Aaah but you'd be the de facto king (or other term if you wish, you're the king!) and so you could declare any law you want. Now while you COULD make everything you do illegal, it'd be a funny thing to do.
Not if the police state makes it unlawful for anyone but themselves to use surveillance. In the UK, you'll more than likely have your camera taken off you if the police spot you filming them.
My response: "And what if the government makes travel a crime? Then we ALL become criminals."
In that case it'd be more effective to just stand in the road, that way they don't have to hunt you down.
I love the "What if they do something different in the future" arguments. What if the government declares martial law and starts using chemical warefare on its own citizens? Surely we mustn't have an army so we can stop such a catastrophe!
She (or someone who used her internet connection which she tried to cover up) is guilty over doing exactly what the RIAA said. The only difference now is that there's nothing wrong with doing what she did (making available).
With such wastefulness as replacing good parts, is privatising the space industry really the answer? After all, I don't think even NASA replaces perfectly good parts.
From my understanding (from 6 years ago in high school phyics) the shape of the visible universe isn't a bubble but instead the shape of something else. I think it was the shape of two circular spheres with a thin strip connecting them.
This dark flow could explain why the universe isn't expanding in a sphere when so much in the universe (planets, stars, bubbles) do seem to naturally fall into spherical shapes.
My understanding (and I'm most likely 100% wrong) is that imagine the Big Bang didn't create everything in the universe. Instead it just created everything we can see. There exists stuff beyond our eyesight that's existed since before the big bang. We can't see it because light from stars has yet to travel to it, bounce off it and then travel back to us.
Like everything else in the universe, this invisible matter could still have mass which exerts a force much like stuff does within the visible universe.
Why have we never seen it then? Well perhaps as everything in the visible universe expands, it also pushes back the stuff outside the visible universe.
We can know one thing about this stuff though. It doesn't contain any stars for the simple reason that we would have seen the light travel from it.
NOW this answers a question I've had for a very long time, which is "why did the big bang happen?" which would be "because the matter in the universe formed together tight enough and in such a way as to create the big bang" which means there could have been other big bangs in the universe which means we might one day (millenia from now) see light from another big bang.
However it does raise yet another question "what created all the stuff that exists outside the visible universe?" and before someone says god I then ask "What created god?"
But Zero Kelvin's contention isn't that UAC is annoying. Its that the very need for UAC is bad. Given sudo acts as the Linux version of UAC, clearly the need for sudo is bad;)
Unless we of course admit Zero Kelvin is just pandering to the base here at slashdot.
Yes I do. When these amoral and criminal types have the choice of targeting 1% of the market or with the same amount of effort targeting 90% of the market, I'm going to guess they'll pick 90%
Unfortunately for Microsoft Windows XP is the first OS to "work well enough" which makes me ask, why would I update? IE 8 certainly looks nice along with the enhanced GUI features, but they aren't so large an improvement that I'm going going to spend $120 to upgrade.
As long as OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird and Gimp work on my computer, I don't see any pressing need to upgrade. They're going to have to pull out something much better for Windows 7 to get my hard-earned cash.
Even getting it "free" when I upgrade my computer isn't enough of an incentive because my computer's speed seems good enough at 2.67 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. I've also only used 32 GB out of 201 GB (I actually have more then that but they're on a separate partition for Linux which I need to develop in sometimes for university).
tempts me to question why they haven't focused more energy on securing the system.
No matter how secure a system is, it can still be vulnerable to attack. Ubuntu users would learn this if it gained 60% of the market share tomorrow.
I'll stay with Ubuntu
I would love to upgrade to Ubuntu (using Windows XP). Unfortunately I've tried (along with tried Fedora Core) and in both cases my internet connection was much slower then in Windows XP. Clearly its a driver issue, one fundamental to Linux given its appeared in two OSes. But it doesn't help people like me (I have a fairly average computer, a couple of years old).
It mentions that the UAC only popped up once during an install. This seems quite good to me, although I'm not sure how many times it would pop up when installing the same program under Vista.
Guns have two purposes. To hurt and kill things. Handguns have the purpose of hurting and killing people. If you think guns only have these purposes then I worry more about you then all the other drivers on the road.
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Aaah but you'd be the de facto king (or other term if you wish, you're the king!) and so you could declare any law you want. Now while you COULD make everything you do illegal, it'd be a funny thing to do.
Not if the police state makes it unlawful for anyone but themselves to use surveillance. In the UK, you'll more than likely have your camera taken off you if the police spot you filming them.
Please cite the law that allows them to do this.
Of course, surveillance *can* be used by a police state
You know what else can be used by a police state? Pens! Clearly any country that uses a pen is a police state.
(not arguing with you, simply backing up your point).
