Hash spoofing? We've had this discussion before. I call shenanigans on this.
Unfortunately the USPTO accepts patents on anything the patent reviewer doesn't understand. Hash spoofing may not be usefully possible now (oh sure, you can brute force it, but by then everyone looking for the file will be long dead anyway), but in 10 years, 15 years, who knows? All Macrovision cares about is that if it becomes possible, THEY'LL be the ones doing it.
All I can say is that I hope this "quick start up time" means that we'll be able to skip all the splashscreen crap. I slightly care about the creator of the game. I might give a rat's ass about the publisher. But the company who created the audio codec? The video library? What the hell? Why should I care and be forced to sit through this crap?
I'm sure you were once right. Now theres millions of kids who have seen Inu Yasha, Cowboy Bebop, and dozens of other shows, who are going to go on to watch more, and they could care less whether someone had subbed it for free or not. The vast majority of them will have mommy and daddy buy them the dvds and not even be interested in alternate audio tracks.
The problem is that if fansubbing continues, commercial entities will simply stop licensing the "just good" and "ok" shows. They'll quit paying Japanese producers unless the show is a guaranteed success, which will pretty much kill why I started watching anime in the first place by turning it into repeats of The Same Old Thing Again... because shows like Kino's Journey, Violinist of Hameln, and Princess Tutu aren't heavily merchandised monster of the day crap that appeals to the lowest common denominator and pocketbook and ends up on TV here.
This has actually come up at panels at cons, it turns out that you're pretty much right. The best shows have great sales, but now average or even "just good" shows are dropping off in sales.
I figure within two years, fansubbers will start to become lawsuit targets. With American companies basically paying for the production of Japanese series, you can pretty much say that most of whats being produced over there is already an American interest, so even new shows that haven't had a license announcement won't be "safe".
Sure, people will whine and moan about "suing their customers" (not that the fansubbers were their customers in the first place) and maybe 20-30% of the anime fandom will decide its too "mainstream" and wander off to watch French animation, while Adult Swim and the anime channel introduce tv viewers to anime and subsequent merchandising deals at rates that fansubbers could never hope to match.
Welcome to the world of sperm banks and in vitro fertilization. Balls fall off due to cancer? Thats ok, just store some sperm ahead of time and you too can pass on your flawed genes.
What purposes would culling bits and pieces of info about how to take down an airplane serve for anti-terror efforts?
Isn't it obvious? If your site has a discussion of the strength of aluminum and this search engine decides it can use that to blow up an airplane, they'll kick in your door and send you to Cuba.
We don't want people helping the terrorists now, do we?
I don't particularly believe in throwing lawyers around, but in this case I'd make an exception. If I could put together a good case, I'd sue for $1 (or so... some court systems have a minimum and small claims court isn't exactly the place to make a stand) and refuse to settle. It would clearly show that you're not "just after easy money" and have the intended effect of punishment, though not strictly in a monetary sense.
if she is in an IBM town her opinion is very tainted in my eyes.
How about if she shook hands with the brother of the boss of a programmer who went to school with a guy who later worked for a boss who once owned an IBM PC for a few years before replacing it with a Compaq?
I'd say she'd be discredited if she was actually paid by IBM, but just living in the same city? Give me a fucking break.
Whats REALLY special about FF Online is that you can play from the US or Japan, and in game translation takes care of (some of, anyways) the language gap.
"Will the benefits of this change outweigh the other consequences?" And the answer to that is yes.
So wait, I'm lost here. Homeland Security in its infinite wisdom responds to outrage over unencrypted RFID in passports, not by encrypting it, but by giving the passport a tinfoil hat. Now we'll get a "computer readable" national ID card, with strong hints that it will also be managed by Homeland Security. Any guesses as to what technology will enable its "computer readability"?
So now instead of only broadcasting my identity to every thief outside of the US (unencrypted RFID tags don't require much power to trigger, and therefore can be read at greater distances than encrypted tags that require a strong nearby field to pick up enough energy to run the cryptographic gear built in), I'll be broadcasting to every thief inside the US?
