I'd rather be dealing with burglars who didn't have guns themselves personally. Even if it meant I didn't have one myself. It's simply a lot harder to kill someone without guns.
Great you've a gun. So does everyone else. This is why you're three times more likely to be murdered in the US and twice as likely for a woman to be raped ("I'd better not scream or fight back, he could have a gun!").
You are not comparing like for like statistics. You're comparing risk of crime to reported. A crime can affect more than one person which makes the risk higher.
The violent crime rate in the UK is between 60% to 100% higher than the US depending on the year and the measure. However the murder rate in the US 300% that of the UK and women are twice more likely to be raped in the US than UK.
That argument is contradictory, you likewise can't have free speech in it's fullest if you can't say "hey did you know Chunkylover53 is actually Homer?". It's countering a restriction of free speech with a different restriction.
Just because you wish for someone to not know you wrote something, that doesn't automatically give you the right to protect that information.
The identity of a blogger, especially a popular one, can easily be argued to be in the public interest and provided finding this information doesn't involve breaching data protection regulations (ie using a confidential database that you use as part of your job), anyone, be it the president or a blogger can talk about it.
I find it incredibly ironic for a blogger to whine about this kind of thing when bloggers themselves go out of their way to expose people granted anonymity by courts or their place of work when accused of something.
He could've abused his powers but I doubt he needed to. Reading the blog and doing some creative searching would likely provide enough clues to help average joe find out who someone is if they're willing to spend a bit of time looking. Most people who've spent a long time online will have left countless little snippets on the net that would ID them.
No browser conforms 100% to specifications. There's plenty of valid code with will look different, perhaps to the extent of being broken, in Safari, Opera and Mozilla.
For example I've had major annoyances in the past with Firefox not supporting Negative Z-indexes and it needs its own Mozilla specific command to change the box model (I hate the W3C's choice of default box model) whereas all the other browsers use the proper syntax.
Kids need better practical web education. They need to know that a prince in Nigeria isn't going to give them $1m, that the 11 year old girl who wants to meet them in a quiet street at 9pm alone probably shouldn't be trusted.
From keeping online and offline persona seperated to avoiding libel on forums there proper nettique needs to be addressed in education. When I was at school pretty much the only 'how to act on the net' education we got was "if you use capitals, it looks like you're shouting". Of course that was a time when few people were on the net as you were charged by the minute.
There are likely plenty of people who work for charities who do whatever it is you do without getting paid. Does that mean your work shouldn't involve getting paid?
You must know that a lot of people do that festival and other festivals like it, do so because it boosts their profile and helps either get bigger gigs in the future or get signed. There may be some doing it just for kicks and don't mind the time and money investment of being in a band playing for free but if the majority of them aren't dreaming of making it big I'd be amazed.
Do you think these bands playing would be happy doing nothing but unpaid concerts if they could fill a stadium and still having to have a job on the side?
If this looks like the first case of international collaboration over a wikileaks takedown, it could be a sign of things to come.
Wikileaks relies on the fact that, although they piss countries off, they never piss of a lot of countries at once. As such a takedown in one country means little because of its distribution.
However what would happen if something really major got posted on Wikileaks, something that a government would need to go all out to remove. Say someone posted a list identifying all CIA agents. Would the US government make its allies act to take down wiki leaks presence in each of their country? Would they get ICANN involved and order them to wipe all of its urls off the web? Even block all wikileak IPs at a root server level?
The second a website like Wikileaks which tries to evade potential countermeasures becomes a nuisence to enough people, there'll be plans (if they don't already exist, it's hard to see intelligence agencies not having thought about it) drawn up about how you'd go about wiping a site from the internet. If this does happen, it'll have dire consequences about the future of the net.
I don't know about US road law but if you're stuck in the middle of an intersection I'd guess you're infringing anyway. You certainly shouldn't cross an intersection unless you can make it all the way across before the lights change.
I can't see how anyone could deem 800 words/75 sentences presented without being broken up for analysis as possibly being fair use. Even if it's a 'small' percentage of the main text.
IANAL but I do know that if I used anywhere near that amount of solid text quoted in a university paper, it would have been rejected for plagiarism and I would have risked expulsion depending on how it was used.
