Basing critical life choices and morality on improvable nonsense
Literally all morality is based on unprovable assertions, which you have redundantly referred to as "unprovable nonsense" (technically you called it "improvable," which means "capable of being improved").
This isn't a robot gone amok and there is no ethical quandry.
Of course it is. Asimov's laws are intended to be adhered to by robot designers. This guy demonstrated that the laws are complete bullshit despite people always referencing them like "oh Asimov's laws mean robots can't hurt us."
Dad brought home a Tandy 1000 he bought at Radio Shack for who knows how much money. I started fiddling around. Back then it was impossible to accidentally break things on a computer because it was all CLI.
Somehow I found some BAS files on the system and a BASIC interpreter. Put two and two together and started reading and modifying. I was about 4yo or so I think (I was reading by 3).
A couple systems later, QBASIC, AOL, and I was downloading games like Killer Pong or something like that, reading the code and modifying those. Then my dad brought home Visual C++ and books on it that he took from work. So I did that. Then C++ classes at the local community college.
Then in college, PHP to make dynamic websites. Then SQL and Python. JavaScript was somewhere in there, too.
Now I'm the rare corporate lawyer who can code well.
You also said it was a "small risk" when it's actually a massive risk. Get Gmail password, look for signups to other sites (invariably will contain username), notice Gmail password is XYZ123gmail, WOLOG say there was a Slashdot signup, go to slashdot.org and attempt login with username listed in Slashdot email + XYZ123slashdot, repeat for any other email with "registration" in the subject.
I was puzzle by this (as I know that Musk is a smart guy), but just now Bruce Perens made a comment below [slashdot.org] that made my head spin bit. Basically his comment is that Musk is somehow conspiring to kill high speed rail, with the implication that the hyper loop is just a tool for this purpose.
It may come as a shock to you, but being an expert in one field doesn't make you an expert in every field. There is nothing that makes Bruce Perens's opinion on this conspiracy theory any more valuable than, say, mine.
We would open all the windows and by the morning the house would be around 65 degrees.
Oh, would that Texas weren't so humid, I'd be doing this, too. But nothing like waking up to a raincloud in your house in August in Texas! The front doors in Houston sweat.
I would do something that modern constructors have forgotten to do: have all your big windows (or, at minimum, master bedroom) on the side of the house that faces the equator. This means in the winter you get sunlight as heating, and in the summer you get less direct sunlight, meaning a cooler house.
The house I live in currently, built a scant twenty years ago, has the MBR windows facing west, which means crazy AC costs in the summer (Texas!) just to get the MBR under 80 degrees F when it's time to go to sleep. It's unbearable, but boy was the house cheap.
The musical adaptaion of The Lion King had a ten year run in London.
Not just that - you'd be hard pressed to find more than a couple popular musicals on Broadway right now that isn't one of three things: (1) revival; (2) jukebox musical [i.e., one that is a thinly-written story wrapped around a Greatest Hits album]; or (3) big Disney production.
Well, the US didn't hack England when a subsidiary of a quasi-UK government entity released this film less than a decade ago: Death of a President (about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush).
Correct. The US hacked a hostile nation's government, one we're technically at war with, that has repeatedly declared it will attack the US and has fired weapons at our allies, and that kidnaps our allies' citizens.
North Korea hacked a private corporation's network to disclose random people's private information and to engage in artistic censorship.
WRT54G is, as you might assume from the "G" at the end, a G router. In the United States, G is faster than the connection to the house. An order of magnitude faster, actually.
Picture a cube if you lived in 2-dimensional space. You might see it as a square, or as an oblique slice through a cube.
Actually you'd see it as something like a line. To see a square, you'd have to be "above" the sheet of paper that is your two dimensional world, which necessitates a third dimension.
It's not really that. It's that you have a right not to be forced to incriminate yourself, and if you are forced to turn over encryption keys to something, you are admitting that the media is yours. If there's something illegal on the drive, this would be self-incrimination (admitting "this illegal stuff is mine").
I remember this being a hot issue when I took Evidence in law school years ago. Of course, it being law school, we really didn't talk about anything useful.;)
I think he was talking about the high demand for SJDs (the law equivalent of a PhD, requiring a dissertation and everything). There are very few of them (almost no law school offers it), but every law school would rather hire an SJD than a JD.
The problem is, as many of us have seen with our own two eyes, professors doing important but controversial work would get fired without tenure. The entire stem cell research field would probably never have happened in the US.
Agreed. If you're going to demand that a cookbook, even one for beginners, define "dry wine" before instructing you to use it, then you should demand the book define what "boil" and "carrot" mean. Jeez. "Dry wine" should be common knowledge among any adult.
What does this mean (if anything) for region-locked movies - can I legally break the region lock (or buy a player that does it) so I can watch a movie I bought overseas?
Not comparable issues at all. This opinion is only about re-selling items.
In your implied analogy, the book is the DVD, the re-seller is a re-seller. This case essentially says you can buy a Region X DVD in country X and re-sell it in the States provided that the Region X DVD was legally made. So this means if you buy a legal Chinese DVD in China, you can sell it in the US. It does not mean you can buy a pirated DVD in China and sell it in the US. It does not say anything about region unlocking.
You should always read SCOTUS cases narrowly. Anything that the decision of the Court does not rest on is called "dicta" and has no controlling authority, but merely persuasive authority. This means if the decision of the Court does not rely on a statement in the opinion, then that statement can persuade other courts, but it doesn't instruct them to do anything.
