Breaking a ToS is not necessarily itself illegal. It is grounds for the stadium to refuse you admission but they are allowed to do this regardless, for any reason or often for no reason at all. It would be like buying currency on a MMO, generally against the ToS and once could reasonably expect account suspensions or bans to be dished out but doing so is not a criminal offense.
You can save files in MS Word (.doc/.docx) format in OpenOffice.org. I suspect that they do this simply due to the fact that these file formats are so widely used. If they were to use one of the more obscure formats one suspects they would be simply preaching to the choir.
Destroying evidence and/or perverting the course of justice is still a criminal offense but it doesn't get you put on the sex offender register.
If I were the type of person to enjoy a certain sort of images I know which conviction I would choose.
At school we would write programs (mostly silly adventure game style things) in QBasic and share them with the whole school on an unsecured hard drive attatched to the main server. I once added a few lines of code that went something like 150 PRINT My name is Adam and I like willy 160 GOTO 150 to a friend's game. Happy times.
The scientists are searching through a parking lot for a car that may or may not be there. The parking lot is 100ft tall and they have searched the lowest 60 feet of it. If the car exists and conforms to their understanding of what a car is then it will be found by searching the next 40 feet. However, they have ladders and the equipment to keep climbing past the top floor of the parking lot. If they find the car floating 30ft above the top floor of the parking lot they will have to redifine what a car is.
Yes that's right, you heard it here first; The Higgs Boson = flying cars. Let's make it happen people.
Just because software is open source doesn't necessarily mean licenses to use it are free. Open source and free software often overlap but they are not one and the same thing.
That is the energy of an individual proton in the beam. The energy of the entire beam is considerably higher, what with it containing a fair number of them. 2.26*10^15 if Marcansoft is right about the 362MJ beam energy and I havn't overlooked something.
You remind me of the kid at school who would ask what relevance every single thing they were being taught would have in a work place.
I think it reasonable to expect taxpayers to get something back from it
You mean like the computer you wrote your post on? The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so? What you seem to be advocating is akin to the recent UK government plans to assess potential economic benefits of research before granting funding which has met with considerable opposition. Private enterprise is certainly well-equipped enough to make a profit for the economy by applying the findings of fundamental research. Take the iPod for example. This needed research into materials, solid state physics, batteries etc, much of which would have been done at a government subsidised university/insitution. Private enterprise stands on the shoulders of giants and provides the economic benefit that easily justifies subsidising pure research.
"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
-George Washington (address to Congress, 8 January, 1790)
They're certainly a bigger threat than terrorism, if that's what you mean. Imagine the Tunguska object (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_Event) had entered the atmosphere a few hours later over a city, say Paris or London. Within seconds it would have killed orders of magnitude more people than terrorism ever has.
Well said. Just this morning I saw 2 policemen questioning a photographer near to the Monument in London. I was very tempted to whip out my phone and take a picture (with flash for extra effect) and leg it. The only problem would be if they caught me there are a few pictures of my girlfriend on my phone that they would probably question the legality of (she's 22) and get me blacklisted from certain jobs for life. Awful awful government.
If they are looking to maximise short term profits over long-term gains. My guess is that the owners are looking to sell the paper come this summer/autumn or they are taking a massive long-term gamble that I fear will not pay off.
and cast your net further afield. American ladies love the accent and you can increase the chances of landing a bite from one you won't throw back by some simple pool selection. Universities are a good place to start. Whilst I would imagine that people with degrees are generally more intelligent than average, it's a pretty crude benchmark for intelligence. I have no degree (currently studying part time for a maths degree) but I consider myself more intelligent than a friend of mine with a 2:2 in Media, Culture and Communication.
Well I'm starting a part time degree with the OU and there is an induction in second life tomorrow. I'm going to go along and try to give it the benefit of the doubt. I made an avatar purely for the purpose of my OU studies (distance learning, but SL is not integral to the course, all SL activities are optional) and the interface feels very clunky. Their island is interesting and I will do some mroe exploring but I doubt I'll be spending any substantial amount of time in there.
