You can get one man to submit through pain, but you can get millions to submit through fear of pain. Or imprisonment. Or death. Or "evil outsiders". Or anything, really.
Why is it that whenever some large industry wants their way, governments everywhere suddenly gets the power to push legislation through in under a day with no debate, but when people genuinely want better drug laws, equal marriage statutes, civil rights legislation, public healthcare and so forth then suddenly governments need time to "weigh the issue thoroughly" and "engage in discussion with all sides" and ends up taking months, years or decades to make any headway whatsoever. Why does ANY government that purports to be a democracy (or a democratic republic) have any ability to "push through" any law that's not a declaration of war or public emergency? Guess the MAFIAA really does run the world.
Be smart, just get on with it. Axiomatically, you'll only become a target for a lawsuit when you're already successful. You can pay a lawyer then, if you like.
Or alternatively, pay an accountant. Set the company up so all the liabilities are here and all the assets are there. Ignore patent trolls, ignore any court judgements, and if and when anyone with a badge does ever come to collect, point them at the Pile-O'-Debt and tell them to knock themselves out.
These are needless kludges. Stuff like this shouldn't be necessary. All these measures are patches for working around a broken system. Is some kid right out of college expected to put development of his Awesome New Idea on hold until he can contract a patent attorney, an accountant and a legal aide so he can implement the most trivial and obvious of software patterns? Kiss the Mark Zuckerbergs and Sergey Brins of the world goodbye, they'll go off and innovate in areas *not* encumbered by such useless nonsense.
Throw on Android, and hardware restrict ALL on-board electronics to be output readings only (current speed, fuel economy, GPS coordinates, temperature readings, etc.) We don't need some jackass rooting his car and disabling the power steering at 88 mph.
Just took my Katamari for a walk down Gene Ray's ode to insanity (scrollwheel to scroll down works fine, you can roll it straight down the middle). My Katamari was the size of my browser window and I wasn't even a tenth of the way down. Dude packs in a lot of text.
This is a potentially useful bit of microbiology. Eventually we're going to have to clean up landfill sites and the like, so what would be more useful than a bug that strips all the iron out of a pile of stuff and deposits it in sediment? Scoop garbage into tanks, let the bugs do their work, collect the sludge at the bottom for processing. If we could engineer these bacteria to eat other stuff like copper or various types of plastic, we could potentially reclaim a lot of what we call "garbage" on the cheap.
As for the Titanic? Well it's been almost a century now, I think it's time to let the old girl go.
Why aren't they just a "gang"? Is it because this crime has to do with technology and is, therefore, magically different than any other crime? If these guys had robbed all the banks in the city the traditional way, we wouldn't call them a "bankgang" or a "robberygang", would we? If they skimmed money the traditional way (bribes and scams) would we call them a "financegang"?
Now all he needs is a motorcycle with a nuclear warhead sidecar tied to his heartbeat and some glass knives and he can live out the rest of his days as the world's biggest badass. As a plus, the US government will do absolutely anything to make sure he doesn't die, ever.
"Okay, so grandma's in the bedroom, but why is her breathing and heart rate up so much? Her body temperature's too high, it's almost like there's a second reading there... And why's the accelerometer going off rhythmically once or twice a secoOHGOD!!!!!"
Here's a question that's never answered: the Climate Research Unit's email server was hacked, correct?
So where are the hackers?
Where's the outcry, the calls for the guilty party to be found and punished? What about the blog that received stolen property and leaked it without first going to the authorities? All the "heh heh, manbearpig" comments aside, the media sure was quick to blow some cranky comments by stressed out, human scientists out of proportion while conveniently ignoring this part of the whole sequence of events. You know, the hacking part of hacked emails?
But anyways, correct decision here. Of course, does anyone wonder why scientists are reluctant to open their findings in this environment?
And charge the Obama administration for continuing it, right?
Absolutely. I'm going to guess that you're not a fan of the Obama administration, or of Democrats or "libruls" in general. That's fine. But do recognize that it was your hero and his bunch that got this war started, for bullshit reasons, and that made this situation possible. Any punishment should first and foremost go towards them.
That said, Obama, while I'm one of those people that wants to see him pull your country back into the rational world, is prolonging the occupation. Every day he's not actively moving people out of that hellhole, he's ultimately responsible for what America does there, and if serious reparations aren't paid, there should be investigations. Good job getting a tiny scrap of sensible health care squeezed through the gauntlet Barack, it's a foot in the door, now handle the other giant mess.
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As any Windows user will tell you, it only gets worse from here. Welcome to the world of malware arms control, Macolytes.
I don't know, I heard some kids at the same fair got a pig and an elephant to make love.
Ridiculous! Haven't you ever heard that song by Loverboy?
...the BBC, who have now released the Domesday Reloaded project
I'm confused. I thought Domesday was supposed to be on the 21st of this month. Did they release early?
You can get one man to submit through pain, but you can get millions to submit through fear of pain. Or imprisonment. Or death. Or "evil outsiders". Or anything, really.
