The article doesn't mention the product key. Perhaps a valid product key was entered, and Wine managed to come up with valid hardware data, so MS authenticated it.
The question is, do we want economies of scale in this business? I'd like to see some investigation of the environmental impact of such flights, given that they give only intangible benefits to small numbers of people. This would be the direct environmental impact of emissions from the vehicle and also the manufacturing impact for the vehicle and its fuel.
...NATO 5.56 is one of the most common cartriges in the world, and is rediculously easy to find...my dad has a box at home and we don't have any firearms that chamber it.
Well, in that case (I know nothing about guns and ammo), Posada Carriles may well have been in the same position, just happening to have a spare box lying around for no good reason. It doesn't seem like a simple logical deduction to say that the evidence must have been faked.
The reputation system? Maybe something that, yes, we'd like try, but, this being the Internet, there always will be some sites somewhere that put out misinformation. Politically-motivated sites are the first ones that come to mind for me.
It's impossible to have a global reputation across venues, because what gives you a high reputation in one place may be considered despicable somewhere else.
So in it's place, I created a whole shitload of false identities that I post under, one of them about 10 years old now. Mainly on forums and newsgroups for work purposes, etc. If you searched for this particular identity, you would probably fine hundreds of posts (including many on slashdot) some of them truthful, some of them fake, with various opinions of topics.
A waste of time, if you ask me. Anonymous opinions (or any opinions if you are not a celebrity in real life) are cheap, generally ignored, do nothing to enhance your real-world credibility. On the other hand, I can't resist doing the same.
I re-checked the photograph in Granma. I looked in a book, "An Illustrated Guide to Weapons of the Modern Soviet Ground Forces", Ray Bonds ed., Salamander Books, 1981, ISBN 086101 115 5. There in pages 136, 137 was a photograph of an original soviet AK-47 which was identical, to the last rivet, to the rifle pictured in Granma. The rifle in the photograph wasn't modified, it does not fire 5.56mm cartridges, the Cuban evidence against Posada Carriles was fake.
I linked my criticism to the photograph in Granma and cited my Salamander Books reference. This is, in no way at all, an "original idea", it's a carefully constructed criticism with sources fully cited. As I said in my other post, this is a crude attempt at framing, based on that evidence alone, Posada Carriles would be acquitted in any civilized court of justice.
The Cubans surely know what sort of ammunition an AK-47 rifle uses, and are unlikely to have a lot of NATO ammunition lying around. If it's a fake, it's just as strange as if it's a genuine find.
Well that brings up the problem of new people trying to not be an asshat and gain a good reputation. If no forum will allow people without a good reputation to join how do you get one?
Forums are unlikely to disallow people with no reputation. I think the more difficult problem would be the advancement from no reputation to good reputation. In the worst case, it doesn't matter how insightful you make your comments, they will still be buried low down the pecking order since you don't have a good reputation. Thus buried, hardly anybody will read them, and the chance that you get any "reputation points" to dig your way out is low.
So in the future, acting like an asshat for fun in formus would relfect on you elsewhere. Just like if you act like an asshat at the company picnic, it effects you back in the office and possibly gets back to your friends at home.
These systems aren't going to achieve that completely. There's nothing to stop somebody creating a new id for their asshat sessions and reserving another id for anything connected with their real name. With a name like "Original Replica", you probably realise that already.
Even if somebody is too lazy or careless to prevent their asshat sessions leaking out into their real id, is that really going to damage their credibility elsewhere? We are talking about real people. Nobody expects everybody to maintain a squeaky clean image 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's a fiction that is only pulled out occasionally to damage celebrities.
E.g., lets say I make lots of great edits on Wikipedia and do nothing damaging there. Am I going to lose Wikipedia editing privileges on account of a bit of harmless Slashdot trolling after an evening at the pub?
People are talking about Europe being upset at the US because they have it easier but what about China and India?
According to all the figures I've seen, emissions per capita from China and India are still well behind the USA and Europe. Why should the populations of some countries more right to consume resources than others?
