They can cut off your electricity, as it's enabling you to use illegal content. They can garnish your wages, as it was earned applying knowledge aquired illegally. They can remove the blood in your veins and sell it, as that was produced using food you purchased with money from your job using knowledge acquired illegally. Next time, PAY for your pr0n
I don't know what you're doing with YOUR porn, but porn usually depletes my precious bodily fluids. It definitely doesn't increase my supply.
If you start shooting blood then you need to take a time out from "watching porn".
I guess you aren't a developer, if you can get by with only one box.
Compatibility testing, running my own svn/ftp/http/ssh servers (separate from the ones I run on my main machine), keeping personal stuff (email, etc) isolated on one machine, business email on another, these are all valid reasons to have a second computer
Tom, I'd like to introduce you to something that could radically change the way you work:
Every new platform (almost by definition of the term "platform") allows it to be married to myriad other technologies. Unfortunately the USPTO does not seem to understand that each one of these secondary permutations does not (should not) constitute "invention".
But ultimately -- the answer, like most answers to legal questions, isn't a matter of who's right and who's wrong, or even "what is the truth?". The answer depends on who has the combination of legal-budget and willpower to pursue the patent.
I think the confusion stems from Ben Franklin who invented the "Franklin Stove" by marrying two cutting edge pieces of technology: a stove and a fucking door.
You do know that here in Canada we have free health care, including mental-health, right?
So the fact are: - the police admitted putting "undercover" agents in the civilian crowd. - the agents were concealing their identities - they were holding rocks
These are all far more intimidating actions than blowing bubbles into the air which a civilian was punished for.
Perhaps your police buddy can beat some sense into c6gunner.
"Police said the three undercover officers were only at the protest to locate and identify non-peaceful protesters in order to prevent any incidents.
Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock.
In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them."
They've probably been in situations in the past where it turned ugly.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
To be fair it doesn't count when the people throwing rocks and setting cars on fire are "agent provocateurs" (for which Canadian police actually admitted to using in the past).
and what do you do with these torrents? hoard them?
i DVR a bunch of cartoons for my eldest son and keep the 3 latest ones.
Now that he's 30 he should consider moving out of your basement and getting his own DVR.
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What I want to know is: how can you justify the cost of tape? And why isn't a raid6 array a valid backup location?
The whole 'raid isn't backup' argument seems a misnomer to me these days.
You're actually arguing with yourself. 'RAID' isn't a backup, it provides fault tolerance for uptime.
A separate and off-site storage target is a valid backup. In fact, most tapes are being replaced with "virtual tape" which is nothing more than disk backed RAID storage located in a different area than the source data.
Stop confusing RAID (within a single storage array) and a separate storage array that also happens to be RAID.
I had the idea of building our own PCs for considerably less.
This is an awful idea. I had some experience with such an experiment; it didn't work. The computers were failing left and right, and the vendor distanced itself from the situaton. You will first be forced to maintain all that herd, and eventually you will become a scapegoat.
Did you happen to look at a thinclient option. This would negate the HW design, assembly and maintenance issues. With a PCoIP solution you can put all the effort into the server side. The licenses are bulk and transferable since they're all part of a VM. With the right thin provisioning and redundancy it could be very efficient and resilient.
What Carter was discussing was resources in the USA
[citation needed]
Those talks on peak oil production for 1970 were based on M. King Hubbert's theory for the US lower 48 states. With respect to the lower 48 states, he was accurate: http://dieoff.org/page1916.gif
Funny, I could have sworn that the US still has the worlds largest supply of oil shale. Plus oil sand. Plus coal. Plus plenty of offshore oil, and oil in Alaska. I guess "peak oil" to you just means "we have less than we used to"?
The United States #1 source of oil is Canada. That oil comes from traditional wells that are drying up and more recently oil sands that are expanding production. However, the oil sands are far from a recent discovery. They have been well known since oil became a commodity but were left untouched because it is incredibly expensive to recover.
That fact that companies are paying big bucks to develop oil repositories that are expensive only proves that they're running out of traditional oil... and they're heading into the tail end of the curve.
- If you need to burn half the equivalent energy in natural gas to extract the oil from the sand as you recover in oil energy...
OR - If you need to drill offshore in water so deep it becomes a risk......then something is wrong.
The users ultimately follow the apps. Just see how many exclusive titles Microsoft had to purchase in order to ensure XBOX's success. Only in this case the developers are driving the apps and they're choosing Android because its much more open.
