If you create a perfect atomic copy of a living being and then destroy the original, is the copy really the same as the original?
Yes. That's what the word "perfect" means. If you destroy the original, you just killed it.
What if you just never destroyed the original?
Property rights would have to be split between the two. It would be like divorce court.
A person chosing to undergo such a transportation would be agreeing to having a copy of himself made, and transfering all his property rights to that person. He would also be agreeing to suicide.
Really folks, how expensive is it to hardwire all the goodies that absolutely need the speed?? I'm probably missing the point.
I don't know what country you are in, but in the US, nearly all apartment contracts prohibit drilling holes in walls to run wires. And many of these people still want Hi-Def PVRs.
I'm not aware of any way of exploiting a stack overflow for arbitrary code execution, though this isn't really my area of interest, so I could be wrong. Is there one?
Are you aware of any way of exploiting memory corruption errors? A stack overflow is the easiest type of memory corruption flaw to exploit.
It takes a very rare and specific skill set to write a memory corruption exploit. The fact that one person was unable to go from overflow to arbitrary code execution proves absolutely nothing about whether doing so is possible.
If the Black Hat was any good at all, you would have no way of knowing he was (or is) a black hat.
But if someone with a criminal record for cybercrime applied, there is NO WAY an informed manager would hire him. If he breaks the laws again, someone could go after you personally for negligence.
Wow. Are you serious? Have you ever busted a cap? Soldering a new one in is a way to replace that. And modern motherboards have plenty of caps. It is also a lot cheaper than buying a new motherboard.
"if I want to restrict the access to a particular service to a few ip addresses, I'm more likely to do this on my firewall than on the service myself."
You win the "wrong tool for the job" award! Unless IP addresses follow your users and you have lots of anti-spoofing technology, you're biffin it, bud.
Coca-Cola, for example, does not harm anyone who does not buy it
That's not true. It does harm me, because I am paying for the Medicare for the poor Coke-fatties who need diabetes and other expensive medical treatments on the taxpayer's dime. It also harms me indirectly, in terms of increased medical costs brought on by the increased demand on the medical system from the Coke-fatties.
No amount of natural cross-breeding will result in tomatoe vines with glow-in-the-dark fish genes.
Bullshit! Mutations are (mostly) random. If a bioluminescent gene gets mutated into a tomato vine "naturally," it could then be bread in to more vines. The effect could potentially be strengthened via selective breeding.
Honest students are paying them to protect the integrity of the reputation of the school granting their diplomas.
Every idiot who gets a degree from your uni by cheating, then fucks up big-time in the real world, cheapens the value of your degree.
Protecting the value of your degree IS what you pay them to do. Feel free to disagree with the methods. But realize that they are trying to do exactly the job you have hired them to do.
Wow. Your school sucks. At my school, most profs would explicitly say that it is OK to use your personal work from another class if the assignments were the same.
I never heard of ANYONE getting in trouble for doing so.
If you retook a class, you could resubmit the homework.
The only reason for teachers to want to stop "self plagiarism" is because it would demonstrate how lazy and inconsistent they are about grading.
Some of these people don't actually think you are at fault for their problems. They are just manipulating you into providing them with free consulting. Sucker.
Those effects are cool in lots of music, especially electronically-generated music. The sensation of having something move around you is quite cool.
And having played in a few orchestras, I would love the feeling of being in the center of one--with percussion behind me, strings up front, brass to the left, and winds to the right. Admit it. That's f'n sweet.
Is stereo necessary? Are speakers even necessary? We could just read sheet music and listen to it in our heads...
Seriously, "is it necessary" is about the most pointless question you can ask when talking about entertainment. Entertainment is never necessary.
You sound like this: "When I was a lad, we didn't have video games! We would take a hoop from a barrel, then push it down the road with a stick. Barefoot. And that's the way we liked it."
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Good point--especially if we're talking SSL.
At this point, I realized you didn't know what you are talking about, and stopped reading your comment.
Yes. That's what the word "perfect" means. If you destroy the original, you just killed it.
