No. It isn't ethical but a religious one : it boil down to the definition of what is a "human being". A heap of 32 cell ? A full viable embryo ? Ethic has no answer on that. As you correctly said ethic is about the problem of bettering a human against the viability of another one. Religion come to define What is a human or When it is a human. Religious people tend to say the moment the ovula is fertilised with the spermatozoid. Others tend to say it is far later in the developpement, when at least there is a viable diferianciated central nervous system recognozable as an organ.
I was browsing and tryed to downlaod a patch. And guess what ? My window suddenly resized down and all I saw was a casino ad...
After I re-enabled popup in opera Is aw what was happening : they loaded in the main window the ad, then make a popup resuming the old content of the mainwindow in a freaking pop up.
Clever. If it becomes mainstream you can forget anti popup software and opera special feature.
All it takes is all ISP to add "you give all right to privacy when you connect with us , and all your data can be sold to anybody wanting them." and then what ? You would be satisfied ? Sorry but you are excetly like the proponent of "opt out". privacy should always an "opt in" to be given up. I hate to think i have to watch every single of my step, watch every single word I type. A bit like a dictature.
Maybe you do not care being observed , but I do even if I do not do anything wrong. Just like I would care if somebody installed camera on my back to observe every on my move, what i look for as information, or what my friends write me as letter.
Yes , it wasn't written specifically "we will not log your activity", but it was enither specified "we won't sell all your email adress to spammer", neither " We won't post a lsit of the web page you visited on a special page", "we won't display the content of personnal letter" , "we won't mock you in any fashion", "we won#ät ask you for your first born" etc...
Your argument is moot. If activity is to be logged it should be specified. Not the other way around.
I wonder how it can be reconciliated with the right of "looking at every private data saved on individual, as well as a right of rectification" that some citizen in some European country do indeed have : CNIL for example in France, has normally to watch and applicate fine if this right is not observed.
You may use another version of IE than me, but the one I have 6.0 something is in comparison to opera Slow. And it doesn't even allow me to disable pop up.
Talking of smooth with a small mouse gesture I can duplicate window. far easier than crtl-N or clicking somewhere.
Do you have some experience with Fortran ? Cobol ? Well there are a lot of job out there because nobody want to go into those programming language anymore. granted you won't earn a lot , because usually those company are cheapstake, but you will earn a lot more than Zero, and you will maintain your programmer (read logic) skills. I found a job in a company after 2 messy day of searching. And there was a lot more (salary equivalent) proposition coming in.
Sometimes stand by means missing oportunity
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All the poster speaks here of cost, money, no market. But think of it : it will cost the chinese country a lot of money to go and successfully install a mining operation on the moon. But once they are done they could [try to] manufacture a lot of things better in the nearby vacuum better than on earth . They could [try to] also make alliage with better homogenyity. They could [try to] have research go in some way impossible on earth due to the combination of vaccum and low gravity. And they could very well pull it off and make new goods or industry giving them a giant head starts. You could [try to] use the mining/manufacturing to launch satellite / space exploration/ and in a very long term terraforming of the other planet : launching would cost "less" thrust to vehicules.
But all that is on the long term. All the people speaking of market, money, cost are thinking on the very short term. In reality the chinese may very well have a better long term insight , openning to them and only them the future in space
Now they could very well fail. but who do not attempt have already failed.
They want it back as a province of Big China. Impressing it as much as possible and eventually if Tawain loose its support coerce it backs in the miainland. As for destroying US, or western country, as far as their ideology goes we will do it alone by corruption and laisser-faire.
Aside of the technolgical difference, the main difference as a player IMO in the gameplay offered in each games on each plateform. Although it tends to change now, until recently console were (and are still mainly) arcadish gameplay. Whereas PC offer a wider palett of type of gameplay , but isn't so keen or good at the pure arcade gameplay.
Pretty much the photo with the small body in the hand looks really horrible, but also terribly like a fake. Consult some web site with echography of foetus at various degree of gestation (I can't find again the adress maybe try to CD Atlanta).
The proportion seems really really wrong.