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Literally all morality is based on unprovable assertions, which you have redundantly referred to as "unprovable nonsense" (technically you called it "improvable," which means "capable of being improved").
Of course it is. Asimov's laws are intended to be adhered to by robot designers. This guy demonstrated that the laws are complete bullshit despite people always referencing them like "oh Asimov's laws mean robots can't hurt us."
For what it's worth, in Japan almost all road construction is done by the mob.
Dad brought home a Tandy 1000 he bought at Radio Shack for who knows how much money. I started fiddling around. Back then it was impossible to accidentally break things on a computer because it was all CLI.
Somehow I found some BAS files on the system and a BASIC interpreter. Put two and two together and started reading and modifying. I was about 4yo or so I think (I was reading by 3).
A couple systems later, QBASIC, AOL, and I was downloading games like Killer Pong or something like that, reading the code and modifying those. Then my dad brought home Visual C++ and books on it that he took from work. So I did that. Then C++ classes at the local community college.
Then in college, PHP to make dynamic websites. Then SQL and Python. JavaScript was somewhere in there, too.
Now I'm the rare corporate lawyer who can code well.
That's actually not the case with obese patients. It's only true for people who are, shall we say, chubby at most.
You also said it was a "small risk" when it's actually a massive risk. Get Gmail password, look for signups to other sites (invariably will contain username), notice Gmail password is XYZ123gmail, WOLOG say there was a Slashdot signup, go to slashdot.org and attempt login with username listed in Slashdot email + XYZ123slashdot, repeat for any other email with "registration" in the subject.
It may come as a shock to you, but being an expert in one field doesn't make you an expert in every field. There is nothing that makes Bruce Perens's opinion on this conspiracy theory any more valuable than, say, mine.
Well, if I get one of your passwords and know you visit a second site, then I immediately know the password to that second site. Not terribly secure.
If you're going to act haughty about your opinion on legal issues, you should at least know that prosecutors don't sue.
Oh, would that Texas weren't so humid, I'd be doing this, too. But nothing like waking up to a raincloud in your house in August in Texas! The front doors in Houston sweat.
I would do something that modern constructors have forgotten to do: have all your big windows (or, at minimum, master bedroom) on the side of the house that faces the equator. This means in the winter you get sunlight as heating, and in the summer you get less direct sunlight, meaning a cooler house.
The house I live in currently, built a scant twenty years ago, has the MBR windows facing west, which means crazy AC costs in the summer (Texas!) just to get the MBR under 80 degrees F when it's time to go to sleep. It's unbearable, but boy was the house cheap.
Ah, but as of a couple days ago, Netflix is actually planning to roll out commercials . Showtime does not have commercials, so they could charge more.
Not just that - you'd be hard pressed to find more than a couple popular musicals on Broadway right now that isn't one of three things: (1) revival; (2) jukebox musical [i.e., one that is a thinly-written story wrapped around a Greatest Hits album]; or (3) big Disney production.
Well, the US didn't hack England when a subsidiary of a quasi-UK government entity released this film less than a decade ago: Death of a President (about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush).
Correct. The US hacked a hostile nation's government, one we're technically at war with, that has repeatedly declared it will attack the US and has fired weapons at our allies, and that kidnaps our allies' citizens.
North Korea hacked a private corporation's network to disclose random people's private information and to engage in artistic censorship.
Totally equivalent, yup.
The crash transcript would be some guy...PC LOAD LETTER?! What the fuck does that--radio silence------
WRT54G is, as you might assume from the "G" at the end, a G router. In the United States, G is faster than the connection to the house. An order of magnitude faster, actually.
Actually you'd see it as something like a line. To see a square, you'd have to be "above" the sheet of paper that is your two dimensional world, which necessitates a third dimension.
We do that in the US, too. It's a tax levied on gasoline/petrol.
It's not really that. It's that you have a right not to be forced to incriminate yourself, and if you are forced to turn over encryption keys to something, you are admitting that the media is yours. If there's something illegal on the drive, this would be self-incrimination (admitting "this illegal stuff is mine").
I remember this being a hot issue when I took Evidence in law school years ago. Of course, it being law school, we really didn't talk about anything useful. ;)
It's been possible since before cell phones existed. The difference now is that it is easy to do.
I think he was talking about the high demand for SJDs (the law equivalent of a PhD, requiring a dissertation and everything). There are very few of them (almost no law school offers it), but every law school would rather hire an SJD than a JD.
The problem is, as many of us have seen with our own two eyes, professors doing important but controversial work would get fired without tenure. The entire stem cell research field would probably never have happened in the US.
Agreed. If you're going to demand that a cookbook, even one for beginners, define "dry wine" before instructing you to use it, then you should demand the book define what "boil" and "carrot" mean. Jeez. "Dry wine" should be common knowledge among any adult.
Not comparable issues at all. This opinion is only about re-selling items.
In your implied analogy, the book is the DVD, the re-seller is a re-seller. This case essentially says you can buy a Region X DVD in country X and re-sell it in the States provided that the Region X DVD was legally made. So this means if you buy a legal Chinese DVD in China, you can sell it in the US. It does not mean you can buy a pirated DVD in China and sell it in the US. It does not say anything about region unlocking.
You should always read SCOTUS cases narrowly. Anything that the decision of the Court does not rest on is called "dicta" and has no controlling authority, but merely persuasive authority. This means if the decision of the Court does not rely on a statement in the opinion, then that statement can persuade other courts, but it doesn't instruct them to do anything.