I think that there should be a right to privacy and that it should be allowed to simply not exercise it (same with certain other rights). Bang, suddenly everyone is happy, from J. Random Geek to Mary T. Exhibitionist... except for the executive branch of government, that is.
Note that the same doesn't apply to governmental agencies and (under certain circumstances) companies: In these cases full transparency should be employed unless completely impossible (e.g. national secrets).
The people should be protected from inquiry unless they explicitly wish not to. The government should be open to inquiry unless that would threaten the country.
If we ever get to where we can't destroy the government by force, then government will drift towards dictatorship. If we have guns, we can take the government back when it goes to far - but without privacy, those guns cannot organize an effective resistance.
And I'm sure the tanks and bombers are gonna be real impressed by your SMGs with ten shot magazines... If you actually want an insurgency to work you'll need many people, enough to win over (part of) the army. So unless you have your entire state (and preferably a couple other ones as well) raise up in arms and demand a complete reworking of the USA or secession you're not going to have even a tiny chance.
Note that there's still the little problem of them just sending UAVs (and cruise missiles where appropriate) so they won't even have to pit citizen against citizen as in a classical civil war.
Generally, you shouldn't have to script input at all. That's what DCOP/D-Bus and similar IPC APIs are for. Instead of removing all menus (which usually already are accessible via the keyboard - e.g. via the Alt key unter Windows) people should rather make their applications more scriptable.
I tried to imagine the GIMP using this in my mind but the submenus would get out of hand. For example, you would like to use script-fu? Well, there's two submenus under that of a dynamic allotment of add ons that I can structure in directories however I want. Tough to deal with stuff like that.
EMACS-style commands. Command-Shift-S opens the Script-Fu screen, then press T for the Tcl-Fu screen, then U for Uma's Filter Toolset, P for Painting-style Filters, I for Impressionism and finally D for De-realism-ize. Imagine how much more productive you could be having great and memorable shortcuts like Cmd-Shift-STUPID or Cmd-Ctrl-Alt-FHQWHGADS at your fingertips!
That only applies to GEMA members. Membership is optional, although for some reason they assume that all musicians are members (so if you are a non-member musician and don't release "certificates" stating that your music is not covered by them they might harrass people for playing your songs. Also, GEMA coverage is per-member and not per-song; once you become a member ALL of your songs are covered by them). Also, the GEMA has some way of allowing you to host your own songs without paying, although that applies only to streaming media (no downloads) and only until 2007-12-31.
So yeah, you can host your own stuff, but only if you don't intend to become a GEMA member.
So you can't use Russian and Chinese AV software because it's from countries notorious for not caring much about privacy and for having the government mess with companies. You also can't use US AV Software because it's from a country also notorious for domestic and foreign spying and for having big business co-opting smaller business in order to sustain their business model. You can't use F/OSS AV software because it doesn't have the resources the vendors have. You might have gone with AntiVir, but thanks to Schäuble it's now possible that AntiVir comes with a free Federal Trojan.
It appears that there is no acceptable AV software. Get yourself a BSD box, isolate yourself from networks on which there are Windows clients as well as you can and hope for the best. (That or use AV software despite there not being a trustworthy and useful vendor.)
Actually, he was called Hiro Protagonist, with "Hiro" being the short form of "Hiroaki". It was a nice pun, but probably not an example for a particularly contrived historical reference.
I don't know why you complain. I use
0x25 all the time and my code is so
wonderfully compact you could print
it on a fortune cookie slip -
sideways! Everybody should use 0x25;
it would make IT a better place.
They teach us that it doesn't matter how crappy your language is, once you bundle it with a top-notch GUI builder you do end up with a valuable product.
The Great Wall - Gives a free city wall to each of your cities until three turns later when an AI player's discovery of gunpowder will make city walls obsolete. Chichen Itza - Adds 1 to the trade production of the city due to very modest tourism. Machu Picchu - All llama-based units cost half as many shields to produce. Petra - All units regenerate without having to be in a city, provided that Indiana Jones manages to retrieve the Holy Grail from it without destroying the entire place. Don't get your hopes up. Roman Colosseum - Just like a regular colosseum, just much more expensive. Taj Mahal - Allows you to show off to the entire world that yes, indeed you do have already discovered Ceremonial Burial. Go you. Christ Redeemer - Allows you to build the New Seven Wonders Poll wonder. New Seven Wonders Poll (requires The Internet and the Christ Redeemer wonder) - Generates 1 unrest in all cities of civilizations who have discovered The Internet due to Slashdotters being enraged over the Christ Redeemer making the list.
