How does this work exactly? Due to dynamic ips, NAP, non routable addresses and other network idiosyncrasies, an ip doesn't identify a specific person without further context any more than the name John Smith identifies a specific person without further context. Can I really make a request of a company to identify how they got every occurrence of John Smith in their database? As this provides context, how does it fail to infringe on the privacy of the other John Smiths? Similarly, if an well formed inquiry is made about a particular ip, how can I respond without potentially violating the privacy of the other, ephemeral, users of that ip address?
That not entirely true, every time I've bought a book from a traditional bookstore, the clerk has in fact handed me the book, I haven't had to go get it after browsing their wares, adding the book to my cart and checking out. The big difference is where I can be when I check out and how long the delay is from the time I check out till when I have the books in my grubby little mitts.
That isn't even true. Zone transfers are, in fact, intended for general use by anyone maintaining a name server, even if that name server is for strictly personal or investigative use. There is no presumption that the requester is the same entity as the name server responding to the request. This is part of the protocol that maintains the shared internet, to rule otherwise is absurd and incompetent.
I was wrong, google maps does work, you just have to turn javascript off... And now that I can actually see the map, it's figuring my location within 6 blocks of where I actually am. Could be because I'm inside, I'll have to test some more outside.
No phone calls, but it does have a web browser under experimental features... Just tried the shortcut, and google maps is coming up (nice way to get my current location at least), but I'm not getting an actual map. All I get is the google topnav, a little location arrow and my latitude/longitude over the text 'Make this my default location', the map itself just displays 'Loading...'
Likely it's a limitation in the internal browser, something that may get fixed in the future, at which point, I would expect the google maps shortcut to be documented.
I think it's in the perfect section. I'm pretty sure I have a right to not have people dropping helocopters on me while surfing slashdot. Hmm, I think it comes under the 'Life' right. Please don't impinge on my rights by dropping helicopters on me, even if I'm not online at the time, I'm pretty sure you don't have a right to blind pilots and I REALLY hope you don't have the right to drop said pilots helicopters on me.
If you have someone in a position where they can watch any of these activities, you have larger problems than them also recording them.
As described by the grand parent, there is no problem with removing the person doing the recording, if they would not otherwise be allowed to observe what the are recording. Additionally, the grand parent doesn't specify any restriction on moving recording devices not in the custody of some person, so feel free to remove any planted recording devices, and charge their owner with trespassing if trespassing was required to plant them.
As far as my principles are concerned, recording devices on a person, controlled by that person, are simply a prosthesis for that persons senses and memories. If your observing something, then recording it doesn't change the legality of you observing it. If you disseminate your recordings, it is no different from you describing your memories in exhaustive detail.
Significantly more got hit than the 200 that contacted them. But as they said, most people could eventually fix it themselves or with help from friends, and in many cases where they needed help from friends, they had no means of contacting CCP until their computer was fixed. Three members of my (tiny) corp got hit with the problem, one needed some assistance fixing it and had no net access until he was instructed, over the phone, on how to fix his computer. Anecdotally, there were people whose tech support reformatted their drives to fix the problem, but I have no way of verifying that.
Perhaps we could start with trusting and respecting people? Thankfully, Baen has seen fit to try this revolutionary practice of trust. A few other publishers are dipping their toes in the water, as you can see on WebScription, and with luck, this practice will spread to the rest of the industry.
The benefit of a 'healthy' full body scan isn't finding current problems. When you do have a problem, already having had a scan when you didn't have that problem, allows a new scan to be much more useful, in as much as you already know what was there ahead of time, and can take a gander at what has changed.
Hmm, on the books I've tested, the layout has been lost, but the text is in the correct order, and though they end up oddly positioned, the all important tables survive. Of course, this is just viewing in an emulator, I have no idea how it will actually look on the Kindle, nor do I know if it's just that the ones I've converted are aberrations...
Ugh... just tried the Tri-stat DX Core... Doesn't look like ANY of it's tables survived, because the tables weren't actually tables... This doesn't bode well...
