Obviously, some programming constructs are a lot more sugary that others, and have been put in simply to provide a work around so that you don't have to use goto's. One would probably never write a for or while loop using only goto's, but compare an "Exit While" statement from VB.Net, and compare it to the GoTo equivalent. There's isn't much difference in one being more complicated than the other. The Exit While statement isn't even necessary, unless you have some weird fear of GoTo's, there's no reason to even use it, or for it to be there in the first place.
Probably the same way the native americans were stupid for defending themselves with whatever primitive weapons they had when going up against the white man who had guns and black powder. Granted a bow and arrow has some distinct advantages over a gun that can take a minute to reload. However, when you're defending your territory, you use whatever means you have, and you don't necessarily have time to wait for someone else to show up and save you.
It's funny what used to be considered perfectly acceptable tv. I don't know what's worse, the blatant racism of the 70's, or the violence of today's TV shows.
Granted, most of the comments Archie made, are quite reminiscent of things my grandfather would have said, who was born in roughly the same time as Archie's character. While i'm sure it's quite consistent with many people's attitudes, I still find it odd that they would portray it on TV.
Usually when you decriminalize small amounts, they let you grow your own. So you don't have to depend on organized crime to get your fix. As for drugs you can't grow or make safely at home, well you have a problem on how you would get those. But maybe special shops could be set up to sell them, so that you can buy it without supporting organized crime, kind of like how they do with alcohol.
You could just look at the numbers of seeders and leechers also to see what the site is actually being used for. I would say that part of the substantial non infringing uses should mean that there's actually a significant number of people using it for that purpose. Personally, I don't even know why people would go to TPB for Linux distros. You can usually pick up the torrent file directly from you distro provider, so you can be sure it isn't prepackaged with malware.
The battery will not turn into toxic sludge. I have old UPS batteries sitting around at my office. They are probably around 17 years old, and while they don't hold much of a charge anymore, they certainly haven't degraded to toxic sludge. Same goes for the little button cells on motherboards. I've booted up computers that are way more than 17 years old. Unless you are planning on burying the time capsule in the ground in a cardboard box for 17 years, you shouldn't really have any problems. As long as the components are kept dry and at room temperature, there's no reason the components should break down in such a short period.
Would it be too much trouble to give customers an RSA SecurID, so it would be impossible for them to give their password to some third party person, without being ultimately stupid, and handing them a physical device. Real two factor authentication would be great. Something you know (a password), and something you have (RSA SecurID), should be the minimum for logging into any bank account.
I would say that low wages have a lot more to do with the presence of software development teams in countries like Russia. Sure there's probably a lot of smart people in Russia, but if they were top notch, they would be working for the same wage as American workers (because they would be providing the same value), or they would start their own software firms, and put out their own products, allowing them to earn much more money because they wouldn't be paid by how many hours they spent programming, but rather by how many people they could get to buy the product that takes the same number of hours to program whether you sell 1 or 10000 copies.
However, on Firefox, when I get a warning that says a site may contain malware, I'm still free to visit that site. It just gives me a warning. If Google was everybody's DNS Server, then I might agree with you. But there is nothing stopping you from ignoring the warning given to you by your browser, and viewing whatever Google decides to "censor".
If you want to include digital files, the best option is to probably include the entire hardware/software stack to run it on. Get a netbook, and throw that in there. Kind of an expensive option, but definitely would ensure that the data could be read. I'm almost certain we'll still be using the same AC outlets in 17 years time. Or at worst, you'd need some kind of plug adapter.
Yeah, there's a bunch of non-infringing works on TPB. But how many infriging works are there. Certainly more than a "bunch". Probably about 10000 bunches. Yeah, I wouldn't hesitate to say that on TPB, there are 10000 illegal files for every legal one. If that makes up "substantial non infringing uses", then me might as well legalize murder and rape, because I'm sure the good uses of those are about as plentiful as the legal files on TPB. I'm not saying that they aren't a good site, or that I don't download anything illegally. But I am quite surprised that they stayed up as long as they did.
