Guns cause gun crime, Porn makes rapists, Cars make people want to speed, and drugs make addicts.
Given that all but one of those are pretty much banned in the UK I don't see why P2P shouldn't follow. That doesn't mean I agree with the ban any more than I agree with the ban on pron, guns and drugs, just that the 'Government' may see fit to ban it.
SFAIK a lot of IE's vulnerabilities came from scripting and pluggin issues, the problem with Firefox is that it's scripting doesn't have any form of security so a bug in a plugin/ extension becomes a bug in Firefox.
I don't even want to think about how they came to design a scripting interface without any security... all they had to do was look at Java as an example of fairly good sandboxed security and copy the model.
We stop using oil eventually and replace it all with alternatives.
Like Coal, Gas etc..., Oil happens to be one of the most used fossil fuels, but it doesn't mean the others are any better.
It may be one of the reasons that the UK stopped subsidizing coal mining, was so that we have some kind of reserve for the future. (Though I don't think Thatcher was known for that kind of thinking!)
Well, that's generally treason or something along those lines, not something slapped into anyold contract to prevent people installing kazaa on their laptops like the original post suggested.
The GGP post used a capitalist hack to make fuel expensive.
The UN can and have done anything they want, but you've missed the point for the UN to impose a tax the UN would have had to have agreed on it, and the US would not have vetoed it. So for the UN to impose a tax most of the world must first agree with the tax.
This is a 'socialist hack'
The 'third way' reference should have given the post away as not being too serious, the 'third way' was a term used by Tony Blair for 'new socialism'.
Population control would help, the UK population is more or less stable at 65 Million, so in theory the UK's consumption should be stable. Most countries have some form of population control mechanism in place, e.g. in the UK sex education foxuses a lot on Birth control, the pill is available for free, and abortions and the morning after pill are easy to come buy.
It seems that the best way to push up the price of oil would be for the UN to tax oil at the point of production and use the money to fund research into alternative sources of fuel.
The worst case is a few people have to start playing traditional games instead of watching the TV to keep themselves amused.
There's also the Third (easy) way: make sure you and your partner only have one child. With a lower population we will use less resources
Taking company secrets is thief, which is a criminal offense, so you could persue the tieft with the possibility of jail time for the thief. Generally missuse of a laptop (installing kazaa, browsing porn, screwing up all the settings etc...) would only be a breach of contract which is a civil offense.
Maybe you have different laws in the states from the UK/EU (laws where a civil offense results in jail time), but the fact that the civil trial of OJ Simpson for murder resulted in financial compensation and not jail time suggests that you don't.
Well if it's anything other than a threat please tell me how you managed it?
SFAIK You cannot got to jail for a civil offense and and breach of contract is a civil offense, unless it's the government top secret part of the contract you breach.
Just wait a while (maybe 10 years or so) as prices rise and rise and then maybe the answer will be yes.
Hopefully the government will start giving tax breaks to companies that allow their employees to telecommute, since telecommuting helps out local businesses, reduces the amount of traffic on the road, reduces the number of people on public transport and takes a few million tired, possibly drunk froo the night before people off the roads.
"you'll die trying. There is no mathematical definition of AI yet"
I plan to start on an AI based user interface that is self aware, or possibly a game where the NPC's are self aware and use the experiments as the basis for a mathematical definition.
"but he does not have an army of scientists and officers trying to debunk him for 1700 years"
Even if their is no scientific answer at the moment it doesn't mean that it's a miracle. Think about everything in the past that was thought of as a miracle but now has a scientific explanation, infact so far no scientist has been able to prove the existence of miracles, whereever they look they find scientific explanations, surely if there was a God that affected our lives science would have hit a brick wall that could not be passed.
n.b. The only 'brick wall' that has been hit is the 'what happened before/at the big bang' brick wall.
"You totally ignored my point on the fact that Jews are desperate to prove Christianity as a false religion."
Well, it's fairly easy to prove that Judaism is a load of bull, and since Christianity is just a branch of Judaism that believes that Jesus is the Messiah.
how, what happens when I create a AI that is capable of reflection? Create it first, and then we can talk. Fair enough, it's going to take me a little while, but I have some very good plans for creating an AI system that it capable of reflection (infact the way it works is mostly through reflection)
But everybody knows the miracle, even sees in videos, yet still noone believes [appart from you?].
you obviously have no idea that the priest that does the ceremony inside the Jesus tomb enters the temple naked. Before that, the whole temple is searched, centimeter by centimeter for hidden objects by Jews, Arabs and priests of every other religion. Jews have devoted their best scientists to discover the trick. Don't you think that if it was a trick, it would have been discovered in the last 1700 years that this takes place?
I'm not saying your gullable, you just haven't evaluated things correctly, don't believe what you see, for example take a look at this book on mind hacks.
Won't happen on corporate desktops until installing packages becomes something my mother can do.