Also I wouldn't be surprised if much of the emissions from China and India were made producing goods to be shipped to the USA and Europe. The consumption by the average Indian or Chinese is likely to be thus even lower.
It wouldn't be easy to persuade somebody who already has a working connection that they need to switch. More likely the addresses will run out at some point, and the only options for somebody needing a new address will be to take an IPv6 address, use NAT on IPv4, or pay extra for IPv4 from a reseller.
v6 has all sorts of special provisions for randomly assigning addresses
I've read that with IPv6 the end user would be allocated a block of addresses, instead of getting a single IPv4 address and having to resort to NAT. Presumably this random assignment of addresses would be from the addresses in this block? I don't think this would necessarily give any anonymity, since it may turn out to be easy to identify the block size and alignment and thus be easy to determine that the addresses are associated.
I agree with this. It's quite rare that I'd want to enter text into a computer faster than I can type it. Usually the constraint is slow thinking speed, not my typing speed (which is not too bad in any case). It helps too if you can write what you want to say directly without unnecessary verbiage.
Perhaps there are situations where it would be useful, e.g., for somebody cranking out office memos all day, or perhaps a politician crafting legislation, i.e., situations where a large amount of text contains minimal original thought.
I mean, free will is usually considered to be some semi-magical thing in which a being can make decision completely objectively from outside influences. It's often linked to the soul.
Yes, this is a problem, because such magical ideas have no physical basis and are meaningless for scientific purposes. A term used in a scientific article needs to be defined, and they gave a definition. In fact the only reason that the article was considered worthy of discussion here was probably that they chose a loaded term like "free will" instead of something uninteresting like "decision ability" or "foo factor".
That is why free will is such a difficult question even for humans, who are actually AWARE of their decision making, and who are trapped inside the causality nonetheless.
Yes, humans have the illusion that they somehow exist separately from their own bodies and brains, and are somehow on the outside giving commands out of their own "free will". Such a definition of "free will" is pointless because it's something that doesn't actually exist.
The question I would raise is why can't something be both deterministic and have free will? If I perform some action based on what my neurons have calculated, then they my neurons after all and it is still me that has decided to perform this action. I don't see how adding a bit of randomness changes anything.
I don't see how "free will" could be the ability to do something independently of underlying physical processes, since I consider this to be impossible.
Yes, I would think so, according to this definition of "free will". A computer that continually prints "1 0 1 0 1..." is clearly doing it of its own free will, like the zig-zagging fly.
Not limited to humans... no, that wouldn't be a discovery. Dogs can be trained to act one way or another to the same event, after all. I suppose they think it's interesting to extend it to an animal with a tiny brain. However I wouldn't be surprised if previous studies of insects have already found plenty of other examples.
I fail to see how this precludes them from merely having brains with hardwired instruction sets that tell them how to fly in zigzag patterns looking for food.
I think they are saying that the flies do have something like that, which is what they are defining as "free will". There's nothing "mere" about it, since any animal (including human) behaviour is going to be something similar.
By their definition, the fly makes a decision about what it will do and hence has "free will". I.e., it's not constrained to a single choice by its environment, and it's not making a random selection between available choices.
Perhaps you'd prefer to live in a blander, more flavorless world where we have more car salesmen and lawyers, but I don't.
The Premier League would still be the highest level, so that's were the best footballers will be. I'd be surprised if the teams couldn't scrape up enough funds in one way or another to pay them an ordinary salary.
In any case the number of lawyers needed will surely decrease once copyright is abolished, which is another good reason for getting rid of it.
Runescape is Java, not shockwave, and is cross platform. Guild Wars on the other hand appears to be Windows only. Since they target different platforms, they are not really direct competitors.
The concept of copyright is not only just, it is necessary. There are a lot of people who, if they didn't have copyright laws to protect their creations, wouldn't create them, either because those creations cost too much or simply because there was a more profitable use of their time.
Less creation is not important, since without copyright the stuff that does get created will be much more widely useful. The English Premier League wouldn't shut down. Most likely the players wouldn't make so many millions per year, but I'm sure somebody would still be willing to do the job.
