So what do we do if quantum computers can decrypt anything in almost real-time?
use quantum computers to encrypt everything to start with. I'm sure an algorithm can be written that would take a quantum computer a very long time to decrypt - it just may have to be run on a quantum computer to start with.
Atheism cannot be a "religious" stance by definition:
religious - 1. Having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity.
Hmmm... but it could be considered a religion.
religion - 4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Many people I have met that consider themselves athiest are as interested in actively pursuing their principle as many christians, hence this whole thread. Many atheists consider teaching christian topics in schools, or mentioning God in the pledge of allegiance immoral and dedicate a significant amount of time, effort and money to stopping the outrage.
Which is fine if you're a unix-head and know how to work dns
I don't think anyone actually knows how to work dns. It's one of those magic things that you hack for a couple hundred hours and it finally does what you want it to - like qmail.
...but giving out spoilers on the main page is just bad m'kay!
Yeah, but it's a stupid game show. It's not like anyone watches it (normally) to see who wins or loses - and I doubt too many intelligent people watch it regularly.
We mostly only care that he's winning because he's sticking it to the man.
Umm maybe because we shouldn't discriminate against the rural communities just because they don't live in a big city.
Personally I would like to move to a rural community of less than 10,000, but there is no technology in most of those places - and that's how I make my living.
Absolutelyl. If I had it all to do over again, chicks, bars and parties would be exactly what I would base my decision on. A bachelor's degree is just a piece of paper, and most employers (especially at the entry level) don't care where it's from as long as you have it.
College chicks, college bars and college parties are something that can only be experienced correctly once - a fact I was sadly ignorant of at 18.
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If it was 'in your backyard' wouldn't you own it, or at least collect rent. I think that would raise your house value incredibly.
Seriously, I'm not sure this is even that large of a problem. Sure, if you live within a certain proximity of a nuke plant your home value will drop, but that's true of a coal or natural gas plant as well. Who wants to look at those stacks belching smoke all day from their deck. That's why they usually build powerplants in industrial or rural areas.
I was in Nebraska recently with my brother-in-law who works on turbine generators for a living. He pointed out the Nuke plant that's just a few miles outside of Omaha. It appeared to be a clean, well maintained facility, and I had no idea it was even there. I think we should all WANT safe nuclear plants relatively close to the cities we live in. Maybe I could actually have some reliable power.
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When I was in highschool during the late 80s (God I'm old) I wrote a text adventure (in basic - shudder) for my computer class. At the time, Oliver North was on trial, so I decided to base it on the iran-contra affair.
Basically you could wander around a house and do some basic things. I added a random timeout, so after a few turns it came up with:
Three men with machine guns burst into the room!
You are dead!
Never double-cross the Iranians
I do. Had a bad experience about 5 years ago where 300 of my favorite CDs were stolen. Ever since, the first thing I do with a new CD is rip it to my hard drive. I periodically write all the mp3s to CD as an archive.
I won't take the chance of losing that investment again.
Not sure if Sandler sold out, but it sure seems like it.
His original goal, at least in my opinion - don't know the guy personally (Adam, if you are out there, feel free to post), was to be FUNNY. I think his brand of humour is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. His first two movies, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore still make me roll for hours. Big Daddy, Mr Deeds, and Anger Management all felt like he was just pandering to the box office going sheep out there, and not willing to take anymore risks. Punch Drunk Love was the first thing I've seen him do in years that was worth watching.
Umm...repeated polls show that somewhere over 70% of Americans want universal healthcare, which is what Canada (and just about every other western nation) has.....
Yeah, maybe, but I'm sure it the wrong 70%.
Universal healthcare will NEVER happen the US for one reason. There is too much money in it. I live in a relatively small city (70,000 or so) - small enough we don't have access to decent hight speed bandwidth. In this city there is a LARGE number of people that are employed in the healthcare industry. We have a large hospital that is in the middle of a multi-multi-million dollar addition. Our office shares the building with one of the doctor's offices in town that does a BOOMING business. There are several new, large, expensive buildings close by that are housing medical professionals. It's a large sector of our local economy.
