I never said it should be a rule/law or anything like that. However, I think it's a policy that corporations / gov't agencies / universities should get through their thick skulls, and the only way that's going to happen is if the consumer gets fed up enough to do something about it.
You missed my point. If there's a corporate policy that only select few may access the data, then there must be someone who enforces this policy and keeps everyone not authorized to access the data from accessing it. Who guards that guy and keeps him honest ?
"Do you have any idea how fast you were going?", asks the cop.
"No. But I know exactly where I am!"
But he does have some idea of how fast he's going - over zero and under c. Which means that, since his speed is not infinitely uncertain, his position cannot be absolutely certain.
But if you could determine his position with absolute certainty, would his speed come uncertain enough to possible make him faster than light ?
Wouldn't solar sails also violate the law of conservation of momentum as photons bouncing off a sail have no mass, and yet cause the sail to accelerate?
Photons have no rest mass, but, according to special relativity, it has momentum depending on its wavelength.
I think you're forgetting that it involves relativity, therefore doesn't need to make sense. Plus I seem to remember that conservation of momentum was a by product of that 4-vector thing, so maybe something funny happens. Maybe.
Nothing funny, just a little omitted detail: the force light exerts on the side walls.
Sure, the guy is taking into account the force exerted on side walls perpendicular to the direction this thing is supposed to travel to. However, the side walls are at an angle to that direction, and therefore also experience a force against the direction this thing is supposed to travel to. This latter force is missing from the diagram in the PDF file. Unfortunately I can't do mathemathics well enough to check if it's included in the mathemathics part - can someone else confirm that it's missing ?
Or to put it another way: the side walls are slanted so that the force exerted on them by light has a component that pushes against (and, I suspect, exactly matches) the net force generated by the end plates.
This still raises the question on where the observed force comes. Maybe the power cord experiences heat expansion and pushes it a little, or maybe turning on power generates a magnetic field that's attracted to something ?
Uh, what? Why not keep the wings, and use one of these as the primary rearward thrust device? You need less thrust to keep a winged aircraft in the air than you do for keeping a device up off the ground.
More importantly, with wings you don't fall like a rock if the power is cut, but can glide down in a somewhat controlled manner and may actually survive. There's also the matter of needing some kind of find anyway for stability and to at as control surfaces.
And none of those people should ever be allowed to take any portion of that list out of the system in any way, not on a thumb drive, not on a laptop, nothing.
And who's going to enforce this rule ?
It is impossible to design a system that is immune to corruption, especially if the designers/maintainers themselves could possibly be prone to it. The only solution is to pay enough money to your employees that they don't want to risk their job, and treat them well enough that they don't want to screw you - and that means no firing anyone to drive up stock price, since that makes people wonder if they're going to be next and need to prepare themselves a nice severance package / revenge.
I repeat, restate and reiterate: there is always someone who can both betray you and not get caught. Now matter how draconian security measures you come up with, you will always face the same problem: who will guard the guards ?
Imagine an ATC system just randomly shutting itself down, not because of an unrecoverable error, but because of a design methodology buzzword... People die and programmers go to prison for bugs like that.
If someone's life depends on the program working as should, then don't use C. In fact, don't use any stack-based language, since stack-based languages don't have any inherent upper limit for memory use of a given program, so you could run out in some strange circumstances. For the same reason you don't want dynamic memory allocation. And direct memory access is an absolute no-no for obvious reasons.
Mind you, you can still use functions and local variables, but a function can't call itself (directly or by any other function it called). Therefore, there is no way of getting recursion (which is good, since it removes the possibility of infinite recursion).
Anyway, the point is that if we're talking life and death, you don't use C, you use a language designed for the task. Because, while it is possible to write bugless code in C, you aren't a good enough coder. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible moment - so better make sure that there's nothing that can go wrong.
ALWAYS check your inputs, but don't chuck the whole program in the middle of decrease_radiation_strength() because your call to format_a_string_real_pretty_like() didn't like the color-name passed to it.
Why on Earth are you formatting strings in the same process and memory space you are controlling radiation strength in ? You separate them, so that if the UI dies the patient won't.
Don't integrate vital systems - separate everything you possibly can from the truly vital part, the radiation controller. This is especially vital in C, where the string handling functions will bleed all over the program memory space and die at some point.
Google has made great hay out of its "Do No Evil" slogan, but some of its practices, such as collaborating with governments that do not recognize the fundamental human right of freedom of speech, make me wonder.
