Just because the warrant says they can search any computer networked with one on the premises doesn't mean they have to search every computer that falls under that category. They don't have to test the warrant against anything they know beforehand will screw them. They can just use their discretionary power to reach however far they want.
I pay something like 40, (so ~30 quid, same as you), and for that I get a 16 Mb internet connection and a regular landline with free phonecalls to the whole of the EU and the US/Canada (and a few more, mostly european, countries too I think). So that's a matter of finding the right service and right pricing for you.
you the cost goes up exponentially with the number of "9"s that the business asks for.
So the cost to go from (10^-1)% to (10^-2)% to (10^-3)% rises exponentially? That's kind of like saying costs scale linearly with reliability. So much for that excuse.
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LMAO. You are a worthless, pathetic piece of shit.
Next time, try it like this: "LMAO. You are a worthless, pathetic piece of shit. The word you're looking for is voilà, literally 'see there' in French, an idiom used to mean 'there you go'". (though the OP's spelling is pretty damn close to the correct phonetical spelling \vwä-'lä\)
I somehow doubt that any SSE iteration ise much use, considering they're SIMD instruction sets. We're probably still a long way away from JavaScript using such large amounts of data that vectorizing it properly to use SSE would yield useful performance results.
Sure, there is such a thing as taking things too far, but aren't.com,.gov,.mil,.edu and.org already a work towards division by content?
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Seems that you didn't grasp the whole "free as in freedom" concept, then. I've come to realize that the best way to characterize that "free as in freedom" thing is this: it's not about your freedoms, as a developer or user. It's about the code's freedoms as an entity unto itself. And being closed (like the BSD license allows, for example), is less free than the LGPL, which in turn is less free than the GPL because it allows you to lock up code around it.
Whether open source must mean free software, and whether free = good are entirelydifferent discussions well worth discussing, but the notion of free software was pretty much envisaged by RMS, and his definition of what makes software free is quite clear.
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Bullshit. You don't know what you're talking about. There is no reason whatsoever why you can't run a closed-source userland on a GPL kernel.
But you can't link closed source modules into a GPL kernel, and that's an issue with in-kernel DRM, for one, and potentially other technologies that, while not so based on secrecy themselves, Apple would rather keep closed-source.
This said, NeXTStep was already there, and arguably Apple bought NeXT because of it and related technologies, so there's no good reason to go from those underpinnings to a linux-based system.
A delay on login attempts is a very *very* tricky thing indeed. If you make the attempt counter (and delay) separate for each IP, you're still somewhat vulnerable to botnets. If you don't make it separate, congratulations. You just made yourself a denial-of-service attack vector that a 5-year old could exploit.
By "world" you mean "extremely tiny group of basement dwellers," right?
If you'd taken 10 seconds, you'd have figured out that he meant "if some imaginary people were to abbreviate Linux to Lx much in the same way we actually do abbreviate Microsoft to MS". He was making a simple point that M$ is a derogative way to get at microsoft through their "profit above all else" attitude and establishing a possible parallel to Linux if it were seen that way, whereas Linsux is more akin to Microshaft, Microsucks or some other way of mangling Microsoft into a derogatory term that implies their products (or, in fact, the company as a whole) are crap.
On the same tip, some might say the right of a patent holder to charge licensing fees for use of works covered by the patent, and the right to increase those fees should the patented works prove to be popular, is not a flaw in the system, but part of how patents are intended to work.
We know the stated purposed of the GPL (and assume it to be its true purpose), and we know the stated purpose of patents (and also assume it to be their true purpose). The source release imposed by the GPL is about as in-line with its stated purpose as it gets. But the stated purpose of patents is, in short, to give the inventor some degree of reward for the invention, while also getting it into the public domain ASAP.
