I recall a group of people attempting to exploit the dumb laws, and they encountered a problem: Some of the listed laws were either incorrect, outdated, or ended up causing a hazard when they tried breaking them. In any case, they didn't receive their handgun and bullets when they left prison.
Also, those laws are uncited, requiring you to search for something that might not even exist.
Here's an example:
It is illegal to turn right on a red light at any time. (Repealed 2003 â" However, the law remains in effect in the city of Montreal)
This law is a safety regulation, and it can easily be interpreted as a law where you can't travel into a red light signal (e.g. absolute stop).
Also, they should mention it's a Quebec law rather than being for all of Canada.
As much as everyone may like Myst, it's not technically special. The only thing going for it would be the use of multimedia/FMV. Even if FMV appeared in other games, it doesn't mean those games are any good.
Gameplay-wise, Myst takes an Alpine Encounter approach to the puzzles - you can bypass most of the game if you already know what to do.
The puzzles themselves are mostly control-room puzzles - click on something, and something happens some distance away. The back and forth travelling, although a good way to examine the landscape, isn't good for those who want to get along with the plot.
Being on the hiring end of the interviews I can say it's VERY hard to find candidates that are even in the ballpark of our required skill sets.
I've been seeing this a lot - the first major job search I did was part of co-op, and employers were demanding ~5 years of crystal reports which is well beyond those who are in college and learning stuff for the first time.
There is only a shortage of purple squirrels. If you look for actual talent, or actually spend time to train a newcomer (90 days for basic tasks, and gradually increase responsibility afterward), then you have plenty of applicants available where you don't even need to call in an H1B.
I've always wondered how pre-medieval people managed to live a normal life without flying around. Or even Colonial America when England/France were sending people there for the unexploited natural resources.
I also have a personal opinion, where such young people were in a better position to make breakthroughs - supported by family, no worry about children, in an environment where research and experiment was much easier, etc.
35 USC 101 - whoever invents a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor. So, the question isn't "does that Lodsys patent include PPP references or discuss physical modem components", but "is it claiming an improvement on existing PPP modem technology?"
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Basically, patents only need to be an improvement over a process.
Concerning the car engine patent - the summary does give information on the benefits of the patent (even if they are not binding). In particular, there's fuel efficiency savings, or provides improvements to the design, etc. As such, I have no objection to that patent.
But the patent I referenced - I have significant difficulty tracking down what's novel. A quick glance over the claims, and summary - I haven't found anything that would be inventive in ~1996. I'd perhaps even say ~1994, considering that Winsock Trumpet provided Internet connectivity even earlier.
As for their demand letter... they say that 802.11 is a violation of the patent, being a bidirectional communication path, and information is sent to the modem. This is incorrect - 802.11 wireless is actually omnidirectional, due to the ease of listening in to the conversaion (e.g. FireSheep, Aircrack-ng). Further, their patent is more specific to physical connections rather than wireless.
A quick check on that site, and the patent with the most letters (https://trollingeffects.org/patent/6587473) is a patent on dial-up internet. Proven by looking into the patent and seeing all those PPP references, and seeing all physical modem components being stuffed in the patent.
So, ISPs (from all over) unknowingly violate a patent for behaving normally.
With Firefox, there's the option of adding a master password.
It's still substandard - Firefox bleeds login information across sites (e.g. It places 3+ potential usernames, some of which are unique to a specific site), gives sudden "enter master password" prompt when not focusing on a password field, etc.
Math and Science are NOT hard. What they are is fucking tedious.
Only if you have an algorithm to the solution (as is the case with arithmetic, algebra, calculus, etc.). If you have to construct a solution yourself without relying on prior information, then math and science become hard.
of course w had no idea how it could have been done well on 8mhz 640kb ega crapper.
And even for those who did have an idea on how it was made... you needed commercially sold compilers that weren't available to the average user, and also needed to know how to use them.
That problem is solved, but replaced by a new one - you still need to have commercially sold 3D Modelling applications (freeware is available, but I still find it hard to use), have to have a 3D rendering engine that works with your modelling app (or have advanced math to construct one), and have other people to help you.
1) Religion in schools need to be cut. Replace Religion with math and science, math and science promote logic, God promotes making up stories because we want to.
False dichotomy - there's no reason why you can't have Religion, Math and Science in the same school, all in separate courses. Since you mentioned Ontario, I can easily bring a counter example where removing religion would have no effect. As for removing religion itself - you have to replace it with something. It either ends up being a random elective that you'll forget, or a close variation of a course that you're already taking.
