Um, which is [one reason] why we have to worry more. More people know about it. (Though I don't really know how widespread the knowledge is. For all I know it could be confined to geeks still.)
The information has been easily available to anyone even mildly interested for years (try the MIT Guide to lock picking from 1987 or google) -- pin tumbler locks are effective only in the sense that picking them takes a few seconds longer than breaking a window. I cannot understand why anyone would use one, especially in an apartment...
I'm not sure if this was a joke or not. Just in case it wasn't:
* Opening the site, clicking "Sections & units" would give you the link "Organized Fraud".
* doing a google search shows 368 hits for "fraud" in site ottawapolice.ca
Clearly, the police have no interest in this and other forms of white-collar crime.
Clearly, you need to stop whining... If you really want to accuse the ottawa police of something, choose the lousy in-site search. Personally, I haven't used those in years -- they always seem to suck more than using google.
Just because the behavior isn't there now doesn't mean that we should put off neutrality legislation until it becomes a problem. The easiest solution to any problem is to fix it now before it becomes a problem.
With legislation, I disagree. Laws are always compromises: you win some (hopefully whatever it was you wanted to legislate), you lose some (often other rights). Also, having a clear and short legal code is a very good thing -- there are a lot of laws we could be making up 'just in case'.
New legislation should be put forward when it is clear that current ones do not suffice.
Further I'm not even convinced that speeding is that dangerous, drink/drug driving is far more likely to result in a fatal accident
More likely, yes. On the other hand drunk driving is rare (less than 0.2% of drivers around here) and excessive speeding even in urban areas is quite common.
FYI, speed has been found to correlate quite clearly with accident rate in urban areas, and lowering the speed limit often, although not always, lowers the accident rate significantly. (sorry no references in english, you'll have to trust me:)
When your car wears out, you don't complain that you should have had the right to a backup copy, you go out an buy a new car. Why is music (or movies, or even books for that matter) any different?
Car analogies... I should just walk away:)
Think about it this way: If we could have a market for cars that lasted forever, and yet didn't (not because there wouldn't be customers but because there is a law against it), wouldn't you complain? The current situation is just plain uneconomical -- we waste resources manufacturing, packaging, selling and transporting products when it's not necessary.
How I wish I had mod points now -- I agree totally. For some reason this subject seems lower the quality of conversation to an all-time low...
There's a good example in a sibling comment: linguizic writes:
As a pacifist, I know that life without conflict is impossible. I choose to seek non-violent means to resolve conflict.
And the straw-man-response:
So what is your nonviolent resolution to the conflict of an armed rapist in your home who wants to kill you and have his way with your wife and daughters?
... as if linguizic had promised to always find a non-violent resolution, or claimed that pacifism always leads to a 'better' outcome than some other agenda.
(Yeah, I know this is old, but I hadn't read the replies before and couldn't pass this without answering)
It ain't philosophy, dude, it's science (otherwise we'd still believe that heavy objects fall faster than light ones).
The fact that you try to dissociate science from philosophy suggests that you haven't read philosophy (or the history of science)... Science as we know it has grown from philosophy. In fact, the word "science" as we know it was only invented in the 19th century. Before that guys like Newton and Leibniz were called (... wait for it...) natural philosophers.
You're the one being stupid. Very few things in life are absolutely certain. Sure, it doesn't affect our daily lives that much but understanding it is philosophy 101 (check out Descartes -- a master of controlled paranoia).
I can prove with 100% certainty that dropping a hammer on top of your head will cause you to experience pain.
Did you know there are people who do not experience pain at all? It's extremely rare, but they do exist. So I'm inclined to say you are wrong... Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
Please moderators, don't do this. If you don't have a clue what installing software in a modern desktop linux distribution is like, don't moderate posts that talk about it.
A clue that you could have spotted even without said experience: the guy compares installing itunes on Windows XP and installing perl modules in an unidentified Linux distro... Sound fair to you?;)
Well, it's exactly like police who surf to a pr0n website, then have a 17 year old kid click on the "DOWNLOAD" button, then charge the website operator with distributing pr0n to children.
I agree that these situations are similar... as in: I would like to see some reference to support both of their existence before I believe them:)
Do you have any reference of that working anywhere in the world? At least around here you'd be thrown out of court -- you could have had a chicken peck the enter key and still end up in contract if you intentionally set everything up so that the chicken/child pushes the button.
I am asking seriously. If you have a link, post it.
To the frustration of all of us outside US, the questions were also very US-centric... The day I found out that Alt-X bypassed the questions was a good one.
Most everyone I know plays some sort of video game on their computer that cannot be played easily on linux. I guess everyone that I know is in the minority.
Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you... I've done the math, and stand confidently behind my earlier words. Take a look at PC game sales, t1n0m3n -- a game that sells one million copies is a real hit, sales of over 10 million worldwide would probably take a game to number 2 in the all-time-best-seller-list.
