as I have grown older and experienced some tragic moments, I genuinely have empathy for others
that implies that anyone who doesn't have empathy for others hasn't experienced tragic moments, which is false. your post also implies (states?) that making a public joke about someone else's misfortune implies one doesn't feel empathy. i believe that is also false, for two reasons. 1) trivially, feeling empathy doesn't force one to act compassionately - i could feel terrible for someone's pain, while causing them even more pain. though presumably i would only do so if i was a sado-masochist... 2) it is very unlikely that a small joke on the matter at hand would cause anyone on slashdot significant suffering, hence there is likely no tangible damage from posting such jokes. all that being said, there's still [at least] one kind of belief that can lead one to conclude that one shouldn't make such jokes - because it is simply wrong. i.e. there are many systems of beliefs that concentrate not on materialistic measures of value to determine "goodness" or "badness" of an action, but rather on the action itself... but i personally do not hold such beliefs. in fact, i find them to be rather silly in the grand scheme of things...
you know what, i've philosophized on this quasi-inconsequential matter long enough. i'll stop here.
there are two sides to this - on the one hand, making what the feds are doing legal is bad, because it Americans as a society condone that kind of behavior. on the other hand, the act of proposing/passing the law could, in theory, generate enough attention/negative reactions to cause significant pressure to cease such activities, sort of a reverse streisand effect if you will. but the second part is really just wishful thinking. the fact of the matter is, once the law is there, it'll be much harder to "roll back", so to speak.
plus, as an added goodie, this will create a vulnerability in all compliant encrypted internet services - now a hacker just has to figure out one master key to break the security of the service. and, once that happens, the service provider will have to incur the probably huge cost of switching to a new master key.
i believe you're wrong. while i have no warm feelings towards russia, the threat they're talking about is real, for every nation, because propaganda in the internet age can be easier, more pervasive, and much, much more dangerous than ever before. any group that manages to understand and develop methods for manipulating Anonymous can gain an unprecedented amount of control over public opinion wherever the internet has significant penetration.
"The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is."
President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan, Rising Star, Babylon 5
then force people to use escaped sequences. i.e. only display "computer.fuckUp()" at the very last step, in the ui. everywhere else it should be "computer\.fuckUp\(\)". [note: toy example. not actually claiming that '.' and parens should be escaped...]
because talking kinda sucks. you have to do it live, you need to have a relatively quiet environment, you can't do it if you're engaged in a huge number of social situations, you can't take your time to think of what to say, and, if you're anything like me, generating all the non-verbal data such as intonation and emotion can get kinda tiring...
"The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think statistics about the average teen with a cell phone would mean a lot more.
"The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think stats regarding the average teen with a cellphone would mean a lot more...
uhhh, well, sort of... but: depending on their orbit, "night" can be much more rare/less long than for a plane; due to lack of atmosphere, they get a lot more energy from the sun per sq inch of solar cell than a plane; and last but by far not least, they don't have to fly. mechanical motion is extremely rare for your average satellite. i'd think that changes the problem quite a bit.
i suppose one of the biggest challenges will be developing [lightweight] batteries that can function for 5 years while being dis/recharged every day... i.e. 1800 times. could be tough.
"randomly distributed"? dude, pi is a number. or a point mass if you will. it's digits are no more "randomly distributed" than the digits of 7. i think what you mean is that the number of 0's and number of 1's are equal, and i have no idea if that's anywhere near true or not...
