That's not the grandparent's argument. To take your analogy, it would be: we should we ban substance X AND all research on it until we know whether or not it's safe.
And that was the point, that how can it possibly be determined safe if you can't research it?
Most people mistake time travel thinking that travelling to the past means travelling to YOUR past. Two possibilities of time travel (in an extremely hypothetical exam), either 1) you turn around and go into the "past" for a time or 2) you have a quantum jump from time uncertainty.
1) To do so, you turn and thus the past becomes the future relative to you and thus uncertain. By that uncertainty, you are just as unlikely to end back up in the particular "timeline" that you came from as it would be to go forward in time to some particular outcome.
2) You jump in time from quantum uncertainty. Assuming that the every universe that can exist does exist in some dimension(s) orthagonal to known reality, you would not end up on the same position along your "past". Also, given the speed of the earth relative to the sun and the sun relative to the galaxy and the galaxy relative to all others, that's a whole lot of luck to end up back where you started (relative spacial position to earth).
Basically, you can't destroy your world (as you knew it before travelling) or anything else. There is no paradox in nature, only in man's limited perception of it.
After looking over the survey, it looks like the preset answers would have generated skewed results unless they took great care to filter out people who hadn't or weren't planning/thinking about migration to Linux. That on top of the survey sample bias...
The difference is that illegal registrations are already trackable back to their owners (or at least to the registar that didn't get the proper information or check for stolen cc's etc). Adding the information to public knowledge does not make it more likely for law enforcement to reach them.
Just like this post, if there was something illegal about it, law enforcement would be able to track it to me. Posting contact info with it would just slightly shorten the process.
Of course, the above analogy is not accurate in scale, it is much harder to track an annonymous post on/. than it is to track an 'annonymous' domain registry but the concept remains the same.
I don't know about you, but I would not care to have my full name, phone number, email address and city (if done with PO Box) posted in an easily machine readable format ANYWHERE publicly accessible on the internet. From that information it is not hard to track down a home address.
I don't do anything outright offensive or illegal but I know that there are many nutcases out there who wouldn't think twice to show up on a stranger's doorstep or call at all hours of the night for the weirdest of reasons. Stalking sounds fun/.ers until you experience the reality;) (btw, for the humor impaired that last part was mostly a joke)
Would be better to reflect the light to a central collector rather than have a spread of photovoltaics and then have to bring the energy back into the core. Efficiency would be higher and no transmission loss.
Apple also doesn't have near the market share. Simply from that, users have a choice to buy something else that has (albeit somewhat subjectively) all the same functionality.
Why should an automaker make it more difficult to fix a car? Only answer, it's a way to inflate their profits from parts and service by eliminating the competition.
Microsoft is using a similar position to limit competition. By being forced to release a WMP free version, they're supposed to be keeping it from becoming so intertwined with the OS that it becomes "unremovable".
Microsoft is doing what it's doing, not for the customer, but to cut out another set of competitors. At this point it's habit, Microsoft sees an area where it can kill off another software vendor or group of vendors and it just does it. Really now, do they have even the slightest intention of doing something profitable with WMP? Maybe their pitch to get DRM under the MS umbrella hinges on it to an extent. But mostly, it's more likely that Bill has started to identify with those MS as Borg jokes.
Nah, that's too many words. A Rumsfeld post would go like this...
"Go fuck yourself!"
For the humor impaired the preceeding was a joke, nothing but a joke and violated no NDAs.
That's not what's being said. What's being said is that the inclusion of that data makes the results valid only for NAmerica. The other data shows similar results of increased temperature during the last 200 years as well.
The pharamaceutical industry analogy actually gives weight to the "open" side of the arguement. With closed research, if drug companies find a cure that cuts into their treatment profits, they can just sweep it under the rug. I wouldn't trust any pharmaceutical company to release something like a cure or vaccine for aids... they make too much money from treating it.
That being said, simulation science is by it's nature, unreproducible without access to the model. Thus, access to the model is necessary upon release of the research paper.
Proxy settings can be setup in Firefox and their network is NOT secure if just by altering the proxy settings you can bypass the firewall. Banning firefox doesn't solve their problem.
Just need a "good" virus/worm writer to write the self replicating security exploiting bug that closes that same vulnerability off without opening up others. Of course, such a course of action would probably be just as illegal...
They might also be smart enough to just sell your now verified valid email address to another list. By removing you from theirs before selling your address to someone else, they look clean but still profit.
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That's not the grandparent's argument. To take your analogy, it would be: we should we ban substance X AND all research on it until we know whether or not it's safe.
And that was the point, that how can it possibly be determined safe if you can't research it?
Most people mistake time travel thinking that travelling to the past means travelling to YOUR past. Two possibilities of time travel (in an extremely hypothetical exam), either 1) you turn around and go into the "past" for a time or 2) you have a quantum jump from time uncertainty.
