I get several such calls per day, even on cellphones. I'm not even on the registry. They just have an autodialer walking through every number! My wife and I have adjacent cell numbers, and she gets called seconds after I hit "ignore" on my cell. If I do answer it goes a bit like this.
"Hello Sir, you've won a free vacation, I just need some information to send you your free tickets, absolutely free"
"I doubt that you criminal."
"Fair enough" *click*
Nope. Just like all of these cases, the DA has already said they will be tried as adults to send a message to other children that taking nude photos of themselves can ruin their lives.
That's the boilerplate that the DA always uses when charging children with molesting themselves. We're trying them as adults to protect other children. If we give these children 20 years in prison and put them on the sex offender list for life, hopefully driving them to suicide just like my last case, then other children will see this and realize that its a bad idea because I just might destroy their lives, too! I'm protecting the children.
Wouldn't be the first time. A 16 year old girl has been sentanced to years in prison, and put on the sex offender list, for taking a nude photo of herself. The DA tried her as an adult. His argument was going to trial at all that she doesn't know what's she's doing since she's only a kid, and doesn't realize that she might be up for a nice job in 10 years, but oops, that picture comes out and her chances are ruined. His argument for trying as an adult was the heinous nature of crimes against children. ya rly. She blew her brains out I think.
They will, 100%. Happens almost every day. Usually the DA gives a speech about how it may not have harmed them now, but in the future, they might apply for a job, and a Google search would turn up that photo and they wouldn't get the job. Therefore, that's why we need to protect these children from themselves, hence the 10 year prison sentence and a lifetime on the sex offenders list, so they are completely unable to ever get any job ever, in their entire life. WITH A STRAIGHT FUCKING FACE THEY SAY THIS.
They aren't saying "maybe they go to more concerts and buy more CDs", they're saying "they do go to more concerts and buy more CDs." Maybe they'd spend even more money if they couldn't download, but we'll never know. What we do know is that if you convince them to stop listening to music, or you throw them in jail for life, the music industry will lose a lot of money. And how on earth is your idea of "just look and see if market trends match filesharing trends" not a severe case of "Correlation is not Causation," which you so decry? Who cares if they buy more CDs than anybody else BECAUSE they download. Whats important is that if you arrest them, you lose the biggest buyers of music. My Dad torrents like a fiend. He has thousands of CDs. He wrote a program that queries CDDB and stores all the IDs in a database, and writes an ID in marker on the spines, so he can find them quickly with binary search. (Alphabetical doesn't work with so many, since if you buy another "A" CD, you have to shift everything over and they won't fit. With an autoincrement ID you can just add them to the end as you buy them. I think he syncs the DB to his Palm, so when at a store he can see if he already owns a CD, because who can remember that many thousand CDs? He has wall to wall, floor to ceiling shelving, all filled with CD after CD. He hops onto P2P apps and looks for new music and he buys all their CDs if he likes it. For every 10 anecdotes you may have about poor moneyless friends who torrent a lot and could never afford all their CDs even if they were forced to stop downloading, my Dad cancels them all out single handedly. Such is the power of dual incomes once the kids leave home and pay their own way through university;) It's not just music. He downloads movies and TV shows by the bucketful. Has hundreds of movies on DVD, and many over again on BluRay now. Many of them are still shrinkwrapped until my brother borrows them! (Criminal, sharing DVDs and CDs in blatant violation of USC 107 or whatever, good thing we're in Canada where its legal to share disks with friends and family).
Sounds like a good idea, actually!
"That report was BS, everybody knows they faked the moon landing. -1 troll"
"It's not censorship, if you don't like it, you can just change your filters settings for tits from -1 to +1"
X times Y, into Z. If the lowest bit in Y is set, add X to Z. Shift X to multiply by 2, shift Y the other way to divide by 2, repeat until Y is zero. X times 10 = X times 2 + X times 8.
It's news because its a good thing. Before, you had to fill out some customs and other forms, saying why you're visiting, where you're going, what you're bringing with you (if anything of value), etc. They read it over, ran it through their machine, then decided whether or not to let you in. Now you can do it online so you know BEFORE YOU FLY if you'll be allowed in. Same form, just more convenient. *GASP*
It might have a hash in there...but it also has the plain text purchase time to the second. A determined attacker with lots of computing resources could eventually break the hash (depending on what kind), but there's no way to not only guess what song a person owns, which alone isn't hard, but also guess the exact second they purchased it from iTMS.
