it can go through 20,000 - 30,000 generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years.
A human generation is not 40 years. Even today most people reproduce BEFORE they are 40. Historically our ancestors reproduced in their teens and early 20's.
There are actually plenty of porn sites/companies that could afford one of these at $6,000. If they catch onto this the price will drop for everyone else soon enough.
You are right about the chances of getting caught. As you said someone who can defend themelves well probably won't be caught. The only people who are going to court over this are not the best equiped people to defend themselves most likely. Also as you touched on, people with enough money to fight the RIAA would have just bought the material. Just like you said, they are the ones making the rules, we play their game.
In the words of the only english language writer better than Shakespeare...
"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Nintendo didn'y really have a monopoly. They had an extremely innovative product that had HUGE market share. Think of the iPod, it has huge market share but it does NOT have a monopoly. Many other companies release MP3 players and they make a profit off it. This is driving innovation in the market, without the competition Apple faces they would not need to make anything better.
Splitting hairs about something in the past i know but what really happened is more complicated than some text book economics example.
You thinka skilled lawyer would LET you rip apart their witness? That is the key here. You can represent yourself in court but its a bad idea always. Lets say you demand a trail by jury and try and bring up whatever point you want to defend yourself, try and appeal to a juror. A skilled prosecutor is not going to let you do that. They are going to get a lot of what you said thrown out of the record. Same thing with these cases. You can rip apart a MAFIAA "expert" no problem in a fair debate but that is not what courts are. Imagine courts as a full contact debate, that you can bring weapons to, the MAFIAA has brought guns and knives and whatever and your just sitting there ready to debate.
I took part in the test. Maybe you weren't there all day. Before the actual test we were given an agility test then fed lunch. We milled around, i chatted with some people, practicing my german. Eventually those that failed the agility test were shown away. Look, there was a very robust sample of people taken into the hanger, of that robust cample only the fit people were taken to the actual test. I dont care what you say about watching the test becuase i was inside the plane. Everyone inside knew EXACTLY what we were doing and we all bailed out very fast. You can say what you want but the test was a bit rigged. I understand if you were an observer you might have been shown a skewed test. My point is that you should keep an open mind. Giving airbus the seal of approval is a dangerous thing to do.
I am not anti-technology or anti-corporation. I am pro-people, that is all. I don't know if this big of a plane can be safe or not but i can make a good guess that this particular plane is quite dangerous.
The parent of this post was actually there. Since he responding he is not modding but i will take a guess that the other people who modded my posts down were not there and have no place passing judgement on something they have no first hand knowledge of.
i was modded down becuase people disagree, not becuase of coherency. I was there for the test, i was one of the people who took part in the test. I dove out of the plane and i may or may not have a different view of some other people here. Maybe im wrong, thats fine but i was there and the people who modded me down were probably not. If you disagree with me respond with why im wrong, dont jsut anonymously mod me down... For shame, people who were not there are passing judgement becuase they "feel" like they know what happened...
The other side is... most people listen to top 40 hits on the radiop and dont care. They are happy wage slaves only becuase they dont know any better. Its very nice and all to talk about the choices from our ivory tower but slashdot is fueled by sucessful career type people. Everyone else has no money or knowledge to do any different.
I consider 10 seconds off to be "barely". The volunteer's who did not pass the agility test did not take part in the actual demonstration. Once agian, the volunteers who DID take part were all warned about what to do and they were all concentrating hard on where to go and how to do it fastest. In a real situation with people panicking in the isle there is no way a plane would be unloaded that fast. A total of 32 people were injured in a best case scenario incident. Imagine what would happen with a fire on board or the plane maybe crash landed so the whole plane is tilted at an angle. A fire on board is going to kill a lot of people in 90 seconds. Withing a few seconds there could potentially be very little oxygen left. Without oxygen people will be panicking more and making more mistakes.
