No. They'd suffocate the head spammer (or someone they mistook for the head spammer) with a pillow. Sounds like he wants to send in the SEALs. "Conductive solution" is silly though. Satchel charges work fine.
Quite the contrary. Copyrights, patents, etc are monopolies created and granted by government to selected individuals and companies and therefor are the very antithesis of capitalism (which is orthogonal to the question of whether or not they should exist). In a totally free market anyone would be free to manufacture and sell any object even if it was a copy of an object first made by someone else. The express purpose of copyright and patent laws is to prevent competition.
> Fingerprint scanners are the best (In terms of ease of implementation) way > to prevent people from clocking in and out for each other...
No. Competent supervision is the best way to prevent people from clocking in and out for each other. If their management is so incompetent that they need this to prevent such things they have problems a fingerprint machine won't solve.
> People storing databases of fingerprints isn't the problem. The belief that > fingerprints are private or uniquely identifying data is.
Nothing is uniquely identifying. The problem is people who believe 1) that there exists a single unique identifier and 2) that unique identification is needed when in fact all that is necessary is authentication with a reasonable degree of confidence.
Using a fingerprint machine for clocking in and out at a work-study job is ridiculous, though.
...or they will scream "Oh noes! OMG!! The COMMAND LINE will eat my brain!!!" and freeze up. Just install Ubuntu and let them think you've upgraded them to Windows 7. Then they'll gripe a bit about the changes and settle down to use it.
...A thick block of tungsten will do as a shield (it'll get red hot). Make your ship long and skinny to minimize weight. Note that there is no point in any sort of aerodynamic shaping.
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No. They'd suffocate the head spammer (or someone they mistook for the head spammer) with a pillow. Sounds like he wants to send in the SEALs. "Conductive solution" is silly though. Satchel charges work fine.
...that VeriSign fully approves and is actively cooperating (but even if they don't they will "cooperate" with the judge).
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Quite the contrary. Copyrights, patents, etc are monopolies created and granted by government to selected individuals and companies and therefor are the very antithesis of capitalism (which is orthogonal to the question of whether or not they should exist). In a totally free market anyone would be free to manufacture and sell any object even if it was a copy of an object first made by someone else. The express purpose of copyright and patent laws is to prevent competition.
No. He expects the station owner to run it as a charity.
> Pull out the concealed Glock...
A "Glock"? Please. That's an Austrian pistol. Every freedom loving American carries an M1911A1.
> Last time I tried to pay my pack of gum and a soda with a 50 (lacking
> smaller bills) the clerk asked if there's a chance that I have a CC.
I'm sure she would have been happy to keep the change.
Tritium does not produce neutrons (few radioactive materials do). It emits only[1] electrons which can only penetrate a few mm of air.
[1] It also emits nearly indetectable electon neutrinos. Billions of neutrinos pass through your body every day
Sounds more like "DMCA-minus" than "DMCA-plus", with mines being planted in the DMCA safe harbor.
That's a good solution if Microsoft supports it.
> ...you make it work with IE6 or you find a new job.
Do you have to make it work only with IE6?
> Put another way, you'd think users are too stupid to pirate things on their
> own...
Most never do.
> Either way, blocking YouTube by blocking IE6 is about the least effective,
> most headache-prone way to block these things.
I never disputed that.
> Nobody forces you to have only one browser.
Many users are too stupid to deal with two.
> Anyone who wants to get around that problem could do so without the
> slightest difficulty in the space of about ten minutes.
Most users are too stupid to deal with that. The rest are smarter than the admins and are going to do whatever they want.
Maybe it's because they aren't dead yet?
> You can lie just as effectively in video chat and in text chat about
> everything except your appearance.
Of course you can lie about your appearance. You can send out whatever video you think might be amusing.
Only if you have a camera and it is turned on and pointed at you. It would be trivial to arrange for them to see whatever you want them to see.
> People must be uniquely identified to exist in this (non-hive) society.
It is nearly impossible to uniquely identify people. The usual methods of authentication don't come close to doing it (nor do they need to).
Hint: "indentification" != "authentication".
> Fingerprint scanners are the best (In terms of ease of implementation) way
> to prevent people from clocking in and out for each other...
No. Competent supervision is the best way to prevent people from clocking in and out for each other. If their management is so incompetent that they need this to prevent such things they have problems a fingerprint machine won't solve.
> People storing databases of fingerprints isn't the problem. The belief that
> fingerprints are private or uniquely identifying data is.
Nothing is uniquely identifying. The problem is people who believe 1) that there exists a single unique identifier and 2) that unique identification is needed when in fact all that is necessary is authentication with a reasonable degree of confidence.
Using a fingerprint machine for clocking in and out at a work-study job is ridiculous, though.
> The question remains though whether you want them to hold a representation
> (of any kind) of any part of your body on file.
Such as, to choose a random example, a photograph of your face?
> molecules can live?
You are molecules. Do you live?
...or they will scream "Oh noes! OMG!! The COMMAND LINE will eat my brain!!!" and freeze up. Just install Ubuntu and let them think you've upgraded them to Windows 7. Then they'll gripe a bit about the changes and settle down to use it.
> Or instead of that if you want to see a play from the latest game.
Careful. The image had better not be over 55 inches.
> OR if you really do want to sit the thing down and play a movie.
Now you're looking for real trouble.
...A thick block of tungsten will do as a shield (it'll get red hot). Make your ship long and skinny to minimize weight. Note that there is no point in any sort of aerodynamic shaping.