Why is this only an issue with cable and DSL and such? My cable service has MUCH better uptime than my electricity. And it's _comcast_. Hell, I've managed to get internet (via a battery on the modem and a laptop) even while the power to my house was out. I get about three extended power outages a year (more than an hour or two), and probably a hundred or so short cut-outs. Meanwhile, the last time my internet or phone dropped out was...well, other than problems with my modem, never.
What kind of laptop is it? My girlfriend always used a Powerbook, and got about 2 hours with it...then she had to get a Dell, and was amazed to discover it got 6+ hours on a charge. To which I responded '...yea...your mac didn't?'
I think the difference is not so much the sheer amount of code, but how they started. The projects listed started as cross-platform, so they didn't really have to worry about porting it. Photoshop didn't.
Ah, yes, but that's a rather basic simulation. How many complex physics simulations have we created that don't obey the physical laws of our own universe? I can't see any point in using a supercomputer for something that has no bearing on anything that actually exists in our universe. While it is true that they may not be using a supercomputer, I think if you somehow cataloged all the detailed simulations we have created, the vast majority would follow our physics.
Why would you assume that some alien race would make a simulation that was nowhere near their own physical laws? Seems like that would be the best starting place for me - I mean, simulations are generally made to test theories about the real world, and how can you test theories about the real world if you simulation obeys completely different laws? Now, having made that assumption, our choices on how to build computers are probably fairly limited. And, of course, they may have programmed our technology into the simulation as well, so really, it's quite reasonable to assume our computers work the same way the simulation's do.
I've always said that just because you can treat it doesn't make it a disease...as someone with both a personal and long family history of depression, I've always said it was just the same as those damned annoying people who are always happy - for some reason nobody ever tried to say _that_ was a disease...but I guess I was wrong. You _can't_ really treat it. Well, I mean, obviously you can, just not through drugs and surgery.
Yea, I had planned to retain QWERTY, but it just didn't happen. I can get by well enough for most of my needs on QWERTY...I know some of the keys, the rest I can just look on the keyboard...I just can't type anything long.
Well, I'm sure you must remember hiding things from your own parents...I mean, who doesn't? And I'm sure the majority of them were harmless. Do you feel like you were doing something wrong because of that? I know a girl whose parents say she can't date until she's in college. She still does...has had one boyfriend, been with him about three years now, and I'm pretty sure they haven't done anything other than the occasional kiss. She has to hide it from her parents, but I think you'd have a hard time finding someone who would argue that there's something wrong about what she's doing.
Yes, I realize that parents have a legal and moral right to have a hell of a lot of control over their children...but kids have their own rights too. Why is it that children can, and rather frequently are punished as adults by the courts, yet they aren't given the rights of an adult? On a somewhat different yet related note...I'm a citizen, I pay taxes, I'm affected by government policy, yet there is absolutely nothing I can do to influence it. I can't vote, any letters I write are ignored...the best I can do is donate to the ACLU, EFF, or whoever and hope they use it well. What ever happened to 'no taxation without representation'....kids get abused by the government all the time. I actually heard today that one of my classmates was at a party, the police came, and though he wasn't doing anything wrong, he got charged anyway. With what? 'Unlawful burning' or something like that. Someone started a bonfire at the party, and he got charged for not trying to make them put it out. He went to court, and he lost. Does that mean I can get charged for not trying to stop someone from robbing a bank? Sorry, I'm rambling about unrelated matters now...but the point is, we pay taxes, we can get arrested and pay fines or serve sentences without any any input from our parents. Drop the 'they're legally responsible for your actions' line, because in my life I've never seen a parent charged for something their kid did, unless that kid was under about 13 years old. Even then the parents sometimes aren't charged with anything while the kids serve prison sentences.
Well, I do happen to need access to regional and language settings, unless I wanna be typing all my essays at home. I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, so in order for me to be able to actually type things in school, I need to be able to change that. And if I just sit there not typing my paper or whatever, I'll get yelled at for not doing what I'm supposed to. I've contacted the school several times about this fact, freely admitted that I'm going into the settings and changing this, and they don't seem to care. I don't see anything wrong with that.
And I have tried to learn to pick locks too. I'm not very good at that though - I ended up pulling the whole tumbler out, and it took me about an hour to get the damn thing back in.
Well for one thing...I don't own the router, I don't pay for the internet service, so yes, what I do on the internet sure is my parent's business. But what I do locally is not. And personally, I don't see the news of young kids being stupid as the parents fault, except maybe education, and paying attention to the kids in general...But mostly I see it as kids being stupid. The majority of kids aren't stupid, the majority of us, when we get a request on facebook or whatever from someone we don't know, we either block it or send it to our friends and be like 'wow, that's not _too_ obviously fake now, is it?' and have a good laugh.
