If someone learns or discovers something that saves lives, I say they deserve more than just "hey, thanks" back from society.
Then may I perhaps suggest that you let society (collectively) pay for this instead of letting the individual do this himself, as he is obviously in no shape to do so (in the case of medical patents)?
First off, the memory in question in this article is in "memory circuit" form - meaning we are not talking about HDDs, platters or read-heads of any kind.
Second, gigabits per square centimeter is a great way of measuring how much space you can fit on a platter in the HDD business. After that comes how many platters you can fit in a 3.5" case and such, which does matter, but this isn't the ground that the HDD companies are competing at in the eyes of the consumer - they always report in storage per area.
The idea seems to be that you include the equipment (both soft- and hardware) for reading the information with the stored data itself, but I agree with your karma whoring.
Gravitation has been measured to travel up to 1.2 times faster than the speed of light, although these measurments are not agreed upon by the entire scientific community.
Just like with the war on drugs, eh? Yeah I see how raising the punishment really helps. No wait. Shit, it doesn't. I guess we're fucked now.
What I think would help is ISPs taking confirmed zombie machines offline. It's done in Sweden by some ISPs, and most people don't seem to have a problem with that.
Sorry, I wasn't aware that we were dreaming. I thought we had a serious discussion. I have no intention of participating in dreaming with you, so I guess that ends our communications for this time.
1 - death ( yes, death, not jail ) for conviced spammers ( oh, and make it painful and long too )
Please try to size the punishment to the size of the crime. Most civilized countries don't even have death sentence for serial murder. Also, your American laws don't carry much power over other jurisdictions, and convincing others to share death penalty for something like this would be hard.
2 - any company caught knowingly using spam as a way to advertise is forced to shut down and they lose all thier assets ( including personal )
Well then I know what to do about my pesky competitors, just have some spammers send spam in their name! Problem solved!
3 - anyone caught buying from a spam ad should be humiliated in public.
So who do you want to monitor everybody's commerical actions? Actually, to know that the person bought a product because of spam, we'd need to monitor them whenever they check their email. Big Brother go!:DDDDDDD
In the name of Karl Popper, though, I appreciate your proposals.
I have an online account at the Swedish bank Swedbank (formerly Föreningssparbanken), and they have keypads. I don't doubt that Nordea have them aswell, since Swedish bank competition is fierce. I assume they aren't mandatory though, as they aren't with Swedbank. Actually, with Swedbank, you can't even use the keypad for the temporary online debit card service - you have to use your 6 char password (only digits and alphabet, no special characters).
The insecurity of these services irritate me, as they otherwise have very good security measures.
If you're a good typist, keyboards can be faster and easier, too. And can you imagine trying to play Half-Life with a speech interface?
Hah, also imagine programming with voice recognition:
"Indent that. No! Delete those two words, indent everything between lines five and sixty. Create a new if construct with condition i is smaller than fifteen AND larger than three OR dirLocator equals equals zero. Put these and these words within paranthesis. Enter next code block, write dirLocator equals function system dot Initech dot dirLocator. No, the function. Delete those words, put an empty pair of paranthesis after the word dirLocator. No, the last one on the line. ERGH, lets set so double the killer delete select all. (e-egg for playing flight sim in VS.Net 2100)
Now keep going for seven hours a day, five days a week, for fifty years - watch your voice wither away.
Yes, I know that my principles are unrealistic, but I can generally get away with trying to enforce them (ie use adblock) as people like me are a minority.
Further on, I'd like to make clear that with my initial reply I only meant to make my stance known, not debate wether search engine providers should use ads or not (it seems best for most of us that they do).
I didn't make this clear to begin with, and I'm sorry. The only thing I meant to respond to was
No, it would not be a good thing if I wasn't already looking for the items in question. Personal principles. Also, ads mostly don't take any of my screen real estate thanks to adblock and filterset.g updater. Weighted search results, though, I can do nothing about. This bothers me.
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So... what if we reduce these bits to 0 Kelvin?
You just gave the TCPA engineers a huge lead on what to do now! D:
I think maybe they should pay their bills with money earned from something that isn't morally corrupt.
First off, the memory in question in this article is in "memory circuit" form - meaning we are not talking about HDDs, platters or read-heads of any kind. Second, gigabits per square centimeter is a great way of measuring how much space you can fit on a platter in the HDD business. After that comes how many platters you can fit in a 3.5" case and such, which does matter, but this isn't the ground that the HDD companies are competing at in the eyes of the consumer - they always report in storage per area.
It got lost in translation that he was developing RSI and administrating some love.
Ah, yes, you are correct. It does leave room for the possibility of >c speed of information, but I don't really believe in it myself.
The idea seems to be that you include the equipment (both soft- and hardware) for reading the information with the stored data itself, but I agree with your karma whoring.
Gravitation has been measured to travel up to 1.2 times faster than the speed of light, although these measurments are not agreed upon by the entire scientific community.
See http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302294 for statement.
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(For those impaired at sensing really bad jokes that aren't really funny at all: This is one.)
Just like with the war on drugs, eh? Yeah I see how raising the punishment really helps. No wait. Shit, it doesn't. I guess we're fucked now.
What I think would help is ISPs taking confirmed zombie machines offline. It's done in Sweden by some ISPs, and most people don't seem to have a problem with that.
Sorry, I wasn't aware that we were dreaming. I thought we had a serious discussion. I have no intention of participating in dreaming with you, so I guess that ends our communications for this time.
Well then I know what to do about my pesky competitors, just have some spammers send spam in their name! Problem solved!
So who do you want to monitor everybody's commerical actions? Actually, to know that the person bought a product because of spam, we'd need to monitor them whenever they check their email. Big Brother go!
In the name of Karl Popper, though, I appreciate your proposals.
I'm not so sure about that. I would imagine many people's feelings go along the lines of SPIDER SILK ON MY PENIS OH MY GOD
I have an online account at the Swedish bank Swedbank (formerly Föreningssparbanken), and they have keypads. I don't doubt that Nordea have them aswell, since Swedish bank competition is fierce. I assume they aren't mandatory though, as they aren't with Swedbank. Actually, with Swedbank, you can't even use the keypad for the temporary online debit card service - you have to use your 6 char password (only digits and alphabet, no special characters).
The insecurity of these services irritate me, as they otherwise have very good security measures.
By the way, Grey Album was not for profit, this DJ Drama guy's stuff was. Seems to make a big difference to the RIAA.
We have always been at war with global warming.
I think by "blogosphere", you really mean "internet".
You have too much faith in that the patent system will work as intended. We all know it hasn't before, so let's be a bit optimistic now, shall we?
Or maybe not, whatever gets you spinning.
Suck that, Web 2.0!
If by it you mean the party, then yes.
Further on, I'd like to make clear that with my initial reply I only meant to make my stance known, not debate wether search engine providers should use ads or not (it seems best for most of us that they do).
I didn't make this clear to begin with, and I'm sorry. The only thing I meant to respond to was
No, it would not be a good thing if I wasn't already looking for the items in question. Personal principles. Also, ads mostly don't take any of my screen real estate thanks to adblock and filterset.g updater. Weighted search results, though, I can do nothing about. This bothers me.
Because it is so close to newyears and I don't want it to be September again?