Because I need to know what VLAN to put the device in. No port is hot, unless I say it is hot. No device gets access unless I approve it and configure it to the right VLAN.
There would be no rogue servers.
Meh, just plug one of the "hot" ports with a tagged VLAN into a managed switch as a tagged port... and set the remaining ports on your new switch to untagged. Instant extension that doesn't even need to reside anywhere near the switch you closely monitor.
VLAN doesn't offer security. Or did you mean "port security".... just plug in a router that spoofs the original devices MAC address...
The only people you're stopping are dumb peo... umm.. yeah I guess this would be effective at stopping 99% of the problems.
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
We have had thousands of game-changing inventions in the history of mankind. What percentage of those were arrived at by multiple inventors, independently, and at roughly the same time? Champions of the belief presented by the article commonly bring up the "classic examples" of Leibniz/Newton, Darwin/Wallace, and Marconi/Tesla. Well, how many non-classic examples are there? Seriously, even if there were a hundred more examples, in the face of all the major scientific/philosophical/mathematical discoveries ever made in every field that would still seem statistically insignificant. I mean, c'mon guys, how about a little critical thinking and perspective here...
Here's a quote straight from Wikipedia on RADAR:
"In the 1934–1939 period, eight nations developed, independently and in great secrecy, systems of this type: the United States, Great Britain, Germany, the USSR, Japan, the Netherlands, France, and Italy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar
Eight nations? Independently and in secrecy! The individuals who independently created RADAR showed some critical thinking but the fact that everything up to that point both physics, technology and drive really allowed them to succeed.
Think about what would happen if you were transported back in time to the 1600's. What could you really do with all the knowledge you have about today?
Now, to these people, technological advances are inevitable; based on sheer probability and mathematics, the wheel was 'destined' to be invented when it did, and so was Facebook. The actual geniuses themselves don't matter, since they would be replaced by another if they weren't around. It is in fact necessary for this to be so, at least to a certain degree, or their entire theory fall apart (how can you otherwise predict the arrival of a genius, a singular event?) The article is basing itself on this line of thought.
Most great advances in civilization are inevitable. In modern times its hard to find humans that aren't connected and therefore unable to be influenced by the advances of others. However, if you look at ancient times there was plenty of inevitable duplication.
Spoken language was independently invented by most societies.
Written language (which is much more difficult) was independently invented 4 times.
The concept of ZERO was invented twice.
How fast we get there or if at all (before blowing ourselves up) is uncertain, but it is somewhat mapped. Science fiction writers will always be able to dream up something long before the scientists work out the details or have the technology to do so.
This is one of the reasons software patents are stupid, why patent trolls exist, and why the patent system in general needs cutting down.
Your point is valid but I think it transcends software patents. Some patents, inventions or discoveries are simply a product of timing as the article suggests, and they aren't limited to software patents, or even patents.
A classic example would be the two of the biggest game changers in thinking, and both were co-discovered. Of all the times in history for these ideas to come about, they came about simultaneously from multiple sources:
Calculus: Leibniz and Newton
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Also...
Using laser pointers to amuse cats: Patent 5443036 and anyone who has ever seen a cat and laser pointer
I don't get the hype lately for 3d that requires glasses, I seem to recall 3d movies being around since The Three Stooges, let alone Jaws 3d and the like. I know it's not exactly the same as modern movies, but how is it so very different? A 3d display that doesn't require glasses, that's finally something worth getting interested in.
Those old movies used "complementary color anaglyphs" to simulate 3D which resulted in distorted color. Modern 3D glasses use polarized light or timed shutters so there is no color distortion (just headaches for some).
The glasses-less technology for Nintendo 3DS uses "autostereograms". I heard there was a study done by Sega 15 years ago that stated children with extended exposure to autostereograms developed vision problems.
"...if you have multiple machines running behind a router or modem then you're going to have a difficult time pinning down which machine might have the infection."
Let this be yet another example of why NAT is not an acceptable solution to IPv4 address space allocation. Every device should have it's own IP and a proper firewall in place (if necessary).
Huge difference between that and "this person is a druggie with lousy judgment".
Why not? They already have the general public by the balls based on FICO scores. And just how is a FICO Score calculated?
"Your FICO score is calculated each time it is requested according to a proprietary formula by Fair Isaac Corporation, based on information reported by the three credit reporting agencies, Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Each time it's calculated, it uses the most recent information held by these credit bureaus."
The exact factors use to calculate FICO score depend on the person."
You can't dispute a FICO score because the exact process is proprietary.