I mostly use facebook for winding up people I used to go to school with. The more I use facebook the less there is to do the next day as people remove me as a friend. Oh well, I don'thave my home address listed and it's not like I was friends with the majority of them anyway. It's funny that I've actually reconnected with a few people due to their appreciation of my antics on facebook. Also if you name your 3rd child at age 21 "Mayson", expect some flak.
of integrated graphics makes me shudder. Didn't we get over that in about 1999? Seriously though this looks like a fairly terrible solution unless you feel like running Vista on something the size of an iPod.
You're right. I should have written "I guess someone, somewhere is probably running a compromised virtual machine or running the code in WINE." That being said, although WINE isn't a virtual machine, for everyday purposes it looks like a duck and goes "quack"...
At the risk of stating the obvious, the percentage of compromised users running a particular OS will be a function of market share, ease of infection/spread, available coding knowledgebase and probably a whole host more. I'm going to guess if you're going to hire a team of professional coders to write a botnet then you're going to have at least a rudimentry grasp of the factors involved. I'm willing to bet that windows 3.1 is full of security holes that could be exploted, the reason that noone does is that almost noone is running it anymore. The same could be said for various flavours of Linux, even if there was a security flaw that would enable 100% of users of say, freeBSD (lol) to potentially become infected, it would still be arguably more time/cost effective to write code for XP. I would imagine that the spammers also take into account that Linux users tend to be a little more computer-savvy and are more likely to realise their machine is infected and take remedial steps, reducing the overall uptime of any possible botnet.
This is all pulled out of my ass while I'm supposed to be working, I'm sure that the people that do this for a living have thought about it much harder and have accurate weighting on each variable.
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Breaking a ToS is not necessarily itself illegal. It is grounds for the stadium to refuse you admission but they are allowed to do this regardless, for any reason or often for no reason at all. It would be like buying currency on a MMO, generally against the ToS and once could reasonably expect account suspensions or bans to be dished out but doing so is not a criminal offense.
You can save files in MS Word (.doc/ .docx) format in OpenOffice.org. I suspect that they do this simply due to the fact that these file formats are so widely used. If they were to use one of the more obscure formats one suspects they would be simply preaching to the choir.
Destroying evidence and/or perverting the course of justice is still a criminal offense but it doesn't get you put on the sex offender register. If I were the type of person to enjoy a certain sort of images I know which conviction I would choose.
At school we would write programs (mostly silly adventure game style things) in QBasic and share them with the whole school on an unsecured hard drive attatched to the main server. I once added a few lines of code that went something like 150 PRINT My name is Adam and I like willy 160 GOTO 150 to a friend's game. Happy times.
At least it wasn't Soulja Boy.
The scientists are searching through a parking lot for a car that may or may not be there. The parking lot is 100ft tall and they have searched the lowest 60 feet of it. If the car exists and conforms to their understanding of what a car is then it will be found by searching the next 40 feet. However, they have ladders and the equipment to keep climbing past the top floor of the parking lot. If they find the car floating 30ft above the top floor of the parking lot they will have to redifine what a car is. Yes that's right, you heard it here first; The Higgs Boson = flying cars. Let's make it happen people.
Just because software is open source doesn't necessarily mean licenses to use it are free. Open source and free software often overlap but they are not one and the same thing.
spreadsheet
OpenOffice.org Calc.
No. Just no.
blah blah Beowulf blah blah
That is the energy of an individual proton in the beam. The energy of the entire beam is considerably higher, what with it containing a fair number of them. 2.26*10^15 if Marcansoft is right about the 362MJ beam energy and I havn't overlooked something.
