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You mean the ones the Florida Highway Patroll pioneered ignoring back in the 80s, and which are now routinely ignored by law enforcement agencies nationwide? Trust me, I worry about those legal standards all the time...
Whatever their motives or reasoning, the outcome is still exactly equivalent to the case where "everyone in government wants to fascistically monitor your entire life". We should be making law enforcement harder, not easier.
If the bug really was reported four years ago, I hope the publishers of EVE suffer financially for their blunder. I don't play EVE, but I've railed against the bug reporting and tracking schemes used by other companies. Blizzard, for example, thinks that a Web forum in which 99.9% of bug reports receive no official feedback or acknowledgment is an acceptable way to manage bug tracking for one of the largest and most complex software projects in existence. I've considered setting up an unofficial Bugzilla to show the world just how long exploitable bugs in WoW go unfixed, but I'm afraid they'd consider it a violation of the TOS and track it back to my game accounts. If the publishers of EVE take a hit in the pocketbook, maybe Blizzard and others will finally wake up and get a fucking clue.
If human evolution is over, it's because we've sabotaged natural selection. Thanks to modern technology and social organization, millions of people are walking around alive who by all rights of nature should be dead. And they're reproducing! I'm one of them. I can't see six inches in front of my face without my glasses. I wouldn't last five minutes in the jungle.
Scary as it sounds, the solution may be eugenics. And the alternative may be extinction...
"We had fractional reserve banking and other government-private enterprise collusion."
Are you nuts? Fractional reserve banking is the product of inadequate government regulation. Making it illegal (utterly destroying the banking industry as we know it, but that's a good thing) is one of my main political goals.
I was referring to the speech he gave at the end of his final term as President, in which he warned of the danger to democracy posed by the "disastrous rise of misplaced power" in the military-industrial complex.
So they built a fancy CAVE in a shiny plastic sphere. I've wanted to build something like this since it became attainable without a research budget. Just network a few PCs and hook them up to five or six heavily diffused projectors pointed at the outside of a translucent cube. The ultimate innovation would be to let the user walk around on the surface of a giant trackball...
No, we should get rid of stocks and force all corporations to reorganize as non-profits, with investments treated as loans at the market rate. (Preemptive response: You can make a lot of money running in a non-profit. The difference is that corporations wouldn't be burdened by share ownership, which is equivalent to a loan with an adjustable interest rate so high that you can only ever pay the interest, never the capital.)
And what's the point of responsibility, if there's no penalty for neglecting it? Who will protect the interests of sane shareholders against the fuckheads running these automated trading programs?
Really, though, this is a perfect example of how unstable the stock market is, and why the whole thing should be permanently shut down. We entrust the stability of our entire economy to this?
It could have been submitted days ago. If I were a Slashdot editor, I guarantee I wouldn't sit here in front of my computer browsing story submissions all day. I'd set it up so I could browse them once a day, and then schedule them to appear throughout the day, while I sit around sipping margaritas.
The opening of the Northwest Passage is so last year. The big news this year is that the ice might break up all the way to the pole, a development scientists thought was still the better part of a century off.
Creation pseudo-scientists have never touched the one and only flaw in the accepted methods of isotopic dating: the untestable assumption that the isotopes on which the measurements are based were deposited (and have decayed) at roughly the same rate over the scale of time being measured. Most of them don't bring this up because their understanding of real science is so poor they wouldn't understand this weakness in the theory even if it were explained to them. The others probably avoid it because to acknowledge the small possibility that scientific dating methods are flawed would also be to acknowledge that they are most likely accurate. But this new finding actually raises the probability that dating methods are flawed to a point that should merit investigation. The idea that the planet is 6000 years old will still be laughable, of course...
In 2000, I was investigated by the FBI after calling Janet Reno "the enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against" in an email to my father and cousin. Within three days of my sending the email, they had interviewed numerous co-workers and convinced my housemate to keep tabs on my whereabouts so they could interview me. Interestingly, the printed copy of my email contained only what I had written; the parts of the conversation I had quoted were blacked out.
This was a few months before the name "Carnivore" started appearing in the news. The FBI swore up and down that Carnivore was only used to monitor suspected criminals. But I have no involvement in any kind of criminal activity (beyond the usual file sharing and moonshining, which I'm sure they know about so I don't mind saying it) and yet I was under surveillance. We are ALL under surveillance, and have been for a long time.
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You mean the ones the Florida Highway Patroll pioneered ignoring back in the 80s, and which are now routinely ignored by law enforcement agencies nationwide? Trust me, I worry about those legal standards all the time...
Whatever their motives or reasoning, the outcome is still exactly equivalent to the case where "everyone in government wants to fascistically monitor your entire life". We should be making law enforcement harder, not easier.
