I agree. I just can't let rank authoritarianism go unchallenged, even when the situation we're discussing calls for a small amount of deference to authority.
What Ellsberg did can be seen as patriotic, but Assange is not and was not a U.S. citizen, so even if you think there was a value in having the information leaked, he did not do it for love of country
All the more reason to respect Assange. Love of humanity is a more respectable motive than love of country.
As for adopting the ways of the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconcilliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is all change for the better, like birth and death, which convulse the body.
The rule of law depends on those laws being just and reasonable. When it's not, the law becomes a tool of exploitation rather than protection. When this happens it is right, and just, and good that the law is disobeyed.
Not saying that this is one of those cases. Just saying that absolute adherence to the rule of law is dangerous.
I can read 5.25" floppies. Nearly all the floppies I find around are still readable. Keeping live backups is important, yes. But there's no reason not to keep offline backup too. USB mass storage is not going anywhere.
All he really has to do is produce noticeably better guitar strings than the counterfeiters. If he does that, then customers will learn to avoid merchants that sell the fake stuff. If he can't do that, then the brand is worthless anyway.
People who insist that voting doesn't matter aren't just part of the problem, they're the entirety of the problem.
No. People who vote either democrat or republican are the entirety of the problem. Those who refuse to participate are at least not making things any worse.
Because you can do things with the long form that you can't do on a single. If a band can't fill a CD with 50-70 minutes of worthwhile music, chances are that their single won't hold up for much longer than the 3 minutes it takes to listen.
It may surprise you to learn this, but the Internet is not a residential neighborhood. It is a public space, that which is not restricted is presumed to be accessible. I have to ask your web server for every page of yours that I access. If you don't want me to access it, make your webserver refuse my access.
Just imagine for a moment if the burden was on the site visitor to ensure that he was authorized before he viewed a page. How would the internet work?
What exactly does you and your SO have to do with the security needs of activists, lawyers, businessmen, and other people with important things to do? Because you don't need it, no one does?
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I agree. I just can't let rank authoritarianism go unchallenged, even when the situation we're discussing calls for a small amount of deference to authority.
What Ellsberg did can be seen as patriotic, but Assange is not and was not a U.S. citizen, so even if you think there was a value in having the information leaked, he did not do it for love of country
All the more reason to respect Assange. Love of humanity is a more respectable motive than love of country.
As for adopting the ways of the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconcilliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is all change for the better, like birth and death, which convulse the body.
Henry David Thoreau
The rule of law depends on those laws being just and reasonable. When it's not, the law becomes a tool of exploitation rather than protection. When this happens it is right, and just, and good that the law is disobeyed.
Not saying that this is one of those cases. Just saying that absolute adherence to the rule of law is dangerous.
I can read 5.25" floppies. Nearly all the floppies I find around are still readable. Keeping live backups is important, yes. But there's no reason not to keep offline backup too. USB mass storage is not going anywhere.
Real open source would be worker owned cooperatives.
When does government spend on religion?
Churches are tax free. That's essentially a subsidy.
All he really has to do is produce noticeably better guitar strings than the counterfeiters. If he does that, then customers will learn to avoid merchants that sell the fake stuff. If he can't do that, then the brand is worthless anyway.
Don't worry. We will always have one time pads.
Second, we don't know whether factoring is NP-hard and it is conjectured not to be NP-hard (which does not mean we think it's polynomial!).
What other option is there? It's either polynomial (P) or not polynomial (NP), isn't it?
Your time would be better spent spidering old game sites. We need to preserve these primary sources before they're gone.
No sympathy. Being copied does not legitimize theft.
People who insist that voting doesn't matter aren't just part of the problem, they're the entirety of the problem.
No. People who vote either democrat or republican are the entirety of the problem. Those who refuse to participate are at least not making things any worse.
That Activision merger seems to have totally killed the company we used to know.
FWIW, the bnetd debacle predates the Activision merger.
Might be a nice argument although somehow I doubt he would win in court.
That is pretty close to the textbook definition of injustice.
why was a delayed release ever a good idea?
Ask your mom.
Because you can do things with the long form that you can't do on a single. If a band can't fill a CD with 50-70 minutes of worthwhile music, chances are that their single won't hold up for much longer than the 3 minutes it takes to listen.
In other words I left my front door unlocked,
It may surprise you to learn this, but the Internet is not a residential neighborhood. It is a public space, that which is not restricted is presumed to be accessible. I have to ask your web server for every page of yours that I access. If you don't want me to access it, make your webserver refuse my access.
Just imagine for a moment if the burden was on the site visitor to ensure that he was authorized before he viewed a page. How would the internet work?
Why exactly is that a problem? Isn't that journalism? All he did was aggregate publicly available information.
What exactly does you and your SO have to do with the security needs of activists, lawyers, businessmen, and other people with important things to do? Because you don't need it, no one does?
This has the downside that everyone you text is forced to use the same software
This has the upside of ensuring that everyone you text is aware of the importance of privacy.
it's not necessary to do this to preserve your 4th amendment rights
Apparently it is.
the US authorities can never intercept US citizens' communications, or any communications within the US, without a warrant
That's cute.
Like email encryption, I don't expect text encryption to catch on, but full-disk encryption of data at rest is clearly going to be important.
They are complimentary approaches. Those who really need it will use both.
Vote neither. Either vote third party, or stop voting at all. At least that way your hands are clean of this bullshit.
...have led to some clbuttic mistakes.
There is no why, only how. "Why" is an invention of human minds. "Why" presupposes intentionality that does not exist outside of conscious beings.
At least he was thoughtful enough to include blackjack and hookers.