The comment was not dumb. You are paving over some important terrain here.
Solutions for commerce will arise from commerce itself. Any decent e-tailer has a password system which eliminates the problem you describe. Also, they rely heavily upon a presumption of good-enough security in the credit card system.
Regulating commerce is not the same as shoe-horning it into slow-moving, inflexible government mandated solutions to problems that go away long before the "solutions" do.
We already have a mostly satisfactory system of ID verification in place, negotiated between consumers and suppliers, who both, after all, insist that the thing work.
Here's a chestnut: "There's no chance that a centralized database will emerge." Nonsense. That is *exactly* what will emerge. Do not start this project if you do not want to see it finished.
Incidentally, if ISPs would block forged headers, many of our current problems would not exist, and as has been pointed out, IPv6 will solve many of the (very) near future problems. hard-coding a person to IP address is not necessary. I'll be happy to be *officially* DHCP to the world, and DynDNS if I want more.
Gosh--if only the technological prowess and unparalleled economic might of the United States could somehow transport us between fairy tale wonderlands and our hookers and gambling--a little faster.
Funny. When Israel and Saudi Arabia were being fired upon by Saddam Hussein's scuds, not knowing what was in the warheads, they thought land-based missile defense was a pretty good idea. And now that Japan has seen North Korea both detonate a nuke (albeit likely the size of a school bus) AND lob a missile completely across Japan, they rather appreciate the idea of sea-based missile defense. And we need look no further than Vladimir Putin's hostile reaction to the proposed eastern Europe missile *defense* system to see that not everybody thinks the idea is so God-Damned funny.
To me it reads more like a Nigerian scam. "I am Doctor GuruGuru Samson, former Finance Minister of the Bank of WallaWalla. If you kind people will tell me how to break into Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Linux machines, that would be great."
I don't believe you. If this is actually a questionable case, the Police certainly know people who can do this, and they have legal advice. If you are on the level, you're going to need more than a lawyer.
Insurance companies charge me higher rates based on my Y chromosome and its supposed predictive effects on my behavior. This is a far weaker link than other types of genes-to-outcomes linking.
Notice how the leftist swearing flamebait above you gets modded "Insightful, 5", while your conservative informative rebuttal gets modded "Flamebait,2". Let's see how it goes when the mods have settled this thread.
I don't know much about this, and the press release wasn't exactly illuminating, but said the APIs include Python. So if I have a SQL server hanging off of this AppServer/ISR, would that be a good place to deploy the front-end to a database?
Or Feminisation, as this was done in the UK. Shame on you for paying attention to instincts which protected your particular history of DNA for millions of years to the present. The government says you must not resist your mugger, your assailant, your attacker. Sit there and take it or be branded mentally divergent.
Unlike some other comments have claimed, Parent is not a troll for calling Democrats hypocrites. How about the guy who wrote the summary? He talks about the "'let's pry into everyone's business' Republicans" versus the "'make the rich pay their fair share' Democrats. Why not the "'Financial transparency leads to better accountability' Republicans" versus the " 'Nobody should be rich enough to create any jobs' Democrats"?
...and we know what happens when it is set too far in the direction of limiting the actions of the FBI about "information they aren't allowed to have". Try googling "Gorelick wall". For a really interesting take on coverups, read about how the woman whose policies made 9/11 possible also sat on the 9/11 Commission. Interesting.
Guess what--OSHA (or *SHA) "actually has guidelines" for mining as well. Guidelines don't keep anybody safe. Enforcement does. "Hold it right there, Buddy, or I'll call 911" is a guideline. "Freeze." (click) is enforcement.
And I probably disagree with you about many things, but I agree whole-heartedly with your point about childish mods. Conversation with people you always agree with is called *smalltalk*.
And they didn't come up with the idea. All they did was move from a flat-file mentality to a relational understanding (note how I shade the difference...). They have "invented" the recursive foreign key connection, which is how a single table in a database can hold a single list of all employees, and another tiny table holds the supervisory links between employees. That way, a manager can be your boss, but the Department Head's subordinate. Meanwhile, the DH is a subordinate of somebody else... Gee, if only I had this PATENTED technology, I could keep track of who the DH works for!
