a Conservative Member of Parliament (Garth Turner [garth.ca]) was kicked out of his party for allegedly revealing confidential caucus information on his widely read blog
Even by absolutist American standards of free speech, that's not a problem -- the party gets to make rules for what members are allowed to do, and kick out people who don't comply.
Free speech isn't exactly a universal value, and we shouldn't expect it to be so.
The term "universal value" is generally understood to refer to the general population of civilized people, with the understanding that individual sociopaths might be exceptions -- for example, the fact that Charles Manson had no problem with killing people, Jesse James had no problem with robbing people, or Josef Stalin had no problem with oppressing people does not invalidate respect for life, property, or free speech as universal values.
Most porn sites have one or two teaser (no pun intended) pages, and the rest are behind a login challenge, and thus would not be indexed. How is this accounted for in their results?
Since the statistics are based on how many sites contain porn, that doesn't matter -- one porn image or a million porn images both make one site containing porn.
Basically, the alliance Sheridan put together confronted the Vorlons and the Shadows with an unbeatable dilemma ("you can kill us, but you can't make us play your game any more").
Microsoft's 'built-in payload' does not PROPAGATE the virus. It just STOPS the PC from working. Now, tell me, how is a virus going to affect a large number of machines when it can't even REPLICATE ITSELF?
Why would it need to? WGA would already be in "a large number of machines".
We're talking about a guy who once got kicked off of Free Republic for being too much of a loony, which is kind of like being kicked out of an anarchist convention for disorderly conduct.
A traveler frustrated with recent changes to airport security procedures found himself detained in Milwaukee after writing a message critical of the TSA's leader on a plastic bag presented for screening. The message, which read "Kip Hawley is an Idiot," resulted in a confrontation with law enforcement
He's lucky he didn't get arrested for revealing a state secret.
there is a very large North Korean refugee population in China
The immediate problem for China is that they don't want a lot more North Koreans trying to move into China (which is a likely outcome if the North Korean regime collapses). Ergo, China props up the North Korean regime to buy time for the situation to improve (or at least be foisted off upon the next generation of Chinese leadership).
how long before we see this resolution in a mobile phone?
Never. The basic limit of resolution you can get is set by the Rayleigh criterion:
sin theta = 1.22 * wavelength / lens diameter
where theta is the angular diameter of the smallest detail that can be resolved.
Using a 5*10^-7 m (green light, more or less in the middle of the visible spectrum) and a 0.01 m diameter lens (which is generous for a mobile phone), this gives us a 3.5*10^-3 degree angle as the minimum amount of viewfield that can be covered by one pixel. Thus, a picture with a 20 degree viewfield* would be, at most, 5700 pixels in each dimension, or 32.5 megapixels.
*Of course, a viewfield could be wider, but getting a wider-angle picture without distortion raises a whole other batch of problems if you have to do it in such a small package.
So is every email that you did not explicitly request - does that mean they're all trespassing (or whatever)?
Again, every spam that GETS THROUGH ANTI-SPAM DEFENSES AS THE RESULT OF DELIBERATE AND UNAUTHORIZED EVASION OF THOSE DEFENSES is trespass (specifically, trespass through computer cracking).
Stop thinking of your bandwidth and storage as property
Why on earth should I stop thinking the truth?
When your own measures aren't enough to defend it from casual incursion, the common law of the land should be.
I'm glad that you completely agree with the rest of us.
When you pick my lock to burgle my house and get caught, you go to jail. When you climb my fence to paint grafitti on my house and get caught, you go to jail. When you use some crack to slip your spam past my filters and get caught, you go to jail. What part of this progression eludes you?
to suggest that emailing someone is equivalent to trespass?
Every spammer still in operation uses some trick(s) to evade spam filtering. That clearly makes it deliberate trespass (and ought to be prosecuted under the existing computer-cracking laws).
is it worth spending tens of thousands of dollars a year of public money to house and feed a spammer?
Good point. The assets of the spammer should be confiscated to pay for his imprisonment. If the state can figure out a way to make him pay for the air he breathes, add that to the bill.
Actually, I have two timer switches in the same outlet box -- one for the outside light that can be programmed (either a specific clock time or the local dusk/dawn times) and one for the foyer light with a delay timer (to light up the hall long enough to walk into the house proper, then turn itself off). The former had the warning against CFLs; the latter didn't (and seems to get along fine with them) -- but the latter doesn't need to keep track of time except for time elapsed since being turned on, so it doesn't need a trickle current when the circuit is off.
