If I don't believe in the function of the state to protect me, then I have to protect myself. Should I fence in my house, put barbed wire around my windows, and sit up all night with a gun staring into the night?
Or perhaps I band up with several people I trust, and we look after eachother. If one of us is in danger, we all react? Good thing we can legally carry guns.
Although I suppose the state is nothing more than an extension of the second alternative that I present. The only difference is that the gang includes everyone now.
I agree that much law is not for the benefit of anyone... look esp. towards countries like China where it is standard policy to remove dissadents.
just wondering, could you technically claim that you hold your personal information as your Intellectual Property, and furthormore, when you issue it to anyone, you license the information to them. Any redistribution of your information would thus be considered a violation of hte DMCA and you could sue their asses
kinda off topic, and likely to be modded down, but still
Try not to over generalize. Some laws are not based on greed, some are for legitament human interest. The majority of people do not want to die, so they make it illegal to kill someone. I suppose you could call this greed, but I wouldn't.
Granted, I agree that a lot of laws these days don't seem to be based on the same principals, but it's inaccurate to say _all_ laws are from the rich, for the rich.
I'm also in high school, and our final CS course involves nothing but two group assignments and an ISP.
Quite frankly, I really enjoy it. So far we've got through one group assignment, and although I did 100% of the programming, I was happy that way. I did approx. 5% of the documentation, and none of the bitch work.
Maybe I just liked it cause the program was do able by one person, so it wasn't a problem I had to code the whole thing.
The weird thing is, I remember seing a stat no so long ago claiming at least 40% of the USA's imported oil came from... CANADA!? (Sorry, don't have a link, was dead-tree lit. i think)
This makes me wonder how OPEC has so much power, because Canada surely isn't part of OPEC..
I think the point is that Microsoft says Open-Source is evil, then uses BSD code. Thus, Microsoft is acting shitty and hypocritically (i really wish i could spell that).
Linux uses BSD code and says Open-Source rocks. Thus, Linux isn't lying. It knows open source is good, and it knows using open source is good, and it admits to using open source.
I sue corp XYZ (or XYZ sues me)
I spend N dollars in legal fees
they spend M dollars in legal fees
If I win, they cover my legal fees, up to M dollars.
If they win, I cover their legal fees, up to N dollars.
That way you are only responsible to match the amount you paid for your defense. Seems to solve the whole problem.
Plus, if you represent yourself, you pay nothing;)
The problem was, there is no fear or even respect for the teachers. If I respect a teacher, I'm not going to put them through shit. If they ask me to be quiet, I will, because I figure they have good cause. OTOH, if the student is an asshole, they're not going to respect any teacher.
Now, back in the day, teachers were feared. If you talked back to a teacher, you got the shit beaten out of you. The teacher had most of the powers of a parent. Even barring physical punishment, teachers no longer have any power. If they try to discapline (sp?) a student, the parent will throw a tantrum that the teacher is overstepping their role, they have no right, blah blah. If the teacher doesn't do anything, that same parent asks why the teacher doesn't do anything, and blah and blah.
Quiet frankly the teachers are stuck between a huge ass rock, and a.. well.. a really hard place.
I must say I still have difficulty grasping this conceptually. Do you have a link to a site which describes the process used to obtain such a prime number? So far I have only seen links to actual prime numbers, and although interesting, looking at just a number tells me nothing about the process.
Ugh I live right outside Toronto, and the cable here is total crap. When we signed up, the most I ever pulled was a 1.0MByte/s transfer (which might even be out of spec if I remember correctly). Now I'm lucky if I get 10k/s.
My connection speeds up and slows down several times a minute.. playing games I have some amazingly low pings, but if you pull up connection info (i.e. netgraph 3 in HL), packet loss is through the roof.
It's horrible, and this after news about the government up here passing laws to make broadband access super powerful and widespread. Ugh.
What I want to know is where they came up with the values for the fine? Same with the huge statutory damages. If a cd costs $15, and has 7 songs, each song is about $2.50.
How does one infringment cost $150,000 in damages? Supposing I distribute 1000 copies of it, that's still only $2,500 in damages, and the odds of distributing that many copies are slim.