I remember when a kid dressed all in black leather and put on clip on shades at night, and tried to car jack somebody with an uzi. When the police arrested him he said his name was "Neo" but they could also call him "The One". Out of 50 articles all over the press and TV and internet, every single one mentioned that one of his friends owned GTA, and only ONE mentioned The Matrix. And they called it a violent video game.
If it was that simple, you just need to aerosol the "disperse" signal, which the summary implies makes your immune cells immediately attack anything that matches what they were near at the time...fortunately for everybody, it's not nearly so simple. If it was, how could the chemical signal in question possibly exist? If your body ever released it, SOME cells would be closer to each other or other important cells! Almost as though the summary was a dumbed down explanation of how it sort of works? Plus if you want a poison bullet just fill it with cyanide? Or nicotine, which is a much more concentrated poison?
Anyways, how this works is, these cells are exposed to concentrated antigens, specifically targeted and formulated in the lab before injection. Cancer is mostly just like your own body. But cancer cells make their own proteins. The body ignores them sometimes, saying "oh they're coming from me, must be harmless," which is bad. But if you rub your immune systems nose in it and say "Spread the word", as it were, it can be forced into attacking it whatever is making these proteins. I believe there's been limited success with just injecting large amounts of antigen, but your body doesn't always get the hint. What we see here is a combination of getting high concentrations of antigen, with a technique for making sure the body actually sends immune cells to investigate! I'm not sure what happens if you gather up a large concentration of natural bodily proteins, but I think in most cases it won't trigger an autoimmune response. And you certainly have to do that concentration in a lab, not in a bullet;)
You'd win that bet, because it IS accurate. The sheet music industry lobbied to have the player piano outlawed, on the grounds that if nobody needed to hire a live musician, there would be no such thing as music anymore, and nobody would buy their sheet music, ruining the economy. They didn't succeed, but as a concession, congress made it so player piano manufacturers had to pay the sheet music industry a fee for every roll they sold.
Some institutions may base funding on your publications weighted by the impact of the journal they are published in. I dunno if any DO, but it's possible. Its certainly not uncommon to determine funding based on number of publications, and I'd hope those numbers are weighted by the MERIT in some way or other, or else you just get people spamming "publication mills" with randomly generated BS, and get more funding to pay for the exorbitantly high application fees;) I recall a number of years back, it was a front page article here on/., about a well known (and allegedly peer reviewed) conference in CS, where somebody successfully got a randomly generated gibberish paper accepted. They charged something like $500 to go, so it really was a matter of money-for-publication.
Perhaps it's an experiment: He's a mathematician. Now he's just demonstrating how the Impact Factor is a poor metric, and will soon present a superior measure that correctly ranks the journal poorly.;)
Depends where you live. If you're in California or Texas, click-wrap licenses are not presented to you before you purchase, and have been ruled as not consented to.
See also USC Title 17 Â 117: In plain english, you are authorized to make a copy of software you have purchced, so long as it is necessary in order to use, or a backup for archival purposes, and provided that when you cease to have ownership of the copyright material, any copies created are destroyed, or transferred along with the original. Specifically, this means you are legally allowed to install software on your computer. It also means you are legally allowed to sell that computer so long as you provide a full copy of the software you've installed on it, and destroy any backup CDs you may have made.
This law of course is completely and totally ignored by judges whenever they feel like it. Some have accepted that since the EULA itself says that you don't own the software, you don't own it, and therefore need to agree to the EULA! However, in most jurisdictions, any contract that surrenders rights, such as ownership rights, and copyrights, requires at LEAST a signed contract, and usually requires a notarized copy. Some fool judges have decided that minus a contract, you have to right to run your software, in blatant violation of Title 17 Â 117. However, under federal law, you DO have the right to make as many copies of you want of your software, so long as its to run it. So CD -> HD, legal without a license. HD -> Memory -> Screen, legal without a license. Therefore, even in one of the few jurisdictions where you don't need any proof of an agreement in order to enforce it, the license is still on very shaky ground because there is no give-and-take. It takes from you without granting you anything in return.