Ethics aside, wouldn't it be easier to genetically modify humans to live in a wider variety of environments? Seems like it would be a far more reachable goal in the near term than getting to these distant planets.
So what happens when they update the imagery or the map (streets do change, you know)?
Also, this is clearly not usable for many people with disabilities (requires good eyesight, good coordination, a steady hand, good memory, etc.).
I hadn't thought of that but it's a good point. This could be a great system for eliminating AOL users from the rest of the internet.
I don't own a console but I can understand the appeal. We have 6 computers in our home and in the last couple of months I've replaced a motherboard, a hard drive and a video card.
I specifically gave up on PC gaming due to the graphics card. Every year you would have to shell out $200 to make the most of the latest First Person Shooter (FPS). Plus my largest monitor is my TV and the PS3 is right next to it (unlike the PC). Of all the evils, the PS3 is surprising the lesser of all evils. (And the super parent is correct, I turfed my XBOX360 for a PS3 due to compatibility.) My PS3 works with my existing BT headset, KB, etc.
Now, if only the PS3 could run XBMC natively it would de-throne my original XBOX on ROI. To this day I got more use out of my original XBOX than anything I have ever purchased, including your mom.
According to this chart Nd (neodymium) is about as abundant as Pb (lead) and Zinc (Zn).
When you consider the $'s and effort in northern Canada to mine natural diamonds even though you can create superior diamonds in a lab for cheaper, it puts things in perspective.
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They can cut off your electricity, as it's enabling you to use illegal content. They can garnish your wages, as it was earned applying knowledge aquired illegally. They can remove the blood in your veins and sell it, as that was produced using food you purchased with money from your job using knowledge acquired illegally. Next time, PAY for your pr0n
I don't know what you're doing with YOUR porn, but porn usually depletes my precious bodily fluids. It definitely doesn't increase my supply.
If you start shooting blood then you need to take a time out from "watching porn".
I guess you aren't a developer, if you can get by with only one box.
Compatibility testing, running my own svn/ftp/http/ssh servers (separate from the ones I run on my main machine), keeping personal stuff (email, etc) isolated on one machine, business email on another, these are all valid reasons to have a second computer
Tom, I'd like to introduce you to something that could radically change the way you work:
Virtualization: VMware, VirtualBox...
Every new platform (almost by definition of the term "platform") allows it to be married to myriad other technologies. Unfortunately the USPTO does not seem to understand that each one of these secondary permutations does not (should not) constitute "invention".
But ultimately -- the answer, like most answers to legal questions, isn't a matter of who's right and who's wrong, or even "what is the truth?". The answer depends on who has the combination of legal-budget and willpower to pursue the patent.
I think the confusion stems from Ben Franklin who invented the "Franklin Stove" by marrying two cutting edge pieces of technology: a stove and a fucking door.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_stove
You do know that here in Canada we have free health care, including mental-health, right?
So the fact are:
- the police admitted putting "undercover" agents in the civilian crowd.
- the agents were concealing their identities
- they were holding rocks
These are all far more intimidating actions than blowing bubbles into the air which a civilian was punished for.
Perhaps your police buddy can beat some sense into c6gunner.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/23/police-montebello.html
"Police said the three undercover officers were only at the protest to locate and identify non-peaceful protesters in order to prevent any incidents.
Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock.
In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them."
They've probably been in situations in the past where it turned ugly.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
To be fair it doesn't count when the people throwing rocks and setting cars on fire are "agent provocateurs" (for which Canadian police actually admitted to using in the past).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Mad Dogs and Policemen.
So this is why police don't like to be filmed?! It makes them accountable for their douchery after the fact.
Looks like the court of public opinion made its ruling on Officer Bubbles, I sure hope the official court sees things the same way.
They need to collectively countersue him for legal fees.
Seriously, how is this sue worthy:
Pussymcfats wrote in response, “officer bubbles probably looks at himself in the mirror a lot.”
Officer Bubbles was abusing his power then and he's trying to do it again.
and what do you do with these torrents? hoard them?
i DVR a bunch of cartoons for my eldest son and keep the 3 latest ones.
Now that he's 30 he should consider moving out of your basement and getting his own DVR.
What I want to know is: how can you justify the cost of tape? And why isn't a raid6 array a valid backup location?
The whole 'raid isn't backup' argument seems a misnomer to me these days.
You're actually arguing with yourself. 'RAID' isn't a backup, it provides fault tolerance for uptime.
