It's no longer about preventing attacks from happening, but accepting that they are going to happen and hardening systems to minimize or eliminate theft and damage when they do. This might seem obvious to a lot of people in the tech industry, but it represents a major paradigm shift for banking.
. . . and one that we might be able to solve by better managing our watersheds. It would be expensive, but peanuts compared so some of the issues that get all the press, and would probably have more side benefits. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to use this issue to push their unrelated political agenda, so you don't hear much about it.
I've been an eBay user since 1999, but I sort of gave up after getting burned on counterfeit SD cards recently. It's my own fault, of course, but my solution was to stop buying that stuff on eBay and just use Amazon Prime.
It was the game show with the Whammies that stole your money. As I recall, there was a guy who watched the show long enough that he figured out a pattern that would let him win every time. He played for like three days, and won a crazy amount of money. The show went of the air, but I remember reading that the programmers who created the game board offered to make it 'true random' for another $600, and the network refused to pay it.
. . . because if our CO2 emissions aren't to blame, then we have a much more serious problem here. I hate the stupid Green Peace commercials, and the smug, self righteous environmentalists, and my first instinct is to be happy every time some thing like this comes up that might prove them wrong and knock them down a peg, but the fact of the matter is that if we aren't causing it, we're going to have a much more difficult time doing anything about it.
The bottom line here is that it doesn't matter whether we're causing Global Warming or not, we still need to move towards renewable energy, if not for the environment, then for the economy. If global warming is going to be the boogeyman that scares people into investing in alternate energy sources, then I'm all for it, even if it means siding with the environmentalist doomsayers.
Marvel and/or DC must feel that this comic is stealing some of their market, or they wouldn't have bothered with this. I don't know what they were worried about though, since I read a fair number of comics, and I'd never even heard of Super Hero Happy Hour.
When the CCB got this passed in the first place, they though they were protecting themselves. Then, a few years later, when they tried to convince the courts that download music was illegal under Canadian law, a judge ruled that if it was legal for the music industry to collect a levy for all recordable media sold, on the grounds that said media could potentially be used to record copyrighted music, it was also legal to download copyrighted music for personal use.
I suspect that this levy being re-introduced is essentially the music industry admitting defeat. They tried to stop the Internet from changing the world, and found that they could not, so they're settling for what little revenue they can reap from it.
Good call. The "other dimension" angle is usually classified as hyperspace in sci-fi. Warp Drive works like this.
Simply put, it 'warps' space by contracting space in front of you and stretching space behind you, so while you aren't actually moving faster than light, moving through the contracted space makes if appear as though you are, relative to a third party in non-contracted space.
I don't know enough about this theory to say this for certian, but it does sound like it's more based on Star Trek than Star Trek is on it. Of course, that doesn't make it any less plausible, in and of itself.
The Outer Space Treaty had a loophole and he exploited it. If that treaty is law, and his claim is valid, then he legally owns the moon. To my knowledge, no one has challenged the treaty, and no one has challenged his claim, so until someone does, he owns it.
Now, I don't think for one second that I could stop someone from mining or settling on my acre of the moon, but until someone actually takes Mr. Hope to task on this, what he's doing is perfectly legitimate.
There are two points to consider. First, since the Moon Land Registry has been selling property on the moon for as long as they have, they've established a precedent that, in combination with the questionable validity of their claim, will at least give them a case. If someone were to challenge this claim with nothing more than the 'this can't be real because it doesn't fit my paradigm' reasoning that seems to argument most Slashdotters are using, they're going to lose and Hope's claim will stand. Anyone who wants to dispute it is going to have to use actual law, not slanderous nonsense.
The second point to consider is why the Chinese government would have bothered to put a stop to this in China if they didn't see it as a potential obstacle in their ambitious plans for the moon. Plenty of companies sell gag gifts that make themselves out to be legit, but this is the one that gets singled out.
I actually submitted a simillar idea to Ask Slashdot back in September of 2001, suggesting that if we could get a hold of terrorist email addresses, we could spam them into unusability. Fortunatly, it was never posted, because there are some obvious flaws with that plan.
You're idea here is better, but it would probably still fall into the same pitfalls; who tracks down terrorist websites, who determines which sites are terrorist sites, and how do we make this effect last longer than a couple of days? It might be easier to determine with webpages, but it's going to be harder to keep it up, and I don't know whether we would really be accomplishing anything.
Still, terrorizing terrorist webpages would be a damn good time . . ..
NASA's Shuttle Fleet was supposedly state of the art in the 1980s, although half the posts in this thread will tell you that perhaps they weren't built that well back then. The point is, why are they trying to correct the flaw in such an antiquated vehicle? The Space Shuttles are 20 years old; they belong in museums, not space.
There's a question about that on the citizenship test. Also, the highest point in Canada is Mount Logan, and the head of state is the Queen, not the Prime Minister. Those questions trip a few people up too.
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It's no longer about preventing attacks from happening, but accepting that they are going to happen and hardening systems to minimize or eliminate theft and damage when they do. This might seem obvious to a lot of people in the tech industry, but it represents a major paradigm shift for banking.
Pornography is 80% of the reason this technology even exists.
Fair point.
Regardless of your position on Open Source, this kind of openness helps Tesla look more like a thought leader and less like a pyramid scheme.
I realized that my three-year-old needed a haircut after the cloud service I use tagged his photo as a picture of a dog.
. . . and one that we might be able to solve by better managing our watersheds. It would be expensive, but peanuts compared so some of the issues that get all the press, and would probably have more side benefits. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to use this issue to push their unrelated political agenda, so you don't hear much about it.
