The unsubstantiated opinion that less than perfect grammar or diction in any way indicates an inferior intelligence behind a statement does not make a very good argument for that position either. Education is not to be conflated with intelligence, nor should blind adhereance to convention.
All that being a grammar nazi proves, is that the grammar nazi fixates on absurdities, and should be ignored. They contribute nothing of value to an intellectual discussion.
The issue I have with the press, at least as incarnated in the USA (and the group being probed in the story to boot) have a very nasty habit of convicting people in the court of public opinion on national television to drum up ratings, and then routinely failing to follow up with apologies when same people get aquitted, and those people they harm have long lasting public stigmatism from this practice.
You can see that hand at work here, in fact.
AP shrieks "Oh that wicked evil government! It's unfairly investigating US, the PRESS! See how BAAAAAAD those DoJ people are, for investigating OUR role in a leak of priviledged information!?"
Just wait and see, if thet *are* complicit in illegal activity, it will be crickets and pindrop silence, but if the probe turns up nothing of interest, there will be fanfare and pointing of fingers, and soapbox gradstanding on every channel.
The news exists to inform people. Not program them and tell them what to think, and stir up mob rule.
Seriously, the press is all over things like wiretapping, political intrigues, what kind of corn was in the president's bowel movement today (was it GMO corn!?), etc, and seems to think that this kind of 'microscope up the ass' intrusiveness is not only 'news!' But also "the public has a right to KNOW!"
But, when somebody turns around and investigates one of THEM, "oh loaurd Jeezuz it's a fiar!".
What's good for the goose, is good for the gander AP. When you shamelessly cram the microscope up asses, don't act insensed or surprised when you get the microscope colonoscopy too. Simply because your shiny little badge says "news", does not make you immune to the law, and you are *not* people of priveledge.
Don't get me wrong, sunshine is good, and breaking stories about govt wrongdoing is healthy and good. Just don't foster an image of sweeping disregard for privacy, and due process while doing so, unless you want the same treatment for yourselves.
Enjoy your DoJ probing. You enjoyed probing others, so its surely right up your alley, AP.
You also have to balance in the safety that this offers, in regard to random gene insertions from virus infections.
In a "clean" genome, these random insertions can break biologically critical genes. With a large "junk" store, the injection and integration of the virus has a much lower chance of disrupting a vital cellular mechanism.
Improvements in production allow production increases, which should drive down the prices of goods. (Which makes the currency more powerful, since more real goods exchange for the same currency amount.)
However, that is not what happened over the past 40 years. As production increased, the amount of money in circulation dried up, while those still employed did not get a wage increase. (This is because the companies that implemented the production increasing techs, used the increased production surplus to devalue the labor of their employees, terminated them, and then froze wages. As a conequence, where there were "X" employees making above min wage, and engaging in the market, there were now X/Y employees, and the monetary value held by those employees was *NOT* increased by Y to compensate! Fewer people were able to engage in the local market at the same rates, so the integrity of the market was undermined.) When you throw in gloablization, and offsetting of these deleterious effects through currency drains on other country's markets, (like china is doing), the total situation is untenable in the long run.
HAD wages increased to match the reduction of employment, then money would still have been exchanging hands, and the unemployed people would have been able to seek alternative employment, or self employment, to get access to that currency. That didn't happen though!
Instead, as the currency contracted under this burden, there was essentially a shortage of currency in the local market. (Deflation). To combat this, the FED printed money like a stuck hog, and gave it to the govt to spend, as "stimulous".
However, because US currency was still "quite healthy!(tm)" In foriegn markets, (due to offsetting the "drop in domestic sales with increased foriegn sales, such as with drugs, music, software, etc.), this inflation pump devalued foriegn holdings. Cue the tipping domino.
Basically, money that sits in a mattress (or a cayman islands bank account) and does not get spent is deadly to an economy. A business that sits on huge piles of money does the same thing, as does a CEO who accumulates and does not spend.
The only tool available is to inflate the currency, to devalue what is in the matress. Doing so has consequences.
I would rather see legislation passed that forbids large corporations from hoarding liquid assets, above a certain percentage of their physical assets.
