I wonder why nobody disusses the neccessarity of more and more energy. Take a look around your room and see all the glowing "standby" LEDs.
Yes, we can save a lot of energy. In the west. But in rapid developping countries, there is no way to use less energy, other than to stop development. They do need an alternative to burning coal.
Hell, even Iran needs an alternative to fossile fuel in the long run -- and uranium reactors are not the answer. Even if Iran would change their mind (and government) and become a peaceloving nation, there are always mad men somewhere in the world. We need a energy source that is safe enought that it can't be misused for making the bomb. A few years ago, there was a lot of fuss about efforts to make a working spallator reactor that ran off thorium (which is plentiful in the Earth's crust and also produces only short and medium-term waste (that you can't reprocess to make bombs from).
Unfortunately there hasn't been that much news from the spallator camp lately.
Although they do a good job of getting media attention, but their message is so extreme, a lot of people will write them off as crackpots and judging righteous IP reformer the same.
It is probably just a publicity stunt, just in the past few months two much more likely contenders for parliament (a EU sceptic party and a feminist party) fizzled in record time on grounds of not having a political line in all areas of politics (well, you can argue that they fizzled because they were clowns, and that probably contributed, but still). You can't run for parliament without having an opinion on taxes, school, healthcare, benefits and stuff. People do vote with their wallets and even if they find these issues important, they are not going to compromise day care for their kids or whatever is on top of their shopping list for that.
IPR is an issue of uttermost importance on the margin.
Voting for parliament is not a smorgasbord, it is set menues!
Most countries require citizenship. I'd imagine that citizenship would at least have some basic language requirements.
No language requirement (suggesting that one should now Swedish to be a citizen is highly politically incorrect), however, you have to have five years of permanent residence and be expected to lead an honest life (or marry a Swede).
So, er, if trademarks and similar are abolished, how do you make sure you're voting for the real Piracy Party, and not something with the same name but vastly different policies set up as a stunt by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau?
Because political party names aren't protected by trademark laws?
Logging might actually feed the police with false information: I mean it's not a hard to make replicas of plates belonging to someone else... someone with the same kind of car. That way the terrorists or whatever can actually use the system against the police
Yes, but the car would have to be in a consistent place -- in principle you could track every car, and if it makes a "jump" from A to C without passing any of the B:s on the way flag a warning.
I sort of agree with you, but realistically, if you don't know, either on your own or through context clues, that IS stands for Information Systems, you shouldn't be responding to this guy's question anyway.
Maybe. But that is not an attitude to take if you really want people to spend time to answer your questions. I need to gauge fairly quickly if I know anything that I can contribute, or if I want to read on and learn something from the thread. If I have to read a pagefull or two to learn what it is about, it lessens the chances I will find it worth the bother.
So it is more of his problem, than mine.
And why couldn't IS by Information Security or Internet Services or... well you get it, many acronyms are potentially overloaded to the degree that it is not easy to dismiss all but one as unreasonable.
Speaking of reasonability, now that you have spelled out Information Systems for me -- what the h*ck is that? Really? What does an IS dept do that an IT dept doesn't? (Information Technology...whatever *that* is...)
Everyone go checkout Mao's book from your local library. If enough people do this, the FBI will have to give up on this type of spying as I don't think they can visit 100,000 people.
Somehow I doubt there are 100 000 copies of Mao's little red at public libraries in America.
In the 4 years I've been involved in these projects, we've had a grand total of 1 bug that related to different JVMs.
I haven't tried this in a while, but a few years back, JVM:s behaved very differently under stress. Some even crashed under high loads. The great things is that the solution is just swapping out the JVM for another one. You can't really do that with Windows (there is only one Windows).
I notice that the word "bidi" is conspicuosly absent from the NEWS file. That is bad. From time to time, I find that I need to edit RTL text in an LTR environment. Currently, Emacs doesn't help me with that. Granted, mixing RTL and LTR is a difficult problem (backspace is a different direction depending on where in the text you are, selections that are logically contiguous look real funny on screen etc), but Emacs is seriously behind the curve on bidi support.
