China is doing about as much to stop "piracy" as they are to stop anything else they're doing. For example, executing their head of food safety over taking bribes to ignore unsafe food for export instead of actually doing something to prevent the next guy from doing the same thing.
I don't get what you mean. How exactly do you "do something" to prevent something like that? Well, one good way is to make sure everybody understands that if you do it, you'll be fucking executed. I am having a hard time imagining what this "something" is that you want them to do.
I think corporate behavior here in the USA would be much improved with a few executions here and there.
As a Canadian citizen who has visited the US a few times in the past, I'm actually scared to travel to your country, knowing what I know about what you do to some of your guests.
As a US citizen, I'm scared to travel to YOUR country because I eventually have to come back to mine. At that point, I'm treated like I obviously spent the last two weeks buying as much plastic explosives and heroin as I could possibly get my hands on. In 2000, I traveled to Israel for a month and was barely questioned when I returned. "Oh, you saw Jerusalem? That's so COOL!" These days I go to Banff for a week and come back and it's like I might have raped a dozen infants.
It's enough to make a person want to become a terrorist.
Couldn't he have avoided that by, you know, not selling to people in the United States? Or did the US just decide that because somebody in another country was behaving badly, they had to extradite and punish him? If that's the case, why don't we start asking Holland to extradite anybody who's ever smoked pot in a coffee shop there?
The way you hold them responsible is by passing a law that as of July 1, 2010, it is illegal to be an employee of BP in the United States. Anyone who is employed by BP and on US soil will be subject to 30 years of prison time. Either quit or leave the country. I am not interested in money at this point.
Wat i don't understand is why google is running a packet sniffer and collecting this data; You cant do this highly technical thing unintentionally!
Bullshit. Have you ever created a buggy tcpdump filter, started the logger and went home for the night, then came back in the morning to find that you'd filled up a 300 GB disk with nonsense because you made a typo? I have.
WTF. Her security was certainly broken, but not by Google - she broke it herself. She should be fired for not using encryption.
Fired? She'll be lucky if that's all that happens. She just admitted to a serious contractual breach ON RECORD. I expect the company will now take her car and her house. What a fucking idiot.
This'll send Google a clear message -- honesty doesn't pay off. If you fuck up and overstep your bounds, for crissakes do NOT let anyone know you did it.
You're insane. The reason you are getting the prompt is because when you installed the associated app, you installed it for all users, the Windows equivalent of installing to/usr/local/bin instead of ~/bin. You're complaining that in order to remove a shortcut which is managed by the system, as opposed to your user account, you have to confirm the permission to do it?
Could these numbers be confirmed by gravimetric measurements of the tides? The moon, sun, and to a very small extent the planet Jupiter, raise tides in the ocean and induce a gravitational moment. It seems like we could measure that and use it to approximate the mass of the oceans and therefore their volume, though off the top of my head I'm not sure about the details.
It's an information-destroying loop. Google Trends --> Headline Keywords --> Google Trends --> Headline Keywords... Unless the feedback loop is deliberately broken, it's just going to continue to feed noise back into itself until we have headlines like "Pork Snot Shoots Big Whale Bad Monger."
At some point human beings have to feed actual intelligence into the system. People are treating Google like it's some kind of oracle. It's just a very complicated parrot that takes what you say and says it back to you.
Don't blame the pirates. Pirates were doing ISPs a favor by using USENET. Something pirated over USENET only travels over the public internet once. Then every user of the ISP can download it on the ISPs network at no cost to the ISP. Kill USENET and those pirates go back to P2P where every download goes across the public internet at least once per user.
"Your honor, I did not facilitate massive copyright infringement, I just provided network access... Well, I guess in a sense you could say I acted as a cache... Well yes, technically every pirated file was stored on a hard disk located in my building and downloaded from there... No, I'm not responsible for it, it was just a network optimization..."
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
When you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens, I don't think the first thing you do is start making assumptions.
Yeah because theres no possibility someone caused it without any involvement from him.
You seem to be confusing what is possible with what is probable. Besides, you're missing the point. People are not sitting in court consciously going "Hey, this guy has a big scar, he must be guilty" -- the process is unconscious.
1 GB of RAM alone can store a huge number of scanned pages. Given the cost of commercial copiers, having them contain 16 or even 32 GB of RAM wouldn't affect the cost very much.
For black and white documents, definitely true. Supposing 600 DPI, an 8.5x11" page of bitonal data (1 bit per pixel) takes up 4207500 bytes. If you just stopped there, you could store 255 pages per gig, which isn't a terribly impressive capacity... But using a compression method like JBIG2 which can give upwards of 50x reduction for single pages and even more than that for multiple pages, you're now talking about 15000, 20000 or more pages per gig.
However, pointing to the price of RAM at the present time is a bit dishonest, since copiers have been around since earlier than a few months ago... I don't remember the price points from five years ago, but I bet if in 2005 you went to a manufacturer and said "Why don't you just stick a gig of RAM in there" they'd fall over and die laughing. Yes, it's a possible solution NOW, but we're not talking about NOW.