There is no reason to wonder. Google is a corporation. Corporations, on the account of having no heart, soul or conscience, are incapable of being anything but diabolical, in the D&D sense of the word (lawful evil, the ultimate being the devils). What this means is that a corporation will do anything it can get away with, in cooperation with lawful authority (since the corporate model is not really well suited for outright warfare - that's best outsourced to tyrannical governments).
Google's "Do No Evil" is propaganda. Believing propaganda is rather foolish. The reality is that if cooperating with an evil dictator will give higher return of investment than not cooperating, then Google will cooperate.
The same is true of every other corporation in the planet, and is the reason why capitalism absolutely needs a strong central government: it is the only thing capable of keeping the coporations in line. This is also the reason why globalization will end in a disaster: there is no global government to force global corporations to behave, and trying to form one will propably start either World War 3 or Apocalypse or both. Which, of course, won't stop some moron from trying...
More importantly, freedom of speech does not allow you to just ignore lawsuits brought against you for defamation. The correct response if you are in the right is to defend yourself in court.
If someone sues you in a Chinese court, are you going to go there to defend yourself, or are you going to ignore them ? Spamhaus is based on UK, not USA; the US court in question has no jurisdiction over them, so why would Spamhous care ?
The correct answer to a barking dog behind a fence is to ignore it.
So, ok, a search engine company decides it doesn't want to pay royalties and therefor doesn't index the provider's site. Now won't the provider actually lose readers since their articles won't be locatable by search anymore?
Sounds like rounds for suing the search engine for lost revenue to me !
"Your honor, by refusing to pay our fee the search engine is not only depriving us of our fair due, but also giving an unfair competitive advantage to our competitors. We demand that they add us to their search database and pay our very reasonable fee for accessing our pages."
And if anyone mods me funny, well... that's one naive fellow, then.
Give me a moment and I will find a correlation between music piracy and e-coli in spinach.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure that e-coli incidents - and food poisoning incidents in general - have gone down from what they were a thousand years ago, due to the invention of refrigeration. At the same time, Internet music piracy has gone up from virtual zero at 1000 AD to the current level.
The conclusion is obvious: Music piracy prevents food poisoning !
It's like making a story out of the fact that MSFT painted the outside of their buildings bright yellow.
Yeah, it's like posting a story saying that Microsoft employees have flu.
Let's face it, Slashdot takes tabloid journalism to new lows, posting sensational headlines and letting readers fill in the blank spaces below. And I love it, quoth Frank Drebin:).
As I said, it's a special tax. Hardly even a tax at all, since it's opt in. More of a purchase really, since it has unit a limit. Kinda like unlimited Internet access.
As long as it's paid to the state, as opposed to a private person or organization, my point stays: it defracts from the ideal purity of true capitalism and helps communism.
And unlimited Internet access (by which I presume you mean no transfer cap) has nothing to do with this, as long as it's purchased from a private entity. It has nothing to do with communism.
But keep up your explanations; you can't hide the desperation from shining through, you taxpaying, law-abiding, socially functional communist ! Soon you'll be talking about finding "fishermen's clubs" as a cover to your commie cell... You might even (gasp, horror) use shared equipment there ! Communist !
Oh my God! The Internet is a social democracy under oligarchic control. I'd better opt out to preserve my politcal purity.
The Internet is mostly privately owned. It is certainly not a democracy - or when did you last vote about ICANN's decisions ? And oligarchy is perfectly compatible with capitalism, in fact capitalism inevitably leads to oligarchy since in it money is power and concentrates soon in few hands.
And I'll buy a plastic bag to put over my head.
Now what did I say about self-sufficiency ? Think of the starving hitmen !
I pay a special, very capitalist, tax for the right to fish, even though I let the little buggers go.
And... ?
Paying taxes is no capitalist but socialist. After all, in pure capitalism market decides absolutely everything, so state has absolutely no tasks - no, not even enforcement of contracts or laws; if the market forces don't provide police, courts and army, then obviously they aren't needed - and therefore no operating expenses either, so it won't need taxes. Which gets to my next point:
When you're paying taxes, you're paying for communism !
But wait ! We've forgetting something ! Air is free to all, and certainly an important means of production - just try to make something while not breathing if you don't believe me. So:
When you're breathing, you're inhaling communism !
There won't be as many icebergs for ships to run into.
Actually there will likely be more.
Warmer water will weaken the edge of the polar icecap, causing it to splinter into icebergs more easily; at the same time, having open water nearer the pole means increased rainfall, which in turn means more ice formation. The circulation of water gets faster with more energy in the system; and iceberg formation is a part of that circulation, so it will intensify as well.
