The law is the law. You want to lend your hardback book to a friend, because you see nothing wrong with it, but you don't consider that it's illegal, and cuts into the profits of the booksellers and publishers. They have to eat too, you know.
Oh, it's not yet illegal to lend books? Well, wait a few years, and leave your silly altruism out of it, because you can't let that get in the way of profits.
Layers of abstraction do make it harder to debug problems, since it may be at a different layer. But proper layering doesn't make it harder to understand. Let's take a filesystem. I can create a file, write some data, then close it. Assuming no errors, I now have a file that I can open and read the data back. That's abstraction working with you. It's much simpler to understand than the raw disk blocks, or the disk driver, or the hardware registers written to achieve that (and that's only for the hardware it happens to be on at the moment... it could be over a network for the next file).
It's all in the contract between the tenant and landlord. This situation is an example of why a landlord might want to add a clause that allows him a yearly inspection. The point is that if the tenant is doing crazy shit like this, it impacts the landlord negatively, therefore he has good economic reason to put such a clause in.
I certainly would't want my landlord coming in my home unannounced whenever he feels like it, which is one reason I read the contract carefully. If it had a clause for a yearly or perhaps twice-yearly quick look around, I might not mind, especially if I were living in a multi-unit rental space, meaning that he would ensure none of my neigbhors was batshit crazy, benefiting me.
It's a strange world we live in. We have people screaming about the invasion of their privacy while at the same time advocating practices that commend the open sharing of information
It's sad you lump the two together. It's the difference between your employees monitoring what you do in private at home, and you monitoring your employees while at work.
All security measures should be implemented using a test-first methodology. That is, first develop tests that will determine whether the security measure has the claimed effect (hard numbers, not just "increases security"), then test each candidate technology. If it fails, it gets junked.
It has to do with what words have been worn of their faddish potential. Micro has already been used to death, so the next is nano. It's similar to the 2G, 3G, 4G of cellphones; it's not about technical aspects, just whether the term has lost its pop.
You can supply any answer you want to those questions. It's best to choose that allow the most entropy, e.g. one asking for a name rather than a year. Then you can either find some "mind" hash algorithm that spits out a consistent result (but that's not to the question), or generate a random answer using a good source of entropy, and write it down in a safe place.
The wording in the software doesn't even make sense, "the license is illegal". I think they really mean one of these: license is invalid, you don't have a license, license is being used against its terms, license doesn't authorise your use, license has been revoked.
Flash player settings has an option to set the amount of local storage permitted for the player. What happens if I set that amount to zero and mark it permanent (i.e. check box remember)?
pIt probably still stores locally a flag that says you don't want it to store any data locally. Nuking it from orbit is probably the only way to be sure (it doesn't store data locally).
Wow, that would be a really original game. I think you should try to find some artists and programmers and make this happen. It feels just like a retro game!
I figured my sarcasm was evident previously. Babies are amazing sponges of everything around them, far more than they will ever be when older. If anything, I think we vastly short-change them, due to our feeling that we're adults and always know better.
I think he meant that given his limited time and enthusiasm, it's best spent entirely on what he's researching, rather than trying to explain it to the average person.
I'd never have guessed that children could educate themselves, I was always under the impression that whichever book I read as a school-kid would only entertain me not educate me; how I missed out on so much
Next you'll be telling me that newborn babies can actually learn things without being taght, things like language and how basic physics work. Yeah right...
One thing that does piss me off is people walking directly behind my truck or van when I'm reversing somewhere. Seriously.... I know there's a person there, but I've got zero idea where the fuck they are.
Thanks for mentioning this. I normally do try to keep extra distance when behind a truck (whether on foot, bicycle, or car), but your post gave me a stronger sense of what it's like in the truck cab, and I will be giving more thought when encountering trucks in the future.
What I do fear, however, since I live in the United States where suicide and assisted suicide are illegal, is becoming almost completely nonfunctional due to sudden paralysis, stroke, etc. The fear is that if I were locked in and could only communicate one character an hour, they'd still keep me alive for as long as they could, even if I had to lay there awake but bored and paralyzed for 16 hours a day.
Oh, but they'd know best, since you may one day wake up and you'd be very thankful they kept you alive all those years against your will. Plus, they'd feel bad if the pulled the plug on you. So you really should think of others. </sarcasm>
So similar to you, I have a fear of the living making my life a living hell.
You know, Sony could easily solve this once and for all by just stopping the CPUs. May have some side-effects, but they shouldn't be too bad, at least for Sony.
