Ahh America, where civil law meets criminal law. You know, I'm sure that my neighbor has built his fence 2 inches over the property line. I wish I could call the cops and have them seize his things and jail him.
America, even if you don't get the difference, please stop exporting your arbitrary laws to the rest of the world. Thank you.
Price is determined by supply and demand, and texts will be priced the highest that the market will bear.
Except in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, where the price will be whatever the monopoly says it is, and tough luck. Oh wait, could it be that the "free market" is an illusion in the telecommunication industry?
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42 billion euros, most probably... uh, what was the question again?
If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other illegal p2p networks would be required to have a license.
Not only that, but Limewire and other p2p's presumably have THE USER'S PERMISSION. SafeNet does not. QED.
The law doesn't permit it, it requires it. If a rights owner doesn't pursue infringements in every case they risk losing them to a later infringer who points out the earlier failure to protect.
No, you're thinking about trademarks. Copyright belongs to the owner whether he defends it or not.
I disagree....war is an investment. The technology developed though war throughout human history has benefited all of us.
Not quite sure I agree with you there. There's only a technological race when you're at war with an enemy who is at or near your technological level. Somehow I don't see UAV's and IED-proof light armored vehicles benefiting mankind as a whole. The "advances" and "research" in the current war(s) seem to be very directed at surveillance, self defense and killing people remotely.
There's also the idea of diminishing returns. Before the world wars science was just about ready to explode all on its own anyway. Huge fields of potential knowledge were on the brink of being discovered - from biology and antibiotics, which allowed surgeons (together with their new-found anesthetics) to become bolder and bolder in experimental techniques to advance the field of medicine, to the whole plastics industry, to the need for sophisticated computing devices to crack enemy codes or do the tedious math required to predict the results of nuclear fission reactions.
Nowadays we are full of plastics, we have supercomputers, and our rate of advance has slowed somewhat as we explore entirely new fields - molecular biology, nanotechnology, etc. Yes we will probably make another "quantum leap" in terms of knowledge in these fields, and our current fields of knowledge will advance incrementally, but it's not necessarily war that will trigger it this time. There's no pressing need to build a "more efficient transistor before the enemy gets one".
The problem isn't just the war, it's the whole American philosophy that values the rights of the "spotted owl", the individual, the crackpot-theory-of-the month over the potential gains to be reaped for the population as a whole.
If you're going to start ANY major project in the US get ready for months of red tape, environmental impact studies, lawsuits from various activist groups ranging from those who are fighting to "save" a rare breed of earthworm to those who don't like the aesthetic look of the project, etc. In China if the government is behind it, it gets done - period.
Of course I'm not saying that certain individual rights shouldn't be respected (especially mine, of course! But in order for mine to be respected yours must be too), and I'm not saying that we shouldn't be conscious of the environment. But a balance has to be struck somewhere. Yes putting in rail-lines will have consequences. But stack those against the countless man-hours lost, violence, accidents and pollution to be gained from less efficient forms of travel.
The car is the ultimate expression of individualism - I can control my destination, my speed, my climate, my music, and who I travel with. However high fuel prices are starting to open people's eyes to the cost of this method of transport in sheer wasted fuel. Mass transit, especially rail, is VERY fuel efficient - but it involves sacrifice, both environmentally and in terms of individual freedom. In a free world the market forces would shift the balance in favor of mass transit during these times, but I think perhaps the US has so much obstructive legislation at so many levels nowadays that people are going to be stuck with their inefficient individual vehicles whether they like it or not.
"You give them flack over what they do in order to keep people safe... "
Perhaps as a doctor I should remove all your autonomy, force you to comply to my directives and ensure that you live your entire life out according to my standards, because after all my goal is to "keep you safe" and free from disease.
It's not about the actual individuals working for the TSA. It's the whole damned paternalistic concept. Please. If my goal is to kill someone on an aircraft I can do it with a plastic fork. Or I could train weights and practice martial arts and do it with my bare hands. Mothers arrested for bringing bottles of milk, people forced to remove their shoes, people with certain books and t-shirts being refused to fly. You sir are the only one who fails to realize how INSANE the whole "security" thing has become. Screen for guns and obvious explosives, LOCK the damned cockpit door and give the pilots a sidearm with "safe" bullets, and train them on how to use it. The pilot will look after his crew and passengers, believe me. And since 9-11, most of the passengers will be rather pro- active too. The guy with the shoe-bomb was stopped not by the "TSA" but by his fellow passengers.
I hope you have a nice flight and enjoy being treated like a criminal. Personally, I avoid going to the US as much as I can.
Let's see if we can move everyone into these abandoned housing developments
Abandoned housing developments? You mean, like on the land that I own, and paid for by my company?
Tell me, what do you plan to do after "nationalizing" my construction company's assets?
