Theoretically, couldn't a person just set the BIOS clock to a date and time prior to the legislation, do multiple shreds and formats on the HDD, reinstall the OS with the BIOS clock still 'in the past', and have it seem as though nothing changed since the initiation of the litigation?
You could, assuming that the computer was still in your possession which I doubt at this point.
I'm pretty sure that internet access is protected by the 1st amendment in Fredoom of Speech and of the press.
If the government came in and banned you from using the internet, in effect they are preventing you from voicing your dissent and your ability to post on websites that is protected by the first amendment.
Arguably, (and I'm not sure where you got this idea) this is not about the government giving everyone free internet access but rather making a law that can kick people off the internet even if it is through a private company.
I mean you could in theory, make it so that the person could send only but not download anything, but the whole point of the internet was two way communication.
What good is it if you can only send emails and not read them?
Of course it wouldn't really work like that because you'd have to send an outgoing request to your email server to pull them in the first place.
Either way, the Government of any nation should not determine by law who is and who is not allowed to use the internet for that tramples over the whole point of freedom of speech and press.
* The Sun
* News of the World
* The Times
* Sunday Times
* The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
* The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
* The Australian (national)
* The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide)
* The Sunday Times (Perth)
* Herald Sun (Melbourne)
* Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
* mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)
* The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)
* Geelong Advertiser
* Gold Coast Bulletin
* The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart)
* Northern Territory News (Darwin)
* The Sunday Territorian (Darwin)
* Sunday Star-Times
* Papua New Guinea Post-Courier
* The Fiji Times
* New York Post
* The Wall Street Journal
* Times Herald Record
eah, coating the entire surface of the Earth with gold foil to increase its reflectivity and eliminate global warming is technically possible too -- but that doesn't mean it's going to happen!
I mean, this guy actually did work at 3DRealms and this is his blog, but seriously, CliffyB and Marc Rein threatening developers with broken chairs? Tim Sweeny tackling people and holding them down for gang beatings?
Pshaw! Thats nothing compared to what EA does to their employees.
Moore's law is fundamentally flawed in that it predicts a never ending exponential (linear in the log domain) progression. It is bound to slow down and eventually stop, yet it fails entirely to take that into account.
That said, Intel still takes the idea deadly seriously when it comes to their marketing and future plans.
He's ignoring the fact that technologies which comes into existence get used by existing power structures to perpetuate their rule, not necessarily "for the good of all".
Like the internet, microwaves, radar, GPS, and all the military technologies that never made it into the hands of civilians.
The key here is that Ray bases this prediction on past observation of things like Moore's law. Even though he does cherry pick and that there is no guarantee that it would always continue in such a fashion, the idea that distributed system improvements are exponential isn't that far fetched.
So basically what he is saying is that if the future behaves like the past then we will see so major changes shortly simply because we'll have processing out the wazoo.
Even the Moore himself thinks this will at least last til 2018 when silicon transistors reach their theoretical limit on the atomic scale. Whether or not the industry finds a suitable replacement for silicon or finds another way to go about making processors is another thing all together.
My bet is that Intel, IBM, and AMD are putting the big bucks on getting past the silicon limit because that is their money cow.
So if the limit does continue that things like Blue Brain Project will have an easier time running their simulations.
I don't know about the whole Nanotech emergence, but at least it looks like we might get the AI thing solved in at least 50 years.
Is it any surprise that when a government (whether under Clinton or Bush) promotes "affordable housing" as an end in itself, by manipulating interest rates and bank regulations, that they're bound to create a bubble, and bubbles by definition cannot last?
I think they key problem here was the lack of regulation than too much of it.
First, subprime lenders were lending money to people who didn't even meet federal standards, then bundling this toxic debt into CDOs and then selling it off to people who didn't even look at the credit of the people in the inside and then sold it to other people.
Secondly, the subprimes were talking these people and other borderline credit score people into adjustable loans.
Then federal reserve twiddled its thumbs about raising interest rates when it needed to calm the situation but because everyone had adjustable loans, the had no choice to default en masse making the situation worse.
