]If idiots here can't punch all the way through a fucking card, do you really expect them to be able to stay within the lines with an "X"?
If anyone is so thick they can't keep an X inside a box, then it's a close escape for the rest of us. [br][br][br]... The only advantages I can see to electronic voting is that the solution could be scalable enough to start enhancing democracy by allowing real-time voting on controversial legislation. If you were to use it right it could allow you to introduce the first form of direct democracy since the city states in italy. Plus, if you make the computers difficult enough to use, you have a nice self-selecting cypher to keep the R-Tards from voting.
Yeah. You missed the unwritten part of the constitution.
Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.
Unwritten article 1. The government is entitled to kill, torture, imprison, molest, inconvenience, harm or deprive of any or all human rights any Citizen it choses for any reason it choses, regardless of Article 35 of the written constitution.
In africa, Old means when we were still in trees going Oook and scratching ourselves. (And no, I don't mean last tuesday outside the Manchester Met student union)
But do the libraries have the right to index the books they have?
Yes. They have. But ASFAIK & IANAL they do not have the right to make an index so substantial that (in effect) it allows you to retrieve a copy of a significent part of the book Isn't this just a book index based on the content not just the title and author name? . I would guess that this is what the lawsuit is about. One page could be a significent proportion of a copyright work. For example an anthology could contain a one page poem that is in itself copyright. or a microstory ( a story in a paragraph or less). Or a picture (yes, I don't think that google does this... yet).
It is stupid for the book guilde to sue google as this service can only increase sales.
Well, first it is the authors guild, secondly they would argue that it is beneficial to their members as it might establish precident limiting further indexing which could give a ten page summary, or a hundred page etc. What is acceptable and what is not?
First off, it's hard to see *any* species as being in anything other than a state of evolution. To suggest otherwise implies a superficial understand of what evolution is about.
This is true to an extent: the biological definition of species requires sexual reproduction that implies evolution. But there are other forms of reproduction that exclude evolution as each generation is genetically identical to the last. For instance Apomixis:
Even in the case of sexual reproduction, there is a hypothesis that it is possible for a species to evolve into a local minimum where every change from the norm results in a disadvantage to the individual. (I can only really see this happening in a very simple and stable ecosystem).
Nothing has fallen into the public domain for almost a half century before I was born.
It's dead Jim.
That is not true.
1) Copyright in other nations (i.e.) Australia have expired, and so gone into the public domain in the US.
2) Some work in the US has gone into public domain ( from http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/duration.html#old ):
if a work was published between 1923 to 1963, the copyright owner was required to have applied for a renewal term with the Copyright office. If they did not, the copyright expired and the work entered into the public domain. If they did apply for renewal, these works will have a 95 year copyright term and hence will enter into the public domain no sooner that 2018 (95 years from 1923).
These people don't even know how to grammer check their press release...
It was verified that it is the possibility the extermination possible worm type virus of the risk which is called to the player itself of Creative Zen of the digital audio player who it was produced was shipped from shipment preparation and late July this each time in our company Neeon "W32.Wullik.B@mm" having mixed low.
OK. The actual problem is probably not serious as far as I can tell, since running the virus software is not automatic on installation (which I bet is done by a super user or admin). But really, this is not professional and someone ought to get the sack. And the person who wrote the press release ought to be retrained as a petrol station attendant.
And the reality of this is that it won't help security ONE BIT. I mean, all a criminal/terrorist/whatever has to do is encrypt their message and any surveillance is absolutely, 100% useless. Politicians are absolute FOOLS to believe otherwise.
Yeah. Unless they make it illegal in itself to refuse to give the police an encryption key like they're planning to do in the UK... then simply keeping your privacy is itself a criminal offence.
So, my question to Microsoft fans is, what happened between 1990 and 2000 that turned Microsoft from hero to goat? You be the judge.
They gained almost absolute control of the PC desktop OS market, without any realistically effective competition. They are what IBM was in its hayday: a massive corporation that by its sheer size and power destroys competition in its marketplace and as a result stifles progress.
Well, it could be different in the quantity of information it catalogues and the quality of the search used. For example, the classical music geek above searched for "Ich habe genug" and got results. With altavista you also get useful results (i.e. the quantity of information seems similar). He/she also used some interior text from the cantata like "Mein Trost ist nur allein" and still got useful information. This wasn't the case when I used altavista (i.e. the quality of indexing may be inferior).
