But if a serial mugger chooses the wrong victim and gets kicked to death then so be it.
In most places, the would-be victim would then be up on a manslaughter charge, which I think is not the analogy you were shooting for. Maybe try something with cars?
[I] see this as a stop gap for data that I don't want to degrade...I'd love to be able to scan [30 years of photos] and store them semi-permanently
We already have stop-gap semi-permanent storage - you simply copy that multi gigabyte archive onto each new computer as you upgrade. The huge pain in the ass is not keeping files longterm, it's the effort of scanning all those photos in the first place.
Slasdhot should track where moderators spend their mod points.
That was supposed to be the role of meta-moderation, although I have to confess, where once I would do it daily, I haven't M2'd for a long time, not since one of the ajax makeovers completely fucked the interface
give 'em as much data as they want. They'll choke and drown on it
I wouldn't be so sure about that - I've heard there are machines available nowadays which are specifically designed to store and rapidly process information in vast amounts. They're called conpewters or something like that.
Every time I hear of copyright infringement being called theft or piracy it just bugs me...The piracy that is most targetted are illegal copies FOR SALE. These are the same illegal copies that the DVD CSS does not prevent.
I still don't think it's a good idea to describe these disks as "pirated" - the terms counterfeit or bootleg are far more appropriate. Let's reserve the pejorative "piracy" for what goes on off the coast of Somalia
The market handled GM alright...Watch out RIAA/MPAA your industries are next. The market will handle you as well.
Since "handled" in GM's case means "left to government to bail out with tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars", I sincerely hope that "the market" does not do the same for those culture thieves.
In a society where criminals go unpunished and those that attempt to protect themselves are punished, crime will be rampant.
More rampant than the US, which has the highest incarceration rates and high rates of civilian gun ownership? The hypothesis that would-be victims "having a go" at criminals reduces crime rates is demonstrably false. It's simplistic, populistic, and wrong.
'Taking a stand' would be tarring and feathering their local district attorney equivalent and their MP's until their right to shoot burglars dead is once again respected by English law.
Using violence to achieve political aims? That sounds like terrorism. It certainly doesn't demonstrate any genuine respect for English law.
Burglaries will be sorted out after a few burglars end up dead for their efforts.
A plausible hypothesis disproved by reality : after the notorious incident in Norfolk in 1999 when farmer Tony Martin shot dead a burglar, the crime rate did not go down.
US Government opened up one of these Anonymous web surfing sites...Many people ended up in the tank
Do you have some proof for these claims?
I suspect OP is thinking of the US Navy's Onion Router project, closed down in 2000. Best I can remember though, it wasn't a secret who was running it, and I find no references to anybody being prosecuted for using it
...foolish insistence on having private shipyards build warships...its not really right to say that privatization makes any sense. The Navy really does need to...take on its own construction, and just clear out some of the cost overruns and red tape
I read this and thought at first that tjstork was arguing in favor of a socialist policy of nationalisation, on the grounds that the government can run a large project with less bureaucracy than private industry. But that just can't be right, can it?
The current trend is to have 'admin' users on Linux able to do things with their password instead of root, many even ban root from logging in. The 'sudo for everything' mental disease all in the name of making Linux look like Windows/Mac
The main reason for requiring admins to use sudo is accountability - all actions can be properly logged and audited. That's not possible if you allow admins to su to root or login as root. In any environment of any consequence that has multiple admins with (possibly individually varying levels of) root privileges, using sudo is the sensible and secure way to do it.
The answer to "which came first, the chicken or the egg" is very simple : the egg. If you accept evolution, then the first chicken hatched from an egg, that egg having been laid by a mutant proto-chicken.
Amongst a whole raft of prohibitions "...Ticket Bearer [shall not] engage in political, commercial, advertising or other promotional activities. Ticket Bearers may not... wear or bring political, advertising or other promotional or other commercial items or clothing into a Venue. Entry to a Venue will not be granted to any Ticket Bearer who is wearing or carrying any form of political, commercial, advertising or promotional message. Religious and racial propaganda and demonstrations are prohibited inside or in proximity to a Venue perimeter. Violators will be subject to removal from a Venue without a refund... prohibited items and activities : smoking, broadcasting or recording through the use of cellular phones...strollers...food and beverages...prescription-strength medicines...banners, flags... signage of any nature, skis, snowboards, bicycles, balls, Frisbees, helmets (e.g., motorcycle, bicycle, sport, etc), and noisemaking devices..."
'There weren't enough Americans with shitty credit taking out loans to satisfy investors' appetite for the end product. The firms used Eisman's bet to synthesize more of them. Here, then, was the difference between fantasy finance and fantasy football: When a fantasy player drafts Peyton Manning, he doesn't create a second Peyton Manning to inflate the league's stats. But when Eisman bought a credit-default swap, he enabled Deutsche Bank to create another bond identical in every respect but one to the original. The only difference was that there was no actual homebuyer or borrower. The only assets backing the bonds were the side bets Eisman and others made with firms like Goldman Sachs. Eisman, in effect, was paying to Goldman the interest on a subprime mortgage. In fact, there was no mortgage at all."They weren't satisfied getting lots of unqualified borrowers to borrow money to buy a house they couldn't afford," Eisman says. "They were creating them out of whole cloth. One hundred times over! That's why the losses are so much greater than the loans. But that's when I realized they needed us to keep the machine running. I was like, This is allowed?"'
[the US has the best health care] by every metric that matters
Riiight, because those millions of US citizens that have no health insurance, well they simply don't matter, do they? They're poor - who cares if they die? Those people (and their families) who are bankrupted through serious illness, they don't matter either. Hell, they should have just chosen not to get sick, right?
