Did you read the post I responded to? The question was is this even illegal and I said yes. Nothing about whether it was to be enforced or was being enforced.
I gotta admit... a dark part of me would very much like to see someone pelted with live (enraged) badgers. Give him a spoon to make it a little more fair.
On top of that, is streaming video really the way to get security updates? Personally an outline text form lets me go straight to the areas that are applicable to me and what I need to keep secure. I definitely wouldn't want to sit through 15 minutes of (personally) irrelevant crap just to get the security info I need.
In the end, while there are some broad sweep security alerts that affect everyone or nearly so, most updates are probably important to 1 out of 10 people.
While I do believe most of the other posts covered the major sticking points, the one that didn't get addressed (completely) was the use of botnets for spam, phishing and pharming. If you do anything with customer financial records, you should be concerned about security, unless you actually have a fully physically separate network (separate power, separate network, no firewall or other bridge to a nonsecure network, EM shielding and for christ's sake, no wifi). Whether or not it's valuable to you, it's valuable to someone either for targetted advertising or worse, identity theft.
Oh, and it doesn't matter how old the person or persons, just how much damage actually caused.
While the concept is correct it misses one very important part of reality: people don't act on what is their best interest, only on what they perceive as their best interest.
The difference is important in that sometimes the destruction of an old item by an outside person-group, will force people to change items or processes. People hold on to what is familiar way past when it would've been beneficial to switch to something new. In this sense, war can shift perception and motivate people to perform more than they would've without it.
WWII is a prime example: Could we theoretically have gotten the economy going without the war? Obviously yes. Was it likely to happen? No, people were too entrenched in their current position psychologically.
So, the point, if there was one, is that war, while an allocation of resources that could be more suitably employed, can also be a spark to start the fire in the forge.
You're forgetting FPS. The games that are 10x better on a computer just because of the input mechanisms and the easy internet connection. Not to mention mods (like addon packs without having to buy a whole new game).
While there are some truly shitty FPS (same of any game) that are nothing but tech demos to try to drive license deals from other publishers, there are some truly good games and more importantly, good communities that continue to improve upon the game well after the release. There are HL1 mods that still have loyal players and developers and 5 years down the road, I expect there will still be HL2 mods and players and fresh development.
That is what makes computer gaming worthwhile, the community driven experience and improvements that are just plain impossible upon consoles.
Second that question. this is the second post modded +5 funny that would take some serious chemical assistance to get even a titter about them going. Unless I've failed to recognize some ubergeek inside joke and must hang my head in shame for not recognizing it...
Sad but true. Very few people should be allowed to do anything of significance with a computer but could be trusted to not endanger your life (unless it was endangered THROUGH their use of your computer).
This is probably why mac's only have one mouse button. Bet they'd have done away with the keyboard too if they could get away with it.
I would suggest a modification of your idea: a boycott of those artists that have SUPPORTED this kind of legislation. To that end, a website listing musicians that support the DMCA and maybe also those that oppose it.
Personally, I won't purchase anything from Metallica ever since the whole napster event (well, their stuff since then has sucked but that's besides the point). And no, I won't download it either.
All kidding aside, I know how that goes. I've recently forced my wife to go linux and while at first there were no voiced complaints, now it's quite frequent. I expected it to be the other way around.
Only thing you're missing, which may or may not apply, is the cost of setting up a decent home theater. If all you've got is the cheesy TV set, the theater has the advantage of screen size (and aspect ratio) and quality (if overloud) sound.
If you've got a home theater, you have to factor in that cost across the cost of the show. If you watch 5 movies a year and hardly any TV, a 5K$ home theater setup is a waste compared to going to the theater. If you watch 50+ a month then you're looking a bit better on the cost front.
Most small polymers are either digested by some lifeform or break down on prolonged exposure to sunlight. Both of which are relatively plentiful after leaving the sewage system. Plus, the dilution factor would be rather extreme.
This particular process would be highly unlikely to find use in HIV drugs. Unless HIV infected cells (active or not) have some additional nutritient uptake channel that normal cells do not. Given that HIV is relatively slow in progression, I would think they probably have normal metabolic rates.