This is after a $250,000 criminal fine? 5 years in prison? If someone were to get drunk and hit someone while driving, they'd be punished less severely. This is total BS.
ok, so if we write out all the possible outcomes, we are left with 8 cases. Then you say that there is at least one heads, so we can cross out the TTT scenerio. This leaves us with two cases where there are two tails, and three cases with two heads. So, we pick a coin at random (7/21 being tails, 14/21 heads).. and it's a tail..
So, although that was unlikely, that leaves us with 6 possible scenerios. Which is right back where we started.
I think you've got me nicely confused here.
Besides, how is seeing a girl's room any different from seeing a boy's schedule? Assuming the question is fair, that leaves us with 1 boy FOR SURE, and 1 girl for SURE.
I have no idea how people can claim what is in someone's brain as property, or a secret. Once you tell me something, it's no longer your secret, it's our secret. Look at it this way. Back in the day, the master craftsman would have an apprentice (sp?). The apprentice would learn everything he could, then *gasp* start his own shop up! Oh no! He took the skills from his previous 'employer' and used them for his own benefit.
Soon every thought we have will be watermarked, and in order to access knowledge we have we'll need a proper DMCA-compliant thought decoder.
Well, maybe it's not quite that bad, but the fact remains that trying to prevent me from applying a skill I learn is preposterous.
For anyone out there interested in such things, up here in Canada we've already run our FIRST competition this year (www.canadafirst.org).
Basically it's similar to the US FIRST competition, but with less money, and generally the robots are built by the students, not the corporate sponsors.
Sadly enough, Canada FIRST is usually full of screw ups. Two years ago, the wireless modems they gave us didn't work, so we had to do the whole competition on tethers. This year, the control boards they gave us blew up if you pulled too much torque from the motors. Go figure.
It was fun anyway though, I got to shoot at targets with compressed air, and damn that thing could shoot if you charged it up enough.
Any.mp3 files that you wish to distribute must not be copyrighted material. Most.mp3 files found on the internet today are illegal copies of copyrighted music. Distribution of these files violates copyright infringement law and can not be distributed over the AT&T Road Runner service.
Thing is, Napster _servers_ don't distribute any mp3 files. They list 'em, they provide access to them, but according to the strictest def'n, they don't distribut jack
Man, the real turn-based games were on BBS's. Either you had the patience to wait 20 minutes for the one line to free up, then another 10 to wade through the menus and play some game, then you waited a week for your attack to work its way through the network. Those were the days of turn-based games.
Games like BRE, uh oh.. mental block for the names.. uh the fantasy BRE,.. hey, it was a long time ago.. in any case, those were the games.
Buy tanks. End turn. Buy land. Buy tanks. End turn. Add tanks to attack. Logout.
If it weren't for Columbine, I'd do it in a second. I have no doubt it would be incredible fun, but OTOH I know that the administration would boot me in a second if they ever found out. I guess I graduate in a couple of months, maybe I should release it the day after graduation. Hrmm...
Funny story that... for a while I've been considering mapping my school for CS because my school would make the greatest map _ever_ IMHO. In any case, years ago a group of people did a Doom map (maybe Quake, don't remember) and some of the teachers played it and were all for it..
I'm kind of scared to do it now though, what with the change in climate for that sort of thing. I'm in Candana, so it's not so bad here, but we have had a "zero-tolerence" thing in my area for years, and although this is neither violence or drugs, you can never trust those law/school people not to make stuff up. What a let down.
You make a valid point, but he's telling the truth.. look up the book on Amazon... it exists.
I suppose it's just impossible for us to ever verify that's it's not actually about his pet cat, seeing as we'll never be able to buy the book. (except used, libraries, etc)
Ehehehe BRE and all those games? At least back then you could take several turns without waiting... ie. you got, say, 5 turns a day, and then the next day you had 5, etc.. much better than having to wait after _every_ turn...
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Keeping in mind that on the other end of your 45Mb pipe is a T1. So to the T1, you get 45. Past the T1, good luck.
