Yes, educate the public to the advantages of pirate version to avoid even more intrusive government and corporate annoyances.:) How stupid can they be? Apparently stupid enough to take that as a challenge.:)
There are so many ways to get weapons in past that so called 'security' it's insane. Part of the method of doing it is by not walking in with something that has ACME EXPLOSIVES printed on it in large red letters. But seriously, there are many ways for someone good at social engineering, chemistry, long term planning, weapon design, slight of hand, or a few other things to get a potentially lethal weapon in. And by the way, you really only need one of those skills. If you have a group of suicide willing suckers, it becomes even easier. You can just feed them through till one makes it and pulls off the attack. After all, they were all going off to die, what do you care if 2 or 3 out of a dozen get caught. Hell, 19 out of 20 is probably good enough for that kind of insanity.
Before anybody is dumb enough to make the accusations, no I have no plans to do anything crazy like that. Then why do I have ideas on doing it? Because it's an interesting puzzle, and there has been a lot of talk about it lately. I also firmly believe you can't fix an issue, until you can find it, and only a complete moron doesn't believe there are issues. (Even as a gradeschooler I was pointing out security flaws to local businesses. Bad news, they ignored the kid that pointed out the problems. Good news, the only crime around there was the occasional traffic or fish & game violations. We didn't even have graffiti to worry about. Yes, that town was boring unless you were the fishing/hunting nut.)
True, but that causes a 100% reduction in computing capability. Essentially you turn your computer into an anchor of doorstop when you turn it off. Of course, you can 'repair' it's nonfunctionality by turning it back on, after all, the reason you have it on in the first place is to do something, right? And if not, why the hell did you pay that much for a paperweight?:)
It seems to me that science is not liberal or conservative, it's not a political construct though it may get caught up in politics. Instead, science is factual. It is based on observations, data, experiments, and facts. Gravity or superconductors don't change because of your party affiliation, nor does thermodynamics. Science has never been about belief, it's always been about proven predictability and repeatable results, something that politics have nothing to do with. I totally agree that the Faux slogan of 'Fair and Balanced' has nothing to do with science. That's because science was never unbalanced in the first place, it does what it was always meant to do and does it rather well with it's peer review system and it's logical and rational methods. As to fair, it's as 'fair' as anything that isn't a game or competition can be, even though some fools out there want to paint it as a circus.
By the way, the Heartland Institute is NOT scientific, it's a bunch of politically motivated crackpots that try to pretend they are. The sooner they drown in their own ignorance and lies, the better it will be for humanity.
Not really. To begin with, they secretly took it. They may have had a subpoena to gather information, but it's unlikely they had a warrant to allow them to take the server, especially since they did it in secret.
Now, after a questionable and very suspicious extraction, they attempt to secretly put it back. (One wonders how stupid they think the techies are.) If they'd done nothing wrong, why keep it secret? It's likely it now has software, and possibly even hardware on it to spy on everything that goes through it, or at least give the FBI a backdoor. Again, something they obviously aren't authorized to do, otherwise they'd have the paperwork to back up their actions.
First: Everything man has ever created has been used for such negative things as murder and war. For that matter, every thing we ever will create will also be used for such things until such point as mankind has surpassed the need and desire for such negative activities.
Second: Once a thing has been done, it will be done again. Once it is known by anyone that something is actually possible (as opposed to theoretically possible or even believed impossible) it becomes capable of being repeated. Just look at nuclear proliferation for an example. It was believed that splitting the atom was impossible. Once it was demonstrated to be possible, many others repeated the discovery despite the best attempts at others to prevent that from happening.
The only thing they are really doing by blocking research from those in that field is to waste resources duplicating effort, and reducing or eliminating potential benefit from that knowledge while failing to prevent it's eventual and inevitable misuse. I would even hazard to say that such censorship increases the devastation that will be caused by such inhumane uses by limiting if not eliminating the positive research and understanding that comes from shared research and peer review.
Only a moron, a paranoid, or a politician could come up with such a stupid and counterproductive scheme as censoring research.
Actually that patent describes rather well the technology of multiperson VR that was being played around with in various company and university experiments way back in the 1980s. Basically they are describing something that was already a basic feature of the entire field. Their patent is bullshit, since everyone in the VR field had already thought of it. It isn't novel, unique, nor something that someone in the field wouldn't normally think of since it is in fact one of the underlying principles of the entire field and has been since inception and even back when it was science fiction.