Why is it that whenever some large industry wants their way, governments everywhere suddenly gets the power to push legislation through in under a day with no debate, but when people genuinely want better drug laws, equal marriage statutes, civil rights legislation, public healthcare and so forth then suddenly governments need time to "weigh the issue thoroughly" and "engage in discussion with all sides" and ends up taking months, years or decades to make any headway whatsoever. Why does ANY government that purports to be a democracy (or a democratic republic) have any ability to "push through" any law that's not a declaration of war or public emergency? Guess the MAFIAA really does run the world.
Be smart, just get on with it. Axiomatically, you'll only become a target for a lawsuit when you're already successful. You can pay a lawyer then, if you like.
Or alternatively, pay an accountant. Set the company up so all the liabilities are here and all the assets are there. Ignore patent trolls, ignore any court judgements, and if and when anyone with a badge does ever come to collect, point them at the Pile-O'-Debt and tell them to knock themselves out.
These are needless kludges. Stuff like this shouldn't be necessary. All these measures are patches for working around a broken system. Is some kid right out of college expected to put development of his Awesome New Idea on hold until he can contract a patent attorney, an accountant and a legal aide so he can implement the most trivial and obvious of software patterns? Kiss the Mark Zuckerbergs and Sergey Brins of the world goodbye, they'll go off and innovate in areas *not* encumbered by such useless nonsense.
Throw on Android, and hardware restrict ALL on-board electronics to be output readings only (current speed, fuel economy, GPS coordinates, temperature readings, etc.) We don't need some jackass rooting his car and disabling the power steering at 88 mph.
Hey, don't you know? Real men run as root.
Just took my Katamari for a walk down Gene Ray's ode to insanity (scrollwheel to scroll down works fine, you can roll it straight down the middle). My Katamari was the size of my browser window and I wasn't even a tenth of the way down. Dude packs in a lot of text.
Cue Texas Instruments firing off a lawsuit for unauthorized usage of their hardware.
It's the same old thing as yesterday.
In related news, the new model of ship, the trireme is entering production.
Shit, already? I barely just got my phalanxes deployed. They'll be at tanks in no time at this rate.
This is a potentially useful bit of microbiology. Eventually we're going to have to clean up landfill sites and the like, so what would be more useful than a bug that strips all the iron out of a pile of stuff and deposits it in sediment? Scoop garbage into tanks, let the bugs do their work, collect the sludge at the bottom for processing. If we could engineer these bacteria to eat other stuff like copper or various types of plastic, we could potentially reclaim a lot of what we call "garbage" on the cheap. As for the Titanic? Well it's been almost a century now, I think it's time to let the old girl go.
Why aren't they just a "gang"? Is it because this crime has to do with technology and is, therefore, magically different than any other crime? If these guys had robbed all the banks in the city the traditional way, we wouldn't call them a "bankgang" or a "robberygang", would we? If they skimmed money the traditional way (bribes and scams) would we call them a "financegang"?
Now all he needs is a motorcycle with a nuclear warhead sidecar tied to his heartbeat and some glass knives and he can live out the rest of his days as the world's biggest badass. As a plus, the US government will do absolutely anything to make sure he doesn't die, ever.
They should be using the lasers to freeze sharks so that we can have frozen sharks with frikken freezing lasers on their heads.
In Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, shark laser freezes you!
This will be gamed by spammers before it even launches.
"Okay, so grandma's in the bedroom, but why is her breathing and heart rate up so much? Her body temperature's too high, it's almost like there's a second reading there... And why's the accelerometer going off rhythmically once or twice a secoOHGOD!!!!!"
Here's a question that's never answered: the Climate Research Unit's email server was hacked, correct?
So where are the hackers?
Where's the outcry, the calls for the guilty party to be found and punished? What about the blog that received stolen property and leaked it without first going to the authorities? All the "heh heh, manbearpig" comments aside, the media sure was quick to blow some cranky comments by stressed out, human scientists out of proportion while conveniently ignoring this part of the whole sequence of events. You know, the hacking part of hacked emails?
But anyways, correct decision here. Of course, does anyone wonder why scientists are reluctant to open their findings in this environment?
I'd better run a full scan just in case.
Not like I've been to as many porn sites as would be necessary to be statistically likely to have gotten infected. Several times over. Nosiree!
Ordered mine last week, got it in Wednesday. Very lucky, as it's not a bad phone in the slightest.
the ring came off my pudding can...
Use my pen knife my good man!
On the CBC (including embedded google map)
Canadian beavers: showing the rest of the world how it's done for millions of years.
And charge the Obama administration for continuing it, right?
Absolutely. I'm going to guess that you're not a fan of the Obama administration, or of Democrats or "libruls" in general. That's fine. But do recognize that it was your hero and his bunch that got this war started, for bullshit reasons, and that made this situation possible. Any punishment should first and foremost go towards them.
That said, Obama, while I'm one of those people that wants to see him pull your country back into the rational world, is prolonging the occupation. Every day he's not actively moving people out of that hellhole, he's ultimately responsible for what America does there, and if serious reparations aren't paid, there should be investigations. Good job getting a tiny scrap of sensible health care squeezed through the gauntlet Barack, it's a foot in the door, now handle the other giant mess.
The circumstances are apparently running a Windows system with Internet Explorer as the default browser. Come on, how many slashdotters do that?
How many slashdotters' parents do that? I'd say a good deal many of them.
This affects more than just you. Or maybe it does affect you: what's your setup at work like?