You forget one thing: Small time marijuana dealers will become those regulated sources. Since they finally can make their business an official business. Or they can stay unofficial, and thereby be cheaper because of avoiding taxation.
But in any way, it will create more legal jobs. Also usage will go way up.
Nowadays you always got a computer running, which has more screen space, keys, processing power and features anyway. Even my mobile phone can do everything a standalone scientific calculator can do, and more. Since there is a great calculator/math software for it, and since it runs Python and JavaScript anyway. Amongst others.
What are the reasons you still limit yourself to standalone calculators? (Honest question.) To me it’s as pointless as having a standalone mp3 player. My phone has great sound and lots of space. The software is whatever I choose anyway.:)
If you think about it, it’s not much different form a country with total censorship. This small establishment’s view always overrides over everybody else. And they massively make use of that power.
As I said: As long as it is even possible for a subset of humanity, to control what’s going onto Wikipedia, it can by definition not be the encyclopedia for all of humanity. It’s obvious that to solve this, central servers and admins are out of the question... resulting in a P2P system of cascading trust relationships.
is everything that the admin establishment doesn’t agree with. Just like in a state with total censorship. And on top of that, the admins often don’t know shit about anything. Which is not surprising, considering that they most likely sit in underpants in their basement all day long. Why else would they have so much time to troll around Wikipedia on a deletion spree? Which is obviously not a very mentally healthy thing to do either.
It’s simple: As long as Wikipedia can at all be controlled by a subset of humanity, it’s doomed to fail as a encyclopedia for all people. By definition. That’s why it must become a P2P system. With cascading information source rules definable by every user for himself. With everybody being able to be the publisher of his view of Wikipedia.
Because in the end, nearly all you know, is based on the trust on other sources (human beings) anyway. (Yes, including most of what you call “facts”. Unless you checked for yourself, that information IS based on trust.)
You seem to stand under massive influence of content mafia bullshit. (Sorry for that.)
There is nothing else to own than that what is physical. Tell me, how can you own an idea? How can you own information? You can have it in your head. You can take a note of it. But unless you tell someone else about it, you can’t even prove it exists. And if you tell someone (as in this case, where the whole world knows it), everybody has the information, and hence nobody owns it. Because how can you own something, that can’t even be taken away from you, and that you also can’t control?
The value of information is inversely proportional to the number of people knowing it. So what’s the point anyway. Back then, the “idiots” did’t even remotely imagine of how fucked up this (including some “laws”) could become in the future. They went for the natural. The obvious.
Gaylord already gave out the information. In form of a large memorial for the whole world to see. So now it’s waayy too late to bitch about it. If he wanted more, he should have asked back when he passed it over. That was the only point in time to do this.
And you: I know it’s hard to stay in reality with today’s media bullshit power. But please stop getting all you know form others. Especially the current sources. And start to find out things for yourself. Strengthen your own sense of reality. A good way to measure how close you are to reality, is to trace it back to basic physics. I did that. And the above is a the tip of the iceberg of the result of it.:)
But it still apparently left him a very changed man, more so than most veterans.
Apparently?? Obviously rather. After all he not only lost his genitals, but also a very important source of hormones. Hormones that control the processes of the body and his character. On top of the mental horrors and pain.
Frankly I’m a bit shocked that you seem to know so little about it that you would even use the word “apparently”... instead of being completely sure.:/
There is probably still lots of envy for the Western lifestyle, but don't make the mistake of thinking that it's specifically the American lifestyle that people envy.
To be more exact: We don’t think that the US is the Western lifestyle at all anymore. More like a theocracy. Not as bad as Iran. But getting there. Then again, in Europe and the USA, we’re clearly headed for fascism, with the destruction of privacy and rights, for total control and industrial power.
Log the protocol (which will be decrypted, because any key to encrypt it would have to be stored on your system), and then make a loopback to a small program that runs in the background and stores and returns the incoming BLOBs. No need for a central server.
