If you're going to do something like that, make it something fun. Require footage of MPAA and RIAA folks dancing around in tutus singing about the evils of the DMCA and the joys of free speech.
We could also require Jack Valenti to be spanked once for every movie ticket, tape, DVD, CD, e-book, sold that used free software at any stage of production.
"Anyone opposing the SSSCA should be registered as a terrorist and murdered on the spot."
Murdered? The government does not commit murder. The government removes dissidents and executes criminals. Your statement seems anti-governmental itself. You will have to be re-educated. Pay no attention to the non-descript van parked across the street. Go about your normal business, we will "assist" you at our convenience.
I say we "register" MPAA members as sex offenders.
Corporations may be treated as people under the law (a weak assertion, but I understand the context), but that does not give one person the right to rivet steel plates on everyone else's mouth out of fear of what they might have to say.
This proposal, which can be used to protect copyrights can also be abused to destroy free speech and press.
"what would YOU do?"
Find some other method that does not involve forcible compliance and criminal penalties.
That's nice. Anyone who isn't running an Athlon or P4 is a lazy, non-working fuck. I know plenty of people who get cast-off PC's from work when their office upgrades. They aren't necessarily programmers. They are potential Linux converts. I'm not slamming Red Hat's requirements, just the assertion that if you don't have a certain class of hardware, or can't code bug fixes yourself, you are an inferior fuck. Now kindly fuck off, AC.
What if you have an older machine that is limited to 64M? Are you saying computer competence is directly related to being able to finance a new system?
Or might it be because that's the freakin' point of the freakin' article (which is actually entitled "Non-metallic magnet could be dream computer memory")?
"how about mucking with a person's Quicken file to send all their money to bankaccount X in South America, the next time they login to bank online. The money went somewhere... you can't just restore the database and magically have the money back..."
Actually, I work in online bill pay and banking, so I do know that you cannot simply do that. If you mess with the file on the owner's computer, there will probably be file discrepancies with the online system, and any such transaction would be rejected, forcing the owner to call in and have everything reset. Assuming a transaction was initiated, the owner could see it and cancel it - nothing happens instantly in banking. And with Quicken, the only way to send money to accounts at other banks in other countries with a different name on the account would be by check (surprise! a stoppable, traceable check). Even if the check doesn't get stopped in time, the onus falls on the victim's bank or bill pay service to reimburse the victim and pursue retrieval of funds from the receiving bank.
I checked. It seemed heavily biased and rather unfocused. It did cite several media and gov sources that show:
150,000 Cambodians died in bombings
40,000 Vietnamese died from unexploded ordnance since the war.
37 soldiers died in mine-clearing operations
As many as 120,000 soldiers died in Iraq
Grand total is 308,285. No other sources were cited, it just states 14 nations bombed and 3,000,000 killed. Not exactly credible evidence.
"There's probably a nuclear power plant somewhere in the world that has a modem, etc. connection, there could be some massive deaths there"
I find it beyond belief that the reactor controls would be accessible. Maybe someone could dim the lights for a short time.
"I don't know about you, but if I had all my money wiped from my bank accounts it would *not* be a minor thing, it's not like people keep cash in a hole dug out back. Think about people who are retired and living off of their savings from the past 50-60 years, and ALL their money is now gone, what are they going to live off of? "
You can't just go in and "delete" the money. The banks are required to back up their data. Besides, each and every account is insured up to $100,000, which should tide things over until the money or data can be recovered.
TOS??? 35 year old tired sixties-TV dreck?
TNG??? 20 Year old tired pseudo-Williams seventies dreck?
DS9??? Booooooring
Voyager??? Even moooooore booooooring
Lexx?????? RED DWARF?????? GOOD MUSIC??????
B5....okay I have to agree with you there. Though I liked the 4th season theme better.
I said nothing about physical precursor. I said "tested". Testing can be done mathematically as well as physically, and the burden of disproving it is still the same.
This is the way it works in Quantum physics, high-energy physics, superstring...all of the stuff that falls under "Theoretical".
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Still not a valid justification for trashing freedom.
If you're going to do something like that, make it something fun. Require footage of MPAA and RIAA folks dancing around in tutus singing about the evils of the DMCA and the joys of free speech.
We could also require Jack Valenti to be spanked once for every movie ticket, tape, DVD, CD, e-book, sold that used free software at any stage of production.
I know...now how am I gonna get the babes?
Sons a' bitches.
"Anyone opposing the SSSCA should be registered as a terrorist and murdered on the spot."
Murdered? The government does not commit murder. The government removes dissidents and executes criminals. Your statement seems anti-governmental itself. You will have to be re-educated. Pay no attention to the non-descript van parked across the street. Go about your normal business, we will "assist" you at our convenience.
