And quite frankly, there's no reason to send americans or anyone else. The only reason for the "space race" was to develop technologies that could be used for ICBMs.
Since no one wants to attack mars, no one needs that level of technology.
I realize there may have been air marshalls on board, still I would have felt better if one of the state troopers had lent me his Glock for the trip.
Blowing a hole in the skin of an airplane is really a good way to prevent it from crashing. Really.
Seriously, what were you worried about before 9/11?
A beurocratic nightmare. The Airforce wanted some kind of crazy orbial bomber, but once the shuttle was done they washed their hands of it. Shuttle missions cost like 100x what they were supposed to.
This isn't about the "right to read" it's about the right to sell things before the offical release.
I used to work at target, we got boxes (movies and stuff) marked "do not open untill" all the time, the preperations of the release of this novel are really not all that novel.
At our company, we were looking into various web-based confrencing software. Microsoft aranged a demo, and their product didn't work.
The sales guy was like: "yeah, but I can get you a great discount!"
Amazon lets anyone sell books through their system. Why would anyone want to start their own online bookstore (for millions of dollars) when they can just setup an Amazon frontend?
You were in the blind spot of a big truck and it tried to merge into your lane. You could speed up to pass them, or break, and hope you slow down enough that the tail of the truck gets past you quick enough.
My $35 DVD player has a digital (coaxial) output, and my PS2 has an digital (optical) output (but, the laser is blown and it can't play disks with even the smallest scratches). Why mess with the electronics inside when you can get the audio data right off the disk into your system?
Sure, this might have a "chilling effect" on "legitimate" commercial email, but so what? Is legitimate commercial email really all that fantastic? Who needs it?
If I were in charge of the lawmaking process I would create a new protocol for commercial email (bills, recipts, some advertizing) that had strict requirements like digital signatures that let people chose what organizations they wanted to get.
Then I would ban commercial, automated email entirely. (You could still individualy email clients, or have programs send out automated emails for certan things, but not both at the same time, you'd need to use the commercial protocol).
Anyway, that would be my legal/technical solution.
The only technical solution that works these days is to change your email address once it gets on 'the lists'.
You do realise that it was the crackers who wanted to be called 'hackers.'
By "crackers" you mean people who broke copy protection on early software products, right? Those are the only people who were called "crackers" untill ESR started calling hackers that, since he wanted to use the word for himself without any negative connotations.
Look, you can't just go out and define a word to mean whatever you want. Free means freedom and costless depending on the context, wether you're talking about software not. Getting upset that someone used the word 'free' to mean 'no cost' while talking about software is simply idiotic. Its one thing to educate people, but its an entirely diffrent thing to try to own a word, especialy one thats been around for centuries. Words can have more then one meaning.
Idiots like ESR tried to do this with "hacker", to mean only what they wanted it to mean so that they could call themselves "hackers".
Copyright infringement is not legaly the same thing as theft, you could never prosecute someone for theft if they download something because legaly they have not commited it.
Again, I'm talking about the actual law not stuff people just make up.
I've been under the impression that downloading something in the US is not illegal, only uploading (providing it to someone else). Lots of people seem to think otherwise, but I've never seen any spesific laws that ban this.
That's stupid because 100/3 != 33, it's completely incorrect, just like "should of" makes absolutely no sense. The only reason most people understand "should of" as "should have" is because they know the correct form is "should have".
This just in: words arn't numbers. Also: you're an idiot.
It is also true that there is no instantaneous jump from 0v to firing voltage. A different types of neurons require more or less neurotransmitters to reach the threshold voltage.
Well, there is no instantaneous jump in digital comptuers either, however once theshold voltage is reached in a neuron it fires very quickly and very sharply.
In any event, the voltages inside a neuron are quantized, always an even multiple of the charge on an electron, which obviously can be stored in a computer program, as could the finite number of molicules of neurotransmiter around them.
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You'd rather have a huge coax going to your head? If you want I'm sure you can find some conduit or whatever to run it though if you're that scared.
And quite frankly, there's no reason to send americans or anyone else. The only reason for the "space race" was to develop technologies that could be used for ICBMs.
Since no one wants to attack mars, no one needs that level of technology.
I realize there may have been air marshalls on board, still I would have felt better if one of the state troopers had lent me his Glock for the trip. Blowing a hole in the skin of an airplane is really a good way to prevent it from crashing. Really. Seriously, what were you worried about before 9/11?