The problem is, I think, is that people don't understand how the human brain processes these sorts of images, which is why most people are having limited success doing image analysis on computers like this.
Not entirely. I agree that part of the problem is that not only do we not understand how the image processing capability of the human brain works. Some of the rest of the problem is that we also don't know how to reproduce the years of specialist training surveillance experts spend to be able to detect unexpected but significant information from grainy pictures. But the most significant problem with image processing is the computer power: a decent estimate ( http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/ch3/retina.c omment.html ) in 1998 was that to reproduce the power of the human brain would require 100 million MIPS of computing power. This doesn't include the computing power of the nervous system and retina that seem to have significant functional value in reducing the complexity of the picture, and are virtually irreproducible in current technology.
... After all, what's to stop a spammer using a microsoft product that has the technology? It sounds more like something intended to change the internet standards in a way that destroys any chance of a small company creating a new system that could compete with microsoft.
observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun.
The observation doesn't necessarily call into question this theory - there has long been a theory that rogue planets (i.e. planets that have either been knocked from their own solar system or where their star has exploded) can be taken into the gravity of star(s) that it wasn't formed around.
What does call the theory into question is the paucity of information on extra solar planetary formation. Simply, we don't have enough data to start making convincing general principles of planetary construction.
So if someone in the Army is walking in a street, its ok to shoot him because he/she is a valid military target?
No. If you are a member of a legitimate ARMY, in uniform, from a nation that is at war with the country the target is from and you are in a valid field of engagement (i.e. not a neutral country) and are obeying your countries rules of engagement in that field of operation then it is legitimate for you to shoot him/her unless he/she has already surrendered.
Example: Friend of mine has two young children, was looking to move to a new house. Looked up the neighborhoods of the areas she was considering moving to. One house which otherwise looked ideal had literally hundreds of sex offenders within a two-block radius (apartment complexes). She's since chosen a house in an area with a much lower number of such criminals.
As a friend who's concerned about her children's wellbeing, I think was useful and appropriate information for her to have available.
So what's to stop a sex offender getting on the bus to your friends district and repeat offending? Heck, whould any sensible convicted fellon actually repeat offend in the area he/she lives? If they did, who do you think would be the first person on the police hit-list? Also, what's to stop an unconvicted criminal using the list to chose an area where lots of suspects live precisly to put off the scent?
That's not very big. It's down right small, in fact. [...] [T]his is not the beginning of a pissing contest.
I must be missing something.
The database dealing with a million passengers and 150,000 flights is not at the edge of database technology in terms of size. It is not small but it is certainly not huge compared to the UK governments new plan to produce a database that contains the details of its entire population of 60 million (i.e. address, biometric information etc) and the inevitable links to the database that contains details of all the cars in the uk, the database that contains all the medical information for citizens of the uk, the credit checking database, the banks credit card / banking information database, the database that contains all the tax information of citizens in the uk... all of which are small compared to the equivalent databases for the USA, and civilian projects like the internet archive project.
Seed sterility is good in theory, but not completely effective at containment of plants in practice. Seed is just one of the ways that plants reproduce. There are many asexual ways that plants reproduce (e.g) Layering, root cuttings, rhizomes, leaf cuttings, stolons.
Why is it that people think that new technologies always mean new risks to rights?
Because new technologies *always* have a down side as well as an up side. Your example is a good one. DNA fingerprints are in fact substantially different to "normal" fingerprints. For a start, various people have suggested that DNA could be used to determine race, susceptibility to inherited illnesses, physical appearance and intelligence, and even criminality. In other words information you would not have wanted the NSDAP party to know since it would make a euthanasia policy much more feasible.
I don't get how they can claim that stuff like spider venom can be diluted in water to the point where the sample likely doesnt contain a single molecule of spider venom... but that it left an "imprint" on the water, whatever the hell that is.
Yeah. It's impossible that things so small that you can't even possibly see them except with a microscope could possibly make any difference to you. I mean, next they'll say that other peoples tobacco smoke which is even more dilute than homeopathic remedies might possibly harm you. Or they'll tell you that all these little small creatures that you can barely see with a microscope live on your skin and cause diseases. Impossible.
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]If idiots here can't punch all the way through a fucking card, do you really expect them to be able to stay within the lines with an "X"?
... The only advantages I can see to electronic voting is that the solution could be scalable enough to start enhancing democracy by allowing real-time voting on controversial legislation. If you were to use it right it could allow you to introduce the first form of direct democracy since the city states in italy. Plus, if you make the computers difficult enough to use, you have a nice self-selecting cypher to keep the R-Tards from voting.
