If the corporation as a non-human entity wishes to "secretly" donate money, its controllers can publicly (with regards to statements to its shareholders) pay its CEO (or another representative) a million dollars, and the CEO can do with that money as he or she pleases, being a private human individual.
For that to work the police would need to have been invited
No, that's the point. If the cops can just do whatever they want without losing their case, then they'll just do whatever they want, including door-to-door shakedowns.
how long it will take before people start finding ways to criminally abuse these kits
Who needs a kit for that? Just tell the person you ran the test and you're going to let everyone know what the results were, if they call your bluff move on to the next victim.
They would be made fun of at school, and systematically taught that they are not as good as the other kids
Well, that's the problem right there. See, we need to teach the Alphas and the Betas to be grateful to the Deltas for doing all the hard work, and teach the Deltas that they're very important and that they should be grateful to the Alphas and the Betas for making all those hard decisions.
Even better analogy: You sell your apartment, then when the buyer sells you claim half the profit.
Well duh, of course I should. After all, if I hadn't sold it to him, he wouldn't have made the money selling it to someone else.
It's no different than SBC crying about people making money over their internet connections and not cutting them in, or the guy who invented the diode used in cdplayers getting paid a few bucks salary while his employer rakes in the billions.
Having said that, a dirty bomb requires no expertese atall
Having said that, a dirty bomb requires nothing more than a few dozen smoke detectors, and if They didn't want to pay for it, the wal-mart down the street almost certainly has lower security than any of the facilities listed.
"The List" doesn't tell most people anything they couldn't already find out themselves if they wanted to (oh look, I can buy this stuff online).
Only for the most rigid and pedantic definition of government possible.
The internet is a world of many little fiefdoms, each run as its master pleases. If you don't like the master, you're free to leave, just like you're free to try to leave Cuba. Take Wikipedia's mandatory licensing, for instance: you're free to try to leave Wikipedia and establish your own fiefdom where you're not required to give up your choice of licensing for your content.
So far, people escaping from Cuba have been more successful than people escaping from Wikipedia.
Depends on how much preprocessing the IDE has to do. It certainly sounds like he had lazy syntax hilighting turned off (so it would hilight the entire file before displaying it, even the parts that weren't on the screen). Could have also been running the file through ctags and indent and a few other programs before it even opened the file.
Well of course not, what with all the reviews and licenses and such everyone has to go through before they even get to break ground. Inspections and all that before you flip the switch cut into profits too... why, if a Boy Scout can build a reactor in his backyard, I'm sure I could build some good-looking ones for a few thousand bucks and turn a nifty profit, and be long gone well before they spring a leak.
But even if you do catch me, and sue me for trillions of dollars, the radioactive genie doesn't go back in the bottle just like that. The harm will be widespread and long-lasting.
That's because nobody has sat down and written a comprehensive guide to get developers from "everything you know is wrong" to "now you're doing it right" (if there is, they need to do a better job of getting it listed on Google). Sure, if you search around long enough you'll find how to do a specific "wrong" in a standard-compliant way, but that requires you to know that you were doing it wrong in the first place.
I didn't know until I started validating my pages that
[table]
[form action="cart.php"]
[input type="hidden" name="productid" value="133239"]
[tr]
[td][img src="133239.jpg"][/td]
[td]Valid HTML for Invalid Developers[/td]
[td]A. Nonymous[/td]
[td]This valuable tome will teach you how to the right way to do everything you've always been doing wrong. A must have for "experienced" web developers![/td]
[td style="money"]$36.52[/td]
[td][input name="quantity"][/td]
[td][input type="submit" name="buy" value="Buy Now!"][/td]
[/tr]
[/form] ... etc
was invalid, and I *still* don't have a decent answer about how to go about doing this in a valid way. Choices so far are:
Do something entirely different instead of using tables for tabular information
Don't have a separate quantity and buy button columns (or make selecting "more than one" an additional step) and put the form inside the cell (along with a [div] to hold the contents because [form] demands specific elements inside of it for some arbitrary reason, and while Firefox lets that slide, IE renders extra linebreaks for the opening and closing form tags if you disobey)
Or, make one giant form cover the whole table, have hidden inputs for quantity and productid outside of the table, and have the buy button run javascript to update the hidden variables then submit the form
Use [a] to manipulate the cart with GET commands and make a killing off of unobservant users with link pre-fetching or overzealous antivirus apps (assuming that they manage to order before the "remove" links take everything back out of the cart)
Use display:table-* and ignore the segment of the market that can't render it (and if table-* is really just [tr][td] all over again, is [form][table-row][input][table-cell] really valid?
