You do realize that tomato, eggplant, tobacco and nightshade are all part of the same family, right? And are you also aware that, while at non-useful levels, both eggplant and tomato plant leaves contain trace amounts of nicotine?
Well if s/he's being paid during the whole process, no, they aren't an idiot. They are only an idiot if they do the work for free.
As for your example of what Monsanto could do to try and sue me in court, I'd argue the license to reuse the seed found in said food-stuff was implicit as the seed was not removed (nor was it a seedless variety such as is the case with most bananas used for food (though that is changing in response to the banana blight (banana cultivators are rebreeding seeds back into bananas to increase genetic diversity))).
well, not useful in anything that a smoker would define useful as.
I never said it wasn't complicated. Someone else said to put on the tinfoil hat about putting spider genes in potatoes as if something like that would never happen (or couldn't happen).
They don't, and generally wouldn't even with capitalism. Hence why the patent process is completely broken. Give the creator a limited amount of time (a quarter century is WAY too long for 90% of items today) to make money on his ideas exclusively, then open the floodgates to see if anyone else can do it BETTER (which is the real fear of people who push for longer patent terms, that someone will do it better).
I don't really consider myself an apologist, but whatever.
You keep using capitalism interchangeably with free-market economics. Capitalism is more akin to corporatism then it is to true free-market economics.
I'm not sure what you are referring to in your parenthetical aside. Do you mean the government unnecessarily intruding in the auto industry? I do think the banking industry needs to be intruded into either, but people's money is at stake and there will be more dire consequences if the government do something. Unfortunately I think the government has done the wrong thing.
Completely agreed, though the GP makes a good point. I have no problem with giving people/companies money when they make something useful and unique. I think 7 years is entirely acceptable.
But that way lies socialism. Neither is preferrable, but eventually even giant companies die. Yeah, the economy is thrown for a loop for a bit, but with a stable currency (what we had before the Great Depression) it will rebound in a healthy manner, not languish under micro-management (such as the case is today).
Which way do you want it, because you can't have it both ways.
No, that effort is not meaningless, but patents are horrendous, as is the way they are enforced. 25 years? Seriously? In two or three generations the plant will be so far distributed (through people planting the seeds from the fruit/berry/vegetable) that such enforcement becomes worthless. Are you really going to sue me for planting the seeds I legally bought as part of the fruit? Seriously?
Also, what about Jackson and Perkins?
Yeah, there was more to the story about the farmer who was sued by Monsanto BUT the main part of their case was based upon the implication that he should have (or even could have) done something to prevent cross-pollination. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!
No. Plant patents are as bad as software patents in my opinion. GM food (which is what you're doing when you do the cross-breeding the old fashioned way) is nothing new. There is nothing unique going on here.
Also, was that horticulturist not making money the entire time he was developing that apple variety? If not, he's an idiot.
Note that there is a difference between capitalism, free market enterprise, and a completely broken patent process that allows plants to be patented. DNA is neither unique or new. Nor is cross-breeding (it's been going on for as long as we've had agriculture).
Because WinRAR's focus isn't security so much as it is GOOD compression, opening of multiple archives and interoperable with WinZIP (via being able to create zip and rar and not just rar). Do one thing and do it well. Do two things and either you got mostly good on both, all good on one and pretty pathetic on the other, or pretty pathetic on both.
If you are serious enough about security to be fully aware of WinRAR's implementation of AES, then you should be aware enough to use things like GPG (though I use it mainly for signing and not really encrypting anything other than plain text at the moment), TrueCrypt (never even heard of it until this discussion tbh), and other crypto programs.
MSDNAA is a Microsoft program available to academic organizations, mainly colleges and universities, although there is also a high school version. The participating schools pay an annual fee for the MSDNAA service, in exchange for which, applicable departments (computer science, computer engineering, information technology, and related fields of that organization) as well as students and faculty can acquire licensed copies of Microsoft software such as Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio and other products. The list of software each college and university gets is dependent on the agreements made by that particular organization.
"WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for."
So it's a good assumption it uses 128-bit password protection (I cannot find anywhere that mentions AES specifically, which at least I'd expect to find at least here). I'll just go with the assumption that you are correct and AES is used.
Either way, I would not trust WinRAR as my only source of encryption for anything.
I do, but again, it's a matter of upgrading the board (which has certain flakey components (such as the PS/2 ports and soon to be the builtin USB ports).
One for 5-port USB card, one for NIC, one for sound, AGP for video (video needs to be replaced btw) leaves me with two unused slots (one of which may not work).
It's good to know that 90% of statistics really are made up on the spot, as seems to be the case with this survey.
Also, I'm really angry with "I'm a PC" being associated exclusively with Windows despite PC being 1) a generic term, and 2) being untrue in association even in a Windows vs. Mac context.
As was pointed out in another thread:
PC = Personal Computer, independent of hardware and OS
That's pretty much my setup (aside from proc speed, which is a measly 2.4GHz PIV (yes, it is ancient)). 1 DVD drive, two actual 3" hdd's, and nothing else except open space and two fans (not including PSU fans and CPU fan).
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You do realize that tomato, eggplant, tobacco and nightshade are all part of the same family, right? And are you also aware that, while at non-useful levels, both eggplant and tomato plant leaves contain trace amounts of nicotine?
Well if s/he's being paid during the whole process, no, they aren't an idiot. They are only an idiot if they do the work for free.
