There is not a death sentence for theft. There is not a death sentence for wearing a hoodie. There isn't even a death sentence for bashing someone's head on the ground after some unknown altercation. As far as I know there is only a death sentence for murder, and then only after lots of due process.
I do agree with your prediction of an acquittal, protests, and looting though.
Actually, plenty of people deserve it (any actual cold blooded murderer).
I said 'Nobody deserves an instant death sentence with the judge, jury, and witnesses all being the same one emotionally involved person.'. I think you are saying some people deserve a death sentence, which is a quite different thing to what I was saying.
The whole point of any kind of justice system is that the guilt or lack of guilt and any punishments should be decided by impartial people who are not personally involved in the incident. If citizens can short circuit the whole system by handing out death sentences to each other without any due process then you don't have a justice system, you have a bunch of people murdering each other.
It's only tragic if the kid was completely innocent and did not attack zimmer first.
No it's not. If, and I don't claim to know so it's a hypothetical if, this kid attacked Zimmerman first it's still tragic. Also it would have been tragic if Zimmerman was beaten to death.
Nobody deserves an instant death sentence with the judge, jury, and witnesses all being the same one emotionally involved person. That's lawlessness taken to its logical extreme.
Except Coursera doesn't give out degrees. It's a topic-oriented class room where you can pick and choose what you want to learn. I don't believe they even give out certificates of completion, just a smack on the ass with a wink if you pass.
Unless Coursera are offering highly biased education or in some way poisoning the minds of those that take their courses the people that are opposing them are opposing the basic human right to knowledge.
Any law or rule that blatantly wrong should be ignored.
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
The US could not afford freeing Kuwait, invading Iraq, or invading Afghanistan. It did these things anyway.
All that oil must be very tempting to a country that has become utterly dependant on oil. It might just pay for the invasion and occupation whilst cutting off one of China's sources of fuel.
Let me add to that: Why is Israel allowed to have nuclear weapons? Even if we assume that all of Israel's neighbors want to wipe it off the face of the Earth, none of these neighbors currently have nuclear weapons. Israel already has the best military force in the Middle East.
Don't assume that "all of Israel's neighbors want to wipe it off the face of the Earth". The warmongering is political not religious, it just hides behind religion because that's a convenient way of manipulating people. Jordan for one gets on very well with Israel dispite Jordan being an Islamic country.
Israel is home to the third most holy site in Islam, the first most holy site to the Jewish, and most of the holy sites of Christianity. Anyone harming these sites would find most of the world has become their bitter enemy.
Iran did not launch any fucking "cyber attack." This is nothing more than a convenient excuse drummed up by the U.S. to help justify an invasion. They have been searching high and low for a good excuse for some time.
It's unclear if Iran did or didn't lauch any cyber attacks. However it's clear that Iran has been blamed for countless things since the Iraq invasion. Iran also has the world's third biggest oil reserves, oil reserves that the US is strong arming the world into not buying right now.
I'm with your theory. The US is trying to justify an invasion in order to take Iranian oil. However the US can't justify a full scale invasion with a few computer hacks, they will keep blaming Iran for everything and anything until they stumble onto something big enough to justify an invasion.
If there was ever a "cyber-Pearl Harbor", then Iran was Hawai, and USA were playing the role of Japan. Stuxnet was the first strike, you know...
The first widely reported strike. Stuxnet was only discovered by accident.
The US has way more money to sink into researching and launching cyber attacks than Iran does, it's likely the US has been cyber-attacking everyone for some years now. Microsoft and the companies that hand over their SCADA information will have been their best friend.
There's other gold in there too, like the time the guy pulled the cable on a production rack in order to create a catastrophe so he wouldn't have to travel to a business meeting, or his habit of remoting into IT infrastructure (Blackberry and Exchange servers were mentioned) on the weekends to fuck up their configuration, just so he could "magically" fix it on Monday morning.
Taking a break to smoke is wasting company time, but taking a break just because you want to isn't. Good to know.
Almost.
Taking a break due to a drug addiction is bad for not well defined values of bad. Taking a break due to the limits of human physiology is unavoidable so trying to avoid it is bad.
It is idiotic how harshly non-smokers try to wean smokers off cigarettes.
Smokers smell, often they smell really bad. Non-smokers often find the smell unpleasant but rarely mention it. In a closed space like a lift it can be _REALLY_ bad.
