There is an even more obvious solution: bomb Somalia, or at least the coast that lays next to the shipping lines, and burn it down to the bedrock.
If no other solution can be found, then that's what it will eventually come to. Sooner or later the pirates are going to hijack someone with sufficiently powerful friends that they'll be able to implement that solution; and Somalia, being a failed state, can't really fight back efficiently.
Your "right" is the right of a fat and happy citizen of a Western country to pompously pronounce on the "rights" of citizens in countries with completely foreign cultures--in completely different social and political environments.
Human rights are called such because they don't depend on the cultural context, they merely depend on the recipient being a human being. Are you arguing that Indians are subhumans incapable of dealing with free speech?
Your universal statements regarding the basic right to an anonymous cell phone carries no persuasive force WHATSOEVER unless you accompany those statements with reasoning that applies them to the Indian social and political context. Otherwise, you're just another well-meaning ignorant cultural imperialist.
The only socio-political context where lack of free speech can be justified is one where it's okay for the elite to dominate over the rest. However, that context also justifies cultural imperialism. So, either the Indian government is wrong, or us Westerners protesting their actions are right.
Sorry to answer twice, but I just realized that what you described reminded me of Japanese porn. Somewhere, someone is reading this and seeing the possibilities of artificial flesh for new sex toys.
The Lovecraftian aspect of this just went up a notch.
I dunno, I didn't get to the top of the food chain, only to waste it by eating carrots, lettuce or artificial meat like products. Gimme real dead animal any day of the week, besides, making sausages and running a smoker is fun and delicious.
You didn't get on top of the food chain, your ancestors did. You are a carrion eater who excepts others to make the kill and bribes them to let him eat the remains days later. Eating carrots and lettuce would actually be a step up, assuming you'd be growing them yourself.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with lettuce, pilgrim, and continues through worms, insects and other disgusting things. Start walking or settle for what you're given.
Say goodbye to bacon pizzas, tasty and meaty hamburgers, hot dogs, a good grilled steak with french fries and most importantly, delicious food.
To be fair, saying goodbye to these would do us a world of good. Obesity has reached ridiculous levels, and most people simply don't have the willpower to resist "delicious food".
Weak-kneed members of the public will have to be kept away from the giant culture vats, where hideous amorphous flesh lumps, studded with electrodes, thrash and strain; but they should be able to get exactly as much exercise as they need, without becoming excessively tough.
Aren't weak-kneed people exactly the ones who would most benefit from going to a gym ?-)
What exactly would you do to secure those sort of apps into a "sensible implementation" that allows me to limit write access to the home folder?
This seems like a job for virtual machines. Run each one in a separate instance, and that instance is for all intents and purposes their "home directory". Something goes wrong, simply reset the machine's disk image and restore user data from a backup.
And, of course, once you're running apps in a VM, the host can use Linux and get all the security/stability/efficiency advantages of that on top of Window's app support.
And this is the short summary why every Western government is trying to maintain a steady unemployment figure, and treats anything under ten percent unemployment as a threat.
Ok, so what happened to the old, tried and true "Shoot the bastards" way of thinking?
Bastards will shoot back, at which point you risk damage to the ship and casualties amonst the crew. The former will drive up insurance costs and the latter labour ones.
Apart from that, these are not military personnel we're talking about, but civilian sailors. Actually shooting someone is difficult for most humans, and will likely cause post-traumatic stress and other problems - which, in the contxt of a ship in the middle of an ocean, is a very bad thing.
Oh, and your competitors will most likely accuse you of escalating the situation, which is bad PR and could also have legal consequences - more aggressive pirates will cause insurance costs to rise for everyone.
Making speeches is probably the most effective way of using force. Few dictators kill their opponents with their own hands, after all. That's probably the most important difference between someone who'll sit on a throne and one who'll get another kind of high-powered chair.
Unless you were altruistic, in which case you were evil and he'd make butthurt speeches against you and your evil socialist ways, designed to start a pro-selfishness revolution.
Mod me down, Randroids, for great irony.
Besides, don't the actual businessmen of this world engage in information control all the time?
OTOH, Haskell is probably the most strongly typed language out there, and it compiles down to machine code binaries.
Java can be compiled to machine code binaries. Every language can, since machine code is Turing complete. And there exists garbage collection modules for C and C++, so clearly being compiled to machine code ahead of time has nothing to do with being "managed code". So, please explain what your point was?
