>Perhaps Sweden had better things to do with their police force, like arrest murderes, rapists, and real criminals. Not to say Movie Piracy is legal (morals aside), but the amount of manpower and resources this takes is absolutely ludicrous for the overall payoff.
Yes, but if you were a politician being paid off to turn movie piracy into a capital offense, you'd have to show some results to your corporate masters, right?
I'm sure the "payoff" is indeed worth it to the people who were bought to press this into existance.
It's ignored because Windows was never designed with security in mind and grew to be the mess it is because that's the only way you can properly run Windows, as admin.
To come along much later and fix this, then blame the users is very poor on Microsoft's part.
I use the ad-blocking hosts file found on www.everythingisnt.com
Many of you know it I'm sure. It works really well.
But when I returned to Slashdot to surf, I realized ads.osdn.com was being blocked.
I thought to myself that since the ads on Slashdot are NOT obtrusive, and they ARE a form of revenue for Slashdot, why should I block them?
It all goes with how you are selling your soul: if you are a web site with NO moral fibre, you won't care about subjecting your readership to pop-over/under/whatever type ads.
But if you are only trying to make a legitimate dollar and have some integrity, then you do like Slashdot and have a simple banner ad at the top of the page.
I would expect Slashdot to find another advertiser if ever osdn.ads.com started spewing pop-ups or somesuch, and as a sign of respect to Slashdot, I edited my host file and removed the line that was blocking ads.osdn.com
lest Slashdot be forced to become a pay-only service some day, I suggest we all do the same.
Not all web sites are equal, and not all advertisers are equal.
I've decided to support Slashdot in this way.
I know it's very popular to malign Slashdot, but what can I say, this is how I feel.
I started out caring about karma, eventually realized it made NO difference, stopped moderating and meta-moderating, and now I'm much happier.
I can still find the interesting and insightful content on Slashdot and I'm convinced NO moderation system on a public site like Slashdot could ever make any difference.
There is still good content, and still lots of trolling, but I just ignore the trolling.
And I'm happy. Happier than I would be if I gave a crap and started trying to "fix things".
>Microsoft Software Development Life Cycle works a 'little' different. We market it first, then release it, then develop it and then design it. And maybe, just maybe we might make it work if enough people are using it.
You forgot a bit:
when the software is being used by lots of people, Microsoft stop any effort of improving it.
>Paradoxes are impossible - the probability of such an event is zero, as it assumes multiple, inconsistent events occur.
What if you are completely right, but your interpretation of the consequences is wrong?
Maybe there is only ONE timeline, and your setting events to be inconsistent within it simply causes reality to shut down?
You and every part of the universe instance you came from is instantly terminated like a processing exception...
You stack is de-allocated and your instance data is reset to zero.
I'd be very careful before messing time, because the universe may hold consistency higher than we think. Possibly we'd become a universe that could have been, but didn't because as you say -
[A] world which is self-consistent exists, and [] one with a paradox does not.
>The current system of profiting off one lucky creation for 3 generations is insane and does no foster creation, innovation or invention. Especially for the children who inherit valuable copyrights.
Especially when most artists do NOT own the publishing rights to their works.
Forget about an artist's children (or the artist) collecting a dime from any of this business.
The people pushing this are media corporations, and they AREN'T doing it for the artists, nor the artists' children.
They're doing it to be able to reap billions of dollars forever from the work of others and use those billions to buy more politicians in order to pass more laws that criminalize you.
Bottom line; these corporations are big enough already, and I don't see the advantage for the people in changing the laws so corporations become even more powerful only so they can oppress the people further.
Build a radio-telescope on the dark side of the moon, effectively using the moon itself as a shield from the earth's "noise" and transmit the data back to earth for analysis.
>Gas is one of the worlds cheapest liquids period. Other then tap water, nothing even comes close (or it didn't until the recent run up in price). I still think a gallon of milk is about 2.50-3.00
I salute your bringing attention to the real issue, which is science.
Al I can respond is I hope the the scientists, engineers, thinkers and artists are still with us, otherwise it'll really be a long way to Mars.