Of note is the fact that [form][input type="hidden"] is itself invalid, making automatic generation of forms awkward.
I generally avoid using the "horizontal" layouts because <select> boxes tend to be a pixel or two taller than a corresponding text input box, meaning that if you try to mix them up on the same line without compensating for this, you run the risk of ending up with a "stair-step" display since inputs will hang up on that one pixel instead of wrapping all the way to the margin.
Everybody has lawyers. And yet stuff still gets struck down as unconstitutional. Waving lawyers around seems to work about as well as dead chickens, except I think the chickens stink less.
What is the need to write into the law a protection against an interpretation that doesn't exist?
Prove this interpretation doesn't exist, or if it doesn't exist now that it will never exist. In the absence of your ability to prove an absolute negative, I'll accept the realization that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... not that sovereign immunity allows anyone victimized by the government to receive much of a cure.
It seems like most of the major players are springing for usage caps (which seems to be fine by everyone as long as they're not ridiculously low like TW's 5GB cap), so we're done, right? Right? We'll get cheap internet, and companies will stop threatening to cut off Vonage and iTunes?
the ISP also needs to balance the needs of all the users against the needs of certain special users.
As youtube and hulu and other online distribution sites like itunes or steam or the playstation store get more and more popular, "all of the users" need more bandwidth. Either that, or more and more users become "special".
Slashdot Mirror
People would avoid using that that store to prevent institution
Unlike spam, I can't get a credit card of the form John+Kroger Doe in order to track down who's leaking my information.
What about corps who donate money?
If the corporation as a non-human entity wishes to "secretly" donate money, its controllers can publicly (with regards to statements to its shareholders) pay its CEO (or another representative) a million dollars, and the CEO can do with that money as he or she pleases, being a private human individual.
For that to work the police would need to have been invited
No, that's the point. If the cops can just do whatever they want without losing their case, then they'll just do whatever they want, including door-to-door shakedowns.
how long it will take before people start finding ways to criminally abuse these kits
Who needs a kit for that? Just tell the person you ran the test and you're going to let everyone know what the results were, if they call your bluff move on to the next victim.
The system is hosed, achievement will be punished and resistence is futile. The individual is nothing, the Group everything.
Wait, are you saying the goal of school is not to prepare them for employment?
They would be made fun of at school, and systematically taught that they are not as good as the other kids
Well, that's the problem right there. See, we need to teach the Alphas and the Betas to be grateful to the Deltas for doing all the hard work, and teach the Deltas that they're very important and that they should be grateful to the Alphas and the Betas for making all those hard decisions.
You also don't have cars flying five miles up in the air, with that much less atmosphere to protect them.
Even better analogy: You sell your apartment, then when the buyer sells you claim half the profit.
Well duh, of course I should. After all, if I hadn't sold it to him, he wouldn't have made the money selling it to someone else.
It's no different than SBC crying about people making money over their internet connections and not cutting them in, or the guy who invented the diode used in cdplayers getting paid a few bucks salary while his employer rakes in the billions.
spammers will get wise to this and start extracting people's "real" email addresses from addresses of this form.
Thats ok, because only realaddr+trustedfriend@ gets through.
"Focus-follows-brain" will hopefully be followed by "do what I meant, not what I said" ;)
Having said that, a dirty bomb requires no expertese atall
Having said that, a dirty bomb requires nothing more than a few dozen smoke detectors, and if They didn't want to pay for it, the wal-mart down the street almost certainly has lower security than any of the facilities listed.
"The List" doesn't tell most people anything they couldn't already find out themselves if they wanted to (oh look, I can buy this stuff online).
