I believe the guy(s) who did "Scramdisk" have a commercial product (forget what it's called at the moment) that allows you to encrypt entire Windows partitions (must specify decryption password to boot). Can probably find it with a little googling (is that a lawyer I hear?).
I don't quite agree with this. I think that most people want _security_ - the ability to control their own lives. They instinctively understand, however, that to have security, they must have enough power to fend off influences which might take that control away from them.
It's only when you have a person who has no limits on the amount of power that they want to amass that you have a problem.
Heh - that's one thing that might annoy the students with Linux running everywhere - most of their favorite games won't run w/o something like Crossover(sp?) WINE installed.
On the other hand, with enough Linux machines installed, it may prime the market for Linux gamers.
You eliminate copyright and you destroy the information age.
I really doubt it. A lot of companies might die because their business models are built around controlling information, but new companies will spring up in their place providing _real_ service in return for compensation, rather than relying on government-imposed artificial monopoly.
Companies might have to do some real work, and they won't be able to make obscene profits while creating nothing, but people will always be willing to pay for real value.
Plus, if they follow the law, no matter what the laws says, then they're not "corrupt" in the "not doing their jobs" sense.
Maybe in the not-doing-their-job sense, but in my personal opinion, they are "corrupt" if they are not working to maximize benefit to the society as a whole. If the laws aren't designed to maximize benefit to the society as a whole, then the law is corrupted.
Of course, by that standard, the US legal system is drowning in corruption. I don't know why people keep asking me why I'm so cynical about the system.
Boy, just think about the guy who sold that bag of pretzels that W choked on. He must've been shaking in his sneakers thinking about how close he came to seeing the wrong end of the Secret Service.
Yeah, but given that the universe is a finite space at any given moment (although an essentially an infinitely expanding one over infinite time), aren't all particles (that we can interact with) bound & are therefore quantised (even if the granularity of the quantization is insanely high). Did I use enough parenthesis?
Well, if they're placing restrictions on shipping these items because of potential dangerous uses, then this should be shortly followed on restrictions for shipping matches (match-head pipe bombs), right?
Oh yeah, and all those campfire starter magnesium blocks - they're good at starting fires which can't be put out. If you grind them up, you get some great flash powder.
How 'bout the pyrotechnic powder in road flares? If you get rid of the sawdust they dilute the stuff inside with, it might burn quite fast - and would have a really brilliant red glare:)
If you live in California & travel to Oregon to visity aunty Jill, you pay Oregan sales tax while there.
Well, if Oregon _had_ a sales tax (one of the few states in the US that doesn't), then this would apply. The politicians are desperately trying to figure out a way to convince voters to pass the constitutional amendment required to allow a sales tax in Oregon, but even with its current state budget crisis, it'll be a cold day in hell before its voters decide to allow a sales tax to be implemented. There is absolutely zero trust by the public that allowing a sales tax won't be abused by the legislature.
The only way I can imagine that the public might allow a sales tax is if the legislature simultaneously _completely_ eliminated the income tax in Oregon, but I highly doubt this will happen.
One of my friends (who occasionally used mj) told me that I was the only person he ever knew who could actively hold a conversation with stoned people without being stoned myself. I'm still trying to figure out if he was insulting me or not.
If you used something like this too frequently, wouldn't it increase the amount of free-oxygen radicals wandering around your bloodstream causing damage?
That would be a helluva challenge for mountain climbers. Never mind Mount Everest - how long would it take to climb 80km of stairs? Of course, since this is artifically constructed, you could have hostels every 10km or so (and you probably don't have to worry about oxygen unless the stairs are unoxygenated...)
It could become a very popular youth "coming of age" ceremony - before heading into college (or getting a job), spend a few months climbing the space elevator.
It would be pretty damn painful on the joints to come all the way back down though...
With this kind of tweaking process, it seems possible that they might "tweak" out an optical effect that they should've kept, on the grounds that it wasn't something they were expecting.