Probably a bit late to respond, (mothers day an all).. but here it goes anyway.
A lot of people on both sides make a significant error:
"Because *i*don't do/am not X, then [all others I affiliate with] must also not do/be X"
I don't make this assertion. I am not a racist, but many independents, and centrists most certainly are. My being a centrist does not intrinsically make me a racist. Nor does being a racist make one a centrist.
Same is true for other political and philosophical associations. Conservatives aren't by necessity racist, nor are all racists conservative.
What does this mean? It means that the "I am X, and what you say never happened (to me) therefor it never happened at all!" Line is simply unsupportable.
Usually, the conversation would go down something like this:
"Are you happy that Obama was elected president?" (No.)
"Are you happy that a black president was elected?" (Loaded question. I haveno opinion on if that is good or bad. So, since I am not explicitly happy about it, since I "don't care", the answer is "no." That position does not compute in the loaded nature of the question though.)
"Do you support affirmative action, and other "hand up" programs for black people?" (Another loaded question. I don't believe in double standards, and assert strongly that 2 wrongs do not make something right. Do I support hand-up programs to *disadvantaged* people? Yes. Does that exclude black people? No. Do I believe that black people should get special treatment because of their skin color? No, that is racism. As such, the answer again is "no". Again, a loaded question where the qualified no answer does not compute with the questioner.)
Based on those answers, I get bitchslapped with being a racist, because I am not a coolaid drinker, and my answers get cut off before I can qualify them.
Inverse racsm is still racism. Affirmative action and pals are racist. As racist as segregation was. It won't and can't fix the racist epidemic here. What will is being completely blind to color for any kind of candidacy requirement.
Instead of AA, ask these questions:
What is the educational and economic background of this PERSON? (Parents don't hold degrees? Financially impoverished family history? Etc.) If they are in need of help, then provide services. Doesn't matter what color they are. Could be green for all I care. There are plenty of multigeneration white people that so disadvantaged. (And yes, there *were* white slaves in the south. Irish indentured servants were more common than you think, and were frequently illegally sold.)
You probably weren't branded with the big knarly "R" word, because your left leaning philosophy likely says "yes" to all those questions. As a centrist, I am NOT a leftist, and say NO with qualifications to many of those questions. Because the issue was so contentious, and people had such short fuses over it, the "either for us or against us!" Mindset was in full swing. People in the middle like me got the full monty right up the ass from both sides.
Yes, I am aware of the hypervisor, and the encrypted NAND.
The idea wasnt to compromise the nand, but to scribble in the sandbox, much like the ChickHEN attack for a PSP slim.
Essentially, the trojanized media file makes the perfectly signed and happy image loader software freak out, because the "Image" it is parsing isnt really an image, which causes the buffer overflow. The overflow overwrites the stack pointer (assuming such an exploit exists anyway), and jumps execution to the trojan payload. The payload writes a few bytes to the in-memory image of the sandbox, to alter the behavior of "already running" processes. Since these processes have already been blessed by the HV, this may work.
The idea isnt to permanently hack the xbox's nand, the idea is to muck with its loaded and decrypted memory image of the nand, AFTER it passes the secret key test, and get a foothold that way. MS can update the firmware all it wants, since this method wont blow any efuses. Just keep the exploit a secret, and keep the persistent part off the xbox and on the router.
I dunno.. I correctly deduced a method to expose the psuedorandom nature of qbasic's RND function, after noticing that it frequently outputted even numbers more often than odd numbers, and that the numbers were oftend divisible by 4, or that cumulative remainders were dividible by 4 when added together, with a maximum run on such additions being around 8.
Using those observations, I used some modulo division with stored remainders, and integer division to deal with the main dividends, and ended up getting highly repititious data.
I had set the function to output random 8bit values. (0-255)
1) culture rat neurons in a dish, and forbid them any sensory input. Incorporate a photo pigment into them, so they flash when firing. Record firing activity of the neuronal colony, and look for patterns. If patterns found, then probably deterministic.