But you're right, laws don't matter, only court decisions, and the courts have decided that if Microsoft says you don't own the copy, and therefore now rights under Title 17 apply, then you don't own it. You can go into the store, and say "I'd like to buy this box" and buy it, but big money has said you didn't buy anything, and the courts agree, you don't own it. You also don't own music, btw. It's copyright violation to lend a CD to a friend under Title 17 Â 109. Excemptions are made for libraries and educational organizations, but not for individuals;) This restriction also applies to software, except for console software (meaning software for a limited-use computer intended primarialy for playing games, regardless if its possible to write other software for it) so you can lend out MGS4, just not the sound track to MGS4. Interestingly enough, this does NOT apply to video. Therefore, although the FBI warning not written by the FBI at the start of every movie, warns that you cannot display the movie publicly, or rent it, or lend it, or lease it, under Title 17 Â 109 you retain ALL of those rights, so long as you own the copy.
But back to Apple. I hope they win. And I hope they then get completely destroyed on antitrust charges, possibly ceasing to exist entirely. Consider the following: They argue that anybody who has purchased OS X has not actually done so, but is merely renting the product for an indeterminate term.
Uh oh, the Clayton Act has something to say about the terms you can place upon rented products. Specifically, you cannot have discriminatory prices, so I hope Apple sells OS X for the same to everybody, to the cent. Because if, as they have argued in court, the person is only renting the product, then Antitrust laws apply! The Clayton Act also says that they cannot require as part of their contract that you not use the goods of competitors. Now, they could try to use some legal wrangling to say that "You must use Apple" is different from "You cannot use non-Apple products" but I would hope that would not pass the laugh test...but they have a lot of money to bribe judges with;)
When steam first came out I was able to play half-life 2 almost immediately. It downloaded stuff I needed fairly well, so there wasn't much delay, although sometimes during area changes it would stop to load for a while. Too much of a while. So I let it finish over night;) They turned this feature off since then?
It's only socialism when you tax people to the bone and use that money to fund social programs. If you use that money to fund corporate programs, it's corporatism, which is a fancy name for FREEDOM, you elitist commie pinko DEMOCRAT.
At some point, we have to conclude that we are good. Tiger hide is likely the best material for clothing, and will continue to stay that way. Other sources have been tried (leaves were the first) but tiger hide took precedence because it was warmer and less scratchy, and I don't see any reason to change that.
No, they used a space plane that looks exactly like a DC-8 but with rocket engines. The DC-8 just happens to look like a space plane because our thetans have a body memory of being on the space planes, causing us to subconsciously design it that way. Body memories are why everything happens! The prohibition era was the way it was, down to slang and clothing style, because at that moment in history, humanity subconsciously styled itself after the Marcab confederacy (inventors of the fedora and trilby)! Income tax also comes from our memory of the Marcab confederacy. Don't confuse these memories of the Marcabs with Anonymous though. 4chan isn't just remembering, they are actually run by sleeper agents sent by the Marcab confederacy to undermine the true believers! (You can tell they are affiliated because their logo is typically an empty pinstripe suit with fedora, the standard Marcab uniform).
It's got much worse than leaping lizzy and valk. emperor! (Though I know a guy with multiple 75s but still no leaping boots). In Salvage, a 2 hour event, there are certain items from certain monsters that have a horrific drop rate. We're talking 0/142 or more. If split evenly between the 4 areas you can go, we're talking over a year of doing this same event 2 hours every single night, and getting NOTHING. Not just you didn't get it because somebody else did, but your group has still never even seen it. Then they also added ZNM. It's a system of tiered monsters you fight, in 3 "branches". To get to tier 2 of branch 1, you kill one of the tier 1 branch 1 monsters. TO get to tier 3 branch 2 you kill one of the tier 2 branch 2 monsters. To get to tier 4 branch 1, you kill all 3 tier 3 branch 1 monsters. Tier 5 has no branch, and you get to it by killing the tier 4 monster from all 3 branches. Only, the tier 4 monsters, unlike the rest, have about a 10% drop rate for their "trophy", instead of 100%. Assuming your group is good, and you never lose, you have to collect 66k points to get a shot at each tier 4 once. You get points by taking picture, pokemon safari style. Pictures are worth 50-100 points, but its rare for the "pic of the day" choice to be worth more than 80 except if you chose a really hard version to track down. (And you have to take those pics with it claimed by you, and at 1% hp). So thanks to the drop rate, although it's possible to only spend 100 hours grinding out a tier 5 pop item, on average you'll spend at least 500 hours, and only 50% of people who spend 1000 hours will accomplish a full set!
