The current Thai king isn't like say european kings, good or bad kings they come and go with a bit of scandal and that is all. In Thailand it's more like:
Deity | King | | | | | | | People
Rest of world:
Deity | | | | | | | King | People
I really hope that country doesn't go to hell because the people there are very nice, very friendly. A lot of people to fool money out of tourists, but very little violence, robberies and other shit you get in many poor countries. And they try to keep foreigners out of their own problems, even when it comes to riots.
If as they say he had Thai citizenship it doesn't matter, then Thailand can pass extraterritorial laws over him. That is for example how child sex tourism laws works, you can be tried and convicted in your home country even if you complied with local law of the country you were visiting. Now you may disagree with this particular law, but the principle that countries can pass laws over their own citizens that apply outside their own borders is well established.
I guess you missed the part where Qt closed the bug as OUT OF SCOPE, as in not a Qt problem but a Linux problem. But I see the anything that breaks with the holy gospel gets modded down, so...
In short, it became a global witch hunt after Internet came. If one country has an age limit of 16, then porn with 16 year olds would be everywhere. Norway raised the age limit for child porn from 16 to 18 as late as year 2000, mostly after international pressure. Any country that tries deviating from that will raise a hellish shit storm, I remember there was one guy in Eastern Europe who wanted to lower it to 14 - same as age of consent - and the reaction was just absurd. The funny thing is the age of consent stayed at 14, you can still have sex with them as long as moral freaks in other countries don't get to see it.
Actually, if you paid any attention to the news, you should know that we vetoed the (third) EU Post Directive about a month ago.
Actually, no we didn't. The national congress of AP voted against it meaning there's now a majority against the directive, but we've not formally exercised it yet. We're now in "deliberations" with EU regarding the situation. Here for example is an article where the opposition claims the government is unclear in if they will veto it - which they hardly would say if we already had done it. There is now a very strong possibility that we will, but I wouldn't bet on it. A lot of people said the same about the Data Storage Directive and that passed.
You were deprived of a proper desktop as a child. You know nothing of multiple workspaces, the ability of your applications to share their data with each other, even the simplest things like changing the color of your window decorations is beyond your ken. It's like you were raised in a cage.
And in 2011, Linux still has such fundamental issues such as Ctrl-V and RightClick+Paste not giving the same result. Or such ridiculous things like when you have copied something to the clipboard, it disappears if you quit before pasting. It was probably written down in some POSIX standard 40 years ago that this should forever be absurd, and so no amount of sanity can prevail.
"foo n-1 was the best thing ever, new is crap, Windows 7 is shiny." Okay then. Use Windows 7.
I do. Three and a half years of struggling with Linux was enough, thank you.
You also can be more flexible in recovery options. If the stuff slams into the Earth pretty hard, you don't really care, as long as it doesn't hit anybody.
There's very little difference between "lands safely" and "lands like a fireball in bits and pieces over a tri-state area". And even if you could keep it all together, it'd be pretty damn important for your sales price that you can certify for its purity and that it's not just mud from the crash site.
The other way in which you can be more flexible is that you can adopt a flight path that will take months instead of days.
Very good point, with a least energy transfer oribit from earth to moon and moon to earth you could save a lot of weight all around both on engines and fuel. Seems the Hiten probe already did that, savings of 20% and takes 3-4 months instead of 3 days. Not revolutionary much cheaper, but it helps.
They could use any shape they want to project the windows onto. They could project it on a shape with more sides than a cube. They could even wrap windows around a sphere. The fact is we need more screen realestate and 3d is one way of getting it.
Reality check: How does this give me more screen real estate? My screen is 1920x1200 pixels no matter what. I can flip the contents by hitting alt-tab, clicking an icon on the taskbar, switching desktops, picking from a list of tabs or just plain scrolling down the page as well as plenty other "2.5D" ways that give me infinite space - just not all at once. I agree that sometimes pseudo-3D can be useful like say flipping through album covers or something, but there's inherently no more "space" in 3D and I'd rather not throw a 1d6 to find what face of the cube I left my window on. But this is another case where I suspect we'll get thrown into it because 3D > 2.5D but nobody will really check if it actually is an improvement.
it should be simple to show the robot or program the robot into doing it a number of very highly complex tasks
Yeah... how many decades have we dreamed about the Star Trek computer or Lt. Cmdr. Data by now? Computers aren't ever going to figure out what you're trying to do and make all the complex decisions themselves. The fact of the matter is that to make it to complex things you have to write complex scripts. And try as people may, we still haven't found anything better than the current programming languages, which most people can't grok. Every attempt to "humanize" it has failed because it lacks the precision to be interpreted by a computer and the computer will never realize it's doing nonsense work.
