I believe what I see. The news isn't full of popular fury demanding they "impeach the socialist son-of-a..."
The response I see and run into overwhelmingly seems to be "Hmmm, GM's CEO got shafted by the Fed. Well, cry me a river!"
Of course, ymmv. Personally, I'd rather they'd let the market collapse under its own weight and rebuild itself (as it would have). The banking industry would've had one helluva shakeout, other industries/corporations would have their business practices put to the test with only the strongest and best-run surviving. Much crying, lots of economic turmoil while it works itself out; but the TARP system will (in my estimation) only prolong the inevitible. I suppose it'll let some of the mega-wealthy maintain their hold on economic forces. Oh, well.
When it comes to band-aids, don't peel it off slowly - rip that sucker off!
Hey, I wonder if this holds true beyond Skewes number? (I don't remember all the particulars, but seemingly primes start to become more common beyond some incredibly high value. I vaguely remember reading an article by Isaac Asimov in SF monthly on the subject. At that time, Mr. Asimov suggested that there would be another point where that would reverse, but (with his dry sense of humor) he suggested that attempting to calculate Skewes number already left him skewered, and computing that second reversal point left him super-skewered.
Could this be the beginnings of a non-quantum solution to, say, the problem of factoring large numbers? Not a solution itself, but the beginnings of a method for breaking RSA without resorting to the use of q-bits et. al.?
What he did was to make it plain that General Motors would not be considered for further TARP funding if they continued to utilize the services of the CEO who bankrupted the company in the first placed.
Perfectly acceptable here in the United States. Note that there has not been a popular revolt or backlash against this. Evidently, President Obama's action in causing GM to ditch their loser of a CEO was (apparently) neither illegal nor immoral in the opinion of the majority of United States citizens.
(Incidentally, until recently I was a Republican. I actively disapprove of many of the things our current President advocates. This particular example isn't one of them)
I downloaded a copy of Star Wars, Episode III several years ago - I'm pretty sure it was made by this method.
Okay, I'm pretty sure a movie theater screen was involved, rather than a television set, but the basic mechanism is essentially the same.
I was only pursuing an education, honest! It's not fair - Obi-Wan trained Anakin Skywalker, but he wouldn't train me. I have to get my force training somewhere, don't I?
Now I know - instead of suspending a bogus traffic light from a tree, now he's evolved to tinkering with the clockwork inside the traffic light box.
And removing the cameras will change things . . . how? Oh, yeah - now there'll be a snowball's chance in hell of contesting the officer's sworn testimony before Boss Hogg; with the cameras, there's not even that chance; although I suppose this'll at least require counties in the South to tie up a little officer time to run their speed-traps, instead of automating them. Some gain, I suppose, but the South is still going to be the South.
I wonder if the Duke boys could help me with traffic issues down there in Mississippi? I'd settle for seeing Daisy (the burnette original, not the blond knock-off) while waiting for the Sheriff to reset the traffic light.
Charge and polarity of electromagnetic phenomena are a function of "spin" (quoted, because subatomic particles aren't actually "spinning" in the way most of us intuitively think of spin). The "primordial atom" (if we accept the assertions of Hubble's Big Bang theory) could have had its own "spin" which it imparted to all the daughter particles which were created during the "bang" which gave rise to our known Universe. Not too different from the explaination for why the cosmic background radiation appears to be more uniform than it should be. At one point (according to Hubble) our Universe was a single, miniscule (by our standards), tightly integrated whole with no real seperation from one end of the Universe to the other.
Then again, despite the lack of intense gamma radiation fronts (something you'd expect if there were pockets of antimatter naturally existing in our Universe), it's possible that we're wrong. If there are truly empty voids of space to prevent direct contact between them, the Universe could be half antimatter and we'd have no way to tell. The stuff looks just like ordinary matter until you touch it.
If the law is not applied uniformly and evenly to all, it is no longer law - it becomes rules - as in, one set of rules for you, one set of rules for me.
