1. Read all of the instructions. 2. Clap your hands. 3. Shout out that you are at step 3. 4. Jump up and down. 5. REPEAT steps 2, 4 6. Finish test
And now consider the original:
1. Read all of the instructions. 2. Clap your hands. 3. Shout out that you are at step 3. 4. Jump up and down. 5. Do not perform steps 2-4 6. Finish test
So, at step 5... do anything at all (including nothing) that isn't steps 2-4. Done.
Nowhere does Step5 claim to have scope over the entirety of the process; in fact, giving step5 a global scope flatly contradicts the scope YOU give to the other steps. You stop clapping at the end of 2, you stop shouting at the end of 3, jumping at the end of 4... but 5, well, let's treat that action differently.
In the software development world, we call it "abstraction". Not necessarily appropriate for other disciplines, though, which I suspect is the root of your "it's not science" point. Right or wrong, there are groups out there that use iterative SWE tactics to refine theories and build models, etc. Your description of the "Inflationist culture", for example, is exactly how a lot of stuff gets written:
> How can you ever falsify a theory when it can be modified to fit any observation that contradicts it?
Perhaps what you're seeing is the "infection" of the old-science-cultures. Any program written is the expression of a theory, after all, and you're reacting to people who grab from our toolkit to develop theirs. Whether they should or not, I'm not qualified to say... but I'd wager that they don't realize they're doing so.
I think the error is that your premise requires both competence and good faith on the part of the (very sociopathic) establishments.
Case and point... "The FBI is not supposed to collect / use a national db of faces et al". The spirit and intent of that is rather obvious... so how can you claim "good faith" when they end-run it, and how can you claim "competence" when others collaborate with them to make it happen. This is not one of those "slippery slope" issues - this is waaaay past that little hump. Complete authority, complete invisibility, with zero accountability.
"If you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide." "...if I've done nothing wrong, then you have no reason to look. Period."
Actually even easier than that -...give the Jaffa some crappy weapons and constrain their tactics with some deluded "honor" culture, while the parasites keep the cooler stuff and have no tactical constraints. Duh, parasites can crush any Jaffa uprising.
Give the Jaffa actual weapons and teach them to actually fight... the parasites would no longer have a unilateral position.
Browsing, while slow as death using Minimo, works fine in a crisis. But make no mistake - browsing on any handheld will suck donkey balls, simply due to real estate.
Every other feature... I can manage every aspect of a 4 rack, 21 server farm with 94 workstations, along with a 20 slot Option21 PBX, from anywhere on my PPC. I have VNC, RDP, Putty, remote regedit, whatever. I even have reverse-RDP, so a desktop can "remote desktop" my PPC. I had my iPaq3900 acting as an AP to bridge an aircard connection back in... wait for it! 2002! Bluetooth PAN bridging, voice-rec, TTS, whatever... no one cared then, and they don't care now.
It's great that iPhone is getting some of these neat features in 2009. It's pathetic that people think they're new, or of merit. You know, 2001 called. They want their nearly decade-old feature-set back.
It's only illegal if your name isn't SONY or BMG. If your name IS SONY or BMG, you simply need to deposit two iTunes songs on the machine, and you're held harmless.
Get your facts straight. Assuming the judge's decision is valid, the guy in question would have been guilty even if he'd never touched WOW before in his life.
The guy in question didn't violate Blizzard's terms. The judge determined that the users of his product ("Glider") did.
The felony he committed was to traffic that "Glider" product.
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...if you don't have some type of mental illness these days, something is seriously wrong with you. Says so, right on the TV ad!
Not correct -
Consider the following:
1. Read all of the instructions.
2. Clap your hands.
3. Shout out that you are at step 3.
4. Jump up and down.
5. REPEAT steps 2, 4
6. Finish test
And now consider the original:
1. Read all of the instructions.
2. Clap your hands.
3. Shout out that you are at step 3.
4. Jump up and down.
5. Do not perform steps 2-4
6. Finish test
So, at step 5... do anything at all (including nothing) that isn't steps 2-4. Done.
Nowhere does Step5 claim to have scope over the entirety of the process; in fact, giving step5 a global scope flatly contradicts the scope YOU give to the other steps. You stop clapping at the end of 2, you stop shouting at the end of 3, jumping at the end of 4... but 5, well, let's treat that action differently.
10 years ago called, they want their ideas back - starbridgesystems.com
ZOMG! Scrubs can't just use GearScore to pretend they're l33t anymore!