Smokers litter, they throw butts all over the place which makes where ever they hang out dirty and unpleasant. Tar also sticks to things and makes surfaces yellow and sticky.
Smokers go into moods and get all grumpy when they are prevented from smoking. Smokers tend to become noisy and anti-social in places like airport queues or other places where they are not allowed to smoke. If I'm in an airport queue I'm already in a bad mood, I don't need you making it worse.
Some smokers insist on smoking in the most stupid places like in the last free toilet cubicle or in a crowded train. Mostly they do this when drunk.
If you don't need to urinate in an 8 hour stretch you are dehydrated. Water is the most fundamental chemical needed by the human body and you are comparing this with cravings caused by a drug addition.
Also sitting in a seat without break for 8 hours isn't very healthy either.
if you can't survive without nicotine for 8 hours that's a serious addiction.
That might be quite a good definition of an addition. Someone in average health should be able to survive without serious complaint for 8 hours without water, food, or any chemical support excluding air.
... whereas the smoker doesn't get deemed a slacker for "going for a smoke"..
I've long been complaining about smokers slacking off from work whereas non-smokers are expected to keep working for years now. I know I'm not the only one that does this. Smokers are seen as a class of disabled people who get special rights the rest of us don't get and it's pretty offensive to those who have to pick up the slack.
I'm not against tobacco, just cigarette's which are, lets face it, a nicotine dispensing tool for the addicted and nothing more. If you want to enjoy tobacco smoke a good cigar, the experience is nothing like smoking a cigarette.
1) If the same coins are really spent on both sides of the network split the transactions on the losing side will become invalid and will be dropped. This should not be a problem in practice as clients will be on one or other side of the split, not both.
Clients? Sure. ID's not so much. It is quite trivial to phone my buddy on the other side of the network split and give him what he needs to start trading the coins I am also about to start trading. This idea that "it should not be a problem" assumes honest actors.. what kind of security is that? Its just plain old bullshit that you just tried to sell.
Then it's not a network split in the first place because if you can get voice communications across it many others will be running modems over those same voice lines. BitCoin ( and any sensible software really ) does not assume honest actors. Your attack would only work where the network was split in a way where you were the only guy with a communication channel to the other side.
I think the AC's point is that it doesnt have to be kept split. I think the AC's point is that it just needs to be reconnected in the right sequence in order to control who wins the race. Remember that most of the network is already ignorant of your balance even without any splits.
It might be possible to DDOS internet core routers with the biggest botnet the world has ever seen but the amount of bandwidth it would take plus the fact that BitCoin only needs to get a tiny amount of data though any link and the fact that people will actively create new links means this attack will be practically impossible to pull off. Remember when some jokers with insane bandwidth tried to DDOS the root DNS servers? They still failed. Cutting a decent sized country entirely off the internet would be way harder.
Indeed, a bit like the Imperial (non-metric) distance measuring system is meaningless for almost everyone outside the USA. The more common decimal three orders of magnitude system (millimeters, meters, kilometers) makes a lot more sense. But we try to get by.
This is of course true. Everything is easier in metric so hanging onto a dumb system that everyone else has abandoned due to its awkwardness is just, well, dumb. But at least most of the world had some idea what a mile or yard is, if they don't know how long is it they at least know it's a measurement of distance.
Indeed. The weird Indian numbering system is meaningless for almost everyone outside India. The more common three orders of magnitude system ( thousand, million, billion, trillion ) makes a lot more sense.
Moheeheeko raises a fair point. India right now is nothing like the US was in the 1950's and 1960's. India lacks basic infrastructure throughout a great deal of its country and it has poverty and slums the like of which most of the developed world would find hard to believe. Now knock the US for their rampant gun crime all you like but India as a whole is altogether more messed up.
And before you tell me I don't know what I'm talking about I spent enough time in India to know that all the Indian 'It used to be like that but it's better now' crowd are lying for the sake of national pride.
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Thanks for the explanation.
Serious question - What does DKIM do that SPF doesn't?
Email wasn't broken. DKIM was. Or rather DKIM wasn't really broken, just being misused by Google.
There is not a death sentence for theft.
There is not a death sentence for wearing a hoodie.
There isn't even a death sentence for bashing someone's head on the ground after some unknown altercation.
As far as I know there is only a death sentence for murder, and then only after lots of due process.
I do agree with your prediction of an acquittal, protests, and looting though.
