Switch to what, dial-up? In lots (most?) of cases people have a choice between a single DSL provider, and a signle cable provider. What happens when both decide to implement this "tiered internet"? Pay for a T1?
Anyway, doesn't everyone here know that all the cute pictures online are fake and you are talking to somebody who weighs 300 pounds and whose real name is "Bubba"?
Reminds me of the classic quote: "Ah, the internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."
If every communication is encrypted, the government will not be able to make the argument that 'if you're encrypting, you obviously have something to hide'.
No, it will simply become a case of selective enforcement. The government will only prosecute you for encrypting your communications if it doesn't like you in the first place. And since most people will not be prosecuted, they won't care. Isn't that nice?
There won't be any meltdowns, but this is obviously a plot to create enough internet traffic to mask attacks on nuclear power plant firewalls, permitting terrorists to take them over. Someone call Jack Bauer!
Yes, it's very cool. AJAX prepopulates all data required for all possible actions on the page, saving round trips to the server. The fact that the user will only perform one of those N actions, and all the other data is thrown away, is a minor detail.
Does everyone really wear goatees in your dimension?
A campus newspaper that publishes photos of the track team doing a naked run would probably be fine
Probably, but let a high school newspaper try that!
Hey! Look! A slippery slope argument! Cool. I haven't seen one of those since High School debating society.
GP was not even close to a slippery slope argument. Your argument was that no one in public has right to any privacy. He showed that your argument as is can be used to justify any number of things. How is that a slippery slope?
Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient Experimental Satellite.... What a coincidence that this unwieldy name would turn into such a perfect acronym!
Yes. The GP was confusing 0D (a scalar) with 1D (a vector). Also, since the multi-dimensional Fourier Transform kernal is seperable in each dimension, you can calculate higher dimensional transforms with the 1D version. Of course, the GP was kidding anyway, so I wouldn't get hung up on it.;)
I was with you until the second sentence.
I'm all for the idea of net neutrality, but I am against net neutrality laws which give the government more power over the internet. Then later when they pass more laws concerning the internet, laws that the slashdot crowd doesn't agree with, everyone will be complaining how the U.S. government has no business regulating the world wide web.
This is similar to 1st Amendment rights. Do I want Neo-Nazis to hold their little hate demonstrations? No. Do I want the government to outlaw them? NO! That's how precedents are formed. You just can't pick and choose when you want the government's involvement on an issue.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. It could not possibly have taken that long to decode the brainwaves. At the very least this could mean that it wasn't making the gestures that generated the correct brainwaves. The person had to concentrate on something else afterwards before the robot moved.
Are you joking? Did you really think that when you download something from there that Russian electrons are sent to your computer?
Of course! Don't tell me you buy into this whole "router/data packet" nonsense they brainwash our children in schools nowadays. I really expected better from a TimeCube faithful....
I'm really torn on this one. On the one hand, this would let them prosecute wistleblowers who publish information that should be known (i.e. CIA secret prison identities.) On the other hand, this would let them prosecute morons who publish information that should not be known (i.e. CIA secret agent identities.) I don't suppose there's a way to do this on a case-by-case basis, maybe needing a unanimous grand jury to decide that a case is not whistleblowing before going to full trial?
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You really should do step 3 (Profit!) first. That way the first two steps will be meaningless.
Switch to what, dial-up? In lots (most?) of cases people have a choice between a single DSL provider, and a signle cable provider. What happens when both decide to implement this "tiered internet"? Pay for a T1?
Pffft. McGuyver could do it with just the bandaid and a couple toe-nail clippings.
They were censoring searches while the wording on their site clearly said they were not.
Now did that wording show up on the chinese version of google after results started being censored?
I thought Blackthorne for the SNES was an A quality title myself.
Anyway, doesn't everyone here know that all the cute pictures online are fake and you are talking to somebody who weighs 300 pounds and whose real name is "Bubba"?
Reminds me of the classic quote: "Ah, the internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."
If every communication is encrypted, the government will not be able to make the argument that 'if you're encrypting, you obviously have something to hide'.
No, it will simply become a case of selective enforcement. The government will only prosecute you for encrypting your communications if it doesn't like you in the first place. And since most people will not be prosecuted, they won't care. Isn't that nice?
There won't be any meltdowns, but this is obviously a plot to create enough internet traffic to mask attacks on nuclear power plant firewalls, permitting terrorists to take them over. Someone call Jack Bauer!
Yes, it's very cool. AJAX prepopulates all data required for all possible actions on the page, saving round trips to the server. The fact that the user will only perform one of those N actions, and all the other data is thrown away, is a minor detail.
Does everyone really wear goatees in your dimension?
A campus newspaper that publishes photos of the track team doing a naked run would probably be fine Probably, but let a high school newspaper try that!
Hey! Look! A slippery slope argument! Cool. I haven't seen one of those since High School debating society.
GP was not even close to a slippery slope argument. Your argument was that no one in public has right to any privacy. He showed that your argument as is can be used to justify any number of things. How is that a slippery slope?
But if someone walks naked down the street, then you absolutely have the right to take their photo and stick it on the internet.
Better make damn sure they're not underage, or you won't have many rights for much longer.
Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient Experimental Satellite.... What a coincidence that this unwieldy name would turn into such a perfect acronym!
Yup, this "scorpion" definitely more like a crayfish to me. Or maybe they just got their pictures confused.
Is it just me or does the scorpion in the picture have a tail more like that of a fish, rather than the spiky poisonous thing we all know and love?
Yes. The GP was confusing 0D (a scalar) with 1D (a vector). Also, since the multi-dimensional Fourier Transform kernal is seperable in each dimension, you can calculate higher dimensional transforms with the 1D version. Of course, the GP was kidding anyway, so I wouldn't get hung up on it. ;)
I was with you until the second sentence.
I'm all for the idea of net neutrality, but I am against net neutrality laws which give the government more power over the internet. Then later when they pass more laws concerning the internet, laws that the slashdot crowd doesn't agree with, everyone will be complaining how the U.S. government has no business regulating the world wide web.
This is similar to 1st Amendment rights. Do I want Neo-Nazis to hold their little hate demonstrations? No. Do I want the government to outlaw them? NO! That's how precedents are formed. You just can't pick and choose when you want the government's involvement on an issue.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. It could not possibly have taken that long to decode the brainwaves. At the very least this could mean that it wasn't making the gestures that generated the correct brainwaves. The person had to concentrate on something else afterwards before the robot moved.
Yup, just like it says in the article.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Are you joking? Did you really think that when you download something from there that Russian electrons are sent to your computer?
Of course! Don't tell me you buy into this whole "router/data packet" nonsense they brainwash our children in schools nowadays. I really expected better from a TimeCube faithful....
So electrons aren't material objects now?
Personally, I think it's pretty funny AND insightful how this post has more mod points than the one it "plagiarizes."
I'm really torn on this one. On the one hand, this would let them prosecute wistleblowers who publish information that should be known (i.e. CIA secret prison identities.) On the other hand, this would let them prosecute morons who publish information that should not be known (i.e. CIA secret agent identities.) I don't suppose there's a way to do this on a case-by-case basis, maybe needing a unanimous grand jury to decide that a case is not whistleblowing before going to full trial?
Yup, cannibals have rights too, you know.