In fact, I noticed that your list won't handle major problems with the education system - namely, the factory-system of churning out graduates. Everyone is forced into groups (sometimes with sociopaths), everyone is taught at the same rate (either forcing lowest common denominator, or causing a skill gap to form), and everyone is given false information on their future (being told a path leads to a job, but not giving them a useful network.)
If you have the malware that can detect a "winning block" being sent from a computer, then you can also extract the private key from said miner (and pull the coin out from under the worker.)
The traditional trick of these publicity stunts is to post a challenge, and claim there was no response otherwise and therefore it is true. The claim is made while plugging fingers in the ears and pretending there's no contradictions.
Look back to the Kent Hovind challenge, where he posted $250,000 to prove evolution. He gradually shifted the challenge from "provide any evidence of evolution" to "demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that God couldn't cause the big bang" - and each step at asking for clarification was given non-answers (if any).
Even if someone did manage to complete his challenge, Kent Hovind couldn't pay the amount - he's a NINJA - No Income, Job or Asset, by his own bankruptcy claim. Both a scientific and financial fraud.
This challenge is archived, with the current page saying you followed an imaginary link. "If you can't win, burn the evidence of losing."
This challenge may be "possible", but don't waste time on it. You have better luck compleing the James Randi challenge instead.
When dollars can not be used to pay for things, they will be as worthless as bitcoins.
Dollars made of paper or metal can still be used as toilet paper or scrap metal if necessary. As such, they're still worth more than any non-physical currency once money is no longer used for trade.
Not only that, but interrupt based controllers (as opposed to polling the controller) that meant minimal lag between pressing a button and something happening on the screen.
The only interrupt-based controller is the keyboard. For games, you want to convert that into a fixed state to ensure that the player doesn't do funny things when the input changes mid-frame. (Which you have to - keyboards trivially allow you to move up and down at the same time.)
Gamepads, joysticks, and the like, are all polling-based controllers - especially the analog ones which would otherwise fling incessant interrupts.
Games like Street Fighter can't really even be properly experienced on an emulator with a USB controller.
Sure they can. The late-game AIs are as impossible to defeat on an emulator as they are on an actual console.
That is true, although most cases of unsafe computing I'm aware of involve being actively unsafe. These are on par with the "ILOVEYOU" virus, which is easily avoided by not running the virus (i.e. driving into a tree).
The form of safe computing that slows down users is different. Those are annoying even for me, especially when they demand my randomly generated password must contain a capital letter, a number, and punctuation (or can't contain those - depending on the system). While blocking the world's most common passwords is fine, crazy "safe computing" stuff should be nuked from orbit.
It would be like trying to teach me how to rebuild cars, i don't like cars, never cared about what model I drove, I just don't give a damn as long as it gets me from A to B and THAT is how many of your employees see the PC. They don't want to know about the thing, couldn't care less what its doing as long as they can get their work done and punch out, they have not the slightest interest in PCs which if you don't have any desire to really learn? Not gonna stick.
Back to the car analogy - new/inexperienced drivers are given a restricted license that prohibits them from going on dangerous roads or for driving alone. Such drivers are highly prone to do common mistakes, including attempting to drive with the parking brake active. They also do silly things, like alternate between moving and brake on a flashing green light (and the proper procedure is shown in any official manual for driving),
They only receive permission to drive by themselves after they've proven they're safe drivers (even if the threshold is lax.)
Concerning computers - the ones that are reckless with security are generally the ones who do stuff without thinking (i.e. click on everything) rather than follow expected procedures to do stuff. They will download viruses/malware without concern on what will happen, and do silly stuff like trying to open a Microsoft Excel document within Powerpoint.
The carpenter analogy is trying to saw a board in half with a hammer. It technically becomes two pieces, but...
The bookmarlets actually work (i.e. they add $0.01/whatever), but the resulting URL tries redirecting you back to the originating site but forgets that the URL points to penny.1889.ca.
Since Netscape 4.7, there was an option to block third-party cookies (yet DoubleClick found a way around that). Changing a default option should have no impact on the advertisers - they can adapt or die.
Actually, you could say the UI is broken. In Blender 2.64 (still applies to 2.66), go to the help menu, and click "Operator Cheat Sheet". The most you see is a small message saying to check something like the operatorlist.txt textblock - and no clue on how to get that.
When an experienced user needs to ask for help on how to use help, then it's time to focus on making Blender usable.
Ctrl-Shift-N or Ctrl-Shift-P to open a new private window. Google search Python, and you still get the programming language first.
If you go with other search engines, perhaps DuckDuckGo, you still get a rapid result for the python programming language (although the first in DDG is for Monty Python.) Still a wall of context pointing to programming languages, but that's as far of a deviation you get.