For example I decide I need to do research on artificial intelligence because I don't know what it is, so I should be able to tell the robot to search Google, to find X amount of articles on artificial intelligence which meet certain criteria.
Just to take one example, how's your agent going to know this link, unlike all the other links, is fetching the next results? Somebody has to program that logic into it, you can't just say give me the top 100 links. And what tells sponsored links from actual search results, assuming you just want the search results? Again, more logic. What should it do if a link is unavailable, should it just take the next results, try again, try later, panic and error out? All of those COULD be reasonable choices under some circumstances. Where should it store it? Should it keep historical data, or clear it out each time? Does it need to keep a history so it doesn't download the same article twice? What about the same article on two different URLs, do we need fuzzy matching? Do you need just the article, and if so do you get it without all the navigation, header, footer and other text since it's just one HTML page? By the time I've narrowed down exactly what it is your agent to do, the "agent" is really a complex script that wasn't really all that valuable to automate anyway. Or you could have it try guessing, but then we're back to an army of Clippys again.
Well strictly speaking, it's not all on US hands. From the WP article on them "Then President Richard Nixon ordered the distribution of fragments of that rock to 135 foreign heads of state (...)" so there's at least 135 pieces on foreign hands, maybe some other nations too have done sample missions. It just doesn't seem very likely they'd show up on eBay.
As for making a trip, good luck on that. The thing about getting a lot of mass off the moon is that you have to bring the craft and fuel for it, first out of earth orbit then into moon orbit then down on the moon without slamming into it. The launch weigh of the lunar missions was about 45000 kg, of which 24000 kg was the service module with engines and fuel to get in/out of lunar orbit, 15000 kg for the lander and just 6000 kg for the crew module. Of the lander 10000 kg stayed on the ground, less than 5000 kg went back up. And of that, most was fuel - the actually payload was a crew of 2 and - on Apollo 17 - 108 kg of moon rocks so 250-300 kg total lift capacity.
Drop the crew module, cut everything else in half and it might just fit a $100M Falcon 9 Heavy and carry 100-150 kg of moon rock back. Since you'd have to design everything but the rocket I'd low-ball the estimate to at least $300M. Is anyone going to pay $3000/gram for moon dust? I sorta doubt it. Maybe it gets a little better when you drop all life support, human supplies and land with much higher Gs with the lander, but the essence is that getting payload off the moon will be very expensive.
Only based on a Supreme Court decision in fact. There were specific things outlawed like pornography with children, animals etc. but the general ban against pornography was based on an interpretation of what was "offensive" (støtende), "humiliating" (nedverdigende) or "objectifying" (forrående). Essentially the law was interpreted so that genitalia erect or in sexual activity were considered offensive.
Basically the Supreme Court said in a 5-0 decision it could not find that normal sexual activity between consenting adults was found offensive, humiliating or objectifying by the general public and so could not find them guilty by the letter of the law. That if the parliament wanted a law like that, they'd have to pass one that explicitly said so. Which they didn't, so in practice it changed while staying the same.
And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...
Unfortunately, on this point being part of the EEA is as good as being part of EU. We must pass all EU directives unless we veto them, and in the 17 years since we joined we never have. We refused to join EU in a referendum in 1994, but our politicians did the next best thing. By passing the EEA agreement we did not give any sovereignty since in theory all is decided by our parliament, but it's practically impossible to say no. So we're as good as a member, except we don't get to take part in any decision processes - we made ourselves an EU serfdom instead of an EU member.
Eh, from all the things you got wrong I have to seriously wonder if you even live in Norway. Sale of hard pornography is legal and has been legal since 2005. The age of consent is 16, not 18 but any pictures or movies of people under 18 is considered child pornography. However, we also include drawings, stories and actors that "appear to be" under 18 in our definition, even if it is proven that all actors were in fact over 18. And yes, there are actual convictions to that effect.
As for actual sex, anyone can have sex as long as they are of equal age and mental capacity, so a 17 year old can legally have sex with a 15 year old. Or a 15 year old with a 13 year old for that matter, 15 being the minimum age of criminal responsibility. There's no strict rule about the age gap but it's smaller the younger they are, you might get away with 20 and 15 but clearly not 18 and 13 or 15 and 10. Apart from the ridiculous child porn definition a very sane country.
