Why shouldn't the cops have access to someone's book purchase records if there is probable cause that those records might yield useful information in an investigation? This is the way the law is supposed to work.
This is why VMware suspend works the way it does. It provides a consistent virtualized hardware interface, regardless of the details of the real hardware. The original question referred to individual process saving, and VMware suspend is similar to the whole OS suspend feature in laptops. Nevertheless, if you consider VMware to be a wrapper for individual processes that you want to be able to checkpoint, it turns out to be quite a nice solution to the original problem with zero programming required, and just a little pocket money to implement.
Come on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is exactly how police surveillance should happen. A court order is still required. It is difficult to do on a large scale, at least when a physical key logger is used. It does not require people to use broken encryption. The problem starts when people are forbidden from verifying the integrity of their own computers.
It is amusing to see slashdot editors consistenly take New Scientist seriously. It is a hair above the Weekly World News in the journalistic food chain. I was "interviewed" by one of their "reporters" once. That only confirmed what most scientists/engineers already know about its penchant for enhancing mundane science with the most preposterous speculation.
The whole rag is filled with pseudo-science news. I was interviewed by one of their reporters. They take ordinary science, jazz it up into something star-trekky and unrecognizable, munge their quotes, sensationalize out the wazoo, etc. Maybe in a former life it was a respectable British journal. These days it has sunk as low as the rest of British journalism.
I gave up trying quicken in wine (Qoc au vin?) long ago. VMware is absolutely rock-solid (or as solid as whatever guest OS you use). It runs quicken flawlessly. Since neither Quickbooks nor Quicken are Free, the VMware's non-Free status should not be an issue. At $75 non-commercial, it's a bargain.
Using cats for research is outrageous...
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If suffering is the main criterion for when we may kill a child, shouldn't the suffering of parents, family, etc., be considered as well? If the death of a perfectly healthy child would spare that child and its family from grinding poverty or severe emotional distress, why not kill it?
For that matter, why are suffering and pain the only acceptable reasons for killing. Once you have accepted that morality is merely an evolutionary mirage, which serves only to ensure the survival of the species, you are, so to speak, liberated from its demands. After all, our awareness of evolutionary anthropology is itself part of evolution. If people are just biochemical machines, and if I am evolved enough to realize that, I am just following my evolutionary destiny when I act in a way that maximizes my pleasure at the expense of others. So, let's stop pretending that ideas such as suffering, pain, and morality have any validity except in as much as they allow me to get what I want from others, even if that means killing.
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Probable cause + Warrant = Perfectly legal
Why shouldn't the cops have access to someone's book purchase records if there is probable cause that those records might yield useful information in an investigation? This is the way the law is supposed to work.
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This is why VMware suspend works the way it does. It provides a consistent virtualized hardware interface, regardless of the details of the real hardware. The original question referred to individual process saving, and VMware suspend is similar to the whole OS suspend feature in laptops. Nevertheless, if you consider VMware to be a wrapper for individual processes that you want to be able to checkpoint, it turns out to be quite a nice solution to the original problem with zero programming required, and just a little pocket money to implement.
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Come on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is exactly how police surveillance should happen. A court order is still required. It is difficult to do on a large scale, at least when a physical key logger is used. It does not require people to use broken encryption. The problem starts when people are forbidden from verifying the integrity of their own computers.
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which disqualifies him from any consideration as a serious artist or thinker.
It is amusing to see slashdot editors consistenly take New Scientist seriously. It is a hair above the Weekly World News in the journalistic food chain. I was "interviewed" by one of their "reporters" once. That only confirmed what most scientists/engineers already know about its penchant for enhancing mundane science with the most preposterous speculation.
The whole rag is filled with pseudo-science news. I was interviewed by one of their reporters. They take ordinary science, jazz it up into something star-trekky and unrecognizable, munge their quotes, sensationalize out the wazoo, etc. Maybe in a former life it was a respectable British journal. These days it has sunk as low as the rest of British journalism.
I gave up trying quicken in wine (Qoc au vin?) long ago. VMware is absolutely rock-solid (or as solid as whatever guest OS you use). It runs quicken flawlessly. Since neither Quickbooks nor Quicken are Free, the VMware's non-Free status should not be an issue. At $75 non-commercial, it's a bargain.
They should be using babies.
If suffering is the main criterion for when we may kill a child, shouldn't the suffering of parents, family, etc., be considered as well? If the death of a perfectly healthy child would spare that child and its family from grinding poverty or severe emotional distress, why not kill it?
For that matter, why are suffering and pain the only acceptable reasons for killing. Once you have accepted that morality is merely an evolutionary mirage, which serves only to ensure the survival of the species, you are, so to speak, liberated from its demands. After all, our awareness of evolutionary anthropology is itself part of evolution. If people are just biochemical machines, and if I am evolved enough to realize that, I am just following my evolutionary destiny when I act in a way that maximizes my pleasure at the expense of others. So, let's stop pretending that ideas such as suffering, pain, and morality have any validity except in as much as they allow me to get what I want from others, even if that means killing.