Bbut.. they will protect us. After we all get hacked because the backdoors they forced the vendors to put in our machines, we will need some agency that intrudes everywhere to find who were the culprits.
The best way to have enemies to worry about is to create them. And thats their work.
sci-fi is more than that. It's about ideas; it's about taking some part of life and changing it, then seeing what happens as a result.
So this movie count as science fiction. Took something i enjoyed in life, like the philosophy of Star Trek (i'd say, most of the series had plenty of it) and changed it to a mindless action flick. Some transmutations could turns lead into gold, but others go in the other direction.
At same point those 97% of geologist (at least, the ones that were proper scientists) took a view of the proofs that were behind those claims and changed their opinion. Science is not absolute, you take data, make a model, see if it fits with reality, and if not, eventually discard it (and fitting with reality is a process, includes previous and future data, experimental errors and so on).
In the other hand, denying against all proof is absolute, things should be this way because should be this way. All that goes against the model is discarded, experimental errors that agree with the model are not checked.
So, if you have some people that say that with the available data this happens, but new data could disprove them, and others that say that it don't happens, no matter how much available data points in the other direction, i'll go with the first group, not because they could eventually be wrong or right as more data comes, but because their method is better than pure luck or prejudices.
That they are targetting grooveshark (and so warning players of the same league) gives a hint of what is their target, that the majority of people get free/pretty cheap alternatives to their offering, be legal or not.
If the people behind the idea of the flat earth had their kind of power back in their days to push their views on the masses we would be living in a pretty interesting (but weird) world by now.
Knowing how Microsoft see security, probably an attack against their network could be done sending URLs of their internal servers via skype. Or in general, use them to do a DDoS to internet servers. Playing dumb MITM is risky.
That deserved to be the 1st paragraph of "Farenheit 451". Where you draw the line? Should we rewrite history to justify what is "popular" with our current culture/government/corporations/religions?
Well, at least Mythbusters is like watching to the letter all the equations of the theory of relativity compared with the "scientific" shows of the history channel. Or anything science related that shows Fox News.
Consider the alternative: it could be "Star Trek's Guide to the Cosmos" hosted by actors from the series . You have to admit that exploring the universe the Enterprise (and maybe a DeLorean for the episodes related to the history of science, those hosted by Doc Brown) will look better than doing it a dandelion seed. If you will give wings to your imagination, let your culture pick the right kind.
You missed too big to jail, and everything is rigged. Nothing happened to the people responsible (more than becoming even richer). And it will keep happening.
Where you stop kicking? Things were pretty clear last presidential election, and still one of the 2 candidates that were assuring that everything will still be in the same way or worse were elected. If having the chance nothing was done, even when plenty of evidence of the trend, why you think it will be done next time?
The only possibility is that the Lesters choose someone that will actually fix things for all, not following their goals. And even if by some miracle it happens, all those heavy investors and all their high paid consultants get fooled and choose the wrong guy, still remains the rest of the goverment.
You can keep playing lotto and hope that next time you will hit the big prize. But odds are high that things will never be fixed, the system is just too rigged.
At least for someone that not followed the news the last, don't know, 20 years? You mean that you never doubted all the other major laws in last years hadn't any major bribe or similar behind?
Stop saying "sale". Corporations has changed the concept of sale giving the meaning of renting to it. You don't own anymore what you buy, just are permitted to use it in certain ways, in certain places, in certain conditions, during certain time, For everything else if there isn't a law forbidding it yet, it will be.
Probably being a cultural taboo is, by far, the main reason. But is something that must be handled with care, another thing that goes in hand with it in our culture is poisoning bugs, so it could strike us back.
Even in Linux for desktops or servers if well there are several distributions there is no big effect of fragmentation, most programs run unchanged in all of them. You can run KDE apps in gnome desktops (provided that you have installed the libraries, and that the app is not specific for the desktop environment, like being a plasma extension), the difference between distributions (package formats? location of files? names of daemons?) is usually easy to fix or consider in your code, and as most is open source programs can be recompiled if is for another architecture.
If everything will be native linux, based on open libraries, probably won't be so hard to put a translation layer that makes easy to run the apps for one mobile OS into another (i.e. like Preenv for maemo). And apps probably will be HTML5 (that most should run in all platforms, no matter if is linux or not, have Firefox OS apps running in my N9 with Hydra WRT), or in QT/QML (that maybe could be able to run with minimal changes, or not too hard to port, in other QT/QML platforms, be BB10, Sailfish, Meego, desktop or even android, besides Ubuntu Touch).
If you count Android as Linux, then 2012 was already that year. In fact, not sure if 2012 was already the year of Linux in computing devices, if you add all from cellphones and embedded devices to supercomputers (and count Android as Linux), then Linux is the most used OS in them.
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Bbut.. they will protect us. After we all get hacked because the backdoors they forced the vendors to put in our machines, we will need some agency that intrudes everywhere to find who were the culprits.
The best way to have enemies to worry about is to create them. And thats their work.
Only if you are called Lester. Is a game where you only play if you agree to follow their rules.
sci-fi is more than that. It's about ideas; it's about taking some part of life and changing it, then seeing what happens as a result.