The thing is that graphics cards are getting ahead of displays. The shader count goes up, but the pixel count stays the same - or is even down. Anything higher than 1080p is now a rare beast, of course not those with massive SLI setups and 30" monitors but they're extremely marginal even among PC users. And with the hardware being fully programmable shaders, the capabilities aren't as fixed as before either. The next round of consoles will be full hd, give them enough shaders for that resolution and they will look very good very long.
2. Unless accelerating, you wouldn't know you were going down (or up, or banked or upside down...).
At least under normal conditions I find gravity is the overwhelming force and that banking is easily felt as leaning into the sides, not to speak of upside down - I doubt you could miss the fact that you're hanging from your seat belt. What you don't really notice is vertical gain/loss, without looking out the window I doubt I could distinguish between a climb and a stall - if you have a water bottle in your seat pocket it'll look exactly the same.
By your logic I couldn't put a picture of people eating a McDonalds burger in an article about fast food, because it'd dilute its uniqueness. I'd say this more a case of smearing a trademark, like say if you in every article about car accidents put a Ford. Yes, Ford is a car but you'd smear the impression that Ford = unsafe cars all over the trademark. It's not diluting, it's not making it generic, it's making negative associations to your brand. Just as if you made an STD warning ad using a stock photo, that model may have signed a release form but probably not to anything and everything. I guess that's how the NYSE feels about the illustration.
And yet it seems the 2nd amendment nuts aren't nearly as concerned with the 1st amendment, NRA over EFF any day. What they don't understand that it won't matter if you have guns if you don't know when or why to grab them. Tienmen..what? Liu Xio..who? And if the founders had lived in 2011 and seen the mass surveillance I think they would have moved the 4th up to 2nd, because if the government control your every move, your every communication, everything you search for or read online then nobody would get coordinated to rebel. Lone dissenters are always easily neutralized.
The Patriot Act just passed another 4 year extension even though Osama is dead and the US has seen no terror of any significance in years. Face it, the "war" never ends and sooner or later they'll just pass this as permanent legislation, all governments are like a sponge sucking up power never relinquishing it. Another disturbing trend I've noticed is that more and more news sites now move to Facebook discussions, pretty soon the "public voice" will not include anyone without a Facebook account. Like boiling a frog we are softly being gagged, so thin most don't even realize it.
Why is it that the younger the person who does something, the more special people think it is? I call it the "America's Got Talent" effect.
At least in science it seems the body of human knowledge continues to expand. Like many of the math theorems that requires years of field theory and calculus to even understand WTF the theorem is about. Try for example reading the proof of Fermat's last theorem without developing a brain aneurysm. It's like they talk Greek and Latin and ancient Hebrew and something you could swear is alien.
That young people still discover things is proof there's still low hanging fruit or that exceptional talent matters more than a PhD and 20 years of working with the subject matter. Of course there's many cookie cutter professors too but usually there are some that are exceptional talents and PhDs and have worked on it 20 years who has picked clean any reasonably accessible discovery.
Same with for example physics, unless you're at the Tevatron or CERN it's unlikely you'll find any new elementary particles, add any new entries to the periodic table, build carbon nanotubes, high-temperature superconductors or anything else that will make a huge impact, compared to the relatively simple lab equipment 100 years ago. That's why the young ones are news, because they're the exceptions.
Well, if it's just DNS then make another - when Denmark blocked it jesperbay.org and if they'd tried a game of whack-a-mole just use a URL redirection service to the IP. Want to take down bit.ly? Or perhaps starting to/dev/null traffic going to those IPs? This is like firing a pellet gun and declaring war on a fleet of battleships, good luck with that.
Obviously there's a big gap between reality and fantasy. And even in fantasy there's a good gap between the "I'm seeing a drama about a person being killed" as opposed to "I'm playing an FPS and just shot two guys".To murder is not the same as watching a murder which is not the same as pretending to murder someone.
It won't fundamentally be exploration, it will be more like tourism.
Which is why we should skip the tourism stage and concentrate on the colonization stage, which is not pointless. A Mars mission should be an experiment on prototypes for a permanent base, solar panels, greenhouses, habitats, radiation shielding, water recycling, low-G health effects and that sort of thing. If they just go there to eat canned food and take tourist photos, then no.