I think it reasonable to expect taxpayers to get something back from it
You mean like the computer you wrote your post on? The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so? What you seem to be advocating is akin to the recent UK government plans to assess potential economic benefits of research before granting funding which has met with considerable opposition. Private enterprise is certainly well-equipped enough to make a profit for the economy by applying the findings of fundamental research. Take the iPod for example. This needed research into materials, solid state physics, batteries etc, much of which would have been done at a government subsidised university/insitution. Private enterprise stands on the shoulders of giants and provides the economic benefit that easily justifies subsidising pure research.
"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
-George Washington (address to Congress, 8 January, 1790)
I was referring to acts of terrorism not officialy sponsored by any given state.
They're certainly a bigger threat than terrorism, if that's what you mean. Imagine the Tunguska object (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_Event) had entered the atmosphere a few hours later over a city, say Paris or London. Within seconds it would have killed orders of magnitude more people than terrorism ever has.
Well said. Just this morning I saw 2 policemen questioning a photographer near to the Monument in London. I was very tempted to whip out my phone and take a picture (with flash for extra effect) and leg it. The only problem would be if they caught me there are a few pictures of my girlfriend on my phone that they would probably question the legality of (she's 22) and get me blacklisted from certain jobs for life. Awful awful government.
If they are looking to maximise short term profits over long-term gains. My guess is that the owners are looking to sell the paper come this summer/autumn or they are taking a massive long-term gamble that I fear will not pay off.
Detection of electromagnetic radiation by living things is scientifically explainable, it's just not done by the vast majority of humans.
Actually I have two organs capable of doing just that. They are called "eyes".
and cast your net further afield. American ladies love the accent and you can increase the chances of landing a bite from one you won't throw back by some simple pool selection. Universities are a good place to start. Whilst I would imagine that people with degrees are generally more intelligent than average, it's a pretty crude benchmark for intelligence. I have no degree (currently studying part time for a maths degree) but I consider myself more intelligent than a friend of mine with a 2:2 in Media, Culture and Communication.
Well I'm starting a part time degree with the OU and there is an induction in second life tomorrow. I'm going to go along and try to give it the benefit of the doubt. I made an avatar purely for the purpose of my OU studies (distance learning, but SL is not integral to the course, all SL activities are optional) and the interface feels very clunky. Their island is interesting and I will do some mroe exploring but I doubt I'll be spending any substantial amount of time in there.
I mostly use facebook for winding up people I used to go to school with. The more I use facebook the less there is to do the next day as people remove me as a friend. Oh well, I don'thave my home address listed and it's not like I was friends with the majority of them anyway. It's funny that I've actually reconnected with a few people due to their appreciation of my antics on facebook. Also if you name your 3rd child at age 21 "Mayson", expect some flak.
of integrated graphics makes me shudder. Didn't we get over that in about 1999? Seriously though this looks like a fairly terrible solution unless you feel like running Vista on something the size of an iPod.
I hope they don't include a brand sticker. Most people I know wouldn't take kindly to my having CP on my computer.
Flirt & Squirt 3?
No, only ones that disagree with my worldview.
You're right. I should have written "I guess someone, somewhere is probably running a compromised virtual machine or running the code in WINE." That being said, although WINE isn't a virtual machine, for everyday purposes it looks like a duck and goes "quack"...
At the risk of stating the obvious, the percentage of compromised users running a particular OS will be a function of market share, ease of infection/spread, available coding knowledgebase and probably a whole host more. I'm going to guess if you're going to hire a team of professional coders to write a botnet then you're going to have at least a rudimentry grasp of the factors involved. I'm willing to bet that windows 3.1 is full of security holes that could be exploted, the reason that noone does is that almost noone is running it anymore. The same could be said for various flavours of Linux, even if there was a security flaw that would enable 100% of users of say, freeBSD (lol) to potentially become infected, it would still be arguably more time/cost effective to write code for XP. I would imagine that the spammers also take into account that Linux users tend to be a little more computer-savvy and are more likely to realise their machine is infected and take remedial steps, reducing the overall uptime of any possible botnet. This is all pulled out of my ass while I'm supposed to be working, I'm sure that the people that do this for a living have thought about it much harder and have accurate weighting on each variable.