While I understand your angst, but you do have to realize the type of calls an ISP's tech support gets. They don't have systems to tell whether you have half a clue about computers/networks/etc, so they go through procedure. A pain in the ass, yet acceptable to me.
What about service providers/resellers/hosting companies? (do they get blacklisted for one "bad client" or ten? Why?)
Again this sort of setup will disable personal email servers, what sort of reply do you have for people who will surely complain about such things?
What we need, and what will NEVER happen, is a central database of mailservers. If you aren't in the "registry" of legit mailservers, then other mailservers won't accept your mail. To get in the registry, you'd have to pay a fee, and prove that your server are secure, and that you aren't a spammer. Obviously, each "legit" server would have to append some kind of digital signature to outgoing emails, so that the verification coudl take place.
Who would run this registry? Why do you need to pay to get on it (spammers usually generate income and do not mind spending money to further their business while individuals who want to run private/personal webservers would not want to pay money just to be able to send email)? How would you prove that they aren't a spammer when the only email "legit" email servers would receive would be through this registry (thus no trial-runs for the prospective applicant)?
Well if we acknowledged that global warming is based in fact, then implicitly we'd be required to do something about it. And we know Americans and accountability/responsibility...
I agree! I may have Asperger's Disorder (I certainly think I do) and have been diagnosed with ADHD but I really could care less. I am more interested in knowing the various tendencies I have and overcoming them through mental power, rather than with drugs. But I absolutely cannot stand it when someone remarks, usually in reference to studying for exams or some other academic exercise, "it must be great to be prescribed Adderall". Ahh it must feel great blaming some disease on your deficiencies. Disease or no disease, I prefer to better myself.
The book was published posthumously in tree form but there are still.pdf and.ps available on the web.
I haven't read this book, but I doubt that the world would be much better off if they learned the proper implementation of Bayes' theorem...just teach them not to use logical fallacies, PLEASE!
Then you would have to worry about the logistics of keeping the office space clean and sterile after the homeless use it.
Your office isn't clean or sterile, unless you happen to work in some sort of laboratory the OP wasn't talking about them now were they.
Imagine the next morning coming in to your office to find drug paraphernalia, or garbage, or possibly commutable diseases and parasites.
And we are supposed to believe the homeless are somehow more likely to leave such things around? Hardly sire. I'd imagine they wouldn't want to waste such items since they are on a "limited budget". I'd place my bets on you "suites" being the culprits of the trash.
but it would be better to build more shelters and facilities specially made to handle this type of usage.
Yeah, like drug treatment programs and publicly funded psychiatric wards, not "shelters".
I am not too sure that the idea that there is "nothing new under the sun" is remotely close to Nihilism. I don't particularly think that there is anything new out there, in the sense that we may of not known of it's existence but it still was there, and I do think that certain things do matter.
Do not necessarily mourn for the loss of species, for species have gone extinct way before human contact. Mourn over the lack of caring that most humans have for the enviroment. Insatiable greed... =(
Not but it implies that. My disliking of that one verse is that it is unnecessary. It could be constructed as something empirically false and as such, should not be even remotely considered worthy of including into a religious text.
However when a scripture makes a statement about something that is clearly shown to be false, and after that if someone insists on believing the scripture, that is stupid.
1 Kings 7:23 - "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." link
In addition to the modern Homo sapiens' ability to multiply (which I am not too impressed by, if you want to view multiplication just check out some rabbits), we also have the lovely ability to be able to manipulate the environment we live in (which is some of the most varied of larger creatures) to best fit us. And well, often that manipulation may not be the best as far as the long term survival of the species, but who knows about that for certainty.
I do not know whether humans out number any large mammal population, but shear numbers do not impress me. If we last as long as say the crocodile or any other animal that has survived for eons without stark and major changes (not too sure whether the croc has done this but still); then I'll be impressed.
No, because I dislike the idea of downloading a 4.0+GB movie if I don't absolutely love it. I, unlike a lot of people on the net, do download some of the smallest releases possible, because I am normally downloading really rare documentary type films that no Blockbuster will have. Check the movie out, if it is _really_ good then I may store it on my hard drive, but if it is not that great then I'll delete it. If I want quality, then I'll buy the DVD from somewhere. I understand this is against many people's views of proper conduct, but I _will_ check out the stuff I buy before I buy it. I don't download full wav files to see if a CD is worth a damn, but I do expect AT LEAST a decent VBR encoding (or 192kbps CBR).