The religion aspect is correct but many of our laws come from state-sponsored morality.
I believe that some of these kinds of laws, as least originally, were proposed more as a matter of public safety rather than morality, which, IMHO, is the proper role of a government. Since the resultant laws tend to match a lot of people's morality, they tend to attract moral overtones though.
A goodfilter would allow you to submit a request, and the product maintainers would update the online site block lists in a day.
If this sort of thing is crutial to your operations, then you hire a full-time person to field those requests in-house, and then you should be able to get access to the sites in an hour or less.
How would that help if you're just following a trail of links & don't really know whether the particular site you are going to is useful or not?
And do you have any idea how disruptive it is going to be to doing research if you have to ask somebody for permission and wait a day _every_ time you're stumbling around in the fringes of the Internet? The response time of the filter-updating-person would have to be down in the 30 second range to keep from becoming a real issue.
The problem is not filtering, the problem is stupid (or cheap) filtering.
The problem is that, unless you have filtering that is as intelligent as a human (and can somehow be programmed with filtering criteria more consistent than most humans can apply), any solution you come up with is not going to be good enough.
libraries are supposed to be where people go to READ BOOKS.
You have a really limited view of the role of libraries. Libraries are a societal organ for the dissemination of information - in as many forms as can be practically managed. (This, of course, includes organizing, indexing & storing that information to maximize its usefulness.) Not just to "read books".
If the issue isnt important enough to go to those lengths, then it just plain isnt important enough for this whole "discussion". Get rid of those stupid lawyers, and stop bogging down the public library system with the costs of lawsuits like this.
That's probably good advice for a lot of situations - especially all of the legal & political shoving which got those incompetent filters installed in the first place.
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Just pop your money in the microwave for a few... (Or do some literal "money laundering":)
While this method does work good for some bands, it will not work for others. The bands it works for are bands with a smaller, extremely dedicated following.
Well, there's the possibility that those bands collected an extremely dedicated following _because_ they allowed their music to be widely copied & distributed...
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I think it's more along the line of "do everything and get it all right eventually".
Only a company _like_ Microsoft would say that there is only one right way of doing things, and that they know what it is.
Ironically, as TVs become smarter & more like computers, the less we are going to trust them.
I believe the guy(s) who did "Scramdisk" have a commercial product (forget what it's called at the moment) that allows you to encrypt entire Windows partitions (must specify decryption password to boot). Can probably find it with a little googling (is that a lawyer I hear?).
What about using diff & keeping track of the versions through file naming conventions?
I don't quite agree with this. I think that most people want _security_ - the ability to control their own lives. They instinctively understand, however, that to have security, they must have enough power to fend off influences which might take that control away from them.
It's only when you have a person who has no limits on the amount of power that they want to amass that you have a problem.
I liked 300. I could read the entrre UUCP newsfeed at that time over a 300 baud modem w/o ever using ^S/^Q (took about 6 hours).
1200 baud was a lot more challenging, but I could barely keep up. Then the newsfeed starting to grow...and grow...
Heh - that's one thing that might annoy the students with Linux running everywhere - most of their favorite games won't run w/o something like Crossover(sp?) WINE installed.
On the other hand, with enough Linux machines installed, it may prime the market for Linux gamers.
I really doubt it. A lot of companies might die because their business models are built around controlling information, but new companies will spring up in their place providing _real_ service in return for compensation, rather than relying on government-imposed artificial monopoly.
Companies might have to do some real work, and they won't be able to make obscene profits while creating nothing, but people will always be willing to pay for real value.
Maybe in the not-doing-their-job sense, but in my personal opinion, they are "corrupt" if they are not working to maximize benefit to the society as a whole. If the laws aren't designed to maximize benefit to the society as a whole, then the law is corrupted.
Of course, by that standard, the US legal system is drowning in corruption. I don't know why people keep asking me why I'm so cynical about the system.