Being a communist isn't an opinion ?
So peoplehave the right to belong to Klu Klux Klan (sp?) and say quote "niger are an inferior race", but saying "capitalism isn't the right way" and "the production should be in the hand of the people" is forbidden and the govt should have the right to find you suspicious and investigate you ? Ouch. So much for the country of freedom of thougth.
Quote "5.3 Personal thoughts (WS)
Working on this panel, always fascinating and usually enlightening too, has led to the following personal thoughts:
(a) We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.
(b) The design and testing of markers and messages must involve a broad spectrum of societies and people within those societies. So-called "experts" can of course make important contributions, but they must listen carefully to all other people who represent those who might encounter the markers. In the course of working on this project, I received excellent ideas from a wide range of undergraduates, colleagues, friends, and relatives.
(c) The very exercise of designing, building, and viewing the markers creates a powerful testimony addressed to today's society about the full environmental, social, and economic costs of using nuclear materials. We can never know if we indeed have successfully communicated with our descendants 400 generations removed, but we can, in any case, perhaps convey an important message to ourselves."
I particulary like point a. It boils down to : "If it burns , then do not touch it". Althougth it may looks cynical, it is maybe the most cost effective solution.
Although I agree on the rest of the article for the end you enter in the logical fallacy "I know a case [...] so the global statistic must be [...]".
Because one psycho killed 18 people with a gun doesn't mean that gun crime in Europe is an all time High. Actually you have to compare crime on 1 to 10 years period to say anything. So your example Quote : "That kid in Germany sure seemed to have his share. I won't mention terrorist groups like the IRA, Red Brigade, ETA, 17 November, or any of a hundred splinter groups..." is little more than hot air.
I am pretty sure my car has emotion. I have to caress the wheel sensually and say it sweet word to make it start from cold in winter.
Same for my computer under windows. If I am on knee and promise to sell my soul to bill gates I remarked that windows crash a bit less. Try it at home !
In would not either have awaited an account in CNN.COM. But what of PCMAG ? CNET ? Slashdot;) ? There are many tech mag around there. None of them reported anything. Even one month after in October. or november two month after.
And let them loose on the island "everything you can catch is yours to eat".
And before somebody mod me down for trolling the poor frenchman , I *AM* a frenchman and the idea of catching frog for a meal if they are eatable appeal to me (and my stomach).
Because if they succeed in their initiative not only on the republican side (correct and secure handling of citizen thrusted data), but also on the financial side then you can bet neighbourgh country and other developping country will then give a try to the model (even if for the wrong [financial] reason), forcing MS to reconsider its policy with developping country.
First court law accept "evidence" that would have no scientific ground (like witness). We know that witness lie, witness forget, we know also that what human brain forget he has a tendency to "build up" to make up the hole. He imagines. Witness are the worst kind of proof. Science DO NOT accept witness only proof as data. Alien were here ? Show me material proof. And sadly all photo presented until now to scientific did not hold a shilling of alien in it. Disclosureproject is one of those which don't hold on the ballooney detection kit, IIRC they even had photo which were known "fake". To know what I am speaking of read Carl SAgan a demon haunted world.
Science is a discipline where you can from data make a theory and then further disproof/proove it. Furthermore Science evolve.
"When people *believe* something to be untrue, they sometimes ignore reasonably solid evidence."
When people starts to believe they have no buisness in science. They are in politic or religion. Belief is the absolute truth. There is no absolute truth in science only temporair truth. Maybe there will be a proof alien visit us. Until now there is none such.
ALL pseudoscience including alien visitation NEVER bring solid proof. Most comes from the "I want to believe" kind. All also don't hold at the scepticism loop. Again I can only advise you to read Carl Sagan book, then restudy your own labelled "proof" and you will see it do not hold water long.
There is now other way to put it. By using the sentence "belief of scientific establishment" you reduced your argument to nothing. If you knew better you would know that science doesn't rely on "belief" but on reproducibbility and practical disproof/proof of theory. Only religion or pseudoscience rely on belief and faith , aka : knowing the absolute truth. At the moment UFO believer can only offer that : hearsay, belief, knowing the "truth", etc... This well known sentence from X file say it all "I want to BELIEVE".
