I think this is good. I think having nukes in Iran would do great things for peace in the middle east.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Ahmadinejad has made his views on Israel crystal-clear, and many Isreali prime ministers have all but stated that use of any chemical or nuclear weapons against them will lead to a nuclear response.
Hmm. Then again, if Israel, Iran, and their immediate neighbors all got nuked, I suppose that would definetely advance a certain kind of peace in the Middle East. But somehow I don't think you meant the peace of the grave...
Also, this should be a two-way street; if the IRS starts taxing it as income when you sell your property, then you should be able to claim the difference as a loss if you get less than you paid for it. Somehow, I doubt they'd let the latter happen, so why should we allow the former?
Actually, they do. A few years back, my wife took a year and a half off from work to try and start her own buisness. The first year, we got back almost all of both of our federal & state taxes, because her (sole proprietorship) had a loss of several thousand dollars. (Of course, the next year, when she made a decent amount of money, we ended up paying that back, and more.)
However, it has to be considered a 'legitimate buisness' - if you make no profit for (IIRC) three years, you can no longer claim a loss as a tax deduction.
(For the record, after taxes & expenses, we figured out that she was making about half the amount, hourly, as she had at her previous job, and she closed the business.)
No, I think the key revocation scheme is eminently workable, except for one thing: If the hackers can just crack a nice, constant stream of devices, say, one per week, every released disk will be decryptable by the time it hits the shelves. See, publishers can only revoke players whose keys have been published. But it takes at least a week or two between the moment the disks are pressed and the time they hit the shelves. In the meantime, another player key set will be released.
There's another flaw - the studios need to know what player key sets have been compromised. If ATARI Vampire cracks multiple player keysets, but only releases the player keyset for most of them, the studios wouldn't know which of the keysets was compromised. And then (probably through a third party), publish the title keysets for everything else coming out.
No, I think the problem is (sans trusted computing) software players will be cracked, as long as you can play them on a machine you control. Hardware players will be cracked, too, unless they incorporate some seriously paranoid security measures. (I'm thinking epoxy-block everything around the decrypt device, with a fairly large capacitor designed to burn up the flash memory if the epoxy is disturbed.)
But I'd be surprised, if they do start using region coding, if (at least software/networked hardware (xBox360)) the studios didn't force an 'upgrade' on current HD-DVD players...
I also hope that these laws will start going away as the old guard in the political world go away and new blood comes in. Some senators have been in for decades.
But there will always be senators who've been in for decades. "If it's not broke don't fix it" applies heavily to most people's voting decisions, and unlike slashdot, the average american votes on one thing - the economy, stupid. As long as the (local government contractor/military base/whatever) is getting federal funds and putting money into the local economy, probably half of those who bother voting won't vote out of the current incumbent, regardless of what is going on with other issues.
Hell, I think for a good percentage of people, there aren't any other issues.
The catch here is that if you're audited, they (through Ebay) will have the proof you made, say, 10000 dollars last year selling stuff on Ebay. But you have to provide the reciepts proving that you spent 8000 (or 11000, or whatever) acquiring those goods for sale.
Yeah, jokes should be kept pretty separate from reality. But my original point was that another post in this discussion had it kinda right - it seems that child pornography gets a disproportionate response, at least on the internet. Compare the amount of time spent discussing date rape to child molestation - and then compare the number of victims.
unless you're trying to be intentionally deceitful.
Ding ding! Survey says we have a winner!
Also, anybody arrested by the Coast Guard or DEA for drug smuggling will spend time in a federal prison. And (here's a surprise), they're usually not US citizens.
I've only reviewed one model of the Zen carefully, but the one I saw is a surprisingly excellent product. Recently a 1 GB model was only $49 after rebate at Fry's. It's great for someone who can survive with a library of only 300 songs.
I had to laugh when I read that... (The word 'only', specifically). considering I only used my MP3 player when I'm working out, it seems silly to have more than about two hours of capacity on it. I suppose if I lived somewhere where mass transit was an option, I might use it more than an hour and a bit every other day.
You WHERE might sound funny to people not being confronted to child prostitution, but once you get asked if you want sex favor from a 12 year old your life is not the same afterward, and you tend to see the world with darker shade of gray.
The world is a crappy place. If you need to come face-to-face with it for it to sink in, then you do - but a lot of people don't. But making jokes about it is some people's way of dealing with it - if you can't make fun of something, you're probably taking it too seriously anyway.
Hmm... See, I'm thinking more like TMIAHM, but with the lunar colony owned by one of the nations on Earth. Even if the rest of the US gets wiped out, you know you have the moon, so 'the american way' will continue, or somesuch. Kinda like the bomb shelters, just way above ground instead of below it.
The thing is, if all you're doing is satisfying evolution based desires then it doesn't matter if you satisfy them in the real world or in a virtual world (as long as you can't distinguish which world you're in).
This is true. However, something has to exsist (in the 'real world') to run the simulation on - and I'm pretty sure an AI that complex would also want to accomplish something 'for real'...
OK, so we shouldn't be testing things that could end up with a grey goo on the moon any more then on earth.
Actually, that might very well be the best place for them. By dint of their size, nanobots would be nearly impossible to make resistant to ionizing radiation - any that escaped from the lab wouldn't survive on the surface of the moon as soon as the sun rose.
