---I'm actually serious. I don't believe in any kind of aid that is made of physical material. If you want to help people, you send books, you send teachers. You don't send rice and garbage.
Oh yes.. The golden rice fiasco. That was a mess in the "First World" countries due to patent entanglement. Most of the countries in Africa were right to refuse this rice. For starters, they required African nations to uphold foreign patent law.
---1) When you grow food and eat it, you poop those nutrients right back into your own ground. You send that to another country, and you are impoverishing your own.
That idea goes back to the oil barons of the 1800's where they used their massive funds to 'donate' everywhere. Because they bilked everybody out of massive amounts of money, they should trickle it back in. The US government also thinks that is the case when dealing with Africa. And it makes a nice feel-good thing to say during political season.. The whole "I helped starving children in Africa". meh.
---2) Sending broken computers to vicious, fell people results in exactly this kind of thing. We want to believe that everyone has a kind of collective mentality, but most people on this earth are free-market all the way. And a totally free market is a murderous hellhole with a few fabulously wealthy people and the masses in abject poverty. That's a free market. Democratic capitalism is great because it utilizes that "free market" drive (aka greed) to effect positive social change. But it requires constraints to make it move in that direction. Once people see how well a social mindset plus greed works to improve the lives of all (and create a massive middle class, which is key to a functioning society), then they nurture that. They feel a part of something. They neither need nor want to smash people's heads in for a computer monitor full of poison. Most African countries haven't figured this out, and that's their problem--both as in "the problem they have" and "not our problem." We can't fix it, but it also seems we don't recognize that.
That sums up complete lazes faire capitalism. Adam Smith recognized that, along with Karl Marx. The downfall of Capitalism is greed. The same can be said about Communism.
---Why are the countries that are at the top of the heap at the top of the heap? Simple. We are better. I am absolutely serious. The cultures of Europe and Asia understand the power of a group mentality. They are on different points on that continuum, and that's fine. But we all have it.
No. We just happened to get there first and plunder whatever we could find. And when the easy resources were exhausted, we went after the people themselves in terms of subjugation. There's your New Zealand death marches, the Hacienda, Apartheid, and various other excursions of the Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, English, and other countries that took everything. Even their culture is taken. Look at Haiti, where the old religion is now some sort of bastardized form between their traditional beliefs and Christianity.
---Africa is what you get when you don't have that. Everyone is working randomly because they don't care about each other because they don't see that they are the same and that cooperation is the only way to success.
You make it sound like they're complete animals. No, in truth, the aid we put in is funneled for cold hard cash and big weapons while the people still starve. Why starve? The dictators run them off any usable land for THEIR benefit. From their view, we Americans are propping up their dictators. That's why democratic countries like Nigeria screw us Americans over... that and we're stupid.
---They think that other countries have become rich and comfortable because of luck. But we built this from the ground up--especially for those of us whose ancestors came from the dump known as the British Isles. Our ancestors were just like this until the Romans brought literacy and we saw the awesome power of working together outside of small collectives (Roman Empire).
Obscurity: hiding so that the proper user knows the secret will be allowed in.
password: secret word/phrase. Can be brute forced, cracked, found hiden on a post-it, or just plain guessed at. Absolute worst case puts password at 2^8 per character, minus stated password rules.
Well, the only real legitimate benchmark would be of encoding hundreds of real movies, ala piratebay.
If we use the best codecs with instructions to use the most out of each processor type, whats the benchmark for 100 TC captures? Or how about a blu-disk to DVD5 downconvert?
If it's fast enough to play h.264 at nice high resolutions, and plays some of the fun games out, that's all I care about.
If I need CPU power, I'd go get 4 quad cores on a server with big memory and big hd. A 2d gfx card would be god enough for that server... See if they can do passive cooling on that gfx card, I bet not. And if I needed more cpu still, I'd use a dual backplane mobo with a bunch of ATI/AMD graphics cards with AIXGL (or whatever the acronym) and write applications for the GPUs.
In the medical arena, there is a beast called Informed Consent.
The idea is that one can be flashed papers and papers and loads of documents, but UNLESS one is given a easy to read sheet with big bullet points, and have somebody with them, any consent is thrown out the window. The idea becomes weaker for less severe cases, and more strongly for severe cases.