2) repeat above experiment many times, doing the best one can to assure the neurons are positioned identically, and connect identically. Cross reference the firing activity as a multivariant examination, look for recurring patterns.
3) repeat experimental series, but with controlled modifications to intercellular distances, and network topology. record data, and cross reference with previous sets to look for deltas.
These 3 experimental batteries would either show a strong corelation between topologies and intercell distances, regardless of colony (deterministic), or show wild and unpredictable output (nondeterministic.)
Saying "yes" is wrong, because they didn't all do that.
I said the argument was specious, because unified grandstanding is not required for "the left did this" to be true.
The same with the repubs being racists. Not all were. Some were. Some were outspokenly so. So, the repubs *were* racist. Just not all of them. It didn't take all of them to be. THAT was the point.
To be fair, however, and in deference to the "racism" slurs:
Giving preferentia treatment to a person because of race, is the defining characteristic of racism. Because the MSM did *NOT* go against the "OMG! A black president! Oh joy of joys! Hallelujah, praise jesus!" Line, and do the race neutral thing ("why does his skin color matter?"), and even played *UP* the "Historic black president!" Mantra, they were actively engaging in institutionalized racism, defacto.
So, the "racist much brah?" Line of the era was flat out offensive to begin with.
A jpeg, gif, or silverlight container are unlikely to be mission critical.
Depending on how the box asks, and what data it blurts out when it makes the requests, it should be possible to tell the xbox sweet little lies, and get away with it.
There are ways to blackhole ad servers at the router, if you use DDWRT or openWRT, assming MS hasn't deeply rolled the ad server In with the live server.
This means that you could inject alternatives to adverts and movie files, based on the structure of the query, and the remote IP. Eg, you could put a "no" sign around a $, in place of static image ads, and a "static screen loop" in place of streaming video ads. Unless the MS dash does some kind of data hash checking, it would display the downloaded content instead of the intended adverts.
(Makes you wonder if you could force MS xboxes to display trojanized swf files, or trojanized EMF or TIFF files, for clandestine execution jumping fun....)
I haven't tested this, and it is clearly against MS's ToS, (which as worded, says you cant even have wireshark running at the same time your xbox is turned on, let alone meddle with the replies the box gets.)
Danger if MS does a super dick move, like double verify image checksums of adverts the console downloads, and if "known surrogates/malware" are detected, ban the console though.
The misapplication of the adjective (and subsequent dilution of meaning) appears to arise from a lack of an alternative adjective that means "like unto, or relating to the behavior of nations who espouse X".
Compare, "christian", n., a follower of the teachings of christ, as stated in the new testament.
Vs
"Christian", adj., Like unto, or relating to the christ.
Vs
"Christian", adj., like unto or relating to a group of organized practitioners of reigious ceremonies and philosophies surrounding the christ.
Vs
"Christian", n., a member of such an organized group.
--
This has direct correlations with relating "fascist" (philosophy), with "fascist" (government behaviors), when one sees senences like this:
"Its all those damned christians trying to keep science out of schools!"
What they really mean, is that "christians" (members of organized religion, claiming relationship to christ) are responsible, and not "christians" (followers of the doctrnes laid out in the new testament by the christ.) Or "christians", (people like unto the christ.)
There isn't a seperate word. Thus, the miscommunicaton is impossble to prevent, until such a word is coined, and subsequently adopted.
Complaining about the dilution does not solve the dilution, when no alternative to the dilution exists.
Please provide a suitable alternatie for the word "fascist" in the preceeding postings as a correction instead.
You must have a very short memory... (or are being specious.)
I am neither conervative nor liberal: I am an independent centrist, and don't care about obama's race any more than I care about the pope's birthmark. (Which is to say, I don't care at all.)
However, 9 years ago during the first inaugural campaign of now president obama, I was opposed to him as a candidate, as I noted that his intended policies greatly resembled FDRs, which historical analysis showed to WORSEN the depression, and not fix it. (Among others, such as the clearly unreliable natures of his campaign promises where he promised the moon to his constituents. I am always leery of "chicken in every pot" promises.)
