So something that's not a crime (receiving a gift) is made into a crime in order to coerce someone into providing state's evidence. Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
A single act of linking to copyrighted material is not criminal, but if you systematically do it, aren't you "inducing infringement?" That's copyright infringement under current law.
Sounds like a a pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.
It's like he believes Bush is still President or something.
If you look at the policies of the US government, you'd be hard pressed to tell that Bush isn't still President. Same shit, different guy.
Google links to copyrighted material. The Pirate Bay links to copyrighted material. That didn't stop Swedish courts from ruling against Pirate Bay, and still Google operates.
I mean, you're right and all, but don't expect that to provide any protection for this guy. We are well past the stage where the rule of law means anything in the US. There are different standards for the powerful, and for those who would challenge the powerful.
It was time for the people to rise up in the US thirty years ago. After all that time the only significant popular movement to arise is a bunch of idiots trying to give more power to the elites. There is no hope for America.
Phish sells FLAC recording of all its recent shows at LivePhish.com. You can get FLACs of other live shows at LiveDownloads.com. All lossless soundboard recordings.
1) at what point does it legally become "human"? You have to draw a line somewhere for legal purposes. It'll be arbitrary and silly, but it's still necessary.
Most of what makes a human a human is a functioning neo-cortex. The very first cells that can be traced to the neo-cortex form at around 8 weeks. That's the absolute earliest that it would make sense to define a human, and in reality it's probably much later than that that the neo cortex becomes functional. Suffice it to say that there is no scientific argument for treating a 0 to 8 week old embryo as anything but a lump of tissue.
They are treating humans and human embryos as a special case. This is a good thing (for humans anyway). You don't want the usual sociopathic CEOs to consider the use/abuse of human embryos lightly, all in the purpose of profit.
Why would I care what CEOs do to a lump of tissue in culture, when there are CEOs out there victimizing actual human beings?
If you think that allowing industrial use of human embroys is necessary to provide those treatments you probably believe Monsanto and friends GM plans will cure world hunger or something.
I'm definitely no fan of Monsanto, or any other corporation. I would not hesitate to describe them as evil. Nor do I think that GM crops are necessary to solve world hunger. World hunger is a political problem. That said, I'm not afraid of GM plants in the slightest. They should definitely not be patentable, that's for sure.
Yes, I applaud their result, but can't figure out their reasoning. Stem cells shouldn't be patented because they were invented by nature.
How exactly is the industrial use of human embryos unethical anyway? Honestly, refusing people potential treatments that could be developed with the industrial use of human embryos seems much more unethical.
That's what capitalism inevitably ends up as. Money makes money faster than labor does, so it just further concentrates. Economic power is trivially converted to political power, so in the end there's no fundamental difference between feudalism and capitalism.
I've been using it for years. Occasionally apt will refuse to update some packages because of dependency problems, but otherwise it's been clear sailing. Unstable means that the repository changes often, not that the software itself is unstable. It may help that I don't use half of the packages you refer to as breaking.
None of this means that Sid is appropriate for the general population. All it means is that Sid stays out of my way, Just Works, and requires little maintenance besides an 'apt-get upgrade' from time to time. The amount of time I've spent fixing Sid is insignificant compared to the amount of time I've spent trying to get Windows into something usable. Still haven't found a decent virtual desktop manager.
Doom is still the finest FPS ever created. A good arcade action game will stand the test of time. Like Tetris, Galaga, PacMan, etc Doom is a classic that will be played for decades, if not centuries. If you play these games for the story, you're missing the point entirely.
The emphasis modern shooters place on story and graphics as opposed to level design and gameplay is a major reason they suck.
Yeah I know. But I wanted to play some games that weren't supported in Wine. The discrete sound card gives me less noise too, so it was a worthwhile purchase.
Closed source audio can break too. My last motherboard had onboard RealTek audio. Worked perfectly in Linux. Under XP, it crackled endlessly. Ended up buying a discrete sound card.
The proper solution to homeless people hanging around libraries is to provide better services specifically to the homeless. There should be shelters and mental health clinics available. But I guess we'd rather give tax breaks to the rich.
is like an emulator. A lot of computational power is probably wasted on trying to translate biological functions into binary procedures.
Isn't that kind of the point of the article? To get around this need for all the computational power, we need hardware that's better at probabilistic analog computations, and to run it all in parallel.
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So something that's not a crime (receiving a gift) is made into a crime in order to coerce someone into providing state's evidence. Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
We tolerate it because we have no choice. The individual is essentially powerless in the US.
A single act of linking to copyrighted material is not criminal, but if you systematically do it, aren't you "inducing infringement?" That's copyright infringement under current law.
Sounds like a a pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.
It's like he believes Bush is still President or something.
If you look at the policies of the US government, you'd be hard pressed to tell that Bush isn't still President. Same shit, different guy.
Google links to copyrighted material. The Pirate Bay links to copyrighted material. That didn't stop Swedish courts from ruling against Pirate Bay, and still Google operates.
I mean, you're right and all, but don't expect that to provide any protection for this guy. We are well past the stage where the rule of law means anything in the US. There are different standards for the powerful, and for those who would challenge the powerful.