Boy, just think about the guy who sold that bag of pretzels that W choked on. He must've been shaking in his sneakers thinking about how close he came to seeing the wrong end of the Secret Service.
Yeah, but given that the universe is a finite space at any given moment (although an essentially an infinitely expanding one over infinite time), aren't all particles (that we can interact with) bound & are therefore quantised (even if the granularity of the quantization is insanely high). Did I use enough parenthesis?
Moore's "Rule of Thumb" doesn't have quite the same ring...
Well, if they're placing restrictions on shipping these items because of potential dangerous uses, then this should be shortly followed on restrictions for shipping matches (match-head pipe bombs), right?
:)
Oh yeah, and all those campfire starter magnesium blocks - they're good at starting fires which can't be put out. If you grind them up, you get some great flash powder.
How 'bout the pyrotechnic powder in road flares? If you get rid of the sawdust they dilute the stuff inside with, it might burn quite fast - and would have a really brilliant red glare
Well, if Oregon _had_ a sales tax (one of the few states in the US that doesn't), then this would apply. The politicians are desperately trying to figure out a way to convince voters to pass the constitutional amendment required to allow a sales tax in Oregon, but even with its current state budget crisis, it'll be a cold day in hell before its voters decide to allow a sales tax to be implemented. There is absolutely zero trust by the public that allowing a sales tax won't be abused by the legislature.
The only way I can imagine that the public might allow a sales tax is if the legislature simultaneously _completely_ eliminated the income tax in Oregon, but I highly doubt this will happen.
One of my friends (who occasionally used mj) told me that I was the only person he ever knew who could actively hold a conversation with stoned people without being stoned myself. I'm still trying to figure out if he was insulting me or not.
A real geek grrl!? Are you married? If not, wanna go out? (Just kidding... :P
If you used something like this too frequently, wouldn't it increase the amount of free-oxygen radicals wandering around your bloodstream causing damage?
That would be a helluva challenge for mountain climbers. Never mind Mount Everest - how long would it take to climb 80km of stairs? Of course, since this is artifically constructed, you could have hostels every 10km or so (and you probably don't have to worry about oxygen unless the stairs are unoxygenated...)
It could become a very popular youth "coming of age" ceremony - before heading into college (or getting a job), spend a few months climbing the space elevator.
It would be pretty damn painful on the joints to come all the way back down though...
I know a few teachers of learning-disabled kids who are getting laid off in Oregon who might willing to give a shot at educating Florida voters.
With this kind of tweaking process, it seems possible that they might "tweak" out an optical effect that they should've kept, on the grounds that it wasn't something they were expecting.
I believe that some of these kinds of laws, as least originally, were proposed more as a matter of public safety rather than morality, which, IMHO, is the proper role of a government. Since the resultant laws tend to match a lot of people's morality, they tend to attract moral overtones though.
How would that help if you're just following a trail of links & don't really know whether the particular site you are going to is useful or not?
And do you have any idea how disruptive it is going to be to doing research if you have to ask somebody for permission and wait a day _every_ time you're stumbling around in the fringes of the Internet? The response time of the filter-updating-person would have to be down in the 30 second range to keep from becoming a real issue.
The problem is that, unless you have filtering that is as intelligent as a human (and can somehow be programmed with filtering criteria more consistent than most humans can apply), any solution you come up with is not going to be good enough.
You have a really limited view of the role of libraries. Libraries are a societal organ for the dissemination of information - in as many forms as can be practically managed. (This, of course, includes organizing, indexing & storing that information to maximize its usefulness.) Not just to "read books".
That's probably good advice for a lot of situations - especially all of the legal & political shoving which got those incompetent filters installed in the first place.
Just pop your money in the microwave for a few... :)
(Or do some literal "money laundering"
I do not find it difficult to cure the problem of being funny.
Well, there's the possibility that those bands collected an extremely dedicated following _because_ they allowed their music to be widely copied & distributed...