Where do you get this idea from? Hosts files are a common part of the IP stack of various operating systems. Microsoft has been using hosts files at least since Windows 95. They are fully supported and documented.
I actually have no opinion on OBE. This article is the first time I heard about it and it is not used in education in my home country. So I neither agree or disagree with your conclusion that it is "ineffective and useless", I have no idea. My comment was about your piss poor reasoning skills.
You gave a couple of examples in your post above; I'm sure you could come up with others if you tried. This is essentially a black list. You could also do white listing or mix the two. I'm not arguing that finding good criteria is going to be easy but it is definitely not impossible and in my opinion it is worth trying. Your approach seems to be to just give up because it looks difficult.
There is a pretty obvious gap between constant surveillance and tourists taking pictures.
If you ban surveillance, then you also have to ban all photography in public.
No, of course not.
If you don't want your face seen in public, don't go out in public. It's that simple.
I'm sorry but "simplicity" is just an incredibly stupid argument. If you wan't to go out in public, don't take any pictures. It's that simple. See how retarded that argumentation is?
I agree that chronic cocaine usage has some serious medical side effects; and cocaine is still relatively harmless compared to other synthetic drugs like methamphetamine. I don't believe that decriminalization would necessarily increase chronic usage of these though. You can buy heroine and cocaine with practically no risk from law enforcement in any major European city and our healthcare and prison systems seem to be able to handle the the burden quiet fine. From the outside the situation in America regarding prisons and healthcare looks worse.
The number of users to me seems to be more correlated with certain social factors regarding the users than with the legal status of the drugs. If you want to decrease overall usage of cocaine, et al. decriminalization is essential to be able to tackle those factors effectively.
And Google should be commended for trying to help.
Trying isn't enough. The only way to stop the drug cartels is to decriminalize drugs; and it will still be an uphill battle after the decriminalization. Until this happens everything else will just help to escalate the violence even further. There's ample proof for this from all around the world. Google should be condemned for participating in the abject farce that is called the war on drugs.
Each firing pin has unique characteristics due to wear and such already, without the need for microprinting.
Do you know oy any scientific study that shows the uniqueness? I'm not questioning that it gets used as forensic 'evidence'.
This microprinting idea is just idiotic.
There are obviously some cases where it won't do any good and there are also some cases where microprinting will help solve a crime. How do you quantify each?
The chip is the ProASIC3 from Microsemi/Actel. The "backdoor" is part of the JTAG, the debugging framework for the chip. The backdoor was implemented by Acatel (see the original paper) for debugging purposes. China is not really involved in any of this.
True. But outside of America the people with guns hat come after you because they are upset are called the criminals. In America they are called the police.
You must be the weakest person in the world if you think secretly videotaping your room mate having sex and posting that video on the internet is a sign of strength.
Just a wild guess: You actually don't pay any taxes, right? Your mom and dad do that?
No, since the 60's, the civil rights movement have pushed the agenda that SWMs need to be held down for a while to make up for all the real and/or perceived offenses any SWM has done in the past.
Since thousands of years white males have pushed for the agenda that everyone else needs to be held down forever. You are not the victim just because you are not allowed to own any slaves anymore. Stop crying; it's embarrassing.
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The "extend" is called lmhosts.
Hosts was always an unsupported system file hack
Where do you get this idea from? Hosts files are a common part of the IP stack of various operating systems. Microsoft has been using hosts files at least since Windows 95. They are fully supported and documented.
I actually have no opinion on OBE. This article is the first time I heard about it and it is not used in education in my home country. So I neither agree or disagree with your conclusion that it is "ineffective and useless", I have no idea. My comment was about your piss poor reasoning skills.
You gave a couple of examples in your post above; I'm sure you could come up with others if you tried. This is essentially a black list. You could also do white listing or mix the two. I'm not arguing that finding good criteria is going to be easy but it is definitely not impossible and in my opinion it is worth trying. Your approach seems to be to just give up because it looks difficult.
There is a pretty obvious gap between constant surveillance and tourists taking pictures.
