Why would anyone own it? If it was a true self-aware intelligence, that is. Slavery is illegal after all, and I'm willing to bet that anyone reasonable who interacted with a real AI would come to the conclusion that they deserve the same rights as human beings.
On a related note, I was under the impression that the Pirate Bay had been taken down and was now being closely monitored and downloading from them was essentially flagging yourself.
Nope, the whole raid was apparently illegal and was done only because the white house pressured the Swedish government to do it, they might even end up getting paid restitution from their government (maybe that part's wishful thinking).
Also, here is a tracert of thepiratebay.org, it would be pretty devious of the MPAA to use this domain name (apb is a swedish copyright lobby organisation):
Tracing route to piratebay.org [83.140.176.146] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.62
. . .
9 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms netnod-ix-ge-a-sth-4470.port80.se [195.245.240.143]
10 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepirate bay.org [83.140.176.146]
It doesn't help much though, as the english translation is incomprehensible legalese:
francophone et germanophone représentés par la demanderesse à dater de la signification de l'ordonnance, sous peine d'astreinte de 2.000.000,- par jour de retard;
Those wacky Americans lawyers and their lawyerspeak, only thing I understood was 'retard' and 2 million, maybe it has something to do with the amount of stupid sites on the internet.
But isn't the same true for the opponent? They will also get their buying strategies screwed up, and thus the match is fair, and the more adaptive (better) clan wins.
And using the 4th Amendment as an argument certainly does not make warrantless wiretaps illegal. You will note that the founding fathers carefully use the word "unreasonable" in the text, indicating that "reasonable" searches and seizures are perfectly legal.
I guess you think that warrantless wiretapping is reasonable, I certainly don't.
It was the Canadians who delivered him to the US under the pretense that he was a known al Qaeda associate, and it was the US who released him when they figured out that the Canadians were full of crap. Interesting how you can blame the US when they were not the people who falsely accused this guy in the first place.
Heh. So it's the Canadians fault he got imprisoned and tortured? You also conveniently left out the fact that the US kept him imprisoned for 10 months, and the only evidence against him were gained through torture. Also the case of the Milanese cleric boggles the mind. Are we no longer safe in our own countries from the CIA? That is a lot scarier than some "terrorists".
Not sure why you felt you needed to bring this up, unless you somehow think that warrantless surveillance is a form of "torture".
It was related to the link I posted, and my posts do seem to have veered a bit on the side of OT.
You will note that I didn't attribute my comment to Benjamin Franklin. I simply pointed out something that should be glaringly obvious to those who like to misuse his quotation.
Ah. Well you sure made it sound like it was something Franklin really meant when he said his famous quote.
Care to reference the text of the Constitution that defines secret, untapped communication with known terrorist entities as an "essential liberty"?
Using "secret" as an euphemism for "warrantless" doesn't make it legal.
Traffic rules are not a "recommendation" - they are enforceable law.
Like I said, I think they are just an recommendation, just as most other dumb laws. Murder and causing harm to others are already illegal, what's the point in extraneous laws that only restrict how people use their own car without bringing anything new to the table? Having standardised rules of behaviour in traffic is of course a good thing, but making it illegal to drive over the speed limit on a long stretch of road in the middle of nowhere? Now that's just stupid.
So I'm interested why you feel any different about the long term safety that is provided by tracking the communications of known terrorists with people within our borders.
/rant
After what happened to the Canadian citizen Maher Arar I have no faith whatsoever that your current government is capable of doing anything right, this new law will just fuck up more innocent people's lives, under the guise of "anti-terrorism".
Torture is evil, goddamnit, I don't care how many million lives it could save.
My point is that you can't take a quote, and replace an arbitary number of words with their opposites and then decide that the quote has been reversed. If I say that "walking forward is fun", does that mean that I think walking backwards is boring? Maybe Franklin thought that non-essential liberties can be traded for long-term safety, but I really don't think one can derive that information from a single quote.
For what it's worth, I don't think there even exists such a thing as a non-essential liberty. The constitution lists most of the liberties, "the freedom to drive over people" isn't one of them. I do however think that traffic rules are mostly a recommendation of how to behave to make everything work smoothly, and as long as you don't endanger or harm anyone, breaking the rules is completely fine.
Yes, when dealing with Allied POWs. The Soviets hadn't signed the conventions so the Nazis used this as an excuse to treat Soviet POWs like crap (even though the Geneva conventions apply to all POWs, including those from non-signatories). It's eerie that you are using the same excuse the Nazis did...
