Good point, but there are ways around that. I have an Atheros WiFi card and use the MADWIFI driver for it. Most of the driver is open-source, but the core radio part is distributed binary-only. This is not just because they think it's a good idea, but because it would be in violation of FCC regulations to allow this part of the driver to be modified. However, Atheros was nice enough to provide this binary-only part compiled for many different Linux platforms and to give assistance to the people writing the rest.
The idea was that sex-ed-related sites might be forced into.xxx, which is what I was talking about. Though that actually wouldn't change much, as those sites tend to be blocked by filters anyway.
And yes, there are legitimate reasons for students to visit sex-ed sites without having to ask a librarian for help.
Now I understand you. While China's human rights abuses are pretty well documented, you're right in that they're not my business as much as America's are.
I have no problem with the existence of.xxx, but the fear that sites would be forced to switch to it seems to be substantial. I don't think it's very likely, but it's possible and deserves to be watched out for.
America has persecution, religious and otherwise. America has problems with freedom of speech. America has Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. But China has these things to a much greater degree. In America, I don't have to live in (much) fear of my government because I disagree with it; in China, I would. (Though, of course, this could change - but I'm referring to current state.)
I may be mistaken, but in China, saying what I've said about China would not be tolerated. This is definitely not the case in the US.
I still maintain that you have been taken in by anti-US propaganda. I hardly think the US is perfect or free, but it's undeniably better than China.
What part of it? China is worse than the US? Denying that shows brainwashing by anti-US propaganda. I do agree that America has some serious problems in this vein, but it's better, for now, than China and the rest of the Totalitarian World.
Lots of filtering programs will probably knee-jerk block the entire.xxx domain, including any worthwhile sites in it. Even if there's no filtering program involved, people will probably feel very uncomfortable visiting a.xxx site if other people might notice, even if it's perfectly appropriate and they would have no such problem under a.com or.org.
It bugs me because I think that Chinese, Americans, and everyone else deserves free speech. This law is a simply ridiculous abridgment of that - exactly what we've come to expect from China.
Did Hu Jintao pay you to say that? Sure, America is going downhill, but we don't have forced-labor camps you get sent to for criticizing the government, practicing a wrong (in China: any) religion, or the like.
The bad parts of American culture are not valid grounds for restricting freedom of speech, a fundamental human right (no matter what you might think in your relativism). I bet the Chinese people care.
If you mean 128-bit-long vectors of 32 or 64-bit floats, SSE supports that. If you mean longer vectors of 128-bit floats, I have no idea why a GUI would need that much precision.
Yes, AltiVec is more powerful than SSE, but I'm sure Aqua doesn't need all that power.
Besides, it couldn't be that hard to make an expansion card to do the same job on regular hardware.
Gun type devices are no longer used in most applications because they're far too easy to detonate. Any accidental detonation of the internal munitions could result in the device being triggered.
ISPs don't like people running home servers, remember? It takes money away from their hosting services, uses bandwidth, and "normal people don't need to do that". Not to mention the RIAA-subpoena thing.
And IPv6 has enough space to give every square millimeter of Earth a rather large number of addresses.
Another, probably more feasible solution is to use normal numbers, instead of dotted quads. Normal numbers are, at least theoretically, unlimited. The whole base-8 thing is so 1995.
That would require just as much change in the protocol as IPv6 would.
How do you know those were the actual passwords? (All right, probably most were, but that is a severe problem with this kind of study.)
You know the survey where people were offered a pen or something in exchange for their password? I would have gone "Sure... my password is 'gull1ble'". Free pen, no security risk.
I like your arguments. But still, I don't see how they can explain the sheer change that something like drug use or a rod in the head can produce in a person. That's not just changes in sensations or instincts, that's changes in the core of the person.
Really? This is a major achievement in brute force, but reducing it from football-stadium-size and billions of dollars to house-size and millions of dollars is going to be at least as much work. Or so it looks to me.
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Good point, but there are ways around that. I have an Atheros WiFi card and use the MADWIFI driver for it. Most of the driver is open-source, but the core radio part is distributed binary-only. This is not just because they think it's a good idea, but because it would be in violation of FCC regulations to allow this part of the driver to be modified. However, Atheros was nice enough to provide this binary-only part compiled for many different Linux platforms and to give assistance to the people writing the rest.
So they'll have a whole department sitting like hawks watching the patent office and challenging everything remotely connected to their markets...
