If you allow Unicode in command languages, then there is no way to secure them with human possible effort, since filters essentially stop working.
Um... Why ? Why is filtering command sequences made from 32-bit characters inherently any more difficult than filtering 7-bit characters ? It doesn't make any sense to me.
A long tyme ago I used to write. I was in the process of writing a book and some articles a magazine editor was interested in printing when an accident ended it, seeing as I was in a coma I couldn't write. However I never would of tried to write anything for publication if I knew I couldn't copyright it. Why would I spend so much tyme writing something if someone else could take what I wrote and make some money off it without me seeing a dime?
So, in short, you didn't create anything under copyright, but you wouldn't had created anything without copyright either, so copyright is better than lack of copyright. I guess that's a very good argument, as far as pro-copyright ones go.
I would say rape is FAR GREATER in severity then death.
Death is the end, its over, the victim doesn't go through years and years of torture readjusting and surviving.
Since the victim does go through them, rather than end her life, she seems to disagree with you.
I would much prefer to have died then live with the scars and torment of rape, and I am sure many others would too.
Cold as this may seem, if you would rather not live with your scars, you have that choice. You can stop being alive, but you can't stop being dead.
Given time (and preferably treatment) scars fade and torment lessens. Never completely, but enough that you can live with them.
I'm curious how they are going to pay for the bandwidth to run such an endeavor. If the service is unreachable due to bandwidth issues then no matter how in demand it might be its not going to go anywhere. I'm sure that thepiratebay.org is a fairly high traffic site but essentially they are just serving lots of little static text files. Full, streaming video is going to be a bit of a jump from that.
So forget streaming and serve torrents to video files instead. That is better for the user, too, since he can use proper video player to watch the file full-screen (as opposed to a poststamp-sized picture surrounded by blinking adds) and save it for later.
Using streaming video to serve static video files is just plain idiotic.
4) Apparently the computers which control a nuclear plant are connected to the public Internet, allowing anyone in the world to send them commands, viruses, or random garbage, therefore allowing them to gain remote control over the reactors. Oh, and according to TFA, another nuclear plant runs Windows (since it was hit by the Slammer worm).
Someone please tell me that I'm wrong and the people who design these plants aren't this stupid. Please ?
It's very true - and I've seen the decline within my own lifetime. (I'm currently 43.)
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm 28, and when I was a kid, we used to say: "Fuck you, sir."
Seriously, every generation in history has claimed that manners are on the decline. They aren't, they simply change, and the older generation perceives these new customs as less civilized than the old, simply because they are different than what they are used to.
I assure you that when you were young people were every bit as evil, rude and nasty as today; they simply followed a protocol you are more familiar with than the current one, and time has removed the worst incidents of rudeness from your memory.
I tried to buy a simple tactical nuke the other day (just to defend my family against burglars, of course), and you wouldn't believe the paperwork you have to fill out!
You could use electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water and build your own. Just remember that hydrogen comes out of the cathode (the electrode connected to the postive end of the power source) and you'll do fine.
People who don't assemble their own nuclear weapons should just return their geek cards. They likely by Dell computers, too.
On the other hand, your joke has inspired me to consider the possibility of fingernail pornography. It must be out there somewhere. This is the Internet. Every part of the body has a fetishist. I'm very frightened, but I know it's out there.
Fingernail porn is nothing to be frightened about. On the other hand, I've been scarred ever since I read a sweet, sad, romantic and moving sex story... about necrophilia.
Then I realized that it's only a matter of time before someone - propably the Japanese - will make a porn movie starring zombies. And, horror of horrors, I found myself writing the plot late one night...
There's a small difference. Russian-speaking people often lived for decades in Estonia, they were not immigrants.
And in all those decades, they didn't manage to pick up enough language skills to pass a single test ? I find that rather strange.
Oh well, I guess I should just be happy that Finland managed to repel the Russian "liberators", so we don't have this problem. Altought I have to admit being a bit worried watching the Soviet Union being apparently rebuilt right next to us...
look, i am on estonia's side on this issue, but please stop pretending nationalistic pride is only something that fuels the russians. it fuels the estonians as well
It could be nationalistic pride, or it could be hatred of Russia. After all, I'm not even 30 yet and I remember when Soviet Union fell and the Baltic states were freed. Chances are that there are many estonians who also remember what it was like to live behind Iron Curtain; in fact there are likely to be many who remember what it was like to have their loved ones "disappear".
