It seems nowdays that they quite literally are the law. Any law they are willing to pay for, that is. Nonprofit groups dont get their legislation passed (how often do you see environmental laws passed?) but corps do.
I find this increasingly disturbing.
Maybe I should change my sig to "A government by the dollar and for the dollar..."
The revised article didn't say they stopped trying. They are still trying to get an ammendment to the passed law giving them the exclusion of being called terrorists for hacking.
Terrorism is easy. Do you think it really took a great feat of intelligence to smash a plane into a huge building? Do you really think it is hard to make a bomb? The first 3 weeks of high school chemistry teach you basic reactions, including explosive ones so that you dont accidently blow yourself up in your school.
You can make laws to restrict freedoms all you want, but you aren't even going to slow anyone down unless you chain the whole population to a wall.
It was designed fore Helium! That is why the accident occured. The Germans got most of their helium form the US, and WWII was starting up, the US stoped selling them the helium. So they used hydrogen in a craft designed for helium and boom!
Needless to say, these circumstances are not likely to occur in your back yard!:>
as long as there are bored people in the world...
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As long as there are bored people in the world, there is hope. Granted, emulating virii isnt exactly helpfull, but if we have enough time and energy to do things like this, stuff that really is helpfull will continue.
Well, I guess this project was good for a laugh. That always helps.:>
that is against the point of a terrorist cell
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If they are dirt poor etc. how and why would they be sending encrypted communications over the internet? The whole point of a terrorist cell is that they dont have to send things back and forth(money, info etc) on a regular basis. Most of the infrequent communication between cells seems to be face to face.
The US government has performed nuclear test detonations within the central US. My grandmother talks about how every now and then she could look outside the window and see a mushroom cloud in the distance. Fortunately, she lived upwind. However, most of the people in the closest city downwind are either dead or dying of cancer.
In the US we already know what the effects of nuclear fallout are; we have had it for years.
It doesnt matter if you are hiding in a cave if the air around you rises to 1000 degrees. I know back in WWII we had some pretty impressive napalm weaponry. What kind of 'napalm bombs' might we have now? It would do the same job as a 'clean nuke,' unless they want to use a neutron bomb instead of a thermalnuke.
Could the neutrons of a neutron bomb even penetrate that much rock?
Our country is the only one to have used nuclear weaponry against another. I hope that is over and done with; I had thought that since the cold war we had learned our lesson.
I have no problem with the engineered 'gold rice' and such that prevents blindness; I am very much for it in fact.
However, engineered bacteria disturbs me. Here is why: off the Oregon coast they used to dump a special type of bacteria called mycopasma on oil slicks because the bacteria could metabolise the chrud. It didnt have lethal effects on humans either. Well, that sounds pretty good so far. Unfortunately, since the chrud is basically immortal it is impossible for the human immune system to kill off, and even most of the extreme antibiotics cant even slow it down.
In an otherwise healty person it taxes your immune system, causing frequent illness, weakness etc. If it is combined with something else, like another major illness or surgery, then it can kill you.
I spent most of my childhood ill; I am one of the people who lived off the Oregon coast. My mother almost died due to the chrud when it caused multiple simultaneous organ failure. My father is infected as well.
However, we were the lucky ones. We were able to figure out what was causing our illnesses and get effective treatment (doxycyclene if i am spelling it correctly). About 80% of the infected people who are tested get false negatives, so most of the thousands of people who are infected dont even know what is making them sick. They just think they are unhealty or cursed or something.:P
I am all for making better corn, but I dont want to see any better diseases. Bio-engineered organisms sounds like the easiest way to quick-fix the environment, but keep your hands off that darn bacteria- what we have already is bad enough!
If you want to fix the environment, go knock on the door of a factory or something;>
Does that mean that digital weapons (including virii and DoS attacks) are legal? Legal to have, but not to use...
Under that logic, having phone hacking equipment would also be legal to have as it could be used as a weapon as well, but they made laws that make it illegal to even have them. Are these laws unconstitutional? They were made back when the phone company was a government sponsored monopoly, but that isnt exactly the case anymore(not to the extent it used to be anway).
Maybe we should all demand the right to bear nukes!:P
'I found out about the teleconference through the 2600 web site, but I was shocked to hear some of the things that the EFF's Cindy Cohn said about 2600's lawsuits. According to her, the EFF has a better chance of winning this case because colleges are who the laws are "meant to protect", insinuating (at least to me) that 2600 has lost its cases because they're seen as hackers and subversives. That didn't leave a very pleasant taste in my mouth. '
I think that her statement is true. Basically the judge said that he didnt care what anyone said; hackers were using this for evil purposes so it is not allowed. Logical? No. But I think that is what happened.