Possibly the fire you're missing could be found in science fairs and competitions. I've seen some good things there.
As Carl Sagan noted, it is very difficult to get the media interested in real science; they expect it to be "boring" even if it isn't. Ironic when it is the media job to alert us about the lack of funding for science in schools.
But there are many really successful television shows about forensic investigation... So maybe there are some geeks out there after all.:-)
In all, we need more money in space and education to develop new materials and new manufacturing techniques. Innovations we'll need to go to Mars.
We need education to get those, because it is a long-term investment.
QED We need sustained commitment in education to get to Mars!
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Imagine a cluster of those -
never mind...
I switched from Windows to Linux at home two years ago and sure, it was a bit of a learning curve, but I'm much happier now.
Call me a ricer, but my Gentoo box is ten times more stable and faster than that bloated crapware Windows EVER was.
Also, most software available through the Gentoo catalog (emerge system) is higher quality than virtually everything Microsoft provides "for free".
The only problem I've had is that my TV tuner card is not supported; I wish I had known about Linux before I bought it.
So, who are you going to believe? Some anonymous coward who mudslings and runs away or someone who is telling the true story of what they experienced?
He makes sense, dammit.
>Perhaps Sweden had better things to do with their police force, like arrest murderes, rapists, and real criminals. Not to say Movie Piracy is legal (morals aside), but the amount of manpower and resources this takes is absolutely ludicrous for the overall payoff.
Yes, but if you were a politician being paid off to turn movie piracy into a capital offense, you'd have to show some results to your corporate masters, right?
I'm sure the "payoff" is indeed worth it to the people who were bought to press this into existance.
If they don't CLOSE the holes, some one else will just pick up where Claria left off.
If Microsoft buys Claria, they'll effectively be holding both sides of the pop-up/under problem.
Maybe they'll be able to develop a pop-over/under technology that CAN'T be blocked by browsers by controlling both sides.
I agree with your general statement, but security is a fact.
For example, you have a key to operate your car, so no one else can take it without your consent.
You have locks on your home, so no one can come in and rob you.
You have implicit security on your phone; you can only make long-distance calls billable to your number from that same number.
Your banking card has a P.I.N.
etc...
Lots of simple devices have security built into them.
Close,
It's ignored because Windows was never designed with security in mind and grew to be the mess it is because that's the only way you can properly run Windows, as admin.
To come along much later and fix this, then blame the users is very poor on Microsoft's part.
When I think of you, I feel fear, uncertainty and doubt.
I wouldn't touch your products with a ten-foot pole.
I think I'll use this Linux thing I've heard about instead.
I use the ad-blocking hosts file found on
www.everythingisnt.com
Many of you know it I'm sure. It works really well.
But when I returned to Slashdot to surf, I realized ads.osdn.com was being blocked.
I thought to myself that since the ads on Slashdot are NOT obtrusive, and they ARE a form of revenue for Slashdot, why should I block them?
It all goes with how you are selling your soul: if you are a web site with NO moral fibre, you won't care about subjecting your readership to pop-over/under/whatever type ads.
But if you are only trying to make a legitimate dollar and have some integrity, then you do like Slashdot and have a simple banner ad at the top of the page.
I would expect Slashdot to find another advertiser if ever osdn.ads.com started spewing pop-ups or somesuch, and as a sign of respect to Slashdot, I edited my host file and removed the line that was blocking ads.osdn.com
lest Slashdot be forced to become a pay-only service some day, I suggest we all do the same.
Not all web sites are equal, and not all advertisers are equal.
I've decided to support Slashdot in this way.
I know it's very popular to malign Slashdot, but what can I say, this is how I feel.
Wouldn't mesh routing and signal strength analysis at least help to keep the positioning data more accurate?
Just a thought...
I started out caring about karma, eventually realized it made NO difference, stopped moderating and meta-moderating, and now I'm much happier.
I can still find the interesting and insightful content on Slashdot and I'm convinced NO moderation system on a public site like Slashdot could ever make any difference.
