like the Roman Empire, this country is inevitably destined to collapse in civil war and anarchy and invasions from foreigners
Isn't that the eventual fate of all societies? And yet apocalyptic predictions are more common than apocalyptic events.
Forty years ago, hippies were evidence of terminal decadence and moral decay. Thirty years ago, defeat in Vietnam was the last nail in the coffin of a declining imperial power. Twenty years ago, Communists outside the gates and stock market speculators inside were gloating over the imminent destruction of the United States. Ten years ago, nation states were going to dissolve into a loose coalition of cyber-tribes. This year, a handful of terrorists are going to bring down the world's biggest economic, military and industrial power, aided by corrupt, self-serving politicians...
Are we currently experiencing a dark age because we don't have access to every letter, memo, bank statement and laundry ticket created in the 20th century? Archiving everything is an attractively simple approach, but if it turns out to be impractical we can always fall back on common sense and restrict ourselves to archiving the maybe 10% of things that have even a remote chance of being interesting in 100 years' time.
L u c k i l y,
t h e b a c k u p
s a t e l l i t e
l i n k k i c k e d i n
a u t o m a t i c a l l y.
T h e l a t e n c y ' s
n o t g r e a t b u t
a t l e a s t i t
k e e p s m e o f f
C o u n t e r s t r i k e.
I don't see what's wrong with the concept of consistency in global copyright laws.
Where is the mandate? Nations should make laws in the interests of their own people, not in the interests of "harmonisation", "consistency" or "free trade", all phrases that are regularly abused by influential minorities within countries to advance causes that are harmful to the majority.
With inconsistent laws, the enforcement of copyrights from country to country would be chaotic at best.
Why should there be any enforcement of copyrights from country to country? Since when did American laws apply to the EU, or vice versa?
This is the same trick that's regularly pulled within the EU: lobbyists find the member state with laws most similar to the way they would like EU laws to be, and then lobby the EU to "harmonise" laws across the Union in the name of fair competition.
This being Slashdot, I haven't read the article, let alone the paper it refers to, but I'm going to throw my hat in the ring anyway. Is it possible that children with genetic disorders are treated differently by their families, or are more likely to focus on activities that don't involve physical exertion? Either of those things could lead to different performance in intelligence tests without there being any direct connection to the genes in question.
I once had a conversation with someone who claimed John Travolta was super intelligent. I asked why. The response was, that he was rich and famous and could fly his own plane.
The webmaster doesn't need to reverse the hash, he can just do a dictionary attack on the hashed password. Worse, he can use the same pre-hashed dictionary against all users because the hash isn't salted.
Either that, or someone will write a new protocol that doesn't require trackers. The tracker just gives each peer the addresses of other peers that are sharing the same file. Decentralized search overlays like Gnutella do exactly the same thing. The only difference is that Gnutella downloads use HTTP, while BitTorrent downloads use a custom protocol with tit-for-tat bandwidth allocation. (Bandwidth is allocated by the peers, not the tracker.)
Sooner or later someone less lazy than me will graft tit-for-tat bandwidth allocation onto Gnutella, or decentralized peer discovery onto BitTorrent, and trackers will be a thing of the past.
A small number of legal torrents wouldn't necessarily indicate a small number of legal downloads - it might just mean that legal torrents are more stable than illegal torrents, because there's no need to keep moving the tracker, and no kudos to be earned by creating your own torrent when an "official" torrent is available elsewhere.
I hear all sorts of people complaining that we're not doing enough!
Really? Could you name three people from outside the US who have complained that the US doesn't invade enough countries?
World politics are messy, but sometimes I think that invasion is the only way to clean somewhere up.
Have you ever been to a country that was invaded less than a hundred years ago? Which one? What were your specific impressions of the effect of invasion on the political and cultural life of the country?
Free thinking doesn't mean "just doing whatever you want", it means doing what you think is right rather than what is legal. Usually the two coincide (murder) but sometimes they don't (cannabis).
Hmm, anyone would think the government was trying to put huge numbers of free thinking people in a position of illegality in order to discourage them from rocking the boat...