As for robots, I don't think there's ever been doubt that there's many places probes can go that humans never will. And for the record, both Soviet Luna probes and US Surveyor probes landed on the Moon before Apollo 11. Even so it was very clearly the goal to put a man on the moon, not just a machine. I would say it's an important stepping stone for Mars as well, as long as it's done with a purpose. That is why the moon missions ended, it's like we've put men on the moon, now what?
Your new TV set contains a computer that performs the functions provided by the external box. The firmware for that computer can be reprogrammed.
Yes, but will they really? Or will they essentially lock you to one or two particular services? I think they'll continue to ship boxes and if not boxes then essentially the same in a CAM-like module, except it practically takes control of the TV. I doubt you'll get all TV providers to give you the support you'd need to rely on them and their firmware. Not unless you'd essentially install and update your own software on their TVs, but I don't see every TV manufacturer playing along with that. Anyway, screens are getting bigger and bigger and the boxes smaller and smaller. What's wrong with hanging it on the back of your TV? Is there actually some significant advantage to be had by making it a non-serviceable part you can't move to another TV?
That only works if it's lone doctors, if it becomes more or less a standard clause to get treatment it won't have much effect at all. Never underestimate the power of soft collusion to give all customers worse terms, just like pretty much every EULA says all your base are belongs to us.
And YouTube-videos to back you up. I've noticed that almost no matter how crackpot the person is, there's always a youtube video that supports his delusions. Preferably a really long one, and when I refuse to spend 30 minutes of my life to see it because you can't use ten seconds to tell me what it's about, then I don't know or understand anything and he wins any discussion by default, if you saw the video you'd understand. Like the pothead who linked me to a vid where among other things, it cured cancer. I mean, seriously... How 'tard can you get?
if you're trying to order them and do something like if(uid>=magic) you need a trip to unix re-education camp.
Yep. It's trying to implement number magic instead of having user groups like local_users, remote_users, daemons etc. to determine what to show where. Welcome to poor design 101, I remember trying to add a ftp server to my box, reusing user and file system permissions is fine but every user I added also appeared on my login screen. They should be in an ftp_users group, nowhere else. But instead we'll use a UID that we can't easily change and can't belong to multiple groups, sigh...
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The current Thai king isn't like say european kings, good or bad kings they come and go with a bit of scandal and that is all. In Thailand it's more like:
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I really hope that country doesn't go to hell because the people there are very nice, very friendly. A lot of people to fool money out of tourists, but very little violence, robberies and other shit you get in many poor countries. And they try to keep foreigners out of their own problems, even when it comes to riots.
If as they say he had Thai citizenship it doesn't matter, then Thailand can pass extraterritorial laws over him. That is for example how child sex tourism laws works, you can be tried and convicted in your home country even if you complied with local law of the country you were visiting. Now you may disagree with this particular law, but the principle that countries can pass laws over their own citizens that apply outside their own borders is well established.
I guess you missed the part where Qt closed the bug as OUT OF SCOPE, as in not a Qt problem but a Linux problem. But I see the anything that breaks with the holy gospel gets modded down, so...
In short, it became a global witch hunt after Internet came. If one country has an age limit of 16, then porn with 16 year olds would be everywhere. Norway raised the age limit for child porn from 16 to 18 as late as year 2000, mostly after international pressure. Any country that tries deviating from that will raise a hellish shit storm, I remember there was one guy in Eastern Europe who wanted to lower it to 14 - same as age of consent - and the reaction was just absurd. The funny thing is the age of consent stayed at 14, you can still have sex with them as long as moral freaks in other countries don't get to see it.
Actually, if you paid any attention to the news, you should know that we vetoed the (third) EU Post Directive about a month ago.
Actually, no we didn't. The national congress of AP voted against it meaning there's now a majority against the directive, but we've not formally exercised it yet. We're now in "deliberations" with EU regarding the situation. Here for example is an article where the opposition claims the government is unclear in if they will veto it - which they hardly would say if we already had done it. There is now a very strong possibility that we will, but I wouldn't bet on it. A lot of people said the same about the Data Storage Directive and that passed.
You were deprived of a proper desktop as a child. You know nothing of multiple workspaces, the ability of your applications to share their data with each other, even the simplest things like changing the color of your window decorations is beyond your ken. It's like you were raised in a cage.
