Only because you have defined 'censor' to mean what everyone else means by 'censorship by government'. I tried looking up the word 'censor' in a wide variety of dictionaries (both online and off) and in none of them did the word 'censor' imply actions by government, though censorship by government served as a good illustrative example of the general concept of censorship in some definitions.
Blindly accepting rules and "facts" set out by others does not make one a "good Muslim".
You can get away with saying a lot of things about Islam because like any other religion everything is up for interpretation. So people can pontificate to their heart's content about this and that religion and get away with it because they claim they have the "one true interpretation". But this is one time you can't get away with it. Your statement is trivially false for the simple reason that the religion is called "submission" (the translation of "Islam"). Or are you going to tell me some tall story about how submission really mean submission?
FFT is a data compression and encryption standard used by a wide variety of extraterrestrial civilizations. Seti@home spends most of its time running FFT code to look for signals. If we managed to communicate with any of these aliens we could ask them what it stands for.
...when I could have paid. If someone offered it to me for $10 I'd probably pay it. I might even consider paying $12.50. But any more and I'd use the Gimp. So when they do their figures I hope that the BullShit Association counted that as $12.50 and not the $1,000 or whatever ridiculous price it is that Adobe charge.
Did you every study logic? Picking the lowest paying job you can get that actually uses a science education in order to illustrate a general point that science doesn't pay well doesn't work well as an argument. I use my science education (up to PhD level) every day in writing software for movie visual effects. It pays over 3 times what you claim I'd get as an academic. And the reason why academics are paid less isn't about excessive supply in the marketplace as a whole - it's a result of academics being prepared to accept low salaries in exchange for job satisfaction and recognition - something you appear to have left out of your computation. Oh...and I forgot to mention the consultancy fees that many academics earn.
As usual, with groundbreaking theories and inventions, we will deny it's possibility even after (if) we see it's work.
Can you tell me where you saw the working space elevator whose existence you imply?
...gets the recognition it deserves. I pity anyone who bought one. I ran through many scenarios in my head and yet I could never find one where the cost-benefit ratio of a Zip drive made one worth buying. In almost every case I could think of it was better to use floppies, burn your own CD or install a removable HD kit (in the days before USB). They were horrible and clunky. I never trusted them enough for backups. They were never universal enough to make them useful for sending data to others. And byte-for-byte they were incredibly expensive.
Why is it goint to take your daughter 15 years to find this comment? Does she have some kind of mental or physical impairment that will make her unable to do a web search until she's 15 years older than she is now? Or are you keeping her locked up in a cage for the next 15 years with no access to the outside world?
Theoretically, there is no language that is more or less prone to bugs than any other language as understood in Turing Completeness
Frankly, this is complete garbage. Try writing an application in the Turing complete language Brainfuck or 6502 assembler and compare that with writing in the Turing complete language Haskell. Turing completeness is completely irrelevant and you're simply quoting CS 101 to give your comments an air of authority.
Sony are acting like a company that own the market and can dictate whatever terms they want. Remind me, which Sony products are so awesome that I have to buy them and submit to these terms? It's not the their games consoles (portable or not I prefer Nintendo), or their TVs (Samsung make better) or their stereos (who'd buy a Sony?), or their portable audio players (I love my iPod), or their cameras (Canon for me), or their laptops (Apple again), or their memory sticks (I tend to use SD cards), or their crippl(ed|ing) audio CDs (somehow they don't seem to publish music I like), or even their headphones (I'm happy with my Sennheisers).
Pity it doesn't do addition. I scoured dozens of websites looking for a laptop that add up some numbers and I couldn't find a single one. Play games, play music and video, even allow you to see your relatives on the other side of the world. And yet not one has addition in the spec. What the hell do they call them laptop computers for eh?
Imagine if some guy wandering around the Antarctic finds a meteorite with evidence of Martian life in it, and whacks it with a sledgehammer...
Right, I'm imagining it. I see shards flying off in all directions and two large pieces surrounded by a number of fragments. Meanwhile an icy wind blows and already some of the shards are covered in snow. The guy lifts the sledgehammer again and mutters to himself "I really shouldn't be wandering around here, I'd better return to base.". He pulls his coat tight around him and trudges off through the snow, clouds of icy particles forming in the air in front of him with each breath.
Now SELLING a product, THAT's where the action is!
Advanced as you think you are I can see you're still stuck in the old ways of the 20th century. The action is in SELLING, not seling a product. Products costs millions to develop and cheap as it is to manufacture them overseas it still costs money. No, SELLING WITHOUT A PRODUCT is where the in crowd knows the action is.
I overheard evidence that the local cops are running a protection racket and I don't want the local cops to know that I know. My company is hoping for a contract for some government work and we don't want our competitors with friends in the White House hearing what we're prepared to bid. I don't want anyone to know what the secret ingredient in my cookies is because once a trade secret is revealed it's no longer a secret. I want to phone my uncle in Iran without being visited by the feds because even though my last call was innocent I was fired from my job soon after the feds turned up at my office. Oh, and porn is legal, but I don't want my neighbors knowing that I have a fetish for girls wearing bunny suits and I'm dating the boss's daughter and I'd rather my colleagues didn't find out about it.
I remember reading some anonymously posted comment posted on slashdot by some guy who claimed that he read about some crackpot who claimed that the pole reversal would make electricity flow backwards. The comment didn't get modded up, but curiously, for some mysterious reason, a self-referential comment about this comment, which added nothing informative to the original, did (but then later was modded down again).