Seriously. Only in America does one assume that an employee who quits or is terminated would try to do sabotage if there has been no animosity before. Really, why would anyone sabotage stuff after they hand in their resignation? There was plenty of time before. People who routinely revoke employees privileges before the last day of employment should have their heads examined. They are a bit more paranoid than what is healthy. (Paranoia and believing in conspiracies seems to be a major culturar trait in the US, so it might be difficult to find a shrink to actually cure you, but still.)
But I can make an educated guess that when you talk about efficiency, you're referring to productivity and GDP etc. Is that our whole aim as a species? To manufacture more and more goods? Because you need someone to sell them to and people buy to improve their lives. The greatest possible satisfaction for the largest possible number is the real goal of society in my book - and working in a frenzy to get by isn't it.
Economic growth does not necessarily mean making more stuff (using more resources etc). It often means doing the same stuff better and cheaper, using less resources and less time. In the end it could mean work less for me, spending more time with my family and still have all the stuff we have now, not more, not less.
That's not true. Violating basic ethical principles is wrong; and of course, laws ideally should embody these, but they don't always do that, and in cases where they're not - especially cases where the law is actually opposed to those principles -, it's not wrong in an ethical sense to break the law.
Almost. Breaking a law that violates a basic ethic principal can be wrong if you by breaking the law erode the publics will to live by laws in general.
When travelling in Central America there were electrical heaters in the shower heads in many hotels. They worked very well, but the thought of what would happen if the ground wire was loose made me search for the fuses...
Confirming identity does nothing toward confirming non-terrorism.
Blatantly not-true. Not fully efficient, yes. Has to be combined with other measures, yes. May be insufficient, yes. May not be worth the price, yes. Does nothing, no.
You can dress comfortably and fashionably at the same time. A pair of Old Navy khakis, a pair of rockport walking shoes, and a decent button down shirt is not a difficult ensemble to throw together and it looks more stylish than jeans and a t-shirt.
I am by no means a dedicated follower of fashion, but Seattle definitely seems to be, how do I put this, on the trailing edge of the fashion curve. By lets say 15 years.
So the original statement is not quite true then. An immigrant can become citizen in most countries by increscense (growing into the society), normally you have to have a waiting period (five, seven, ten years, something like that) and sometimes you have to prove your affinity to the society (speaking the language, pledge allegiance, whatever). There is no principal difference in this case if you are born inside or outside of the country as long as your parents were not citizens.
Of course the details vary. Most countries are somewhere on the scale, few are pure jus solis or pure jus sanguinis.
In most of the EU, being born in one country gives you automatically the nationality of this country (this is not the case for Germany, though).
Is this really true? I was under the impression that most European nations leaned towards jus sanguinis -- you can claim citizenship if your parent was, at the time of your birth. Sometimes it is qualified with that your parent(s) must have been citizens and resident in the country at the time of your birth (they can live abroad, but must not have emigrated). In the Americas, jus solis is more common.
In countries whose majority people are scattered in other countries, you can often claim citizenship based on being of that ethnicity, a jus sanguinis taken to the extreme.
Various creation and salvation myths are regularly rereleased with minor or major rewrites. Some of these are wildly successful, as they are accompanied by massively effective marketing (involving separating heads from bodies and all).
Of course, there are always connoisseurs that claim that the original work cannot be improved on, but that doesn't stop them from issuing various fan fiction around the original myth.
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I wonder why nobody disusses the neccessarity of more and more energy. Take a look around your room and see all the glowing "standby" LEDs.
Yes, we can save a lot of energy. In the west. But in rapid developping countries, there is no way to use less energy, other than to stop development. They do need an alternative to burning coal.
