They don't have to modify the code or algorithm. The submitter has already stated that their sole advantage is their algorithm, so allowing the competition to use it will kill their company.
You forgot the part where it takes one 5 days to walk between two cities; one needing to acquire, cook, and eat food regularly or die; having to excrete regularly; simple diseases and infections such as dysentery; in all the fantasy/medieval games, the lack of medical knowledge and antibiotics leading to death after minor injuries; spoiling food;simple exhaustion; and encumbrance.
When those men break into an oil refinery, natural gas processing facility, or chemical factory, it is worse.
Now, go build a solar plant in Seattle, San Francisco, or some other cloudy location and let me know how well that works for you. Then, you can try building one in a location that gets lots of snow over the winter and let me know how well it works in the winter when they are covered with snow.
Yes, please explain to me how you will power our electricity hungry world with solar plants.
80% of Japan's nuclear reactors are offline, not because of the earthquake, but because of a combination of the irrational fear of nuclear contamination that exists in Japan and the Fukushima failure. Japan has not reverted to the stone age. They just reverted to a weird combination of the 1880s, 1930s, 1970s, and 2010. I have a feeling you are misrepresenting the current conditions in Japan along with the economic effects on the general Japanese population due to the increase in power costs. Tell us, were the restrictions before and what are they now? Are there rolling black or brown outs? How does the cost of electricity now compare to before the earthquake? Has the government instituted price controls? Are the power companies making or losing money?
BTW, what are YOU, personally, willing to give up for lower electric usage? And, are you OK with the increase in green house gasses that will come with the increase use of natural gas and coal for electric power generation?
no matter how safe you make the reactor design you can't make security perfect at the plant, let alone when transporting nuclear material.
No shit, Dick Tracy. There is no such thing as "perfect security" in the real world.
A small group of well armed, well trained men who are willing to die and willing to kill indiscriminately to do something will usually be succeed, even against a much larger force. That was why the 2008 Mumbai attacks were so successful. Ten men were able to kill 164 and wound 308 people, take over and hold several building and it took the Mumbai police and National Security Guard three days to end the attack. It took three days for hundreds of men to kill or capture ten.
They are arguing that there is no such thing as perfection in reality. That is true and no one said different. What has been said is that there is adequate security.
Really, they should all have been killed or arrested, as would have happened at the plant I was on. What would have been the headline and your post then?
Thorium is not the only meltdown proof reactor design. Water-moderated reactors are the closest thing to meltdown proof. It uses water to control the reaction. No water, no reaction. Full of water, full reaction. Generally, the only way to cause a water-moderated reactor to melt down is to inject any of several items into the reactor or coolant, which would be difficult and not an accident.
By the way, your post is a combination of cherry picking and misleading vividness. Fukushima was the direct result of an unanticipated major natural disaster. No one expected, nor was the plant designed for, a Richter 9.0 earthquake followed by 7.3 m (24 ft) tsunami. The plant survived the earthquake with minor damage. It was the tsunami, which was 2 meters (6ft) higher than the plant design allowed for, that caused the most serious damage which includes taking out the power lines to the plant. Think about all the petroleum that was released and the fires caused by the earthquake and the resulting pollution. Think about all the PCB and other chemicals that have been released into the environment. The only reason you are focusing on nuclear power is FUD spread by misinformed "environmentalists".
If the protesters were shot and killed, it wouldn't be an accident. And, while it would be the protesters own fault, everyone would blame the nuclear power plant security service for the deaths.
FYIW, I was at a nuclear training facility in New York. Had they tried this at that plant, they would have been shot.
I have been repeated told by other slashdotters that file sharing and P2P is not just for violating copyright and that by far the majority of P2P and file sharing traffic is for legitimate purposes such as distributing Linux. So, if the ISP is only cutting off those who are violating copyright law, where is the problem?
Actually, no they don't. They represent the corporation's interests, which is profit. That is not necessarily the same interests of the owners, which is generally higher share price and dividends, but may also include environmental or social concerns.
I don't see why this should surprise you. This is the general cracker/extortionist mentality at work. It is the "I can get away with anything because the law shouldn't apply to me" mentality that is so often on display here on slashdot, especially when it comes to things like copyright, privacy, and access. It is the hypocrisy of the mindset that allows things like this to happen. "I will break the law and threaten them and then they will bow down before my genius, give me a job while forgiving my transgressions, and not prosecute me because I will be too valuable to them."
Corporations are considered legal entities and have their own interests which are guaranteed to be against the interests of at least some if not all of their employees interests. Corporations are not unions and do not represent the interests of their employees or board of directors.
It is a shame you didn't do as good a job of "mis-framing" in your shift from whether this is extortion to political representation.
No, there is always room for negotiation. If you try to negotiate with Walmart, you won't get anything. But, if you negotiate with Tom, owner of Tom's Toys, you might get a deal.
The primary reason no one, at least in the U.S., haggles is because it is no longer socially acceptable,
Military laws are different than civilian laws. When you sign up for the military, you agree to be subjected to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Fixed that for you.
