While that is true to an extent, I don't think that that's the biggest consideration in North Korea's case.
The problem with NK is that they have more than enough conventional weapons to turn Seoul and Tokyo into smoking piles of rubble before we can react, which would not only harm our biggest allies in the region, but also cripple the US economy since we get so much of our industrial inputs from Japan and South Korea nowadays.
Furthermore, the proximity of China, Russia, and South Korea makes nuking NK 'til it glows a somewhat less palatable option geopolitically.
All the things you have mentioned are expressly denied, at least in the US criminal code or international law. Our entire legal system is founded on the concept that everything that's not forbidden is allowed.
To continue with the bad analogies, having an unsecured wireless port isn't just the equivalent of leaving your door unlocked. It's the equivalent of leaving it wide open with a sign saying "come on it, take what you want" posted over it.
If you don't want other people using your wireless network, secure your goddamn router. It's trivially easy, and the responsibility for it rests on you and you alone.
The first time you get to 60 on a given side is quite a lot of fun, but if you want to have an alt handy or restart a character on a different server, it can quickly become a major pain in the ass. Not to mention that the post-60 grind is filled with boring timesinks.
For someone who makes a lot of money but doesn't have all that much time and wants to keep up with their online friends (or move to the server where they are playing), spending a couple of hundred bucks to save the trouble of repeating content (or grinding the same content over and over) for a couple of weeks seems like a pretty reasonable proposition.
While personally I have simply quit the game once it stopped being fun for me, and never bothered buying any WoW stuff with real money, I can see how someone who derived most of their enjoyment from socializing with their friends or PvPing would be tempted to buy some gold or a levelled character.
Different people have different priorities and enjoy different aspects of the game. In a perfectly designed game all these tradeoffs would be achievable internally through the game economy itself. In real games, however, people end up having to resort to eBay in order to achieve an efficient outcome.
Two RAIDs, one of them offline most of the time (or better yet, off-site) definitely seems like the way to go.
The problem with CDs/DVDs/tapes is that they tend to degenerate with time and there's no quick and easy way to check data integrity, not to mention the fact that they're a pain in the ass to use if you're dealing with significant amounts of data. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to get something from an old CD-R only to find that half of its data layer has flaked off.
With RAID, you can know immediately when a drive fails and checking data integrity is a matter of executing a script. And with an off-site RAID your data can easily survive a catastrophic multi-drive failure or large-scale natural disaster.
You seem to be failing at basic logic here. He isn't saying that any one of those things makes you a good startup environment. He's saying that having all of them does.
The UK may have fireable employees and top-notch universities, but it's got a much smaller domestic market than the US does (and is quite a bit closer to becoming a police state, sadly enough).
Reminds me of the old Soviet catch-all justification. "In response to a flood of requests from the workers, next Saturday will be a nation-wide unpaid workday!"
Sounds good, though I'd also add basic security to the list. Specifically installing critical updates, not opening suspicious attachments, not installing spyware, and not replying to spam.
The reason the concept of copyright was enacted in law in the first place was to grow the public domain. You get to act like a piece of information is your property to make up for your expenses and for releasing it in its entirety to the public domain after 14 years.
It is not required for a civilization to function the way the concept of private property is, it merely accelerates the rate at which civilization progresses if, and only if, the information enters the public domain in a timely manner.
Why is the fact that we don't sell those things to kids good and worthy of expansion, and what relation does GTA and Hitman have to porn, beer, and/or smokes?
The original post was referring to not being able to get someone to do something they were not prepared to do through hypnosis. How exactly does holding someone's family hostage qualify as hypnosis?
He did not say that the patent is invalid or illegal, he said it was ridiculous.
What should be on trial here is not this specific patent, but the state in which our patent system currently is. The fact that this case is likely to appear ridiculous to a common citizen with no technical or legal background helps make the case for patent reform, and hopefully serves as a dire warning to the legislature of any other nation currently considering implementing software and business process patents.
The key to lowering birthrates is not an even income distribution, but an industrial/postindustrial society. The reason most people in the first world have fewer kids isn't the fact that they have money to spend on better things than child-rearing, but the fact that the economic costs of raising a child in a modern society, both in terms of food/health/education and in terms of time spent by the parents on the child which could have instead been spent on furthering their careers, are greater than the economic benefits, especially with the presence of medicare, social security, and other safety nets created by the welfare state.
One nice policy to protect yourself from nonpayment would be to not ship anything out until you get paid.
Paypal also has some nice policies for freezing the contents of your account and not giving them back, though hopefully Google won't get around to implementing those.
Actually, installing the official patch with Guilfanov's still in place isn't just a viable course of action, but the recommended one. The unofficial patch removes the vulnerable routine in memory, while the MS patch removes it from the code itself, so there is no direct conflict between the two.
Keep in mind, though, that if you unregistered shimgvw.dll either manually or through an unofficial patch, you will have to re-register it (again either manually or by uninstalling the unofficial patch) in order to get its functionality (thumbnails in Explorer and the use of the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) back. The official patch merely patches the DLL to remove the vulnerable routine.