And this wouldn’t be the first time. Windows (since XP) has something that checks the server. Well, some weeks later, you could find screenshots on the net, showing MS’s own tool saying that Ubuntu is “Genuine Microsoft Windows XP(tm)”. ^^
Also, the logic that it would make sense to hold off the crackers long enough to make sales, does not make any sense at all. Because the reason people don’t buy it, is NOT that they do not want to buy it. It’s that they do not want to buy it AT THAT PRICE. Period. Holding it off, is not going to change anything. People will just wait. Just like we did with DVDs, before people started to film them off of cinemas, or just like we still do, when we prefer high-quality rips.
As long as the code is executed on your own CPU, it’s cracked by simply fetching the decrypted code out of RAM. Even when they send you code fragments from the server so that they never touch the hard disk.
The only way it will ever work, is if they use an external system to compute vital parts of the game. And the only way that is going to happen, is by it being a online game, in the sense of WoW. With some game logic being solely decided by a server, trough an API. Which of course also creates lag.
So my guess is, that in the future every game will either have a vital physical device that you need to play it (e.g. a controller or an FPGA chip on a USB dongle), or will be a real online game. To make the fucked-up reality of the content mafia real, that all you’d do, is rent the software.
Well, I’ve already designed a general model and a business model, that works in reality, without having to make up fantasy lies like “IP”. It does’t need government to change. It doesn’t need laws or forced behavior of people. It doesn’t even need the content mafia to go away, as it can work in parallel. And I am already in contact with the Pirate party, to spread the concept.:)
Pff... We can build machines and soon grow bodies. What do wen seed our genome for? Yes, may be nice. But definitely not a must.
Usually, our brain, in form of data, would suffice. And that one could be sent as data. Giving us light-speed travel to every location that we already reached the normal way. Think about it: Using Project Orion style rockets, we would perhaps just about get to Alpha Centauri when we would find a way to read a whole brain to transfer it.
I’ve tried these “games”. And while there are many out there, they are pretty lame. And GPS is way too inexact anyway. And it doesn’t work in buildings. Or between high buildings. Or in the woods. Or pretty much everywhere where it would be fun.
So it’s a lot of moving. In your everyday scenery. Sorry, but this can’t beat alien 3D worlds and game physics. Plus: What geek likes sports anyway?;)
Apart from the “because I can”, what’s the actual point of this?
I mean restarting the computer is rather a Windows thing. Why would you reboot a Linux machine? There isn’t a new kernel that often... If it’s a desktop, you are going to switch it on in the morning, go take a piss, enter the password, go find something to eat, and then it runs for the day. Same thing when you were away and came home.
And for anything else (e.g. laptops) there always is hibernation. Also the trick to make shutdown actually reboot and go to hibernation, helps with doing actual reboots.
Since it can be argued, that technically EVERYTHING that connects to another computer, sending and receiving data (even if it’s just one bit), is a file sharing program, and since the computers are peers, is p2p file sharing, this means that we would have to shut down the whole Internet. All of it.
And yet another epic fail of combined greed and incompetency. (And laziness / being cattle, of the population.)
Or do you mean the imaginary concept of “intellectual property”? Something that in the physical reality of this universe can not exist. If yes, then please stop. Because you are unknowingly spreading media reproduction and artist extortion industry FUD. Which will hurt you too, in the end. And me. Which will result in even more hurt for you.;))
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You forget one thing: Small time marijuana dealers will become those regulated sources. Since they finally can make their business an official business.
Or they can stay unofficial, and thereby be cheaper because of avoiding taxation.
But in any way, it will create more legal jobs. Also usage will go way up.
Umm, your sibling comment’s poll suggests otherwise: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1566116&cid=31307464
(52% in favor of legalization)
Nowadays you always got a computer running, which has more screen space, keys, processing power and features anyway.
Even my mobile phone can do everything a standalone scientific calculator can do, and more. Since there is a great calculator/math software for it, and since it runs Python and JavaScript anyway. Amongst others.
What are the reasons you still limit yourself to standalone calculators? (Honest question.) :)
To me it’s as pointless as having a standalone mp3 player. My phone has great sound and lots of space. The software is whatever I choose anyway.
