Firearms meerly serve to make this right equal for those with more/less physical strength.
No, firearms just up the ante.
You think that once everyone has a handgun it is even? So then the bad guys get semi-automatic weapons. So everyone gets them. All even again. Until the bad guys get automatics and so on...then what?
Maybe everyone should get one nuclear weapon each so we are all even. Problem solved.
Pistols are designed for shooting people. Sometimes this is necessary.
This is Insightful?!?
Yes it is sometimes necessary if you are in the police force or army or whatever but an ordinary citizen? In what situation in your everyday life is it necessary to shoot people?
Maybe I'm naive but it boggles my mind that there are people that think like this, and other people that think this idea is "Insightful".
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"most whales dont hang out on the surface too often"
riiight. except to, you know, breathe.
Of course there is no absolute proof of detrimental effects on wildlife. But it is rather telling that there was no comment when specifically asked about it.
My guess would be that if they hadnt bothered to test if there could be detrimental effects the answer would have been along the lines of : No effect on wildlife has been found.
If they had done even the smallest tests and found no detrimental effects then the answer would be : No effects have been found in our testing.
But the fact that there is specifically no comment suggests to me that they have let rip a couple of times and proceeded to bust out the nets and scoop up all the floating dead things to cook up for dinner.
From TFA it seems like it is a fairly focussed blast which would hopefully mean limited damage to wildlife but the fact that they wont say doesnt really inspire confidence.
Its not so much what was said but the anonimity that was in question.
Speakers corner is not the same thing as it would be pretty hard to stand on your soap box and speak your views while still staying anonymous.
Could be an interesting test case of sorts if they released the new watered down version and kept the old AO rated version on the shelves (or behind the counter, or wherever they keep the AO rated games).
It would be interesting to see a comparison in the sales figures between the two different versions. Would the AO rating sell better due to its "restricted" status? I'm sure the censors would like to think no-one would buy the AO version but I tend to think otherwise....
"Kazaa's owners would have to apply "maximum pressure" on existing users to upgrade their software to the new, filtered version."
I wonder how the court sees this as being implemented? and how they intend to measure that "maximum pressure" has been applied.
I dont know the architecture of Kazaa. Is it possible for Sharman to "force" a new version out? or could the old version continue to be used as always?
is that with a door it is obvious:
*who owns the door
*where the door leads to
*if have permission to enter or otherwise regardless of whether there is a "keep out" or "everyone welcome" sign.
It is not that easy with a wireless access point.
This is mainly because:
1) the wireless network can extend well beyond the physical limits of the property that it is based on.
2) The only indication of what the network is for is the SSID which is not usually very helpful at all.
If you turn on your computer and a wireless connection becomes available how do you know if this is a free and open wireless network from a local starbucks or soem freewireless organisation/council (eg http://bayareafreefi.com/article.php?id=96&title=L ondon+gets+a+mile+of+free+Wi-Fi)?
or if it is a private network? The SSID most likely will not help and you would most likely have some trouble finding exactly where the signal originates from.
So IMHO an open (unsecured) network is just that. Open for all to use.
If you dont secure your network then you are leaving it open for others to use. If you dont want this to happen then secure it in some way (or stop it from transmitting outside your property - not an easy task).
If there is any security at all then it is closed and private.
Whether you agree with that or not I dont think the door anaolgy can be used to argue this case one way or the other, it just isnt the same thing. The door doesnt extend way out past the property, you can easily see what the door is connected to and who it belongs to, there arent "free doors" available in the same area. doesnt work.
...he can produce/direct The Hobbit and take an even bigger stake in the profits...or something.
yeah, maybe get them to agree to 40%. But make sure they sign the part that says ".. we really, really promise to pay everything we agree to in this contract....this time. "
and make sure they arent crossing their fingers when they do it.
and straight after they do he has to say "no taksies backsies"
he doesnt have to pay lawyers. He just grows them out of the ground like the rest of his evil hordes..
the only difference is he has to make them especially evil for them to become lawyers:-)
the only reason I would care about this in the slightest is if everyone bails out of hotmail and starts using the same email providers as I do (yahoo + gmail). Then all the spammers start to target those providers specifically, ignoring hotmail (particularly if hotmail blocks all spam). This means I get more spam. Although perhaps yahoo and gmail will be a little more pro-active with spam control than Hotmail was (which is why I bailed from them originally) and this wont matter too much. Time will tell I suppose.
At the moment I am quite happy with Hotmail attracting the majority of the spam. Unless of course Spam is spread more evenly across providers and it just seems like I am getting less on yahoo and gmail because they are better at dealing with it than hotmail.
No-one will stop trading with them because they are the fastest growing economy in the world. If one country stops trading with them then all that will happen is that country misses out on the economic opportunities there.
If there is a lot of money at stake people/governments are very happy to turn a blind eye. Exhibit A: you dont hear anyone screaming about ceasing trade with the US over the blatant human rights abuses at guantanamo bay.