Not abiding by the Geneva conventions doesn't bring any more danger to american troops captured by insurgents, but it sure as hell makes you look even worse in the eyes of the civilized world.
I think it's a concerted effort to circumvent the constitution completely. It's just a piece of paper, it's outdated etc. Next thing you know, the constitution is in a museum and the president has the final word. That's when it's time to grab your gun and start picking off politicians.
It is unconstitutional to pass ex post facto laws, so the short answer would be no. That won't stop them from passing such laws, but when the constitution makes a comeback those laws will be promptly nullified.
All trade imbalances are equalized by investment capital flowing back the other way. In this case, China is massively investing back in America -- because America is still a good investment. Our desirability as an investment is indicated by the low interest rates that we are required to pay on foreign investment capital. If the world thought that we were a high risk, they would charge us a high interest rate.
They export huge amounts to the US, and get dollars in exchange. With those dollars they can either buy oil, buy something from the US (goods & services or property), or buy something from other countries that need dollars for buying oil. Obviously there is a limit to how much oil they need, and how much oil others need, so they end up buying something from the US. Now they don't really need any goods, as they already manufacture most things themselves (including entertainment through piracy), and the demand for services is somewhat limited as well, so they end up investing in the US. Now, you seem to think this equalizes trade imbalances, but you are forgetting one important detail. When you invest in something, you own the investment, which means that you get the profit from it. You americans are spending your capital, and taken to it's extreme it means that you will no longer own your economy.
Your government has some ways of avoiding this:
- Ensure that oil is traded in dollars. Methods include securing the oil fields and ensuring that oil producing countries stay friendly to US interests. Iraq started accepting euros as payment for oil the year 2000, and after the invasion the puppet government switched back to dollars. Iran is planning a oil bourse where oil is sold in euros, that's the real weapon of mass destruction Bush is afraid of, don't be surprised when some of the bombs meant for nuclear facilities level Kish by "mistake". Expect a coup in Venezuela, or at least an attempted one unless they back down on their attempts to switch OPEC to sell oil in euros.
- Prevent foreigners from investing in the US. The Dubai port deal, and Unocal are good examples. This isn't such a good way as foreigners will realise that they won't be able to spend their dollar holdings, which brings us to the next item.
- Inflation. By printing out huge amounts of dollars the purchasing power of an individual dollar collapses. This way it doesn't matter how much dollars foreigners have, as their dollar stockpiles will melt away. Of course this can't be done overtly, so manipulation of inflation indicators is a must. Hiding the M3 data is also important, can't have foreigners knowing how much dollars there really are. Oh? They're just cutting costs, nothing special about it? Yeah... Saving a couple of million per year by hiding the M3 data will really help balance the budget...
- Default. Pass a law that says all dollars are now worthless paper, and issue a new currency. Tell the rest of the world to get lost, you're not paying these stupid debts, and dare them to try and collect. Obviously the US would not be very liked after that, and it'd be a wonder if anyone ever borrows money to you after that.
- Cut a lot of government programs, and adjust the budget so that you get a sizeable surplus, and start paying off your debts. Political suicide, and I think it'll be a cold day in hell before this happens.
This is a long-term process, so don't get all disappointed when the economy doesn't assplode next year.
Good point, biometrics isn't really everything it's hyped up to be. Maybe it could check that the individual is alive? Capturing a soldier alive would be a bit harder than grabbing a piece of skin. Perhaps through an implant that monitors vital signs, that could be useful for other purposes also. Bring on spinal implants a la Axis of time.:)
How about making the hardware require a password after it's been removed? Assuming it's wearable. Or maybe even key it to an individual soldier's DNA, if that's possible yet.
Having owned a Voodoo2 I can tell you that the difference between 16- and 32-bit color was noticeable, and I had a shitty 15" no-name CRT at the time. Dithering caused a very noticeable pattern in 16-bit mode.
The man behind the plans to fork wikipedia defends his decision to call it a wiki and is modded redundant? Sometimes the amount of crack moderators intake boggles the mind.
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The summary clearly states that it's not a SONY.
Why would anyone own it? If it was a true self-aware intelligence, that is. Slavery is illegal after all, and I'm willing to bet that anyone reasonable who interacted with a real AI would come to the conclusion that they deserve the same rights as human beings.
Nope, the whole raid was apparently illegal and was done only because the white house pressured the Swedish government to do it, they might even end up getting paid restitution from their government (maybe that part's wishful thinking).
