Nobody's legally responsible for violations of Blizzard's EULA, it's an internal matter. A counter strike server can't sue you for friendly fire even though it's against the server rules that you accept through the MOTD ok button.
Our legal system is so screwed up. It's legal to waste vast amounts of time and money to clean-room it, but doing the obvious and practical thing of looking at the trivially-available object code is unspeakable evil punishable by $85 million in statutory damages.
That's a pretty tenuous argument. What exactly is being copyrighted? It's not like a patent application where you can describe steps and give diagrams, copyright only applies to actual text or pictures not descriptions of them.
No, I didn't mean that MD is categorically a junk degree, I mean that a lot of those life health articles are written by doctors who have no license to practice medicine and probably just gave themselves that title or bought a degree.
How much do you want to bet that these concerned parents are credulous proponents of alternative medicine?
I can imagine their rapt attention at reading how much danger their kids are in, and they trust someone with MD after their name (as if it's not a diploma mill degree anyway) more than an engineer or physicist.
This whole subject is dominated by that folk etymology mentality where something that sounds smart and appeals to an aging housewife's intuition gets spread around at bridge games and finds its way into Reader's Digest or whatever checkout aisle trash they flip through on the toilet these days.
Sometimes special effects can make the movie though. Jurassic Park would be ridiculous and boring if it were animated, and A Scanner Darkly would be melodramatic and underwhelming if it didn't have such a fascinating look (or if you watch it in standard definition).
If I recall, there was a plugin that let you use Webkit to render a single page, but when you browsed anywhere it returned to the KHTML renderer.
My experiment with running KDE ended quickly when I couldn't find a decent web browser. I liked Konqueror a lot (it's really really good now if you haven't used it in awhile) but the default renderer is awful.
There's the problem with transparency in the military. If anything embarrassing happens, they can just claim that it's sensitive information and refuse to tell us what happened, and there's nothing anyone can do.
You should log in if only to disable the dynamic index. Also if you have good karma then a checkbox appears to disable ads, which works better than ad blocking.
I had an unshakable image of some web design "IT guy" who had one forgotten lecture on this subject back in trade school nodding sagely as he thinks he understands what everyone's talking about and reaching for the Insightful moderation.
I didn't have the benefit of the reassuring Score:5, Funny that you had.
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A proof that P = NP would have resulted in a lot of cryptographers committing Seppuku.
If I were a cryptographer, I'd be positively itching for someone to break RSA. A 30 year old univerally-used secure cryptosystem means no job.:)
In a world where no crypto is really secure, everyone hires their own cryptographer to build a custom cryptosystem. Let's see Bletchley Park mathematicians try to cleverly crack gigabytes of junk encrypted data when the keys wouldn't fit in all the notebooks required to fill their entire building floor to ceiling.
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I meant asymmetric, which is what RSA is. Symmetric keys are usually exchanged relying on the discrete logarithm problem (RSA problem), not the integer factorization problem.
No. Even if there are found to be integer factorization algorithms theoretically in P, there's still no practical way to crack it. This is all asymptotic complexity (what happens as your key size goes to infinity), which might be important when we start using tebibit symmetric keys, but in the real world the constant coefficients (which are thrown away in asymptotic analysis) would be really high.
Elliptic curve crypto is different though, I think.
Oh man, AIM. Let me tell you, seeing AIM running on someone's computer allows you to instantaneously gauge them as a total ignoramus. Very handy.
If you must have "instant messaging" then go with XMPP. Meanwhile anyone who's anyone is still using IRC, forever the greatest and only text chat for netizens.
I legitimately own World of Goo (got it with the Humble Bundle) and I don't think it's worth $20. And it's not that fun either; the original free flash game contains everything fun about it.
Probably the reason for the low pirate-first-buy-later rate is that the game isn't that good and people weren't impressed. You can't complain that people aren't buying your game if your game sucks.
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Nobody's legally responsible for violations of Blizzard's EULA, it's an internal matter. A counter strike server can't sue you for friendly fire even though it's against the server rules that you accept through the MOTD ok button.
Our legal system is so screwed up. It's legal to waste vast amounts of time and money to clean-room it, but doing the obvious and practical thing of looking at the trivially-available object code is unspeakable evil punishable by $85 million in statutory damages.