Those "abandoned" projects belong to someone. You can't just "take" them and "give" them to someone else. The owner would rather sit on it and shift it in 10 years or so.
That's not what the original poster said. The poster said:
That means your chances of either card failing is
So the chance of card A failing is 20%. The chance of card B failing is also 20%. That people want to dick around and work out probabilities for different scenarios has nothing to do with what the poster wrote. Perhaps his was an error in communication, rather than a mathematical error.
For some reason that I don't understand, the vast majority of people have innate misconceptions of the rules of probability.
Yourself included, since card failure is an independent event. The chance of any card failing is - tadaa, 20%. Just like if I have 3 dice, the chance of rolling a number is 1/6. If I roll it again, the chance is still 1/6. It will always be 1/6.
But if we get more efficient at that (e.g. by building machines that then do the work with fewer human hours involved), we _should_, on average, have more free time for a given level of prosperity, right?
The Law of Diminishing Returns is universal. We can't ALL sit by the pool. Someone has to clean it.
As you increase a "level of prosperity" the TYPE of work may change - from picking berries in a field 14 hours a day to analyzing power-point presentations in teleconferences over the internet 7 hours a day - but you still have to work. There can only be one or two really really rich guys per 100 population, it's a time-honored scale. You may be far "richer" than the berry picker, but only the really really rich guy gets to sit by the pool. And not even that (or he won't be rich for long - snooze and you lose).
id software seems to have forgotten that it exists due to "piracy", or at least peer to peer sharing of the original "Doom" shareware game and voluntary contributions that started the whole thing. Of course almost everything else they make is crap, so it's pretty normal to blame the lack of success on everyone else.
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Because if it's the company, the could still voluntarily give up the info without the need for a warrant.
AND apply for "retroactive immunity" - don't forget THAT part.
Donnie and Marie Osmond clips.
I find Marie Osmond to be very offensive you insensitive clod!
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Ahh America, where civil law meets criminal law. You know, I'm sure that my neighbor has built his fence 2 inches over the property line. I wish I could call the cops and have them seize his things and jail him.
America, even if you don't get the difference, please stop exporting your arbitrary laws to the rest of the world. Thank you.
Price is determined by supply and demand, and texts will be priced the highest that the market will bear.
Except in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, where the price will be whatever the monopoly says it is, and tough luck. Oh wait, could it be that the "free market" is an illusion in the telecommunication industry?
42 billion euros, most probably... uh, what was the question again?
If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other illegal p2p networks would be required to have a license.
Not only that, but Limewire and other p2p's presumably have THE USER'S PERMISSION. SafeNet does not. QED.
The law doesn't permit it, it requires it. If a rights owner doesn't pursue infringements in every case they risk losing them to a later infringer who points out the earlier failure to protect.
No, you're thinking about trademarks. Copyright belongs to the owner whether he defends it or not.
That's bad news for these people who no doubt are the worst terrorists ever! Nuke them from orbit!
to 'prove' that global warming isn't manmade.
There we go, asking people to prove negatives again. Why don't you start by proving that it IS man-made?
Or conversely, prove that it ISN'T caused by the belly button lint of invisible space goats.
With this system, an hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds.
As if the hordes of medical students weren't enough! Now robots are going to get in the way too?
I disagree....war is an investment. The technology developed though war throughout human history has benefited all of us.
Not quite sure I agree with you there. There's only a technological race when you're at war with an enemy who is at or near your technological level. Somehow I don't see UAV's and IED-proof light armored vehicles benefiting mankind as a whole. The "advances" and "research" in the current war(s) seem to be very directed at surveillance, self defense and killing people remotely.
There's also the idea of diminishing returns. Before the world wars science was just about ready to explode all on its own anyway. Huge fields of potential knowledge were on the brink of being discovered - from biology and antibiotics, which allowed surgeons (together with their new-found anesthetics) to become bolder and bolder in experimental techniques to advance the field of medicine, to the whole plastics industry, to the need for sophisticated computing devices to crack enemy codes or do the tedious math required to predict the results of nuclear fission reactions.
Nowadays we are full of plastics, we have supercomputers, and our rate of advance has slowed somewhat as we explore entirely new fields - molecular biology, nanotechnology, etc. Yes we will probably make another "quantum leap" in terms of knowledge in these fields, and our current fields of knowledge will advance incrementally, but it's not necessarily war that will trigger it this time. There's no pressing need to build a "more efficient transistor before the enemy gets one".
The problem isn't just the war, it's the whole American philosophy that values the rights of the "spotted owl", the individual, the crackpot-theory-of-the month over the potential gains to be reaped for the population as a whole.
If you're going to start ANY major project in the US get ready for months of red tape, environmental impact studies, lawsuits from various activist groups ranging from those who are fighting to "save" a rare breed of earthworm to those who don't like the aesthetic look of the project, etc. In China if the government is behind it, it gets done - period.