As you said, you can threaten to sue for whatever you want, even for being threatened about being sued:P Moveover, you can actually sue for anything (over a $21 dollar value) in the US, even though the chances of winning anything may be almost non-existant for really stupid stuff. Then again, stupid stuff (like suing McDonalds for burning yourself by their hot chocolate that was too hot) can be very profitable.
Frankly, I think that we need to tear down major portions of our government to fix alot of these goofy problems. Unfortunately it is more likely that the aliens will land than that happening in the near future.
I think that most middle school computer nerds could tell you that, reguardless of the details, any watermarking scheme would fail. There is no possable way to make a watermarking scheme that is effective AND mass-market friendly. You could do one or the other, but not both.
I work as a mentor at a local school. My fifth grade mentee child got suspended and almost kicked out of school permantly because a BULLY said that my mentee threatened HIM! Oh boy...
I got a fairly expensive chair myself. It didnt stop a particular medical problem I got though. Here is a lower back pain I bet you dont have!
This isnt the kind of thing you like to admit, but I probably should tell you guys as you are fellow computer guys. There is a problem that people who have sit down alot (truckers and students are the ones generally listed as likely to get this, but us nerds sit alot too) and have lots of body hair get alot.
What happens is that constant pressure on the butt and lower back causes a hair to become ingrown. Since that area is generally less than sanitary, bacteria use the ingrown hair to get under your skin. It then grows in a large fold between some muscles that exists there. Since the area between the muscles isnt exactly vascularized, it can grow practically unchecked and liquify the adjacent muscle and fat tissue, forming a hole in your flesh that keeps getting bigger and bigger until you treat it. Fortunately, since the space isnt well vascularized it generally doesnt get septic, but it is very painfull and takes forever to heal once you get it treated.
Mine destroyed 24 cubic inches of flesh, and the doctors said it wasnt even one of the biggest ones they have seen;they can get much bigger than that!
Moral:If you have butt pain, dont try to be a man and tough it out; go to the darn doctor and take care of it quickly!
I came up with a strange solution to lower back pain. I learned to flex my lower back muscles(not my butt muscles; the ones above the butt). In about a week I was able to pop my lower back using only those muscles. That is a pretty handy skill, as it releaves the pain rapidly without pain killers etc. I havent heard of anyone else that can do this;am I that wierd or have any of you guys also developed this ability. Like I said, it sounds wierd but it sure helps!
It just means that the exhaust is different. Smells like fries? That means it is putting out a soup of organic compounds like ketones.
Sure that may not be bad for the environment, but neither is CO2 or aerosol- at low levels.
Well, if they are innocent their testifying will only prove that.:P
Lawyers actually are supposed to report when they KNOW that their client has committed a crime(ie their client admits to raping children or something). Obviously that doesn't happen often, but that is why they may have to testify in court.
If they lie in court they could face purgery charges and lose their license. I think the lawyers like making >$250 an hour, so they will fess up unless rambus bribes them for more than they stand to lose(or if they are idiots).
Also note that it didn't say that the lawyers will definitely have to testify, but that they will have to if the plaintif wants them to.
It is about time rambus got in trouble over it's silly patents. Moveover, their lawyers have become a liability now that they have to testify. I didn't thing things would get that good.:>
I am getting tired of companies playing the patent everything game; it is about time it blows up in someone's face.
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Interesting insight. In academia they do attack each other and defend their own positions, whether they are right or wrong. Would you admit that you made a mistake if doing so would cost you your job? Unlikely.
This argument sounds weak to me. When you are doing an experiment on something that has many side reactions and the possability of doing things you dont expect, you dont just point to one feature of the results and say "That doesn't match what I think it should be, so the whole experiment must be wrong." Organic chemistry would never have developed under this way of thinking; many reactions of organic chemsitry defied the previous understanding of chemistry(organic or otherwise).
Heck, under this way of thinking nobody would have believed Columbus and colonized America:P
Indeed; using nukes is (hopefully) not an option, the WW2 thing of using lots of small bombs(Berlin) is unethical as it kills off tons of civilians(and more importantly could lead to the use of nukes), and we dont even want to think about WW1 nerve gas...
The US land military bites and it always has (in previous wars like when we liberated Cuba we lost more people to disease than to the enemy. Surgical air strikes won't work on a country that actually has decent technology that can have a good chance of hitting the planes (china...).
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It seems nowdays that they quite literally are the law. Any law they are willing to pay for, that is. Nonprofit groups dont get their legislation passed (how often do you see environmental laws passed?) but corps do.