Well they did not really try it but during the mccarthis they made a small process to Condon and one of the part was (rough citation) "such revolutionnary theroy [...] call for a revolutionnary man". He tryed apparently to explain them a bit of physic but they did not find it interresting or funny.
I can't remmeber the exact quote out of my mind fell free to mod me down but you can find it between pages 150 to 250 of Carl Sagan's book a demon haunted world.
First a snippet from teh Salon Article:
"It isn't a matter of what Lavasoft will or will not approve of. If our users find the activity unacceptable, then we will meet their needs. In the end, it is the public that will decide what is appropriate. So to this end we have implemented features that will allow the user to choose their own level of comfort. They have the choice to exclude and/or ignore any component targeted by Ad-Aware at their discretion. And when removing the components found, we have supplied them with a backup feature that will restore anything removed by Ad-Aware should they choose to."
So let me repeat : "if the USER find the activity
unacceptable then we will meet their need". the point beeing the USER.
Secondly do you know how ad-aware function ? It let you choose what to remove. IF you click blindly to remove everything then it is your problem not AD-aware fault. Like i always says : RTFM. If you use low level system removing component then either know what you do or shut up.
EULA take out all responsability/liability
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Spyware Fights Back
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· Score: 2, Interesting
EULA are used like a wash-it-out taking all responsability and making your computer not even your own.
EULA may not even be legal in most country The problem is that since nobody fight the legality of the EULA, spyware and other abuser (or even proprietary OS maker) will make "you" consummer accept more and more in the EULA until it comes cracking down.
The only problem is:
1) I am living in germany
2) I know a bit on linux but I can't say I am very good.
I would wish to help those school switch , not out of spite to windows, or in Linux support, but for the School support. Education is in my opinion essential.
Mind you, on the same ground i try to help as much as I can my local school too, and not only in time of problem.
Slashdot Mirror
No. It isn't ethical but a religious one : it boil down to the definition of what is a "human being". A heap of 32 cell ? A full viable embryo ? Ethic has no answer on that. As you correctly said ethic is about the problem of bettering a human against the viability of another one. Religion come to define What is a human or When it is a human. Religious people tend to say the moment the ovula is fertilised with the spermatozoid. Others tend to say it is far later in the developpement, when at least there is a viable diferianciated central nervous system recognozable as an organ.
I was browsing and tryed to downlaod a patch. And guess what ? My window suddenly resized down and all I saw was a casino ad...
After I re-enabled popup in opera Is aw what was happening : they loaded in the main window the ad, then make a popup resuming the old content of the mainwindow in a freaking pop up.
Clever. If it becomes mainstream you can forget anti popup software and opera special feature.
All it takes is all ISP to add "you give all right to privacy when you connect with us , and all your data can be sold to anybody wanting them." and then what ? You would be satisfied ? Sorry but you are excetly like the proponent of "opt out". privacy should always an "opt in" to be given up. I hate to think i have to watch every single of my step, watch every single word I type. A bit like a dictature.
Maybe you do not care being observed , but I do even if I do not do anything wrong. Just like I would care if somebody installed camera on my back to observe every on my move, what i look for as information, or what my friends write me as letter.
Yes , it wasn't written specifically "we will not log your activity", but it was enither specified "we won't sell all your email adress to spammer", neither " We won't post a lsit of the web page you visited on a special page", "we won't display the content of personnal letter" , "we won't mock you in any fashion", "we won#ät ask you for your first born" etc... Your argument is moot. If activity is to be logged it should be specified. Not the other way around.
I wonder how it can be reconciliated with the right of "looking at every private data saved on individual, as well as a right of rectification" that some citizen in some European country do indeed have : CNIL for example in France, has normally to watch and applicate fine if this right is not observed.
You may use another version of IE than me, but the one I have 6.0 something is in comparison to opera Slow. And it doesn't even allow me to disable pop up.
