What is it with the USA? The cold war is long over but we see the former USSR steadily getting more democratic and the USA steadily adopting more totalitarian tactics.
I suggest you read up on Putin's "vertical of power" and how he's eliminating regional democracy in Russia.
If you enter a proxy bid of $125, then you are entering into a contract with eBay and the seller to pay up to $125 if yours is the winning bid.
It's how ebay determine which is the winning bid that matters. How can your bid of £100.01 not still be the winning bid when nobody else has bid any more? Ebay are making people bid against themselves. By your logic, ebay could take the winning bidder's maximum bid as the closing price.
Copying illicitly is theft of intellectual property.
No, you're wrong. You aren't stealing their intellectual property. You are not taking control of the copyright of Mickey Mouse if you download a copy of Steamboat Willie, you are not taking control of those rights (the property you allude to) you are violating those rights. You are misapropriating a copy of a work.
There are significant differences between property and copyrights/patents. They are not the same.
No, the free market would be in play at all. The monopolies provided by patents and copyrights are the antithesis of a free market, which is why they must be time-limited.
Am I the only one to have inadvertently pronounced "Gainward" as "Gaywad"?
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TiVo really needs to turn itself into a delivery platform if it wants to survive.
It just needs to be a platform. They are selling it as a hardware+software bundle. They need to decide what they do - provide a service or make hardware. If they opened the interfaces and provided good tools, to make it easy for $50 Chinese hardware to access their pay service, I think they'd do a lot better.
Think about it, eyes have almost infinite resolution
No they don't. As far as optical systems go they are pretty poor; chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, they aren't even close to the theoretical performance for an optical system with an objective that size. Human eyes have of the order of 1 arcminute resolution.
It is cheaper with greater performance to buy the most recent Intel or AMD system and dynamically translate Mac OSX on that x86 host, than it is to purchase that expensive PowerPC system to run Mac OSX.
Bullshit. Show me the tests. I want to see the x86 hardware which can emulate a Dual 2.5GHz G5 and beat it for speed, for less money.
Nobody said anything about chip speed except you. The the figures are based on the EFFs DES cracker based on custom hardware. In that application double the transistors does pretty much mean double the speed.
That's not even the worst part, the fact it takes 12 hours for what you say to show up, and by then you have gotten 30 replies. and the thread is dead.
So remind me again; when are Apple being forced to remove Quicktime from their OS?
Apple do not have a monopoly in the OS market. When you are a monopoly, the rules change. If Apple become a monopoly in the OS market they will have the same obligations as Microsoft do now.
The answers.com dictionary gives us these relevant definitions for a right:
# A power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession (the right of liberty) (that all men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights - Declaration of Independence)
# A power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law (one's constitutional rights)
You see, the first one wouldn't stop me kicking your ass and taking all your stuff. It's all talk. The second one actually means something outside a philosophy lecture. There are people with guns to back it up.
So, in the real world, rights are the things the law allows you to do. Monopolies no longer have the right to leverage their monopoly in one market to compete unfairly in another, just like I no longer have the right to kick your skinny ass and take all your stuff.
Property rights violate my natural right to wander where I please and live off the land, a right anyone had 10,000 years ago because nobody owned the land.
you can't be serious. the antitrust laws that microsoft violated are bs anyway. They violate fundamental rights that humans have (namely property rights).
I have an more "fundamental human right" to kick your skinny ass and take all your stuff, that kind of thing is the norm for every other species and was for us till a few thousand years ago. The thing is, society as a whole decided that people going around kicking each others asses and taking their stuff wasn't a very nice way to live and wasn't particularly productive. This led to what you call a "fundamental right" to own property, with armed backup from agents of society (the police).
A stripped OS, to most consumers, isn't an opportunity to evaluate other alternatives and make the best choice--it's a broken OS.
You're wrong. The overwhelming majority of Windows licenses are sold with PC from large OEMs, this is especially true of sales to non-technical users. The OEMs now have the option to bundle another media player instead of WMP. Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. I expect some will. I doubt any OEMs will offer the WMP-free version without adding a different player. They aren't that stupid.
Perhaps you should consider that the way this machine supposedly predicts the future is entierly subjective. What is the cutoff point for when randomness becomes non-randomness? What is the cutoff point for what is a significant world event? What happens when the detecor goes off and nothing takes place? What predictions do the scientists make about what the machne will do before and during a significant world event, however they may define that? Most importanly however, why did the article fail to mention any of this? Perhaps you should consider the article for 5 minutes before accusing others of unfounded skepticism.
Perhaps if you read the website about the project, which was linked from the article, you would find all of your questions answered. Perhaps you should actually try to understand what they've been doing before dismissing it. All the data is there. Analyze it yourself. Do the experiment yourself, it doesn't require any expensive or exotic hardware. Till you've done at least some of the above you can have no valid scientific opinion, only prejudice.
It seems pretty far-fetched to me, but I'm working my way through the Princeton site now and I've not seen any glaring errors in their methodology yet.
The only rational explanation for this* is that we exist within a giant computer simulation and the random number generators are seeing the effects of increased system load while calculating the effects of large events. When the world gets more complex, the simulation resolution is reduced and the illusion of randomness suffers.
Weather a finger print or longer password (passphrase) is used makes absolutly no difference.
