The Kamchatka Peninsula is in north-eastern Asia and Venzuela is on the northern end of South America. It's not like he's giving an address, it's a pretty big slice of the earth he's pointing out.
Asteroids usually have huge relative velocities to earth, passing by in minutes or even seconds. This means that even if you only know where it's going approximately you'd know which way the earth would be facing from rotation and the angle of approach.
The probable location of impact (if there is one) is simply based of which side of the earth will be pointing at it as it passes (or doesn't).
Firstly, I'm not concerned about speed, I can wait a few hours to find out the election results.
Secondly, how can you have accuracy without tamper resistance? If you can't have confidence in whether the votes have been tampered with, what good is a fast and accurate count of data that may or may not be people's votes?
The massive advantage paper votes gives is that it is staggeringly hard for any one person to change the election results across a large area undetectably. Observers can make sure the votes aren't tampered with, it's far easier to make paper tamper resistant than a computer files, and the simple physical scale of the undertaking makes it necessary to have a fair sized conspiracy to be able to do widespread undetected tampering with a paper vote.
Paper's not perfect, but electronic voting is a disaster waiting to happen; if it hasn't happened already.
Thirdly, on a related note: the USA should also allow and even encourage UN election observers; it discourages domestic fraud and makes it harder for other nations to build a plausible sounding pretext for denying observers themselves.
I immagine it would be, but I'm not sure what all the registry changes you make are. Registry Editor together with a diff tool such as WinDiff from Microsoft Visual Studio or the GNU diff tool run on registry exports made after the install and then again after the changes would give you the details you'd need for the registry changes; you'd simply need a shell script to make the changes to the registry, file permissions, and to any other config files you've changed after the basic install of the OS. This isn't too difficult and is certainly a timesaver compared to doing manual changes to 25+ computers.
The problem lies in the fact that most labs have a uniform hardware setup. You're almost always better off having a complete install image (and a boot cd to pull it from your network) for in any relitively uniform install enviroment like a lab because it speeds (re)installs greatly. If you are going to make an install image anyway it doesn't make sense to go through the trouble of setting up a post-install script too, you're better off doing it as one step via the image.
I wouldn't bother with a script unless I had to deal with at least 3 or 4 different client setups, and even with that many I might just use the script to generate restore images.
Get a linux boot cd and use "dd if='windows drive' | gzip > foo.gz" to copy the install to a remote disk then. The disk image is handy to have anyway, you never know when you'll need to re-install. Some Windows XP installs will even fit on a bootable DVD-ROM with a small linux so you can include an automatic install script.
> You can argue all you want about which model is better but that doesn't change the fact that if you copy something created by people expecting to get paid for it, you are stealing.
It doesn't change "it", but "it" isn't true. Copyright violations aren't theft, they're copyright violation.
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.]
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
2. The thing stolen. [R.]
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. --Ex. xxii. 4.
You don't steal by copying because you don't move or posess the original, it's still right where it was before you copied it. You can argue all you want about if it's moral but that doesn't change the fact that if you copy something created by people expecting to get paid for it, you are not stealing.
The murder corrilation is dubious because most murders are crimes of passion, while theft is not. It is far less likely that your feelings towards a stranger are going to be passionate enough to drive you to murder.
OTOH, I don't doubt that population desity is a factor. I just don't think it's the most powerfull one. Commonly percieved cultural norms are followed by at least 90% of the population. People comonly lie about little things and engage in petty theft because it's percieved as an annoyance or bad habit, not as an evil act. Like picking one's nose: not evil but socially frowned apon.
"I believe Movies made after Games will always suck, for the same reason that Movies made after Books will always suck. You like the 1st thing you experience, and nothing else can live up to it."
I don't find that this is true for me. The best examples I can find are the lord of the ring movies, I thought they were good movies, true to the spirit of the books, and I enjoyed them imensely even though I had read the entire trilogy before. They're not the same as the books though, but that's unavoidable when you change the medium.
The problem is that for every "Lord of the Rings" there's at least 10 "Starship Troopers"s or "I Robot"s where the director uses at best a few elements of the setting and throws out the storyline entirely. It is hard for me to enjoy a movie based on a book I liked when it isn't really based on the book.
The local level of social ties between residents makes far more of a difference than the population of the city; there are plenty of suburbia type developments where people don't know the names of their next door neighbors, let alone the name of "Jean-Pierre from down the street". There are also apartment blocks where everyone knows everyone else. Most people won't steal as easily from someone they know.
The chance of petty theft or vandalism is almost always strongly linked to social ties between residents and the local culture of the neighborhood itself, as oposed to population density.