So this is nothing like an idea they came up with; not even the application of it to role-based access controls. I hope that Dare2Learn (or whomever that was) appeals on the thunderingly obvious previous art argument, and gets the whole patent thrown out. You know, if you can do that in an appeal (I don't know). Gosh, short of that, I'd like to see a free LMS eat Blackboard's lunch.
I'm surprised. I'm really steamed that this patent was even awarded. Who argues these things?
What damage is alleged to have been done if "...no one knows or can know whether they were illegally spied upon"?
What if I want to go through the files of a certain investigation down at the Police Department, just because I want to know whether I have been named by anybody, in any capacity? Me, me, me--that's what I keep hearing about on Slashdot. Nevermind all of the people trying to do their jobs and protect us all. Keep me safe, just don't bring *me* into it.
Hmm. If you are dethroned and thrown out of a window, you have been *defenestrated*. If you instead dethrone and throw out Windows, what is that called?
Your post is deranged, so I'll respond to your.sig:
An individual's pompous pronouncements on internet fora should be proportional to that person's ability to use the local language.
Upon completing my liberal education, the real learning began.
Of course the p.o.d. ballots are an accident waiting to happen. The whole point of printing the ballots ahead of time is to ensure to the extent possible *ahead of time*, i.e., with time for corrective action to be taken, that there will be no systemic failures. I am impressed by the spectacular cheapness displayed in the decision to go to a "just-in-time" solution for a system which should not accept delays.
Way to argue on a tangent! An argument for the death penalty is no more a "death threat", as you put it, than an argument against the death penalty is a "rape threat" in view of the absent deterrent effect.
Your next point about the lack of appeal from the grave does nothing to argue against the death penalty--it argues for it. The fact that death is final is the whole principle of the strongest deterrent. People really do pay more attention to threats to their own lives than they do to annoyances, which is fundamentally what prison is. They don't remove your arms, they don't pull out your teeth, they just make your life incredibly tedious.
But buried in your advice to the GP is a conceited fallacy which is common in anti-death-penalty argument: the idea that the legal system needs to be perfect before it takes a life. Wrong. Nothing is perfect. Mistakes will be made. Suck it up. But we abandon such obviously good ideas as "do away with those who are not fit to live" to the peril of our society. Should we argue that humanity needs perfecting before we abolish the death penalty?
I figure that the Jews should copyright Ethical Monotheism, license it to the Christians with a disclaimer, and sue the Muslims for unauthorized derivative works injurious to the original copyright holders. And they can stick their pyramids where the sun don't shine.
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The comment was not dumb. You are paving over some important terrain here. Solutions for commerce will arise from commerce itself. Any decent e-tailer has a password system which eliminates the problem you describe. Also, they rely heavily upon a presumption of good-enough security in the credit card system. Regulating commerce is not the same as shoe-horning it into slow-moving, inflexible government mandated solutions to problems that go away long before the "solutions" do. We already have a mostly satisfactory system of ID verification in place, negotiated between consumers and suppliers, who both, after all, insist that the thing work. Here's a chestnut: "There's no chance that a centralized database will emerge." Nonsense. That is *exactly* what will emerge. Do not start this project if you do not want to see it finished. Incidentally, if ISPs would block forged headers, many of our current problems would not exist, and as has been pointed out, IPv6 will solve many of the (very) near future problems. hard-coding a person to IP address is not necessary. I'll be happy to be *officially* DHCP to the world, and DynDNS if I want more.
What a world we might make then.
Heh. I'm just ignoring him. *smile*
...That which is done from love exists beyond good and evil... Sounds like Fascism--"The ends justify the means".
Funny. When Israel and Saudi Arabia were being fired upon by Saddam Hussein's scuds, not knowing what was in the warheads, they thought land-based missile defense was a pretty good idea. And now that Japan has seen North Korea both detonate a nuke (albeit likely the size of a school bus) AND lob a missile completely across Japan, they rather appreciate the idea of sea-based missile defense. And we need look no further than Vladimir Putin's hostile reaction to the proposed eastern Europe missile *defense* system to see that not everybody thinks the idea is so God-Damned funny.
