Ah, so the people who execute those orders are not to be held responsible?
Of course not, they are responsible for taking the orders. More than one person can be at fault.
Words only mean something to those who act on them.
When someone tells you "I'll kill you motherfucker!" that's not a request for YOU to act upon them. It makes sense to detain the guy who's threatening you before he kills you, not after.
Eventually this discussion will turn towards the subject of free will. So I ask you, do we have it, or not?
It doesn't matter because putting someone in prison is not for some philosophical goals, it's for preventing them from causing further damage and to give a strong disincentive to crime. Whether free will exists or not the human psyche works similar most of the time and punishment will reduce the frequency with which the punished action is performed.
I know Tyrian has some opensource clones available (the code was revealed to some opensource group to reimplement as opensource, the art assets were released for free), you can even get a port for the iPhone. Also this page seems to be the official site of the game's developer (or what's left, anyway) and it has a download for Tyrian 2000.
The traditional model fails because it relies on the price of copying being higher than the price of buying.
I wouldn't call it failing, it's still making a ton of money. Just because some people are playing the games for free doesn't mean the system is broken, it's only broken if it stops making money.
They claim the connections are fine, I'm more worried about the cost efficiency of running the hardware for those games. How much hardware would you need to handle the peak load and will they be able to sustain that (especially the regular upgrades, people aren't renting remote computers to play their games at low detail) without making subscription fees too high? Also it sounds like the monthly fee does not include games, you have to buy/rent those extra.
It's possible to land with no sight and only instruments but it's significantly riskier and often planes get re-routed to avoid foggy airports. Additionally clogging the air speed sensors will make instrument landings much harder and wasn't a recent plane crash caused by a failure of those sensors too?
Eusocial species don't automatically lack empathy, of course bees likely do because they're insects and thus not terribly smart but what do we know about the social behaviour of the Damaraland and naked mole rats?
For an AI we'd likely deal with von Neumann probes, those would be instructed to terrafrom suitable planets and harvest resources for self-replication, if they're looking for planets similar to Earth they might start the terraforming process without intervention from their makers (considering interstellar distances and assuming no FTL communication that would make the most sense) and what's suitable for them probably wouldn't be for us.
Or hell, they could take both routes, fight each other for resources AND explore space to find uncontested resources. After all Europe wasn't exactly peaceful when Columbus set out to find new resources by sailing to the west and the struggle for supremacy with the neighbors could be quite a reason to invest in resource discovery to gain an upper hand.
Sounds to me more like he expects ignorance, not malice. Imagine we came across an alien planet and wanted to land there and live with the natives, would we have any idea how to treat their ecosystem so it doesn't collapse as a result?
He also says they're probably doing that in search of habitable planets and we shouldn't advertise that ours is. These alien overlords probably won't just come to help us join the overmind.
Security is not meant to be absolute but in cryptography the goal is to make cracking the information take longer than the information remains relevant. For example we know how to break an RSA cipher but that doesn't mean it's feasible. Security through obscurity means that your security is based on the principle that your opponent doesn't know how it works. With a good cipher figuring out what algorithm you used is only a tiny step in the process of cracking it and finding the actual parameters for the algorithm will consume the vast majority of the time. A publicly known algorithm has more eyes looking at it and finding weaknesses/countermeasures, an "obscure" algorithm is usually created specifically for one task, sees significantly less review and may (read: most likely will) contain flaws that would allow an attacker to break it with little effort once he figures out how the algorithm works.
It is not the algorithm that must remain secret, it's the key used with it.
Anyway, in this case it's more like stealth than cryptography.
What you said about blacks is the same I could say about manual laborers in Germany (and I mean locally born ones, not immigrants), having a manual labor job simply builds a lot of strength and endurance but smart people will usually take the better paid office jobs instead. As for common sense, considering the logic the ancient Greeks espoused at times (Socrates' apology... *shudder*) I don't think what we call "common sense" really is so universal to the species, it's built by the society around it. A thousand years ago (that's right in the medieval age) the average European peasant would have been equally confounded by any talk about cause and effect.