And I love how you equate trying to read techdirt to hotwiring cars. Seriously. My school blocks techdirt, slashdot, etc...yet they have no problem letting through Regina Lynn's Sex Drive column on Wired. My school has control panel locked out, and I every time I get on one of those computers I have to go through and unlock it so I can get to the 'regional and language settings'. I learned quite a bid from trying to get past those. Just because you're bypassing security measures doesn't mean you're doing something criminal. It would be quite nice to know how to hotwire or break into a car though...because I've seen three occasions in the past couple years where my family pretty much needed to hotwire our own car...and a few where we were locked out of our own car. There is no criminal information, only criminal actions.
Yes, but people did die to defend the Constitution, which makes no mention of any age limits on those rights. And as the Supreme Court has ruled, the right to privacy, while not explicitly included, is implied by the fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments.
And yes, they can go ahead and take the computer and try to decrypt it. Just like the US Government can (at least according to Bush...) go ahead and try to decrypt pretty much any encrypted files you send over the internet. But they can't say you can't encrypt them. You can't tell me I can't speak in another language to my friends, or write in code...freedom of speech, I can communicate however I want. Why would it be any different for a different form of data?
So I guess you're saying I, as a 16 year old, have no right to my 47 character password... (yes, I do actually have a 47 character random password for rare use.)
I do agree that 7 years old is a bit young for that, but in my case, it's my computer, I paid for it, I can do what I want with it...as is the case here. It's her computer, let her do what she wants. How is she gonna learn anything if the whole system is locked down? I would not be a future computer science major if my parents controlled everything I did on the computer. The main reason I know as much as I do about computers (enough to let me take and easily pass 300 level college courses while still in high school) is from trying to get away from that kind of control....ok, maybe you're right. Let the parents install security software, and teach her how to get around it.
Predictions of the future are never accurate! We were supposed to have toaster bacon about thirty years ago! I want my toaster bacon, then I'll start thinking about human quality AI.
I love the duck pond ones - if you have a pop-up blocker, you never get the reward. And you can keep clicking past the three and your 'hits remaining' counter starts going negative. As it gets lower, the ducks move faster, until eventually you can't even see the things - but if you keep clicking randomly, you'll still manage to hit a few.
I always ping google...and then if for some reason I need a second ping I use comcast...which is pretty stupid really, because I have actually had times when google and comcast were the only two websites I can access. It was weird. I'd type complete gibberish into google, hit search, results would come up....but if I hit any of them it wouldn't load. It appears to be a problem with ZoneAlarm....
Well, those sentences I listed weren't the actual acronyms, if that's what you're thinking...I was just giving examples of what you could say if you used them. The actual acronym would be (L/T/D)OSS is an Open Source Scanner. I shoulda been more clear on that.
Hmm. Odd. I spend longer waiting for my motherboard to POST (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with quick boot enabled) than I do waiting for Mandriva to boot up...I'd love if they could shorten that....
Yea...sure...we have more than two parties...'cause ya know, a whole 1% of votes compared to 60% really makes a whole lot of difference. We have two parties because there is no second place. People see third parties as a waste of their vote...and for the most part they are. And if you have more parties, that _will_ change things. Sure, the majority party still writes the laws, but if they screw up they're gonna be booted out...while with our system, if they screw up...well, they'll be back in a couple years. And when you have 5+ parties, they have to work together. You don't have a majority _party_ so much as a majority coalition. No single party can pass a law on their own.
I'm right behind you! I'm going to cease producing works too! starting with slashdot posts!...crap, I just created another work.
Humor aside though, my personal favorite band, My Dying Bride, has many albums out, constantly touring, and is very well known as one of the creators of the doom metal genre. But they all have other jobs, because they create to create, not to get paid. If all the people that would not continue to produce once they stopped being paid for it, the world would be a lot better off. We would no longer have crap like Brittany Spears, NSync, and all that other trash.
Oh, and I'm part of a band myself. We sold our albums at $2 each...because that's how much it cost us to make them. We also give all of our music away on our website. We actually lost money on both of our albums because we didn't sell every copy, but we don't really care. Just the fact that we managed to produce two albums by ourself is a feeling well worth the cost of the albums, equipment, and recording software.
Huh. You're right. When I did the math the other night I came up with Obama winning by half a percent. Not sure what I did there, or maybe if all the results just weren't in yet...
Yes, technically. But the fact that Hillary won is going to give her momentum in the other states. It was technically a tie, but to the majority of America, Hillary won. Just look at the news. And everyone wants to vote for a winner.
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You said it yourself: it's a chance, but it's a slim chance. Personally, I'd take my chances with the virus over my chances with the cancer.
