The interviewee says that uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal, not that they aren't aware of the legal ramifications or that education about the law would suddenly change everything.
Not necessarily. Many high explosives are not particularly sensitive to heat alone, and will burn, but not explode, without some sort of shockwave. TFA mentions that he has HMTD, PETN, and ETN. PETN shouldn't explode under that heat, and if ETN is all that similar (I'm not a chemist) it shouldn't, either. The HMTD will explode, but TFA doesn't say how much he has, and if was only using it to make detonators, then it shouldn't be a major problem.
As far as chemicals go, it's probably fine, except for the toxic smoke. Of course I have no idea if a fire would set off his detonators, if he still has armed explosives in there.
Even if he isn't, the failure is on the journal for not properly reviewing the paper. If it's purportedly a mathematical paper (as in, the title starts with, "A Mathematical Model for....") then perhaps a mathematician should look at it.
There is a great short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," wherein the titular character sets out of to write Don Quixote. The fact that Don Quixote was written by Miguel de Cervantes centuries ago is irrelevant. Pierre Menard does not try to copy Cervantes' work, and in fact he avoids reading it to make sure that it does not affect his own authorship. Instead, Menard goes out and makes it so that his combined life experiences inspire him to write a creative work, pulled out of his own imagination, that just so happens to conform, word-for-word, to the original text of Don Quixote. He is not the first to write it, but neither is he plagiarizing. He completes his masterpiece shortly before his death, and it goes largely unnoticed....
The story goes into a critical review of the piece and claims that due to the author's particular circumstances, it is artistically superior to the original Don Quixote.
I'm a college student. Not even a Distinguished Professor. Or even a working programmer. Occasionally, I'll meet a recent business grad who will discover that I know how to write code, and say, "I have this great idea, I think there's a market for it, we should totally do that."
Well, they know I'm cheap, so at least part of the scheme works for them.
Mostly it involves them talking up a vague notion, which is somehow the Next Big Thing. "It's like eBay! Except it's on your iPhone! And I know eBay already has an iPhone app, but they haven't been successful with it and I will be!" And then it involves me doing all the work and them taking their big cut for the "inspiration." It's fairly easy to come up with an idea that's "like X for your Y." And so I smile and nod and discuss it a bit and then go on my merry way.
If said recent business grad were really able to present me with an idea that really were All That and a Bag of Chips, and could be done by one college student with a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew, I'm not sure what I'd need them for. If I could implement it, I would probably do so and then, if it turned out to really be successful, hire someone else to do the "businessy stuff." Why, I mean, once you've got a product, all there is to do is market it, right?
Fortunately, our friend doesn't need to worry about me stealing his ideas and cutting him out of the picture, because I don't think his ideas are all that hot to begin with.
The universe is a lie; all truth is fiction, everything you know is wrong. We believe that we are humans, that the world around us exists, but perhaps it is just God playing a cruel prank on us, making us believe in reality.
That being said, it's pretty easy to compare public keys and checksums, and somewhere on the Internet someone will do their homework to determine that misinformation is being distributed. And they'll tell people and sites like Slashdot will report on it, and we can easily see what changes have been made.
Your facts have gotten in the way of my opinions. I am therefore calling upon my deity, Ithykarogle, to smite you with his mighty vuvuzela. You may say that this deity does not exist, and that a vuvuzela is a flimsy plastic toy, but again, my opinions are stronger than your facts.
On the other hand, if it does work, then the people that they'll end up hiring are incurious, easily bullied, and probably very dumb. Or they're good liars. Seriously, I wouldn't want to hire anyone for whom the leaked cables were relevant to their intended career, and who didn't read them.
You may want to brush up on your history. The "wall of separation" idea was first articulated by Jefferson with regard to the First Amendment; it was incorporated to apply to the states (vis-a-vis the 14th Amendment) in Hugo Black's majority opinion in Everson v. Board of Education (which, ironically, ruled in favor of the church), and it's been a guiding principle ever since.
But if you want to talk about actual mythology....
No, we're not going to see what we saw with Wintel because, AFAIK, there are no third-party native apps for Android phones. Microsoft could have ported Windows to a MIPS architecture (for instance), but why would they? Windows developers were/are distributing native code that runs on x86 chips: they'd have to at the very least recompile their application to run on Windows MIPS. Users wouldn't understand the issue, and it would cannibalize the platform.