What? They have the same sane standards as everyone else - the applicant has to be 25 years old, have at least one PhD (cum laude) and no family, must be willing to relocate and work unpaid overtime, must hate vacations and must be willing to work for $12.000/yr.
Come on now, that can surely be expected from the common tech worker.
Actually, those stories are usually posted with a negative blurb accompanying them; I think the main reason why nonsense like that gets posted is because it's entertaining to watch the user base ridicule the article and/or proposed wonder device.
I tried to, but the email bounced. Maybe you can mail me at toomuchmoney@gullibleidiot.net.
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It's not a miracle. The guys in the store knew there was a customer with an easily troubleshootable problem coming, so they used the Woz Phone to call Woz. Woz then proceeded to press the secret button hidden in a bust of the last Pope (given to him by Henry Kissinger) to open the bookcase containing the sliding pole that leads to the Woz Cave. One short trip with the Wozmobile and a dose of Woz Instant Macbook Knowledge Pills later he was ready to solve her problem and the day. Those who were at the line will fondly remember the action-packed problem solving scene, complete with Diagnose! and Solve! captions appearing out of thin air.
Nanananananananananananana-- WOZMAN!
Yes, that is what goes as "funny" when you're sleep-deprived.
We kill each other over silly things like who's God can beat up who's God.
Let's not forget that often, both sides in the conflict believe in one and the same entity. The various YHWH-following religions are pretty touchy when it comes to people seeing their god a bit differently from them.
Then what the hell have I been connecting my smartcard reader to all the time? My homebanking app (running in a VPC/Win2k environment under OS X) certainly doesn't complain.
WHQL was the name of that mandatory nag screen you have to click away every time you install a driver, right? After all, I've never encountered a driver that was actually certified...
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I think that there should be a right to privacy and that it should be allowed to simply not exercise it (same with certain other rights). Bang, suddenly everyone is happy, from J. Random Geek to Mary T. Exhibitionist... except for the executive branch of government, that is.
Note that the same doesn't apply to governmental agencies and (under certain circumstances) companies: In these cases full transparency should be employed unless completely impossible (e.g. national secrets).
The people should be protected from inquiry unless they explicitly wish not to. The government should be open to inquiry unless that would threaten the country.
This is how to properly argue: Intelligently, well-written, equally well-informed and entertaining to read. Most excellent.
If we ever get to where we can't destroy the government by force, then government will drift towards dictatorship. If we have guns, we can take the government back when it goes to far - but without privacy, those guns cannot organize an effective resistance.
And I'm sure the tanks and bombers are gonna be real impressed by your SMGs with ten shot magazines... If you actually want an insurgency to work you'll need many people, enough to win over (part of) the army. So unless you have your entire state (and preferably a couple other ones as well) raise up in arms and demand a complete reworking of the USA or secession you're not going to have even a tiny chance.
Note that there's still the little problem of them just sending UAVs (and cruise missiles where appropriate) so they won't even have to pit citizen against citizen as in a classical civil war.
What, all three of them?
Or even less, depending on how much the animal test lab requires business transactions to be legit.
;)
Hey, free money.
Generally, you shouldn't have to script input at all. That's what DCOP/D-Bus and similar IPC APIs are for. Instead of removing all menus (which usually already are accessible via the keyboard - e.g. via the Alt key unter Windows) people should rather make their applications more scriptable.
I tried to imagine the GIMP using this in my mind but the submenus would get out of hand. For example, you would like to use script-fu? Well, there's two submenus under that of a dynamic allotment of add ons that I can structure in directories however I want. Tough to deal with stuff like that.
EMACS-style commands. Command-Shift-S opens the Script-Fu screen, then press T for the Tcl-Fu screen, then U for Uma's Filter Toolset, P for Painting-style Filters, I for Impressionism and finally D for De-realism-ize. Imagine how much more productive you could be having great and memorable shortcuts like Cmd-Shift-STUPID or Cmd-Ctrl-Alt-FHQWHGADS at your fingertips!
That only applies to GEMA members. Membership is optional, although for some reason they assume that all musicians are members (so if you are a non-member musician and don't release "certificates" stating that your music is not covered by them they might harrass people for playing your songs. Also, GEMA coverage is per-member and not per-song; once you become a member ALL of your songs are covered by them). Also, the GEMA has some way of allowing you to host your own songs without paying, although that applies only to streaming media (no downloads) and only until 2007-12-31.
