It also makes us nice and easy to keep an eye on. All our activity now leaves a nice little easy to follow trail. Much nicer for the government to follow than before.
As an added bonus, now all you need to do is lose a record from a database and someone ceases to exist. I believe the proper term is unperson./tinfoilhat
Also, this maximizes the possible inconvenience that losing a password or data leaks can cause. Add in the UK's record of data leaks and the average password strength of J. Random Citizen, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster.
Just ask Blizzard about stolen accounts. And those are people who care about their accounts and do everything in their power to keep it secure.
Actually, watching the arms race between 4chan and the people trying to flood 4chan is really interesting. For example, after their last attempt was blocked, they resumed the flood by alternating the language of the posts.
because if Apple can enforce those patents, it can enforce those patents against everyone, including Microsoft
There's a lot more going on in the background. How many patents does Microsoft have that could shut down the iPhone/iPad/OS X/whatever Apple sells? I'm pretty sure there are people at MS who know precisely.
If Microsoft started a patent war against Linux, wouldn't Linux-oriented companies, like say IBM, join in on the fun as well? With big companies, the patent situation is more like a cold war with all the cross-licencing going on.
Besides, why now? Why not 5 years ago? Why not last year?
If you're relying on only 15-20 other downloaders to certify something as "clean" and you regularly download warez you probably already have a rootkit on your system and have no idea it's even there.
Well, that's the fun part: most people don't care as long as it doesn't interfere with their life.
Security is always a trade off. In this case, it's being able to do what I actually want to do (you don't want to go raiding with WoW on wine, trust me), as opposed to doing other stuff I could do on Linux but don't want to. When I want to do what Linux is good at, I dual boot or fire up a separate box.
To adults, fine. Mostly, anyway. To children, maybe not.
Stop hiding behind the children already! That's what their fucking parents are for.
Whether Darwin or Jesus is the higher authority shouldn't be legislated. Everyone should make up their own fucking mind. We have the internet now, everything's out there if you look for it.
As for the holocaust doubters: what kind of historical fact needs to carry a jail sentence for anyone questioning it (yes, it does in Germany for example)? If I can't even ask about it without getting thrown into jail, how can I know it did happen?
You need to remove or conceal the features that are rarely used.
Sometimes simply reorganizing them makes all the difference.
Case study: the Pitbull3 and Pitbull4 unit frame addons for WoW. 3 was notorius for scaring away new users with the sheer magnitude of options you can configure: it was all presented ad-hoc, mostly glued on to the menu as new features were added I believe.
Pitbull4 introduced the concept of layouts, cleaned up the options menu, and the initial setup time went down from an all-nighter to 15 minutes to get the same result from scratch. And the fun part: it actually became more configurable.
I think that illegal material should be blocked (it usually is, by removing the associated IP addresses from DNS servers).
I don't. Slippery slope, and all that. Once the system is in place to remove anything unwanted from the internet, it takes a whole lot of public oversight to prevent from abuse. Remember, politicians are people you know are lying for a living.
A translation function could be conceived which is a strict, reversible bijection, so that playing this translation game would give you your original English back, word-for-word.
That's the main problem with translations: they're not strict, and sometimes not even reversible. In every language there are common phrases which make perfect sense to someone thinking in the language, but are untranslatable to the point where you as a translator just rephrase the whole sentence (example: "is right up Google's alley"). Then, if you get another translator to translate it back to the original language, you sure as hell won't get the original phrase back (assuming both translations are perfect in terms of understandability and conveying the message).
Then you have words that don't exist in the target language, like "brute-force" or "computing horsepower", or even concepts that don't exist.
I think the fact that we can understand machine translations is more a tribute to the error correction mechanisms in our brain than anything else.
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It also makes us nice and easy to keep an eye on. All our activity now leaves a nice little easy to follow trail. Much nicer for the government to follow than before.
As an added bonus, now all you need to do is lose a record from a database and someone ceases to exist. I believe the proper term is unperson. /tinfoilhat
Also, this maximizes the possible inconvenience that losing a password or data leaks can cause. Add in the UK's record of data leaks and the average password strength of J. Random Citizen, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster.
Just ask Blizzard about stolen accounts. And those are people who care about their accounts and do everything in their power to keep it secure.
It's ongoing business accounting, with the payment coming out of your ongoing sales.
Assuming you have sales, which might not be the case for them in a couple of years.
there are still many, many, many websites that DO NOT WORK
Name one I've already heard about.
