I think a good measure of what a the police can do without a warrant, is what a normal person can do without a warrant. I can't tap the Judges calls, therefore if a cop wants to tap my phone they should need a warrant. If I can't get the GPS logs of the Judges car, then a cop should need a warrant to do the same to me. If this is information our public servants feel we should not have about them, then there *is* an expectation of privacy on that information.
I think enforcement of this type of equality of "public" information will keep Judges and cops in line better in general. Set it into law that as soon as the Police don't need a warrant for some information, we get the information too about them and their families.
Its worse than that. Controversial articles, and even poorly done ones get a lot of citations discussing what a load of bunk they are. This pushes the Impact factor up.
One guy that applied to our lab for work had a fantastic "citation index" and the bean counters wanted him on the team. However almost every paper that cited his papers where about what a load of crap he was peddling. And indeed it was crap.
As stated in some post above. Its not about liability. It means that if I buy something its suppose to work "as expected" or be usable. Otherwise I'm entitled to a refund or replacment product. I can't sue anyone. Many places this is *already* the case a EULA cannot take that right away.
As an example I will use the typical "can't return games once opened" when I had problems when I was living in NZ. The game had the hardware requirements on the back and my machine was well above it. However I was getting less that 5 fps and its was totally unplayable. I took it back and they said no way. I said, "what about this law and if you want i can got to the commerce commission". They said, "refund or voucher".
Its pretty easy to see the a zero dollar refund is not a deal breaker.
We only use knifes when we take dogs. Its pretty easy to kill a boar with a knife, and I have never been "tusked" badly. Its also cheaper. When my Dad was hunting they used their fists.
Well some of the biggest Physics frauds were published in Nature and Science. So Impact factor, which is set by a company without peer review, is not in fact a good measure of the articles in the journal. Hell IIRC Science even had a homeopathy article in it once.
Well I enjoyed Doom 3 and quake 4 single player. I always find the idea of deep story in a Movie or video game a bit of a oxymoron. You just can't fit enough into them in terms of dialog or extra information to really get deep. This is less true in games but interaction takes away some of that narrative. But like a short story it can still be good.
If I want a complex involved story I read a book. If i want atmosphere or action I play games or watch movies. If I want interaction I usually play online or with my wife.
Id have been targeting a corner that they are good at and that has done pretty well. Half life went in a different direction and got a lot of fans too (I found it boring and didn't finish).
Read the patents... There is nothing "novel" about them. In fact most could be challenged. But because there are so many patents on lame aspects of "novel" implementation details, it would cost way too much and take way too long.
There is nothing novel in h264. But lawyers are making a mint.
Turns out thats not enough energy. You need *more* energy that in the entire visible universe. Oh and negative matter (matter that that comes up as a negative for the mass energy tensor in the GR field equations), and thats *not* antimatter. Also you can't use a warp drive to collect all this energy either.
We have also left out that these solutions violate suspected conservation terms and that your warp bubble is causally disconnected from the universe. Seriously the infinite improbability drive is be better bet.
Ironically everyone is very optimistic science pretty much has this all wrong, and yet so confident in so many things with *far* less evidence and theory behind it.
The universe may indeed be stranger than we think. c may really be the ultimate speed limit.
Thats the bit that bugs me the most. We can do interstellar travel on paper without breaking any known rules or inventing a bunch of stuff we think probably does not exist. You don't need FTL.
Experts in a field we are quite busy publishing their findings, which for whatever reason is not a valid citation on wikipedia. As a scientist its what I am paid to do. I am not paid to fight with some unemployed self appointed editor of "knowledge" who's only qualification seems to be the ability to over pedantically interpret arbitrary rules.
The wiki might be good for party facts, but not if really need to know something.
To be honest we have better things to do with our time.
Out of the box Linux distros have terrible security. Well most I have used with one exception -Slackware. Seriously out of the box I don't think they are any better than windows. But the difference is that I can configure it to be reasonably secure. With some effort I can get pretty secure and with a bunch of inconvenience I can get secure.
For high security --ie Top Secret military stuff. I wouldn't assume that I could or know what to do. But I assume that even with these windows boxes, we are not talking about that kind of level of security.
Another problem is that people think NATs are a feature rather than symptom of the inadequacy of ip4. Put something like IPsec in there with the NAT traversing and you really start to see how much easer life would be if we were on ip6 now.
The cost of server infrastructure is *very* expensive. Now you want to make that all available to a whole bunch of people who didn't pay and won't pay a cent. Thats not a good plan unless you do it with someone else's money. And even then its still a bad plan....
I was the other way around. I just couldn't quite get into the UT's the same as Q3. My friends still play a lot of UT, but we do have the odd Q3 game. But my wife and I like Q3 best.
Whats disturbing is how many people really think that every little thing is going to be the end of humanity as we know it. As for me and my family, I think we can handle a little flu and 1 in million power outage.