Personally I'm against any socialism and the government having their greedy little paws in any aspect of my life - but that's not why I think we will never have a healthcare system like Canada. We will never have universal healthcare because the doctors, insurance companies, hospitals, universities and pharmaceutical companies make too much money and the US money talks.
Actually, this is different. They are going to shut of sites that are advertised in the spam, so all a spammer has to do is send out a 'free' promotion for a valid website. The addresses used in the spam mail are irrelevant, what they are looking for is site addresses included in the body of the spam.
This is already going on. Last month I got a notification from our ISP at work of a possible spam violation (a very annoying, threatening notification) on our site. It appears that a spammer included our domain name in one of his messages and our ISP was alerted. I explained the we did NOT send out the message, was NOT selling viagra and did NOT want the traffic generated from the spam message, so we still have a website and that was the end of it.
What happens if a spammer, rather than just including my address, crafts a marketing message promoting my site. Might be a little harder to convince my ISP that I didn't initiate the spam.
If the 20 or so pages of text explaining some of the ideas in 'capitalism' are any indication, seems like there are MANY concepts that are part of capitalism. 'Free Market' is one of the concepts than can be part of capitalism as an economic system.
Personally I LOVE any old cheesey B movie - especially any the sci-fi/horror/fantasy genre. These movies are intentionally bad, therefore shouldn't be listed as 'the worst movie ever'.
Movies that deserve the 'worst ever' title are movies that are halfway serious, but have plot flaws that you could drive a bus through and horrible acting. My personal WORST for all time is Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger. The first scene when a girl falls thousands of feet to her death because a caribiner fell apart. Anyone who has ever been around mountain climbing knows caribiners are designed to hold thousands of pounds before breaking and would easily hold a 100 lbs. woman. The rest of the movie just gets stupider. Sly running around above timberline for days in a T-shirt and blue jeans. Any normal mortal would have died of exposure in a few hours.
When a writer or director is creating a world with Giant Spiders, pumas, killer tomtaoes, whatever I can suspend my beliefs and go along with the story. When a plot is set in a real world situation where suddenly the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and science in general don't apply I can't deal.
Exactly. When we first got 2000 at work it took me a long time to figure out why some of our developer machines would spontaneously reboot. Finally figured out it was a new 'feature' in Win 2000 that caught the BSOD and just rebooted rather than displaying it.
Not very handy for us IT people out here. I had users complaining that their machines just rebooted. Thought I was having electrical problems, or problems with power supplies. Nope, just Microsoft giving out even FEWER error messages than they used to.
OTOH when the girl you met at the party last night actually calls you can tell your wife it's just a spam mail and you better call them and get off their list.
Well if these are big issues then OSRM will go bankrupt at the first patent attack of doom. And all your money paid to them will be useless.
While I agree tht this insurance doesn't make sense, not sure if I agree with your reasoning.
Will a patent holder even be able to sue a consumer? I thought patent suits could only be brought against another company/individual that created/sold a product that violated the patent, not a consumer.
For example, Let's say I went down and bought a new Chevy truck so I could haul my turnips to market. Now this particular truck has a part on it that violates a patent Ford holds. Can Ford sue me for hauling my turnips in a truck that violates their patents? If I decide to sell this truck and buy a Nissan, can Ford sue me for selling property that violates their patent?
I thought Ford could only sue GM with any hope of actually winning the case in this hypothetical situation. Why would an end user of an operating system face any different liability?
You didn't post a link to the original lyrics, so here's one
My favorite - in reference to this whole copyright BS is this:
Was a high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said: Private Property,
But on the back side it didn't say nothing --
[God blessed America for me.]
No! The folding property of book should not be artificially inserted into new ebooks hardware.
Hmm... seems like we could have more than one model, and since they already make the model you like....
I can think of ONE excellent reason a folding model should be avaliable. Size. It's smaller when folded, but I will be able to see two pages when I want to. One of the advantages of a paper book.
While I agree with your basic premise (middle men going bye-bye) I will play devil's advocate and say that the reason we have middle men is marketing.
The way I see it there are two major functions of these middle men. Marketing and distribution.
