Uh, what does political correctness have to do with this? I notice you mention it in this article and in your sig, yet I doubt that Archimedes would have any concept of what a contemporary westerner would know as "political correctness", nor do I understand its relevance to his capability in creating a focused energy beam weapon out of bronze and glass that we can't produce today with modern alloys and polymers.
I doubt he did this any more than theseus truly outwitted a half-bull, half-man creature in an immense maze with simply his wits and a ball of twine. As with many myths... there is a grain of truth here... Anyone with a curved reflective surface can show that an energy emission (such as the sun) can be reflected and refocused. Turning it into a weapon capable of defeating a large navy is the mythological part. Come on. You seriously think this guy, even with OMGZ WTF BBQ math skills, could beat out a dozen or more of the best technology schools' teams that attempt to reproduce this every few years or so, with modern materials, physics, and math?
So when the average citizen wants to discuss impeaching a dictator, your system would have them typing in a dotted quad to get to their favorite dissenter messageboard? DNS is the number one reason for the rise of the WWW and casual internet use. So ya, it's pretty important.
"What you're implying is that the US should be ruled by Bill Gates, Donald Trump and a few hundred other wealthy folks." Not should, IS. The wealthiest people in the country run the corporations, who run everything. I actually think it's an awful way to run things. But that's an aside, because that wasn't really what I meant...
"After all, the fact that "the people" has bred like rabbits shouldn't grant them any rights, right? While I've always wondered how meritocracy would fare on a larger scale, this does seem to me a bit of a dangerous experiment."...I was talking about inter-national politics. In determining how much voice a given nation recieves, I think that there should be many other factors taken into account, such as ability to provide decent standard of living for their people, rather than having as many babies as possible.
It can be analogized to an individual level though...I truly believe that a welfare-bound family who chooses to pump out 8 or 10 babies rather than having a reasonable amount of children and preserving their ability to to support their family is of less value to society than the latter.
"And I don't want some American beaurocrat having that exact same power."
really? cause they've had it pretty much since it's existed. I assume you have some legitimate complaints about how they've abused that power to found your argument? ause I can guarantee you that China would never, ever allow the kind freedoms allowed on the internet by the US. And frankly, neither would most muslim nations, and between the Chinese and the muslims, we're talking about a majority vote of the world here.
"All you need to do if China wants to stop you accessing certain names, is grab it from a different root server." g The average internet user wouldn't have a clue what the sentence you just typed means. They sure as hell wouldn't know how to determine which server they were querying or how to change it. I'd rather their rights be protected than expect them to become hackers in order to speak out against their government freely.
"All this scare-mongering over China censoring the world is pure nonsense. I've never heard, not once, of them trying to inflict their censorship on anyone else." They have no ability to do that right now, because the US controls the servers right now. Do you think they wouldn't, given the chance? That the PRC has some kind of immense respect for the freedoms the rest of the world enjoys? Have you heard of Taiwan or Tibet? Don't delude yourself, if they could, they would.
biggest in terms of what? I assume you mean population, but the OP might just as easily have meant economically, or in terms of ground coverage, in which both cases the US is dominant.
I don't think that the ability to overpopulate your country should grant you more rights.
"2. As for the "America paid for the Internet" argument we hear often, they only paid for their own part of it. I'm quite sure they didn't nip over to England to lay cables, or Australia, or Japan."
I have yet to seen anyone make this absurd claim to the extent you have taken it. America paid for the research that led to development of the protocols that are the foundation of the internet. Other countries are welcome to do whatever they like with their cabling, that is irrelevant to this argument- the internet would exist even if Britain developed their own protocols and created their own internet. What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works, and I don't want some Chinese beaurocrat having the power to affect what web pages (for example) I can see in the US (which becomes a possibility as soon as they are running their own root server)
Why exactly do so many slashdotters want other countries running the internet? Do you really want other nations vying to censor the net with their own particular topics, such as Germany making nazi propaganda and/or paraphernalia illegal, or a bunch of Muslim nations banding together and attempting to make the display of uncovered female skin illegal, or Holland making deep-linking illegal, or China making anti-PRC information illegal?
What type of tapes were those? I'm willing to bet they were decidedly less wide-spread than 5.25" was. Sure, it won't be EASY to pull the data, but the idea that there will be a digital dark age- that we will permanently losing massive quantities of important data- is silly. Like I said, you might have to walk it into a local shop, or send it in to a studio somewhere, but there will be someone willing to accept money in return for retrieving the data, even if it means repairing old drives by hand.
...because, you know, nobody has record players, dat tapes, or 5 1/4" drives anymore...right? Come on. At some point, yes, it will become a niche item, but short of a world-wide holocaust it will never be impossible or even preposterously difficult to recover data from old formats. At worst, you'll send it to a specialty studio to transfer to another format, at best, you'll call up your friend who loves those retro CD's (they just SOUND better than quantum cubes!) and have him transfer it for you.
or psy, or drumnbass, or jungle, or speed garage, or breaks, or hardcore, or any other electronic genre which includes loooooong intros and loooong outros and 32 beats to a breakdown.
tell me using the word "steal" when what you really mean is "infringe copyright" isn't a little loaded. Seriously, they're breaking the same law that you would be if you copied a few chapters out of your favorite book. Your bias just swings the other way.
