I, for one, reject the notion that the identity on my passport is more "real" than the one I post on Slashdot (and a few other sites) with. We should do away with the concept that having more than one identity is some kind of deception.
I saw several weaknesses in that argument: 1) The quantization of a digital device blurs into a continuum when the increments are small enough. 2) Analog devices operate by physics which is itself quantized. 3) Combinatorics means that even an instrument with only a dozen notes, ten amplitudes,
Also, the human senses themselves cannot perceive beyond a certain resolution. For example, that feeling of 5760*3840 resolution being more visually pleasing than 2400*1920 is mostly the placebo effect.
You're paying for the water and the service of filtering it and physically moving it to your house (and physically moving waste out of your house). You are, of course, welcome not to use their service and set up an alternate solution.
How is owning a big house IRL superior to owning one in a game? Seriously, if you spend a lot of your time in the game anyway, isn't it more logical to make yourself wealthy in the game than pimp out yourself in real life?
I understand the need to give ourselves basic needs like food, water and internet but at some point there really is no difference.
For the most part these criminals are not, "poor people trying to scratch a living", but are very prosperous compared to their law-abiding countrymen, and many operate in highly organised, and highly successful criminal gangs. Millions of dollars are stolen on a DAILY basis, with absolutely no thought given to victims, who are losing vast amounts of money, homes, relatives, jobs and worse. Contrary to popular belief, it is not just "greedy & stupid people" that fall for these scams.
He claimed to be a starving woman from East Uganda, I did a traceroute and, of course, he was from India. It went well for 2-3 rounds, but then everything fell apart when Gmail helpfully dunked all his new messages into the spam folder and I didn't see any of them.
Hi, welcome to Slashdot. I would like to remind you that, unlike on Youtube, coherent rebuttals with actual arguments are quite popular here and you can earn much karma by trying out a couple.
One thing I really don't like about Canada is the customs forms on the way back. Going into Germany, these don't exist. Going into Russia, these don't exist. Going into Canada, you could forget one thing, get randomly searched and end up on a watchlist for life. Probably not as bad as whatever the US requires, but I've only flown into the US once.
We need something that the TSA won't like. Don't allow flights where passengers were forced to take off their shoes or go through more than one metal detector at the airport.
XUL is a pretty big one. Then there's all the addon-like features that Firefox started to put into its main version, like microformats, an RSS reader, etc. More here
Section 203 of the Copyright Act permits authors (or, if the authors are not alive, their surviving spouses, children or grandchildren, or executors, administrators, personal representatives or trustees) to terminate grants of copyright assignments and licenses that were made on or after January 1, 1978 when certain conditions have been met. Notices of termination may be served no earlier than 25 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 30 years after the execution of the grant or 25 years after publication under the grant (whichever comes first). However, termination of a grant cannot be effective until 35 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 40 years after the execution of the grant or 35 years after publication under the grant (whichever comes first).
So no, you can't sell your copyrights, you can only lend them out for 35-40 years.
I know many people who make their living off of software (one of the piratable kind, one of the software-as-a-service kind and some others), and are heavy pirates (and, for your information, also buy a considerable amount of content as well). So no, not everyone who disagrees with you is a college student.
Nobody has the right to profit. If you build a snowman, you can't complain that nobody pays you for it even though it does improve the landscape. You have the right to try to profit, but society has no obligation to bend backwards for you.
He was not comparing copyright to slavery, he was saying that change is not a bad thing, using slavery as an example. You're misrepresenting the intent of the parent's analogy.
I don't have a problem with putting people who need help into mental institutions, but giving a suicidal person an actual criminal punishment is, in my mind, a big no-no. I can imagine someone about to jump off a building, a policeman shouting "Don't do it! Pay the $5000 fine instead!" and the guy jumping off even faster.
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I assume their colloquial usage of "planets" includes all giant spheres that have significant gravity, including Titan, Europa and the like.
But not the net in 2050. People overestimate the near future and underestimate the far future.
I, for one, reject the notion that the identity on my passport is more "real" than the one I post on Slashdot (and a few other sites) with. We should do away with the concept that having more than one identity is some kind of deception.
