I shouldn't be required to prove who I am. There should be a simple form that I can file with a bank, protesting their claim that I am responsible for an account; once filed, the bank has the problem; when filed to try to skip out on an actual account, massive fines, maybe jail time.
One is violent. The other is just unhinged. On the whole, unpredictably violent people are probably more dangerous than people that are merely ruthless (but squeamish, or turned off by the consequences of direct violence).
The biggest addition to what you suggest is that there is a 'temporarily allow cookies' interface, which makes it pretty easy to ban all cookies and selectively enable cookies for a domain for only the current browser session when something doesn't work.
I currently have cookies enabled for mail.google.com, but not for google.com. Gmail has worked fine since I made this change, and Google search at least acts like I am not logged in (but they could still correlate ip addresses and so forth, my goal is to be aware of who is tracking things as much as it is to prevent it).
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Lots of book scanners use ccds. They are good enough. No one really wants a 'portable' scanned document that weighs in at 3 gigabytes anyway, current laptop IO makes that a pain in the ass.
There are limits in most places, there just isn't much interest in enforcing them (in the sense that the cops don't care all that much, I imagine they would eventually respond to consistent complaints).
I was thinking that the aggregate reaction would be about the same if he refused (different sets of people would be pleased and upset, and the reactions would have about the same level of emotional intensity; I mostly don't care, I don't think Obama is going to be bragging up the prize on television interviews 7 years from now).
I think Stallman is way out there, but he isn't quite an extremist, he just considers Free Software (in the sense that he has defined it, ya know, the libre thing) a matter of principle, and works to actually follow it, and to encourage other people to follow it.
(I think he is out there because I think he is wrong about the danger actually posed by closed systems, and there is 20 years of it mostly being inconvenient, not disastrous, to back me up; sure, using open systems often avoids even the inconvenience, but the proprietary world isn't the terrible slide into oblivion that he rants against)
For all your pomp about dishonesty, you are doing a pretty good job of poorly reading "there's no reason you can't charge" as if it says "there's no reason you shouldn't charge".
Your attitude is that I shouldn't charge you for my booklet about what my various smoke signals mean, you need to go further than repeating your attitude to establish that I can't charge for it.
To get more of what you want from the sliders, make that thing bigger (so slide both knobs all the way to the right to get everything, all the way to the left to get a minimal picture of the comments).
I also only use it when logged out, and it is somewhat terrible (perhaps because my computer can't chug through the changes fast enough, but I suspect that there is probably room to improve the implementation).
I don't think any of those are the same, LCD prices still dropped over the period, prices for those other things either stayed pretty flat or increased.
Whether he deserves it or not, he isn't really the one that deserves the criticism for giving it to him (I suppose he could have tried not accepting it, but I doubt that would have gone over any better than accepting it).
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So Big-Porn is behind is all?
Who knew.
His support of clean room implementations (back here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476008&cid=30411612 ) suggests that my reading is the intended reading, not an over-reading.
I shouldn't be required to prove who I am. There should be a simple form that I can file with a bank, protesting their claim that I am responsible for an account; once filed, the bank has the problem; when filed to try to skip out on an actual account, massive fines, maybe jail time.
One is violent. The other is just unhinged. On the whole, unpredictably violent people are probably more dangerous than people that are merely ruthless (but squeamish, or turned off by the consequences of direct violence).
That's an awful lot of pompous self satisfaction from someone who uses emoticons.
I recently started whitelisting cookies, and I am currently trying out the Cookie Monster addon for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4703
The biggest addition to what you suggest is that there is a 'temporarily allow cookies' interface, which makes it pretty easy to ban all cookies and selectively enable cookies for a domain for only the current browser session when something doesn't work.
I currently have cookies enabled for mail.google.com, but not for google.com. Gmail has worked fine since I made this change, and Google search at least acts like I am not logged in (but they could still correlate ip addresses and so forth, my goal is to be aware of who is tracking things as much as it is to prevent it).
Lots of book scanners use ccds. They are good enough. No one really wants a 'portable' scanned document that weighs in at 3 gigabytes anyway, current laptop IO makes that a pain in the ass.
So how bout instead of making a snide remark you post a clue?
There are limits in most places, there just isn't much interest in enforcing them (in the sense that the cops don't care all that much, I imagine they would eventually respond to consistent complaints).
I hoped and dreamed!
A submarine comparison seems more apt (but they have the advantage that they can pull oxygen and water out of their environment).
I was thinking that the aggregate reaction would be about the same if he refused (different sets of people would be pleased and upset, and the reactions would have about the same level of emotional intensity; I mostly don't care, I don't think Obama is going to be bragging up the prize on television interviews 7 years from now).
Why are you putting words in my mouth?
Until someone makes a technological leap past chemical rockets, the resources of space are anything but infinite.
And I don't think repeated practice with 40 year old chemical rocket technology is going to lead to that leap.
You don't need decades of experience to have an opinion about the usefulness of giving a select few joy rides into space.
Blue Destiny's lawyer doesn't have any ethics?
You know what else is a slippery slope?
Everything that there is any disagreement on, even if it only involves 2 people.
I think Stallman is way out there, but he isn't quite an extremist, he just considers Free Software (in the sense that he has defined it, ya know, the libre thing) a matter of principle, and works to actually follow it, and to encourage other people to follow it.
(I think he is out there because I think he is wrong about the danger actually posed by closed systems, and there is 20 years of it mostly being inconvenient, not disastrous, to back me up; sure, using open systems often avoids even the inconvenience, but the proprietary world isn't the terrible slide into oblivion that he rants against)
For all your pomp about dishonesty, you are doing a pretty good job of poorly reading "there's no reason you can't charge" as if it says "there's no reason you shouldn't charge".
Your attitude is that I shouldn't charge you for my booklet about what my various smoke signals mean, you need to go further than repeating your attitude to establish that I can't charge for it.
To get more of what you want from the sliders, make that thing bigger (so slide both knobs all the way to the right to get everything, all the way to the left to get a minimal picture of the comments).
I also only use it when logged out, and it is somewhat terrible (perhaps because my computer can't chug through the changes fast enough, but I suspect that there is probably room to improve the implementation).
When people say things like that to me, I punch them right in the meta.
I don't think any of those are the same, LCD prices still dropped over the period, prices for those other things either stayed pretty flat or increased.
And make sure Neal Stephenson wrote it.
Whether he deserves it or not, he isn't really the one that deserves the criticism for giving it to him (I suppose he could have tried not accepting it, but I doubt that would have gone over any better than accepting it).