You don't have enough imagination. Rooting a box requires platform-specific functionality, but there are other ways of exploiting vulnerabilities for profit. E-mail out randomly selected documents from the user's home directory. Replace randomly selected documents in the user's home directory with encrypted versions thereof, and blackmail the user for the key.
You're overstretching in your attempt to delineate the difference between physics and maths. The line between theoretical physics and applied maths is very blurry - as witness. Fundamentally what determines whether you're doing maths or physics isn't the existence or not of processes which fit your model but the extent to which you care about whether the model fits the processes.
I'm not entirely convinced by your definition of computer science, either. The study of information is part of it, but I don't think it's a suitable classification of e.g. complexity theory. (It is a prerequisite thereof, because it's required for the definition of problem size.)
Shame I just used my mod points. There are plenty of cultures in which women don't change their names when they marry, and even in those where they do they tend not to change them unless they marry, which is becoming less common. Fortunately banks are starting to wake up, and maybe in a decade they'll all have semi-sensible account security.
You are the type of person who would call Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla, "Pirates"
They had "radical piracy-like agendas"
Franklin went considerably beyond the agenda. He made a living out of printing the works of living European authors without paying them a cent. If people who copy creative works for personal use can be called pirates then how much more those who do so for commercial gain?
Yes that true. However most of them just refuse what the official word is from their religion and believe whatever they think they should. Heck they even refuse to believe that Catholics are Christians...
I'm a bit lost here. Are you saying that most Protestant churches have it as an article of faith that Catholics are Christians? From the various bases of faith that I've read I think most would say that being a Catholic doesn't make you a Christian or a non-Christian, but what matters is that the individual has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. A refusal to believe that Catholics can be Christians would be heterodox, but that's a rather different matter.
...and that Catholicism is Older then their form of christianity.
I think (or at least hope!) most would recognise that their denomination is newer than Catholicism but claim that the Reformation was a return to the New Testament faith and hence to a form of Christianity which predates Catholicism. The extent to which they're correct is a different question about which I'm not trying to start a debate.
Rather than bookmark an article I save a copy to disk. It's the surest way of being able to read it later. Even if the site's admins are competent enough to keep the URL pointing at the right place, there's no guarantee that the article won't disappear behind a paywall.
That's the phrase used by the rest of the English-speaking world and the TRIPS agreement. In the words of a USPTO patent attorney, "Industrial application is essentially the same as our utility standard set forth in 35 USC 101".
GP is talking about GPL. You're talking about LGPL. I'm not sure whether you think you're correcting GP or expanding on it. Could someone clarify in a way which leaves the situation clear?
Also, is the phrase "the government should provide enabling legislation, for specific measures to be identified and implemented..." equal parts vague and sinister, or what?
Yes, it is vague and sinister. It's also wholly typical of New Labour. It's quite scary how much primary legislation nowadays consists of enabling secondary legislation, which gets even less scrutiny.
Should we be concerned that such a scenario play itself out in Ross Clark's UK or in the US? Likely no, as US government agencies are widely decentralized and isolated.
I tend to assume as a default position that anyone who thinks US government agencies run the UK is from the US. Of course there are conspiracy theorists of various flavours who would agree, but not so many.
That's fine when the thing you're wanting to open isn't a hyperlink. I use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V to view links all the time with Gmail, because I find that clicking on them runs some Javascript which never seems to complete and take me to the address which shows in the status bar when I mouseover the link.
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Who modded that "Troll"? I'm sure the mod guidelines don't say that "Troll" equates to "Fair comment".
You don't have enough imagination. Rooting a box requires platform-specific functionality, but there are other ways of exploiting vulnerabilities for profit. E-mail out randomly selected documents from the user's home directory. Replace randomly selected documents in the user's home directory with encrypted versions thereof, and blackmail the user for the key.
You're overstretching in your attempt to delineate the difference between physics and maths. The line between theoretical physics and applied maths is very blurry - as witness. Fundamentally what determines whether you're doing maths or physics isn't the existence or not of processes which fit your model but the extent to which you care about whether the model fits the processes.
I'm not entirely convinced by your definition of computer science, either. The study of information is part of it, but I don't think it's a suitable classification of e.g. complexity theory. (It is a prerequisite thereof, because it's required for the definition of problem size.)
