They also wrongly believe that commercial products aren't hacked and cobbled together. Some are, some aren't. Just like open source.
I've always found it ironic that the most expensive software is often the most hacked together. In my field this is because they bought the all their competitors, slapped the parts together so they can charge whatever they want.
I found it a real tough balancing between learning and grades during my CS education. As an undergrad, it was a trade off between tough courses that teach more and those with easy As. I took the harder courses most of the time and made the wrong choice in both direction. The trade off got worse and more complex in grad school. Eventually I decided to accept Bs in graduate school (Cs were unheard of) to get the knowledge I wanted. I've never regretted that decision.
The profs have more experience, but also more bias. Sometimes they just put you through hoops that don't teach you want you want and/or need to learn.
Now, as I get older, I'm more often on the other side of this. Yet the problem isn't any easier. Figuring out to teach people is harder than figuring out what to learn.
You'd think people smart enough to do something like this would be smart enough to shut their mouths.:)
Smart?
Do people here really think writing worms is a sign if being smart? I don't. Only a total loser would do something so mean and stupid.
Does it take some skill? Sure, not everyone can do it, but it's far easier to destroy than it is to build. It's like burning down your neighbor's house to prove you understand fire.
It's clear you still haven't bothered to read the report. It doesn't say anything like that. Please read the last 1/3 of chapter 10. It's not long or hard to read.
If you want to say the commission's conclusions are wrong, I wont bother to argue with that. I don't agree with everything the commission says either (chap 12 and 13).
You still haven't said one thing to support your claim about the commission's conclusions. You're simply keep defending your own conclusions based on a subset of the facts.
Atta isn't exactly low level and one known/reported meeting indicates communication, since these guys don't exactly "bump into" each other at the mall.
Sorry, I ment lower than Saddaam Hussein.
At least we both know know it's false to say "the 9/11 commission concluded that Saddaam Hussein was in cahoots with al qaeda". That's the point I wanted to make.
"If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you 'lift' or 'sample' something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative," the court said.
I can't believe a judge used the term pirate instead of copyright violation. I guess I should be glad he didn't call it stealing. I thought lawyers were much more careful with using the correct words, especially judges in rulings.
Nope. That's the spin I've been hearing on talk radio, but they have to twist the truth a little. I listened to the actually interviews before congress with the commission and it's very clear that there was hatred between Al Qaeda and Saddaam. There was one or two meetings between lower level people, but they didn't ammount to a hill of beans.
Talk radio has turned those couple of meetings into proof that the Bush administration's statements were correct, but the members of the commission have said otherwise publicly over and over.
From Chapter 10 of the report:
Responding to a presidential tasking, Clarke's office sent a memo to Rice
on September 18, titled "Survey of Intelligence Information on Any Iraq
Involvement in the September 11 Attacks." Rice's chief staffer on Afghanistan,
Zalmay Khalilzad, concurred in its conclusion that only some anecdotal evidence
linked Iraq to al Qaeda.The memo found no "compelling case" that Iraq
had either planned or perpetrated the attacks. It passed along a few foreign
intelligence reports, including the Czech report alleging an April 2001 Prague
meeting between Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7)
and a Polish report that personnel at the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in
Baghdad were told before September 11 to go on the streets to gauge crowd
reaction to an unspecified event. Arguing that the case for links between Iraq
and al Qaeda was weak, the memo pointed out that Bin Ladin resented the
secularism of Saddam Hussein's regime. Finally, the memo said, there was no
confirmed reporting on Saddam cooperating with Bin Ladin on unconventional
weapons.
Feel free to read the whole thing. It was hard for me to pick the best paragraph, but I didn't try to twist anything. Remember, Rumsfeld and other directly contradicted these memos in public statements.
Please consider where you got your facts from and if it's really a good idea to trust them so much. If you listen to multiple news sources, it's real clear who is pulling your leg.
From the L.A. Daily News article, "Gabrielyan's luck ran out, according to authorities, when his ex-girlfriend spotted him under her car -- apparently trying to change the cellular-phone battery, which lasts about five days."
I guess he should have used a 12 volt charger.
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Transmitter goes offline, send in a special forces response team to find out what's happening.
I've never seen our government work that way. Usually we have some kind of international boogy man. When a country misbehaves if they are on our side it's tollerated. If monitoring goes off line, the first responce is likely to be diplomatic.
I don't know much about this other than an article I read a few weeks back, but I think it's possible they are starting carefully (I would). If things work as well as expected, they'll probably gradually increase the quality of the show.
That said, the fireworks I saw at Butchart Gardens are so amazing I can't do them justice.