What is the alternative then?
If I don't believe in the function of the state to protect me, then I have to protect myself. Should I fence in my house, put barbed wire around my windows, and sit up all night with a gun staring into the night?
Or perhaps I band up with several people I trust, and we look after eachother. If one of us is in danger, we all react? Good thing we can legally carry guns.
Although I suppose the state is nothing more than an extension of the second alternative that I present. The only difference is that the gang includes everyone now.
I agree that much law is not for the benefit of anyone... look esp. towards countries like China where it is standard policy to remove dissadents.
What the solution is, I don't know.
just wondering, could you technically claim that you hold your personal information as your Intellectual Property, and furthormore, when you issue it to anyone, you license the information to them. Any redistribution of your information would thus be considered a violation of hte DMCA and you could sue their asses
kinda off topic, and likely to be modded down, but still
Try not to over generalize. Some laws are not based on greed, some are for legitament human interest. The majority of people do not want to die, so they make it illegal to kill someone. I suppose you could call this greed, but I wouldn't.
Granted, I agree that a lot of laws these days don't seem to be based on the same principals, but it's inaccurate to say _all_ laws are from the rich, for the rich.
I'm also in high school, and our final CS course involves nothing but two group assignments and an ISP.
Quite frankly, I really enjoy it. So far we've got through one group assignment, and although I did 100% of the programming, I was happy that way. I did approx. 5% of the documentation, and none of the bitch work.
Maybe I just liked it cause the program was do able by one person, so it wasn't a problem I had to code the whole thing.
Oh well.
The weird thing is, I remember seing a stat no so long ago claiming at least 40% of the USA's imported oil came from... CANADA!? (Sorry, don't have a link, was dead-tree lit. i think)
This makes me wonder how OPEC has so much power, because Canada surely isn't part of OPEC..
I think the point is that Microsoft says Open-Source is evil, then uses BSD code. Thus, Microsoft is acting shitty and hypocritically (i really wish i could spell that).
Linux uses BSD code and says Open-Source rocks. Thus, Linux isn't lying. It knows open source is good, and it knows using open source is good, and it admits to using open source.
tell that to MP3.com
I figure it should work this way.
;)
I sue corp XYZ (or XYZ sues me)
I spend N dollars in legal fees
they spend M dollars in legal fees
If I win, they cover my legal fees, up to M dollars.
If they win, I cover their legal fees, up to N dollars.
That way you are only responsible to match the amount you paid for your defense. Seems to solve the whole problem.
Plus, if you represent yourself, you pay nothing
The problem was, there is no fear or even respect for the teachers. If I respect a teacher, I'm not going to put them through shit. If they ask me to be quiet, I will, because I figure they have good cause. OTOH, if the student is an asshole, they're not going to respect any teacher.
.. well.. a really hard place.
Now, back in the day, teachers were feared. If you talked back to a teacher, you got the shit beaten out of you. The teacher had most of the powers of a parent. Even barring physical punishment, teachers no longer have any power. If they try to discapline (sp?) a student, the parent will throw a tantrum that the teacher is overstepping their role, they have no right, blah blah. If the teacher doesn't do anything, that same parent asks why the teacher doesn't do anything, and blah and blah.
Quiet frankly the teachers are stuck between a huge ass rock, and a
I must say I still have difficulty grasping this conceptually. Do you have a link to a site which describes the process used to obtain such a prime number? So far I have only seen links to actual prime numbers, and although interesting, looking at just a number tells me nothing about the process.
thanks
Ugh I live right outside Toronto, and the cable here is total crap. When we signed up, the most I ever pulled was a 1.0MByte/s transfer (which might even be out of spec if I remember correctly). Now I'm lucky if I get 10k/s.
My connection speeds up and slows down several times a minute.. playing games I have some amazingly low pings, but if you pull up connection info (i.e. netgraph 3 in HL), packet loss is through the roof.
It's horrible, and this after news about the government up here passing laws to make broadband access super powerful and widespread. Ugh.
That's some nice math there on my part. 15/7 = 2.5??
