Except that it will never, ever, end (well, not before humanity does).
Why fight over territory in space? At about the time the technology makes warfare in space feasable, it will be easier to keep flying and find another rock.
How will people fighting in space over land be any different than now on Earth?
Space will be like the Old West, except forever. Why fight over land in space? It's not like there's a shortage. You just have your robotic miners spend another few years or so flying, go a bit further, and nab a different asteroid. No biggie. Fighting over land in space is like fighting over territory in the ocean.
was one of those bike machine things that would be rigged so that if you stopped pedaling you'd lose power to your PC. That'd give new meaning to Warcrack 'marathons'. Hehe.
Only someone that still has a spam problem would dumb enough to but this. I spent 5 minutes setting up Gmail (with no other software) and get no spam, which gives me more time for kickboxing.
Several members of the German high command were hung by the neck until dead for the crime of waging a war of aggression. They claimed they did it to defend the German victims of tyrannical oppression in Poland, but everyone knew it was just empire-building.
Patriotism is a willingness to sacrifice in order to preserve and defend your people group and way of life, and it is a virtue as such.
The Germans thought themselves patriots. They thought they were gaining the Fatherland more land for the Aryan race to expand in to. It's not a virtue.
Actually, an overwhelming majority of the Iraqis are opposed to the U.S. occupation...I rather do believe, from talking to people in Iraq, that a majority would vote for Sadaam Hussein right now
I have no idea what information you are basing that off. That sounds like you pulled it out of your ass. How many people ded you talk to? Where did they live? How is that even close to a properly scaled population representative?
By no stretch of even the most delusional mind is Saddam even comprable to the Americans. You can criticize them of many things, but it would be more constructive for everyone if they had more basis in reality than partisan longings, no matter how well intentioned. What are you basing this opinion off of?
Digitally anyway. His novel Maelstrom deals with artificial life developing from viral software . The first two books of his Rifters trilogy (Maelstrom being the second) are available for free here http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm until they are reprinted this summer. Very, very good hard sf.
Instead of teaching kids material, we should teach kids to metacognition, research, and reasoning skills.
One who knows logic faults (such as a straw man argument) and cognitive faults (such as the confirmation bias) and can effectively use technology (such as Google and Wikipedia) will be able to efficiently gather and analyze a vast amount of data effectively to produce a mostly objective, bipartisan, and educated position on a subject.
One of the reasons I like Slashdot is that it is the only place I know of where people having an argument have even heard of these things.
I was really referring to software at that point, in the case of the BBC, how would DRM stop that? It won't even slow down a half-serious pirate.
DRM only bugs people with legitimate uses, like me copying a game to my 10k rpm hard drive so that my game runs faster and has no waiting-on-cd-lag every quarter of a level. I can copy it, but if I try and run it virtually it detects it and refuses.
How ironic that a class designed to teach proper use of the language (which would be communication, one would think) does the opposite. Eschew obsfucation!
If spleing end grammer are coreckt, then an developped vocabularly be no ass important is.
Sure. Just charge enough tax that a CD-R cost the same as a music cd, a DVD-R cost the same as a DVD movie, and make software free to download but require a key that you can purchase on line to activate it (and have the key verified over the net). And make hard drives more expensive (50% more?).
The key would be to harvest old hard drives out of old computers and use them like floppies.
I'm for it (especially since I have a head start on hard drives and on data).
Ugh. How many times has the explanation been listed here?
DRM is only a slight, tiny, itsy-bitsy inconvenience to pirates. A padlock won't stop a professional burglar. He has lockpicks and crowbars and I have no idea what else. A professional pirate has equivalents. They crack encryption and keys for fun and out of spite. A group like RAZOR 1911, the oldest game pirating group according to the DOJ, knows every trick in the book and has a goal of zero-day exploits for everything. And they regularly pull it off. They probably won't even notice the DRM. I read that DVD copy protection can be circumvented with simply applying scotch tape to the bottom of a DVD (which will cause the DRM to be unreadable and ignored, but leave the content, which has scratch and dirt protection, readable). I haven no idea if that's true, but I'm sure a pirate knows.
DRM is a huge inconcenience to a customer who legally purchased a CD but can't legally put it on his MP3 player or convert his collection to OGG (or whatever format, let's say a Sony player that requires ATRAC). Ever have to sit through commercials on a DVD because you can't skip it or fast forward through it? These are just the simplest examples, look out for alot more here.