Oh and don't forget about the uptick rule that the SEC removed that prevented short sellers from shorting on stocks on downward movement that had originally been in place for 70 years because of the 1929 market crash! And people have to ask why the market did what it did.
So yes... More regulation would have stopped this.
1. Banks and subprimes should have been regulated into not giving loans they knew could not be paid back. 2. Uptick rule needs to be reinstated which they are doing soon under the new head of the SEC.
And don't bitch and moan about free market because it has been historically observe that free market does correct itself but always... AND it always creates boom and bust cycles through the past 500 years of free hand markets. Which is why we get depressions.
I welcome the IRS to check my numbers. I know I am honest. I also know that it is right. You have to figure that not only do these guys know better but many probably had help filing. It doesn't wash.
Just because your honest doesn't mean its right. Even if you have professional experts look at the issue and sometimes not all your investments report your earnings right.
I had a relative that got a notice from his stock broker after April 14th long after he filed his taxes stating "Whoops. We made a mistake and reported the numbers to your IRS wrong."
He'll have to make corrections on his taxes next year since he's already filed, but imagine had his broker hadn't caught their mistake. Yeah my relative was being honest but it was only to his knowledge of what he actually made last year.
So I have an honest question. How did Manga/Anime become such a nerd thing?
It was a major nerd thing back in the 1990's but these days its a bit more mainstream. I'd have to argue that D&D has become more mainstream because of WoW.
Anyways, back in the day before streaming video on the net, most of the people who were into Anime were the same people who were into Scifi stuff as well. At college we'd have an anime club that people would fan sub and trade tapes.
And let me tell you... We were all nerds.
Now that Pokemon and Naruto are basically mainstream, anime isn't as subcultured as it once was but plenty of still have our nerd roots when it comes to it.
You know, I am SO sick of Obama kissing everyone's ass and working hard to be popular rather than fixing problems. You might say he's fixing the economy, but he's repeating mistakes which resulted in the great depression so many decades ago. How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms?
I think the problem is that everyone fails to understand what it means to live in a fiat economy rather than a commodity based on.
First of all I can't believe you are saying he is repeating the mistakes that resulted in the great depression. That was caused by Hoover raising taxes and the Federal Reserve letting the banks fail that resulted in a deflationary implosion of the economy. (
So far Obama has neither raised taxes nor has the Fed let any banks fail.
Secondly, the key benefit (and possibly the main detractor) of a fiat economy is that it is faith based that debts will be settled and contracts upheld. This faith means that the economy works as long as everyone believes it will work.
People that still come into work and still work and still spend means that the economy will still grow. People who don't spend and hoard money cause deflation which means less economic activity which results in economic shrinkage and that doesn't work well in a population that grows.
I mean it works well for a nation like Japan where the population is shrinking, but if new jobs are not created for an ever growing population then it causes problems.
A fiat economy resolves the problem of an economy that is limited by an arbitrary commodity and moves it towards one that resolves on good faith credit and that the rest of society and the market will move towards a unified goal of increased economic activity.
On the downside when society does feel that this faith is shaken (ie contracts are broken and debts are defaulted) the nasty side of the fiat comes into play. So in order to recover the economy, faith must be restored or else it will fail even moreso.
Keep in mind most of the debts and wealth lost during the great depression and today was almost entirely theoretical and only numbers on a piece of paper. I don't think its easy to get people to understand this (i mean the average joe will never teach himself how to earn money on the stock market) but since we aren't going to peg the dollar on gold or oil (I mean we can't without collapsing the economy and no bank on the federal reserve would go with this and I doubt you can get a majority of congress to go along with you so its not going to be our alternative) we simply have to deal with what comes with it.
As long as inflation is kept up with economic growth then the system works as long as people keep faith in it because in all reality we do have a surplus of food and energy which keeps everyone alive and happy for the most part (mostly).
Because us grown-ups realize that this stuff isn't gonna get made for free. Thousands of actual people feed their with this money.
But real grown-ups realize that if they have to pay for this stuff, they'll do without and those people that feed their family will have to get another line of work.