However, despite these simple facts, and my direct applications of them, I was consistently and relentlessly accused of said racism at an alarming degree, even here on slashdot.
Having personally experienced the "drooling idiocy" first hand, I can assure you that there are asshole hypocrites on both sides, and they both sling lurid accusations and steaming shit at the middle.
Two wrongs do not make a right. (Please, no "make a left" jokes.)
Instead of going full on asshole against the conservatives, the left should have made it painfully clear that they didn't care about obama's race at all, and was inconsequential to his candidacy.
Instead, they said that if you didn't like him, for any reason, you were inherently racist.
Again, simply because your oposition are a bunch of drooling dumbfucks, does not mean that degrading yourselves to their level is called for, appropriate, nor desirable.
It just shows that you are drooling dumbfucks too, and should be ignored for exactly the same reasons.--being drooling opinionated dumbfucks.
Which would be functionally, and metaphorically astute as an observation.
All governments maintain a social order through the selectively applied use of force, or deprivation of liberties of individual citizens or demographics of citizens. (Eg, "tyranny")
Thus, all governments engage in tyrrany of one sort or another, including self-imposed governance methods. (Meaning the people impose them upon themselves voluntarily and without direction.)
The line between "benevolent" and "tyranical" is really grey spectrum, and not a line at all.
Instead of asking of one's government is tyranical, (since unless you are an amoral actor without culture, or peers, you MUST impose some personal tyrranies upon yourself, so the answer will *always* be "yes.") One should ask themselves if their government is NEEDLESSLY tyrannical, or ONEROUSLY tyrranical.
Any form of political philosophy from which a government may try to draw direction is still inherently tyrannical, and capable of being despotically so, even pure direct democracies.
When people say "fascist" as an adjective describing the behavior of a government, they are most often referring to the characteristic behaviors of governments who have claimed that mantle, and not the ideal of the mantle itself. (Much like "communist", "socialist", and "imperialist.")
Up until recently, this kind of generally condemned behavior from government has come from such "fascist" countries, who used such tactics openly and wrecklessly. While not strictly necessary for that kind of government, that kind of government has historically done such more often than not, in comparison to other philosophies. Hence, the application of the adjective.
The german fascist government was *very* interested in membership lists, party affiliations other than their own, and the active sabotage/destruction of thoe agencies, and the individuals associated with them.
You are confusing the political theory, with the manifest government style.
Just to point out, what would be geometrically impossible:
A sphere with no thickness to its skin.
A hammer with a volume greater than the volume of the sphere, being completely inside said sphere. (Very different from length, which can occupy many spacial dimensions.)
Superluminal oscillations interacting with normal matter (can't be done realtime though.)
A closed solid with a greater interior volume than its exterior one.
No, he said that the hammer has a length that is greater than the diameter of the sphere, is inside the sphere, does not touch the sphere, is evacuated. At no point did the GP asster that the handle of the hammer is a linear vector, and not a curve. He only said the length was greater than the spherical diameter. Next time he should be more careful.
I assert that this can exist:
1) the hammer's arm is a coil that does not touch itself, nor the wall of the sphere. Its length is greater than the sphere diameter.
2) the hammer and sphere are in freefall. Both fall at the same rate, so the hammer won't rest on the wall of the sphere.
If you used a generalized human vocal tract model, with parameters for noteworthy features like chord thickness, length, trachea diameter, et al, then used a natural language generator to generate textual dialog, and finally, combined these into a text to speach engine, you could have a very wide variety of NPC dialog.
The natural language part can run on the cpu, and the realtime sound rendering TTS can run on the GPU.
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The unsubstantiated opinion that less than perfect grammar or diction in any way indicates an inferior intelligence behind a statement does not make a very good argument for that position either. Education is not to be conflated with intelligence, nor should blind adhereance to convention.
All that being a grammar nazi proves, is that the grammar nazi fixates on absurdities, and should be ignored. They contribute nothing of value to an intellectual discussion.
Oh, without question.
The issue I have with the press, at least as incarnated in the USA (and the group being probed in the story to boot) have a very nasty habit of convicting people in the court of public opinion on national television to drum up ratings, and then routinely failing to follow up with apologies when same people get aquitted, and those people they harm have long lasting public stigmatism from this practice.