Apparently to you, this is nowhere near as important as giving everyone a card that looks exactly the same. I'm sure that when everyone knows exactly what to look for, it'll reduce BAD forgeries. And hell, maybe someone driving around now with an expired license will decide to renew to get the fancy new one. But don't pretend it's going to save America.
Well, I wouldn't know about a Santa Claus, my source split when God started passing out the 'shrooms and the weed. Told me that he wasn't down with that shit, and that if God meant for Man to be trippin'...
Hahah! If Narnia blew your mind, you better hire someone with a squeegee and a big bucket before you read any of the "cosmic trilogy" books (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. It never seems to have had a real series name). Someone will have to clean up after all those little bloody bits and pieces go flying everywhere.
The fact that it's all Christian doesn't make the writing any less brilliant. As someone else noted on Narnia, not being Christian doesn't make you "not get it", the story explains everything fully within the aspects of the story. You don't need to know about or believe in Christianity to undertand Aslan's death and resurrection.
They didn't get "communism", they got more of the same "capitalism" - if you want to put it in those terms.
When you put it that way, you can see where the anti-communism thing comes from... it's showing that communism just doesn't work, someone will rise above and start profiting, and then it all falls apart.
Interesting that capitalism is the failure-state of communism though.
As others have pointed out, lack of evidence is not evidence of a lack. Maybe we're digging in the wrong places, why just the other day we discovered Hobbits (well, not really "Hobbits" but thats the name the news outlets gave to the skeletons). Maybe in 10, 20, 300 years we'll discover a skeleton with physiology somewhere between an ape and the earliest skeletons of Homo erectus.
But lets leave that aside: the theory of evolution cannot explain alone why we are here, today. It can, however, explain why salamanders become distinct new species as they spread out across a region (see Ring Species). It explains the various famous observations like the "pepper moth" observation. Using mutation to survive even explains sudden explosions of wildly variating plants and animals (the "Punctuated Equlibrium" theory, which even explains why we don't see reptiles' eggs hatching chicks these days). It even touches on genetic transfer as observed in modern times in polyploid plants (roughly half the modern flowering plants).
People attempting to use the "Theory of Evolution" as it currently stands in order to explain the source of life itself are using it incorrectly (much like a kid playing with a loaded gun), as most of the models posited (random molecules forming amino acids then proteins then replicating enzymes (which don't reproduce of themselves, but more accurately build models of themselves from components they find laying around)) are more of a chemistry problem than an evolutionary problem. Evolution doesn't really appear in the equation until there were a handful of things that converted energy from one form to another, and some thing appeared that found it easier to convert those things into energy. At that instant in time, those things would have been better off being something else, and evolution begins. But how to form amino acids in <insert nasty chemical soup here>? That's strictly chemistry.
A friend of my dad's coworker's daughter told me that just the other day he was walking down the street, and God was there, throwing a party. He's all changing water into wine, and cutting up this little birthday cake into thousands of slices and handing it out, basically just showing off. After a bit, He's tossed back a few glasses of His "special recipe" water, and He starts talking about how He created all of us. The people there are all like "nah, I don't believe it!" So He started with this "You all BETTER believe it, or I'll be showin' you my shiznit!" and He goes and does it! He just clapped his hands and BAM! There was a unicorn, just standing there like she sees this every day. Of course some kid in the back had to go and push Him, and he said it was just a horse with a horn glued on. God said "Don't go there, Man" and of course the kid went there, so God said "awww, dawg you went there!" and clapped and turned the kid to salt. Everyone clapped and shit, that kid was a right asshat anyway.
So yeah, I've got ancedotal proof that God does in fact create species out of thin air, I hope this hopes you in your quest to prove that He is one truly Righteous Dude!
Teaching people to decide for themselves.... by not giving them complete information. Meanwhile, by not giving students complete information, we've now raised a generation of Bill Clintons who did everything their abstinance class told them to, yet still have the same STD rate as normal sex-ed kids, because the fundies who invented the abstinance curriculum were too prudish to actually discuss anything but good Christian vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman who had been married in a house of God.