When one joins the military, one is subject to the UCMJ while one is a member of the military, regardless of location, duty, or deployment status. Convicted of theft while on vacation and you can come back and be charged, tried, convicted, and punished by the military as well. And, if you come back late because you are in jail, you will be tried for being UA or AWOL.
The effect is irrelevant. You are arguing "two wrongs make a right". He committed crimes and should be punished for those crimes.
Under your theory, I should be allowed to go around killing drug dealers without fear of prosecution because the net effect would be positive.
Oh, and you are also using a false dichotomy because, even without the release of the documents in question, the people did have an idea what their government was up to. These documents didn't mean the difference between the people knowing and having "no idea".
Hey, look! It is the basic ad hominem attack used by all far left people, who have no real argument other than "I want it it, WHAAAA!", in an attempt to force people who disagree with them to give the far leftists their way. Tell us, why didn't you just take the most traveled path and call him a Nazi?
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well?
Sure, let's do that. Let's see, the punishment for that is NOTHING. It isn't against any law or oath of office. The moment Manning released that information he violated orders, written standing orders he knew about and signed beforehand btw, and his oath of service. He committed espionage and treason in a time of war in a war zone.
Constitutional authority? Please explain in detail what you are talking about. What "constitutional authority" is being exceeded and by whom? Please show where in the Constitution that authority appears and limits the Constitution puts on said authority. Support ALL your claims.
"Just following orders" is a valid defense if it is against an order that would seem to be a legal order. I should I know, I was in the military and saw that exact defense used by junior enlisted were ordered to load some gear into a senior enlisted's car. The senior enlisted told them he was transporting it to storage location. He was actually stealing it and taking it to a recycling center.
One is only allowed to refuse an order that is or appears to be illegal. Manning committed espionage and treason in a time of war, in a war zone. Why don't you look up the penalty for that?
So, if a soldier considers you or anyone a domestic enemy, he can shoot and kill you without fear of prosecution, right? Because, I interpret you post as saying a soldier gets to choose who the enemy is and act according.
Low ranking soldiers do not decide who is the enemy.
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They don't have to modify the code or algorithm. The submitter has already stated that their sole advantage is their algorithm, so allowing the competition to use it will kill their company.
If you want a successful company and your competitive advantage is your algorithm, then you should go closed source.
Of course, if you don't care if your company succeeds, then feel free to publish your algorithm and allow your competitors to crush you like bugs.
You forgot the part where it takes one 5 days to walk between two cities; one needing to acquire, cook, and eat food regularly or die; having to excrete regularly; simple diseases and infections such as dysentery; in all the fantasy/medieval games, the lack of medical knowledge and antibiotics leading to death after minor injuries; spoiling food;simple exhaustion; and encumbrance.
Just think, if the IRC had it's way, you would be arrested and take to the Hague to be tried for crimes against (virtual?) humanity.
I have completely lost all respect for the Red Cross.
When those men break into an oil refinery, natural gas processing facility, or chemical factory, it is worse.
Now, go build a solar plant in Seattle, San Francisco, or some other cloudy location and let me know how well that works for you. Then, you can try building one in a location that gets lots of snow over the winter and let me know how well it works in the winter when they are covered with snow.
Yes, please explain to me how you will power our electricity hungry world with solar plants.
80% of Japan's nuclear reactors are offline, not because of the earthquake, but because of a combination of the irrational fear of nuclear contamination that exists in Japan and the Fukushima failure. Japan has not reverted to the stone age. They just reverted to a weird combination of the 1880s, 1930s, 1970s, and 2010. I have a feeling you are misrepresenting the current conditions in Japan along with the economic effects on the general Japanese population due to the increase in power costs. Tell us, were the restrictions before and what are they now? Are there rolling black or brown outs? How does the cost of electricity now compare to before the earthquake? Has the government instituted price controls? Are the power companies making or losing money?
BTW, what are YOU, personally, willing to give up for lower electric usage? And, are you OK with the increase in green house gasses that will come with the increase use of natural gas and coal for electric power generation?
No shit, Dick Tracy. There is no such thing as "perfect security" in the real world.
A small group of well armed, well trained men who are willing to die and willing to kill indiscriminately to do something will usually be succeed, even against a much larger force. That was why the 2008 Mumbai attacks were so successful. Ten men were able to kill 164 and wound 308 people, take over and hold several building and it took the Mumbai police and National Security Guard three days to end the attack. It took three days for hundreds of men to kill or capture ten.
They are arguing that there is no such thing as perfection in reality. That is true and no one said different. What has been said is that there is adequate security.
Really, they should all have been killed or arrested, as would have happened at the plant I was on. What would have been the headline and your post then?
Thorium is not the only meltdown proof reactor design. Water-moderated reactors are the closest thing to meltdown proof. It uses water to control the reaction. No water, no reaction. Full of water, full reaction. Generally, the only way to cause a water-moderated reactor to melt down is to inject any of several items into the reactor or coolant, which would be difficult and not an accident.