You can see that hand at work here, in fact.
AP shrieks "Oh that wicked evil government! It's unfairly investigating US, the PRESS! See how BAAAAAAD those DoJ people are, for investigating OUR role in a leak of priviledged information!?"
Just wait and see, if thet *are* complicit in illegal activity, it will be crickets and pindrop silence, but if the probe turns up nothing of interest, there will be fanfare and pointing of fingers, and soapbox gradstanding on every channel.
The news exists to inform people. Not program them and tell them what to think, and stir up mob rule.
Seriously, the press is all over things like wiretapping, political intrigues, what kind of corn was in the president's bowel movement today (was it GMO corn!?), etc, and seems to think that this kind of 'microscope up the ass' intrusiveness is not only 'news!' But also "the public has a right to KNOW!"
But, when somebody turns around and investigates one of THEM, "oh loaurd Jeezuz it's a fiar!".
What's good for the goose, is good for the gander AP. When you shamelessly cram the microscope up asses, don't act insensed or surprised when you get the microscope colonoscopy too. Simply because your shiny little badge says "news", does not make you immune to the law, and you are *not* people of priveledge.
Don't get me wrong, sunshine is good, and breaking stories about govt wrongdoing is healthy and good. Just don't foster an image of sweeping disregard for privacy, and due process while doing so, unless you want the same treatment for yourselves.
Enjoy your DoJ probing. You enjoyed probing others, so its surely right up your alley, AP.
You also have to balance in the safety that this offers, in regard to random gene insertions from virus infections.
In a "clean" genome, these random insertions can break biologically critical genes. With a large "junk" store, the injection and integration of the virus has a much lower chance of disrupting a vital cellular mechanism.
That isn't the argument I was seeing above.
The basic argument was more like this:
Improvements in production allow production increases, which should drive down the prices of goods. (Which makes the currency more powerful, since more real goods exchange for the same currency amount.)
However, that is not what happened over the past 40 years. As production increased, the amount of money in circulation dried up, while those still employed did not get a wage increase. (This is because the companies that implemented the production increasing techs, used the increased production surplus to devalue the labor of their employees, terminated them, and then froze wages. As a conequence, where there were "X" employees making above min wage, and engaging in the market, there were now X/Y employees, and the monetary value held by those employees was *NOT* increased by Y to compensate! Fewer people were able to engage in the local market at the same rates, so the integrity of the market was undermined.) When you throw in gloablization, and offsetting of these deleterious effects through currency drains on other country's markets, (like china is doing), the total situation is untenable in the long run.
HAD wages increased to match the reduction of employment, then money would still have been exchanging hands, and the unemployed people would have been able to seek alternative employment, or self employment, to get access to that currency. That didn't happen though!
Instead, as the currency contracted under this burden, there was essentially a shortage of currency in the local market. (Deflation). To combat this, the FED printed money like a stuck hog, and gave it to the govt to spend, as "stimulous".
However, because US currency was still "quite healthy!(tm)" In foriegn markets, (due to offsetting the "drop in domestic sales with increased foriegn sales, such as with drugs, music, software, etc.), this inflation pump devalued foriegn holdings. Cue the tipping domino.
Basically, money that sits in a mattress (or a cayman islands bank account) and does not get spent is deadly to an economy. A business that sits on huge piles of money does the same thing, as does a CEO who accumulates and does not spend.
The only tool available is to inflate the currency, to devalue what is in the matress. Doing so has consequences.
I would rather see legislation passed that forbids large corporations from hoarding liquid assets, above a certain percentage of their physical assets.
Probably a bit late to respond, (mothers day an all).. but here it goes anyway.
A lot of people on both sides make a significant error:
"Because *i*don't do/am not X, then [all others I affiliate with] must also not do/be X"
I don't make this assertion. I am not a racist, but many independents, and centrists most certainly are. My being a centrist does not intrinsically make me a racist. Nor does being a racist make one a centrist.
Same is true for other political and philosophical associations. Conservatives aren't by necessity racist, nor are all racists conservative.