Most corporate desktops are locked down to 1: prevent installation of pirated/unlicensed software, 2: prevent installation of software not audited by the company, 3: prevent security threats from user operations.
Linux is fine for a locked down, centrally updated system.
It's fairy easy to setup an cron job on a gentoo system that runs emerge -u world and have all the updates as binaries, managed by the centrally by the company. That's just the kind of thing business wants.
The main problem I can see it that all of the office suites I've tried for linux aren't up to scratch yet, and many companies run bespoke software, often written in VB.
The upgrade cost to Vista, for most companies, is effectively $0 because it comes with new PCs.
Most of the companies I've worked for don't buy mass software licenses that way, the upgrade cost may be the same as their annual windows license costs + time to upgrade.
Think about it for a while, if it were possible to store 'old' data on the drive, HDD manufacturers would be using the technique to store more data a long time ago.
'I think the key benefit is that it becomes much easier to create and maintain oddball filesystems completely independently of kernel development (possibly more cross platform as well).'
That seems like a kernel development issue and nothing to do with the drivers being in user of kernel space (well, except that the kernel interfaces are changing all the time which make driver development a nightmare).
There is nothing preventing you from writing File IO 'drivers' in user space except for the semantics of getting applications to use them.
The fact that humans are the only species that have 2nd level consciousness, i.e. reflection.
Well, I think that dogs can manage that, my dog certainly new when it had done something wrong without me telling it and it very rairly done it again, I'm fairly sure that Autism affects many other animals and Autism is to some extent a lack of 2nd level consciousness.
Anyhow, what happens when I create a AI that is capable of reflection? will your God vanish in a puff of logic?
The miracle of Holy Light at Orthodox Easter. How do you explain that?
I'm sure if it was really a miracle and not just the result of enginering or trickery they would have used it to prove the existence of God and the truth of Christianity a long time ago. My sister is a magician, she can do 'spoon bending' and 'mind reading', some people think it's really magic, but most people know it's just a clever trick.
"It's not possible that the universe created itself. Since it is a closed system (no energy leakage), it needs a kickstart."
How can a 'closed system' have a kickstart?
"..it has nothing to do with the laws of thermodynamics, which dictate that there was a start."
That's the bit you don't get, there is nothing that requires a kickstart, or even a start or an end, your not thinking 'extra dimensional' your not thinking like a 'God' or thinking like a subordinate.
Infact the Universe has all the energy it has, so it makes sense that whatever 'created' it had exactly the same amount of energy, the second law may require that the creating Universe isn't like the created one, but I don't have a problem with that.
"To tell you the truth, it does not surprise me that there is such resistance in the concept of God."
I don't resist the concept, I just resist people that think the concept has greater probability than 1 / infinity at the most and 0 if you accept that preservation of energy means that the Universe just is.
None of that has anything to do with the FS being in kernel or user space, there's no reason why I cannot create a FS module that allows people to mount SSH or FTP or anything else just like they can mount NFS or ReiserFS
The key benefit of a Userspace system is security.
If you really want user space filing systems then all you have to do is overload whatever library gives you file io, then any application that attempts file io can be rerouted if the mount point is a userspace mount.
The whole "let's hide most of the menu in the drop-down menu" thing was annoying.
It annoyed me for about a week (The time it took to train the menu system away from Microsoft defaults to my preferences), sure it wasn't perfect but it's far better, no pain no gain.
If there is no God, and the universe is eternal, then if God existed why God would not be eternal?
Your starting to understand, if the Universe is eternal why create a God when the only thing we know that exists is the Universe.
Using a God to explain things make them far more complicated then we have evidence for, especially when they can be explained by something as simple as the Universe has always existed.
There's an old saying, Man wasn't created in the image of God, God was created in the image of Man. Meaning, all Gods are man-made, even your God that you say isn't.
Your argument is a koan, but you don't appear to realize that.
You and others expressed no objection on God being a flying spaghetti monster or a turtle...but a deity?
Look, I really sorry you don't get it. Your implying something based of a fallacious proof.
So far as science stands at the moment it is impossible to know what was before (or at) the big bang. I would say it's fair to say that the 'Universe' was before the big bang, maybe it looked like a flying spaghetti monster but it could equally have looked exactly like me or like nothing imaginable, it may not even have had any of the dimensions we recognize. The things is, based on what we know the chances of it being 'God' in any grand creative form are 1/infinity.
The reason you proof is fallacious it is impossible to know with any certainty greater than 1/infinity what what created the Universe.
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Guns cause gun crime,
Porn makes rapists,
Cars make people want to speed,
and drugs make addicts.
Given that all but one of those are pretty much banned in the UK I don't see why P2P shouldn't follow. That doesn't mean I agree with the ban any more than I agree with the ban on pron, guns and drugs, just that the 'Government' may see fit to ban it.