That's pretty much the big ruckus, and probably why this feature was implemented (in lieu of GC's 20,000 gearscore tabard and shirt).
Best guildname on Bladefist: "WTF MOM IM RAIDING"
Well, you can... but one way or the other, the fights will be over really, really fast :)
His spelling is fine. He's just thinking ahead to when we'd have this neat new border protection installed.
> What's faster than a 2 year old?
Lest we forget the 2nd fastest spaceship ever, which was powered completely by Bad News.
I've always said... ...when we're down to our last breeding pair of idiots, THEN we'll worry about protecting them.
Causality - You have some great points.
"Dark Matter" in a nutshell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem
In the software development world, we call it "abstraction". Not necessarily appropriate for other disciplines, though, which I suspect is the root of your "it's not science" point. Right or wrong, there are groups out there that use iterative SWE tactics to refine theories and build models, etc. Your description of the "Inflationist culture", for example, is exactly how a lot of stuff gets written:
> How can you ever falsify a theory when it can be modified to fit any observation that contradicts it?
Perhaps what you're seeing is the "infection" of the old-science-cultures. Any program written is the expression of a theory, after all, and you're reacting to people who grab from our toolkit to develop theirs. Whether they should or not, I'm not qualified to say... but I'd wager that they don't realize they're doing so.
> Where are we gonna get 50 million cats?
My ex-wife's house.
I think the error is that your premise requires both competence and good faith on the part of the (very sociopathic) establishments.
Case and point... "The FBI is not supposed to collect / use a national db of faces et al". The spirit and intent of that is rather obvious... so how can you claim "good faith" when they end-run it, and how can you claim "competence" when others collaborate with them to make it happen. This is not one of those "slippery slope" issues - this is waaaay past that little hump. Complete authority, complete invisibility, with zero accountability.
"If you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide."
"...if I've done nothing wrong, then you have no reason to look. Period."
No... they eventually create a product called "Windows 3.0", and begin to borg the planet.
...except that more people will read THIS post than any christian blog.
Sorry Jack, but I hereby invoke Godwin.
--> When the brownshirts knock on your door, you are not going to reason with them.
Period.
Actually even easier than that - ...give the Jaffa some crappy weapons and constrain their tactics with some deluded "honor" culture, while the parasites keep the cooler stuff and have no tactical constraints. Duh, parasites can crush any Jaffa uprising.
Give the Jaffa actual weapons and teach them to actually fight... the parasites would no longer have a unilateral position.
In fact, implementation would be trivial.
10 PRINT "What?"
20 PRINT "I don't understand"
30 PRINT "Where's the tea?"
40 GOTO 10
Yep, sad to say... your (stated) reasons fail.
Browsing, while slow as death using Minimo, works fine in a crisis. But make no mistake - browsing on any handheld will suck donkey balls, simply due to real estate.
Every other feature... I can manage every aspect of a 4 rack, 21 server farm with 94 workstations, along with a 20 slot Option21 PBX, from anywhere on my PPC. I have VNC, RDP, Putty, remote regedit, whatever. I even have reverse-RDP, so a desktop can "remote desktop" my PPC. I had my iPaq3900 acting as an AP to bridge an aircard connection back in... wait for it! 2002! Bluetooth PAN bridging, voice-rec, TTS, whatever... no one cared then, and they don't care now.
It's great that iPhone is getting some of these neat features in 2009. It's pathetic that people think they're new, or of merit. You know, 2001 called. They want their nearly decade-old feature-set back.
1997 called. They want their "Do NOT leave FLASH_WRITE jumper in ENABLE position" story back.
In other "news", using a floppy drive that ignores the write-protect notch could lead to writes on a read-only disk...
No, we just need to give Acrobat Reader the ability to send EMail, and then it will be done.
It's only illegal if your name isn't SONY or BMG. If your name IS SONY or BMG, you simply need to deposit two iTunes songs on the machine, and you're held harmless.
I guess you didn't bother reading Secunia yesterday.
Scripting disable is irrelevant.
Get your facts straight. Assuming the judge's decision is valid, the guy in question would have been guilty even if he'd never touched WOW before in his life.
The guy in question didn't violate Blizzard's terms. The judge determined that the users of his product ("Glider") did.
The felony he committed was to traffic that "Glider" product.
Personally, I welcome our new DRM astroturfing overlords.
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