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I recall a group of people attempting to exploit the dumb laws, and they encountered a problem: Some of the listed laws were either incorrect, outdated, or ended up causing a hazard when they tried breaking them. In any case, they didn't receive their handgun and bullets when they left prison.
Also, those laws are uncited, requiring you to search for something that might not even exist.
Here's an example:
This law is a safety regulation, and it can easily be interpreted as a law where you can't travel into a red light signal (e.g. absolute stop).
Also, they should mention it's a Quebec law rather than being for all of Canada.
As much as everyone may like Myst, it's not technically special. The only thing going for it would be the use of multimedia/FMV. Even if FMV appeared in other games, it doesn't mean those games are any good.
Gameplay-wise, Myst takes an Alpine Encounter approach to the puzzles - you can bypass most of the game if you already know what to do.
The puzzles themselves are mostly control-room puzzles - click on something, and something happens some distance away. The back and forth travelling, although a good way to examine the landscape, isn't good for those who want to get along with the plot.
With the exception of a public Catholic school board.
It might not be popular, but it's present.
I've been seeing this a lot - the first major job search I did was part of co-op, and employers were demanding ~5 years of crystal reports which is well beyond those who are in college and learning stuff for the first time.
There is only a shortage of purple squirrels. If you look for actual talent, or actually spend time to train a newcomer (90 days for basic tasks, and gradually increase responsibility afterward), then you have plenty of applicants available where you don't even need to call in an H1B.
I've always wondered how pre-medieval people managed to live a normal life without flying around. Or even Colonial America when England/France were sending people there for the unexploited natural resources.
That's not guaranteed: Article Breakthrough Discoveries Mostly by Older Scientists, Study Finds says that it used to be the case earlier, but now scientists need more time to finish their work.
I also have a personal opinion, where such young people were in a better position to make breakthroughs - supported by family, no worry about children, in an environment where research and experiment was much easier, etc.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Basically, patents only need to be an improvement over a process.
Concerning the car engine patent - the summary does give information on the benefits of the patent (even if they are not binding). In particular, there's fuel efficiency savings, or provides improvements to the design, etc. As such, I have no objection to that patent.
But the patent I referenced - I have significant difficulty tracking down what's novel. A quick glance over the claims, and summary - I haven't found anything that would be inventive in ~1996. I'd perhaps even say ~1994, considering that Winsock Trumpet provided Internet connectivity even earlier.
As for their demand letter... they say that 802.11 is a violation of the patent, being a bidirectional communication path, and information is sent to the modem. This is incorrect - 802.11 wireless is actually omnidirectional, due to the ease of listening in to the conversaion (e.g. FireSheep, Aircrack-ng). Further, their patent is more specific to physical connections rather than wireless.
A quick check on that site, and the patent with the most letters (https://trollingeffects.org/patent/6587473) is a patent on dial-up internet. Proven by looking into the patent and seeing all those PPP references, and seeing all physical modem components being stuffed in the patent.
So, ISPs (from all over) unknowingly violate a patent for behaving normally.
With Firefox, there's the option of adding a master password.
It's still substandard - Firefox bleeds login information across sites (e.g. It places 3+ potential usernames, some of which are unique to a specific site), gives sudden "enter master password" prompt when not focusing on a password field, etc.
Math and Science are NOT hard. What they are is fucking tedious.
Only if you have an algorithm to the solution (as is the case with arithmetic, algebra, calculus, etc.). If you have to construct a solution yourself without relying on prior information, then math and science become hard.
And even for those who did have an idea on how it was made... you needed commercially sold compilers that weren't available to the average user, and also needed to know how to use them.
That problem is solved, but replaced by a new one - you still need to have commercially sold 3D Modelling applications (freeware is available, but I still find it hard to use), have to have a 3D rendering engine that works with your modelling app (or have advanced math to construct one), and have other people to help you.
False dichotomy - there's no reason why you can't have Religion, Math and Science in the same school, all in separate courses. Since you mentioned Ontario, I can easily bring a counter example where removing religion would have no effect. As for removing religion itself - you have to replace it with something. It either ends up being a random elective that you'll forget, or a close variation of a course that you're already taking.
In fact, I noticed that your list won't handle major problems with the education system - namely, the factory-system of churning out graduates. Everyone is forced into groups (sometimes with sociopaths), everyone is taught at the same rate (either forcing lowest common denominator, or causing a skill gap to form), and everyone is given false information on their future (being told a path leads to a job, but not giving them a useful network.)