I thought since that really nasty virus that would brick PCs by writing to bios' that every mobo maker put in write protection that, if enabled, would halt the system when something tried to write to the BIOS.
Even if the part had been the correct one, I'd still be out £40 and had to have spent an afternoon taking the console apart, not to mention the time spent restoring the console and backing up the save files. 'Most of my problem' is the console breaking in the first place.
So is it a bad thing they laid of the studio that ruined flight simulator or a good thing then?
MS does do a lot for PC gaming. For all the negativity DirectX gets on here, they work heavily with graphics card makers and software developers creating each version, including it in their consoles enables easier ports between consoles and PC gaming making PC titles get a chance at a wider audience and in general most games companies are generally happy using the API over alternatives solutions such as OpenGL and SDL.
How would me buying the wrong part for my already broken console be the cause of the breakage? As far as I know, psychic powers aren't a documented feature of the Cell processor.
Google: ps3 won't read discs. there are plenty of forums full of people with PS3s with dead drives.
There are lots of people recently having this problem, specifically from the end of feb. There are measures which seem to fix it for a week or so, but as soon as your PS3 starts struggling to read discs, it's on the verge of death.
Although the scale of it is hard to guess, the same thing is happening to a lot of people suddenly.
Sony have suggested there's nothing wrong with their patches it's just that lots of people dusted off their consoles to play RE5 or KZ2 which is why there's been a sudden surge of failures.
There's a lot being said about the infamous red ring of death killing 360's but Sony are getting almost no coverage of their issues.
There's been a large scale problem of Blu Ray drives in PS3s dying from the Diode burning out. This recently happened to me when I wanted to dust off the console to play RE5. I've replaced drive heads in the PS2 before so I thought I'd save £60 and repair it myself. Turns out the drive head that is in 'all EU 40gb ps3s' with two lenses, isn't in mine and I have to fork out another £60 on top of what I've spent already to get the correct part...
There seems to be two main possible causes of this happening: a patch increased the voltage going to the drive in an attempt to speed up the slow load times, some models can't take this and fail (the way the drives take a while to fail completely and cases focus around big new releases that force you to patch make this seem possible).
Second is turning the power switch off when there's a disc in the drive, apparently the drive hates it and is very sensative to power fluctations. Seems incredibly crappy if this is the case. I hate leaving things in standby.
I just can't understand why modern games consoles have so many problems. I've never had any drive fail except in consoles, Not even the cheapest, nastiest generic drives I could get have ever failed.
If you've a bad solder at a contact it'll produce sparks when there's friction caused by panels vibrating or shaking in high winds. If you've charged wires rubbing, it's going to produce sparks, even at 12V.
Anything that generates a fair amount of power is a potential fire risk without well designed and maintained circuits. A bad bit of soldering will cause sparking, uneven power generation between cells risks current reversal (which capacitors and batteries love) without well thought out circuit design.
There are many ways a bad solar panel setup could start a fire, especially if you're dealing with potentially damaged cells that have been removed by someone who knows little about circuitry.
Your 'label critisism as being evil big oil person' tactics mark you as an idiot.
Why are you getting modded insightful when you clearly didn't read the article. You are completely wrong on what accelerators are.
Think of an Accelerator as a mini-mashup that delivers information from another Web site directly to your current browser page. Let's say, for example, that you're on a Web page with an address on it. Highlight the address, and then choose a maps accelerator, and you'll see a map of the address displayed in a flyaway -- a kind of pop-up on the page -- or else on another tab, depending on how that particular accelerator was written. You can interact with the flyaway map just as if you were on the map site itself.
Your argument is perhaps better for suggesting that the burden of evidence to mount a prosecution should be higher for criminal charges.
There are lots of people who cry wolf, but there is also the occasional boy who cries wolf and ends up getting eaten. You could say he deserved to be eaten but that would still leave you with a wolf roaming around that now has a taste for human meat...
Metaphors aside, it's up the lawyers and ultimately the judge on how relevant someone's history is to a trial and if their history would unduly sway the jury. Scumbags are often innocent, habitual liars are occasionally telling the truth. It should be up to the people well versed in the law and trials to weigh up the balance.
Because people are not experts on a subject matter.
