I don't see much of a problem with that. Sure, it's illegal to include GNU code inside a closed source. But this also force them to unable to enforce any copyright infringement. Since the instant they sue someone, their code will get scrutinized, and the GNU codes will be found, and the Slashdotters will be on them like a horde of gnats.
If you are coding for a classroom, then yes, you can whip one out of your hat in a week at most. But now you're talking about real world situation, in which the porgrammer probably thought about the following problems they have to safeguard.
1. Power outtage. 2. Erroneous Input 3. Software System Crash. 4. Hardware Failure. 5. Network congestion/failure. 6. Malicious tampering/Hacking. 7. Encryption/Decryption for network transfer.
A good voting software/hardware must be able to handle all of the above well. So that puts a burden on programmer and hardware designer to make a system with lots and lots of failsafe.
Actually, there's an advantage. It's call extremely quick count. Sure, in a close election candidate might want a recount. But in a landslide, a computer can just tally up, and say that there is no way in hell that the loser can win even in a recount.
This might be a good system. One, each voter is assigned an electronic pin ID (maybe using something like a scrambled Social Security Number). The computer in each district store an entire list of elligible voters' ID. When a voter cast a ballot, the number is marked as voted (without any other information such as date and time). That way, the vote will never tie to anyone. Than a paper audit trail is printed, which the machine will request the paper to be deposited back into the machine. Perfect anonymity.
Shorting out a shock means you SELL borrowed stocks and at a later date, returned the stock by buying it back from the market. If SCO is to collapse or go backrupt, you won't need to return the stock you borrowed since there will be no stocks to be returned.
All technicality is correct in the parent post. However one thing is missing, ever seen those comet/asteroid's tail? Those are caused by solar flares. Which mean if you stand down wind, shielded from the solar flare, you will be constantly pounded by ice particles (which could be nasty at high speed) and dust particle. Plus, how much rocket fuel will we need to redirect a comet/asteroid in order to snag it? However, this idea sounds too good to pass up, so how about instead on snagging a comet/asteroid, why not just find a suitable one and piggy back ride on it for the most of the trip? That way, minimal fuel used to change its trajectory and we might not even need to have the fuel to accelerate. Grapple it with a strong tether (strechable so it doesn't jerk the space craft around violently), then the space craft can go merrily on its way.
Think the movie Time Machine, remember how they blew up the moon trying to dig a hole in it? As of now, conventional digging technic would've required several years of construction. In a condition such as the moon, where the temperature differences can be extreme and the workers will be under heavy radiation for half of the month, it could take a few decades.
One problem, a single solar flare, when arriving at earth, has enough force to devastate all communication around the glove despite Earth's own magnetosphere. I doubt with the current technology, we can generate a magnetic field strong enough to protect the craft far away from the Earth's magnetosphere.
But I don't think normal people... 1. Have their computer right next to the TV. 2. Will bother to run a freaking long cable to the TV. 3. Will want to get up and walk to the computer just to rewind/pause or stuff. 4. Have a monitor larger then their TV. 5. Have a wireless connection fast enough to stream movies to TV.
Steve Job is right for now, but soon, he's gonna have to start getting ready for an online movie store.
Maybe they should change it to percentage scale? Say 10% of the song can be sampled, and seperated into blocks you can choose (but never the entire song, or else someone will just record all the samples and splice them back together).
Man, that was trying to sue the car company for making cars that criminals use to get away. Or for suing the government for making the road used by criminal in their car to get away. Or the hammer company for making hammers that was used to break locks. Or like suing a bank for having an account criminal use to launder money. Or like suing a tobacco company for making people sick... wait, the last one have merit, scratch that.
That and also DVD offers a lot more than the ripped version. Special features, music videos, producer commentaries (I like those), behind the scene, etc. Plus, the DVD version tend to have a MUCH higher quality than the ripped version, and if you got big TV, get a DVD.
One problem with this, a human eye only "refresh" its neurons roughly 20 times a second, therefore occasional flashes of dots wouldn't register. However, a human ear can refresh itself up to 20,000 a second (the reason why most people's upper hearing frequency is 20,000 hertz), any slight variation in the sound track will be detected by someone who had listen to music enought times.
First Problem, if you want user to even play the music then, they must have a key, and a hacker can instead hack the key (if you buy music with PGP, you must need one) decrypt it, and re-encode it in un-encrypted MP3 format.
Statistically speaking, out of millions of hackers, there is a good chance someone can do it.
Or, spam them back. Think, they must've send a HUGE load of spam mail out, if everyone of us (okay, even just ten percent) reply ten times (hopefully that will be a new Mozilla mail feature) and voila, they'll feel the pain of being spammed with a HUGE load of meaningless replies. Unprofitable to them.
Why not just make it into one big e-mail list that can be downloaded in full and read by several popular mail clients? Then you can just type the mail, select all those address, hit send, done. A little bit of hassle, a lot of pain for them.
Um... we can say God in school, we just can't FORCE other people to hear it. Example, preaching religion, on stage, at the end of the school ceremony, which is more or less, by tradition, required.
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I don't see much of a problem with that. Sure, it's illegal to include GNU code inside a closed source. But this also force them to unable to enforce any copyright infringement. Since the instant they sue someone, their code will get scrutinized, and the GNU codes will be found, and the Slashdotters will be on them like a horde of gnats.
I'm not a stock guru. But I think it's not the price, but the number of Bids and Asks.
In another word...
400 People wants to buy the stock.
89200 wants to sell it.
In a few more words...