And of course Atlantic storms will get worse too, the rising sealevel will drown out port towns, and the drying farmland means that sailors will starve to death before boarding the ships. Doom and gloom, man, doom and gloom.
I love WWII games as much as the next guy, but I don't recall a single one where you were an SS officer incharge or part of running a Nazi death camp.
Well, what store would carry it ? Besides, you can allready turn Sims into death camp simulation if you wish, so there's no need of it...
We don't have war sims that show what really happened when your army captured an enemies city/village/town. We have the burning and occasionally we do have looting in games. I have, yet to see Civ, Age of Empires or any other game do the full rape, pillage, and burn rountine.
Civ and Master of Magic let you raze a captured city to the ground for gold.
I'd say games like Wolf3D and Doom where you are shooting genetically modified humans, or aliens/demons gave the player moral absolution from slaughtering everything in their path.
Actually you're shooting Nazis in Wolf3D. Only mission 2 has modified humans in it, and even they seem to be surgically, rather than genetically, altered.
As a fun detail, Doom 2 has a bonus level where you get to meet again the Nazis you sent to Hell in Wolfenstein. I wonder where they went that time around ?
If I picked up a school shooter and it was modded to use us my classmates from highschool and the teachers, I'd have a very difficult time just randomly shooting people that pissed me off before the police came and gave me a head shoot. That game wouldn't be very fun for me.
There's a huge difference between people who piss you off and people who torture you for years for their own sick fun. The first category doesn't evoke true bloodlust, the second does. If you only knew the first in school, be thankful, but don't generalize your experience.
Now a game where I get to play with the drill team or cheerleaders or just Sim Drill Team with lots of bouncy 15-18 year old girls I could see outselling Mario.
Or just get the best of both worlds: translate Giana Sisters to 3D:).
And please learn to use paragraph breaks. Your text is needlessly hard to read when it's all just a big blob and will be simply skipped by many readers because of it.
Does this mean that if you go fishing you're aiding terrorism?
Yes. You should get your fish from a market. Preferably fish imported from Japan. If you are self-sufficient in some respect, you are destroying the pillars of mutual dependence on which current capitalism and world economy are built.
Besides, the fish are not privately owned. You are benefiting from public property. Which means that:
Now, I have not followed advanced in this area, but what exactly will these fish do if someone pours a tanker of something that is the opposite in thermal specificity. Something harmless for coldblooded animals which kills warm blooded only?
Keep the water temperature in the test tank around 37 degrees Celsius ?
Magical ability? Only if you're talking in terms of AI picture recognition.
In order for AI - or your Genuine Intelligence for that matter - to recognize child porn pics, or any other kind of pics, it has to first download the image data. The magical part is being able to tell that a certain pattern of bits represents a pornographic image of underage person before you have the bits in question available.
In other words: if you can get jailed by downloading kiddy porn from newsgroups, then you can never read them safely. It is impossible to know that a given message does not contain such an image before you have the message contents avaiable, which you only have after downloading them. Consequently, you can't use Usenet - or the Web, or e-mail, or, in fact, any service which allows you to exchange data (since that data could always have child porn hidden into it) - at all.
I'm pretty sure, that every picture on the internet has some sorta tracking information, it should have tracking information, if it does not then I'd be surprised. If each camera puts personal information about the computer you are on, when you upload pictures to windows, whenever you distribute it, it should know exactly which computer it originated from, the time and date it was taken, maybe even name and email type information along with computer ID, this way you can simply track any picture back to the founder. This would do more to solve the kiddie porn problem than anything else.
And we've better make ImageMagick illegal, since it can be used to strip metadata from images (for the purposes of making them smaller). Better also forbid the Gimp, not to mention all the open-sourced libraries for reading and writing image formats.
Seriously, this is an utterly braindead idea, which means that it will propably become a law sooner or later, and that you have a bright career in politics ahead of you.
I remember when I was in the military, I decided to stop bulk downloading porn because of it. I didn't want to land in Leavenworth because my news client downloaded some picture of a naked little girl.
Yeah, that's what you get for usign a mass downloader which doesn't have your magical ability to tell what image shows a naked little girl before downloading it:).
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You missed my point. If there's a corporate policy that only select few may access the data, then there must be someone who enforces this policy and keeps everyone not authorized to access the data from accessing it. Who guards that guy and keeps him honest ?
But he does have some idea of how fast he's going - over zero and under c. Which means that, since his speed is not infinitely uncertain, his position cannot be absolutely certain.
But if you could determine his position with absolute certainty, would his speed come uncertain enough to possible make him faster than light ?
Photons have no rest mass, but, according to special relativity, it has momentum depending on its wavelength.