It's like self diagnosis. If you look up your symptoms you could find that you have a mild cold, You could also discover that you 'have' any number of exotic deadly diseases. It takes a trained doctor to be able to ask the right quests and examine you and narrow it down to the most likely disease.
Lawyers and judges are skilled at knowing what is and isn't relevant to a case, at knowing how to get vital information from an expert. If you've looked up information that has been left out of a case, there may be a reason it's been left out. The defence might have chosen to leave out a piece of evidence you think would prove innocence deliberately because it carries unforeseen implications.
If you look at someone accused of murder and look up that he has previous convictions for violent assault, that would make it seem more likely he was a murderer. However a judge may view that the assault charges were simple drunken brawls but the murder was planned, cold and calculated. The drunken brawls aren't related enough to the present case to justify the impact they'd have on the jury.
A survey of 330 IT Managers makes for questionable results as, although it doesn't state the sampling method, it suggests 'these are just the people who could be bothered to reply to surveys we sent out' rather than going for a representative sampling.
It's headline grabber is from a flawed type of question : "do you plan to...". The trouble is "I you plan to..." isn't the same as "there are currently plans drawn up to...". You're essentially getting a non-commital 'yeah probably' response.
It's also linking two unrelated questions: "are you planning on increasing linux usage?" and "are you cutting your budget". Whilst their may possibly be links between the two in some cases, it would be a logical fallacy to assume that companies are switching to linux because of budget cuts.
The same reason you don't pay for public roads outside of your house; Because it's one of the things you pay taxes for.
Even if the little stretch of road leading up to your property only benefits you and other nearby residents, a fully comprehensive road system that the public can use benefits everyone hugely.
It's better that government try to provide public access to private properties and to design road systems to cope with the traffic they generate than to have a vast network of private roads which may or may not allow public access.
In this case you're talking about 5000 people who won't be clogging up the current road every morning but there will also be other people who will save time using the bypass as they won't have to use the other busier road and their destination may be close to that office. If it was a Microsoft only road which they paid for, these people wouldn't get that benefit and the road network would suffer.
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I'd rather be dealing with burglars who didn't have guns themselves personally. Even if it meant I didn't have one myself. It's simply a lot harder to kill someone without guns.
Great you've a gun. So does everyone else. This is why you're three times more likely to be murdered in the US and twice as likely for a woman to be raped ("I'd better not scream or fight back, he could have a gun!").
You are not comparing like for like statistics. You're comparing risk of crime to reported. A crime can affect more than one person which makes the risk higher.
The violent crime rate in the UK is between 60% to 100% higher than the US depending on the year and the measure. However the murder rate in the US 300% that of the UK and women are twice more likely to be raped in the US than UK.
http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/cri-crime
That argument is contradictory, you likewise can't have free speech in it's fullest if you can't say "hey did you know Chunkylover53 is actually Homer?". It's countering a restriction of free speech with a different restriction.
Just because you wish for someone to not know you wrote something, that doesn't automatically give you the right to protect that information.
The identity of a blogger, especially a popular one, can easily be argued to be in the public interest and provided finding this information doesn't involve breaching data protection regulations (ie using a confidential database that you use as part of your job), anyone, be it the president or a blogger can talk about it.
I find it incredibly ironic for a blogger to whine about this kind of thing when bloggers themselves go out of their way to expose people granted anonymity by courts or their place of work when accused of something.
He could've abused his powers but I doubt he needed to. Reading the blog and doing some creative searching would likely provide enough clues to help average joe find out who someone is if they're willing to spend a bit of time looking. Most people who've spent a long time online will have left countless little snippets on the net that would ID them.
No browser conforms 100% to specifications. There's plenty of valid code with will look different, perhaps to the extent of being broken, in Safari, Opera and Mozilla.
For example I've had major annoyances in the past with Firefox not supporting Negative Z-indexes and it needs its own Mozilla specific command to change the box model (I hate the W3C's choice of default box model) whereas all the other browsers use the proper syntax.
Yeah, it's so much worse than GIMP or Firefox for hinting at what it's function is!
Kids need better practical web education. They need to know that a prince in Nigeria isn't going to give them $1m, that the 11 year old girl who wants to meet them in a quiet street at 9pm alone probably shouldn't be trusted.