The point of publishing a paper is not necessarily to publish true facts, it's to put forth ideas that might turn out to be factual. It is up to the peer review of the scientific community to determine the validity of the published papers.
That's the whole reason the system works so well. If some grand moderator were arbitarily deciding what constitutes a "true" paper and preventing it from being published in any journal, we'd have a tyranny instead of a peer-review process.
This is a wildly different situation for many reasons, not the least of which is that "arabs" do not compose a nation which declare war as a whole. Your analogy might be apt if all of asia were has been engaged in guerilla war with the US, but in fact, the Japanese were busy slaughtering their neighboring asian nations at the same time they were fighting us. Also, this ignores the factors of Israel and its dependence upon US assistance to defend itself, as well as the fact that Saddam invited the second most recent major war between the US and iraq by invading, his rich but relatively defenseless neighbor.
Not to mention that Japan killed literally millions of Chinese. 370,000 dead in the Rape of Nanking? Where is the "Rape of Nanking" remembrance day? Or is that somehow better, since those people were murdered individually with bullets instead of with a pair of bombings that ended a bloody war?
its doubtful that those hard drives will survive for forty years, or that you will be able to get a replacement for a failed HD in even twenty years (and one or more will certainly fail in that time). So you'd still end up having to upgrade that RAID array as a whole every decade or so at minimum...
I believe that their goal is indeed profits- for themselves. They don't really care about artists profits, they care about their cushy middleman promotion jobs. They understand that filesharing does not truly reduce exposure or even profits where the artist is concerned, but they also understand that it cuts them out of the deal entirely. They understand that their jobs are redundant, and that's what scares them.
The bill only applies to certain sex offenders. Namely those who rape or molest a child under the age of 12. Do you seriously have a problem with people like this being tracked?
From what I've read, it's not so much the government as the people themselves who are upset and protesting about the japanese revisionism. Ironic that they don't care about their own government's similar behavior... or maybe not really, when you think about what the chinese gov't do to those who publicly protest the Chinese government.
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Uh, what does political correctness have to do with this? I notice you mention it in this article and in your sig, yet I doubt that Archimedes would have any concept of what a contemporary westerner would know as "political correctness", nor do I understand its relevance to his capability in creating a focused energy beam weapon out of bronze and glass that we can't produce today with modern alloys and polymers.
I doubt he did this any more than theseus truly outwitted a half-bull, half-man creature in an immense maze with simply his wits and a ball of twine. As with many myths... there is a grain of truth here... Anyone with a curved reflective surface can show that an energy emission (such as the sun) can be reflected and refocused. Turning it into a weapon capable of defeating a large navy is the mythological part. Come on. You seriously think this guy, even with OMGZ WTF BBQ math skills, could beat out a dozen or more of the best technology schools' teams that attempt to reproduce this every few years or so, with modern materials, physics, and math?
But hey, whatever makes you happy...
Semantics.
So when the average citizen wants to discuss impeaching a dictator, your system would have them typing in a dotted quad to get to their favorite dissenter messageboard? DNS is the number one reason for the rise of the WWW and casual internet use. So ya, it's pretty important.
"What you're implying is that the US should be ruled by Bill Gates, Donald Trump and a few hundred other wealthy folks."
...I was talking about inter-national politics. In determining how much voice a given nation recieves, I think that there should be many other factors taken into account, such as ability to provide decent standard of living for their people, rather than having as many babies as possible.
Not should, IS. The wealthiest people in the country run the corporations, who run everything. I actually think it's an awful way to run things. But that's an aside, because that wasn't really what I meant...
"After all, the fact that "the people" has bred like rabbits shouldn't grant them any rights, right? While I've always wondered how meritocracy would fare on a larger scale, this does seem to me a bit of a dangerous experiment."
It can be analogized to an individual level though...I truly believe that a welfare-bound family who chooses to pump out 8 or 10 babies rather than having a reasonable amount of children and preserving their ability to to support their family is of less value to society than the latter.
slashdot, where a legitimate but unpopular point gets you tagged flamebait.
"And I don't want some American beaurocrat having that exact same power."
really? cause they've had it pretty much since it's existed. I assume you have some legitimate complaints about how they've abused that power to found your argument?
ause I can guarantee you that China would never, ever allow the kind freedoms allowed on the internet by the US. And frankly, neither would most muslim nations, and between the Chinese and the muslims, we're talking about a majority vote of the world here.
"All you need to do if China wants to stop you accessing certain names, is grab it from a different root server."
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The average internet user wouldn't have a clue what the sentence you just typed means. They sure as hell wouldn't know how to determine which server they were querying or how to change it. I'd rather their rights be protected than expect them to become hackers in order to speak out against their government freely.
"All this scare-mongering over China censoring the world is pure nonsense. I've never heard, not once, of them trying to inflict their censorship on anyone else."