Now if you have a better clock in a GPS receiver, it means you can find your position with fewer satellites and the accuracy of your location is better.
Exactly. That's what I thought I said. I was trying to keep it simple, but it's clear I kept it too simple.
With a atomic clock in a GPS you no longer need to solve for time, so you can get the same quality position with one less satellite. There are times where this could make a huge difference.
My understanding of the DMCA is that if you file legal threats on behalf of someone or something you do not have legal ownership over, you can be prosecuted yourself.
In spite of what the Slasdhot title says, they haven't agreed that "This Land" is public domain. The case was dropped without a decision. What was agreed was to allow Jibjab to continue to use it, not everyone else.
Jibjab flash thing . . . is inane and dull and stupid.
No that's just Bush and Kerry. I think pointing out how inane, dull, and stupid they are is hilarious.
Using a P2P to illegally share music is not "Civil Disobience". If you really want to use "Civil Disobedience" to change the government, you should be handing out material that is illegal under the lastest copyright extension act on a street corner in public, not hiding on P2P networks.
The point of the p2p argument is that regardless of what reason you try to back it up with, you are stealing other people's property.
But that's not stealing. Even the law doesn't call it stealing. It's not stealing. It's copyright violation. We were talking about law and ethics. I'd think you should at least understand what the law is. Once you understand it's not stealing, then we can talk about why we have copyright law and how it's been abused, but first, you need to understand that copyright violation isn't stealing. Never has been, never will be. That's important, because fixing the law isn't the same as legalizing theft.
Thanks for saving me the effort. I don't understand why people have such a hard time understanding that copyright's didn't exists when Moses received The Ten Commandments or when Hammurabi first codified law. We have thousands of years of history and only for a few hundred has it been illegal to "steal" a non physical object.
I don't think that I would want to base a business off selling a machine that costs seven figures and would only be marketable to that remaining 0.1% and expect to be around in a few years.
I would. That 0.1% has little choice but to pay big for these computers. If you are the only one making them, it gets even better. Cray has been selling to a niche market for decades.
Please, please, God, bring the metric system to America before I die.
Yes, I'm going to go way off topic, but what the hey. (Or is it hay)
I was talking with my grandfather a few years back. He's about 90 now. I told him I couldn't stand the english system. All those fractions are such a pain. He said, metric is stupid, but the english system is fine. You just have to treat all the fractions as decimal numbers (e.g. 1/4 =.25, 4/8 =.5) and that's a lot easier than using 2.54.
I didn't have the heart to tell him he was making his own metric system based on the inch instead of the meter.
The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. 109, provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyright owner.
True, but we (humans) nearly died off not that long ago. It was so bad, that from looking at mitochondrial DNA it looks like we are all descend from a one woman. (Not to be confused with "Eve", there were other women alive at her time)
It's neat to see that prions are involved in inheretance. We inherent only DNA from our fathers, but there are lots of cell parts that don't come from nuclear DNA, but divide from our mother's egg. Not to mention that our genes can be "active" or "inactive" when we get them.
BTW, could you please consider using capital letters? Your comments are getting better (less flamebait), but it still drives me nuts that you aren't willing to take the time to press a shift key now and then. I'm sorry that this is as nice as I can ask, I'm not as perfect as I'd like to be.
I've found Infrared Satellite images the best for predicting night time viewing in the near future.
I'm in the clear, but I'm too busy to skip sleep over this.
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Juries are invariably just 12 morons who were too stupid to get out of jury duty.
As the other comments says, I've never met anyone smart who got to be on a jury. Lawyers hate smart people and three lawyers pick the jury.
Why wouldn't you want to be on a jury? Do you like juries being stupid? It's like saying the only people who vote are those too stupid to understand it's pointless.
Now that I think about it, it's probably a good idea you aren't on juries.
It is entirely conceivable that ring can be used as a synonym for belt, particularly in this instance. Sure, radiation belts are typically called "belts" but there's no reason why they can't be called "rings".
There's a very good reason one is call rings and one is called belts. Look at the picture.
Sure it's possible to have a radiation ring and a rock/ice belt, but that doesn't change the fact that a radiation belt was found.
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I've always found it ironic that the most expensive software is often the most hacked together. In my field this is because they bought the all their competitors, slapped the parts together so they can charge whatever they want.
The profs have more experience, but also more bias. Sometimes they just put you through hoops that don't teach you want you want and/or need to learn.
Now, as I get older, I'm more often on the other side of this. Yet the problem isn't any easier. Figuring out to teach people is harder than figuring out what to learn.
Smart?
Do people here really think writing worms is a sign if being smart? I don't. Only a total loser would do something so mean and stupid.