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While that is true to an extent, I don't think that that's the biggest consideration in North Korea's case.
The problem with NK is that they have more than enough conventional weapons to turn Seoul and Tokyo into smoking piles of rubble before we can react, which would not only harm our biggest allies in the region, but also cripple the US economy since we get so much of our industrial inputs from Japan and South Korea nowadays.
Furthermore, the proximity of China, Russia, and South Korea makes nuking NK 'til it glows a somewhat less palatable option geopolitically.
All the things you have mentioned are expressly denied, at least in the US criminal code or international law. Our entire legal system is founded on the concept that everything that's not forbidden is allowed.
To continue with the bad analogies, having an unsecured wireless port isn't just the equivalent of leaving your door unlocked. It's the equivalent of leaving it wide open with a sign saying "come on it, take what you want" posted over it.
If you don't want other people using your wireless network, secure your goddamn router. It's trivially easy, and the responsibility for it rests on you and you alone.
After sinking all that cash into my SLI gaming PC, all the consoles seem to cost about the same to me $600? That's just one video card
For someone who makes a lot of money but doesn't have all that much time and wants to keep up with their online friends (or move to the server where they are playing), spending a couple of hundred bucks to save the trouble of repeating content (or grinding the same content over and over) for a couple of weeks seems like a pretty reasonable proposition.
While personally I have simply quit the game once it stopped being fun for me, and never bothered buying any WoW stuff with real money, I can see how someone who derived most of their enjoyment from socializing with their friends or PvPing would be tempted to buy some gold or a levelled character.
Different people have different priorities and enjoy different aspects of the game. In a perfectly designed game all these tradeoffs would be achievable internally through the game economy itself. In real games, however, people end up having to resort to eBay in order to achieve an efficient outcome.
The vast majority of onboard RAID "controllers" I've encountered so far have been little more than a software driver. And a Windows-only one at that.
The problem with CDs/DVDs/tapes is that they tend to degenerate with time and there's no quick and easy way to check data integrity, not to mention the fact that they're a pain in the ass to use if you're dealing with significant amounts of data. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to get something from an old CD-R only to find that half of its data layer has flaked off.
With RAID, you can know immediately when a drive fails and checking data integrity is a matter of executing a script. And with an off-site RAID your data can easily survive a catastrophic multi-drive failure or large-scale natural disaster.
The UK may have fireable employees and top-notch universities, but it's got a much smaller domestic market than the US does (and is quite a bit closer to becoming a police state, sadly enough).
See how this works? A does not imply A && B.
Reminds me of the old Soviet catch-all justification. "In response to a flood of requests from the workers, next Saturday will be a nation-wide unpaid workday!"
Knew I shouldn't have left the crazy glue next to the ky jelly
Sounds good, though I'd also add basic security to the list. Specifically installing critical updates, not opening suspicious attachments, not installing spyware, and not replying to spam.
How does making a character out of a cultural archetype imply a belief that race is a good means for judging an individual's worth?
Cheap, fast, quiet. Pick one
Cheap, fast, quiet. Pick one.
What are you talking about? The last link goes to a blog, and I don't see any wmfs in there.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft will soon announce the Xbox Ching!
It is not required for a civilization to function the way the concept of private property is, it merely accelerates the rate at which civilization progresses if, and only if, the information enters the public domain in a timely manner.
You call the cops, provide them with information, and let them handle the rest.
Why is the fact that we don't sell those things to kids good and worthy of expansion, and what relation does GTA and Hitman have to porn, beer, and/or smokes?
The original post was referring to not being able to get someone to do something they were not prepared to do through hypnosis. How exactly does holding someone's family hostage qualify as hypnosis?
What should be on trial here is not this specific patent, but the state in which our patent system currently is. The fact that this case is likely to appear ridiculous to a common citizen with no technical or legal background helps make the case for patent reform, and hopefully serves as a dire warning to the legislature of any other nation currently considering implementing software and business process patents.
The key to lowering birthrates is not an even income distribution, but an industrial/postindustrial society. The reason most people in the first world have fewer kids isn't the fact that they have money to spend on better things than child-rearing, but the fact that the economic costs of raising a child in a modern society, both in terms of food/health/education and in terms of time spent by the parents on the child which could have instead been spent on furthering their careers, are greater than the economic benefits, especially with the presence of medicare, social security, and other safety nets created by the welfare state.
Paypal also has some nice policies for freezing the contents of your account and not giving them back, though hopefully Google won't get around to implementing those.
Knowing WoW, the response would probably be zOMG, PIX PLZ!!!
Even geeks have some standards
Keep in mind, though, that if you unregistered shimgvw.dll either manually or through an unofficial patch, you will have to re-register it (again either manually or by uninstalling the unofficial patch) in order to get its functionality (thumbnails in Explorer and the use of the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) back. The official patch merely patches the DLL to remove the vulnerable routine.