Are they that bad?
Actually, watching the arms race between 4chan and the people trying to flood 4chan is really interesting. For example, after their last attempt was blocked, they resumed the flood by alternating the language of the posts.
People still buy CD's?
And the Adamantite interior.
You missed an expansion pack. He upgraded to Saronite when he reached 80.
because if Apple can enforce those patents, it can enforce those patents against everyone, including Microsoft
There's a lot more going on in the background. How many patents does Microsoft have that could shut down the iPhone/iPad/OS X/whatever Apple sells? I'm pretty sure there are people at MS who know precisely.
Or fails them without any special software because of all the facts they got wrong.
Wikipedia is meant to be informative, not definitive. You need the Hitchhiker's Guide for that.
If Microsoft started a patent war against Linux, wouldn't Linux-oriented companies, like say IBM, join in on the fun as well? With big companies, the patent situation is more like a cold war with all the cross-licencing going on.
Besides, why now? Why not 5 years ago? Why not last year?
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
If you're relying on only 15-20 other downloaders to certify something as "clean" and you regularly download warez you probably already have a rootkit on your system and have no idea it's even there.
Well, that's the fun part: most people don't care as long as it doesn't interfere with their life.
Security is always a trade off. In this case, it's being able to do what I actually want to do (you don't want to go raiding with WoW on wine, trust me), as opposed to doing other stuff I could do on Linux but don't want to. When I want to do what Linux is good at, I dual boot or fire up a separate box.
To adults, fine. Mostly, anyway. To children, maybe not.
Stop hiding behind the children already! That's what their fucking parents are for.
Whether Darwin or Jesus is the higher authority shouldn't be legislated. Everyone should make up their own fucking mind. We have the internet now, everything's out there if you look for it.
As for the holocaust doubters: what kind of historical fact needs to carry a jail sentence for anyone questioning it (yes, it does in Germany for example)? If I can't even ask about it without getting thrown into jail, how can I know it did happen?
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Yeah, there's a good idea. Like insurance companies don't make enough profit yet, nevermind the social consequences.
Any organization must not be given a chance to prevent education.
You need to remove or conceal the features that are rarely used.
Sometimes simply reorganizing them makes all the difference.
Case study: the Pitbull3 and Pitbull4 unit frame addons for WoW. 3 was notorius for scaring away new users with the sheer magnitude of options you can configure: it was all presented ad-hoc, mostly glued on to the menu as new features were added I believe.
Pitbull4 introduced the concept of layouts, cleaned up the options menu, and the initial setup time went down from an all-nighter to 15 minutes to get the same result from scratch. And the fun part: it actually became more configurable.
I think that illegal material should be blocked (it usually is, by removing the associated IP addresses from DNS servers).
I don't. Slippery slope, and all that. Once the system is in place to remove anything unwanted from the internet, it takes a whole lot of public oversight to prevent from abuse. Remember, politicians are people you know are lying for a living.
I'd say it's because people need them, so they'll buy it anyway.
The cost of dedicated equipment is mitigated by volume, just like it is everywhere else.
What are the downsides of porn that are so severe that they outweigh the advantage of less rape?
The "less rape" part is bullshit. You can jerk off even if nobody's fucking on a screen in front of you.
Aside from that, I don't see anything wrong with porn. Sex is exactly as natural as eating and breathing. Get over it.
I'd imagine there is no written code involved in today's organisms. However, the very first cell had this:
int survival_chance_of_mutation = rand(); // who cares, it'll crash anyway
Most importantly it's not a toy language.
That's why it should be kept far away from beginners. What if they accidentally type "import skynet", huh?
Paypal works for everyone else
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A translation function could be conceived which is a strict, reversible bijection, so that playing this translation game would give you your original English back, word-for-word.
That's the main problem with translations: they're not strict, and sometimes not even reversible. In every language there are common phrases which make perfect sense to someone thinking in the language, but are untranslatable to the point where you as a translator just rephrase the whole sentence (example: "is right up Google's alley"). Then, if you get another translator to translate it back to the original language, you sure as hell won't get the original phrase back (assuming both translations are perfect in terms of understandability and conveying the message).
Then you have words that don't exist in the target language, like "brute-force" or "computing horsepower", or even concepts that don't exist.
I think the fact that we can understand machine translations is more a tribute to the error correction mechanisms in our brain than anything else.
A sky full of unregulated idiots is even more scary.
I wonder what those regulations would look like.
And what about countries where people actually speak English?