Also, here is a tracert of thepiratebay.org, it would be pretty devious of the MPAA to use this domain name (apb is a swedish copyright lobby organisation):
:)
Is there a bigger, better site in that space (i.e. free/openn/cc culture)?
Probably not in that space, but the article is about the ten most used bittorrent sites overall.
Yeah, but it's still gibberish to me. I'm not good at legalese.
It doesn't help much though, as the english translation is incomprehensible legalese:
francophone et germanophone représentés par la demanderesse à dater de la signification de l'ordonnance, sous peine d'astreinte de 2.000.000,- par jour de retard;
Those wacky Americans lawyers and their lawyerspeak, only thing I understood was 'retard' and 2 million, maybe it has something to do with the amount of stupid sites on the internet.
You could try pressing the 'English' link on the page...
But isn't the same true for the opponent? They will also get their buying strategies screwed up, and thus the match is fair, and the more adaptive (better) clan wins.
And using the 4th Amendment as an argument certainly does not make warrantless wiretaps illegal. You will note that the founding fathers carefully use the word "unreasonable" in the text, indicating that "reasonable" searches and seizures are perfectly legal.
I guess you think that warrantless wiretapping is reasonable, I certainly don't.
It was the Canadians who delivered him to the US under the pretense that he was a known al Qaeda associate, and it was the US who released him when they figured out that the Canadians were full of crap. Interesting how you can blame the US when they were not the people who falsely accused this guy in the first place.
Heh. So it's the Canadians fault he got imprisoned and tortured? You also conveniently left out the fact that the US kept him imprisoned for 10 months, and the only evidence against him were gained through torture. Also the case of the Milanese cleric boggles the mind. Are we no longer safe in our own countries from the CIA? That is a lot scarier than some "terrorists".
Not sure why you felt you needed to bring this up, unless you somehow think that warrantless surveillance is a form of "torture".
It was related to the link I posted, and my posts do seem to have veered a bit on the side of OT.
You will note that I didn't attribute my comment to Benjamin Franklin. I simply pointed out something that should be glaringly obvious to those who like to misuse his quotation.
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Ah. Well you sure made it sound like it was something Franklin really meant when he said his famous quote.
Care to reference the text of the Constitution that defines secret, untapped communication with known terrorist entities as an "essential liberty"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_
Using "secret" as an euphemism for "warrantless" doesn't make it legal.
Traffic rules are not a "recommendation" - they are enforceable law.
Like I said, I think they are just an recommendation, just as most other dumb laws. Murder and causing harm to others are already illegal, what's the point in extraneous laws that only restrict how people use their own car without bringing anything new to the table? Having standardised rules of behaviour in traffic is of course a good thing, but making it illegal to drive over the speed limit on a long stretch of road in the middle of nowhere? Now that's just stupid.
So I'm interested why you feel any different about the long term safety that is provided by tracking the communications of known terrorists with people within our borders.
/rant
After what happened to the Canadian citizen Maher Arar I have no faith whatsoever that your current government is capable of doing anything right, this new law will just fuck up more innocent people's lives, under the guise of "anti-terrorism".
Torture is evil, goddamnit, I don't care how many million lives it could save.
/end rant
My point is that you can't take a quote, and replace an arbitary number of words with their opposites and then decide that the quote has been reversed. If I say that "walking forward is fun", does that mean that I think walking backwards is boring? Maybe Franklin thought that non-essential liberties can be traded for long-term safety, but I really don't think one can derive that information from a single quote.
For what it's worth, I don't think there even exists such a thing as a non-essential liberty. The constitution lists most of the liberties, "the freedom to drive over people" isn't one of them. I do however think that traffic rules are mostly a recommendation of how to behave to make everything work smoothly, and as long as you don't endanger or harm anyone, breaking the rules is completely fine.
Did the Nazis abide by the Geneva Conventions?
Yes, when dealing with Allied POWs. The Soviets hadn't signed the conventions so the Nazis used this as an excuse to treat Soviet POWs like crap (even though the Geneva conventions apply to all POWs, including those from non-signatories). It's eerie that you are using the same excuse the Nazis did...
Not abiding by the Geneva conventions doesn't bring any more danger to american troops captured by insurgents, but it sure as hell makes you look even worse in the eyes of the civilized world.
I think it's a concerted effort to circumvent the constitution completely. It's just a piece of paper, it's outdated etc. Next thing you know, the constitution is in a museum and the president has the final word. That's when it's time to grab your gun and start picking off politicians.
