For day-to-day stuff, it doesn't even need to be terribly strong encryption. It just has to be painful enough for them to be unable to brute force the packets in real time.
Many martial art styles have been transmitted for hundreds of years. If the style itself caused any kind of injury to the teacher, there wouldn't have been any students.
What it comes down to is doing too much too quickly. Whether it is the fault of the teacher or the student is irrelevent. For the sake of retaining students, teachers speed up the cirriculum by cutting out the boring parts. It's not that they'll force students to do something beyond their capabilities, but that they'll gloss over or outright cut the things that build up a foundation.
And on the flip side, students will try to advance to the next level by pushing their bodies sometimes well beyond their limits (while it's fine to do so in an emergency, repeatedly doing this just results in damage over time). Even toeing the line is dangerous, because that line isn't at all discrete. Different things break down at different stress levels, and different stress gets applied to different things.
Even a system as benign as tai chi can injure the knees of a practitioner if that person immediately tries to do low stances without having first built up to it.
I diagree that patent terms should depend on the duration to market.
Companies who aren't ready to sell their new wares can always keep it a trade secret. Patents should last long enough to recoup the research expenses, if that long (I personally would advocate for the outright dissolving of patents, but I'm trying to compromise here). That would be within the 2 to 5 year timeframe.
If companies lay off their best employees (foreign or domestic) because they're the most expensive to keep on board
That's not the issue. The issue is that the discrimination against the employees on a H1B visa versus full citizens. It's about laying off the people who are on visas first regardless of capability or performance.
And yes, it is discrimination. And companies can get away with it because the people they're discriminating against aren't citizens, and thus according to the SCOTUS, aren't entitled to the rights of a citizen. But it doesn't make it any more ethical.
You're correct, assuming there's only one doctor in the world. But there are a lot of doctors out there. And even if one guy doesn't want to help you if you don't give him all of your possessions, you can always go to another guy.
What you want to be afraid of is doctors forming a union and intimidating the non-unionized doctors. Fortunately, they've only gone as far as medical boards. And ethically, doctors probably wouldn't stand for the usual strong-arm tactics employed by unions.
To bring this back into relevency, youtube's a little different though.
1) You can't block their video ads.
2) The quality of service they offer is completely dependent on their users.
They won't disappear because of all the small-fry users getting pissed and leaving. But they certainly won't have the mindshare of the masses as a place to host homemade videos online.
Assuming these pictures didn't span multiple visits and taking the following into account: 1. The shadows in all the pics show the sun is at a very low angle. 2. The state of the trees, combined with green IVY in pic 3 indicate its mid-fall. 3. In mid-fall sun would only be as low as the reflection in the bomb containment vessel in the mid/late-morning and the evening. 4. The clock indicates it is 10:33:24 (can't be PM because of the sun) 5. The upper left looks like a morning talk show, and the lower left looks to be a talk show, or game show. (the other is an interior cam)
I can conclude that they most likely have tuned the TV to local over-the-air TV stations to show that they can both monitor the news and closed circuit feeds on their display system....
I'll accept the idea that the government is the problem, only if it means getting rid of government-sanctioned monopolies (IP) and government-sanctioned non-existent individuals (corporations).
If a government exists, it has to do its job regulating, taxing, and doling out benefits. If it doesn't exist, then it should not be doing anything. Following any intermediate path is just a method for the powerful to remain in power.
Agreed. Why are large celestial bodies spherical? It is the most efficient configuration with the least complexity. The same applies to the universe. The most efficient configuration for the least complexity wins.
In life, genetic diversity means the species has a better chance of survival. OS diversity, processor, and even instruction set diversity, is important for the same ends.
So it's not worth much to attack Linux or OSX or one of the BSD's. If all of these OS's including Windows had the same, 20% marketshare, perhaps it wouldn't be worth it to attack any of them. Or, it might actually be worth it to go for the low hanging fruit, namely, the easier-to-use OS's (OSX, Windows, and possibly a flavor of Linux). But the returns for the amount of work needed to attack 3 or 4 different OS's definitely wouldn't be as high, and the incentive for creating malware would be much less.
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For day-to-day stuff, it doesn't even need to be terribly strong encryption. It just has to be painful enough for them to be unable to brute force the packets in real time.
Depends on the size of the rock, I guess, but I find getting hit by a chair much more painful.
Many martial art styles have been transmitted for hundreds of years. If the style itself caused any kind of injury to the teacher, there wouldn't have been any students.