A separate and off-site storage target is a valid backup. In fact, most tapes are being replaced with "virtual tape" which is nothing more than disk backed RAID storage located in a different area than the source data.
Stop confusing RAID (within a single storage array) and a separate storage array that also happens to be RAID.
I had the idea of building our own PCs for considerably less.
This is an awful idea. I had some experience with such an experiment; it didn't work. The computers were failing left and right, and the vendor distanced itself from the situaton. You will first be forced to maintain all that herd, and eventually you will become a scapegoat.
Did you happen to look at a thinclient option. This would negate the HW design, assembly and maintenance issues. With a PCoIP solution you can put all the effort into the server side. The licenses are bulk and transferable since they're all part of a VM. With the right thin provisioning and redundancy it could be very efficient and resilient.
What Carter was discussing was resources in the USA
[citation needed]
Those talks on peak oil production for 1970 were based on M. King Hubbert's theory for the US lower 48 states. With respect to the lower 48 states, he was accurate: http://dieoff.org/page1916.gif
Funny, I could have sworn that the US still has the worlds largest supply of oil shale. Plus oil sand. Plus coal. Plus plenty of offshore oil, and oil in Alaska. I guess "peak oil" to you just means "we have less than we used to"?
With the US as a net importer and a dwindling supply of domestic oil I'm not sure where you're going with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
The United States #1 source of oil is Canada. That oil comes from traditional wells that are drying up and more recently oil sands that are expanding production. However, the oil sands are far from a recent discovery. They have been well known since oil became a commodity but were left untouched because it is incredibly expensive to recover.
That fact that companies are paying big bucks to develop oil repositories that are expensive only proves that they're running out of traditional oil... and they're heading into the tail end of the curve.
- If you need to burn half the equivalent energy in natural gas to extract the oil from the sand as you recover in oil energy... ...then something is wrong.
OR
- If you need to drill offshore in water so deep it becomes a risk...
I hope Brita comes out with a glass pitcher...
The problem is that most people still won't care. In fact, many people see locked-down hardware, and software too, as an advantage
If that were true Android never would have taken off: "App developers more bullish on Android than iOS"
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-09/app-developers-more-bullish-on-android-than-ios.aspx?storyid=37842
The users ultimately follow the apps. Just see how many exclusive titles Microsoft had to purchase in order to ensure XBOX's success. Only in this case the developers are driving the apps and they're choosing Android because its much more open.
Because I need to know what VLAN to put the device in. No port is hot, unless I say it is hot. No device gets access unless I approve it and configure it to the right VLAN.
There would be no rogue servers.
Meh, just plug one of the "hot" ports with a tagged VLAN into a managed switch as a tagged port... and set the remaining ports on your new switch to untagged. Instant extension that doesn't even need to reside anywhere near the switch you closely monitor.
VLAN doesn't offer security. Or did you mean "port security".... just plug in a router that spoofs the original devices MAC address...
The only people you're stopping are dumb peo... umm.. yeah I guess this would be effective at stopping 99% of the problems.
Calculus: Leibniz and Newton
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
We have had thousands of game-changing inventions in the history of mankind. What percentage of those were arrived at by multiple inventors, independently, and at roughly the same time? Champions of the belief presented by the article commonly bring up the "classic examples" of Leibniz/Newton, Darwin/Wallace, and Marconi/Tesla. Well, how many non-classic examples are there? Seriously, even if there were a hundred more examples, in the face of all the major scientific/philosophical/mathematical discoveries ever made in every field that would still seem statistically insignificant. I mean, c'mon guys, how about a little critical thinking and perspective here...
Here's a quote straight from Wikipedia on RADAR:
"In the 1934–1939 period, eight nations developed, independently and in great secrecy, systems of this type: the United States, Great Britain, Germany, the USSR, Japan, the Netherlands, France, and Italy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar
Eight nations? Independently and in secrecy! The individuals who independently created RADAR showed some critical thinking but the fact that everything up to that point both physics, technology and drive really allowed them to succeed.
Think about what would happen if you were transported back in time to the 1600's. What could you really do with all the knowledge you have about today?
Now, to these people, technological advances are inevitable; based on sheer probability and mathematics, the wheel was 'destined' to be invented when it did, and so was Facebook. The actual geniuses themselves don't matter, since they would be replaced by another if they weren't around. It is in fact necessary for this to be so, at least to a certain degree, or their entire theory fall apart (how can you otherwise predict the arrival of a genius, a singular event?) The article is basing itself on this line of thought.