How wrong you are. Open Wi-Fi is like an open window in your house - just because you leave the window open doesn't mean its okay for anybody to climb in and "have a look around".
Nobody climbed into the house. They looked through the wide open window while standing in the street. Don't like it? Close your window and draw the blinds.
And why do people continue to act surprised by it? The little seed of an idea which eventually grew to become Google was PageRank -- a DATA MINING ALGORITHM.
Oh my God, a company founded on data mining wants data to mine! I'm shocked!
They don't figure it out by looking at your plugin list, they figure it out because your fingerprint is essentially random (in other words, "highly unlikely") looking.
His argument is basically correct. Noether's theorem says that for every symmetry there is a conserved quantity. In the case of time, the conserved quantity is energy. This means that if the laws of physics are not symmetric in time, then energy need not be conserved.
You can make some money, then donate it to charity. Or, you could donate to charity, and HOPE you'll make enough money to cover it. In the first case, you risk nothing. In the second case, you risk a bunch of money. So not only are they donating to charity, they're doing it with money they don't even have yet. When's the last time YOU took out a loan just to donate the whole thing to charity? And you're criticizing them for it?
True, but technically uninteresting. If you are standing 100 meters away from me, then technically I never actually see "you," I see "you, 333 nanoseconds ago."
In order for there to be a past, there has to be a "then" and a "now," and these are relative to your frame of reference. Yes, it's 1.5 billion years in the "past," but it's unimportant because there's no possibility of ever "catching up" to it. What we see right now, for all useful purposes, could be said to be happening "now."
I wonder if they'd do the same for people considered criminally dangerous.
The idea of a dangerous criminal implies that there exists something such as a "non-dangerous criminal." So, what exactly is a non-dangerous criminal, and why are we wasting our time, money, and moral capital by imprisoning people who aren't dangerous?
What would be funny is if we eventually discover that yes, technically there are statements that are true but cannot be printed, but in reality, there is only one such statement, "NPR*NPR*".
This is why the incompleteness theorems don't give me a feeling of helplessness, as they seem to do to other people. Yes, you found an example which shows theoretical incompleteness. But can we construct OTHER statements that are also true but unprintable? If not, then there's no reason to point to the incompleteness theorems as an excuse to throw our hands up.
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China is doing about as much to stop "piracy" as they are to stop anything else they're doing. For example, executing their head of food safety over taking bribes to ignore unsafe food for export instead of actually doing something to prevent the next guy from doing the same thing.
I don't get what you mean. How exactly do you "do something" to prevent something like that? Well, one good way is to make sure everybody understands that if you do it, you'll be fucking executed. I am having a hard time imagining what this "something" is that you want them to do.
I think corporate behavior here in the USA would be much improved with a few executions here and there.
As a Canadian citizen who has visited the US a few times in the past, I'm actually scared to travel to your country, knowing what I know about what you do to some of your guests.
As a US citizen, I'm scared to travel to YOUR country because I eventually have to come back to mine. At that point, I'm treated like I obviously spent the last two weeks buying as much plastic explosives and heroin as I could possibly get my hands on. In 2000, I traveled to Israel for a month and was barely questioned when I returned. "Oh, you saw Jerusalem? That's so COOL!" These days I go to Banff for a week and come back and it's like I might have raped a dozen infants.
It's enough to make a person want to become a terrorist.
Couldn't he have avoided that by, you know, not selling to people in the United States? Or did the US just decide that because somebody in another country was behaving badly, they had to extradite and punish him? If that's the case, why don't we start asking Holland to extradite anybody who's ever smoked pot in a coffee shop there?
The way you hold them responsible is by passing a law that as of July 1, 2010, it is illegal to be an employee of BP in the United States. Anyone who is employed by BP and on US soil will be subject to 30 years of prison time. Either quit or leave the country. I am not interested in money at this point.
Wat i don't understand is why google is running a packet sniffer and collecting this data; You cant do this highly technical thing unintentionally!
Bullshit. Have you ever created a buggy tcpdump filter, started the logger and went home for the night, then came back in the morning to find that you'd filled up a 300 GB disk with nonsense because you made a typo? I have.
WTF. Her security was certainly broken, but not by Google - she broke it herself. She should be fired for not using encryption.
Fired? She'll be lucky if that's all that happens. She just admitted to a serious contractual breach ON RECORD. I expect the company will now take her car and her house. What a fucking idiot.
This'll send Google a clear message -- honesty doesn't pay off. If you fuck up and overstep your bounds, for crissakes do NOT let anyone know you did it.
You're insane. The reason you are getting the prompt is because when you installed the associated app, you installed it for all users, the Windows equivalent of installing to /usr/local/bin instead of ~/bin. You're complaining that in order to remove a shortcut which is managed by the system, as opposed to your user account, you have to confirm the permission to do it?
