Yeah, I'm also more than willing to buy that low-mileage BMW M3 I saw in the dealership parking lot. Problem is they wanted around 70K for it! Ridiculous! Who has that kind of money?
So the logical flow is leading me to use my matter replicator to duplicate my friends one.
That's not only cheaper, but more convenient too, compared to spending, what, like half a day signing some papers and making trips to the bank and stuff.
Extortion occurs when someone threatens you into giving them money. For instance, governments extort income tax from citizens.
That's exactly right, but your forgetting that we have the option of sharing the data amongst ourselves for free, but we are threatened into buying it.
So the onus of proof is most definitely not on me.
Actually the burden of proof was on them, so they did some research. Now if you want to refute their evidence, or have claims to contrary; fine, but the burden of proof now rests squarely on your shoulders.
They have an extremely higher burden from proof to overcome the overwhelming evidence they are full of shit.
Umm not that i subscribe to his faith, but he is anything but a satanist.
I happen to support what he did, purely under the idea of his right to free speech, and the right to destroy something you own, if you want to.
I don't support what he did, I consider him to be in the same boat as neo-nazi's and the KKK, but as with those, their speech must be protected, no matter how wrong they are.
The developer of the original application (incorporate apps) has disavowed knowledge or involvement in the malware. So yes the response is worse thank the crime but it was not the original developer who chose the response. At least until someone proves otherwise it is not fair to blame the original app developer for the malware.
Who else would do it? The only other likely candidates would be someone wanting to discredit the developer, or someone who's trolling.
Most antivirus programs flag all keygens as trojans. The fact that they don't do anything doesn't matter at all. See previous Slashdot article where AV detection = proof of keylogger;)
Still, it's best to run keygens in a VM if you can.
the problem is, by my determination, legalization will result in a larger number of users. this problem, in my mind, is more potent than all the bad side effects of prohibition. so prohibition should continue, with highly addictive drugs
There's a couple of points to be made here, first I don't think there is any evidence that these drugs are not already affordable and accessible to those who wish to experiment with them, I have been offered methamphetamine/methylamphetamine (which the media here in NZ refer to as "P", and most users/dealers refer to as "speed"), more often than I have been offered cannabis, so anecdotally at least, I would say that it is just as accessible. So who exactly are we "freeing" from addiction here?
Methamphetamine's high street price and ease of manufacture means that it is the preferred revenue stream for gangs, who are the main producers of it. I can't quote a source, but fairly recently it was mentioned that only about 8% of the illicit pseudoephedrine (precursor) that goes through our ports is detected by customs, add to that the fact that pseudoephedrine itself is reasonably easy to produce, by fermenting glucose with a benzaldehyde (artificial almond essence) catalyst.
The clandestine manufacture of methamphetamine, although simple, is most often carried out by woefully unqualified and poorly equipt individuals, who are frequently users themselves, and horrifyingly, sometimes in the presence of children. Labs often explode, because of the highly flammable solvents used in the synthesis. The various pollutants produced by this clandestine manufacture are detected in rental accommodation and motels long after the lab is gone, these pollutants are known carcinogens and asthma inducers. None of these labs would exist if not for methampetamine prohibition.
How is transferring an mp3 to another device (still an mp3) format shifting, exactly? Its not format shifting when I take a cd from my house and play it in my car
Surely the rational approach would be that until it can definitively be demonstrated as real it must be treated as a hoax. Unfortunately "ufologists" seem to think their pet theories are somehow immune to such an approach, for entirely bullshit reasons.
I wouldn't go so far as to say, "it must be a hoax", because that implies a malicious intent, when often its just a misinterpreted terrestrial phenomena. Until the point that phenomena is debunked, we can just use Carl Sagan's "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" maxim.
It's easy to pretend "libre" isn't followed by "unpaid". It's also easy to see that it's just a pretense.
It's also easy to pretend that all client software isn't already "free as in beer", whether you give away the source with your software is irrelevant. Lets cut out the act, for the time being, that we can have such a thing as a "trusted client", without specialised hardware anyway. Business software licencing is easier, because of audits, but in the business world, support contracts are king, whether you're Red Hat or Microsoft.
For example, I could have a hacked client that only passes you the correct checksum values, and suddenly you give me access to lots of files I don't have. How did that happen?
How could that happen? You would need access to the file itself to calculate its hash. So you would need either access to either a friends music collection that they uploaded, or access to Amazon's servers, both of which would allow you to copy the file itself anyway. Then again I suppose people could just pastebin/email/IM each other hashes, instead of using torrents.
I know this will go over like a brick on slashdot, but a guy by the name of Jesus Christ had a remarkably similar philosophy a few years earlier.
Maybe that because if you take out the magical stuff, there's nothing remarkable about Jesus' life philosophies as compared to his predecessors; like say Epicurus or Zeno, who's ideas were appropriated by early Christian writers. It's kinda like the church of Scientology? Why do they follow such a half rate sci-fi author, why not the church of Dick, Heinlein or Asimov?
