How is it unfair? Firefox can look at Safari's code source and do the same things it does.
And who cares if Firefox can compete more? It already has a good distribution, and Firefox's point isn't to "compete" or gain a monopoly, or any such thing, but to deliver a good, standards-compliant browser to help foster more standards-compliance in the marketplace. The best situation is to have a number of web browsers that are all fully compliant and have a minimal popularity to be sustainable.
Well, of course it's fine, since it's "for the children"!
Democracy is only possible when citizens are literate, but if people can read & write, but lose access to any material that can be used to disseminate the truth, then it's back to the middle-ages.
The spam problem will not be solved with laws or pretty tricks like this.
It is a technological problem, and as such will be solved by technological changes: the SMTP protocol is outdated and totally unadapted to the modern uses to which we put it. Let's replace it with something that authentifies sender and receiver properly, and that allows for efficient transmission of binary data.
Yes, but to achieve a good suspension of disbelief, you have to be just off-real on certain matters, but not too jarring on common-day things, while keeping a self-consistency in your fantasy world.
Take an example from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: very quickly in the movie, people are shown to have real-world-impossible physical abilities and jump in ways that amount to *almost* flying, but is never quite that. They are jumping and standing on leaves and water and such. You can accept these abilities as consistent and possible in the fantastic world of the movie, but there's still a lot of attention in the decor, architecture, costumes and behavior to seem like it's happening in 18th century China. If you suddenly saw a modern automobile in the streets of Pekin, it would totally jar you out of the suspension of disbelief, because it wouldn't be self-consistent, and would not fit the concept around which the movie seems based.
On that subject, you might want to read JRR Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories".
Ok..so, now, parents that take pics of their nude kids, not in sexual situations, are not manufacturers of child porn?
Yes, at least according to some people. You haven't heard of heard of such cases of parents being accused of child pornography because they had sent pictures of themselves with their naked children in the bathtub to be developed?
The charges were dropped after some outcry, but the accusations were raised nevertheless.
The child pornography FUD is just a new campaign to give more power to those who would exploit us. After the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, now comes the War on Child Pornography. When everyone is a criminal, there is no need to fabricate evidence to imprison you because they don't like what you're saying or doing.
Other than cables (which are decent, though often overpriced) their products are mostly crap. I remember at my old workplace they'd sell Belkin routers over the technical staff's objections, because they were slightly cheaper than the Linksys or Dlink counterparts. Except that those routers never, ever worked correctly. Every single customer came back and eventually got another model instead, in the end costing the company a lot of money.
I'm more and more convinced that the solution is simple: "Accept only trusted communications". Automatically refuse any attempt at communication to your network that is not properly signed and encrypted, as well as specifically authorized by a competent authority within your organization.
About every actually possible time travel scenario that wouldn't violate most laws of physics involves a wormhole of some kind, which solves a lot of those issues. The ends of the wormhole travel through space and time normally according to the laws of general relativity, being affected by gravity and other forces. Thus the opening A of the wormhole could be on the Earth, staying with the planet as it moves through space, whereas the other end B is moved at extreme speeds to another location. You'd travel through time and space simultaneously, of course. You could also in theory bring the other end back to earth, and it wouldn't change the conclusion, what it would mean is that the two ends of the wormhole would be time-disconnected, and a "time traveler" could enter into one end of the wormhole at time A and exit through the other end at time B, modified by relativity effects due to the different acceleration exerted on end B.
This prevents about every issue with time-travel. The main problem is finding or making a stable wormhole and getting a traveler through it in one piece.
Here in Canada, at least, you can give your body to science (I have a will that says it's what I want for myself). They use it for whatever needs, keep organs they can use, and return the rest incinerated. No cost anywhere there.
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I always tell my customers: a computer is a tool, and you should use the appropriate tool to do the job. Run business apps on a Windows PC, do image, DTP, video editing on a Mac. Use UNIX/Linux for servers and embedded devices.
Where it is more murky is for personal home use, and I tend to recommend Macs because they are more resilient to the virus and malware plague.
Science is the application of the scientific method. When's the last time you saw an economist perform an experiment where only one variable was at play?
P2P is great for the creators of art. It's bad for the distributors and producers who control the industry, and want to stay in control. I'm most saddened when I see artists give in to the brainwashing the music executives do to them and come out against it.
The feeling I get from reading this is that it might be possible to offer an interpretation of the Universe as a huge decidability-machine. It's a leap, of course, but might be interesting to explore.
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How is it unfair? Firefox can look at Safari's code source and do the same things it does.
And who cares if Firefox can compete more? It already has a good distribution, and Firefox's point isn't to "compete" or gain a monopoly, or any such thing, but to deliver a good, standards-compliant browser to help foster more standards-compliance in the marketplace. The best situation is to have a number of web browsers that are all fully compliant and have a minimal popularity to be sustainable.
Well, of course it's fine, since it's "for the children"!
