Personally, I think that the hate that is felt towards DRM should be redirected towards proprietary DRM so we can break down platform lock-in and give the obscure platforms a chance with the average consumer.
Can't be done. Any open DRM platform will be trivially circumvented. In cryptographic terms, DRM is an attempt to send a message from Alice to Bob without it being read by Charlie. The problem is that in DRM, Bob and Charlie are the same person. The way DRM companies get around this is by hiding the private key in the software. If their DRM systems were open, then they would be unable to hide anything anywhere.
Wasn't saying they aren't technically correct, but rather was pointing out that their attitude of "well, I'm right and you're just an idiot for questioning me" makes them no better than those they criticize for engaging in similar behavior.
Besides, how you react to infuriating people speaks volumes more about your character than theirs.
I'd say someone who goes around repeating fairy tales as if they were real, and extends no effort to even consider their veracity is lacking in character as well.
I may be rude as hell, but I don't lie to people. And if I do, I expect you to be rude as hell to me too. That's character.
Granted, the probability that the Earth is hollow is extremely low, but as with observation, probability != proof.
No, it's zero. You can't ever prove a theory, but you can falisify it. A hollow earth is easy to falsifiy. Set off a nuke on the other side of the Earth. If the Earth were filled with vaccum, you should detect no seismic waves coming through the center of the Earth. We do detect waves, so we can absolutely, without qualification, state that the Earth is filled with matter.
I think the vast majority of the populous can be quite reasonable and understanding, so long as you're not a dick about it.
The vast majority of the populace interprets any questions of their beliefs as dickish.
My question is, where does the tolerance stop? Do you think a flat earther is really going to be converted by a congenial discussion of Eratosthenes and general relativity? Doesn't it take a deliberate choice not to create a coherent picture of the world to avoid figuring this stuff out in adolescense? How do you deal with someone who has made that choice? Why shouldn't that choice be stigmatized?
In other words, cops may not force you to turn off your camera
Except that they can still ask you to turn off your camera, and they can still arrest you if you don't. They just have to come up with some other charge(contempt of cop), or release you without charge after holding you long enough to miss the shot. And if you got it, oops, the sd card went missing somehow. Too bad about that. That's if your lucky and the officer didn't mistake your camera for a gun.
Has any officer anywhere been disciplined in any way (other than paid vacation) for violating the legal rights of a photographer? Unless you can answer in the affirmative, the circuit court decision doesn't mean anything really.
The protections we actually have against criminals in uniform are vanishingly slim.
Sadly, that attitude is not limited to Southern Baptist creationists, but actually tends to be shared with those accepting of mainstream science as well; In fact, I would go so far as to say that emotional arguments make up the vast majority of opinions from all sides in most politicized debates. One has to go no further than this page to see that "liberal"* thinkers are just as guilty of dickishly writing off ideals that counter their beliefs as others, as if what they believe is unquestionable fact.
The difference here is that the liberals are correct. Is evolution "unquestionable fact"? No, but neither is heliocentricity. Both have been confirmed to about the same degree. Questions are always possible, but in cases like this they say more about the asker than the topic.
It's cute when a 6 year old asks you how you know the Earth moves around the Sun. When a well heeled, well to do, well respected adult asks you something that bespeaks a similar degree of ignorance, it's a little much to deal with politely.
While I personally have never heard of anyone digging a hole and finding the planet hollowed out, I have also never heard of anyone digging a hole and validating the crust/mantle/core model. So, being the ultimate skeptic that I am,. I refuse to write off either theory, rather tagging them as "not enough evidence for a conclusion."
Which is only due to your own ignorance and obstinance. The model of the Earth we have today is due to numerous seismic observations. These seismic observations are incompatible with the that the Earth is hollow. If it were filled with gas, or vacuum we would observe different patterns of refraction of seismic waves.
To me, that's the real problem - most people seem unable or unwilling to accept that their personal philosophy may be incorrect, and that the truth is likely somewhere in between.
Personally, I love being proven wrong. That's the best way to grow. Every time I'm proven wrong I improve as a person, knowing more than I did the day before.