1) To do so, you turn and thus the past becomes the future relative to you and thus uncertain. By that uncertainty, you are just as unlikely to end back up in the particular "timeline" that you came from as it would be to go forward in time to some particular outcome.
2) You jump in time from quantum uncertainty. Assuming that the every universe that can exist does exist in some dimension(s) orthagonal to known reality, you would not end up on the same position along your "past". Also, given the speed of the earth relative to the sun and the sun relative to the galaxy and the galaxy relative to all others, that's a whole lot of luck to end up back where you started (relative spacial position to earth).
Basically, you can't destroy your world (as you knew it before travelling) or anything else. There is no paradox in nature, only in man's limited perception of it.
And as an added bonus, you've now secured Windows too
After looking over the survey, it looks like the preset answers would have generated skewed results unless they took great care to filter out people who hadn't or weren't planning/thinking about migration to Linux. That on top of the survey sample bias...
The hive dies because the queen is the only one who can reproduce. It's not a good analog to business where no one is irreplacible.
Wondered when the obligatory 'no respect' jokes would crop up. Now we just need the "In soviet russia respect gets you!" posts
Ouch! Oh, he sprang fully clothed from the head of Zeus. Damn gods need to take their self righteous post to another forum.
The difference is that illegal registrations are already trackable back to their owners (or at least to the registar that didn't get the proper information or check for stolen cc's etc). Adding the information to public knowledge does not make it more likely for law enforcement to reach them.
/. than it is to track an 'annonymous' domain registry but the concept remains the same.
Just like this post, if there was something illegal about it, law enforcement would be able to track it to me. Posting contact info with it would just slightly shorten the process.
Of course, the above analogy is not accurate in scale, it is much harder to track an annonymous post on
I don't know about you, but I would not care to have my full name, phone number, email address and city (if done with PO Box) posted in an easily machine readable format ANYWHERE publicly accessible on the internet. From that information it is not hard to track down a home address.
/.ers until you experience the reality ;) (btw, for the humor impaired that last part was mostly a joke)
I don't do anything outright offensive or illegal but I know that there are many nutcases out there who wouldn't think twice to show up on a stranger's doorstep or call at all hours of the night for the weirdest of reasons. Stalking sounds fun
...yadda yadda yadda...
Aren't spammers primarily using botnets and hijacked servers now? And do they even need a domain registration to be able to spam in the first place?
So the question becomes, how does this help stop spam?
Apparently so...
And that's beyond not reading the article, that's not even reading the summary.
Eventually the materials used will breakdown/be broken/have some other failure within it's lifespan. Nothing lasts forever.
Would be better to reflect the light to a central collector rather than have a spread of photovoltaics and then have to bring the energy back into the core. Efficiency would be higher and no transmission loss.
It's colorless and odorless and can KILL you if inhaled!
Apple also doesn't have near the market share. Simply from that, users have a choice to buy something else that has (albeit somewhat subjectively) all the same functionality.
Why should an automaker make it more difficult to fix a car? Only answer, it's a way to inflate their profits from parts and service by eliminating the competition.
Microsoft is using a similar position to limit competition. By being forced to release a WMP free version, they're supposed to be keeping it from becoming so intertwined with the OS that it becomes "unremovable".
Microsoft is doing what it's doing, not for the customer, but to cut out another set of competitors. At this point it's habit, Microsoft sees an area where it can kill off another software vendor or group of vendors and it just does it. Really now, do they have even the slightest intention of doing something profitable with WMP? Maybe their pitch to get DRM under the MS umbrella hinges on it to an extent. But mostly, it's more likely that Bill has started to identify with those MS as Borg jokes.
How is that different? Other than the not all incompetence is Microsoft...
Nah, that's too many words. A Rumsfeld post would go like this... "Go fuck yourself!" For the humor impaired the preceeding was a joke, nothing but a joke and violated no NDAs.
That's not what's being said. What's being said is that the inclusion of that data makes the results valid only for NAmerica. The other data shows similar results of increased temperature during the last 200 years as well.
The pharamaceutical industry analogy actually gives weight to the "open" side of the arguement. With closed research, if drug companies find a cure that cuts into their treatment profits, they can just sweep it under the rug. I wouldn't trust any pharmaceutical company to release something like a cure or vaccine for aids... they make too much money from treating it.
That being said, simulation science is by it's nature, unreproducible without access to the model. Thus, access to the model is necessary upon release of the research paper.
Proxy settings can be setup in Firefox and their network is NOT secure if just by altering the proxy settings you can bypass the firewall. Banning firefox doesn't solve their problem.
Uh oh... slashdotters are now looking to alien life for "companionship"?
Just need a "good" virus/worm writer to write the self replicating security exploiting bug that closes that same vulnerability off without opening up others. Of course, such a course of action would probably be just as illegal...
They might also be smart enough to just sell your now verified valid email address to another list. By removing you from theirs before selling your address to someone else, they look clean but still profit.