The main reason for me not getting it in those first 5.5 hours was the lack of reliable PDF support, then it was pointed out to me that PDF to MOBI converters are available. Alas, the fact that it was sold out wasn't apparent from the detail page at the time I ordered, so I can't tell you if it actually works well till the 27th.
Annoying that it doesn't natively support HTML and RTF, but as most of my existing e-books are from Baen (so mobi and txt formats are available) or gaming books (universally PDFs) that seem to work out (on the PC) when converted to MOBI, I think it will work out.
Your missing the point, the question is being asked by the browser mechanism that effectively is: Install Malware?
For this to be a good idea, you need only to show three things: 1. It's legal 2. It won't generate ill will 3. It is no worse than they alternate implementation where you DON'T root the client box.
I'll only deal with the third prerequisite. Presuming the one time rootkit is written correctly (not likely, but, for the sake of argument), this can be broken down into three main cases: 1. The client machine was clean. 2. The client machine was generally compromised 3. The client machine was specifically compromised with malware targeting your site.
In the first case, nothing lost (see presumption), nothing gained. In the second case, we have a good chance of dodging general purpose keyloggers In the third case, we're screwed, but, we were screwed any ways, but, it does open up the possibility of us entering the arms race, so maybe not screwed all the time.
So, there is a net benefit, if the presumptions hold.
I wonder what the actual efficiency is if you take into account sequestering the CO2. It should be feasible since you have to sequester the hydrogen anyway and the CO2 is produced in the reactor, that is, fixed infrastructure, rather than in the eventual fuel consuming entity.
Hell, how much net CO2 could you pull out of the atmosphere with an un fertilized acre of land and a reactor thats producing the hydrogen/electricity needed to fuel the entire endeavor? How does it compare to the real efficiency of current solar cells (after taking into account manufacturing costs/outputs)?
Anyone who plays WOW. Blizzard uses torrents for distribution of World of Warcraft patches. I'm sure they aren't the only ones, and this doesn't even mention the Linux ISOs that are transferred via torrents.
It's not a bloody argument, but however you feel about actually doing it or being required to do it, call it what it is. Don't try and hide behind lies and PC bullocks. Call it accommodation if you want, but damn it, don't call it equal treatment, because it isn't equal treatment. Accommodation requires special effort, and often REQUIRES discrimination, VERY unequal treatment and resource allocation.
They are being treated equally, they are being provided precisely the same information as the rest of the world. Their isn't some magic code on target.com that checks to see if you are blind, and if you are blind, scrambles everything.
This is not equal treatment, it is special treatment.
Laws of physics are, by definition, immutable. If a law of physics looks mutable (or a constant looks like it's changing), then one of two things is true, either your measurements are somehow wrong or it must be an approximation, derived from some underlying law. If c changes over time, then c must not be a constant, but instead, must be a local property, somehow derived from the state of the universe.
Modification is irrelevant. Distribution, outside the terms of the GPL, is copyright infringement. They have declined to provide source, one of the requirements of the GPL, and so they can burn (or not, if they actually talk to the Busybox developers and make things right).
I here by promise that I won't talk to your boobs... likely I won't even look at you as I'll be looking at my screen trying to figure out whatever you are asking me about, I may not even notice who you are, that you have boobs or that we're using a vocalized communications medium and are actually present.
I promise that if I'm condescending, it's due to one of two things, either you have done something stupid through incompetence rather than simple inexperience, or I've mistaken you for someone else who has done something stupid (and thus, you need to point out to me that I've made a mistake, at which point I'll curl up in my ball of shame). It has nothing to do with your race, gender, scent, sexual preference, disability or clothing (though, I will likely mistrust you if your in a suit).
Just do your job. If something is broken, fix it. Ask for help when you need it, give help when it's asked for. Oh, and please, please oh please, form an opinion and be willing to defend it, you'll either be right or you'll learn from being wrong and do better next time.
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3D ray tracing using Perl... why not?
Apparently you aren't a user of PDL. I'm toying around with some real-time CFD and their visualizations, all in perl.
Basically, if your writing tight loops, your not thinking at the correct level, and ultimately, programming is a specialized form of thinking.