On top of that...the name of the tier 5 monster is "Pandemonium Warden". Look it up. It's been on the fucking news. It's one of two unbeatable gimmick monsters in the game. There's Absolute Virtue who's been around what, 3 years now? That's been defeated by what SE considers cheating, and whenever its been beat it's been adjusted so the strategy people came up with doesn't work anymore. Pandemonium Warden is newer. AV always wins because it 2hrs at will, so you're doing fine till it recovers full HP, or it uses chainspell at does back to back to back to back to back AoE spells for 1000 each (most people have about 1200 HP, nobody has much more than 2000 under best conditions). Or it uses manafont and casts meteor, which hits everybody within a stupid radius for 3000 damage. You can get killed while so far away you can't even see him on screen.
Pandemonium warden is much less overpowered, but in his own way, more retarded. He appears, then transforms into a new form, complete with 8 "lamps" that assist him. These lamps are super powered, and you have linked hate so you can't fight one at a time, and kite the rest around. People eventually managed to repeatedly die and burn all the lamps down, then fight PW. They beat it and it reverts to its original demon form. For 3 seconds, then it transforms to a new form. Fast forward 18 hours, they've gone through over a dozen forms, and now it's back to demon and staying demon. They kill its lamps again and get it to 75%. Astral flow. It pops out 8 avatars, not one, does over 8000 damage with 8x astral flow. Then the people who were out of range, it charges at them and does it again. And again. And again. At least 4 times, until everybody was down. They surrender. Yahoo news and kotaku and several other gaming websites all pick up this story, of the valiant 18 hour fight that ends in unavoidable loss. People played 18 hours straight and are vomiting due to sleep deprivation and exhaustion. (morons but anyway). Square-Enix blames it on them being dumb and not using the secret. People say they are doing it wrong, they should have known soon as it change forms a second time. They counter that it seems like they were making progress, and they kept going because you hate to give up when you're making progress, and the longer you go the bigger a waste it is to stop early;) Plus, in an interview abo
Given what a letdown the game was, I should have installed the pirated version earlier and seen it wasn't worth the $50 and just deleted it.
This. And now they're charging $20-50 for monthly expansions. Sims style. You know it's intentionally awful when it comes out mid september, and by october they've announced an add-on pack and two expansion packs for sale. I think in $300-500 it'll actually almost have a game. It still won't have evolution or ecology or a sandbox mode or AI like promised, but might actually have a game, and maybe even some of the features they demod at E3, like the plant and pattern editors, and communicating with other species... (No actually, not the first two, then they couldn't charge $20 for a pattern pack like they do now, or however much they'll charge for the first plant pack!)
First, go read the paper and then say that it doesn't contain "any kind of math."
Second, explain how shooting electrons through doped silicon crystal gates, and then measuring the voltage across the end terminals isn't a physical measurement being put on equal footing with "pure math." I think that it is, so deterministic algorithms aren't algorithms either by your definition.
Third, you're wrong. Lets take a 65536 bit long encryption key, the product of two very large primes. Lets factor them! The best known deterministic algorithm is going to take longer than the universe will last. But I bet it takes well under a second to check an answer for correctness! Let's say you have a quantum "algorithm" Q. You are correct, you can't prove Q(key) will produce the correct factorization. But you can CHECK it in only a second. So, run Q(key) until your check passes. There, that's an algorithm by your definition. You just used math to prove that if you run your quantum + classical hybrid computer on that input, it will always output the correct result.
Fourth, an algorithm isn't a mathematical statement, stop redefining words just so you can get all riled up with righteous indignation. An algorithm is near universally defined as "a finite sequence of computational instructions, usually towards the end of computing a certain value or accomplishing a certain task." It's useless if you can't mathematically prove something about the answer. Deterministic algorithms you can always prove the answer is right (hopefully?). With randomized algorithms, you can mathematically prove that the answer is right too (in most cases) but not how long it takes. Conversely, you can usually also prove that it takes a finite amount of time, but then you can only prove a bound on it's probability of success, rather than being 100%. You're saying that it's "pure math" to prove (using math) that a sequence of instructions computes a correct answer in 1 year deterministically, but it's not pure math to prove (using math) that a sequence of instructions computes a correct answer in 1 year with probability of 1 - 1e-900. I submit that while the two are different proofs, for all intents and purposes, the two algorithms are equivalent, since you cannot have a computer that runs with 0 probability of errors, deterministic or not.
