Re:Proof we are not a democracy
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According to Wikiepdia, the term Democratic Republic is 'laregly meaningless'. Hmmm....
What I think I mean by democracy, is a representative democracy. But regardless of what name is used, the situation we have seems to me to be far from ideal. Not that I know how to fix it. Even if I found a solution, would it be possible to make the change? In order to reduce the power of the government by changing the voting procedure, the government itself would have to agree to it. Fat chance of that ever happening.
By the second one listed it says 'Could be exploited by a virus'. Interesting! I haven't yet heard of a virus which exploits a bug in the processor to infect systems. Some of the are marked 'Potentially Catastropihc'. I wonder what the list would look like if you made it for other processors. Most of the errors look like they will never happen in practice though.
Version 1 of anything always sucks. I'm waiting for the Core 2 Duo II v2 Second Edition.
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In a democracy, the government decides everything. The people only have the power to change the government, but they cannot tell them what to do or what not to do.
Democracy is the problem. Your vote is useless because everyone else ends up voting for the person out of two they hate the least. Elections are won based on what the general public thinks of the opposition. Real issues are lost behind a cloud of misdirection from both sides. Plus the media, who are being fed lots of money, are feeding the public with propaganda which alters the way they will vote.
Voting for change is an incremental process. Each 4 years or so you get to choose one issue to vote on. If you are lucky, one of the two candidates that have a chance of winning actually agree with your point of view. Otherwise you are screwed.
And you have no way to vote for your second most important issue. You must wait another 4 years to vote on that. So you *can* make a small change if you win, one whatever issue you think is most important.
And for every one thing you improve by voting, the government you voted for can make another 37 things worse. And you can't complain because you voted for it. And if they screw up the thing you voted for, they don't care. They will just distract you with a war or something.
But what's better than democracy? A benevolent dictator would be cool, but they are pretty rare... imagine how hard it would be not to be corrupted by the RIAA/MPAA. You probably think it's easy, but imagine what it would be like if you were in that situation. Almost any real person would give in and take the cash eventually.
Maybe it's best to keep it the way, and fight to take our rights back whenever we get the chance. Any better suggestions?
I totally know what you mean. If you mention Digg on this site you get modded Troll or Flamebait. Weird, huh? Personally I think both sites are good and both have positive and negative points. I see no reason why anyone wouldn't want to read both.
Hey, are you trying to get Slashdot closed down for assisting copyright infringement, by linking to a page that is a copy of a page that links to a file that includes a hash of a derivative of a copyrighted work?
And the least time in which I could solve the cube was 20 minutes.
Using a few simple, easy-to-learn algorithms, and with a few weeks practice it is possible for pretty much anyone to solve the 3D cube in just 2 or 3 minutes. Using a layer-by-layer method you can solve each piece one at a time in the first two layers, then learn 4 algorithms to fix the last layer (not necessarily in this order):
Sometimes you will have to use an algorithm twice. Each algorithm takes about 10 moves, and at a slow speed of one move per second and a bit of luck you can solve the last layer in under a minute. Here's a beginner's guide:
True, text ads can be annoying to block. If only there was something like the 'AdBlock Filterset.G' for Greasemonkey (i.e. a program that can automatically install and update ad-blocking scripts for GreaseMonkey) it would solve the problem for good.
Posting this hoping some knowledgable slashdotter will reply with a link...
But I don't think they'll get anything for their troubles.
According to the old TPB homepage, just after the raid, they expect to get compensation from the Swedish Government if they are proven innocent of copyright infringement. I hope this includes: cost of purchasing new servers, loss of advertising revenue for several days, cost for emotional effects of being sent to prison, cost of relocating their business to a safer country, etc...
This will hopefully teach the police to check the facts first and not just attack any individuals that the RIAA/MPAA chooses.
I don't think anyone is really bothered by ads any more. Those that want to see ads (or don't care either way) can see them, and those that don't want to see them don't have to (AdBlock). What's the problem? This is not a big issue in my opinion.
You don't get it. It's not theft. It's just a minor case of trespassing and PP (physical property) infringement. Hardly as serious as stealing music.
TPB can always buy some new computers. It's not like they cost that much. Computers are nearly free these days.