I've been an eBay user since 1999, but I sort of gave up after getting burned on counterfeit SD cards recently. It's my own fault, of course, but my solution was to stop buying that stuff on eBay and just use Amazon Prime.
You can get around the New York Times paywall by using an incognito tab.
It was the game show with the Whammies that stole your money. As I recall, there was a guy who watched the show long enough that he figured out a pattern that would let him win every time. He played for like three days, and won a crazy amount of money. The show went of the air, but I remember reading that the programmers who created the game board offered to make it 'true random' for another $600, and the network refused to pay it.
This article reminds me of that story.
. . . because if our CO2 emissions aren't to blame, then we have a much more serious problem here. I hate the stupid Green Peace commercials, and the smug, self righteous environmentalists, and my first instinct is to be happy every time some thing like this comes up that might prove them wrong and knock them down a peg, but the fact of the matter is that if we aren't causing it, we're going to have a much more difficult time doing anything about it.
The bottom line here is that it doesn't matter whether we're causing Global Warming or not, we still need to move towards renewable energy, if not for the environment, then for the economy. If global warming is going to be the boogeyman that scares people into investing in alternate energy sources, then I'm all for it, even if it means siding with the environmentalist doomsayers.
So I suppose I owe them a quarter for every time I double click something.
Maybe I should apply for a patent on taking out stupid patents, so that I can counter sue.
Marvel and/or DC must feel that this comic is stealing some of their market, or they wouldn't have bothered with this. I don't know what they were worried about though, since I read a fair number of comics, and I'd never even heard of Super Hero Happy Hour.
Of course, I have now . . . .
When the CCB got this passed in the first place, they though they were protecting themselves. Then, a few years later, when they tried to convince the courts that download music was illegal under Canadian law, a judge ruled that if it was legal for the music industry to collect a levy for all recordable media sold, on the grounds that said media could potentially be used to record copyrighted music, it was also legal to download copyrighted music for personal use.
I suspect that this levy being re-introduced is essentially the music industry admitting defeat. They tried to stop the Internet from changing the world, and found that they could not, so they're settling for what little revenue they can reap from it.
"Try Rebooting". Seriously. It has a bit of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reassuring quality too it.
Good call. The "other dimension" angle is usually classified as hyperspace in sci-fi. Warp Drive works like this.
Simply put, it 'warps' space by contracting space in front of you and stretching space behind you, so while you aren't actually moving faster than light, moving through the contracted space makes if appear as though you are, relative to a third party in non-contracted space.
I don't know enough about this theory to say this for certian, but it does sound like it's more based on Star Trek than Star Trek is on it. Of course, that doesn't make it any less plausible, in and of itself.
The Outer Space Treaty had a loophole and he exploited it. If that treaty is law, and his claim is valid, then he legally owns the moon. To my knowledge, no one has challenged the treaty, and no one has challenged his claim, so until someone does, he owns it.
Now, I don't think for one second that I could stop someone from mining or settling on my acre of the moon, but until someone actually takes Mr. Hope to task on this, what he's doing is perfectly legitimate.
There are two points to consider. First, since the Moon Land Registry has been selling property on the moon for as long as they have, they've established a precedent that, in combination with the questionable validity of their claim, will at least give them a case. If someone were to challenge this claim with nothing more than the 'this can't be real because it doesn't fit my paradigm' reasoning that seems to argument most Slashdotters are using, they're going to lose and Hope's claim will stand. Anyone who wants to dispute it is going to have to use actual law, not slanderous nonsense.
The second point to consider is why the Chinese government would have bothered to put a stop to this in China if they didn't see it as a potential obstacle in their ambitious plans for the moon. Plenty of companies sell gag gifts that make themselves out to be legit, but this is the one that gets singled out.
. . . But wait, is 'Cowboy' considered a title? Because if Blizzard made CowboyNeal change his name, that would be something to get upset over.
I actually submitted a simillar idea to Ask Slashdot back in September of 2001, suggesting that if we could get a hold of terrorist email addresses, we could spam them into unusability. Fortunatly, it was never posted, because there are some obvious flaws with that plan.
You're idea here is better, but it would probably still fall into the same pitfalls; who tracks down terrorist websites, who determines which sites are terrorist sites, and how do we make this effect last longer than a couple of days? It might be easier to determine with webpages, but it's going to be harder to keep it up, and I don't know whether we would really be accomplishing anything.
Still, terrorizing terrorist webpages would be a damn good time . . . .
. . . but when the Klingons attack, then we'll see what you have to say for yourself.
A minute or two on high will delete any magnetic media quite effectively. Works fairly well on CD's too.
May not be the best thing for the microwave though.
NASA's Shuttle Fleet was supposedly state of the art in the 1980s, although half the posts in this thread will tell you that perhaps they weren't built that well back then. The point is, why are they trying to correct the flaw in such an antiquated vehicle? The Space Shuttles are 20 years old; they belong in museums, not space.
. . . if they ever registered 'Microsoft'.
More and more Sun seems to becoming the thing they hate, despite the fact that they also seem to be trying harder and harder not to.
I really hope someone can prove me wrong about this.
We'd be glad to have you.
Here are the lyrics.
There's a question about that on the citizenship test. Also, the highest point in Canada is Mount Logan, and the head of state is the Queen, not the Prime Minister. Those questions trip a few people up too.
Is April Fools Day the tenth of April in the UK?