But in any civilized society the rule of law must hold. Yes, even when the law is stupid.
That's a pretty stupid law right there.
I know what motivated you to say this, but seriously... step back and think about it. Do you REALLY want to live in a society where people continue to do stupid things, because that's the rule? Imagine your society is composed of only four people, and the current rule is that the raft you're building must be made of straw. You think it's stupid because you're building the raft to escape a tornado which is coming to your island. To you STILL want to go ahead, following that stupid law?
Laws are good when they follow good principles. When they follow bad ones, or no longer meet the requirements that created the law, then they should be torn down and replaced as quickly as possible.
The point being that it is not appropriate to speak of animals having all the same rights as humans.
A quick Google will reveal people suggesting the same of the Chinese, just because their culture is different. Another (or perhaps the same) quick Google will reveal many people who said (and do say) the same of slaves.
It's very simple: if it can be hurt and we think hurting sucks, then it should have as much rights as you not to be hurt, because, all other issues aside, YOU will suffer for hurting something if you believe that's a bad thing to cause.
If they're doing prison time for it, apparently it's not protected speech... maybe it should be, but it's apparently not.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance". When's the last time you saw the average american really being vigilant about threats to their here-on-the-doorstep freedom (as opposed to sucking in the crap about tiny barely surviving third-world terrorist groups wanting to destroy a superpower)?
I was wondering, if we run a Java x86 PC emulator that is emulating an Amiga that is emulating a Spectrum, is it still faster than a real Spectrum or do we need to optimise it a bit?
I herd you like Operating systems, so we put a Operating system in your Browser so you can Browse Operating systems while you browse in yo operating system!
p.s.: try not to use the browsing features while browsing operating systems in your browser in your operating system. One or more of the operating systems might not like it. Of course, if you want to browse in your operating system that your browsed to in your operating system, that's fine.
There's no reason the applet couldn't just be a VNC terminal connecting to a VM that runs for as long as your session is allowed to exist. In other words, if you're on wireless, get disconnected from the net, come back in range about 14 minutes later, and refresh, you should see your desktop again. Works with the javascript-based consoles that hosting companies provide.
perhaps the handshakes and the key exchange for large volume data transfers over SSL or ssh be done via the quantum interface, then the session key negotiated be used over the Ethernet link.
Exactly. With an out-of-band channel for the encryption keys, you could build something pretty secure easily. Even timesharing a 1kbps secure key exchange network on a one-transaction-per-minute basis would be pretty useful. Of course, there are tons of issues with trusting that link supplier in the first place, and more if you share it as a network, and still more with all the related technology and whether it's a good idea to be on the bleeding edge etc.
I'd hate to see only big businesses etc. having something like this though. Much of the greatness of the web (and indeed the internet) is that roughly the same security** and communication ability is available to everyone.
** Assuming they listen when you tell them to stop using IE;)
You know, this raises an interesting question... What happens if a prosecution is depending on Wikipedia "facts", but some article that could have been useful for the defense was deleted from wikipedia on the basis of not being "noteworthy" enough?
Wikipedia really is becoming a monster. Which isn't surprising, considering that it's essentially an attempt to centralise and rule over what was once an open, freely spoken collection of facts (albeit with lots of noise) spread across the web.
I know there is some unicode support, but I was under the impression that many aspects of unicode were not supported, and that some characters had to be entered as escape sequences (or whatever the equivalent of HTML entities is called). If this isn't the case, then please explain the actual limitations -- it would remove one of my three main objections to LaTeX:)
Yep, this is exactly what XML and XSL are for. You can generate PDFs from them, etc. Look into document-specific XML formats like DocBook, TEI, ODF, etc.
LaTeX is not a great solution these days. It doesn't handle unicode characters that well, and as far as I've seen, there's no way to generate accessible tagged PDFs. HTML is more modern in many ways. Mostly I just like the terse syntax of LaTeX, and it's support for math and nice rendering. With a good renderer for HTML+MATHML+SVG+CSS print media, and maybe also a preprocessing language that supports syntax like \body(style="",...) { \h1{... }... } and a few macros to generate indicese etc., I'd be much happier than when using LaTeX. As far as I know, PRINCE supplies the first of these requirements, and the rest shouldn't be that hard. I'm sure it exists, somewhere.
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So it's about time they did this, but you're insulting the guy who probably had a lot to do with making it happen?
One of the biggest mistakes you'll ever make in life is not knowing your friends from your enemies. I'd suggest a rethink.
That's a pretty stupid law right there.