And in 2011, Linux still has such fundamental issues such as Ctrl-V and RightClick+Paste not giving the same result. Or such ridiculous things like when you have copied something to the clipboard, it disappears if you quit before pasting. It was probably written down in some POSIX standard 40 years ago that this should forever be absurd, and so no amount of sanity can prevail.
"foo n-1 was the best thing ever, new is crap, Windows 7 is shiny." Okay then. Use Windows 7.
I do. Three and a half years of struggling with Linux was enough, thank you.
You also can be more flexible in recovery options. If the stuff slams into the Earth pretty hard, you don't really care, as long as it doesn't hit anybody.
There's very little difference between "lands safely" and "lands like a fireball in bits and pieces over a tri-state area". And even if you could keep it all together, it'd be pretty damn important for your sales price that you can certify for its purity and that it's not just mud from the crash site.
The other way in which you can be more flexible is that you can adopt a flight path that will take months instead of days.
Very good point, with a least energy transfer oribit from earth to moon and moon to earth you could save a lot of weight all around both on engines and fuel. Seems the Hiten probe already did that, savings of 20% and takes 3-4 months instead of 3 days. Not revolutionary much cheaper, but it helps.
They could use any shape they want to project the windows onto. They could project it on a shape with more sides than a cube. They could even wrap windows around a sphere. The fact is we need more screen realestate and 3d is one way of getting it.
Reality check: How does this give me more screen real estate? My screen is 1920x1200 pixels no matter what. I can flip the contents by hitting alt-tab, clicking an icon on the taskbar, switching desktops, picking from a list of tabs or just plain scrolling down the page as well as plenty other "2.5D" ways that give me infinite space - just not all at once. I agree that sometimes pseudo-3D can be useful like say flipping through album covers or something, but there's inherently no more "space" in 3D and I'd rather not throw a 1d6 to find what face of the cube I left my window on. But this is another case where I suspect we'll get thrown into it because 3D > 2.5D but nobody will really check if it actually is an improvement.
multi-agent based AI
It's an army of Clippys
it should be simple to show the robot or program the robot into doing it a number of very highly complex tasks
Yeah... how many decades have we dreamed about the Star Trek computer or Lt. Cmdr. Data by now? Computers aren't ever going to figure out what you're trying to do and make all the complex decisions themselves. The fact of the matter is that to make it to complex things you have to write complex scripts. And try as people may, we still haven't found anything better than the current programming languages, which most people can't grok. Every attempt to "humanize" it has failed because it lacks the precision to be interpreted by a computer and the computer will never realize it's doing nonsense work.
For example I decide I need to do research on artificial intelligence because I don't know what it is, so I should be able to tell the robot to search Google, to find X amount of articles on artificial intelligence which meet certain criteria.
Just to take one example, how's your agent going to know this link, unlike all the other links, is fetching the next results? Somebody has to program that logic into it, you can't just say give me the top 100 links. And what tells sponsored links from actual search results, assuming you just want the search results? Again, more logic. What should it do if a link is unavailable, should it just take the next results, try again, try later, panic and error out? All of those COULD be reasonable choices under some circumstances. Where should it store it? Should it keep historical data, or clear it out each time? Does it need to keep a history so it doesn't download the same article twice? What about the same article on two different URLs, do we need fuzzy matching? Do you need just the article, and if so do you get it without all the navigation, header, footer and other text since it's just one HTML page? By the time I've narrowed down exactly what it is your agent to do, the "agent" is really a complex script that wasn't really all that valuable to automate anyway. Or you could have it try guessing, but then we're back to an army of Clippys again.
Well strictly speaking, it's not all on US hands. From the WP article on them "Then President Richard Nixon ordered the distribution of fragments of that rock to 135 foreign heads of state (...)" so there's at least 135 pieces on foreign hands, maybe some other nations too have done sample missions. It just doesn't seem very likely they'd show up on eBay.
As for making a trip, good luck on that. The thing about getting a lot of mass off the moon is that you have to bring the craft and fuel for it, first out of earth orbit then into moon orbit then down on the moon without slamming into it. The launch weigh of the lunar missions was about 45000 kg, of which 24000 kg was the service module with engines and fuel to get in/out of lunar orbit, 15000 kg for the lander and just 6000 kg for the crew module. Of the lander 10000 kg stayed on the ground, less than 5000 kg went back up. And of that, most was fuel - the actually payload was a crew of 2 and - on Apollo 17 - 108 kg of moon rocks so 250-300 kg total lift capacity.