SFAIK a lot of IE's vulnerabilities came from scripting and pluggin issues, the problem with Firefox is that it's scripting doesn't have any form of security so a bug in a plugin/ extension becomes a bug in Firefox.
I don't even want to think about how they came to design a scripting interface without any security... all they had to do was look at Java as an example of fairly good sandboxed security and copy the model.
We stop using oil eventually and replace it all with alternatives.
Like Coal, Gas etc..., Oil happens to be one of the most used fossil fuels, but it doesn't mean the others are any better.
It may be one of the reasons that the UK stopped subsidizing coal mining, was so that we have some kind of reserve for the future. (Though I don't think Thatcher was known for that kind of thinking!)
Well, that's generally treason or something along those lines, not something slapped into anyold contract to prevent people installing kazaa on their laptops like the original post suggested.
Has the US just given up it's veto in the UN?
My post was in a pipedream sense, not serious.
The GGP post used a capitalist hack to make fuel expensive.
The UN can and have done anything they want, but you've missed the point for the UN to impose a tax the UN would have had to have agreed on it, and the US would not have vetoed it. So for the UN to impose a tax most of the world must first agree with the tax.
This is a 'socialist hack'
The 'third way' reference should have given the post away as not being too serious, the 'third way' was a term used by Tony Blair for 'new socialism'.
Population control would help, the UK population is more or less stable at 65 Million, so in theory the UK's consumption should be stable.
Most countries have some form of population control mechanism in place, e.g. in the UK sex education foxuses a lot on Birth control, the pill is available for free, and abortions and the morning after pill are easy to come buy.
It seems that the best way to push up the price of oil would be for the UN to tax oil at the point of production and use the money to fund research into alternative sources of fuel.
The worst case is a few people have to start playing traditional games instead of watching the TV to keep themselves amused.
There's also the Third (easy) way: make sure you and your partner only have one child. With a lower population we will use less resources
Taking company secrets is thief, which is a criminal offense, so you could persue the tieft with the possibility of jail time for the thief.
Generally missuse of a laptop (installing kazaa, browsing porn, screwing up all the settings etc...) would only be a breach of contract which is a civil offense.
Maybe you have different laws in the states from the UK/EU (laws where a civil offense results in jail time), but the fact that the civil trial of OJ Simpson for murder resulted in financial compensation and not jail time suggests that you don't.
Well if it's anything other than a threat please tell me how you managed it?
SFAIK You cannot got to jail for a civil offense and and breach of contract is a civil offense, unless it's the government top secret part of the contract you breach.
Just wait a while (maybe 10 years or so) as prices rise and rise and then maybe the answer will be yes.
Hopefully the government will start giving tax breaks to companies that allow their employees to telecommute, since telecommuting helps out local businesses, reduces the amount of traffic on the road, reduces the number of people on public transport and takes a few million tired, possibly drunk froo the night before people off the roads.
"you'll die trying. There is no mathematical definition of AI yet"
I plan to start on an AI based user interface that is self aware, or possibly a game where the NPC's are self aware and use the experiments as the basis for a mathematical definition.
"but he does not have an army of scientists and officers trying to debunk him for 1700 years"
Even if their is no scientific answer at the moment it doesn't mean that it's a miracle. Think about everything in the past that was thought of as a miracle but now has a scientific explanation, infact so far no scientist has been able to prove the existence of miracles, whereever they look they find scientific explanations, surely if there was a God that affected our lives science would have hit a brick wall that could not be passed.
n.b. The only 'brick wall' that has been hit is the 'what happened before/at the big bang' brick wall.
"You totally ignored my point on the fact that Jews are desperate to prove Christianity as a false religion."
Well, it's fairly easy to prove that Judaism is a load of bull, and since Christianity is just a branch of Judaism that believes that Jesus is the Messiah.
how, what happens when I create a AI that is capable of reflection?
Create it first, and then we can talk.
Fair enough, it's going to take me a little while, but I have some very good plans for creating an AI system that it capable of reflection (infact the way it works is mostly through reflection)
But everybody knows the miracle, even sees in videos, yet still noone believes [appart from you?].
you obviously have no idea that the priest that does the ceremony inside the Jesus tomb enters the temple naked. Before that, the whole temple is searched, centimeter by centimeter for hidden objects by Jews, Arabs and priests of every other religion. Jews have devoted their best scientists to discover the trick. Don't you think that if it was a trick, it would have been discovered in the last 1700 years that this takes place?
What, like this
I'm not saying your gullable, you just haven't evaluated things correctly, don't believe what you see, for example take a look at this book on mind hacks.
Dreamweaver MX does work though and Photoshop works fine too, GIMPShop will only be a replacement when GIMP can use Photoshop plugins.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 seems to have a few odd glitches starting up, it may be that a crack will help it start up better.