Cancer studies surrounding mobile phones concentrate on brain tumors because cellphones are typically used right next to the head. So it's kinda curious that these people have brain tumours from a much larger source that irradiates all parts of the body equally. Given also that many other workplaces with phone towers don't show clusters like this I'd put a lot of money on these tumors being caused by something other than cellphone transmissions.
On the other hand, given my experience with journalists recently, the truth is probably that one person had a brain tumor, one person has an uncle who had a brain tumour many years ago, one had a bump on the head from walking into a closet door, another went on vacation in East Timor, and the building is temporarily being closed down because it's being renovated.
You know it strikes me that if things this big can escape our detection on a daily basis, just what else are we missing that may lie right in front of us...?...rediculous...word wonders...
I'm not assuming anything. I'm making inferences based on experience. Apart from one file I've never heard of anyone I know ever downloading anything from bit torrent that wasn't illegal and people who deny that this is its primary (and secondary and tertiary) function are either deluded or liars.
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Oh, I believe in you. I just don't believe you believe in God. I've never met a person who actually believed in God and doubt such people exist.
FFT is a data compression and encryption standard used by a wide variety of extraterrestrial civilizations. Seti@home spends most of its time running FFT code to look for signals. If we managed to communicate with any of these aliens we could ask them what it stands for.
...when I could have paid. If someone offered it to me for $10 I'd probably pay it. I might even consider paying $12.50. But any more and I'd use the Gimp. So when they do their figures I hope that the BullShit Association counted that as $12.50 and not the $1,000 or whatever ridiculous price it is that Adobe charge.
Did you every study logic? Picking the lowest paying job you can get that actually uses a science education in order to illustrate a general point that science doesn't pay well doesn't work well as an argument. I use my science education (up to PhD level) every day in writing software for movie visual effects. It pays over 3 times what you claim I'd get as an academic. And the reason why academics are paid less isn't about excessive supply in the marketplace as a whole - it's a result of academics being prepared to accept low salaries in exchange for job satisfaction and recognition - something you appear to have left out of your computation. Oh...and I forgot to mention the consultancy fees that many academics earn.
...gets the recognition it deserves. I pity anyone who bought one. I ran through many scenarios in my head and yet I could never find one where the cost-benefit ratio of a Zip drive made one worth buying. In almost every case I could think of it was better to use floppies, burn your own CD or install a removable HD kit (in the days before USB). They were horrible and clunky. I never trusted them enough for backups. They were never universal enough to make them useful for sending data to others. And byte-for-byte they were incredibly expensive.
Why is it goint to take your daughter 15 years to find this comment? Does she have some kind of mental or physical impairment that will make her unable to do a web search until she's 15 years older than she is now? Or are you keeping her locked up in a cage for the next 15 years with no access to the outside world?
Sony are acting like a company that own the market and can dictate whatever terms they want. Remind me, which Sony products are so awesome that I have to buy them and submit to these terms? It's not the their games consoles (portable or not I prefer Nintendo), or their TVs (Samsung make better) or their stereos (who'd buy a Sony?), or their portable audio players (I love my iPod), or their cameras (Canon for me), or their laptops (Apple again), or their memory sticks (I tend to use SD cards), or their crippl(ed|ing) audio CDs (somehow they don't seem to publish music I like), or even their headphones (I'm happy with my Sennheisers).
Obviously they're not the top cybercriminals.
I can see that if I wanted additional mathematical operations then costs might multiply...
Pity it doesn't do addition. I scoured dozens of websites looking for a laptop that add up some numbers and I couldn't find a single one. Play games, play music and video, even allow you to see your relatives on the other side of the world. And yet not one has addition in the spec. What the hell do they call them laptop computers for eh?
Was there a point to all that?
The bubble is still going. The .bomb took out the people who weren't very good at selling nothing leaving us with the real gurus like Google.
I overheard evidence that the local cops are running a protection racket and I don't want the local cops to know that I know. My company is hoping for a contract for some government work and we don't want our competitors with friends in the White House hearing what we're prepared to bid. I don't want anyone to know what the secret ingredient in my cookies is because once a trade secret is revealed it's no longer a secret. I want to phone my uncle in Iran without being visited by the feds because even though my last call was innocent I was fired from my job soon after the feds turned up at my office. Oh, and porn is legal, but I don't want my neighbors knowing that I have a fetish for girls wearing bunny suits and I'm dating the boss's daughter and I'd rather my colleagues didn't find out about it.
I remember reading some anonymously posted comment posted on slashdot by some guy who claimed that he read about some crackpot who claimed that the pole reversal would make electricity flow backwards. The comment didn't get modded up, but curiously, for some mysterious reason, a self-referential comment about this comment, which added nothing informative to the original, did (but then later was modded down again).
On the other hand, given my experience with journalists recently, the truth is probably that one person had a brain tumor, one person has an uncle who had a brain tumour many years ago, one had a bump on the head from walking into a closet door, another went on vacation in East Timor, and the building is temporarily being closed down because it's being renovated.
Dr Bunsen's assistant. They must have appeared in at least one of the muppet movies.
I'm not assuming anything. I'm making inferences based on experience. Apart from one file I've never heard of anyone I know ever downloading anything from bit torrent that wasn't illegal and people who deny that this is its primary (and secondary and tertiary) function are either deluded or liars.
...crack dealer trying to set up as a legitimate company, pay taxes, advertise and so on?