Had NatSemi hiked the licensing prices, I might cry foul, but it'd be ultimately their prerogative. If they'd come up with the invention and acted upon it solely by licensing manufacturing rights, sure, fine. Had they sold those rights from the get go to a company to resell, I could still see a point. As an inventor you don't necessarily have the business savvy to market an invention successfully, so you just get a one-time payment and let somebody else handle it. Still working as intended. Once you have the inventor successfully (you might argue the definition of success, but Ethernet is definitely it) exercising their rights both as a license-issuer and as a manufacturer, and years later selling those rights, and the new patent-bearer hiking the licensing prices or changing the rules of the game in any way, I think it's fair to say the system isn't doing the right thing any more. It's now rewarding Johnny-Come-Late for having the purchasing power to get their hands on an ubiquitous, tried and true technology and manipulating the market for that technology.
My point wasn't to say that OS X was cheap, only that he was making a fallacious apples to oranges comparison. It was also rather fallacious of both replies I got to assume that because I attacked the argument I was also attacking the position itself.
Well, I asked for a good argument, and that's arguably one. And, rather than comparing OS X with Home Basic, you go for the assumption that we need a separate license of windows. That is, indeed, the case for most users: an upgrade license will do. Those of us who build our own boxes are just a very vocal minority.:)
You are aware that if you're going to compare OSX prices with Vista ones, you can only make a moderately fair comparison (where feature sets are arguably comparable, if not quite the same) starting with Home Premium and up, right? I don't know, and don't care, if home premium is 160 or 155 or whatever. Just make a point that doesn't suck, mmkay?
Storage? maybe. Bandwidth? WoW consumes at most 4-5kB bandwidth total both ways (and that's allowing for about 300% overhead over what the client reports as used).
Either way, 64 bits have squat to do with using an unsigned int instead of a signed int.
When done right, it can be immensely rewarding and satisfying, in a way that no game ever could.
What I consider immensely rewarding and satisfying is not necessarily the same as what you see in those terms. I might get some satisfaction out of it, but don't find hiking "rewarding" at all. I do enjoy the sightseeing, and the actual walking is something I have to cope with to get some really breathtaking scenes. However, give me an interesting maths or programming problem and I *will* feel thoroughly fulfilled at solving it.
One of those rare moments of pure, unalloyed joy was a university project to implement lambda calculus. Beta reduction was easy, but figuring out how to rewrite expressions to make alpha conversion work was a pain, back then, and I remember there was an issue with making sure evaluation was lazy, so we didn't fall into infinite loops. Yet, when I finally got the whole thing working, wrote a simple function to translate integers to lambda expressions and another to convert back, and got the freaking thing adding integers , then multiplying them (hell, multiplication was *slow*), I can't begin to describe how damn happy I felt. It wasn't the prettiest piece of code ever, but boy was I proud at something I created.
Back to physical exercise, I practised Karate for several years, and found it a lot more rewarding than most single-person physical activities because of the game-like aspects of its combat component. Figuring out how to take advantage of my advantages versus my opponents while minimizing the impact of my disadvantages is quite satisfying, in a way that taking a hike really can't match. Sure, you might like it better, but the satisfaction we each derive of our preferred form of fun is not something that can be compared.
Games, as a concept, can be fulfilling to play. Ask any chess or go master. Sure, video games might not be there, in most cases, but people find fulfilment in different things that you or I don't necessarily understand. Like the guys who play super mario bros. to the point where they're setting speed run records.
Professor Cini's position, in fact, was not merely that he didn't want him preaching religion on campus, but the ridiculous argument that allowing a religious leader on the campus was "an incredible violation of the university's autonomy."
Agreed on the "ridiculous" description. If you don't have the balls to invite the other side over and hear them out, you have no business participating in any intellectually stimulating discussions.
I'm glad you have that "reportedly" disclaimer in there, because otherwise you would be wrong.
That was the whole point of it. My statements are based on what I know, and I was very much aware that the nature of the pope's statements on the matter might've been twisted somewhere along the way. I stand corrected on Benedict's personal stance on the matter.
This said, the GP post mostly compared the inquisition's censorship with these scientists' complaints about having the pope speaking at their university. Even then, I was giving the GP too much credit. Nowhere in the article can you read they asked the pope to withdraw. The criticism was levelled at the rector himself for issuing the invitation in the first place, and the only request mentioned is the right to protest. They might not have the balls to hear the other side, as I commented, but in reality the whole "suppression from the scientists" thing is a grand overstatement.