..
so scale all the numbers down a bit.. makes my point even more
What I want to know is where they came up with the values for the fine? Same with the huge statutory damages. If a cd costs $15, and has 7 songs, each song is about $2.50.
How does one infringment cost $150,000 in damages? Supposing I distribute 1000 copies of it, that's still only $2,500 in damages, and the odds of distributing that many copies are slim.
This is after a $250,000 criminal fine? 5 years in prison? If someone were to get drunk and hit someone while driving, they'd be punished less severely. This is total BS.
ok, so if we write out all the possible outcomes, we are left with 8 cases. Then you say that there is at least one heads, so we can cross out the TTT scenerio. This leaves us with two cases where there are two tails, and three cases with two heads. So, we pick a coin at random (7/21 being tails, 14/21 heads).. and it's a tail..
So, although that was unlikely, that leaves us with 6 possible scenerios. Which is right back where we started.
I think you've got me nicely confused here.
Besides, how is seeing a girl's room any different from seeing a boy's schedule? Assuming the question is fair, that leaves us with 1 boy FOR SURE, and 1 girl for SURE.
I guess i'm just confused.
I have no idea how people can claim what is in someone's brain as property, or a secret. Once you tell me something, it's no longer your secret, it's our secret. Look at it this way. Back in the day, the master craftsman would have an apprentice (sp?). The apprentice would learn everything he could, then *gasp* start his own shop up! Oh no! He took the skills from his previous 'employer' and used them for his own benefit.
Soon every thought we have will be watermarked, and in order to access knowledge we have we'll need a proper DMCA-compliant thought decoder.
Well, maybe it's not quite that bad, but the fact remains that trying to prevent me from applying a skill I learn is preposterous.
Basically it's similar to the US FIRST competition, but with less money, and generally the robots are built by the students, not the corporate sponsors.
Sadly enough, Canada FIRST is usually full of screw ups. Two years ago, the wireless modems they gave us didn't work, so we had to do the whole competition on tethers. This year, the control boards they gave us blew up if you pulled too much torque from the motors. Go figure.
It was fun anyway though, I got to shoot at targets with compressed air, and damn that thing could shoot if you charged it up enough.
Thing is, Napster _servers_ don't distribute any mp3 files. They list 'em, they provide access to them, but according to the strictest def'n, they don't distribut jack
Man, the real turn-based games were on BBS's. Either you had the patience to wait 20 minutes for the one line to free up, then another 10 to wade through the menus and play some game, then you waited a week for your attack to work its way through the network. Those were the days of turn-based games.
.. hey, it was a long time ago.. in any case, those were the games.
Games like BRE, uh oh.. mental block for the names.. uh the fantasy BRE,
Buy tanks. End turn. Buy land. Buy tanks. End turn. Add tanks to attack. Logout.
Had to be a patient sucker for those games..
>Is there a formula that describes the degree of elegancy a snippet of code may represent?
Is there one that does the same for paintings?
If it weren't for Columbine, I'd do it in a second. I have no doubt it would be incredible fun, but OTOH I know that the administration would boot me in a second if they ever found out. I guess I graduate in a couple of months, maybe I should release it the day after graduation. Hrmm...
Funny story that... for a while I've been considering mapping my school for CS because my school would make the greatest map _ever_ IMHO. In any case, years ago a group of people did a Doom map (maybe Quake, don't remember) and some of the teachers played it and were all for it..
I'm kind of scared to do it now though, what with the change in climate for that sort of thing. I'm in Candana, so it's not so bad here, but we have had a "zero-tolerence" thing in my area for years, and although this is neither violence or drugs, you can never trust those law/school people not to make stuff up. What a let down.
oh well.. my bad
You make a valid point, but he's telling the truth.. look up the book on Amazon... it exists.
I suppose it's just impossible for us to ever verify that's it's not actually about his pet cat, seeing as we'll never be able to buy the book. (except used, libraries, etc)
Ehehehe BRE and all those games? At least back then you could take several turns without waiting... ie. you got, say, 5 turns a day, and then the next day you had 5, etc.. much better than having to wait after _every_ turn...
those were the days tho...