Actually, plenty of people deserve it (any actual cold blooded murderer).
I said 'Nobody deserves an instant death sentence with the judge, jury, and witnesses all being the same one emotionally involved person.'. I think you are saying some people deserve a death sentence, which is a quite different thing to what I was saying.
The whole point of any kind of justice system is that the guilt or lack of guilt and any punishments should be decided by impartial people who are not personally involved in the incident. If citizens can short circuit the whole system by handing out death sentences to each other without any due process then you don't have a justice system, you have a bunch of people murdering each other.
It's only tragic if the kid was completely innocent and did not attack zimmer first.
No it's not. If, and I don't claim to know so it's a hypothetical if, this kid attacked Zimmerman first it's still tragic. Also it would have been tragic if Zimmerman was beaten to death.
Nobody deserves an instant death sentence with the judge, jury, and witnesses all being the same one emotionally involved person. That's lawlessness taken to its logical extreme.
Except Coursera doesn't give out degrees. It's a topic-oriented class room where you can pick and choose what you want to learn. I don't believe they even give out certificates of completion, just a smack on the ass with a wink if you pass.
Unless Coursera are offering highly biased education or in some way poisoning the minds of those that take their courses the people that are opposing them are opposing the basic human right to knowledge.
Any law or rule that blatantly wrong should be ignored.
Dolphins Can Sleep One-half of Their Brain At a Time Say Researchers
Why would an intelligent species like dolphins have invented meetings?
Never mind pretexts, the US cannot afford to pay for a full scale invasion of Iran, never mind the resulting 15-20 year occupation and bloody counter-insurgency (except perhaps in the warped minds of Fox News commentators and "Bibi" Netanyahu's wet dreams).
The US could not afford freeing Kuwait, invading Iraq, or invading Afghanistan. It did these things anyway.
All that oil must be very tempting to a country that has become utterly dependant on oil. It might just pay for the invasion and occupation whilst cutting off one of China's sources of fuel.
Let me add to that: Why is Israel allowed to have nuclear weapons? Even if we assume that all of Israel's neighbors want to wipe it off the face of the Earth, none of these neighbors currently have nuclear weapons. Israel already has the best military force in the Middle East.
Don't assume that "all of Israel's neighbors want to wipe it off the face of the Earth". The warmongering is political not religious, it just hides behind religion because that's a convenient way of manipulating people. Jordan for one gets on very well with Israel dispite Jordan being an Islamic country.
Israel is home to the third most holy site in Islam, the first most holy site to the Jewish, and most of the holy sites of Christianity. Anyone harming these sites would find most of the world has become their bitter enemy.
Iran did not launch any fucking "cyber attack." This is nothing more than a convenient excuse drummed up by the U.S. to help justify an invasion. They have been searching high and low for a good excuse for some time.
It's unclear if Iran did or didn't lauch any cyber attacks. However it's clear that Iran has been blamed for countless things since the Iraq invasion. Iran also has the world's third biggest oil reserves, oil reserves that the US is strong arming the world into not buying right now.
I'm with your theory. The US is trying to justify an invasion in order to take Iranian oil. However the US can't justify a full scale invasion with a few computer hacks, they will keep blaming Iran for everything and anything until they stumble onto something big enough to justify an invasion.
If there was ever a "cyber-Pearl Harbor", then Iran was Hawai, and USA were playing the role of Japan. Stuxnet was the first strike, you know...
The first widely reported strike. Stuxnet was only discovered by accident.
The US has way more money to sink into researching and launching cyber attacks than Iran does, it's likely the US has been cyber-attacking everyone for some years now. Microsoft and the companies that hand over their SCADA information will have been their best friend.
There's other gold in there too, like the time the guy pulled the cable on a production rack in order to create a catastrophe so he wouldn't have to travel to a business meeting, or his habit of remoting into IT infrastructure (Blackberry and Exchange servers were mentioned) on the weekends to fuck up their configuration, just so he could "magically" fix it on Monday morning.
He was, apparently, eventually fired.
Wha!??
What was this guy? The Harold Shipman of IT?
Taking a break to smoke is wasting company time, but taking a break just because you want to isn't. Good to know.
Almost.
Taking a break due to a drug addiction is bad for not well defined values of bad.
Taking a break due to the limits of human physiology is unavoidable so trying to avoid it is bad.
It is idiotic how harshly non-smokers try to wean smokers off cigarettes.