With ebooks, ITMS, sourceforge and web in general distribution is taken care of. You just download what you want, maybe for a fee, maybe not.
Marketing is a different story. Let's look at that for a moment. Where do you pick up your marketing for your books now? Slashdot reviews? Oprah's book club? NY Times best seller list? Personally I can't remember the last time I saw a television ad, radio ad, or direct mailing about a BOOK. Doesn't seem like the publishers are doing such a good job marketing their books.
OK, maybe books are a bad example. How about music. Where do you hear about new music. The radio and maybe MTV/VH1/CMT/GAC/etc... I have rarely seen any direct advertising for a CD and if I have it's only for the HUGE artists. Radio stations and TV stations that specialize in music are going to continue to provide content regardless of the existence of the middle men.
Look to the current content of the web, and how difficult it is for your mom to decide if the medical advice she got from imarealdoctorhonest.com is going to cure her or kill her.
Eeessh don't bring Mom into this. If you saw what's on her reading list you would probably pass out. That aside, marketing is no guarantee of the actual value of a product/service. imarealdoctorhonest.com could run an ad during the super bowl, would that validate the site's medical advice? Does millions in marketing make McDonalds taste good? Windows Stable? Dodge's new hemi engine fast? Absolutely not.
My conclusion - These middle men are not doing a good marketing job and if that's their worth their time may come to an end even sooner than I thought.
I like to take a book and workout on the eliptical or the climbers. I always have to keep one hand on the book to keep the page open to the right place. Anice ebook that would lay flat and turn the page with one push of a button, but also have a large enough screen it would be easy to read would be Great!
I'm sure with a little work we could find TONS of locations where ebooks would be much handier than regular paper books.
Outside in the wind - pages wouldn't blow
In the dark - with backlight no booklight is needed
With some warterproofing (as the parent said) anyplace wet or damp.
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So what do we do if quantum computers can decrypt anything in almost real-time?
use quantum computers to encrypt everything to start with. I'm sure an algorithm can be written that would take a quantum computer a very long time to decrypt - it just may have to be run on a quantum computer to start with.
Atheism cannot be a "religious" stance by definition:
religious - 1. Having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity.
Hmmm... but it could be considered a religion.
religion - 4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Many people I have met that consider themselves athiest are as interested in actively pursuing their principle as many christians, hence this whole thread. Many atheists consider teaching christian topics in schools, or mentioning God in the pledge of allegiance immoral and dedicate a significant amount of time, effort and money to stopping the outrage.
Sounds like a religion to me.
Which is fine if you're a unix-head and know how to work dns
I don't think anyone actually knows how to work dns. It's one of those magic things that you hack for a couple hundred hours and it finally does what you want it to - like qmail.
...but giving out spoilers on the main page is just bad m'kay!
Yeah, but it's a stupid game show. It's not like anyone watches it (normally) to see who wins or loses - and I doubt too many intelligent people watch it regularly.
We mostly only care that he's winning because he's sticking it to the man.
Umm maybe because we shouldn't discriminate against the rural communities just because they don't live in a big city.
Personally I would like to move to a rural community of less than 10,000, but there is no technology in most of those places - and that's how I make my living.
Absolutelyl. If I had it all to do over again, chicks, bars and parties would be exactly what I would base my decision on. A bachelor's degree is just a piece of paper, and most employers (especially at the entry level) don't care where it's from as long as you have it.
College chicks, college bars and college parties are something that can only be experienced correctly once - a fact I was sadly ignorant of at 18.
If it was 'in your backyard' wouldn't you own it, or at least collect rent. I think that would raise your house value incredibly.
Seriously, I'm not sure this is even that large of a problem. Sure, if you live within a certain proximity of a nuke plant your home value will drop, but that's true of a coal or natural gas plant as well. Who wants to look at those stacks belching smoke all day from their deck. That's why they usually build powerplants in industrial or rural areas.
I was in Nebraska recently with my brother-in-law who works on turbine generators for a living. He pointed out the Nuke plant that's just a few miles outside of Omaha. It appeared to be a clean, well maintained facility, and I had no idea it was even there. I think we should all WANT safe nuclear plants relatively close to the cities we live in. Maybe I could actually have some reliable power.