I find this increasingly disturbing.
Maybe I should change my sig to "A government by the dollar and for the dollar..."
The revised article didn't say they stopped trying. They are still trying to get an ammendment to the passed law giving them the exclusion of being called terrorists for hacking.
Terrorism is easy. Do you think it really took a great feat of intelligence to smash a plane into a huge building? Do you really think it is hard to make a bomb? The first 3 weeks of high school chemistry teach you basic reactions, including explosive ones so that you dont accidently blow yourself up in your school.
You can make laws to restrict freedoms all you want, but you aren't even going to slow anyone down unless you chain the whole population to a wall.
It was designed fore Helium! That is why the accident occured. The Germans got most of their helium form the US, and WWII was starting up, the US stoped selling them the helium. So they used hydrogen in a craft designed for helium and boom!
:>
Needless to say, these circumstances are not likely to occur in your back yard!
As long as there are bored people in the world, there is hope. Granted, emulating virii isnt exactly helpfull, but if we have enough time and energy to do things like this, stuff that really is helpfull will continue.
:>
Well, I guess this project was good for a laugh. That always helps.
If they are dirt poor etc. how and why would they be sending encrypted communications over the internet? The whole point of a terrorist cell is that they dont have to send things back and forth(money, info etc) on a regular basis. Most of the infrequent communication between cells seems to be face to face.
www.cnn.com has info on this.
The US government has performed nuclear test detonations within the central US. My grandmother talks about how every now and then she could look outside the window and see a mushroom cloud in the distance. Fortunately, she lived upwind. However, most of the people in the closest city downwind are either dead or dying of cancer.
In the US we already know what the effects of nuclear fallout are; we have had it for years.
It doesnt matter if you are hiding in a cave if the air around you rises to 1000 degrees. I know back in WWII we had some pretty impressive napalm weaponry. What kind of 'napalm bombs' might we have now? It would do the same job as a 'clean nuke,' unless they want to use a neutron bomb instead of a thermalnuke.
Could the neutrons of a neutron bomb even penetrate that much rock?
Our country is the only one to have used nuclear weaponry against another. I hope that is over and done with; I had thought that since the cold war we had learned our lesson.
I have no problem with the engineered 'gold rice' and such that prevents blindness; I am very much for it in fact.
:P
;>
However, engineered bacteria disturbs me. Here is why: off the Oregon coast they used to dump a special type of bacteria called mycopasma on oil slicks because the bacteria could metabolise the chrud. It didnt have lethal effects on humans either. Well, that sounds pretty good so far. Unfortunately, since the chrud is basically immortal it is impossible for the human immune system to kill off, and even most of the extreme antibiotics cant even slow it down.
In an otherwise healty person it taxes your immune system, causing frequent illness, weakness etc. If it is combined with something else, like another major illness or surgery, then it can kill you.
I spent most of my childhood ill; I am one of the people who lived off the Oregon coast. My mother almost died due to the chrud when it caused multiple simultaneous organ failure. My father is infected as well.
However, we were the lucky ones. We were able to figure out what was causing our illnesses and get effective treatment (doxycyclene if i am spelling it correctly). About 80% of the infected people who are tested get false negatives, so most of the thousands of people who are infected dont even know what is making them sick. They just think they are unhealty or cursed or something.
I am all for making better corn, but I dont want to see any better diseases. Bio-engineered organisms sounds like the easiest way to quick-fix the environment, but keep your hands off that darn bacteria- what we have already is bad enough!
If you want to fix the environment, go knock on the door of a factory or something
Does that mean that digital weapons (including virii and DoS attacks) are legal? Legal to have, but not to use...
:P
Under that logic, having phone hacking equipment would also be legal to have as it could be used as a weapon as well, but they made laws that make it illegal to even have them. Are these laws unconstitutional? They were made back when the phone company was a government sponsored monopoly, but that isnt exactly the case anymore(not to the extent it used to be anway).
Maybe we should all demand the right to bear nukes!
'I found out about the teleconference through the 2600 web site, but I was shocked to hear some of the things that the EFF's Cindy Cohn said about 2600's lawsuits. According to her, the EFF has a better chance of winning this case because colleges are who the laws are "meant to protect", insinuating (at least to me) that 2600 has lost its cases because they're seen as hackers and subversives. That didn't leave a very pleasant taste in my mouth. '
I think that her statement is true. Basically the judge said that he didnt care what anyone said; hackers were using this for evil purposes so it is not allowed. Logical? No. But I think that is what happened.