If you have the malware that can detect a "winning block" being sent from a computer, then you can also extract the private key from said miner (and pull the coin out from under the worker.)
Get a cheap computer (i.e. used/refurb), and keep installation media on-hand.
You can optionally install Linux to make it more resistant to stuff.
And put the homepage to something that discourages them from visiting naughty sites.
The built-in ROT13 feature was causing the author of Leet Key to complain about Mozilla choking his source of fame. Therefore, they had to remove it.
The traditional trick of these publicity stunts is to post a challenge, and claim there was no response otherwise and therefore it is true. The claim is made while plugging fingers in the ears and pretending there's no contradictions.
Look back to the Kent Hovind challenge, where he posted $250,000 to prove evolution. He gradually shifted the challenge from "provide any evidence of evolution" to "demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that God couldn't cause the big bang" - and each step at asking for clarification was given non-answers (if any).
Even if someone did manage to complete his challenge, Kent Hovind couldn't pay the amount - he's a NINJA - No Income, Job or Asset, by his own bankruptcy claim. Both a scientific and financial fraud.
This challenge is archived, with the current page saying you followed an imaginary link. "If you can't win, burn the evidence of losing."
This challenge may be "possible", but don't waste time on it. You have better luck compleing the James Randi challenge instead.
Dollars made of paper or metal can still be used as toilet paper or scrap metal if necessary. As such, they're still worth more than any non-physical currency once money is no longer used for trade.
The only interrupt-based controller is the keyboard. For games, you want to convert that into a fixed state to ensure that the player doesn't do funny things when the input changes mid-frame. (Which you have to - keyboards trivially allow you to move up and down at the same time.)
Gamepads, joysticks, and the like, are all polling-based controllers - especially the analog ones which would otherwise fling incessant interrupts.
Sure they can. The late-game AIs are as impossible to defeat on an emulator as they are on an actual console.
That is true, although most cases of unsafe computing I'm aware of involve being actively unsafe. These are on par with the "ILOVEYOU" virus, which is easily avoided by not running the virus (i.e. driving into a tree).
The form of safe computing that slows down users is different. Those are annoying even for me, especially when they demand my randomly generated password must contain a capital letter, a number, and punctuation (or can't contain those - depending on the system). While blocking the world's most common passwords is fine, crazy "safe computing" stuff should be nuked from orbit.
Add that to Snopes. If you consider Snopes to have liberal bias, then create a conservative equivalent.
Also, I never mentioned requiring the government to enforce computer use. It's more than trivial to have industry do it instead.
It would be like trying to teach me how to rebuild cars, i don't like cars, never cared about what model I drove, I just don't give a damn as long as it gets me from A to B and THAT is how many of your employees see the PC. They don't want to know about the thing, couldn't care less what its doing as long as they can get their work done and punch out, they have not the slightest interest in PCs which if you don't have any desire to really learn? Not gonna stick.
Back to the car analogy - new/inexperienced drivers are given a restricted license that prohibits them from going on dangerous roads or for driving alone. Such drivers are highly prone to do common mistakes, including attempting to drive with the parking brake active. They also do silly things, like alternate between moving and brake on a flashing green light (and the proper procedure is shown in any official manual for driving),
They only receive permission to drive by themselves after they've proven they're safe drivers (even if the threshold is lax.)
Concerning computers - the ones that are reckless with security are generally the ones who do stuff without thinking (i.e. click on everything) rather than follow expected procedures to do stuff. They will download viruses/malware without concern on what will happen, and do silly stuff like trying to open a Microsoft Excel document within Powerpoint.
The carpenter analogy is trying to saw a board in half with a hammer. It technically becomes two pieces, but...
The bookmarlets actually work (i.e. they add $0.01/whatever), but the resulting URL tries redirecting you back to the originating site but forgets that the URL points to penny.1889.ca.
But still, something like that should be tested.
Since Netscape 4.7, there was an option to block third-party cookies (yet DoubleClick found a way around that). Changing a default option should have no impact on the advertisers - they can adapt or die.
Actually, you could say the UI is broken. In Blender 2.64 (still applies to 2.66), go to the help menu, and click "Operator Cheat Sheet". The most you see is a small message saying to check something like the operatorlist.txt textblock - and no clue on how to get that.
When an experienced user needs to ask for help on how to use help, then it's time to focus on making Blender usable.
Ctrl-Shift-N or Ctrl-Shift-P to open a new private window. Google search Python, and you still get the programming language first.
If you go with other search engines, perhaps DuckDuckGo, you still get a rapid result for the python programming language (although the first in DDG is for Monty Python.) Still a wall of context pointing to programming languages, but that's as far of a deviation you get.