On the other hand, if Android apps run on a VM, then it doesn't matter if you've got an ARM architecture, an x86 architecture, a Power architecture...the bytecode should be the same. So even if Android were to completely dominate the smartphone market, the chip manufacturers really shouldn't rest on their laurels, because they can be replaced much more easily. Linux already runs on it...
No, it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory to not believe in a conspiracy. Unless that were the conspiracy. My question is, who is behind this conspiracy to make us believe that there's a conspiracy? Clearly they're doing it to draw attention away from the truth of their non-conspiracy. Perhaps this GM bailout could have absolutely nothing to do with the Illuminati and the Freemasons. Maybe the Volt isn't a coverup for the Kennedy assassination. Once you go down the rabbit hole...you'll probably find rabbits.
I don't see why they need to "defend their beliefs." They have them. Others disagree. They put on a campaign, get some controversial press coverage, the cycle continues. The converted already flock to them (some of them anyway---I've known plenty of vegans who were turned off by their tactics), the others don't.
So why bother with it, when you could be doing real good (by their standard of goodness) with a focus on action (say, addressing the problems in their shelters) rather than activism?
I lived on a small subsistence farm in Honduras for a while, and let me tell you, after a week of living with chickens and cows and turkeys and pigs, believe me, I would have no problem slicing their necks.
You put anyone on a farm, and they will get over whatever urban squeamishness they had real quick.
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Man, where did my mod points go?
Destroying students' final exam grades since 1991.
Seriously, I know they're releasing it now to get big Christmas money, but that alone makes me really glad I don't play that game any more.
As opposed to saying "don't see what they're doing as immoral."
The interviewee says that uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal, not that they aren't aware of the legal ramifications or that education about the law would suddenly change everything.
inevitable explosion
Not necessarily. Many high explosives are not particularly sensitive to heat alone, and will burn, but not explode, without some sort of shockwave. TFA mentions that he has HMTD, PETN, and ETN. PETN shouldn't explode under that heat, and if ETN is all that similar (I'm not a chemist) it shouldn't, either. The HMTD will explode, but TFA doesn't say how much he has, and if was only using it to make detonators, then it shouldn't be a major problem.
As far as chemicals go, it's probably fine, except for the toxic smoke. Of course I have no idea if a fire would set off his detonators, if he still has armed explosives in there.
Even if he isn't, the failure is on the journal for not properly reviewing the paper. If it's purportedly a mathematical paper (as in, the title starts with, "A Mathematical Model for....") then perhaps a mathematician should look at it.
There is a great short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," wherein the titular character sets out of to write Don Quixote. The fact that Don Quixote was written by Miguel de Cervantes centuries ago is irrelevant. Pierre Menard does not try to copy Cervantes' work, and in fact he avoids reading it to make sure that it does not affect his own authorship. Instead, Menard goes out and makes it so that his combined life experiences inspire him to write a creative work, pulled out of his own imagination, that just so happens to conform, word-for-word, to the original text of Don Quixote. He is not the first to write it, but neither is he plagiarizing. He completes his masterpiece shortly before his death, and it goes largely unnoticed....
The story goes into a critical review of the piece and claims that due to the author's particular circumstances, it is artistically superior to the original Don Quixote.
This reminds me of that.
Not only that, but the mathematical technique he describes is centuries old!
I'm a college student. Not even a Distinguished Professor. Or even a working programmer. Occasionally, I'll meet a recent business grad who will discover that I know how to write code, and say, "I have this great idea, I think there's a market for it, we should totally do that."
Well, they know I'm cheap, so at least part of the scheme works for them.
Mostly it involves them talking up a vague notion, which is somehow the Next Big Thing. "It's like eBay! Except it's on your iPhone! And I know eBay already has an iPhone app, but they haven't been successful with it and I will be!" And then it involves me doing all the work and them taking their big cut for the "inspiration." It's fairly easy to come up with an idea that's "like X for your Y." And so I smile and nod and discuss it a bit and then go on my merry way.
If said recent business grad were really able to present me with an idea that really were All That and a Bag of Chips, and could be done by one college student with a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew, I'm not sure what I'd need them for. If I could implement it, I would probably do so and then, if it turned out to really be successful, hire someone else to do the "businessy stuff." Why, I mean, once you've got a product, all there is to do is market it, right?
