People would be arrested for filing false reports until everyone was too terrified to keep up the effort.
More like, people would be arrested until the prosecutor's workload becomes unmanageable. You can't just arrest millions of people -- where do you put them, who handles the paperwork?
Say you're the only plumber in a town of 1000 people. At a recent town meeting, the motion was passed to declare you "a douchebag." Thus irked, you decide to move to the next town, leaving the name-callers to fend for themselves. Now because you provided a vital service to customers, should you be legally forced to stay in business in town? Is moving out of town "throwing your weight around?"
It does nothing of the sort. It would make it easier to rule out many signals as being extraterrestrial in origin. It has no effect on the difficulty of hoaxing.
Humans should module some very low bit-rate, spread spectrum, wide band signal onto every single transmission we generate, which identifies that transmission as being human in origin. In the future, if we detect a signal we can just check if this signature is there. If it is, question answered. If not, something interesting is happening.
Like protesting and blocking the road so I cannot get to work and feed my family.
No such right exists (the "right" to get to a given location by a given means of travel along a given route). Go some other way or by some other means.
Or do you believe that requirement of driver's licenses to drive on public roads is unconstitutional?
multiboxing means having two (or more) WoW accounts playing simultaneously on different computers (or in the same computer if it's powerful enough).
i just checked, apparently it's not against blizzard's EULA to do that.
Slow down there Sparky... Are you telling me that more than one person can play WoW at the same time? That it's... some kind of multi-player game? This changes things.
So why not teach kids, as early as possible to be able to take advantage of this amazing resource to learn when and where they want?
Are you freaking kidding me? Kids already understand how to use the Internet better than most adults. They also know a bunch of stuff they don't want you to know they know, and more. My four year old knows how to open a browser and go to his favorite web sites. They don't need this sort of help. They probably think the way YOU use the Internet is archaic, stupid, and uncreative.
Well I can see you grew up rather privileged.
There might be some small segment of kids who never used a computer, though I find that hard to believe. So educate those kids. No need for billion dollar programs that the vast majority will find completely pointless.
My car should just recognise me and not be willing to start for anyone else without checking with me first.
You're at a remote campsite, out of cell range. You've been drinking. You trip over something and fall in the fire pit, burning your face beyond recognition. Your girlfriend tries to take you to the hospital, but the car doesn't start when she turns the key. You die of shock. Your girlfriend dies from exposure 12 days later.
It might cost them a lot the first time, but after bitch-slapping the plaintiff in court and recovering $100k in court costs, others will be discouraged from trying the same thing.
Bullshit. Google is doing FAR MORE than necessary. Google owns the damn search engine, remember? If they want to give higher rankings to their own stuff, they can just MAKE IT HAPPEN. No need to hire a marketing firm and spam the web with links. Get it?
Link spamming is something anyone can do. Google can create an advantage for themselves by doing it, but so can you. There is no uneven playing field here. In fact, I don't think Google is morally obligated to do anything at all -- any company could do the same thing to manipulate their own search rankings. Purposefully hurting their own search ranking is a bit of above-and-beyond behavior that makes me think there might be a few good people left at Google, after all.
Nobody was given any orders, what are you talking about? PayPal said "we'll refund the money if the item is destroyed." The buyer wanted the refund, so destroyed the item. No "orders" required.
Filing in a small claims court is usually very cheap and does not require a lawyer.
But the seller could only recover $750 that way. If you ask for more than $750, the defendant gains the right to a jury trial, and if they exercise that right, the case moves to the usual circuit court instead of small claims court. You can ask for $2500 and hope PayPal decides it's not worth it to fight (it probably isn't, since they'd probably spend more than that just preparing their case), but you risk being dragged into a full-on legal dispute that DOES require lawyers.
For a $2500 refund, I'm surprised thay don't require the whole, unbroken violin to be returned to PayPal.
Uh, how would that help? Wouldn't the buyer just ship them the cheap violin you already mentioned? It supports your claim that the thing was a counterfeit!
if it is a fake, then presumably there'd be no great loss in destroying it.
Really? Suppose I take a very large, very real sapphire, and try to pass it off as the Star of India. It's a fake Star of India, but it still might be worth $500,000 because it's a big sapphire.
Funny you mention fossil drivers and running a BBS over telnet, because I did exactly that back in 1995. The recipe is this: shell account on UNIX server. Custom fossil driver (written by me). The driver dials the shell server. The shell account runs a small daemon, ibbsd (also written by me), which listens on a port, and does a netcat-style copyover -- on the PC end, the BBS software thinks it's waiting for a regular modem call. The fossil driver does the magic there.