"I had an idea for an MMO strikingly similar to Eve Online . . ."
Ah, so you played TradeWars 2002, too?
Funny how the UK is slowly turning into Nazi Germany, while the US turns into the Soviet Union.
You think they conducted legal research? More likely, they expect the defendants to pay for that.
Somebody check this guy's midichlorians.
If the bug really was reported four years ago, I hope the publishers of EVE suffer financially for their blunder. I don't play EVE, but I've railed against the bug reporting and tracking schemes used by other companies. Blizzard, for example, thinks that a Web forum in which 99.9% of bug reports receive no official feedback or acknowledgment is an acceptable way to manage bug tracking for one of the largest and most complex software projects in existence. I've considered setting up an unofficial Bugzilla to show the world just how long exploitable bugs in WoW go unfixed, but I'm afraid they'd consider it a violation of the TOS and track it back to my game accounts. If the publishers of EVE take a hit in the pocketbook, maybe Blizzard and others will finally wake up and get a fucking clue.
If human evolution is over, it's because we've sabotaged natural selection. Thanks to modern technology and social organization, millions of people are walking around alive who by all rights of nature should be dead. And they're reproducing! I'm one of them. I can't see six inches in front of my face without my glasses. I wouldn't last five minutes in the jungle.
Scary as it sounds, the solution may be eugenics. And the alternative may be extinction...
Are you nuts? Fractional reserve banking is the product of inadequate government regulation. Making it illegal (utterly destroying the banking industry as we know it, but that's a good thing) is one of my main political goals.
Your point? How corporations keep their books is not the characteristic that makes them a threat to democracy.
I was referring to the speech he gave at the end of his final term as President, in which he warned of the danger to democracy posed by the "disastrous rise of misplaced power" in the military-industrial complex.
And the neocons say unregulated capitalism isn't destroying our democracy. Eisenhower, how we miss thee...
So they built a fancy CAVE in a shiny plastic sphere. I've wanted to build something like this since it became attainable without a research budget. Just network a few PCs and hook them up to five or six heavily diffused projectors pointed at the outside of a translucent cube. The ultimate innovation would be to let the user walk around on the surface of a giant trackball...
No, we should get rid of stocks and force all corporations to reorganize as non-profits, with investments treated as loans at the market rate. (Preemptive response: You can make a lot of money running in a non-profit. The difference is that corporations wouldn't be burdened by share ownership, which is equivalent to a loan with an adjustable interest rate so high that you can only ever pay the interest, never the capital.)
Really, though, this is a perfect example of how unstable the stock market is, and why the whole thing should be permanently shut down. We entrust the stability of our entire economy to this?
It could have been submitted days ago. If I were a Slashdot editor, I guarantee I wouldn't sit here in front of my computer browsing story submissions all day. I'd set it up so I could browse them once a day, and then schedule them to appear throughout the day, while I sit around sipping margaritas.
It'll be really funny when they show up with their lawyers, and I show up with a pair of six-guns.
Yeah, and it took him three years and an icebreaker. Try again.
The opening of the Northwest Passage is so last year. The big news this year is that the ice might break up all the way to the pole, a development scientists thought was still the better part of a century off.
...one of those locations would have been an ambush, and which one wouldn't have been decided until the last minute.
My assault rifle guarantees habeas corpus for my friends and family.
Creation pseudo-scientists have never touched the one and only flaw in the accepted methods of isotopic dating: the untestable assumption that the isotopes on which the measurements are based were deposited (and have decayed) at roughly the same rate over the scale of time being measured. Most of them don't bring this up because their understanding of real science is so poor they wouldn't understand this weakness in the theory even if it were explained to them. The others probably avoid it because to acknowledge the small possibility that scientific dating methods are flawed would also be to acknowledge that they are most likely accurate. But this new finding actually raises the probability that dating methods are flawed to a point that should merit investigation. The idea that the planet is 6000 years old will still be laughable, of course...
Oh, you're chipped? *meat cleaver*
In 2000, I was investigated by the FBI after calling Janet Reno "the enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against" in an email to my father and cousin. Within three days of my sending the email, they had interviewed numerous co-workers and convinced my housemate to keep tabs on my whereabouts so they could interview me. Interestingly, the printed copy of my email contained only what I had written; the parts of the conversation I had quoted were blacked out.
This was a few months before the name "Carnivore" started appearing in the news. The FBI swore up and down that Carnivore was only used to monitor suspected criminals. But I have no involvement in any kind of criminal activity (beyond the usual file sharing and moonshining, which I'm sure they know about so I don't mind saying it) and yet I was under surveillance. We are ALL under surveillance, and have been for a long time.
I've known about Farnsworth-Hirsch fusors since I was in high school.