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Just because the warrant says they can search any computer networked with one on the premises doesn't mean they have to search every computer that falls under that category. They don't have to test the warrant against anything they know beforehand will screw them. They can just use their discretionary power to reach however far they want.
I pay something like 40, (so ~30 quid, same as you), and for that I get a 16 Mb internet connection and a regular landline with free phonecalls to the whole of the EU and the US/Canada (and a few more, mostly european, countries too I think). So that's a matter of finding the right service and right pricing for you.
So the cost to go from (10^-1)% to (10^-2)% to (10^-3)% rises exponentially? That's kind of like saying costs scale linearly with reliability. So much for that excuse.
You must be new here. Everybody knows there's no such thing as Silver Bullets in IT.
I'll have to remember that one as a retort for the next time I try to have unprotected sex with a lady.
Next time, try it like this: "LMAO. You are a worthless, pathetic piece of shit. The word you're looking for is voilà, literally 'see there' in French, an idiom used to mean 'there you go'". (though the OP's spelling is pretty damn close to the correct phonetical spelling \vwä-'lä\)
I somehow doubt that any SSE iteration ise much use, considering they're SIMD instruction sets. We're probably still a long way away from JavaScript using such large amounts of data that vectorizing it properly to use SSE would yield useful performance results.
No, but there are several fat-ass raytracers about.
Sure, there is such a thing as taking things too far, but aren't .com, .gov, .mil, .edu and .org already a work towards division by content?
Seems that you didn't grasp the whole "free as in freedom" concept, then. I've come to realize that the best way to characterize that "free as in freedom" thing is this: it's not about your freedoms, as a developer or user. It's about the code's freedoms as an entity unto itself. And being closed (like the BSD license allows, for example), is less free than the LGPL, which in turn is less free than the GPL because it allows you to lock up code around it.
Whether open source must mean free software, and whether free = good are entirelydifferent discussions well worth discussing, but the notion of free software was pretty much envisaged by RMS, and his definition of what makes software free is quite clear.
But you can't link closed source modules into a GPL kernel, and that's an issue with in-kernel DRM, for one, and potentially other technologies that, while not so based on secrecy themselves, Apple would rather keep closed-source.
This said, NeXTStep was already there, and arguably Apple bought NeXT because of it and related technologies, so there's no good reason to go from those underpinnings to a linux-based system.
And Flanders is in Springfield, next door to the Simpsons! Oh, wait... THAT Flanders!
Isn't it common wisdom that physical access = game over?
A delay on login attempts is a very *very* tricky thing indeed. If you make the attempt counter (and delay) separate for each IP, you're still somewhat vulnerable to botnets. If you don't make it separate, congratulations. You just made yourself a denial-of-service attack vector that a 5-year old could exploit.
If you'd taken 10 seconds, you'd have figured out that he meant "if some imaginary people were to abbreviate Linux to Lx much in the same way we actually do abbreviate Microsoft to MS". He was making a simple point that M$ is a derogative way to get at microsoft through their "profit above all else" attitude and establishing a possible parallel to Linux if it were seen that way, whereas Linsux is more akin to Microshaft, Microsucks or some other way of mangling Microsoft into a derogatory term that implies their products (or, in fact, the company as a whole) are crap.
I wonder if one of these puppies would be overkill for replacing my mobile phone when I'm looking for my keys in the dark...
We know the stated purposed of the GPL (and assume it to be its true purpose), and we know the stated purpose of patents (and also assume it to be their true purpose). The source release imposed by the GPL is about as in-line with its stated purpose as it gets. But the stated purpose of patents is, in short, to give the inventor some degree of reward for the invention, while also getting it into the public domain ASAP.