That's a pretty tenuous argument. What exactly is being copyrighted? It's not like a patent application where you can describe steps and give diagrams, copyright only applies to actual text or pictures not descriptions of them.
No, I didn't mean that MD is categorically a junk degree, I mean that a lot of those life health articles are written by doctors who have no license to practice medicine and probably just gave themselves that title or bought a degree.
"Sounds like x, I read that it matches the symptoms perfectly" is exactly what produced this crap in the first place.
That's obviously the joke.
How much do you want to bet that these concerned parents are credulous proponents of alternative medicine?
I can imagine their rapt attention at reading how much danger their kids are in, and they trust someone with MD after their name (as if it's not a diploma mill degree anyway) more than an engineer or physicist.
This whole subject is dominated by that folk etymology mentality where something that sounds smart and appeals to an aging housewife's intuition gets spread around at bridge games and finds its way into Reader's Digest or whatever checkout aisle trash they flip through on the toilet these days.
Apple has zero tolerance for dishonest behavior inside or outside the company. You'll be hearing from our lawyers shortly.
Sometimes special effects can make the movie though. Jurassic Park would be ridiculous and boring if it were animated, and A Scanner Darkly would be melodramatic and underwhelming if it didn't have such a fascinating look (or if you watch it in standard definition).
If I recall, there was a plugin that let you use Webkit to render a single page, but when you browsed anywhere it returned to the KHTML renderer.
My experiment with running KDE ended quickly when I couldn't find a decent web browser. I liked Konqueror a lot (it's really really good now if you haven't used it in awhile) but the default renderer is awful.
There's the problem with transparency in the military. If anything embarrassing happens, they can just claim that it's sensitive information and refuse to tell us what happened, and there's nothing anyone can do.
You should log in if only to disable the dynamic index. Also if you have good karma then a checkbox appears to disable ads, which works better than ad blocking.
If anything, a mirror is a portal into the past. By my calculations, about 4 nanoseconds into the past.
I had an unshakable image of some web design "IT guy" who had one forgotten lecture on this subject back in trade school nodding sagely as he thinks he understands what everyone's talking about and reaching for the Insightful moderation.
I didn't have the benefit of the reassuring Score:5, Funny that you had.
If I were a cryptographer, I'd be positively itching for someone to break RSA. A 30 year old univerally-used secure cryptosystem means no job. :)
In a world where no crypto is really secure, everyone hires their own cryptographer to build a custom cryptosystem. Let's see Bletchley Park mathematicians try to cleverly crack gigabytes of junk encrypted data when the keys wouldn't fit in all the notebooks required to fill their entire building floor to ceiling.
I meant asymmetric, which is what RSA is. Symmetric keys are usually exchanged relying on the discrete logarithm problem (RSA problem), not the integer factorization problem.
No. Even if there are found to be integer factorization algorithms theoretically in P, there's still no practical way to crack it. This is all asymptotic complexity (what happens as your key size goes to infinity), which might be important when we start using tebibit symmetric keys, but in the real world the constant coefficients (which are thrown away in asymptotic analysis) would be really high.
Elliptic curve crypto is different though, I think.
FLT took over three hundred sixty years to prove, and so far P=NP appears to be even slipperier. The whole field of study is only 40 years old too.
Ohhhh my god, someone modded this insightful.
P is polynomial time.
NP is non-deterministic polynomial time.
They're algorithmic complexity classes.
Oh man, AIM. Let me tell you, seeing AIM running on someone's computer allows you to instantaneously gauge them as a total ignoramus. Very handy.
If you must have "instant messaging" then go with XMPP. Meanwhile anyone who's anyone is still using IRC, forever the greatest and only text chat for netizens.
I don't get it... I'm trying to go to AOL keyword Chrome but it's just the site for some brand of car wax.
America Online operates in Europe?
You can access a WWAN anywhere there are human beings residing, and per gigabit it's a lot cheaper than dialup.
I legitimately own World of Goo (got it with the Humble Bundle) and I don't think it's worth $20. And it's not that fun either; the original free flash game contains everything fun about it.
Probably the reason for the low pirate-first-buy-later rate is that the game isn't that good and people weren't impressed. You can't complain that people aren't buying your game if your game sucks.
Am I the only one who doesn't know what HBO and shipping containers have to do with anything?