Have no idea about home automation stuff except to say that it could be that CFs don't work well when connected to dimmers
The clock-timer switch connected to our porch light has a note in the directions not to use it with CFs. I'm not sure if it's a real issue or just legal-paranoia ass-covering.
Also, its not just the chlorine gas. The other reactions are extremely caustic. They'll blind you and eat your skin away. Your mask isn't going to help you there.
That's why I asked if planes have a provsion for dumping the onboard air supply (which, among other things, would trigger the existing automatic oxygen mask drop).
It seems like a logical provision for fire control, and the possibility of terrorist gassing is another reason to install it if it isn't already.
It's kind of a race, isn't it? Eventually, the Earth will become tide-locked to the Moon and the orbit will stop changing. I wonder which will happen first?
The real question is whether either will happen before the sun goes into the red giant phase and renders the whole question moot.
Don't planes have some way to manually trigger the oxygen masks and dump the onboard air supply? Even before these nut jobs started their terrorism spree, you'd think that would be a designed emergency procedure in case of fumes from an onboard fire.
This reporter talks about the science of using liquids to blow up a plane and how much it would take. It only took a few box cutters and knives to take out several aircraft in late 2001. It's not about how much is required to blow up the plane, it's about how much is required to get control of the plane, and in that case a.5 ounce can of pepper spray could do the job.
That's a trick that only works once. The reason a few guys with box cutters were able to take over a plane is that the old defaul assumption was "hijacker = clown who wants his 15 minutes of fame and a free ride to Cuba"; the sensible thing to do was to avoid making waves and wait it out. Now that the new default assumption is "hijacker = terrorist who wants to kill everyone on board", the sensible thing to do is fight.
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a Conservative Member of Parliament (Garth Turner [garth.ca]) was kicked out of his party for allegedly revealing confidential caucus information on his widely read blog
Even by absolutist American standards of free speech, that's not a problem -- the party gets to make rules for what members are allowed to do, and kick out people who don't comply.
Free speech isn't exactly a universal value, and we shouldn't expect it to be so.
The term "universal value" is generally understood to refer to the general population of civilized people, with the understanding that individual sociopaths might be exceptions -- for example, the fact that Charles Manson had no problem with killing people, Jesse James had no problem with robbing people, or Josef Stalin had no problem with oppressing people does not invalidate respect for life, property, or free speech as universal values.
Since the statistics are based on how many sites contain porn, that doesn't matter -- one porn image or a million porn images both make one site containing porn.
Basically, the alliance Sheridan put together confronted the Vorlons and the Shadows with an unbeatable dilemma ("you can kill us, but you can't make us play your game any more").
You cannot compete with free stuff.
Yeah, that's why all the bottled water companies went out of business years ago....
Microsoft's 'built-in payload' does not PROPAGATE the virus. It just STOPS the PC from working. Now, tell me, how is a virus going to affect a large number of machines when it can't even REPLICATE ITSELF?
Why would it need to? WGA would already be in "a large number of machines".
Morals are public things. Respect for civilization demands they be enforced.
You're OK, for an infidel. I think I will kill you last. --Osama
When sex stops being a private thing, it stops being a good thing. That dynamic does not exist with violence.
Conclusion: Private violence is a good thing. (e.g. "Shaddup, woman, and fetch my supper!")
Jack Thompson is the plaintiff's attorney
We're talking about a guy who once got kicked off of Free Republic for being too much of a loony, which is kind of like being kicked out of an anarchist convention for disorderly conduct.
A traveler frustrated with recent changes to airport security procedures found himself detained in Milwaukee after writing a message critical of the TSA's leader on a plastic bag presented for screening. The message, which read "Kip Hawley is an Idiot," resulted in a confrontation with law enforcement
He's lucky he didn't get arrested for revealing a state secret.
there is a very large North Korean refugee population in China
The immediate problem for China is that they don't want a lot more North Koreans trying to move into China (which is a likely outcome if the North Korean regime collapses). Ergo, China props up the North Korean regime to buy time for the situation to improve (or at least be foisted off upon the next generation of Chinese leadership).
how long before we see this resolution in a mobile phone?