Actually, a la carte analog would drive up equipment costs considerably.
As far as I've seen cable is usually filtered by frequency filters outside your house. It is not practical to have a unique filter for each possible combo with a la carte. 5 progresive tiers of service is 6 possible channel combinations (one for none, 5 for each progressive tier) 150 a la carte channels is 1.427e+45 (or 2^150) possibe combinations. Thats plainly just not feasable with a normal analog cable filter box because it can't take enough filters at once.
If i did my math right with 150 offered channels you need 9 filter slots before your number of unique filters needed drops below a million, and 30 filter slots before you need to stock less than a thousand unique kinds of filters.
So basicly you need to replace the endpoints of your cable network to do a la carte analog, a conventional physical filter based system can't cope with a la carte.
I recently had the problem of motels not accepting cash while I was looking for an apartment a few months ago. None of the motels I tried to get a room at accepted cash, I ended up having to go to a higher priced hotel because none of the cheap places take cash and damage deposits.
Get or make a durable curbside mailbox with a good lock built in. No more effort to open than a PO box, convienintly located, and no recurring monthly cost.
Fuels aren't usually 100% pure, additives and ipurities are commonplace. You simply need to dilute the methanol suficiently with a non-flammible liquid that won't interfere with the fuel cell's operation. It may not work well diluted that far though.
We decided to configure some shared folders the same way as the Windows 98 box. We found out very quickly that is not possible. To protect shared folders on the Windows 98 box we had set the permission to Read Only. (media files) so the kids don't mess with them but can play them.
That's odd, I'm using XP home and I can set up read only shares. I just right click the folder I want to share, choose "Sharing an Security..." from the menu that pops up, then check the "share this folder on the network" box while making sure "Allow network users to change my files" is off.
>Even power doesnt need long transmission lines: local generators, fuel cells.
Actually, this isn't as much of an issue as you might think. Many power lines are aluminium already as the towers and lines are cheaper. Aluminium wire allows lighter and/or less towers: aluminium is lighter than copper so you can make lighter towers, and you can do longer runs of cable between towers because aluminium is far stronger than copper.
Copyright is a law made for convenience and perceived economic benefit, it has no moral basis. It's not illegal or wrong to copy all we like if we simply repeal copyright laws. We can do that, we write our own laws.
Copyright infringement was never defined as theft in any legal system I've heard of. So, we have illegal activity but where's the theft? And also, where is the going out of business? Do you have any evidence that more record labels have gone bankrupt over the last 10 years than in previous decades?
Concerts: they make money for bands after the costs (labour etc.) right now, today.
Donations: A few, I can't be precise, but none of them have anywhere close to the following of of a pop music star. Don't worry, brittney wouldn't starve.
Sponsorship: Eminem, sponsored by pepsi! (it works fine for pro athelites)
I can afford to make good music, what does an ok guitar cost? About $60 to $100 for a good starter. I can afford to record it well as well (if I wait a year longer to buy a newer car). Even if you can't afford a few thousand dollars for equipment you can be creative: contact some large-ish local churches and ask if they record their services. If they do ask if you could look at and possibly rent the use of their equipment, a lot of them have pretty OK AV setups. Who needs cameramen and makeup to record music? Editors and sound engineers: make your first album a "live" style album, pay for the editing of the next with concert revenue.
Movies are a tangent, but also a harder nut to crack: you do need something of a big budget to do a major movie. (I for one won't mind if they can't make the next $50,000,000 explosion fest starring some famous person though.)
In the end I like copyright, it works OK, but I'd like to see less of it. My point is that we don't need it, there are alternatives and to make an educated decision as a society we need to put more serious research and thought into them. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
Also: ALL major shifts in world economics are painful. Look at the cotton engine: they were decried as evil by textile workers. You can almost always find someone, or more often a lot of people who like the status quo better.
I'm not saying there's no truth to that point of veiw at all, but there are alternitive economic models to copyright.
A few examples: Back in the days of Bach and the like large orginisations or rich patrons would commission music, essentialy employing musicians full time for the prestige of doiung so. Many bands even now make more money from their tours than their albums. Donation based systems can work, just look at a lot of webcomics.
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The Kamchatka Peninsula is in north-eastern Asia and Venzuela is on the northern end of South America. It's not like he's giving an address, it's a pretty big slice of the earth he's pointing out.
Asteroids usually have huge relative velocities to earth, passing by in minutes or even seconds. This means that even if you only know where it's going approximately you'd know which way the earth would be facing from rotation and the angle of approach.
The probable location of impact (if there is one) is simply based of which side of the earth will be pointing at it as it passes (or doesn't).