How DARE you lower Lucifefrrs name in association with that pile of crap.
I knew I should have taken Satan's offer! All I got for selling my soul to SAP was a tech demo, and it disappeared the next day!
Don't give Them ideas, They are already quite certain that They have the power to quarantine you without due process.
So it's been 5 years, has anyone heard how well this Ecopaint stuff worked out?
geoffrobinson is correct here.
Only for the most rigid and pedantic definition of government possible.
The internet is a world of many little fiefdoms, each run as its master pleases. If you don't like the master, you're free to leave, just like you're free to try to leave Cuba. Take Wikipedia's mandatory licensing, for instance: you're free to try to leave Wikipedia and establish your own fiefdom where you're not required to give up your choice of licensing for your content.
So far, people escaping from Cuba have been more successful than people escaping from Wikipedia.
Depends on how much preprocessing the IDE has to do. It certainly sounds like he had lazy syntax hilighting turned off (so it would hilight the entire file before displaying it, even the parts that weren't on the screen). Could have also been running the file through ctags and indent and a few other programs before it even opened the file.
there is no such thing as a cheap nuclear reactor
Well of course not, what with all the reviews and licenses and such everyone has to go through before they even get to break ground. Inspections and all that before you flip the switch cut into profits too... why, if a Boy Scout can build a reactor in his backyard, I'm sure I could build some good-looking ones for a few thousand bucks and turn a nifty profit, and be long gone well before they spring a leak.
But even if you do catch me, and sue me for trillions of dollars, the radioactive genie doesn't go back in the bottle just like that. The harm will be widespread and long-lasting.
Or, for an example from real life, consider the Valley of the Drums.
endurance racing challenge
Every 15 minutes the driver will have to announce whether or not they are there yet?
Give me a single example how in a fully free market someone messing up so badly ends up hurting everyone.
I can think of trillions, but here's one: discount nuclear reactors.
Free markets don't cope with externalities. You can choose not to buy my cheap nuclear reactor, but you can't stop your neighbors.
That would be great if the leading browser worked right, but it returns "Buy Now!" in IE (up to and including 7. Looks like it's finally fixed in 8).
That's because nobody has sat down and written a comprehensive guide to get developers from "everything you know is wrong" to "now you're doing it right" (if there is, they need to do a better job of getting it listed on Google). Sure, if you search around long enough you'll find how to do a specific "wrong" in a standard-compliant way, but that requires you to know that you were doing it wrong in the first place.
I didn't know until I started validating my pages that
was invalid, and I *still* don't have a decent answer about how to go about doing this in a valid way. Choices so far are:
Of note is the fact that [form][input type="hidden"] is itself invalid, making automatic generation of forms awkward.
What are some CSS-only techniques?
This guy has quite a few of them: http://themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/margin.htm
I generally avoid using the "horizontal" layouts because <select> boxes tend to be a pixel or two taller than a corresponding text input box, meaning that if you try to mix them up on the same line without compensating for this, you run the risk of ending up with a "stair-step" display since inputs will hang up on that one pixel instead of wrapping all the way to the margin.
The FCC has lawyers
Everybody has lawyers. And yet stuff still gets struck down as unconstitutional. Waving lawyers around seems to work about as well as dead chickens, except I think the chickens stink less.
What is the need to write into the law a protection against an interpretation that doesn't exist?
Prove this interpretation doesn't exist, or if it doesn't exist now that it will never exist. In the absence of your ability to prove an absolute negative, I'll accept the realization that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... not that sovereign immunity allows anyone victimized by the government to receive much of a cure.
Cheap internet. Open internet. No usage caps.
Pick 2.
It seems like most of the major players are springing for usage caps (which seems to be fine by everyone as long as they're not ridiculously low like TW's 5GB cap), so we're done, right? Right? We'll get cheap internet, and companies will stop threatening to cut off Vonage and iTunes?
the ISP also needs to balance the needs of all the users against the needs of certain special users.
As youtube and hulu and other online distribution sites like itunes or steam or the playstation store get more and more popular, "all of the users" need more bandwidth. Either that, or more and more users become "special".