Hell, even Iran needs an alternative to fossile fuel in the long run -- and uranium reactors are not the answer. Even if Iran would change their mind (and government) and become a peaceloving nation, there are always mad men somewhere in the world. We need a energy source that is safe enought that it can't be misused for making the bomb. A few years ago, there was a lot of fuss about efforts to make a working spallator reactor that ran off thorium (which is plentiful in the Earth's crust and also produces only short and medium-term waste (that you can't reprocess to make bombs from).
Unfortunately there hasn't been that much news from the spallator camp lately.
Although they do a good job of getting media attention, but their message is so extreme, a lot of people will write them off as crackpots and judging righteous IP reformer the same.
It is probably just a publicity stunt, just in the past few months two much more likely contenders for parliament (a EU sceptic party and a feminist party) fizzled in record time on grounds of not having a political line in all areas of politics (well, you can argue that they fizzled because they were clowns, and that probably contributed, but still). You can't run for parliament without having an opinion on taxes, school, healthcare, benefits and stuff. People do vote with their wallets and even if they find these issues important, they are not going to compromise day care for their kids or whatever is on top of their shopping list for that.
IPR is an issue of uttermost importance on the margin.
Voting for parliament is not a smorgasbord, it is set menues!
Most countries require citizenship. I'd imagine that citizenship would at least have some basic language requirements.
No language requirement (suggesting that one should now Swedish to be a citizen is highly politically incorrect), however, you have to have five years of permanent residence and be expected to lead an honest life (or marry a Swede).
http://www.notisum.se/rnp/sls/lag/20010082.htm
So, er, if trademarks and similar are abolished, how do you make sure you're voting for the real Piracy Party, and not something with the same name but vastly different policies set up as a stunt by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau?
Because political party names aren't protected by trademark laws?
Logging might actually feed the police with false information: I mean it's not a hard to make replicas of plates belonging to someone else... someone with the same kind of car.
That way the terrorists or whatever can actually use the system against the police
Yes, but the car would have to be in a consistent place -- in principle you could track every car, and if it makes a "jump" from A to C without passing any of the B:s on the way flag a warning.
I sort of agree with you, but realistically, if you don't know, either on your own or through context clues, that IS stands for Information Systems, you shouldn't be responding to this guy's question anyway.
Maybe. But that is not an attitude to take if you really want people to spend time to answer your questions. I need to gauge fairly quickly if I know anything that I can contribute, or if I want to read on and learn something from the thread. If I have to read a pagefull or two to learn what it is about, it lessens the chances I will find it worth the bother.
So it is more of his problem, than mine.
And why couldn't IS by Information Security or Internet Services or... well you get it, many acronyms are potentially overloaded to the degree that it is not easy to dismiss all but one as unreasonable.
Speaking of reasonability, now that you have spelled out Information Systems for me -- what the h*ck is that? Really? What does an IS dept do that an IT dept doesn't? (Information Technology...whatever *that* is...)
Sorry to say, but if the acronym you use is not IBM, introduce it before you use it, or you risk leaving your intended audience by the road side.
Everyone go checkout Mao's book from your local library. If enough people do this, the FBI will have to give up on this type of spying as I don't think they can visit 100,000 people.
Somehow I doubt there are 100 000 copies of Mao's little red at public libraries in America.
On server they have the option of reading it [via EULA], post rate limiting, banning accounts, etc
If they can get themselves the option of reading your outgoing messages with an EULA, they can of course do the same for incoming messages.
In the 4 years I've been involved in these projects, we've had a grand total of 1 bug that related to different JVMs.
I haven't tried this in a while, but a few years back, JVM:s behaved very differently under stress. Some even crashed under high loads. The great things is that the solution is just swapping out the JVM for another one. You can't really do that with Windows (there is only one Windows).
unless you you have a LOT of self control and order a salad you are going to get fat!
Unless, of course, you are in a country where they supersize salads.
I notice that the word "bidi" is conspicuosly absent from the NEWS file. That is bad. From time to time, I find that I need to edit RTL text in an LTR environment. Currently, Emacs doesn't help me with that. Granted, mixing RTL and LTR is a difficult problem (backspace is a different direction depending on where in the text you are, selections that are logically contiguous look real funny on screen etc), but Emacs is seriously behind the curve on bidi support.
