It wouldn't bother me a whole lot if it was a picture of myself but I can identify with the Representative that I wouldn't want anyone to look at these kinds of images of my wife or children.
And the image quality will only get better over time. The pictures may be grainy now, but imagine what scans will look like in 5 or 10 years. The time to stop this insanity is now.
Word doesn't work well with external version control(*). It has its own built-in version control.
While the latter may be sufficient when the document is the only thing in your repository, it is absolutely no replacement for the former when the document is part of a larger project.
But is "frites" just short hand for "pommes frites" like in English how "fries"(used informally) is short for "french fries" (seen on menus) is short for "french fried potatoes" (rarely used)? Or is "frites" the actual proper term?
How big was the population you were classifying? Dozens? Hundreds? Is classification still going to be easy with no collisions or miss-classifications once you are working with hundreds of millions or billions? What about when the subject has a headache or otherwise has an altered mental state?
(To be fair, this technology probably wouldn't be used to classify (i.e. given a scan figure out who it is) but rather to verify (i.e. check that a scan matches a particular ID) which doesn't really care about collisions.)
Personally, I start with an empty list. If an ad annoys or offends me, then I add the ad-server's entire domain to my list of blocked sites. My list of blocks is around 30 long accumulated over ~2 years. It doesn't take much to eliminate the really bad ones out there.
It's perfect tit-for-tat. Evil ads get punished. Good ads get rewarded. (Then again maybe I only surf sites that use good ads, it's hard to tell.)
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Well you see in Sweden they were only prosecuted for the copyright infringements in Sweden. There's still all that copyright infringement they committed in Italy to prosecute them for.
Do other utilities also operate under such restrictions? A city run ISP should operate under the same laws that any other city run utility does. So I ask, is this proposed law just imposing the same restrictions that other utilities have or is it adding extra restrictions that other utilities don't have?
Could someone explain why preventing pricing below cost and preventing profits being used for other city projects is supposed to cripple Greenlight? If TWC is behind it, I'm sure there is something there to cause problems, but I don't see what it is. (Aside from the annoyance factor of having more regulations/restrictions.)
Protecting IP to make up for weak manufacturing is actually short-sighted not progressive. It will further weaken manufacturing and make us dependent on IP. Not only is IP as a monopoly very economically inefficient, but when trading internationally our IP is only as strong as the laws/enforcement of the country we are trading with. We can strengthen our laws/enforcement all we want but it doesn't mean a thing on the international market. Manufacturing doesn't suffer from either of these problems.
The article is riddled with false claims about programming languages. (All quotes are from the article.)
Java was the first strongly-typed language
ML had true strong-types in 1973 a full 20 years before Java. (And Java's types are fairly weak compared to ML/Haskell/Agda, etc.)
Perl was created in the 80's, a decade in which finally logic/functional programming had found its place in the programming languages world.
Perl has nothing to do with logic or fuctional programming other than the occational "map". For logic programming try Prolog.
C programming language was equally influential to the design of all other "programming philosophies"
Not all other programming philosophies. Don't forget about Fortran, Algol, Lisp, Pascal, Smalltalk, Modula 2, Ada, etc.
C++... is the first language that tries to capture this idea of forms by giving the developers the capability to abstract the problem [into classes] before doing anything else.
C++ was not the first language to abstract problems into objects and classes, it was beaten by both Simula and Smalltalk. (At least that is what I think the article is claiming; a less generous reading might be that the article is erroneously claiming that C++ is the first language to have any sort of abstraction which is so wrong it doesn't even need rebuttal.)
The method of outing... may be interpreted as crimes in some jurisdictions.
I'm no expert in MA law but the EFF's motion makes it look like the "outing" wasn't criminal.
A good witness claiming a crime has been committed is usually enough to investigate whether one has.
Investigate, yes. Search and seizure, not so much. The witness wasn't specific enough about times/places/etc for the alleged hacking (the EFF motion cites precedent on this matter).
The only criminal act alleged was grade changing. The "outing" was a separate act. Verifying one doesn't constitute probable cause for the other. Thus since the accuser had an ax to grind because of a an act unrelated to the alleged criminal act, the credibility of the accuser is diminished. On top of that the accusation was only in the broadest generalities.
To use your analogy, it is as if I reviled your affair to your wife and then you claim you saw me beat someone else up without being specific about who or when or where. I'm no lawyer but from the case law the EFF cites in it's motion, that isn't enough to issue a warrant.