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I get several such calls per day, even on cellphones. I'm not even on the registry. They just have an autodialer walking through every number! My wife and I have adjacent cell numbers, and she gets called seconds after I hit "ignore" on my cell. If I do answer it goes a bit like this.
"Hello Sir, you've won a free vacation, I just need some information to send you your free tickets, absolutely free"
"I doubt that you criminal."
"Fair enough" *click*
Nope. Just like all of these cases, the DA has already said they will be tried as adults to send a message to other children that taking nude photos of themselves can ruin their lives.
That's the boilerplate that the DA always uses when charging children with molesting themselves. We're trying them as adults to protect other children. If we give these children 20 years in prison and put them on the sex offender list for life, hopefully driving them to suicide just like my last case, then other children will see this and realize that its a bad idea because I just might destroy their lives, too! I'm protecting the children.
Wouldn't be the first time. A 16 year old girl has been sentanced to years in prison, and put on the sex offender list, for taking a nude photo of herself. The DA tried her as an adult. His argument was going to trial at all that she doesn't know what's she's doing since she's only a kid, and doesn't realize that she might be up for a nice job in 10 years, but oops, that picture comes out and her chances are ruined. His argument for trying as an adult was the heinous nature of crimes against children. ya rly. She blew her brains out I think.
They will, 100%. Happens almost every day. Usually the DA gives a speech about how it may not have harmed them now, but in the future, they might apply for a job, and a Google search would turn up that photo and they wouldn't get the job. Therefore, that's why we need to protect these children from themselves, hence the 10 year prison sentence and a lifetime on the sex offenders list, so they are completely unable to ever get any job ever, in their entire life. WITH A STRAIGHT FUCKING FACE THEY SAY THIS.
They aren't saying "maybe they go to more concerts and buy more CDs", they're saying "they do go to more concerts and buy more CDs." Maybe they'd spend even more money if they couldn't download, but we'll never know. What we do know is that if you convince them to stop listening to music, or you throw them in jail for life, the music industry will lose a lot of money. And how on earth is your idea of "just look and see if market trends match filesharing trends" not a severe case of "Correlation is not Causation," which you so decry? Who cares if they buy more CDs than anybody else BECAUSE they download. Whats important is that if you arrest them, you lose the biggest buyers of music. My Dad torrents like a fiend. He has thousands of CDs. He wrote a program that queries CDDB and stores all the IDs in a database, and writes an ID in marker on the spines, so he can find them quickly with binary search. (Alphabetical doesn't work with so many, since if you buy another "A" CD, you have to shift everything over and they won't fit. With an autoincrement ID you can just add them to the end as you buy them. I think he syncs the DB to his Palm, so when at a store he can see if he already owns a CD, because who can remember that many thousand CDs? He has wall to wall, floor to ceiling shelving, all filled with CD after CD. He hops onto P2P apps and looks for new music and he buys all their CDs if he likes it. For every 10 anecdotes you may have about poor moneyless friends who torrent a lot and could never afford all their CDs even if they were forced to stop downloading, my Dad cancels them all out single handedly. Such is the power of dual incomes once the kids leave home and pay their own way through university ;) It's not just music. He downloads movies and TV shows by the bucketful. Has hundreds of movies on DVD, and many over again on BluRay now. Many of them are still shrinkwrapped until my brother borrows them! (Criminal, sharing DVDs and CDs in blatant violation of USC 107 or whatever, good thing we're in Canada where its legal to share disks with friends and family).
In other news, the Fox Court has ruled that hen-house raids by foxes are legal. Shocking.
Sounds like a good idea, actually!
"That report was BS, everybody knows they faked the moon landing. -1 troll"
"It's not censorship, if you don't like it, you can just change your filters settings for tits from -1 to +1"
X times Y, into Z. If the lowest bit in Y is set, add X to Z. Shift X to multiply by 2, shift Y the other way to divide by 2, repeat until Y is zero. X times 10 = X times 2 + X times 8.
It's news because its a good thing. Before, you had to fill out some customs and other forms, saying why you're visiting, where you're going, what you're bringing with you (if anything of value), etc. They read it over, ran it through their machine, then decided whether or not to let you in. Now you can do it online so you know BEFORE YOU FLY if you'll be allowed in. Same form, just more convenient. *GASP*
It might have a hash in there...but it also has the plain text purchase time to the second. A determined attacker with lots of computing resources could eventually break the hash (depending on what kind), but there's no way to not only guess what song a person owns, which alone isn't hard, but also guess the exact second they purchased it from iTMS.