They have no ability to do that right now, because the US controls the servers right now. Do you think they wouldn't, given the chance? That the PRC has some kind of immense respect for the freedoms the rest of the world enjoys? Have you heard of Taiwan or Tibet? Don't delude yourself, if they could, they would.
biggest in terms of what? I assume you mean population, but the OP might just as easily have meant economically, or in terms of ground coverage, in which both cases the US is dominant.
I don't think that the ability to overpopulate your country should grant you more rights.
"2. As for the "America paid for the Internet" argument we hear often, they only paid for their own part of it. I'm quite sure they didn't nip over to England to lay cables, or Australia, or Japan."
I have yet to seen anyone make this absurd claim to the extent you have taken it. America paid for the research that led to development of the protocols that are the foundation of the internet. Other countries are welcome to do whatever they like with their cabling, that is irrelevant to this argument- the internet would exist even if Britain developed their own protocols and created their own internet.
What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works, and I don't want some Chinese beaurocrat having the power to affect what web pages (for example) I can see in the US (which becomes a possibility as soon as they are running their own root server)
Why exactly do so many slashdotters want other countries running the internet? Do you really want other nations vying to censor the net with their own particular topics, such as Germany making nazi propaganda and/or paraphernalia illegal, or a bunch of Muslim nations banding together and attempting to make the display of uncovered female skin illegal, or Holland making deep-linking illegal, or China making anti-PRC information illegal?
What type of tapes were those? I'm willing to bet they were decidedly less wide-spread than 5.25" was. Sure, it won't be EASY to pull the data, but the idea that there will be a digital dark age- that we will permanently losing massive quantities of important data- is silly.
Like I said, you might have to walk it into a local shop, or send it in to a studio somewhere, but there will be someone willing to accept money in return for retrieving the data, even if it means repairing old drives by hand.
...because, you know, nobody has record players, dat tapes, or 5 1/4" drives anymore...right? Come on. At some point, yes, it will become a niche item, but short of a world-wide holocaust it will never be impossible or even preposterously difficult to recover data from old formats.
At worst, you'll send it to a specialty studio to transfer to another format, at best, you'll call up your friend who loves those retro CD's (they just SOUND better than quantum cubes!) and have him transfer it for you.
ooh, a flame from an anonymous troll. It's easy to tell an idiot, because you all mistake your opinions for fact.
or psy, or drumnbass, or jungle, or speed garage, or breaks, or hardcore, or any other electronic genre which includes loooooong intros and loooong outros and 32 beats to a breakdown.
tell me using the word "steal" when what you really mean is "infringe copyright" isn't a little loaded. Seriously, they're breaking the same law that you would be if you copied a few chapters out of your favorite book.
Your bias just swings the other way.
The point of publishing a paper is not necessarily to publish true facts, it's to put forth ideas that might turn out to be factual. It is up to the peer review of the scientific community to determine the validity of the published papers.
That's the whole reason the system works so well. If some grand moderator were arbitarily deciding what constitutes a "true" paper and preventing it from being published in any journal, we'd have a tyranny instead of a peer-review process.
This would be counter to the spirit of science.
This is a wildly different situation for many reasons, not the least of which is that "arabs" do not compose a nation which declare war as a whole.
Your analogy might be apt if all of asia were has been engaged in guerilla war with the US, but in fact, the Japanese were busy slaughtering their neighboring asian nations at the same time they were fighting us.
Also, this ignores the factors of Israel and its dependence upon US assistance to defend itself, as well as the fact that Saddam invited the second most recent major war between the US and iraq by invading, his rich but relatively defenseless neighbor.
Not to mention that Japan killed literally millions of Chinese. 370,000 dead in the Rape of Nanking? Where is the "Rape of Nanking" remembrance day? Or is that somehow better, since those people were murdered individually with bullets instead of with a pair of bombings that ended a bloody war?
IIRC 300,000+ or so were lost in Japan's Rape of Nanking, addition to the hundreds of thousands that were literally raped.
Would you not prefer that a nuke had been dropped, and only 210k killed?
"Boardwalk" is an american property. The game is originally american, I believe?
not to mention that both sides would be kickbanned after five minutes for killing hostages.
its doubtful that those hard drives will survive for forty years, or that you will be able to get a replacement for a failed HD in even twenty years (and one or more will certainly fail in that time). So you'd still end up having to upgrade that RAID array as a whole every decade or so at minimum...
I believe that their goal is indeed profits- for themselves. They don't really care about artists profits, they care about their cushy middleman promotion jobs.
They understand that filesharing does not truly reduce exposure or even profits where the artist is concerned, but they also understand that it cuts them out of the deal entirely. They understand that their jobs are redundant, and that's what scares them.
ya, i think they call that "competition". even when software is free, competition fosters improvement.
Um, because it's not a crime to be an alcoholic?
The bill only applies to certain sex offenders. Namely those who rape or molest a child under the age of 12. Do you seriously have a problem with people like this being tracked?
From what I've read, it's not so much the government as the people themselves who are upset and protesting about the japanese revisionism.
Ironic that they don't care about their own government's similar behavior... or maybe not really, when you think about what the chinese gov't do to those who publicly protest the Chinese government.