What it comes down to is doing too much too quickly. Whether it is the fault of the teacher or the student is irrelevent. For the sake of retaining students, teachers speed up the cirriculum by cutting out the boring parts. It's not that they'll force students to do something beyond their capabilities, but that they'll gloss over or outright cut the things that build up a foundation.
And on the flip side, students will try to advance to the next level by pushing their bodies sometimes well beyond their limits (while it's fine to do so in an emergency, repeatedly doing this just results in damage over time). Even toeing the line is dangerous, because that line isn't at all discrete. Different things break down at different stress levels, and different stress gets applied to different things.
Even a system as benign as tai chi can injure the knees of a practitioner if that person immediately tries to do low stances without having first built up to it.
Might as well not have children.
They are quite capable of IP-infringing their own
There, fixed that for ya.
They're getting ready to reach escape velocity.
Your statement is wrong. Both paper and houses are superfluous.
I guess "What will end civilization as we know it?" was the question huh.
Touch screen technology has been around since the 70's. People have been waiting for the relevant patents to expire, which they did recently.
As for that C-
That's +5 insightful to you, buddy.
I diagree that patent terms should depend on the duration to market.
Companies who aren't ready to sell their new wares can always keep it a trade secret. Patents should last long enough to recoup the research expenses, if that long (I personally would advocate for the outright dissolving of patents, but I'm trying to compromise here). That would be within the 2 to 5 year timeframe.
And that's sort of what they're doing now. Except the people in your VISA program are actually illegal immigrants.
If companies lay off their best employees (foreign or domestic) because they're the most expensive to keep on board
That's not the issue. The issue is that the discrimination against the employees on a H1B visa versus full citizens. It's about laying off the people who are on visas first regardless of capability or performance.
And yes, it is discrimination. And companies can get away with it because the people they're discriminating against aren't citizens, and thus according to the SCOTUS, aren't entitled to the rights of a citizen. But it doesn't make it any more ethical.
You're correct, assuming there's only one doctor in the world. But there are a lot of doctors out there. And even if one guy doesn't want to help you if you don't give him all of your possessions, you can always go to another guy.
What you want to be afraid of is doctors forming a union and intimidating the non-unionized doctors. Fortunately, they've only gone as far as medical boards. And ethically, doctors probably wouldn't stand for the usual strong-arm tactics employed by unions.
To bring this back into relevency, youtube's a little different though.
1) You can't block their video ads.
2) The quality of service they offer is completely dependent on their users.
They won't disappear because of all the small-fry users getting pissed and leaving. But they certainly won't have the mindshare of the masses as a place to host homemade videos online.
Wait, so is GP liable if you act on his advice?
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To paraphrase:
Assuming these pictures didn't span multiple visits and taking the following into account:
1. The shadows in all the pics show the sun is at a very low angle.
2. The state of the trees, combined with green IVY in pic 3 indicate its mid-fall.
3. In mid-fall sun would only be as low as the reflection in the bomb containment vessel in the mid/late-morning and the evening.
4. The clock indicates it is 10:33:24 (can't be PM because of the sun)
5. The upper left looks like a morning talk show, and the lower left looks to be a talk show, or game show. (the other is an interior cam)
I can conclude that they most likely have tuned the TV to local over-the-air TV stations to show that they can both monitor the news and closed circuit feeds on their display system....
To paraphrase succinctly: They were watching TV.
I'll accept the idea that the government is the problem, only if it means getting rid of government-sanctioned monopolies (IP) and government-sanctioned non-existent individuals (corporations).
If a government exists, it has to do its job regulating, taxing, and doling out benefits. If it doesn't exist, then it should not be doing anything. Following any intermediate path is just a method for the powerful to remain in power.
That requires time.
Read Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science."
While he certainly wasn't the pioneer of the theory, the book does take a good look the idea of a discrete universe.
Agreed. Why are large celestial bodies spherical? It is the most efficient configuration with the least complexity. The same applies to the universe. The most efficient configuration for the least complexity wins.
I wouldn't mind the two girls. It's the one cup that bothers me.
In life, genetic diversity means the species has a better chance of survival. OS diversity, processor, and even instruction set diversity, is important for the same ends.
So it's not worth much to attack Linux or OSX or one of the BSD's. If all of these OS's including Windows had the same, 20% marketshare, perhaps it wouldn't be worth it to attack any of them. Or, it might actually be worth it to go for the low hanging fruit, namely, the easier-to-use OS's (OSX, Windows, and possibly a flavor of Linux). But the returns for the amount of work needed to attack 3 or 4 different OS's definitely wouldn't be as high, and the incentive for creating malware would be much less.
This resolved any potential I, personally, might have had.
Way to blame him for your inability to breed.