You could telnet myisp.com 14919 and get the Renegade login prompt. I never did get virtual multi-connections working, that would have required designing a real protocol between ibbsd and the fossil driver and, being a teenager, I didn't have the ability or wisdom at the time.
I assume that by "wiping" you include re-flashing all the firmware (including BIOS), in all of your devices including printers, routers, etc. It ain't as easy as wiping a bunch of drives. In fact, probably cheaper to throw all the equipment right in the recycle truck.
Doesn't having a million-entry host file have some drawbacks? I expect either the whole thing is cached in memory (assuming 128 bytes per cache entry that's over 128 MB to cache the thing), or the file is linearly scanned every time you resolve a hostname, slowing down every single name resolution enormously. Either of those would kind of suck.
I wasn't talking about using SOPA against pro-SOPA companies. I'm talking about using it against individuals and innocuous websites to cause general chaos. If the law allows it, why not? That's the whole point -- expose the bad law by inflicting terrible consequences upon innocent people.
There's a quote by a politician (perhaps a US President) which I can't find exactly, but I can paraphrase it: The best way to expose and destroy an unjust law is by rigorously enforcing it. If anyone knows the exact quote please tell me.
I've always been of the same view. If SOPA passes (I pray it does not), what can I, as an individual, do with it to cause chaos? Could I force Amazon to remove all of my product reviews? Mess with eBay seller feedback? Post copyrighted material in comments on Whitehouse.gov and get the site shut down?
Scandal, huh? You're overclocking to the point that you need liquid nitrogen to cool the processor, then the mobo fails and something smokes and this is a "scandal?"
Corporate interests controlling voter behavior (vote our way or we'll break the Internet) is terrifying, not something you should be getting behind. It happens to be in your favor this time. What about next time they want to manipulate Congress? Will they be on your side then?
VISA gets 3% for doing absolutely nothing for them.
VISA is enabling people who really can't afford your stuff, to buy your stuff anyway. Maybe it's not worth 3% of your revenue, but it's certainly not "absolutely nothing."
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People would be arrested for filing false reports until everyone was too terrified to keep up the effort.
More like, people would be arrested until the prosecutor's workload becomes unmanageable. You can't just arrest millions of people -- where do you put them, who handles the paperwork?
Say you're the only plumber in a town of 1000 people. At a recent town meeting, the motion was passed to declare you "a douchebag." Thus irked, you decide to move to the next town, leaving the name-callers to fend for themselves. Now because you provided a vital service to customers, should you be legally forced to stay in business in town? Is moving out of town "throwing your weight around?"
It does nothing of the sort. It would make it easier to rule out many signals as being extraterrestrial in origin. It has no effect on the difficulty of hoaxing.
Humans should module some very low bit-rate, spread spectrum, wide band signal onto every single transmission we generate, which identifies that transmission as being human in origin. In the future, if we detect a signal we can just check if this signature is there. If it is, question answered. If not, something interesting is happening.
Like protesting and blocking the road so I cannot get to work and feed my family.
No such right exists (the "right" to get to a given location by a given means of travel along a given route). Go some other way or by some other means.
Or do you believe that requirement of driver's licenses to drive on public roads is unconstitutional?
multiboxing means having two (or more) WoW accounts playing simultaneously on different computers (or in the same computer if it's powerful enough). i just checked, apparently it's not against blizzard's EULA to do that.
Slow down there Sparky... Are you telling me that more than one person can play WoW at the same time? That it's... some kind of multi-player game? This changes things.
So why not teach kids, as early as possible to be able to take advantage of this amazing resource to learn when and where they want?
Are you freaking kidding me? Kids already understand how to use the Internet better than most adults. They also know a bunch of stuff they don't want you to know they know, and more. My four year old knows how to open a browser and go to his favorite web sites. They don't need this sort of help. They probably think the way YOU use the Internet is archaic, stupid, and uncreative.
Well I can see you grew up rather privileged.
There might be some small segment of kids who never used a computer, though I find that hard to believe. So educate those kids. No need for billion dollar programs that the vast majority will find completely pointless.
My car should just recognise me and not be willing to start for anyone else without checking with me first.
You're at a remote campsite, out of cell range. You've been drinking. You trip over something and fall in the fire pit, burning your face beyond recognition. Your girlfriend tries to take you to the hospital, but the car doesn't start when she turns the key. You die of shock. Your girlfriend dies from exposure 12 days later.
