No, he just has to report to the police that he's been told his axes could be used for murder. Pretty pointless, but not that much of an encumberance. Just like this law.
"Real hackers" have spent years tweaking with their OS, getting it exactly how they like. What they've been working on is probably mostly new programs, which if they are complete, and even if they're not, are likely to be installed, so a virus can't touch them.
WRT your mp3s, make them so that you don't have access to write them - chmod 444 and chown root. Then chmod sticky but group-writeable your mp3 directory and chown that root as well. Same for anything you're not editing. Then a virus can't touch anything at all.
You don't need to prove it. You have made them aware of it, by telling them. As long as it is true, which it is in this case, they are subject to the law and have to report it with reasonable speed to the police.
There are plenty of 15 year olds with cheapass webcams too though. 15 is not paedophilia. 12 is usually not paedophilia. A law which makes no distinction between 15 and 8 year olds is a bad law.
That's not good enough. It's a very bad situation to be in if I am in violation of the law and relying on the goodwill of the attorney general to avoid prosecution. What if I've been criticising the government recently, and they want some way to shut me up?
A law should not be made that will allow the prosecution of people who shouldn't be prosecuted, even if its proponents claim it won't be used in that way.
I don't think I should be required to report anything. I know people who violate laws I disagree with - loads of copyright violators, even more underage drinkers, a handful of pot smokers. I even know a few people who have violated laws I do agree with. I don't report these, and don't feel I have to. If I'm questioned I will answer honestly, but the law shouldn't force me to actively report it, because it's unfair to compel people to do things.
What if at 15 I took pics of me having sex with my same-age gf? If I keep them I can and will be charged. Even if I'm not, as soon as it becoms public I will get bricks through my window, molotovs thrown at my house, etc., because people don't care what happened, all they care about is the word "pedophile". Hysteria. That's all it is.
The huge spikes were probably because there are x00 sites for {insert type of "normal" porn here} but only 2 CP because the rest have been taken down.
And I think part of the draw is that it's so supressed. As a teenager in high school I've known people to go to child porn sites for the sole reason that it is the most forbidden thing around.
I don't think the basic principle is the same at all. If I steal from a supermarket, I'm costing them real money, in terms of buying the bread from the manufacturers, paying people to stock the shelves, etc. So even if I'm still buying all the bread I can afford, I'm costing them money. If I download a song, I don't directly cost them anything. The only way you can argue they lose anything is because I didn't buy something that I might otherwise have done. If I'm still buying all the CDs I can afford, there's no way I cost them anything. So there is an important difference. Different enough to make it moral? Maybe, maybe not, depends on your point of view. But certainly a major difference.
I think a free mesh-based system will work. You buy the £100 mesh box or build your own if you're a geek, and you're part of the mesh. No need for fees or companies or anything because people are buying their own hardware. Like in the old days of the internet when all you had to do was run a cable down to the nearest connected university.
Sadly I think companies will find some way to stop this or force people to pay. But it could work like this, and it should.
But I want to use that to maintain the rest of my packages. It's just a few things that I want to keep at earlier versions. Why can't I automatically install other security fixes but not SP2 or anything that depends on it?
You don't have to write it for a specific vm, any vm which doesn't support the main java api would quickly lose its following. Sun still controls the java trademark, and can withold approval for any JVM which doesn't support the proper api. But for a start, maybe we'd get a swing implementation which ran on sub-ghz machines or didn't look horrible. Maybe even both. And if sun did something really awful to the language, which make no mistake they will do sooner or later simply because they're human, it would be good to have an alternative.
Yes, I did. Maybe it's unrepresentative, but I've found in general compressing binaries and multimedia rar is much better. Could it be that bz2 is optimised for source code?
I'm just using numbers at my local tournaments, not very scientific, but they are down by as much as 80% on numbers from before there was anything about Deep Blue. Correlation does not imply causation, of course, but Deep Blue seems the most likely candidate for having caused it.
He was playing someone quite a bit better than me. He was playing sensibly, just managed to get all of his stones captured. Yes, he deserved to lose, but amatuers playing chess grandmasters don't normally lose anywhere near that quickly and comprehensively.
Even then she's better off with rar. Zip spanning, if supported at all, makes you create the whole archive and then split it for different disks, wheras rar can span as it goes and better supported in programs.
No, read what I just said. I previously held the belief that souls do exist, then looked at the evidence and decided they don't. I repeat, if you think there is evidence that souls exist, then show me. I am perfectly willing to have my beliefs changed by actual evidence - eager even, in this case. Believing I had an immortal soul would be comforting.
Ok, but how is it configurable through software? OS-specific utility? Web based? I've never seen a motherboard setting which was easy to change, which is why I'm dubious. I don't think such ubiquitous firewalling would be a good thing; in fact, it would kill the internet. Firewalls are pretty stupid in most circumstances.
It wasn't tailored in any way though, it was a set of misc binary files, and ime pretty typical of rar's performance compared to the others mentioned. If your repeated "a" will compress much better with zip than rar then you might have a point.
People do use floppies. I can see some value in the "lots of attachments as one file", though it wouldn't help me at all - I can save all attachments to a folder in two clicks, wheras saving the zip and then uncompressing it would take more. But as for the second, RAR over ZIP is about as marginal as ZIP over nothing. It really gives far far better compression.