If anyone is so thick they can't keep an X inside a box, then it's a close escape for the rest of us. [br][br][br]
The answer to both of those questions is: The UK doesn't have any good launch sites.
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So why not launch rockets from a site in the sea around the equator? After all, other countries do it. http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/estreladosul1
Yeah. You missed the unwritten part of the constitution.
Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.
Unwritten article 1. The government is entitled to kill, torture, imprison, molest, inconvenience, harm or deprive of any or all human rights any Citizen it choses for any reason it choses, regardless of Article 35 of the written constitution.
In africa, Old means when we were still in trees going Oook and scratching ourselves. (And no, I don't mean last tuesday outside the Manchester Met student union)
But do the libraries have the right to index the books they have? ... yet).
Yes. They have. But ASFAIK & IANAL they do not have the right to make an index so substantial that (in effect) it allows you to retrieve a copy of a significent part of the book
Isn't this just a book index based on the content not just the title and author name?
. I would guess that this is what the lawsuit is about. One page could be a significent proportion of a copyright work. For example an anthology could contain a one page poem that is in itself copyright. or a microstory ( a story in a paragraph or less). Or a picture (yes, I don't think that google does this
It is stupid for the book guilde to sue google as this service can only increase sales.
Well, first it is the authors guild, secondly they would argue that it is beneficial to their members as it might establish precident limiting further indexing which could give a ten page summary, or a hundred page etc. What is acceptable and what is not?
First off, it's hard to see *any* species as being in anything other than a state of evolution. To suggest otherwise implies a superficial understand of what evolution is about.
This is true to an extent: the biological definition of species requires sexual reproduction that implies evolution. But there are other forms of reproduction that exclude evolution as each generation is genetically identical to the last. For instance Apomixis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apomixis .
Even in the case of sexual reproduction, there is a hypothesis that it is possible for a species to evolve into a local minimum where every change from the norm results in a disadvantage to the individual. (I can only really see this happening in a very simple and stable ecosystem).
Nothing has fallen into the public domain for almost a half century before I was born.
It's dead Jim.
That is not true. 1) Copyright in other nations (i.e.) Australia have expired, and so gone into the public domain in the US.
2) Some work in the US has gone into public domain ( from http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/duration.html#old ):
if a work was published between 1923 to 1963, the copyright owner was required to have applied for a renewal term with the Copyright office. If they did not, the copyright expired and the work entered into the public domain. If they did apply for renewal, these works will have a 95 year copyright term and hence will enter into the public domain no sooner that 2018 (95 years from 1923).
belong all translation translation in russia soviet us to.
OK. I retract. It was a babelfish link - so why didn't they write the press release in english? ;).
These people don't even know how to grammer check their press release...
It was verified that it is the possibility the extermination possible worm type virus of the risk which is called to the player itself of Creative Zen of the digital audio player who it was produced was shipped from shipment preparation and late July this each time in our company Neeon "W32.Wullik.B@mm" having mixed low.
OK. The actual problem is probably not serious as far as I can tell, since running the virus software is not automatic on installation (which I bet is done by a super user or admin). But really, this is not professional and someone ought to get the sack. And the person who wrote the press release ought to be retrained as a petrol station attendant.
And the reality of this is that it won't help security ONE BIT. I mean, all a criminal/terrorist/whatever has to do is encrypt their message and any surveillance is absolutely, 100% useless. Politicians are absolute FOOLS to believe otherwise.
Yeah. Unless they make it illegal in itself to refuse to give the police an encryption key like they're planning to do in the UK... then simply keeping your privacy is itself a criminal offence.
The thought of spending time in a nasty prison has got to be a pretty good deterrent against white-collar crime.
Actually, the fact that you can't get a white-collar job for years after you get out of prison is more of a detterant.
So, my question to Microsoft fans is, what happened between 1990 and 2000 that turned Microsoft from hero to goat? You be the judge.
They gained almost absolute control of the PC desktop OS market, without any realistically effective competition. They are what IBM was in its hayday: a massive corporation that by its sheer size and power destroys competition in its marketplace and as a result stifles progress.
Well, it could be different in the quantity of information it catalogues and the quality of the search used. For example, the classical music geek above searched for "Ich habe genug" and got results. With altavista you also get useful results (i.e. the quantity of information seems similar). He/she also used some interior text from the cantata like "Mein Trost ist nur allein" and still got useful information. This wasn't the case when I used altavista (i.e. the quality of indexing may be inferior).