Guilt is not a variable. The law in most places accomodates this by permitting sentence flexibility at judgement. I.e., BBC may never pay one pence in damages nor suffer any legal sanctions because they didn't do anything wrong, but they are still guilty of a violation of law.
In this instance, a sentence of zero punishment may make sense, but that does not change the fact that the BBC knowingly and intentionally did something they knew to be illegal. They intentionally broke the law, and then boasted about it.
That's the problem with analogies - they break down sooner or later. Fine. I'll drop the analogy. Question for you - did the BBC break the law? Never mind if punishment is in order, did they break the law?
If not, I want their set of rules instead of mine. I've got a few people who need an appointment with a clue-by-four.
I'd like to drop by your home and have a look at your taste in furniture, preferrably when you aren't around (after all, you could interfere with my ability to form an accurate impression and we wouldn't want that now, would we?).
What? That jewelery in my pocket? Oh, my - I was looking at it and forgot to put it back. No intent to steal, no harm no foul.
There's a reason they call them laws. Otherwise, we'd call them "suggestions".
I've been on the bad side of this one - a lack of criminal intent does not mitigate or extenuate criminal action. Their guilt is quite plain (having been admitted, even published by the BBC itself). Now, their lack of criminal intent does have a bearing on sentencing. Inasmuch as the BBC did not wilfully cause damage or fiscal loss to anybody (except, potentially, themselves?), the sentence should be something on the light side, perhaps even suspended; but the matter of their guilt is simple black-letter law.
No, not really. Here where I work, we've just installed a third-party vendor product to handle our network monitoring. Now, why we're spending six-figures to get a software package that's roughly comparable to the free version of BigBrother is beyond me, but . ..
Across our intranet, the software's page takes around six to eight seconds to load and display under Firefox 3.0, and decidedly less than two seconds to load under Internet Explorer (6, 7). As someone has noted above, many web servers actively detect which browser you're using and send different content depending on the browser (identified in your http: request headers). I'm not sure if [vendor name redacted] has an agreement with M$ to ensure that IE is the browser of choice when working with their product; as ridiculous as that sounds, it's also possible and even likely IMHO. This particular vendor may have decided "well, we can't break non-IE browsers without hurting our business, but we can sure as hell make it painful to use non-IE browsers with our product."
And it's the IE business model for teh win in the browser wars.
I logged into my box as root, did a 'find / -name PIFTS.exe -exec ls -l {} \;' and got no results back, which means my Linux box apparently isn't vulnerable to whatever exploit that file makes possible.
Oh, I forgot - like nearly all virus warnings, this one only applies to the M$ architecture. My bad!:^)
on local ridges or some other local high points where they would get more exposure to wind. At the density of Mars' atmosphere, even a tornado wouldn't hurt the rovers. Don't need to stay there for long; just long enough to get electrical generation up past 28%.
Hmmm - claims to be something it's not, relies on the user to bring it "inside the city walls" so to speak . ..
Sounds like a Trojan Horse to me. If you don't like that word, you can stick with "malware". But you're right - it isn't a virus. Computer virii act against a weakness of the target system, not the target system's user; and virii spread and reproduce as part of their life cycle.
Say, I wonder if MicroSoft has heard about this? I mean, Google's just chock full of links to warez sites, torrent trackers, websites illegally posting copyrighted materials, etc. This could be MicroSoft's big chance to knock Google out, once and for all.
Need to support proprietary applications? (MS Exchange comes screaming to mind)
Need to support MS Windows user base? (Terminal services, the setup my current employer uses to provide Windows desktops to technical services personnel; although we use VMWare for the task due to licensing issues with MS Windows/virtualization licensing issues)
Rapid prototyping/development/testing of new Windows technologies? (an appropriate initial hardware investment means no cost associated with purchasing hardware for short-term initiatives)
There are more. Much as I dislike MicroSoft's products in general, they do have the one desktop more employees are likely to be able to use without first being trained.
Which (when pinched by the US judicial system) imploded - but leaving behind the Gnutella filesharing protocol (BearShare, LimeWire, FrostWire, etc).