Indeed. Not only have we regressed in terms of respect for science, but also in terms of civil liberties and social justice. This country is sliding headlong towards another dark ages.
The "right" to property exists only because a government exists to protect it. Fundamentally, property is theft.
True freedom comes from not how much you own, or how many rights you can tick off on your score card, but from how much you are actually able to do with your life. Inefficient allocation of goods will restrict what people are able to do, and individual property rights (especially capital) is all about excluding people who need something from using it (unless you get your rent).
You know what looks nice? Awesome. Can't do that on Windows.
drivers (for me) have always just worked
I have just as many driver problems on Windows as on Linux. Linux generally comes with a working driver for just about any piece of hardware, and you can go get proprietary drivers for extra features.
Any software I care about works.
I suppose so. You can run bash on Windows if you want, but it's much nicer to use in a real unix environment. Same with great software like vim, rtorrent, irssi, latex, and R. They all exist on windows, but it's not the same.
I can play games from just about any era of Windows.
When I want to play games on Linux, I just run emulators. There's no shortage of fun games to play, only a lack of current ones.
This is a good thing. It will encourage authors of free software on Windows to use free compilers, or even create free software on free platforms instead.
This is what's wrong with capitalism. The problem here wasn't bad programming, art, or game design. The problem here was bad management. The staff should be firing Curt Schilling, not the other way around.
Funny how when we're talking about life and limb, the penalty is much less than the compensation. But when it comes to mp3s, the penalty is far far in excess of what would be compensatory.
playing video games and watching porn IS a much easier and more fulfilling way to spend your time than getting shot down by girls from school. boys ARE socializing less and withdrawing more.
Even if this is the case, what exactly is wrong with this? If the males in question are satisfied with the choices they've made, who cares?
I see two possible consequences if this alleged trend plays out. First, these men will reproduce less, and these tendencies will be bred out of the population. Or alternatively, females will become more accomodating to these tendencies, and being a smooth talker won't matter so much anymore. In either case, what's the problem?
The Chinese Room is laughably misguided. It relies upon a confusion of levels. It's true that the man in the Chinese room does not know Chinese. But it's equally true that any individual neuron in my brain does not know English. The important point is that the system as a whole (the man in the chinese room plus the entire collection of rules OR the collection of neurons in my skull plus the laws of physics) knows Chinese or English (respectively).
McGrew, you should read some Hofstadter. He's pretty effective at eviscerating John Searle's nonsense.
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It is hard to say whether an AI could ever accomplish thinking (or sentience) or not.
It's obvious that AI can exist. What's not obvious is whether we'll ever be smart enough to manufacture one. This is a similar position to the situation with extraterrestrial life. It's almost certain that it exists, but completely impractical to expect to ever contact.
No, you encrypt the archive on your own computer, and send the encrypted archive to dropbox. All they ever see is the encrypted archive. You can even use a symmetrical encryption method, since you won't be distributing your keys.
Strong AI has always been the stuff of sci-fi. Not because it's impossible, but because it's impractically difficult. We can barely model how a single protein folds, with a world wide network of computers. Does anyone seriously expect that we can model intelligence with similar resources?
Evolution has been working on us for millions of years. It will probably take us hundreds or thousands before we get strong AI.
The unfortunate side effect is that we're going to lose the economies of scale involved in producing these drives. Expect the home file server to disappear into the cloud.
He quickly realized that she does seem to do non-profit work for disabled children
That's no excuse. The correct response is "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't realize this was an issue. I do non-profit work for disabled children, is there any way we can work out an accomodation?"
The fact that Shwagger went straight to threats of lawsuits indicates that despite the fact that she works with disabled children, she's still a terrible person.
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I prefer it the way Diderot is alleged to have said: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Personally, I think that the hate that is felt towards DRM should be redirected towards proprietary DRM so we can break down platform lock-in and give the obscure platforms a chance with the average consumer.
Can't be done. Any open DRM platform will be trivially circumvented. In cryptographic terms, DRM is an attempt to send a message from Alice to Bob without it being read by Charlie. The problem is that in DRM, Bob and Charlie are the same person. The way DRM companies get around this is by hiding the private key in the software. If their DRM systems were open, then they would be unable to hide anything anywhere.
