I wasn't really making a comment about the merits of the existing school system either I was just pointing out that Heinlein himself doesn't seem to have really been in favour of the kind of system you were proposing. I just meant to correct the implication in your comment that this was Heinlein's idea...
Perhaps you should read what Heinlein thought about the education system... Have you read 'The Moon is a Hard Mistress'? Did you notice how theeducation system worked on the Moon? Heinlein's libertarian beliefs are such that he would under no circumstances support a school system like the one we have and that you appear to be suggesting.
The problem is you can't play free games on PS2s unless the PS2 is mod-chipped! The law prevents you from playing free games and prevents legitimate uses of the PS2.
No, he was actually on an opium trip. The opium wore off before he had time to finish the poem. As far as I know it didn't have anything to do with sleep...
With CSS there's not a lot HTML can't do with layouts.
How do expect protect something from distribution and cracking something that needs to decrypted to in order to be read? It's a Sisyphian task...
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Sorry, the title of my comment was a bit harsh... The article seems to imply that this effect will initially be temporary ("Initially they will generate shock waves by shooting bullets at photonic crystals. This would destroy the crystal, but not before the light has had time to shift.") The article implies that in the future the technique should probably be able to produce a continuous beam ("Eventually, sound waves should do the job just as well.")
If you read the article you'd see that the light indeed emerges from the crystal at the new frequency. How could it make light bulbs more efficent or produce tetrahertz radiation for use in medical diagnostics if the light didn't emerge with a different frequency?
This is looking more and more like you're trolling but anyway...
But you can make exactly the same argument about the chess playing computer. It doesn't tell it "directly" what move to make in every single situation. There is no clearly defined rule that leads the computer to choose a particular move, it would depend on which parts of the tree of possible moves were inspected, a bunch of rules about weighting alternatives etc.
What, praytell then, is intelligence? Aren't our brains limited by the chemical "programming" of the neurons? Aren't they just following the algorithm and don't demonstrate "real" intelligence? What would in your opinion demonstrate "real" intelligence? Your line of reasoning is specious.
You could make the PGP signature incorporate the recipient's address as part of the digest. Then a new digest would be unique for every recipient and it would no longer be a "fixed one-time fee".
I agree Neal Stephenson's books are good but I just wish he'd learn how to end a story. The endings to Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon were terrible. The ending to Diamond Age was slightly better but still not terribly satisfying. It's so frustrating to come to the end of a book that I've enjoyed only to be cheated by the way he wraps the story up.
I'm not sure about the case at MTU but the this isn't the case at princeton. The student being taken to court at princeton was running a service that provided a searchable database of all files on window shares on the network. The defendant only had "a couple of hundred" files shared according to RIAA's brief. Note too those windows shares were only accessible on the Princeton n/w not the internet. They weren't targeting a user with a large number of files shared but the person who provided the search database.
I think you should take a look at the newer versions of HTML and XHTML standards. They've cut out a lot of the bloat by suggesting any presentation stuff go into CSS. It's much more elegant and smaller and easier to understand than previous versions.
Seriously, there are protocols for coin tossing etc such that you don't actually have to rely on trust and neither party can cheat. A quick description: - Alice sends the encrypted result of a coin toss - Bob sends the answer they're hoping for encrypted - Alice sends Bob the key that was used to encrypt the toss result. Bob sends the key that was used to encrypt his bet. (note: both messages are send with some kind of pre-agreed nonce)
On the peppercoin website they say they don't rely on aggregation, i.e. no $10 deposit... I think it must be that whether a payment is made is random for both customer _and_ merchant.
OR...
Invent micropayment protocol, 10 years research.
Start new company, 1.7M dollars startup funding
Changing the odds so that you make Millions of dollars... Priceless:)
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What about Australia?
There's no state-supported religion there and we don't have as many religious nuts as there appear to be in the US.
That's GNU-Emacszilla/Emozillacs to you!
What about: .foo, .bar { background-color: red; color: green; } .bar { color: blue}
Doesn't this do exactly what you want?
2 already exists in 1.0 of Firefox at least.