Also the fact that it holds too many people to safely unload in an emergency. Airbus did their test of the FAA regulation and barely made it. Not only did they barely made it but they only used volunteers that passed an "agility test". This involved running across a narrow board and using a trampoline and a vaulting horse. I know when i am on an airplane i usually sit between some old granny and a snotty little kid. So imagine a group of fit volunteers, who were warned in advance of everything to do, they had it in their mind, and were given ample warning when the drill would start. They just barely made it out of the plane in time and there was STILL minor to moderate injuries, even broken bones.
Sounds like a death trap to me, ill stick with something smaller thanks.
Could you perhaps just get a personal PO box? Wouldn't that shield you from giving away your home address while still letting you receive official mail about your domain?
We can hold people responsible when we have to. Crimals should be dealt with (with either treatment or incarseration). We need to DEAL with addicts but we should deal with them as a health problem, not as the mostly criminal problem we see them as now.
Maybe we can't hold anyone responsible for their action if there is no free will anyway. Even if we can't BLAME people for what they do we need to lock up rapists to protect society. In that case we should lock up SOME addicts (ones dangerous to society) but the safest thing for society to do for the rest of the addicts is to understand and treat their disease. Regardless of what you want to call addiction (choice or disease) we are all better off with a better understanding and better course of action other than "just say no" and locking up minor users.
Not all addicts can choose this, in fact many seem like they are incapable. There are degrees to any disease. Just because a disease is curable for some does not mean it is a concious choice. Some addicts are hopelessly addicted and all you can do is mitigate the damage, some are more or less curable.
From the article: But Ms. Moser bristled at the idea that she should have to remain ignorant about her genetic status to avoid discrimination. "I didn't do anything wrong," she said. "It's not like telling people I'm a drug addict."
Its ironic how she goes off through the whole article about how people look at her unfairly, like she has done something wrong. She goes off about how its not her faults and that it is a medical condition and people should understand that. Then she goes an accuses drug addicts of being the people who REALLY deserve the negative attention.
Drug addiction is a disease that is often caused by a set of genes. She is responible for the same discrimination that she feels is wrong. She doesn't realize that drug addicts are just as helpless to avoid onset of their symptoms as someone with Huntington's Disease.
It's bitter irony but it makes me angry to read it. Sometimes it seems like everyone thinks they are special and different and the rules don't apply to them.
If there was never any exploits found THEN you should worry. If nobody is finding anything you can guess that nobody is looking hard. If you find them every now and then but rarely it says that as we have known for a long time, nothing is perfect, and yet this OS is almost perfect. One of the main reasons for things like BSD being so secure is the fact that people are checking for exploits even though people are quite confident there are none.
Its not about avoiding walmart whenever possible. You dont even have to shop there. I myself have never done it and you can too. There are better options and i payed my way through college by working and loans and still could afford to shop at non-walmart stores.
The day they went public they changed as a company. I ama business student so please dont take this as an anti-corporate rant of mine. When a company goes public they have a legal obligation to do everything technically legal to get money for their stock holders, that is now the #1 goal within reasonable ethical guidlines. A non public compnay can do whatever they want, it is assumed they are oporating for profit but there is no reason why a privatly owned company can choose to not do "evil". For a public company this is not an option, off course there are ethical and legal boundries that the people in charge need to follow but if someone is not illegal you will probably have trouble finding consesus from people to say it is immoral. Without consensus that something is immoral there is no reason why the company should not do something.
This is our system like it or not but its worked pretty good so far, if you cant think of something better im sure there would be billions of people that would like to know about it.
Although whatever they confiscated is probably not coming back. Lets say they confiscate drugs, we can all agree that those shouldn;t be given back even if found illegally. What about computer and technology equipment? I knew a guy who had his house raided (he was a phreaker) but all charges were dropped (he actually didn't do any of the stuff they accused him of doing), 8 years later he got his computer equipment back. How useful do you think it was to him at that point?
Grow up, your not in high school anymore. I am glad i left all that drama behind the moment I finished. Some people really want to keep themselves in the mindset of being picked on for their whole life i supose.
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it can go through 20,000 - 30,000 generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years.
A human generation is not 40 years. Even today most people reproduce BEFORE they are 40. Historically our ancestors reproduced in their teens and early 20's.
I canceled my ADSL today...
