Because its not convienent for you to get TV legally, that makes it alright to break the law right?
When a law is bad, yes, it's ethically ok to break it. Certainly when a law is in itself illegal (and many copyright laws go well beyond Congress's enumerated power to provide copyright to authors for a limited time), it's ethically ok to break it.
Everyone breaks laws, let's not pretend otherwise. Have a beer before you were 21? Report that $20 Grandma gave you on your taxes? Drive 60 mph in a 55mph zone? Welcome to the vast criminal underground.
Why do I have visions of SWAT teams busting down doors with automatic weapons at the ready
Welcome to the "War on Copying"! Sure to be every bit as successful as the "War on Drugs". You can look forward to a violent black market in bootleg CDs, further erosion of those civil liberties left after 30 years of "War on Drugs" and 3 year "War on Terror", and absolutely no effect on people's desire or ability to make copies of stuff.
I'm definitely nothing to look at, and I'm routinely amazed by the women that I get just because I *try*.
Fellow geek guys, gather round. Let me tell you a vital secret:
Confidence. Is. Sexy.
Just like anything else, you have to work at it. Don't try to pick up the next "hot chick" you see, but do smile and nod, say "hello" as you pass by. Try that for a while, then move on to striking up a conversation with no intention of making a "pick-up". Practice this diligently and some day you'll be surprised as a beautiful woman is suddenly trying to pick you up.
I'm almost 35, certainly not better looking now than I was at say 22 and dateless. I'm certainly not rich (especially since I started downshifting and only work part-time now). But right now I'm almost getting more dates than I have time for. It's all attitude - by which I don't mean being an asshole, as some guys think is the ticket; just a quiet self-assurance goes a long way.
(Yes, I'm mid-thirties and still single, so if you want relationship advice go see someone else. I'm just talking about getting in the door here.)
And somewhere along the line it was "okey". I just finished re-reading Chandler's The Big Sleep, and everybody keeps saying "okey" (and not following it up with "dokey"). That's the only place I've seen it, though.
another fine example of bashing nails with a screwdriver.
Heh. Off-topic, but this phrase caught my eye, because just minutes ago I was pounding (well, more like tapping) nails with a pair of needlenose pliers. Why? Because it was a tight spot, a repair job of re-sinking nails that had been pulled loose, in a space where no hammer would fit.
For initial construction, there's usually a specific right tool designed for the job; but things can break in so many different and interesting ways that often creative tool is required.
Still, though, Pacman for Excel...that's just sick.
Biometrics are the wave of the near future/present.
Nah. Biometrics are the hype of the recent past/present.
Biometrics are nothing but tokens with the orginals securely attached to the user. They're vulnerable to spoofing and to loss, and just about impossible to repudiate when compromised.
Imagine having to allow people to copy your printed book for free because you looked up french words you wanted to use in your novell on some web site?
Please keep the anti-GPL FUD to some sort of rational level, ok?
Using a GPLed dictionary application while writing a document does not make the document a derivative work that must be GPLed, any more than using GNU Emacs to write a novel means the novel must be GPLed.
At no time is anything "extraordinary" in the scientific method.
In the method itself, yes, but science is not just the scientific method. It is also a culture. Because of those social aspects, scientists demand different levels of proof.
To paraphrase an idea from, IIRC, Asimov: If I claim to have 5 kg of common salt, no one's going to demand any proof. If I claim to have 5 kg of gold, people won't believe me unless they see it or have some good form of verification. If I I claim to have 5 kg of plutonium, even seeing it wouldn't be enough proof, it's such an extraordinary claim that trickery would be suspect.
No. Deterrance teaches "don't get caught doing this again". Rehabilitation turns the convict into someone who doesn't want to commit their crime again. If deterrance worked, recitivism rates would be low.
And getting use of any of those sender or message authentication tools into people's email clients is a technically workable but politically painful process.
Ah, but the cryptographic stuff doesn't have to be in the client. You can do a server-side scheme like DomainKeys. (I don't know enough about DomainKeys specifically to know if they got the implementation right, so this is not a specific endorsement.)
2: SPF does interfere with mail reflectors, the standard ".forward" mechanism used by typical forwarding systems. Unfortunately, this is clearly necessary: there is no way to distinguish such email from blatantly forged email
Of course there is. It's called a digital signature, and is the proper solution to the problem of authenticating messages.
And in three years I've never missed an important email.
How would you know? By definition, you would have missed it. Someone could have sent you an e-mail message offering you your dream job. An old girlfriend who could have been the love of your life might have tried to reach you by e-mail to get back together. Who knows?
The most you can say is that you've never learned about an important missed e-mail message, a much weaker claim.
So, no, you shouldn't distort an accurate statement and then mock the distorted version. Especially where there's so much else about Gore worthy of being mocked. I'm all for mocking politicians, just keep it accurate.
To my knowledge no one has demostrated the effectiveness of extremely diluted homeopathic solutions. (Some homeopathic solutions do contain significant quantities of active principles.)
