You know what the secret code for the backdoor to encrypted data on a harddrive running Vista is gonna be, don't you?
Up-Up-Dn-Dn-Lt-Rt-Lt-Rt-A-B-A-B-Ctrl-Enter
Yes I know that does not include the so called "illegal wiretaps" by the President. I am not too worried unless the taps were not on inbound international calls from known terrorists calling people here in the US. If that is what they are, then there is no crime in doing that.
Grrrr.... Yes, there is a crime in doing that! That's why FISA was passed!
What this boils down to is, do you trust the administration to do only perfectly benign spying? If so, why didn't they take it through the courts like they're required by law to do?
Terrorists don't deserve due process or privacy.. nobody will dispute that. The problem is that the innocent do, and it's the burden and responsibility of the free to ensure it. Many have forgotten Ben Franklin's words "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither".
How would creating a Linux distribution even come *close* to being a Windows killer?
Well, what does Linux lack from the point of view of the general populace?
1. Usability. Google should have this pretty well covered
2. Name Brand Recognition. Don't underestimate the ability of a name brand to push something forward. Google has this in spades.
I think Google might really be on to something. If they can manage to create a GNU/Linux-based distribution with the ease of use that Google is becoming famous for, there may well be a way to commoditize the operating system. Way to go, and it's about time.:)
However, the problem is that if you are saying that, by definition, God does not have to have a cause, you cannot say that everything else does. Whenever someone makes that argument, that God is the first mover, it invalidates their own argument, because it both says and refutes that everything must have a mover, with a single argument. The argument of "first mover" thus has an inherent contradiction, and is not a valid logical argument.
...Cohen's engine is far from the only tool used to find pirated BitTorrent files online.
Yes, it's very far, seeing as it can't find anything without a tracker, and can't even find that by itself. He made the protocol and a client, not a web search engine!
Next, Bill Gates will be saying "Look how dangerous the GPL is! The next time a large corporation wants to exploit their consumers using GPL code, they could be liable for damages! Waah!"
The question I have is: why wouldn't hardware companies want to provide open-source drivers? They're hardware companies, and anything that makes their hardware easier to use or more attractive is nothing but a good thing.
I just think that the companies are paranoid about letting source out into the wild, but they really need to understand that opening the driver source can only help them.
How in the hell are they going to provide feature-filled web-based applications to end users and other businesses if their web server can't even stand up to a Slashdotting? I may have to echo the "BS" claims already in place.
This is brilliant! If memory serves, the only two things Microsoft consistently makes money on are their OS and their office suite. Since MS has already "declared war" on Google, the smart thing to do might be to return fire, by commoditizing the operating system and office suite markets.
How do you commoditize an operating system? One way is to make web services that can be accessed by any standards-compliant browser. Check.
How do you commoditize an office suite? By backing and improving a free-of-charge office suite, and by providing coders, money, and publicity to the project. Check.
I wonder what MS will do now? I think that if they have to fight to maintain a monopoly against Google, IBM, Sun, and the entire F/OSS community, they may well have a losing battle.
Soldiers whose lives were threatened were hesitating to pull the trigger due to the consequences. Since the advent of the video game they've seen this apprehension dissipate...
Not true. The study you're referring to was about World War II, and in response the military changed their training tactics in subtle ways to reinforce the kill instinct, i.e. changing rifle targets from bullseyes to human shapes, using bayonets on stuffed humanoid dummies, etc.
The upshot of this is that this new training worked too well, and was partly blamed for Vietnam-era war crimes like the My Lai Massacre.
The kill instinct in war has nothing to do with video games, and everything to do with military psychological conditioning.
When I was a kid the games were much mellower, and less realistic, and I was a hoodlum. I could speculate that if I had these games I would have caused much less trouble when I was a kid.
Could be. However, look at it this way: Video game consoles are cheap and abundant these days (when adjusted for inflation, they might be the cheapest they've ever been). If more and more kids are staying inside to play, instead of roaming the streets, wouldn't that lead to less juvenile crime?
I know that, when I behaved like a hoodlum (rarely), it was more due to boredom than any other factor.
The people of Iraq are being terrorized by a small number of Sunni Baathist "deadenders" and a larger number of radical Jihadis from all over the middle east.
What makes you think that? I believe (I read somewhere, can't dig up the link) that most of the insurgents are laid off factory workers and unemployed Iraqi citizens who lost their jobs because of the occupation.
What makes you think that the Iraqi people want us there? If there's a substantial number of Iraqi citizens actively fighting the occupation, how can you just write that off? Isn't that anti-democratic?
I don't ultimately know why, but not knowing the answer does not mean that there is no answer...
I have not been clearly miraculously healed myself...
Look, I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I'm really getting tired of the logic here: I don't understand it, so I will attribute it to God.