There are actually plenty of porn sites/companies that could afford one of these at $6,000. If they catch onto this the price will drop for everyone else soon enough.
You are right about the chances of getting caught. As you said someone who can defend themelves well probably won't be caught. The only people who are going to court over this are not the best equiped people to defend themselves most likely. Also as you touched on, people with enough money to fight the RIAA would have just bought the material. Just like you said, they are the ones making the rules, we play their game.
In the words of the only english language writer better than Shakespeare...
"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Nintendo didn'y really have a monopoly. They had an extremely innovative product that had HUGE market share. Think of the iPod, it has huge market share but it does NOT have a monopoly. Many other companies release MP3 players and they make a profit off it. This is driving innovation in the market, without the competition Apple faces they would not need to make anything better.
Splitting hairs about something in the past i know but what really happened is more complicated than some text book economics example.
You thinka skilled lawyer would LET you rip apart their witness? That is the key here. You can represent yourself in court but its a bad idea always. Lets say you demand a trail by jury and try and bring up whatever point you want to defend yourself, try and appeal to a juror. A skilled prosecutor is not going to let you do that. They are going to get a lot of what you said thrown out of the record. Same thing with these cases. You can rip apart a MAFIAA "expert" no problem in a fair debate but that is not what courts are. Imagine courts as a full contact debate, that you can bring weapons to, the MAFIAA has brought guns and knives and whatever and your just sitting there ready to debate.
Spam of course being the much bigger business...
Ask dell to do it here too. Politely tell them that you like their policy in Germany and you want them to do it here.
I took part in the test. Maybe you weren't there all day. Before the actual test we were given an agility test then fed lunch. We milled around, i chatted with some people, practicing my german. Eventually those that failed the agility test were shown away. Look, there was a very robust sample of people taken into the hanger, of that robust cample only the fit people were taken to the actual test. I dont care what you say about watching the test becuase i was inside the plane. Everyone inside knew EXACTLY what we were doing and we all bailed out very fast. You can say what you want but the test was a bit rigged. I understand if you were an observer you might have been shown a skewed test. My point is that you should keep an open mind. Giving airbus the seal of approval is a dangerous thing to do.
I am not anti-technology or anti-corporation. I am pro-people, that is all. I don't know if this big of a plane can be safe or not but i can make a good guess that this particular plane is quite dangerous.
The parent of this post was actually there. Since he responding he is not modding but i will take a guess that the other people who modded my posts down were not there and have no place passing judgement on something they have no first hand knowledge of.
i was modded down becuase people disagree, not becuase of coherency. I was there for the test, i was one of the people who took part in the test. I dove out of the plane and i may or may not have a different view of some other people here. Maybe im wrong, thats fine but i was there and the people who modded me down were probably not. If you disagree with me respond with why im wrong, dont jsut anonymously mod me down... For shame, people who were not there are passing judgement becuase they "feel" like they know what happened...
The other side is... most people listen to top 40 hits on the radiop and dont care. They are happy wage slaves only becuase they dont know any better. Its very nice and all to talk about the choices from our ivory tower but slashdot is fueled by sucessful career type people. Everyone else has no money or knowledge to do any different.
That website uses so many tables and such crappy color scheme it makes jesus cry...
I consider 10 seconds off to be "barely". The volunteer's who did not pass the agility test did not take part in the actual demonstration. Once agian, the volunteers who DID take part were all warned about what to do and they were all concentrating hard on where to go and how to do it fastest. In a real situation with people panicking in the isle there is no way a plane would be unloaded that fast. A total of 32 people were injured in a best case scenario incident. Imagine what would happen with a fire on board or the plane maybe crash landed so the whole plane is tilted at an angle. A fire on board is going to kill a lot of people in 90 seconds. Withing a few seconds there could potentially be very little oxygen left. Without oxygen people will be panicking more and making more mistakes.
It's a death trap.
Also the fact that it holds too many people to safely unload in an emergency. Airbus did their test of the FAA regulation and barely made it. Not only did they barely made it but they only used volunteers that passed an "agility test". This involved running across a narrow board and using a trampoline and a vaulting horse. I know when i am on an airplane i usually sit between some old granny and a snotty little kid. So imagine a group of fit volunteers, who were warned in advance of everything to do, they had it in their mind, and were given ample warning when the drill would start. They just barely made it out of the plane in time and there was STILL minor to moderate injuries, even broken bones.
