Wow, therd used to be a time waaaaay back when when you could Godwin a thread. It now sees that we need another. Thank you for Dawkinsing this thread. I mean really, is there a way to pry bar intelligent design in more?
You should go read Bruce's opinion about it and how he runs his home network. Here is a hint, no it does not make the NSA look like amateurs. And no, I won't Google it for you.
1. Require an empty machine, have the government install the software on that machine - take a md5/hash/something to fingerprint it. On election day wander around and randomly check sums on machines by booting off of known good media.
or
2. Require that all machines *only* run off of bootable media. As the government get a known good copy and make your own disks, disk duplicators are ridiculously cheap.
or
3. Require that all machines pxe boot and have the government control the servers.
I am sure smarter people than I could come up with even better solutions.
I disagree anyone can send email from anywhere, yes, charging a nickel for it would be worthless for they would only move the servers off shore. But IP is different, IP by definition wants the local government to protect it. asking a nickel for local protection is a very different game.
I agree that if you have physical access to a machine you own it, but at the same time there is a world of difference between being able to do a drive by cracking and physically carting off the machine to brute force it at your leisure.
I am a Theist, but I will answer you. My original training was as a Botanist. If you want real answers about evolution, always ask a botanist, we simply have more to work with. The concept of species is a fairly fuzzy one. In the past it was based on what it looked like and could breed true (ie make a copy of itself)-
"Hmmm...looks like a bear." "But it is all white." "Call it..a polar bear. Good enough?"
Now they are trying to break it down by genetics.
"What do you mean that huge thing is a rodent?"
We haven't gotten very far so the concept of species is still very fuzzy. And the tough part is that it will remain so for a long time, perhaps forever. The reason for this fuzziness is also the explanation of your transitional species problem. If species are fuzzy then *everything* is in transition and thus everything is a transitional species. Fossils then are a snapshot in time nothing more, nothing less. There are no intermediate models to look at. Look at anything, it is in transition. To *what* we cannot say, because it will be in transition as well. In the world of botany there are many such things that can mate with itself, species A and species B, but A and B cannot mate. Everything is moving, all the time. You only get to see your slice.
I think you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Mar 13:19 For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
How does this relate at all? Using Mark to talk about ANYTHING literal is laughable.
Exd 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Exd 6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exd 6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Huh? How does this relate?
At least in Exo 31:15-17 you come close, but the words -
Exd 31:17 It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Are spoken by - that's right - GOD. Trying to relate to a normal person. If I speak to a three year old about the world I sure as hell sugar coat it. "I made the world in 6 billion years, so work six days" - yeah, that would work. Yeesh.
Maybe YOU need to reread your Bible. And this time try in in the original languages if you are going to try to pull out substantive things. You are the living, breathing, being that is my sig and your arguement is worthless. You have done nothing to prove yourself and have gotten modded up by knee jerk atheists who want all religious types painted with the same brush.
and 'morals' from the minds of many, you'll find they actually don't know how to think.
I was trained to try to never use absolutes but for the first time I think I can use one. I, nor anyone else, wants to live in your world that has no morals.
I severely doubt that legal discovery trumps federal law.
In any event I can see that you are not in the industry. HIPAA and others trump EVERYTHING. This is not your Grandma's (or your for that matter) privacy law. This is a law that even mighty Harvard worries about. By handing the names over they violated HIPAA and several other Federal laws. Each of which carries enough punishment to make that contempt charge look like chump change. Not a cent of this will ever get back to the students of course, but if the school is punished to the full extent of the law - paying the RIAA off, giving the 12 students a 4 year free ride and dropping a down payment on a house for each of them will turn out to be the better bargain. And mind you that is *just* HIPAA. God help them if any one of them got any financial aid at all because that is a whole nother kettle of fish.
You see, you have federal privacy rights, I have federal privacy rights, but college students are in another world entirely when it comes to federal privacy rights.
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Wow, therd used to be a time waaaaay back when when you could Godwin a thread. It now sees that we need another. Thank you for Dawkinsing this thread. I mean really, is there a way to pry bar intelligent design in more?
"The "pandering" provision of the PROTECT Act makes it illegal to claim you have child pornography, even if you don't."
You will pardon me while I become violently ill. I had no idea there was a law against possessing imaginary things. Unfucking believable.
Sera
You should go read Bruce's opinion about it and how he runs his home network. Here is a hint, no it does not make the NSA look like amateurs. And no, I won't Google it for you.
Sera
"BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor" tag?
Pretty easy to solve I think. You could
1. Require an empty machine, have the government install the software on that machine - take a md5/hash/something to fingerprint it. On election day wander around and randomly check sums on machines by booting off of known good media.
or
2. Require that all machines *only* run off of bootable media. As the government get a known good copy and make your own disks, disk duplicators are ridiculously cheap.
or
3. Require that all machines pxe boot and have the government control the servers.
I am sure smarter people than I could come up with even better solutions.