A beurocratic nightmare. The Airforce wanted some kind of crazy orbial bomber, but once the shuttle was done they washed their hands of it. Shuttle missions cost like 100x what they were supposed to.
This isn't about the "right to read" it's about the right to sell things before the offical release.
I used to work at target, we got boxes (movies and stuff) marked "do not open untill" all the time, the preperations of the release of this novel are really not all that novel.
California has a bunch of Hydrogen fuel stations.
Their catching flack for not rating something that requires hacking the binary or data files in order to access? That's retarded.
At our company, we were looking into various web-based confrencing software. Microsoft aranged a demo, and their product didn't work. The sales guy was like: "yeah, but I can get you a great discount!"
Amazon lets anyone sell books through their system. Why would anyone want to start their own online bookstore (for millions of dollars) when they can just setup an Amazon frontend?
That song was by Baz Lurman (Director of Moulin Rouge and Romeo+Juliet) and read by a voice actor.
You were in the blind spot of a big truck and it tried to merge into your lane. You could speed up to pass them, or break, and hope you slow down enough that the tail of the truck gets past you quick enough.
The clock is in the DAC, not the player.
My $35 DVD player has a digital (coaxial) output, and my PS2 has an digital (optical) output (but, the laser is blown and it can't play disks with even the smallest scratches). Why mess with the electronics inside when you can get the audio data right off the disk into your system?
Sure, this might have a "chilling effect" on "legitimate" commercial email, but so what? Is legitimate commercial email really all that fantastic? Who needs it?
If I were in charge of the lawmaking process I would create a new protocol for commercial email (bills, recipts, some advertizing) that had strict requirements like digital signatures that let people chose what organizations they wanted to get.
Then I would ban commercial, automated email entirely. (You could still individualy email clients, or have programs send out automated emails for certan things, but not both at the same time, you'd need to use the commercial protocol).
Anyway, that would be my legal/technical solution.
The only technical solution that works these days is to change your email address once it gets on 'the lists'.
You do realise that it was the crackers who wanted to be called 'hackers.'
By "crackers" you mean people who broke copy protection on early software products, right? Those are the only people who were called "crackers" untill ESR started calling hackers that, since he wanted to use the word for himself without any negative connotations.
Look, you can't just go out and define a word to mean whatever you want. Free means freedom and costless depending on the context, wether you're talking about software not. Getting upset that someone used the word 'free' to mean 'no cost' while talking about software is simply idiotic. Its one thing to educate people, but its an entirely diffrent thing to try to own a word, especialy one thats been around for centuries. Words can have more then one meaning.
Idiots like ESR tried to do this with "hacker", to mean only what they wanted it to mean so that they could call themselves "hackers".
Copyright infringement is not legaly the same thing as theft, you could never prosecute someone for theft if they download something because legaly they have not commited it. Again, I'm talking about the actual law not stuff people just make up.
Downloading copyrighted materials without the permission of the holder of the copyright is, by definition, copyright infringement, which is illegal.
By definition? Could you actualy provide the 'definition' that the courts use or are you just talking about your ass?
I'm wondering about the actual laws here, not metaphores.
I've been under the impression that downloading something in the US is not illegal, only uploading (providing it to someone else). Lots of people seem to think otherwise, but I've never seen any spesific laws that ban this.
What's the status in the US?
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That's stupid because 100/3 != 33, it's completely incorrect, just like "should of" makes absolutely no sense. The only reason most people understand "should of" as "should have" is because they know the correct form is "should have".
This just in: words arn't numbers. Also: you're an idiot.
This just in, humans are not computers. If you get hung up on a misplaced letter or two, you're probably reading to slowly anyway.
It is also true that there is no instantaneous jump from 0v to firing voltage. A different types of neurons require more or less neurotransmitters to reach the threshold voltage.
Well, there is no instantaneous jump in digital comptuers either, however once theshold voltage is reached in a neuron it fires very quickly and very sharply.
In any event, the voltages inside a neuron are quantized, always an even multiple of the charge on an electron, which obviously can be stored in a computer program, as could the finite number of molicules of neurotransmiter around them.
That was a compelling response. By the way, can you actualy name these top researchers you claim to have worked with?