If someone spent decades oppressing you, and then you were freed, would you want to keep mementos glorifying their reign ? And if you didn't, would that decision be fueled by pride, or by the desire to get rid of anything that reminded you of the bad old times ?
I'd argue the fundamental problem is the lack of any real definition of what "free will" is. Free will can't simply mean that different individuals follow different patterns - that would be expected through variations in neural wiring as a result of genetics. Free will to me means something approaching a "soul" - a non-materialist inner part of me that can make "decisions" about how I will act. In other words "I" - under a definition of "I" that involves more than just patterns of neural activity - can make choices based on beliefs and reasoning, and then act on those beliefs
This does not solve the problem. Either your decisions and actions are based on something (such as your circumstances and personality), in which case they are deterministic; or they are not, in which case they are random; or some combination of the two. Whether the "you" in question is made of carbon, silicon, stuff the dreams are made of, or some unimaginable thing is irrelevant. The exact same logic still applies.
The basic problem is that "free will" is something an observer ascribes to himself; you can tell whether you are deciding freely or under coercion of some kind, but you can't really say if others are (altought of course you can try imagining yourself in their situation and making an educated guess based on that). I know I made the decision to post this message freely, but the rest of you could - given advanced enough technology - trace this action to some deterministic causes.
In fact, given suitably advanced technology, you could trace any emotion or mental state to some physical state in my body. Does that make those emotions illusionary ? Of course not, they simply are how I perceive my own state, just like I perceive certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiance as "blue" and some sequences of air pressure changes as "music". "Free will" is the same: it is a perception an entity makes about the causes of its actions.
But I don't think that the weather is self aware. Neither are fruit flies for that matter, IMO. Self awareness means that you'd be able to pass the mirror test for example.
I guess a blind man wouldn't be self-aware, then ?
Seriously speaking, the test is utterly flawed, because it assumes that
The entity in question has and uses reasonably sharp visual perception.
Can use visual perception (as opposed to, say, sound or smell) to tell individuals of its kind apart from each other.
Knows what itself looks like.
Has enough intelligence to understand the concept of a mirror.
Sees any reason to care about its reflection (since ignoring it apparently means it fails the test).
You've made it clear that you regard a person's earnings as the property of the state, to be granted or withheld from the wage-earner at will. That is the antithesis of liberty.
No, it is the antithesis of the idea of private property (or perhaps capitalism). The antithesis of liberty - freedom - is bondage.
It is not at all clear that private ownership has anything to do with liberty, and in fact it can be argued that they are antithetical concepts; after all, owning some resource means having a State-granted monopoly on using it, meaning that other people are prevented (by force) from using it.
Of course none of this makes confiscating someone's property arbitrarily a good idea or morally right.
Am I the only one that sees the irony in this statement? God carrying out Darwins theories? Im sure those intelligent design nuts wont like that one bit...
Actually, shouldn't it be the other way around ? Whenever you do something stupid and dangerous and die as a result, that's Darwin's theories in effect. Whenever you do something stupid and dangerous and come out unharmed, that's God intervening on your behalf.
I used to think most drivers had at least a modicum of common sense until the other day when I was out having a smoke in front of my local bar and watched a lady in her 50s literally brushing her teeth while driving westbound on 45th.
My personal favorite is the guy who was reading a newspaper while driving a truck carrying crushed rock - you know, those things with 5 axis and around 30-40 tons of weight - in a city center at rush hour.
There are a couple other exceptions, but generally using WINE is a simple process, after the initial "sudo apt-get install wine" command it's all 'OK' or 'cancel' buttons to set it up; and after you've done that, installing a Windows application in WINE is pretty much the same as, well, installing a Windows app in Windows.
Yeah, WINE is easy to use:
wine program.exe
A FUBARed or unusable slow user interface appears on screen, or Wine crashes, sometimes fucking up the screen resolution first.
Realize this application doesn't work with Wine, and see if you can get a Linux equivalent.
I haven't found a single program that would work well in Wine, besides ProgressQuest. Dell made the right decision to not include it, since it is not usefull in its current state, and likely never will be. If you want to use Linux, you must find Linux versions of whatever apps you want to run, or do without; forget running Windows apps on Linux, it's not going to work.
