Its far easier for a 3rd party overwatching election committee to verify that the box is empty before the election, than to verify that the electronic election is actually reset, and the machines aren't tampered, and have no back doors, and so forth.
The only way we can enforce those evil pirates to stop pirating content, would be to put surveillance on all of their digital communications!
Lets have the government listen on to their p2p, email and other Internet communications. And if they're encrypted, lets arrest them, and confiscate their computing equipment so that we can decrypt the communication and know if they're pirating with their buddies!
After all, copyright infringement is more important than privacy, or protecting people from unreasonable search&seizures.
Even hibernate takes a whole minute or two on my 5-year-old laptop (At least if you include some of the swap-in time necessary to make anything usable).
The problem is that pen & paper are transparent enough that people understand the threats reasonably well, and are not remote-controllable.
Computers introduce so many ways to remotely hack them in ways you can never detect that they impose almost no risk to the hacker.
Anyone using chemicals or whatnot trying to hack pen&paper elections is going to need a lot of chemicals, or a big operation, and will have a much harder and more dangerous time doing so.
I have this old laptop that had difficulties coping with KDE, Gnome and Windows' memory demands. It was almost unusably slow.
I decided to try XFCE on it. Then I also installed xmonad and vimperator for better keyboard control.
It is blazing fast on this old laptop, faster than Gnome is on my very new desktops.
Its not as "pretty", but I think "immediate response" is so much more fun than "pretty" that I think I'm going to switch all my workstations to XFCE/xmonad rather than Gnome or KDE.
Terminal velocity may differ for different objects, but it is indeed relevant.
I know that objects enter the atmosphere at much higher speeds than their terminal velocity, and in fact this was my point:
That for objects to actually heat up considerably, they have to enter the atmosphere at much higher speeds than their terminal velocity.
Clearly things that free-fall at terminal velocity or lower speeds barely heat up or don't heat up at all (as the generated heat is transferred to the surrounding air that keeps getting replaced)
I think the atmosphere only burns things while it decelerates them from huge velocities to terminal velocity.
When something is really fast, the friction with the atmosphere will heat it up.
But a satellite, at least if it is not very far from the atmosphere, is pretty slow and would fall at speeds close to or even lower than terminal velocity.
If that kind of falling through the air had destroyed stuff, then human parachuters would burn while they fall in terminal speeds.
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Its far easier for a 3rd party overwatching election committee to verify that the box is empty before the election, than to verify that the electronic election is actually reset, and the machines aren't tampered, and have no back doors, and so forth.
Share car --> I don't have the car to use, it gets worn and torn over time, you might have an accident and destroy it.
Share software --> You gain software, I still have software, no damage done.
POOR ANALOGY: YOU FAIL.
It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task.
Once the task grows, it becomes pretty hard to write it in C, at which point people take shortcut that often harm performance.
So you get an absurd situation that people choose C for performance but end up sacrificing performance because of the extra complexity of using C.
Yay for surveillance society in order to enforce copyrights!
I know!
The only way we can enforce those evil pirates to stop pirating content, would be to put surveillance on all of their digital communications!
Lets have the government listen on to their p2p, email and other Internet communications.
And if they're encrypted, lets arrest them, and confiscate their computing equipment so that we can decrypt the communication and know if they're pirating with their buddies!
After all, copyright infringement is more important than privacy, or protecting people from unreasonable search&seizures.
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You have two problematic assumptions:
Frankly, your idea won't work, as nobody would care -- and I'd call it unimaginative to say there's no other way :-)
So what you're saying is that society needs much harsher punishments for such behavior as a counter-incentive?
It was 14 years with a non-automatic extension of 14 years if the author is still alive and requests it.
If you had used strictly free (libre) software only.
You can use actors with purely functional programming.
Its just that the types of your actors will accurately depict the effects that they may have.
Democracy sure has been great while it lasted.
http://nerdnirvana.org/2009/01/08/comedian-louis-ck-on-conan-obrien/
A surveillance society to keep copyrights in place is not acceptable.
If there has to be a choice between surveillance on all civilian communications and ceasing the copyright regime, I choose ceasing copyrights.
Even hibernate takes a whole minute or two on my 5-year-old laptop (At least if you include some of the swap-in time necessary to make anything usable).
That's a really cool idea, dude :-)
Post the code somewhere!
The problem is that pen & paper are transparent enough that people understand the threats reasonably well, and are not remote-controllable.
Computers introduce so many ways to remotely hack them in ways you can never detect that they impose almost no risk to the hacker.
Anyone using chemicals or whatnot trying to hack pen&paper elections is going to need a lot of chemicals, or a big operation, and will have a much harder and more dangerous time doing so.
I think these translation tables *are* how long filenames are implemented within FAT file systems.
Basically I use XFCE just for the panel, window list and pager.
I have this old laptop that had difficulties coping with KDE, Gnome and Windows' memory demands. It was almost unusably slow.
I decided to try XFCE on it. Then I also installed xmonad and vimperator for better keyboard control.
It is blazing fast on this old laptop, faster than Gnome is on my very new desktops.
Its not as "pretty", but I think "immediate response" is so much more fun than "pretty" that I think I'm going to switch all my workstations to XFCE/xmonad rather than Gnome or KDE.
Modifying it is creating derivative works.
Do you really find it that hard to believe that the guys behind TPB don't believe in copyright restrictions on private individuals?
I think it is very easy to believe that copyrights should not restrict individuals, in fact, I am doing so right now.
Terminal velocity may differ for different objects, but it is indeed relevant.
I know that objects enter the atmosphere at much higher speeds than their terminal velocity, and in fact this was my point:
That for objects to actually heat up considerably, they have to enter the atmosphere at much higher speeds than their terminal velocity.
Clearly things that free-fall at terminal velocity or lower speeds barely heat up or don't heat up at all (as the generated heat is transferred to the surrounding air that keeps getting replaced)
There is no reason to friction stop just because the debris isn't accelerating anymore
I didn't say friction stopped, but friction at terminal velocity is not enough to heat things up. See human parachuters.
I think the atmosphere only burns things while it decelerates them from huge velocities to terminal velocity.
When something is really fast, the friction with the atmosphere will heat it up.
But a satellite, at least if it is not very far from the atmosphere, is pretty slow and would fall at speeds close to or even lower than terminal velocity.
If that kind of falling through the air had destroyed stuff, then human parachuters would burn while they fall in terminal speeds.
What constitutes derivative works of GPL'd code?
Why is it that using a code's API makes something derivative work, but using a program's CLI is non-derivative work, and even allowed to be non-GPL?