Anyone else read that as "Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Firefox Access"? I panicked for a sec, thinking that MS had finally gone and made OSS illegal.
On one hand, I hate Diebold and the dirt on them needs to get some publicity.
On the other hand, I'd like it done correctly, internally, so that it does some good.
Did the guy not know how to report correctly (the media's fault for publicizing leaks too much? After all it does serve their best interests.)?
Or did he think that reporting it internally wouldn't be effective? I have no idea how it should have been done in Diebold's case but I can believe alot of companies try to quash improvement efforts by their employees (anyone here work for a big corp with office politics up to here?).
I don't think we'll hear all the details. But fuck Diebold anyway. They are more dangerous to freedom than suicide bombers right now.
A patriot is anyone who fights for their nation or political ideas. This can be to preserve it the existing state or make a new, better one. Anyone can be a patriot. The Nazis were patriots. The American revolutionaries who overthrew their government are somehow patriots (not really, but everyone calls them that). It shouldn't have the positive connotation it has, being a patriot doesn't itself make you a good or bad person.
A guerrilla soldier whose main method is psychological warfare against the opposing army, rather than actual destruction of said army like in conventional warfare. Our special forces often use guerrilla tactics.
A terrorist is a guerrilla soldier who attacks civilians deliberately. Or they are a civilian participating in a war, deliberatley attacking civilians.
Essentially, terrorists are either soldiers or civilan criminals.
If they are soldiers, then they are subject to treatment required by the Geneva convention if captured. And they must abide by international laws regulating warfare, such as not targeting civilians. If they don't, they are war criminals.
If they aren't soldiers, and are involved in a war, they are under no legal protection and are fair game for anything. They don't get special treatment beyond universal human rights.
And no, if the majority if Iraqis were opposed to the occupation (remember, the US occupied Germany and Japan after WWII for almost a decade before establishing a government, this is slow compared to Iraq, and why does this have a negative connotation? France was Allied occupied during WWII and no one complained except the Axis powers) then the 78.59% of them wouldn't have voted to ratify their constitution. Yeah, they sound real unhappy. Saddam was so much more caring. He should be let go, after all, he is the legitamate ruler of Iraq and he never, ever, rigged elections by torturing the families of anyone who didn't vote for him to death. Truly, he is no worse than any Western leader. In fact, the Catholic church is considering him for sainthood.
I know that whenever I feel confusion, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and aimlessness, I turn to Google and Wikipedia. They are the shepards that guide me through the valley of darkness. Lighthouses on the rough and stormy seas of the net and of life. Without them, I would be truly lost.
Me too. I thought they were talking about people who weren't able to tell the difference between science fiction and reality for about 5 seconds (I woke up 30 min ago).
I'm in a funny position. I haven't seen Dark Crystal, but have seen his other works without realizing till now that they were all the same person. Dexter's lab was pretty good, but I prefer anime to any western stuff. I think I'll check out Dark Crystal anyway. Sequels after this long a time don't seem to work out well very often. Like the Star Wars prequels.
What's up with your sig? ALL political ideas look good on paper. It's the people that muck them up.
It's a shame in a way - that when we read the news on the internet, we still have to read several versions of it to get anything like a balanced account.
There's a quote I saw somewhere comparing anyone in a court of law to a fish between two cats, the lawyers. Do your country a favor and thin your herd of lawyers. This overabundance of lawyers is the cause of nearly all problems in the US. They're friggin war-profiteers in the legal battleground that they keep expanding. Break out the stakes and holy water and slay the blood-suckers. Save yourselves!
Tree-hugging wacko is a term used to often and inappropriatly. I'm green, but there are some real nutjobs. There's an interesting book called Green Death by an author who's name escapes me right now. It explores the damage that fanatical environmentalism is doing to developing nations. There's even a quote by the co-founder of Greenpeace saying that the environmentalist movement has really gotten out of hand. All sides have nuts, know yours.
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Except that it will never, ever, end (well, not before humanity does).
Why fight over territory in space? At about the time the technology makes warfare in space feasable, it will be easier to keep flying and find another rock.
How will people fighting in space over land be any different than now on Earth?
