In nearly every place that is not enough evidence to prove speeding. Similar things were tried with paper toll booth tickets, and judges tossed them out.
That said, why does anyone have a problem with this? Highways are public. Where you go is [largely] public information. If you have a problem with speeding laws, change the laws, not the enforcement. Would people be less upset if they paid tons more money to post a guy with photographic memory at each toll booth and watch everoyne go by?
The only problem I have is that people aren't more honest about the system.
There's not really any good metrics given the differences in platforms. IIRC though, Solaris runs much better on sparc, but x86 hardware is *MUCH* faster than any sparc you can get these days, and is still cheaper.
That said, sun hardware is generally rock solid, and getting solaris x86 working is a PITA.
re: performance between solaris x86 and other free alternatives:
The performance gains [which IIRC there aren't any for most circumstances] aren't worth the compatability losses. For most people, solaris x86 is just a good way to learn the differences between BSD/linux and Solaris for when you get to a job with larger SPARC machines.
The goal of all security measures is to make it inconvinient enough to enemies that it's not worth their time and effort to try and break in, while making it *not* inconvinient enough to users that it's not worth their time and effort to actually use the system.
Not that I don't agree, but statistically people didn't have less children historically. They used to have more, and be a bit less... caring if the child was a screw up and dumped on the street.
Nowadays it's criminal to toss your good for nothing kid out on the street, and kids use it to their advantage.
Either way a good dose of responsibility should be had by all.
Well because games will be the first thing that still is considered "thought" where a computer will beat men.
Computers can beat humans at repetative tasks, or calculation, but these do not involve decision making. Games are good for computers because they have a finite set of rules [which a computer needs] and an infinite set of decisions [which is an excellent test on AI].
Go in particular is a fantastic test for computers because it adds 2 other tests/problems. Firstly, it truly has infinite moves. Not really like chess where all of the moves can be calculated out for a few dozen turns. Secondly it involves alot of patterns. One thing that humans do especially well is pick out patterns in things. We know that just because a beagle looks slightly different than a dalmatian, they're still dogs. Even when we limit the pattern to a 19 by 19 board [standard Go board] computers [or more accurately their programmers] still suck at picking out patterns.
Since pattern matching and dealing with infinite decisions are two of the most vital parts of dealing with the world we test the AI in the nice controlled environment with a nice controlled result set [win/loss/draw].
And once computers dominate humans, we know that they're ready for the next test/game.
If the pool came with a fence to keep people out, and the fence didn't work it then becomes an argument if the owner knew the fence didn't work. In Microsoft's case, even commoners know it's less secure. Either way, the fence maker would then be liable for misrepresentation, and the resultant effects.
Well in cases there's 3 major parts. Means, motive, and opportunity. The computer traced back to be the cause of the attack proves part of means. It does not prove skill means. It does not prove opportunity [proving the user was home and on the internet at the time does]. It does not prove motive. As a defense lawyer [I am not a defense lawyer] I'd certainly posit that the computer did it as a reasonable alternative until the prosecution actually made an effective case [by proving oppertunity].
I don't see how this is anything new really. Means, motive, and opportunity are age old benchmarks.
Well technically they just need DNA samples, not to totally exhume the bodies. Someone would be smart I think to create a clever extraction device to get dna from buried people. That'd save alot of these sorts of hassles.
The jail terms only seem to apply when the copy is distributed before the actual release. I doubt even here anyone can consider pre-release warez as something legitimate.
Well *I* know why people want single sign on. They don't want to sign on at all. They don't understand simple information theory that once a secret is gone, it is gone. They don't realise that if they give someone else all the information needed to complete a credit card transaction, they can now do the same thing.
Hopefully... well, not hopefully, but probably, there will be more identity theft and fraud where the credit card company doesn't assume the costs, and people lose real money over their lax secret controls. That's the only way they will learn.
The kinda paranoid side of me wonders if this money to switch away from Linux is from the oft-rumoured Microsoft investment in SCO. I mean nobody could be so stupid as to do that sort of thing after being convicted of antitrust charges could they?