I saw several weaknesses in that argument: 1) The quantization of a digital device blurs into a continuum when the increments are small enough. 2) Analog devices operate by physics which is itself quantized. 3) Combinatorics means that even an instrument with only a dozen notes, ten amplitudes,
Also, the human senses themselves cannot perceive beyond a certain resolution. For example, that feeling of 5760*3840 resolution being more visually pleasing than 2400*1920 is mostly the placebo effect.
You're paying for the water and the service of filtering it and physically moving it to your house (and physically moving waste out of your house). You are, of course, welcome not to use their service and set up an alternate solution.
Our as in "the people". Technology belongs to the people, and don't let any corporate shill tell you otherwise.
How can the Burj Dubai be taller than Chuck Norris's own tower? I'm sure it'll get roundhouse kicked down eventually.
How is owning a big house IRL superior to owning one in a game? Seriously, if you spend a lot of your time in the game anyway, isn't it more logical to make yourself wealthy in the game than pimp out yourself in real life?
I understand the need to give ourselves basic needs like food, water and internet but at some point there really is no difference.
From the 419eater.com letters archive:
For the most part these criminals are not, "poor people trying to scratch a living", but are very prosperous compared to their law-abiding countrymen, and many operate in highly organised, and highly successful criminal gangs. Millions of dollars are stolen on a DAILY basis, with absolutely no thought given to victims, who are losing vast amounts of money, homes, relatives, jobs and worse. Contrary to popular belief, it is not just "greedy & stupid people" that fall for these scams.
He claimed to be a starving woman from East Uganda, I did a traceroute and, of course, he was from India. It went well for 2-3 rounds, but then everything fell apart when Gmail helpfully dunked all his new messages into the spam folder and I didn't see any of them.
Hi, welcome to Slashdot. I would like to remind you that, unlike on Youtube, coherent rebuttals with actual arguments are quite popular here and you can earn much karma by trying out a couple.
One thing I really don't like about Canada is the customs forms on the way back. Going into Germany, these don't exist. Going into Russia, these don't exist. Going into Canada, you could forget one thing, get randomly searched and end up on a watchlist for life. Probably not as bad as whatever the US requires, but I've only flown into the US once.
We need something that the TSA won't like. Don't allow flights where passengers were forced to take off their shoes or go through more than one metal detector at the airport.
XUL is a pretty big one. Then there's all the addon-like features that Firefox started to put into its main version, like microformats, an RSS reader, etc. More here
Statistically, I think a person bent on suicide would still kill much less than 1 person before dying/going to jail/being cured.
Please, name something you can remove from the default install of Firefox.
Integrated bloat is the worst kind.
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/203.html
Section 203 of the Copyright Act permits authors (or, if the authors are not alive, their surviving spouses, children or grandchildren, or executors, administrators, personal representatives or trustees) to terminate grants of copyright assignments and licenses that were made on or after January 1, 1978 when certain conditions have been met. Notices of termination may be served no earlier than 25 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 30 years after the execution of the grant or 25 years after publication under the grant (whichever comes first). However, termination of a grant cannot be effective until 35 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 40 years after the execution of the grant or 35 years after publication under the grant (whichever comes first).
So no, you can't sell your copyrights, you can only lend them out for 35-40 years.
I know many people who make their living off of software (one of the piratable kind, one of the software-as-a-service kind and some others), and are heavy pirates (and, for your information, also buy a considerable amount of content as well). So no, not everyone who disagrees with you is a college student.
Nobody has the right to profit. If you build a snowman, you can't complain that nobody pays you for it even though it does improve the landscape. You have the right to try to profit, but society has no obligation to bend backwards for you.
He was not comparing copyright to slavery, he was saying that change is not a bad thing, using slavery as an example. You're misrepresenting the intent of the parent's analogy.
That's interesting. I learned about neutron fluxes in ST TNG.
Don't like it, don't buy it, nobody's forcing you - Apple doesn't have anything close to a monopoly.
That's my fundamental principle.
I don't have a problem with putting people who need help into mental institutions, but giving a suicidal person an actual criminal punishment is, in my mind, a big no-no. I can imagine someone about to jump off a building, a policeman shouting "Don't do it! Pay the $5000 fine instead!" and the guy jumping off even faster.
Because he might have a curable or even temporary mental instability?
The people left on an internet without porn would be quite bored. Both of them.