There's actually some sense to the basic premise of homopathy, that substances should be administered that enhance rather than mute the patient's symptoms. If someone is experiencing diarrhea, for example, it can be the body's attempt to expel a pathogen or poison, and perhaps should be assisted with a purgative rather than resisted with a drug that paralyzes the intestinal muscles.
But the notion that water somehow "remembers" the active principle at extreme dilutions and has some therapeutic effect, has never been demostrated in a good controlled study.
And does the placebo effect work on small children?
Sure it could. Mothers use this all the time, "kiss it and make it better". Works wonders. Unfortunately most adults have to be fooled more elaborately, requiring a nurse or doctor to distribute pills, injections, or even placebo surgery to break the cycle of injury, stress, pain, and suffering, and fully mobilize the body's own healing resources.
I've done a little side work in the computer field, once for a social worker FOAF (now wife-OAF) who was setting up a computer lab in the neighborhood where she worked, once for a former client of a former employer who hired me to do a little extra development.
These days I've doing software for this site part-time, and my side jobs are my shiatsu and massage practice and karate program (which is actully showing potential of moving from an expensive hobby to at least breaking even this year). And I've been talking lately with some folks about doing a little website set-up and hosting.
But back before the PC revolution (yes, young'ns, there was a time before everyone had their own machine), in the late 70s/early 80s my father had a reasonably profitable side job running off mailing labels for organizations.
A church group or a local union chapter could get a discount by sorting their mail by zip code, so my father would get time on the computers at his day-job employer and run off a batch of sorted mailing labels. I remember helping him carry the boxes of punch cards, and getting to go into the machine room with its whirring tape drives, clattering line printer, heavy-duty A/C...ah, geek nostalgia.
We might. While this woman is now able to walk, which rocks, I would think she'll be on anti-rejection drugs the rest of her life. The stem cells aren't her own.
The best therapeutic outcome would come from stem cells with the patient's own genes. It's not yet known whether pluripotent adult stem cells could fit the bill, or if therapeutic cloning (involving embryonic stem cells) would be necessary.
I've been able to get connectivity on my Linux laptop with Verizon and a Samsung A650 phone. Even been able to put on a custom MIDI ringtone with BitPim.
so many unecissary regulations in the states, that nuclear power is impossible
Just what regulations on toxic and radioative material that can be used to create nuclear weapons and "dirty bombs" do you beleive unnecessary?
I myself wish I had enough money to buy a ship and put a nuclear reactor on it out in international waters and sell safe and simple hydrogen back to the mainland.
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Except for "fair use".
When a law is bad, yes, it's ethically ok to break it. Certainly when a law is in itself illegal (and many copyright laws go well beyond Congress's enumerated power to provide copyright to authors for a limited time), it's ethically ok to break it.
Everyone breaks laws, let's not pretend otherwise. Have a beer before you were 21? Report that $20 Grandma gave you on your taxes? Drive 60 mph in a 55mph zone? Welcome to the vast criminal underground.
Welcome to the "War on Copying"! Sure to be every bit as successful as the "War on Drugs". You can look forward to a violent black market in bootleg CDs, further erosion of those civil liberties left after 30 years of "War on Drugs" and 3 year "War on Terror", and absolutely no effect on people's desire or ability to make copies of stuff.
Fellow geek guys, gather round. Let me tell you a vital secret:
Confidence. Is. Sexy.
Just like anything else, you have to work at it. Don't try to pick up the next "hot chick" you see, but do smile and nod, say "hello" as you pass by. Try that for a while, then move on to striking up a conversation with no intention of making a "pick-up". Practice this diligently and some day you'll be surprised as a beautiful woman is suddenly trying to pick you up.
I'm almost 35, certainly not better looking now than I was at say 22 and dateless. I'm certainly not rich (especially since I started downshifting and only work part-time now). But right now I'm almost getting more dates than I have time for. It's all attitude - by which I don't mean being an asshole, as some guys think is the ticket; just a quiet self-assurance goes a long way.
(Yes, I'm mid-thirties and still single, so if you want relationship advice go see someone else. I'm just talking about getting in the door here.)
And somewhere along the line it was "okey". I just finished re-reading Chandler's The Big Sleep, and everybody keeps saying "okey" (and not following it up with "dokey"). That's the only place I've seen it, though.
Heh. Off-topic, but this phrase caught my eye, because just minutes ago I was pounding (well, more like tapping) nails with a pair of needlenose pliers. Why? Because it was a tight spot, a repair job of re-sinking nails that had been pulled loose, in a space where no hammer would fit.
For initial construction, there's usually a specific right tool designed for the job; but things can break in so many different and interesting ways that often creative tool is required.
Still, though, Pacman for Excel...that's just sick.
Get an iPaq, install Familiar. Or get a Zaurus.
Nah. Biometrics are the hype of the recent past/present.