Words mean things. When using words that have nasty consequences you should be prepared to face the results. For example when an officer orders his subordinates to kill people that isn't just speech, that's the action of giving an order. You are allowed to express opinions, dissent, etc but when you start using your words to influence other people you take some blame for their actions. You also take the blame for any damage your words cause directly, libel/slander (deliberately lying about people in order to hurt them), threats, false alarms (popular example of shouting fire in a crowded space or prank calling the emergency services), etc.
Speech without consequences is speech without value. If people are shielded from all consequences of their words they become worthless to listen to.
Another issue with Eufloria is that 1. it's pretty boring and 2. most of the interesting things are done manually with the procedural generation limited to the filler. For a first example, one of the early levels has tons of fortified planets and you have to find the route that's undefended, while the details on the planets differ slightly the overall layout and correct path are always identical. Another level has a massive enemy army hidden in a pocket behind their main world that swarms out once you attack the main world, the planets in between may vary but that part is always identical. One level has two paths from your starting world to the main body with different attributes to the involved planets, again minor details may differ but the path types and whatnot are all fixed.
The issue with Braid is not getting something that's playable but something that presents a new puzzle instead of an existing one with the components shuffled around. Braid's puzzles are designed to be different from each other.
If it only told people that it's for education after they did something that would usually be very stupid then you can expect most smart people to never see that message.
The law is supposed to define what being a dick means so you can be punished for it. I think I heard of a similar case (probably in another country) where someone got arrested for encouraging suicide. It counts as psychological assault and conspiracy to murder I think.
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Sounds to me like the fines only apply if the data is actually compromised. The obvious answer would be: Don't let that data get compromised!
Ah, so the people who execute those orders are not to be held responsible?
Of course not, they are responsible for taking the orders. More than one person can be at fault.
Words only mean something to those who act on them.
When someone tells you "I'll kill you motherfucker!" that's not a request for YOU to act upon them. It makes sense to detain the guy who's threatening you before he kills you, not after.
Eventually this discussion will turn towards the subject of free will. So I ask you, do we have it, or not?
It doesn't matter because putting someone in prison is not for some philosophical goals, it's for preventing them from causing further damage and to give a strong disincentive to crime. Whether free will exists or not the human psyche works similar most of the time and punishment will reduce the frequency with which the punished action is performed.
Grrr, missed a quotation mark in the anchor tag and the whole thing got dropped...
This is the Tyrian page: http://www.freewebs.com/worldtreegames/
I know Tyrian has some opensource clones available (the code was revealed to some opensource group to reimplement as opensource, the art assets were released for free), you can even get a port for the iPhone. Also this page seems to be the official site of the game's developer (or what's left, anyway) and it has a download for Tyrian 2000.
Jazz Jackrabbit is supposedly available here.
I couldn't find anything on Pool of Radiance, however.
The traditional model fails because it relies on the price of copying being higher than the price of buying.
I wouldn't call it failing, it's still making a ton of money. Just because some people are playing the games for free doesn't mean the system is broken, it's only broken if it stops making money.
They claim the connections are fine, I'm more worried about the cost efficiency of running the hardware for those games. How much hardware would you need to handle the peak load and will they be able to sustain that (especially the regular upgrades, people aren't renting remote computers to play their games at low detail) without making subscription fees too high? Also it sounds like the monthly fee does not include games, you have to buy/rent those extra.
I've also seen databases refuse transactions because dating them 1900 would violate integrity constraints.
It's possible to land with no sight and only instruments but it's significantly riskier and often planes get re-routed to avoid foggy airports. Additionally clogging the air speed sensors will make instrument landings much harder and wasn't a recent plane crash caused by a failure of those sensors too?
Eusocial species don't automatically lack empathy, of course bees likely do because they're insects and thus not terribly smart but what do we know about the social behaviour of the Damaraland and naked mole rats?
