Ah well. I am a US citizen living in New Zealand. New Zealand allows all citizens *and* permanent residents to vote in general elections. It makes sense to me that if you live in a place, you should have a say. Even if it's a 300-millionth of an opinion. (or a 4 millionth of an opinion in NZ -- when you think about it my NZ vote is ~100x more powerful than my US one)
Very true, and all good points. However, I'll bet that that's the same argument that's used for *every* disenfranchised group. I'll bet, before women's suffrage, women were told they *could* be a part of political process by influencing how their husbands would vote. Why would they want a vote of their own, then?
If I'm allowed, in fact encouraged, to do those things you mention, then why can't I vote too?
Perhaps not, but let's say I am a legal resident of the United States. I am subject to all of its laws and its protections, and I pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to the United States ever year. Am I still entitled to zero influence on my home? Am I not allowed to have the same say as you as to what my taxes are spent on?
$500 (or even $1337) seems a bit low to encourage a would be criminal to go legit with some clever zero day, rather than exploit it.
Yes, a criminal won't be tempted by such a low number. But an honest person will be. And there's still more of those around. If you can encourage them to look at your code and report bugs, for both fun *and* honest profit, then you have an edge.
That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon.
That'd be even cooler if the name you gave it mapped directly onto the IP address. Then if the DNS server went down you'd still be able to work out the IP just by using the name of the server!
I highly doubt that Guantanamo has "soured" our image in any place which was not already anti-American
I'm sorry, but speaking as an ex-pat American living overseas, I can tell you that Guantanamo Bay has soured the image of America in every goddamned place which was not already anti-American.
As a country they may still be on friendly terms with America, but every single one of them is ashamed of what we have become
I've always thought that Douglas Adams' take on astrology was suprisingly insightful, from "Mostly Harmless":
The rules just kind of got there.
They don't make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of
processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of
stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about
stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for
all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about
a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge.
The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are,
the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a
piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets
you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above
it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not
important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So
you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do
with people thinking about people.
I've always found that reading my horoscope, and comparing it with myself in person, is both amusing and insightful -- amusing because of how wrong it is, and insightful because I have to be introspective just to work out how wrong it is.
Perhaps it is because 'the people' feel like they have more chance of changing the cancellation of a TV show than they do have of changing the course of direction that their government takes.
It's funny you should mention that. 'The People' get to vote for their government, not their television.
Although on moral grounds I'm opposed to national ID cards (it's just the modern "papers, please" demand that we used to consider a sign of a deeply troubled society) I really can't be bothered arguing the point. Plenty of other people here will be happy to.
But even forgetting about that, the idea that a national ID card would have some kind of positive benefit to security is largely misguided anyway. Have a skim through Bruce Schneier's essay on the topic written back in 2004 (yes, the date on it is April 1, no, it's not significant).
It's worse than premature, it's utter fantasy. We might as well be discussing which Harry Potter spells would be appropriate in a combat situation like Iraq. We could argue about whether we should be allowed to use the jelly legs hex to restrain insurgents, but counterpoint that with not using the Cruciatus Curse in order to torture them for information. The Three Laws of Robotics are just as relevant as *these* pressing political questions.
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Ahh, so they're not *all* bad then :-)
Ah well. I am a US citizen living in New Zealand. New Zealand allows all citizens *and* permanent residents to vote in general elections. It makes sense to me that if you live in a place, you should have a say. Even if it's a 300-millionth of an opinion. (or a 4 millionth of an opinion in NZ -- when you think about it my NZ vote is ~100x more powerful than my US one)
Very true, and all good points. However, I'll bet that that's the same argument that's used for *every* disenfranchised group. I'll bet, before women's suffrage, women were told they *could* be a part of political process by influencing how their husbands would vote. Why would they want a vote of their own, then?
If I'm allowed, in fact encouraged, to do those things you mention, then why can't I vote too?
Perhaps not, but let's say I am a legal resident of the United States. I am subject to all of its laws and its protections, and I pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to the United States ever year. Am I still entitled to zero influence on my home? Am I not allowed to have the same say as you as to what my taxes are spent on?
$500 (or even $1337) seems a bit low to encourage a would be criminal to go legit with some clever zero day, rather than exploit it.
Yes, a criminal won't be tempted by such a low number. But an honest person will be. And there's still more of those around. If you can encourage them to look at your code and report bugs, for both fun *and* honest profit, then you have an edge.
That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon.
Unless... the soviet missions were all fake...
I love my 24" iMac, it works great with my Microsoft mouse :-)
Slashdot discussions/flamewars subconsciously integrated into your brain as a background process?
That is the worst thing I have ever heard.
That'd be even cooler if the name you gave it mapped directly onto the IP address. Then if the DNS server went down you'd still be able to work out the IP just by using the name of the server!
I'm sorry, but speaking as an ex-pat American living overseas, I can tell you that Guantanamo Bay has soured the image of America in every goddamned place which was not already anti-American.
As a country they may still be on friendly terms with America, but every single one of them is ashamed of what we have become
Yeah, he'd probably come up with some sort of clever nickname.
Ha! Clearly they have not been following the other comedic geek-related case, the Bar Trial of Jack Thompson.
...or something borrowed from Deep Blue?
I've always thought that Douglas Adams' take on astrology was suprisingly insightful, from "Mostly Harmless":
The rules just kind of got there. They don't make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.I've always found that reading my horoscope, and comparing it with myself in person, is both amusing and insightful -- amusing because of how wrong it is, and insightful because I have to be introspective just to work out how wrong it is.
To be fair, this one time I saw a movie where one guy actually shot another guy! That's almost definitely illegal, but nobody complained.
Dude, relax.
I don't know... kinda sounds like a rip-off of 1984.
Besides, the thrill is gone now, there hasn't been any porn in Ubuntu since version 4.10.
Actually, I can give you 100% compression already. It's just a bit lossy.
Perhaps it is because 'the people' feel like they have more chance of changing the cancellation of a TV show than they do have of changing the course of direction that their government takes.
It's funny you should mention that. 'The People' get to vote for their government, not their television.
Microsoft is like the Black Plague: you want to avoid it at all costs, but it's great to see it go to work against your enemies.
Maybe, but Jack Thompson is like Small Pox, too nasty and unpleasant to even wish upon your enemies, because it might spread around.
This is communism!
This... is... SPARTA!
(sorry)
Although on moral grounds I'm opposed to national ID cards (it's just the modern "papers, please" demand that we used to consider a sign of a deeply troubled society) I really can't be bothered arguing the point. Plenty of other people here will be happy to.
But even forgetting about that, the idea that a national ID card would have some kind of positive benefit to security is largely misguided anyway. Have a skim through Bruce Schneier's essay on the topic written back in 2004 (yes, the date on it is April 1, no, it's not significant).
It's worse than premature, it's utter fantasy. We might as well be discussing which Harry Potter spells would be appropriate in a combat situation like Iraq. We could argue about whether we should be allowed to use the jelly legs hex to restrain insurgents, but counterpoint that with not using the Cruciatus Curse in order to torture them for information. The Three Laws of Robotics are just as relevant as *these* pressing political questions.
Dumbledore dies?!
You insensitive clod!!