It was time for the people to rise up in the US thirty years ago. After all that time the only significant popular movement to arise is a bunch of idiots trying to give more power to the elites. There is no hope for America.
Phish sells FLAC recording of all its recent shows at LivePhish.com. You can get FLACs of other live shows at LiveDownloads.com. All lossless soundboard recordings.
Someone would almost certainly get charged with obstruction of justice.
1) at what point does it legally become "human"? You have to draw a line somewhere for legal purposes. It'll be arbitrary and silly, but it's still necessary.
Most of what makes a human a human is a functioning neo-cortex. The very first cells that can be traced to the neo-cortex form at around 8 weeks. That's the absolute earliest that it would make sense to define a human, and in reality it's probably much later than that that the neo cortex becomes functional. Suffice it to say that there is no scientific argument for treating a 0 to 8 week old embryo as anything but a lump of tissue.
They are treating humans and human embryos as a special case. This is a good thing (for humans anyway). You don't want the usual sociopathic CEOs to consider the use/abuse of human embryos lightly, all in the purpose of profit.
Why would I care what CEOs do to a lump of tissue in culture, when there are CEOs out there victimizing actual human beings?
If you think that allowing industrial use of human embroys is necessary to provide those treatments you probably believe Monsanto and friends GM plans will cure world hunger or something.
I'm definitely no fan of Monsanto, or any other corporation. I would not hesitate to describe them as evil. Nor do I think that GM crops are necessary to solve world hunger. World hunger is a political problem. That said, I'm not afraid of GM plants in the slightest. They should definitely not be patentable, that's for sure.
Looks like you have a different ethical reasoning concept than that court. The logic here is, that human embryos are potential humans.
The welfare of humans is obviously more important than that of potential humans.
Another risk in the commercialization of embryos is that poor women are used to produce embryos for the rich. This is unethical as well.
The poor do all sorts of awful work for the rich. Don't see why this is any different.
Yes, I applaud their result, but can't figure out their reasoning. Stem cells shouldn't be patented because they were invented by nature.
How exactly is the industrial use of human embryos unethical anyway? Honestly, refusing people potential treatments that could be developed with the industrial use of human embryos seems much more unethical.
That's what capitalism inevitably ends up as. Money makes money faster than labor does, so it just further concentrates. Economic power is trivially converted to political power, so in the end there's no fundamental difference between feudalism and capitalism.
As a tax payer funded organization NASA's code should not be subject to the licensing requirements of someone outside of government.
As a tax payer funded organization, NASA's code should be public domain.
Played all of those. Doom is still the one I'll return to over and over again.
I've been using it for years. Occasionally apt will refuse to update some packages because of dependency problems, but otherwise it's been clear sailing. Unstable means that the repository changes often, not that the software itself is unstable. It may help that I don't use half of the packages you refer to as breaking.
None of this means that Sid is appropriate for the general population. All it means is that Sid stays out of my way, Just Works, and requires little maintenance besides an 'apt-get upgrade' from time to time. The amount of time I've spent fixing Sid is insignificant compared to the amount of time I've spent trying to get Windows into something usable. Still haven't found a decent virtual desktop manager.
Doom is still the finest FPS ever created. A good arcade action game will stand the test of time. Like Tetris, Galaga, PacMan, etc Doom is a classic that will be played for decades, if not centuries. If you play these games for the story, you're missing the point entirely.
The emphasis modern shooters place on story and graphics as opposed to level design and gameplay is a major reason they suck.
1) Use Debian.
2) Never seen this with any OpenGL software.
3) Tried Scribus?
- if you want a desktop system that stays out of your way, Just Works, and requires little maintenance beyond letting an auto updater do its thing.
Funny, this is exactly how I'd describe my Debian Sid box.
Yeah I know. But I wanted to play some games that weren't supported in Wine. The discrete sound card gives me less noise too, so it was a worthwhile purchase.
Closed source audio can break too. My last motherboard had onboard RealTek audio. Worked perfectly in Linux. Under XP, it crackled endlessly. Ended up buying a discrete sound card.
Municipal WIFI is socialism. You're not a socialist, are you?
Depends on if you're looking to score or if you're looking for a keeper.
The proper solution to homeless people hanging around libraries is to provide better services specifically to the homeless. There should be shelters and mental health clinics available. But I guess we'd rather give tax breaks to the rich.
You know, it's very easy to say "simply don't buy their games", but with that attitude, we'd most likely never get any form of entertainment anymore
Nonsense. If people refuse to buy DRM, someone will serve that market.
The choice remains between sticking up for your own values and missing out on some piece of entertainment you're dying to experience
If your values are worth less to you than a bit of entertainment, you don't really value them that much at all.
is like an emulator. A lot of computational power is probably wasted on trying to translate biological functions into binary procedures.
Isn't that kind of the point of the article? To get around this need for all the computational power, we need hardware that's better at probabilistic analog computations, and to run it all in parallel.
Any arrest that does not lead to charges should result in assault and kidnapping charges against the arresting officer.