how is this helpful?.. unless the spacecraft are in orbit around the earth, the geosync gsp satelites are going to rotate with it, so any approaching spacecraft won't really be able to use it effectivley 'cept to find out their distance from the earth, which can be done by easier means:P
It's just like our senators to scapegoat anything they can get their hands on to get their agenda across. Let me explain a bit->
Cryto is not a weapon. It's a form of privacy. Comparing it to weapons is like comparing apples to bmw(s). Weapons are meant for killing, cryto is meant for privacy. There is an ongoing governmental idea that citizens are to blame for everything. How is that so? When people restrict your rights or are trying to at least, that gives a strong message that they don't think you deserve them/will misuse the freedoms. If you talk to a senator that is for restricting cryto, in any argument he'll use is that everyone is a potential terrorist and that the gov't (big brother) will need to keep an eye out on that person to make sure they don't do anything wrong. Most people would agree since their automatic response is "well i don't do anything wrong, why should i care?". But the underlying issues are "There goes my privacy". While most people are willing to take steps to prevent what happened at 9/11, they don't know what steps to take. You think by listening to the scapegoating done by congress any progress will get done?.. This is politics people, it's all based on promisses and no followthrough. Though i'm preaching to the chior, this has to be repeated so that it sinks in.
Though most people think that this issue is just like guns, please let me explain why it's not. Guns don't kill people, people kill people Back to my issue with backdoors in crytos, if you think the gov't will use this only in terrorist cases, well first think about what is the definition of a terrorist according to the gov't. It's considered to be anyone who's against the gov't, and trust me, there are lots of people. Just look at other times this has happened (backdoor in encryption proggies in other gov'ts) and france is the tell all. It didn't work there due to corruption and it won't work here. Whether the gov't spys on people and puts them in jail for any small infraction or buisness secrets get sold to the highest bidder, it doesn't make it right. That bundled with the fact that the use of stenography and encryption is overrated in terrorist organizations, you have to wonder if another agenda is behind this, even if the agenda is the advancement in a political career. And if it is, it's a goddamn shame that politicians use disasters like this for their own gain. What happened to illegal searches and seasures? That's been thrown out the door and isn't even a topic. I'm not talking about airport security, but people searching others at malls and whatnot. It's wrong. I want to know who'll be the voice of reason in this troubled times and yell out "We will not let the acts of these cowards to change our lives that we take for granted".
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There shouldn't be security holes that allow these viruses to exist in the first place. Don't blame the kids who wrote this, but rather blame microsoft. I'm sure you can use the excuses that microsoft can't be held responsible for everything their software causes, but this is rediculous. Why did it take tons of viruses for microsoft to even patch this?.. Why wasn't this patched before, or caught before and addressed? It's simply because microsoft can't afford to make their software secure until it's demanded, and that's just wrong for a company like microsoft.
i think the whole idea of purposly misinterpeting the interview had to do with the line that went something along this -> "I asked her to repeat the interview back to me and i told her that i was not feeling guilty for making PGP ect., but when it got to print, the editors decided to change it around...". If that's not purposly changing his words around, i dunno what is.
I am frankly a little afraid of this idea. I do not want government involved any more in my life then it needs to be, whether it be local, state, or federal. The type of government that provides services" to its people is called socialism.
Sociallism?.. worked great in the smurfs. There's nothing wrong with gov't controlled utilities. Most utilities were regulated until recently, and most had a monopoly in whatever it was doing.
A question you must always ask yourself is: "Is this really an area where I feel comfortable having a group of ill-informed non-experts wasting my money?"
Damn, i was under the impression that most of the bells being broadband isps had no knowledge how to run a decent service themselves. Just walk over to dslreports.com and take a look at the horror stories there. I myself had to wait 2 months after i was scheduled to get dsl because they set up "the wrong line". Didn't get sync on my modem, wasn't able to use the service, but i had no choice. As long as you have a choice, and it's not a monopoly, gov't run services are a good idea. Especially when the alternative is shitty service.