Wasn't saying they aren't technically correct, but rather was pointing out that their attitude of "well, I'm right and you're just an idiot for questioning me" makes them no better than those they criticize for engaging in similar behavior.
Besides, how you react to infuriating people speaks volumes more about your character than theirs.
I'd say someone who goes around repeating fairy tales as if they were real, and extends no effort to even consider their veracity is lacking in character as well.
I may be rude as hell, but I don't lie to people. And if I do, I expect you to be rude as hell to me too. That's character.
Granted, the probability that the Earth is hollow is extremely low, but as with observation, probability != proof.
No, it's zero. You can't ever prove a theory, but you can falisify it. A hollow earth is easy to falsifiy. Set off a nuke on the other side of the Earth. If the Earth were filled with vaccum, you should detect no seismic waves coming through the center of the Earth. We do detect waves, so we can absolutely, without qualification, state that the Earth is filled with matter.
I think the vast majority of the populous can be quite reasonable and understanding, so long as you're not a dick about it.
The vast majority of the populace interprets any questions of their beliefs as dickish.
My question is, where does the tolerance stop? Do you think a flat earther is really going to be converted by a congenial discussion of Eratosthenes and general relativity? Doesn't it take a deliberate choice not to create a coherent picture of the world to avoid figuring this stuff out in adolescense? How do you deal with someone who has made that choice? Why shouldn't that choice be stigmatized?
In other words, cops may not force you to turn off your camera
Except that they can still ask you to turn off your camera, and they can still arrest you if you don't. They just have to come up with some other charge(contempt of cop), or release you without charge after holding you long enough to miss the shot. And if you got it, oops, the sd card went missing somehow. Too bad about that. That's if your lucky and the officer didn't mistake your camera for a gun.
Has any officer anywhere been disciplined in any way (other than paid vacation) for violating the legal rights of a photographer? Unless you can answer in the affirmative, the circuit court decision doesn't mean anything really.
The protections we actually have against criminals in uniform are vanishingly slim.
Sadly, that attitude is not limited to Southern Baptist creationists, but actually tends to be shared with those accepting of mainstream science as well; In fact, I would go so far as to say that emotional arguments make up the vast majority of opinions from all sides in most politicized debates. One has to go no further than this page to see that "liberal"* thinkers are just as guilty of dickishly writing off ideals that counter their beliefs as others, as if what they believe is unquestionable fact.
The difference here is that the liberals are correct. Is evolution "unquestionable fact"? No, but neither is heliocentricity. Both have been confirmed to about the same degree. Questions are always possible, but in cases like this they say more about the asker than the topic.
It's cute when a 6 year old asks you how you know the Earth moves around the Sun. When a well heeled, well to do, well respected adult asks you something that bespeaks a similar degree of ignorance, it's a little much to deal with politely.
While I personally have never heard of anyone digging a hole and finding the planet hollowed out, I have also never heard of anyone digging a hole and validating the crust/mantle/core model. So, being the ultimate skeptic that I am,. I refuse to write off either theory, rather tagging them as "not enough evidence for a conclusion."
Which is only due to your own ignorance and obstinance. The model of the Earth we have today is due to numerous seismic observations. These seismic observations are incompatible with the that the Earth is hollow. If it were filled with gas, or vacuum we would observe different patterns of refraction of seismic waves.
To me, that's the real problem - most people seem unable or unwilling to accept that their personal philosophy may be incorrect, and that the truth is likely somewhere in between.
Personally, I love being proven wrong. That's the best way to grow. Every time I'm proven wrong I improve as a person, knowing more than I did the day before.
Indeed. Not only have we regressed in terms of respect for science, but also in terms of civil liberties and social justice. This country is sliding headlong towards another dark ages.
With elections, the first amendment, right to assemble and so forth still intact
You don't pay much attention do you?
The "right" to property exists only because a government exists to protect it. Fundamentally, property is theft.