In interviews with kids who contracted those STDs, it was determined that what they were doing with each other to contract their STDs wasn't "sex" by any sense of the "sex-ed" curriculum they were taught.
But hey, explaining that STDs are transferred by the exchange of bodily fluid (regardless of position, holes used, or whatever devices might be shared) might lead kids to buy condoms and that would be sinful and evil.
yet we still want to base all our scientific research on it?
Gravity could be wrong, and there is a LOT of researched based on that. Newer research with superconducting magnets show that there might be other components than simply mass to take into effect.
Yet it still works for the majority of the science to date.
The same happened when Einstin replaced Newtonian Physics.
but a verified Tyrannosaurus with a verified Homo sapiens sapiens in its belly embedded in a Late Cretaceous stratum would threaten the theory.
"according to evolutionary theory, this can't happen".
Why can't it happen? According to evolutionary theory things evolve. Good evolution wins, bad evolution loses. If nothing else, such a discovery would bolster evolutionary theory, as it would suggest two separate instances of the creation of a species, something that has dogged evolution science for a long time now (ie, if something evolved from something else, why hasn't it happened a second time?). The only thing better for the science would be someone discovering two komodo dragons that when mated produce chickens.
A majority of the people against this are not saying "ZOMG! There can be no God!"
They are saying that God's existance cannot be proven or disproven, and therefore God is not and can never be the subject of a scientific process. Not one of your researchers can do anything but find evidence that the theory of evolution as we know it is wrong, yet this does not prove the existance of God, it merely proves that the theory of evolution is not correct.
Not really, because water, once it allows them to join, quickly forces them apart again.
Flocculation. Maybe you should study some more science instead of thinking whatever dropout your school underpaid to keep you in line during chemistry "class" in high school was the sum total of all scientific knowlege.
BTW, this is used every day in wastewater treatment to remove various organic contaminants from the water.
Good thing, too, or we wouldn't be able to digest much of those massive polymers called protein.
Next time I throw up, I'll remember that all that burning smelly stuff coming out is just water.
So you're saying it--oh, 'scuse me--ahem, The Theory, is self-evident.
No, he's saying it hasn't been disproven and that you're welcome to try. Meanwhile ID-fanatics have developed an "idea" that has no testability. The only way to disprove the idea would be to travel back in time and observe the origin of life yourself. (Wouldn't it be disappointing if you did so, and found out the origin of life was from where you squatted over some rock and relieved yourself? I wonder if that would count as Intelligent Design)
No, they just say, 'every intelligent person knows it to be a fact'.
Then "they" are wrong. "Every intelligent person" (whatever thats supposed to mean) knows it to be a theory. A theory which can make predictions about our world that are actually observable, such as speciation due to geographic barriers.
1^2 = 1; (-1)^2 = 1; 1^2 = (-1)^2; 1 = -1
Yes, even the numbers can lie.
Only if you use them incorrectly. Claiming that if x^z=y^z, then x=y is incorrect, since the power operator is not defined to do this.
My point being that practically speaking even scientific claims can't be undeniably falsified - there are ways to plausibly call into question any assault on a scientific theory.
No, ignoring evidence is not the same as falsifiability. It's just the sign of a bull-headed scientist who isn't interested in changing what he knows.
Additionally (and this is the REAL point that everyone is missing about science in this thread), evolution does not just make predictions about fossils in rocks from millenia ago. It also makes predictions about the world around us today, and these predictions have been found to be sustained through observation. For instance, google "ring species" to see how a geographically isolated group of organisms become a new species within an observable timeframe.
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Hash spoofing? We've had this discussion before. I call shenanigans on this.
Unfortunately the USPTO accepts patents on anything the patent reviewer doesn't understand. Hash spoofing may not be usefully possible now (oh sure, you can brute force it, but by then everyone looking for the file will be long dead anyway), but in 10 years, 15 years, who knows? All Macrovision cares about is that if it becomes possible, THEY'LL be the ones doing it.
