Also keep in mind that this *is* Texas - a state where it was illegal to engage in "homosexual sodomy" in the privacy of your own home until very recently (the relevant law was struck by the SCOTUS in 2003; see Lawrence v. Texas).
"Wrong" and "illegal" are two very different concepts in Texas, it seems.
I'm sorry if this comes across as flamebait, but... honestly, are you a complete IDIOT? With a few exceptions (see below), the government has no, repeat, NO right to know about anything that goes on in the daily lifes of people, including businesses. There's an exception for criminal investigations, of course, wheen it might be necessary to obtain evidence for a trial, but that's about it.
What's happening here is that Google was asked to turn over a huge pile of information just because the government felt it might be useful for their own purposes to have this data. And you complain about *Google* when they don't roll over and comply?
I'm really at a loss for words at how stupid someone from the self-described "land of the free" can be.
That's a pretty ridiculous comment really, and it shows that you don't actually understand what the grandparent was getting at. The pacific northwest (to stay with your example) always was a place that was not intrinsically hostile to human life (or life in general) - the only problem was getting there (especially with all those pesky natives thinking that the pioneers didn't have the dog-given right to steal their land and kill them).
Space, be it the moon, Mars, or any other part of it, is completely and utterly different from that.
A backbone-less Internet... is it just me, or is that exactly the way the Internet was originally envisioned and built? The reasons we moved away from that are purely economical, and until there'll be an economical incentive to move to a backbone-less distributed system again (and, for that matter, an economical incentive to actually make it work at least as well in terms of speed and reliability as the system we currently have), things will stay the way they are now.
The fact that the centralised system of today lends itself to easy censoring etc. is unfortunate, but if you really want it to change, you have to understand why it came to be.
IANAP, and I'm not good with anything hardware-related, but... isn't one of the reasons that you'd need thicker cables for lower voltages? When the voltage goes down, the current goes up, and thinner cables would melt. I distinctly remember being told that that's at least part of the reason why long-distance power cables uses voltages in the hundreds of kV range.
There's also neat experiments you can do in school with transformators - put a coil with, say, 5000 windings opposite of one with, say, 5, and you'll be able to quite literally melt nails.:) (Of course, don't do this at home, at least not until you know what you're doing and how to do it safely.)
Please, stop using the words "owner", owns" etc. when you're talking about copyright and similar things. For that matter, please stop talking about "intellectual property", too - there is nothing here that's property or being owned.
What copyright *is* is a time-limited monopoly granted by the state, with the expectation that you will use this incentive to create stuff that society as a whole benefits from; it's not and never was supposed to be a never-ending money making machine.
Using words like "property" and "own" to describe copyright just reinforces the (wrong) idea that copyrights should not ever run out in the minds of the general, uninformed public.
What's wrong with that, though? If he needs that much screen space, and if he does most of his work on the console, and if he feels the money he spent on a huge screen is ultimately worth it (due to increased productivity etc)... more power to him.
Why is it that using a big screen for a game is considered cool, but using a big screen to get your work done isn't?
AD&D is not the end of everything, of course, but you shouldn't dismiss it so easily, either. Comparisons like yours exhibit one fatal flaw: they're attacking the messenger, not the message.
In other words, you are not willing to even consider the quote above; rather, you seem to have an instinctive gut reaction that makes you go say things like "it's just a game", simply because it comes from an AD&D rulebook, and that's rather unfortunate, since you're dismissing something without even so much as looking at it.
I thought that in the USA, trying to impinge upon others' free speech rights *is* free speech. (Or at least, that's what we commonly seem to cite as examples when we dismiss European countries for having weaker free speech rights: that they (some?) crack down on that kind of attempted impingement/hate speech/etc).
Huh? Did you actually try PostgreSQL? I'll give you "SQL extensions", although I wouldn't call them handy myself (standards are there for a reason; proprietary extensions that lock you in to a single vendor should be avoided), but "easy setup and administration" and "incredible speed" are definitely things I'd say PostgreSQL has more of than MySQL.
And yes, I've worked with both (not to mention Oracle, too).
It's all about agenda. Computer games, the Internet etc. are in direct competition with TV, so it shouldn't be surprising at all that TV channels try to portray them in a less-than-positive light whenever possible; after all, they're taking away their own client base.
It's like going to the American Meat Institute and asking what they think of vegetarianism.
You absolutely forgot Æon Flux, guys. The series was prodigal; the movie was a piece of soulless, mass-compatible hollywood crap. It definitely would've earned the top spot in this hall of shame.
I hate to break it to you both, but clicking links wasn't actually necessary in this case, and in the ISC SANS story, "Joe Sixpack" didn't click on the link, either - he manually typed it in. So the merits and flaws of GUI clients and clickable links aren't even part of the discussion here; the moral, if anything, is that you can't trust *any* links, period. How you follow them is irrelevant.
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Good point - I'd better make sure I never accidentally link to http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ . After all, Apple might not like it if I link to http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ , because then people could go to http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ and find information on how to use the software they paid for.
:)
Obviously, we can't have that, so I'll make sure not to link to http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ . Thanks for reminding me that http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ is bad voodoo - I'll make sure that none of my websites contains a link to http://maxxuss.hotbox.ru/ , too!
Goodness, yet another stupid fanboy.
Why don't you get it? If I *paid* for the software, I should be able to use it the way *I* want to, even if Apple doesn't like it.
Sheesh.
There's more to "interacting" than killing, raping, and torturing. I say it's about time soldiers learn that.