Uuum, do you mean the same CNN that quotes random twitter comments on live television as if they were news?
Yeah, much better than FOX UnNews.
If you think about it, it’s not much different form a country with total censorship. This small establishment’s view always overrides over everybody else. And they massively make use of that power.
As I said: As long as it is even possible for a subset of humanity, to control what’s going onto Wikipedia, it can by definition not be the encyclopedia for all of humanity.
It’s obvious that to solve this, central servers and admins are out of the question... resulting in a P2P system of cascading trust relationships.
is everything that the admin establishment doesn’t agree with. Just like in a state with total censorship.
And on top of that, the admins often don’t know shit about anything.
Which is not surprising, considering that they most likely sit in underpants in their basement all day long. Why else would they have so much time to troll around Wikipedia on a deletion spree? Which is obviously not a very mentally healthy thing to do either.
It’s simple: As long as Wikipedia can at all be controlled by a subset of humanity, it’s doomed to fail as a encyclopedia for all people. By definition.
That’s why it must become a P2P system. With cascading information source rules definable by every user for himself. With everybody being able to be the publisher of his view of Wikipedia.
Because in the end, nearly all you know, is based on the trust on other sources (human beings) anyway. (Yes, including most of what you call “facts”. Unless you checked for yourself, that information IS based on trust.)
You seem to stand under massive influence of content mafia bullshit. (Sorry for that.)
There is nothing else to own than that what is physical. Tell me, how can you own an idea? How can you own information? You can have it in your head. You can take a note of it. But unless you tell someone else about it, you can’t even prove it exists. And if you tell someone (as in this case, where the whole world knows it), everybody has the information, and hence nobody owns it. Because how can you own something, that can’t even be taken away from you, and that you also can’t control?
The value of information is inversely proportional to the number of people knowing it. So what’s the point anyway.
Back then, the “idiots” did’t even remotely imagine of how fucked up this (including some “laws”) could become in the future. They went for the natural. The obvious.
Gaylord already gave out the information. In form of a large memorial for the whole world to see. So now it’s waayy too late to bitch about it. If he wanted more, he should have asked back when he passed it over. That was the only point in time to do this.
And you: I know it’s hard to stay in reality with today’s media bullshit power. But please stop getting all you know form others. Especially the current sources. And start to find out things for yourself. Strengthen your own sense of reality. :)
A good way to measure how close you are to reality, is to trace it back to basic physics.
I did that. And the above is a the tip of the iceberg of the result of it.
But it still apparently left him a very changed man, more so than most veterans.
Apparently?? Obviously rather. After all he not only lost his genitals, but also a very important source of hormones. Hormones that control the processes of the body and his character. On top of the mental horrors and pain.
Frankly I’m a bit shocked that you seem to know so little about it that you would even use the word “apparently”... instead of being completely sure. :/
Zero. Just a boss telling him that’s what he does, or he is fired.
Otis? Is that you?
There is probably still lots of envy for the Western lifestyle, but don't make the mistake of thinking that it's specifically the American lifestyle that people envy.
To be more exact: We don’t think that the US is the Western lifestyle at all anymore. More like a theocracy. Not as bad as Iran. But getting there.
Then again, in Europe and the USA, we’re clearly headed for fascism, with the destruction of privacy and rights, for total control and industrial power.
Pff. My T-1000 kicks your T-437’s ass! ;)
And how is this different from people who voted for the big two (parties)? ^^
Seriously, those votes are just as meaningless.
Vote PIRATE party! Or even better: Vote for *yourself*!
This version seems to run fine: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Assassins-Creed-2-PAL-XBOX360-MegaWare-ShareReactor/458805dd93c156bd0968b199a1fcc7c54b86527a3f33
(Ignore that spammer comment in there.)
Why that complicated. Just crack it like this:
Log the protocol (which will be decrypted, because any key to encrypt it would have to be stored on your system), and then make a loopback to a small program that runs in the background and stores and returns the incoming BLOBs. No need for a central server.