Space will be like the Old West, except forever. Why fight over land in space? It's not like there's a shortage. You just have your robotic miners spend another few years or so flying, go a bit further, and nab a different asteroid. No biggie. Fighting over land in space is like fighting over territory in the ocean.
was one of those bike machine things that would be rigged so that if you stopped pedaling you'd lose power to your PC. That'd give new meaning to Warcrack 'marathons'. Hehe.
Only someone that still has a spam problem would dumb enough to but this. I spent 5 minutes setting up Gmail (with no other software) and get no spam, which gives me more time for kickboxing.
Several members of the German high command were hung by the neck until dead for the crime of waging a war of aggression. They claimed they did it to defend the German victims of tyrannical oppression in Poland, but everyone knew it was just empire-building.
Patriotism is a willingness to sacrifice in order to preserve and defend your people group and way of life, and it is a virtue as such.
The Germans thought themselves patriots. They thought they were gaining the Fatherland more land for the Aryan race to expand in to. It's not a virtue.
Actually, an overwhelming majority of the Iraqis are opposed to the U.S. occupation...I rather do believe, from talking to people in Iraq, that a majority would vote for Sadaam Hussein right now
I have no idea what information you are basing that off. That sounds like you pulled it out of your ass. How many people ded you talk to? Where did they live? How is that even close to a properly scaled population representative?
By no stretch of even the most delusional mind is Saddam even comprable to the Americans. You can criticize them of many things, but it would be more constructive for everyone if they had more basis in reality than partisan longings, no matter how well intentioned. What are you basing this opinion off of?
Digitally anyway. His novel Maelstrom deals with artificial life developing from viral software . The first two books of his Rifters trilogy (Maelstrom being the second) are available for free here http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm until they are reprinted this summer. Very, very good hard sf.
Instead of teaching kids material, we should teach kids to metacognition, research, and reasoning skills.
One who knows logic faults (such as a straw man argument) and cognitive faults (such as the confirmation bias) and can effectively use technology (such as Google and Wikipedia) will be able to efficiently gather and analyze a vast amount of data effectively to produce a mostly objective, bipartisan, and educated position on a subject.
One of the reasons I like Slashdot is that it is the only place I know of where people having an argument have even heard of these things.
Depends on the country. Oman and the UAE are extremely progressive countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman
Some fit the stereotype perfectly though.
I was really referring to software at that point, in the case of the BBC, how would DRM stop that? It won't even slow down a half-serious pirate.
DRM only bugs people with legitimate uses, like me copying a game to my 10k rpm hard drive so that my game runs faster and has no waiting-on-cd-lag every quarter of a level. I can copy it, but if I try and run it virtually it detects it and refuses.
Well, be sure to have your "anti-virus" "soft"-ware "installed".
Well, the tip of my wang is about as near. So yeah.
How ironic that a class designed to teach proper use of the language (which would be communication, one would think) does the opposite. Eschew obsfucation!
If spleing end grammer are coreckt, then an developped vocabularly be no ass important is.
Sure. Just charge enough tax that a CD-R cost the same as a music cd, a DVD-R cost the same as a DVD movie, and make software free to download but require a key that you can purchase on line to activate it (and have the key verified over the net). And make hard drives more expensive (50% more?).
The key would be to harvest old hard drives out of old computers and use them like floppies.
I'm for it (especially since I have a head start on hard drives and on data).
Ugh. How many times has the explanation been listed here?
DRM is only a slight, tiny, itsy-bitsy inconvenience to pirates. A padlock won't stop a professional burglar. He has lockpicks and crowbars and I have no idea what else. A professional pirate has equivalents. They crack encryption and keys for fun and out of spite. A group like RAZOR 1911, the oldest game pirating group according to the DOJ, knows every trick in the book and has a goal of zero-day exploits for everything. And they regularly pull it off. They probably won't even notice the DRM. I read that DVD copy protection can be circumvented with simply applying scotch tape to the bottom of a DVD (which will cause the DRM to be unreadable and ignored, but leave the content, which has scratch and dirt protection, readable). I haven no idea if that's true, but I'm sure a pirate knows.
DRM is a huge inconcenience to a customer who legally purchased a CD but can't legally put it on his MP3 player or convert his collection to OGG (or whatever format, let's say a Sony player that requires ATRAC). Ever have to sit through commercials on a DVD because you can't skip it or fast forward through it? These are just the simplest examples, look out for alot more here.
Anyone else read that as "Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Firefox Access"? I panicked for a sec, thinking that MS had finally gone and made OSS illegal.
