"How can you say he shouldn't be imprisoned for defrauding people?" You know, I looked to see where the grandparent poster said this, and I'll be damned, I couldn't find it.
"They should just offer him the equivalent of £425,000 in today's American dollars. If the value of the dollar keeps falling, by the time he's release he'll perhaps be able to buy himself a loaf of bread."
This is a joke, clearly indicated by the hyperbole at the end of the sentence.
"Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos."
Sorry. I was just disappointed that someone with such an awesome sig just doesn't "get it". Seems to be the classic case of someone on slashdot not understanding humour. (Read the first four posts in the thread)
The really funny thing is both possibilities exist in simultaneous superposition, until some criminal tries to collapse the wavefunction by killing the ca...er...stealing someone's money.
And I have for you a quote which sums up what you just said: "A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system."
"What I DO NOT KNOW how to do is to answer telephones and say 'HELLO, CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICE'..." Seems like you have it down pat.
Seriously though, if you think of yourself as some cog in a machine only able to do one thing (write software) then you're going to get treated as just that: an inflexible, inadaptable cog. I fear for your job security if you have exactly one skill.
Rather than respond to the content (most of what you said has already been refuted) I'll respond to the sentiment.
If you want people to adopt Linux, such zealotry will get you nowhere. Just as some are scared off of SciFi by Rabid Trekkies, you've just potentially scared people out of trying Linux. In trying to do one thing you're actually accomplishing the opposite. Congratulations.
From the article: "...such as efforts to improve the Web browser and make the operating system more resilient."
Uh - could I uninstall one and keep the other? I doubt it.
"-- but why did she need to access two classrooms worth of data? Wouldn't simply verifying the hole..."
Uh, how else are you going to verify a security hole? The only way to know whether something works or not is to try it. If it were me writing the story, I probably would have accessed more than this - I would have tried a few different schools. Then again, I like to be thorough. In any case, she verified the problem existed and didn't blindly report what she was told. That's good reporting.
"...and then reporting it to the administration (before running her story) have been good enough?"
If reporters didn't actually report anything to the public, there wouldn't be any point to a free press. Besides, the quickest way to get a bureaucracy to change anything is by embarassing them.
"Um maybe because in doing the process you just described you incur whats called `generational loss'."
Would generational loss be more or less than the loss due to compression? Think long and hard about this one. What if I'm a hardcore pirate who puts his computer inside a Faraday cage to protect it from outside EM noise? A better question is, "Is the loss even noticeable?" The best question is, "Do I care?" Some people regularly pay money for reduced-quality bootlegs.
"Ever tried to copy a VHS tape?"
You're attacking a straw man here. Video data is much more bandwidth intensive and because of this, more prone to distortion than audio data.
"Now try and copy that copy and see what you get."
You only need to exploit the analog hole once. After that it's digital, so you can make infinite copies without further loss. I know you knew that, but why did you feel the need to criticise the grandparent anyway?
"Think before you speak. Please."
^^^^^
Being insulting while simultaneously being wrong reflects poorly upon your character and intelligence.
So legally, we're forced to leave our lines of communication open for law enforcement.
Who watches the watchers?
IM programs aren't that hard to write, if someone really wants to avoid John Law they could just write a proprietary program with a proprietary encryption protocol. Is that technically illegal?
Every time I read a story like this, I am reminded of that video on the 'net somewhere (too lazy to look for it) of military personnel using military equipment to watch a couple make out in a car.
"A rational mind simply cannot believe that any of the major religions, as they are currently presented, are true. Even without logic and reason, they are simply to childish to be true: world floods, walk on water, water to wine, conflicting moral values, an absolute powerful god who is powerless, etc."
Ah, but this is where the questioning stops and the dogma begins. Yeah, most of that miracle stuff seems incredible, in the original sense of the word.
However, the original poster was attacking the whole of religion, every religion, faith, dogma, beliefs, traditions, and all. Asking questions and looking for answers is also a vital part of religion...well, the good ones, anyway. Is there something wrong with that?
"And don't tell me about some scientists that are religious, real ones aren't. A scientist uses logic and methods throughout their entire lives."
Oh, where to begin...
A real scientist also knows that for every question science answers, another question is raised. Why is gravity inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects, for instance? We know it to be (roughly) true, but why?
Science is just a method for building a model to describe the universe, nothing more and nothing less. Science is not a belief system; the two can coexist.
Maybe you're confusing "faith" with "dogma". In any case, I would suggest you read up more on both religion and science.
Note: I am not religious. Do not bother attacking me on those grounds.
I'm not really against teaching "Intelligent Design" in schools. I mean, no one said it had to be Christian intelligent design.
What, would the fundies be opposed to me teaching their children the earth is carried by an elephant which rides on the backs of four turtles? Dare they say that their version of "intelligent design" is the one true myth? Blasphemy!
(I cannot take credit for the "teaching multiple intelligent designs" idea. See this.)
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Any old Audiogalaxy users remember when "Metall1c4" songs started showing up?
If spam has taught us anything, it's that keyword blockages do absolutely nothing.
"How can you say he shouldn't be imprisoned for defrauding people?"
You know, I looked to see where the grandparent poster said this, and I'll be damned, I couldn't find it.
"They should just offer him the equivalent of £425,000 in today's American dollars. If the value of the dollar keeps falling, by the time he's release he'll perhaps be able to buy himself a loaf of bread."
This is a joke, clearly indicated by the hyperbole at the end of the sentence.
"Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos."