I remember when a kid dressed all in black leather and put on clip on shades at night, and tried to car jack somebody with an uzi. When the police arrested him he said his name was "Neo" but they could also call him "The One". Out of 50 articles all over the press and TV and internet, every single one mentioned that one of his friends owned GTA, and only ONE mentioned The Matrix. And they called it a violent video game.
If it was that simple, you just need to aerosol the "disperse" signal, which the summary implies makes your immune cells immediately attack anything that matches what they were near at the time...fortunately for everybody, it's not nearly so simple. If it was, how could the chemical signal in question possibly exist? If your body ever released it, SOME cells would be closer to each other or other important cells! Almost as though the summary was a dumbed down explanation of how it sort of works? Plus if you want a poison bullet just fill it with cyanide? Or nicotine, which is a much more concentrated poison?
Anyways, how this works is, these cells are exposed to concentrated antigens, specifically targeted and formulated in the lab before injection. Cancer is mostly just like your own body. But cancer cells make their own proteins. The body ignores them sometimes, saying "oh they're coming from me, must be harmless," which is bad. But if you rub your immune systems nose in it and say "Spread the word", as it were, it can be forced into attacking it whatever is making these proteins. I believe there's been limited success with just injecting large amounts of antigen, but your body doesn't always get the hint. What we see here is a combination of getting high concentrations of antigen, with a technique for making sure the body actually sends immune cells to investigate! I'm not sure what happens if you gather up a large concentration of natural bodily proteins, but I think in most cases it won't trigger an autoimmune response. And you certainly have to do that concentration in a lab, not in a bullet ;)
You'd win that bet, because it IS accurate. The sheet music industry lobbied to have the player piano outlawed, on the grounds that if nobody needed to hire a live musician, there would be no such thing as music anymore, and nobody would buy their sheet music, ruining the economy. They didn't succeed, but as a concession, congress made it so player piano manufacturers had to pay the sheet music industry a fee for every roll they sold.
Some institutions may base funding on your publications weighted by the impact of the journal they are published in. I dunno if any DO, but it's possible. Its certainly not uncommon to determine funding based on number of publications, and I'd hope those numbers are weighted by the MERIT in some way or other, or else you just get people spamming "publication mills" with randomly generated BS, and get more funding to pay for the exorbitantly high application fees ;) I recall a number of years back, it was a front page article here on /., about a well known (and allegedly peer reviewed) conference in CS, where somebody successfully got a randomly generated gibberish paper accepted. They charged something like $500 to go, so it really was a matter of money-for-publication.
Perhaps it's an experiment: He's a mathematician. Now he's just demonstrating how the Impact Factor is a poor metric, and will soon present a superior measure that correctly ranks the journal poorly. ;)
Depends where you live. If you're in California or Texas, click-wrap licenses are not presented to you before you purchase, and have been ruled as not consented to.
See also USC Title 17 Â 117: In plain english, you are authorized to make a copy of software you have purchced, so long as it is necessary in order to use, or a backup for archival purposes, and provided that when you cease to have ownership of the copyright material, any copies created are destroyed, or transferred along with the original. Specifically, this means you are legally allowed to install software on your computer. It also means you are legally allowed to sell that computer so long as you provide a full copy of the software you've installed on it, and destroy any backup CDs you may have made.
This law of course is completely and totally ignored by judges whenever they feel like it. Some have accepted that since the EULA itself says that you don't own the software, you don't own it, and therefore need to agree to the EULA! However, in most jurisdictions, any contract that surrenders rights, such as ownership rights, and copyrights, requires at LEAST a signed contract, and usually requires a notarized copy. Some fool judges have decided that minus a contract, you have to right to run your software, in blatant violation of Title 17 Â 117. However, under federal law, you DO have the right to make as many copies of you want of your software, so long as its to run it. So CD -> HD, legal without a license. HD -> Memory -> Screen, legal without a license. Therefore, even in one of the few jurisdictions where you don't need any proof of an agreement in order to enforce it, the license is still on very shaky ground because there is no give-and-take. It takes from you without granting you anything in return.