Biometrics are nothing but tokens with the orginals securely attached to the user. They're vulnerable to spoofing and to loss, and just about impossible to repudiate when compromised.
Most of my friends are not heavy e-mailers, and often more than a month goes by between e-mail messages from them.
Please keep the anti-GPL FUD to some sort of rational level, ok?
Using a GPLed dictionary application while writing a document does not make the document a derivative work that must be GPLed, any more than using GNU Emacs to write a novel means the novel must be GPLed.
Not NBC, SciFi, and not a rumor. http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/
In the method itself, yes, but science is not just the scientific method. It is also a culture. Because of those social aspects, scientists demand different levels of proof.
To paraphrase an idea from, IIRC, Asimov: If I claim to have 5 kg of common salt, no one's going to demand any proof. If I claim to have 5 kg of gold, people won't believe me unless they see it or have some good form of verification. If I I claim to have 5 kg of plutonium, even seeing it wouldn't be enough proof, it's such an extraordinary claim that trickery would be suspect.
There are a couple of projects doing this.
See also Tao Linux and White Box Linux.
There's a list of similar projects on the Tao Linux site, including a roll-your-own-distro-from-RHEL-SPRMS HOWTO.
No. Deterrance teaches "don't get caught doing this again". Rehabilitation turns the convict into someone who doesn't want to commit their crime again. If deterrance worked, recitivism rates would be low.
Ah, but the cryptographic stuff doesn't have to be in the client. You can do a server-side scheme like DomainKeys. (I don't know enough about DomainKeys specifically to know if they got the implementation right, so this is not a specific endorsement.)
Of course there is. It's called a digital signature, and is the proper solution to the problem of authenticating messages.
How would you know? By definition, you would have missed it. Someone could have sent you an e-mail message offering you your dream job. An old girlfriend who could have been the love of your life might have tried to reach you by e-mail to get back together. Who knows?
The most you can say is that you've never learned about an important missed e-mail message, a much weaker claim.
Except that SPF is badly broken in several different ways.
In context, Gore's words were quite accurate. Just as we say that Bush II invaded Iraq even though he's not out there with a rifle, or we say that "Eisenhower created the Interstate system" even though he wasn't out there with a bulldozer.
So, no, you shouldn't distort an accurate statement and then mock the distorted version. Especially where there's so much else about Gore worthy of being mocked. I'm all for mocking politicians, just keep it accurate.
To my knowledge no one has demostrated the effectiveness of extremely diluted homeopathic solutions. (Some homeopathic solutions do contain significant quantities of active principles.)
There's actually some sense to the basic premise of homopathy, that substances should be administered that enhance rather than mute the patient's symptoms. If someone is experiencing diarrhea, for example, it can be the body's attempt to expel a pathogen or poison, and perhaps should be assisted with a purgative rather than resisted with a drug that paralyzes the intestinal muscles.
But the notion that water somehow "remembers" the active principle at extreme dilutions and has some therapeutic effect, has never been demostrated in a good controlled study.
Sure it could. Mothers use this all the time, "kiss it and make it better". Works wonders. Unfortunately most adults have to be fooled more elaborately, requiring a nurse or doctor to distribute pills, injections, or even placebo surgery to break the cycle of injury, stress, pain, and suffering, and fully mobilize the body's own healing resources.
I've done a little side work in the computer field, once for a social worker FOAF (now wife-OAF) who was setting up a computer lab in the neighborhood where she worked, once for a former client of a former employer who hired me to do a little extra development.
These days I've doing software for this site part-time, and my side jobs are my shiatsu and massage practice and karate program (which is actully showing potential of moving from an expensive hobby to at least breaking even this year). And I've been talking lately with some folks about doing a little website set-up and hosting.
But back before the PC revolution (yes, young'ns, there was a time before everyone had their own machine), in the late 70s/early 80s my father had a reasonably profitable side job running off mailing labels for organizations.
A church group or a local union chapter could get a discount by sorting their mail by zip code, so my father would get time on the computers at his day-job employer and run off a batch of sorted mailing labels. I remember helping him carry the boxes of punch cards, and getting to go into the machine room with its whirring tape drives, clattering line printer, heavy-duty A/C...ah, geek nostalgia.
We might. While this woman is now able to walk, which rocks, I would think she'll be on anti-rejection drugs the rest of her life. The stem cells aren't her own.
The best therapeutic outcome would come from stem cells with the patient's own genes. It's not yet known whether pluripotent adult stem cells could fit the bill, or if therapeutic cloning (involving embryonic stem cells) would be necessary.
I've been able to get connectivity on my Linux laptop with Verizon and a Samsung A650 phone. Even been able to put on a custom MIDI ringtone with BitPim.
Some specifics about set up can be found here.
Just what regulations on toxic and radioative material that can be used to create nuclear weapons and "dirty bombs" do you beleive unnecessary?
You might find "The Millennial Project" interesting.
Trading one serious problem for another is not smart behavior.