Voting isn't just about getting your party in, it's primarily a political statement. From that point of view, not voting is just as powerful a statement as voting. Politicians do see the "record low 51% voter turnout" numbers and change their behavior because of that.
Then the entire statement that everyone knows that piracy is illegal that was made by the GP is meaningless. It's like saying "crime is illegal". It's useful only as a dictionary definition.
Why is voting a prerequisite for having an opinion? If someone is against the current US democratic system in principle, should he still have to vote in order to have an opinion? Saying "I don't care" is itself a perfectly valid political statement.
Several hundred thousand die per year? So it's half as bad as cancer or heart disease? I find that very hard to believe. And federally mandated poisoning? No one is forcing patients to take these drugs. Taking these drugs is a risk patients willingly take since, if they have a deadly disease, doing nothing itself has a high mortality rate.
It's not a stupid argument, it's sarcasm. The lawyer for the plaintiff (ie. the one stating that the electronics companies are price fixing) is offering a motive because of which they would price fix.
Ultracapacitors.. Every kilogram gives you about 3 watt hours (10800 watt seconds) and 2000 watts, so a 50-100 kilogram one can hold enough to fry most drones.
I can make a clone of Assassin's Creed with unbreakable DRM in 5 minutes. The catch? Legitimate users can't play it at all either. Just like spam filtering, the more DRM stops pirates the more it will stop legitimate users, and 100% anti-piracy stops 100% of non-pirates too. Anything less than 100% has holes in it which can be exploited.
Would it be possible to build tripod mounted lasers to lock onto a drone and just keep firing at it until the battery explodes / circuitry melts? Locking on should be easy since $500 drones won't be going at 200 meters per second. A laser working with household level power should be able to fry a drone in a few minutes.
I would think the Gov't (US specifically) would be all on board with this idea, considering it could mean the Entertainment industry would be writing them a big fat check every 5 years. (of course that would probably mean those big fat checks to "supporters" personal banking accounts would stop)
Tax / fee money goes to the government. The people running the government would prefer money to go to the politicians, which is what the entertainment industry is providing.
0:00:00.000 - Data from machine's eyes sent out 0:00:01.211 - Data reaches Earth, human acts on it 0:00:02.422 - Data gets back to moon, machine acts on it 0:00:03.633 - Human sees himself acting more than 2 seconds ago
No matter what, if Earth is involved you have to have round trip delay since Earth itself is operating on 1 second old data.
What they don't stock is really none of your business, and if you don't like, take your products and have someone else carry it.
That's an argument against regulation, not against consumer outrage. I don't like it and because of that I'm expressing my intent to take my products elsewhere, informing everyone else about the problem so they too can make an informed decision.
It's not just Windows. It's the concept of using a full computer operating system for things as simple as ATMs. Using Windows for those is horrible, but using Mac, Linux or BSD is still pretty bad. Full computer OSes are bloated, and every megabyte of bloat contains potential security vulnerabilities. You need a specially designed minimal system that can't do anything except banking, since such a system would not only have very few vulnerabilities due to lack of size but would also not even be capable of half the things a cracker would want to do (such as sending stuff to a remote server).
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Voting isn't just about getting your party in, it's primarily a political statement. From that point of view, not voting is just as powerful a statement as voting. Politicians do see the "record low 51% voter turnout" numbers and change their behavior because of that.
Limited calculators for exams. That's really it.
Then the entire statement that everyone knows that piracy is illegal that was made by the GP is meaningless. It's like saying "crime is illegal". It's useful only as a dictionary definition.
Hi, I'm a teenager in Canada, which is on the planet. I know that downloading music is legal where I am.
Why is voting a prerequisite for having an opinion? If someone is against the current US democratic system in principle, should he still have to vote in order to have an opinion? Saying "I don't care" is itself a perfectly valid political statement.
Focus on the third dimension, both up and down. You can still have nice big houses, but there's going to be 5-10 of them stacked on top of each other.
So models were fine-tuned and improved with new data? You're making it sound nefarious, but that's just how science should work.
Several hundred thousand die per year? So it's half as bad as cancer or heart disease? I find that very hard to believe. And federally mandated poisoning? No one is forcing patients to take these drugs. Taking these drugs is a risk patients willingly take since, if they have a deadly disease, doing nothing itself has a high mortality rate.
You? Legal? We're talking about military defense here.
The "code" formatting mode doesn't compress spaces, it prints out everything literally.
Here's mine according to the RIAA:
$2 mil | \
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$1 mil |
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$0 |___2010_____2011_____2012_____2013
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-$1 mil| \
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-$2 mil| \
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-$3 mil| \
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It's not a stupid argument, it's sarcasm. The lawyer for the plaintiff (ie. the one stating that the electronics companies are price fixing) is offering a motive because of which they would price fix.
Ultracapacitors.. Every kilogram gives you about 3 watt hours (10800 watt seconds) and 2000 watts, so a 50-100 kilogram one can hold enough to fry most drones.
I can make a clone of Assassin's Creed with unbreakable DRM in 5 minutes. The catch? Legitimate users can't play it at all either. Just like spam filtering, the more DRM stops pirates the more it will stop legitimate users, and 100% anti-piracy stops 100% of non-pirates too. Anything less than 100% has holes in it which can be exploited.
Would it be possible to build tripod mounted lasers to lock onto a drone and just keep firing at it until the battery explodes / circuitry melts? Locking on should be easy since $500 drones won't be going at 200 meters per second. A laser working with household level power should be able to fry a drone in a few minutes.
I would think the Gov't (US specifically) would be all on board with this idea, considering it could mean the Entertainment industry would be writing them a big fat check every 5 years.
(of course that would probably mean those big fat checks to "supporters" personal banking accounts would stop)
Tax / fee money goes to the government. The people running the government would prefer money to go to the politicians, which is what the entertainment industry is providing.
0:00:00.000 - Data from machine's eyes sent out
0:00:01.211 - Data reaches Earth, human acts on it
0:00:02.422 - Data gets back to moon, machine acts on it
0:00:03.633 - Human sees himself acting more than 2 seconds ago
No matter what, if Earth is involved you have to have round trip delay since Earth itself is operating on 1 second old data.
6.7 billion people
unbiased
1.1 billion
uncorrupted
1.0 billion
unidiotic
Sorry, all you left are babies.
Hey, no karma whoring.
That's some jewelry, with 50% of it disappearing every 9 minutes.
Are you implying that humans do that now?
This is your employee. I quit since I'm not willing to work for someone who slacks off on Slashdot.
25 students * $999 macbook = $24975
1 teacher = $40000 per year
Just kick out a teacher of some boring useless subject that no one needs in real life, like calculus, and you're all set.
What they don't stock is really none of your business, and if you don't like, take your products and have someone else carry it.
That's an argument against regulation, not against consumer outrage. I don't like it and because of that I'm expressing my intent to take my products elsewhere, informing everyone else about the problem so they too can make an informed decision.
It's not just Windows. It's the concept of using a full computer operating system for things as simple as ATMs. Using Windows for those is horrible, but using Mac, Linux or BSD is still pretty bad. Full computer OSes are bloated, and every megabyte of bloat contains potential security vulnerabilities. You need a specially designed minimal system that can't do anything except banking, since such a system would not only have very few vulnerabilities due to lack of size but would also not even be capable of half the things a cracker would want to do (such as sending stuff to a remote server).