As they say, [Citation needed].
By the way, your post is a combination of cherry picking and misleading vividness. Fukushima was the direct result of an unanticipated major natural disaster. No one expected, nor was the plant designed for, a Richter 9.0 earthquake followed by 7.3 m (24 ft) tsunami. The plant survived the earthquake with minor damage. It was the tsunami, which was 2 meters (6ft) higher than the plant design allowed for, that caused the most serious damage which includes taking out the power lines to the plant. Think about all the petroleum that was released and the fires caused by the earthquake and the resulting pollution. Think about all the PCB and other chemicals that have been released into the environment. The only reason you are focusing on nuclear power is FUD spread by misinformed "environmentalists".
If the protesters were shot and killed, it wouldn't be an accident. And, while it would be the protesters own fault, everyone would blame the nuclear power plant security service for the deaths.
FYIW, I was at a nuclear training facility in New York. Had they tried this at that plant, they would have been shot.
Unavoidable? I am sure that if Anonymous steals from the wrong people, said people will infiltrate Anonymous and start killing them off one by one.
I have been repeated told by other slashdotters that file sharing and P2P is not just for violating copyright and that by far the majority of P2P and file sharing traffic is for legitimate purposes such as distributing Linux. So, if the ISP is only cutting off those who are violating copyright law, where is the problem?
Well, that is false. In most of the world, haggling is not just expected, it is enjoyed by the both the customers and the proprietors.
Actually, no they don't. They represent the corporation's interests, which is profit. That is not necessarily the same interests of the owners, which is generally higher share price and dividends, but may also include environmental or social concerns.
I don't see why this should surprise you. This is the general cracker/extortionist mentality at work. It is the "I can get away with anything because the law shouldn't apply to me" mentality that is so often on display here on slashdot, especially when it comes to things like copyright, privacy, and access. It is the hypocrisy of the mindset that allows things like this to happen. "I will break the law and threaten them and then they will bow down before my genius, give me a job while forgiving my transgressions, and not prosecute me because I will be too valuable to them."
Corporations are considered legal entities and have their own interests which are guaranteed to be against the interests of at least some if not all of their employees interests. Corporations are not unions and do not represent the interests of their employees or board of directors.
It is a shame you didn't do as good a job of "mis-framing" in your shift from whether this is extortion to political representation.
No, there is always room for negotiation. If you try to negotiate with Walmart, you won't get anything. But, if you negotiate with Tom, owner of Tom's Toys, you might get a deal.
The primary reason no one, at least in the U.S., haggles is because it is no longer socially acceptable,
Military laws are different than civilian laws. When you sign up for the military, you agree to be subjected to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Fixed that for you.
When one joins the military, one is subject to the UCMJ while one is a member of the military, regardless of location, duty, or deployment status. Convicted of theft while on vacation and you can come back and be charged, tried, convicted, and punished by the military as well. And, if you come back late because you are in jail, you will be tried for being UA or AWOL.
No, he was not a patriot. You don't seem to know what that word means. Perhaps you should look it up. Here, let me help you with that
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors
Now, let us look at the definition of another word, traitor:
1. a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
2. a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.
According to the dictionary, Manning is a traitor.
The effect is irrelevant. You are arguing "two wrongs make a right". He committed crimes and should be punished for those crimes.
Under your theory, I should be allowed to go around killing drug dealers without fear of prosecution because the net effect would be positive.
Oh, and you are also using a false dichotomy because, even without the release of the documents in question, the people did have an idea what their government was up to. These documents didn't mean the difference between the people knowing and having "no idea".
Hey, look! It is the basic ad hominem attack used by all far left people, who have no real argument other than "I want it it, WHAAAA!", in an attempt to force people who disagree with them to give the far leftists their way. Tell us, why didn't you just take the most traveled path and call him a Nazi?
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well?
Sure, let's do that. Let's see, the punishment for that is NOTHING. It isn't against any law or oath of office. The moment Manning released that information he violated orders, written standing orders he knew about and signed beforehand btw, and his oath of service. He committed espionage and treason in a time of war in a war zone.
Constitutional authority? Please explain in detail what you are talking about. What "constitutional authority" is being exceeded and by whom? Please show where in the Constitution that authority appears and limits the Constitution puts on said authority. Support ALL your claims.
Or, as many would put it [Citation needed]
"Just following orders" is a valid defense if it is against an order that would seem to be a legal order. I should I know, I was in the military and saw that exact defense used by junior enlisted were ordered to load some gear into a senior enlisted's car. The senior enlisted told them he was transporting it to storage location. He was actually stealing it and taking it to a recycling center.
One is only allowed to refuse an order that is or appears to be illegal. Manning committed espionage and treason in a time of war, in a war zone. Why don't you look up the penalty for that?
So, if a soldier considers you or anyone a domestic enemy, he can shoot and kill you without fear of prosecution, right? Because, I interpret you post as saying a soldier gets to choose who the enemy is and act according.
Low ranking soldiers do not decide who is the enemy.