So the right to have an abortion is bullshit whereas the right to own a gun is God-given. Nice personal freedoms, there. Way to go with your own intellectual honesty.
I don't share the right wing view of abortion but it is based on the idea that abortion is murder of a child. So, in their view, they support allowing adults to own weapons to protect themselves from other adults while simultaneously opposing adults murdering children. Like I said, I don't agree with this right wing view of abortion, but it is not inconsistent with the right wing view of gun control.
"Let me turn the question around. Why can't I dictate why software gets loaded on "my" device?"
You CAN dictate what software you load on your device. The things you can't dictate are (1) what software Apple sells or provides through their App store and (2) whether Apple creates a clear and easy route for people to add software to the iPhone outside of the App store. Whether Apple permits you to put software on the iPhone has absolutely nothing to do with the SDK, though. If you hack your iPhone and add an app to it, then Apple isn't going to come to your house and demand that you remove that app. People have already added apps to their phones this way and Apple has not forced any of these people to remove those apps. Apple has refused to support said apps through upgrades of the software, and now Apple refuses to support the distribution of those apps. Apples does not refuse the existence of those apps and Apple does not prevent people from loading those apps onto their own phones.
I have wondered whether anyone has ever studied the question of how connected the brain and the eye are evolutionarily.
I know they have looked quite a bit at a tangentially related question, and have been able to show that the camera eye (as opposed to the compound eye) has evolved at least 7 times indepently. It seems that it's such a good solution to the problem that nature keeps re-inventing it. There are other things like that too. I don't know that our bipedal shape is a good enough solution to have evolved many times independently on multiple planets; that seems a bit of a stretch, but it is likely that aliens would have the same kinds of camera eyes that we do. Of course, if they existed, they might perceive different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum as appropriate for whatever place they would have evolved in.
"...it should be simple to find ANYTHING that was added to either one."
While it might not always have been simple, it was at least in theory possible to find anything installed on a computer prior to hardware virtualization technologies being introduced. The crux of this new challenge is that the newer chips from Intel and AMD have support for cpu-based virtualization. In other words, they implemeted some of the hard parts of VMWare in the processor itself.
With one of these newer processors, the host operating system on a machine can prepare one of the CPU for a guest operating system to run in a virtual session. When the guest operating system issues an interrupt to interact with hardware, say to read a block off of the hard drive, then the processor would let the host operating system handle the request transparently to the guest operating system rather than letting the hardware itself process the request. This means that if someone could install a malicious virus in the place of the host operating system and have it run your OS as the guest operating system, then it should, in theory, be impossible for your guest operating system to detect the virus.
Perhaps another way of stating it is that the virus isn't actually added to the "machine" that the operating system runs in; the virus is actually added to a host machine outside of the one the operating system runs in. This is why this type of attack is referred to as a "blue pill" attack. That name references the premise of the Matrix movies where the world that people thought they lived in was just a virtual world being hosted by a malicious "host world" in which other entities were taking advantage of the humans in the virtual world without their knowledge.
The list of newly registered companies and their addresses is public information obtainable on most state government websites. Sales people regularly check these lists for new customers to cold call or send junk mail. Even if you don't give you new company's name or address to anyone, you are likely to at least start receiving junk mail there from people who regularly check the state lists or newly registered organizations.
So, if you started getting junk mail before you officially registered with the state, then it probably was Dell, but if you started getting it after incorporating, then all bets are off as to how people found you.
I was the top of my class at 13, but only because I found what I was learning to be entertaining. If I hadn't been enjoying the learning, I wouldn't have done it. If this helps kids who are otherwise not interested in learning chemistry to be more interested in learning it, then great! I understand that some people poorly implement modern experimental teaching strategies and end up with kids who learn nothing, but that doesn't mean that all modern experimental teaching strategies are crap or that all implementations of them are poor. This kid sounds like he has a pretty good idea. I wouldn't want to see a class converted to playing this game instead of using books, but if the kids enjoy the card game as a supplement to their class, and if it helps them to learn more from their class, what's the problem?
Woops, that should read "as long as you DON'T use the fact that that number is used to encrypt DVDs".
And by the way, I'm just as pissed off as anyone else that they encrypt DVDs and I'm all in favor of the DVD encryption being cracked. I want to be able to use my single DVD drive to watch my US movies and my UK movies. I believe that's well within my rights. I'm not defending their actions, only arguing that they are not claiming ownership of a number, only over the fact that the number is the secret of their encryption scheme. If they published that fact, they would have no claim. Similarly, if you publish that your number (which you receive from this service) was received from this service then you've given away the secret which the service gives you the right to protect and you've invalidated your own claim to your secret.
It's the secret that that number is the one they are using to encrypt DVDs. Of course they have no ownership over that number, nor are they even claiming to own it. They have no problem with you using it in a program or an equation or in whatever way you want, as long as you use the fact that that number is used to encrypt DVDs.
The electric light, radio, telephone, television, the car, the airplane, computers, the internet, the sewing machine, vulcanized rubber, the typewriter, the record player, air conditioning, etc, etc, etc... These are things created by the US which have significantly changed the world for the better. This says nothing of the social or cultural impact the US has had. It also says nothing about the US providing the military force which prevented the world from being ruled today by a Hitler or a Stalin.