Most great advances in civilization are inevitable. In modern times its hard to find humans that aren't connected and therefore unable to be influenced by the advances of others. However, if you look at ancient times there was plenty of inevitable duplication.
Spoken language was independently invented by most societies.
Written language (which is much more difficult) was independently invented 4 times.
The concept of ZERO was invented twice.
Civilization is already mapped, refer to the Kardashev scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
How fast we get there or if at all (before blowing ourselves up) is uncertain, but it is somewhat mapped. Science fiction writers will always be able to dream up something long before the scientists work out the details or have the technology to do so.
This is one of the reasons software patents are stupid, why patent trolls exist, and why the patent system in general needs cutting down.
Your point is valid but I think it transcends software patents. Some patents, inventions or discoveries are simply a product of timing as the article suggests, and they aren't limited to software patents, or even patents.
A classic example would be the two of the biggest game changers in thinking, and both were co-discovered. Of all the times in history for these ideas to come about, they came about simultaneously from multiple sources:
Calculus: Leibniz and Newton
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Also...
Using laser pointers to amuse cats: Patent 5443036 and anyone who has ever seen a cat and laser pointer
I don't get the hype lately for 3d that requires glasses, I seem to recall 3d movies being around since The Three Stooges, let alone Jaws 3d and the like. I know it's not exactly the same as modern movies, but how is it so very different? A 3d display that doesn't require glasses, that's finally something worth getting interested in.
Those old movies used "complementary color anaglyphs" to simulate 3D which resulted in distorted color. Modern 3D glasses use polarized light or timed shutters so there is no color distortion (just headaches for some).
The glasses-less technology for Nintendo 3DS uses "autostereograms". I heard there was a study done by Sega 15 years ago that stated children with extended exposure to autostereograms developed vision problems.
"...if you have multiple machines running behind a router or modem then you're going to have a difficult time pinning down which machine might have the infection."
Let this be yet another example of why NAT is not an acceptable solution to IPv4 address space allocation. Every device should have it's own IP and a proper firewall in place (if necessary).
Most likely they'll provide a series of risk factors with a score for each on a scale of 0 to 100.
Drugs: 30 Violence: 6 Judgment: 45 ------------- Overall: 27 (risk: moderate)
Huge difference between that and "this person is a druggie with lousy judgment".
Why not? They already have the general public by the balls based on FICO scores. And just how is a FICO Score calculated?
"Your FICO score is calculated each time it is requested according to a proprietary formula by Fair Isaac Corporation, based on information reported by the three credit reporting agencies, Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Each time it's calculated, it uses the most recent information held by these credit bureaus."
The exact factors use to calculate FICO score depend on the person."
You can't dispute a FICO score because the exact process is proprietary.
Ethics aside, wouldn't it be easier to genetically modify humans to live in a wider variety of environments? Seems like it would be a far more reachable goal in the near term than getting to these distant planets.
Genetically modifying humans is an interesting idea but it didn't work out for the folks in Pandorum - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/
So what happens when they update the imagery or the map (streets do change, you know)? Also, this is clearly not usable for many people with disabilities (requires good eyesight, good coordination, a steady hand, good memory, etc.).
I hadn't thought of that but it's a good point. This could be a great system for eliminating AOL users from the rest of the internet.
Is there a gizmo that will let me re-map the buttons on the controller?
Yes. It's called the fvckin game itself. Start your game, select Options, then Controller and map the buttons however you like.
I don't own a console but I can understand the appeal. We have 6 computers in our home and in the last couple of months I've replaced a motherboard, a hard drive and a video card.
I specifically gave up on PC gaming due to the graphics card. Every year you would have to shell out $200 to make the most of the latest First Person Shooter (FPS). Plus my largest monitor is my TV and the PS3 is right next to it (unlike the PC). Of all the evils, the PS3 is surprising the lesser of all evils. (And the super parent is correct, I turfed my XBOX360 for a PS3 due to compatibility.) My PS3 works with my existing BT headset, KB, etc.
Now, if only the PS3 could run XBMC natively it would de-throne my original XBOX on ROI. To this day I got more use out of my original XBOX than anything I have ever purchased, including your mom.
Despite there name rare earth metals are necessarily rare. It's just that China's cheap labour and environmental laws makes mining them cheaper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elemental_abundances.svg
According to this chart Nd (neodymium) is about as abundant as Pb (lead) and Zinc (Zn).
When you consider the $'s and effort in northern Canada to mine natural diamonds even though you can create superior diamonds in a lab for cheaper, it puts things in perspective.