What does this mean? It means that the "I am X, and what you say never happened (to me) therefor it never happened at all!" Line is simply unsupportable.
Usually, the conversation would go down something like this:
"Are you happy that Obama was elected president?"
(No.)
"Are you happy that a black president was elected?"
(Loaded question. I haveno opinion on if that is good or bad. So, since I am not explicitly happy about it, since I "don't care", the answer is "no." That position does not compute in the loaded nature of the question though.)
"Do you support affirmative action, and other "hand up" programs for black people?"
(Another loaded question. I don't believe in double standards, and assert strongly that 2 wrongs do not make something right. Do I support hand-up programs to *disadvantaged* people? Yes. Does that exclude black people? No. Do I believe that black people should get special treatment because of their skin color? No, that is racism. As such, the answer again is "no". Again, a loaded question where the qualified no answer does not compute with the questioner.)
Based on those answers, I get bitchslapped with being a racist, because I am not a coolaid drinker, and my answers get cut off before I can qualify them.
Inverse racsm is still racism. Affirmative action and pals are racist. As racist as segregation was. It won't and can't fix the racist epidemic here. What will is being completely blind to color for any kind of candidacy requirement.
Instead of AA, ask these questions:
What is the educational and economic background of this PERSON? (Parents don't hold degrees? Financially impoverished family history? Etc.) If they are in need of help, then provide services. Doesn't matter what color they are. Could be green for all I care. There are plenty of multigeneration white people that so disadvantaged. (And yes, there *were* white slaves in the south. Irish indentured servants were more common than you think, and were frequently illegally sold.)
You probably weren't branded with the big knarly "R" word, because your left leaning philosophy likely says "yes" to all those questions. As a centrist, I am NOT a leftist, and say NO with qualifications to many of those questions. Because the issue was so contentious, and people had such short fuses over it, the "either for us or against us!" Mindset was in full swing. People in the middle like me got the full monty right up the ass from both sides.
Yes, I am aware of the hypervisor, and the encrypted NAND.
The idea wasnt to compromise the nand, but to scribble in the sandbox, much like the ChickHEN attack for a PSP slim.
Essentially, the trojanized media file makes the perfectly signed and happy image loader software freak out, because the "Image" it is parsing isnt really an image, which causes the buffer overflow. The overflow overwrites the stack pointer (assuming such an exploit exists anyway), and jumps execution to the trojan payload. The payload writes a few bytes to the in-memory image of the sandbox, to alter the behavior of "already running" processes. Since these processes have already been blessed by the HV, this may work.
The idea isnt to permanently hack the xbox's nand, the idea is to muck with its loaded and decrypted memory image of the nand, AFTER it passes the secret key test, and get a foothold that way. MS can update the firmware all it wants, since this method wont blow any efuses. Just keep the exploit a secret, and keep the persistent part off the xbox and on the router.
I dunno.. I correctly deduced a method to expose the psuedorandom nature of qbasic's RND function, after noticing that it frequently outputted even numbers more often than odd numbers, and that the numbers were oftend divisible by 4, or that cumulative remainders were dividible by 4 when added together, with a maximum run on such additions being around 8.
Using those observations, I used some modulo division with stored remainders, and integer division to deal with the main dividends, and ended up getting highly repititious data.
I had set the function to output random 8bit values. (0-255)
True random would not produce such patterns.
A series of simple tests could determine this:
1) culture rat neurons in a dish, and forbid them any sensory input. Incorporate a photo pigment into them, so they flash when firing. Record firing activity of the neuronal colony, and look for patterns. If patterns found, then probably deterministic.
2) repeat above experiment many times, doing the best one can to assure the neurons are positioned identically, and connect identically. Cross reference the firing activity as a multivariant examination, look for recurring patterns.
3) repeat experimental series, but with controlled modifications to intercellular distances, and network topology. record data, and cross reference with previous sets to look for deltas.
These 3 experimental batteries would either show a strong corelation between topologies and intercell distances, regardless of colony (deterministic), or show wild and unpredictable output (nondeterministic.)