As long as data can be sniffed between computers, nothing is secure. When are they going to pull thier finger out and see that the real security lies within the communication protocols themselves and the OS you use. Its that simple.
If a secure connection can be established, everything else doesnt matter.
Passwords are about authentication, not encryption. It doesn't matter how secure your connection protocol is if anyone can make a connection pretending to be someone who is authorised to use the system.
When you find an open source developer willing to tailer to my EXACT specifications (like giving him a call and everything), please post it on/.
Loads of open-source developers will work to your exact specifications and provide support. They generally won't do it for free, but they will do it. Turn up at the Tenable offices and say "I want this feature added to Nessus, I'll pay you to do the work" and I'll bet they'd be interested.
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I suggest you read up on Putin's "vertical of power" and how he's eliminating regional democracy in Russia.
It's how ebay determine which is the winning bid that matters. How can your bid of £100.01 not still be the winning bid when nobody else has bid any more? Ebay are making people bid against themselves. By your logic, ebay could take the winning bidder's maximum bid as the closing price.
In a sense.
No, you're wrong. You aren't stealing their intellectual property. You are not taking control of the copyright of Mickey Mouse if you download a copy of Steamboat Willie, you are not taking control of those rights (the property you allude to) you are violating those rights. You are misapropriating a copy of a work.
There are significant differences between property and copyrights/patents. They are not the same.
No, the free market would be in play at all. The monopolies provided by patents and copyrights are the antithesis of a free market, which is why they must be time-limited.
Am I the only one to have inadvertently pronounced "Gainward" as "Gaywad"?
It just needs to be a platform. They are selling it as a hardware+software bundle. They need to decide what they do - provide a service or make hardware. If they opened the interfaces and provided good tools, to make it easy for $50 Chinese hardware to access their pay service, I think they'd do a lot better.
No they don't. As far as optical systems go they are pretty poor; chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, they aren't even close to the theoretical performance for an optical system with an objective that size. Human eyes have of the order of 1 arcminute resolution.
These Nike trainers I'm wearing don't oficially support anal insertion, but that won't stop me kicking you up the ass for being such a jerk.
Bullshit. Show me the tests. I want to see the x86 hardware which can emulate a Dual 2.5GHz G5 and beat it for speed, for less money.
Nobody said anything about chip speed except you. The the figures are based on the EFFs DES cracker based on custom hardware. In that application double the transistors does pretty much mean double the speed.
Have you never heard of the interweb? You can use the interweb to find a local taxi firm, so you needn't walk at all.
The protocols shouldn't need to expose the user to that choice. The problem is that IDN is a bad hack.
Not any more. It updates within minutes now.
This is about the government allowing me to decide what gets installed on my computer.
Apple do not have a monopoly in the OS market. When you are a monopoly, the rules change. If Apple become a monopoly in the OS market they will have the same obligations as Microsoft do now.
# A power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession (the right of liberty) (that all men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights - Declaration of Independence)
# A power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law (one's constitutional rights)
You see, the first one wouldn't stop me kicking your ass and taking all your stuff. It's all talk. The second one actually means something outside a philosophy lecture. There are people with guns to back it up.
So, in the real world, rights are the things the law allows you to do. Monopolies no longer have the right to leverage their monopoly in one market to compete unfairly in another, just like I no longer have the right to kick your skinny ass and take all your stuff.
Property rights violate my natural right to wander where I please and live off the land, a right anyone had 10,000 years ago because nobody owned the land.
I have an more "fundamental human right" to kick your skinny ass and take all your stuff, that kind of thing is the norm for every other species and was for us till a few thousand years ago. The thing is, society as a whole decided that people going around kicking each others asses and taking their stuff wasn't a very nice way to live and wasn't particularly productive. This led to what you call a "fundamental right" to own property, with armed backup from agents of society (the police).
You're wrong. The overwhelming majority of Windows licenses are sold with PC from large OEMs, this is especially true of sales to non-technical users. The OEMs now have the option to bundle another media player instead of WMP. Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. I expect some will. I doubt any OEMs will offer the WMP-free version without adding a different player. They aren't that stupid.
Perhaps if you read the website about the project, which was linked from the article, you would find all of your questions answered. Perhaps you should actually try to understand what they've been doing before dismissing it. All the data is there. Analyze it yourself. Do the experiment yourself, it doesn't require any expensive or exotic hardware. Till you've done at least some of the above you can have no valid scientific opinion, only prejudice.
It seems pretty far-fetched to me, but I'm working my way through the Princeton site now and I've not seen any glaring errors in their methodology yet.
I for one welcome our... ah, forget it.
* OK, perhaps not the only rational explanation :)
Passwords are about authentication, not encryption. It doesn't matter how secure your connection protocol is if anyone can make a connection pretending to be someone who is authorised to use the system.
And if you can touch-type everyone can, right? Wrong. Most can't, which makes typing 40 characters with no visual feedback slow and error prone.
Kinda like men then I guess.
Loads of open-source developers will work to your exact specifications and provide support. They generally won't do it for free, but they will do it. Turn up at the Tenable offices and say "I want this feature added to Nessus, I'll pay you to do the work" and I'll bet they'd be interested.
Why wouldn't company Q patent it in company Y's country in the first place?