Might have been more appropriate to compare it in that people in the high performance arena (nascar) don't like antilock brakes because of their limits and the separation you get from your task at hand. (you lose your "feel for the road")
And just like most drivers aren't NASCAR material and need all the aid they can get, despite their delusions to the contrary, most programmers aren't John Carmack and need spoonfeeding, handholding and garbage collection, despite their vastly overinflated opinion about their l33t sk1llz.
Just because you don't know how to use non garbage collected memory does not mean that functions that don't use it should be phased out.
Nice ad hominem. But the issue isn't whether he can use it, the issue is whether everyone who's code is running in the machine can use it, especially the guys who wrote libraries.
I need those functions to do my job since I write network based apps that require memory reuse and pointers to be able to process data as quickly as possible.and I've seen the results when some of our competition has attempted to do my job with garbage collected languages. (generally 3x the hardware requirements, 5x if they used java)
This is a strange statement. Garbage collection in no way prevents memory reuse; it simply automatically releases blocks of memory when they can't be accessed by following pointers from the root set anymore. In fact there's garbage collection libraries for plain C, some of which don't even require recompilation of applications but simply replace malloc() and free().
Besides, network applications are precisely those where it might be worthwile to use 5x hardware just to get some extra protection.
Not everything is a desktop application.
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True. Not every application has someone babysitting them all the time and validating all their inputs.
It does effect readers. It makes Wikipedia less useful for anything that might have a political aspect, which means that I think about using Wiki much less generally than I might.
To put it bluntly, you can't trust any source for finding info on things with political aspects. Even if the people writing it aren't making propaganda on purpose, they can't help but see reality through their own value system.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to animate the rape. Would he be laughing or crying?
Neither. It's a job, and you get used to it, just like coroners get used to theirs. However, running into the animation on a porn site might elicit a few cringes.
Nowadays, with an increasing number of ordinary people being labeled as criminals to protect the profits of the rich, and the constant hum of identity theft, it could be argued that such skills are becoming essential to anyone.
The claims of evolution skeptics and round-earth skeptics is not backed up by observation and evidence. On the other hand, the more extreme claims of anthropogenic global warming _proponents_ are not backed up with sufficient observation and are extrapolated from very small datasets.
Isn't it just amazing how human mind can simultaneously consider its owner rational and others irrational, despite both engaging in the exact same activity? You even included a cute little list about your favourite anecdotes; just replace "tree rings" with "carbon dating" and you have a typical Young Earth Creationist argument. It's all there, down to a vast conspiracy amongst scientists.
No dataset is large enough to prove something you don't want to believe, and not even the empty set is too small to prove what you want to. Oh, and the scientists are meanies who keep data from you, a random Slashdot poster who are undoubtedly more qualified to interpret it than them. Never mind that where I live the climate has changed quite dramatically in my very lifetime, it's all a conspiracy, a CONSPIRACY I say!
We all know that contributing upstream bandwidth that you're already paying for anyways is NOT the same as paying $10 for a DVD, otherwise we would be doing that.
Many times I see people keep on seeding, even if the file is in multiple small RAR files (yes, some morons still distribute gigabyte files formatted for floppies). Those RAR files are utterly useless once their content has been extracted, and take up valuable hard disk space, yet people still leave them there and the torrent program - which also consumes resources - running.
Also, given the choice, I'd rather pay $20 to a pirate than $10 to a media company, since the latter will use the money against me. It is unwise to fund your enemies.
And that an encoding and seeding job can be done by one person or a small team but lead to thousands of people getting it, so yes it is a "tiny subset" that contributes meaningful work (time and effort to encode and edit), while most 'contribute' something that requires no effort on their part.
Apparently there's enough people contributing their efforts that everything that gets released in a digital format - and many things that got released in analog ones - appear on P2P within days of their release, if not earlier, usually multiple times. The reason there's no more people ripping movies and disinfecting software is that even the current labour force is ridiculously oversized relative to the task.
Nearly everyone in P2P community contributes everything they can be reasonably expected to, and many people far in excess of that. It is your argument that is absurd, saying that people dublicating effort only 2-5 times rather than 1000 times over makes them freeloaders.
And while I think copyright laws are too strict and prosecuting for reverse-engineering is horrible, I have to rage a bit at the "evil corporations pay only a small % of sales to artists, so it's okay to copy" argument. What percentage of money from P2P downloads go to the artist? What is 1% of zero?