Just for reference, Da Vinci Code (the book) has sold over 60 million copies so far... In music there are hundreds of albums that have sold tens of millions. The pricing is of course different, but these numbers probably have some relation to the proportion of people playing games/reading books/listening to records. Also, the games are probably not as widely distributed among people (again) because most do not have a machine that could play the games... that would make the gaming community even smaller.
There is a group of people that is very interested in games and there is a bigger group that might buy a game once in a while if their computer is equipped for it, but won't upgrade for games. The first group is pretty big, but I really do not think it's a majority -- remember, most people are over the age of 30 (I'm not implying games are adolescent, just that current 40 year olds aren't accustomed to playing games and they're definitely not accustomed to installing new graphics cards for the games).
If you have some data or insight supporting your view (that most people do play PC games), please offer them -- the numbers I'm talking about are from the 'net after all, so they could easily be off. So make your case, please.
other software [...] is going to outweigh the cost of purchasing windows (which is like $88).
Could be, but the price you mention is not representative of the whole world... I chose the most obvious place to shop for computers and software around here, and the price for the same product is 272, something like $340.
I didn't say or imply that would be the case. I said most people do not play DDO, WoW DOOm3, etc. I stand by that evaluation.
In the part that you cut I mentioned that games often drive hardware sales (for individual customers). After the computer is no longer usable for modern games that same computer is still used for years in non-gaming use. In other words the person needing the computer for non-gaming use would buy one, but he doesn't have to because the old one is still perfectly usable.
Video games drive what OS is used for a majority of users. That is the way it has always been, and the way it will always be.
I'll have to disagree, at least partly. I'd say none of the people I know have computer(s) that are used much for gaming, at least games are not an important part of their computing. It's not that my friends don't play, they just have consoles for that.
Video games drive new hardware sales, I'll give you that -- and in many cases that does define which OS the computer has for the rest of its existence.
I run Windows XP-64. I would love to run linux instead, but I know I will not be able to run DDO, WoW, Doom3, etc etc
That list makes you belong in the minority. Replace it with "Solitaire and Mahjongg" and you'll see the majority.
Imagine this: A hobbyist builds a really nice piece of PVR software, GPLs it and offers it for download. A large company then takes the code, packages it and starts selling in the millions. When people ask the company for source, they just point to the hobbyist web page.
Does it sound reasonable to you that upstream pays for the bandwidth after they have already given the product out for free?
Or I'll ask you, and when you're so smart and smug, after you answer "of course it works with linux", I'll ask "does it work with BeOS? NetBSD? How about OS/2? Does it have native 64 bit drivers for Windows? Vista drivers? MS DOS?" And the second you don't know I'll be like "A HA! I GOT YOU SUCKA!"
Are you trolling? "I don't know" would have been a good answer -- the customer might not have bought the thingie, but at least he wouldn't feel he was lied to.
FYI, I've asked the question you loathe several times and often received a useful response in a computer shop (like "No promises, but it's based on prism2 so it should work" while shopping for a cheap wlan adapter). Naturally I haven't been offended if the clerk didn't have a clue and admitted it.
It's the customers job to educate him/herself, and the salesmans job is to sell
Still can't tell if you're trolling or not... If the salesman only thinks of the current sale then the bonus system isn't rigged right. Consumers still have loyalty, if they find a good shop (you know, a shop that "educates them") they'll go there again -- even I do that and I'm a geek.
Dreadful security and dated UI aside, ahy are we going after MS to change IE rather than adapt new browsers to the IE "standards"? Are IE "standards" not widely used because they are closed and opaque to developers, thereby locking any developer into using their tools? Does IE follow any standard? Has the W3C standardized on things that are easier to use and will age more gracefully? In short, and this is an honest question, why aren't the IE "standards" standard?
I know I'm exposing my ignorance to all things concerning web development with this post, but every time I see people getting up in arms about IE not being compliant I wonder about this.
Frankly, yes, you are showing some ignorance -- this is understandable as the problems aren't easily seen... To answer some questions: some of the "IE standards" are things that are not defined in any actual standards. Some are just bugs (that can't be fixed, because web devs stupidly rely on the bugs). Sometimes MS has decided not to follow a W3 recommendation. All of these would be problematic to implement in other browser, since they're not defined (to the needed accuracy) anywhere. There are MS decisions that could be taken into a W3 standard of course.
More importantly. the "just do what product X did" -attitude has probably cost countless hours of work and a truly astonishing amount of money so far and slowed the development of web as a technology considerably:
browser code bases have become hideous beasts that cannot be touched without breaking some obscure quirks mode functionality (and I can tell there are a lot of those).
new standards cannot be written effectively, because backwards-compliance with "standards" means the quirks must stay
web pages must be rewritten whenever new browsers emerge, because following the "IE standard" 100% is impossible -- the new browsers will also differ in implementation.
Isn't it pretty obvious that he meant the "pixels" to cover the whole viewing area? That was my first impression, and that's what the page in question seems to be talking about... No need to talk about distance.
