Well, in 1984 indeed nobody had problems with Windows. Which may be because the first Windows version had not yet released yet. And the first memory extender hadn't yet been released either, therefore nobody had problems with those either.
"As cheap as a paper newspaper" is not exactly the right price point because unlike the paper newspaper, you don't throw your reader away after you've read the articles you're interested in, to buy a new one the next day.
The exact effect of welfare depends on the exact way welfare is done.
Often, welfare systems make the error of determining a minimum needed income (usually depending on the living situation of the people), and then if you are below, paying the difference between the actual income from work and that minimum needed income. This looks logical, but this way indeed you remove any incentive to work, unless the work would bring you considerably above the threshold. After all, as long as you earn below the threshold, all you achieve is to get exactly the same money as you'd get without working. And even if you get slightly above the threshold, the effective win is very negligible compared with the effort.
The right way to do it would be to make sure that every single dollar you earn from work increases your income. Yes, on naive view it seems more expensive, because for those who have an income below the minimum needed one, you'd have to pay more, and moreover you'd have to pay something even for some people above minimum. However now you have an incentive for people to work (or, if they already work, to work harder) even when on welfare, so in effect the actual cost should go down.
Read your history, particularly, your world history.
You should read your history.
NAZI were Socialists. (National Socialist Party)
If you think that having "Socialist" in the name makes a party socialistic, you probably also believe that the German Democratic Republic was democratic, right?
If an exit node is used; the client is supposed to be anonymous, the server is not.
Yes. The client would be the law enforcement agency trying to connect the TOR exit point provider to CP. The server would be some existing CP distributing server known to law enforcement (e.g. one in another country which they cannot just shut down, or one which they didn't yet shut down in order to catch clients who try to contact it).
"For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[7] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law."
That's what I've known as Godwin's law since I've first heard the term, and this is how I used it above.
More importantly, at which price will this be sold? After all, it is easy to rise the specs (as long as you keep inside the borders of the technically possible) if you don't look at the price.
Also, what will be the battery life? And the weight?
Actually, due to the nature of TOR, it would be easy for law enforcement to get some TOR user for CP access: They just have to access CP via TOR through the exit node themselves. Nobody can tell who accessed it through TOR, so as long as they don't leave a trail locally, nobody will ever find out. But there will be a trace leading to the computer the TOR exit point is running on.
Not enough to actually build one, but I know quite some details.
how to cultivate a farm crop?
Not in detail, but in principle.
how to butcher a cow?
Only that you have to kill it and then cut the meat out.;-)
how paper is made?
Not in detail, but in principle.
how to weave cloth?
Not in detail, but in principle.
how to create a mortise and tenon joint?
A what?
how to track wild game?
No.
how to start a fire without matches or a lighter?
I think you do something with flintstones. But no, not really. I thought several times I should find out, but only at times when I hadn't internet access, and I'd forgotten about it by the time I got internet access again... maybe now is a good time to learn more about it.
Instead of everyone having to waste time learning and become experts at making fire, hunting, farming, weaving clothes, etc., we specialized and traded the resulting goods amongst ourselves.
Expecting everyone to become an expert in everything is of course nonsense. But expecting everyone to understand the very basics of the most important technologies, yes, that's something one should at least try to reach. No, not to the point of being able to do it yourself. But to the point that you have a basic idea of what you would have to learn to do it.
Forcing all kids to learn this stuff just wastes time they could be spending learning what they will eventually do for a job.
You should never ever restrict your learning to what you need for your job. Doing so is the second-most stupid thing you can do in that regard (the most stupid thing being learning nothing at all).
Schools being years behind is certainly not a new phenomenon. At the time when I was in school, almost all of what I learned about then-current technology I didn't learn in school.
I hereby present my constant-time prime factorization algorithm. It works by always returning 2 and 3. Sure, it's not correct (unless you've tried to factorize 6), but it's fast as hell.
One site I need to have access to goes one step further. They require regular changes and remember the last four passwords you've used. I have to write that one down.
That reminds me of the script that was installed at one place where I worked. On login it automatically detected a request to change the passwords, and then just as automatically set it to as many different passwords as the system stored, to reset it it the old password afterwards which now had fallen off the system's list. I'm pretty sure that's not what the sysadmin intended.;-)
Considering the internet is still used by the same set of people from 2013, and 2012, and 2011, etc
I strongly doubt that. I'm pretty sure that some people started using the internet in 2014, and some stopped using it in 2013. The sets certainly will have a very large overlap, but it's definitely not the same set.
The bigger problem is: You've got to get to a doctor so that the doctor can certify for your employer that you're really ill. How do you do that without leaving your home?
Slashdot Mirror
Waterloo is becoming such a place.
But who would want to work on a loo, even if it is a water loo?
Does anyone have a direct link to the video? I can't figure out what I have to enable to be able to see it.