Are you more prone to being attacked by feral monkeys if you keep bananas in the house?
Honestly, probably yes. But the odds are pretty low as is, even if you're stockpiling bananas. Assuming of course you don't live someplace infested by feral monkeys...
Which if you do, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than keeping a stockpile of bananas.
Given that antiprotons are destroyed upon contact with normal protons, the rate of creation is likely to be higher than what we can collect. i.e. new antiprotons will be created faster than we can collect them.
On a completely unrelated note, I worked my first internship under this guy, well under his grad student. Nice guy and smart. The grad student, nice guy but kept trying to cut out the real portion of the answer (which turned out to be why the test wasn't working as well as it was supposed to be). But I digress...
Can take this concept to a more productive area and make an exploit that patches the exploit, then finds another machine to exploit, in a form of viral patching.
The low point of martian solar insolation (amount of light), at the aphelion, is approx 36% of the average energy at the earth's orbit. It's above 50% at the perhelion.
Plants produce O2 when they store energy as sugar. Sugar is converted to cellulose which gives the plant it's rigidy and is a good portion of most plants mass. Thus, any plant that grows, is releasing more O2 than used for other metabolic processes.
Last point, that there are plants that do well in low light conditions as long as other conditions are decent.
Mars has approximately 36% of the sunlight insolation as earth does at aphelion (not counting atmospheric effects for either body). If this isn't sufficient, it's possible (with mirrors or the like) to focus additional light into a greenhouse. It likely would be sufficient, with proper plant selection.
Just think of all the indoor house plants that get by with far less light (less than a third outside daylight).
Also, any plant chosen as a food source will be producing more O2 anyway. Oxygen is produced when the plant stores energy as sugar and is consumed when it burns that sugar for energy.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, I had already changed it but haven't posted anything yet.
Yeah, no room for the full quote in there. I should switch over to link directly to that page.
Unfortunately, their near-monopoly gives them the freedom to be so mediocre.
New company slogan?
"Microsoft... striving to be acceptable." or "Microsoft... quality is job 42.
...exclude, exterminate.
Did you read the post I responded to? The question was is this even illegal and I said yes. Nothing about whether it was to be enforced or was being enforced.
I'm not sure since IANAL but I do believe this falls under the category of fraud. And would likely be a federal crime (no light sentences).
With the week long training courses they'll just sleep through them.
I gotta admit... a dark part of me would very much like to see someone pelted with live (enraged) badgers. Give him a spoon to make it a little more fair.
On top of that, is streaming video really the way to get security updates? Personally an outline text form lets me go straight to the areas that are applicable to me and what I need to keep secure. I definitely wouldn't want to sit through 15 minutes of (personally) irrelevant crap just to get the security info I need.
In the end, while there are some broad sweep security alerts that affect everyone or nearly so, most updates are probably important to 1 out of 10 people.
While I do believe most of the other posts covered the major sticking points, the one that didn't get addressed (completely) was the use of botnets for spam, phishing and pharming. If you do anything with customer financial records, you should be concerned about security, unless you actually have a fully physically separate network (separate power, separate network, no firewall or other bridge to a nonsecure network, EM shielding and for christ's sake, no wifi). Whether or not it's valuable to you, it's valuable to someone either for targetted advertising or worse, identity theft.
Oh, and it doesn't matter how old the person or persons, just how much damage actually caused.
While the concept is correct it misses one very important part of reality: people don't act on what is their best interest, only on what they perceive as their best interest.
The difference is important in that sometimes the destruction of an old item by an outside person-group, will force people to change items or processes. People hold on to what is familiar way past when it would've been beneficial to switch to something new. In this sense, war can shift perception and motivate people to perform more than they would've without it.
WWII is a prime example: Could we theoretically have gotten the economy going without the war? Obviously yes.
Was it likely to happen? No, people were too entrenched in their current position psychologically.
So, the point, if there was one, is that war, while an allocation of resources that could be more suitably employed, can also be a spark to start the fire in the forge.
You're forgetting FPS. The games that are 10x better on a computer just because of the input mechanisms and the easy internet connection. Not to mention mods (like addon packs without having to buy a whole new game).