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Also, what's a "neme"?
Oh, it's not yet illegal to lend books? Well, wait a few years, and leave your silly altruism out of it, because you can't let that get in the way of profits.
Layers of abstraction do make it harder to debug problems, since it may be at a different layer. But proper layering doesn't make it harder to understand. Let's take a filesystem. I can create a file, write some data, then close it. Assuming no errors, I now have a file that I can open and read the data back. That's abstraction working with you. It's much simpler to understand than the raw disk blocks, or the disk driver, or the hardware registers written to achieve that (and that's only for the hardware it happens to be on at the moment... it could be over a network for the next file).
I take that one step further, since typedefs are salvation:
typedef int int_array_size_1 [1];
typedef int int_array_size_2 [2];
typedef int int_array_size_3 [3];
typedef int int_array_size_4 [4];
See, now I don't have to use evil types directly:
int_array_size_3 a; // ahhh, much better
But I can hear you now, "how does that work if the size is a named constant?" Never fear!
#define SIZE 3
// and you thought it was impossible... ha!
#define ARRAY_OF_SIZE_( type, size ) type##_array_size_##size
#define ARRAY_OF_SIZE( type, size ) ARRAY_OF_SIZE_( type, size )
ARRAY_OF_SIZE( int, SIZE ) a;
I certainly would't want my landlord coming in my home unannounced whenever he feels like it, which is one reason I read the contract carefully. If it had a clause for a yearly or perhaps twice-yearly quick look around, I might not mind, especially if I were living in a multi-unit rental space, meaning that he would ensure none of my neigbhors was batshit crazy, benefiting me.
It's sad you lump the two together. It's the difference between your employees monitoring what you do in private at home, and you monitoring your employees while at work.
All security measures should be implemented using a test-first methodology. That is, first develop tests that will determine whether the security measure has the claimed effect (hard numbers, not just "increases security"), then test each candidate technology. If it fails, it gets junked.
It has to do with what words have been worn of their faddish potential. Micro has already been used to death, so the next is nano. It's similar to the 2G, 3G, 4G of cellphones; it's not about technical aspects, just whether the term has lost its pop.
You can supply any answer you want to those questions. It's best to choose that allow the most entropy, e.g. one asking for a name rather than a year. Then you can either find some "mind" hash algorithm that spits out a consistent result (but that's not to the question), or generate a random answer using a good source of entropy, and write it down in a safe place.
SuperCharlie, your fear has been noted in our database. For mentioning going to a web address.
- Big Brother
The wording in the software doesn't even make sense, "the license is illegal". I think they really mean one of these: license is invalid, you don't have a license, license is being used against its terms, license doesn't authorise your use, license has been revoked.
The headline didn't even use that word; it used "hi-jacking" (note the hyphen). I was asking what that meant. I've never seen that term before.
And what the hell is "hi-jacking"? Is that some new Web 2.0 term for something?
...bugs like not working when the domain name contains the strings "wiki" and "leaks", and possible others not yet determined.
pIt probably still stores locally a flag that says you don't want it to store any data locally. Nuking it from orbit is probably the only way to be sure (it doesn't store data locally).
But it has those annoying arrows blocking things, so it's clearly not Pac Man. Acquitted!
Wow, that would be a really original game. I think you should try to find some artists and programmers and make this happen. It feels just like a retro game!
I figured my sarcasm was evident previously. Babies are amazing sponges of everything around them, far more than they will ever be when older. If anything, I think we vastly short-change them, due to our feeling that we're adults and always know better.
I think he meant that given his limited time and enthusiasm, it's best spent entirely on what he's researching, rather than trying to explain it to the average person.
Next you'll be telling me that newborn babies can actually learn things without being taght, things like language and how basic physics work. Yeah right...
And four years of daycare. It's expensive to hire all that staff.
Thanks for mentioning this. I normally do try to keep extra distance when behind a truck (whether on foot, bicycle, or car), but your post gave me a stronger sense of what it's like in the truck cab, and I will be giving more thought when encountering trucks in the future.
Oh, but they'd know best, since you may one day wake up and you'd be very thankful they kept you alive all those years against your will. Plus, they'd feel bad if the pulled the plug on you. So you really should think of others. </sarcasm>
So similar to you, I have a fear of the living making my life a living hell.
You know, Sony could easily solve this once and for all by just stopping the CPUs. May have some side-effects, but they shouldn't be too bad, at least for Sony.
P.S. if you're really feeling generous, please set the 'evil' bit as well kthx