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Isn't that the eventual fate of all societies? And yet apocalyptic predictions are more common than apocalyptic events.
Forty years ago, hippies were evidence of terminal decadence and moral decay. Thirty years ago, defeat in Vietnam was the last nail in the coffin of a declining imperial power. Twenty years ago, Communists outside the gates and stock market speculators inside were gloating over the imminent destruction of the United States. Ten years ago, nation states were going to dissolve into a loose coalition of cyber-tribes. This year, a handful of terrorists are going to bring down the world's biggest economic, military and industrial power, aided by corrupt, self-serving politicians...
Doesn't it diminish the aura of a great work of art if you know that it can always be restored from a backup?
Are we currently experiencing a dark age because we don't have access to every letter, memo, bank statement and laundry ticket created in the 20th century? Archiving everything is an attractively simple approach, but if it turns out to be impractical we can always fall back on common sense and restrict ourselves to archiving the maybe 10% of things that have even a remote chance of being interesting in 100 years' time.
Or search for highlighted text if you middle-click it, as in Firefox...
L u c k i l y ,
t h e b a c k u p
s a t e l l i t e
l i n k k i c k e d i n
a u t o m a t i c a l l y .
T h e l a t e n c y ' s
n o t g r e a t b u t
a t l e a s t i t
k e e p s m e o f f
C o u n t e r s t r i k e .
God, haven't manufacturers learned anything from the DNA-coated pants disaster 3.6 billion years ago? We're still trying to clean that one up!
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Where is the mandate? Nations should make laws in the interests of their own people, not in the interests of "harmonisation", "consistency" or "free trade", all phrases that are regularly abused by influential minorities within countries to advance causes that are harmful to the majority.
With inconsistent laws, the enforcement of copyrights from country to country would be chaotic at best.
Why should there be any enforcement of copyrights from country to country? Since when did American laws apply to the EU, or vice versa?
This is the same trick that's regularly pulled within the EU: lobbyists find the member state with laws most similar to the way they would like EU laws to be, and then lobby the EU to "harmonise" laws across the Union in the name of fair competition.
Damn, you told them about the Five Jew Bankers?
Don't let him answer any payphones!
No, but when the guys in black body armour kicked his door down his first thought was "I knew I was on to something!"
This being Slashdot, I haven't read the article, let alone the paper it refers to, but I'm going to throw my hat in the ring anyway. Is it possible that children with genetic disorders are treated differently by their families, or are more likely to focus on activities that don't involve physical exertion? Either of those things could lead to different performance in intelligence tests without there being any direct connection to the genes in question.
Did the guy look kind of like this?
By your definition *all* the parties lost the popular vote, so who do you propose should form a government?
The webmaster doesn't need to reverse the hash, he can just do a dictionary attack on the hashed password. Worse, he can use the same pre-hashed dictionary against all users because the hash isn't salted.
Sorry if I'm being naive, but can the username be used as the salt value?
Nice server you got here. Sure would be a shame if it ended up on the Slashdot front page...
Oops. Thanks for the link :0)
Sooner or later someone less lazy than me will graft tit-for-tat bandwidth allocation onto Gnutella, or decentralized peer discovery onto BitTorrent, and trackers will be a thing of the past.
A small number of legal torrents wouldn't necessarily indicate a small number of legal downloads - it might just mean that legal torrents are more stable than illegal torrents, because there's no need to keep moving the tracker, and no kudos to be earned by creating your own torrent when an "official" torrent is available elsewhere.
Really? Could you name three people from outside the US who have complained that the US doesn't invade enough countries?
World politics are messy, but sometimes I think that invasion is the only way to clean somewhere up.
Have you ever been to a country that was invaded less than a hundred years ago? Which one? What were your specific impressions of the effect of invasion on the political and cultural life of the country?
Free thinking doesn't mean "just doing whatever you want", it means doing what you think is right rather than what is legal. Usually the two coincide (murder) but sometimes they don't (cannabis).
Hmm, anyone would think the government was trying to put huge numbers of free thinking people in a position of illegality in order to discourage them from rocking the boat...
Nah, I hear they have a great firewall.