If you ban surveillance, then you also have to ban all photography in public.
No, of course not.
If you don't want your face seen in public, don't go out in public. It's that simple.
I'm sorry but "simplicity" is just an incredibly stupid argument. If you wan't to go out in public, don't take any pictures. It's that simple. See how retarded that argumentation is?
Do you have a particular section you'd like to point out to us
Article 8 establishes privacy as a fundamental human right. One consequence of this is the Data Protection Directive.
Plus, surveillance in public (mostly by private entities, not the government) is ubiquitous in the UK
That's one of the reasons I found it important to point out the right to privacy in the EU: it is under constant attack.
You can't walk anywhere in London without being on someone's camera.
Do you agree that this is not desirable?
Outcome based eduction is widely known to be ineffective and useless.
Is answering questions like "Which fallacy does sycodon use in his argument?" part of traditional education or would this require some evil OBE magic?
Inside your home is the only place where you have an expectation of privacy
Complete and utter bullshit. European Convention on Human Rights.
I agree that chronic cocaine usage has some serious medical side effects; and cocaine is still relatively harmless compared to other synthetic drugs like methamphetamine. I don't believe that decriminalization would necessarily increase chronic usage of these though. You can buy heroine and cocaine with practically no risk from law enforcement in any major European city and our healthcare and prison systems seem to be able to handle the the burden quiet fine. From the outside the situation in America regarding prisons and healthcare looks worse.
The number of users to me seems to be more correlated with certain social factors regarding the users than with the legal status of the drugs. If you want to decrease overall usage of cocaine, et al. decriminalization is essential to be able to tackle those factors effectively.
"Drug use increased, with drugs taking the place of alcohol. Worker productivity did not increase." See http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhProhibition.php.
And Google should be commended for trying to help.
Trying isn't enough. The only way to stop the drug cartels is to decriminalize drugs; and it will still be an uphill battle after the decriminalization. Until this happens everything else will just help to escalate the violence even further. There's ample proof for this from all around the world. Google should be condemned for participating in the abject farce that is called the war on drugs.
Each firing pin has unique characteristics due to wear and such already, without the need for microprinting.
Do you know oy any scientific study that shows the uniqueness? I'm not questioning that it gets used as forensic 'evidence'.
This microprinting idea is just idiotic.
There are obviously some cases where it won't do any good and there are also some cases where microprinting will help solve a crime. How do you quantify each?
The chip is the ProASIC3 from Microsemi/Actel. The "backdoor" is part of the JTAG, the debugging framework for the chip. The backdoor was implemented by Acatel (see the original paper) for debugging purposes. China is not really involved in any of this.
True. But outside of America the people with guns hat come after you because they are upset are called the criminals. In America they are called the police.
I don't eat gecko either.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes?qt=qt0447129
Dogs have personality, personality goes a long way.
I agree. I was replying to the "by punishing the strong". Nobody in this story shows any kind of "strength".
The slave thing was obviously a response to the diminutiv "real and/or perceived offenses". That's why I quoted that part.
Stop playing the victim.
Makes me curious: What race do you think I am?
You must be the weakest person in the world if you think secretly videotaping your room mate having sex and posting that video on the internet is a sign of strength.
Just a wild guess: You actually don't pay any taxes, right? Your mom and dad do that?
No, since the 60's, the civil rights movement have pushed the agenda that SWMs need to be held down for a while to make up for all the real and/or perceived offenses any SWM has done in the past.
Since thousands of years white males have pushed for the agenda that everyone else needs to be held down forever. You are not the victim just because you are not allowed to own any slaves anymore. Stop crying; it's embarrassing.
you try to lower the crime amount by making punishment tougher.
Can you name one example where this actually worked?
Please name the law that states that it is illegal to behave like a "total fuckwad".
News flash: acting like a total fuckwad in a police station will get you arrested.
Which confirms GP's point. Outside of a police state the only valid reason for getting arrested is having broken some law.
What exactly are the Chinese doing with respect to solar panels?