Well I have seen some reports that indicate some "loops" are still pretty susceptible to this sort of thing. But no one I worked with views any more seriously than say power out for a day tops in major centers and that a bad solar storm. Sat coms is another thing entirely.
The 1989 event was pretty bad for Canada. But the power was only out for hours. Not days. I was working in a power critical industrial area. There where redundant *unplugged* transformers for the whole area. These would not get damaged and would just cycled in such an event. Sure if every transformer connected on the whole grid blew some parts may take a while, but thats a rather extreme case. Most major substations/etc also have high levels of redundancy.
Your missing the point. People want to download all the "rubbish" and "crap" that the MPAA/RIAA put out for free. They don't want to actually do hard work.
In a "free market"--that is a market where the laws of copyright are the same for everyone, then there should be a clear demand for stuff thats not "rubbish" and "crap" that a company could exploit for some profit. If the current prices are so out of whack and internet distribution is so free then low prices should lead to high volume and large margins. So what is everyone waiting for?
Oh thats right. They are all sitting at their desk with a computer that their mother brought them with an internet connection they didn't pay for downloading music and movies that they claim is "rubbish".
I'm a coward who only breaks laws I can get away with...
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasis mine.
People use credit card to get accounts on Rapid Share. They can disclose at lot more than a IP number to "Rights Holders". In this case a logged IP number is least of their worries. Their name on the bill is far more condemning....
Well my first time was a lot better than yours. But then I had used unix before. However i did have to write some driver code to get my X windows working. VESA bus stuff. Fun times....
Anyway, my point was that this was when you could tell your card to do any set of valid H sync and dot clocks that it could do, it just didn't care about the monitor, and monitors didn't have "protection". So I have this newer monitor and I want some hi res stuff on the large 16" beast, and I hate the flicker you get at 60Hz.......
All I got was a loud popping sound and a *lot* of smoke. Monitors were expensive back then. It hurt.
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I think a good measure of what a the police can do without a warrant, is what a normal person can do without a warrant. I can't tap the Judges calls, therefore if a cop wants to tap my phone they should need a warrant. If I can't get the GPS logs of the Judges car, then a cop should need a warrant to do the same to me. If this is information our public servants feel we should not have about them, then there *is* an expectation of privacy on that information.
I think enforcement of this type of equality of "public" information will keep Judges and cops in line better in general. Set it into law that as soon as the Police don't need a warrant for some information, we get the information too about them and their families.
Of course in the real world YMMV.
Its worse than that. Controversial articles, and even poorly done ones get a lot of citations discussing what a load of bunk they are. This pushes the Impact factor up.
One guy that applied to our lab for work had a fantastic "citation index" and the bean counters wanted him on the team. However almost every paper that cited his papers where about what a load of crap he was peddling. And indeed it was crap.
As stated in some post above. Its not about liability. It means that if I buy something its suppose to work "as expected" or be usable. Otherwise I'm entitled to a refund or replacment product. I can't sue anyone. Many places this is *already* the case a EULA cannot take that right away.
As an example I will use the typical "can't return games once opened" when I had problems when I was living in NZ. The game had the hardware requirements on the back and my machine was well above it. However I was getting less that 5 fps and its was totally unplayable. I took it back and they said no way. I said, "what about this law and if you want i can got to the commerce commission". They said, "refund or voucher".
Its pretty easy to see the a zero dollar refund is not a deal breaker.
We only use knifes when we take dogs. Its pretty easy to kill a boar with a knife, and I have never been "tusked" badly. Its also cheaper. When my Dad was hunting they used their fists.
Well some of the biggest Physics frauds were published in Nature and Science. So Impact factor, which is set by a company without peer review, is not in fact a good measure of the articles in the journal. Hell IIRC Science even had a homeopathy article in it once.
Well I enjoyed Doom 3 and quake 4 single player. I always find the idea of deep story in a Movie or video game a bit of a oxymoron. You just can't fit enough into them in terms of dialog or extra information to really get deep. This is less true in games but interaction takes away some of that narrative. But like a short story it can still be good.
If I want a complex involved story I read a book. If i want atmosphere or action I play games or watch movies. If I want interaction I usually play online or with my wife.
Id have been targeting a corner that they are good at and that has done pretty well. Half life went in a different direction and got a lot of fans too (I found it boring and didn't finish).
Read the patents... There is nothing "novel" about them. In fact most could be challenged. But because there are so many patents on lame aspects of "novel" implementation details, it would cost way too much and take way too long.
There is nothing novel in h264. But lawyers are making a mint.
Turns out thats not enough energy. You need *more* energy that in the entire visible universe. Oh and negative matter (matter that that comes up as a negative for the mass energy tensor in the GR field equations), and thats *not* antimatter. Also you can't use a warp drive to collect all this energy either.