Drop the crew module, cut everything else in half and it might just fit a $100M Falcon 9 Heavy and carry 100-150 kg of moon rock back. Since you'd have to design everything but the rocket I'd low-ball the estimate to at least $300M. Is anyone going to pay $3000/gram for moon dust? I sorta doubt it. Maybe it gets a little better when you drop all life support, human supplies and land with much higher Gs with the lander, but the essence is that getting payload off the moon will be very expensive.
Only based on a Supreme Court decision in fact. There were specific things outlawed like pornography with children, animals etc. but the general ban against pornography was based on an interpretation of what was "offensive" (støtende), "humiliating" (nedverdigende) or "objectifying" (forrående). Essentially the law was interpreted so that genitalia erect or in sexual activity were considered offensive.
Basically the Supreme Court said in a 5-0 decision it could not find that normal sexual activity between consenting adults was found offensive, humiliating or objectifying by the general public and so could not find them guilty by the letter of the law. That if the parliament wanted a law like that, they'd have to pass one that explicitly said so. Which they didn't, so in practice it changed while staying the same.
And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...
Unfortunately, on this point being part of the EEA is as good as being part of EU. We must pass all EU directives unless we veto them, and in the 17 years since we joined we never have. We refused to join EU in a referendum in 1994, but our politicians did the next best thing. By passing the EEA agreement we did not give any sovereignty since in theory all is decided by our parliament, but it's practically impossible to say no. So we're as good as a member, except we don't get to take part in any decision processes - we made ourselves an EU serfdom instead of an EU member.
Eh, from all the things you got wrong I have to seriously wonder if you even live in Norway. Sale of hard pornography is legal and has been legal since 2005. The age of consent is 16, not 18 but any pictures or movies of people under 18 is considered child pornography. However, we also include drawings, stories and actors that "appear to be" under 18 in our definition, even if it is proven that all actors were in fact over 18. And yes, there are actual convictions to that effect.
As for actual sex, anyone can have sex as long as they are of equal age and mental capacity, so a 17 year old can legally have sex with a 15 year old. Or a 15 year old with a 13 year old for that matter, 15 being the minimum age of criminal responsibility. There's no strict rule about the age gap but it's smaller the younger they are, you might get away with 20 and 15 but clearly not 18 and 13 or 15 and 10. Apart from the ridiculous child porn definition a very sane country.
The thing is that graphics cards are getting ahead of displays. The shader count goes up, but the pixel count stays the same - or is even down. Anything higher than 1080p is now a rare beast, of course not those with massive SLI setups and 30" monitors but they're extremely marginal even among PC users. And with the hardware being fully programmable shaders, the capabilities aren't as fixed as before either. The next round of consoles will be full hd, give them enough shaders for that resolution and they will look very good very long.
2. Unless accelerating, you wouldn't know you were going down (or up, or banked or upside down...).
At least under normal conditions I find gravity is the overwhelming force and that banking is easily felt as leaning into the sides, not to speak of upside down - I doubt you could miss the fact that you're hanging from your seat belt. What you don't really notice is vertical gain/loss, without looking out the window I doubt I could distinguish between a climb and a stall - if you have a water bottle in your seat pocket it'll look exactly the same.
By your logic I couldn't put a picture of people eating a McDonalds burger in an article about fast food, because it'd dilute its uniqueness. I'd say this more a case of smearing a trademark, like say if you in every article about car accidents put a Ford. Yes, Ford is a car but you'd smear the impression that Ford = unsafe cars all over the trademark. It's not diluting, it's not making it generic, it's making negative associations to your brand. Just as if you made an STD warning ad using a stock photo, that model may have signed a release form but probably not to anything and everything. I guess that's how the NYSE feels about the illustration.
And yet it seems the 2nd amendment nuts aren't nearly as concerned with the 1st amendment, NRA over EFF any day. What they don't understand that it won't matter if you have guns if you don't know when or why to grab them. Tienmen..what? Liu Xio..who? And if the founders had lived in 2011 and seen the mass surveillance I think they would have moved the 4th up to 2nd, because if the government control your every move, your every communication, everything you search for or read online then nobody would get coordinated to rebel. Lone dissenters are always easily neutralized.
The Patriot Act just passed another 4 year extension even though Osama is dead and the US has seen no terror of any significance in years. Face it, the "war" never ends and sooner or later they'll just pass this as permanent legislation, all governments are like a sponge sucking up power never relinquishing it. Another disturbing trend I've noticed is that more and more news sites now move to Facebook discussions, pretty soon the "public voice" will not include anyone without a Facebook account. Like boiling a frog we are softly being gagged, so thin most don't even realize it.