Those aren't the same networks the article is talking about. The "super secret elite networks" aren't on hacked FTP's. Hacked FTP's are used by either FXP groups or lower-level people on the distribution chain. I doubt a top group, which should have a topsite with a min. 100mbit connection and 500GB of hard drive space is going to risk using a hacked dump to distribute their wares.
Come on now. I only have experience with the mp3 scene, because I don't really care about games or movies, but everyone (who is reasonably knowledgable of "the scene") knows what the elite channels are (#RNS, #EGO,... put # and the group tag and that is a channel that is considered "elite"). But those channels aren't where the main piracy discussions go on, mainly because too many people either get the key to the channel or get invited for whatever reason. If he was in the upper echelon of the piracy channels, then those channels should be relatively unknown.
Aren't they still producing singles that were meant for that?
Well, the problem with the entire concept of a "Singles system" where you can sample an artist's single before you buy via the radio ("free") is that the music industry QUICKLY realized that it would be pretty easy for a group to make a couple of very catchy songs (with the remainder of the album being full of rubbish. In mainstream hip-hop, I mostly listen to underground artists which do this a bit less, it is common to release skits, aka filler), which would be released as singles, which would make people want to buy the entire album, which = PROFIT!!. This sort of exploit is often used by the music industry.
Random movements do not allow for free will, at least in the traditional sense. Random movements are uncaused, and thus the traditional notion of free will (an agent determining its lot) sort evaporates. If you want a cute little book that talks about a naturalistic basis for free will, even though I don't agree with all of his arguments it is a decent read, then check out Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett.
Victims do not have to be dead, try that for logic;)
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Who gets to decide on what is ethical and not? Umm, Ethicists, not politicians. Personally, as long as their use utilitarian or even Kantian views, I don't see a problem.
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While I understand your angst, but you do have to realize the type of calls an ISP's tech support gets. They don't have systems to tell whether you have half a clue about computers/networks/etc, so they go through procedure. A pain in the ass, yet acceptable to me.
What about service providers/resellers/hosting companies? (do they get blacklisted for one "bad client" or ten? Why?)
Again this sort of setup will disable personal email servers, what sort of reply do you have for people who will surely complain about such things?
What we need, and what will NEVER happen, is a central database of mailservers. If you aren't in the "registry" of legit mailservers, then other mailservers won't accept your mail. To get in the registry, you'd have to pay a fee, and prove that your server are secure, and that you aren't a spammer. Obviously, each "legit" server would have to append some kind of digital signature to outgoing emails, so that the verification coudl take place.
Who would run this registry? Why do you need to pay to get on it (spammers usually generate income and do not mind spending money to further their business while individuals who want to run private/personal webservers would not want to pay money just to be able to send email)? How would you prove that they aren't a spammer when the only email "legit" email servers would receive would be through this registry (thus no trial-runs for the prospective applicant)?
Well if we acknowledged that global warming is based in fact, then implicitly we'd be required to do something about it. And we know Americans and accountability/responsibility...
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I agree! I may have Asperger's Disorder (I certainly think I do) and have been diagnosed with ADHD but I really could care less. I am more interested in knowing the various tendencies I have and overcoming them through mental power, rather than with drugs. But I absolutely cannot stand it when someone remarks, usually in reference to studying for exams or some other academic exercise, "it must be great to be prescribed Adderall". Ahh it must feel great blaming some disease on your deficiencies. Disease or no disease, I prefer to better myself.
The book was published posthumously in tree form but there are still .pdf and .ps available on the web.
I haven't read this book, but I doubt that the world would be much better off if they learned the proper implementation of Bayes' theorem...just teach them not to use logical fallacies, PLEASE!
Oh yeah, PDF and PS links.
YOU protect it, damn it! What if it isn't worth protecting?
Spelling Errors = Illiteracy? Damn, mighty presumptuous of you.
I'll bite.
Then you would have to worry about the logistics of keeping the office space clean and sterile after the homeless use it.
Your office isn't clean or sterile, unless you happen to work in some sort of laboratory the OP wasn't talking about them now were they.
