My point is that people misunderstand the fact that the constitution gives freedom of speech to mean that that law is above all other laws. It's not. The constitution also gives the right to bear arms, however that does not mean I can go build a nuclear weapon or own a tank.
Uhh yeah, and while you're at it, disable flash, java, and just use a text browser like lynx. Who needs all this web 2.0 content anyways. I mean does anyone actually enjoy watching youtube, using Google maps, using zillow.com or chatting through a web interface or going to sites that use javascript like slashdot?
Yes, they were not actually impossible due to Vikings, etc, but the societal belief was that it was impossible. Just like in the past people thought the earth was round. It wasn't really round, but that's what people believed.
transatlantic voyages were impossible 1000 years ago. I guess my problem with this guy is that he's using today's technology to prove that something is impossible. If we were constantly doing that we'd just have to admit that everything that hasn't been accomplished is impossible. 40 years ago fantastic search engines that can basically answer any question you ask would have been considered impossible. In that analogy, you could say it took us two years to develop a chip that can execute X instructions per seconds, how can we possibly imagine a computer that can make 1 billion calculations per second? Who knows what kind of capabilities we'll have in 100 years? I don't. Is it possible that we develop some kind of nuclear fusion engine? Or a antimatter engine? I don't know, but I would never say something is impossible. I believe in the saying that when someone says something is 'impossible', they are usually wrong.
Thailand's 79-year-old king, almost universally adored by Thais...one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult against the royal family.
Ok, if there are laws that prohibit insults against the royal family (like sending people to jail for 15 years), the king will be universally adored.
It's freaking illegal to post this encryption key. Why is digg losing credibility by removing an illegal post? Would they lose credibility if they removed a post revealing national security secrets? Would they lose credibility by removing posts that reveal trade secrets? Cmon people!
MPK stands for Menlo Park (where Sun's headquarter's is located). There are 19 buildings on the Sun Menlo Park campus. Hence, MKP20 is the vitual building.
I think the article was talking about key words that are trademarked being bought by a company that does not own the trademarks. Your example of a car dealership would not apply because a Toyota dealer sells Toyotas, etc. I don't think anyone has a problem with that. But, what if you ran a small grocery store that delivers online in your neighborhood and Walmart moved in and bought up all of the searches for your store on Google. Your competitor is really stealing your brand recognition that you spent many years building. Is this fair?
Sorry, nice try, but it makes no difference where their corporate headquarters are. If Sony, Ikea, or SAP break US laws, they still have to pay the fine. Moving your headquarters to another country doesn't do anything to protect them against US laws in any way.
I think proliferation in the Middle East will bring some long needed maturity to those ridiculous tribal governments or be self-limiting. Bad for some cities, but not global conflict. India-Pakistan nukes may have even calmed that situation. Mutual destruction pacts might actually work.
The assumption is that a huge amount of power (i.e. the power to destroy the world) will make people behave in a more rational manner. First of all, that's a pretty big risk to take. The super powers that have nuclear capabilities now are known quantities. If a country from the middle east obtains nuclear weapons, they are an unknown quantity. Also, there are many cases where huge amounts of power do not make people behave in a rational manner. Take a look at Pol Pot in Vietnam. He had full control over the lives of many of the citizens of Vietnam and yet he killed millions of them. Or, look at Hitler. He has a lot of power and chose to use it to 'purify' the world. This is similar to the middle eastern philosophy of Islam. They want an Islamic world full of Islamic governments. They are willing to kill those that don't join them. I think it's a pretty big risk to allow new governments to obtain nuclear weapons...In particular, governments that have Islamic laws in place.
The Van Allen Belt issue has long been known about. This is why most proposals are to send cargo only up on the space elevator initially. As others have pointed out, there are fairly simple solutions to this issue that have been proposed. But, the Van Allen Belt issue is such a minor issue compared to the fact that we need to build a cable that's 100 km long and has a strength 10 times greater than kevlar, that it makes it pretty silly to even think about this. This is like the Wright brothers being concerned about the sound barrier and it's effects on air craft before they even got off the ground.
I think this is newsworthy on Slashdot because of the youtube connection. The point of the story was that police are using youtube to help solve a crime. This aspect is very interesting to me and I would expect to see this covered on slashdot.
This is correct. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides for safeharbor to those that obey. By posting notices when you upload videos that you may not upload copyrighted materials and having a mechanism for copyright owners to request a video to be taken down, they are abiding by the DMCA. They also take an extra measure in that they do not allow videos longer than 10 minutes to be posted. They go the extra mile to abide by DMCA and would not be liable. Also, many companies like NBC have realized that a 5 minute clip of a Conan O'brien segment doesn't hurt business. It actually just attracts business by promoting Conan O'brien so they basically have not asked to even take those clips down. I really don't see the media companies being threatened by Youtube at all. In fact, they are trying to form partnerships with Youtube and Google Video.