The problem is, I think, is that people don't understand how the human brain processes these sorts of images, which is why most people are having limited success doing image analysis on computers like this.
c omment.html ) in 1998 was that to reproduce the power of the human brain would require 100 million MIPS of computing power. This doesn't include the computing power of the nervous system and retina that seem to have significant functional value in reducing the complexity of the picture, and are virtually irreproducible in current technology.
Not entirely. I agree that part of the problem is that not only do we not understand how the image processing capability of the human brain works. Some of the rest of the problem is that we also don't know how to reproduce the years of specialist training surveillance experts spend to be able to detect unexpected but significant information from grainy pictures. But the most significant problem with image processing is the computer power: a decent estimate ( http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/ch3/retina.
... After all, what's to stop a spammer using a microsoft product that has the technology? It sounds more like something intended to change the internet standards in a way that destroys any chance of a small company creating a new system that could compete with microsoft.
observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun.
The observation doesn't necessarily call into question this theory - there has long been a theory that rogue planets (i.e. planets that have either been knocked from their own solar system or where their star has exploded) can be taken into the gravity of star(s) that it wasn't formed around.
What does call the theory into question is the paucity of information on extra solar planetary formation. Simply, we don't have enough data to start making convincing general principles of planetary construction.
So if someone in the Army is walking in a street, its ok to shoot him because he/she is a valid military target?
No. If you are a member of a legitimate ARMY, in uniform, from a nation that is at war with the country the target is from and you are in a valid field of engagement (i.e. not a neutral country) and are obeying your countries rules of engagement in that field of operation then it is legitimate for you to shoot him/her unless he/she has already surrendered.
Example: Friend of mine has two young children, was looking to move to a new house. Looked up the neighborhoods of the areas she was considering moving to. One house which otherwise looked ideal had literally hundreds of sex offenders within a two-block radius (apartment complexes). She's since chosen a house in an area with a much lower number of such criminals.
As a friend who's concerned about her children's wellbeing, I think was useful and appropriate information for her to have available.
So what's to stop a sex offender getting on the bus to your friends district and repeat offending? Heck, whould any sensible convicted fellon actually repeat offend in the area he/she lives? If they did, who do you think would be the first person on the police hit-list? Also, what's to stop an unconvicted criminal using the list to chose an area where lots of suspects live precisly to put off the scent?
We need to fix it, or there's not going to be a U.S. work force in computer sciences.'"
Since India can provide all America's clueless graduate needs at only $5 a day and no healthcare.
That's not very big. It's down right small, in fact. [...] [T]his is not the beginning of a pissing contest.
I must be missing something. The database dealing with a million passengers and 150,000 flights is not at the edge of database technology in terms of size. It is not small but it is certainly not huge compared to the UK governments new plan to produce a database that contains the details of its entire population of 60 million (i.e. address, biometric information etc) and the inevitable links to the database that contains details of all the cars in the uk, the database that contains all the medical information for citizens of the uk, the credit checking database, the banks credit card / banking information database, the database that contains all the tax information of citizens in the uk... all of which are small compared to the equivalent databases for the USA, and civilian projects like the internet archive project.
Seed sterility is good in theory, but not completely effective at containment of plants in practice. Seed is just one of the ways that plants reproduce. There are many asexual ways that plants reproduce (e.g) Layering, root cuttings, rhizomes, leaf cuttings, stolons.
Why is it that people think that new technologies always mean new risks to rights?
Because new technologies *always* have a down side as well as an up side. Your example is a good one. DNA fingerprints are in fact substantially different to "normal" fingerprints. For a start, various people have suggested that DNA could be used to determine race, susceptibility to inherited illnesses, physical appearance and intelligence, and even criminality. In other words information you would not have wanted the NSDAP party to know since it would make a euthanasia policy much more feasible.
I don't get how they can claim that stuff like spider venom can be diluted in water to the point where the sample likely doesnt contain a single molecule of spider venom... but that it left an "imprint" on the water, whatever the hell that is.
Yeah. It's impossible that things so small that you can't even possibly see them except with a microscope could possibly make any difference to you. I mean, next they'll say that other peoples tobacco smoke which is even more dilute than homeopathic remedies might possibly harm you. Or they'll tell you that all these little small creatures that you can barely see with a microscope live on your skin and cause diseases. Impossible.
Not true.
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