It is. Email is overwhelming?.. It's a form of communication. Ever hear of pagers? They're instant messangers with a bit of phone tag. Email is nothing new that you couldn't do years ago.
So if you can sue someone for selling mp3s... which i believe that they got licenses to do so... because they contributed to file sharing (Duh)... makes it very roundabout.
Converting from cd to mp3 is legal. Aparently sharing is not legal.. but selling them is.. but then again selling them and then distributing makes the people that converted it and sold it legally be at fault. And therefore sueing them will solve the problem?...
I still like how the RIAA can't just come out and start to sue the american public for distributing music. Better yet, criminally charge 1/2 the population of america and make them serve 5 years in jail each.. that way we can get out of this recession by slave labor in the jails to compete with oversea markets.
Another funny thing?.. who the hell is the riaa to sue anyone anyways?.. what jurisdiction does an organization have to say that they represent a majority of the music industry?.. why not have sony and metallica single handedly sue all mp3 dealing junkies on the net.
excuse me, but who exactly brought up the dmca as a topic of why they should be elected? and if they did, where the hell was i when they talked about it?
Also, don't support the companies?.. it's not a company issue, it's a legal issue. It doesn't matter how many companies you boycott, it's still a law and has to be dealt with in the courts or in the house/senate.
gravity is a byproduct of matter moving through space and as such the biggest concentration of matter is located at the sun, and it is moving fast through the galaxy, and the galaxy is moving through the universe. This will be called theorem 1.
Theorem 2 - Matter is actually an influx of dimentions. We take the substring theory to a new level and say instead of having dimentions rolled up inside of matter (quarks), they are constantly interacting in one another. The universe which we percieve to live in is just another dimention which these multidimentions exist inside of. The main idea is that the interactions of dimentions with this universe is a benign one, but when moving, it causes an.. interaction with this dimention thus causing "matter" to be in "existance". Thus matter is just a byproduct of the interactions, but the interactions of this universe and the others cause gravity.
Theorem 3 - Time is also a byproduct of the dimentional interaction with this universe. There can be no time with no space and vice versa. But that really isn't part of the theorem. The theorem goes as follows. Each rotating force in this universe has "fields" of force around it, or a certanty field in which it is the main driving force. Each galaxy has a center (massive black hole) in which everything rotates around it. Each solar system has a sun (red dwarf or whatnot) that is the main gravitational force. Each atom has a nucleous, ect. Once outside the main force, it will ahere to the rules of the greater force outside of it.
Hense, out of all my theorems, theorem 3 is the cause for the deflection. After getting too far away from the sun (ordos clouds or whatever they're called), it will be under the influence of the galactic center. The problem with this is the incredible distance, the relative speed of the probe to the center (remember that solar systems rotate around this center, if the probe is leaving the solar system, it is either traveling faster or slower than the solar system in relative speed.
So basically think of it like... Lauching something from a satelite in orbit horizontally (not to or away from the planet). The increased speed will make it change orbit, or fall to the earth. That or dark matter:P
Clear winner in this field is the ren and stimpy episode where they push the red button and white out all of existance. How much more of a deathcount can you get than everyone?
Nothing's changed. The only reason why you hear about it more often now is because it's in suburban communities instead of urbal schools. Guns and schools have gone hand in hand in urban cities for a long time now, and now that children realize how easy it is to end the bullying... well you get my point.
Anyone who doesn't think bullies are responsibly for half of this behavior is wrong. Hell, they probably had it comin' to them.
You don't need a slashdot article to have realized this. It's all about the blame game. Politicians blaming things other than the real cause. Hell, i think parents should be going to jail for this, aren't the kids their responsibility until their 18?.. Guns must have nothing to do with it either. The fact that all these kids seem to be able to get guns as easily as candy bars in no way sugests that there are too many guns around this country. Noo, of course not. Teachers and other students find bullying behavior OK, yet they're all saddened why some kid who was picked on takes a gun to school and shoots a few people. Hello? Schools are like juvenille prisons sometimes. And of course the media has nothing to do with it. Everytime some kid goes to school with a gun it makes headlines and gets attention throughout the country. WTF, if these kids who are being bullied and abused in school want to cry for help, what better way to?