Never mind that the Napster name survived and came back as another DRM'ed monstrosity. We still have the Gnutella protocol, free and unencumbered (poisoned, but we tech types can deal with that, eh?).
If TPB goes under (like SuperNova - can you say "mininova"?), there'll be plenty of other site operators ready to take advantage of their country's laws to make money from the opportunity this would represent. Trust me - even if TPB is forced to shut down (a questionable liklihood), there'll be plenty of others coming behind to pick up the profitable pieces left behind.
Data occupies space, has mass, exerts gravity. Even physically turning off TPB's servers won't make that data go away. Even if you nuke the servers holding the data and wipe all the hard drives, the data still exists (scattered about on the internet in some form or another). It'll be found (rediscovered) and used.
This is just another example of the existing media cartels (MPAA, RIAA, et. al.) trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. They obviously haven't learned from their past experience with Gnutella just how difficult rebottling the jinn can be.
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Then again, evidently I am.
Just askin'.
The response I see and run into overwhelmingly seems to be "Hmmm, GM's CEO got shafted by the Fed. Well, cry me a river!"
Of course, ymmv. Personally, I'd rather they'd let the market collapse under its own weight and rebuild itself (as it would have). The banking industry would've had one helluva shakeout, other industries/corporations would have their business practices put to the test with only the strongest and best-run surviving. Much crying, lots of economic turmoil while it works itself out; but the TARP system will (in my estimation) only prolong the inevitible. I suppose it'll let some of the mega-wealthy maintain their hold on economic forces. Oh, well.
When it comes to band-aids, don't peel it off slowly - rip that sucker off!
Hey, I wonder if this holds true beyond Skewes number? (I don't remember all the particulars, but seemingly primes start to become more common beyond some incredibly high value. I vaguely remember reading an article by Isaac Asimov in SF monthly on the subject. At that time, Mr. Asimov suggested that there would be another point where that would reverse, but (with his dry sense of humor) he suggested that attempting to calculate Skewes number already left him skewered, and computing that second reversal point left him super-skewered.
Could this be the beginnings of a non-quantum solution to, say, the problem of factoring large numbers? Not a solution itself, but the beginnings of a method for breaking RSA without resorting to the use of q-bits et. al.?
What he did was to make it plain that General Motors would not be considered for further TARP funding if they continued to utilize the services of the CEO who bankrupted the company in the first placed.
Perfectly acceptable here in the United States. Note that there has not been a popular revolt or backlash against this. Evidently, President Obama's action in causing GM to ditch their loser of a CEO was (apparently) neither illegal nor immoral in the opinion of the majority of United States citizens.
(Incidentally, until recently I was a Republican. I actively disapprove of many of the things our current President advocates. This particular example isn't one of them)
Okay, I'm pretty sure a movie theater screen was involved, rather than a television set, but the basic mechanism is essentially the same.
I was only pursuing an education, honest! It's not fair - Obi-Wan trained Anakin Skywalker, but he wouldn't train me. I have to get my force training somewhere, don't I?
Or something like that.
which will turn the STEREO spacecraft into interplanetary techno-confetti upon impact.
Fat fingers
And removing the cameras will change things . . . how? Oh, yeah - now there'll be a snowball's chance in hell of contesting the officer's sworn testimony before Boss Hogg; with the cameras, there's not even that chance; although I suppose this'll at least require counties in the South to tie up a little officer time to run their speed-traps, instead of automating them. Some gain, I suppose, but the South is still going to be the South.
I wonder if the Duke boys could help me with traffic issues down there in Mississippi? I'd settle for seeing Daisy (the burnette original, not the blond knock-off) while waiting for the Sheriff to reset the traffic light.
Then again, despite the lack of intense gamma radiation fronts (something you'd expect if there were pockets of antimatter naturally existing in our Universe), it's possible that we're wrong. If there are truly empty voids of space to prevent direct contact between them, the Universe could be half antimatter and we'd have no way to tell. The stuff looks just like ordinary matter until you touch it.