We have also left out that these solutions violate suspected conservation terms and that your warp bubble is causally disconnected from the universe. Seriously the infinite improbability drive is be better bet.
Ironically everyone is very optimistic science pretty much has this all wrong, and yet so confident in so many things with *far* less evidence and theory behind it.
The universe may indeed be stranger than we think. c may really be the ultimate speed limit.
Thats the bit that bugs me the most. We can do interstellar travel on paper without breaking any known rules or inventing a bunch of stuff we think probably does not exist. You don't need FTL.
ps yes I know you are being funny.....
Experts in a field we are quite busy publishing their findings, which for whatever reason is not a valid citation on wikipedia. As a scientist its what I am paid to do. I am not paid to fight with some unemployed self appointed editor of "knowledge" who's only qualification seems to be the ability to over pedantically interpret arbitrary rules.
The wiki might be good for party facts, but not if really need to know something.
To be honest we have better things to do with our time.
So are taxes. Thats what my daddy always told me. The only thing you can be certain of is Death and Taxes.
He also said that if its got tits or wheels, it will end up costing you a lot of money.
True wisdom I tell you.
Out of the box Linux distros have terrible security. Well most I have used with one exception -Slackware. Seriously out of the box I don't think they are any better than windows. But the difference is that I can configure it to be reasonably secure. With some effort I can get pretty secure and with a bunch of inconvenience I can get secure.
For high security --ie Top Secret military stuff. I wouldn't assume that I could or know what to do. But I assume that even with these windows boxes, we are not talking about that kind of level of security.
Where you don't care where the data you get comes from as long as it is authentic.
So what does authentic mean in this context?...With no address and no ports it didn't come from anywhere and, well, can't be going anywhere either.
The mesh may not be TCP, but it will be packet based. A widely deployed globally addressable packet protocol. Say like IPv6?
There is a lot more to a network stack than TLA. Though I am happy to see ATM getting phased out now.
IPv6 is flawed and nobody is eager to switch, at least for now.
How so? Really.
However NAT is broken. Perhaps your happy about it because someone else does all the dirty work for you?
Another problem is that people think NATs are a feature rather than symptom of the inadequacy of ip4. Put something like IPsec in there with the NAT traversing and you really start to see how much easer life would be if we were on ip6 now.
The cost of server infrastructure is *very* expensive. Now you want to make that all available to a whole bunch of people who didn't pay and won't pay a cent. Thats not a good plan unless you do it with someone else's money. And even then its still a bad plan....
I was the other way around. I just couldn't quite get into the UT's the same as Q3. My friends still play a lot of UT, but we do have the odd Q3 game. But my wife and I like Q3 best.
Have you seen the article on /. about pig flu?
Whats disturbing is how many people really think that every little thing is going to be the end of humanity as we know it. As for me and my family, I think we can handle a little flu and 1 in million power outage.
Well I have seen some reports that indicate some "loops" are still pretty susceptible to this sort of thing. But no one I worked with views any more seriously than say power out for a day tops in major centers and that a bad solar storm. Sat coms is another thing entirely.
The 1989 event was pretty bad for Canada. But the power was only out for hours. Not days. I was working in a power critical industrial area. There where redundant *unplugged* transformers for the whole area. These would not get damaged and would just cycled in such an event. Sure if every transformer connected on the whole grid blew some parts may take a while, but thats a rather extreme case. Most major substations/etc also have high levels of redundancy.
Its bird flu all over again. xkcd already got this news story wrapped.
Your missing the point. People want to download all the "rubbish" and "crap" that the MPAA/RIAA put out for free. They don't want to actually do hard work.
In a "free market"--that is a market where the laws of copyright are the same for everyone, then there should be a clear demand for stuff thats not "rubbish" and "crap" that a company could exploit for some profit. If the current prices are so out of whack and internet distribution is so free then low prices should lead to high volume and large margins. So what is everyone waiting for?
Oh thats right. They are all sitting at their desk with a computer that their mother brought them with an internet connection they didn't pay for downloading music and movies that they claim is "rubbish".
I'm a coward who only breaks laws I can get away with...
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasis mine.
People use credit card to get accounts on Rapid Share. They can disclose at lot more than a IP number to "Rights Holders". In this case a logged IP number is least of their worries. Their name on the bill is far more condemning....
Well my first time was a lot better than yours. But then I had used unix before. However i did have to write some driver code to get my X windows working. VESA bus stuff. Fun times....
Anyway, my point was that this was when you could tell your card to do any set of valid H sync and dot clocks that it could do, it just didn't care about the monitor, and monitors didn't have "protection". So I have this newer monitor and I want some hi res stuff on the large 16" beast, and I hate the flicker you get at 60Hz.......
All I got was a loud popping sound and a *lot* of smoke. Monitors were expensive back then. It hurt.
You had salt shakers? --I envy you.