I have to agree with you. But Nintendo has the distinct advantage that their consoles are small to begin with. Compare the size of the GameCube to the PS2 or XBox. It's not only a lot smaller, it's also a lot lighter. Same goes for the Wii compared it's current generation counterparts. It's scarcely bigger than a DVD driver for a computer. It would make absolutely no sense for Nintendo to put out a smaller version.
The government can't really control the definition of poor. Just because they set some "poverty line" at a certain value, doesn't mean that moving that imaginary line one way or the other makes you more or less poor. Contrast this with making things illegal. The government has complete control over what the definition of illegal is, through the laws it passes. If they change the law to make something that was illegal, no longer illegal, then it does change the status of what you can do.
Now we just need to know how often people play their consoles. I have a Wii. I bought it because it looked fun and it wasn't overprices. Now, I'm not and avid gamer. I only play maybe 1 or 2 hours every couple of weeks. At such low usage, I would be surprised if the thing didn't last for 20 years. Many people I know with Wii's fall into this same category. Contrast that with XBox, where I think many more people are avid gamers, and would use their machines much more. A higher failure rate would be expected. Probably not this much more of a failure rate, but a higher one none the less. Also, take into account the fact that MS will replace your broken unit with a refurb, and that most people who get a replacement unit, will put the unit back in the exact same spot, with poor ventilation and cooling that the previous one was at, and you have a recipe for disaster.
You could always use TOR or some other proxy to route around your internet provider so that they weren't aware you were downloading from the Pirate Bay. If I'm not mistaken, you only need to download the torrent from them. No need to worry about speed. Once you have the torrent file, all other communications are P2P, so you don't have to worry about the actual download going slow.
I would say that it would be quite unusual. If you took all the torrents on the internet, and rated them by size * number of downloaders, I would have to guess that all the Linux distros in the world would probably account for less than 1% of traffic. Think about it. There may be 10 good linux distros. and they are all release at most twice a year. So you end up with 20 disto downloads a year. Now there are also at least 20 blockbuster movies per year. Are you trying to tell me that those 20 linux distro releases are going to get anywhere close to those 20 blockbuster movie releases?
However, the difference between banks and Google/MS/Amazon, is heavy government regulation. And we've all see lately what relaxed regulation in the banking sector can do. Also, businesses don't have the capabilities to set up the infrastructure to bank with every other company they do business with. They do however, because of standards on the web, have the capabilities to set up a data centre, and host their own web sites.
Well, if you want to connect to a MySQL server over the internet, there's two good options which are.
1) Create a VPN, and only VPN connected computers can connect to the MySQL server.
2) Tunnel over SSH to connect to the MySQL server.
However, neither of these options is immune to the "no password" or "weak password" vulnerabilities which were the case here.
Sure you can have lots of RAM for quite cheap, but most people won't ever need that much RAM. On my current work machine, I rarely go over 1.5 GB, even when I'm running a lot of stuff. At home, I don't even think I've ever reached 1 GB of memory usage. Maybe when using things like VMs, you need all this memory, but most home and office users have no need for anything close to 4 GB of RAM. Cheap machines are coming with 4 GB of RAM simply because Vista is such a hog, and 2 GB is the bare operational minimum. If you're running XP, which is a much leaner OS, there isn't much of a use for having more than 2 GB of Memory.
Have you ever taken a picture of something in the sky, even with a good camera? I have a digital camera with 5x zoom. When you look at the moon with your eyes, you can see a lot of detail. Now, during the last lunar eclipse, I tried to take some pictures of the moon. Even at 5x zoom, the moon was only a small percentage of the total image area. And even with a tripod, and the fact that the moon moves much slower than any flying saucer, I was unable to get a really clear picture of the moon. Basically, if you are trying to take a picture of something in the night sky, you are going to need a long exposure time, because the object is too far away for the flash to work, and there is very little ambient light. If you have a long exposure time, and are holding the camera in your hand, and the object is moving, there is almost no chance at all of getting a clear shot. Even if the object is still, the fact that you are holding the camera almost makes it impossible to get a clear shot when you have a slow shutter speed.
The OP says that it would be more costly to develop than a standard power cable, as in: Why aren't they developing a standard power cable rather than trying to standardize useless technology like this.
