" Looks like they've just taken it down but it's still available on The Pirate Bay; not sure why but some of the academic researchers are going crazy musing the ethical aspects of letting the world know who's searching for how to kill their wives..."
Because of the presumption that your are not breaking the law? We all have things to hide. Some don't even break the law but could be bad if they were out there. Presumably this guy hasn't killed his wife either. If there was a dead wife and her husband was a suspect, it should not be a problem to get the household computer IP search history from AOL. It is even legal.
Should we investigate anyone that talks about killing someone. We all say that in jest from time to time.
This is the same stupidity behind the automated listening to conversations. It generates too many false positives and it wastes investigator time. Gods know we don't need more fuzzy leads for possible crimes. There are many ACTUAL crimes out there that need investigating.
Maybe you won't object to a camera in every room of your house? After all you are not guilty of anything are you?
If we link this story together with the president's veto of the Stem Cell Research and Clinton's Clipper program we begin to see the trend.
They (NSA/CIA/etc) have already developed stem cell research to the point that they can make biometric fakes of anyone. Obviously they want to push for extensive use of biometrics while keeping this ACE in their pockets. In the future we will no longer be using complex things like 1024 or longer keys to encrypt messages. We will be using biometric keys which now they can very easily break.
Yeah we are discussing semantincs. I call copyright law an implied license because that is what you get when you don't attach a license. If copyright law was not there. Then you would be free to do WHATEVER you wanted with the product you buy. You could copy and sell it, etc. Due to copyright law some restrictions apply and that is why I call that an implied license. You get to do a LOT of things still none of which include making copies and selling them to friends.
What happens is that the industry is not happy and they want to force a more restrictive license (in some cases, the GNU license for example, does away with many of the restrictions) on their users.
So I think we are agreeing. Given the restrictions imposed by copyright law, there is no need for an extra license. That is unless you want to do things like force people to pay A LOT MORE by forcing them to pay every time they play or allow them to use it only in one physical location, etc, etc. Things that were not feasible before become feasible now through technical means. Then you just make it a criminal offense to circumvent the technical means and count the money. That is until the invicible hand of offer and demand kills you and/or your product.
You buy an implied license which is what copyright law gives you. You don't get to do whatever you want to do with it. You get to do what the implied right that are given to you.
See I think that is the problem. Coding does have to do with the skill that math develops. Yes it has little to do with particular theorems, etc but it has a lot to do with the logical, critical thinking, neatness of though and particularly an aesthetical appreciation of abstract constructs that is not developed by just learning a particular language, etc. There is a reason with Computer Science is in the Science area.
The US is graduating line workers with very little creative skills. Yes they are good coders and they are what industry wants but they are not really given the skills that can make them trully outstanding coders. Some of them realize they don't have them and get them by themselves but no thanks to the US education system.
The ones that would probably not be too happy are the grunts on foot or the ones on the Hummer following the tank in the direction of the RPG. Actually anyone friendly between the RPG and the countermeasure.
It would work in a regular fight but probably it can be exploited to generate more casualties if one can set up the situation, just like the insurgents can.
Not for civil suits. The test there is preponderance of the evidence. Beyond reasonable doubt is for criminal suits.
For example you may not be found guilty of murder, but still be found guilty in a civil suit and have to pay damages to the families. You don't go to jail but you loose your money unless you move to a state (like Florida for example) and you can protect an even bigger part of your state.
I think the OJ Simpson case went that way right?
Yeah, there is a guy that fixes our machines and he IS really good. I always ask for him, the one with the long hair and the wierd accent (I think he is South African). I never ask for him by name, yet everyone can identify him.:P
The fact that you found the MSDS means to me that you have a clue about what the MSDS is. So my only conclusion is that you are a troll looking for a reaction.
From personal experience in an EMBA class that cost a lot of money and which has a laptop requirement. A lot of the professor would ban the laptops in class and in those that didn't it was very common to see a lot of the people chatting in class with Yahoo about things not really related to the topic at hand.
Requiring a computer I can understand. Maintaining a lab for student general use is getting expensive now a days with all the licensed software and administrators required.
A laptop however is probably more problem than help.
I would strongly suggest you add = whatever it is version ~x86 to/etc/portage/package.keywords You can even use # for comments and when the x86 catches up to the ~x86 you just keep upgrading automagically. Sometime though you have a problem with dependecies also requiring ~x86 but you can just add them the same way. It is safer than doing a global ~x86.
There was an analysis of the cost of the PS3 and the DVD alone was almost as expensive as the CPU. Then they proceeded to say that since the definition of the standard was not finished it would also delay the release date of the PS3 if the hardware spec for it didn't change.