We will eventually find out about any technology under wraps by the government, as history has proven. The internet was a military system later released to the public. Colossus and other wartime computers were secret until later on as well. So I wouldn't be so quick to say we will never know*.
Maybe there have been technologies in the past that we really never will know about....(wouldnt it be impossible to prove otherwise?).
I would like to think that everything comes out into the open eventually but who is to say it doesnt/hasnt?
I didnt know George Dubya read slashdot!
welcome George!
When can we expect the entire Google staff to be dragged off to Guantanamo for this obviously anti-patriotic act?
So while some divers might use this in addition to their conventional tanks to extend dive time, it isn't going to replace anybody's conventional scuba tanks.
I would much prefer to use it in the reverse. Have this as the main and a small air tank as the reserve (as it shows in the diagram).
Thousands of people a day use things where a single failure can kill them (e.g. current SCUBA tanks, parachutes, Bungy jumping, abseiling).
I wounder if they have done any tests on the amount of uasage of air in the surrounding water? I dont know if I would be too keen on spending a lot of time in an enclosed wreck dive or cave dive with a couple of other divers. I imagine a few divers could use up the dissolved air pretty quickly. I would hope there is some kind of sensor/monitor keeping an eye on how much air/oxygen is in the surrounding water so you know when to move on.
Another thought, what about the effect on the sea life at high traffic dive sites. Usually popular dive sites have a lot of sea life, which also rely on the oxygen levels in the water. You get a lot of people in there using up the oxygen as well the little fishies mightn't like that!
this was featured recently on 5th Gear (UK - TV show). Top speed is not awesome (approx 110 Mph) but acceleration is very good and completely linear (0-60 Mph in under 4.5 sec). And engine is very very quiet. Light and excellent handling due to carbon chassis and rear-mid mount engine and distributed batteries and range of approx 220miles. But you pay for it. From memory over 300,000 pounds limited production. But at least its heading in the right direction.
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followed up with a bit of:
"Woooohoooo!! I LOVE THIS COMPANY!!! WOOOOO!!!Yeah!!!"
yeah its funny how superpowers tend to bend the rules when it comes to the subject of oil.
some steal software, others "liberate" countries.
Firearms meerly serve to make this right equal for those with more/less physical strength.
No, firearms just up the ante.
You think that once everyone has a handgun it is even? So then the bad guys get semi-automatic weapons. So everyone gets them. All even again. Until the bad guys get automatics and so on...then what?
Maybe everyone should get one nuclear weapon each so we are all even. Problem solved.
Pistols are designed for shooting people. Sometimes this is necessary.
This is Insightful?!?
Yes it is sometimes necessary if you are in the police force or army or whatever but an ordinary citizen? In what situation in your everyday life is it necessary to shoot people?
Maybe I'm naive but it boggles my mind that there are people that think like this, and other people that think this idea is "Insightful".
If you have a "D" in your nucleotide sequence, I suspect you have bigger problems than just patent issues ;-)
If you've got it I suggest you patent it before someone else grabs it !
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only a handful of people wanted to free the slaves?
I assume you are not counting all the actual slaves....
only a handful of people wanted to allow women to vote?
if you dont count all the women......
And there is a big difference between a handful of *people* supporting an idea and a handful of *companies* supporting an idea.
People generally have peoples best interests at heart.
Companies generally have companies best interests at heart, frequently at the expensive of people.
"most whales dont hang out on the surface too often"
riiight. except to, you know, breathe.
Of course there is no absolute proof of detrimental effects on wildlife. But it is rather telling that there was no comment when specifically asked about it.
My guess would be that if they hadnt bothered to test if there could be detrimental effects the answer would have been along the lines of : No effect on wildlife has been found.
If they had done even the smallest tests and found no detrimental effects then the answer would be : No effects have been found in our testing.
But the fact that there is specifically no comment suggests to me that they have let rip a couple of times and proceeded to bust out the nets and scoop up all the floating dead things to cook up for dinner.
From TFA it seems like it is a fairly focussed blast which would hopefully mean limited damage to wildlife but the fact that they wont say doesnt really inspire confidence.
Its not so much what was said but the anonimity that was in question. Speakers corner is not the same thing as it would be pretty hard to stand on your soap box and speak your views while still staying anonymous.
it hasnt been removed...just moved into a sub-directory called "guantanamo_bay".
This was apparently enough to get around any laws pertaining to said killing and torturing within the game.
Could be an interesting test case of sorts if they released the new watered down version and kept the old AO rated version on the shelves (or behind the counter, or wherever they keep the AO rated games).
It would be interesting to see a comparison in the sales figures between the two different versions. Would the AO rating sell better due to its "restricted" status? I'm sure the censors would like to think no-one would buy the AO version but I tend to think otherwise....
From another article here:
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/kazaa-order
"Kazaa's owners would have to apply "maximum pressure" on existing users to upgrade their software to the new, filtered version."