Why is this only an issue with cable and DSL and such? My cable service has MUCH better uptime than my electricity. And it's _comcast_. Hell, I've managed to get internet (via a battery on the modem and a laptop) even while the power to my house was out. I get about three extended power outages a year (more than an hour or two), and probably a hundred or so short cut-outs. Meanwhile, the last time my internet or phone dropped out was...well, other than problems with my modem, never.
What kind of laptop is it? My girlfriend always used a Powerbook, and got about 2 hours with it...then she had to get a Dell, and was amazed to discover it got 6+ hours on a charge. To which I responded '...yea...your mac didn't?'
...The Simpsons is no longer worth watching?
Damn. I musta missed something....
I think the difference is not so much the sheer amount of code, but how they started. The projects listed started as cross-platform, so they didn't really have to worry about porting it. Photoshop didn't.
Ah, yes, but that's a rather basic simulation. How many complex physics simulations have we created that don't obey the physical laws of our own universe? I can't see any point in using a supercomputer for something that has no bearing on anything that actually exists in our universe. While it is true that they may not be using a supercomputer, I think if you somehow cataloged all the detailed simulations we have created, the vast majority would follow our physics.
My god. We're all just a game of Spore!
Why would you assume that some alien race would make a simulation that was nowhere near their own physical laws? Seems like that would be the best starting place for me - I mean, simulations are generally made to test theories about the real world, and how can you test theories about the real world if you simulation obeys completely different laws? Now, having made that assumption, our choices on how to build computers are probably fairly limited. And, of course, they may have programmed our technology into the simulation as well, so really, it's quite reasonable to assume our computers work the same way the simulation's do.
I've always said that just because you can treat it doesn't make it a disease...as someone with both a personal and long family history of depression, I've always said it was just the same as those damned annoying people who are always happy - for some reason nobody ever tried to say _that_ was a disease...but I guess I was wrong. You _can't_ really treat it. Well, I mean, obviously you can, just not through drugs and surgery.
Yea, I had planned to retain QWERTY, but it just didn't happen. I can get by well enough for most of my needs on QWERTY...I know some of the keys, the rest I can just look on the keyboard...I just can't type anything long.
Well, I'm sure you must remember hiding things from your own parents...I mean, who doesn't? And I'm sure the majority of them were harmless. Do you feel like you were doing something wrong because of that? I know a girl whose parents say she can't date until she's in college. She still does...has had one boyfriend, been with him about three years now, and I'm pretty sure they haven't done anything other than the occasional kiss. She has to hide it from her parents, but I think you'd have a hard time finding someone who would argue that there's something wrong about what she's doing.
Yes, I realize that parents have a legal and moral right to have a hell of a lot of control over their children...but kids have their own rights too. Why is it that children can, and rather frequently are punished as adults by the courts, yet they aren't given the rights of an adult?
On a somewhat different yet related note...I'm a citizen, I pay taxes, I'm affected by government policy, yet there is absolutely nothing I can do to influence it. I can't vote, any letters I write are ignored...the best I can do is donate to the ACLU, EFF, or whoever and hope they use it well. What ever happened to 'no taxation without representation'....kids get abused by the government all the time. I actually heard today that one of my classmates was at a party, the police came, and though he wasn't doing anything wrong, he got charged anyway. With what? 'Unlawful burning' or something like that. Someone started a bonfire at the party, and he got charged for not trying to make them put it out. He went to court, and he lost. Does that mean I can get charged for not trying to stop someone from robbing a bank?
Sorry, I'm rambling about unrelated matters now...but the point is, we pay taxes, we can get arrested and pay fines or serve sentences without any any input from our parents. Drop the 'they're legally responsible for your actions' line, because in my life I've never seen a parent charged for something their kid did, unless that kid was under about 13 years old. Even then the parents sometimes aren't charged with anything while the kids serve prison sentences.
Well, I do happen to need access to regional and language settings, unless I wanna be typing all my essays at home. I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, so in order for me to be able to actually type things in school, I need to be able to change that. And if I just sit there not typing my paper or whatever, I'll get yelled at for not doing what I'm supposed to. I've contacted the school several times about this fact, freely admitted that I'm going into the settings and changing this, and they don't seem to care. I don't see anything wrong with that.
And I have tried to learn to pick locks too. I'm not very good at that though - I ended up pulling the whole tumbler out, and it took me about an hour to get the damn thing back in.
Well for one thing...I don't own the router, I don't pay for the internet service, so yes, what I do on the internet sure is my parent's business. But what I do locally is not. And personally, I don't see the news of young kids being stupid as the parents fault, except maybe education, and paying attention to the kids in general...But mostly I see it as kids being stupid. The majority of kids aren't stupid, the majority of us, when we get a request on facebook or whatever from someone we don't know, we either block it or send it to our friends and be like 'wow, that's not _too_ obviously fake now, is it?' and have a good laugh.