But once you copy a song you can't uncopy it. IP crime is irreversible and results in real losses that can be measured in terms of billions of dollars. See the difference?
The police should just get a slap on the wrist. If they were to arrest themselves it would be out of propertion compared to the IP crimes commited by our younger generation.
But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11.
Looks like Slashdot is informing readers how to avoid document protection mechanisms. I hope you don't get sued under the DMCA!
Sounds sort of insecure for a project like this to be openly editable to the public via a wiki and p2p network.
The P2P network will almost certainly include some sort of authentication system so that peers cannot fake messages from other peers. A voting system means that the number of 'bad' peers must be very high to cause any damage to the network as a whole. The system will have to be able to identify the bad peers and remove them from the network as soon as possible. A difficult challenge, but given that the spammers have 1000s of machines in botnets, it will be essential to be able to detect them quickly.
To be fair to Microsoft in the screenshot it has 8 preset colours but also a transparency bar and a colour mixer to select your own settings, so it is dynamic
Slashdot Mirror
Several articles about Slashdot have made it to the front page on Digg. Many of them are very positive.
d igg.com&hl=en
h dot.org&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot%20site%3A
Compare it to the articles about Digg on Slashdot, and check the comments too:
http://www.google.com/search?q=digg%20site%3Aslas
According to Wikiepdia, the term Democratic Republic is 'laregly meaningless'. Hmmm....
What I think I mean by democracy, is a representative democracy. But regardless of what name is used, the situation we have seems to me to be far from ideal. Not that I know how to fix it. Even if I found a solution, would it be possible to make the change? In order to reduce the power of the government by changing the voting procedure, the government itself would have to agree to it. Fat chance of that ever happening.
Do you have a link? Sounds interesting...
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This is what I found by using Google:
http://www.geek.com/images/geeknews/2006Jan/core_
By the second one listed it says 'Could be exploited by a virus'. Interesting! I haven't yet heard of a virus which exploits a bug in the processor to infect systems. Some of the are marked 'Potentially Catastropihc'. I wonder what the list would look like if you made it for other processors. Most of the errors look like they will never happen in practice though.
Oh... and Second Post!
Core 2 Duo is clearly a very capable processor
Version 1 of anything always sucks. I'm waiting for the Core 2 Duo II v2 Second Edition.
In a democracy, the government decides everything. The people only have the power to change the government, but they cannot tell them what to do or what not to do.
Democracy is the problem. Your vote is useless because everyone else ends up voting for the person out of two they hate the least. Elections are won based on what the general public thinks of the opposition. Real issues are lost behind a cloud of misdirection from both sides. Plus the media, who are being fed lots of money, are feeding the public with propaganda which alters the way they will vote.
Voting for change is an incremental process. Each 4 years or so you get to choose one issue to vote on. If you are lucky, one of the two candidates that have a chance of winning actually agree with your point of view. Otherwise you are screwed.
And you have no way to vote for your second most important issue. You must wait another 4 years to vote on that. So you *can* make a small change if you win, one whatever issue you think is most important.
And for every one thing you improve by voting, the government you voted for can make another 37 things worse. And you can't complain because you voted for it. And if they screw up the thing you voted for, they don't care. They will just distract you with a war or something.
But what's better than democracy? A benevolent dictator would be cool, but they are pretty rare... imagine how hard it would be not to be corrupted by the RIAA/MPAA. You probably think it's easy, but imagine what it would be like if you were in that situation. Almost any real person would give in and take the cash eventually.
Maybe it's best to keep it the way, and fight to take our rights back whenever we get the chance. Any better suggestions?
If you say something unpopular on Slashdot you lose the right to moderate. At least on Digg everyone is equal.
I totally know what you mean. If you mention Digg on this site you get modded Troll or Flamebait. Weird, huh? Personally I think both sites are good and both have positive and negative points. I see no reason why anyone wouldn't want to read both.
I guess I'm just too radical...
Why don't i just visit all the websites on the internet every day?
You don't need to, Digg has everything you need.
Slashdot is good too. Apart from the crazy moderators that mod you down if you don't agree with the hive...
The US Government has allowed us in Europe read it too! They finally realised that learning about cryptography doesn't mean you are a terrorist.