"Home of the free" and "home of the brave" are meaningless cliches. When you get down to brass tacks, though, the US has had an absolutely enormous positive impact on the world.
The open port is 443, the same port used by every https server out there. NMAP wouldn't be able to distinguish between this software and an e-commerce website.
Many people are asking, "How is this any better than somesite.com, a normal anonymizing proxy?" The difference is that this is a piece of software which runs on an individual person's computer. This is more like peer-to-peer than it is like 50,000 people using a well know proxy.
The Chinese government can easily go to google and search for well known anonymizing proxies and block access to them. What the govt can't do, is find out every IP address on the internet running this software and block it. The downside of this software is that Chinese users must have a friend on the outside to run the software, but the upside is that it's vastly less likely that the Chinese government will be capable of blocking access to it.
I'm amazed by you people. I had no idea you were so willing to let others tell you what to do.
It's fine if your appearance genuinely doesn't matter to you if if you genuinely enjoy looking very dull, but why do you insist that the right course of action is to give in and just do whatever you're told to. I've got a pretty sweet job. I make a buttload of money and my company sends me to some of the world's largest corporations. My hair is halfway down my back, I've got a beard and some 4 guage earrings. What's more, the last time I looked for work (early 2004), I had about the same appearance, and every place I interviewed made me an offer.
I enjoy my job and they have no problem with the way I look. If they did, I think I'd have to ask myself whether they were the kind of place that I was comfortable working. Starting your own company is one option, but just finding another, more tolerant one is also a *very* viable one.
Appearance is not an issue of huge importance, but still, I'm really disappointed that so many slashdotters seem to be so cowering and willing to just give in at the first sign of resistance. If there was a major war, you are not the kind of people I'd want fighting for me or my ideals.
I don't mean to start a flame war here, but I have to ask... Why is MySQL so popular when PostgreSQL does more and is also open source and free like beer? Are there any real benefits to MySQL over PostgreSQL?
For anyone who hasn't realized it yet, the point of the older sounding theme music, like much of the pseudo-retro design, was to make us feel that this was in the "past" (at least compared with the Trek we usually watch). It was a bizarre but very clever and useful intentional misuse of time-period theming.
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"I" is the subjective case. This is the objective case. It should be "for my wife and me."
So the right to have an abortion is bullshit whereas the right to own a gun is God-given. Nice personal freedoms, there. Way to go with your own intellectual honesty.
I don't share the right wing view of abortion but it is based on the idea that abortion is murder of a child. So, in their view, they support allowing adults to own weapons to protect themselves from other adults while simultaneously opposing adults murdering children. Like I said, I don't agree with this right wing view of abortion, but it is not inconsistent with the right wing view of gun control.
The point is that if you ignore your instincts(or 300 years of evolutionary programming) you will never over come it.
I bet we could fairly safely ignore the evolutionary programming that we have received since 1708.
"Let me turn the question around. Why can't I dictate why software gets loaded on "my" device?"
You CAN dictate what software you load on your device. The things you can't dictate are (1) what software Apple sells or provides through their App store and (2) whether Apple creates a clear and easy route for people to add software to the iPhone outside of the App store. Whether Apple permits you to put software on the iPhone has absolutely nothing to do with the SDK, though. If you hack your iPhone and add an app to it, then Apple isn't going to come to your house and demand that you remove that app. People have already added apps to their phones this way and Apple has not forced any of these people to remove those apps. Apple has refused to support said apps through upgrades of the software, and now Apple refuses to support the distribution of those apps. Apples does not refuse the existence of those apps and Apple does not prevent people from loading those apps onto their own phones.
If you hold down the mouse button during boot up, the firmware ejects optical disks.
I have wondered whether anyone has ever studied the question of how connected the brain and the eye are evolutionarily.
I know they have looked quite a bit at a tangentially related question, and have been able to show that the camera eye (as opposed to the compound eye) has evolved at least 7 times indepently. It seems that it's such a good solution to the problem that nature keeps re-inventing it. There are other things like that too. I don't know that our bipedal shape is a good enough solution to have evolved many times independently on multiple planets; that seems a bit of a stretch, but it is likely that aliens would have the same kinds of camera eyes that we do. Of course, if they existed, they might perceive different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum as appropriate for whatever place they would have evolved in.
"...it should be simple to find ANYTHING that was added to either one."
While it might not always have been simple, it was at least in theory possible to find anything installed on a computer prior to hardware virtualization technologies being introduced. The crux of this new challenge is that the newer chips from Intel and AMD have support for cpu-based virtualization. In other words, they implemeted some of the hard parts of VMWare in the processor itself.
With one of these newer processors, the host operating system on a machine can prepare one of the CPU for a guest operating system to run in a virtual session. When the guest operating system issues an interrupt to interact with hardware, say to read a block off of the hard drive, then the processor would let the host operating system handle the request transparently to the guest operating system rather than letting the hardware itself process the request. This means that if someone could install a malicious virus in the place of the host operating system and have it run your OS as the guest operating system, then it should, in theory, be impossible for your guest operating system to detect the virus.
