The first generation of 20 pretty much all just hit the ground and explode. After 5 or 6 generations, you get something with two wheels on the ground that gets a decent distance. After a dozen generations it's pretty much explored the problem space and you've got some of the best cars that the simple parameters can produce. After that, the random variations can only make it worse and rely on the genetic selection to weed out the bad mutations.
I got the opposite, I could see the article and the thumbnail of the image was there, but when I clicked on the image to load the Wiki page for it I got 404. Shift-refresh on either page made no difference, so Wikipedia was clearly serving me a cached thumbnail of a current existing Wikipedia image. I think the 404 was the ISP lying to me (this was hotel wireless, not my ISP).
I'm not sure about this one, I think the image probably does constitute child pornography, and being hosted on Wikipedia does not make it any less illegal. Is child porn ok if it is famous or hosted on a well-known web site?
This has become a running joke in my friends' house. When someone's playing a console game and that message comes up, they will usually interrupt everyone else doing whatever they are doing (playing cards, playing on a PC game, making a cup of tea) and say "Hey, don't turn off the console!"
That's funny, nuclear plants don't even make my list. On my list are things like planes, train stations, embassies and other government buildings, cafes, malls, and busses.
I've created loads of copyright material - mostly computer code, some gaming material such as scenarios , a few pictures and doodles, but I'd never have any way of proving that I owned the copyright on any of them.
Anyone that think idle sucks - you can turn it off in your preferences. You might need to use the "tab" key to see the "Save" button though as the popup config window doesn't have scroll bars in Firefox.
There's no way such a broad exemption is going to get anywhere. Essentially you're saying "it would be really nice if they'd just open the flood gates for any circumvention at all".
There is no line. If the case goes to court, the judge or jury will make a decision. It's impossible to draw a line in a situation like this. Also it doesn't have to be a device, CSS keys posted on Digg and elsewhere have been slapped with DMCA take-down notices before now - although just because some company issued a take-down notice, that doesn't mean it would stand up in court. Also DeCSS source code has been taken down as well.
In the case of the Caesar cypher, I think the (specific to my media or not) is important, it has to be specific to your media in order to infringe your rights under the DMCA. If you're daft enough to use some media format that is so common that there might actually be ROT13 code out there that already works on it without modification, then you'd probably be thrown out of court.
"As Google has acknowledged in the past, there are spots, such as the U.S. Naval Observatoryâ"home for another 116 days to Vice President Dick Cheneyâ"that have been deliberately blurred or pixelated by the companies that sell aerial imagery to Google. (See image at left. You can click on this image and all of the images in this article to see larger versions.)"
So Google didn't censor it, the company selling them the images did, that's what the article says.
There's no way that a device can check all possible combinations of input for crash-inducing behaviour. If you think it can, go read "GÃdel, Escher, Bach". In fact, go read it anyway, it's awesome.
Also there's a difference between a NIC and a web site - the NIC's API input is coming from its owner, the web site's customer is not. If you're a piece of hardware, you do what your owner tells you.
Of course not. However, why are so many economists Democrat-leaning? Is it because Democrats gravitate towards economics? Are economics degrees biased towards liberals? Is it because their knowledge of economics leads them to support Democrat policy? If it's the latter, then the demographic does not indicate an unfair bias. A bias, yes, but a valid one. What would be more strange is a sample of 500 economists who are 50/50 split between Obama and McCain, yet who are 70/30 split on party affiliation. That would imply that either Obama or McCain do not represent their party's normal economic line, or that 20%+ of the economists would vote against their economic judgement.
It is odd that he doesn't mention iTunes or try to explain why it was successful. That doesn't invalidate the point that he's making, though. Maybe it's possible to start up a digital music store if you are Apple. After all, creating the most popular digital music player in the world isn't exactly hard, is it?
No right to run it on Linux? Like you have to be granted that right by someone? Do I have the right to use it as a coaster, a frisbee, or a shaving mirror? Where are these rights listed? Your attitude that they have the power to grant or restricts our rights is fundamentally flawed, you've fallen right into their trap and assumed that copyright holders are our benevolent dictators.
In what sense is some little grub that is alive today my ancestor? It may be remarkably similar to something that lived billions of years ago, but it's no more my ancestor than CowboyNeal is.
Killing an individual host isn't the end of the world for the disease. Killing 80% of hosts may not be, depending on whether the host population can cope with that level of loss. Killing 100%, or indirectly causing the death of 100% due to the community dying out due to insufficient population, that's a problem for a disease. Do pneumonia, cholera, dysentry do that? Also, modern medicine helps the disease in this respect, as we can sometimes prevent an excessively virulent and deadly disease from wiping itself out in this way.
How long has that been around for? Has it been allowed to annihilate large areas and therefore forced to evolve in reaction to its own virulence? Does it have another host population in which it is less fatal, therefore making it irrelevant to the virus that any humans that happen to come into the area die?
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The first generation of 20 pretty much all just hit the ground and explode. After 5 or 6 generations, you get something with two wheels on the ground that gets a decent distance. After a dozen generations it's pretty much explored the problem space and you've got some of the best cars that the simple parameters can produce. After that, the random variations can only make it worse and rely on the genetic selection to weed out the bad mutations.