My response: "And what if the government makes travel a crime? Then we ALL become criminals."
In that case it'd be more effective to just stand in the road, that way they don't have to hunt you down.
I love the "What if they do something different in the future" arguments. What if the government declares martial law and starts using chemical warefare on its own citizens? Surely we mustn't have an army so we can stop such a catastrophe!
If someone gets hold of my finger prints, what do I do then?
Good god, you're right! You'd better wear gloves all the time when outside!
Does anything rubbery still fool those readers?
That's fucked up if they're the only ones who did do the downloading.
She (or someone who used her internet connection which she tried to cover up) is guilty over doing exactly what the RIAA said. The only difference now is that there's nothing wrong with doing what she did (making available).
To clarify, I thought this vehicle hadn't actually gotten into space.
So how many miles did this part have on it? I thought they hadn't actually gotten into space.
With such wastefulness as replacing good parts, is privatising the space industry really the answer? After all, I don't think even NASA replaces perfectly good parts.
Couldn't the expansion of the visible universe be pushing back the "dark flow"?
From my understanding (from 6 years ago in high school phyics) the shape of the visible universe isn't a bubble but instead the shape of something else. I think it was the shape of two circular spheres with a thin strip connecting them.
This dark flow could explain why the universe isn't expanding in a sphere when so much in the universe (planets, stars, bubbles) do seem to naturally fall into spherical shapes.
My understanding (and I'm most likely 100% wrong) is that imagine the Big Bang didn't create everything in the universe. Instead it just created everything we can see. There exists stuff beyond our eyesight that's existed since before the big bang. We can't see it because light from stars has yet to travel to it, bounce off it and then travel back to us.
Like everything else in the universe, this invisible matter could still have mass which exerts a force much like stuff does within the visible universe.
Why have we never seen it then? Well perhaps as everything in the visible universe expands, it also pushes back the stuff outside the visible universe.
We can know one thing about this stuff though. It doesn't contain any stars for the simple reason that we would have seen the light travel from it.
NOW this answers a question I've had for a very long time, which is "why did the big bang happen?" which would be "because the matter in the universe formed together tight enough and in such a way as to create the big bang" which means there could have been other big bangs in the universe which means we might one day (millenia from now) see light from another big bang.
However it does raise yet another question "what created all the stuff that exists outside the visible universe?" and before someone says god I then ask "What created god?"
So you're saying Linux is uncrackable then? Given we've never seen a virus in the wild for it?
I never said that Linux was less secure then Windows, simply that it would need better security then it currently has if it had a larger market share.
But Zero Kelvin's contention isn't that UAC is annoying. Its that the very need for UAC is bad. Given sudo acts as the Linux version of UAC, clearly the need for sudo is bad ;)
Unless we of course admit Zero Kelvin is just pandering to the base here at slashdot.
Yes I do. When these amoral and criminal types have the choice of targeting 1% of the market or with the same amount of effort targeting 90% of the market, I'm going to guess they'll pick 90%
Try having 60% of the market share and see how secure your OS is.
Unfortunately for Microsoft Windows XP is the first OS to "work well enough" which makes me ask, why would I update? IE 8 certainly looks nice along with the enhanced GUI features, but they aren't so large an improvement that I'm going going to spend $120 to upgrade.
As long as OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird and Gimp work on my computer, I don't see any pressing need to upgrade. They're going to have to pull out something much better for Windows 7 to get my hard-earned cash.
Even getting it "free" when I upgrade my computer isn't enough of an incentive because my computer's speed seems good enough at 2.67 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. I've also only used 32 GB out of 201 GB (I actually have more then that but they're on a separate partition for Linux which I need to develop in sometimes for university).
tempts me to question why they haven't focused more energy on securing the system.
No matter how secure a system is, it can still be vulnerable to attack. Ubuntu users would learn this if it gained 60% of the market share tomorrow.
I'll stay with Ubuntu
I would love to upgrade to Ubuntu (using Windows XP). Unfortunately I've tried (along with tried Fedora Core) and in both cases my internet connection was much slower then in Windows XP. Clearly its a driver issue, one fundamental to Linux given its appeared in two OSes. But it doesn't help people like me (I have a fairly average computer, a couple of years old).
It mentions that the UAC only popped up once during an install. This seems quite good to me, although I'm not sure how many times it would pop up when installing the same program under Vista.
If you think guns only have these purposes then I worry more about you then all the other drivers on the road.
Replace guns with cars in this sentence.
Guns have two purposes. To hurt and kill things. Handguns have the purpose of hurting and killing people. If you think guns only have these purposes then I worry more about you then all the other drivers on the road.
But they don't provide internet service
With all that fibre they own across the country surely they don't have an ISP. Therefore they are an ISP to their employees :P