All I can say is that I hope this "quick start up time" means that we'll be able to skip all the splashscreen crap. I slightly care about the creator of the game. I might give a rat's ass about the publisher. But the company who created the audio codec? The video library? What the hell? Why should I care and be forced to sit through this crap?
I'm sure you were once right. Now theres millions of kids who have seen Inu Yasha, Cowboy Bebop, and dozens of other shows, who are going to go on to watch more, and they could care less whether someone had subbed it for free or not. The vast majority of them will have mommy and daddy buy them the dvds and not even be interested in alternate audio tracks.
The problem is that if fansubbing continues, commercial entities will simply stop licensing the "just good" and "ok" shows. They'll quit paying Japanese producers unless the show is a guaranteed success, which will pretty much kill why I started watching anime in the first place by turning it into repeats of The Same Old Thing Again... because shows like Kino's Journey, Violinist of Hameln, and Princess Tutu aren't heavily merchandised monster of the day crap that appeals to the lowest common denominator and pocketbook and ends up on TV here.
This has actually come up at panels at cons, it turns out that you're pretty much right. The best shows have great sales, but now average or even "just good" shows are dropping off in sales.
I figure within two years, fansubbers will start to become lawsuit targets. With American companies basically paying for the production of Japanese series, you can pretty much say that most of whats being produced over there is already an American interest, so even new shows that haven't had a license announcement won't be "safe".
Sure, people will whine and moan about "suing their customers" (not that the fansubbers were their customers in the first place) and maybe 20-30% of the anime fandom will decide its too "mainstream" and wander off to watch French animation, while Adult Swim and the anime channel introduce tv viewers to anime and subsequent merchandising deals at rates that fansubbers could never hope to match.
Welcome to the world of sperm banks and in vitro fertilization. Balls fall off due to cancer? Thats ok, just store some sperm ahead of time and you too can pass on your flawed genes.
What purposes would culling bits and pieces of info about how to take down an airplane serve for anti-terror efforts?
Isn't it obvious? If your site has a discussion of the strength of aluminum and this search engine decides it can use that to blow up an airplane, they'll kick in your door and send you to Cuba.
We don't want people helping the terrorists now, do we?
You make it sound like Japan hasn't had blu-ray drives and set-top recorders since April, 2003.
That, and that it would never build on anything but a borland compiler, since gcc doesn't support SEH due to the patent as well.
I don't particularly believe in throwing lawyers around, but in this case I'd make an exception. If I could put together a good case, I'd sue for $1 (or so... some court systems have a minimum and small claims court isn't exactly the place to make a stand) and refuse to settle. It would clearly show that you're not "just after easy money" and have the intended effect of punishment, though not strictly in a monetary sense.
if she is in an IBM town her opinion is very tainted in my eyes.
How about if she shook hands with the brother of the boss of a programmer who went to school with a guy who later worked for a boss who once owned an IBM PC for a few years before replacing it with a Compaq?
I'd say she'd be discredited if she was actually paid by IBM, but just living in the same city? Give me a fucking break.
Whats REALLY special about FF Online is that you can play from the US or Japan, and in game translation takes care of (some of, anyways) the language gap.
If DS could do this, I'd be impressed.
"Will the benefits of this change outweigh the other consequences?" And the answer to that is yes.
So wait, I'm lost here. Homeland Security in its infinite wisdom responds to outrage over unencrypted RFID in passports, not by encrypting it, but by giving the passport a tinfoil hat. Now we'll get a "computer readable" national ID card, with strong hints that it will also be managed by Homeland Security. Any guesses as to what technology will enable its "computer readability"?
So now instead of only broadcasting my identity to every thief outside of the US (unencrypted RFID tags don't require much power to trigger, and therefore can be read at greater distances than encrypted tags that require a strong nearby field to pick up enough energy to run the cryptographic gear built in), I'll be broadcasting to every thief inside the US?
