I wouldn't expect 'atomic scientists' to agree on it. They're physicists. The effects of anything on living systems are a long way out of their field of expertise. Ask a biologist or a medical doctor.
Well, you are prohibited by law from buying senators directly, but you can buy shares in companies that contribute to PACs that buy senators, so as long as you use a couple of layers of indirection there's nothing stoping you from buying a senator or two...
We're not building a big army because we want to invade anyone, we're building a big army so that we can defend ourselves against those other bad people. We can tell that they're planing on invading us, because they've been building big armies...
That's why I said it would need the delay. If the payment is not cash, but some form of electronic transfer (most credit cards support payments to them as well as from) then it could be reversed if the phone is reported stolen before the period is up. If you pay into someone else's stolen credit card, then you can't get the funds, so it's not a major issue.
The obvious way of avoiding that would be to require the payments to a traceable bank account, rather than in cash. That said, most operators will flag an IMEI as stolen quite quickly, and the machine can query the IMEI quite easily. It would be easy to report all IMEIs as soon as the phone was inserted and reverse the payment if it was reported stolen within a week.
I imagine remote surgery would have a massive bandwidth reservation, so if that happened then everyone else's email and remote electronic record access would go to not available instead of slow.
And then, when the police check with one of your regular legal suppliers and their records disagree with yours you find yourself on the receiving end of a surveillance operation. Then they catch you buying stolen cables and faking your records. Now you're in court for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and for fraud, as well as for trafficking in stolen goods.
Oh, and since you've knowingly falsified your paperwork, you've also lost the defence that you didn't know it was stolen...
Seriously? Just because some religious people behave like dicks to people of different beliefs to them doesn't mean that you have to join in. He asked a technical question, the fact that it's related to a church is irrelevant.
It's illegal, but it's very difficult to prove and therefore to prosecute. This means that most scrap dealers are confident that they can get away with it. Requiring them to keep copies of ID for anyone that sells them copper wire and be able to prove where all of the wire that they bought comes from, performing random spot checks on scrap dealers after copper thefts, and getting some high-profile prosecutions would go a long way. I doubt scrap dealers will pay more than 10% of the market value for stolen copper anyway. Get this down to 1%, and not even meth addicts will bother stealing it...
Copper in the ground spread over thousands of miles of cable runs is a lot less valuable than a big blob of copper, so the cost of recovering it all would be quite high. There's no way they could dump it all on the market, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pull segments of it up when they're installing fibre.
Yup, the hospital near me lost its high-speed Internet link and had to fall back to the slow one for a day because copper thieves tried to steal one of their lines. The one that they dug up was the fibre, and the one that kept working was the copper. I've heard a lot of reports of fibre being stolen because thieves aren't intelligent enough to tell the difference between it and copper (or, even if they are, they can't tell until they've cut through it, which doesn't really help).
Given the low return on investment from copper theft, no one particularly intelligent is going to be participating.
Here's a better fix. Prosecute the individuals operating the machines for assault with a deadly weapon. Keep doing it until no one is willing to work for the TSA anymore.
Actually, at the time that you posted that, posts by people saying that the rest of the posters assholes outnumbered posts by people being assholes by about 3:1.
Indeed. The MCE tests are pretty easy for an adult. Passing one as a teenager displays a somewhat above-average level of competence. Passing one when your age is still in single digits is very impressive.
I didn't use WinZIP much, I usually used pkunzip from the command line. My father tried to pay for PKZip, but they didn't have any mechanism to take payment from people in the UK, and he didn't have any mechanism to make payments in US dollars back in the '80s.
That wouldn't violate the dissident test, because you only have to be identifiable to downstream people that are (in the transitive closure of) people that you choose to distribute to.
Totally agree. I've proposed this before, and it's really the only solution to the problems of globalism. The US and EU should be imposing import tariffs on anything imported from places with laxer worker rights and environmental protection.
Is this the same FreeBSD that requres a recompile of the base system when a new kernel is used?
Nope. However, it does require that you recompile the kernel when you install a new base system. The kernel guarantees backwards compatibility with userland stuff, but the userland stuff does not guarantee support for older kernels. This is as it should be, and extends to the rest of the system. For example, libc always (modulo bugs) works with binaries compiled with an older libc, but applications compiled with a newer libc are not guaranteed to work with an older libc.
That's not the same as supporting an open protocol. That means you need to write a client for every {service, platform} pair. With an open protocol, you need to write one client per platform. Before you make snarky comments, it generally helps if you know what you're talking about.
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PBI has some nice features, but it also has some bad ones. It is quite difficult to generate PBIs directly from the ports tree, which is a big downside. They are also very focussed on desktop applications: for example a lot of the PBI format is metadata explaining how to add applications to the desktop menus and providing the icons. It's less good for server-type things. PBI doesn't (or didn't) include support for fetching packages from a repository, it was intended to be used with a web browser. Before PC-BSD 9, PBIs included a complete copy of all dependencies, which is hugely wasteful of space. Apparently this is fixed in 9, but it wasn't when the pkgng project started, and now pkgng is basically finished (modulo lots of testing).
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I wouldn't expect 'atomic scientists' to agree on it. They're physicists. The effects of anything on living systems are a long way out of their field of expertise. Ask a biologist or a medical doctor.
I'm pretty sure it does for teenagers in most of the world...
Well, you are prohibited by law from buying senators directly, but you can buy shares in companies that contribute to PACs that buy senators, so as long as you use a couple of layers of indirection there's nothing stoping you from buying a senator or two...