For all purposes an IM system is an email system which has its user interface focused on users rather than on the messages themselves. Any abuse that email systems recieve, so shall IM systems.
That said, common email systems could use some improvement, just don't expect human nature to change simply because the app [sort of] did.
You don't... You market the movie as an adult movie. Show trailers before R and pg-13 films. Show random splatterings of blood. Play dramatic music.
People that know about 'adult' cartoons [given the cartoon network's adult swim time slots, and people who are into anime already] are more than enough to be a respectable market.
There's not really any other adult cartoons out there, so you'll not be competing against anyone. Just keep selling to the current market, and others will come looking.
You don't force changes in perception... you make people want to change.
Best ISP known to man or beast. Standard $50-60 for 1.5/384 dsl and a static IP. More static IPs are like $2 per month per IP. No blocking, no unreasonable terms of service, no unreasonable outages, excellent service, excellent web service interface. What an ISP *should* be.
Disclaimer: I do not work or recieve compensation from speakeasy. I have been a customer of theirs for 3 years now, and currently enjoy 1.1mbs sdsl home connectivity through their service.
Does that mean it's now illegal to charge women more for car insurance just because they're women? Courts have ruled in the past that insurance rates based off of statistical trends are good. What happens now if those trends are genetically based?
Neither really... Because the people behind the internet won't evolve either way, and I'm not sure there's a human acceptable solution to change the situation that causes a large lack of consiquences on the internet.
Decent people have been dealing with Lamers for millenia.
Well, given that in real life a large share of Americans at least already use curse words as common speech, why should TV be prohibited from having the option of using them?
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In nearly every place that is not enough evidence to prove speeding. Similar things were tried with paper toll booth tickets, and judges tossed them out.
That said, why does anyone have a problem with this? Highways are public. Where you go is [largely] public information. If you have a problem with speeding laws, change the laws, not the enforcement. Would people be less upset if they paid tons more money to post a guy with photographic memory at each toll booth and watch everoyne go by?
The only problem I have is that people aren't more honest about the system.
There's not really any good metrics given the differences in platforms. IIRC though, Solaris runs much better on sparc, but x86 hardware is *MUCH* faster than any sparc you can get these days, and is still cheaper.
That said, sun hardware is generally rock solid, and getting solaris x86 working is a PITA.
re: performance between solaris x86 and other free alternatives:
The performance gains [which IIRC there aren't any for most circumstances] aren't worth the compatability losses. For most people, solaris x86 is just a good way to learn the differences between BSD/linux and Solaris for when you get to a job with larger SPARC machines.
The goal of all security measures is to make it inconvinient enough to enemies that it's not worth their time and effort to try and break in, while making it *not* inconvinient enough to users that it's not worth their time and effort to actually use the system.
Well that's because it was based off of episode I. Kotor was even a better movie than episode I...
Not that I don't agree, but statistically people didn't have less children historically. They used to have more, and be a bit less... caring if the child was a screw up and dumped on the street.
Nowadays it's criminal to toss your good for nothing kid out on the street, and kids use it to their advantage.
Either way a good dose of responsibility should be had by all.
No offense, but that is too complicated. People aren't going to check that the machine gave them who they're really voting for.
Well because games will be the first thing that still is considered "thought" where a computer will beat men.
Computers can beat humans at repetative tasks, or calculation, but these do not involve decision making. Games are good for computers because they have a finite set of rules [which a computer needs] and an infinite set of decisions [which is an excellent test on AI].
Go in particular is a fantastic test for computers because it adds 2 other tests/problems. Firstly, it truly has infinite moves. Not really like chess where all of the moves can be calculated out for a few dozen turns. Secondly it involves alot of patterns. One thing that humans do especially well is pick out patterns in things. We know that just because a beagle looks slightly different than a dalmatian, they're still dogs. Even when we limit the pattern to a 19 by 19 board [standard Go board] computers [or more accurately their programmers] still suck at picking out patterns.