:)
Just IMHO.
Yes of course, the logical "opposite is true" argument. You just converted the quote incorrectly:
"Those who are not willing to give up non-essential servitude to obtain long term safety deserve neither servitude or safety."
Or maybe it was: "We who are willing to receive liberty to obtain a lot of temporary safety deserve both liberty and safety."
"x willing to y to obtain z, etc."
I'm sorry but your argument is stupid. While the opposite of a mathematical calculation is usually true, the same can not be said of quotes.
It is unconstitutional to pass ex post facto laws, so the short answer would be no. That won't stop them from passing such laws, but when the constitution makes a comeback those laws will be promptly nullified.
All trade imbalances are equalized by investment capital flowing back the other way. In this case, China is massively investing back in America -- because America is still a good investment. Our desirability as an investment is indicated by the low interest rates that we are required to pay on foreign investment capital. If the world thought that we were a high risk, they would charge us a high interest rate.
They export huge amounts to the US, and get dollars in exchange. With those dollars they can either buy oil, buy something from the US (goods & services or property), or buy something from other countries that need dollars for buying oil. Obviously there is a limit to how much oil they need, and how much oil others need, so they end up buying something from the US. Now they don't really need any goods, as they already manufacture most things themselves (including entertainment through piracy), and the demand for services is somewhat limited as well, so they end up investing in the US. Now, you seem to think this equalizes trade imbalances, but you are forgetting one important detail. When you invest in something, you own the investment, which means that you get the profit from it. You americans are spending your capital, and taken to it's extreme it means that you will no longer own your economy.
Your government has some ways of avoiding this:
- Ensure that oil is traded in dollars. Methods include securing the oil fields and ensuring that oil producing countries stay friendly to US interests. Iraq started accepting euros as payment for oil the year 2000, and after the invasion the puppet government switched back to dollars. Iran is planning a oil bourse where oil is sold in euros, that's the real weapon of mass destruction Bush is afraid of, don't be surprised when some of the bombs meant for nuclear facilities level Kish by "mistake". Expect a coup in Venezuela, or at least an attempted one unless they back down on their attempts to switch OPEC to sell oil in euros.
- Prevent foreigners from investing in the US. The Dubai port deal, and Unocal are good examples. This isn't such a good way as foreigners will realise that they won't be able to spend their dollar holdings, which brings us to the next item.
- Inflation. By printing out huge amounts of dollars the purchasing power of an individual dollar collapses. This way it doesn't matter how much dollars foreigners have, as their dollar stockpiles will melt away. Of course this can't be done overtly, so manipulation of inflation indicators is a must. Hiding the M3 data is also important, can't have foreigners knowing how much dollars there really are. Oh? They're just cutting costs, nothing special about it? Yeah... Saving a couple of million per year by hiding the M3 data will really help balance the budget...
- Default. Pass a law that says all dollars are now worthless paper, and issue a new currency. Tell the rest of the world to get lost, you're not paying these stupid debts, and dare them to try and collect. Obviously the US would not be very liked after that, and it'd be a wonder if anyone ever borrows money to you after that.
- Cut a lot of government programs, and adjust the budget so that you get a sizeable surplus, and start paying off your debts. Political suicide, and I think it'll be a cold day in hell before this happens.
This is a long-term process, so don't get all disappointed when the economy doesn't assplode next year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohal ine_circulation
Good point, biometrics isn't really everything it's hyped up to be. Maybe it could check that the individual is alive? Capturing a soldier alive would be a bit harder than grabbing a piece of skin. Perhaps through an implant that monitors vital signs, that could be useful for other purposes also. Bring on spinal implants a la Axis of time. :)
How about making the hardware require a password after it's been removed? Assuming it's wearable. Or maybe even key it to an individual soldier's DNA, if that's possible yet.
In Soviet Russia, voter participation was 100%!
Seriously.
Having owned a Voodoo2 I can tell you that the difference between 16- and 32-bit color was noticeable, and I had a shitty 15" no-name CRT at the time. Dithering caused a very noticeable pattern in 16-bit mode.
allow tcp 22 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed ssh)
allow tcp 80 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed web access)
What would this solve? You only need one open port to be able to host anything you want, including ssh and http.
The man behind the plans to fork wikipedia defends his decision to call it a wiki and is modded redundant? Sometimes the amount of crack moderators intake boggles the mind.
You must be new here. ;)
How about removing the optics entirely, and post-processing the image data into viewable form?