Even with MS doing it, this is a Good Thing, because many of those patents would likely interfere with lots of other players.
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The idea was that sex-ed-related sites might be forced into .xxx, which is what I was talking about. Though that actually wouldn't change much, as those sites tend to be blocked by filters anyway.
And yes, there are legitimate reasons for students to visit sex-ed sites without having to ask a librarian for help.
Now I understand you. While China's human rights abuses are pretty well documented, you're right in that they're not my business as much as America's are.
I have no problem with the existence of .xxx, but the fear that sites would be forced to switch to it seems to be substantial. I don't think it's very likely, but it's possible and deserves to be watched out for.
Well, I suppose the embarassment is probably bull. But some people (students, namely) have no say over how their filters are set up.
America has persecution, religious and otherwise. America has problems with freedom of speech. America has Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. But China has these things to a much greater degree. In America, I don't have to live in (much) fear of my government because I disagree with it; in China, I would. (Though, of course, this could change - but I'm referring to current state.)
I may be mistaken, but in China, saying what I've said about China would not be tolerated. This is definitely not the case in the US.
I still maintain that you have been taken in by anti-US propaganda. I hardly think the US is perfect or free, but it's undeniably better than China.
What part of it? China is worse than the US? Denying that shows brainwashing by anti-US propaganda. I do agree that America has some serious problems in this vein, but it's better, for now, than China and the rest of the Totalitarian World.
Lots of filtering programs will probably knee-jerk block the entire .xxx domain, including any worthwhile sites in it. Even if there's no filtering program involved, people will probably feel very uncomfortable visiting a .xxx site if other people might notice, even if it's perfectly appropriate and they would have no such problem under a .com or .org.
It bugs me because I think that Chinese, Americans, and everyone else deserves free speech. This law is a simply ridiculous abridgment of that - exactly what we've come to expect from China.
"China is not bad with human rights."
Did Hu Jintao pay you to say that? Sure, America is going downhill, but we don't have forced-labor camps you get sent to for criticizing the government, practicing a wrong (in China: any) religion, or the like.
The bad parts of American culture are not valid grounds for restricting freedom of speech, a fundamental human right (no matter what you might think in your relativism). I bet the Chinese people care.
If you mean 128-bit-long vectors of 32 or 64-bit floats, SSE supports that. If you mean longer vectors of 128-bit floats, I have no idea why a GUI would need that much precision.
Yes, AltiVec is more powerful than SSE, but I'm sure Aqua doesn't need all that power.
Besides, it couldn't be that hard to make an expansion card to do the same job on regular hardware.
Gun type devices are no longer used in most applications because they're far too easy to detonate. Any accidental detonation of the internal munitions could result in the device being triggered.
Think suicide bombers care?
Correlation != causation. Israel has lots of other security measures that we don't.
ISPs don't like people running home servers, remember? It takes money away from their hosting services, uses bandwidth, and "normal people don't need to do that". Not to mention the RIAA-subpoena thing.
Ip space is and will always be limited.
And IPv6 has enough space to give every square millimeter of Earth a rather large number of addresses.
Another, probably more feasible solution is to use normal numbers, instead of dotted quads. Normal numbers are, at least theoretically, unlimited. The whole base-8 thing is so 1995.
That would require just as much change in the protocol as IPv6 would.
How long until somebody makes a Beowulf cluster of these?
How do you know those were the actual passwords? (All right, probably most were, but that is a severe problem with this kind of study.)
You know the survey where people were offered a pen or something in exchange for their password? I would have gone "Sure... my password is 'gull1ble'". Free pen, no security risk.
The scratches encode secret messages from the rebellion against the aliens who control our governments. DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW THESE THINGS?!!!!1112
I like your arguments. But still, I don't see how they can explain the sheer change that something like drug use or a rod in the head can produce in a person. That's not just changes in sensations or instincts, that's changes in the core of the person.
Yes, and that was one of the causes of the Apollo 1 fire.
Got a source on the quantum effects being non-random thing? Sounds really intriguing. (That's a hint - MOD PARENT UP.)
Really? This is a major achievement in brute force, but reducing it from football-stadium-size and billions of dollars to house-size and millions of dollars is going to be at least as much work. Or so it looks to me.
Eon and Eternity, by Greg Bear. I think some Stephen Baxter stuff, too.
Frankly, I think this is because it's easier to write a story about immortality, or ANYTHING, when there are big problems with it.