Perhaps another way of stating it is that the virus isn't actually added to the "machine" that the operating system runs in; the virus is actually added to a host machine outside of the one the operating system runs in. This is why this type of attack is referred to as a "blue pill" attack. That name references the premise of the Matrix movies where the world that people thought they lived in was just a virtual world being hosted by a malicious "host world" in which other entities were taking advantage of the humans in the virtual world without their knowledge.
The list of newly registered companies and their addresses is public information obtainable on most state government websites. Sales people regularly check these lists for new customers to cold call or send junk mail. Even if you don't give you new company's name or address to anyone, you are likely to at least start receiving junk mail there from people who regularly check the state lists or newly registered organizations.
So, if you started getting junk mail before you officially registered with the state, then it probably was Dell, but if you started getting it after incorporating, then all bets are off as to how people found you.
I was the top of my class at 13, but only because I found what I was learning to be entertaining. If I hadn't been enjoying the learning, I wouldn't have done it. If this helps kids who are otherwise not interested in learning chemistry to be more interested in learning it, then great! I understand that some people poorly implement modern experimental teaching strategies and end up with kids who learn nothing, but that doesn't mean that all modern experimental teaching strategies are crap or that all implementations of them are poor. This kid sounds like he has a pretty good idea. I wouldn't want to see a class converted to playing this game instead of using books, but if the kids enjoy the card game as a supplement to their class, and if it helps them to learn more from their class, what's the problem?
Woops, that should read "as long as you DON'T use the fact that that number is used to encrypt DVDs".
And by the way, I'm just as pissed off as anyone else that they encrypt DVDs and I'm all in favor of the DVD encryption being cracked. I want to be able to use my single DVD drive to watch my US movies and my UK movies. I believe that's well within my rights. I'm not defending their actions, only arguing that they are not claiming ownership of a number, only over the fact that the number is the secret of their encryption scheme. If they published that fact, they would have no claim. Similarly, if you publish that your number (which you receive from this service) was received from this service then you've given away the secret which the service gives you the right to protect and you've invalidated your own claim to your secret.
It's the secret that that number is the one they are using to encrypt DVDs. Of course they have no ownership over that number, nor are they even claiming to own it. They have no problem with you using it in a program or an equation or in whatever way you want, as long as you use the fact that that number is used to encrypt DVDs.
The electric light, radio, telephone, television, the car, the airplane, computers, the internet, the sewing machine, vulcanized rubber, the typewriter, the record player, air conditioning, etc, etc, etc... These are things created by the US which have significantly changed the world for the better. This says nothing of the social or cultural impact the US has had. It also says nothing about the US providing the military force which prevented the world from being ruled today by a Hitler or a Stalin.
"Home of the free" and "home of the brave" are meaningless cliches. When you get down to brass tacks, though, the US has had an absolutely enormous positive impact on the world.
The open port is 443, the same port used by every https server out there.
NMAP wouldn't be able to distinguish between this software and an
e-commerce website.
Many people are asking, "How is this any better than somesite.com, a normal anonymizing proxy?"
The difference is that this is a piece of software which runs on an individual person's computer.
This is more like peer-to-peer than it is like 50,000 people using a well know proxy.
The Chinese government can easily go to google and search for well known anonymizing proxies
and block access to them. What the govt can't do, is find out every IP address on the internet
running this software and block it. The downside of this software is that Chinese users must have
a friend on the outside to run the software, but the upside is that it's vastly less likely that the
Chinese government will be capable of blocking access to it.
I'm amazed by you people. I had no idea you were so willing to let others tell you what to do.
It's fine if your appearance genuinely doesn't matter to you if if you genuinely enjoy looking very dull, but why do you insist that the right course of action is to give in and just do whatever you're told to. I've got a pretty sweet job. I make a buttload of money and my company sends me to some of the world's largest corporations. My hair is halfway down my back, I've got a beard and some 4 guage earrings. What's more, the last time I looked for work (early 2004), I had about the same appearance, and every place I interviewed made me an offer.
I enjoy my job and they have no problem with the way I look. If they did, I think I'd have to ask myself whether they were the kind of place that I was comfortable working. Starting your own company is one option, but just finding another, more tolerant one is also a *very* viable one.
Appearance is not an issue of huge importance, but still, I'm really disappointed that so many slashdotters seem to be so cowering and willing to just give in at the first sign of resistance. If there was a major war, you are not the kind of people I'd want fighting for me or my ideals.
I don't mean to start a flame war here, but I have to ask... Why is MySQL so popular when PostgreSQL does more and is also open source and free like beer? Are there any real benefits to MySQL over PostgreSQL?
You're TiVo doesn't by chance think you're manic, does it?
>Some once said, "nothing gets done by committee".
I think this may have come from The Fountainhead. At least that's where I first heard it.
For anyone who hasn't realized it yet, the point of the older sounding theme music, like much of the pseudo-retro design, was to make us feel that this was in the "past" (at least compared with the Trek we usually watch). It was a bizarre but very clever and useful intentional misuse of time-period theming.