Talking of smooth with a small mouse gesture I can duplicate window. far easier than crtl-N or clicking somewhere.
But maybe with smooth you mean something else ?
Do you have some experience with Fortran ? Cobol ? Well there are a lot of job out there because nobody want to go into those programming language anymore. granted you won't earn a lot , because usually those company are cheapstake, but you will earn a lot more than Zero, and you will maintain your programmer (read logic) skills. I found a job in a company after 2 messy day of searching. And there was a lot more (salary equivalent) proposition coming in.
All the poster speaks here of cost, money, no market. But think of it : it will cost the chinese country a lot of money to go and successfully install a mining operation on the moon. But once they are done they could [try to] manufacture a lot of things better in the nearby vacuum better than on earth . They could [try to] also make alliage with better homogenyity. They could [try to] have research go in some way impossible on earth due to the combination of vaccum and low gravity. And they could very well pull it off and make new goods or industry giving them a giant head starts. You could [try to] use the mining /manufacturing to launch satellite / space exploration/ and in a very long term terraforming of the other planet : launching would cost "less" thrust to vehicules.
But all that is on the long term. All the people speaking of market, money, cost are thinking on the very short term. In reality the chinese may very well have a better long term insight , openning to them and only them the future in space
Now they could very well fail. but who do not attempt have already failed.
They want it back as a province of Big China. Impressing it as much as possible and eventually if Tawain loose its support coerce it backs in the miainland. As for destroying US, or western country, as far as their ideology goes we will do it alone by corruption and laisser-faire.
Aside of the technolgical difference, the main difference as a player IMO in the gameplay offered in each games on each plateform. Although it tends to change now, until recently console were (and are still mainly) arcadish gameplay. Whereas PC offer a wider palett of type of gameplay , but isn't so keen or good at the pure arcade gameplay.
Pretty much the photo with the small body in the hand looks really horrible, but also terribly like a fake. Consult some web site with echography of foetus at various degree of gestation (I can't find again the adress maybe try to CD Atlanta). The proportion seems really really wrong.
Being a communist isn't an opinion ? So peoplehave the right to belong to Klu Klux Klan (sp?) and say quote "niger are an inferior race", but saying "capitalism isn't the right way" and "the production should be in the hand of the people" is forbidden and the govt should have the right to find you suspicious and investigate you ? Ouch. So much for the country of freedom of thougth.
Quote "5.3 Personal thoughts (WS) Working on this panel, always fascinating and usually enlightening too, has led to the following personal thoughts: (a) We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.
(b) The design and testing of markers and messages must involve a broad spectrum of societies and people within those societies. So-called "experts" can of course make important contributions, but they must listen carefully to all other people who represent those who might encounter the markers. In the course of working on this project, I received excellent ideas from a wide range of undergraduates, colleagues, friends, and relatives.
(c) The very exercise of designing, building, and viewing the markers creates a powerful testimony addressed to today's society about the full environmental, social, and economic costs of using nuclear materials. We can never know if we indeed have successfully communicated with our descendants 400 generations removed, but we can, in any case, perhaps convey an important message to ourselves."
I particulary like point a. It boils down to : "If it burns , then do not touch it". Althougth it may looks cynical, it is maybe the most cost effective solution.
Although I agree on the rest of the article for the end you enter in the logical fallacy "I know a case [...] so the global statistic must be [...]". Because one psycho killed 18 people with a gun doesn't mean that gun crime in Europe is an all time High. Actually you have to compare crime on 1 to 10 years period to say anything. So your example Quote : "That kid in Germany sure seemed to have his share. I won't mention terrorist groups like the IRA, Red Brigade, ETA, 17 November, or any of a hundred splinter groups..." is little more than hot air.
I am pretty sure my car has emotion. I have to caress the wheel sensually and say it sweet word to make it start from cold in winter.
Same for my computer under windows. If I am on knee and promise to sell my soul to bill gates I remarked that windows crash a bit less. Try it at home !
In would not either have awaited an account in CNN.COM. But what of PCMAG ? CNET ? Slashdot ;) ? There are many tech mag around there. None of them reported anything. Even one month after in October. or november two month after.