They're in deep sh*t.
Also a small land area with HIGH density. Plus very expensive parking spot and cars.
If you are coding for a classroom, then yes, you can whip one out of your hat in a week at most. But now you're talking about real world situation, in which the porgrammer probably thought about the following problems they have to safeguard.
1. Power outtage.
2. Erroneous Input
3. Software System Crash.
4. Hardware Failure.
5. Network congestion/failure.
6. Malicious tampering/Hacking.
7. Encryption/Decryption for network transfer.
A good voting software/hardware must be able to handle all of the above well. So that puts a burden on programmer and hardware designer to make a system with lots and lots of failsafe.
Actually, there's an advantage. It's call extremely quick count. Sure, in a close election candidate might want a recount. But in a landslide, a computer can just tally up, and say that there is no way in hell that the loser can win even in a recount.
This might be a good system. One, each voter is assigned an electronic pin ID (maybe using something like a scrambled Social Security Number).
The computer in each district store an entire list of elligible voters' ID.
When a voter cast a ballot, the number is marked as voted (without any other information such as date and time). That way, the vote will never tie to anyone. Than a paper audit trail is printed, which the machine will request the paper to be deposited back into the machine. Perfect anonymity.
Shorting out a shock means you SELL borrowed stocks and at a later date, returned the stock by buying it back from the market. If SCO is to collapse or go backrupt, you won't need to return the stock you borrowed since there will be no stocks to be returned.
Poor TiVO, walking a razor blade edge between the MPAA and us.
See what we get when there's an agency ran mostly by the intellects and not bureaucrats?
Here is a website that someone made some deductive reason to overthrow your arguments.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
Oh, and that your argument sounds like from this FOX TV show.
All technicality is correct in the parent post. However one thing is missing, ever seen those comet/asteroid's tail? Those are caused by solar flares. Which mean if you stand down wind, shielded from the solar flare, you will be constantly pounded by ice particles (which could be nasty at high speed) and dust particle. Plus, how much rocket fuel will we need to redirect a comet/asteroid in order to snag it? However, this idea sounds too good to pass up, so how about instead on snagging a comet/asteroid, why not just find a suitable one and piggy back ride on it for the most of the trip? That way, minimal fuel used to change its trajectory and we might not even need to have the fuel to accelerate. Grapple it with a strong tether (strechable so it doesn't jerk the space craft around violently), then the space craft can go merrily on its way.
Think the movie Time Machine, remember how they blew up the moon trying to dig a hole in it? As of now, conventional digging technic would've required several years of construction. In a condition such as the moon, where the temperature differences can be extreme and the workers will be under heavy radiation for half of the month, it could take a few decades.
One problem, a single solar flare, when arriving at earth, has enough force to devastate all communication around the glove despite Earth's own magnetosphere. I doubt with the current technology, we can generate a magnetic field strong enough to protect the craft far away from the Earth's magnetosphere.
Perhaps the subscriber in your area doubled? All subscribers in the same area share the same pipe, so more subscriber = slower service.
But I don't think normal people...
1. Have their computer right next to the TV.
2. Will bother to run a freaking long cable to the TV.
3. Will want to get up and walk to the computer just to rewind/pause or stuff.
4. Have a monitor larger then their TV.
5. Have a wireless connection fast enough to stream movies to TV.
Steve Job is right for now, but soon, he's gonna have to start getting ready for an online movie store.
Maybe they should change it to percentage scale? Say 10% of the song can be sampled, and seperated into blocks you can choose (but never the entire song, or else someone will just record all the samples and splice them back together).
Man, that was trying to sue the car company for making cars that criminals use to get away. Or for suing the government for making the road used by criminal in their car to get away. Or the hammer company for making hammers that was used to break locks. Or like suing a bank for having an account criminal use to launder money. Or like suing a tobacco company for making people sick... wait, the last one have merit, scratch that.
That and also DVD offers a lot more than the ripped version. Special features, music videos, producer commentaries (I like those), behind the scene, etc. Plus, the DVD version tend to have a MUCH higher quality than the ripped version, and if you got big TV, get a DVD.
One problem with this, a human eye only "refresh" its neurons roughly 20 times a second, therefore occasional flashes of dots wouldn't register. However, a human ear can refresh itself up to 20,000 a second (the reason why most people's upper hearing frequency is 20,000 hertz), any slight variation in the sound track will be detected by someone who had listen to music enought times.
This sounds like an old Chinese Anecdote.
"A single rat dropping ruins a whole pot of porridge."
First Problem, if you want user to even play the music then, they must have a key, and a hacker can instead hack the key (if you buy music with PGP, you must need one) decrypt it, and re-encode it in un-encrypted MP3 format.
Statistically speaking, out of millions of hackers, there is a good chance someone can do it.
I think Afghanistan is more on revenge motive. Iraq, both oil and Bush elder's (the first Bush) agenda that Bush Junior wishes to fulfill.
Or, spam them back. Think, they must've send a HUGE load of spam mail out, if everyone of us (okay, even just ten percent) reply ten times (hopefully that will be a new Mozilla mail feature) and voila, they'll feel the pain of being spammed with a HUGE load of meaningless replies. Unprofitable to them.
Why not just make it into one big e-mail list that can be downloaded in full and read by several popular mail clients?
Then you can just type the mail, select all those address, hit send, done.
A little bit of hassle, a lot of pain for them.
Um... we can say God in school, we just can't FORCE other people to hear it. Example, preaching religion, on stage, at the end of the school ceremony, which is more or less, by tradition, required.