It's just the stupidity of people who even listen to others who blame things that aren't the cause of the problem that piss me off. Yes, go and blame doom. That's the first thing i heard from the colombine incident, is that he used to play doom and quake. Hmm, i guess all that time running around with a bfg and shootin' monsters must of made him go psycho.
Kattz, no one really listens to people like john ashcroft. The only ones who do are other politicians that are up in the blame game and bad parents who are out campaining instead of taking care of their children. All of the kid's who went aronud shooting, go look at who their parents are. You'll find 9/10 that are just plain bad parents. They don't watch what their kids are doing, they don't talk to their kids, all they do is come home and watch tv and forget that they even have a family.
Also, there might be a correlation between levels of neurotoxins in the air and this sorta behavior, but that might be stretching it a bit far.
-Hypergreatthing@yahoo.com
Hey. I was thinking. Legally, who is breaking the law?.. the person who rips the music and makes it available, or the person who d/les it and listens to it? I mean if someone was giving out bootleg copies of the newest movie, who would get in trouble?.. some passerby who decided to pick up a copy?.. or the person who made it possible to do it?
-Hypergreatthing@yahoo.com
please, if anyone decided to put on a copy protection on harddrives, no one would buy it. If manufacturer A says "Yes, you can only store certain types of data that isn't copyrighted" and manufacturer B says "No, we don't have those restrictions", who are you gunna buy from? You can have anyone impliment any sort of controls on medium, but who's gunna accept it?
the big problem you have with any ideas like this is control. How do you control something like this on a global scale?.. I assume they intend to do something like release it into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of co2, but co2 is nessisary for life on the surface (plants create oxygen from co2, you know the whole thing). If this were to get out of control (very likely), we'd be faced with even a greater problem. And if you look at upper atmosphere radiation levels and just think about how many mutations bateria can go through, it's an insane idea.
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how is this helpful?.. unless the spacecraft are in orbit around the earth, the geosync gsp satelites are going to rotate with it, so any approaching spacecraft won't really be able to use it effectivley 'cept to find out their distance from the earth, which can be done by easier means :P
Cryto is not a weapon. It's a form of privacy. Comparing it to weapons is like comparing apples to bmw(s). Weapons are meant for killing, cryto is meant for privacy. There is an ongoing governmental idea that citizens are to blame for everything. How is that so? When people restrict your rights or are trying to at least, that gives a strong message that they don't think you deserve them/will misuse the freedoms. If you talk to a senator that is for restricting cryto, in any argument he'll use is that everyone is a potential terrorist and that the gov't (big brother) will need to keep an eye out on that person to make sure they don't do anything wrong. Most people would agree since their automatic response is "well i don't do anything wrong, why should i care?". But the underlying issues are "There goes my privacy". While most people are willing to take steps to prevent what happened at 9/11, they don't know what steps to take. You think by listening to the scapegoating done by congress any progress will get done?.. This is politics people, it's all based on promisses and no followthrough. Though i'm preaching to the chior, this has to be repeated so that it sinks in.