From keeping online and offline persona seperated to avoiding libel on forums there proper nettique needs to be addressed in education. When I was at school pretty much the only 'how to act on the net' education we got was "if you use capitals, it looks like you're shouting". Of course that was a time when few people were on the net as you were charged by the minute.
There are likely plenty of people who work for charities who do whatever it is you do without getting paid. Does that mean your work shouldn't involve getting paid?
You must know that a lot of people do that festival and other festivals like it, do so because it boosts their profile and helps either get bigger gigs in the future or get signed. There may be some doing it just for kicks and don't mind the time and money investment of being in a band playing for free but if the majority of them aren't dreaming of making it big I'd be amazed.
Do you think these bands playing would be happy doing nothing but unpaid concerts if they could fill a stadium and still having to have a job on the side?
If this looks like the first case of international collaboration over a wikileaks takedown, it could be a sign of things to come.
Wikileaks relies on the fact that, although they piss countries off, they never piss of a lot of countries at once. As such a takedown in one country means little because of its distribution.
However what would happen if something really major got posted on Wikileaks, something that a government would need to go all out to remove. Say someone posted a list identifying all CIA agents. Would the US government make its allies act to take down wiki leaks presence in each of their country? Would they get ICANN involved and order them to wipe all of its urls off the web? Even block all wikileak IPs at a root server level?
The second a website like Wikileaks which tries to evade potential countermeasures becomes a nuisence to enough people, there'll be plans (if they don't already exist, it's hard to see intelligence agencies not having thought about it) drawn up about how you'd go about wiping a site from the internet. If this does happen, it'll have dire consequences about the future of the net.
I don't know about US road law but if you're stuck in the middle of an intersection I'd guess you're infringing anyway. You certainly shouldn't cross an intersection unless you can make it all the way across before the lights change.
I can't see how anyone could deem 800 words/75 sentences presented without being broken up for analysis as possibly being fair use. Even if it's a 'small' percentage of the main text.
IANAL but I do know that if I used anywhere near that amount of solid text quoted in a university paper, it would have been rejected for plagiarism and I would have risked expulsion depending on how it was used.
I thought since that really nasty virus that would brick PCs by writing to bios' that every mobo maker put in write protection that, if enabled, would halt the system when something tried to write to the BIOS.
Wouldn't this prevent this kind of attack?
Erm yes? I would've been?
Even if the part had been the correct one, I'd still be out £40 and had to have spent an afternoon taking the console apart, not to mention the time spent restoring the console and backing up the save files. 'Most of my problem' is the console breaking in the first place.
So is it a bad thing they laid of the studio that ruined flight simulator or a good thing then?
MS does do a lot for PC gaming. For all the negativity DirectX gets on here, they work heavily with graphics card makers and software developers creating each version, including it in their consoles enables easier ports between consoles and PC gaming making PC titles get a chance at a wider audience and in general most games companies are generally happy using the API over alternatives solutions such as OpenGL and SDL.
Yes... Try thinking before you write.
How would me buying the wrong part for my already broken console be the cause of the breakage? As far as I know, psychic powers aren't a documented feature of the Cell processor.
Google: ps3 won't read discs. there are plenty of forums full of people with PS3s with dead drives.
There are lots of people recently having this problem, specifically from the end of feb. There are measures which seem to fix it for a week or so, but as soon as your PS3 starts struggling to read discs, it's on the verge of death.
Although the scale of it is hard to guess, the same thing is happening to a lot of people suddenly.
Sony have suggested there's nothing wrong with their patches it's just that lots of people dusted off their consoles to play RE5 or KZ2 which is why there's been a sudden surge of failures.
There's a lot being said about the infamous red ring of death killing 360's but Sony are getting almost no coverage of their issues.
There's been a large scale problem of Blu Ray drives in PS3s dying from the Diode burning out. This recently happened to me when I wanted to dust off the console to play RE5. I've replaced drive heads in the PS2 before so I thought I'd save £60 and repair it myself. Turns out the drive head that is in 'all EU 40gb ps3s' with two lenses, isn't in mine and I have to fork out another £60 on top of what I've spent already to get the correct part...
There seems to be two main possible causes of this happening: a patch increased the voltage going to the drive in an attempt to speed up the slow load times, some models can't take this and fail (the way the drives take a while to fail completely and cases focus around big new releases that force you to patch make this seem possible).