There is still good content, and still lots of trolling, but I just ignore the trolling.
And I'm happy. Happier than I would be if I gave a crap and started trying to "fix things".
That way lies madness.
>Microsoft Software Development Life Cycle works a 'little' different. We market it first, then release it, then develop it and then design it. And maybe, just maybe we might make it work if enough people are using it.
You forgot a bit:
when the software is being used by lots of people, Microsoft stop any effort of improving it.
>The people who create something evil, or the people who copy them
If what they created is protected under the DMCA, then it's more evil to copy.
That means they'll repeal the blank media tax we pay on all storage media.
Right? Right?
>Paradoxes are impossible - the probability of such an event is zero, as it assumes multiple, inconsistent events occur.
What if you are completely right, but your interpretation of the consequences is wrong?
Maybe there is only ONE timeline, and your setting events to be inconsistent within it simply causes reality to shut down?
You and every part of the universe instance you came from is instantly terminated like a processing exception...
You stack is de-allocated and your instance data is reset to zero.
I'd be very careful before messing time, because the universe may hold consistency higher than we think. Possibly we'd become a universe that could have been, but didn't because as you say -
[A] world which is self-consistent exists, and [] one with a paradox does not.
Linux is absolutely shoddy, what with the ease it molds itself to every computing platform ever developed, its reliability and stability and cost.
*rolls eyes at Theo*
Whatever, dude.
If Linux is for losers and BSD is for Winners, I'll fight to stay with the losers.
>The current system of profiting off one lucky creation for 3 generations is insane and does no foster creation, innovation or invention. Especially for the children who inherit valuable copyrights.
Especially when most artists do NOT own the publishing rights to their works.
Forget about an artist's children (or the artist) collecting a dime from any of this business.
The people pushing this are media corporations, and they AREN'T doing it for the artists, nor the artists' children.
They're doing it to be able to reap billions of dollars forever from the work of others and use those billions to buy more politicians in order to pass more laws that criminalize you.
Bottom line; these corporations are big enough already, and I don't see the advantage for the people in changing the laws so corporations become even more powerful only so they can oppress the people further.
And Microsoft hopes this will cement their position in the indonesian government.
But what I hope the Indonesian people will remember is that for a while, Microsoft loomed above them with its might.
Do the Indonesian people really want a foreign economic power like Microsoft to do that to them?
Even worse, Microsoft is closed-source! That is a security risk.
When Microsoft "share code", they require you cede rights to view it.
This is clearly untenable for any people.
Good luck, Indonesia.
D'oh!
;-Q
So if I had said "build a radio-telescope on the far side of the moon" you wouldn't have nit-picked?
Well, consider me pickled tink!
So you think radio-astronomers are as useful as telephone sanitizers?
Reality called; they've got YOUR upgrade ticket for first-class on the "B" ark, Detritus.
Build a radio-telescope on the dark side of the moon, effectively using the moon itself as a shield from the earth's "noise" and transmit the data back to earth for analysis.
>Gas is one of the worlds cheapest liquids period. Other then tap water, nothing even comes close (or it didn't until the recent run up in price). I still think a gallon of milk is about 2.50-3.00
Only nobody drinks 40 gallons of milk per week...
Bacteria may be the only culture some people have.
I salute your bringing attention to the real issue, which is science.
:-)
Al I can respond is
I hope the the scientists, engineers, thinkers and artists are still with us, otherwise it'll really be a long way to Mars.
Possibly the fire you're missing could be found in science fairs and competitions. I've seen some good things there.
As Carl Sagan noted, it is very difficult to get the media interested in real science; they expect it to be "boring" even if it isn't. Ironic when it is the media job to alert us about the lack of funding for science in schools.
But there are many really successful television shows about forensic investigation... So maybe there are some geeks out there after all.
In all, we need more money in space and education to develop new materials and new manufacturing techniques. Innovations we'll need to go to Mars.
We need education to get those, because it is a long-term investment.
QED
We need sustained commitment in education to get to Mars!