And this wouldn’t be the first time. Windows (since XP) has something that checks the server. Well, some weeks later, you could find screenshots on the net, showing MS’s own tool saying that Ubuntu is “Genuine Microsoft Windows XP(tm)”. ^^
Also, the logic that it would make sense to hold off the crackers long enough to make sales, does not make any sense at all.
Because the reason people don’t buy it, is NOT that they do not want to buy it. It’s that they do not want to buy it AT THAT PRICE. Period.
Holding it off, is not going to change anything. People will just wait.
Just like we did with DVDs, before people started to film them off of cinemas, or just like we still do, when we prefer high-quality rips.
What a bunch or real retards.
As long as the code is executed on your own CPU, it’s cracked by simply fetching the decrypted code out of RAM. Even when they send you code fragments from the server so that they never touch the hard disk.
The only way it will ever work, is if they use an external system to compute vital parts of the game.
And the only way that is going to happen, is by it being a online game, in the sense of WoW. With some game logic being solely decided by a server, trough an API. Which of course also creates lag.
So my guess is, that in the future every game will either have a vital physical device that you need to play it (e.g. a controller or an FPGA chip on a USB dongle), or will be a real online game.
To make the fucked-up reality of the content mafia real, that all you’d do, is rent the software.
Well, I’ve already designed a general model and a business model, that works in reality, without having to make up fantasy lies like “IP”. It does’t need government to change. It doesn’t need laws or forced behavior of people. It doesn’t even need the content mafia to go away, as it can work in parallel. And I am already in contact with the Pirate party, to spread the concept. :)
Content mafia: You’re going down!
Pff... We can build machines and soon grow bodies. What do wen seed our genome for? Yes, may be nice. But definitely not a must.
Usually, our brain, in form of data, would suffice. And that one could be sent as data. Giving us light-speed travel to every location that we already reached the normal way. Think about it: Using Project Orion style rockets, we would perhaps just about get to Alpha Centauri when we would find a way to read a whole brain to transfer it.
I’ve tried these “games”. And while there are many out there, they are pretty lame. And GPS is way too inexact anyway. And it doesn’t work in buildings. Or between high buildings. Or in the woods. Or pretty much everywhere where it would be fun.
So it’s a lot of moving. In your everyday scenery. ;)
Sorry, but this can’t beat alien 3D worlds and game physics.
Plus: What geek likes sports anyway?
So?
Take ending slavery. And then try your argument against that.
Now you see the flaw in your “argument“, don’t you. ^^
So if I murder that judge’s children, I’m good, as long as I don’t benefit from it? ;)
What an idiot.
Apart from the “because I can”, what’s the actual point of this?
I mean restarting the computer is rather a Windows thing. Why would you reboot a Linux machine? There isn’t a new kernel that often...
If it’s a desktop, you are going to switch it on in the morning, go take a piss, enter the password, go find something to eat, and then it runs for the day. Same thing when you were away and came home.
And for anything else (e.g. laptops) there always is hibernation.
Also the trick to make shutdown actually reboot and go to hibernation, helps with doing actual reboots.
The egg is PART of the newly mutated embryo, and hence also mutated, and so already a 100%-chicken egg. ;)
Did you sleep in biology class?
Since it can be argued, that technically EVERYTHING that connects to another computer, sending and receiving data (even if it’s just one bit), is a file sharing program, and since the computers are peers, is p2p file sharing, this means that we would have to shut down the whole Internet. All of it.
And yet another epic fail of combined greed and incompetency. (And laziness / being cattle, of the population.)
What would they do with their IP address?
Or do you mean the imaginary concept of “intellectual property”? Something that in the physical reality of this universe can not exist. ;))
If yes, then please stop. Because you are unknowingly spreading media reproduction and artist extortion industry FUD. Which will hurt you too, in the end. And me. Which will result in even more hurt for you.
Actually it’s kB and kb. With a small k. Since K already stands for kelvin. And what is a kelvin byte? ;)