That was over the top. Apologise to the hoes now. ;)
Also keep in mind that this *is* Texas - a state where it was illegal to engage in "homosexual sodomy" in the privacy of your own home until very recently (the relevant law was struck by the SCOTUS in 2003; see Lawrence v. Texas).
"Wrong" and "illegal" are two very different concepts in Texas, it seems.
A driver being hit by the body of a passenger flying through the car at a high speed is also more likely to lose control.
I'm sorry if this comes across as flamebait, but... honestly, are you a complete IDIOT? With a few exceptions (see below), the government has no, repeat, NO right to know about anything that goes on in the daily lifes of people, including businesses. There's an exception for criminal investigations, of course, wheen it might be necessary to obtain evidence for a trial, but that's about it.
What's happening here is that Google was asked to turn over a huge pile of information just because the government felt it might be useful for their own purposes to have this data. And you complain about *Google* when they don't roll over and comply?
I'm really at a loss for words at how stupid someone from the self-described "land of the free" can be.
That's a pretty ridiculous comment really, and it shows that you don't actually understand what the grandparent was getting at. The pacific northwest (to stay with your example) always was a place that was not intrinsically hostile to human life (or life in general) - the only problem was getting there (especially with all those pesky natives thinking that the pioneers didn't have the dog-given right to steal their land and kill them).
Space, be it the moon, Mars, or any other part of it, is completely and utterly different from that.
A backbone-less Internet... is it just me, or is that exactly the way the Internet was originally envisioned and built? The reasons we moved away from that are purely economical, and until there'll be an economical incentive to move to a backbone-less distributed system again (and, for that matter, an economical incentive to actually make it work at least as well in terms of speed and reliability as the system we currently have), things will stay the way they are now.
The fact that the centralised system of today lends itself to easy censoring etc. is unfortunate, but if you really want it to change, you have to understand why it came to be.
IANAP, and I'm not good with anything hardware-related, but... isn't one of the reasons that you'd need thicker cables for lower voltages? When the voltage goes down, the current goes up, and thinner cables would melt. I distinctly remember being told that that's at least part of the reason why long-distance power cables uses voltages in the hundreds of kV range.
:) (Of course, don't do this at home, at least not until you know what you're doing and how to do it safely.)
There's also neat experiments you can do in school with transformators - put a coil with, say, 5000 windings opposite of one with, say, 5, and you'll be able to quite literally melt nails.
Please, stop using the words "owner", owns" etc. when you're talking about copyright and similar things. For that matter, please stop talking about "intellectual property", too - there is nothing here that's property or being owned.
What copyright *is* is a time-limited monopoly granted by the state, with the expectation that you will use this incentive to create stuff that society as a whole benefits from; it's not and never was supposed to be a never-ending money making machine.
Using words like "property" and "own" to describe copyright just reinforces the (wrong) idea that copyrights should not ever run out in the minds of the general, uninformed public.
What's wrong with that, though? If he needs that much screen space, and if he does most of his work on the console, and if he feels the money he spent on a huge screen is ultimately worth it (due to increased productivity etc)... more power to him.
Why is it that using a big screen for a game is considered cool, but using a big screen to get your work done isn't?
AD&D is not the end of everything, of course, but you shouldn't dismiss it so easily, either. Comparisons like yours exhibit one fatal flaw: they're attacking the messenger, not the message.
In other words, you are not willing to even consider the quote above; rather, you seem to have an instinctive gut reaction that makes you go say things like "it's just a game", simply because it comes from an AD&D rulebook, and that's rather unfortunate, since you're dismissing something without even so much as looking at it.
Um... 1.2 PB is definitely *not* "a million times the capacity of any hard drive", unless you're still stuck with 1.2 GB hard drives.
What, it isn't already?
Wow. And in related news, there are people who watch TV for fun, too. Who would've guessed?
This has already been done: Six/Four
I thought that in the USA, trying to impinge upon others' free speech rights *is* free speech. (Or at least, that's what we commonly seem to cite as examples when we dismiss European countries for having weaker free speech rights: that they (some?) crack down on that kind of attempted impingement/hate speech/etc).
Hmm, I wonder how likely it is that he'll end up with a Darwin award...
Maybe it's because all those PotgreSQL developers spend more time smoking some ganja than promoting their database. ;)
(It's a joke, based on the fact that there's a funny typo in your subject line, so laugh already. Please?)
Huh? Did you actually try PostgreSQL? I'll give you "SQL extensions", although I wouldn't call them handy myself (standards are there for a reason; proprietary extensions that lock you in to a single vendor should be avoided), but "easy setup and administration" and "incredible speed" are definitely things I'd say PostgreSQL has more of than MySQL.
And yes, I've worked with both (not to mention Oracle, too).
It's all about agenda. Computer games, the Internet etc. are in direct competition with TV, so it shouldn't be surprising at all that TV channels try to portray them in a less-than-positive light whenever possible; after all, they're taking away their own client base.
It's like going to the American Meat Institute and asking what they think of vegetarianism.
Unfortunately, there was one, yes...
You absolutely forgot Æon Flux, guys. The series was prodigal; the movie was a piece of soulless, mass-compatible hollywood crap. It definitely would've earned the top spot in this hall of shame.
I hate to break it to you both, but clicking links wasn't actually necessary in this case, and in the ISC SANS story, "Joe Sixpack" didn't click on the link, either - he manually typed it in. So the merits and flaws of GUI clients and clickable links aren't even part of the discussion here; the moral, if anything, is that you can't trust *any* links, period. How you follow them is irrelevant.