You are making the mistake of assuming all 100 year prison sentences are equal. Their are different in the security levels for one thing. This guy isn't a violent offender, so even if he got the maximum sentence he won't be wearing leg irons in the shower for the next 100 years. I'm sure their there are plenty of other differences, but that's just the first thing that comes to mind.
That's the illusion of faster than light motion and it's entirely worthless. It's just like if you go outside and wave a laser pointer up in the sky. Somewhere out there is a red dot that looks like it's moving at ludicrous speed, but nothing really is in a meaningful sense.
Right here in the United States are the dim echoes of the Native Americans, who suffered both from European incursion and their own adaptation of the cheapest elements of European Culture. You realize their is a vast difference between contacting a civilization and invading it, right?
Dude, get yourself another cup of coffee or something. The next part of the sentence you quote says "NASA's current Cassini mission to Saturn is plodding along at 32km a second". The 30,000km is talking about a theoretical alien probe, not Cassini.
Could you please provide the reference for your claim? I looked at the bill and couldn't find anything that said that communicating to 500 people was sufficient to require registration.
Mod parent up! The fact that this amendment actually targets astroturfers and not your average freedom loving blogger was corrected in the comments of the original post. There's no excuse for the follow up post to make the same omission.
Water doesn't cause disease either, so I guess all those whiny babies in New Orleans should stop complaining, right? Cause clearly if it isn't a poison then it can't do harm.
And by the way, CO2 does cause warming, look at Venus for an extreme case. There is no way you can argue that CO2 doesn't have the potential to damage our environment no matter how far into the sand your head is buried.
Holy crap that O'Reilly article is scary. Could he possibly write an entire article that I agree with him on? Say it ain't so! Thank god he included this gem, "Once again, Mr. Bush seems like an honest man". Whew, I feel better.
First off, the Copenhagen Consensus was founded by the author "The Skeptical Environmentalist". It may be an interesting read, but he is not in the scientific mainstream on this issue.
So now what problems do you think we should be focusing on first? The problems that are most important to American's these days are the War in Iraq, the economy and fuel prices. The environment is also on the list though it's usually closer to the bottom of the top ten. So what is one thing all these things have in common? There is one thing that is a major contributing factor to all of them, oil dependency. If we are able to develop cheap and renewable sources of energy the Neocons will have no reason to be nosing around in the affairs of the middle-east, fuel prices will go down, fuel prices have a direct impact on the economy. All that and we get a better environment.
It's pretty much a no-brainer, but sadly their are many with influence who are quite happy with circumstances as they are with energy prices so high and with constant war in the middle east. They got theirs, why should they change anything?
Tell that to the dinosaurs. Species are not indestructible and us humans are just as vulnerable as others. While it's true we are much smarter, that only makes the trouble we get ourselves into that much tricker to undo.
Nope, his perfect DRM "only stops illegal uses". It wouldn't be perfect by our standards of course, but that's because we disagree with the entities controlling the laws.
How is it confusing the issue? DRM is about taking control of what you can read or listen to out of your hands. His mythical DRM system "only stops illegal uses". Yes, what I'm talking about is censorship, and yes it is a legitimate risk with the DRM system as conceived by the OP.
The reason being that what you can legally do with your media is subject to what corporations can get away with as well as the whims of clueless/craven politicians. What if someone makes a law that revokes your right to read or listen to any material that opposes government viewpoints? Sorry, I'm afraid your rights to the new $ESTEEMED_MUCKRAKER eBook you bought just expired.
Set up an squid/ssh server at home/work, set your browser's proxy settings to a localhost:port and portforward everything with ssh to your home machine. That still doesn't do anything about the trail of DNS lookups though, does it? Even if they don't see any traffic to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, the request for resolution of www.myxxxporn.com is pretty telling by itself.
I think you are gravely abusing Godel's theorem. Yes, he pointed out that any expressive system of logic is capable of producing unprovable statements. An example is English, a very useful and expressive language system. It is trivial to generate a sentence whos truth can not be logically ascertained: This statement is false.
However just because I can create a statement like "This statement is false" doesn't mean it has any real world application. Godel showed that all logic systems are flawed, but remember that logic systems are just how we describe reality. Do not confuse them with reality itself.
many of the founding fathers of the US were theists I think you mean deists. True, we also had many founding fathers who were theists, but they are usually just called Christians.