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The article doesn't mention the product key. Perhaps a valid product key was entered, and Wine managed to come up with valid hardware data, so MS authenticated it.
The question is, do we want economies of scale in this business? I'd like to see some investigation of the environmental impact of such flights, given that they give only intangible benefits to small numbers of people. This would be the direct environmental impact of emissions from the vehicle and also the manufacturing impact for the vehicle and its fuel.
The Cubans surely know what sort of ammunition an AK-47 rifle uses, and are unlikely to have a lot of NATO ammunition lying around. If it's a fake, it's just as strange as if it's a genuine find.
Forums are unlikely to disallow people with no reputation. I think the more difficult problem would be the advancement from no reputation to good reputation. In the worst case, it doesn't matter how insightful you make your comments, they will still be buried low down the pecking order since you don't have a good reputation. Thus buried, hardly anybody will read them, and the chance that you get any "reputation points" to dig your way out is low.
These systems aren't going to achieve that completely. There's nothing to stop somebody creating a new id for their asshat sessions and reserving another id for anything connected with their real name. With a name like "Original Replica", you probably realise that already.
Even if somebody is too lazy or careless to prevent their asshat sessions leaking out into their real id, is that really going to damage their credibility elsewhere? We are talking about real people. Nobody expects everybody to maintain a squeaky clean image 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's a fiction that is only pulled out occasionally to damage celebrities.
E.g., lets say I make lots of great edits on Wikipedia and do nothing damaging there. Am I going to lose Wikipedia editing privileges on account of a bit of harmless Slashdot trolling after an evening at the pub?
According to all the figures I've seen, emissions per capita from China and India are still well behind the USA and Europe. Why should the populations of some countries more right to consume resources than others?
Also I wouldn't be surprised if much of the emissions from China and India were made producing goods to be shipped to the USA and Europe. The consumption by the average Indian or Chinese is likely to be thus even lower.
It wouldn't be easy to persuade somebody who already has a working connection that they need to switch. More likely the addresses will run out at some point, and the only options for somebody needing a new address will be to take an IPv6 address, use NAT on IPv4, or pay extra for IPv4 from a reseller.
I agree with this. It's quite rare that I'd want to enter text into a computer faster than I can type it. Usually the constraint is slow thinking speed, not my typing speed (which is not too bad in any case). It helps too if you can write what you want to say directly without unnecessary verbiage.
Perhaps there are situations where it would be useful, e.g., for somebody cranking out office memos all day, or perhaps a politician crafting legislation, i.e., situations where a large amount of text contains minimal original thought.
The question I would raise is why can't something be both deterministic and have free will? If I perform some action based on what my neurons have calculated, then they my neurons after all and it is still me that has decided to perform this action. I don't see how adding a bit of randomness changes anything. I don't see how "free will" could be the ability to do something independently of underlying physical processes, since I consider this to be impossible.
Not limited to humans ... no, that wouldn't be a discovery. Dogs can be trained to act one way or another to the same event, after all. I suppose they think it's interesting to extend it to an animal with a tiny brain. However I wouldn't be surprised if previous studies of insects have already found plenty of other examples.
Apparently Microsoft thinks a computer is something that can play video, not irrelevant stuff like calendar, MP3 player, GPS, etc.
I think they are saying that the flies do have something like that, which is what they are defining as "free will". There's nothing "mere" about it, since any animal (including human) behaviour is going to be something similar.
By their definition, the fly makes a decision about what it will do and hence has "free will". I.e., it's not constrained to a single choice by its environment, and it's not making a random selection between available choices.
This seems reasonable enough to me.
The Premier League would still be the highest level, so that's were the best footballers will be. I'd be surprised if the teams couldn't scrape up enough funds in one way or another to pay them an ordinary salary.
In any case the number of lawyers needed will surely decrease once copyright is abolished, which is another good reason for getting rid of it.
Runescape is Java, not shockwave, and is cross platform. Guild Wars on the other hand appears to be Windows only. Since they target different platforms, they are not really direct competitors.