My argument is that the entertainment industry does not "deserve" to be paid automatically for anything they do. They are in the right to be paid when people buy their things, but they should not be subsidized by government or aided with its legislation or law enforcement more than any other working class of job.
If they don't like the ups and downs of the industry, they should have took another career.
I don't pirate, but I'll be damned if those people trample all over fair use rights and abuse government simply to get a subsidy when otherwise they would be paid none.
First, private company can do what it wants -- I own three.
Right, but if you behave in such a way that other people find offensive they are allowed to bitch about it. Freedom of speech works both ways.
I mean if you posted offensive or intolerant views on your websites (like say you have proof that Windows is better than Linux), don't people have a right to write make their own websites, blogs, and petition Slashdot on the topic?
Either the German site can either put up with the criticism or let them on their site. It has the right to not let them join, but they can bitch all they like about not being allowed.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis? Please tell me I've misunderstood. Please.
Also (and I almost forgot), by not mentioning Nazi's by name he also includes the DDR (East Germany) who basically did the same thing to non-communist political parties.
There are plenty of people alive the lived under them and remember a time when openly joining a political party other than the Communists meant jail time.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis?
Well the first thing the National Socialists did when they came to power was shutdown all the Christian Democrat and Socialist newspapers and arrest their party leaders.
Exactly, locks (unless you pay a shitload for them) are not designed to keep people out. Any locksmith will tell you that the only thing a lock will do is make your neighbours house an easier target.
Arguably, an alarm system is more important in keeping people out than the lock on the door. If they kick down the door and a message goes off that lets them know that you know they are there and that the police are coming shortly, they usually won't stick around that long.
Same thing applies to computer systems. It is more important to know that you have an intrusion as soon as possible than the actual prevention of the intrusion.
Not that you want to leave the door unlocked, but rather you need the ability to lockdown and detect when someone is there when they shouldn't be.
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Theoretically, couldn't a person just set the BIOS clock to a date and time prior to the legislation, do multiple shreds and formats on the HDD, reinstall the OS with the BIOS clock still 'in the past', and have it seem as though nothing changed since the initiation of the litigation?
You could, assuming that the computer was still in your possession which I doubt at this point.
Only the one they believe to be the right one.
I'm pretty sure that internet access is protected by the 1st amendment in Fredoom of Speech and of the press.
If the government came in and banned you from using the internet, in effect they are preventing you from voicing your dissent and your ability to post on websites that is protected by the first amendment.
Arguably, (and I'm not sure where you got this idea) this is not about the government giving everyone free internet access but rather making a law that can kick people off the internet even if it is through a private company.
I mean you could in theory, make it so that the person could send only but not download anything, but the whole point of the internet was two way communication.
What good is it if you can only send emails and not read them?
Of course it wouldn't really work like that because you'd have to send an outgoing request to your email server to pull them in the first place.
Either way, the Government of any nation should not determine by law who is and who is not allowed to use the internet for that tramples over the whole point of freedom of speech and press.
And nothing of value was lost.
Almost every single one of those issues you pointed out are just election year platform gimmicks.
Yes, but unfortunately they act on them.
Which makes it particularly puzzling that the ACLU is not interested in protecting the second amendment.
That is because the NRA handles that issue.
eah, coating the entire surface of the Earth with gold foil to increase its reflectivity and eliminate global warming is technically possible too -- but that doesn't mean it's going to happen!
Is that a challenge?
I mean, this guy actually did work at 3DRealms and this is his blog, but seriously, CliffyB and Marc Rein threatening developers with broken chairs? Tim Sweeny tackling people and holding them down for gang beatings?
Pshaw! Thats nothing compared to what EA does to their employees.
Do you think its easy to code with broken thumbs?
Like most attempts to coddle the clueless, won't widespread adoption of this just result in even more careless pedestrians?
Yeah, those damn pedestrians keep walking on that sidewalk I use for my shortcuts!
Moore's law is fundamentally flawed in that it predicts a never ending exponential (linear in the log domain) progression. It is bound to slow down and eventually stop, yet it fails entirely to take that into account.
That said, Intel still takes the idea deadly seriously when it comes to their marketing and future plans.