Sounds like a death trap to me, ill stick with something smaller thanks.
Could you perhaps just get a personal PO box? Wouldn't that shield you from giving away your home address while still letting you receive official mail about your domain?
For a picture of her go to http://icannwiki.org/Wendy_Seltzer.
Shes actually not bad looking and when you take into account that she is a techie and on the good guy's side that's like +10 to charisma or something.
2 wrongs don't make a right...
Just becuase you can point out what a democrat did wrong doesn't mean that the current administration is free to do as they please.
We can hold people responsible when we have to. Crimals should be dealt with (with either treatment or incarseration). We need to DEAL with addicts but we should deal with them as a health problem, not as the mostly criminal problem we see them as now.
Maybe we can't hold anyone responsible for their action if there is no free will anyway. Even if we can't BLAME people for what they do we need to lock up rapists to protect society. In that case we should lock up SOME addicts (ones dangerous to society) but the safest thing for society to do for the rest of the addicts is to understand and treat their disease. Regardless of what you want to call addiction (choice or disease) we are all better off with a better understanding and better course of action other than "just say no" and locking up minor users.
Not all addicts can choose this, in fact many seem like they are incapable. There are degrees to any disease. Just because a disease is curable for some does not mean it is a concious choice. Some addicts are hopelessly addicted and all you can do is mitigate the damage, some are more or less curable.
From the article:
But Ms. Moser bristled at the idea that she should have to remain ignorant about her genetic status to avoid discrimination. "I didn't do anything wrong," she said. "It's not like telling people I'm a drug addict."
Its ironic how she goes off through the whole article about how people look at her unfairly, like she has done something wrong. She goes off about how its not her faults and that it is a medical condition and people should understand that. Then she goes an accuses drug addicts of being the people who REALLY deserve the negative attention.
Drug addiction is a disease that is often caused by a set of genes. She is responible for the same discrimination that she feels is wrong. She doesn't realize that drug addicts are just as helpless to avoid onset of their symptoms as someone with Huntington's Disease.
It's bitter irony but it makes me angry to read it. Sometimes it seems like everyone thinks they are special and different and the rules don't apply to them.
If there was never any exploits found THEN you should worry. If nobody is finding anything you can guess that nobody is looking hard. If you find them every now and then but rarely it says that as we have known for a long time, nothing is perfect, and yet this OS is almost perfect. One of the main reasons for things like BSD being so secure is the fact that people are checking for exploits even though people are quite confident there are none.
Its not about avoiding walmart whenever possible. You dont even have to shop there. I myself have never done it and you can too. There are better options and i payed my way through college by working and loans and still could afford to shop at non-walmart stores.
The day they went public they changed as a company. I ama business student so please dont take this as an anti-corporate rant of mine. When a company goes public they have a legal obligation to do everything technically legal to get money for their stock holders, that is now the #1 goal within reasonable ethical guidlines. A non public compnay can do whatever they want, it is assumed they are oporating for profit but there is no reason why a privatly owned company can choose to not do "evil". For a public company this is not an option, off course there are ethical and legal boundries that the people in charge need to follow but if someone is not illegal you will probably have trouble finding consesus from people to say it is immoral. Without consensus that something is immoral there is no reason why the company should not do something.
This is our system like it or not but its worked pretty good so far, if you cant think of something better im sure there would be billions of people that would like to know about it.
Although whatever they confiscated is probably not coming back. Lets say they confiscate drugs, we can all agree that those shouldn;t be given back even if found illegally. What about computer and technology equipment? I knew a guy who had his house raided (he was a phreaker) but all charges were dropped (he actually didn't do any of the stuff they accused him of doing), 8 years later he got his computer equipment back. How useful do you think it was to him at that point?
Grow up, your not in high school anymore. I am glad i left all that drama behind the moment I finished. Some people really want to keep themselves in the mindset of being picked on for their whole life i supose.