Firstly, I'm not concerned about speed, I can wait a few hours to find out the election results.
Secondly, how can you have accuracy without tamper resistance? If you can't have confidence in whether the votes have been tampered with, what good is a fast and accurate count of data that may or may not be people's votes?
The massive advantage paper votes gives is that it is staggeringly hard for any one person to change the election results across a large area undetectably. Observers can make sure the votes aren't tampered with, it's far easier to make paper tamper resistant than a computer files, and the simple physical scale of the undertaking makes it necessary to have a fair sized conspiracy to be able to do widespread undetected tampering with a paper vote.
Paper's not perfect, but electronic voting is a disaster waiting to happen; if it hasn't happened already.
Thirdly, on a related note: the USA should also allow and even encourage UN election observers; it discourages domestic fraud and makes it harder for other nations to build a plausible sounding pretext for denying observers themselves.
I immagine it would be, but I'm not sure what all the registry changes you make are. Registry Editor together with a diff tool such as WinDiff from Microsoft Visual Studio or the GNU diff tool run on registry exports made after the install and then again after the changes would give you the details you'd need for the registry changes; you'd simply need a shell script to make the changes to the registry, file permissions, and to any other config files you've changed after the basic install of the OS. This isn't too difficult and is certainly a timesaver compared to doing manual changes to 25+ computers.
http://www.ss64.com/nt/ is a list if the command line tools in NT/XP.
The problem lies in the fact that most labs have a uniform hardware setup. You're almost always better off having a complete install image (and a boot cd to pull it from your network) for in any relitively uniform install enviroment like a lab because it speeds (re)installs greatly. If you are going to make an install image anyway it doesn't make sense to go through the trouble of setting up a post-install script too, you're better off doing it as one step via the image.
I wouldn't bother with a script unless I had to deal with at least 3 or 4 different client setups, and even with that many I might just use the script to generate restore images.
Get a linux boot cd and use "dd if='windows drive' | gzip > foo.gz" to copy the install to a remote disk then. The disk image is handy to have anyway, you never know when you'll need to re-install. Some Windows XP installs will even fit on a bootable DVD-ROM with a small linux so you can include an automatic install script.
North korea has a fairly good balistic and cruise missle armament. The nation is so poor mainly because Kim spends all the money on weapons.
> You can argue all you want about which model is better but that doesn't change the fact that if you copy something created by people expecting to get paid for it, you are stealing.
It doesn't change "it", but "it" isn't true. Copyright violations aren't theft, they're copyright violation.
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.]
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
2. The thing stolen. [R.]
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. --Ex. xxii. 4.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
You don't steal by copying because you don't move or posess the original, it's still right where it was before you copied it. You can argue all you want about if it's moral but that doesn't change the fact that if you copy something created by people expecting to get paid for it, you are not stealing.
The murder corrilation is dubious because most murders are crimes of passion, while theft is not. It is far less likely that your feelings towards a stranger are going to be passionate enough to drive you to murder. OTOH, I don't doubt that population desity is a factor. I just don't think it's the most powerfull one. Commonly percieved cultural norms are followed by at least 90% of the population. People comonly lie about little things and engage in petty theft because it's percieved as an annoyance or bad habit, not as an evil act. Like picking one's nose: not evil but socially frowned apon.
"I believe Movies made after Games will always suck, for the same reason that Movies made after Books will always suck. You like the 1st thing you experience, and nothing else can live up to it."
I don't find that this is true for me. The best examples I can find are the lord of the ring movies, I thought they were good movies, true to the spirit of the books, and I enjoyed them imensely even though I had read the entire trilogy before. They're not the same as the books though, but that's unavoidable when you change the medium.
The problem is that for every "Lord of the Rings" there's at least 10 "Starship Troopers"s or "I Robot"s where the director uses at best a few elements of the setting and throws out the storyline entirely. It is hard for me to enjoy a movie based on a book I liked when it isn't really based on the book.
The local level of social ties between residents makes far more of a difference than the population of the city; there are plenty of suburbia type developments where people don't know the names of their next door neighbors, let alone the name of "Jean-Pierre from down the street". There are also apartment blocks where everyone knows everyone else. Most people won't steal as easily from someone they know.
The chance of petty theft or vandalism is almost always strongly linked to social ties between residents and the local culture of the neighborhood itself, as oposed to population density.
Actually, a la carte analog would drive up equipment costs considerably.
As far as I've seen cable is usually filtered by frequency filters outside your house. It is not practical to have a unique filter for each possible combo with a la carte. 5 progresive tiers of service is 6 possible channel combinations (one for none, 5 for each progressive tier) 150 a la carte channels is 1.427e+45 (or 2^150) possibe combinations. Thats plainly just not feasable with a normal analog cable filter box because it can't take enough filters at once.
