If Starcraft cheating can rock all of Korea then Korea has some serious problems that go far beyond Starcraft cheating,
In America with the current economy, you're lucky if you can get paid to clean toilets. In Korea, you can get paid to play computer games, and do so poorly.
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Nope, does not fit. 1) Owner still has the property in question (presumably a physical data storage device with data); property was not taken. 2) He acknowledged his source ("We hacked the military")
You are free to do as you wish in this regard, but who appointed you as god?
This is no different than why we don't allow drunk driving; one man's actions affect others who may have no choice in the matter.
In terms of privacy, others giving away their privacy affects me -- they give away my privacy without my consent. For one thing, their actions affect law and unofficial policies regarding privacy. In particular, the fact that everyone has given up their privacy means that to protect my own, I have to carefully read pages and pages of legalese or privacy policies, and probably don't even have a choice if I want a certain class of service -- for example, good luck finding a social network that doesn't data-mine you, or even a credit card, or supermarket. Also, companies like Facebook will use your acquaintances' data to collect data about you, even if you're not signed up.
Today, the New York Times published a damning report on the portion of water that is wet, showing that 100% of water molecules are, in fact, quite wet. The report even tested salt water and brine water, which were also wet. This report may shed light on the traditional view that water is dry.
And yet alcoholics who drink water insist that they are dry.
Look at it this way. You can compare the odds of God acting to the odds of finding an exception to the Law of Conservation of Energy. Just because no one has ever observed a violation of the Law of Conservation of Energy, doesn't mean that the entire thing couldn't be totally invalid tomorrow, or that tomorrow God comes out of hiding.
Difference is, we've been looking for a violation of the Law of Conversation of Energy for far far less time than we've been looking for God, so we're statistically more likely to find that.
Easy, just encourage people to talk nicely to anyone who has the "delicate flower" flag set. You could even hire someone to translate guy talk into inoffensive speech; one translator should be enough for probably a hundred developers so it won't cost much.
Intent is the big deal, because there's a human intelligence creating and driving it, not random circumstance, and that intent is to cause and increase the pain, suffering, and death as much as possible. [...] If the system simply said, "Big deal, more people die in car accidents" and did nothing, there'd be more terrorist attacks and deaths,
OK then, what's the intent of spending mountains of money fighting terrorism, when that same money would save more lives if spent fighting cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and cancer? Imagine if the entire Iraq/Afghanistan war budget, and TSA budget, had been spent on healthcare/research instead.
Remember, you're just as dead if you died from a heart attack as from a terrorist. (bonus points if the heart attack is attributable to having been unnecessarily afraid of terrorists, or if you got cancer from a TSA scanner).
"Guns didn't change, society did, for the worse..."
Yep. About time that second amendment was updated to reflect the modern military prowess of the United States, and the lack of the need for 'militias'.
Yeah, society has no need of able-bodied males age 18 to 45.
Not really. The only reason "terrorism" is relevant here at all, is that Americans are get so scared they shit themselves all over the Constitution whenever terrorism is mentioned. Unless your so-called news site basically says, "some insignificant statistic happened, so get ready to give up more freedoms and/or expect people to start discussing terrorism again", then it's not a real news site.
Wake me up when terrorists kill more people than peanuts. People aren't afraid of dangerous things like cars, but shit themselves over terrists.
I want advertisements to never be displayed in any capacity.
That's exactly what AdBlock Plus accomplishes, and better than the options you listed. Why better? It allows you to block all ads, but doesn't unnecessarily escalate the arms race.
I'll add to your list, AdBlock Plus shows no "acceptable ads" once you uncheck the "show acceptable ads" box. I see no problem with this, nor with it being the default position.
What business is it of yours if other people don't mind viewing certain types of ads?
Calories from fat =/= calories from sugar. And lactose =/= fructose. Granted many dairy products also have a lot of fructose, but at least it's not half the calories.
It would only really require one or two people to pull this off. All the necessary components are innocent enough. (Also, the idiot who wrote the article is full of bull about "requiring additional hardware".) Components (with innocent purpose): * Hardware necessary to detect testing mode: all cars have a speedometer * Software to detect testing mode: reasonable to use for internal tests, and on production for traction control * Hardware to allow software control of EGR: necessary for efficiency * Software to adjust NOx/performance/efficiency levels: legitimate to have various modes, or for use in areas with different pollution laws
It would be trivial for one guy to write the code to have low NOx during testing, and high efficiency/performance otherwise. However, half the company would have to know they were cheating.
The recent rulings have been that laptop searches are unconstitutional. The courts have said this is so because a ) laptops and phones contain highly personal information, much more so that suitcases normally do, and b) customs is to be searching for things like products being smuggled in, or drugs.
Just to be clear, those searches are unconstitutional because they have neither probable cause nor a warrant. They're not done regardless because a judge said mumble mumble.
Crossing the border is a genuine reason to permit the government to go through our belongings.
What, is crossing the border probable cause to a crime, and do they get a warrant before searching you? What grants them the authority to conduct these searches?
Certainly, it is very convenient for them to do, but convenience is not the same as legality.
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Now he has to go to the Middle East to get some training. :-p
There are things that are impossible in computer science, e.g. solving the Halting Problem.
echo "The program will halt."
If Starcraft cheating can rock all of Korea then Korea has some serious problems that go far beyond Starcraft cheating,
In America with the current economy, you're lucky if you can get paid to clean toilets. In Korea, you can get paid to play computer games, and do so poorly.
Theft:
a: the act of stealing
We don't need to go any further:
From Dictionary.com:
Steal:
1) to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
2) to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Nope, does not fit.