So this is another area were SONY the device manufacturer is hurting its core business so that SONY the movie mogul can hold on to an outdated business model.
The only winner here are MS, Nintendo and all the Chinese/Russian pirates that now will have a bigger market of casual pirates that will find it easier to get their warez from them.
Nah I agree with the principle of what you said. It is unethical, but in a class geared towards ethics and the law, it should be mentioned how unethical it is for the discussion to be framed by the terms "pirate" and "thief". Why not go to the next step and call it murder?
If we can go from a Tort to a Crime, then we can go the next level to Manslaughter to Murder and eventually take all of this to the an international court as a crime against humanity.
That really was my point. Copyright infringment is at the lowest level of what society considers bad behavior, and to many people it is so low that it doesn't even merit paying attention. Just like speeding, etc. Granted there is drive ed at school but how useful is it really in keeping kids from speeding?
What I've seen calls more for something like a 1" wide, very thin tape at the thinnest (around Geostationary) and going to about 6" wide and still as thick. Why would it have to be any bigger? Remember that we are looking at material that is MUCH stronger per unit of mass/volume than steel (our usual frame of reference) and that it is always in tension, more like a cable. The weight of the crawler would be insignificant compared to the structure.
A movie as in the copyrighted item is not the property of anyone. That is why copyright infringment is not thievery. When you break a copyright law you are not stealing anything.
It is more like breaking a contract. Normally it is an implied contract unless other restrictions are put in place. When you buy the CD you are buying the media itself which is yours to do with as you please, but you are also getting a contract regarding the music there. You get ALL of the implied rights granted by copyright law minus (or plus) whatever is spelled out in the product. For example you cannot play the music for the public. All these DJs that play their CDs are supposed to pay an extra fee for that and if not they are in copyright violation.
So NO you are not stealing anything in the legal sense.
Yup. Every time you move mass up the elevator you get a coriolis force that would deflect the cable but since it is in tension, the earth would slow down its rotation. Realy it is conservation of momentum. The mass will carry it so in the end what happens is that earth spin slows, the classical example is the ice skater that when she brings her arms close spins faster when she puts them out slower.
It will depend on where it breaks. Cut it at the counterweight and it will wrap itself around the earth pretty fast. The top will burn on re-entry, the bottom would be going so slow that it will be easy to get out of its way and even then it would no cause much damage, kinda like falling leafs since it is so light and has such a big section.
You cut it at the base (on earth) and it will jump up by whatever tension it had at the bottom and if it goes high enough from the dense bottom part of the atmosphere then it may be possible to reattach it. If not it just may end up as a whipping mass but still with its CG in geostationary orbit.
Cut it anywhere else and you get a mix. The stuff over the cut will go higher based on how much tension was at that point, and the stuff under will fall.
It would make a VERY tempting target given the amount of money that would go into it and how little you'd need to make all that dissapear.
I remember seeing an article (don't remember if online or a periodical) that said essentially that it would depend where the break happens.
The stuff high up will burn on reentry and the stuff way down would wrap around earth very slowly, kinda like a leaf falling down. The counterweight would either escape earth or go into a higher orbit but moment would be conserved. I don't think a nuke would do much to it.
More than likely an attach at the anchor point on earth or an attack on the strand itself is what would happen. Then there is the problem of all this junk that is in orbit between earth and the counterweight that would also like to snap the strand. Some kind of protection would have to be developed.
Once one strand is up then redundancy can be built in by putting even more strands.
Safety wise, the most dangerous object was the elevator cabin itself since it would be bulkier.
Have you ever tried to take a dump and pee at the same time? Similar problem. Not really, what really is the main problem is that most programs run in sequential steps and there is limited paralelism. For example, if you are trying to make a cake you cannot start cooking it until you mixed the ingredients, however you can mix the batter and the glaze at the same time so there is limited paralelism. That kinda gives you an idea of the time/improvements from two cores. It is like having two cooks. They also get in each other way so there is some efficiency loss there. Overall for most tasks is really not much gain when you look at it per task. However if you are cooking dinner then you may be running two or three dishes at the same time, very little in common bu they don't have to wait for each other. There you gain a LOT from multiple chefs. Of course one may be sitting idle waiting for the other to release the oven. That is the resource contention problems a core faces when trying to get something say like a byte from memory. If you have two ovens (or two memory controllers each accessing a different bank of memory) then you can cook at the same time with little contention for resources.
There is a temperature at which you don't have water anymore. In the presence of the right catalyst you may have a core that creates H2 and O2 if you get the pressure and temperatures right. You may not even need the catalyst.
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" Looks like they've just taken it down but it's still available on The Pirate Bay; not sure why but some of the academic researchers are going crazy musing the ethical aspects of letting the world know who's searching for how to kill their wives ..."