Anyone else remembers the immutable section "Protect your freedom - fight Look and Feel" in all GNU manuals?
Well, in 1984 indeed nobody had problems with Windows. Which may be because the first Windows version had not yet released yet. And the first memory extender hadn't yet been released either, therefore nobody had problems with those either.
"As cheap as a paper newspaper" is not exactly the right price point because unlike the paper newspaper, you don't throw your reader away after you've read the articles you're interested in, to buy a new one the next day.
The exact effect of welfare depends on the exact way welfare is done.
Often, welfare systems make the error of determining a minimum needed income (usually depending on the living situation of the people), and then if you are below, paying the difference between the actual income from work and that minimum needed income. This looks logical, but this way indeed you remove any incentive to work, unless the work would bring you considerably above the threshold. After all, as long as you earn below the threshold, all you achieve is to get exactly the same money as you'd get without working. And even if you get slightly above the threshold, the effective win is very negligible compared with the effort.
The right way to do it would be to make sure that every single dollar you earn from work increases your income. Yes, on naive view it seems more expensive, because for those who have an income below the minimum needed one, you'd have to pay more, and moreover you'd have to pay something even for some people above minimum. However now you have an incentive for people to work (or, if they already work, to work harder) even when on welfare, so in effect the actual cost should go down.
You should read your history.
If you think that having "Socialist" in the name makes a party socialistic, you probably also believe that the German Democratic Republic was democratic, right?
Yes. The client would be the law enforcement agency trying to connect the TOR exit point provider to CP. The server would be some existing CP distributing server known to law enforcement (e.g. one in another country which they cannot just shut down, or one which they didn't yet shut down in order to catch clients who try to contact it).
From Wikipedia (emphasis by me):
"For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[7] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law."
That's what I've known as Godwin's law since I've first heard the term, and this is how I used it above.
More importantly, at which price will this be sold? After all, it is easy to rise the specs (as long as you keep inside the borders of the technically possible) if you don't look at the price.
Also, what will be the battery life? And the weight?
Maybe someone should have told him about Godwin's law.
By invoking a Nazi comparison, he already lost.
Actually, due to the nature of TOR, it would be easy for law enforcement to get some TOR user for CP access: They just have to access CP via TOR through the exit node themselves. Nobody can tell who accessed it through TOR, so as long as they don't leave a trail locally, nobody will ever find out. But there will be a trace leading to the computer the TOR exit point is running on.
I can't find anything about class rooms in the summary.
And yes, a lot of such things I learned from my parents.
Not in detail, but in principle.
Not enough to actually build one, but I know quite some details.
Not in detail, but in principle.
Only that you have to kill it and then cut the meat out. ;-)
Not in detail, but in principle.
Not in detail, but in principle.
A what?
No.
I think you do something with flintstones. But no, not really. I thought several times I should find out, but only at times when I hadn't internet access, and I'd forgotten about it by the time I got internet access again ... maybe now is a good time to learn more about it.
Expecting everyone to become an expert in everything is of course nonsense. But expecting everyone to understand the very basics of the most important technologies, yes, that's something one should at least try to reach. No, not to the point of being able to do it yourself. But to the point that you have a basic idea of what you would have to learn to do it.
You should never ever restrict your learning to what you need for your job. Doing so is the second-most stupid thing you can do in that regard (the most stupid thing being learning nothing at all).
Lets see you do this in a Prius.
Well, using CGI of course. ;-)
Schools being years behind is certainly not a new phenomenon. At the time when I was in school, almost all of what I learned about then-current technology I didn't learn in school.
OK then:
(program(learn(LISP))))
You again forgot to close the parentheses
BTW, where is your closing parenthesis? ;-)
An interesting strategy indeed.
I hereby present my constant-time prime factorization algorithm. It works by always returning 2 and 3. Sure, it's not correct (unless you've tried to factorize 6), but it's fast as hell.
That reminds me of the script that was installed at one place where I worked. On login it automatically detected a request to change the passwords, and then just as automatically set it to as many different passwords as the system stored, to reset it it the old password afterwards which now had fallen off the system's list. I'm pretty sure that's not what the sysadmin intended. ;-)
I'd guess it's the female stars.
For every site you are requested to come up with a random string that is hard to remember, and then remember it.
No. You are requested to come up with a string that is hard to guess. There's absolutely no requirement that it is hard to remember.
I strongly doubt that. I'm pretty sure that some people started using the internet in 2014, and some stopped using it in 2013.
The sets certainly will have a very large overlap, but it's definitely not the same set.
Yeah, and you may not be able to log in again if the password request input encoding changes for whatever reason ...
Ah, so that's what I have to enter at the password reset question "what is your cat's name?" ;-)
The bigger problem is: You've got to get to a doctor so that the doctor can certify for your employer that you're really ill. How do you do that without leaving your home?