> So the right to solitude doesn't exist because conferences exist?
That's not what I said, which makes it what we call a "straw man" argument. In fact, your whole post is a straw man. And others on this thread. You really are a gibbering fool, it's quite painful having to see your nonsense.
Agree. The people who are making the statements are not the ones who are informed enough to be able to make such statements. I didn't ABX, but I did do the closest blind test that my g/f could manage via the medium of just having 2 xmms's open, and I came up with a 160k-bad-192k-OK guideline. When VBR became widely supported, it was clear that 320kVBR, averaging at between 200k and 220k, was all that I would ever practically need, and was also small enough to be convenient in any context. Enough headroom, but not too much waste.
I still buy mostly CDs, but they typically only get played once to rip them. (In particular since my Nakamichi CD player got fucked up when I moved flat, so I have to play them via my PC's soundcard anyway now.)
I've read that Xiph article several times. It brought back happy memories of the work that I did decades ago in the field. That article fully supports my point of view, and negates the parent poster's - "I am quite sure I prefer" is *meaningless*, scientific testing is all that matters - just see the "Listening tests" section, for example.
And if you put them up for a test, and told them which source was which in advance, I'm sure they'd be able to tell you the flaws in the one you said was the mp3 (or whatever). Even if you deliberately swapped the cables over.
In other words, you've never done an ABX test and are just spouting ill-informed supposition. The ABX is the gold standard, get back to us once you can distinguish those sources that way with a 95% confidence level.
And jesting between two jokers could well be part of the founding of a profitable new business relationship. I know that when I've been at conferences, the representatives who like to have a laugh and chat in the bar over beers are the ones whose business cards I'm going to remember to not throw in the bin afterwards.
Christ, so she not only has no appreciation that other members of the species might have a different sense of humour from her - how freaking intolerant! - but...
> The trigger.
she buys into psychobabble crap, and...
> she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so
blows things entirely our of proportion, and plays the biggest slippery slope argument ever seen in the history of illogic.
"Grow up" was the only thing she needed to say- and to their faces, not over twitter. It patronises the jokers, putting them in an inferior position, and gives them a chance to reflect quietly on things, and then get on with their lives normally. Namely to continue making crappy sexist remarks to each other, which is what a tolerant society would permit.
I just read this story out to my g/f (a social antropologist), and when I got to the repository-forking line, she let out a snigger.
Obligatory Beavis: Ehe-heheh - I said "she blow things" - ehe-eheh
I forgot to mention our social healthcare system. A neighbour who spends about half of her time in the US and half in Tallinn says that she has spent over 10 times as much on dental checkups and work in the US (Cali) as she spends here.
> estonia is more homogenous, but more of them would be under poverty rate in usa. just check average salaries.
But remember to divide by the cost of living. I can get a train to the opposite side of the country (180km) for only 10e, what would that be in equivalently-sized West Virginia? We may not have a huge amount of dough to flash around in foreign countries, but we can live fairly comfortably due to the low cost of living (you can happily eat for 2e/day, for example). And for those who live in Tallinn, things have just got even cheaper still, as all public transport is now free (with no increase in taxes).
Sure, that tells you nothing about the rich, but the rich are an unimportant sliver, it tells you about the masses, and that's what should matter.
Becoming richer on the world scene will be associated with massive inflation. Prices for a pint have already gone up by a factor of 20 in the last 20 years - nobody's going to want a further doubling.
> Part of the problem is that the prosecutors are simply ignorant as to what they are prosecuting. So any "evidence" presented was done without understanding of what they were asserting.
But she looks like a witch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
> By that rationale, any request on a web server via the HTTP GET or POST that could escalate privilege or divulge private data should go unpunished.
Not at all! The site leaking the information should be held responsible, and if it's clear punishment is due, they should take it like a man.
> These guys crafted a specific HTTP GET request that returned private data.
No craft was involved. They were handed that GET request by the server, in order for their browser to later resolve it for their own legal use. All they did was resolve trivial variations on it. Admittedly, that might be considered "craft" by the incompetents presiding over the court, but it's no higher tech than sharpening a stick.
And if the data was *private* it shouldn't have been accessible to arbitrary clients without secure identification. AT&T made the private data public.
He did ask before they gave it to him though. It wasn't thrown at him unrequested.