Now, can we get over this Debian snobism "dpkg is soooooo much better than rpm....". It does nothing but shows that you don't know what you are talking about.
You know, I really liked this conversation and learned new things. What I don't understand is the bad manners: why did you feel you had to say that? Let's see what happened in the conversation:
mok00 starts with a good reply that shows some real knowledge. He also includes the comment "...rpm is vastly superior to dpkg when it comes to..." dondelelcaro replies with pretty good counter arguments to several points. He doesn't say that dpkg is necessarily better, just points out that "these things can be done fairly easily using dpkg" mok00:Now, can we get over this Debian snobism 'dpkg is soooooo much better than rpm....'"
Where did that come from? As far as I can see you are the one making claims about "vast superiority"...
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* Opening the site, clicking "Sections & units" would give you the link "Organized Fraud".
Clearly, you need to stop whining... If you really want to accuse the ottawa police of something, choose the lousy in-site search. Personally, I haven't used those in years -- they always seem to suck more than using google.* doing a google search shows 368 hits for "fraud" in site ottawapolice.ca
New legislation should be put forward when it is clear that current ones do not suffice.
FYI, speed has been found to correlate quite clearly with accident rate in urban areas, and lowering the speed limit often, although not always, lowers the accident rate significantly. (sorry no references in english, you'll have to trust me :)
Think about it this way: If we could have a market for cars that lasted forever, and yet didn't (not because there wouldn't be customers but because there is a law against it), wouldn't you complain? The current situation is just plain uneconomical -- we waste resources manufacturing, packaging, selling and transporting products when it's not necessary.
There's a good example in a sibling comment: linguizic writes:
And the straw-man-response:Did you know there are people who do not experience pain at all? It's extremely rare, but they do exist. So I'm inclined to say you are wrong... Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
A clue that you could have spotted even without said experience: the guy compares installing itunes on Windows XP and installing perl modules in an unidentified Linux distro... Sound fair to you? ;)
I am asking seriously. If you have a link, post it.
Xenophobia: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
(Merriam-Webster)
To the frustration of all of us outside US, the questions were also very US-centric... The day I found out that Alt-X bypassed the questions was a good one.
Just for reference, Da Vinci Code (the book) has sold over 60 million copies so far... In music there are hundreds of albums that have sold tens of millions. The pricing is of course different, but these numbers probably have some relation to the proportion of people playing games/reading books/listening to records. Also, the games are probably not as widely distributed among people (again) because most do not have a machine that could play the games... that would make the gaming community even smaller.
There is a group of people that is very interested in games and there is a bigger group that might buy a game once in a while if their computer is equipped for it, but won't upgrade for games. The first group is pretty big, but I really do not think it's a majority -- remember, most people are over the age of 30 (I'm not implying games are adolescent, just that current 40 year olds aren't accustomed to playing games and they're definitely not accustomed to installing new graphics cards for the games).
If you have some data or insight supporting your view (that most people do play PC games), please offer them -- the numbers I'm talking about are from the 'net after all, so they could easily be off. So make your case, please.
In the part that you cut I mentioned that games often drive hardware sales (for individual customers). After the computer is no longer usable for modern games that same computer is still used for years in non-gaming use. In other words the person needing the computer for non-gaming use would buy one, but he doesn't have to because the old one is still perfectly usable.
Video games drive new hardware sales, I'll give you that -- and in many cases that does define which OS the computer has for the rest of its existence.
That list makes you belong in the minority. Replace it with "Solitaire and Mahjongg" and you'll see the majority.Does it sound reasonable to you that upstream pays for the bandwidth after they have already given the product out for free?
FYI, I've asked the question you loathe several times and often received a useful response in a computer shop (like "No promises, but it's based on prism2 so it should work" while shopping for a cheap wlan adapter). Naturally I haven't been offended if the clerk didn't have a clue and admitted it.
Still can't tell if you're trolling or not... If the salesman only thinks of the current sale then the bonus system isn't rigged right. Consumers still have loyalty, if they find a good shop (you know, a shop that "educates them") they'll go there again -- even I do that and I'm a geek.More importantly. the "just do what product X did" -attitude has probably cost countless hours of work and a truly astonishing amount of money so far and slowed the development of web as a technology considerably:
Isn't it pretty obvious that he meant the "pixels" to cover the whole viewing area? That was my first impression, and that's what the page in question seems to be talking about... No need to talk about distance.
Four times a year?
mok00 starts with a good reply that shows some real knowledge. He also includes the comment "...rpm is vastly superior to dpkg when it comes to..."
dondelelcaro replies with pretty good counter arguments to several points. He doesn't say that dpkg is necessarily better, just points out that "these things can be done fairly easily using dpkg"
mok00: Now, can we get over this Debian snobism 'dpkg is soooooo much better than rpm....'"
Where did that come from? As far as I can see you are the one making claims about "vast superiority"...