Sera
Sorry, had to.
Sera
What is 90+% of market share Alex?
Its called altruism - try it out some time, it really washes the taste of cynicism out of your mouth.
Sera
Thank you Cpt - I like many others appreciate your posts.
Sera
I disagree anyone can send email from anywhere, yes, charging a nickel for it would be worthless for they would only move the servers off shore. But IP is different, IP by definition wants the local government to protect it. asking a nickel for local protection is a very different game.
Sera
That is the most sane thing I have read in ages. Thank you for your post.
Sera
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your balls.
I agree that if you have physical access to a machine you own it, but at the same time there is a world of difference between being able to do a drive by cracking and physically carting off the machine to brute force it at your leisure.
Sera
Hate to burst your bubble but - If your "Old" machine is 3G with 1G of ram - it isn't old by consumer specs.
That's great that InfoWorld has a write up, but could you give me a friggin clue what JotSpot is or why I should give a damn?
Disclaimer: I am a Theist as you can easily find from my posts, but please dont take this the wrong way.
:)
I had never heard of Statistical Mechanics and I got a chuckle thinking
There are Three kinds of Mechanics:
Mechanics
Damn Mechanics
and Statistical Mechanics
I am a Theist, but I will answer you. My original training was as a Botanist. If you want real answers about evolution, always ask a botanist, we simply have more to work with. The concept of species is a fairly fuzzy one. In the past it was based on what it looked like and could breed true (ie make a copy of itself)-
"Hmmm...looks like a bear."
"But it is all white."
"Call it..a polar bear. Good enough?"
Now they are trying to break it down by genetics.
"What do you mean that huge thing is a rodent?"
We haven't gotten very far so the concept of species is still very fuzzy. And the tough part is that it will remain so for a long time, perhaps forever. The reason for this fuzziness is also the explanation of your transitional species problem. If species are fuzzy then *everything* is in transition and thus everything is a transitional species. Fossils then are a snapshot in time nothing more, nothing less. There are no intermediate models to look at. Look at anything, it is in transition. To *what* we cannot say, because it will be in transition as well. In the world of botany there are many such things that can mate with itself, species A and species B, but A and B cannot mate. Everything is moving, all the time. You only get to see your slice.
Sera
How does this relate at all? Using Mark to talk about ANYTHING literal is laughable.
Huh? How does this relate?
At least in Exo 31:15-17 you come close, but the words -
Are spoken by - that's right - GOD. Trying to relate to a normal person. If I speak to a three year old about the world I sure as hell sugar coat it. "I made the world in 6 billion years, so work six days" - yeah, that would work. Yeesh.
Maybe YOU need to reread your Bible. And this time try in in the original languages if you are going to try to pull out substantive things. You are the living, breathing, being that is my sig and your arguement is worthless. You have done nothing to prove yourself and have gotten modded up by knee jerk atheists who want all religious types painted with the same brush.
Seraphim
Yea gads! Gives new meaning to the old joke UNGa Bunga! Please God, not this way either, not with a thrown chair!
...so what you are saying is that after you compile, you have the same battery life as the rest of us? ;)
That is the most cognizant reply I have read. Kudos for you Sir, I doff my hat.
When you can Champion geek causes and stop your fellows from walking all over the Constitution, I might care.
When you can stop painting people like Mr Jobs as terrorist surrender monkeys, I might care.
When you can stop earning a living by breeding hate amongst your fellow citizens, I might care.
When you can hold your own ideologues to task - just once, I might care.
When you can admit your own drug addiction, and eat your words, every one of them, and then help a Friend of Bill W, I might care.
Until then Rush, I got nothing for you but Pity. At least Elementary Schoolyard bullies don't know any better.
Sera
Its the vi/emacs vs gimp/photoshop debate. I mean any retar .........oh, you were right ... carry on.
;)Sera
I severely doubt that legal discovery trumps federal law.
In any event I can see that you are not in the industry. HIPAA and others trump EVERYTHING. This is not your Grandma's (or your for that matter) privacy law. This is a law that even mighty Harvard worries about. By handing the names over they violated HIPAA and several other Federal laws. Each of which carries enough punishment to make that contempt charge look like chump change. Not a cent of this will ever get back to the students of course, but if the school is punished to the full extent of the law - paying the RIAA off, giving the 12 students a 4 year free ride and dropping a down payment on a house for each of them will turn out to be the better bargain. And mind you that is *just* HIPAA. God help them if any one of them got any financial aid at all because that is a whole nother kettle of fish.
You see, you have federal privacy rights, I have federal privacy rights, but college students are in another world entirely when it comes to federal privacy rights.
Sera