But you're right, laws don't matter, only court decisions, and the courts have decided that if Microsoft says you don't own the copy, and therefore now rights under Title 17 apply, then you don't own it. You can go into the store, and say "I'd like to buy this box" and buy it, but big money has said you didn't buy anything, and the courts agree, you don't own it. You also don't own music, btw. It's copyright violation to lend a CD to a friend under Title 17 Â 109. Excemptions are made for libraries and educational organizations, but not for individuals ;) This restriction also applies to software, except for console software (meaning software for a limited-use computer intended primarialy for playing games, regardless if its possible to write other software for it) so you can lend out MGS4, just not the sound track to MGS4. Interestingly enough, this does NOT apply to video. Therefore, although the FBI warning not written by the FBI at the start of every movie, warns that you cannot display the movie publicly, or rent it, or lend it, or lease it, under Title 17 Â 109 you retain ALL of those rights, so long as you own the copy.
But back to Apple. I hope they win. And I hope they then get completely destroyed on antitrust charges, possibly ceasing to exist entirely. Consider the following: They argue that anybody who has purchased OS X has not actually done so, but is merely renting the product for an indeterminate term. Uh oh, the Clayton Act has something to say about the terms you can place upon rented products. Specifically, you cannot have discriminatory prices, so I hope Apple sells OS X for the same to everybody, to the cent. Because if, as they have argued in court, the person is only renting the product, then Antitrust laws apply! The Clayton Act also says that they cannot require as part of their contract that you not use the goods of competitors. Now, they could try to use some legal wrangling to say that "You must use Apple" is different from "You cannot use non-Apple products" but I would hope that would not pass the laugh test...but they have a lot of money to bribe judges with ;)
When steam first came out I was able to play half-life 2 almost immediately. It downloaded stuff I needed fairly well, so there wasn't much delay, although sometimes during area changes it would stop to load for a while. Too much of a while. So I let it finish over night ;) They turned this feature off since then?
It's only socialism when you tax people to the bone and use that money to fund social programs. If you use that money to fund corporate programs, it's corporatism, which is a fancy name for FREEDOM, you elitist commie pinko DEMOCRAT.
At some point, we have to conclude that we are good. Tiger hide is likely the best material for clothing, and will continue to stay that way. Other sources have been tried (leaves were the first) but tiger hide took precedence because it was warmer and less scratchy, and I don't see any reason to change that.
No, they used a space plane that looks exactly like a DC-8 but with rocket engines. The DC-8 just happens to look like a space plane because our thetans have a body memory of being on the space planes, causing us to subconsciously design it that way. Body memories are why everything happens! The prohibition era was the way it was, down to slang and clothing style, because at that moment in history, humanity subconsciously styled itself after the Marcab confederacy (inventors of the fedora and trilby)! Income tax also comes from our memory of the Marcab confederacy. Don't confuse these memories of the Marcabs with Anonymous though. 4chan isn't just remembering, they are actually run by sleeper agents sent by the Marcab confederacy to undermine the true believers! (You can tell they are affiliated because their logo is typically an empty pinstripe suit with fedora, the standard Marcab uniform).
It's got much worse than leaping lizzy and valk. emperor! (Though I know a guy with multiple 75s but still no leaping boots). In Salvage, a 2 hour event, there are certain items from certain monsters that have a horrific drop rate. We're talking 0/142 or more. If split evenly between the 4 areas you can go, we're talking over a year of doing this same event 2 hours every single night, and getting NOTHING. Not just you didn't get it because somebody else did, but your group has still never even seen it. Then they also added ZNM. It's a system of tiered monsters you fight, in 3 "branches". To get to tier 2 of branch 1, you kill one of the tier 1 branch 1 monsters. TO get to tier 3 branch 2 you kill one of the tier 2 branch 2 monsters. To get to tier 4 branch 1, you kill all 3 tier 3 branch 1 monsters. Tier 5 has no branch, and you get to it by killing the tier 4 monster from all 3 branches. Only, the tier 4 monsters, unlike the rest, have about a 10% drop rate for their "trophy", instead of 100%. Assuming your group is good, and you never lose, you have to collect 66k points to get a shot at each tier 4 once. You get points by taking picture, pokemon safari style. Pictures are worth 50-100 points, but its rare for the "pic of the day" choice to be worth more than 80 except if you chose a really hard version to track down. (And you have to take those pics with it claimed by you, and at 1% hp). So thanks to the drop rate, although it's possible to only spend 100 hours grinding out a tier 5 pop item, on average you'll spend at least 500 hours, and only 50% of people who spend 1000 hours will accomplish a full set!