I wasn't really making a comment about the merits of the existing school system either I was just pointing out that Heinlein himself doesn't seem to have really been in favour of the kind of system you were proposing. I just meant to correct the implication in your comment that this was Heinlein's idea...
Perhaps you should read what Heinlein thought about the education system... Have you read 'The Moon is a Hard Mistress'? Did you notice how theeducation system worked on the Moon? Heinlein's libertarian beliefs are such that he would under no circumstances support a school system like the one we have and that you appear to be suggesting.
You still haven't shown that it's stealing. Assuming someone does sell their e-book and doesn't delete the original copy what have they stolen????
Diogenes is very funny. You should read his account of the time his mother came home and found him masterbating... Hilarious. ;)
The problem is you can't play free games on PS2s unless the PS2 is mod-chipped! The law prevents you from playing free games and prevents legitimate uses of the PS2.
No, he was actually on an opium trip. The opium wore off before he had time to finish the poem. As far as I know it didn't have anything to do with sleep...
"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen
With CSS there's not a lot HTML can't do with layouts.
How do expect protect something from distribution and cracking something that needs to decrypted to in order to be read? It's a Sisyphian task...
Sorry, the title of my comment was a bit harsh...
The article seems to imply that this effect will initially be temporary ("Initially they will generate shock waves by shooting bullets at photonic crystals. This would destroy the crystal, but not before the light has had time to shift.") The article implies that in the future the technique should probably be able to produce a continuous beam ("Eventually, sound waves should do the job just as well.")
How does this score +5!?!!?
If you read the article you'd see that the light indeed emerges from the crystal at the new frequency. How could it make light bulbs more efficent or produce tetrahertz radiation for use in medical diagnostics if the light didn't emerge with a different frequency?
This is looking more and more like you're trolling but anyway...
But you can make exactly the same argument about the chess playing computer. It doesn't tell it "directly" what move to make in every single situation. There is no clearly defined rule that leads the computer to choose a particular move, it would depend on which parts of the tree of possible moves were inspected, a bunch of rules about weighting alternatives etc.
What, praytell then, is intelligence? Aren't our brains limited by the chemical "programming" of the neurons? Aren't they just following the algorithm and don't demonstrate "real" intelligence? What would in your opinion demonstrate "real" intelligence? Your line of reasoning is specious.
You could make the PGP signature incorporate the recipient's address as part of the digest. Then a new digest would be unique for every recipient and it would no longer be a "fixed one-time fee".
I agree Neal Stephenson's books are good but I just wish he'd learn how to end a story. The endings to Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon were terrible. The ending to Diamond Age was slightly better but still not terribly satisfying. It's so frustrating to come to the end of a book that I've enjoyed only to be cheated by the way he wraps the story up.
I'm not sure about the case at MTU but the this isn't the case at princeton. The student being taken to court at princeton was running a service that provided a searchable database of all files on window shares on the network. The defendant only had "a couple of hundred" files shared according to RIAA's brief. Note too those windows shares were only accessible on the Princeton n/w not the internet. They weren't targeting a user with a large number of files shared but the person who provided the search database.
I think you should take a look at the newer versions of HTML and XHTML standards. They've cut out a lot of the bloat by suggesting any presentation stuff go into CSS. It's much more elegant and smaller and easier to understand than previous versions.
It might make people wake up to how ridiculous the copyright laws if a couple of people got prosecuted and put into jail like this.
But in this micropayment system you do... Read the article and the company's website.
Seriously, there are protocols for coin tossing etc such that you don't actually have to rely on trust and neither party can cheat. A quick description:
:)
- Alice sends the encrypted result of a coin toss
- Bob sends the answer they're hoping for encrypted
- Alice sends Bob the key that was used to encrypt the toss result. Bob sends the key that was used to encrypt his bet.
(note: both messages are send with some kind of pre-agreed nonce)
Neither party can cheat... theoretically.
On the peppercoin website they say they don't rely on aggregation, i.e. no $10 deposit... I think it must be that whether a payment is made is random for both customer _and_ merchant.
OR... Invent micropayment protocol, 10 years research. :)
Start new company, 1.7M dollars startup funding
Changing the odds so that you make Millions of dollars... Priceless