Well from what I learned on Tech TV it's really easy to break...
Most people today wouldn't even understand Shakespeare. You may get the words right, but you don't have the cultural background to understand much deeper.
I think they may have come to the conclusion that the high bandwidth cost of file sharing is less expensive and time consuming than being responsible for their customers' copyright infringement.
Or they see a niche market among those who are on the wrong end of the witch hunt.
"We protect our users" could be a pretty good slogan.
A lot of data retention is because of legal requirements. At the bank I work at, we're required to keep *everything* for at least seven years - all our emails are archived, instant messenger communications, etc.
As society gets larger and dehumanized, soon that'll be all we have.
It doesn't matter, whether you lived in a house for 30 years and all the neighbors know you. If you don't have a piece of paper with a stamp on it, it doesn't matter. One Thursday, you'll see Yellow in the bathroom mirror.
Well, it's a bit harder than that because the consensus view is that people under 14 can't give consent.
I have seen few 13 year old boys who didn't want to shove their penises into anything that looks vaguely female.
Tell me again, what's that magical thing that happens at their 14. birthday that gives them that ability? The Consent Fairy arrives at midnight and blesses them? Does the state bestow a soul upon them?
Or is it just that people start having sex at younger and younger ages, and the law doesn't follow either that fact, nor common sense.
A girl, 14, did the deed with her boyfriend, 13. Due to the state's laws, the girl was classified as a victim of sexual abuse. However, as she was the one who initiated the act with another minor, she was also classified as a sexual predator.
There's nothing to figure out there: morons were writing the law. For one, having sex with within a few years of your age someone should't count (with consent of course).
Also, having a law that allows a girl to be classified as both victim and predator for the same act is seriously fucked up. Someone didn't think of the children.
The RFID tag is also very interesting. When you walk up to the car, the Model S detects your RFID keytag and pops out the handles for you. When you want to start up the car, there's no start button. You just sit there and wait for the car to detect your RFID presence.
WTF? What if I stand near my car and don't want it to open or start up?
Sounds like a usability nightmare.
the most interesting feature of which is that it has a 3G connection all the time.
Deliberate misinformation and hyperbole is now insightfull???
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Based on my experience, he probably meant that as a joke.
We are born selfish and violent, lashing out (stomping feet, hitting, biting, scratch, hitting, etc) when we don't get want.
No, we're born babies. Then we're socialized.
OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years. (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)
The average 8 year old could probably teach their parents some new things about sex. Precisely because it's a sex-saturated culture. 9
Pretty screwed up world we live in.
Well, yes, but not for the reason you think.
Eh? Tell me again, how is seeing boobies going to scar a 6 yo kid for life? They already saw some shortly after birth. ZOMG THEY EVEN TOUCHED THEM! Think of the children! Ban breastfeeding!
Contrast that to the disappearing pencil act in The Dark Knight. That's pure Nightmare Fuel.
What did you expect? Everyone is forced to live according to the same schedule, i.e. work 9-5 on weekdays, sleep at night, etc.
as coal power is cheaper, they try to get as much as possible from the coal.
Until the planet runs out of coal, that is. Which will happen, whatever you do, sooner or later. In the long term, being "carbon neutral" is either meaningless, or means you're replanting the forests you (the western culture) cut down.
I'm glad that they didn't find the woman who's DNA it is. After all, she would have been severely punished for something that she had absolutely no idea about.
Damn. Wasn't it already standard procedure to ignore DNA connected with handling the evidence? Why not? Who gets to decide, and why?
<grammarnazi>whose == the one who [subject] belongs to, who's == who is</grammarnazi>
He was referring to MACROevolution. Not micro. You just demonstrated microevolution. Macroevolution refers to speciation through the forces of evolution. There are quite a few religious people out there who support and believe in microevolution but not macro.
Do the same experiment with 10000 competing genes, it will still come out the same. Those who reproduce fastest will win, especially in the long term. Macro is the sum of all micros. The people who think they need to believe in specialization, didn't do the math.
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Well from what I learned on Tech TV it's really easy to break...
Most people today wouldn't even understand Shakespeare. You may get the words right, but you don't have the cultural background to understand much deeper.
I think they may have come to the conclusion that the high bandwidth cost of file sharing is less expensive and time consuming than being responsible for their customers' copyright infringement.
Or they see a niche market among those who are on the wrong end of the witch hunt.
"We protect our users" could be a pretty good slogan.
Default for Google:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=google&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Equivalent:
http://www.google.com/search?q=google
A lot of data retention is because of legal requirements. At the bank I work at, we're required to keep *everything* for at least seven years - all our emails are archived, instant messenger communications, etc.
As society gets larger and dehumanized, soon that'll be all we have.