Because of the presumption that your are not breaking the law? We all have things to hide. Some don't even break the law but could be bad if they were out there. Presumably this guy hasn't killed his wife either. If there was a dead wife and her husband was a suspect, it should not be a problem to get the household computer IP search history from AOL. It is even legal.
Should we investigate anyone that talks about killing someone. We all say that in jest from time to time.
This is the same stupidity behind the automated listening to conversations. It generates too many false positives and it wastes investigator time. Gods know we don't need more fuzzy leads for possible crimes. There are many ACTUAL crimes out there that need investigating.
Maybe you won't object to a camera in every room of your house? After all you are not guilty of anything are you?
If we link this story together with the president's veto of the Stem Cell Research and Clinton's Clipper program we begin to see the trend.
They (NSA/CIA/etc) have already developed stem cell research to the point that they can make biometric fakes of anyone. Obviously they want to push for extensive use of biometrics while keeping this ACE in their pockets. In the future we will no longer be using complex things like 1024 or longer keys to encrypt messages. We will be using biometric keys which now they can very easily break.
Yeah we are discussing semantincs. I call copyright law an implied license because that is what you get when you don't attach a license. If copyright law was not there. Then you would be free to do WHATEVER you wanted with the product you buy. You could copy and sell it, etc. Due to copyright law some restrictions apply and that is why I call that an implied license. You get to do a LOT of things still none of which include making copies and selling them to friends.
What happens is that the industry is not happy and they want to force a more restrictive license (in some cases, the GNU license for example, does away with many of the restrictions) on their users.
So I think we are agreeing. Given the restrictions imposed by copyright law, there is no need for an extra license. That is unless you want to do things like force people to pay A LOT MORE by forcing them to pay every time they play or allow them to use it only in one physical location, etc, etc. Things that were not feasible before become feasible now through technical means. Then you just make it a criminal offense to circumvent the technical means and count the money. That is until the invicible hand of offer and demand kills you and/or your product.
You buy an implied license which is what copyright law gives you. You don't get to do whatever you want to do with it. You get to do what the implied right that are given to you.
There are many things that don't work with ndiswrapper. Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is one.
They can still reconstruct the data. Maybe not make sense of it but they can reconstruct it and save it somewhere for later.
See I think that is the problem. Coding does have to do with the skill that math develops. Yes it has little to do with particular theorems, etc but it has a lot to do with the logical, critical thinking, neatness of though and particularly an aesthetical appreciation of abstract constructs that is not developed by just learning a particular language, etc. There is a reason with Computer Science is in the Science area. The US is graduating line workers with very little creative skills. Yes they are good coders and they are what industry wants but they are not really given the skills that can make them trully outstanding coders. Some of them realize they don't have them and get them by themselves but no thanks to the US education system.
The ones that would probably not be too happy are the grunts on foot or the ones on the Hummer following the tank in the direction of the RPG. Actually anyone friendly between the RPG and the countermeasure. It would work in a regular fight but probably it can be exploited to generate more casualties if one can set up the situation, just like the insurgents can.
Actually they were able to put the jumbo on low earth orbit and they shoot down the missile at the apex of its trajectory.
Not for civil suits. The test there is preponderance of the evidence. Beyond reasonable doubt is for criminal suits. For example you may not be found guilty of murder, but still be found guilty in a civil suit and have to pay damages to the families. You don't go to jail but you loose your money unless you move to a state (like Florida for example) and you can protect an even bigger part of your state. I think the OJ Simpson case went that way right?
Yeah, there is a guy that fixes our machines and he IS really good. I always ask for him, the one with the long hair and the wierd accent (I think he is South African). I never ask for him by name, yet everyone can identify him. :P
The fact that you found the MSDS means to me that you have a clue about what the MSDS is. So my only conclusion is that you are a troll looking for a reaction.
From personal experience in an EMBA class that cost a lot of money and which has a laptop requirement. A lot of the professor would ban the laptops in class and in those that didn't it was very common to see a lot of the people chatting in class with Yahoo about things not really related to the topic at hand.
Requiring a computer I can understand. Maintaining a lab for student general use is getting expensive now a days with all the licensed software and administrators required.
A laptop however is probably more problem than help.
I would strongly suggest you add = whatever it is version ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords You can even use # for comments and when the x86 catches up to the ~x86 you just keep upgrading automagically. Sometime though you have a problem with dependecies also requiring ~x86 but you can just add them the same way. It is safer than doing a global ~x86.
Do you own an iPod and listen to it at high volume? That would explain it.
There was an analysis of the cost of the PS3 and the DVD alone was almost as expensive as the CPU. Then they proceeded to say that since the definition of the standard was not finished it would also delay the release date of the PS3 if the hardware spec for it didn't change.