Interesting point, however you should have said thread instead of process. Each process can contain many threads of execution. With software upgrades, these extra cores will be very useful. Imagine your browser running a thread that handles http requests, a thread that handles events, a thread that handles loading of pages, etc, etc. As these capabilities come available on the desktop, software will learn to take advantage of them. The hardware must come first though. Also, on the server side, there is no such thing as too many cores because you can support millions of users with a single chip.
Maybe Apple "gets it", but I'm not sure why this would be any better than youtube? I mean youtube is free and the content is very entertaining in my opinion. Why would I want to buy a small device to watch tv shows on when I have a laptop and can hook it up to my tv so that I get great quality. Apple seems to always come out with cool products that require their hardware to get. It's just so much more expensive and I get a little tiny screen. I'd rather just watch youtube. I don't see why you need to get locked into Apple hardware to get tv shows. If youtube implemented a paid service on a per download basis, I think they'd be much better than this Apple offering.
Well, it did say that he double majored in Math and Physics so he did explore those areas. As with all colleges I'm sure the University of Virginia requires some electives. I guess he just did it really fast. 37 unites in the spring? Unreal!
Ok, the problem with what you said is that you are assuming that the computer is also the jury. From what I gathered, this is not the case. If the computer program is merely handing out sentences, this means that China has basically implemented mandatory sentencing with a computer system. It's just a bunch of if then else statements really. If you steal a car, and you are convicted by jury, you get 2 years in prison, etc... Some people don't like mandatory sentencing because they feel that a judge should have some descression. The problem with giving judges descression is that you end up with the cases like the child molestor who got a 6 months jail sentence after raping a todler over a 4 year period. I guess I like this approach, but the thing is that many rules need to be included in the program. For instance, in sentencing, judges usually look at the background of the defendant, ability for rehabilitation, etc. I think a detailed rules based system for sentencing could end up being very good assuming the people doing the programming come up with rules that are what society deems appropriate.
You are the one who said that there are drug addicts near your house. I'm sure that there are safe neighborhoods in Oakland. Like all big cities, there are safe neighborhoods and bad ones. By saying that there are 900 sq foot houses selling for $500k you are making my point even further. For $500k in Morgan Hill, you can get a nice 1300 sq foot town house. I'm sure there are plenty of other places with similar prices even closer to Oakland. *Shrug*
I agree in principle, but I think in the case of this person they'd find that there are a lot of safer neighborhoods than Oakland in the area that are also very affordable.
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Yes, it is and Kurzweil predicts this will happen in 2045.
My point is that people misunderstand the fact that the constitution gives freedom of speech to mean that that law is above all other laws. It's not. The constitution also gives the right to bear arms, however that does not mean I can go build a nuclear weapon or own a tank.
Freedom of speech does not mean that we cannot make things illegal to say. One example: You cannot shout fire in a movie theater.
Uhh yeah, and while you're at it, disable flash, java, and just use a text browser like lynx. Who needs all this web 2.0 content anyways. I mean does anyone actually enjoy watching youtube, using Google maps, using zillow.com or chatting through a web interface or going to sites that use javascript like slashdot?
Yes, they were not actually impossible due to Vikings, etc, but the societal belief was that it was impossible. Just like in the past people thought the earth was round. It wasn't really round, but that's what people believed.
transatlantic voyages were impossible 1000 years ago. I guess my problem with this guy is that he's using today's technology to prove that something is impossible. If we were constantly doing that we'd just have to admit that everything that hasn't been accomplished is impossible. 40 years ago fantastic search engines that can basically answer any question you ask would have been considered impossible. In that analogy, you could say it took us two years to develop a chip that can execute X instructions per seconds, how can we possibly imagine a computer that can make 1 billion calculations per second? Who knows what kind of capabilities we'll have in 100 years? I don't. Is it possible that we develop some kind of nuclear fusion engine? Or a antimatter engine? I don't know, but I would never say something is impossible. I believe in the saying that when someone says something is 'impossible', they are usually wrong.
Thailand's 79-year-old king, almost universally adored by Thais...one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult against the royal family.
Ok, if there are laws that prohibit insults against the royal family (like sending people to jail for 15 years), the king will be universally adored.
did it?
It's freaking illegal to post this encryption key. Why is digg losing credibility by removing an illegal post? Would they lose credibility if they removed a post revealing national security secrets? Would they lose credibility by removing posts that reveal trade secrets? Cmon people!
MPK stands for Menlo Park (where Sun's headquarter's is located). There are 19 buildings on the Sun Menlo Park campus. Hence, MKP20 is the vitual building.
I think the article was talking about key words that are trademarked being bought by a company that does not own the trademarks. Your example of a car dealership would not apply because a Toyota dealer sells Toyotas, etc. I don't think anyone has a problem with that. But, what if you ran a small grocery store that delivers online in your neighborhood and Walmart moved in and bought up all of the searches for your store on Google. Your competitor is really stealing your brand recognition that you spent many years building. Is this fair?
Sorry, nice try, but it makes no difference where their corporate headquarters are. If Sony, Ikea, or SAP break US laws, they still have to pay the fine. Moving your headquarters to another country doesn't do anything to protect them against US laws in any way.