The time has come for you to learn to spell WHOSE.
To me it reads more like a Nigerian scam. "I am Doctor GuruGuru Samson, former Finance Minister of the Bank of WallaWalla. If you kind people will tell me how to break into Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Linux machines, that would be great."
I don't believe you. If this is actually a questionable case, the Police certainly know people who can do this, and they have legal advice. If you are on the level, you're going to need more than a lawyer.
Insurance companies charge me higher rates based on my Y chromosome and its supposed predictive effects on my behavior. This is a far weaker link than other types of genes-to-outcomes linking.
Notice how the leftist swearing flamebait above you gets modded "Insightful, 5", while your conservative informative rebuttal gets modded "Flamebait,2". Let's see how it goes when the mods have settled this thread.
I don't know much about this, and the press release wasn't exactly illuminating, but said the APIs include Python. So if I have a SQL server hanging off of this AppServer/ISR, would that be a good place to deploy the front-end to a database?
And it still costs a month's wages in DurkaDurkaStan.
Or Feminisation, as this was done in the UK. Shame on you for paying attention to instincts which protected your particular history of DNA for millions of years to the present. The government says you must not resist your mugger, your assailant, your attacker. Sit there and take it or be branded mentally divergent.
Oh, Sorry. Forgot where I was.
...and we know what happens when it is set too far in the direction of limiting the actions of the FBI about "information they aren't allowed to have". Try googling "Gorelick wall". For a really interesting take on coverups, read about how the woman whose policies made 9/11 possible also sat on the 9/11 Commission. Interesting.
They're going to launch it off of a bridge in Chappaquiddick.
And I probably disagree with you about many things, but I agree whole-heartedly with your point about childish mods. Conversation with people you always agree with is called *smalltalk*.
So this is nothing like an idea they came up with; not even the application of it to role-based access controls. I hope that Dare2Learn (or whomever that was) appeals on the thunderingly obvious previous art argument, and gets the whole patent thrown out. You know, if you can do that in an appeal (I don't know). Gosh, short of that, I'd like to see a free LMS eat Blackboard's lunch.
I'm surprised. I'm really steamed that this patent was even awarded. Who argues these things?
Supreme Court writes: "We don't believe in imaginary problems."
What if I want to go through the files of a certain investigation down at the Police Department, just because I want to know whether I have been named by anybody, in any capacity? Me, me, me--that's what I keep hearing about on Slashdot. Nevermind all of the people trying to do their jobs and protect us all. Keep me safe, just don't bring *me* into it.
Children.
I don't know, but it sounds like this:
Dook-Dookoo-Deek-Deek, Dook-Dook-Deek-Deek, Dook-Dook-Dook-TSShhh!
An individual's pompous pronouncements on internet fora should be proportional to that person's ability to use the local language.
Upon completing my liberal education, the real learning began.
Of course the p.o.d. ballots are an accident waiting to happen. The whole point of printing the ballots ahead of time is to ensure to the extent possible *ahead of time*, i.e., with time for corrective action to be taken, that there will be no systemic failures. I am impressed by the spectacular cheapness displayed in the decision to go to a "just-in-time" solution for a system which should not accept delays.
Your next point about the lack of appeal from the grave does nothing to argue against the death penalty--it argues for it. The fact that death is final is the whole principle of the strongest deterrent. People really do pay more attention to threats to their own lives than they do to annoyances, which is fundamentally what prison is. They don't remove your arms, they don't pull out your teeth, they just make your life incredibly tedious.
But buried in your advice to the GP is a conceited fallacy which is common in anti-death-penalty argument: the idea that the legal system needs to be perfect before it takes a life. Wrong. Nothing is perfect. Mistakes will be made. Suck it up. But we abandon such obviously good ideas as "do away with those who are not fit to live" to the peril of our society. Should we argue that humanity needs perfecting before we abolish the death penalty?
Didn't think so.
I figure that the Jews should copyright Ethical Monotheism, license it to the Christians with a disclaimer, and sue the Muslims for unauthorized derivative works injurious to the original copyright holders. And they can stick their pyramids where the sun don't shine.
You forgot your tag~