Nothing funny, just a little omitted detail: the force light exerts on the side walls.
Sure, the guy is taking into account the force exerted on side walls perpendicular to the direction this thing is supposed to travel to. However, the side walls are at an angle to that direction, and therefore also experience a force against the direction this thing is supposed to travel to. This latter force is missing from the diagram in the PDF file. Unfortunately I can't do mathemathics well enough to check if it's included in the mathemathics part - can someone else confirm that it's missing ?
Or to put it another way: the side walls are slanted so that the force exerted on them by light has a component that pushes against (and, I suspect, exactly matches) the net force generated by the end plates.
This still raises the question on where the observed force comes. Maybe the power cord experiences heat expansion and pushes it a little, or maybe turning on power generates a magnetic field that's attracted to something ?
More importantly, with wings you don't fall like a rock if the power is cut, but can glide down in a somewhat controlled manner and may actually survive. There's also the matter of needing some kind of find anyway for stability and to at as control surfaces.
And who's going to enforce this rule ?
It is impossible to design a system that is immune to corruption, especially if the designers/maintainers themselves could possibly be prone to it. The only solution is to pay enough money to your employees that they don't want to risk their job, and treat them well enough that they don't want to screw you - and that means no firing anyone to drive up stock price, since that makes people wonder if they're going to be next and need to prepare themselves a nice severance package / revenge.
I repeat, restate and reiterate: there is always someone who can both betray you and not get caught. Now matter how draconian security measures you come up with, you will always face the same problem: who will guard the guards ?
If someone's life depends on the program working as should, then don't use C. In fact, don't use any stack-based language, since stack-based languages don't have any inherent upper limit for memory use of a given program, so you could run out in some strange circumstances. For the same reason you don't want dynamic memory allocation. And direct memory access is an absolute no-no for obvious reasons.
Mind you, you can still use functions and local variables, but a function can't call itself (directly or by any other function it called). Therefore, there is no way of getting recursion (which is good, since it removes the possibility of infinite recursion).
Anyway, the point is that if we're talking life and death, you don't use C, you use a language designed for the task. Because, while it is possible to write bugless code in C, you aren't a good enough coder. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible moment - so better make sure that there's nothing that can go wrong.
Why on Earth are you formatting strings in the same process and memory space you are controlling radiation strength in ? You separate them, so that if the UI dies the patient won't.
Don't integrate vital systems - separate everything you possibly can from the truly vital part, the radiation controller. This is especially vital in C, where the string handling functions will bleed all over the program memory space and die at some point.
There is no reason to wonder. Google is a corporation. Corporations, on the account of having no heart, soul or conscience, are incapable of being anything but diabolical, in the D&D sense of the word (lawful evil, the ultimate being the devils). What this means is that a corporation will do anything it can get away with, in cooperation with lawful authority (since the corporate model is not really well suited for outright warfare - that's best outsourced to tyrannical governments).
Google's "Do No Evil" is propaganda. Believing propaganda is rather foolish. The reality is that if cooperating with an evil dictator will give higher return of investment than not cooperating, then Google will cooperate.
The same is true of every other corporation in the planet, and is the reason why capitalism absolutely needs a strong central government: it is the only thing capable of keeping the coporations in line. This is also the reason why globalization will end in a disaster: there is no global government to force global corporations to behave, and trying to form one will propably start either World War 3 or Apocalypse or both. Which, of course, won't stop some moron from trying...
If someone sues you in a Chinese court, are you going to go there to defend yourself, or are you going to ignore them ? Spamhaus is based on UK, not USA; the US court in question has no jurisdiction over them, so why would Spamhous care ?
The correct answer to a barking dog behind a fence is to ignore it.
Apparently it doesn't allow you to keep a list of people and allow public access to the list either. I'm starting to wonder if it allows anything.
Sounds like rounds for suing the search engine for lost revenue to me !
"Your honor, by refusing to pay our fee the search engine is not only depriving us of our fair due, but also giving an unfair competitive advantage to our competitors. We demand that they add us to their search database and pay our very reasonable fee for accessing our pages."
And if anyone mods me funny, well... that's one naive fellow, then.
Here in Finland we call you before a court for counting a vote twice ;).
Hmm... I'm pretty sure that e-coli incidents - and food poisoning incidents in general - have gone down from what they were a thousand years ago, due to the invention of refrigeration. At the same time, Internet music piracy has gone up from virtual zero at 1000 AD to the current level.
The conclusion is obvious: Music piracy prevents food poisoning !
Outlaw DRM, think of the children !