How does this work exactly? Due to dynamic ips, NAP, non routable addresses and other network idiosyncrasies, an ip doesn't identify a specific person without further context any more than the name John Smith identifies a specific person without further context. Can I really make a request of a company to identify how they got every occurrence of John Smith in their database? As this provides context, how does it fail to infringe on the privacy of the other John Smiths? Similarly, if an well formed inquiry is made about a particular ip, how can I respond without potentially violating the privacy of the other, ephemeral, users of that ip address?
That not entirely true, every time I've bought a book from a traditional bookstore, the clerk has in fact handed me the book, I haven't had to go get it after browsing their wares, adding the book to my cart and checking out. The big difference is where I can be when I check out and how long the delay is from the time I check out till when I have the books in my grubby little mitts.
That isn't even true. Zone transfers are, in fact, intended for general use by anyone maintaining a name server, even if that name server is for strictly personal or investigative use. There is no presumption that the requester is the same entity as the name server responding to the request. This is part of the protocol that maintains the shared internet, to rule otherwise is absurd and incompetent.
I was wrong, google maps does work, you just have to turn javascript off... And now that I can actually see the map, it's figuring my location within 6 blocks of where I actually am. Could be because I'm inside, I'll have to test some more outside.
No phone calls, but it does have a web browser under experimental features... Just tried the shortcut, and google maps is coming up (nice way to get my current location at least), but I'm not getting an actual map. All I get is the google topnav, a little location arrow and my latitude/longitude over the text 'Make this my default location', the map itself just displays 'Loading...'
Likely it's a limitation in the internal browser, something that may get fixed in the future, at which point, I would expect the google maps shortcut to be documented.
I think it's in the perfect section. I'm pretty sure I have a right to not have people dropping helocopters on me while surfing slashdot. Hmm, I think it comes under the 'Life' right. Please don't impinge on my rights by dropping helicopters on me, even if I'm not online at the time, I'm pretty sure you don't have a right to blind pilots and I REALLY hope you don't have the right to drop said pilots helicopters on me.
If you have someone in a position where they can watch any of these activities, you have larger problems than them also recording them.
As described by the grand parent, there is no problem with removing the person doing the recording, if they would not otherwise be allowed to observe what the are recording. Additionally, the grand parent doesn't specify any restriction on moving recording devices not in the custody of some person, so feel free to remove any planted recording devices, and charge their owner with trespassing if trespassing was required to plant them.
As far as my principles are concerned, recording devices on a person, controlled by that person, are simply a prosthesis for that persons senses and memories. If your observing something, then recording it doesn't change the legality of you observing it. If you disseminate your recordings, it is no different from you describing your memories in exhaustive detail.
Significantly more got hit than the 200 that contacted them. But as they said, most people could eventually fix it themselves or with help from friends, and in many cases where they needed help from friends, they had no means of contacting CCP until their computer was fixed. Three members of my (tiny) corp got hit with the problem, one needed some assistance fixing it and had no net access until he was instructed, over the phone, on how to fix his computer. Anecdotally, there were people whose tech support reformatted their drives to fix the problem, but I have no way of verifying that.
Mathematics is singular, just like Physics and Chemistry. They are individual fields of study. For abbreviations you end up with Math, Phys and Chem.
Perhaps we could start with trusting and respecting people? Thankfully, Baen has seen fit to try this revolutionary practice of trust. A few other publishers are dipping their toes in the water, as you can see on WebScription, and with luck, this practice will spread to the rest of the industry.
The benefit of a 'healthy' full body scan isn't finding current problems. When you do have a problem, already having had a scan when you didn't have that problem, allows a new scan to be much more useful, in as much as you already know what was there ahead of time, and can take a gander at what has changed.
Baen would seem to disagree. Conveniently, this means I can now dump all my old webscriptions onto my new Kindle.
Hmm, on the books I've tested, the layout has been lost, but the text is in the correct order, and though they end up oddly positioned, the all important tables survive. Of course, this is just viewing in an emulator, I have no idea how it will actually look on the Kindle, nor do I know if it's just that the ones I've converted are aberrations...
Ugh... just tried the Tri-stat DX Core... Doesn't look like ANY of it's tables survived, because the tables weren't actually tables... This doesn't bode well...
