When the economy collapses, a farmer has a much better chance on survival then the owner of a big company. A farmer can produce his own food.
With genetically engineered plants, this may stop being true. It's not uncommon for such plants to be modified to produce sterile seeds. The idea is, of course, that farmers will have to buy their next seed from the producer as well. Of course this means that if you can't get new seeds from such a company (maybe because those companies all died due toeconomy collapse), and if the farmer doesn't happen to have traditional seed around (which is likely if GM food gets the norm), then the farmer will not be able to produce food anymore, neither for himself, nor for anyone else.
Ok, this could also be seen as an evolutionary force: Those who don't use such plants will have an evolutionary advantage. Most interestingly, many of them will, again, most probably be poorer farmers who just cannot afford to buy the GM seed.
Well, actually you could take the Adam/Eve postulate to "prove" evolution: If in the beginning there were only Adam and Eve, then how could it be that people today are as different as they are? After all, the genetic pool of humanity is clearly larger than the one of just two persons. Thus if all people are descendents from Adam and Eve, they must have evolved, thus proving evolution.:-)
Natural selection is the phenomena of being removed from the gene pool prior to reproduction. Anything else that happens will allow your genes to carry on, which is how evolution works.
You can get all the other data from the CPUID instruction as well (by using other values than 0 in EAX on the call). However the interpretation of the resulting values does indeed depend on if your processor is an Intel or an AMD (or something else, for that matter).
I could imagine that for an application working close to the hardware this could make a huge difference. Think e.g. about a BIOS update program which decides which BIOS image to flash according to the detected CPU. Or some program which tweaks chipset parameters. But even if some program just goes into an Intel-optimized branch instead of an AMD-optimized it could hurt your performance.
Bottom line: Just because you don't know a way it may hurt doesn't mean there isn't one. (And in case you try to defeat the specific examples I gave: There may well be some example where it hurts which I didn't think of.)
Could a terrorist do it? THEN IT IS ILLEGAL. It is that simple, my friend.
I've heared that terrorists are able to eat. Indeed, I've heared that terrorists who regularly eat are much more able to perform terroristic acts than those who don't eat at all. Damn, seems I'm doing something illegal three times a day!:-)
Wow, I didn't know that Wikipedia has an article about the number 1,000,000... too bad that wasn't the millionth one. However, this would be an easy way to increase the number of articles: Add articles for every number from 1 to 1,000,000,000 and you have more than a billion articles (all the numbers, and the (relatively few:-)) non-number ones. Note that those contents could be mostly generated with a bot (maybe checking out the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences for interesting properties).
Of course. Note that there are about 5 billion people in the world, giving rise to about 5 bilion Wikipedia pages, compared to which the 1 million pages Wikipedia already has are quite negligible; this shows the great potential of this approach!
Of course it is still easier to have a number pad and have the people just memorize (or even write down, if security isn't the concern) a number, than having this lock and equipping every person with a knocking device.
Ubuntu chose to use sudo instead of the regular su, which is extremely annoying if you got a lot to do as root. You have to type sudo in front of every app's name to run it as root.
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With genetically engineered plants, this may stop being true. It's not uncommon for such plants to be modified to produce sterile seeds. The idea is, of course, that farmers will have to buy their next seed from the producer as well. Of course this means that if you can't get new seeds from such a company (maybe because those companies all died due toeconomy collapse), and if the farmer doesn't happen to have traditional seed around (which is likely if GM food gets the norm), then the farmer will not be able to produce food anymore, neither for himself, nor for anyone else.
Ok, this could also be seen as an evolutionary force: Those who don't use such plants will have an evolutionary advantage. Most interestingly, many of them will, again, most probably be poorer farmers who just cannot afford to buy the GM seed.
Well, actually you could take the Adam/Eve postulate to "prove" evolution: :-)
If in the beginning there were only Adam and Eve, then how could it be that people today are as different as they are? After all, the genetic pool of humanity is clearly larger than the one of just two persons. Thus if all people are descendents from Adam and Eve, they must have evolved, thus proving evolution.
[insert insightful comment about the ID joke here]
Well, that's not the complete picture.
I guess there will never be an AV company located in your state
Saying "I AM the law" isn't something too expensive. Since it was an "or", the blowing up is not required, then
You can get all the other data from the CPUID instruction as well (by using other values than 0 in EAX on the call). However the interpretation of the resulting values does indeed depend on if your processor is an Intel or an AMD (or something else, for that matter).
I could imagine that for an application working close to the hardware this could make a huge difference. Think e.g. about a BIOS update program which decides which BIOS image to flash according to the detected CPU. Or some program which tweaks chipset parameters.
But even if some program just goes into an Intel-optimized branch instead of an AMD-optimized it could hurt your performance.
Bottom line: Just because you don't know a way it may hurt doesn't mean there isn't one. (And in case you try to defeat the specific examples I gave: There may well be some example where it hurts which I didn't think of.)
But then, you might have problems with software which legitimately reads out the value.
Yes. Or how much did you have to pay for it?
As is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Even more: A lot of them are in France!
I've heared that terrorists are able to eat. Indeed, I've heared that terrorists who regularly eat are much more able to perform terroristic acts than those who don't eat at all. Damn, seems I'm doing something illegal three times a day!
Wow, I didn't know that Wikipedia has an article about the number 1,000,000 ... too bad that wasn't the millionth one. :-)) non-number ones. Note that those contents could be mostly generated with a bot (maybe checking out the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences for interesting properties).
However, this would be an easy way to increase the number of articles: Add articles for every number from 1 to 1,000,000,000 and you have more than a billion articles (all the numbers, and the (relatively few
Of course. Note that there are about 5 billion people in the world, giving rise to about 5 bilion Wikipedia pages, compared to which the 1 million pages Wikipedia already has are quite negligible; this shows the great potential of this approach!
Why didn't you just keep it with GPL2 without upgrade clause, just like most of the Linux kernel?
Of course it's also more likely to fail from schroedingbugs, because it's more likely that someone actually reads the code and thus finds the bug. :-)
But viruses may be the precursors of all life. So if GPL is a virus ... well, draw your own conclusions :-)
AFAIU GPL3 might change this if they use it on a publically accessible web server.
Of course it is still easier to have a number pad and have the people just memorize (or even write down, if security isn't the concern) a number, than having this lock and equipping every person with a knocking device.
... shortly after this story went public, a certain server room in Europe resembled the inside of a black hole ...
Do I have a DejaVu, or have I actually read this exact text before? Including the greater-than sign where obviously a less-than sign was meant?
Ever tried to type sudo bash?
... that Microsoft might enter this business. Would give a whole new meaning to Blue Screen Of Death ...
No, the band is called Disaster Area. Mystery Explosion is just their latest performance of which we just got a view.