Could these numbers be confirmed by gravimetric measurements of the tides? The moon, sun, and to a very small extent the planet Jupiter, raise tides in the ocean and induce a gravitational moment. It seems like we could measure that and use it to approximate the mass of the oceans and therefore their volume, though off the top of my head I'm not sure about the details.
It's an information-destroying loop. Google Trends --> Headline Keywords --> Google Trends --> Headline Keywords... Unless the feedback loop is deliberately broken, it's just going to continue to feed noise back into itself until we have headlines like "Pork Snot Shoots Big Whale Bad Monger."
At some point human beings have to feed actual intelligence into the system. People are treating Google like it's some kind of oracle. It's just a very complicated parrot that takes what you say and says it back to you.
Don't blame the pirates. Pirates were doing ISPs a favor by using USENET. Something pirated over USENET only travels over the public internet once. Then every user of the ISP can download it on the ISPs network at no cost to the ISP. Kill USENET and those pirates go back to P2P where every download goes across the public internet at least once per user.
"Your honor, I did not facilitate massive copyright infringement, I just provided network access... Well, I guess in a sense you could say I acted as a cache... Well yes, technically every pirated file was stored on a hard disk located in my building and downloaded from there... No, I'm not responsible for it, it was just a network optimization..."
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
When you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens, I don't think the first thing you do is start making assumptions.
Yeah because theres no possibility someone caused it without any involvement from him.
You seem to be confusing what is possible with what is probable. Besides, you're missing the point. People are not sitting in court consciously going "Hey, this guy has a big scar, he must be guilty" -- the process is unconscious.
1 GB of RAM alone can store a huge number of scanned pages. Given the cost of commercial copiers, having them contain 16 or even 32 GB of RAM wouldn't affect the cost very much.
For black and white documents, definitely true. Supposing 600 DPI, an 8.5x11" page of bitonal data (1 bit per pixel) takes up 4207500 bytes. If you just stopped there, you could store 255 pages per gig, which isn't a terribly impressive capacity... But using a compression method like JBIG2 which can give upwards of 50x reduction for single pages and even more than that for multiple pages, you're now talking about 15000, 20000 or more pages per gig.
However, pointing to the price of RAM at the present time is a bit dishonest, since copiers have been around since earlier than a few months ago... I don't remember the price points from five years ago, but I bet if in 2005 you went to a manufacturer and said "Why don't you just stick a gig of RAM in there" they'd fall over and die laughing. Yes, it's a possible solution NOW, but we're not talking about NOW.
How wrong you are. Open Wi-Fi is like an open window in your house - just because you leave the window open doesn't mean its okay for anybody to climb in and "have a look around".
Nobody climbed into the house. They looked through the wide open window while standing in the street. Don't like it? Close your window and draw the blinds.
And why do people continue to act surprised by it? The little seed of an idea which eventually grew to become Google was PageRank -- a DATA MINING ALGORITHM.
Oh my God, a company founded on data mining wants data to mine! I'm shocked!
They don't figure it out by looking at your plugin list, they figure it out because your fingerprint is essentially random (in other words, "highly unlikely") looking.
That's only useful if a whole lot of people use it. Otherwise, you have a very clear fingerprint: you're "That guy with that weird randomizer plugin."
His argument is basically correct. Noether's theorem says that for every symmetry there is a conserved quantity. In the case of time, the conserved quantity is energy. This means that if the laws of physics are not symmetric in time, then energy need not be conserved.
You can make some money, then donate it to charity. Or, you could donate to charity, and HOPE you'll make enough money to cover it. In the first case, you risk nothing. In the second case, you risk a bunch of money. So not only are they donating to charity, they're doing it with money they don't even have yet. When's the last time YOU took out a loan just to donate the whole thing to charity? And you're criticizing them for it?
True, but technically uninteresting. If you are standing 100 meters away from me, then technically I never actually see "you," I see "you, 333 nanoseconds ago."
In order for there to be a past, there has to be a "then" and a "now," and these are relative to your frame of reference. Yes, it's 1.5 billion years in the "past," but it's unimportant because there's no possibility of ever "catching up" to it. What we see right now, for all useful purposes, could be said to be happening "now."
Ah geez, let's just go take a few shots.
I wonder if they'd do the same for people considered criminally dangerous.
The idea of a dangerous criminal implies that there exists something such as a "non-dangerous criminal." So, what exactly is a non-dangerous criminal, and why are we wasting our time, money, and moral capital by imprisoning people who aren't dangerous?
What word would you have used? "Democratic?" That means something totally different.
Yeah well, for that to work, it would require companies to actually productize their inventions. Insanity!
What would be funny is if we eventually discover that yes, technically there are statements that are true but cannot be printed, but in reality, there is only one such statement, "NPR*NPR*".
This is why the incompleteness theorems don't give me a feeling of helplessness, as they seem to do to other people. Yes, you found an example which shows theoretical incompleteness. But can we construct OTHER statements that are also true but unprintable? If not, then there's no reason to point to the incompleteness theorems as an excuse to throw our hands up.