I haven't made any such argument. I'm against copyright simply because it is sick that our entire society and communication technology is getting twisted out of shape just to financially benefit people who make pop songs. And, as the secret ACTA negotiation process once again demonstrates, it seems impossible to have copyright that stays reasonable, I say we're better off without it.
The p2p audience seems to consist of pack-rats and freeloaders, with a tiny subset of people who take a moral (and sometimes hypocritical) stand.
The very fact that there is content available through P2P proves you wrong: someone went to the trouble of ripping, disinfecting, and uploading the game/movie/music in question. P2P couldn't exist if only a "tiny subset" contributed their personal resources; they would very soon run out and the system would collapse.
Google would have a much more stable leg to stand on if they simply said 'We are a US company, we will follow US laws.' when China asked them to tailor GoogleChina to meet the party demands.
Google is not a US company, it is an international company with physical assets - datacenters, mostly - all around the world.
Similar to safe harbor protections when it comes to ISPs, if you 'fly the flag' of a specific country on the Internet, you are bound by that country's laws. That doesn't mean that the local governments can't block your service, but it should serve as protection when local governments attempt to apply their laws to a foreign company.
If you have assets or business where a particular country can get to them, you either avoid pissing that country or risk losing them.
It's not the flag you're flying that matters, but the flags of the warships within cannon range.
I see that the Politically Correct Police has mod points today. And, like the cowards they are, they used "Overrated" to avoid metamoderation. Help, I'm being suppressed! The Man is trying to keep me down! Mutha Fuckas!
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There is an even more obvious solution: bomb Somalia, or at least the coast that lays next to the shipping lines, and burn it down to the bedrock.
If no other solution can be found, then that's what it will eventually come to. Sooner or later the pirates are going to hijack someone with sufficiently powerful friends that they'll be able to implement that solution; and Somalia, being a failed state, can't really fight back efficiently.
Ruling wisely requires you to have wisdom, while brutality is something any moron can manage. The Dark Side is the easier path.
Human rights are called such because they don't depend on the cultural context, they merely depend on the recipient being a human being. Are you arguing that Indians are subhumans incapable of dealing with free speech?
The only socio-political context where lack of free speech can be justified is one where it's okay for the elite to dominate over the rest. However, that context also justifies cultural imperialism. So, either the Indian government is wrong, or us Westerners protesting their actions are right.
Sorry to answer twice, but I just realized that what you described reminded me of Japanese porn. Somewhere, someone is reading this and seeing the possibilities of artificial flesh for new sex toys.
The Lovecraftian aspect of this just went up a notch.
You didn't get on top of the food chain, your ancestors did. You are a carrion eater who excepts others to make the kill and bribes them to let him eat the remains days later. Eating carrots and lettuce would actually be a step up, assuming you'd be growing them yourself.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with lettuce, pilgrim, and continues through worms, insects and other disgusting things. Start walking or settle for what you're given.
To be fair, saying goodbye to these would do us a world of good. Obesity has reached ridiculous levels, and most people simply don't have the willpower to resist "delicious food".
Aren't weak-kneed people exactly the ones who would most benefit from going to a gym ?-)
This seems like a job for virtual machines. Run each one in a separate instance, and that instance is for all intents and purposes their "home directory". Something goes wrong, simply reset the machine's disk image and restore user data from a backup.
And, of course, once you're running apps in a VM, the host can use Linux and get all the security/stability/efficiency advantages of that on top of Window's app support.
And this is the short summary why every Western government is trying to maintain a steady unemployment figure, and treats anything under ten percent unemployment as a threat.
Bastards will shoot back, at which point you risk damage to the ship and casualties amonst the crew. The former will drive up insurance costs and the latter labour ones.
Apart from that, these are not military personnel we're talking about, but civilian sailors. Actually shooting someone is difficult for most humans, and will likely cause post-traumatic stress and other problems - which, in the contxt of a ship in the middle of an ocean, is a very bad thing.
Oh, and your competitors will most likely accuse you of escalating the situation, which is bad PR and could also have legal consequences - more aggressive pirates will cause insurance costs to rise for everyone.
Making speeches is probably the most effective way of using force. Few dictators kill their opponents with their own hands, after all. That's probably the most important difference between someone who'll sit on a throne and one who'll get another kind of high-powered chair.