1: You are buying a cell service from $carrier for the 39.99 USD plan. 2: If you prematurely quit service, you must pay a X USD fee that covers the subsidized phone. 3: Your plan has X minutes and Y features. 4: These features cost extra, and are NOT COVERED by plan
-sfgwfbv
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If they are predatory like that, perhaps we should un-radio Verizon and revoke their FCC licenses. Perhaps after one giant falls, they would act collectively better to the public.
Even better yet, I can say for certain that for each video, there is an exact number assigned to it. A hundred byte file has a number not exceeding 2^800.
This number grows rather large when we talk about 600MB files. However, these numbers are either prime, or composed of multiples of prime. Aside the difficulty of factoring out primes in big numbers, would trading the primes and frequency violate copyright?
Or worse yet, we can describe film data as a 3d graph. If we approximate the set of equations, we can create a "close enough" set of pictures that could be indistinguishable. Would disseminating these equations violate copyright?
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Oh, they sure DO enforce private property.
The country is the dictators property and he does whatever he wants to do with it.
---I'm actually serious. I don't believe in any kind of aid that is made of physical material. If you want to help people, you send books, you send teachers. You don't send rice and garbage.
Oh yes.. The golden rice fiasco. That was a mess in the "First World" countries due to patent entanglement. Most of the countries in Africa were right to refuse this rice. For starters, they required African nations to uphold foreign patent law.
---1) When you grow food and eat it, you poop those nutrients right back into your own ground. You send that to another country, and you are impoverishing your own.
That idea goes back to the oil barons of the 1800's where they used their massive funds to 'donate' everywhere. Because they bilked everybody out of massive amounts of money, they should trickle it back in. The US government also thinks that is the case when dealing with Africa. And it makes a nice feel-good thing to say during political season.. The whole "I helped starving children in Africa". meh.
---2) Sending broken computers to vicious, fell people results in exactly this kind of thing. We want to believe that everyone has a kind of collective mentality, but most people on this earth are free-market all the way. And a totally free market is a murderous hellhole with a few fabulously wealthy people and the masses in abject poverty. That's a free market. Democratic capitalism is great because it utilizes that "free market" drive (aka greed) to effect positive social change. But it requires constraints to make it move in that direction. Once people see how well a social mindset plus greed works to improve the lives of all (and create a massive middle class, which is key to a functioning society), then they nurture that. They feel a part of something. They neither need nor want to smash people's heads in for a computer monitor full of poison. Most African countries haven't figured this out, and that's their problem--both as in "the problem they have" and "not our problem." We can't fix it, but it also seems we don't recognize that.
That sums up complete lazes faire capitalism. Adam Smith recognized that, along with Karl Marx. The downfall of Capitalism is greed. The same can be said about Communism.
---Why are the countries that are at the top of the heap at the top of the heap? Simple. We are better. I am absolutely serious. The cultures of Europe and Asia understand the power of a group mentality. They are on different points on that continuum, and that's fine. But we all have it.
No. We just happened to get there first and plunder whatever we could find. And when the easy resources were exhausted, we went after the people themselves in terms of subjugation. There's your New Zealand death marches, the Hacienda, Apartheid, and various other excursions of the Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, English, and other countries that took everything. Even their culture is taken. Look at Haiti, where the old religion is now some sort of bastardized form between their traditional beliefs and Christianity.
---Africa is what you get when you don't have that. Everyone is working randomly because they don't care about each other because they don't see that they are the same and that cooperation is the only way to success.
You make it sound like they're complete animals. No, in truth, the aid we put in is funneled for cold hard cash and big weapons while the people still starve. Why starve? The dictators run them off any usable land for THEIR benefit. From their view, we Americans are propping up their dictators. That's why democratic countries like Nigeria screw us Americans over... that and we're stupid.
---They think that other countries have become rich and comfortable because of luck. But we built this from the ground up--especially for those of us whose ancestors came from the dump known as the British Isles. Our ancestors were just like this until the Romans brought literacy and we saw the awesome power of working together outside of small collectives (Roman Empire).
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Rush Limbaugh has it right in this case: PMSNBC
They recorded it live.
Yeah, like that'll fly.
"Yer honor, they offered to fix this issue at our business for 150$/hr. If we chose not to, they'd leak it to the public".