1) Owner still has the property in question (presumably a physical data storage device with data); property was not taken.
2) He acknowledged his source ("We hacked the military")
You are free to do as you wish in this regard, but who appointed you as god?
This is no different than why we don't allow drunk driving; one man's actions affect others who may have no choice in the matter.
In terms of privacy, others giving away their privacy affects me -- they give away my privacy without my consent. For one thing, their actions affect law and unofficial policies regarding privacy. In particular, the fact that everyone has given up their privacy means that to protect my own, I have to carefully read pages and pages of legalese or privacy policies, and probably don't even have a choice if I want a certain class of service -- for example, good luck finding a social network that doesn't data-mine you, or even a credit card, or supermarket. Also, companies like Facebook will use your acquaintances' data to collect data about you, even if you're not signed up.
Today, the New York Times published a damning report on the portion of water that is wet, showing that 100% of water molecules are, in fact, quite wet. The report even tested salt water and brine water, which were also wet. This report may shed light on the traditional view that water is dry.
And yet alcoholics who drink water insist that they are dry.
Call it .sis or .vag, that'll work, right?
That doesn't seem fair, as I'm quite certain the program was written mostly by male programmers.
Was there a little pork in the budget?
DARPA Jolts the Nervous System With Electricity, Lasers, Sound Waves, and Magnets
Did they test it on sharks? Inquiring minds want to know.
I didn't know you could get a Nobel prize for studying politicians, advertisers, and lawyers. I wonder if they found a cure.
Look at it this way. You can compare the odds of God acting to the odds of finding an exception to the Law of Conservation of Energy. Just because no one has ever observed a violation of the Law of Conservation of Energy, doesn't mean that the entire thing couldn't be totally invalid tomorrow, or that tomorrow God comes out of hiding.
Difference is, we've been looking for a violation of the Law of Conversation of Energy for far far less time than we've been looking for God, so we're statistically more likely to find that.
Accelerated Windows at 9.81 m/s/s. If you round it up and eliminate the units, you get Windows 10.
Easy, just encourage people to talk nicely to anyone who has the "delicate flower" flag set. You could even hire someone to translate guy talk into inoffensive speech; one translator should be enough for probably a hundred developers so it won't cost much.
TSA scanners cause fatal car accidents, and steal funds that could be better used in cancer research.
Intent is the big deal, because there's a human intelligence creating and driving it, not random circumstance, and that intent is to cause and increase the pain, suffering, and death as much as possible. [...] If the system simply said, "Big deal, more people die in car accidents" and did nothing, there'd be more terrorist attacks and deaths,
OK then, what's the intent of spending mountains of money fighting terrorism, when that same money would save more lives if spent fighting cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and cancer? Imagine if the entire Iraq/Afghanistan war budget, and TSA budget, had been spent on healthcare/research instead.
Remember, you're just as dead if you died from a heart attack as from a terrorist. (bonus points if the heart attack is attributable to having been unnecessarily afraid of terrorists, or if you got cancer from a TSA scanner).
"Guns didn't change, society did, for the worse..."
Yep. About time that second amendment was updated to reflect the modern military prowess of the United States, and the lack of the need for 'militias'.
Yeah, society has no need of able-bodied males age 18 to 45.
I read stuff like this on real news sites.
Not really. The only reason "terrorism" is relevant here at all, is that Americans are get so scared they shit themselves all over the Constitution whenever terrorism is mentioned. Unless your so-called news site basically says, "some insignificant statistic happened, so get ready to give up more freedoms and/or expect people to start discussing terrorism again", then it's not a real news site.
Wake me up when terrorists kill more people than peanuts. People aren't afraid of dangerous things like cars, but shit themselves over terrists.
A cow's destiny is to become steaks and hamburgers, so you got that right.
I want advertisements to never be displayed in any capacity.
That's exactly what AdBlock Plus accomplishes, and better than the options you listed. Why better? It allows you to block all ads, but doesn't unnecessarily escalate the arms race.
I'll add to your list, AdBlock Plus shows no "acceptable ads" once you uncheck the "show acceptable ads" box. I see no problem with this, nor with it being the default position.
What business is it of yours if other people don't mind viewing certain types of ads?
Calories from fat =/= calories from sugar. And lactose =/= fructose. Granted many dairy products also have a lot of fructose, but at least it's not half the calories.
Just out of curiosity, does the navigation app pass "the knowledge" test?
It would only really require one or two people to pull this off. All the necessary components are innocent enough. (Also, the idiot who wrote the article is full of bull about "requiring additional hardware".) Components (with innocent purpose):
* Hardware necessary to detect testing mode: all cars have a speedometer
* Software to detect testing mode: reasonable to use for internal tests, and on production for traction control
* Hardware to allow software control of EGR: necessary for efficiency
* Software to adjust NOx/performance/efficiency levels: legitimate to have various modes, or for use in areas with different pollution laws
It would be trivial for one guy to write the code to have low NOx during testing, and high efficiency/performance otherwise. However, half the company would have to know they were cheating.
The recent rulings have been that laptop searches are unconstitutional. The courts have said this is so because a ) laptops and phones contain highly personal information, much more so that suitcases normally do, and b) customs is to be searching for things like products being smuggled in, or drugs.
Just to be clear, those searches are unconstitutional because they have neither probable cause nor a warrant. They're not done regardless because a judge said mumble mumble.
Crossing the border is a genuine reason to permit the government to go through our belongings.
What, is crossing the border probable cause to a crime, and do they get a warrant before searching you? What grants them the authority to conduct these searches?
Certainly, it is very convenient for them to do, but convenience is not the same as legality.