Sadly it doesn't to appear so. .com used for comemrcial domain is a recommendation. Not a law or a rule.
What would you advise as to get Linux wide personnal desktop acceptance, especially what do you think still needs to be developped.
And let them loose on the island "everything you can catch is yours to eat".
And before somebody mod me down for trolling the poor frenchman , I *AM* a frenchman and the idea of catching frog for a meal if they are eatable appeal to me (and my stomach).
Because if they succeed in their initiative not only on the republican side (correct and secure handling of citizen thrusted data), but also on the financial side then you can bet neighbourgh country and other developping country will then give a try to the model (even if for the wrong [financial] reason), forcing MS to reconsider its policy with developping country.
First court law accept "evidence" that would have no scientific ground (like witness). We know that witness lie, witness forget, we know also that what human brain forget he has a tendency to "build up" to make up the hole. He imagines. Witness are the worst kind of proof. Science DO NOT accept witness only proof as data. Alien were here ? Show me material proof. And sadly all photo presented until now to scientific did not hold a shilling of alien in it. Disclosureproject is one of those which don't hold on the ballooney detection kit, IIRC they even had photo which were known "fake". To know what I am speaking of read Carl SAgan a demon haunted world.
Science is a discipline where you can from data make a theory and then further disproof/proove it. Furthermore Science evolve. "When people *believe* something to be untrue, they sometimes ignore reasonably solid evidence." When people starts to believe they have no buisness in science. They are in politic or religion. Belief is the absolute truth. There is no absolute truth in science only temporair truth. Maybe there will be a proof alien visit us. Until now there is none such.
ALL pseudoscience including alien visitation NEVER bring solid proof. Most comes from the "I want to believe" kind. All also don't hold at the scepticism loop. Again I can only advise you to read Carl Sagan book, then restudy your own labelled "proof" and you will see it do not hold water long.
There is now other way to put it. By using the sentence "belief of scientific establishment" you reduced your argument to nothing. If you knew better you would know that science doesn't rely on "belief" but on reproducibbility and practical disproof/proof of theory. Only religion or pseudoscience rely on belief and faith , aka : knowing the absolute truth. At the moment UFO believer can only offer that : hearsay, belief, knowing the "truth", etc... This well known sentence from X file say it all "I want to BELIEVE".
Well they did not really try it but during the mccarthis they made a small process to Condon and one of the part was (rough citation) "such revolutionnary theroy [...] call for a revolutionnary man". He tryed apparently to explain them a bit of physic but they did not find it interresting or funny.
I can't remmeber the exact quote out of my mind fell free to mod me down but you can find it between pages 150 to 250 of Carl Sagan's book a demon haunted world.
First a snippet from teh Salon Article: "It isn't a matter of what Lavasoft will or will not approve of. If our users find the activity unacceptable, then we will meet their needs. In the end, it is the public that will decide what is appropriate. So to this end we have implemented features that will allow the user to choose their own level of comfort. They have the choice to exclude and/or ignore any component targeted by Ad-Aware at their discretion. And when removing the components found, we have supplied them with a backup feature that will restore anything removed by Ad-Aware should they choose to."
So let me repeat : "if the USER find the activity unacceptable then we will meet their need". the point beeing the USER.
Secondly do you know how ad-aware function ? It let you choose what to remove. IF you click blindly to remove everything then it is your problem not AD-aware fault. Like i always says : RTFM. If you use low level system removing component then either know what you do or shut up.
EULA are used like a wash-it-out taking all responsability and making your computer not even your own.
EULA may not even be legal in most country
The problem is that since nobody fight the legality of the EULA, spyware and other abuser (or even proprietary OS maker) will make "you" consummer accept more and more in the EULA until it comes cracking down.
The only problem is :
1) I am living in germany
2) I know a bit on linux but I can't say I am very good.
I would wish to help those school switch , not out of spite to windows, or in Linux support, but for the School support. Education is in my opinion essential.
Mind you, on the same ground i try to help as much as I can my local school too, and not only in time of problem.