There are way to many ignorant or corrupt patent examiners since this kind of obviousness junk keeps getting approved. Next thing you know, they'll patent swinging sideways on a swing. Oh wait, that already happened.
I believe those rings are a more modern interpretation of the old rules and traditions about purchasing your wives. It's just in the modern version, you give it to the wife instead of the father. At least that's what I heard in sociology classes the few times someone brought up the whole thing about engagement/wedding rings.
Oh, and if you want to argue this, go find an anthropologist or sociologist because I don't really care.
Well, since there is massive prior art, and the concept of automated vehicles has been in the public eye for nearly a century, they can't have a patent on automated vehicles. On the other hand, they can get a patent on a specific automation system for a vehicle.
They can't even calculate it's trajectory close enough to determine if it will hit one on of the few key windows in 17 years that might put it on a collision course in another 7 years. Why should I think the projection out 24 years from now (appx) will actually hit a target only a few thousand miles across and in a window of less than half a day with that level of imprecision?
I think either he's been watching too many Hollywood films, or the reporter didn't correctly quote the statement.
Well, it is true they aren't exactly known for their accuracy in their accusations. Since they've been doing this they've accused lots of people that wouldn't know a P2P program if it came with it's own spokesmodel, a few network printers, a couple of people that don't own computers, a computer user who's computer runs an operating system that doesn't even have a version of the supposed program for it, someone that was verifiabley out of the country for the time period in question, and I believe I saw a report of an online webcam being targeted as well.
So of course they 'attack' a lot of innocent people, they're just stupid that way. (Especially since the courts have been letting them get away with it, and that most people can't afford to fight it in the first place.) Although having a conspiracy charge slapped on it would make it a lot worse for you whether or not you are guilt or innocent. It's kind of like being in front of a firing squad and being told they won't stop the execution unless either the governor calls in time (fat chance) or you pay them $3000 to conveniently forget they ever saw you (until the next time they target you).
As to the few that have taken them to court, it's not much better. They spend a lot more than the extortion money they would have otherwise paid, and don't even get to be officially declared innocent because the blackmailers... err... copyright holders drop the case if it looks like they will lose. Apparently that's done to try and avoid setting a precedent that can be used against them.
Of course, like you mentioned, there are lots of other reasons why various groups frown on this B.S., but until they do something drastic, or otherwise make it obviously non-profitable, the scammers will keep accusing people to garner filthy lucre.
Who? At least the other posters were sticking to an Australian that might be recognized by a majority of Americans. Of course, if the Aussies want someone else to their national poster child, they'll have to promote someone. Preferably someone memorable with admirable qualities, and either fictional or a living person. Sorry Irwin fans, but he's out of the running now.:(
Oh, and let's try to avoid marsupials in all forms, even if they have their own animated feature or show.
It may be because of default font size, lack of desire to change resolutions, or maybe, here's a thought, THEIR MONITOR DOESN'T SUPPORT THAT REZ !
I apologize for my outburst, but a lot of people got monitors with their computers (straight from oem, no consumer choice involved) that doesn't have that vertical resolution as it only goes to 768, though it often has 1360 or 1366 horizontal resolution. And as to those of you with money to burn and can just get one of those huge and gorgeous monitors we all drool over, good for you, but the rest of us can't afford to buy another monitor, at least not this year, and definitely not for elitist reasons.
I wonder how many more times it will have to be spelled out to some of the posters on this forum that not everyone has the option of 1280 x 1024...
I saw a beautiful 24" 1900 x 1200 for only $200. I only had $70, and it was already reserved for important bills. God I hate being poor.
Assuming it isn't eaten away by trying to defend against the continual assault of spurious lawsuits from anti-nuclear groups just like has been happening during most if not all of the time the reactor was in 'use'.
Don't forget that one of the factors that made things worse were the hydrogen explosions that occurred because the water was separating into it's component parts (gaseous hydrogen and oxygen). That's just not going to happen to a sodium reactor.
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Too bad our politicians probably won't take the hint.
Yes, educate the public to the advantages of pirate version to avoid even more intrusive government and corporate annoyances. :) :)
How stupid can they be?
Apparently stupid enough to take that as a challenge.
There are so many ways to get weapons in past that so called 'security' it's insane. Part of the method of doing it is by not walking in with something that has ACME EXPLOSIVES printed on it in large red letters. But seriously, there are many ways for someone good at social engineering, chemistry, long term planning, weapon design, slight of hand, or a few other things to get a potentially lethal weapon in. And by the way, you really only need one of those skills.