I wonder how the court sees this as being implemented? and how they intend to measure that "maximum pressure" has been applied.
I dont know the architecture of Kazaa. Is it possible for Sharman to "force" a new version out? or could the old version continue to be used as always?
Also the full judgement can be found here:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct
is that with a door it is obvious:
L ondon+gets+a+mile+of+free+Wi-Fi)?
or if it is a private network? The SSID most likely will not help and you would most likely have some trouble finding exactly where the signal originates from.
*who owns the door
*where the door leads to
*if have permission to enter or otherwise regardless of whether there is a "keep out" or "everyone welcome" sign.
It is not that easy with a wireless access point.
This is mainly because:
1) the wireless network can extend well beyond the physical limits of the property that it is based on.
2) The only indication of what the network is for is the SSID which is not usually very helpful at all.
If you turn on your computer and a wireless connection becomes available how do you know if this is a free and open wireless network from a local starbucks or soem freewireless organisation/council (eg http://bayareafreefi.com/article.php?id=96&title=
So IMHO an open (unsecured) network is just that. Open for all to use.
If you dont secure your network then you are leaving it open for others to use. If you dont want this to happen then secure it in some way (or stop it from transmitting outside your property - not an easy task).
If there is any security at all then it is closed and private.
Whether you agree with that or not I dont think the door anaolgy can be used to argue this case one way or the other, it just isnt the same thing. The door doesnt extend way out past the property, you can easily see what the door is connected to and who it belongs to, there arent "free doors" available in the same area. doesnt work.
...he can produce/direct The Hobbit and take an even bigger stake in the profits...or something.
yeah, maybe get them to agree to 40%. But make sure they sign the part that says ".. we really, really promise to pay everything we agree to in this contract....this time. "
and make sure they arent crossing their fingers when they do it.
and straight after they do he has to say "no taksies backsies"
afford better lawyers??!?
:-)
he doesnt have to pay lawyers. He just grows them out of the ground like the rest of his evil hordes..
the only difference is he has to make them especially evil for them to become lawyers
the only reason I would care about this in the slightest is if everyone bails out of hotmail and starts using the same email providers as I do (yahoo + gmail). Then all the spammers start to target those providers specifically, ignoring hotmail (particularly if hotmail blocks all spam). This means I get more spam. Although perhaps yahoo and gmail will be a little more pro-active with spam control than Hotmail was (which is why I bailed from them originally) and this wont matter too much. Time will tell I suppose.
At the moment I am quite happy with Hotmail attracting the majority of the spam. Unless of course Spam is spread more evenly across providers and it just seems like I am getting less on yahoo and gmail because they are better at dealing with it than hotmail.
No-one will stop trading with them because they are the fastest growing economy in the world. If one country stops trading with them then all that will happen is that country misses out on the economic opportunities there.
If there is a lot of money at stake people/governments are very happy to turn a blind eye. Exhibit A: you dont hear anyone screaming about ceasing trade with the US over the blatant human rights abuses at guantanamo bay.
We will eventually find out about any technology under wraps by the government, as history has proven. The internet was a military system later released to the public. Colossus and other wartime computers were secret until later on as well. So I wouldn't be so quick to say we will never know*.
Maybe there have been technologies in the past that we really never will know about....(wouldnt it be impossible to prove otherwise?).
I would like to think that everything comes out into the open eventually but who is to say it doesnt/hasnt?
forget about Neo, finally we might be able to track down the real life Wally...or the woman in the red dress :-P
I didnt know George Dubya read slashdot!
welcome George!
When can we expect the entire Google staff to be dragged off to Guantanamo for this obviously anti-patriotic act?
So while some divers might use this in addition to their conventional tanks to extend dive time, it isn't going to replace anybody's conventional scuba tanks.
I would much prefer to use it in the reverse. Have this as the main and a small air tank as the reserve (as it shows in the diagram). Thousands of people a day use things where a single failure can kill them (e.g. current SCUBA tanks, parachutes, Bungy jumping, abseiling).
I wounder if they have done any tests on the amount of uasage of air in the surrounding water? I dont know if I would be too keen on spending a lot of time in an enclosed wreck dive or cave dive with a couple of other divers. I imagine a few divers could use up the dissolved air pretty quickly. I would hope there is some kind of sensor/monitor keeping an eye on how much air/oxygen is in the surrounding water so you know when to move on.
Another thought, what about the effect on the sea life at high traffic dive sites. Usually popular dive sites have a lot of sea life, which also rely on the oxygen levels in the water. You get a lot of people in there using up the oxygen as well the little fishies mightn't like that!
this was featured recently on 5th Gear (UK - TV show). Top speed is not awesome (approx 110 Mph) but acceleration is very good and completely linear (0-60 Mph in under 4.5 sec). And engine is very very quiet. Light and excellent handling due to carbon chassis and rear-mid mount engine and distributed batteries and range of approx 220miles. But you pay for it. From memory over 300,000 pounds limited production. But at least its heading in the right direction.