want to. Quite surprisingly, the more expensive locks, are often easier to break (it can be done with a screwdriver instead of a crowbar (or if your doorframe is better: power tools). And if the lock is better than that, there are always windows, or even walls.
If what you need is security, you need more than one lock to keep the bad guys out. And remember that the people most likely to break in to a better-than-average secured building is either the owner or people hired by the owner (insurance fraud); or employees or people hired by employees (or ex-employees). Your job is to not make it worth the risk. A local security company can also help with alarm systems and routine inspections. And remember the rule above, everyone, including security personnel, cleaning personnel, and so on, constitutes "employees" from a security standpoint.
Software patents are written in obscure ways because they don't really exist. A software patent is always describing a system consisting of a computer and software, as only devices are patentable. And they have to make it sound complex, otherwise there would be nothing to patent. There are probably other workarounds the lawyers have to consider to make software patents possible. The legalese is there for a reason, it's because software patents aren't valid by law, only by some court decision made a long time ago, and every lawyer has to make their patent application look like that one!
You can't argue with common sense against stuff like this. That's why lawyers are paid to do the job for you.
Of course. Software patents are evil! Or do you really think it's more important to smack microsoft than to fight for principles?
Badly. Bullets should be (a) heavy, and (b) tear apart easily. That way they (a) contain lots of kinetic energy, and (b) rips the target to pieces.
Military ammo usually lacks quality (b) because it's better to disable an enemy soldier than to kill him, both for the psychological effect at the enemy, who has to watch him suffer; and because his buddies will be busy rescuing him instead of fighting. Oh, and because the Geneva convention says so, they seem to think it's somehow more "humane" to cripple soldiers than to kill them.
If you have trouble finding explanations for how linux works, it's quite remarkable that you are able to grok how windows works AND being completely unable to use google. In fact, I don't believe you. If you had said you didn't want to learn something new, because you already had invested a lot of time in windows, I'd believe you. But that you can't find more about linux on teh Intarweb is far beyond disbelief. Either you must have absorbed your windows knowledge through osmosis or some other process not involving intelligence; or you have recently suffered a stroke or something that damaged your brains ability to work; or you are simply a troll. My money is on the latter. Because stuff to learn about linux is just a click away.
Wrong. There is not buzz for linux outside of technologists, because the benefits linux brings, are only recognizable to technologists. The average user isn't going to care about open source unless he understands how to program. The average user isn't going to care about better technical solutions, unless they are glossed over by a facade as pretty as windows. And the average user sure as hell won't accept an OS so stupidly useless that it doesn't even work with the plugin that the webpage told you that you needed to download. What kind of "better" is that?
Sure, given enough time, linux, or at least open source, is going to win. There is no other logical progression from here. But that could take a long time. Currently linux is popular among many programming students. Earlier it was popular mainly among unix hackers. It is slowly spreading "downwards". Soon it will be popular with power users. Eventually normal users will get it too. In the meantime, linux will need to improve it's usability.
What consequences? You talk like something gruesome is going to happen to anyone that loses data. But for most of us, it's just an inconvenience. Old budgets and technical stuff with zero interest for anyone outside the project. If someone finds it, he's probably going to delete it and fill it up with mp3's instead.
Besides, relying on encryption, because you're constantly walking around losing USB-thumbsticks with confidential data on it, is not the solution. If you are physically losing confidential storage media, you should work on physical security first. Don't lose it!
Security must be balanced. Just because it's possible to imagine "perfect" encryption on a thumbdrive, doesn't mean it makes much sense. There are other factors, such as convenience, compatibility with different computing platforms, and so on, to consider. Besides, you should always plan for what to do if the data is lost. Encryption won't protect against social engineering, and there might be spies inside your company too. If your data is so important that you can't afford to lose it, you shouldn't carry it on a thumbstick in the first place.
You mean it's God himself, and not St. Peter?
(But seriously, I would be more surprised to see someone come back from the dead. How would you do that? Your body is a rotting corpse, or even probably cremated... Your brain-functions are dead too. You're dead!)
Personally I would prefer an explanation using marshmallow fishing rods and ringing alarm bells.