If you don't know how something happened, why is a common course of action to give credit to a god for something good happening, when it would be far easier and simpler to just admit you don't know.
I mean, really.... you don't hear many cancer victims blaming Satan for their illness, so why the other way around?
I agree. The corollary to what you are saying is that "Intellectual Property" should not be treated like property (taxed) because it is not property. There definitely should be a limited monopoly, after which music should be passed into the public domain, because that is what is good for society, good of society being the whole point of copyright law in the first place.
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I think they misspelled "Pr0n".
Damn, I thought it would be CowboyNeal. :)
Grrrr.... Yes, there is a crime in doing that! That's why FISA was passed!
What this boils down to is, do you trust the administration to do only perfectly benign spying? If so, why didn't they take it through the courts like they're required by law to do?
I will.
Everyone deserves due process. Period.
Well, what does Linux lack from the point of view of the general populace?
1. Usability. Google should have this pretty well covered
2. Name Brand Recognition. Don't underestimate the ability of a name brand to push something forward. Google has this in spades.
I think Google might really be on to something. If they can manage to create a GNU/Linux-based distribution with the ease of use that Google is becoming famous for, there may well be a way to commoditize the operating system. Way to go, and it's about time. :)
However, the problem is that if you are saying that, by definition, God does not have to have a cause, you cannot say that everything else does. Whenever someone makes that argument, that God is the first mover, it invalidates their own argument, because it both says and refutes that everything must have a mover, with a single argument. The argument of "first mover" thus has an inherent contradiction, and is not a valid logical argument.
...be sure to thoroughly bread the motherboard before use, and use an Intel Northwood-core Pentium IV for quickest frying action.
Yes, it's very far, seeing as it can't find anything without a tracker, and can't even find that by itself. He made the protocol and a client, not a web search engine!
That was probably because he thought you were on your way to a job interview.
Untrue. No one MAKES MONEY off of downloading music from P2P nets.
Next, Bill Gates will be saying "Look how dangerous the GPL is! The next time a large corporation wants to exploit their consumers using GPL code, they could be liable for damages! Waah!"
I just think that the companies are paranoid about letting source out into the wild, but they really need to understand that opening the driver source can only help them.
I guess that the *AA propaganda really works, in that the common usage of the word pirate is what they want it to be, rather than what it actually is.
How in the hell are they going to provide feature-filled web-based applications to end users and other businesses if their web server can't even stand up to a Slashdotting? I may have to echo the "BS" claims already in place.
How do you commoditize an operating system? One way is to make web services that can be accessed by any standards-compliant browser. Check.
How do you commoditize an office suite? By backing and improving a free-of-charge office suite, and by providing coders, money, and publicity to the project. Check.
I wonder what MS will do now? I think that if they have to fight to maintain a monopoly against Google, IBM, Sun, and the entire F/OSS community, they may well have a losing battle.
Eventually.
I'm behind a filtering proxy and can't find a google cache... could someone post the text of the article please?
Hmm.... perhaps we should build a bridge out of her!
Not true. The study you're referring to was about World War II, and in response the military changed their training tactics in subtle ways to reinforce the kill instinct, i.e. changing rifle targets from bullseyes to human shapes, using bayonets on stuffed humanoid dummies, etc.
The upshot of this is that this new training worked too well, and was partly blamed for Vietnam-era war crimes like the My Lai Massacre.
The kill instinct in war has nothing to do with video games, and everything to do with military psychological conditioning.
Could be. However, look at it this way: Video game consoles are cheap and abundant these days (when adjusted for inflation, they might be the cheapest they've ever been). If more and more kids are staying inside to play, instead of roaming the streets, wouldn't that lead to less juvenile crime?
I know that, when I behaved like a hoodlum (rarely), it was more due to boredom than any other factor.
What makes you think that? I believe (I read somewhere, can't dig up the link) that most of the insurgents are laid off factory workers and unemployed Iraqi citizens who lost their jobs because of the occupation.
What makes you think that the Iraqi people want us there? If there's a substantial number of Iraqi citizens actively fighting the occupation, how can you just write that off? Isn't that anti-democratic?
Okay, that's just a bit Frankensteinian.
Look, I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I'm really getting tired of the logic here: I don't understand it, so I will attribute it to God.
If you don't know how something happened, why is a common course of action to give credit to a god for something good happening, when it would be far easier and simpler to just admit you don't know.
I mean, really.... you don't hear many cancer victims blaming Satan for their illness, so why the other way around?
Sooo......
Exactly how large is he?
I agree. The corollary to what you are saying is that "Intellectual Property" should not be treated like property (taxed) because it is not property. There definitely should be a limited monopoly, after which music should be passed into the public domain, because that is what is good for society, good of society being the whole point of copyright law in the first place.
You mean, like, to keep them all from going too fast?