Why is it that the younger the person who does something, the more special people think it is? I call it the "America's Got Talent" effect.
At least in science it seems the body of human knowledge continues to expand. Like many of the math theorems that requires years of field theory and calculus to even understand WTF the theorem is about. Try for example reading the proof of Fermat's last theorem without developing a brain aneurysm. It's like they talk Greek and Latin and ancient Hebrew and something you could swear is alien.
That young people still discover things is proof there's still low hanging fruit or that exceptional talent matters more than a PhD and 20 years of working with the subject matter. Of course there's many cookie cutter professors too but usually there are some that are exceptional talents and PhDs and have worked on it 20 years who has picked clean any reasonably accessible discovery.
Same with for example physics, unless you're at the Tevatron or CERN it's unlikely you'll find any new elementary particles, add any new entries to the periodic table, build carbon nanotubes, high-temperature superconductors or anything else that will make a huge impact, compared to the relatively simple lab equipment 100 years ago. That's why the young ones are news, because they're the exceptions.
Well, if it's just DNS then make another - when Denmark blocked it jesperbay.org and if they'd tried a game of whack-a-mole just use a URL redirection service to the IP. Want to take down bit.ly? Or perhaps starting to /dev/null traffic going to those IPs? This is like firing a pellet gun and declaring war on a fleet of battleships, good luck with that.
Obviously there's a big gap between reality and fantasy. And even in fantasy there's a good gap between the "I'm seeing a drama about a person being killed" as opposed to "I'm playing an FPS and just shot two guys".To murder is not the same as watching a murder which is not the same as pretending to murder someone.
It won't fundamentally be exploration, it will be more like tourism.
Which is why we should skip the tourism stage and concentrate on the colonization stage, which is not pointless. A Mars mission should be an experiment on prototypes for a permanent base, solar panels, greenhouses, habitats, radiation shielding, water recycling, low-G health effects and that sort of thing. If they just go there to eat canned food and take tourist photos, then no.
As for robots, I don't think there's ever been doubt that there's many places probes can go that humans never will. And for the record, both Soviet Luna probes and US Surveyor probes landed on the Moon before Apollo 11. Even so it was very clearly the goal to put a man on the moon, not just a machine. I would say it's an important stepping stone for Mars as well, as long as it's done with a purpose. That is why the moon missions ended, it's like we've put men on the moon, now what?
Your new TV set contains a computer that performs the functions provided by the external box. The firmware for that computer can be reprogrammed.
Yes, but will they really? Or will they essentially lock you to one or two particular services? I think they'll continue to ship boxes and if not boxes then essentially the same in a CAM-like module, except it practically takes control of the TV. I doubt you'll get all TV providers to give you the support you'd need to rely on them and their firmware. Not unless you'd essentially install and update your own software on their TVs, but I don't see every TV manufacturer playing along with that. Anyway, screens are getting bigger and bigger and the boxes smaller and smaller. What's wrong with hanging it on the back of your TV? Is there actually some significant advantage to be had by making it a non-serviceable part you can't move to another TV?
That only works if it's lone doctors, if it becomes more or less a standard clause to get treatment it won't have much effect at all. Never underestimate the power of soft collusion to give all customers worse terms, just like pretty much every EULA says all your base are belongs to us.
Who needs information when you have presumption?
And YouTube-videos to back you up. I've noticed that almost no matter how crackpot the person is, there's always a youtube video that supports his delusions. Preferably a really long one, and when I refuse to spend 30 minutes of my life to see it because you can't use ten seconds to tell me what it's about, then I don't know or understand anything and he wins any discussion by default, if you saw the video you'd understand. Like the pothead who linked me to a vid where among other things, it cured cancer. I mean, seriously... How 'tard can you get?
if you're trying to order them and do something like if(uid>=magic) you need a trip to unix re-education camp.
Yep. It's trying to implement number magic instead of having user groups like local_users, remote_users, daemons etc. to determine what to show where. Welcome to poor design 101, I remember trying to add a ftp server to my box, reusing user and file system permissions is fine but every user I added also appeared on my login screen. They should be in an ftp_users group, nowhere else. But instead we'll use a UID that we can't easily change and can't belong to multiple groups, sigh...