Apparently to you, this is nowhere near as important as giving everyone a card that looks exactly the same. I'm sure that when everyone knows exactly what to look for, it'll reduce BAD forgeries. And hell, maybe someone driving around now with an expired license will decide to renew to get the fancy new one. But don't pretend it's going to save America.
Well, I wouldn't know about a Santa Claus, my source split when God started passing out the 'shrooms and the weed. Told me that he wasn't down with that shit, and that if God meant for Man to be trippin'...
Hahah! If Narnia blew your mind, you better hire someone with a squeegee and a big bucket before you read any of the "cosmic trilogy" books (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. It never seems to have had a real series name). Someone will have to clean up after all those little bloody bits and pieces go flying everywhere.
The fact that it's all Christian doesn't make the writing any less brilliant. As someone else noted on Narnia, not being Christian doesn't make you "not get it", the story explains everything fully within the aspects of the story. You don't need to know about or believe in Christianity to undertand Aslan's death and resurrection.
They didn't get "communism", they got more of the same "capitalism" - if you want to put it in those terms.
When you put it that way, you can see where the anti-communism thing comes from... it's showing that communism just doesn't work, someone will rise above and start profiting, and then it all falls apart.
Interesting that capitalism is the failure-state of communism though.
As others have pointed out, lack of evidence is not evidence of a lack. Maybe we're digging in the wrong places, why just the other day we discovered Hobbits (well, not really "Hobbits" but thats the name the news outlets gave to the skeletons). Maybe in 10, 20, 300 years we'll discover a skeleton with physiology somewhere between an ape and the earliest skeletons of Homo erectus.
But lets leave that aside: the theory of evolution cannot explain alone why we are here, today. It can, however, explain why salamanders become distinct new species as they spread out across a region (see Ring Species). It explains the various famous observations like the "pepper moth" observation. Using mutation to survive even explains sudden explosions of wildly variating plants and animals (the "Punctuated Equlibrium" theory, which even explains why we don't see reptiles' eggs hatching chicks these days). It even touches on genetic transfer as observed in modern times in polyploid plants (roughly half the modern flowering plants).
People attempting to use the "Theory of Evolution" as it currently stands in order to explain the source of life itself are using it incorrectly (much like a kid playing with a loaded gun), as most of the models posited (random molecules forming amino acids then proteins then replicating enzymes (which don't reproduce of themselves, but more accurately build models of themselves from components they find laying around)) are more of a chemistry problem than an evolutionary problem. Evolution doesn't really appear in the equation until there were a handful of things that converted energy from one form to another, and some thing appeared that found it easier to convert those things into energy. At that instant in time, those things would have been better off being something else, and evolution begins. But how to form amino acids in <insert nasty chemical soup here>? That's strictly chemistry.
anecdotal evidence?
I've got ancedotal evidence for you!
A friend of my dad's coworker's daughter told me that just the other day he was walking down the street, and God was there, throwing a party. He's all changing water into wine, and cutting up this little birthday cake into thousands of slices and handing it out, basically just showing off. After a bit, He's tossed back a few glasses of His "special recipe" water, and He starts talking about how He created all of us. The people there are all like "nah, I don't believe it!" So He started with this "You all BETTER believe it, or I'll be showin' you my shiznit!" and He goes and does it! He just clapped his hands and BAM! There was a unicorn, just standing there like she sees this every day. Of course some kid in the back had to go and push Him, and he said it was just a horse with a horn glued on. God said "Don't go there, Man" and of course the kid went there, so God said "awww, dawg you went there!" and clapped and turned the kid to salt. Everyone clapped and shit, that kid was a right asshat anyway.
So yeah, I've got ancedotal proof that God does in fact create species out of thin air, I hope this hopes you in your quest to prove that He is one truly Righteous Dude!