Second is turning the power switch off when there's a disc in the drive, apparently the drive hates it and is very sensative to power fluctations. Seems incredibly crappy if this is the case. I hate leaving things in standby.
I just can't understand why modern games consoles have so many problems. I've never had any drive fail except in consoles, Not even the cheapest, nastiest generic drives I could get have ever failed.
If you've a bad solder at a contact it'll produce sparks when there's friction caused by panels vibrating or shaking in high winds. If you've charged wires rubbing, it's going to produce sparks, even at 12V.
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We're talking about solar power not wind power! Some people...
Anything that generates a fair amount of power is a potential fire risk without well designed and maintained circuits. A bad bit of soldering will cause sparking, uneven power generation between cells risks current reversal (which capacitors and batteries love) without well thought out circuit design.
There are many ways a bad solar panel setup could start a fire, especially if you're dealing with potentially damaged cells that have been removed by someone who knows little about circuitry.
Your 'label critisism as being evil big oil person' tactics mark you as an idiot.
Why are you getting modded insightful when you clearly didn't read the article. You are completely wrong on what accelerators are.
Think of an Accelerator as a mini-mashup that delivers information from another Web site directly to your current browser page. Let's say, for example, that you're on a Web page with an address on it. Highlight the address, and then choose a maps accelerator, and you'll see a map of the address displayed in a flyaway -- a kind of pop-up on the page -- or else on another tab, depending on how that particular accelerator was written. You can interact with the flyaway map just as if you were on the map site itself.
Your argument is perhaps better for suggesting that the burden of evidence to mount a prosecution should be higher for criminal charges.
There are lots of people who cry wolf, but there is also the occasional boy who cries wolf and ends up getting eaten. You could say he deserved to be eaten but that would still leave you with a wolf roaming around that now has a taste for human meat...
Metaphors aside, it's up the lawyers and ultimately the judge on how relevant someone's history is to a trial and if their history would unduly sway the jury. Scumbags are often innocent, habitual liars are occasionally telling the truth. It should be up to the people well versed in the law and trials to weigh up the balance.
Because people are not experts on a subject matter.
It's like self diagnosis. If you look up your symptoms you could find that you have a mild cold, You could also discover that you 'have' any number of exotic deadly diseases. It takes a trained doctor to be able to ask the right quests and examine you and narrow it down to the most likely disease.
Lawyers and judges are skilled at knowing what is and isn't relevant to a case, at knowing how to get vital information from an expert. If you've looked up information that has been left out of a case, there may be a reason it's been left out. The defence might have chosen to leave out a piece of evidence you think would prove innocence deliberately because it carries unforeseen implications.
If you look at someone accused of murder and look up that he has previous convictions for violent assault, that would make it seem more likely he was a murderer. However a judge may view that the assault charges were simple drunken brawls but the murder was planned, cold and calculated. The drunken brawls aren't related enough to the present case to justify the impact they'd have on the jury.
A survey of 330 IT Managers makes for questionable results as, although it doesn't state the sampling method, it suggests 'these are just the people who could be bothered to reply to surveys we sent out' rather than going for a representative sampling.
It's headline grabber is from a flawed type of question : "do you plan to...". The trouble is "I you plan to..." isn't the same as "there are currently plans drawn up to...". You're essentially getting a non-commital 'yeah probably' response.
It's also linking two unrelated questions: "are you planning on increasing linux usage?" and "are you cutting your budget". Whilst their may possibly be links between the two in some cases, it would be a logical fallacy to assume that companies are switching to linux because of budget cuts.
The same reason you don't pay for public roads outside of your house; Because it's one of the things you pay taxes for.
Even if the little stretch of road leading up to your property only benefits you and other nearby residents, a fully comprehensive road system that the public can use benefits everyone hugely.
It's better that government try to provide public access to private properties and to design road systems to cope with the traffic they generate than to have a vast network of private roads which may or may not allow public access.
In this case you're talking about 5000 people who won't be clogging up the current road every morning but there will also be other people who will save time using the bypass as they won't have to use the other busier road and their destination may be close to that office. If it was a Microsoft only road which they paid for, these people wouldn't get that benefit and the road network would suffer.