It doesn't matter, whether you lived in a house for 30 years and all the neighbors know you. If you don't have a piece of paper with a stamp on it, it doesn't matter. One Thursday, you'll see Yellow in the bathroom mirror.
The reasons you would shut off a car in that position aren't present in a full electric car.
You mean if you drive an electric, you'll never get laid?
Well, it's a bit harder than that because the consensus view is that people under 14 can't give consent.
I have seen few 13 year old boys who didn't want to shove their penises into anything that looks vaguely female.
Tell me again, what's that magical thing that happens at their 14. birthday that gives them that ability? The Consent Fairy arrives at midnight and blesses them? Does the state bestow a soul upon them?
Or is it just that people start having sex at younger and younger ages, and the law doesn't follow either that fact, nor common sense.
whoosh
Umm. My spell checker takes the most often used words into account.
There just happens to be a lot of people out there with enough background knowledge in IT to make a profit off of criminal acts in IT.
Also, there is no suck thing as "E-Crime".
Unless you want to say an axe murderer is only a misguided tree cutting professional.
A girl, 14, did the deed with her boyfriend, 13. Due to the state's laws, the girl was classified as a victim of sexual abuse. However, as she was the one who initiated the act with another minor, she was also classified as a sexual predator.
There's nothing to figure out there: morons were writing the law. For one, having sex with within a few years of your age someone should't count (with consent of course).
Also, having a law that allows a girl to be classified as both victim and predator for the same act is seriously fucked up. Someone didn't think of the children.
The RFID tag is also very interesting. When you walk up to the car, the Model S detects your RFID keytag and pops out the handles for you. When you want to start up the car, there's no start button. You just sit there and wait for the car to detect your RFID presence.
WTF? What if I stand near my car and don't want it to open or start up?
Sounds like a usability nightmare.
the most interesting feature of which is that it has a 3G connection all the time.
Yay, now we can have a moving botnet!
Can you even boot Vista in under 512 Meg?
Yes.
Deliberate misinformation and hyperbole is now insightfull???
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Based on my experience, he probably meant that as a joke.
We are born selfish and violent, lashing out (stomping feet, hitting, biting, scratch, hitting, etc) when we don't get want.
No, we're born babies. Then we're socialized.
OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years. (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)
The average 8 year old could probably teach their parents some new things about sex. Precisely because it's a sex-saturated culture.
9
Pretty screwed up world we live in.
Well, yes, but not for the reason you think.
Eh? Tell me again, how is seeing boobies going to scar a 6 yo kid for life? They already saw some shortly after birth. ZOMG THEY EVEN TOUCHED THEM! Think of the children! Ban breastfeeding!
Contrast that to the disappearing pencil act in The Dark Knight. That's pure Nightmare Fuel.
It's only good for plants if there are any.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
PCs (or any other things) aren't connected to a specific power source. They're connected to a power grid.
(No whoosh for you.) So how is being connected to a CO2-emitting power source the computers' fault then?
Power usage generally peaks in the afternoon
What did you expect? Everyone is forced to live according to the same schedule, i.e. work 9-5 on weekdays, sleep at night, etc.
as coal power is cheaper, they try to get as much as possible from the coal.
Until the planet runs out of coal, that is. Which will happen, whatever you do, sooner or later. In the long term, being "carbon neutral" is either meaningless, or means you're replanting the forests you (the western culture) cut down.
Unused PCs computers that are powered on but not in use are expected to emit approximately 20 million tons of CO2 this year
How exactly does that happen? What about the computers that are powered by a nuclear reactor?
I thought when CPUs emit smoke you have to buy a new one.
If I can't get it from a website that isn't a pain to use or a torrent it's not important enough to download.
In these cases, do a favor for all of us: download it, then seed a new torrent on TPB. If everyone played this game, we wouldn't have this issue.
My grandmother's name is Monique not Mazi, you insensitive clod!
So if I were to call her Monica, would you be offended?
The only difference is that for democrats, bank_account is only 16 bits.
They can only gather $65535 before opening a new account?
Oh, I'm sorry. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension absolutely negates my point, whatever I was talking about.
I'm glad that they didn't find the woman who's DNA it is. After all, she would have been severely punished for something that she had absolutely no idea about.
Damn. Wasn't it already standard procedure to ignore DNA connected with handling the evidence? Why not? Who gets to decide, and why?
<grammarnazi>whose == the one who [subject] belongs to, who's == who is</grammarnazi>
He was referring to MACROevolution. Not micro. You just demonstrated microevolution. Macroevolution refers to speciation through the forces of evolution. There are quite a few religious people out there who support and believe in microevolution but not macro.
Do the same experiment with 10000 competing genes, it will still come out the same. Those who reproduce fastest will win, especially in the long term. Macro is the sum of all micros. The people who think they need to believe in specialization, didn't do the math.
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