Teaching people to decide for themselves. ... by not giving them complete information. Meanwhile, by not giving students complete information, we've now raised a generation of Bill Clintons who did everything their abstinance class told them to, yet still have the same STD rate as normal sex-ed kids, because the fundies who invented the abstinance curriculum were too prudish to actually discuss anything but good Christian vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman who had been married in a house of God.
In interviews with kids who contracted those STDs, it was determined that what they were doing with each other to contract their STDs wasn't "sex" by any sense of the "sex-ed" curriculum they were taught.
But hey, explaining that STDs are transferred by the exchange of bodily fluid (regardless of position, holes used, or whatever devices might be shared) might lead kids to buy condoms and that would be sinful and evil.
yet we still want to base all our scientific research on it?
Gravity could be wrong, and there is a LOT of researched based on that. Newer research with superconducting magnets show that there might be other components than simply mass to take into effect.
Yet it still works for the majority of the science to date.
The same happened when Einstin replaced Newtonian Physics.
but a verified Tyrannosaurus with a verified Homo sapiens sapiens in its belly embedded in a Late Cretaceous stratum would threaten the theory.
"according to evolutionary theory, this can't happen".
Why can't it happen? According to evolutionary theory things evolve. Good evolution wins, bad evolution loses. If nothing else, such a discovery would bolster evolutionary theory, as it would suggest two separate instances of the creation of a species, something that has dogged evolution science for a long time now (ie, if something evolved from something else, why hasn't it happened a second time?). The only thing better for the science would be someone discovering two komodo dragons that when mated produce chickens.
You are missing the point.
A majority of the people against this are not saying "ZOMG! There can be no God!"
They are saying that God's existance cannot be proven or disproven, and therefore God is not and can never be the subject of a scientific process. Not one of your researchers can do anything but find evidence that the theory of evolution as we know it is wrong, yet this does not prove the existance of God, it merely proves that the theory of evolution is not correct.
Not really, because water, once it allows them to join, quickly forces them apart again.
Flocculation. Maybe you should study some more science instead of thinking whatever dropout your school underpaid to keep you in line during chemistry "class" in high school was the sum total of all scientific knowlege.
BTW, this is used every day in wastewater treatment to remove various organic contaminants from the water.
Good thing, too, or we wouldn't be able to digest much of those massive polymers called protein.
Next time I throw up, I'll remember that all that burning smelly stuff coming out is just water.
So you're saying it--oh, 'scuse me--ahem, The Theory, is self-evident.
No, he's saying it hasn't been disproven and that you're welcome to try. Meanwhile ID-fanatics have developed an "idea" that has no testability. The only way to disprove the idea would be to travel back in time and observe the origin of life yourself. (Wouldn't it be disappointing if you did so, and found out the origin of life was from where you squatted over some rock and relieved yourself? I wonder if that would count as Intelligent Design)
No, they just say, 'every intelligent person knows it to be a fact'.
Then "they" are wrong. "Every intelligent person" (whatever thats supposed to mean) knows it to be a theory. A theory which can make predictions about our world that are actually observable, such as speciation due to geographic barriers.
1^2 = 1; (-1)^2 = 1; 1^2 = (-1)^2; 1 = -1
Yes, even the numbers can lie.
Only if you use them incorrectly. Claiming that if x^z=y^z, then x=y is incorrect, since the power operator is not defined to do this.
My point being that practically speaking even scientific claims can't be undeniably falsified - there are ways to plausibly call into question any assault on a scientific theory.
No, ignoring evidence is not the same as falsifiability. It's just the sign of a bull-headed scientist who isn't interested in changing what he knows.
Additionally (and this is the REAL point that everyone is missing about science in this thread), evolution does not just make predictions about fossils in rocks from millenia ago. It also makes predictions about the world around us today, and these predictions have been found to be sustained through observation. For instance, google "ring species" to see how a geographically isolated group of organisms become a new species within an observable timeframe.
it intrinsically becomes a natural thing, so how can you find it if the moment you find it you really have to label it natural?
Therefore, should God ever appear, say hi, brew some water and throw a kegger, this will be 100% natural.