I say we "register" MPAA members as sex offenders.
Damn, now I will have to be re-educated.
Corporations may be treated as people under the law (a weak assertion, but I understand the context), but that does not give one person the right to rivet steel plates on everyone else's mouth out of fear of what they might have to say.
This proposal, which can be used to protect copyrights can also be abused to destroy free speech and press.
"what would YOU do?"
Find some other method that does not involve forcible compliance and criminal penalties.
But when I submitted the story a couple hours before this one it was rejected in minutes.
Sheesh.
Same damn info too.
That's nice. Anyone who isn't running an Athlon or P4 is a lazy, non-working fuck. I know plenty of people who get cast-off PC's from work when their office upgrades. They aren't necessarily programmers. They are potential Linux converts. I'm not slamming Red Hat's requirements, just the assertion that if you don't have a certain class of hardware, or can't code bug fixes yourself, you are an inferior fuck. Now kindly fuck off, AC.
What if you have an older machine that is limited to 64M? Are you saying computer competence is directly related to being able to finance a new system?
But, that's why you are posting as an AC.
Or might it be because that's the freakin' point of the freakin' article (which is actually entitled "Non-metallic magnet could be dream computer memory")?
With about half the usefulness...
I'm worried about the sanity of a society that makes robot cats and dogs, virtual pets, and emotional cars.
Don't Athlon boxes already do just that?
Maybe Intel dropped the Blue Man Group in favor of using black labs in their newest ad campaign...
Apparently, reading the article is still considered optional.
"how about mucking with a person's Quicken file to send all their money to bankaccount X in South America, the next time they login to bank online. The money went somewhere... you can't just restore the database and magically have the money back..."
Actually, I work in online bill pay and banking, so I do know that you cannot simply do that. If you mess with the file on the owner's computer, there will probably be file discrepancies with the online system, and any such transaction would be rejected, forcing the owner to call in and have everything reset. Assuming a transaction was initiated, the owner could see it and cancel it - nothing happens instantly in banking. And with Quicken, the only way to send money to accounts at other banks in other countries with a different name on the account would be by check (surprise! a stoppable, traceable check). Even if the check doesn't get stopped in time, the onus falls on the victim's bank or bill pay service to reimburse the victim and pursue retrieval of funds from the receiving bank.
That's odd. I thought it was when the USS Maine blew up.
You forgot the part where bin Laden announces he will be hiring two private detectives to find the "real terrorists".
We're supposed to be living in fear, but you're the Anonymous Coward.
I checked. It seemed heavily biased and rather unfocused. It did cite several media and gov sources that show:
150,000 Cambodians died in bombings
40,000 Vietnamese died from unexploded ordnance since the war.
37 soldiers died in mine-clearing operations
As many as 120,000 soldiers died in Iraq
Grand total is 308,285. No other sources were cited, it just states 14 nations bombed and 3,000,000 killed. Not exactly credible evidence.
"There's probably a nuclear power plant somewhere in the world that has a modem, etc. connection, there could be some massive deaths there"
I find it beyond belief that the reactor controls would be accessible. Maybe someone could dim the lights for a short time.
"I don't know about you, but if I had all my money wiped from my bank accounts it would *not* be a minor thing, it's not like people keep cash in a hole dug out back. Think about people who are retired and living off of their savings from the past 50-60 years, and ALL their money is now gone, what are they going to live off of? "
You can't just go in and "delete" the money. The banks are required to back up their data. Besides, each and every account is insured up to $100,000, which should tide things over until the money or data can be recovered.
"Gas is a state of matter."
Not to be confused with a state of mind.
What is mind? No matter.
What is matter? Never mind.
Good. God. Kill. Me. Please.
Beastie Boys???
Good???
TOS??? 35 year old tired sixties-TV dreck?
TNG??? 20 Year old tired pseudo-Williams seventies dreck?
DS9??? Booooooring
Voyager??? Even moooooore booooooring
Lexx?????? RED DWARF?????? GOOD MUSIC??????
B5....okay I have to agree with you there. Though I liked the 4th season theme better.
"Nothing could be worse than what they have now."
Wrong. They could have composed another piece of the same tired, boring crap they've foisted on us since TMP.
Let's face it, the symphonic scores weren't exactly Mozart. They weren't even Bernstein.
That is not indemic to the process. Change the fuel to deuterium and you eliminate the neutrons.
I said nothing about physical precursor. I said "tested". Testing can be done mathematically as well as physically, and the burden of disproving it is still the same.
This is the way it works in Quantum physics, high-energy physics, superstring...all of the stuff that falls under "Theoretical".