Think of it a self prophetic goal:
http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/
The GHz race is over, and multiple cores have not delivered yet.
I don't know what you mean by "multiple cores" have not delivered.
Have you tried comparing how Vista runs a 3ghz single core cpu runs versus a quad core 2 ghz cpu?
He's ignoring the fact that technologies which comes into existence get used by existing power structures to perpetuate their rule, not necessarily "for the good of all".
Like the internet, microwaves, radar, GPS, and all the military technologies that never made it into the hands of civilians.
The key here is that Ray bases this prediction on past observation of things like Moore's law. Even though he does cherry pick and that there is no guarantee that it would always continue in such a fashion, the idea that distributed system improvements are exponential isn't that far fetched.
So basically what he is saying is that if the future behaves like the past then we will see so major changes shortly simply because we'll have processing out the wazoo.
Even the Moore himself thinks this will at least last til 2018 when silicon transistors reach their theoretical limit on the atomic scale. Whether or not the industry finds a suitable replacement for silicon or finds another way to go about making processors is another thing all together.
My bet is that Intel, IBM, and AMD are putting the big bucks on getting past the silicon limit because that is their money cow.
So if the limit does continue that things like Blue Brain Project will have an easier time running their simulations.
I don't know about the whole Nanotech emergence, but at least it looks like we might get the AI thing solved in at least 50 years.
The US Dollar is backed by the world's largest prison system, the IRS, and nuclear weapons.
Think about it before laughing.
Is it any surprise that when a government (whether under Clinton or Bush) promotes "affordable housing" as an end in itself, by manipulating interest rates and bank regulations, that they're bound to create a bubble, and bubbles by definition cannot last?
I think they key problem here was the lack of regulation than too much of it.
First, subprime lenders were lending money to people who didn't even meet federal standards, then bundling this toxic debt into CDOs and then selling it off to people who didn't even look at the credit of the people in the inside and then sold it to other people.
Secondly, the subprimes were talking these people and other borderline credit score people into adjustable loans.
Then federal reserve twiddled its thumbs about raising interest rates when it needed to calm the situation but because everyone had adjustable loans, the had no choice to default en masse making the situation worse.
Oh and don't forget about the uptick rule that the SEC removed that prevented short sellers from shorting on stocks on downward movement that had originally been in place for 70 years because of the 1929 market crash! And people have to ask why the market did what it did.
So yes... More regulation would have stopped this.
1. Banks and subprimes should have been regulated into not giving loans they knew could not be paid back.
2. Uptick rule needs to be reinstated which they are doing soon under the new head of the SEC.
And don't bitch and moan about free market because it has been historically observe that free market does correct itself but always... AND it always creates boom and bust cycles through the past 500 years of free hand markets. Which is why we get depressions.
I welcome the IRS to check my numbers. I know I am honest. I also know that it is right. You have to figure that not only do these guys know better but many probably had help filing. It doesn't wash.
Just because your honest doesn't mean its right. Even if you have professional experts look at the issue and sometimes not all your investments report your earnings right.
I had a relative that got a notice from his stock broker after April 14th long after he filed his taxes stating "Whoops. We made a mistake and reported the numbers to your IRS wrong."
He'll have to make corrections on his taxes next year since he's already filed, but imagine had his broker hadn't caught their mistake. Yeah my relative was being honest but it was only to his knowledge of what he actually made last year.
Why not Major Kusanagi?
So I have an honest question. How did Manga/Anime become such a nerd thing?
It was a major nerd thing back in the 1990's but these days its a bit more mainstream. I'd have to argue that D&D has become more mainstream because of WoW.
Anyways, back in the day before streaming video on the net, most of the people who were into Anime were the same people who were into Scifi stuff as well. At college we'd have an anime club that people would fan sub and trade tapes.
And let me tell you... We were all nerds.
Now that Pokemon and Naruto are basically mainstream, anime isn't as subcultured as it once was but plenty of still have our nerd roots when it comes to it.
You know, I am SO sick of Obama kissing everyone's ass and working hard to be popular rather than fixing problems. You might say he's fixing the economy, but he's repeating mistakes which resulted in the great depression so many decades ago. How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms?