The main reason for me not getting it in those first 5.5 hours was the lack of reliable PDF support, then it was pointed out to me that PDF to MOBI converters are available. Alas, the fact that it was sold out wasn't apparent from the detail page at the time I ordered, so I can't tell you if it actually works well till the 27th.
According to the product details:
Content Formats Supported:
Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively;
HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion
Annoying that it doesn't natively support HTML and RTF, but as most of my existing e-books are from Baen (so mobi and txt formats are available) or gaming books (universally PDFs) that seem to work out (on the PC) when converted to MOBI, I think it will work out.
Your missing the point, the question is being asked by the browser mechanism that effectively is: Install Malware?
For this to be a good idea, you need only to show three things:
1. It's legal
2. It won't generate ill will
3. It is no worse than they alternate implementation where you DON'T root the client box.
I'll only deal with the third prerequisite. Presuming the one time rootkit is written correctly (not likely, but, for the sake of argument), this can be broken down into three main cases:
1. The client machine was clean.
2. The client machine was generally compromised
3. The client machine was specifically compromised with malware targeting your site.
In the first case, nothing lost (see presumption), nothing gained.
In the second case, we have a good chance of dodging general purpose keyloggers
In the third case, we're screwed, but, we were screwed any ways, but, it does open up the possibility of us entering the arms race, so maybe not screwed all the time.
So, there is a net benefit, if the presumptions hold.
I wonder what the actual efficiency is if you take into account sequestering the CO2. It should be feasible since you have to sequester the hydrogen anyway and the CO2 is produced in the reactor, that is, fixed infrastructure, rather than in the eventual fuel consuming entity.
Hell, how much net CO2 could you pull out of the atmosphere with an un fertilized acre of land and a reactor thats producing the hydrogen/electricity needed to fuel the entire endeavor? How does it compare to the real efficiency of current solar cells (after taking into account manufacturing costs/outputs)?
TOS may (or may not) be enforceable, but they are NOT a defense against false advertising, fraud and violations of the Computer Missuse Act.
Anyone who plays WOW. Blizzard uses torrents for distribution of World of Warcraft patches. I'm sure they aren't the only ones, and this doesn't even mention the Linux ISOs that are transferred via torrents.
It's not a bloody argument, but however you feel about actually doing it or being required to do it, call it what it is. Don't try and hide behind lies and PC bullocks. Call it accommodation if you want, but damn it, don't call it equal treatment, because it isn't equal treatment. Accommodation requires special effort, and often REQUIRES discrimination, VERY unequal treatment and resource allocation.
They are being treated equally, they are being provided precisely the same information as the rest of the world. Their isn't some magic code on target.com that checks to see if you are blind, and if you are blind, scrambles everything.
This is not equal treatment, it is special treatment.
Laws of physics are, by definition, immutable. If a law of physics looks mutable (or a constant looks like it's changing), then one of two things is true, either your measurements are somehow wrong or it must be an approximation, derived from some underlying law. If c changes over time, then c must not be a constant, but instead, must be a local property, somehow derived from the state of the universe.
Modification is irrelevant. Distribution, outside the terms of the GPL, is copyright infringement. They have declined to provide source, one of the requirements of the GPL, and so they can burn (or not, if they actually talk to the Busybox developers and make things right).
Hmm, looking at the images I've got, average size is 1849 KB, for a limit of 440 GB
I here by promise that I won't talk to your boobs... likely I won't even look at you as I'll be looking at my screen trying to figure out whatever you are asking me about, I may not even notice who you are, that you have boobs or that we're using a vocalized communications medium and are actually present.
I promise that if I'm condescending, it's due to one of two things, either you have done something stupid through incompetence rather than simple inexperience, or I've mistaken you for someone else who has done something stupid (and thus, you need to point out to me that I've made a mistake, at which point I'll curl up in my ball of shame). It has nothing to do with your race, gender, scent, sexual preference, disability or clothing (though, I will likely mistrust you if your in a suit).
Just do your job. If something is broken, fix it. Ask for help when you need it, give help when it's asked for. Oh, and please, please oh please, form an opinion and be willing to defend it, you'll either be right or you'll learn from being wrong and do better next time.