For an AI we'd likely deal with von Neumann probes, those would be instructed to terrafrom suitable planets and harvest resources for self-replication, if they're looking for planets similar to Earth they might start the terraforming process without intervention from their makers (considering interstellar distances and assuming no FTL communication that would make the most sense) and what's suitable for them probably wouldn't be for us.
Or hell, they could take both routes, fight each other for resources AND explore space to find uncontested resources. After all Europe wasn't exactly peaceful when Columbus set out to find new resources by sailing to the west and the struggle for supremacy with the neighbors could be quite a reason to invest in resource discovery to gain an upper hand.
Sounds to me more like he expects ignorance, not malice. Imagine we came across an alien planet and wanted to land there and live with the natives, would we have any idea how to treat their ecosystem so it doesn't collapse as a result?
He also says they're probably doing that in search of habitable planets and we shouldn't advertise that ours is. These alien overlords probably won't just come to help us join the overmind.
Security is not meant to be absolute but in cryptography the goal is to make cracking the information take longer than the information remains relevant. For example we know how to break an RSA cipher but that doesn't mean it's feasible. Security through obscurity means that your security is based on the principle that your opponent doesn't know how it works. With a good cipher figuring out what algorithm you used is only a tiny step in the process of cracking it and finding the actual parameters for the algorithm will consume the vast majority of the time. A publicly known algorithm has more eyes looking at it and finding weaknesses/countermeasures, an "obscure" algorithm is usually created specifically for one task, sees significantly less review and may (read: most likely will) contain flaws that would allow an attacker to break it with little effort once he figures out how the algorithm works.
It is not the algorithm that must remain secret, it's the key used with it.
Anyway, in this case it's more like stealth than cryptography.
What you said about blacks is the same I could say about manual laborers in Germany (and I mean locally born ones, not immigrants), having a manual labor job simply builds a lot of strength and endurance but smart people will usually take the better paid office jobs instead. As for common sense, considering the logic the ancient Greeks espoused at times (Socrates' apology... *shudder*) I don't think what we call "common sense" really is so universal to the species, it's built by the society around it. A thousand years ago (that's right in the medieval age) the average European peasant would have been equally confounded by any talk about cause and effect.
Words mean things. When using words that have nasty consequences you should be prepared to face the results. For example when an officer orders his subordinates to kill people that isn't just speech, that's the action of giving an order. You are allowed to express opinions, dissent, etc but when you start using your words to influence other people you take some blame for their actions. You also take the blame for any damage your words cause directly, libel/slander (deliberately lying about people in order to hurt them), threats, false alarms (popular example of shouting fire in a crowded space or prank calling the emergency services), etc.
Speech without consequences is speech without value. If people are shielded from all consequences of their words they become worthless to listen to.
Another issue with Eufloria is that 1. it's pretty boring and 2. most of the interesting things are done manually with the procedural generation limited to the filler. For a first example, one of the early levels has tons of fortified planets and you have to find the route that's undefended, while the details on the planets differ slightly the overall layout and correct path are always identical. Another level has a massive enemy army hidden in a pocket behind their main world that swarms out once you attack the main world, the planets in between may vary but that part is always identical. One level has two paths from your starting world to the main body with different attributes to the involved planets, again minor details may differ but the path types and whatnot are all fixed.
The issue with Braid is not getting something that's playable but something that presents a new puzzle instead of an existing one with the components shuffled around. Braid's puzzles are designed to be different from each other.
You want to steal my stopid?
If it only told people that it's for education after they did something that would usually be very stupid then you can expect most smart people to never see that message.
Anything else with P2P connections like many games too. Especially with consoles and console-like games (Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for example).
At the time when the last but five /8 block is allocated to a RIR, each RIR gets one last /8 block and then they're on their own.
Sounds like a boardgame rule. Will we see an IPv4 board game some day?
Yeah and why haven't our cities been flooded by the rain without pumping it out again?
Talking someone into suicide is an action. So would be giving them instructions that would in some other way kill them.
The law is supposed to define what being a dick means so you can be punished for it. I think I heard of a similar case (probably in another country) where someone got arrested for encouraging suicide. It counts as psychological assault and conspiracy to murder I think.