Uh, so USB can act like any other device. Is there a problem with that? I have a feeling it's designed to work that way (for flexibility, you know).
If you've got a security hole in some random driver and physical access to the system, you can exploit it either via USB or via its native connection.
Besides, what makes the actual exploitation the "specifics" and the mere tunnel the problem?
I know Longhorn was being renamed to Vista, but I wasn't aware the company was changing their name also... So, Microsoft to EA... I guess to drop the 'S' people so often type as '$'?
Um.... "irresponsible sexual behavior" can only really be caused by either stupidity (in which case MDMA would make no difference) or brain damage (be it temporary or permenant).
The interesting thing about Orkut is that it is not public nor can anyone access it. You need to be invited by an existing member (no, not hard, but still necessary)-- this makes it private to some extent.
A few things you missed:
- Rights are God-given, not granted by some government
- Governments have a limited authority: they can't just make laws for whatever they want
- You're agreeing with me about some actions ("crimes") having proper negative consequences
Correction: They are intended to fire a/many metal bullets with high pressure.
Legit uses:
- Killing animals for food
- Injuring someone attempting to assault you
- Deterring an attempt to assault you
- Breaking a hard material (there are even specialised guns designed for this)
- Defending your rights against a tyrannical government
I'm sure you could find more...
You do realise that China has two nuclear bombs targetting every US state, right? I don't see any attempt to overthrow them as being very successful...
By his 30th birthday? Seriously, unless he's marrying women much (5-10 yrs) younger than him, she'll have an increased risk of breast cancer-- women are supposed to have had their first kid by mid-20s...
Unfortunately, it's impossible to implement on a truly global level without assuming a centralised server (XMPP is somewhat p2p among servers) or privacy violations.
I guess someone could write a server-side plugin to allow a request for a user's "score" via XMPP and that server attempts to fill in for non-local references via a "partial score" request or such..
I have mine memorised and I don't even use it-- 11653284.
Of course, I also have pi memorised to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399, but I actually "use"/recall that...
What's funny about your comparison is the AIM and ICQ are the same thing. Yep, just enter your ICQ # in the official AIM client and it'll work. Likewise, the reverse should be possible if you hack up the ICQ client to accept non-numeric "ICQ #s"-- then you can start leaving offline messages for AIM lusers too!
I'm not defending monitoring of book purchases/borrows or spyware-- just wanted to point out that removing all negative consequences is not a good thing. Some are necessary; some are unjust.
Slavery was an issue before, during, and after the war, but it didn't contribute much, if any, to the reason for the war until later on. Had there not been a war, slavery would likely have dissolved without any bloodshed or bad feelings. As for the Emancipation Proclamation, note that it did not state slavery abolished or wrong. It simply freed a selective group of slaves that would benefit the group issuing the proclamation. Before, all slaves in those territories would be required to fight for the Confederates. After, they can rebel and choose to fight against them. Certainly seems like a useful battle tactic.
Except when what you call "religious fanaticism" happens to overlap with reality. One clasped in prayer can potentially change ten thousand people for better.
This can be taken too far-- suddenly you're eliminating the responsibility associated with the action itself. Some actions have rightfully "negative consequences"-- for example, should I be able to spread a rumour about ultranova sleeping with the moderators (just an example!) without being punished for it either directly or indirectly (lack of trust from others)?
Oops, looks like it wasn't jail after all (heard about it from someone else and didn't read the article until now).. Rephrased: Canada suspends earned teaching licenses (which shouldn't be necessary anyway) if they speak against sexual perversions off duty. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05061408.html
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I'm not part of US "society"-- tell me how I can cease paying taxes, exactly?
Uh, so USB can act like any other device. Is there a problem with that? I have a feeling it's designed to work that way (for flexibility, you know).
If you've got a security hole in some random driver and physical access to the system, you can exploit it either via USB or via its native connection.
Besides, what makes the actual exploitation the "specifics" and the mere tunnel the problem?