While there are some truly shitty FPS (same of any game) that are nothing but tech demos to try to drive license deals from other publishers, there are some truly good games and more importantly, good communities that continue to improve upon the game well after the release. There are HL1 mods that still have loyal players and developers and 5 years down the road, I expect there will still be HL2 mods and players and fresh development.
That is what makes computer gaming worthwhile, the community driven experience and improvements that are just plain impossible upon consoles.
Second that question. this is the second post modded +5 funny that would take some serious chemical assistance to get even a titter about them going. Unless I've failed to recognize some ubergeek inside joke and must hang my head in shame for not recognizing it...
Sad but true. Very few people should be allowed to do anything of significance with a computer but could be trusted to not endanger your life (unless it was endangered THROUGH their use of your computer).
This is probably why mac's only have one mouse button. Bet they'd have done away with the keyboard too if they could get away with it.
I would suggest a modification of your idea: a boycott of those artists that have SUPPORTED this kind of legislation. To that end, a website listing musicians that support the DMCA and maybe also those that oppose it.
Personally, I won't purchase anything from Metallica ever since the whole napster event (well, their stuff since then has sucked but that's besides the point). And no, I won't download it either.
Spouse hassle factor?
*checks url*
Yep, slashdot... how odd.
All kidding aside, I know how that goes. I've recently forced my wife to go linux and while at first there were no voiced complaints, now it's quite frequent. I expected it to be the other way around.
Definitely need to take care of your own security, can't expect any company to do it for you in this day and age.
Only thing you're missing, which may or may not apply, is the cost of setting up a decent home theater.
If all you've got is the cheesy TV set, the theater has the advantage of screen size (and aspect ratio) and quality (if overloud) sound.
If you've got a home theater, you have to factor in that cost across the cost of the show. If you watch 5 movies a year and hardly any TV, a 5K$ home theater setup is a waste compared to going to the theater. If you watch 50+ a month then you're looking a bit better on the cost front.
Most small polymers are either digested by some lifeform or break down on prolonged exposure to sunlight. Both of which are relatively plentiful after leaving the sewage system. Plus, the dilution factor would be rather extreme.
This particular process would be highly unlikely to find use in HIV drugs. Unless HIV infected cells (active or not) have some additional nutritient uptake channel that normal cells do not. Given that HIV is relatively slow in progression, I would think they probably have normal metabolic rates.
Are you more prone to being attacked by feral monkeys if you keep bananas in the house?
Honestly, probably yes. But the odds are pretty low as is, even if you're stockpiling bananas. Assuming of course you don't live someplace infested by feral monkeys...
Which if you do, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than keeping a stockpile of bananas.
Given that antiprotons are destroyed upon contact with normal protons, the rate of creation is likely to be higher than what we can collect. i.e. new antiprotons will be created faster than we can collect them.
On a completely unrelated note, I worked my first internship under this guy, well under his grad student. Nice guy and smart. The grad student, nice guy but kept trying to cut out the real portion of the answer (which turned out to be why the test wasn't working as well as it was supposed to be). But I digress...
Can take this concept to a more productive area and make an exploit that patches the exploit, then finds another machine to exploit, in a form of viral patching.
The low point of martian solar insolation (amount of light), at the aphelion, is approx 36% of the average energy at the earth's orbit. It's above 50% at the perhelion.
Plants produce O2 when they store energy as sugar. Sugar is converted to cellulose which gives the plant it's rigidy and is a good portion of most plants mass. Thus, any plant that grows, is releasing more O2 than used for other metabolic processes.
Last point, that there are plants that do well in low light conditions as long as other conditions are decent.
Mars has approximately 36% of the sunlight insolation as earth does at aphelion (not counting atmospheric effects for either body). If this isn't sufficient, it's possible (with mirrors or the like) to focus additional light into a greenhouse. It likely would be sufficient, with proper plant selection.
Just think of all the indoor house plants that get by with far less light (less than a third outside daylight).
Also, any plant chosen as a food source will be producing more O2 anyway. Oxygen is produced when the plant stores energy as sugar and is consumed when it burns that sugar for energy.