However, what happens in 20 years when bandwidth exceeds full motion HD video and you can download a 1000 TB in just a few seconds and you can host your own super webserver from your laptop? I mean full imersion can only go up to the point where we can't tell the difference between reality and our downloadable entertainment?
Nothing... We will have run out of extractable oil by then. The developed countries will be lucky to have enough food, much less maintain high-speed internet to the public.
So if I spent 3 billion dollars measuring the speed of light to 20 digits accuracy, are you are saying that I should "own" the speed of light? That I should "own" that number? That I should own that fact? That anyone wanting to use that number in any game or in any other software would have to pay me whatever price tag I make up? Does it become my property simply because I assert that it is "intellectual property"?
I've got one for ya.
1) Take a Microsoft Windows XP Professional cd. 2) Create an.ISO file from it. 3) Convert the contents of the above ISO file to a long hexadecimal string. 4) [Alternative] Instead of#3, convert it to a base-10 (decimal) string.
QUESTIONS:
Is the resulting numeric value copyrighted?
Is it patentable / subject to patents? (i.e. jpeg/mpeg decompression, etc)
Does it fall under the DMCA?
Can the use/display/disclosure/tranfer of this *number* be regulated by criminal and/or civil law, and/or contractual agreements?
So, if i'm to understand that correctly, if you use the grey area rule a bit, that can be construed as to allow anyone exemption if they were considered an agent of a foreign power... And terrorists are certainly a foreign power.. so if they wanted to say i'm a suspected terrorrist, then i'm obviously connected to a foreign terrorist cell, and i'm free game for no legal protection? Or am i just missing something....
Even worse....
What if you are a Travel Agent working in the US (w/o US citizenship). Or an exchange student whose home country uses 220/240V electricity instead of our 110/120V.
I think that makes you an Agent of a Foreign Power.
It's like they put up a chart saying that Republicans, Germans, Koreans and Canadians have sex once a month, whereas Democrats, Brazilians, and the British have sex five million times per second.
That would be a grave error.
The British don't have sex, they have hot water bottles.
Does anyone else find it ironic that/. (which is a US-based site--with readers from around the world) posts a link to an article from an Australia news site, talking about developments of an Indian-born scientist, working in the US?
So let me get this straight: you want to help a couple make a baby... by making a baby somewhere else, destroying it, harvesting its biological material, and using that material to make another baby, which you then give to the baby-challenged couple?
Of course! It's an very old story:
Let's say you need a home. What do you do?
1) Buy a piece of land. 2) Flatten/level the ground. 3) Clear/burn/remove any plantlife, animals (Grass, Trees, plants, mice, termites, gophers, etc) 4) Clear/burn/remove any existing buildings, 5) Build a house (using WOODen structure and paper [drywall] walls) 6) Plant tress, bushes, grass, vines, etc. Hope they grow... 7) Get a cat/dog/fish. 8) Dig a huge hole for a pool/spa/etc.
I'm not a tree-hugger, so I find this somewhat amusing.
Of course this logically implies that marriage should not be a legal entity at all, which is the main problem here.
What is the problem with removing the legal entity of marriage?
Do you mean in terms of civil rights? (e.g. cannot be forced to testify against spouse?).
In most respects, we would probably be better off removing "marriage" from the lawbooks. Adultery is no longer a crime, so why is marriage a legal entity?
I'm a bit puzzled as to why it took the general public 100+ years to realize smoking is bad for one's health.
In the old days, walls and ceilings would get discolored and stained from years of candle smoke.
Did people really think that directly inhaling smoke from cigars, pipes, and cigarettes would be significantly different? (yes they don't burn wax, but still!) What about the housewives that had to clean things? Didn't they see the grime?
The only think that has changed now is that the mainstream presses are publishing 'smoking is bad'. Now the public is felling silly and wants to blame someone else for it.
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In America, the Government is the People.
True, however most of the People are stupid and/or apathetic.
Those in power often exploit the situtation.
but may not return well in search engines because they're flash, or image-heavy, or have a lot of dynamic content
The world doesn't need such filth. Remember the first commandment.
HTML is the and only one web-publishing medium. Thou shalt not worship any other.
However, what happens in 20 years when bandwidth exceeds full motion HD video and you can download a 1000 TB in just a few seconds and you can host your own super webserver from your laptop? I mean full imersion can only go up to the point where we can't tell the difference between reality and our downloadable entertainment?
Nothing... We will have run out of extractable oil by then. The developed countries will be lucky to have enough food, much less maintain high-speed internet to the public.
There were up to 10x or more flaws in Office discovered this year than the previous year.
Also, God bless George W. Bush!
You had a pretty good chance of being moderated as "+5, Funny" before that line.
Indeed.
I bet he was robbed with a toy gun.
robberies across the UK have risen 22 per cent in the last year, from 90,747 to 98,204
Wow... Some how a increase 7457 robberies over the previous year's 90747 total is 22 percent???
I guess the muggers have been stealing people's math skills too....
[For the numerically challenged, the stated figures represent less than a 10% increase, not a 22% increase.]
Meet the world's insulin consumption in 2010?