On top of that...the name of the tier 5 monster is "Pandemonium Warden". Look it up. It's been on the fucking news. It's one of two unbeatable gimmick monsters in the game. There's Absolute Virtue who's been around what, 3 years now? That's been defeated by what SE considers cheating, and whenever its been beat it's been adjusted so the strategy people came up with doesn't work anymore. Pandemonium Warden is newer. AV always wins because it 2hrs at will, so you're doing fine till it recovers full HP, or it uses chainspell at does back to back to back to back to back AoE spells for 1000 each (most people have about 1200 HP, nobody has much more than 2000 under best conditions). Or it uses manafont and casts meteor, which hits everybody within a stupid radius for 3000 damage. You can get killed while so far away you can't even see him on screen.
Pandemonium warden is much less overpowered, but in his own way, more retarded. He appears, then transforms into a new form, complete with 8 "lamps" that assist him. These lamps are super powered, and you have linked hate so you can't fight one at a time, and kite the rest around. People eventually managed to repeatedly die and burn all the lamps down, then fight PW. They beat it and it reverts to its original demon form. For 3 seconds, then it transforms to a new form. Fast forward 18 hours, they've gone through over a dozen forms, and now it's back to demon and staying demon. They kill its lamps again and get it to 75%. Astral flow. It pops out 8 avatars, not one, does over 8000 damage with 8x astral flow. Then the people who were out of range, it charges at them and does it again. And again. And again. At least 4 times, until everybody was down. They surrender. Yahoo news and kotaku and several other gaming websites all pick up this story, of the valiant 18 hour fight that ends in unavoidable loss. People played 18 hours straight and are vomiting due to sleep deprivation and exhaustion. (morons but anyway). Square-Enix blames it on them being dumb and not using the secret. People say they are doing it wrong, they should have known soon as it change forms a second time. They counter that it seems like they were making progress, and they kept going because you hate to give up when you're making progress, and the longer you go the bigger a waste it is to stop early ;) Plus, in an interview abo
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This. And now they're charging $20-50 for monthly expansions. Sims style. You know it's intentionally awful when it comes out mid september, and by october they've announced an add-on pack and two expansion packs for sale. I think in $300-500 it'll actually almost have a game. It still won't have evolution or ecology or a sandbox mode or AI like promised, but might actually have a game, and maybe even some of the features they demod at E3, like the plant and pattern editors, and communicating with other species... (No actually, not the first two, then they couldn't charge $20 for a pattern pack like they do now, or however much they'll charge for the first plant pack!)
First, go read the paper and then say that it doesn't contain "any kind of math."
Second, explain how shooting electrons through doped silicon crystal gates, and then measuring the voltage across the end terminals isn't a physical measurement being put on equal footing with "pure math." I think that it is, so deterministic algorithms aren't algorithms either by your definition.
Third, you're wrong. Lets take a 65536 bit long encryption key, the product of two very large primes. Lets factor them! The best known deterministic algorithm is going to take longer than the universe will last. But I bet it takes well under a second to check an answer for correctness! Let's say you have a quantum "algorithm" Q. You are correct, you can't prove Q(key) will produce the correct factorization. But you can CHECK it in only a second. So, run Q(key) until your check passes. There, that's an algorithm by your definition. You just used math to prove that if you run your quantum + classical hybrid computer on that input, it will always output the correct result.
Fourth, an algorithm isn't a mathematical statement, stop redefining words just so you can get all riled up with righteous indignation. An algorithm is near universally defined as "a finite sequence of computational instructions, usually towards the end of computing a certain value or accomplishing a certain task." It's useless if you can't mathematically prove something about the answer. Deterministic algorithms you can always prove the answer is right (hopefully?). With randomized algorithms, you can mathematically prove that the answer is right too (in most cases) but not how long it takes. Conversely, you can usually also prove that it takes a finite amount of time, but then you can only prove a bound on it's probability of success, rather than being 100%. You're saying that it's "pure math" to prove (using math) that a sequence of instructions computes a correct answer in 1 year deterministically, but it's not pure math to prove (using math) that a sequence of instructions computes a correct answer in 1 year with probability of 1 - 1e-900. I submit that while the two are different proofs, for all intents and purposes, the two algorithms are equivalent, since you cannot have a computer that runs with 0 probability of errors, deterministic or not.