Slashdot doesn't hate Americans for being Americans. Slashdot hates knee-jerk fascists. It's just seems like we hate the US because, most of the time, it beats out the rest of the world in the quality & quantity of our K-JFs. But somedays the EU feels the need to get back into the race...
In any case, more trials would be needed. I recall people getting all bothered about Olestra because some people would get abdominal cramps, and it turns out it causes a whisker less cramping than eating normal chips did.
And they needed studies to demonstrate that eating really, really greasy food causes cramps? Hell, they could have gone into any cafeteria on a major university in the US and seen that...
Eh, I'd say Starcraft was based much more on Warhammer 40K than Starship Troopers. The space marines in Heinlein's novel were a lot more mobile, and a lot more powerful, than those in the other two sources.
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Hmm. Then again, if Israel, Iran, and their immediate neighbors all got nuked, I suppose that would definetely advance a certain kind of peace in the Middle East. But somehow I don't think you meant the peace of the grave...
But if someone on slashdot (an AC, no less) tells us we can't trust slashdot, do we trust them?
Actually, they do. A few years back, my wife took a year and a half off from work to try and start her own buisness. The first year, we got back almost all of both of our federal & state taxes, because her (sole proprietorship) had a loss of several thousand dollars. (Of course, the next year, when she made a decent amount of money, we ended up paying that back, and more.)
However, it has to be considered a 'legitimate buisness' - if you make no profit for (IIRC) three years, you can no longer claim a loss as a tax deduction.
(For the record, after taxes & expenses, we figured out that she was making about half the amount, hourly, as she had at her previous job, and she closed the business.)
There's another flaw - the studios need to know what player key sets have been compromised. If ATARI Vampire cracks multiple player keysets, but only releases the player keyset for most of them, the studios wouldn't know which of the keysets was compromised. And then (probably through a third party), publish the title keysets for everything else coming out.
No, I think the problem is (sans trusted computing) software players will be cracked, as long as you can play them on a machine you control. Hardware players will be cracked, too, unless they incorporate some seriously paranoid security measures. (I'm thinking epoxy-block everything around the decrypt device, with a fairly large capacitor designed to burn up the flash memory if the epoxy is disturbed.)
But I'd be surprised, if they do start using region coding, if (at least software/networked hardware (xBox360)) the studios didn't force an 'upgrade' on current HD-DVD players...
But there will always be senators who've been in for decades. "If it's not broke don't fix it" applies heavily to most people's voting decisions, and unlike slashdot, the average american votes on one thing - the economy, stupid. As long as the (local government contractor/military base/whatever) is getting federal funds and putting money into the local economy, probably half of those who bother voting won't vote out of the current incumbent, regardless of what is going on with other issues.
Hell, I think for a good percentage of people, there aren't any other issues.
I don't see what you're complaining about - this is probably the most fitting Soviet Reversal joke I've seen on slashdot.
The catch here is that if you're audited, they (through Ebay) will have the proof you made, say, 10000 dollars last year selling stuff on Ebay. But you have to provide the reciepts proving that you spent 8000 (or 11000, or whatever) acquiring those goods for sale.
Only if there's a record of you purchasing the printer, or the printer is seized as evidence.
.... Yeah, I don't think I can do anything without the 'S'. Damnit.
Yeah, jokes should be kept pretty separate from reality. But my original point was that another post in this discussion had it kinda right - it seems that child pornography gets a disproportionate response, at least on the internet. Compare the amount of time spent discussing date rape to child molestation - and then compare the number of victims.
Ding ding! Survey says we have a winner!
Also, anybody arrested by the Coast Guard or DEA for drug smuggling will spend time in a federal prison. And (here's a surprise), they're usually not US citizens.
I had to laugh when I read that... (The word 'only', specifically). considering I only used my MP3 player when I'm working out, it seems silly to have more than about two hours of capacity on it. I suppose if I lived somewhere where mass transit was an option, I might use it more than an hour and a bit every other day.
The world is a crappy place. If you need to come face-to-face with it for it to sink in, then you do - but a lot of people don't. But making jokes about it is some people's way of dealing with it - if you can't make fun of something, you're probably taking it too seriously anyway.
So, wait, you want to get eaten?
Here, I was assuming it was the "intelligence" that was left out, and we'd found the ET version of the three stooges.
Why did you have to go and peg my sarcasmeter all the way over?
Hmm... See, I'm thinking more like TMIAHM, but with the lunar colony owned by one of the nations on Earth. Even if the rest of the US gets wiped out, you know you have the moon, so 'the american way' will continue, or somesuch. Kinda like the bomb shelters, just way above ground instead of below it.
This is true. However, something has to exsist (in the 'real world') to run the simulation on - and I'm pretty sure an AI that complex would also want to accomplish something 'for real'...
Then it's not really all that mutual, now, is it?
Slashdot doesn't hate Americans for being Americans. Slashdot hates knee-jerk fascists. It's just seems like we hate the US because, most of the time, it beats out the rest of the world in the quality & quantity of our K-JFs. But somedays the EU feels the need to get back into the race...
since there's almost no correlation between IQ and social adeptness.
And they needed studies to demonstrate that eating really, really greasy food causes cramps? Hell, they could have gone into any cafeteria on a major university in the US and seen that...
Eh, I'd say Starcraft was based much more on Warhammer 40K than Starship Troopers. The space marines in Heinlein's novel were a lot more mobile, and a lot more powerful, than those in the other two sources.