However, money is an unneccessary ingredient here - all he got was information. The only people who will give an analogy involving money are those who want to equate what he did with stealing. But that is nothing but misleading sophistry.
He went up to the reception desk and said "can I have the name and address of client 1000000000 please?" which they then gave him. He then said "and for client 1000000001 please?" which then then gave him. Etc.....
> Intelligent Design is not the same thing as creationism or religion.
You are very ignorant. """ a comparison of an early draft of Of Pandas and People to a later 1987 draft showed how in hundreds of instances the word "creationism" had been replaced by "intelligent design" and "creationist" replaced by "intelligent design proponent", while "creator" was replaced by "agency" or "designer". """ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_People#Criticism
Do not presume that, because the first linux phone you saw was the N900, that was the first linux phone they started working on. I have no insight into why the first one was culled, any more than I have insight into why their first linux tablet phone was culled, nor why their second linux slider phone was all but culled. All in all, they only seem to release about half of what they develop.
She claims to be a consulting psychiatrist, which can at times be scientific, ut I think it's one of the softer sciences. However, the dowsing event that made her go full full new-age (she was a bit new-age already apparently according to her hobbies) seems as if it's only about a one in a few thousand coincidence, using some back-of-a-fag-packet calculations: What's the probability that the almost-unique harp would be resold? Low. (The cops got this wrong.) What's the probabilty that the harp is still in the town where it was stolen? Not low. (The cops got this wrong.) What area was identified by the dowser - about 1/1000 of the town's area.
1/5000 events happen so someone in that down many times per day, she's just getting all excited that it happened to her.
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> So the right to solitude doesn't exist because conferences exist?
That's not what I said, which makes it what we call a "straw man" argument. In fact, your whole post is a straw man. And others on this thread. You really are a gibbering fool, it's quite painful having to see your nonsense.
> Tax dodges and more importantly drug slingers are the major problem in society
Or, as we like to call them, "big business", and "big pharma".
Or the mega-rich.
Agree. The people who are making the statements are not the ones who are informed enough to be able to make such statements. I didn't ABX, but I did do the closest blind test that my g/f could manage via the medium of just having 2 xmms's open, and I came up with a 160k-bad-192k-OK guideline. When VBR became widely supported, it was clear that 320kVBR, averaging at between 200k and 220k, was all that I would ever practically need, and was also small enough to be convenient in any context. Enough headroom, but not too much waste.
I still buy mostly CDs, but they typically only get played once to rip them. (In particular since my Nakamichi CD player got fucked up when I moved flat, so I have to play them via my PC's soundcard anyway now.)
I've read that Xiph article several times. It brought back happy memories of the work that I did decades ago in the field. That article fully supports my point of view, and negates the parent poster's - "I am quite sure I prefer" is *meaningless*, scientific testing is all that matters - just see the "Listening tests" section, for example.
Have they been remastered? If they have, they're not the same track.
Did you do an ABX test? If not, then your anecdote is pretty meaningless.
And if you put them up for a test, and told them which source was which in advance, I'm sure they'd be able to tell you the flaws in the one you said was the mp3 (or whatever). Even if you deliberately swapped the cables over.
> I am quite sure ...
In other words, you've never done an ABX test and are just spouting ill-informed supposition. The ABX is the gold standard, get back to us once you can distinguish those sources that way with a 95% confidence level.
The trigger.
You mentioned the phrase "fat joke".
[insert some insane gibbering here]
This idiot wasn't even a humourless puritanical douchebag, as can be seen from her pant-stuffing dick-humour tweet.
A bigger problem than puritanism is hypocricy.
And jesting between two jokers could well be part of the founding of a profitable new business relationship. I know that when I've been at conferences, the representatives who like to have a laugh and chat in the bar over beers are the ones whose business cards I'm going to remember to not throw in the bin afterwards.
The middle of a packed conference hall is not a place where you have the reasonable right to expect solitude.
ITYM "Ding ding, the witch is dead."
No dongs in her vicinity, please, she might get offended.
> People have no right to not be offended.
The ones who demand the right to not be offended usually demand the right to be offended all the bloody time.
Christ, so she not only has no appreciation that other members of the species might have a different sense of humour from her - how freaking intolerant! - but ...
...
> The trigger.
she buys into psychobabble crap, and
> she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so
blows things entirely our of proportion, and plays the biggest slippery slope argument ever seen in the history of illogic.