I think the problem is that everyone fails to understand what it means to live in a fiat economy rather than a commodity based on.
First of all I can't believe you are saying he is repeating the mistakes that resulted in the great depression. That was caused by Hoover raising taxes and the Federal Reserve letting the banks fail that resulted in a deflationary implosion of the economy. (
So far Obama has neither raised taxes nor has the Fed let any banks fail.
Secondly, the key benefit (and possibly the main detractor) of a fiat economy is that it is faith based that debts will be settled and contracts upheld. This faith means that the economy works as long as everyone believes it will work.
People that still come into work and still work and still spend means that the economy will still grow. People who don't spend and hoard money cause deflation which means less economic activity which results in economic shrinkage and that doesn't work well in a population that grows.
I mean it works well for a nation like Japan where the population is shrinking, but if new jobs are not created for an ever growing population then it causes problems.
A fiat economy resolves the problem of an economy that is limited by an arbitrary commodity and moves it towards one that resolves on good faith credit and that the rest of society and the market will move towards a unified goal of increased economic activity.
On the downside when society does feel that this faith is shaken (ie contracts are broken and debts are defaulted) the nasty side of the fiat comes into play. So in order to recover the economy, faith must be restored or else it will fail even moreso.
Keep in mind most of the debts and wealth lost during the great depression and today was almost entirely theoretical and only numbers on a piece of paper. I don't think its easy to get people to understand this (i mean the average joe will never teach himself how to earn money on the stock market) but since we aren't going to peg the dollar on gold or oil (I mean we can't without collapsing the economy and no bank on the federal reserve would go with this and I doubt you can get a majority of congress to go along with you so its not going to be our alternative) we simply have to deal with what comes with it.
As long as inflation is kept up with economic growth then the system works as long as people keep faith in it because in all reality we do have a surplus of food and energy which keeps everyone alive and happy for the most part (mostly).
Because us grown-ups realize that this stuff isn't gonna get made for free. Thousands of actual people feed their with this money.
But real grown-ups realize that if they have to pay for this stuff, they'll do without and those people that feed their family will have to get another line of work.
My argument is that the entertainment industry does not "deserve" to be paid automatically for anything they do. They are in the right to be paid when people buy their things, but they should not be subsidized by government or aided with its legislation or law enforcement more than any other working class of job.
If they don't like the ups and downs of the industry, they should have took another career.
I don't pirate, but I'll be damned if those people trample all over fair use rights and abuse government simply to get a subsidy when otherwise they would be paid none.
First, private company can do what it wants -- I own three.
Right, but if you behave in such a way that other people find offensive they are allowed to bitch about it. Freedom of speech works both ways.
I mean if you posted offensive or intolerant views on your websites (like say you have proof that Windows is better than Linux), don't people have a right to write make their own websites, blogs, and petition Slashdot on the topic?
Either the German site can either put up with the criticism or let them on their site. It has the right to not let them join, but they can bitch all they like about not being allowed.
It is their right.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis? Please tell me I've misunderstood. Please.
Also (and I almost forgot), by not mentioning Nazi's by name he also includes the DDR (East Germany) who basically did the same thing to non-communist political parties.
There are plenty of people alive the lived under them and remember a time when openly joining a political party other than the Communists meant jail time.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis?
Well the first thing the National Socialists did when they came to power was shutdown all the Christian Democrat and Socialist newspapers and arrest their party leaders.
When the navy puts windows on their ships.
Personally, I'd be more impressed when the navy puts windows on their submarines.
Exactly, locks (unless you pay a shitload for them) are not designed to keep people out. Any locksmith will tell you that the only thing a lock will do is make your neighbours house an easier target.
Arguably, an alarm system is more important in keeping people out than the lock on the door. If they kick down the door and a message goes off that lets them know that you know they are there and that the police are coming shortly, they usually won't stick around that long.
Same thing applies to computer systems. It is more important to know that you have an intrusion as soon as possible than the actual prevention of the intrusion.
Not that you want to leave the door unlocked, but rather you need the ability to lockdown and detect when someone is there when they shouldn't be.