In America people do not wait months for basic services
The US has excellent health care, if you can afford it. So you're right, there are few months-long waits - you either pay and get treated quickly, or you don't get treated at all.
It simply boils down to this : do you think people should receive healthcare according to their medical need or according to their ability to pay? You favour the latter. Most of the rest of the developed world thinks that that is barbaric.
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In most places, the would-be victim would then be up on a manslaughter charge, which I think is not the analogy you were shooting for. Maybe try something with cars?
Afghanistan comes in 4th according to this source. I was a little surprised that Egypt tops that list.
We already have stop-gap semi-permanent storage - you simply copy that multi gigabyte archive onto each new computer as you upgrade. The huge pain in the ass is not keeping files longterm, it's the effort of scanning all those photos in the first place.
That was supposed to be the role of meta-moderation, although I have to confess, where once I would do it daily, I haven't M2'd for a long time, not since one of the ajax makeovers completely fucked the interface
I wouldn't be so sure about that - I've heard there are machines available nowadays which are specifically designed to store and rapidly process information in vast amounts. They're called conpewters or something like that.
Using a length to describe an area? Nerd shame on you.
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Your crybaby routine is hilarious. Bless.
If a post does breach the NDA, will it be deleted?
I still don't think it's a good idea to describe these disks as "pirated" - the terms counterfeit or bootleg are far more appropriate. Let's reserve the pejorative "piracy" for what goes on off the coast of Somalia
Since "handled" in GM's case means "left to government to bail out with tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars", I sincerely hope that "the market" does not do the same for those culture thieves.
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More rampant than the US, which has the highest incarceration rates and high rates of civilian gun ownership? The hypothesis that would-be victims "having a go" at criminals reduces crime rates is demonstrably false. It's simplistic, populistic, and wrong.
Using violence to achieve political aims? That sounds like terrorism. It certainly doesn't demonstrate any genuine respect for English law.
A plausible hypothesis disproved by reality : after the notorious incident in Norfolk in 1999 when farmer Tony Martin shot dead a burglar, the crime rate did not go down.
It's been done before. More than once.
It is much more difficult than getting a +5 First Post.
I suspect OP is thinking of the US Navy's Onion Router project, closed down in 2000. Best I can remember though, it wasn't a secret who was running it, and I find no references to anybody being prosecuted for using it
I read this and thought at first that tjstork was arguing in favor of a socialist policy of nationalisation, on the grounds that the government can run a large project with less bureaucracy than private industry. But that just can't be right, can it?
The main reason for requiring admins to use sudo is accountability - all actions can be properly logged and audited. That's not possible if you allow admins to su to root or login as root. In any environment of any consequence that has multiple admins with (possibly individually varying levels of) root privileges, using sudo is the sensible and secure way to do it.
The answer to "which came first, the chicken or the egg" is very simple : the egg. If you accept evolution, then the first chicken hatched from an egg, that egg having been laid by a mutant proto-chicken.
Check out the six pages of license agreement for tickets for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Amongst a whole raft of prohibitions "...Ticket Bearer [shall not] engage in political, commercial, advertising or other promotional activities. Ticket Bearers may not ... wear or bring political, advertising or other promotional or other commercial items or clothing into a Venue. Entry to a Venue will not be granted to any Ticket Bearer who is wearing or carrying any form of political, commercial, advertising or promotional message. Religious and racial propaganda and demonstrations are prohibited inside or in proximity to a Venue perimeter. Violators will be subject to removal from a Venue without a refund... prohibited items and activities : smoking, broadcasting or recording through the use of cellular phones...strollers...food and beverages...prescription-strength medicines...banners, flags... signage of any nature, skis, snowboards, bicycles, balls, Frisbees, helmets (e.g., motorcycle, bicycle, sport, etc), and noisemaking devices..."
Not necessarily - if you can't move the borders, sometimes you can move the people cf 'Dame' Shirley Porter's gerrymandering in Westminster.
Utter utter BS. As Michael Lewis notes :
'There weren't enough Americans with shitty credit taking out loans to satisfy investors' appetite for the end product. The firms used Eisman's bet to synthesize more of them. Here, then, was the difference between fantasy finance and fantasy football: When a fantasy player drafts Peyton Manning, he doesn't create a second Peyton Manning to inflate the league's stats. But when Eisman bought a credit-default swap, he enabled Deutsche Bank to create another bond identical in every respect but one to the original. The only difference was that there was no actual homebuyer or borrower. The only assets backing the bonds were the side bets Eisman and others made with firms like Goldman Sachs. Eisman, in effect, was paying to Goldman the interest on a subprime mortgage. In fact, there was no mortgage at all."They weren't satisfied getting lots of unqualified borrowers to borrow money to buy a house they couldn't afford," Eisman says. "They were creating them out of whole cloth. One hundred times over! That's why the losses are so much greater than the loans. But that's when I realized they needed us to keep the machine running. I was like, This is allowed?"'
I'm sure I've read this story and this comment before. Ah, yes - Four years ago
Riiight, because those millions of US citizens that have no health insurance, well they simply don't matter, do they? They're poor - who cares if they die? Those people (and their families) who are bankrupted through serious illness, they don't matter either. Hell, they should have just chosen not to get sick, right?
The US has excellent health care, if you can afford it. So you're right, there are few months-long waits - you either pay and get treated quickly, or you don't get treated at all.
It simply boils down to this : do you think people should receive healthcare according to their medical need or according to their ability to pay? You favour the latter. Most of the rest of the developed world thinks that that is barbaric.