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no, because security through obscurity can only go so far. and not having realized that this entire new class of exploits are possible is obscurity.
wow... really well done!
as I have grown older and experienced some tragic moments, I genuinely have empathy for others
that implies that anyone who doesn't have empathy for others hasn't experienced tragic moments, which is false. your post also implies (states?) that making a public joke about someone else's misfortune implies one doesn't feel empathy. i believe that is also false, for two reasons. 1) trivially, feeling empathy doesn't force one to act compassionately - i could feel terrible for someone's pain, while causing them even more pain. though presumably i would only do so if i was a sado-masochist... 2) it is very unlikely that a small joke on the matter at hand would cause anyone on slashdot significant suffering, hence there is likely no tangible damage from posting such jokes. all that being said, there's still [at least] one kind of belief that can lead one to conclude that one shouldn't make such jokes - because it is simply wrong. i.e. there are many systems of beliefs that concentrate not on materialistic measures of value to determine "goodness" or "badness" of an action, but rather on the action itself... but i personally do not hold such beliefs. in fact, i find them to be rather silly in the grand scheme of things...
you know what, i've philosophized on this quasi-inconsequential matter long enough. i'll stop here.
umm, is this what you're talking about?
there are two sides to this - on the one hand, making what the feds are doing legal is bad, because it Americans as a society condone that kind of behavior. on the other hand, the act of proposing/passing the law could, in theory, generate enough attention/negative reactions to cause significant pressure to cease such activities, sort of a reverse streisand effect if you will. but the second part is really just wishful thinking. the fact of the matter is, once the law is there, it'll be much harder to "roll back", so to speak.
I'm an American, and I value my freedom over a false sense of security. If you aren't comfortable with that, perhaps America isn't for you.
Given recent trends, I'd say the opposite - since you value your freedom over a false sense of security, perhaps America isn't for you.
plus, as an added goodie, this will create a vulnerability in all compliant encrypted internet services - now a hacker just has to figure out one master key to break the security of the service. and, once that happens, the service provider will have to incur the probably huge cost of switching to a new master key.
uhhh, actually, the caretaker was the vic...
WRONG! You are only supporting the scum that ARE ABUSING CHILDREN if you pay for child porn (directly or through ads, whatever).
i believe you're wrong. while i have no warm feelings towards russia, the threat they're talking about is real, for every nation, because propaganda in the internet age can be easier, more pervasive, and much, much more dangerous than ever before. any group that manages to understand and develop methods for manipulating Anonymous can gain an unprecedented amount of control over public opinion wherever the internet has significant penetration.
"The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is."
President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan, Rising Star, Babylon 5
again, thinkgeek's general email address is webmonster@thinkgeek.com . make your opinion heard.
send them an angry email: webmonster@thinkgeek.com
then force people to use escaped sequences. i.e. only display "computer.fuckUp()" at the very last step, in the ui. everywhere else it should be "computer\.fuckUp\(\)". [note: toy example. not actually claiming that '.' and parens should be escaped...]
because talking kinda sucks. you have to do it live, you need to have a relatively quiet environment, you can't do it if you're engaged in a huge number of social situations, you can't take your time to think of what to say, and, if you're anything like me, generating all the non-verbal data such as intonation and emotion can get kinda tiring...
of course they can. they can send/recv 0 texts a day. just add that with the rest, and you have yourself an average. tada!
"The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think statistics about the average teen with a cell phone would mean a lot more.
"The average teen (even including teens without cell phones)..." is that really what they should be measuring? i'd think stats regarding the average teen with a cellphone would mean a lot more...
which is just a fancy way of saying "we haven't the foggiest idea how we're gonna store the energy"...
die.
uhhh, well, sort of... but: depending on their orbit, "night" can be much more rare/less long than for a plane; due to lack of atmosphere, they get a lot more energy from the sun per sq inch of solar cell than a plane; and last but by far not least, they don't have to fly. mechanical motion is extremely rare for your average satellite. i'd think that changes the problem quite a bit.
i suppose one of the biggest challenges will be developing [lightweight] batteries that can function for 5 years while being dis/recharged every day... i.e. 1800 times. could be tough.
i didn't see them! is there a link where that still exists, or perhaps a video?
WTFV (watch the fucking videos)
"randomly distributed"? dude, pi is a number. or a point mass if you will. it's digits are no more "randomly distributed" than the digits of 7. i think what you mean is that the number of 0's and number of 1's are equal, and i have no idea if that's anywhere near true or not...