Guilt is not a variable. The law in most places accomodates this by permitting sentence flexibility at judgement. I.e., BBC may never pay one pence in damages nor suffer any legal sanctions because they didn't do anything wrong, but they are still guilty of a violation of law.
In this instance, a sentence of zero punishment may make sense, but that does not change the fact that the BBC knowingly and intentionally did something they knew to be illegal. They intentionally broke the law, and then boasted about it.
That's the problem with analogies - they break down sooner or later. Fine. I'll drop the analogy. Question for you - did the BBC break the law? Never mind if punishment is in order, did they break the law?
If not, I want their set of rules instead of mine. I've got a few people who need an appointment with a clue-by-four.
What? That jewelery in my pocket? Oh, my - I was looking at it and forgot to put it back. No intent to steal, no harm no foul.
There's a reason they call them laws. Otherwise, we'd call them "suggestions".
I've been on the bad side of this one - a lack of criminal intent does not mitigate or extenuate criminal action. Their guilt is quite plain (having been admitted, even published by the BBC itself). Now, their lack of criminal intent does have a bearing on sentencing. Inasmuch as the BBC did not wilfully cause damage or fiscal loss to anybody (except, potentially, themselves?), the sentence should be something on the light side, perhaps even suspended; but the matter of their guilt is simple black-letter law.
Across our intranet, the software's page takes around six to eight seconds to load and display under Firefox 3.0, and decidedly less than two seconds to load under Internet Explorer (6, 7). As someone has noted above, many web servers actively detect which browser you're using and send different content depending on the browser (identified in your http: request headers). I'm not sure if [vendor name redacted] has an agreement with M$ to ensure that IE is the browser of choice when working with their product; as ridiculous as that sounds, it's also possible and even likely IMHO. This particular vendor may have decided "well, we can't break non-IE browsers without hurting our business, but we can sure as hell make it painful to use non-IE browsers with our product."
And it's the IE business model for teh win in the browser wars.
Of course, you'll need real hardware to go with that.
Oh, I forgot - like nearly all virus warnings, this one only applies to the M$ architecture. My bad! :^)
on local ridges or some other local high points where they would get more exposure to wind. At the density of Mars' atmosphere, even a tornado wouldn't hurt the rovers. Don't need to stay there for long; just long enough to get electrical generation up past 28%.
Sounds like a Trojan Horse to me. If you don't like that word, you can stick with "malware". But you're right - it isn't a virus. Computer virii act against a weakness of the target system, not the target system's user; and virii spread and reproduce as part of their life cycle.
Trojan Horse.
At least, until five minutes before MS starts pushing the point!
Start.
it's a Space Station!
Need to support MS Windows user base? (Terminal services, the setup my current employer uses to provide Windows desktops to technical services personnel; although we use VMWare for the task due to licensing issues with MS Windows/virtualization licensing issues)
Rapid prototyping/development/testing of new Windows technologies? (an appropriate initial hardware investment means no cost associated with purchasing hardware for short-term initiatives)
There are more. Much as I dislike MicroSoft's products in general, they do have the one desktop more employees are likely to be able to use without first being trained.
Never mind that the Napster name survived and came back as another DRM'ed monstrosity. We still have the Gnutella protocol, free and unencumbered (poisoned, but we tech types can deal with that, eh?).
If TPB goes under (like SuperNova - can you say "mininova"?), there'll be plenty of other site operators ready to take advantage of their country's laws to make money from the opportunity this would represent. Trust me - even if TPB is forced to shut down (a questionable liklihood), there'll be plenty of others coming behind to pick up the profitable pieces left behind.
Data occupies space, has mass, exerts gravity. Even physically turning off TPB's servers won't make that data go away. Even if you nuke the servers holding the data and wipe all the hard drives, the data still exists (scattered about on the internet in some form or another). It'll be found (rediscovered) and used.
This is just another example of the existing media cartels (MPAA, RIAA, et. al.) trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. They obviously haven't learned from their past experience with Gnutella just how difficult rebottling the jinn can be.