Here's something else that humans have been trying to do for a long time: build better societies. We want to live in societies that have less suffering, more happiness, and have more freedom and fairness than societies of the past.
Meritocracy and fairness go hand-in-hand. The people who are building these online societies don't like gold-farming because, it is bad for meritocracy, therefore bad for fairness, therefore bad for their online society.
Unfortunately, freedom and fairness are directly opposing in some respects. If you give someone the freedom to bequeath his wealth and power to his offspring, you make society less fair to those who were not born with wealth and power.
This fundamental paradox will, if nothing else, keep the philosophers employed as we continue our quest to create and ideal society.
Wow, I can't believe I wrote that in a thread about WoW.
More importantly, economists need to start providing HBI (Hooker and Blow Index) numbers in these articles, so that we can adequately compare wages in different countries.
Our problems do not come from a "failure" to socialize medicine... Over in the UK, people are being sent to France for surgery because they'd die on the waiting lists if they didn't go.
You mean the same France that has socialized medicine? The same France that has a much longer life expectancy than the USA, and has socialized medicine?
$0.30/hour sounds like just enough to afford food while sleeping in a shed, but when you consider that housing is also provided, it's not so bad.
Seriously, for $0.30/hour, you only have to work 1 hour per day to afford three meals of delicious ramen noodles. So with 1 hour of work, you have food and housing, and the other $3.30 you earn per day is free to be spent on hookers and blow. A good life.
Reducing your cross-sectional area relative to a radiation source is going to reduce your total dosage. Additionally, it increases the likelihood that some object might block radiation from hitting your directly.
I was going to quip about how overwhelmingly boring you are, but I realize, in light of your taste, that you might find that insulting. So I will just say that you are exactly and optimally-whelmingly boring, with no extra waste left over.
Now why would you call cannibal people yayhoos? This is not a story of some hayseeds out for a good time. This person was harvested by a group of people that are monitored by the IWC and practice cannibalism as part of their indigenous culture. Did you read tfa? This is a major source of food for these people. Oh, because she's a 10 year old girl you have feelings for her? They can't eat because of your values? How nice of you. Don't bother to think of all the wood and lumber products in your life that are from trees that were FAR older than 10 years old when harvested.
You could have reported it as a crime to your local police department, and the prosecutor would have subpoenaed it from Amazon as part of their case to prosecute John Doe.
I'm totally with you about SSH key distribution, but, for the love of dog, why don't they offer the OPTION to require signed SSH keys during the initial connection? OpenSSL can grok X.509, why the heck can't SSH???
you verify the fingerprint with the recipient through a side-channel
F A I L.
There is just no way that could reach widespread adoption. Only a PKI model, backed by major mail providers, could have a chance. My mom will never understand fingerprinting. She could understand "This message is signed by John Doe!*" showing up in her mail client, where the asterisk means, "according to Verisign, who is trusted by Gmail."
While you are correct that end-to-end encryption is best, having ISP-to-end encryption is still a million times better than having no encryption at all.
One thing that is CERTAINLY true is that most email users have zero interest in maintaining a web of trust. That means PGP is right out.
S/MIME relies on people trusting third party certificate authorities and acquiring the certificates of other in order to send encrypted messages. This actually COULD work if the major email vendors agree to cooperate on some sort of certificate distribution method, and provide an easy way for people to get keypairs in the first place. This is at least possible.
Something with WEAK authentication, like PGPfone, is STILL going to require extra work on the end user's part, but does not depend on large companies cooperating. It's nice, but I just can't see this happening because, instead, it relies on an enormous group of non-technical people cooperating.
Email encryption will come eventually, but it will probably be in the form of S/MIME and be pushed by the likes of Google and Yahoo. There is no other way that is even remotely feasible.
It may have a digital output but it is not a digital output microphone! No more than there is any such a thing as digital headphones.
It's called S/PDIF. Look it up.
If you care at all about sound quality, you use S/PDIF over either coax or toslink (optical) cable from your audio source to as close to your speakers as possible.
The advantage is that there is NO chance for interference or noise to get into the signal, and it can use very high bandwidth with flawless reproduction.
If your HTPC or DVD or HDDVD or any other digital audio source is NOT using S/PDIF to get the signal to your audio receiver/amp, you simply have a crap setup. Put a cell phone near the analog wires feeding the thing--you can probably hear the interference.
Having a mic that uses S/PDIF is just fundamentally better than using analog cables. Obviously, if you combine a great interface with crappy components you can still end up worse off, but all other things being equal, an S/PDIF microphone is simply superior to analog mics.
As a percussionist, I can back you up: compression destroys the sound of cymbals. Most people just listen to vocals, lead guitar, and bass, so they don't even realize. Musicians--they care.
Huh? Read BinLaden's "Letter to America" if you think his organization is motivated by "inequality and slavery."
His stated reasons for killing american civilians are:
he wants Sharia law across the world (succinctly: 'they hate our freedom')
he wants arab control of Israel (and considers US taxpayers to be military targets because they directly fund the Israeli military)
he wants to end all lending with interest (a policy which will just make inequality worse)
he wants to end interventionist US foreign policy
he wants to convert or kill believers in false religions
Inequality and slavery are not among the terrorists' stated reasons for attacking.
It does stand to reason that wealth creation and distribution in the arab world might make it harder for him to recruit suicide bombers (a man with something to lose might have more motivation to stay alive). But saying inequality is their reason to attack is just bogus.
if a journal profile contains interests that support illegal activity, we must suspend the journal.