We're not building a big army because we want to invade anyone, we're building a big army so that we can defend ourselves against those other bad people. We can tell that they're planing on invading us, because they've been building big armies...
Why is a Jew in such a powerful position?
Because the global zionist cryptarchy decided that he'd make a good frontman, obviously.
Well, either that or he managed to persuade more of the electorate to vote for him than anyone else in his constituency.
That's why I said it would need the delay. If the payment is not cash, but some form of electronic transfer (most credit cards support payments to them as well as from) then it could be reversed if the phone is reported stolen before the period is up. If you pay into someone else's stolen credit card, then you can't get the funds, so it's not a major issue.
The obvious way of avoiding that would be to require the payments to a traceable bank account, rather than in cash. That said, most operators will flag an IMEI as stolen quite quickly, and the machine can query the IMEI quite easily. It would be easy to report all IMEIs as soon as the phone was inserted and reverse the payment if it was reported stolen within a week.
I imagine remote surgery would have a massive bandwidth reservation, so if that happened then everyone else's email and remote electronic record access would go to not available instead of slow.
And then, when the police check with one of your regular legal suppliers and their records disagree with yours you find yourself on the receiving end of a surveillance operation. Then they catch you buying stolen cables and faking your records. Now you're in court for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and for fraud, as well as for trafficking in stolen goods.
Oh, and since you've knowingly falsified your paperwork, you've also lost the defence that you didn't know it was stolen...
Seriously? Just because some religious people behave like dicks to people of different beliefs to them doesn't mean that you have to join in. He asked a technical question, the fact that it's related to a church is irrelevant.
It's illegal, but it's very difficult to prove and therefore to prosecute. This means that most scrap dealers are confident that they can get away with it. Requiring them to keep copies of ID for anyone that sells them copper wire and be able to prove where all of the wire that they bought comes from, performing random spot checks on scrap dealers after copper thefts, and getting some high-profile prosecutions would go a long way. I doubt scrap dealers will pay more than 10% of the market value for stolen copper anyway. Get this down to 1%, and not even meth addicts will bother stealing it...
Copper in the ground spread over thousands of miles of cable runs is a lot less valuable than a big blob of copper, so the cost of recovering it all would be quite high. There's no way they could dump it all on the market, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pull segments of it up when they're installing fibre.
Yup, the hospital near me lost its high-speed Internet link and had to fall back to the slow one for a day because copper thieves tried to steal one of their lines. The one that they dug up was the fibre, and the one that kept working was the copper. I've heard a lot of reports of fibre being stolen because thieves aren't intelligent enough to tell the difference between it and copper (or, even if they are, they can't tell until they've cut through it, which doesn't really help).
Given the low return on investment from copper theft, no one particularly intelligent is going to be participating.
Here's a better fix. Prosecute the individuals operating the machines for assault with a deadly weapon. Keep doing it until no one is willing to work for the TSA anymore.
The only way to keep people from acting like assholes online is to attach usernames to real life IDs
Michael Kristopeit would disagree with you. And probably call you a feeb and tell you to cower in his shadow.
And it's obviously very difficult for a troll to get a new account when one is banned. Just ask Michael Kristopeit.
And, seriously, ban people because you disagree with what they say? I'm sure that would do a lot to raise the standard of discussion...
Actually, at the time that you posted that, posts by people saying that the rest of the posters assholes outnumbered posts by people being assholes by about 3:1.
Indeed. The MCE tests are pretty easy for an adult. Passing one as a teenager displays a somewhat above-average level of competence. Passing one when your age is still in single digits is very impressive.
I didn't use WinZIP much, I usually used pkunzip from the command line. My father tried to pay for PKZip, but they didn't have any mechanism to take payment from people in the UK, and he didn't have any mechanism to make payments in US dollars back in the '80s.
Check what the test says again. If you can make changes and distribute them just to the people, not to the lord, then it's fine.
That wouldn't violate the dissident test, because you only have to be identifiable to downstream people that are (in the transitive closure of) people that you choose to distribute to.
Totally agree. I've proposed this before, and it's really the only solution to the problems of globalism. The US and EU should be imposing import tariffs on anything imported from places with laxer worker rights and environmental protection.
Is this the same FreeBSD that requres a recompile of the base system when a new kernel is used?
Nope. However, it does require that you recompile the kernel when you install a new base system. The kernel guarantees backwards compatibility with userland stuff, but the userland stuff does not guarantee support for older kernels. This is as it should be, and extends to the rest of the system. For example, libc always (modulo bugs) works with binaries compiled with an older libc, but applications compiled with a newer libc are not guaranteed to work with an older libc.
That's not the same as supporting an open protocol. That means you need to write a client for every {service, platform} pair. With an open protocol, you need to write one client per platform. Before you make snarky comments, it generally helps if you know what you're talking about.
PBI has some nice features, but it also has some bad ones. It is quite difficult to generate PBIs directly from the ports tree, which is a big downside. They are also very focussed on desktop applications: for example a lot of the PBI format is metadata explaining how to add applications to the desktop menus and providing the icons. It's less good for server-type things. PBI doesn't (or didn't) include support for fetching packages from a repository, it was intended to be used with a web browser. Before PC-BSD 9, PBIs included a complete copy of all dependencies, which is hugely wasteful of space. Apparently this is fixed in 9, but it wasn't when the pkgng project started, and now pkgng is basically finished (modulo lots of testing).