Though most people think that this issue is just like guns, please let me explain why it's not. Guns don't kill people, people kill people Back to my issue with backdoors in crytos, if you think the gov't will use this only in terrorist cases, well first think about what is the definition of a terrorist according to the gov't. It's considered to be anyone who's against the gov't, and trust me, there are lots of people. Just look at other times this has happened (backdoor in encryption proggies in other gov'ts) and france is the tell all. It didn't work there due to corruption and it won't work here. Whether the gov't spys on people and puts them in jail for any small infraction or buisness secrets get sold to the highest bidder, it doesn't make it right. That bundled with the fact that the use of stenography and encryption is overrated in terrorist organizations, you have to wonder if another agenda is behind this, even if the agenda is the advancement in a political career. And if it is, it's a goddamn shame that politicians use disasters like this for their own gain. What happened to illegal searches and seasures? That's been thrown out the door and isn't even a topic. I'm not talking about airport security, but people searching others at malls and whatnot. It's wrong. I want to know who'll be the voice of reason in this troubled times and yell out "We will not let the acts of these cowards to change our lives that we take for granted".
There shouldn't be security holes that allow these viruses to exist in the first place. Don't blame the kids who wrote this, but rather blame microsoft. I'm sure you can use the excuses that microsoft can't be held responsible for everything their software causes, but this is rediculous. Why did it take tons of viruses for microsoft to even patch this?.. Why wasn't this patched before, or caught before and addressed? It's simply because microsoft can't afford to make their software secure until it's demanded, and that's just wrong for a company like microsoft.
i think the whole idea of purposly misinterpeting the interview had to do with the line that went something along this -> "I asked her to repeat the interview back to me and i told her that i was not feeling guilty for making PGP ect., but when it got to print, the editors decided to change it around ...". If that's not purposly changing his words around, i dunno what is.
Sociallism?.. worked great in the smurfs. There's nothing wrong with gov't controlled utilities. Most utilities were regulated until recently, and most had a monopoly in whatever it was doing.
A question you must always ask yourself is: "Is this really an area where I feel comfortable having a group of ill-informed non-experts wasting my money?"
Damn, i was under the impression that most of the bells being broadband isps had no knowledge how to run a decent service themselves. Just walk over to dslreports.com and take a look at the horror stories there. I myself had to wait 2 months after i was scheduled to get dsl because they set up "the wrong line". Didn't get sync on my modem, wasn't able to use the service, but i had no choice. As long as you have a choice, and it's not a monopoly, gov't run services are a good idea. Especially when the alternative is shitty service.
why is it always whenever something happens, about 4 days later katz says something really stupid?
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It is. Email is overwhelming?.. It's a form of communication. Ever hear of pagers? They're instant messangers with a bit of phone tag. Email is nothing new that you couldn't do years ago.
Converting from cd to mp3 is legal. Aparently sharing is not legal.. but selling them is.. but then again selling them and then distributing makes the people that converted it and sold it legally be at fault. And therefore sueing them will solve the problem?...
I still like how the RIAA can't just come out and start to sue the american public for distributing music. Better yet, criminally charge 1/2 the population of america and make them serve 5 years in jail each.. that way we can get out of this recession by slave labor in the jails to compete with oversea markets.
Another funny thing?.. who the hell is the riaa to sue anyone anyways?.. what jurisdiction does an organization have to say that they represent a majority of the music industry?.. why not have sony and metallica single handedly sue all mp3 dealing junkies on the net.
cracker?.. as in a small bread biscuitt?
excuse me, but who exactly brought up the dmca as a topic of why they should be elected? and if they did, where the hell was i when they talked about it?
Also, don't support the companies?.. it's not a company issue, it's a legal issue. It doesn't matter how many companies you boycott, it's still a law and has to be dealt with in the courts or in the house/senate.
gravity is a byproduct of matter moving through space and as such the biggest concentration of matter is located at the sun, and it is moving fast through the galaxy, and the galaxy is moving through the universe. This will be called theorem 1.
Theorem 2 - Matter is actually an influx of dimentions. We take the substring theory to a new level and say instead of having dimentions rolled up inside of matter (quarks), they are constantly interacting in one another. The universe which we percieve to live in is just another dimention which these multidimentions exist inside of. The main idea is that the interactions of dimentions with this universe is a benign one, but when moving, it causes an.. interaction with this dimention thus causing "matter" to be in "existance". Thus matter is just a byproduct of the interactions, but the interactions of this universe and the others cause gravity.