It might cost them a lot the first time, but after bitch-slapping the plaintiff in court and recovering $100k in court costs, others will be discouraged from trying the same thing.
Bullshit. Google is doing FAR MORE than necessary. Google owns the damn search engine, remember? If they want to give higher rankings to their own stuff, they can just MAKE IT HAPPEN. No need to hire a marketing firm and spam the web with links. Get it?
Link spamming is something anyone can do. Google can create an advantage for themselves by doing it, but so can you. There is no uneven playing field here. In fact, I don't think Google is morally obligated to do anything at all -- any company could do the same thing to manipulate their own search rankings. Purposefully hurting their own search ranking is a bit of above-and-beyond behavior that makes me think there might be a few good people left at Google, after all.
How can they order the destruction of anything?
Nobody was given any orders, what are you talking about? PayPal said "we'll refund the money if the item is destroyed." The buyer wanted the refund, so destroyed the item. No "orders" required.
Filing in a small claims court is usually very cheap and does not require a lawyer.
But the seller could only recover $750 that way. If you ask for more than $750, the defendant gains the right to a jury trial, and if they exercise that right, the case moves to the usual circuit court instead of small claims court. You can ask for $2500 and hope PayPal decides it's not worth it to fight (it probably isn't, since they'd probably spend more than that just preparing their case), but you risk being dragged into a full-on legal dispute that DOES require lawyers.
For a $2500 refund, I'm surprised thay don't require the whole, unbroken violin to be returned to PayPal.
Uh, how would that help? Wouldn't the buyer just ship them the cheap violin you already mentioned? It supports your claim that the thing was a counterfeit!
if it is a fake, then presumably there'd be no great loss in destroying it.
Really? Suppose I take a very large, very real sapphire, and try to pass it off as the Star of India. It's a fake Star of India, but it still might be worth $500,000 because it's a big sapphire.
Funny you mention fossil drivers and running a BBS over telnet, because I did exactly that back in 1995. The recipe is this: shell account on UNIX server. Custom fossil driver (written by me). The driver dials the shell server. The shell account runs a small daemon, ibbsd (also written by me), which listens on a port, and does a netcat-style copyover -- on the PC end, the BBS software thinks it's waiting for a regular modem call. The fossil driver does the magic there.
You could telnet myisp.com 14919 and get the Renegade login prompt. I never did get virtual multi-connections working, that would have required designing a real protocol between ibbsd and the fossil driver and, being a teenager, I didn't have the ability or wisdom at the time.
I assume that by "wiping" you include re-flashing all the firmware (including BIOS), in all of your devices including printers, routers, etc. It ain't as easy as wiping a bunch of drives. In fact, probably cheaper to throw all the equipment right in the recycle truck.
Doesn't having a million-entry host file have some drawbacks? I expect either the whole thing is cached in memory (assuming 128 bytes per cache entry that's over 128 MB to cache the thing), or the file is linearly scanned every time you resolve a hostname, slowing down every single name resolution enormously. Either of those would kind of suck.
So I guess you've never made a typo before in your life?
In a piece of text that has been edited for presentation to a wide audience? No. Those are corrected by a review process.
I wasn't talking about using SOPA against pro-SOPA companies. I'm talking about using it against individuals and innocuous websites to cause general chaos. If the law allows it, why not? That's the whole point -- expose the bad law by inflicting terrible consequences upon innocent people.
There's a quote by a politician (perhaps a US President) which I can't find exactly, but I can paraphrase it: The best way to expose and destroy an unjust law is by rigorously enforcing it. If anyone knows the exact quote please tell me.
I've always been of the same view. If SOPA passes (I pray it does not), what can I, as an individual, do with it to cause chaos? Could I force Amazon to remove all of my product reviews? Mess with eBay seller feedback? Post copyrighted material in comments on Whitehouse.gov and get the site shut down?
Ok, let's posit that I am a "mouthbreathing retard." Care to explain it to the retard? Or are you just trolling?
Scandal, huh? You're overclocking to the point that you need liquid nitrogen to cool the processor, then the mobo fails and something smokes and this is a "scandal?"
Corporate interests controlling voter behavior (vote our way or we'll break the Internet) is terrifying, not something you should be getting behind. It happens to be in your favor this time. What about next time they want to manipulate Congress? Will they be on your side then?
Poverty is not due to lack of food or resources in the world.
VISA gets 3% for doing absolutely nothing for them.
VISA is enabling people who really can't afford your stuff, to buy your stuff anyway. Maybe it's not worth 3% of your revenue, but it's certainly not "absolutely nothing."