Seriously. Only in America does one assume that an employee who quits or is terminated would try to do sabotage if there has been no animosity before. Really, why would anyone sabotage stuff after they hand in their resignation? There was plenty of time before. People who routinely revoke employees privileges before the last day of employment should have their heads examined. They are a bit more paranoid than what is healthy. (Paranoia and believing in conspiracies seems to be a major culturar trait in the US, so it might be difficult to find a shrink to actually cure you, but still.)
But I can make an educated guess that when you talk about efficiency, you're referring to productivity and GDP etc. Is that our whole aim as a species? To manufacture more and more goods? Because you need someone to sell them to and people buy to improve their lives. The greatest possible satisfaction for the largest possible number is the real goal of society in my book - and working in a frenzy to get by isn't it.
Economic growth does not necessarily mean making more stuff (using more resources etc). It often means doing the same stuff better and cheaper, using less resources and less time. In the end it could mean work less for me, spending more time with my family and still have all the stuff we have now, not more, not less.
That's not true. Violating basic ethical principles is wrong; and of course, laws ideally should embody these, but they don't always do that, and in cases where they're not - especially cases where the law is actually opposed to those principles -, it's not wrong in an ethical sense to break the law.
Almost. Breaking a law that violates a basic ethic principal can be wrong if you by breaking the law erode the publics will to live by laws in general.
...open tsores!
Ever get the feeling someone wrote an article merely for the pun?
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There's of course the famous Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher-Bethe-Gamow_p
DNA testing, in itself, is no defence against terrorism which I believe was what the OP meant.
May be what he meant, but not what he wrote. "Toward" implies that the measure would be combined with other measures.
When travelling in Central America there were electrical heaters in the shower heads in many hotels. They worked very well, but the thought of what would happen if the ground wire was loose made me search for the fuses...
Confirming identity does nothing toward confirming non-terrorism.
Blatantly not-true. Not fully efficient, yes. Has to be combined with other measures, yes. May be insufficient, yes. May not be worth the price, yes. Does nothing, no.
You can dress comfortably and fashionably at the same time. A pair of Old Navy khakis, a pair of rockport walking shoes, and a decent button down shirt is not a difficult ensemble to throw together and it looks more stylish than jeans and a t-shirt.
I am by no means a dedicated follower of fashion, but Seattle definitely seems to be, how do I put this, on the trailing edge of the fashion curve. By lets say 15 years.
So the original statement is not quite true then. An immigrant can become citizen in most countries by increscense (growing into the society), normally you have to have a waiting period (five, seven, ten years, something like that) and sometimes you have to prove your affinity to the society (speaking the language, pledge allegiance, whatever). There is no principal difference in this case if you are born inside or outside of the country as long as your parents were not citizens.
Of course the details vary. Most countries are somewhere on the scale, few are pure jus solis or pure jus sanguinis.
In most of the EU, being born in one country gives you automatically the nationality of this country (this is not the case for Germany, though).
Is this really true? I was under the impression that most European nations leaned towards jus sanguinis -- you can claim citizenship if your parent was, at the time of your birth. Sometimes it is qualified with that your parent(s) must have been citizens and resident in the country at the time of your birth (they can live abroad, but must not have emigrated). In the Americas, jus solis is more common.
In countries whose majority people are scattered in other countries, you can often claim citizenship based on being of that ethnicity, a jus sanguinis taken to the extreme.
Caffeine has been around for centuries and again, within moderation, it isn't going to kill you or make you stupid.
"Coffe is a slow poison. It has to be. I have drunk eight cups a day for fifty years, and I am still not dead." -- Voltaire
Various creation and salvation myths are regularly rereleased with minor or major rewrites. Some of these are wildly successful, as they are accompanied by massively effective marketing (involving separating heads from bodies and all).
Of course, there are always connoisseurs that claim that the original work cannot be improved on, but that doesn't stop them from issuing various fan fiction around the original myth.