Ok, yes I meant Cambodia. The point is the same though.
I think proliferation in the Middle East will bring some long needed maturity to those ridiculous tribal governments or be self-limiting. Bad for some cities, but not global conflict. India-Pakistan nukes may have even calmed that situation. Mutual destruction pacts might actually work.
The assumption is that a huge amount of power (i.e. the power to destroy the world) will make people behave in a more rational manner. First of all, that's a pretty big risk to take. The super powers that have nuclear capabilities now are known quantities. If a country from the middle east obtains nuclear weapons, they are an unknown quantity. Also, there are many cases where huge amounts of power do not make people behave in a rational manner. Take a look at Pol Pot in Vietnam. He had full control over the lives of many of the citizens of Vietnam and yet he killed millions of them. Or, look at Hitler. He has a lot of power and chose to use it to 'purify' the world. This is similar to the middle eastern philosophy of Islam. They want an Islamic world full of Islamic governments. They are willing to kill those that don't join them. I think it's a pretty big risk to allow new governments to obtain nuclear weapons...In particular, governments that have Islamic laws in place.
Vote for Bill Gates. He's atheist (actually i think he's agnostic), that's not as bad as Muslims.
The Van Allen Belt issue has long been known about. This is why most proposals are to send cargo only up on the space elevator initially. As others have pointed out, there are fairly simple solutions to this issue that have been proposed. But, the Van Allen Belt issue is such a minor issue compared to the fact that we need to build a cable that's 100 km long and has a strength 10 times greater than kevlar, that it makes it pretty silly to even think about this. This is like the Wright brothers being concerned about the sound barrier and it's effects on air craft before they even got off the ground.
I think this is newsworthy on Slashdot because of the youtube connection. The point of the story was that police are using youtube to help solve a crime. This aspect is very interesting to me and I would expect to see this covered on slashdot.
This is correct. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides for safeharbor to those that obey. By posting notices when you upload videos that you may not upload copyrighted materials and having a mechanism for copyright owners to request a video to be taken down, they are abiding by the DMCA. They also take an extra measure in that they do not allow videos longer than 10 minutes to be posted. They go the extra mile to abide by DMCA and would not be liable. Also, many companies like NBC have realized that a 5 minute clip of a Conan O'brien segment doesn't hurt business. It actually just attracts business by promoting Conan O'brien so they basically have not asked to even take those clips down. I really don't see the media companies being threatened by Youtube at all. In fact, they are trying to form partnerships with Youtube and Google Video.
Interesting point, however you should have said thread instead of process. Each process can contain many threads of execution. With software upgrades, these extra cores will be very useful. Imagine your browser running a thread that handles http requests, a thread that handles events, a thread that handles loading of pages, etc, etc. As these capabilities come available on the desktop, software will learn to take advantage of them. The hardware must come first though. Also, on the server side, there is no such thing as too many cores because you can support millions of users with a single chip.
Maybe Apple "gets it", but I'm not sure why this would be any better than youtube? I mean youtube is free and the content is very entertaining in my opinion. Why would I want to buy a small device to watch tv shows on when I have a laptop and can hook it up to my tv so that I get great quality. Apple seems to always come out with cool products that require their hardware to get. It's just so much more expensive and I get a little tiny screen. I'd rather just watch youtube. I don't see why you need to get locked into Apple hardware to get tv shows. If youtube implemented a paid service on a per download basis, I think they'd be much better than this Apple offering.
Well, it did say that he double majored in Math and Physics so he did explore those areas. As with all colleges I'm sure the University of Virginia requires some electives. I guess he just did it really fast. 37 unites in the spring? Unreal!
Ok, the problem with what you said is that you are assuming that the computer is also the jury. From what I gathered, this is not the case. If the computer program is merely handing out sentences, this means that China has basically implemented mandatory sentencing with a computer system. It's just a bunch of if then else statements really. If you steal a car, and you are convicted by jury, you get 2 years in prison, etc... Some people don't like mandatory sentencing because they feel that a judge should have some descression. The problem with giving judges descression is that you end up with the cases like the child molestor who got a 6 months jail sentence after raping a todler over a 4 year period. I guess I like this approach, but the thing is that many rules need to be included in the program. For instance, in sentencing, judges usually look at the background of the defendant, ability for rehabilitation, etc. I think a detailed rules based system for sentencing could end up being very good assuming the people doing the programming come up with rules that are what society deems appropriate.
Yes, it's low, but it's still using energy. Depending on the source, it would be emitting CO2.
You are the one who said that there are drug addicts near your house. I'm sure that there are safe neighborhoods in Oakland. Like all big cities, there are safe neighborhoods and bad ones. By saying that there are 900 sq foot houses selling for $500k you are making my point even further. For $500k in Morgan Hill, you can get a nice 1300 sq foot town house. I'm sure there are plenty of other places with similar prices even closer to Oakland. *Shrug*
I agree in principle, but I think in the case of this person they'd find that there are a lot of safer neighborhoods than Oakland in the area that are also very affordable.
# man css
No manual entry for css
Hmmm, guess they were right.