Property rights would have to be split between the two. It would be like divorce court.
A person chosing to undergo such a transportation would be agreeing to having a copy of himself made, and transfering all his property rights to that person. He would also be agreeing to suicide.
I have a feeling this thread is going to have millions of hundreds of comments all making the same joke about the wording of the blurb.
I don't know what country you are in, but in the US, nearly all apartment contracts prohibit drilling holes in walls to run wires. And many of these people still want Hi-Def PVRs.
Are you aware of any way of exploiting memory corruption errors? A stack overflow is the easiest type of memory corruption flaw to exploit.
See this.
And information security is my area of expertise, though I have never written a memory corruption exploit.
It takes a very rare and specific skill set to write a memory corruption exploit. The fact that one person was unable to go from overflow to arbitrary code execution proves absolutely nothing about whether doing so is possible.
I write in Perl. To debug, I just put a "print" statement after every line in the program. Failing that, I change characters randomly until it works.
Actually, the llama book was probably good enouogh.
If the US government were to make it more difficult for companies to offshore, would the situation be any better?
The appropriate use of this venue is to promote discussion, thereby increasing ad views. Slashdot is a business.
If the Black Hat was any good at all, you would have no way of knowing he was (or is) a black hat.
But if someone with a criminal record for cybercrime applied, there is NO WAY an informed manager would hire him. If he breaks the laws again, someone could go after you personally for negligence.
And here I thought you were going for "It's a space station!"
Wow. Are you serious? Have you ever busted a cap? Soldering a new one in is a way to replace that. And modern motherboards have plenty of caps. It is also a lot cheaper than buying a new motherboard.
Seriously. If China doesn't want the US to be able to see them, they should stop leaking photons out into space.
"if I want to restrict the access to a particular service to a few ip addresses, I'm more likely to do this on my firewall than on the service myself."
You win the "wrong tool for the job" award! Unless IP addresses follow your users and you have lots of anti-spoofing technology, you're biffin it, bud.
That's not true. It does harm me, because I am paying for the Medicare for the poor Coke-fatties who need diabetes and other expensive medical treatments on the taxpayer's dime. It also harms me indirectly, in terms of increased medical costs brought on by the increased demand on the medical system from the Coke-fatties.
What slashdot needs is a "[F]lirt with Violet" option.
Bullshit! Mutations are (mostly) random. If a bioluminescent gene gets mutated into a tomato vine "naturally," it could then be bread in to more vines. The effect could potentially be strengthened via selective breeding.
GM merely speeds up the process (by A LOT).
Honest students are paying them to protect the integrity of the reputation of the school granting their diplomas.
Every idiot who gets a degree from your uni by cheating, then fucks up big-time in the real world, cheapens the value of your degree.
Protecting the value of your degree IS what you pay them to do. Feel free to disagree with the methods. But realize that they are trying to do exactly the job you have hired them to do.
Wow. Your school sucks. At my school, most profs would explicitly say that it is OK to use your personal work from another class if the assignments were the same.
I never heard of ANYONE getting in trouble for doing so.
If you retook a class, you could resubmit the homework.
The only reason for teachers to want to stop "self plagiarism" is because it would demonstrate how lazy and inconsistent they are about grading.
Some of these people don't actually think you are at fault for their problems. They are just manipulating you into providing them with free consulting. Sucker.
"I've never trusted fish, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my worms."
Those effects are cool in lots of music, especially electronically-generated music. The sensation of having something move around you is quite cool.
And having played in a few orchestras, I would love the feeling of being in the center of one--with percussion behind me, strings up front, brass to the left, and winds to the right. Admit it. That's f'n sweet.
Is stereo necessary? Are speakers even necessary? We could just read sheet music and listen to it in our heads...
Seriously, "is it necessary" is about the most pointless question you can ask when talking about entertainment. Entertainment is never necessary.
You sound like this: "When I was a lad, we didn't have video games! We would take a hoop from a barrel, then push it down the road with a stick. Barefoot. And that's the way we liked it."