I cant believe it's not blackmail.
And that's the tragedy of the commons.
Why should I pay a 3rd party to buy copyright when they arent getting what I want?
And Piratebay is free.
Patent Troll was eaten by a grue.
M-M-M-M-Monster Kill-kill-kill-ill-ill-ll
And you leave us hanging like that.
Mind telling us what brewery you work at? I'm one of those ale freaks :D
Noooo!! I dont wanna go in the cart!
You do realise I was the reason they added the new bubbles around the "Reply to This", right?
I replied to Michael on some thread, and Im pretty sure he got hit too with the logout. Next day, there were those damned bubbles.
It was good while it lasted cause I pulled some funny troll shit.
The new raytracting kits should be able to do all those transforms and lighting tricks.
If the gear is consumer-level priced, there is LITTLE/NO error correction. Not even the system RAM is error corrected unless you buy ECC.
If you back up anything on DVD's or tapes, or any other consumer media, you need some real error correction. CD's actually have this built in.
You are a moron.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It's a SSH for port 80.
They added in a trust setup so someone you trust signs their key.
The "trusted entity" is a for-pay company who doesnt care about jack shit. They only want you to pay.
Now... Why do you trust them?
You know something about those huge profit gains "Big Oil", always show?
If I sell 1 gallon at .1$ profit, I make .1$ .1$ profit, I make 1$ .1$ profit, I make 10$.
If I sell 10 gallons at
If I sell 100 gallons at
I did not raise my profit per gallon. Instead, I sold more. It is a fixed cost for refining light sweet crude to our octane/ethanol blend.
And it turns out, India and China are liking cars now too.. Hmm.
Obscurity: hiding so that the proper user knows the secret will be allowed in.
password: secret word/phrase. Can be brute forced, cracked, found hiden on a post-it, or just plain guessed at. Absolute worst case puts password at 2^8 per character, minus stated password rules.
Boy, that's some SHITTY service :D
Well, the only real legitimate benchmark would be of encoding hundreds of real movies, ala piratebay.
If we use the best codecs with instructions to use the most out of each processor type, whats the benchmark for 100 TC captures? Or how about a blu-disk to DVD5 downconvert?
That stuff matters, not some stuffed test
And why do we care about some e-penis benchmark?
If it's fast enough to play h.264 at nice high resolutions, and plays some of the fun games out, that's all I care about.
If I need CPU power, I'd go get 4 quad cores on a server with big memory and big hd. A 2d gfx card would be god enough for that server... See if they can do passive cooling on that gfx card, I bet not. And if I needed more cpu still, I'd use a dual backplane mobo with a bunch of ATI/AMD graphics cards with AIXGL (or whatever the acronym) and write applications for the GPUs.
I'll tell you how to deal with them.
"No ticket"
They aren't broken in the sense you make them. They're broken by the fact of log files and other logging stuff going on.
Or do you think it's your encryption's fault that bash records decrypt /media/encrypted/drive/secretpartition in the logs?
In the medical arena, there is a beast called Informed Consent.
The idea is that one can be flashed papers and papers and loads of documents, but UNLESS one is given a easy to read sheet with big bullet points, and have somebody with them, any consent is thrown out the window. The idea becomes weaker for less severe cases, and more strongly for severe cases.
1: You are buying a cell service from $carrier for the 39.99 USD plan.
2: If you prematurely quit service, you must pay a X USD fee that covers the subsidized phone.
3: Your plan has X minutes and Y features.
4: These features cost extra, and are NOT COVERED by plan
-sfgwfbv
-fvfvfvv
You get the idea.
But they're using public airwaves.
If they are predatory like that, perhaps we should un-radio Verizon and revoke their FCC licenses. Perhaps after one giant falls, they would act collectively better to the public.
Even better yet, I can say for certain that for each video, there is an exact number assigned to it. A hundred byte file has a number not exceeding 2^800.
This number grows rather large when we talk about 600MB files. However, these numbers are either prime, or composed of multiples of prime. Aside the difficulty of factoring out primes in big numbers, would trading the primes and frequency violate copyright?
Or worse yet, we can describe film data as a 3d graph. If we approximate the set of equations, we can create a "close enough" set of pictures that could be indistinguishable. Would disseminating these equations violate copyright?