Since pattern matching and dealing with infinite decisions are two of the most vital parts of dealing with the world we test the AI in the nice controlled environment with a nice controlled result set [win/loss/draw].
And once computers dominate humans, we know that they're ready for the next test/game.
Following the pool anaology: yes, sort of.
If the pool came with a fence to keep people out, and the fence didn't work it then becomes an argument if the owner knew the fence didn't work. In Microsoft's case, even commoners know it's less secure. Either way, the fence maker would then be liable for misrepresentation, and the resultant effects.
[IANAL]
Well in cases there's 3 major parts. Means, motive, and opportunity. The computer traced back to be the cause of the attack proves part of means. It does not prove skill means. It does not prove opportunity [proving the user was home and on the internet at the time does]. It does not prove motive. As a defense lawyer [I am not a defense lawyer] I'd certainly posit that the computer did it as a reasonable alternative until the prosecution actually made an effective case [by proving oppertunity].
I don't see how this is anything new really. Means, motive, and opportunity are age old benchmarks.
Well technically they just need DNA samples, not to totally exhume the bodies. Someone would be smart I think to create a clever extraction device to get dna from buried people. That'd save alot of these sorts of hassles.
The jail terms only seem to apply when the copy is distributed before the actual release. I doubt even here anyone can consider pre-release warez as something legitimate.
Well *I* know why people want single sign on. They don't want to sign on at all. They don't understand simple information theory that once a secret is gone, it is gone. They don't realise that if they give someone else all the information needed to complete a credit card transaction, they can now do the same thing.
Hopefully... well, not hopefully, but probably, there will be more identity theft and fraud where the credit card company doesn't assume the costs, and people lose real money over their lax secret controls. That's the only way they will learn.
...and as an added benefit, they can better prevent 'misapproriate use' by being the only ones who know how the 'modified' silicon works.
The kinda paranoid side of me wonders if this money to switch away from Linux is from the oft-rumoured Microsoft investment in SCO. I mean nobody could be so stupid as to do that sort of thing after being convicted of antitrust charges could they?
For all purposes an IM system is an email system which has its user interface focused on users rather than on the messages themselves. Any abuse that email systems recieve, so shall IM systems.
That said, common email systems could use some improvement, just don't expect human nature to change simply because the app [sort of] did.
You don't... You market the movie as an adult movie. Show trailers before R and pg-13 films. Show random splatterings of blood. Play dramatic music.
People that know about 'adult' cartoons [given the cartoon network's adult swim time slots, and people who are into anime already] are more than enough to be a respectable market.
There's not really any other adult cartoons out there, so you'll not be competing against anyone. Just keep selling to the current market, and others will come looking.
You don't force changes in perception... you make people want to change.
Speakeasy.net
Best ISP known to man or beast. Standard $50-60 for 1.5/384 dsl and a static IP. More static IPs are like $2 per month per IP. No blocking, no unreasonable terms of service, no unreasonable outages, excellent service, excellent web service interface. What an ISP *should* be.
Disclaimer: I do not work or recieve compensation from speakeasy. I have been a customer of theirs for 3 years now, and currently enjoy 1.1mbs sdsl home connectivity through their service.
Ah sorry, you are likely correct. From where I was being shafted it was hard to tell :]
The original question still holds though...
Does that mean it's now illegal to charge women more for car insurance just because they're women? Courts have ruled in the past that insurance rates based off of statistical trends are good. What happens now if those trends are genetically based?
Neither really... Because the people behind the internet won't evolve either way, and I'm not sure there's a human acceptable solution to change the situation that causes a large lack of consiquences on the internet.
Decent people have been dealing with Lamers for millenia.
Basically it comes down to consiquence and conscience. How will people act if they only thing to prevent action is their own consciences?
The online world has shown the obvious; a good number will act without consideration of their fellows.
Of course it should, they're different things.
Well, given that in real life a large share of Americans at least already use curse words as common speech, why should TV be prohibited from having the option of using them?
So when I load this story the slashdot random quote is "You will be the victim of a bizarre joke."
I couldn't have really said it better myself.