So yeah, you can host your own stuff, but only if you don't intend to become a GEMA member.
Note: The GEMA is actually more of a mix between the BMI/ASCAP and the Harry Fox Agency.
So you can't use Russian and Chinese AV software because it's from countries notorious for not caring much about privacy and for having the government mess with companies. You also can't use US AV Software because it's from a country also notorious for domestic and foreign spying and for having big business co-opting smaller business in order to sustain their business model. You can't use F/OSS AV software because it doesn't have the resources the vendors have. You might have gone with AntiVir, but thanks to Schäuble it's now possible that AntiVir comes with a free Federal Trojan.
It appears that there is no acceptable AV software. Get yourself a BSD box, isolate yourself from networks on which there are Windows clients as well as you can and hope for the best. (That or use AV software despite there not being a trustworthy and useful vendor.)
Actually, he was called Hiro Protagonist, with "Hiro" being the short form of "Hiroaki". It was a nice pun, but probably not an example for a particularly contrived historical reference.
Many editors support code folding - having comment blocks folded up by default takes care of vertical space waste quite nicely.
I don't know why you complain. I use
0x25 all the time and my code is so
wonderfully compact you could print
it on a fortune cookie slip -
sideways! Everybody should use 0x25;
it would make IT a better place.
Do the lessons of VB6 teach us nothing?
They teach us that it doesn't matter how crappy your language is, once you bundle it with a top-notch GUI builder you do end up with a valuable product.
The Great Wall - Gives a free city wall to each of your cities until three turns later when an AI player's discovery of gunpowder will make city walls obsolete.
Chichen Itza - Adds 1 to the trade production of the city due to very modest tourism.
Machu Picchu - All llama-based units cost half as many shields to produce.
Petra - All units regenerate without having to be in a city, provided that Indiana Jones manages to retrieve the Holy Grail from it without destroying the entire place. Don't get your hopes up.
Roman Colosseum - Just like a regular colosseum, just much more expensive.
Taj Mahal - Allows you to show off to the entire world that yes, indeed you do have already discovered Ceremonial Burial. Go you.
Christ Redeemer - Allows you to build the New Seven Wonders Poll wonder.
New Seven Wonders Poll (requires The Internet and the Christ Redeemer wonder) - Generates 1 unrest in all cities of civilizations who have discovered The Internet due to Slashdotters being enraged over the Christ Redeemer making the list.
What? They have the same sane standards as everyone else - the applicant has to be 25 years old, have at least one PhD (cum laude) and no family, must be willing to relocate and work unpaid overtime, must hate vacations and must be willing to work for $12.000/yr.
Come on now, that can surely be expected from the common tech worker.
Hmmm, a company that makes perpetual motion machines might make for one hell of an ARG (Alternate Reality Game for thoae uninitiated) element...
Actually, those stories are usually posted with a negative blurb accompanying them; I think the main reason why nonsense like that gets posted is because it's entertaining to watch the user base ridicule the article and/or proposed wonder device.
I tried to, but the email bounced. Maybe you can mail me at toomuchmoney@gullibleidiot.net.
It's not a miracle. The guys in the store knew there was a customer with an easily troubleshootable problem coming, so they used the Woz Phone to call Woz. Woz then proceeded to press the secret button hidden in a bust of the last Pope (given to him by Henry Kissinger) to open the bookcase containing the sliding pole that leads to the Woz Cave. One short trip with the Wozmobile and a dose of Woz Instant Macbook Knowledge Pills later he was ready to solve her problem and the day. Those who were at the line will fondly remember the action-packed problem solving scene, complete with Diagnose! and Solve! captions appearing out of thin air.
Nanananananananananananana-- WOZMAN!
Yes, that is what goes as "funny" when you're sleep-deprived.
That would certainly explain why all the king's horses and all the king's men could not put it together again.
We kill each other over silly things like who's God can beat up who's God.
Let's not forget that often, both sides in the conflict believe in one and the same entity. The various YHWH-following religions are pretty touchy when it comes to people seeing their god a bit differently from them.
There, alien technology! They got the plans from the craft they downed with that sidewinder. It all makes sense now!
Then what the hell have I been connecting my smartcard reader to all the time? My homebanking app (running in a VPC/Win2k environment under OS X) certainly doesn't complain.
WHQL was the name of that mandatory nag screen you have to click away every time you install a driver, right? After all, I've never encountered a driver that was actually certified...