Sorry. I was just disappointed that someone with such an awesome sig just doesn't "get it". Seems to be the classic case of someone on slashdot not understanding humour. (Read the first four posts in the thread)
The only people I know who use MSN Spaces are from my tiny Canadian hometown up North and are, for lack of better words, technologically retarded.
I can't even use any HTML tags in comments! How stupid is that? At least Blogger lets me use the <i> tag!
The really funny thing is both possibilities exist in simultaneous superposition, until some criminal tries to collapse the wavefunction by killing the ca...er...stealing someone's money.
Hear hear. Mod parent up.
And I have for you a quote which sums up what you just said:
"A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system."
-Jane Smiley (in the Chicago Tribune)
"What I DO NOT KNOW how to do is to answer telephones and say 'HELLO, CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICE'..."
Seems like you have it down pat.
Seriously though, if you think of yourself as some cog in a machine only able to do one thing (write software) then you're going to get treated as just that: an inflexible, inadaptable cog. I fear for your job security if you have exactly one skill.
Would it have been this?
Physicists do it with ropes and pulleys. We're a kinky bunch :P
Crap, I just noticed that the page I lifted that from is actually hosted at my university!
I don't usually do "me too" posts, but I really wanted you to know that this is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Thanks.
I read your post. Wow.
Rather than respond to the content (most of what you said has already been refuted) I'll respond to the sentiment.
If you want people to adopt Linux, such zealotry will get you nowhere. Just as some are scared off of SciFi by Rabid Trekkies, you've just potentially scared people out of trying Linux. In trying to do one thing you're actually accomplishing the opposite. Congratulations.
"...all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts."
Star Trek would have been much more progressive if Roddenberry wasn't teathered by NBC.
I remember I was using a lab computer once and I needed to access a FTP server. I had nothing to use but good ol' Internet Explorer.
It barfed on the "@" in my password, and displayed every character in my password after that in the URL bar!!
I guess this is why 14475p34| uses "4" for "A", not "@".
"Hey, I MSN'd your mom last night."
"This software is such a piece of MSN!"
"MSN you, MSN-wad!"
"It burns when I pee. I think she gave me MSN."
Okay, I'll stop now.
You can keep your filthy "air", I've already patented oxygen.
Come to think of it, you're infringing on my patent...
From the article:
"...such as efforts to improve the Web browser and make the operating system more resilient."
Uh - could I uninstall one and keep the other? I doubt it.
"-- but why did she need to access two classrooms worth of data? Wouldn't simply verifying the hole..."
Uh, how else are you going to verify a security hole? The only way to know whether something works or not is to try it. If it were me writing the story, I probably would have accessed more than this - I would have tried a few different schools. Then again, I like to be thorough. In any case, she verified the problem existed and didn't blindly report what she was told. That's good reporting.
"...and then reporting it to the administration (before running her story) have been good enough?"
If reporters didn't actually report anything to the public, there wouldn't be any point to a free press. Besides, the quickest way to get a bureaucracy to change anything is by embarassing them.
"Um maybe because in doing the process you just described you incur whats called `generational loss'."
Would generational loss be more or less than the loss due to compression? Think long and hard about this one. What if I'm a hardcore pirate who puts his computer inside a Faraday cage to protect it from outside EM noise? A better question is, "Is the loss even noticeable?" The best question is, "Do I care?" Some people regularly pay money for reduced-quality bootlegs.
"Ever tried to copy a VHS tape?"
You're attacking a straw man here. Video data is much more bandwidth intensive and because of this, more prone to distortion than audio data.
"Now try and copy that copy and see what you get."
You only need to exploit the analog hole once. After that it's digital, so you can make infinite copies without further loss. I know you knew that, but why did you feel the need to criticise the grandparent anyway?
"Think before you speak. Please."
^^^^^
Being insulting while simultaneously being wrong reflects poorly upon your character and intelligence.
So legally, we're forced to leave our lines of communication open for law enforcement.
Who watches the watchers?
IM programs aren't that hard to write, if someone really wants to avoid John Law they could just write a proprietary program with a proprietary encryption protocol. Is that technically illegal?
Every time I read a story like this, I am reminded of that video on the 'net somewhere (too lazy to look for it) of military personnel using military equipment to watch a couple make out in a car.
At least if the airlines were frozen that way, no one would die.
I assert that a woman more likely than a man would quote Joan of Arc. I think that tips the scale to the "female" side.
It's a shame there aren't more strong women prominant in history.
However, the original poster was attacking the whole of religion, every religion, faith, dogma, beliefs, traditions, and all. Asking questions and looking for answers is also a vital part of religion...well, the good ones, anyway. Is there something wrong with that?
Yoda says: A lot of hate, this one has.
Oh, where to begin...
A real scientist also knows that for every question science answers, another question is raised. Why is gravity inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects, for instance? We know it to be (roughly) true, but why?
Science is just a method for building a model to describe the universe, nothing more and nothing less. Science is not a belief system; the two can coexist.
Maybe you're confusing "faith" with "dogma". In any case, I would suggest you read up more on both religion and science.
Note: I am not religious. Do not bother attacking me on those grounds.
I'm not really against teaching "Intelligent Design" in schools. I mean, no one said it had to be Christian intelligent design.
What, would the fundies be opposed to me teaching their children the earth is carried by an elephant which rides on the backs of four turtles? Dare they say that their version of "intelligent design" is the one true myth? Blasphemy!
(I cannot take credit for the "teaching multiple intelligent designs" idea. See this.)
You, sir, have bested me. The match is yours!