As you said, you can threaten to sue for whatever you want, even for being threatened about being sued :P Moveover, you can actually sue for anything (over a $21 dollar value) in the US, even though the chances of winning anything may be almost non-existant for really stupid stuff. Then again, stupid stuff (like suing McDonalds for burning yourself by their hot chocolate that was too hot) can be very profitable.
Frankly, I think that we need to tear down major portions of our government to fix alot of these goofy problems. Unfortunately it is more likely that the aliens will land than that happening in the near future.
I think that most middle school computer nerds could tell you that, reguardless of the details, any watermarking scheme would fail. There is no possable way to make a watermarking scheme that is effective AND mass-market friendly. You could do one or the other, but not both.
Come on, most of what we see are the same things over and over again. Good ideas are rare, or we wouldnt be seeing the same games over and over...
I work as a mentor at a local school. My fifth grade mentee child got suspended and almost kicked out of school permantly because a BULLY said that my mentee threatened HIM! Oh boy...
I got a fairly expensive chair myself. It didnt stop a particular medical problem I got though. Here is a lower back pain I bet you dont have!
This isnt the kind of thing you like to admit, but I probably should tell you guys as you are fellow computer guys. There is a problem that people who have sit down alot (truckers and students are the ones generally listed as likely to get this, but us nerds sit alot too) and have lots of body hair get alot.
What happens is that constant pressure on the butt and lower back causes a hair to become ingrown. Since that area is generally less than sanitary, bacteria use the ingrown hair to get under your skin. It then grows in a large fold between some muscles that exists there. Since the area between the muscles isnt exactly vascularized, it can grow practically unchecked and liquify the adjacent muscle and fat tissue, forming a hole in your flesh that keeps getting bigger and bigger until you treat it. Fortunately, since the space isnt well vascularized it generally doesnt get septic, but it is very painfull and takes forever to heal once you get it treated.
Mine destroyed 24 cubic inches of flesh, and the doctors said it wasnt even one of the biggest ones they have seen;they can get much bigger than that!
Moral:If you have butt pain, dont try to be a man and tough it out; go to the darn doctor and take care of it quickly!
I came up with a strange solution to lower back pain. I learned to flex my lower back muscles(not my butt muscles; the ones above the butt). In about a week I was able to pop my lower back using only those muscles. That is a pretty handy skill, as it releaves the pain rapidly without pain killers etc. I havent heard of anyone else that can do this;am I that wierd or have any of you guys also developed this ability. Like I said, it sounds wierd but it sure helps!
Do you know where one can procure such a device?
I can get a ps2 locally at Gamestop for $299. I dont know what is going on where you live.
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LOL I saw some copies of Fantasma for psx for $10
It just means that the exhaust is different. Smells like fries? That means it is putting out a soup of organic compounds like ketones. Sure that may not be bad for the environment, but neither is CO2 or aerosol- at low levels.
Well, if they are innocent their testifying will only prove that. :P
Lawyers actually are supposed to report when they KNOW that their client has committed a crime(ie their client admits to raping children or something). Obviously that doesn't happen often, but that is why they may have to testify in court.
If they lie in court they could face purgery charges and lose their license. I think the lawyers like making >$250 an hour, so they will fess up unless rambus bribes them for more than they stand to lose(or if they are idiots).
Also note that it didn't say that the lawyers will definitely have to testify, but that they will have to if the plaintif wants them to.
It is about time rambus got in trouble over it's silly patents. Moveover, their lawyers have become a liability now that they have to testify. I didn't thing things would get that good. :>
I am getting tired of companies playing the patent everything game; it is about time it blows up in someone's face.
Interesting insight. In academia they do attack each other and defend their own positions, whether they are right or wrong. Would you admit that you made a mistake if doing so would cost you your job? Unlikely.
This argument sounds weak to me. When you are doing an experiment on something that has many side reactions and the possability of doing things you dont expect, you dont just point to one feature of the results and say "That doesn't match what I think it should be, so the whole experiment must be wrong." Organic chemistry would never have developed under this way of thinking; many reactions of organic chemsitry defied the previous understanding of chemistry(organic or otherwise).
:P
Heck, under this way of thinking nobody would have believed Columbus and colonized America
Indeed; using nukes is (hopefully) not an option, the WW2 thing of using lots of small bombs(Berlin) is unethical as it kills off tons of civilians(and more importantly could lead to the use of nukes), and we dont even want to think about WW1 nerve gas...
The US land military bites and it always has (in previous wars like when we liberated Cuba we lost more people to disease than to the enemy. Surgical air strikes won't work on a country that actually has decent technology that can have a good chance of hitting the planes (china...).
We need some major changes soon.