So this movie count as science fiction. Took something i enjoyed in life, like the philosophy of Star Trek (i'd say, most of the series had plenty of it) and changed it to a mindless action flick. Some transmutations could turns lead into gold, but others go in the other direction.
It worked for Abe Normal
Your 401(k)?
Don't include bankers on that list, they are outside scope
Finding hay and calling it needle is even easier. Redefinition is easy when you control the dictionary.
They say that they are searching for a needle. But what they really want is to have all the hay in the barn.
At same point those 97% of geologist (at least, the ones that were proper scientists) took a view of the proofs that were behind those claims and changed their opinion. Science is not absolute, you take data, make a model, see if it fits with reality, and if not, eventually discard it (and fitting with reality is a process, includes previous and future data, experimental errors and so on).
In the other hand, denying against all proof is absolute, things should be this way because should be this way. All that goes against the model is discarded, experimental errors that agree with the model are not checked.
So, if you have some people that say that with the available data this happens, but new data could disprove them, and others that say that it don't happens, no matter how much available data points in the other direction, i'll go with the first group, not because they could eventually be wrong or right as more data comes, but because their method is better than pure luck or prejudices.
Using to produce it an operating system that have tatooed "Free as in beer" at the chest?
As that judge seem to be stranded in 1990 or so, we can use him to send messages to the past and avoid a lot of catastrophes.
That they are targetting grooveshark (and so warning players of the same league) gives a hint of what is their target, that the majority of people get free/pretty cheap alternatives to their offering, be legal or not.
If the people behind the idea of the flat earth had their kind of power back in their days to push their views on the masses we would be living in a pretty interesting (but weird) world by now.
Knowing how Microsoft see security, probably an attack against their network could be done sending URLs of their internal servers via skype. Or in general, use them to do a DDoS to internet servers. Playing dumb MITM is risky.
I'm glad you got it.
That deserved to be the 1st paragraph of "Farenheit 451". Where you draw the line? Should we rewrite history to justify what is "popular" with our current culture/government/corporations/religions?
Well, at least Mythbusters is like watching to the letter all the equations of the theory of relativity compared with the "scientific" shows of the history channel. Or anything science related that shows Fox News.
In the other hand, even What-If try to explore ideas till something big happens
Consider the alternative: it could be "Star Trek's Guide to the Cosmos" hosted by actors from the series . You have to admit that exploring the universe the Enterprise (and maybe a DeLorean for the episodes related to the history of science, those hosted by Doc Brown) will look better than doing it a dandelion seed. If you will give wings to your imagination, let your culture pick the right kind.
It will have Carl Sagan. After the success of The Walking Dead, they are doing their own version: The Talking Dead.
You missed too big to jail, and everything is rigged. Nothing happened to the people responsible (more than becoming even richer). And it will keep happening.
Where you stop kicking? Things were pretty clear last presidential election, and still one of the 2 candidates that were assuring that everything will still be in the same way or worse were elected. If having the chance nothing was done, even when plenty of evidence of the trend, why you think it will be done next time?
The only possibility is that the Lesters choose someone that will actually fix things for all, not following their goals. And even if by some miracle it happens, all those heavy investors and all their high paid consultants get fooled and choose the wrong guy, still remains the rest of the goverment.
You can keep playing lotto and hope that next time you will hit the big prize. But odds are high that things will never be fixed, the system is just too rigged.
At least for someone that not followed the news the last, don't know, 20 years? You mean that you never doubted all the other major laws in last years hadn't any major bribe or similar behind?
Stop saying "sale". Corporations has changed the concept of sale giving the meaning of renting to it. You don't own anymore what you buy, just are permitted to use it in certain ways, in certain places, in certain conditions, during certain time, For everything else if there isn't a law forbidding it yet, it will be.
Probably being a cultural taboo is, by far, the main reason. But is something that must be handled with care, another thing that goes in hand with it in our culture is poisoning bugs, so it could strike us back.
Even in Linux for desktops or servers if well there are several distributions there is no big effect of fragmentation, most programs run unchanged in all of them. You can run KDE apps in gnome desktops (provided that you have installed the libraries, and that the app is not specific for the desktop environment, like being a plasma extension), the difference between distributions (package formats? location of files? names of daemons?) is usually easy to fix or consider in your code, and as most is open source programs can be recompiled if is for another architecture.
If everything will be native linux, based on open libraries, probably won't be so hard to put a translation layer that makes easy to run the apps for one mobile OS into another (i.e. like Preenv for maemo). And apps probably will be HTML5 (that most should run in all platforms, no matter if is linux or not, have Firefox OS apps running in my N9 with Hydra WRT), or in QT/QML (that maybe could be able to run with minimal changes, or not too hard to port, in other QT/QML platforms, be BB10, Sailfish, Meego, desktop or even android, besides Ubuntu Touch).
If you count Android as Linux, then 2012 was already that year. In fact, not sure if 2012 was already the year of Linux in computing devices, if you add all from cellphones and embedded devices to supercomputers (and count Android as Linux), then Linux is the most used OS in them.