That was a quote from the parent, but like most AC's you didn't RTFA.
Won't happen on corporate desktops until installing packages becomes something my mother can do.
Most corporate desktops are locked down to 1: prevent installation of pirated/unlicensed software, 2: prevent installation of software not audited by the company, 3: prevent security threats from user operations.
Linux is fine for a locked down, centrally updated system.
It's fairy easy to setup an cron job on a gentoo system that runs emerge -u world and have all the updates as binaries, managed by the centrally by the company. That's just the kind of thing business wants.
The main problem I can see it that all of the office suites I've tried for linux aren't up to scratch yet, and many companies run bespoke software, often written in VB.
My home PC can't switch until Dreamweaver (Wine APP ID 183) and Photoshop (Wine App ID 17) run on Linux.
The upgrade cost to Vista, for most companies, is effectively $0 because it comes with new PCs.
Most of the companies I've worked for don't buy mass software licenses that way, the upgrade cost may be the same as their annual windows license costs + time to upgrade.
Think about it for a while, if it were possible to store 'old' data on the drive, HDD manufacturers would be using the technique to store more data a long time ago.
'I think the key benefit is that it becomes much easier to create and maintain oddball filesystems completely independently of kernel development (possibly more cross platform as well).'
That seems like a kernel development issue and nothing to do with the drivers being in user of kernel space (well, except that the kernel interfaces are changing all the time which make driver development a nightmare).
There is nothing preventing you from writing File IO 'drivers' in user space except for the semantics of getting applications to use them.
plus two great facts that are usually overlooked:
The fact that humans are the only species that have 2nd level consciousness, i.e. reflection.
Well, I think that dogs can manage that, my dog certainly new when it had done something wrong without me telling it and it very rairly done it again, I'm fairly sure that Autism affects many other animals and Autism is to some extent a lack of 2nd level consciousness.
Anyhow, what happens when I create a AI that is capable of reflection? will your God vanish in a puff of logic?
The miracle of Holy Light at Orthodox Easter. How do you explain that?
I'm sure if it was really a miracle and not just the result of enginering or trickery they would have used it to prove the existence of God and the truth of Christianity a long time ago. My sister is a magician, she can do 'spoon bending' and 'mind reading', some people think it's really magic, but most people know it's just a clever trick.
"It's not possible that the universe created itself. Since it is a closed system (no energy leakage), it needs a kickstart."
How can a 'closed system' have a kickstart?
"..it has nothing to do with the laws of thermodynamics, which dictate that there was a start."
That's the bit you don't get, there is nothing that requires a kickstart, or even a start or an end, your not thinking 'extra dimensional' your not thinking like a 'God' or thinking like a subordinate.
Infact the Universe has all the energy it has, so it makes sense that whatever 'created' it had exactly the same amount of energy, the second law may require that the creating Universe isn't like the created one, but I don't have a problem with that.
"To tell you the truth, it does not surprise me that there is such resistance in the concept of God."
I don't resist the concept, I just resist people that think the concept has greater probability than 1 / infinity at the most and 0 if you accept that preservation of energy means that the Universe just is.
None of that has anything to do with the FS being in kernel or user space, there's no reason why I cannot create a FS module that allows people to mount SSH or FTP or anything else just like they can mount NFS or ReiserFS
The key benefit of a Userspace system is security.
If you really want user space filing systems then all you have to do is overload whatever library gives you file io, then any application that attempts file io can be rerouted if the mount point is a userspace mount.
The whole "let's hide most of the menu in the drop-down menu" thing was annoying.
It annoyed me for about a week (The time it took to train the menu system away from Microsoft defaults to my preferences), sure it wasn't perfect but it's far better, no pain no gain.
If there is no God, and the universe is eternal, then if God existed why God would not be eternal?
Your starting to understand, if the Universe is eternal why create a God when the only thing we know that exists is the Universe.
Using a God to explain things make them far more complicated then we have evidence for, especially when they can be explained by something as simple as the Universe has always existed.
This was my favorite part of you argument?
or any other man-made God
There's an old saying, Man wasn't created in the image of God, God was created in the image of Man. Meaning, all Gods are man-made, even your God that you say isn't.
Your argument is a koan, but you don't appear to realize that.
You and others expressed no objection on God being a flying spaghetti monster or a turtle...but a deity?
Look, I really sorry you don't get it. Your implying something based of a fallacious proof.
So far as science stands at the moment it is impossible to know what was before (or at) the big bang. I would say it's fair to say that the 'Universe' was before the big bang, maybe it looked like a flying spaghetti monster but it could equally have looked exactly like me or like nothing imaginable, it may not even have had any of the dimensions we recognize. The things is, based on what we know the chances of it being 'God' in any grand creative form are 1/infinity.
The reason you proof is fallacious it is impossible to know with any certainty greater than 1/infinity what what created the Universe.