Yeah, it's like posting a story saying that Microsoft employees have flu.
Let's face it, Slashdot takes tabloid journalism to new lows, posting sensational headlines and letting readers fill in the blank spaces below. And I love it, quoth Frank Drebin :).
As long as it's paid to the state, as opposed to a private person or organization, my point stays: it defracts from the ideal purity of true capitalism and helps communism.
And unlimited Internet access (by which I presume you mean no transfer cap) has nothing to do with this, as long as it's purchased from a private entity. It has nothing to do with communism.
But keep up your explanations; you can't hide the desperation from shining through, you taxpaying, law-abiding, socially functional communist ! Soon you'll be talking about finding "fishermen's clubs" as a cover to your commie cell... You might even (gasp, horror) use shared equipment there ! Communist !
The Internet is mostly privately owned. It is certainly not a democracy - or when did you last vote about ICANN's decisions ? And oligarchy is perfectly compatible with capitalism, in fact capitalism inevitably leads to oligarchy since in it money is power and concentrates soon in few hands.
Now what did I say about self-sufficiency ? Think of the starving hitmen !
And... ?
Paying taxes is no capitalist but socialist. After all, in pure capitalism market decides absolutely everything, so state has absolutely no tasks - no, not even enforcement of contracts or laws; if the market forces don't provide police, courts and army, then obviously they aren't needed - and therefore no operating expenses either, so it won't need taxes. Which gets to my next point:
When you're paying taxes, you're paying for communism !
But wait ! We've forgetting something ! Air is free to all, and certainly an important means of production - just try to make something while not breathing if you don't believe me. So:
When you're breathing, you're inhaling communism !
Quite true. Notice I said "polar", not "arctic". Altought I should have made it plural, "polar icecaps" instead of "the polar icecap".
Suckers ! My car has 20 horsepowers already !
Actually there will likely be more.
Warmer water will weaken the edge of the polar icecap, causing it to splinter into icebergs more easily; at the same time, having open water nearer the pole means increased rainfall, which in turn means more ice formation. The circulation of water gets faster with more energy in the system; and iceberg formation is a part of that circulation, so it will intensify as well.
And of course Atlantic storms will get worse too, the rising sealevel will drown out port towns, and the drying farmland means that sailors will starve to death before boarding the ships. Doom and gloom, man, doom and gloom.
Well, what store would carry it ? Besides, you can allready turn Sims into death camp simulation if you wish, so there's no need of it...
Civ and Master of Magic let you raze a captured city to the ground for gold.
Actually you're shooting Nazis in Wolf3D. Only mission 2 has modified humans in it, and even they seem to be surgically, rather than genetically, altered.
As a fun detail, Doom 2 has a bonus level where you get to meet again the Nazis you sent to Hell in Wolfenstein. I wonder where they went that time around ?
There's a huge difference between people who piss you off and people who torture you for years for their own sick fun. The first category doesn't evoke true bloodlust, the second does. If you only knew the first in school, be thankful, but don't generalize your experience.
Or just get the best of both worlds: translate Giana Sisters to 3D :).
And please learn to use paragraph breaks. Your text is needlessly hard to read when it's all just a big blob and will be simply skipped by many readers because of it.
Yes. You should get your fish from a market. Preferably fish imported from Japan. If you are self-sufficient in some respect, you are destroying the pillars of mutual dependence on which current capitalism and world economy are built.
Besides, the fish are not privately owned. You are benefiting from public property. Which means that:
When you're fishing, you're catching communism !
Keep the water temperature in the test tank around 37 degrees Celsius ?
In order for AI - or your Genuine Intelligence for that matter - to recognize child porn pics, or any other kind of pics, it has to first download the image data. The magical part is being able to tell that a certain pattern of bits represents a pornographic image of underage person before you have the bits in question available.
In other words: if you can get jailed by downloading kiddy porn from newsgroups, then you can never read them safely. It is impossible to know that a given message does not contain such an image before you have the message contents avaiable, which you only have after downloading them. Consequently, you can't use Usenet - or the Web, or e-mail, or, in fact, any service which allows you to exchange data (since that data could always have child porn hidden into it) - at all.
And we've better make ImageMagick illegal, since it can be used to strip metadata from images (for the purposes of making them smaller). Better also forbid the Gimp, not to mention all the open-sourced libraries for reading and writing image formats.
Seriously, this is an utterly braindead idea, which means that it will propably become a law sooner or later, and that you have a bright career in politics ahead of you.
Yeah, that's what you get for usign a mass downloader which doesn't have your magical ability to tell what image shows a naked little girl before downloading it :).