Of course I'm not saying that certain individual rights shouldn't be respected (especially mine, of course! But in order for mine to be respected yours must be too), and I'm not saying that we shouldn't be conscious of the environment. But a balance has to be struck somewhere. Yes putting in rail-lines will have consequences. But stack those against the countless man-hours lost, violence, accidents and pollution to be gained from less efficient forms of travel.
The car is the ultimate expression of individualism - I can control my destination, my speed, my climate, my music, and who I travel with. However high fuel prices are starting to open people's eyes to the cost of this method of transport in sheer wasted fuel. Mass transit, especially rail, is VERY fuel efficient - but it involves sacrifice, both environmentally and in terms of individual freedom. In a free world the market forces would shift the balance in favor of mass transit during these times, but I think perhaps the US has so much obstructive legislation at so many levels nowadays that people are going to be stuck with their inefficient individual vehicles whether they like it or not.
"You give them flack over what they do in order to keep people safe... "
Perhaps as a doctor I should remove all your autonomy, force you to comply to my directives and ensure that you live your entire life out according to my standards, because after all my goal is to "keep you safe" and free from disease.
It's not about the actual individuals working for the TSA. It's the whole damned paternalistic concept. Please. If my goal is to kill someone on an aircraft I can do it with a plastic fork. Or I could train weights and practice martial arts and do it with my bare hands. Mothers arrested for bringing bottles of milk, people forced to remove their shoes, people with certain books and t-shirts being refused to fly. You sir are the only one who fails to realize how INSANE the whole "security" thing has become. Screen for guns and obvious explosives, LOCK the damned cockpit door and give the pilots a sidearm with "safe" bullets, and train them on how to use it. The pilot will look after his crew and passengers, believe me. And since 9-11, most of the passengers will be rather pro- active too. The guy with the shoe-bomb was stopped not by the "TSA" but by his fellow passengers.
I hope you have a nice flight and enjoy being treated like a criminal. Personally, I avoid going to the US as much as I can.
Let's see if we can move everyone into these abandoned housing developments
Abandoned housing developments? You mean, like on the land that I own, and paid for by my company?
Tell me, what do you plan to do after "nationalizing" my construction company's assets?
Those "abandoned" projects belong to someone. You can't just "take" them and "give" them to someone else. The owner would rather sit on it and shift it in 10 years or so.
And this is "news for nerds" because...?
OK we've all wanted to kill our wives at some point (at least those of us that made it out of the basement), but I fail to see why it's on slashdot.
That's not what the original poster said. The poster said:
That means your chances of either card failing is
So the chance of card A failing is 20%. The chance of card B failing is also 20%. That people want to dick around and work out probabilities for different scenarios has nothing to do with what the poster wrote. Perhaps his was an error in communication, rather than a mathematical error.
For some reason that I don't understand, the vast majority of people have innate misconceptions of the rules of probability.
Yourself included, since card failure is an independent event. The chance of any card failing is - tadaa, 20%. Just like if I have 3 dice, the chance of rolling a number is 1/6. If I roll it again, the chance is still 1/6. It will always be 1/6.
But if we get more efficient at that (e.g. by building machines that then do the work with fewer human hours involved), we _should_, on average, have more free time for a given level of prosperity, right?
The Law of Diminishing Returns is universal. We can't ALL sit by the pool. Someone has to clean it.
As you increase a "level of prosperity" the TYPE of work may change - from picking berries in a field 14 hours a day to analyzing power-point presentations in teleconferences over the internet 7 hours a day - but you still have to work. There can only be one or two really really rich guys per 100 population, it's a time-honored scale. You may be far "richer" than the berry picker, but only the really really rich guy gets to sit by the pool. And not even that (or he won't be rich for long - snooze and you lose).
The pool is for weekends.
This engineering innovation will change industrial design more than power-efficiency.
Not if my laptop costs $80,000, my car costs $1.7 million and my cell phone costs $5000...
Whatever else he did, he knowingly accessed restricted computers whilst America was in a state of war.
Against who, again?
Oh yeah, yeah... war against a concept. Forgot. Tell me when you "win".
Look on the bright side, their next trick will hopefully be to add a skull and crossbones to that "scary" black background... NOW you're talking!
Tajikistan you, boy.... (the joke is on you?). Ok, ok...
Yeah I think it's NATO good idea. Ukraine never know where it will stop.
On slashdot, even the submitters don't RTFA apparently:
Story header: strongly suggesting that the new value may break the 10 million digit barrier
from TFA: However, the new prime falls short of the 10 million digits required
id software seems to have forgotten that it exists due to "piracy", or at least peer to peer sharing of the original "Doom" shareware game and voluntary contributions that started the whole thing. Of course almost everything else they make is crap, so it's pretty normal to blame the lack of success on everyone else.