Bill Gates donates to organisations that murder people.
For MOO-based MUDs, at least, it's a bunch of structs and such in RAM that are dumped to an ASCII file every x hours.
I know Longhorn was being renamed to Vista, but I wasn't aware the company was changing their name also... So, Microsoft to EA... I guess to drop the 'S' people so often type as '$'?
Um.... "irresponsible sexual behavior" can only really be caused by either stupidity (in which case MDMA would make no difference) or brain damage (be it temporary or permenant).
The interesting thing about Orkut is that it is not public nor can anyone access it. You need to be invited by an existing member (no, not hard, but still necessary)-- this makes it private to some extent.
Doctors have more accidental deaths than guns do. Can anyone seriously consider banning guns without first banning doctors?
A few things you missed:
- Rights are God-given, not granted by some government
- Governments have a limited authority: they can't just make laws for whatever they want
- You're agreeing with me about some actions ("crimes") having proper negative consequences
Correction: They are intended to fire a/many metal bullets with high pressure.
Legit uses:
- Killing animals for food
- Injuring someone attempting to assault you
- Deterring an attempt to assault you
- Breaking a hard material (there are even specialised guns designed for this)
- Defending your rights against a tyrannical government
I'm sure you could find more...
What '3rd-world' country is this? I'm interesting in finding such countries w/o unjust laws to possibly move to...
You do realise that China has two nuclear bombs targetting every US state, right? I don't see any attempt to overthrow them as being very successful...
Um... MSN is still a form of IM. Sure, it's not standards-compliant, but neither is AIM.
By his 30th birthday? Seriously, unless he's marrying women much (5-10 yrs) younger than him, she'll have an increased risk of breast cancer-- women are supposed to have had their first kid by mid-20s...
Unfortunately, it's impossible to implement on a truly global level without assuming a centralised server (XMPP is somewhat p2p among servers) or privacy violations.
I guess someone could write a server-side plugin to allow a request for a user's "score" via XMPP and that server attempts to fill in for non-local references via a "partial score" request or such..
I have mine memorised and I don't even use it-- 11653284. Of course, I also have pi memorised to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399, but I actually "use"/recall that...
What's funny about your comparison is the AIM and ICQ are the same thing. Yep, just enter your ICQ # in the official AIM client and it'll work. Likewise, the reverse should be possible if you hack up the ICQ client to accept non-numeric "ICQ #s"-- then you can start leaving offline messages for AIM lusers too!
Yeah, real nerds would be using a standards-compliant IM program and insisting others who want to talk to them also use it.
I'm not defending monitoring of book purchases/borrows or spyware-- just wanted to point out that removing all negative consequences is not a good thing. Some are necessary; some are unjust.
Slavery was an issue before, during, and after the war, but it didn't contribute much, if any, to the reason for the war until later on. Had there not been a war, slavery would likely have dissolved without any bloodshed or bad feelings. As for the Emancipation Proclamation, note that it did not state slavery abolished or wrong. It simply freed a selective group of slaves that would benefit the group issuing the proclamation. Before, all slaves in those territories would be required to fight for the Confederates. After, they can rebel and choose to fight against them. Certainly seems like a useful battle tactic.
Interesting. Thanks for that info.
Except when what you call "religious fanaticism" happens to overlap with reality. One clasped in prayer can potentially change ten thousand people for better.
This can be taken too far-- suddenly you're eliminating the responsibility associated with the action itself. Some actions have rightfully "negative consequences"-- for example, should I be able to spread a rumour about ultranova sleeping with the moderators (just an example!) without being punished for it either directly or indirectly (lack of trust from others)?
The funny thing was that it was originally states in the north who ensured that the constitution allowed the secession of states from the union.
Oops, looks like it wasn't jail after all (heard about it from someone else and didn't read the article until now).. Rephrased: Canada suspends earned teaching licenses (which shouldn't be necessary anyway) if they speak against sexual perversions off duty.l
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05061408.htm