But what if the formula were written in French (a well known encryption technology, since no-one wants to admit to being able to speak French). Am I still a felon if I publish a French phrasebook.
When reporters were threatened with law enforcement pressure and jail during the Watergate and Pentagon Papers cases, whole forests were felled in the pre-digital age with stories, books, even movies about courageous reporters fighting for the First Amendment
You've stumbled on a truth here. There is literally nothing that reporters like better than a story about reporters. Especially if the story makes them, or their profession, out to be noble, honest and all those other things they're largely not. Bet your life that if Dmitry had been a Russian journalist, the press outcry would've been so great he'd be home with his family by now.
Well, the port 25 must be opened if you want to receive mail. You must add anti spam rules to your MTA then.
He means opened for relaying mail. The spam I get (10 pieces a week maybe, nearly all to my usenet@mydomain ID), is nearly all originating from the US, but routed through poorly set up machines, often in China and Korea .
But you could argue semantics and say clocks don't measure time either, they measure some physical phenomena that (it is hoped) relies on time, and is regular in time (whatever that means. As soon as you start discussing such matters, you run into such conumdra, since it is so very hard to define what time is, that to argue whether calendars measure it is just pedantry.)
I have a facimille of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and, while some of the articles are a bit shorter that we would expect in a modern volume... it is comprehensive with few, if any, obvious omissions.
Erm... Bull. I have the 1911 version here. No reference to the modern Olympics (15 years, and 5 games, old), no music outside the western classical tradition, two references to baseball (over 70 years old at this point), neither giving any description of the game. No references to Chartism and its role in universal suffrage, to luddites, or anything that might be described as social history. No Babbage, or Lovelace, or the Wright brothers,... Well, you get the picture.
Bottom-line: the "open source" encyclopedias are noble ideas, but they'll never be accepted mainstream. They'll never be institutionalized the way that Britannica has and will continue to be.
Hang about. If you're so keen on intellectual rigour, shouldn't you support crass, sweeping generalisations like that with some sort of cogent argument. Otherwise your just another technologist navel gazer passing a moments opinion off as reason.
the first "Complete works of Shakespeare", was, I bet pretty comprehensive.
Wow. You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you. Early Shakespeare folios were fantastically inaccurate. Not only were entire plays omitted, but texts often coming from copies made by audience members.
Alternatively, go check the now-out-of-copyright public domain Britannica, or look at version 1 of the Jargon File, or those early cddb databases, and do a quick count of the errors you can spot immediately.
Whereas wikipedia only returns 130 matches, including
Egypt/Communications
Egypt/Economy
Egypt/Geography
Egypt/Government
Egypt/History
Egypt/Military
Egypt/People
Egypt/Transnational issues
Egypt/Transportation
Plus Ice T, who isn't in Britannica at all.
The thing about these Encyclopedias is that they are meant to be comprehensive.
Thats a long term aim, but no reference work started out comprehensive. The early history of the Internet Movie Database shows what began as a small volunteer effort can grow beyond the imaginings of its progenitors. True, staff are paid now, but they weren't for most of its history.
So far, there is simply no evidence (regardless of what predictions might be plausible) that these kind of free info repositories work.
And none that they can't. So, you can either engage your mind in a (possibly doomed) but glorious project or be negative and sniping about it. Your call.
It's not the greatness that makes a useful encyclopedia, it's the avoidance of error.
Thats a spurious (and essentially unsupported) statement. Every encyclopedia contains errors and usually plenty of them, much like all programs of any size contain bugs. When I spot an error in Britannica (which is not as infrequent as you'd make out) if I'm *really* motivated I could write to them pointing it out, whereas I can correct wikipedia there and then (and have done).
What makes encyclopedia's great is a combination of scope, and reliability, but not infallibility.
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Don't tell us, tell your Senator, then tell the attorney general.
But by design CSS degrades in a friendly way for old browsers, so I see see the content just fine, even if the layout might be a little off (and I care not one jot about layout)
it's hard to find a mainstream site which at some point doesn't use Java-based ads.
You mean people will lose the ads? This should go on top of all their own publicity. WinXP - Lose those freaking annoying ads...
Ads are an annoyance, not a feature (and there a so few java(script) applets that are actually useful (name 3), that this should definitely be considered a feature.
Gaz, happily surfing without ads, java or javascript since 1997 (posted with Netscape 3). Missing nothing that appeals to anyone over 12.
If he isn't an American citizen, then the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to him.
Well then the DMCA shouldn't either. (Although, of course, foreign nationals tried under US law are eligible for the full protection offered by the US Constitution w.r.t. to due process and defendants rights).
I think it is important to note that all the greenhouse doomsday scenerios rely upon positive feedbacks.
Thats simply not true. The worst cases do, but there are models which predict very bad things for low lying countries that don't rely on positive feedback effects like reduced albedo, etc...
Not really relevant. Doing dimensional analysis to discard small terms is not the same as linearising the problem. In fact, its usually the best way to determine whether the problem is linear, weakly non-linear or fully non-linear.
and we don't necessarily know what the "dominant forces" that need to be modeled are.
Well thats certainly true. But if we run the model with the parameters we do know, the results are worrying, and to say "Never fear, a term we have erroneously omitted will save us" is pretty dumb.
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But what if the formula were written in French (a well known encryption technology, since no-one wants to admit to being able to speak French). Am I still a felon if I publish a French phrasebook.
Mea Culpa: I did this search, which only gets external links, and they don't work in my browser anyway.
Alternatively, go check the now-out-of-copyright public domain Britannica, or look at version 1 of the Jargon File, or those early cddb databases, and do a quick count of the errors you can spot immediately.
Whereas wikipedia only returns 130 matches, including Egypt/Communications Egypt/Economy Egypt/Geography Egypt/Government Egypt/History Egypt/Military Egypt/People Egypt/Transnational issues Egypt/Transportation Plus Ice T, who isn't in Britannica at all.
Don't tell us, tell your Senator, then tell the attorney general.
Groupware: Does that count as three?
But by design CSS degrades in a friendly way for old browsers, so I see see the content just fine, even if the layout might be a little off (and I care not one jot about layout)
Ads are an annoyance, not a feature (and there a so few java(script) applets that are actually useful (name 3), that this should definitely be considered a feature.
Gaz, happily surfing without ads, java or javascript since 1997 (posted with Netscape 3). Missing nothing that appeals to anyone over 12.
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Please supply an iota of evidence for that assertion, troll.
where their vehicles will be commandeered by the state and used to provide an alternative energy source to PG&E.
But yours would probably be demonstrably wrong, and never pass a peer review process.
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