(Microsoft Patents Crippling) Operating (Systems). What, haven't you heard of MS Patents Crippling?
Yes, but I draw the line at stealing policemen's helmets.
I imagine they'll have plenty of evidence to help the police identify their assailants.
That's because computer science isn't a science. It's a branch of pure maths, although often has some engineering lumped in with it.
Q What is the highest prime number?
There isn't one.
Non-existent.
Fictional.
Yes, I see your point. It would take quite a while to enumerate all the possible answers.
Q What is the lowest Sierpinski numer?
22,699. Am I right?
Yes, but "Where are the bodies buried?" isn't really the question you want to choose for password recovery.
Shame I just used my mod points. There are plenty of cultures in which women don't change their names when they marry, and even in those where they do they tend not to change them unless they marry, which is becoming less common. Fortunately banks are starting to wake up, and maybe in a decade they'll all have semi-sensible account security.
You are the type of person who would call Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla, "Pirates"
They had "radical piracy-like agendas"
Franklin went considerably beyond the agenda. He made a living out of printing the works of living European authors without paying them a cent. If people who copy creative works for personal use can be called pirates then how much more those who do so for commercial gain?
As far as I know, the only one who actively states they will scrap this state monitoring nonsense.
What about the Lib Dems? I know that one of their stated policies is the repeal of the Identity Cards Act.
So tempting...
Yes that true. However most of them just refuse what the official word is from their religion and believe whatever they think they should. Heck they even refuse to believe that Catholics are Christians ...
I'm a bit lost here. Are you saying that most Protestant churches have it as an article of faith that Catholics are Christians? From the various bases of faith that I've read I think most would say that being a Catholic doesn't make you a Christian or a non-Christian, but what matters is that the individual has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. A refusal to believe that Catholics can be Christians would be heterodox, but that's a rather different matter.
...and that Catholicism is Older then their form of christianity.
I think (or at least hope!) most would recognise that their denomination is newer than Catholicism but claim that the Reformation was a return to the New Testament faith and hence to a form of Christianity which predates Catholicism. The extent to which they're correct is a different question about which I'm not trying to start a debate.
Rather than bookmark an article I save a copy to disk. It's the surest way of being able to read it later. Even if the site's admins are competent enough to keep the URL pointing at the right place, there's no guarantee that the article won't disappear behind a paywall.
I expect to be treated the same as another customer unless I have chosen to be treated differently.
Such as, I don't know, going to the Della site rather than dell.com?
This filter is nice because it doesn't require you to remember all the values that you want to average together
Why would you need to remember all the values? As long as you remember the number of values and their total you're fine.
That's the phrase used by the rest of the English-speaking world and the TRIPS agreement. In the words of a USPTO patent attorney, "Industrial application is essentially the same as our utility standard set forth in 35 USC 101".
I'm sorry, expecting MPs to legislate (isn't that what they're paid for) makes me a Nazi? Talk about mods on crack: your post is the troll, not mine.
Forget obviousness. Aren't patents supposed to have industrial application?
GP is talking about GPL. You're talking about LGPL. I'm not sure whether you think you're correcting GP or expanding on it. Could someone clarify in a way which leaves the situation clear?
Also, is the phrase "the government should provide enabling legislation, for specific measures to be identified and implemented..." equal parts vague and sinister, or what?
Yes, it is vague and sinister. It's also wholly typical of New Labour. It's quite scary how much primary legislation nowadays consists of enabling secondary legislation, which gets even less scrutiny.
If he's British?
Should we be concerned that such a scenario play itself out in Ross Clark's UK or in the US? Likely no, as US government agencies are widely decentralized and isolated.
I tend to assume as a default position that anyone who thinks US government agencies run the UK is from the US. Of course there are conspiracy theorists of various flavours who would agree, but not so many.
No, he's pointing out that you could repair someone else's car while driving down the road at 85 mph.
That's fine when the thing you're wanting to open isn't a hyperlink. I use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V to view links all the time with Gmail, because I find that clicking on them runs some Javascript which never seems to complete and take me to the address which shows in the status bar when I mouseover the link.