This is hardly the first game where you 'play God', but I think it's probably the most complicated so far, and will probably be quite a bit more controversial than Black & White once the extremists find out.
Actually, this sounds like Simlife with 3D graphics. Which, IMHO, is the best God game this far, and deserves a new expanded version.
One New Year's Eve, I was driving home in the ice storm from hell with a girlfriend, when we come across a pickup truck trying to go up a particularly icy street in front of a bar. They were flooring it, and apparently had been for some time, because by the time we got there they had worn the turning wheel down to bare rim, which was shooting an impressive stream of sparks as they gunned it.
What, exactly speaking, is this supposed to show ? That any car is undrivable in any conditions if the driver doesn't have a clue ?
The bottom line: energy is cheap, and energy will remain cheap. If the powers that be try to change that then we'll change them. It's as simple as that.
No, as a matter of fact energy won't remain cheap. The cost of oil is rising and will continue to rise as the demand rises and supply falls. That's why you need to start moving to energy efficient devices now, when there's still plenty of relatively cheap energy to manufacture them with; if you wait until the rising cost of energy creates a significant pressure to migrate, that same rising energy cost will also rise the cost of newly manufactured energy-efficient vechiles enough to make them unattainable to the lower classes, causing them to be trapped with inefficient vechiles which cost too much to use, leaving them without any transportation. And of course, the cargo transportation industry will face the same problem, causing your country to grind to a screeching halt.
So, you either artificially rise the price of gasoline and diesel oil now and cause a migration to more efficient vechiles now when they are still relatively cheap to manufacture, or you wait until the price rises naturally and face a huge, possibly fatal, problem. Your choice.
I know our technician wouldn't even give a definitive on sex since they are occasionally wrong and people get pissed if they have to repaint a room or return all the baby clothes.
This may be a stupid question, but... Why do you need to repaint a room if the baby is another sex than you were told ? Is this some weird American cultural thing or something ?
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Um... Why ? Why is filtering command sequences made from 32-bit characters inherently any more difficult than filtering 7-bit characters ? It doesn't make any sense to me.
So, in short, you didn't create anything under copyright, but you wouldn't had created anything without copyright either, so copyright is better than lack of copyright. I guess that's a very good argument, as far as pro-copyright ones go.
Since the victim does go through them, rather than end her life, she seems to disagree with you.
Cold as this may seem, if you would rather not live with your scars, you have that choice. You can stop being alive, but you can't stop being dead.
Given time (and preferably treatment) scars fade and torment lessens. Never completely, but enough that you can live with them.
So forget streaming and serve torrents to video files instead. That is better for the user, too, since he can use proper video player to watch the file full-screen (as opposed to a poststamp-sized picture surrounded by blinking adds) and save it for later.
Using streaming video to serve static video files is just plain idiotic.
4) Apparently the computers which control a nuclear plant are connected to the public Internet, allowing anyone in the world to send them commands, viruses, or random garbage, therefore allowing them to gain remote control over the reactors. Oh, and according to TFA, another nuclear plant runs Windows (since it was hit by the Slammer worm).
Someone please tell me that I'm wrong and the people who design these plants aren't this stupid. Please ?
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm 28, and when I was a kid, we used to say: "Fuck you, sir."
Seriously, every generation in history has claimed that manners are on the decline. They aren't, they simply change, and the older generation perceives these new customs as less civilized than the old, simply because they are different than what they are used to.
I assure you that when you were young people were every bit as evil, rude and nasty as today; they simply followed a protocol you are more familiar with than the current one, and time has removed the worst incidents of rudeness from your memory.
You could use electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water and build your own. Just remember that hydrogen comes out of the cathode (the electrode connected to the postive end of the power source) and you'll do fine.
People who don't assemble their own nuclear weapons should just return their geek cards. They likely by Dell computers, too.
You mean Unicron's in this movie ?
Fingernail porn is nothing to be frightened about. On the other hand, I've been scarred ever since I read a sweet, sad, romantic and moving sex story... about necrophilia.
Then I realized that it's only a matter of time before someone - propably the Japanese - will make a porn movie starring zombies. And, horror of horrors, I found myself writing the plot late one night...
And in all those decades, they didn't manage to pick up enough language skills to pass a single test ? I find that rather strange.
Oh well, I guess I should just be happy that Finland managed to repel the Russian "liberators", so we don't have this problem. Altought I have to admit being a bit worried watching the Soviet Union being apparently rebuilt right next to us...