My expectation is that if there were any really good ways of gathering and storing energy, then lower life-forms would be able to exploit these without having to go through the trouble of evolving into higher lifeforms and then figuring it out.
Why do you expect that? We have designed many systems that are in some specific ways better than those systems found in nature. We can go faster, go further, see more, see smaller things, process numbers faster, store more numbers, and do heaps of other things better than natural systems can.
The chart in the link you post shows.net c# only being 16% slower than c++, while java is displayed 35% slower. I would call that slower than c++ and faster than java, slightly closer to c++ than java but still near the middle pont. Deffinitevly not comparable to Java, though.
You're right, I was comparing Mono to Java, rather than.net as the GP suggested. However.net itself is not cross-platform at all, while Mono is still incomplete and slow. So porting.net software would be difficult. As to the.net C# binary tree being faster than C++, the C++ code must be a fairly poor implementation:).
That said it's a perfectly fine language, and is a good trade off between runtime speed and coding speed. If I had the choice I would go for Python, Java, C, C++ or a combination of those, simply because they are cross platform.
it also impacts the cost of delivered goods. So, don't think of a gas tax would just impact only people who drive.
True, it would effect transit in the same ways that it effects personal transport; reward those who purchase fuel efficient trucks and keep them well maintained, or those that utilize rail and sea transport.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire.
I'm a proud owner of a Rockboxed Sansa e250. However, if I kept the music I listen to regularly in FLAC, both the internal storage (2GB) and external microSD fall short. No, hotswapping isn't a good idea, especially if you're treating yourself to music going long distance. That's why I decided to settle for Ogg Vorbis - quality good enough that I don't hear a difference between the source and the compressed file (as proven by several long blind hearing tests), and file sizes that make my collection that much more managable.
Rockbox lets you use SDHC cards in your e250, and you can pick up 32gb cards pretty cheap now. You could probably fit more than 50 FLAC albums on a 32gb card.
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Yeah, I'm also more than willing to buy that low-mileage BMW M3 I saw in the dealership parking lot. Problem is they wanted around 70K for it! Ridiculous! Who has that kind of money?
So the logical flow is leading me to use my matter replicator to duplicate my friends one.
That's not only cheaper, but more convenient too, compared to spending, what, like half a day signing some papers and making trips to the bank and stuff.
FTCAFY.
Extortion occurs when someone threatens you into giving them money. For instance, governments extort income tax from citizens.
That's exactly right, but your forgetting that we have the option of sharing the data amongst ourselves for free, but we are threatened into buying it.
So the onus of proof is most definitely not on me.
Actually the burden of proof was on them, so they did some research. Now if you want to refute their evidence, or have claims to contrary; fine, but the burden of proof now rests squarely on your shoulders.
They have an extremely higher burden from proof to overcome the overwhelming evidence they are full of shit.
Ahem.
Theft is depriving someone of the use of property they already have.
That definition seems incorrect too, ie I could deprive you of the use of your car by refusing to sell you fuel.
Theft is the possession of someone else's property without consent.
Umm not that i subscribe to his faith, but he is anything but a satanist.
I happen to support what he did, purely under the idea of his right to free speech, and the right to destroy something you own, if you want to.
I don't support what he did, I consider him to be in the same boat as neo-nazi's and the KKK, but as with those, their speech must be protected, no matter how wrong they are.
I always found this survey interesting.
It's pretty strange that 7% of Mormons are unaware of Joseph Smith's religion.
The developer of the original application (incorporate apps) has disavowed knowledge or involvement in the malware. So yes the response is worse thank the crime but it was not the original developer who chose the response. At least until someone proves otherwise it is not fair to blame the original app developer for the malware.
Who else would do it? The only other likely candidates would be someone wanting to discredit the developer, or someone who's trolling.
Most antivirus programs flag all keygens as trojans. The fact that they don't do anything doesn't matter at all. See previous Slashdot article where AV detection = proof of keylogger ;)
Still, it's best to run keygens in a VM if you can.
the problem is, by my determination, legalization will result in a larger number of users. this problem, in my mind, is more potent than all the bad side effects of prohibition. so prohibition should continue, with highly addictive drugs
There's a couple of points to be made here, first I don't think there is any evidence that these drugs are not already affordable and accessible to those who wish to experiment with them, I have been offered methamphetamine/methylamphetamine (which the media here in NZ refer to as "P", and most users/dealers refer to as "speed"), more often than I have been offered cannabis, so anecdotally at least, I would say that it is just as accessible. So who exactly are we "freeing" from addiction here?
Methamphetamine's high street price and ease of manufacture means that it is the preferred revenue stream for gangs, who are the main producers of it. I can't quote a source, but fairly recently it was mentioned that only about 8% of the illicit pseudoephedrine (precursor) that goes through our ports is detected by customs, add to that the fact that pseudoephedrine itself is reasonably easy to produce, by fermenting glucose with a benzaldehyde (artificial almond essence) catalyst.