The sad thing is the guy probably did it and should be punished (I have no sympathy for cheaters) but since the warrant wasn't drafted to properly meet the legal standard, the kid may get away with it (criminally at least).
The sworn affidavit given by the detective seeking the warrant gives as evidence the MAC addresses of the computers connected to the network ports through which the acts in question were committed.
No it doesn't. The MAC address is good evidence for the "outing" act (which AFAIK isn't illegal), but there is absolutely no MAC address evidence for the illegal, grade-changing act.
Read the EFF's motion. The warrant application is based on the non-specific and unsubstantiated accusations of a witness who happens to have an axe to grind with the student. The motion also lists a number of other issues with the application.
These accusations are non-specific because the witness doesn't name times, places or any sort of details other than a general claim that sometime, somewhere, somehow he saw the student hacking. It is a matter of precedent that this doesn't meet the burden of probable cause.
These accusations are also unsubstantiated. While the accusations of "outing" the witness are backed-up by the DHCP logs, these have nothing to do with grade changing. Trying to bind them together is a very dirty trick.
Maybe the student did it, but he still deserves due process.
In Acts 10, God commands Peter to eat animals that in the OT were considered unclean. Acts 15 also deals (in the negative) with the question of whether OT rules are binding in the NT.
RFC 3972 seems targeted at authentication, not anonymity. For that you would want something more like RFC 3041. But even then that is only for interface anonymity, there is no network/typology anonymity (i.e. they can still track down the network).
This difference is most trolls can't level a city of 24 million people when you make them angry.
Most troll's power come from being able to suck people into the conversation. NK's power comes from very realistic military threats (with or without nukes).
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It wouldn't bother me a whole lot if it was a picture of myself but I can identify with the Representative that I wouldn't want anyone to look at these kinds of images of my wife or children.
And the image quality will only get better over time. The pictures may be grainy now, but imagine what scans will look like in 5 or 10 years. The time to stop this insanity is now.
Word doesn't work well with external version control(*). It has its own built-in version control.
While the latter may be sufficient when the document is the only thing in your repository, it is absolutely no replacement for the former when the document is part of a larger project.
(*) Except maybe, possibly the XML DOC formats
But is "frites" just short hand for "pommes frites" like in English how "fries"(used informally) is short for "french fries" (seen on menus) is short for "french fried potatoes" (rarely used)? Or is "frites" the actual proper term?
How big was the population you were classifying? Dozens? Hundreds? Is classification still going to be easy with no collisions or miss-classifications once you are working with hundreds of millions or billions? What about when the subject has a headache or otherwise has an altered mental state?
(To be fair, this technology probably wouldn't be used to classify (i.e. given a scan figure out who it is) but rather to verify (i.e. check that a scan matches a particular ID) which doesn't really care about collisions.)
Personally, I start with an empty list. If an ad annoys or offends me, then I add the ad-server's entire domain to my list of blocked sites. My list of blocks is around 30 long accumulated over ~2 years. It doesn't take much to eliminate the really bad ones out there.
It's perfect tit-for-tat. Evil ads get punished. Good ads get rewarded. (Then again maybe I only surf sites that use good ads, it's hard to tell.)
... only cameras will assault?
So far as I know, the consensus is that it's definitely above the existing tax levels in the U.S.
You got a cite for that? Otherwise, as far as I know the consensus is that it's definitely below the existing tax levels in the U.S.
Well you see in Sweden they were only prosecuted for the copyright infringements in Sweden. There's still all that copyright infringement they committed in Italy to prosecute them for.
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One firecracker: one small pop. Lots of firecrackers: lots of small pops. You don't get a big pop. Methinks the same would apply to bullets.
Do other utilities also operate under such restrictions? A city run ISP should operate under the same laws that any other city run utility does. So I ask, is this proposed law just imposing the same restrictions that other utilities have or is it adding extra restrictions that other utilities don't have?
Could someone explain why preventing pricing below cost and preventing profits being used for other city projects is supposed to cripple Greenlight? If TWC is behind it, I'm sure there is something there to cause problems, but I don't see what it is. (Aside from the annoyance factor of having more regulations/restrictions.)
