A corporation is NOT incompetent like a govt in running a business, since there is negative feedback that will put a company out of business if it does poorly.
The point is that this is not true of monopolies, hence the anti-trust laws. Our maybe you think T. Roosevelt (Republican, by the way) and friends were hallucinating?
IANAL, so I can't say whether hacking an X-Box is legal or not. I can say for sure, however, that it should be.
Helping the handicapped, while theoretically noble, is not the reason why it should be legal. The reason we need to be able to hack our X-Boxes is because... they're ours! We bought 'em with good money and we should be able to do whatever we want with them within reason. This is a fundamental principle of a free society.
What next? Is someone going to tell me that it's illegal for me to invite a friend over to play video games on my console since it doesn't belong to him?
-- Brian
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I think Pokemon Snap was a very innovative and fun game, although too short. I'm not a big gamer, but I'm not aware of another game like Snap. Its slow pace is part of what makes it interesting. You should give it another try.
Gambling means that you have a chance (however slim) of winning. This is not gambling, it's fraud -- you have no chance of winning.
Mathematically, you are correct that the result is the same when averaged over a large number of people. However, that is completely irrelevant to the individual people playing the game, each of whom thinks they have a chance of beating the game.
It's amazing to see how many supposedly smart people here can't seem to understand the difference between fixed odds (legal) and fixed outcomes (fraudulent and hopefully illegal).
however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted
Does this mean that all the communications were successfully decrypted? Or maybe it just means that failures were not reported?
The advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people...
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
The height of a space elevator would be greater than the circumference of Earth. If it fell, it would wrap itself around the planet. Anything or anyone near the equator would be in jeopardy.
The NPR propoganda machine is enough to make me want to puke.
Yes, but their bias is no worse than other major outlets (Wash. Post, Fox News, etc.). If you set your mental filter accordingly, it's plain that the NPR news content is far superior to anything else on radio or TV (except maybe C-SPAN), if only for the single reason that they don't assume that their listeners are morons.
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Isn't the mass of a photon zero? If so, it has no momentum, regardless of how fast it is going.
A corporation is NOT incompetent like a govt in running a business, since there is negative feedback that will put a company out of business if it does poorly.
The point is that this is not true of monopolies, hence the anti-trust laws. Our maybe you think T. Roosevelt (Republican, by the way) and friends were hallucinating?
-- Brian
IANAL, so I can't say whether hacking an X-Box is legal or not. I can say for sure, however, that it should be.
Helping the handicapped, while theoretically noble, is not the reason why it should be legal. The reason we need to be able to hack our X-Boxes is because... they're ours! We bought 'em with good money and we should be able to do whatever we want with them within reason. This is a fundamental principle of a free society.
What next? Is someone going to tell me that it's illegal for me to invite a friend over to play video games on my console since it doesn't belong to him?
-- Brian
I think Pokemon Snap was a very innovative and fun game, although too short. I'm not a big gamer, but I'm not aware of another game like Snap. Its slow pace is part of what makes it interesting. You should give it another try.
-- Brian
Gambling means that you have a chance (however slim) of winning. This is not gambling, it's fraud -- you have no chance of winning.
Mathematically, you are correct that the result is the same when averaged over a large number of people. However, that is completely irrelevant to the individual people playing the game, each of whom thinks they have a chance of beating the game.
-- Brian
It's amazing to see how many supposedly smart people here can't seem to understand the difference between fixed odds (legal) and fixed outcomes (fraudulent and hopefully illegal).
-- Brian
Whatever you say, dude. Just try to keep in mind that smoking crack and /. don't mix.
What are you talking about?
I don't understand this. Inlining is an optimization -- it has no semantic effect. How could failure to inline cause something to break?
-- Brian
Very good point.
however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted
Does this mean that all the communications were successfully decrypted? Or maybe it just means that failures were not reported?
-- Brian
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Pretty cool, eh?
-- Brian
While rotating, of course.
Poor analogy: A basketball doesn't exert much gravitational influence over a straw.
The height of a space elevator would be greater than the circumference of Earth. If it fell, it would wrap itself around the planet. Anything or anyone near the equator would be in jeopardy.
See _Red Mars_ for more info.
-- Brian
That text isn't going to hurt you. It isn't going to damage your mind or warp your spine. It's just some pixels on the screen.
You mean that my beloved text is really made of dreaded pixels? Horrors!
-- Brian
Copland? I'm still waiting for Teligent to release their new OS.
-- Brian
As Yogi Berra said: "No one goes there anymore... it's too crowded."
-- Brian
You're barking up the wrong tree. The Washington Post is notoriously liberal. I was just listing biased outlets, not liberal outlets.
-- Brian
The NPR propoganda machine is enough to make me want to puke.
Yes, but their bias is no worse than other major outlets (Wash. Post, Fox News, etc.). If you set your mental filter accordingly, it's plain that the NPR news content is far superior to anything else on radio or TV (except maybe C-SPAN), if only for the single reason that they don't assume that their listeners are morons.
-- Brian
You still missed Diffie's point:
If your key gets compromised, it's easy to get a new one. But if your algorithm gets compromised, you've got bigger problems.
-- Brian
He should have known better. FTL communication of any kind violates relativity.
Okay, consider yourself blamed. Surely you were aware of the irony when you chose that name?
-- Brian
Millstone: A heavy weight; a burden: "This job is a millstone around my neck."
They'd be out of radio contact on the far side, so I doubt the landings would be there. Too lazy to look it up, tho.
-- Brian