Unless you were altruistic, in which case you were evil and he'd make butthurt speeches against you and your evil socialist ways, designed to start a pro-selfishness revolution.
Mod me down, Randroids, for great irony.
Besides, don't the actual businessmen of this world engage in information control all the time?
Java can be compiled to machine code binaries. Every language can, since machine code is Turing complete. And there exists garbage collection modules for C and C++, so clearly being compiled to machine code ahead of time has nothing to do with being "managed code". So, please explain what your point was?
And just like most drivers aren't NASCAR material and need all the aid they can get, despite their delusions to the contrary, most programmers aren't John Carmack and need spoonfeeding, handholding and garbage collection, despite their vastly overinflated opinion about their l33t sk1llz.
I like that analogy !-)
Nice ad hominem. But the issue isn't whether he can use it, the issue is whether everyone who's code is running in the machine can use it, especially the guys who wrote libraries.
This is a strange statement. Garbage collection in no way prevents memory reuse; it simply automatically releases blocks of memory when they can't be accessed by following pointers from the root set anymore. In fact there's garbage collection libraries for plain C, some of which don't even require recompilation of applications but simply replace malloc() and free().
Besides, network applications are precisely those where it might be worthwile to use 5x hardware just to get some extra protection.
To put it bluntly, you can't trust any source for finding info on things with political aspects. Even if the people writing it aren't making propaganda on purpose, they can't help but see reality through their own value system.
Probably not very likely, since real life is not a detective novel.
Neither. It's a job, and you get used to it, just like coroners get used to theirs. However, running into the animation on a porn site might elicit a few cringes.
Nowadays, with an increasing number of ordinary people being labeled as criminals to protect the profits of the rich, and the constant hum of identity theft, it could be argued that such skills are becoming essential to anyone.
Isn't it just amazing how human mind can simultaneously consider its owner rational and others irrational, despite both engaging in the exact same activity? You even included a cute little list about your favourite anecdotes; just replace "tree rings" with "carbon dating" and you have a typical Young Earth Creationist argument. It's all there, down to a vast conspiracy amongst scientists.
No dataset is large enough to prove something you don't want to believe, and not even the empty set is too small to prove what you want to. Oh, and the scientists are meanies who keep data from you, a random Slashdot poster who are undoubtedly more qualified to interpret it than them. Never mind that where I live the climate has changed quite dramatically in my very lifetime, it's all a conspiracy, a CONSPIRACY I say!
It would be funny if it wasn't so damn scary.
Many times I see people keep on seeding, even if the file is in multiple small RAR files (yes, some morons still distribute gigabyte files formatted for floppies). Those RAR files are utterly useless once their content has been extracted, and take up valuable hard disk space, yet people still leave them there and the torrent program - which also consumes resources - running.
Also, given the choice, I'd rather pay $20 to a pirate than $10 to a media company, since the latter will use the money against me. It is unwise to fund your enemies.
Apparently there's enough people contributing their efforts that everything that gets released in a digital format - and many things that got released in analog ones - appear on P2P within days of their release, if not earlier, usually multiple times. The reason there's no more people ripping movies and disinfecting software is that even the current labour force is ridiculously oversized relative to the task.
Nearly everyone in P2P community contributes everything they can be reasonably expected to, and many people far in excess of that. It is your argument that is absurd, saying that people dublicating effort only 2-5 times rather than 1000 times over makes them freeloaders.
I haven't made any such argument. I'm against copyright simply because it is sick that our entire society and communication technology is getting twisted out of shape just to financially benefit people who make pop songs. And, as the secret ACTA negotiation process once again demonstrates, it seems impossible to have copyright that stays reasonable, I say we're better off without it.
The very fact that there is content available through P2P proves you wrong: someone went to the trouble of ripping, disinfecting, and uploading the game/movie/music in question. P2P couldn't exist if only a "tiny subset" contributed their personal resources; they would very soon run out and the system would collapse.
Google is not a US company, it is an international company with physical assets - datacenters, mostly - all around the world.
If you have assets or business where a particular country can get to them, you either avoid pissing that country or risk losing them.
It's not the flag you're flying that matters, but the flags of the warships within cannon range.
I see that the Politically Correct Police has mod points today. And, like the cowards they are, they used "Overrated" to avoid metamoderation. Help, I'm being suppressed! The Man is trying to keep me down! Mutha Fuckas!
Zero legal authority perhaps, but lots of Real Ultimate Power. In the end, that's enough.