Protecting IP to make up for weak manufacturing is actually short-sighted not progressive. It will further weaken manufacturing and make us dependent on IP. Not only is IP as a monopoly very economically inefficient, but when trading internationally our IP is only as strong as the laws/enforcement of the country we are trading with. We can strengthen our laws/enforcement all we want but it doesn't mean a thing on the international market. Manufacturing doesn't suffer from either of these problems.
The article is riddled with false claims about programming languages. (All quotes are from the article.)
Java was the first strongly-typed language
ML had true strong-types in 1973 a full 20 years before Java. (And Java's types are fairly weak compared to ML/Haskell/Agda, etc.)
Perl was created in the 80's, a decade in which finally logic/functional programming had found its place in the programming languages world.
Perl has nothing to do with logic or fuctional programming other than the occational "map". For logic programming try Prolog.
C programming language was equally influential to the design of all other "programming philosophies"
Not all other programming philosophies. Don't forget about Fortran, Algol, Lisp, Pascal, Smalltalk, Modula 2, Ada, etc.
C++ ... is the first language that tries to capture this idea of forms by giving the developers the capability to abstract the problem [into classes] before doing anything else.
C++ was not the first language to abstract problems into objects and classes, it was beaten by both Simula and Smalltalk. (At least that is what I think the article is claiming; a less generous reading might be that the article is erroneously claiming that C++ is the first language to have any sort of abstraction which is so wrong it doesn't even need rebuttal.)
but then imagine states wheeling and dealing with tax rates to get certain businesses to locate in them
I don't see why that would be a bad thing. States and cities already do this to attract brick and mortar businesses.
The method of outing ... may be interpreted as crimes in some jurisdictions.
I'm no expert in MA law but the EFF's motion makes it look like the "outing" wasn't criminal.
A good witness claiming a crime has been committed is usually enough to investigate whether one has.
Investigate, yes. Search and seizure, not so much. The witness wasn't specific enough about times/places/etc for the alleged hacking (the EFF motion cites precedent on this matter).
The only criminal act alleged was grade changing. The "outing" was a separate act. Verifying one doesn't constitute probable cause for the other. Thus since the accuser had an ax to grind because of a an act unrelated to the alleged criminal act, the credibility of the accuser is diminished. On top of that the accusation was only in the broadest generalities.
To use your analogy, it is as if I reviled your affair to your wife and then you claim you saw me beat someone else up without being specific about who or when or where. I'm no lawyer but from the case law the EFF cites in it's motion, that isn't enough to issue a warrant.
The sad thing is the guy probably did it and should be punished (I have no sympathy for cheaters) but since the warrant wasn't drafted to properly meet the legal standard, the kid may get away with it (criminally at least).
But the DHCP lease was never tied to the grade changing. It was only ever tied to the "outing".
The sworn affidavit given by the detective seeking the warrant gives as evidence the MAC addresses of the computers connected to the network ports through which the acts in question were committed.
No it doesn't. The MAC address is good evidence for the "outing" act (which AFAIK isn't illegal), but there is absolutely no MAC address evidence for the illegal, grade-changing act.
Read the EFF's motion. The warrant application is based on the non-specific and unsubstantiated accusations of a witness who happens to have an axe to grind with the student. The motion also lists a number of other issues with the application.
These accusations are non-specific because the witness doesn't name times, places or any sort of details other than a general claim that sometime, somewhere, somehow he saw the student hacking. It is a matter of precedent that this doesn't meet the burden of probable cause.
These accusations are also unsubstantiated. While the accusations of "outing" the witness are backed-up by the DHCP logs, these have nothing to do with grade changing. Trying to bind them together is a very dirty trick.
Maybe the student did it, but he still deserves due process.
A witness with an axe to grind. (Having "domestic" issues with roommate, claims he "outed" him, etc.)
Please tell me that someone else here actually read the full warrant.
I did, but then I read the motion. The warrant application has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
In Acts 10, God commands Peter to eat animals that in the OT were considered unclean. Acts 15 also deals (in the negative) with the question of whether OT rules are binding in the NT.
If you was to see the text they are debating see section 83.3 in Local Rules of the United States District for the District of Massachusetts.
RFC 3972 seems targeted at authentication, not anonymity. For that you would want something more like RFC 3041. But even then that is only for interface anonymity, there is no network/typology anonymity (i.e. they can still track down the network).
This difference is most trolls can't level a city of 24 million people when you make them angry.
Most troll's power come from being able to suck people into the conversation. NK's power comes from very realistic military threats (with or without nukes).