If i did my math right with 150 offered channels you need 9 filter slots before your number of unique filters needed drops below a million, and 30 filter slots before you need to stock less than a thousand unique kinds of filters.
So basicly you need to replace the endpoints of your cable network to do a la carte analog, a conventional physical filter based system can't cope with a la carte.
"...left the Windows-based player market to the four big players -- SanDisk, Samsung, Sony, and Creative."
What happened to Apple? My iPod certainly works with Windows.
No, seriously. For some reason my presence is enough to get some computer problems to go away.
(until I leave...)
I recently had the problem of motels not accepting cash while I was looking for an apartment a few months ago. None of the motels I tried to get a room at accepted cash, I ended up having to go to a higher priced hotel because none of the cheap places take cash and damage deposits.
> That's nice, what do I have to do to get them to replace my 3 year old iBook with a new Mac Book Pro? That's infinitely more interesting to me ;)
Do you still have 2 healthy kidneys?
That's the point, I'm stating that I get 100% renewable energy by default as does everyone else where I live.
Dropslot! Sheesh.
Just buld it like a mini mailbox: mail goes in without a key, but not out without.
I don't think you can get anything but hydro-electric where I live.
Get or make a durable curbside mailbox with a good lock built in. No more effort to open than a PO box, convienintly located, and no recurring monthly cost.
>I don't know why people bother to talk about fuelcells...
Because they may want long life laptop power cells in 1 or 2 years as oposed to in 10 or 20 years?
Fuels aren't usually 100% pure, additives and ipurities are commonplace. You simply need to dilute the methanol suficiently with a non-flammible liquid that won't interfere with the fuel cell's operation. It may not work well diluted that far though.
We decided to configure some shared folders the same way as the Windows 98 box. We found out very quickly that is not possible. To protect shared folders on the Windows 98 box we had set the permission to Read Only. (media files) so the kids don't mess with them but can play them.
That's odd, I'm using XP home and I can set up read only shares. I just right click the folder I want to share, choose "Sharing an Security..." from the menu that pops up, then check the "share this folder on the network" box while making sure "Allow network users to change my files" is off.
>Even power doesnt need long transmission lines: local generators, fuel cells.
Actually, this isn't as much of an issue as you might think. Many power lines are aluminium already as the towers and lines are cheaper. Aluminium wire allows lighter and/or less towers: aluminium is lighter than copper so you can make lighter towers, and you can do longer runs of cable between towers because aluminium is far stronger than copper.
Copyright is a law made for convenience and perceived economic benefit, it has no moral basis. It's not illegal or wrong to copy all we like if we simply repeal copyright laws. We can do that, we write our own laws.
Copyright infringement was never defined as theft in any legal system I've heard of. So, we have illegal activity but where's the theft? And also, where is the going out of business? Do you have any evidence that more record labels have gone bankrupt over the last 10 years than in previous decades?
Concerts: they make money for bands after the costs (labour etc.) right now, today.
Donations: A few, I can't be precise, but none of them have anywhere close to the following of of a pop music star. Don't worry, brittney wouldn't starve.
Sponsorship: Eminem, sponsored by pepsi! (it works fine for pro athelites)
I can afford to make good music, what does an ok guitar cost? About $60 to $100 for a good starter. I can afford to record it well as well (if I wait a year longer to buy a newer car). Even if you can't afford a few thousand dollars for equipment you can be creative: contact some large-ish local churches and ask if they record their services. If they do ask if you could look at and possibly rent the use of their equipment, a lot of them have pretty OK AV setups. Who needs cameramen and makeup to record music? Editors and sound engineers: make your first album a "live" style album, pay for the editing of the next with concert revenue.
Movies are a tangent, but also a harder nut to crack: you do need something of a big budget to do a major movie. (I for one won't mind if they can't make the next $50,000,000 explosion fest starring some famous person though.)
In the end I like copyright, it works OK, but I'd like to see less of it. My point is that we don't need it, there are alternatives and to make an educated decision as a society we need to put more serious research and thought into them. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
Also: ALL major shifts in world economics are painful. Look at the cotton engine: they were decried as evil by textile workers. You can almost always find someone, or more often a lot of people who like the status quo better.
I'm not saying there's no truth to that point of veiw at all, but there are alternitive economic models to copyright.
A few examples: Back in the days of Bach and the like large orginisations or rich patrons would commission music, essentialy employing musicians full time for the prestige of doiung so. Many bands even now make more money from their tours than their albums. Donation based systems can work, just look at a lot of webcomics.