And what if you did miss your tram? Still not too bad?
And your face is obviously one the system has a problem with, so what if you get stopped again the next day? And the one after?
And each day you miss your tram, they check your id, and let you go home.
No biggy, right?
What if you get a little lippy the 5th time it happens?
Have some proper respect for authority, will you? Because it seems you're standing 0.01 meters too close to the tracks, which is a fineable offense under subsection j paragraph 2 of the Respectauthority bill.
And that suspicious bulge in your pocket? Sure, it's probably just a phone. But it could be a gun, so we're gonna need you to GET DOWN NOW WITH YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.
Or, y'know, whatever. It's just a few minutes out of your day, right?
It's all about how much tolerance to the heat you've developed.
Grab any random person off the street and feed them a jalapeno and they'll probably have a pretty bad time, and only remember the burn. Have that same person eat spicy food for a few months and they'll probably enjoy snacking on jalapenos for the flavour.
Same with the superhots. Well, probably not snacking on them directly, but maybe mix them into a meal. But biting into a superhot directly would be a vastly different experience for somebody that had developed a high tolerance vs somebody without.
Then it would seem that shoe-tying would be a better replacement lesson. Hell, a general knot-tying course would probably be better for kids than pencil-use.
I've had way more times in my adult life where I just needed something to stay tight/still than when I've needed cursive.
This is purely symbolic. Nobody will ever find this in the vastness of space, unless it punches through their hull at a significant fraction of the speed of light. As a result, who cares what's "actually" on it?
It does bring up the question of what "should" be on ones that may actually be found in the future though.
This isn't "Space Exploration by Committee", this is a frontier. Possibly our final one.
If somebody wants to launch a book into space, there's literally nobody that can or should stop them.
Maybe it'll give somebody else incentive to build a bigger rocket and launch the collected works of Chuck Tingle even further into space. Followed by a bigger, better rocket launching Pride & Prejudice. Then somebody launching Terry Goodkind into space.
Not his works. The author himself. He'd probably be up for it, based on his descent from sanity visibly documented during his Sword of Truth series. But that's a topic for another thread....
Long story short, people can do anything they want in space and more power to em. It's either that, or we sit on this rock till we die.
Maybe that's our destiny anyway, in which case there's still no reason to stop people from slinging random books into space.
There are only so many ways to lay out a database.
If we assume some constraints are placed on the data by how the client is expecting it, then I wouldn't be surprised if the number of sane ways to lay out the data hovered around "one".
Wouldn't that be covered under the exemption where it's required for inter-operation?
I seem to remember one of the consoles wouldn't work unless it found a specific string in the BIOS, and anybody that copied that string wasn't guilty of a violation because it was a technical requirement to include it.
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And what if you did miss your tram? Still not too bad?
And your face is obviously one the system has a problem with, so what if you get stopped again the next day? And the one after?
And each day you miss your tram, they check your id, and let you go home.
No biggy, right?
What if you get a little lippy the 5th time it happens?
Have some proper respect for authority, will you? Because it seems you're standing 0.01 meters too close to the tracks, which is a fineable offense under subsection j paragraph 2 of the Respectauthority bill.
And that suspicious bulge in your pocket? Sure, it's probably just a phone. But it could be a gun, so we're gonna need you to GET DOWN NOW WITH YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.
Or, y'know, whatever. It's just a few minutes out of your day, right?
It's all about how much tolerance to the heat you've developed.
Grab any random person off the street and feed them a jalapeno and they'll probably have a pretty bad time, and only remember the burn. Have that same person eat spicy food for a few months and they'll probably enjoy snacking on jalapenos for the flavour.
Same with the superhots. Well, probably not snacking on them directly, but maybe mix them into a meal. But biting into a superhot directly would be a vastly different experience for somebody that had developed a high tolerance vs somebody without.
You should judge school talent shows.
Somebody elsewhere in the comments said the contract allows them to search through the drive for anything relevant technically to solving the issue.
It would be hard to argue that searching for *.jpg, or browsing C:\PRIVATE\WORK STUFF\STAY OUT\REALLY\NUDE PICS\ was technically relevant.
Not their problem.
It doesn't have to work, it's just that "something must be done", and this is "something", therefore it must be done.
Is there anybody left who doesn't know what hentai is?
I say the same thing about all those kids who wasted their childhood reading books.
Then it would seem that shoe-tying would be a better replacement lesson. Hell, a general knot-tying course would probably be better for kids than pencil-use.
I've had way more times in my adult life where I just needed something to stay tight/still than when I've needed cursive.
I appreciate your point, but now I'm curious if anybody's working on zero-g ketchup bottles.
If they expected it to actually be found, do you think that's the payload they'd choose?
This is purely symbolic. Nobody will ever find this in the vastness of space, unless it punches through their hull at a significant fraction of the speed of light. As a result, who cares what's "actually" on it?
It does bring up the question of what "should" be on ones that may actually be found in the future though.
Well, why not that one?
This isn't "Space Exploration by Committee", this is a frontier. Possibly our final one.
If somebody wants to launch a book into space, there's literally nobody that can or should stop them.
Maybe it'll give somebody else incentive to build a bigger rocket and launch the collected works of Chuck Tingle even further into space. Followed by a bigger, better rocket launching Pride & Prejudice. Then somebody launching Terry Goodkind into space.
Not his works. The author himself. He'd probably be up for it, based on his descent from sanity visibly documented during his Sword of Truth series. But that's a topic for another thread....
Long story short, people can do anything they want in space and more power to em. It's either that, or we sit on this rock till we die.
Maybe that's our destiny anyway, in which case there's still no reason to stop people from slinging random books into space.
In the computer realm I heartily endorse the "poke it to see what breaks" method of learning.
I'm not sure I'd recommend it in the DNA realm but there's no denying that it's an effective way to learn.
I just hope they leave good notes.
I'm with Rakarra. Say what you mean.
If you state something that's objectively false, people are going to point out that it's objectively false.
You really don't see how movies from 15 years ago are relevant to a discussion about this movie being the first?
I've been complaining about the braking industry's complete lack of empathy in this area for years.
"Use Google Translate if necessary."
I had no idea Germans had such a verbose way of saying [FATAL ERROR].
I agree, lots of sports are stupid.
"Reverse-engineering the WOW protocol is a violation of DMCA all by itself, "
Care to highlight that line of the DMCA for us?
I think the early UO servers were actually copied code though, something about the code actually being released to the public at some point.
The WoW situation should be different in that the fan-server code is all original.
"DMCA says reverse engineering copy-protection or proprietary protocols is prohibited."
But that's not what they're complaining about.
They're complaining about similar database entries.
Probably not.
Why would you send out that data every time somebody logs in when you can just include it in the initial client download?
The server isn't drawing on your screen.
People purchased their copies of the client, or were otherwise legally provided them directly from Blizzard.
There are only so many ways to lay out a database.
If we assume some constraints are placed on the data by how the client is expecting it, then I wouldn't be surprised if the number of sane ways to lay out the data hovered around "one".
Wouldn't that be covered under the exemption where it's required for inter-operation?
I seem to remember one of the consoles wouldn't work unless it found a specific string in the BIOS, and anybody that copied that string wasn't guilty of a violation because it was a technical requirement to include it.