Fortunately, our friend doesn't need to worry about me stealing his ideas and cutting him out of the picture, because I don't think his ideas are all that hot to begin with.
Dammit, a Bohemian is someone from Bohemia, not these damn dirty hipsters!
Caucasian means someone from the Caucuses, not white people in general. You are not Caucasian, you German-Irish poseur!
Samaritans are a religious group, not a bunch of Christians who do charity.
A faggot is a bundle of sticks---I don't understand why these people think it's an epithet for gay people. You're doing it wrong!
What I'm wondering is why we spend so much time learning things in school. The curriculum is obviously flawed, because otherwise we'd already know it.
Males tend to be more tech-savvy.
Oh, before you mod me flamebait, correlation != causation.
The universe is a lie; all truth is fiction, everything you know is wrong. We believe that we are humans, that the world around us exists, but perhaps it is just God playing a cruel prank on us, making us believe in reality.
That being said, it's pretty easy to compare public keys and checksums, and somewhere on the Internet someone will do their homework to determine that misinformation is being distributed. And they'll tell people and sites like Slashdot will report on it, and we can easily see what changes have been made.
Look, it's not that hard.
Oh, give it a rest.
Still not as good as this town.
Your facts have gotten in the way of my opinions. I am therefore calling upon my deity, Ithykarogle, to smite you with his mighty vuvuzela. You may say that this deity does not exist, and that a vuvuzela is a flimsy plastic toy, but again, my opinions are stronger than your facts.
On the other hand, if it does work, then the people that they'll end up hiring are incurious, easily bullied, and probably very dumb. Or they're good liars. Seriously, I wouldn't want to hire anyone for whom the leaked cables were relevant to their intended career, and who didn't read them.
Mock turtles.
You may want to brush up on your history. The "wall of separation" idea was first articulated by Jefferson with regard to the First Amendment; it was incorporated to apply to the states (vis-a-vis the 14th Amendment) in Hugo Black's majority opinion in Everson v. Board of Education (which, ironically, ruled in favor of the church), and it's been a guiding principle ever since.
But if you want to talk about actual mythology....
No, we're not going to see what we saw with Wintel because, AFAIK, there are no third-party native apps for Android phones. Microsoft could have ported Windows to a MIPS architecture (for instance), but why would they? Windows developers were/are distributing native code that runs on x86 chips: they'd have to at the very least recompile their application to run on Windows MIPS. Users wouldn't understand the issue, and it would cannibalize the platform.
On the other hand, if Android apps run on a VM, then it doesn't matter if you've got an ARM architecture, an x86 architecture, a Power architecture...the bytecode should be the same. So even if Android were to completely dominate the smartphone market, the chip manufacturers really shouldn't rest on their laurels, because they can be replaced much more easily. Linux already runs on it...
No, it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory to not believe in a conspiracy. Unless that were the conspiracy. My question is, who is behind this conspiracy to make us believe that there's a conspiracy? Clearly they're doing it to draw attention away from the truth of their non-conspiracy. Perhaps this GM bailout could have absolutely nothing to do with the Illuminati and the Freemasons. Maybe the Volt isn't a coverup for the Kennedy assassination. Once you go down the rabbit hole...you'll probably find rabbits.
Not if you torrent it. You see his dilemma.
It was a Boring picture anyway.
Why are the Slashdot editors posting Boring stories on the front page?
What's so Boring about privacy?
"Everybody called me Mr. Boring, but now I'm famous!"
This is a more Boring version of the Streisand Effect.
Google is Boring its way into our privacy. (Didn't see that one coming, didya?)
Making up these bad wordplays is Boring the hell out of me. ...are we done?
I don't see why they need to "defend their beliefs." They have them. Others disagree. They put on a campaign, get some controversial press coverage, the cycle continues. The converted already flock to them (some of them anyway---I've known plenty of vegans who were turned off by their tactics), the others don't.
So why bother with it, when you could be doing real good (by their standard of goodness) with a focus on action (say, addressing the problems in their shelters) rather than activism?
I lived on a small subsistence farm in Honduras for a while, and let me tell you, after a week of living with chickens and cows and turkeys and pigs, believe me, I would have no problem slicing their necks.
You put anyone on a farm, and they will get over whatever urban squeamishness they had real quick.