Never. The basic limit of resolution you can get is set by the Rayleigh criterion:
sin theta = 1.22 * wavelength / lens diameter
where theta is the angular diameter of the smallest detail that can be resolved.
Using a 5*10^-7 m (green light, more or less in the middle of the visible spectrum) and a 0.01 m diameter lens (which is generous for a mobile phone), this gives us a 3.5*10^-3 degree angle as the minimum amount of viewfield that can be covered by one pixel. Thus, a picture with a 20 degree viewfield* would be, at most, 5700 pixels in each dimension, or 32.5 megapixels.
*Of course, a viewfield could be wider, but getting a wider-angle picture without distortion raises a whole other batch of problems if you have to do it in such a small package.
Next: no, you do not "own" the email service from your ISP. You rent it.
Irrelevant. The laws against burglary, trespass, etc apply to rented spaces as much as they do to owned ones.
So is every email that you did not explicitly request - does that mean they're all trespassing (or whatever)?
Again, every spam that GETS THROUGH ANTI-SPAM DEFENSES AS THE RESULT OF DELIBERATE AND UNAUTHORIZED EVASION OF THOSE DEFENSES is trespass (specifically, trespass through computer cracking).
Stop thinking of your bandwidth and storage as property
Why on earth should I stop thinking the truth?
When your own measures aren't enough to defend it from casual incursion, the common law of the land should be.
I'm glad that you completely agree with the rest of us.
When you pick my lock to burgle my house and get caught, you go to jail.
When you climb my fence to paint grafitti on my house and get caught, you go to jail.
When you use some crack to slip your spam past my filters and get caught, you go to jail.
What part of this progression eludes you?
to suggest that emailing someone is equivalent to trespass?
Every spammer still in operation uses some trick(s) to evade spam filtering. That clearly makes it deliberate trespass (and ought to be prosecuted under the existing computer-cracking laws).
is it worth spending tens of thousands of dollars a year of public money to house and feed a spammer?
Good point. The assets of the spammer should be confiscated to pay for his imprisonment. If the state can figure out a way to make him pay for the air he breathes, add that to the bill.
Thanks; that makes sense.
Actually, I have two timer switches in the same outlet box -- one for the outside light that can be programmed (either a specific clock time or the local dusk/dawn times) and one for the foyer light with a delay timer (to light up the hall long enough to walk into the house proper, then turn itself off). The former had the warning against CFLs; the latter didn't (and seems to get along fine with them) -- but the latter doesn't need to keep track of time except for time elapsed since being turned on, so it doesn't need a trickle current when the circuit is off.
The clock-timer switch connected to our porch light has a note in the directions not to use it with CFs. I'm not sure if it's a real issue or just legal-paranoia ass-covering.
The effects are likely to be limited to the space scenes and not effect the live action scenes
Isn't that just going to cause the two types of scene to clash horribly with each other?
I dunno about copyright infringement, but they should be safe from any defamation charge -- truth is an absolute defense.
Also, its not just the chlorine gas. The other reactions are extremely caustic. They'll blind you and eat your skin away. Your mask isn't going to help you there.
That's why I asked if planes have a provsion for dumping the onboard air supply (which, among other things, would trigger the existing automatic oxygen mask drop).
It seems like a logical provision for fire control, and the possibility of terrorist gassing is another reason to install it if it isn't already.
The real question is whether either will happen before the sun goes into the red giant phase and renders the whole question moot.
Don't planes have some way to manually trigger the oxygen masks and dump the onboard air supply? Even before these nut jobs started their terrorism spree, you'd think that would be a designed emergency procedure in case of fumes from an onboard fire.
This reporter talks about the science of using liquids to blow up a plane and how much it would take. It only took a few box cutters and knives to take out several aircraft in late 2001. It's not about how much is required to blow up the plane, it's about how much is required to get control of the plane, and in that case a .5 ounce can of pepper spray could do the job.
That's a trick that only works once. The reason a few guys with box cutters were able to take over a plane is that the old defaul assumption was "hijacker = clown who wants his 15 minutes of fame and a free ride to Cuba"; the sensible thing to do was to avoid making waves and wait it out. Now that the new default assumption is "hijacker = terrorist who wants to kill everyone on board", the sensible thing to do is fight.
I think somebody took the Purple Pill, and sees the real world and his personal Matrix all intertwined together.