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Obviously, some programming constructs are a lot more sugary that others, and have been put in simply to provide a work around so that you don't have to use goto's. One would probably never write a for or while loop using only goto's, but compare an "Exit While" statement from VB.Net, and compare it to the GoTo equivalent. There's isn't much difference in one being more complicated than the other. The Exit While statement isn't even necessary, unless you have some weird fear of GoTo's, there's no reason to even use it, or for it to be there in the first place.
Probably the same way the native americans were stupid for defending themselves with whatever primitive weapons they had when going up against the white man who had guns and black powder. Granted a bow and arrow has some distinct advantages over a gun that can take a minute to reload. However, when you're defending your territory, you use whatever means you have, and you don't necessarily have time to wait for someone else to show up and save you.
It's funny what used to be considered perfectly acceptable tv. I don't know what's worse, the blatant racism of the 70's, or the violence of today's TV shows.
Granted, most of the comments Archie made, are quite reminiscent of things my grandfather would have said, who was born in roughly the same time as Archie's character. While i'm sure it's quite consistent with many people's attitudes, I still find it odd that they would portray it on TV.
Funny, seems like they still sell consoles that are made in 1999. So a 10 year old console is definitely not something many would throw away.
Usually when you decriminalize small amounts, they let you grow your own. So you don't have to depend on organized crime to get your fix. As for drugs you can't grow or make safely at home, well you have a problem on how you would get those. But maybe special shops could be set up to sell them, so that you can buy it without supporting organized crime, kind of like how they do with alcohol.
You could just look at the numbers of seeders and leechers also to see what the site is actually being used for. I would say that part of the substantial non infringing uses should mean that there's actually a significant number of people using it for that purpose. Personally, I don't even know why people would go to TPB for Linux distros. You can usually pick up the torrent file directly from you distro provider, so you can be sure it isn't prepackaged with malware.
The battery will not turn into toxic sludge. I have old UPS batteries sitting around at my office. They are probably around 17 years old, and while they don't hold much of a charge anymore, they certainly haven't degraded to toxic sludge. Same goes for the little button cells on motherboards. I've booted up computers that are way more than 17 years old. Unless you are planning on burying the time capsule in the ground in a cardboard box for 17 years, you shouldn't really have any problems. As long as the components are kept dry and at room temperature, there's no reason the components should break down in such a short period.
Would it be too much trouble to give customers an RSA SecurID, so it would be impossible for them to give their password to some third party person, without being ultimately stupid, and handing them a physical device. Real two factor authentication would be great. Something you know (a password), and something you have (RSA SecurID), should be the minimum for logging into any bank account.
I would say that low wages have a lot more to do with the presence of software development teams in countries like Russia. Sure there's probably a lot of smart people in Russia, but if they were top notch, they would be working for the same wage as American workers (because they would be providing the same value), or they would start their own software firms, and put out their own products, allowing them to earn much more money because they wouldn't be paid by how many hours they spent programming, but rather by how many people they could get to buy the product that takes the same number of hours to program whether you sell 1 or 10000 copies.
However, on Firefox, when I get a warning that says a site may contain malware, I'm still free to visit that site. It just gives me a warning. If Google was everybody's DNS Server, then I might agree with you. But there is nothing stopping you from ignoring the warning given to you by your browser, and viewing whatever Google decides to "censor".
If you want to include digital files, the best option is to probably include the entire hardware/software stack to run it on. Get a netbook, and throw that in there. Kind of an expensive option, but definitely would ensure that the data could be read. I'm almost certain we'll still be using the same AC outlets in 17 years time. Or at worst, you'd need some kind of plug adapter.
Yeah, there's a bunch of non-infringing works on TPB. But how many infriging works are there. Certainly more than a "bunch". Probably about 10000 bunches. Yeah, I wouldn't hesitate to say that on TPB, there are 10000 illegal files for every legal one. If that makes up "substantial non infringing uses", then me might as well legalize murder and rape, because I'm sure the good uses of those are about as plentiful as the legal files on TPB. I'm not saying that they aren't a good site, or that I don't download anything illegally. But I am quite surprised that they stayed up as long as they did.
For those that want to take the day off work to go down to court and fight it.