In other news, pharmacutical companies are beginning to persuade food companies to put MORE SUGAR into foods....
Here in Texas, where I suspect temperatures exceed battery design, I think this idea will bomb spectacularly.
Seriously, though, Li-ion? I shudder to think of how those will get disposed of, eventually.
And the public doesn't want to see their super-duty 4x4 offroad pickup trucks loaded down by a metric tonne of LI-ION batteries.
Interesting, but what happens when you want to allow an unsigned program?
And what happens if it wants to update itself (like Acrobat Reader)?
So if I spent 3 billion dollars measuring the speed of light to 20 digits accuracy, are you are saying that I should "own" the speed of light? That I should "own" that number? That I should own that fact? That anyone wanting to use that number in any game or in any other software would have to pay me whatever price tag I make up? Does it become my property simply because I assert that it is "intellectual property"?
I've got one for ya.
1) Take a Microsoft Windows XP Professional cd.
2) Create an
3) Convert the contents of the above ISO file to a long hexadecimal string.
4) [Alternative] Instead of#3, convert it to a base-10 (decimal) string.
QUESTIONS:
Is the resulting numeric value copyrighted?
Is it patentable / subject to patents? (i.e. jpeg/mpeg decompression, etc)
Does it fall under the DMCA?
Can the use/display/disclosure/tranfer of this *number* be regulated by criminal and/or civil law, and/or contractual agreements?
I suspect "dark matter" and the like is really just an illustration of human pride...
It seems to me more like a "fudge factor" to make our theories and equations work...
Because the scientific communitiy is not ready to admit that they overlooked/haven't found something that is statistically significant.
So, if i'm to understand that correctly, if you use the grey area rule a bit, that can be construed as to allow anyone exemption if they were considered an agent of a foreign power... And terrorists are certainly a foreign power.. so if they wanted to say i'm a suspected terrorrist, then i'm obviously connected to a foreign terrorist cell, and i'm free game for no legal protection? Or am i just missing something....
Even worse....
What if you are a Travel Agent working in the US (w/o US citizenship). Or an exchange student whose home country uses 220/240V electricity instead of our 110/120V.
I think that makes you an Agent of a Foreign Power.
Believe it or not there are people who believe that low levels in the blood is an anti cancer agent.
Are these the same ones that believe low levels of fluoride is an anti-cavity agent?
Indeed.
But for the costs involved, they could cheaply probably make a formidble weapon that fires hardened wads of $100 bills at the target.
It would still be destructive and a lot cheaper!
Nah. It was die with a GPF before it finished rendering.
What about Big Fcuking Guns? (The kind that shoot *several* miles)
I'm not sure if an airplane engine (or cabin) could withstand very many bullets.
And I highly doubt that laser could do much to a huge speeding bullet, much less detect it.
I would like to see solid evidence that they are effective and that they eliminate a threat before the government pours billions into this technology.
That's fine, but your viewpoint is held only by a very very very small minority.
It's like they put up a chart saying that Republicans, Germans, Koreans and Canadians have sex once a month, whereas Democrats, Brazilians, and the British have sex five million times per second.
That would be a grave error.
The British don't have sex, they have hot water bottles.
Does anyone else find it ironic that /. (which is a US-based site--with readers from around the world) posts a link to an article from an Australia news site, talking about developments of an Indian-born scientist, working in the US?
No. News sources in the US suck!
So let me get this straight: you want to help a couple make a baby... by making a baby somewhere else, destroying it, harvesting its biological material, and using that material to make another baby, which you then give to the baby-challenged couple?
Of course! It's an very old story:
Let's say you need a home. What do you do?
1) Buy a piece of land.
2) Flatten/level the ground.
3) Clear/burn/remove any plantlife, animals (Grass, Trees, plants, mice, termites, gophers, etc)
4) Clear/burn/remove any existing buildings,
5) Build a house (using WOODen structure and paper [drywall] walls)
6) Plant tress, bushes, grass, vines, etc. Hope they grow...
7) Get a cat/dog/fish.
8) Dig a huge hole for a pool/spa/etc.
I'm not a tree-hugger, so I find this somewhat amusing.
Of course this logically implies that marriage should not be a legal entity at all, which is the main problem here.
What is the problem with removing the legal entity of marriage?
Do you mean in terms of civil rights? (e.g. cannot be forced to testify against spouse?).
In most respects, we would probably be better off removing "marriage" from the lawbooks. Adultery is no longer a crime, so why is marriage a legal entity?
He doesn't seem to realize that worms existed before 1994 and they ran on UNIX, not Windows.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why it took the general public 100+ years to realize smoking is bad for one's health.
In the old days, walls and ceilings would get discolored and stained from years of candle smoke.
Did people really think that directly inhaling smoke from cigars, pipes, and cigarettes would be significantly different? (yes they don't burn wax, but still!) What about the housewives that had to clean things? Didn't they see the grime?
The only think that has changed now is that the mainstream presses are publishing 'smoking is bad'. Now the public is felling silly and wants to blame someone else for it.
Great people talk about ideas
Average people talk about things
Small people talk about other people
and Slimy people PATENT ideas.