So this is another area were SONY the device manufacturer is hurting its core business so that SONY the movie mogul can hold on to an outdated business model.
The only winner here are MS, Nintendo and all the Chinese/Russian pirates that now will have a bigger market of casual pirates that will find it easier to get their warez from them.
Sad.
Nah I agree with the principle of what you said. It is unethical, but in a class geared towards ethics and the law, it should be mentioned how unethical it is for the discussion to be framed by the terms "pirate" and "thief". Why not go to the next step and call it murder?
If we can go from a Tort to a Crime, then we can go the next level to Manslaughter to Murder and eventually take all of this to the an international court as a crime against humanity.
That really was my point. Copyright infringment is at the lowest level of what society considers bad behavior, and to many people it is so low that it doesn't even merit paying attention. Just like speeding, etc. Granted there is drive ed at school but how useful is it really in keeping kids from speeding?
What I've seen calls more for something like a 1" wide, very thin tape at the thinnest (around Geostationary) and going to about 6" wide and still as thick. Why would it have to be any bigger? Remember that we are looking at material that is MUCH stronger per unit of mass/volume than steel (our usual frame of reference) and that it is always in tension, more like a cable. The weight of the crawler would be insignificant compared to the structure.
You missed the: So help me Metallica.
A movie as in the copyrighted item is not the property of anyone. That is why copyright infringment is not thievery. When you break a copyright law you are not stealing anything. It is more like breaking a contract. Normally it is an implied contract unless other restrictions are put in place. When you buy the CD you are buying the media itself which is yours to do with as you please, but you are also getting a contract regarding the music there. You get ALL of the implied rights granted by copyright law minus (or plus) whatever is spelled out in the product. For example you cannot play the music for the public. All these DJs that play their CDs are supposed to pay an extra fee for that and if not they are in copyright violation. So NO you are not stealing anything in the legal sense.
Yup. Every time you move mass up the elevator you get a coriolis force that would deflect the cable but since it is in tension, the earth would slow down its rotation. Realy it is conservation of momentum. The mass will carry it so in the end what happens is that earth spin slows, the classical example is the ice skater that when she brings her arms close spins faster when she puts them out slower.
It will depend on where it breaks. Cut it at the counterweight and it will wrap itself around the earth pretty fast. The top will burn on re-entry, the bottom would be going so slow that it will be easy to get out of its way and even then it would no cause much damage, kinda like falling leafs since it is so light and has such a big section. You cut it at the base (on earth) and it will jump up by whatever tension it had at the bottom and if it goes high enough from the dense bottom part of the atmosphere then it may be possible to reattach it. If not it just may end up as a whipping mass but still with its CG in geostationary orbit. Cut it anywhere else and you get a mix. The stuff over the cut will go higher based on how much tension was at that point, and the stuff under will fall. It would make a VERY tempting target given the amount of money that would go into it and how little you'd need to make all that dissapear.
I remember seeing an article (don't remember if online or a periodical) that said essentially that it would depend where the break happens. The stuff high up will burn on reentry and the stuff way down would wrap around earth very slowly, kinda like a leaf falling down. The counterweight would either escape earth or go into a higher orbit but moment would be conserved. I don't think a nuke would do much to it. More than likely an attach at the anchor point on earth or an attack on the strand itself is what would happen. Then there is the problem of all this junk that is in orbit between earth and the counterweight that would also like to snap the strand. Some kind of protection would have to be developed. Once one strand is up then redundancy can be built in by putting even more strands. Safety wise, the most dangerous object was the elevator cabin itself since it would be bulkier.
Have you ever tried to take a dump and pee at the same time? Similar problem. Not really, what really is the main problem is that most programs run in sequential steps and there is limited paralelism. For example, if you are trying to make a cake you cannot start cooking it until you mixed the ingredients, however you can mix the batter and the glaze at the same time so there is limited paralelism. That kinda gives you an idea of the time/improvements from two cores. It is like having two cooks. They also get in each other way so there is some efficiency loss there. Overall for most tasks is really not much gain when you look at it per task. However if you are cooking dinner then you may be running two or three dishes at the same time, very little in common bu they don't have to wait for each other. There you gain a LOT from multiple chefs. Of course one may be sitting idle waiting for the other to release the oven. That is the resource contention problems a core faces when trying to get something say like a byte from memory. If you have two ovens (or two memory controllers each accessing a different bank of memory) then you can cook at the same time with little contention for resources.
There is a temperature at which you don't have water anymore. In the presence of the right catalyst you may have a core that creates H2 and O2 if you get the pressure and temperatures right. You may not even need the catalyst.