True freedom comes from not how much you own, or how many rights you can tick off on your score card, but from how much you are actually able to do with your life. Inefficient allocation of goods will restrict what people are able to do, and individual property rights (especially capital) is all about excluding people who need something from using it (unless you get your rent).
You don't even need to geek up the grill in order to do it right. The most complicated machine you're going to need is a timer.
doesn't wish to learn another way of doing things.
That's your problem.
It's nice when you have a 10 year old formula in excel and can boot up office 2k and it works.
If you had written it in R to begin with you'd be able to run the same code on either Windows or Linux.
Windows because it looks nice
You know what looks nice? Awesome. Can't do that on Windows.
drivers (for me) have always just worked
I have just as many driver problems on Windows as on Linux. Linux generally comes with a working driver for just about any piece of hardware, and you can go get proprietary drivers for extra features.
Any software I care about works.
I suppose so. You can run bash on Windows if you want, but it's much nicer to use in a real unix environment. Same with great software like vim, rtorrent, irssi, latex, and R. They all exist on windows, but it's not the same.
I can play games from just about any era of Windows.
When I want to play games on Linux, I just run emulators. There's no shortage of fun games to play, only a lack of current ones.
And, as a bonus the resulting app is more portable.
This is a good thing. It will encourage authors of free software on Windows to use free compilers, or even create free software on free platforms instead.
This is what's wrong with capitalism. The problem here wasn't bad programming, art, or game design. The problem here was bad management. The staff should be firing Curt Schilling, not the other way around.
Funny how when we're talking about life and limb, the penalty is much less than the compensation. But when it comes to mp3s, the penalty is far far in excess of what would be compensatory.
Also, he looks like Dracula.
playing video games and watching porn IS a much easier and more fulfilling way to spend your time than getting shot down by girls from school. boys ARE socializing less and withdrawing more.
Even if this is the case, what exactly is wrong with this? If the males in question are satisfied with the choices they've made, who cares?
I see two possible consequences if this alleged trend plays out. First, these men will reproduce less, and these tendencies will be bred out of the population. Or alternatively, females will become more accomodating to these tendencies, and being a smooth talker won't matter so much anymore. In either case, what's the problem?
The Chinese Room is laughably misguided. It relies upon a confusion of levels. It's true that the man in the Chinese room does not know Chinese. But it's equally true that any individual neuron in my brain does not know English. The important point is that the system as a whole (the man in the chinese room plus the entire collection of rules OR the collection of neurons in my skull plus the laws of physics) knows Chinese or English (respectively).
McGrew, you should read some Hofstadter. He's pretty effective at eviscerating John Searle's nonsense.
It is hard to say whether an AI could ever accomplish thinking (or sentience) or not.
It's obvious that AI can exist. What's not obvious is whether we'll ever be smart enough to manufacture one. This is a similar position to the situation with extraterrestrial life. It's almost certain that it exists, but completely impractical to expect to ever contact.
No, you encrypt the archive on your own computer, and send the encrypted archive to dropbox. All they ever see is the encrypted archive. You can even use a symmetrical encryption method, since you won't be distributing your keys.
Strong AI has always been the stuff of sci-fi. Not because it's impossible, but because it's impractically difficult. We can barely model how a single protein folds, with a world wide network of computers. Does anyone seriously expect that we can model intelligence with similar resources?
Evolution has been working on us for millions of years. It will probably take us hundreds or thousands before we get strong AI.
Like discard the key
Why would you give dropbox the key to the encrypted container with contents which you wish to keep secret from dropbox?
Few people actually need 2TB of storage
The unfortunate side effect is that we're going to lose the economies of scale involved in producing these drives. Expect the home file server to disappear into the cloud.
He quickly realized that she does seem to do non-profit work for disabled children
That's no excuse. The correct response is "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't realize this was an issue. I do non-profit work for disabled children, is there any way we can work out an accomodation?"
The fact that Shwagger went straight to threats of lawsuits indicates that despite the fact that she works with disabled children, she's still a terrible person.
Such as? What technology do you realistically expect to provide similar capacities to spinning discs for similar prices in 2 years?