Yes, but what if I want to use XP pre SP1? I can mask later versions for any package I like, individually, at any stage - I could stick to 2.6.8.1 kernel if I particularly wanted to.
It does benefit them. Hopefully when Sun sees all the devs switching it will finally open up Java. If not, good riddance - C# includes all the good bits anyway.
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No, he just has to report to the police that he's been told his axes could be used for murder. Pretty pointless, but not that much of an encumberance. Just like this law.
WRT your mp3s, make them so that you don't have access to write them - chmod 444 and chown root. Then chmod sticky but group-writeable your mp3 directory and chown that root as well. Same for anything you're not editing. Then a virus can't touch anything at all.
I think he's just trying to make a point, and if so he's right.
You don't need to prove it. You have made them aware of it, by telling them. As long as it is true, which it is in this case, they are subject to the law and have to report it with reasonable speed to the police.
There are plenty of 15 year olds with cheapass webcams too though. 15 is not paedophilia. 12 is usually not paedophilia. A law which makes no distinction between 15 and 8 year olds is a bad law.
A law should not be made that will allow the prosecution of people who shouldn't be prosecuted, even if its proponents claim it won't be used in that way.
I don't think I should be required to report anything. I know people who violate laws I disagree with - loads of copyright violators, even more underage drinkers, a handful of pot smokers. I even know a few people who have violated laws I do agree with. I don't report these, and don't feel I have to. If I'm questioned I will answer honestly, but the law shouldn't force me to actively report it, because it's unfair to compel people to do things.
What if at 15 I took pics of me having sex with my same-age gf? If I keep them I can and will be charged. Even if I'm not, as soon as it becoms public I will get bricks through my window, molotovs thrown at my house, etc., because people don't care what happened, all they care about is the word "pedophile". Hysteria. That's all it is.
And I think part of the draw is that it's so supressed. As a teenager in high school I've known people to go to child porn sites for the sole reason that it is the most forbidden thing around.
I don't think the basic principle is the same at all. If I steal from a supermarket, I'm costing them real money, in terms of buying the bread from the manufacturers, paying people to stock the shelves, etc. So even if I'm still buying all the bread I can afford, I'm costing them money. If I download a song, I don't directly cost them anything. The only way you can argue they lose anything is because I didn't buy something that I might otherwise have done. If I'm still buying all the CDs I can afford, there's no way I cost them anything. So there is an important difference. Different enough to make it moral? Maybe, maybe not, depends on your point of view. But certainly a major difference.
Sadly I think companies will find some way to stop this or force people to pay. But it could work like this, and it should.
But I want to use that to maintain the rest of my packages. It's just a few things that I want to keep at earlier versions. Why can't I automatically install other security fixes but not SP2 or anything that depends on it?
There's no we, you may be confused but I'm just talking about the language, which is horrible and deserves to die.
You don't have to write it for a specific vm, any vm which doesn't support the main java api would quickly lose its following. Sun still controls the java trademark, and can withold approval for any JVM which doesn't support the proper api. But for a start, maybe we'd get a swing implementation which ran on sub-ghz machines or didn't look horrible. Maybe even both. And if sun did something really awful to the language, which make no mistake they will do sooner or later simply because they're human, it would be good to have an alternative.
Of course not all Japanese, but generally. I thought that physical contact was viewed as something probably equivalent to kissing or more in the west.
Yes, I did. Maybe it's unrepresentative, but I've found in general compressing binaries and multimedia rar is much better. Could it be that bz2 is optimised for source code?
I'm just using numbers at my local tournaments, not very scientific, but they are down by as much as 80% on numbers from before there was anything about Deep Blue. Correlation does not imply causation, of course, but Deep Blue seems the most likely candidate for having caused it.
He was playing someone quite a bit better than me. He was playing sensibly, just managed to get all of his stones captured. Yes, he deserved to lose, but amatuers playing chess grandmasters don't normally lose anywhere near that quickly and comprehensively.
Even then she's better off with rar. Zip spanning, if supported at all, makes you create the whole archive and then split it for different disks, wheras rar can span as it goes and better supported in programs.
No, read what I just said. I previously held the belief that souls do exist, then looked at the evidence and decided they don't. I repeat, if you think there is evidence that souls exist, then show me. I am perfectly willing to have my beliefs changed by actual evidence - eager even, in this case. Believing I had an immortal soul would be comforting.
Ok, but how is it configurable through software? OS-specific utility? Web based? I've never seen a motherboard setting which was easy to change, which is why I'm dubious. I don't think such ubiquitous firewalling would be a good thing; in fact, it would kill the internet. Firewalls are pretty stupid in most circumstances.
It wasn't tailored in any way though, it was a set of misc binary files, and ime pretty typical of rar's performance compared to the others mentioned. If your repeated "a" will compress much better with zip than rar then you might have a point.
People do use floppies. I can see some value in the "lots of attachments as one file", though it wouldn't help me at all - I can save all attachments to a folder in two clicks, wheras saving the zip and then uncompressing it would take more. But as for the second, RAR over ZIP is about as marginal as ZIP over nothing. It really gives far far better compression.
Yes, but what if I want to use XP pre SP1? I can mask later versions for any package I like, individually, at any stage - I could stick to 2.6.8.1 kernel if I particularly wanted to.
It does benefit them. Hopefully when Sun sees all the devs switching it will finally open up Java. If not, good riddance - C# includes all the good bits anyway.