And I love how you equate trying to read techdirt to hotwiring cars. Seriously. My school blocks techdirt, slashdot, etc...yet they have no problem letting through Regina Lynn's Sex Drive column on Wired. My school has control panel locked out, and I every time I get on one of those computers I have to go through and unlock it so I can get to the 'regional and language settings'. I learned quite a bid from trying to get past those. Just because you're bypassing security measures doesn't mean you're doing something criminal. It would be quite nice to know how to hotwire or break into a car though...because I've seen three occasions in the past couple years where my family pretty much needed to hotwire our own car...and a few where we were locked out of our own car. There is no criminal information, only criminal actions.
Yes, but people did die to defend the Constitution, which makes no mention of any age limits on those rights. And as the Supreme Court has ruled, the right to privacy, while not explicitly included, is implied by the fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments.
And yes, they can go ahead and take the computer and try to decrypt it. Just like the US Government can (at least according to Bush...) go ahead and try to decrypt pretty much any encrypted files you send over the internet. But they can't say you can't encrypt them. You can't tell me I can't speak in another language to my friends, or write in code...freedom of speech, I can communicate however I want. Why would it be any different for a different form of data?
So I guess you're saying I, as a 16 year old, have no right to my 47 character password... (yes, I do actually have a 47 character random password for rare use.)
...ok, maybe you're right. Let the parents install security software, and teach her how to get around it.
I do agree that 7 years old is a bit young for that, but in my case, it's my computer, I paid for it, I can do what I want with it...as is the case here. It's her computer, let her do what she wants. How is she gonna learn anything if the whole system is locked down? I would not be a future computer science major if my parents controlled everything I did on the computer. The main reason I know as much as I do about computers (enough to let me take and easily pass 300 level college courses while still in high school) is from trying to get away from that kind of control.
Predictions of the future are never accurate! We were supposed to have toaster bacon about thirty years ago! I want my toaster bacon, then I'll start thinking about human quality AI.
I love the duck pond ones - if you have a pop-up blocker, you never get the reward. And you can keep clicking past the three and your 'hits remaining' counter starts going negative. As it gets lower, the ducks move faster, until eventually you can't even see the things - but if you keep clicking randomly, you'll still manage to hit a few.
I always ping google...and then if for some reason I need a second ping I use comcast...which is pretty stupid really, because I have actually had times when google and comcast were the only two websites I can access. It was weird. I'd type complete gibberish into google, hit search, results would come up....but if I hit any of them it wouldn't load. It appears to be a problem with ZoneAlarm....
Well, those sentences I listed weren't the actual acronyms, if that's what you're thinking...I was just giving examples of what you could say if you used them. The actual acronym would be (L/T/D)OSS is an Open Source Scanner. I shoulda been more clear on that.
There are still plenty of alternatives....the first letter could be anything:
LOSS causes profit loss
Toss that TOSS
Doss with DOSS
Hmm. Odd. I spend longer waiting for my motherboard to POST (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with quick boot enabled) than I do waiting for Mandriva to boot up...I'd love if they could shorten that....
Yea...sure...we have more than two parties...'cause ya know, a whole 1% of votes compared to 60% really makes a whole lot of difference. We have two parties because there is no second place. People see third parties as a waste of their vote...and for the most part they are. And if you have more parties, that _will_ change things. Sure, the majority party still writes the laws, but if they screw up they're gonna be booted out...while with our system, if they screw up...well, they'll be back in a couple years. And when you have 5+ parties, they have to work together. You don't have a majority _party_ so much as a majority coalition. No single party can pass a law on their own.
I'm right behind you! I'm going to cease producing works too! starting with slashdot posts! ...crap, I just created another work.
Humor aside though, my personal favorite band, My Dying Bride, has many albums out, constantly touring, and is very well known as one of the creators of the doom metal genre. But they all have other jobs, because they create to create, not to get paid. If all the people that would not continue to produce once they stopped being paid for it, the world would be a lot better off. We would no longer have crap like Brittany Spears, NSync, and all that other trash.
Oh, and I'm part of a band myself. We sold our albums at $2 each...because that's how much it cost us to make them. We also give all of our music away on our website. We actually lost money on both of our albums because we didn't sell every copy, but we don't really care. Just the fact that we managed to produce two albums by ourself is a feeling well worth the cost of the albums, equipment, and recording software.
Huh. You're right. When I did the math the other night I came up with Obama winning by half a percent. Not sure what I did there, or maybe if all the results just weren't in yet...
Yes, technically. But the fact that Hillary won is going to give her momentum in the other states. It was technically a tie, but to the majority of America, Hillary won. Just look at the news. And everyone wants to vote for a winner.