I'd much rather have 1kg of incredibly toxic stuff in a sealed container than 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel residues in the air I have to breathe.
That is an incomplete argument. What needs to be taken into account as well is how long that 1kg is going to be around and how long that 10,000,000kg is going to be around and what the cost and danger is over long periods of time.
To nitpick, 1) Fossil fuel is getting increasingly less polluting, particulate matter in the air is *way* down. A better argument is that there is a finite supply of it and that it is getting increasingly more expensive to mine. 2) The argument you used is exactly the argument used for fission nuclear plants, but what do we have to show for that? Chernobyl is a wasteland, Hanford is leaking, finding a new site was a political nightmare, and keeping a kilogram around for 38,000 years decontaminate seems to be a hard sell (for me at least).
Both have advantages/disadvantages, but I think right now, the scales tip toward fusion as being a better long term solution, but that will come at a cost.
-Sean
Just about everything is sensitive to attacks like this. Someone on your telephone pole can listen to your phone conversations. Someone with a bug can listen to conversations in a room. Someone monitoring internet traffic can monitor your website usage. A monitor in your car can track your movements.
There are a lot bigger problems than someone listening to keyboard clicks, IMO. Make it illegal and be done with it.
-Sean
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It also needs to be said that this is also illegal in many places (due to spam laws). Spammers are very good at hiding their identities. Stupid users are not, and would be relatively easy to get caught. Honestly, it sounds like a money saving scheme, get someone else to break the law for you, and you come out clean as a whistle.
-Sean
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Yes, but it is unfortunate that this is will benefit microsoft. (More sales of unsupported software, less tech support, etc)....
Yes, but couldn't they just go higher and fall into orbit?
So they made it. Congrats. Now how high would they have to go to enter orbit?
If by modding you mean, "blow it up with firecrackers to see what it does."
I'd much rather have 1kg of incredibly toxic stuff in a sealed container than 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel residues in the air I have to breathe. That is an incomplete argument. What needs to be taken into account as well is how long that 1kg is going to be around and how long that 10,000,000kg is going to be around and what the cost and danger is over long periods of time. To nitpick, 1) Fossil fuel is getting increasingly less polluting, particulate matter in the air is *way* down. A better argument is that there is a finite supply of it and that it is getting increasingly more expensive to mine. 2) The argument you used is exactly the argument used for fission nuclear plants, but what do we have to show for that? Chernobyl is a wasteland, Hanford is leaking, finding a new site was a political nightmare, and keeping a kilogram around for 38,000 years decontaminate seems to be a hard sell (for me at least). Both have advantages/disadvantages, but I think right now, the scales tip toward fusion as being a better long term solution, but that will come at a cost. -Sean
Just about everything is sensitive to attacks like this. Someone on your telephone pole can listen to your phone conversations. Someone with a bug can listen to conversations in a room. Someone monitoring internet traffic can monitor your website usage. A monitor in your car can track your movements. There are a lot bigger problems than someone listening to keyboard clicks, IMO. Make it illegal and be done with it. -Sean
ass rape If elected, I can bet you are the first congressional member to publicly use the term ass rape.
Emacs. Hell, that is ten programs. And it is as big as one hundred.
Maybe it is the 5 century BC failed Noah's ark amusement park? -Sean
In other news, /. confirms that it will suck.
It also needs to be said that this is also illegal in many places (due to spam laws). Spammers are very good at hiding their identities. Stupid users are not, and would be relatively easy to get caught. Honestly, it sounds like a money saving scheme, get someone else to break the law for you, and you come out clean as a whistle. -Sean
Man I am embarrassed to admit, but it made me laugh... -Sean