If you have a group of suicide willing suckers, it becomes even easier. You can just feed them through till one makes it and pulls off the attack. After all, they were all going off to die, what do you care if 2 or 3 out of a dozen get caught. Hell, 19 out of 20 is probably good enough for that kind of insanity.
Before anybody is dumb enough to make the accusations, no I have no plans to do anything crazy like that.
Then why do I have ideas on doing it? Because it's an interesting puzzle, and there has been a lot of talk about it lately. I also firmly believe you can't fix an issue, until you can find it, and only a complete moron doesn't believe there are issues.
(Even as a gradeschooler I was pointing out security flaws to local businesses. Bad news, they ignored the kid that pointed out the problems. Good news, the only crime around there was the occasional traffic or fish & game violations. We didn't even have graffiti to worry about. Yes, that town was boring unless you were the fishing/hunting nut.)
Not even close! Just look at the ears. Besides, Rupaul wears better dresses. :)
I wouldn't say justified, but there might just be a bit less sexual harassment of commuters.
True, but that causes a 100% reduction in computing capability. Essentially you turn your computer into an anchor of doorstop when you turn it off. Of course, you can 'repair' it's nonfunctionality by turning it back on, after all, the reason you have it on in the first place is to do something, right? And if not, why the hell did you pay that much for a paperweight? :)
The fears of the few with power outweighs everyone else so suck it up fat boy! - TSA
It seems to me that science is not liberal or conservative, it's not a political construct though it may get caught up in politics. Instead, science is factual. It is based on observations, data, experiments, and facts. Gravity or superconductors don't change because of your party affiliation, nor does thermodynamics. Science has never been about belief, it's always been about proven predictability and repeatable results, something that politics have nothing to do with. I totally agree that the Faux slogan of 'Fair and Balanced' has nothing to do with science. That's because science was never unbalanced in the first place, it does what it was always meant to do and does it rather well with it's peer review system and it's logical and rational methods. As to fair, it's as 'fair' as anything that isn't a game or competition can be, even though some fools out there want to paint it as a circus.
By the way, the Heartland Institute is NOT scientific, it's a bunch of politically motivated crackpots that try to pretend they are. The sooner they drown in their own ignorance and lies, the better it will be for humanity.
Not really. To begin with, they secretly took it. They may have had a subpoena to gather information, but it's unlikely they had a warrant to allow them to take the server, especially since they did it in secret.
Now, after a questionable and very suspicious extraction, they attempt to secretly put it back. (One wonders how stupid they think the techies are.) If they'd done nothing wrong, why keep it secret? It's likely it now has software, and possibly even hardware on it to spy on everything that goes through it, or at least give the FBI a backdoor. Again, something they obviously aren't authorized to do, otherwise they'd have the paperwork to back up their actions.
There are a couple of things to be remembered.
First: Everything man has ever created has been used for such negative things as murder and war. For that matter, every thing we ever will create will also be used for such things until such point as mankind has surpassed the need and desire for such negative activities.
Second: Once a thing has been done, it will be done again. Once it is known by anyone that something is actually possible (as opposed to theoretically possible or even believed impossible) it becomes capable of being repeated. Just look at nuclear proliferation for an example. It was believed that splitting the atom was impossible. Once it was demonstrated to be possible, many others repeated the discovery despite the best attempts at others to prevent that from happening.
The only thing they are really doing by blocking research from those in that field is to waste resources duplicating effort, and reducing or eliminating potential benefit from that knowledge while failing to prevent it's eventual and inevitable misuse. I would even hazard to say that such censorship increases the devastation that will be caused by such inhumane uses by limiting if not eliminating the positive research and understanding that comes from shared research and peer review.
Only a moron, a paranoid, or a politician could come up with such a stupid and counterproductive scheme as censoring research.
Actually that patent describes rather well the technology of multiperson VR that was being played around with in various company and university experiments way back in the 1980s. Basically they are describing something that was already a basic feature of the entire field. Their patent is bullshit, since everyone in the VR field had already thought of it. It isn't novel, unique, nor something that someone in the field wouldn't normally think of since it is in fact one of the underlying principles of the entire field and has been since inception and even back when it was science fiction.
There are way to many ignorant or corrupt patent examiners since this kind of obviousness junk keeps getting approved.
Next thing you know, they'll patent swinging sideways on a swing. Oh wait, that already happened.
I believe those rings are a more modern interpretation of the old rules and traditions about purchasing your wives. It's just in the modern version, you give it to the wife instead of the father. At least that's what I heard in sociology classes the few times someone brought up the whole thing about engagement/wedding rings.