As for your example of what Monsanto could do to try and sue me in court, I'd argue the license to reuse the seed found in said food-stuff was implicit as the seed was not removed (nor was it a seedless variety such as is the case with most bananas used for food (though that is changing in response to the banana blight (banana cultivators are rebreeding seeds back into bananas to increase genetic diversity))).
well, not useful in anything that a smoker would define useful as.
I never said it wasn't complicated. Someone else said to put on the tinfoil hat about putting spider genes in potatoes as if something like that would never happen (or couldn't happen).
Not a clue. Not sure I'd want to try it, either (though after it's dried, would there be any difference aside from different amounts of nicotine?)
They don't, and generally wouldn't even with capitalism. Hence why the patent process is completely broken. Give the creator a limited amount of time (a quarter century is WAY too long for 90% of items today) to make money on his ideas exclusively, then open the floodgates to see if anyone else can do it BETTER (which is the real fear of people who push for longer patent terms, that someone will do it better).
They've actually inserted firefly genes into tobacco to make it glow in the dark. Pretty awesome stuff.
Granted, aside from an odd looking tobacco plant, it's more proof of concept then actually useful.
I don't really consider myself an apologist, but whatever.
You keep using capitalism interchangeably with free-market economics. Capitalism is more akin to corporatism then it is to true free-market economics.
I'm not sure what you are referring to in your parenthetical aside. Do you mean the government unnecessarily intruding in the auto industry? I do think the banking industry needs to be intruded into either, but people's money is at stake and there will be more dire consequences if the government do something. Unfortunately I think the government has done the wrong thing.
See my reply to the poster you quoted.
Completely agreed, though the GP makes a good point. I have no problem with giving people/companies money when they make something useful and unique. I think 7 years is entirely acceptable.
But that way lies socialism. Neither is preferrable, but eventually even giant companies die. Yeah, the economy is thrown for a loop for a bit, but with a stable currency (what we had before the Great Depression) it will rebound in a healthy manner, not languish under micro-management (such as the case is today).
Which way do you want it, because you can't have it both ways.
No, that effort is not meaningless, but patents are horrendous, as is the way they are enforced. 25 years? Seriously? In two or three generations the plant will be so far distributed (through people planting the seeds from the fruit/berry/vegetable) that such enforcement becomes worthless. Are you really going to sue me for planting the seeds I legally bought as part of the fruit? Seriously?
Also, what about Jackson and Perkins?
Yeah, there was more to the story about the farmer who was sued by Monsanto BUT the main part of their case was based upon the implication that he should have (or even could have) done something to prevent cross-pollination. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!
No. Plant patents are as bad as software patents in my opinion. GM food (which is what you're doing when you do the cross-breeding the old fashioned way) is nothing new. There is nothing unique going on here.
Also, was that horticulturist not making money the entire time he was developing that apple variety? If not, he's an idiot.
Monsanto is doing this, indeed it is and you're next.
Note that there is a difference between capitalism, free market enterprise, and a completely broken patent process that allows plants to be patented. DNA is neither unique or new. Nor is cross-breeding (it's been going on for as long as we've had agriculture).
That's pretty sweet. (:
I did miss that.
Because WinRAR's focus isn't security so much as it is GOOD compression, opening of multiple archives and interoperable with WinZIP (via being able to create zip and rar and not just rar). Do one thing and do it well. Do two things and either you got mostly good on both, all good on one and pretty pathetic on the other, or pretty pathetic on both.
If you are serious enough about security to be fully aware of WinRAR's implementation of AES, then you should be aware enough to use things like GPG (though I use it mainly for signing and not really encrypting anything other than plain text at the moment), TrueCrypt (never even heard of it until this discussion tbh), and other crypto programs.
Can't tell with how cool everything is in there.
Free for who?
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MSDNAA is a Microsoft program available to academic organizations, mainly colleges and universities, although there is also a high school version. The participating schools pay an annual fee for the MSDNAA service, in exchange for which, applicable departments (computer science, computer engineering, information technology, and related fields of that organization) as well as students and faculty can acquire licensed copies of Microsoft software such as Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio and other products. The list of software each college and university gets is dependent on the agreements made by that particular organization.
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I can export to doc just fine.
Where do you get this info? From the WinRAR website?
At A Glance:
So it's a good assumption it uses 128-bit password protection (I cannot find anywhere that mentions AES specifically, which at least I'd expect to find at least here). I'll just go with the assumption that you are correct and AES is used.
Either way, I would not trust WinRAR as my only source of encryption for anything.
broke at the moment, but thanks for the info.
My PSU is 650W, should handle a bunch more than what I have easily.
I do, but again, it's a matter of upgrading the board (which has certain flakey components (such as the PS/2 ports and soon to be the builtin USB ports).
One for 5-port USB card, one for NIC, one for sound, AGP for video (video needs to be replaced btw) leaves me with two unused slots (one of which may not work).
Just saying. My board is toast.
As compared to free?
Unless MS is paying Uni's to install Windows, I don't see how "dirt cheap" can compare to "free".
Need help and can't figure it out? Hit Google and LUG mailing lists. Chances are your problems aren't that unique.
That's promising.
It's good to know that 90% of statistics really are made up on the spot, as seems to be the case with this survey.
Also, I'm really angry with "I'm a PC" being associated exclusively with Windows despite PC being 1) a generic term, and 2) being untrue in association even in a Windows vs. Mac context.
As was pointed out in another thread:
PC = Personal Computer, independent of hardware and OS
That's pretty much my setup (aside from proc speed, which is a measly 2.4GHz PIV (yes, it is ancient)). 1 DVD drive, two actual 3" hdd's, and nothing else except open space and two fans (not including PSU fans and CPU fan).