Saying "yes" is wrong, because they didn't all do that.
I said the argument was specious, because unified grandstanding is not required for "the left did this" to be true.
The same with the repubs being racists. Not all were. Some were. Some were outspokenly so. So, the repubs *were* racist. Just not all of them. It didn't take all of them to be. THAT was the point.
To be fair, however, and in deference to the "racism" slurs:
Giving preferentia treatment to a person because of race, is the defining characteristic of racism. Because the MSM did *NOT* go against the "OMG! A black president! Oh joy of joys! Hallelujah, praise jesus!" Line, and do the race neutral thing ("why does his skin color matter?"), and even played *UP* the "Historic black president!" Mantra, they were actively engaging in institutionalized racism, defacto.
So, the "racist much brah?" Line of the era was flat out offensive to begin with.
(My .02$)
Specious argument is specious.
The right didn't come out and say "obama's black, therefore I hate him!" In unison either.
It does NOT take a unified front. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
A jpeg, gif, or silverlight container are unlikely to be mission critical.
Depending on how the box asks, and what data it blurts out when it makes the requests, it should be possible to tell the xbox sweet little lies, and get away with it.
Theoretically...
There are ways to blackhole ad servers at the router, if you use DDWRT or openWRT, assming MS hasn't deeply rolled the ad server In with the live server.
This means that you could inject alternatives to adverts and movie files, based on the structure of the query, and the remote IP. Eg, you could put a "no" sign around a $, in place of static image ads, and a "static screen loop" in place of streaming video ads. Unless the MS dash does some kind of data hash checking, it would display the downloaded content instead of the intended adverts.
(Makes you wonder if you could force MS xboxes to display trojanized swf files, or trojanized EMF or TIFF files, for clandestine execution jumping fun....)
I haven't tested this, and it is clearly against MS's ToS, (which as worded, says you cant even have wireshark running at the same time your xbox is turned on, let alone meddle with the replies the box gets.)
Danger if MS does a super dick move, like double verify image checksums of adverts the console downloads, and if "known surrogates/malware" are detected, ban the console though.
(And I apparently suck at math! 5 to 6 years ago. My bad.)
The misapplication of the adjective (and subsequent dilution of meaning) appears to arise from a lack of an alternative adjective that means "like unto, or relating to the behavior of nations who espouse X".
Compare,
"christian", n., a follower of the teachings of christ, as stated in the new testament.
Vs
"Christian", adj., Like unto, or relating to the christ.
Vs
"Christian", adj., like unto or relating to a group of organized practitioners of reigious ceremonies and philosophies surrounding the christ.
Vs
"Christian", n., a member of such an organized group.
--
This has direct correlations with relating "fascist" (philosophy), with "fascist" (government behaviors), when one sees senences like this:
"Its all those damned christians trying to keep science out of schools!"
What they really mean, is that "christians" (members of organized religion, claiming relationship to christ) are responsible, and not "christians" (followers of the doctrnes laid out in the new testament by the christ.) Or "christians", (people like unto the christ.)
There isn't a seperate word. Thus, the miscommunicaton is impossble to prevent, until such a word is coined, and subsequently adopted.
Complaining about the dilution does not solve the dilution, when no alternative to the dilution exists.
Please provide a suitable alternatie for the word "fascist" in the preceeding postings as a correction instead.
You must have a very short memory... (or are being specious.)
I am neither conervative nor liberal: I am an independent centrist, and don't care about obama's race any more than I care about the pope's birthmark. (Which is to say, I don't care at all.)
However, 9 years ago during the first inaugural campaign of now president obama, I was opposed to him as a candidate, as I noted that his intended policies greatly resembled FDRs, which historical analysis showed to WORSEN the depression, and not fix it. (Among others, such as the clearly unreliable natures of his campaign promises where he promised the moon to his constituents. I am always leery of "chicken in every pot" promises.)
However, despite these simple facts, and my direct applications of them, I was consistently and relentlessly accused of said racism at an alarming degree, even here on slashdot.
Having personally experienced the "drooling idiocy" first hand, I can assure you that there are asshole hypocrites on both sides, and they both sling lurid accusations and steaming shit at the middle.