Wow, I'm glad LiveJournal didn't exist during the civil rights movement! I can imagine Martin Luther King Jr.'s account being suspended for encouraging people NOT to sit in the back of the bus, or for encouraging a black student to attend a white school.
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But it is fair. Nobody is stopping these guys from setting up their own business.
Here's something else that humans have been trying to do for a long time: build better societies. We want to live in societies that have less suffering, more happiness, and have more freedom and fairness than societies of the past.
Meritocracy and fairness go hand-in-hand. The people who are building these online societies don't like gold-farming because, it is bad for meritocracy, therefore bad for fairness, therefore bad for their online society.
Unfortunately, freedom and fairness are directly opposing in some respects. If you give someone the freedom to bequeath his wealth and power to his offspring, you make society less fair to those who were not born with wealth and power.
This fundamental paradox will, if nothing else, keep the philosophers employed as we continue our quest to create and ideal society.
Wow, I can't believe I wrote that in a thread about WoW.
More importantly, economists need to start providing HBI (Hooker and Blow Index) numbers in these articles, so that we can adequately compare wages in different countries.
$0.30/hour sounds like just enough to afford food while sleeping in a shed, but when you consider that housing is also provided, it's not so bad.
Seriously, for $0.30/hour, you only have to work 1 hour per day to afford three meals of delicious ramen noodles. So with 1 hour of work, you have food and housing, and the other $3.30 you earn per day is free to be spent on hookers and blow. A good life.
A broken clock is right twice a day. You prove nothing.
Reducing your cross-sectional area relative to a radiation source is going to reduce your total dosage. Additionally, it increases the likelihood that some object might block radiation from hitting your directly.
I was going to quip about how overwhelmingly boring you are, but I realize, in light of your taste, that you might find that insulting. So I will just say that you are exactly and optimally-whelmingly boring, with no extra waste left over.
You should have picked a better contractor to do those blockquote tags for you...
In computer science, we call that "infinite recursion."
Now why would you call cannibal people yayhoos? This is not a story of some hayseeds out for a good time. This person was harvested by a group of people that are monitored by the IWC and practice cannibalism as part of their indigenous culture. Did you read tfa? This is a major source of food for these people. Oh, because she's a 10 year old girl you have feelings for her? They can't eat because of your values? How nice of you. Don't bother to think of all the wood and lumber products in your life that are from trees that were FAR older than 10 years old when harvested.
You could have reported it as a crime to your local police department, and the prosecutor would have subpoenaed it from Amazon as part of their case to prosecute John Doe.
I'm totally with you about SSH key distribution, but, for the love of dog, why don't they offer the OPTION to require signed SSH keys during the initial connection? OpenSSL can grok X.509, why the heck can't SSH???
There is just no way that could reach widespread adoption. Only a PKI model, backed by major mail providers, could have a chance. My mom will never understand fingerprinting. She could understand "This message is signed by John Doe!*" showing up in her mail client, where the asterisk means, "according to Verisign, who is trusted by Gmail."
The only thing spooky about this article is that the editors think data transmission and matter transmission are in any way related.
While you are correct that end-to-end encryption is best, having ISP-to-end encryption is still a million times better than having no encryption at all.
One thing that is CERTAINLY true is that most email users have zero interest in maintaining a web of trust. That means PGP is right out.
S/MIME relies on people trusting third party certificate authorities and acquiring the certificates of other in order to send encrypted messages. This actually COULD work if the major email vendors agree to cooperate on some sort of certificate distribution method, and provide an easy way for people to get keypairs in the first place. This is at least possible.
Something with WEAK authentication, like PGPfone, is STILL going to require extra work on the end user's part, but does not depend on large companies cooperating. It's nice, but I just can't see this happening because, instead, it relies on an enormous group of non-technical people cooperating.
Email encryption will come eventually, but it will probably be in the form of S/MIME and be pushed by the likes of Google and Yahoo. There is no other way that is even remotely feasible.
If you care at all about sound quality, you use S/PDIF over either coax or toslink (optical) cable from your audio source to as close to your speakers as possible.
The advantage is that there is NO chance for interference or noise to get into the signal, and it can use very high bandwidth with flawless reproduction.
If your HTPC or DVD or HDDVD or any other digital audio source is NOT using S/PDIF to get the signal to your audio receiver/amp, you simply have a crap setup. Put a cell phone near the analog wires feeding the thing--you can probably hear the interference.
Having a mic that uses S/PDIF is just fundamentally better than using analog cables. Obviously, if you combine a great interface with crappy components you can still end up worse off, but all other things being equal, an S/PDIF microphone is simply superior to analog mics.
As a percussionist, I can back you up: compression destroys the sound of cymbals. Most people just listen to vocals, lead guitar, and bass, so they don't even realize. Musicians--they care.
I once had a gf who claimed that some dude put millions of animals on the same boat. The bitch is just wrong.
Most campus jobs pay significantly better than minimum wage ($5.15/hr) and are closer to home. Your plan fails.
His stated reasons for killing american civilians are:
Inequality and slavery are not among the terrorists' stated reasons for attacking.
It does stand to reason that wealth creation and distribution in the arab world might make it harder for him to recruit suicide bombers (a man with something to lose might have more motivation to stay alive). But saying inequality is their reason to attack is just bogus.
This is actually fixed in Windows 2003. My HTPC runs 2k3, and my file browsing is responsive while DVDs load.