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You are making the mistake of assuming all 100 year prison sentences are equal. Their are different in the security levels for one thing. This guy isn't a violent offender, so even if he got the maximum sentence he won't be wearing leg irons in the shower for the next 100 years. I'm sure their there are plenty of other differences, but that's just the first thing that comes to mind.
That's the illusion of faster than light motion and it's entirely worthless. It's just like if you go outside and wave a laser pointer up in the sky. Somewhere out there is a red dot that looks like it's moving at ludicrous speed, but nothing really is in a meaningful sense.
Dude, get yourself another cup of coffee or something. The next part of the sentence you quote says "NASA's current Cassini mission to Saturn is plodding along at 32km a second". The 30,000km is talking about a theoretical alien probe, not Cassini.
Could you please provide the reference for your claim? I looked at the bill and couldn't find anything that said that communicating to 500 people was sufficient to require registration.
Mod parent up! The fact that this amendment actually targets astroturfers and not your average freedom loving blogger was corrected in the comments of the original post. There's no excuse for the follow up post to make the same omission.
Water doesn't cause disease either, so I guess all those whiny babies in New Orleans should stop complaining, right? Cause clearly if it isn't a poison then it can't do harm.
And by the way, CO2 does cause warming, look at Venus for an extreme case. There is no way you can argue that CO2 doesn't have the potential to damage our environment no matter how far into the sand your head is buried.
Holy crap that O'Reilly article is scary. Could he possibly write an entire article that I agree with him on? Say it ain't so! Thank god he included this gem, "Once again, Mr. Bush seems like an honest man". Whew, I feel better.
You're a dumbass. WTF do you think they bring up CO2 emissions?
First off, the Copenhagen Consensus was founded by the author "The Skeptical Environmentalist". It may be an interesting read, but he is not in the scientific mainstream on this issue.
So now what problems do you think we should be focusing on first? The problems that are most important to American's these days are the War in Iraq, the economy and fuel prices. The environment is also on the list though it's usually closer to the bottom of the top ten. So what is one thing all these things have in common? There is one thing that is a major contributing factor to all of them, oil dependency. If we are able to develop cheap and renewable sources of energy the Neocons will have no reason to be nosing around in the affairs of the middle-east, fuel prices will go down, fuel prices have a direct impact on the economy. All that and we get a better environment.
It's pretty much a no-brainer, but sadly their are many with influence who are quite happy with circumstances as they are with energy prices so high and with constant war in the middle east. They got theirs, why should they change anything?
Tell that to the dinosaurs. Species are not indestructible and us humans are just as vulnerable as others. While it's true we are much smarter, that only makes the trouble we get ourselves into that much tricker to undo.
Right, because the only thing anyone needs their thumbs for is to hold a gun. This is a terrible idea.
I think the OP is right. NeXT used Display Postscript, Quartz definatly uses PDF, not PS.
My Sun desktop at work would also like to disagree. Sun invented Java, how could someone say it doesn't run on SPARC?
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We are assuming a flawless DRM system, so cracking it is not an option.
Nope, his perfect DRM "only stops illegal uses". It wouldn't be perfect by our standards of course, but that's because we disagree with the entities controlling the laws.
How is it confusing the issue? DRM is about taking control of what you can read or listen to out of your hands. His mythical DRM system "only stops illegal uses". Yes, what I'm talking about is censorship, and yes it is a legitimate risk with the DRM system as conceived by the OP.
Since you mention it, though I oppose DRM even in theory I do wholeheartedly support invisible pink unicorns on every street corner.
Add me to your list. I think perfect DRM is bad.
The reason being that what you can legally do with your media is subject to what corporations can get away with as well as the whims of clueless/craven politicians. What if someone makes a law that revokes your right to read or listen to any material that opposes government viewpoints? Sorry, I'm afraid your rights to the new $ESTEEMED_MUCKRAKER eBook you bought just expired.
Amen, that's my biggest request. I hate that a java applet or PDF loading in one tab causes the whole browser to freeze.
That, and it also makes the computer a lot slower having to load all that crap before the system is usable.
I think you are gravely abusing Godel's theorem. Yes, he pointed out that any expressive system of logic is capable of producing unprovable statements. An example is English, a very useful and expressive language system. It is trivial to generate a sentence whos truth can not be logically ascertained: This statement is false.
However just because I can create a statement like "This statement is false" doesn't mean it has any real world application. Godel showed that all logic systems are flawed, but remember that logic systems are just how we describe reality. Do not confuse them with reality itself.