And yet it's impossible for that to continue for ever. Evolution can be "satisfied" with a balanced population.
I got the opposite, I could see the article and the thumbnail of the image was there, but when I clicked on the image to load the Wiki page for it I got 404. Shift-refresh on either page made no difference, so Wikipedia was clearly serving me a cached thumbnail of a current existing Wikipedia image. I think the 404 was the ISP lying to me (this was hotel wireless, not my ISP).
I'm not sure about this one, I think the image probably does constitute child pornography, and being hosted on Wikipedia does not make it any less illegal. Is child porn ok if it is famous or hosted on a well-known web site?
So does GTA4
This has become a running joke in my friends' house. When someone's playing a console game and that message comes up, they will usually interrupt everyone else doing whatever they are doing (playing cards, playing on a PC game, making a cup of tea) and say "Hey, don't turn off the console!"
Not this one?
I wouldn't worry about that, they deliberately included that scene with his ring being taken at the end so they can bring him back if they want.
Lovely little homage to Flash Gordon there, I think.
That's funny, nuclear plants don't even make my list. On my list are things like planes, train stations, embassies and other government buildings, cafes, malls, and busses.
You have a list?
I've created loads of copyright material - mostly computer code, some gaming material such as scenarios , a few pictures and doodles, but I'd never have any way of proving that I owned the copyright on any of them.
Anyone that think idle sucks - you can turn it off in your preferences. You might need to use the "tab" key to see the "Save" button though as the popup config window doesn't have scroll bars in Firefox.
And of course if this software is open source, you can just remove the MovieData->ReEncrypt() call and re-compile.
There's no way such a broad exemption is going to get anywhere. Essentially you're saying "it would be really nice if they'd just open the flood gates for any circumvention at all".
There is no line. If the case goes to court, the judge or jury will make a decision. It's impossible to draw a line in a situation like this. Also it doesn't have to be a device, CSS keys posted on Digg and elsewhere have been slapped with DMCA take-down notices before now - although just because some company issued a take-down notice, that doesn't mean it would stand up in court. Also DeCSS source code has been taken down as well.
In the case of the Caesar cypher, I think the (specific to my media or not) is important, it has to be specific to your media in order to infringe your rights under the DMCA. If you're daft enough to use some media format that is so common that there might actually be ROT13 code out there that already works on it without modification, then you'd probably be thrown out of court.
Did you really not read the article?
"As Google has acknowledged in the past, there are spots, such as the U.S. Naval Observatoryâ"home for another 116 days to Vice President Dick Cheneyâ"that have been deliberately blurred or pixelated by the companies that sell aerial imagery to Google. (See image at left. You can click on this image and all of the images in this article to see larger versions.)"
So Google didn't censor it, the company selling them the images did, that's what the article says.
You're right, my example was inappropriate.
There's no way that a device can check all possible combinations of input for crash-inducing behaviour. If you think it can, go read "GÃdel, Escher, Bach". In fact, go read it anyway, it's awesome.
Also there's a difference between a NIC and a web site - the NIC's API input is coming from its owner, the web site's customer is not. If you're a piece of hardware, you do what your owner tells you.
If you don't like Idle, then TURN IT OFF IN YOUR PREFERENCES. (If you can't see the Save button, just keep tabbing)
Of course not. However, why are so many economists Democrat-leaning? Is it because Democrats gravitate towards economics? Are economics degrees biased towards liberals? Is it because their knowledge of economics leads them to support Democrat policy? If it's the latter, then the demographic does not indicate an unfair bias. A bias, yes, but a valid one. What would be more strange is a sample of 500 economists who are 50/50 split between Obama and McCain, yet who are 70/30 split on party affiliation. That would imply that either Obama or McCain do not represent their party's normal economic line, or that 20%+ of the economists would vote against their economic judgement.
If you're going to have the blame pinned on you for something, you might as well try to take the credit for it as well.
It is odd that he doesn't mention iTunes or try to explain why it was successful. That doesn't invalidate the point that he's making, though. Maybe it's possible to start up a digital music store if you are Apple. After all, creating the most popular digital music player in the world isn't exactly hard, is it?
No right to run it on Linux? Like you have to be granted that right by someone? Do I have the right to use it as a coaster, a frisbee, or a shaving mirror? Where are these rights listed? Your attitude that they have the power to grant or restricts our rights is fundamentally flawed, you've fallen right into their trap and assumed that copyright holders are our benevolent dictators.
In what sense is some little grub that is alive today my ancestor? It may be remarkably similar to something that lived billions of years ago, but it's no more my ancestor than CowboyNeal is.
wtf?
Killing an individual host isn't the end of the world for the disease. Killing 80% of hosts may not be, depending on whether the host population can cope with that level of loss. Killing 100%, or indirectly causing the death of 100% due to the community dying out due to insufficient population, that's a problem for a disease. Do pneumonia, cholera, dysentry do that? Also, modern medicine helps the disease in this respect, as we can sometimes prevent an excessively virulent and deadly disease from wiping itself out in this way.
How long has that been around for? Has it been allowed to annihilate large areas and therefore forced to evolve in reaction to its own virulence? Does it have another host population in which it is less fatal, therefore making it irrelevant to the virus that any humans that happen to come into the area die?