Neither side is innocent.
Two wrongs do not make a right. (Please, no "make a left" jokes.)
Instead of going full on asshole against the conservatives, the left should have made it painfully clear that they didn't care about obama's race at all, and was inconsequential to his candidacy.
Instead, they said that if you didn't like him, for any reason, you were inherently racist.
Again, simply because your oposition are a bunch of drooling dumbfucks, does not mean that degrading yourselves to their level is called for, appropriate, nor desirable.
It just shows that you are drooling dumbfucks too, and should be ignored for exactly the same reasons.--being drooling opinionated dumbfucks.
Which would be functionally, and metaphorically astute as an observation.
All governments maintain a social order through the selectively applied use of force, or deprivation of liberties of individual citizens or demographics of citizens. (Eg, "tyranny")
Thus, all governments engage in tyrrany of one sort or another, including self-imposed governance methods. (Meaning the people impose them upon themselves voluntarily and without direction.)
The line between "benevolent" and "tyranical" is really grey spectrum, and not a line at all.
Instead of asking of one's government is tyranical, (since unless you are an amoral actor without culture, or peers, you MUST impose some personal tyrranies upon yourself, so the answer will *always* be "yes.") One should ask themselves if their government is NEEDLESSLY tyrannical, or ONEROUSLY tyrranical.
Any form of political philosophy from which a government may try to draw direction is still inherently tyrannical, and capable of being despotically so, even pure direct democracies.
When people say "fascist" as an adjective describing the behavior of a government, they are most often referring to the characteristic behaviors of governments who have claimed that mantle, and not the ideal of the mantle itself. (Much like "communist", "socialist", and "imperialist.")
Up until recently, this kind of generally condemned behavior from government has come from such "fascist" countries, who used such tactics openly and wrecklessly. While not strictly necessary for that kind of government, that kind of government has historically done such more often than not, in comparison to other philosophies. Hence, the application of the adjective.
I would disagree with that statement somewhat.
The german fascist government was *very* interested in membership lists, party affiliations other than their own, and the active sabotage/destruction of thoe agencies, and the individuals associated with them.
You are confusing the political theory, with the manifest government style.
Just to point out, what would be geometrically impossible:
A sphere with no thickness to its skin.
A hammer with a volume greater than the volume of the sphere, being completely inside said sphere. (Very different from length, which can occupy many spacial dimensions.)
Superluminal oscillations interacting with normal matter (can't be done realtime though.)
A closed solid with a greater interior volume than its exterior one.
A material comprised of antimassed particles.
A sonically superconducting material
(Others).
No, he said that the hammer has a length that is greater than the diameter of the sphere, is inside the sphere, does not touch the sphere, is evacuated. At no point did the GP asster that the handle of the hammer is a linear vector, and not a curve. He only said the length was greater than the spherical diameter. Next time he should be more careful.
I assert that this can exist:
1) the hammer's arm is a coil that does not touch itself, nor the wall of the sphere. Its length is greater than the sphere diameter.
2) the hammer and sphere are in freefall. Both fall at the same rate, so the hammer won't rest on the wall of the sphere.
3) the sphere is evacuated.
Improbable, but still possible.
No exactly.
If you used a generalized human vocal tract model, with parameters for noteworthy features like chord thickness, length, trachea diameter, et al, then used a natural language generator to generate textual dialog, and finally, combined these into a text to speach engine, you could have a very wide variety of NPC dialog.
The natural language part can run on the cpu, and the realtime sound rendering TTS can run on the GPU.
Not impossible. It is entirey possible to have an arclength far longer than the diametric distance of the sphere's interior.
Just coil up the hammer's handle. Boom. Longer than the sphere, still inside.
[Damp vs dampen (vs moisten)]
Look, I LIKE my sonic disturbances to come with a little added moisture, ok? Is that so wrong?!
Same with my inertia! Dry inertia is just erosive as hell, and very uncomfortable!
I don't *care* that those are both things that fudamentally cannot be made moist. I want to dampen them anyway!
(Lol!)