Just keep some road flares or an Emergency Light Stick under the bed.
That should do the trick.
Ahhh... that brings back memories.
When I was in highschool during the late 80s (God I'm old) I wrote a text adventure (in basic - shudder) for my computer class. At the time, Oliver North was on trial, so I decided to base it on the iran-contra affair.
Basically you could wander around a house and do some basic things. I added a random timeout, so after a few turns it came up with:
Three men with machine guns burst into the room!
You are dead!
Never double-cross the Iranians
I got an A.
I do. Had a bad experience about 5 years ago where 300 of my favorite CDs were stolen. Ever since, the first thing I do with a new CD is rip it to my hard drive. I periodically write all the mp3s to CD as an archive.
I won't take the chance of losing that investment again.
Not sure if Sandler sold out, but it sure seems like it.
His original goal, at least in my opinion - don't know the guy personally (Adam, if you are out there, feel free to post), was to be FUNNY. I think his brand of humour is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. His first two movies, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore still make me roll for hours. Big Daddy, Mr Deeds, and Anger Management all felt like he was just pandering to the box office going sheep out there, and not willing to take anymore risks. Punch Drunk Love was the first thing I've seen him do in years that was worth watching.
Umm...repeated polls show that somewhere over 70% of Americans want universal healthcare, which is what Canada (and just about every other western nation) has.....
Yeah, maybe, but I'm sure it the wrong 70%.
Universal healthcare will NEVER happen the US for one reason. There is too much money in it. I live in a relatively small city (70,000 or so) - small enough we don't have access to decent hight speed bandwidth. In this city there is a LARGE number of people that are employed in the healthcare industry. We have a large hospital that is in the middle of a multi-multi-million dollar addition. Our office shares the building with one of the doctor's offices in town that does a BOOMING business. There are several new, large, expensive buildings close by that are housing medical professionals. It's a large sector of our local economy.
Personally I'm against any socialism and the government having their greedy little paws in any aspect of my life - but that's not why I think we will never have a healthcare system like Canada. We will never have universal healthcare because the doctors, insurance companies, hospitals, universities and pharmaceutical companies make too much money and the US money talks.
They have been doing that for years
Actually, this is different. They are going to shut of sites that are advertised in the spam, so all a spammer has to do is send out a 'free' promotion for a valid website. The addresses used in the spam mail are irrelevant, what they are looking for is site addresses included in the body of the spam.
This is already going on. Last month I got a notification from our ISP at work of a possible spam violation (a very annoying, threatening notification) on our site. It appears that a spammer included our domain name in one of his messages and our ISP was alerted. I explained the we did NOT send out the message, was NOT selling viagra and did NOT want the traffic generated from the spam message, so we still have a website and that was the end of it.
What happens if a spammer, rather than just including my address, crafts a marketing message promoting my site. Might be a little harder to convince my ISP that I didn't initiate the spam.
Wow!
I did as you suggested and looked it up in the wikipedia.
If the 20 or so pages of text explaining some of the ideas in 'capitalism' are any indication, seems like there are MANY concepts that are part of capitalism. 'Free Market' is one of the concepts than can be part of capitalism as an economic system.
Personally I LOVE any old cheesey B movie - especially any the sci-fi/horror/fantasy genre. These movies are intentionally bad, therefore shouldn't be listed as 'the worst movie ever'.
Movies that deserve the 'worst ever' title are movies that are halfway serious, but have plot flaws that you could drive a bus through and horrible acting. My personal WORST for all time is Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger. The first scene when a girl falls thousands of feet to her death because a caribiner fell apart. Anyone who has ever been around mountain climbing knows caribiners are designed to hold thousands of pounds before breaking and would easily hold a 100 lbs. woman. The rest of the movie just gets stupider. Sly running around above timberline for days in a T-shirt and blue jeans. Any normal mortal would have died of exposure in a few hours.