I know what motivated you to say this, but seriously... step back and think about it. Do you REALLY want to live in a society where people continue to do stupid things, because that's the rule? Imagine your society is composed of only four people, and the current rule is that the raft you're building must be made of straw. You think it's stupid because you're building the raft to escape a tornado which is coming to your island. To you STILL want to go ahead, following that stupid law?
Laws are good when they follow good principles. When they follow bad ones, or no longer meet the requirements that created the law, then they should be torn down and replaced as quickly as possible.
Number of computers required to run a single instance of it: 47.
Or indeed, by paying them ;)
A quick Google will reveal people suggesting the same of the Chinese, just because their culture is different. Another (or perhaps the same) quick Google will reveal many people who said (and do say) the same of slaves.
It's very simple: if it can be hurt and we think hurting sucks, then it should have as much rights as you not to be hurt, because, all other issues aside, YOU will suffer for hurting something if you believe that's a bad thing to cause.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance". When's the last time you saw the average american really being vigilant about threats to their here-on-the-doorstep freedom (as opposed to sucking in the crap about tiny barely surviving third-world terrorist groups wanting to destroy a superpower)?
Something tells me this organisation came about after Philadelphia hit the box office.
Yeah, you'll still need to optimise windows ;)
p.s.: try not to use the browsing features while browsing operating systems in your browser in your operating system. One or more of the operating systems might not like it. Of course, if you want to browse in your operating system that your browsed to in your operating system, that's fine.
There's no reason the applet couldn't just be a VNC terminal connecting to a VM that runs for as long as your session is allowed to exist. In other words, if you're on wireless, get disconnected from the net, come back in range about 14 minutes later, and refresh, you should see your desktop again. Works with the javascript-based consoles that hosting companies provide.
Which will be a lot more than the relatively cheap paperback price (at least for fiction) that we've all come to know and love.
Or worse, the sane, professional, qualified developer who refuses to do what the so-called developed attempted to do.
Exactly. With an out-of-band channel for the encryption keys, you could build something pretty secure easily. Even timesharing a 1kbps secure key exchange network on a one-transaction-per-minute basis would be pretty useful. Of course, there are tons of issues with trusting that link supplier in the first place, and more if you share it as a network, and still more with all the related technology and whether it's a good idea to be on the bleeding edge etc.
I'd hate to see only big businesses etc. having something like this though. Much of the greatness of the web (and indeed the internet) is that roughly the same security** and communication ability is available to everyone.
** Assuming they listen when you tell them to stop using IE ;)
Resources, like time. I mean, seriously... have you tried contributing to wikipedia lately?
You know, this raises an interesting question... What happens if a prosecution is depending on Wikipedia "facts", but some article that could have been useful for the defense was deleted from wikipedia on the basis of not being "noteworthy" enough?
Wikipedia really is becoming a monster. Which isn't surprising, considering that it's essentially an attempt to centralise and rule over what was once an open, freely spoken collection of facts (albeit with lots of noise) spread across the web.
Clown Protection Service?
Clowns, Protesters, and Simpletons?
Depending on my view? I knew I should've kept that Christie Brinkley poster.
OK, I get the laughably ludicrous info part, but what's the hacking for?
On another note, this article brings a whole new meaning to "ignorance is no excuse++".
** Also ludicrously laughable, by happenstance.
I know there is some unicode support, but I was under the impression that many aspects of unicode were not supported, and that some characters had to be entered as escape sequences (or whatever the equivalent of HTML entities is called). If this isn't the case, then please explain the actual limitations -- it would remove one of my three main objections to LaTeX :)
HTML/CSS does not guarantee that things will "always look the same"; that's not the intent at all.
Yeah, but that's hardly accurate rendering ;)
Seriously... I've been meaning to try Prince too; it seems like an ideal solution. Do you know if it can make properly tagged (accessible) PDFs?
Yep, this is exactly what XML and XSL are for. You can generate PDFs from them, etc. Look into document-specific XML formats like DocBook, TEI, ODF, etc.
LaTeX is not a great solution these days. It doesn't handle unicode characters that well, and as far as I've seen, there's no way to generate accessible tagged PDFs. HTML is more modern in many ways. Mostly I just like the terse syntax of LaTeX, and it's support for math and nice rendering. With a good renderer for HTML+MATHML+SVG+CSS print media, and maybe also a preprocessing language that supports syntax like \body(style="",...) { \h1{ ... } ... } and a few macros to generate indicese etc., I'd be much happier than when using LaTeX. As far as I know, PRINCE supplies the first of these requirements, and the rest shouldn't be that hard. I'm sure it exists, somewhere.
Yeah, right.
Don't worry, manufacturers are working hard to make these gloves cheaper in time for christmas. It's the replacement fingers that will cost you.