The clandestine manufacture of methamphetamine, although simple, is most often carried out by woefully unqualified and poorly equipt individuals, who are frequently users themselves, and horrifyingly, sometimes in the presence of children. Labs often explode, because of the highly flammable solvents used in the synthesis. The various pollutants produced by this clandestine manufacture are detected in rental accommodation and motels long after the lab is gone, these pollutants are known carcinogens and asthma inducers. None of these labs would exist if not for methampetamine prohibition.
How is transferring an mp3 to another device (still an mp3) format shifting, exactly? Its not format shifting when I take a cd from my house and play it in my car
Hardisk>RAM>Flash that's two "format shifts" :).
Surely the rational approach would be that until it can definitively be demonstrated as real it must be treated as a hoax. Unfortunately "ufologists" seem to think their pet theories are somehow immune to such an approach, for entirely bullshit reasons.
I wouldn't go so far as to say, "it must be a hoax", because that implies a malicious intent, when often its just a misinterpreted terrestrial phenomena. Until the point that phenomena is debunked, we can just use Carl Sagan's "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" maxim.
It's easy to pretend "libre" isn't followed by "unpaid". It's also easy to see that it's just a pretense.
It's also easy to pretend that all client software isn't already "free as in beer", whether you give away the source with your software is irrelevant. Lets cut out the act, for the time being, that we can have such a thing as a "trusted client", without specialised hardware anyway. Business software licencing is easier, because of audits, but in the business world, support contracts are king, whether you're Red Hat or Microsoft.
For example, I could have a hacked client that only passes you the correct checksum values, and suddenly you give me access to lots of files I don't have. How did that happen?
How could that happen? You would need access to the file itself to calculate its hash. So you would need either access to either a friends music collection that they uploaded, or access to Amazon's servers, both of which would allow you to copy the file itself anyway. Then again I suppose people could just pastebin/email/IM each other hashes, instead of using torrents.
You have a point, too bad asm.org is already taken :(
Ha ha, the American Society for Microbiology, how appropriate.
I know this will go over like a brick on slashdot, but a guy by the name of Jesus Christ had a remarkably similar philosophy a few years earlier.
Maybe that because if you take out the magical stuff, there's nothing remarkable about Jesus' life philosophies as compared to his predecessors; like say Epicurus or Zeno, who's ideas were appropriated by early Christian writers. It's kinda like the church of Scientology? Why do they follow such a half rate sci-fi author, why not the church of Dick, Heinlein or Asimov?
Gullible people have no taste.
My expectation is that if there were any really good ways of gathering and storing energy, then lower life-forms would be able to exploit these without having to go through the trouble of evolving into higher lifeforms and then figuring it out.
Why do you expect that? We have designed many systems that are in some specific ways better than those systems found in nature. We can go faster, go further, see more, see smaller things, process numbers faster, store more numbers, and do heaps of other things better than natural systems can.
The chart in the link you post shows .net c# only being 16% slower than c++, while java is displayed 35% slower. I would call that slower than c++ and faster than java, slightly closer to c++ than java but still near the middle pont. Deffinitevly not comparable to Java, though.
You're right, I was comparing Mono to Java, rather than .net as the GP suggested. However .net itself is not cross-platform at all, while Mono is still incomplete and slow. So porting .net software would be difficult. As to the .net C# binary tree being faster than C++, the C++ code must be a fairly poor implementation :).
C# is very good at performance.
Compared to what? It's comparable to Java, and a lot faster than Python, but it's still a great deal slower than C++ or C.
That said it's a perfectly fine language, and is a good trade off between runtime speed and coding speed. If I had the choice I would go for Python, Java, C, C++ or a combination of those, simply because they are cross platform.
it also impacts the cost of delivered goods.
So, don't think of a gas tax would just impact only people who drive.
True, it would effect transit in the same ways that it effects personal transport; reward those who purchase fuel efficient trucks and keep them well maintained, or those that utilize rail and sea transport.
Hrm... Didnt 'Christopher Lee' die already ? ... How could he 'return' ... ? 'Advance' shootings ?
Alive, but he's 88, so they should probably film all his parts first... just in case.
You're being the bad kind of pedant
He's not really being a bad pendant, he's just taking the piss out of a movement that amounts to modern day vitalism.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire.
Ken Ring is just a crank.
Wow, yeah how rotten of them to charge $5 for a full developers suite. Simply disgraceful.
How much does Visual Studio cost?
Way too much, especially considering the open source tools really are superior: Valgrind, the GNU toolchain, Eclipse, Qt Creator and so on.
I'm a proud owner of a Rockboxed Sansa e250. However, if I kept the music I listen to regularly in FLAC, both the internal storage (2GB) and external microSD fall short. No, hotswapping isn't a good idea, especially if you're treating yourself to music going long distance. That's why I decided to settle for Ogg Vorbis - quality good enough that I don't hear a difference between the source and the compressed file (as proven by several long blind hearing tests), and file sizes that make my collection that much more managable.
Rockbox lets you use SDHC cards in your e250, and you can pick up 32gb cards pretty cheap now. You could probably fit more than 50 FLAC albums on a 32gb card.
So are we supposed to believe that regular slashvertisements don't refer to products Slashdot got big money from?
Yes. Do have evidence that suggests otherwise?