I have to agree with you. But Nintendo has the distinct advantage that their consoles are small to begin with. Compare the size of the GameCube to the PS2 or XBox. It's not only a lot smaller, it's also a lot lighter. Same goes for the Wii compared it's current generation counterparts. It's scarcely bigger than a DVD driver for a computer. It would make absolutely no sense for Nintendo to put out a smaller version.
The government can't really control the definition of poor. Just because they set some "poverty line" at a certain value, doesn't mean that moving that imaginary line one way or the other makes you more or less poor. Contrast this with making things illegal. The government has complete control over what the definition of illegal is, through the laws it passes. If they change the law to make something that was illegal, no longer illegal, then it does change the status of what you can do.
Now we just need to know how often people play their consoles. I have a Wii. I bought it because it looked fun and it wasn't overprices. Now, I'm not and avid gamer. I only play maybe 1 or 2 hours every couple of weeks. At such low usage, I would be surprised if the thing didn't last for 20 years. Many people I know with Wii's fall into this same category. Contrast that with XBox, where I think many more people are avid gamers, and would use their machines much more. A higher failure rate would be expected. Probably not this much more of a failure rate, but a higher one none the less. Also, take into account the fact that MS will replace your broken unit with a refurb, and that most people who get a replacement unit, will put the unit back in the exact same spot, with poor ventilation and cooling that the previous one was at, and you have a recipe for disaster.
You could always use TOR or some other proxy to route around your internet provider so that they weren't aware you were downloading from the Pirate Bay. If I'm not mistaken, you only need to download the torrent from them. No need to worry about speed. Once you have the torrent file, all other communications are P2P, so you don't have to worry about the actual download going slow.
I would say that it would be quite unusual. If you took all the torrents on the internet, and rated them by size * number of downloaders, I would have to guess that all the Linux distros in the world would probably account for less than 1% of traffic. Think about it. There may be 10 good linux distros. and they are all release at most twice a year. So you end up with 20 disto downloads a year. Now there are also at least 20 blockbuster movies per year. Are you trying to tell me that those 20 linux distro releases are going to get anywhere close to those 20 blockbuster movie releases?
However, the difference between banks and Google/MS/Amazon, is heavy government regulation. And we've all see lately what relaxed regulation in the banking sector can do. Also, businesses don't have the capabilities to set up the infrastructure to bank with every other company they do business with. They do however, because of standards on the web, have the capabilities to set up a data centre, and host their own web sites.
The problem is, you can't sue god.
Well, if you want to connect to a MySQL server over the internet, there's two good options which are. 1) Create a VPN, and only VPN connected computers can connect to the MySQL server. 2) Tunnel over SSH to connect to the MySQL server. However, neither of these options is immune to the "no password" or "weak password" vulnerabilities which were the case here.
Sure you can have lots of RAM for quite cheap, but most people won't ever need that much RAM. On my current work machine, I rarely go over 1.5 GB, even when I'm running a lot of stuff. At home, I don't even think I've ever reached 1 GB of memory usage. Maybe when using things like VMs, you need all this memory, but most home and office users have no need for anything close to 4 GB of RAM. Cheap machines are coming with 4 GB of RAM simply because Vista is such a hog, and 2 GB is the bare operational minimum. If you're running XP, which is a much leaner OS, there isn't much of a use for having more than 2 GB of Memory.
Have you ever taken a picture of something in the sky, even with a good camera? I have a digital camera with 5x zoom. When you look at the moon with your eyes, you can see a lot of detail. Now, during the last lunar eclipse, I tried to take some pictures of the moon. Even at 5x zoom, the moon was only a small percentage of the total image area. And even with a tripod, and the fact that the moon moves much slower than any flying saucer, I was unable to get a really clear picture of the moon. Basically, if you are trying to take a picture of something in the night sky, you are going to need a long exposure time, because the object is too far away for the flash to work, and there is very little ambient light. If you have a long exposure time, and are holding the camera in your hand, and the object is moving, there is almost no chance at all of getting a clear shot. Even if the object is still, the fact that you are holding the camera almost makes it impossible to get a clear shot when you have a slow shutter speed.
The OP says that it would be more costly to develop than a standard power cable, as in: Why aren't they developing a standard power cable rather than trying to standardize useless technology like this.
Makes me think of the word Crwth. Doesn't sound entirely like vowels, but makes a nice scabble word.