Or perhaps they are using the website to collect IP addresses of potential terrorists?
hey look, a google cache of a page linking directly to a torrent file of a copyrighted work!
Hey, are you trying to get Slashdot closed down for assisting copyright infringement, by linking to a page that is a copy of a page that links to a file that includes a hash of a derivative of a copyrighted work?
And the least time in which I could solve the cube was 20 minutes.
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Using a few simple, easy-to-learn algorithms, and with a few weeks practice it is possible for pretty much anyone to solve the 3D cube in just 2 or 3 minutes. Using a layer-by-layer method you can solve each piece one at a time in the first two layers, then learn 4 algorithms to fix the last layer (not necessarily in this order):
1) Rotate edges
2) Rotate corners
3) Permute corners
4) Permute edges
Sometimes you will have to use an algorithm twice. Each algorithm takes about 10 moves, and at a slow speed of one move per second and a bit of luck you can solve the last layer in under a minute. Here's a beginner's guide:
http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/rubikscubesoluti
If you want to get faster you need to learn more algorithms so that you can complete two steps at once.
A popular method which can be used to get very fast times is the Fridrich method, but it requires a lot of memorisation and lots and lots of practice:
http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html
Personally I managed to get times of under 1 minute by practising the cube every day in the bus to and from work.
Anyone know where you can buy a real 5D cube? I hate trying to solve them on a computer screen. Much easier in real life.
Also I will need a spare set of 4 dimensional stickers in case the original ones fall off.
You heard the terms. Report back when Microsoft is shut down. There will be no more negotiations.
True, text ads can be annoying to block. If only there was something like the 'AdBlock Filterset.G' for Greasemonkey (i.e. a program that can automatically install and update ad-blocking scripts for GreaseMonkey) it would solve the problem for good.
Posting this hoping some knowledgable slashdotter will reply with a link...
But I don't think they'll get anything for their troubles.
According to the old TPB homepage, just after the raid, they expect to get compensation from the Swedish Government if they are proven innocent of copyright infringement. I hope this includes: cost of purchasing new servers, loss of advertising revenue for several days, cost for emotional effects of being sent to prison, cost of relocating their business to a safer country, etc...
This will hopefully teach the police to check the facts first and not just attack any individuals that the RIAA/MPAA chooses.
I don't think anyone is really bothered by ads any more. Those that want to see ads (or don't care either way) can see them, and those that don't want to see them don't have to (AdBlock). What's the problem? This is not a big issue in my opinion.
The search function doesn't seem to be working yet either:
No hits due to politics
The search function will be back later today.
...have stolen machines belonging...
You don't get it. It's not theft. It's just a minor case of trespassing and PP (physical property) infringement. Hardly as serious as stealing music.
TPB can always buy some new computers. It's not like they cost that much. Computers are nearly free these days.
But once you copy a song you can't uncopy it. IP crime is irreversible and results in real losses that can be measured in terms of billions of dollars. See the difference?
The police should just get a slap on the wrist. If they were to arrest themselves it would be out of propertion compared to the IP crimes commited by our younger generation.
The method that I've found that works best is just replacing said text with a series of XXXXs.
You're method will not work in the general case.
Specifically, your algorithm performs poorly if you want to remove all occurences of the phrase 'XXX' in a document.
But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11.
Looks like Slashdot is informing readers how to avoid document protection mechanisms. I hope you don't get sued under the DMCA!
Sounds sort of insecure for a project like this to be openly editable to the public via a wiki and p2p network.
The P2P network will almost certainly include some sort of authentication system so that peers cannot fake messages from other peers. A voting system means that the number of 'bad' peers must be very high to cause any damage to the network as a whole. The system will have to be able to identify the bad peers and remove them from the network as soon as possible. A difficult challenge, but given that the spammers have 1000s of machines in botnets, it will be essential to be able to detect them quickly.
Windows is OK, but the real hero is Al Gore for inventing the internet. How else would we get free music?
Thanks Al!
To be fair to Microsoft in the screenshot it has 8 preset colours but also a transparency bar and a colour mixer to select your own settings, so it is dynamic
So you're saying that I can choose any colour?
You don't get it. A skin doesn't look cool until Microsoft copies it.