Theorem 3 - Time is also a byproduct of the dimentional interaction with this universe. There can be no time with no space and vice versa. But that really isn't part of the theorem. The theorem goes as follows. Each rotating force in this universe has "fields" of force around it, or a certanty field in which it is the main driving force. Each galaxy has a center (massive black hole) in which everything rotates around it. Each solar system has a sun (red dwarf or whatnot) that is the main gravitational force. Each atom has a nucleous, ect. Once outside the main force, it will ahere to the rules of the greater force outside of it.
Hense, out of all my theorems, theorem 3 is the cause for the deflection. After getting too far away from the sun (ordos clouds or whatever they're called), it will be under the influence of the galactic center. The problem with this is the incredible distance, the relative speed of the probe to the center (remember that solar systems rotate around this center, if the probe is leaving the solar system, it is either traveling faster or slower than the solar system in relative speed.
So basically think of it like... Lauching something from a satelite in orbit horizontally (not to or away from the planet). The increased speed will make it change orbit, or fall to the earth. That or dark matter :P
Clear winner in this field is the ren and stimpy episode where they push the red button and white out all of existance. How much more of a deathcount can you get than everyone?
Anyone who doesn't think bullies are responsibly for half of this behavior is wrong. Hell, they probably had it comin' to them.
You don't need a slashdot article to have realized this. It's all about the blame game. Politicians blaming things other than the real cause. Hell, i think parents should be going to jail for this, aren't the kids their responsibility until their 18?.. Guns must have nothing to do with it either. The fact that all these kids seem to be able to get guns as easily as candy bars in no way sugests that there are too many guns around this country. Noo, of course not. Teachers and other students find bullying behavior OK, yet they're all saddened why some kid who was picked on takes a gun to school and shoots a few people. Hello? Schools are like juvenille prisons sometimes. And of course the media has nothing to do with it. Everytime some kid goes to school with a gun it makes headlines and gets attention throughout the country. WTF, if these kids who are being bullied and abused in school want to cry for help, what better way to? It's just the stupidity of people who even listen to others who blame things that aren't the cause of the problem that piss me off. Yes, go and blame doom. That's the first thing i heard from the colombine incident, is that he used to play doom and quake. Hmm, i guess all that time running around with a bfg and shootin' monsters must of made him go psycho. Kattz, no one really listens to people like john ashcroft. The only ones who do are other politicians that are up in the blame game and bad parents who are out campaining instead of taking care of their children. All of the kid's who went aronud shooting, go look at who their parents are. You'll find 9/10 that are just plain bad parents. They don't watch what their kids are doing, they don't talk to their kids, all they do is come home and watch tv and forget that they even have a family. Also, there might be a correlation between levels of neurotoxins in the air and this sorta behavior, but that might be stretching it a bit far. -Hypergreatthing@yahoo.com
Hey. I was thinking. Legally, who is breaking the law?.. the person who rips the music and makes it available, or the person who d/les it and listens to it? I mean if someone was giving out bootleg copies of the newest movie, who would get in trouble?.. some passerby who decided to pick up a copy?.. or the person who made it possible to do it? -Hypergreatthing@yahoo.com
please, if anyone decided to put on a copy protection on harddrives, no one would buy it. If manufacturer A says "Yes, you can only store certain types of data that isn't copyrighted" and manufacturer B says "No, we don't have those restrictions", who are you gunna buy from? You can have anyone impliment any sort of controls on medium, but who's gunna accept it?
the big problem you have with any ideas like this is control. How do you control something like this on a global scale?.. I assume they intend to do something like release it into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of co2, but co2 is nessisary for life on the surface (plants create oxygen from co2, you know the whole thing). If this were to get out of control (very likely), we'd be faced with even a greater problem. And if you look at upper atmosphere radiation levels and just think about how many mutations bateria can go through, it's an insane idea.
starcon 2 is the best game ever created. No ifs and or butts.