"Grow up" was the only thing she needed to say- and to their faces, not over twitter. It patronises the jokers, putting them in an inferior position, and gives them a chance to reflect quietly on things, and then get on with their lives normally. Namely to continue making crappy sexist remarks to each other, which is what a tolerant society would permit.
I just read this story out to my g/f (a social antropologist), and when I got to the repository-forking line, she let out a snigger.
Obligatory Beavis: Ehe-heheh - I said "she blow things" - ehe-eheh
I forgot to mention our social healthcare system. A neighbour who spends about half of her time in the US and half in Tallinn says that she has spent over 10 times as much on dental checkups and work in the US (Cali) as she spends here.
> estonia is more homogenous, but more of them would be under poverty rate in usa. just check average salaries.
But remember to divide by the cost of living. I can get a train to the opposite side of the country (180km) for only 10e, what would that be in equivalently-sized West Virginia? We may not have a huge amount of dough to flash around in foreign countries, but we can live fairly comfortably due to the low cost of living (you can happily eat for 2e/day, for example). And for those who live in Tallinn, things have just got even cheaper still, as all public transport is now free (with no increase in taxes).
Sure, that tells you nothing about the rich, but the rich are an unimportant sliver, it tells you about the masses, and that's what should matter.
Becoming richer on the world scene will be associated with massive inflation. Prices for a pint have already gone up by a factor of 20 in the last 20 years - nobody's going to want a further doubling.
If that's true, then any editing of the URL by hand would constitute fraud.
There is precedent. People have been charged for removing the filename part in order to get a directory listing in the past.
Both of which are pure unadulterated bullshit, propagated by *dangerous* people who shouldn't hold the seats they hold.
> Part of the problem is that the prosecutors are simply ignorant as to what they are prosecuting. So any "evidence" presented was done without understanding of what they were asserting.
But she looks like a witch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
> By that rationale, any request on a web server via the HTTP GET or POST that could escalate privilege or divulge private data should go unpunished.
Not at all! The site leaking the information should be held responsible, and if it's clear punishment is due, they should take it like a man.
> These guys crafted a specific HTTP GET request that returned private data.
No craft was involved. They were handed that GET request by the server, in order for their browser to later resolve it for their own legal use. All they did was resolve trivial variations on it. Admittedly, that might be considered "craft" by the incompetents presiding over the court, but it's no higher tech than sharpening a stick.
And if the data was *private* it shouldn't have been accessible to arbitrary clients without secure identification. AT&T made the private data public.
He did ask before they gave it to him though. It wasn't thrown at him unrequested.
However, money is an unneccessary ingredient here - all he got was information. The only people who will give an analogy involving money are those who want to equate what he did with stealing. But that is nothing but misleading sophistry.
He went up to the reception desk and said "can I have the name and address of client 1000000000 please?" which they then gave him. He then said "and for client 1000000001 please?" which then then gave him. Etc.....
> Intelligent Design is not the same thing as creationism or religion.
You are very ignorant.
"""
a comparison of an early draft of Of Pandas and People to a later 1987 draft showed how in hundreds of instances the word "creationism" had been replaced by "intelligent design" and "creationist" replaced by "intelligent design proponent", while "creator" was replaced by "agency" or "designer".
"""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_People#Criticism
Nope. What do they say about Neanderthals and their big eyes? Why not submit a story about it in a day or two!
Do not presume that, because the first linux phone you saw was the N900, that was the first linux phone they started working on. I have no insight into why the first one was culled, any more than I have insight into why their first linux tablet phone was culled, nor why their second linux slider phone was all but culled. All in all, they only seem to release about half of what they develop.
She claims to be a consulting psychiatrist, which can at times be scientific, ut I think it's one of the softer sciences. However, the dowsing event that made her go full full new-age (she was a bit new-age already apparently according to her hobbies) seems as if it's only about a one in a few thousand coincidence, using some back-of-a-fag-packet calculations:
What's the probability that the almost-unique harp would be resold? Low. (The cops got this wrong.)
What's the probabilty that the harp is still in the town where it was stolen? Not low. (The cops got this wrong.)
What area was identified by the dowser - about 1/1000 of the town's area.
1/5000 events happen so someone in that down many times per day, she's just getting all excited that it happened to her.