It could be nationalistic pride, or it could be hatred of Russia. After all, I'm not even 30 yet and I remember when Soviet Union fell and the Baltic states were freed. Chances are that there are many estonians who also remember what it was like to live behind Iron Curtain; in fact there are likely to be many who remember what it was like to have their loved ones "disappear".
If someone spent decades oppressing you, and then you were freed, would you want to keep mementos glorifying their reign ? And if you didn't, would that decision be fueled by pride, or by the desire to get rid of anything that reminded you of the bad old times ?
I'm not American, so I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that he was in fact shot dead.
This does not solve the problem. Either your decisions and actions are based on something (such as your circumstances and personality), in which case they are deterministic; or they are not, in which case they are random; or some combination of the two. Whether the "you" in question is made of carbon, silicon, stuff the dreams are made of, or some unimaginable thing is irrelevant. The exact same logic still applies.
The basic problem is that "free will" is something an observer ascribes to himself; you can tell whether you are deciding freely or under coercion of some kind, but you can't really say if others are (altought of course you can try imagining yourself in their situation and making an educated guess based on that). I know I made the decision to post this message freely, but the rest of you could - given advanced enough technology - trace this action to some deterministic causes.
In fact, given suitably advanced technology, you could trace any emotion or mental state to some physical state in my body. Does that make those emotions illusionary ? Of course not, they simply are how I perceive my own state, just like I perceive certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiance as "blue" and some sequences of air pressure changes as "music". "Free will" is the same: it is a perception an entity makes about the causes of its actions.
I guess a blind man wouldn't be self-aware, then ?
Seriously speaking, the test is utterly flawed, because it assumes that
That propably does the Congress credit, if this guy is seriously trying to push life imprisonment for copyright infringement.
No, it is the antithesis of the idea of private property (or perhaps capitalism). The antithesis of liberty - freedom - is bondage.
It is not at all clear that private ownership has anything to do with liberty, and in fact it can be argued that they are antithetical concepts; after all, owning some resource means having a State-granted monopoly on using it, meaning that other people are prevented (by force) from using it.
Of course none of this makes confiscating someone's property arbitrarily a good idea or morally right.
Actually, shouldn't it be the other way around ? Whenever you do something stupid and dangerous and die as a result, that's Darwin's theories in effect. Whenever you do something stupid and dangerous and come out unharmed, that's God intervening on your behalf.
My personal favorite is the guy who was reading a newspaper while driving a truck carrying crushed rock - you know, those things with 5 axis and around 30-40 tons of weight - in a city center at rush hour.
Personally, I like to look at the women who put on clothes while driving - and especially the ones who aren't so good at it :).
Yeah, WINE is easy to use:
I haven't found a single program that would work well in Wine, besides ProgressQuest. Dell made the right decision to not include it, since it is not usefull in its current state, and likely never will be. If you want to use Linux, you must find Linux versions of whatever apps you want to run, or do without; forget running Windows apps on Linux, it's not going to work.
Actually, this sounds like Simlife with 3D graphics. Which, IMHO, is the best God game this far, and deserves a new expanded version.
What, exactly speaking, is this supposed to show ? That any car is undrivable in any conditions if the driver doesn't have a clue ?
No, as a matter of fact energy won't remain cheap. The cost of oil is rising and will continue to rise as the demand rises and supply falls. That's why you need to start moving to energy efficient devices now, when there's still plenty of relatively cheap energy to manufacture them with; if you wait until the rising cost of energy creates a significant pressure to migrate, that same rising energy cost will also rise the cost of newly manufactured energy-efficient vechiles enough to make them unattainable to the lower classes, causing them to be trapped with inefficient vechiles which cost too much to use, leaving them without any transportation. And of course, the cargo transportation industry will face the same problem, causing your country to grind to a screeching halt.
So, you either artificially rise the price of gasoline and diesel oil now and cause a migration to more efficient vechiles now when they are still relatively cheap to manufacture, or you wait until the price rises naturally and face a huge, possibly fatal, problem. Your choice.
Why so ? Does this company have a small legal warchest or something ?
Sure, the suit itself is ridiculous, but that hasn't stopped the US courts before...
This may be a stupid question, but... Why do you need to repaint a room if the baby is another sex than you were told ? Is this some weird American cultural thing or something ?