On one hand, I hate Diebold and the dirt on them needs to get some publicity.
On the other hand, I'd like it done correctly, internally, so that it does some good.
Did the guy not know how to report correctly (the media's fault for publicizing leaks too much? After all it does serve their best interests.)?
Or did he think that reporting it internally wouldn't be effective? I have no idea how it should have been done in Diebold's case but I can believe alot of companies try to quash improvement efforts by their employees (anyone here work for a big corp with office politics up to here?).
I don't think we'll hear all the details. But fuck Diebold anyway. They are more dangerous to freedom than suicide bombers right now.
It is. I have about 5 extensions (not at home now can't check) and I have had maybe 10-15 crashes in two years. What the hell are you running?
That's not correct.
A patriot is anyone who fights for their nation or political ideas. This can be to preserve it the existing state or make a new, better one. Anyone can be a patriot. The Nazis were patriots. The American revolutionaries who overthrew their government are somehow patriots (not really, but everyone calls them that). It shouldn't have the positive connotation it has, being a patriot doesn't itself make you a good or bad person.
A guerrilla soldier whose main method is psychological warfare against the opposing army, rather than actual destruction of said army like in conventional warfare. Our special forces often use guerrilla tactics.
A terrorist is a guerrilla soldier who attacks civilians deliberately. Or they are a civilian participating in a war, deliberatley attacking civilians.
Essentially, terrorists are either soldiers or civilan criminals.
If they are soldiers, then they are subject to treatment required by the Geneva convention if captured. And they must abide by international laws regulating warfare, such as not targeting civilians. If they don't, they are war criminals.
If they aren't soldiers, and are involved in a war, they are under no legal protection and are fair game for anything. They don't get special treatment beyond universal human rights.
And no, if the majority if Iraqis were opposed to the occupation (remember, the US occupied Germany and Japan after WWII for almost a decade before establishing a government, this is slow compared to Iraq, and why does this have a negative connotation? France was Allied occupied during WWII and no one complained except the Axis powers) then the 78.59% of them wouldn't have voted to ratify their constitution. Yeah, they sound real unhappy. Saddam was so much more caring. He should be let go, after all, he is the legitamate ruler of Iraq and he never, ever, rigged elections by torturing the families of anyone who didn't vote for him to death. Truly, he is no worse than any Western leader. In fact, the Catholic church is considering him for sainthood.
Along with a manpr0n mag while you wait I presume?
I know that whenever I feel confusion, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and aimlessness, I turn to Google and Wikipedia. They are the shepards that guide me through the valley of darkness. Lighthouses on the rough and stormy seas of the net and of life. Without them, I would be truly lost.
Me too. I thought they were talking about people who weren't able to tell the difference between science fiction and reality for about 5 seconds (I woke up 30 min ago).
I'm in a funny position. I haven't seen Dark Crystal, but have seen his other works without realizing till now that they were all the same person. Dexter's lab was pretty good, but I prefer anime to any western stuff. I think I'll check out Dark Crystal anyway. Sequels after this long a time don't seem to work out well very often. Like the Star Wars prequels.
What's up with your sig? ALL political ideas look good on paper. It's the people that muck them up.
and people-ware
What the hell is that? Arms and legs and ears and eyes? Purchase commodity or D-I-Y! I hear the Chinese Government is taking orders now.
It's a shame in a way - that when we read the news on the internet, we still have to read several versions of it to get anything like a balanced account.
How is that different from any other medium?
I don't think that Web 2.0 will fix this.
There's a quote I saw somewhere comparing anyone in a court of law to a fish between two cats, the lawyers. Do your country a favor and thin your herd of lawyers. This overabundance of lawyers is the cause of nearly all problems in the US. They're friggin war-profiteers in the legal battleground that they keep expanding. Break out the stakes and holy water and slay the blood-suckers. Save yourselves!
Tree-hugging wacko is a term used to often and inappropriatly. I'm green, but there are some real nutjobs. There's an interesting book called Green Death by an author who's name escapes me right now. It explores the damage that fanatical environmentalism is doing to developing nations. There's even a quote by the co-founder of Greenpeace saying that the environmentalist movement has really gotten out of hand. All sides have nuts, know yours.
I'm sure mass emails titled "I LOVE U" would win the war... especially if there was a certain "Love Bug" inside...