Had NatSemi hiked the licensing prices, I might cry foul, but it'd be ultimately their prerogative. If they'd come up with the invention and acted upon it solely by licensing manufacturing rights, sure, fine. Had they sold those rights from the get go to a company to resell, I could still see a point. As an inventor you don't necessarily have the business savvy to market an invention successfully, so you just get a one-time payment and let somebody else handle it. Still working as intended. Once you have the inventor successfully (you might argue the definition of success, but Ethernet is definitely it) exercising their rights both as a license-issuer and as a manufacturer, and years later selling those rights, and the new patent-bearer hiking the licensing prices or changing the rules of the game in any way, I think it's fair to say the system isn't doing the right thing any more. It's now rewarding Johnny-Come-Late for having the purchasing power to get their hands on an ubiquitous, tried and true technology and manipulating the market for that technology.
My point wasn't to say that OS X was cheap, only that he was making a fallacious apples to oranges comparison. It was also rather fallacious of both replies I got to assume that because I attacked the argument I was also attacking the position itself.
Well, I asked for a good argument, and that's arguably one. And, rather than comparing OS X with Home Basic, you go for the assumption that we need a separate license of windows. That is, indeed, the case for most users: an upgrade license will do. Those of us who build our own boxes are just a very vocal minority. :)
Thanks for just making my point more obvious -- Care to explain how I managed that feat?
You are aware that if you're going to compare OSX prices with Vista ones, you can only make a moderately fair comparison (where feature sets are arguably comparable, if not quite the same) starting with Home Premium and up, right? I don't know, and don't care, if home premium is 160 or 155 or whatever. Just make a point that doesn't suck, mmkay?
Don't you mean geek tragedy?
Storage? maybe. Bandwidth? WoW consumes at most 4-5kB bandwidth total both ways (and that's allowing for about 300% overhead over what the client reports as used).
Either way, 64 bits have squat to do with using an unsigned int instead of a signed int.
What I consider immensely rewarding and satisfying is not necessarily the same as what you see in those terms. I might get some satisfaction out of it, but don't find hiking "rewarding" at all. I do enjoy the sightseeing, and the actual walking is something I have to cope with to get some really breathtaking scenes. However, give me an interesting maths or programming problem and I *will* feel thoroughly fulfilled at solving it.
One of those rare moments of pure, unalloyed joy was a university project to implement lambda calculus. Beta reduction was easy, but figuring out how to rewrite expressions to make alpha conversion work was a pain, back then, and I remember there was an issue with making sure evaluation was lazy, so we didn't fall into infinite loops. Yet, when I finally got the whole thing working, wrote a simple function to translate integers to lambda expressions and another to convert back, and got the freaking thing adding integers , then multiplying them (hell, multiplication was *slow*), I can't begin to describe how damn happy I felt. It wasn't the prettiest piece of code ever, but boy was I proud at something I created.
Back to physical exercise, I practised Karate for several years, and found it a lot more rewarding than most single-person physical activities because of the game-like aspects of its combat component. Figuring out how to take advantage of my advantages versus my opponents while minimizing the impact of my disadvantages is quite satisfying, in a way that taking a hike really can't match. Sure, you might like it better, but the satisfaction we each derive of our preferred form of fun is not something that can be compared.
Games, as a concept, can be fulfilling to play. Ask any chess or go master. Sure, video games might not be there, in most cases, but people find fulfilment in different things that you or I don't necessarily understand. Like the guys who play super mario bros. to the point where they're setting speed run records.
Also, there are a fair few mechanisms that remove gold from the economy: repairs, reagents, auction house fees...
Agreed on the "ridiculous" description. If you don't have the balls to invite the other side over and hear them out, you have no business participating in any intellectually stimulating discussions.
I'm glad you have that "reportedly" disclaimer in there, because otherwise you would be wrong.That was the whole point of it. My statements are based on what I know, and I was very much aware that the nature of the pope's statements on the matter might've been twisted somewhere along the way. I stand corrected on Benedict's personal stance on the matter.
This said, the GP post mostly compared the inquisition's censorship with these scientists' complaints about having the pope speaking at their university. Even then, I was giving the GP too much credit. Nowhere in the article can you read they asked the pope to withdraw. The criticism was levelled at the rector himself for issuing the invitation in the first place, and the only request mentioned is the right to protest. They might not have the balls to hear the other side, as I commented, but in reality the whole "suppression from the scientists" thing is a grand overstatement.