Smokers smell, often they smell really bad. Non-smokers often find the smell unpleasant but rarely mention it. In a closed space like a lift it can be _REALLY_ bad.
Smokers litter, they throw butts all over the place which makes where ever they hang out dirty and unpleasant. Tar also sticks to things and makes surfaces yellow and sticky.
Smokers go into moods and get all grumpy when they are prevented from smoking. Smokers tend to become noisy and anti-social in places like airport queues or other places where they are not allowed to smoke. If I'm in an airport queue I'm already in a bad mood, I don't need you making it worse.
Some smokers insist on smoking in the most stupid places like in the last free toilet cubicle or in a crowded train. Mostly they do this when drunk.
If you don't need to urinate in an 8 hour stretch you are dehydrated. Water is the most fundamental chemical needed by the human body and you are comparing this with cravings caused by a drug addition.
Also sitting in a seat without break for 8 hours isn't very healthy either.
if you can't survive without nicotine for 8 hours that's a serious addiction.
That might be quite a good definition of an addition. Someone in average health should be able to survive without serious complaint for 8 hours without water, food, or any chemical support excluding air.
I've long been complaining about smokers slacking off from work whereas non-smokers are expected to keep working for years now. I know I'm not the only one that does this. Smokers are seen as a class of disabled people who get special rights the rest of us don't get and it's pretty offensive to those who have to pick up the slack.
I'm not against tobacco, just cigarette's which are, lets face it, a nicotine dispensing tool for the addicted and nothing more. If you want to enjoy tobacco smoke a good cigar, the experience is nothing like smoking a cigarette.
I smoked for over half of my life; and just quit two weeks ago
Well done Sir!
1) If the same coins are really spent on both sides of the network split the transactions on the losing side will become invalid and will be dropped. This should not be a problem in practice as clients will be on one or other side of the split, not both.
Clients? Sure. ID's not so much. It is quite trivial to phone my buddy on the other side of the network split and give him what he needs to start trading the coins I am also about to start trading. This idea that "it should not be a problem" assumes honest actors.. what kind of security is that? Its just plain old bullshit that you just tried to sell.
Then it's not a network split in the first place because if you can get voice communications across it many others will be running modems over those same voice lines. BitCoin ( and any sensible software really ) does not assume honest actors. Your attack would only work where the network was split in a way where you were the only guy with a communication channel to the other side.
I think the AC's point is that it doesnt have to be kept split. I think the AC's point is that it just needs to be reconnected in the right sequence in order to control who wins the race. Remember that most of the network is already ignorant of your balance even without any splits.
It might be possible to DDOS internet core routers with the biggest botnet the world has ever seen but the amount of bandwidth it would take plus the fact that BitCoin only needs to get a tiny amount of data though any link and the fact that people will actively create new links means this attack will be practically impossible to pull off. Remember when some jokers with insane bandwidth tried to DDOS the root DNS servers? They still failed. Cutting a decent sized country entirely off the internet would be way harder.
Indeed, a bit like the Imperial (non-metric) distance measuring system is meaningless for almost everyone outside the USA. The more common decimal three orders of magnitude system (millimeters, meters, kilometers) makes a lot more sense. But we try to get by.
This is of course true. Everything is easier in metric so hanging onto a dumb system that everyone else has abandoned due to its awkwardness is just, well, dumb. But at least most of the world had some idea what a mile or yard is, if they don't know how long is it they at least know it's a measurement of distance.
Crore is just meaningless to almost everyone.
By the time 2017 comes your iphone 20s will be about as fast as this supercomputer.
Indeed. The weird Indian numbering system is meaningless for almost everyone outside India. The more common three orders of magnitude system ( thousand, million, billion, trillion ) makes a lot more sense.
AC,
Moheeheeko raises a fair point. India right now is nothing like the US was in the 1950's and 1960's. India lacks basic infrastructure throughout a great deal of its country and it has poverty and slums the like of which most of the developed world would find hard to believe. Now knock the US for their rampant gun crime all you like but India as a whole is altogether more messed up.
And before you tell me I don't know what I'm talking about I spent enough time in India to know that all the Indian 'It used to be like that but it's better now' crowd are lying for the sake of national pride.
Ok, you're right. It's only a crime to express your desires in some way the legal system doesn't like instead of simply wanting a thing.
But all progress depends on people acting on their beliefs. Simply wanting a thing and keeping quiet about it never changed the world.