When a writer or director is creating a world with Giant Spiders, pumas, killer tomtaoes, whatever I can suspend my beliefs and go along with the story. When a plot is set in a real world situation where suddenly the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and science in general don't apply I can't deal.
Exactly. When we first got 2000 at work it took me a long time to figure out why some of our developer machines would spontaneously reboot. Finally figured out it was a new 'feature' in Win 2000 that caught the BSOD and just rebooted rather than displaying it.
Not very handy for us IT people out here. I had users complaining that their machines just rebooted. Thought I was having electrical problems, or problems with power supplies. Nope, just Microsoft giving out even FEWER error messages than they used to.
OTOH when the girl you met at the party last night actually calls you can tell your wife it's just a spam mail and you better call them and get off their list.
Yes my gf reads Slashdot. No, I am not getting any tonight.
Appearantly you aren't getting any the rest of the time either.
Well if these are big issues then OSRM will go bankrupt at the first patent attack of doom. And all your money paid to them will be useless.
While I agree tht this insurance doesn't make sense, not sure if I agree with your reasoning.
Will a patent holder even be able to sue a consumer? I thought patent suits could only be brought against another company/individual that created/sold a product that violated the patent, not a consumer.
For example, Let's say I went down and bought a new Chevy truck so I could haul my turnips to market. Now this particular truck has a part on it that violates a patent Ford holds. Can Ford sue me for hauling my turnips in a truck that violates their patents? If I decide to sell this truck and buy a Nissan, can Ford sue me for selling property that violates their patent?
I thought Ford could only sue GM with any hope of actually winning the case in this hypothetical situation. Why would an end user of an operating system face any different liability?
You didn't post a link to the original lyrics, so here's one
My favorite - in reference to this whole copyright BS is this:
Was a high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said: Private Property,
But on the back side it didn't say nothing --
[God blessed America for me.]
Not only that, but it takes a long time to die. Not much of a weapon if you have to find something else to do for two years while your enemy succumbs.
Not just No, but HELL NO.
No! The folding property of book should not be artificially inserted into new ebooks hardware.
Hmm... seems like we could have more than one model, and since they already make the model you like....
I can think of ONE excellent reason a folding model should be avaliable. Size. It's smaller when folded, but I will be able to see two pages when I want to. One of the advantages of a paper book.
While I agree with your basic premise (middle men going bye-bye) I will play devil's advocate and say that the reason we have middle men is marketing.
The way I see it there are two major functions of these middle men. Marketing and distribution.
With ebooks, ITMS, sourceforge and web in general distribution is taken care of. You just download what you want, maybe for a fee, maybe not.
Marketing is a different story. Let's look at that for a moment. Where do you pick up your marketing for your books now? Slashdot reviews? Oprah's book club? NY Times best seller list? Personally I can't remember the last time I saw a television ad, radio ad, or direct mailing about a BOOK. Doesn't seem like the publishers are doing such a good job marketing their books.
OK, maybe books are a bad example. How about music. Where do you hear about new music. The radio and maybe MTV/VH1/CMT/GAC/etc... I have rarely seen any direct advertising for a CD and if I have it's only for the HUGE artists. Radio stations and TV stations that specialize in music are going to continue to provide content regardless of the existence of the middle men.
Look to the current content of the web, and how difficult it is for your mom to decide if the medical advice she got from imarealdoctorhonest.com is going to cure her or kill her.
Eeessh don't bring Mom into this. If you saw what's on her reading list you would probably pass out. That aside, marketing is no guarantee of the actual value of a product/service. imarealdoctorhonest.com could run an ad during the super bowl, would that validate the site's medical advice? Does millions in marketing make McDonalds taste good? Windows Stable? Dodge's new hemi engine fast? Absolutely not.
My conclusion - These middle men are not doing a good marketing job and if that's their worth their time may come to an end even sooner than I thought.
I like to take a book and workout on the eliptical or the climbers. I always have to keep one hand on the book to keep the page open to the right place. Anice ebook that would lay flat and turn the page with one push of a button, but also have a large enough screen it would be easy to read would be Great!
I'm sure with a little work we could find TONS of locations where ebooks would be much handier than regular paper books.