Does it take some skill? Sure, not everyone can do it, but it's far easier to destroy than it is to build. It's like burning down your neighbor's house to prove you understand fire.
If you want to say the commission's conclusions are wrong, I wont bother to argue with that. I don't agree with everything the commission says either (chap 12 and 13).
You still haven't said one thing to support your claim about the commission's conclusions. You're simply keep defending your own conclusions based on a subset of the facts.
Sorry, I ment lower than Saddaam Hussein.
At least we both know know it's false to say "the 9/11 commission concluded that Saddaam Hussein was in cahoots with al qaeda". That's the point I wanted to make.
I can't believe a judge used the term pirate instead of copyright violation. I guess I should be glad he didn't call it stealing. I thought lawyers were much more careful with using the correct words, especially judges in rulings.
Talk radio has turned those couple of meetings into proof that the Bush administration's statements were correct, but the members of the commission have said otherwise publicly over and over.
From Chapter 10 of the report:
Feel free to read the whole thing. It was hard for me to pick the best paragraph, but I didn't try to twist anything. Remember, Rumsfeld and other directly contradicted these memos in public statements.
Please consider where you got your facts from and if it's really a good idea to trust them so much. If you listen to multiple news sources, it's real clear who is pulling your leg.
Don't hate it when websites reformat and frame another website.
I guess he should have used a 12 volt charger.
I've never seen our government work that way. Usually we have some kind of international boogy man. When a country misbehaves if they are on our side it's tollerated. If monitoring goes off line, the first responce is likely to be diplomatic.
That said, the fireworks I saw at Butchart Gardens are so amazing I can't do them justice.
Exactly. That's what I thought I said. I was trying to keep it simple, but it's clear I kept it too simple.
With a atomic clock in a GPS you no longer need to solve for time, so you can get the same quality position with one less satellite. There are times where this could make a huge difference.
In spite of what the Slasdhot title says, they haven't agreed that "This Land" is public domain. The case was dropped without a decision. What was agreed was to allow Jibjab to continue to use it, not everyone else.
Jibjab flash thing . . . is inane and dull and stupid.
No that's just Bush and Kerry. I think pointing out how inane, dull, and stupid they are is hilarious.
Secretly violating a law does nothing to change.
But that's not stealing. Even the law doesn't call it stealing. It's not stealing. It's copyright violation. We were talking about law and ethics. I'd think you should at least understand what the law is. Once you understand it's not stealing, then we can talk about why we have copyright law and how it's been abused, but first, you need to understand that copyright violation isn't stealing. Never has been, never will be. That's important, because fixing the law isn't the same as legalizing theft.
Thanks for saving me the effort. I don't understand why people have such a hard time understanding that copyright's didn't exists when Moses received The Ten Commandments or when Hammurabi first codified law. We have thousands of years of history and only for a few hundred has it been illegal to "steal" a non physical object.
I would. That 0.1% has little choice but to pay big for these computers. If you are the only one making them, it gets even better. Cray has been selling to a niche market for decades.
Yes, I'm going to go way off topic, but what the hey. (Or is it hay)
I was talking with my grandfather a few years back. He's about 90 now. I told him I couldn't stand the english system. All those fractions are such a pain. He said, metric is stupid, but the english system is fine. You just have to treat all the fractions as decimal numbers (e.g. 1/4 = .25, 4/8 = .5) and that's a lot easier than using 2.54.
I didn't have the heart to tell him he was making his own metric system based on the inch instead of the meter.
Yes, you do. It's called first sale doctrine
It's neat to see that prions are involved in inheretance. We inherent only DNA from our fathers, but there are lots of cell parts that don't come from nuclear DNA, but divide from our mother's egg. Not to mention that our genes can be "active" or "inactive" when we get them.
BTW, could you please consider using capital letters? Your comments are getting better (less flamebait), but it still drives me nuts that you aren't willing to take the time to press a shift key now and then. I'm sorry that this is as nice as I can ask, I'm not as perfect as I'd like to be.
I'm in the clear, but I'm too busy to skip sleep over this.
As the other comments says, I've never met anyone smart who got to be on a jury. Lawyers hate smart people and three lawyers pick the jury.
Why wouldn't you want to be on a jury? Do you like juries being stupid? It's like saying the only people who vote are those too stupid to understand it's pointless.
Now that I think about it, it's probably a good idea you aren't on juries.
There's a very good reason one is call rings and one is called belts. Look at the picture. Sure it's possible to have a radiation ring and a rock/ice belt, but that doesn't change the fact that a radiation belt was found.
If McBride throws in the towel, what are we going to talk about on slow news days?