Imagine the next morning coming in to your office to find drug paraphernalia, or garbage, or possibly commutable diseases and parasites.
And we are supposed to believe the homeless are somehow more likely to leave such things around? Hardly sire. I'd imagine they wouldn't want to waste such items since they are on a "limited budget". I'd place my bets on you "suites" being the culprits of the trash.
but it would be better to build more shelters and facilities specially made to handle this type of usage.
Yeah, like drug treatment programs and publicly funded psychiatric wards, not "shelters".
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If you didn't notice, they have a special header image for Slashdot users. I thought it was rather cute.
I am not too sure that the idea that there is "nothing new under the sun" is remotely close to Nihilism. I don't particularly think that there is anything new out there, in the sense that we may of not known of it's existence but it still was there, and I do think that certain things do matter.
Do not necessarily mourn for the loss of species, for species have gone extinct way before human contact. Mourn over the lack of caring that most humans have for the enviroment. Insatiable greed... =(
Not but it implies that. My disliking of that one verse is that it is unnecessary. It could be constructed as something empirically false and as such, should not be even remotely considered worthy of including into a religious text.
However when a scripture makes a statement about something that is clearly shown to be false, and after that if someone insists on believing the scripture, that is stupid.
1 Kings 7:23 - "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." link
*chuckles* Pi is 3...
In addition to the modern Homo sapiens' ability to multiply (which I am not too impressed by, if you want to view multiplication just check out some rabbits), we also have the lovely ability to be able to manipulate the environment we live in (which is some of the most varied of larger creatures) to best fit us. And well, often that manipulation may not be the best as far as the long term survival of the species, but who knows about that for certainty. I do not know whether humans out number any large mammal population, but shear numbers do not impress me. If we last as long as say the crocodile or any other animal that has survived for eons without stark and major changes (not too sure whether the croc has done this but still); then I'll be impressed.
No, because I dislike the idea of downloading a 4.0+GB movie if I don't absolutely love it. I, unlike a lot of people on the net, do download some of the smallest releases possible, because I am normally downloading really rare documentary type films that no Blockbuster will have. Check the movie out, if it is _really_ good then I may store it on my hard drive, but if it is not that great then I'll delete it. If I want quality, then I'll buy the DVD from somewhere. I understand this is against many people's views of proper conduct, but I _will_ check out the stuff I buy before I buy it. I don't download full wav files to see if a CD is worth a damn, but I do expect AT LEAST a decent VBR encoding (or 192kbps CBR).
Those aren't the same networks the article is talking about. The "super secret elite networks" aren't on hacked FTP's. Hacked FTP's are used by either FXP groups or lower-level people on the distribution chain. I doubt a top group, which should have a topsite with a min. 100mbit connection and 500GB of hard drive space is going to risk using a hacked dump to distribute their wares.
Come on now. I only have experience with the mp3 scene, because I don't really care about games or movies, but everyone (who is reasonably knowledgable of "the scene") knows what the elite channels are (#RNS, #EGO, ... put # and the group tag and that is a channel that is considered "elite"). But those channels aren't where the main piracy discussions go on, mainly because too many people either get the key to the channel or get invited for whatever reason. If he was in the upper echelon of the piracy channels, then those channels should be relatively unknown.
I disagree! Snopes to the rescue!
Aren't they still producing singles that were meant for that? Well, the problem with the entire concept of a "Singles system" where you can sample an artist's single before you buy via the radio ("free") is that the music industry QUICKLY realized that it would be pretty easy for a group to make a couple of very catchy songs (with the remainder of the album being full of rubbish. In mainstream hip-hop, I mostly listen to underground artists which do this a bit less, it is common to release skits, aka filler), which would be released as singles, which would make people want to buy the entire album, which = PROFIT!!. This sort of exploit is often used by the music industry.
Random movements do not allow for free will, at least in the traditional sense. Random movements are uncaused, and thus the traditional notion of free will (an agent determining its lot) sort evaporates. If you want a cute little book that talks about a naturalistic basis for free will, even though I don't agree with all of his arguments it is a decent read, then check out Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett.
Victims do not have to be dead, try that for logic ;)
Who gets to decide on what is ethical and not? Umm, Ethicists, not politicians. Personally, as long as their use utilitarian or even Kantian views, I don't see a problem.