Democracy is only possible when citizens are literate, but if people can read & write, but lose access to any material that can be used to disseminate the truth, then it's back to the middle-ages.
You seem to be believing the "rational consumer" theory of economics. Please wake up to reality.
Memes are a sociological phenomenon, and are studied seriously by sociologists.
Not that I think sociology is a proper science, mind you, but it's still something that should be and has been studied seriously.
He's talking about Canada.
And then spammers started putting their viruses and malware in zip files.
And then you had to start over again.
The spam problem will not be solved with laws or pretty tricks like this.
It is a technological problem, and as such will be solved by technological changes: the SMTP protocol is outdated and totally unadapted to the modern uses to which we put it. Let's replace it with something that authentifies sender and receiver properly, and that allows for efficient transmission of binary data.
It's not rotten, it's in fact a very well-functioning oligarchy.
Yes, but to achieve a good suspension of disbelief, you have to be just off-real on certain matters, but not too jarring on common-day things, while keeping a self-consistency in your fantasy world.
Take an example from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: very quickly in the movie, people are shown to have real-world-impossible physical abilities and jump in ways that amount to *almost* flying, but is never quite that. They are jumping and standing on leaves and water and such. You can accept these abilities as consistent and possible in the fantastic world of the movie, but there's still a lot of attention in the decor, architecture, costumes and behavior to seem like it's happening in 18th century China. If you suddenly saw a modern automobile in the streets of Pekin, it would totally jar you out of the suspension of disbelief, because it wouldn't be self-consistent, and would not fit the concept around which the movie seems based.
On that subject, you might want to read JRR Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories".
Someone mod up the parent, I spent all my mod points already :-(
Ok..so, now, parents that take pics of their nude kids, not in sexual situations, are not manufacturers of child porn?
Yes, at least according to some people. You haven't heard of heard of such cases of parents being accused of child pornography because they had sent pictures of themselves with their naked children in the bathtub to be developed?
The charges were dropped after some outcry, but the accusations were raised nevertheless.
The child pornography FUD is just a new campaign to give more power to those who would exploit us. After the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, now comes the War on Child Pornography. When everyone is a criminal, there is no need to fabricate evidence to imprison you because they don't like what you're saying or doing.
Other than cables (which are decent, though often overpriced) their products are mostly crap. I remember at my old workplace they'd sell Belkin routers over the technical staff's objections, because they were slightly cheaper than the Linksys or Dlink counterparts. Except that those routers never, ever worked correctly. Every single customer came back and eventually got another model instead, in the end costing the company a lot of money.
I'm more and more convinced that the solution is simple: "Accept only trusted communications". Automatically refuse any attempt at communication to your network that is not properly signed and encrypted, as well as specifically authorized by a competent authority within your organization.
About every actually possible time travel scenario that wouldn't violate most laws of physics involves a wormhole of some kind, which solves a lot of those issues. The ends of the wormhole travel through space and time normally according to the laws of general relativity, being affected by gravity and other forces. Thus the opening A of the wormhole could be on the Earth, staying with the planet as it moves through space, whereas the other end B is moved at extreme speeds to another location. You'd travel through time and space simultaneously, of course. You could also in theory bring the other end back to earth, and it wouldn't change the conclusion, what it would mean is that the two ends of the wormhole would be time-disconnected, and a "time traveler" could enter into one end of the wormhole at time A and exit through the other end at time B, modified by relativity effects due to the different acceleration exerted on end B.
This prevents about every issue with time-travel. The main problem is finding or making a stable wormhole and getting a traveler through it in one piece.
Here in Canada, at least, you can give your body to science (I have a will that says it's what I want for myself). They use it for whatever needs, keep organs they can use, and return the rest incinerated. No cost anywhere there.
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is your friend
Exactly, and I can't understand it either.
I always tell my customers: a computer is a tool, and you should use the appropriate tool to do the job. Run business apps on a Windows PC, do image, DTP, video editing on a Mac. Use UNIX/Linux for servers and embedded devices.
Where it is more murky is for personal home use, and I tend to recommend Macs because they are more resilient to the virus and malware plague.
Your comment is strangely relevant and I wish I had mod points.
Economics is not a science.
Science is the application of the scientific method. When's the last time you saw an economist perform an experiment where only one variable was at play?
Actually, it's probably higher than the world's combined GDP.
We are all crazy.
The question is how far from acceptable norms we are, and whether our craziness is bad enough to disallow living in society.
I remember that story, but I don't think I read the comments on it.
Thanks to everyone who answered my slightly-offtopic question.
Ok, I get to ask this question now: WTF does this "pants" meme means?
P2P is great for the creators of art. It's bad for the distributors and producers who control the industry, and want to stay in control. I'm most saddened when I see artists give in to the brainwashing the music executives do to them and come out against it.
The feeling I get from reading this is that it might be possible to offer an interpretation of the Universe as a huge decidability-machine. It's a leap, of course, but might be interesting to explore.