Oh, and if you want to argue this, go find an anthropologist or sociologist because I don't really care.
Well, since there is massive prior art, and the concept of automated vehicles has been in the public eye for nearly a century, they can't have a patent on automated vehicles. On the other hand, they can get a patent on a specific automation system for a vehicle.
They can't even calculate it's trajectory close enough to determine if it will hit one on of the few key windows in 17 years that might put it on a collision course in another 7 years. Why should I think the projection out 24 years from now (appx) will actually hit a target only a few thousand miles across and in a window of less than half a day with that level of imprecision?
I think either he's been watching too many Hollywood films, or the reporter didn't correctly quote the statement.
Well, it is true they aren't exactly known for their accuracy in their accusations. Since they've been doing this they've accused lots of people that wouldn't know a P2P program if it came with it's own spokesmodel, a few network printers, a couple of people that don't own computers, a computer user who's computer runs an operating system that doesn't even have a version of the supposed program for it, someone that was verifiabley out of the country for the time period in question, and I believe I saw a report of an online webcam being targeted as well.
So of course they 'attack' a lot of innocent people, they're just stupid that way. (Especially since the courts have been letting them get away with it, and that most people can't afford to fight it in the first place.) Although having a conspiracy charge slapped on it would make it a lot worse for you whether or not you are guilt or innocent. It's kind of like being in front of a firing squad and being told they won't stop the execution unless either the governor calls in time (fat chance) or you pay them $3000 to conveniently forget they ever saw you (until the next time they target you).
As to the few that have taken them to court, it's not much better. They spend a lot more than the extortion money they would have otherwise paid, and don't even get to be officially declared innocent because the blackmailers... err... copyright holders drop the case if it looks like they will lose. Apparently that's done to try and avoid setting a precedent that can be used against them.
Of course, like you mentioned, there are lots of other reasons why various groups frown on this B.S., but until they do something drastic, or otherwise make it obviously non-profitable, the scammers will keep accusing people to garner filthy lucre.
Innocent of conspiracy. That's pretty important for a lot of reasons, most of which are legal.
And you though a didgeridoo sounded strange when played by someone that wasn't stoned...
Yeah, but America was colonized by rabble rousers, and malcontents while Australias colonists were hand picked by the finest British Judges.
(An Australian exchange student told me that joke years ago. If any Australians are put out by that joke, they should bloody well stop telling it.)
Who? :(
At least the other posters were sticking to an Australian that might be recognized by a majority of Americans. Of course, if the Aussies want someone else to their national poster child, they'll have to promote someone. Preferably someone memorable with admirable qualities, and either fictional or a living person. Sorry Irwin fans, but he's out of the running now.
Oh, and let's try to avoid marsupials in all forms, even if they have their own animated feature or show.
It may be because of default font size, lack of desire to change resolutions, or maybe, here's a thought, THEIR MONITOR DOESN'T SUPPORT THAT REZ !
I apologize for my outburst, but a lot of people got monitors with their computers (straight from oem, no consumer choice involved) that doesn't have that vertical resolution as it only goes to 768, though it often has 1360 or 1366 horizontal resolution. And as to those of you with money to burn and can just get one of those huge and gorgeous monitors we all drool over, good for you, but the rest of us can't afford to buy another monitor, at least not this year, and definitely not for elitist reasons.
I wonder how many more times it will have to be spelled out to some of the posters on this forum that not everyone has the option of 1280 x 1024...
I saw a beautiful 24" 1900 x 1200 for only $200. I only had $70, and it was already reserved for important bills. God I hate being poor.
4 monitors ?! I so want to know what you are playing!
Ok, it could be for work, but when you've done that, what games are you playing on that rig?
Maybe because as part of a national infrastructure everyone benefits from it, even if they don't personally use it.
Assuming it isn't eaten away by trying to defend against the continual assault of spurious lawsuits from anti-nuclear groups just like has been happening during most if not all of the time the reactor was in 'use'.
Don't forget that one of the factors that made things worse were the hydrogen explosions that occurred because the water was separating into it's component parts (gaseous hydrogen and oxygen). That's just not going to happen to a sodium reactor.
If you'll note, he did NOT say to use Linux, in fact, the only mention of any software or operating system he stated was "don't use windows".
That my friend, is the sign of either a troll, or an incompetent debater.
It is true that his sig mentions where to go to get a developer for several things, one of which is Linux, but that means nothing, it's just a sig.