when was the last time you heard of a band selling-out a stadium that had a popular MySpace profile and no record deal? This is a terrible example, considering I don't even remember the name of the artist, but a few years back there was a guy whose music was all over the P2P networks, without ever playing a live show. When he finally did, it was a very big deal.
That said, it is only one example, and a few years ago. I read about it in Rolling Stone at the doctor's office, so maybe it wasn't as big a deal as they made it sound. I'm actually hoping somebody can give more details, cause I'd like to find the guy's music. At any rate, I do expect there to be many more examples like this coming in the near future. Most major pop culture movements have come from grass-roots origin. The internet makes it a lot easier.
At minimum to be called alive, an organism must be able to reproduce itself and at some level at least, be self-repairing if damaged. Viruses do meet these two specs. It can be argued that they do indeed meet these specs. Viruses reproduce by forcing other organisms to copy them. There are lots of parasitic insects, fishes, etc. that cannot reproduce without a host. The mechanism is different, but the end result- propagation of a strand of DNA, is exactly the same.
For example, if your robot needed screws to hold it together, it would need the services of a robot that makes screws. That one would need the services of a steel mill and robots that get iron out of the ground etc. Get the idea? there are a lot of proteins and such that humans can't synthesize themselves, especially not from raw elements. This doesn't cause too much of a problem though, because there are other organisms that can. We have symbiotic, or predatorial relationships with them and we can get all the parts we need.
If robot A is good at finding energy, robot B is good at finding titanium, and robot C (let's call him a bending unit) is good at shaping that titanium to build more robots, they can all share and we have the beginnings of an ecosystem. This is perfectly normal in organic life, and isn't hard to imagine in artificial life.
This is fantastic moral discussion and wonderful fodder for fiction. I've already developed a couple movie and book plots. Let me know when those movies come out, so that I can not see them.
You're really stretching for moral controversies, aren't you?
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of. Considering recent news regarding the DoD, It's pretty much down to the CIA and the NSA, and I have my doubts about their competence.
I'd like to set up a sting to expose shitty journalists. I think modern journalism is the one area that seriously needs to be looked in to. We already did that. It was lots of fun.
Did you even bother to read the OpenBSD man page? No, I didn't bother to read the OpenBSD man page. I did, however, just check Ubuntu, CentOS, and FreeBSD's man pages for chroot, and none had the line you referenced. I suppose my manpage collection is incomplete, and I should check OpenBSD too.
I began by suggesting that you meant Darwinian evolution, if that is the case then your "definitively proven" fact could easily be wrong
You make a good point, but it really just enforces my original point.
Maybe Darwinian evolution isn't as definitively proven as I think, but it does fit the facts a lot better than creationism theory. So I may be wrong. And I can admit that possibility and move on with my life.
I have no beef with any major religion, but when large groups of people continue to insist that something as definatively proven (and relatively obvious) as evolution does not exist, they lose an awful lot of credibility.
If your entire system of beliefs relies on blindly sticking to what a book of scripture says, you have serious issues. It is not hard to fathom that there was human error somewhere in that book, be it in the writing, the translation (or the translation's translation), or your own interpretation. It should not be so hard to admit that you could be wrong, without your life falling apart.
The issue in TFA is really either all about Ego or Money. I tend to think it's a little of both.
Content providers can send me all the advertisements that they want, but I have no obligation to view it. MAYBE if they put that in as a condition of their terms of use, which the user has to agree to before viewing the content, they would have a case, but as it is, it's hard to steal free content.
The colonies had their own governments, which for the most part had very weak ties to the central government in England (and England was several months sea voyage away). The primary government of the colonies wasn't being overthrown, the primary government of the colonies were actively participating in the overthrow of what they realized was a foreign power.
The American Revolution had some very unique circumstances that don't typically exist in most revolutions.
I beg to differ. That is exactly what most revolutions are fighting. For example the IRA is fighting British control, various groups in Latin America are fighting the control of the imperialist USA, African nations are against more powerful African nations, etc.
Show me a revolutionary group, and I'll show you somebody fighting against either a foreign power or a local power under foreign influence. I may not agree with revolutionary practices (I usually do), but it's hard to argue with the objectives and reasoning.
Just because somebody can verify the code, doesn't mean I want to spend days/weeks looking through all the code in a newly downloaded program
Right... but when there's a few thousand security researchers out there looking for exploits, you don't have to- just add bugtraq's rss feed to your newsreader and you're relatively safe. With closed source, that's not really an option.
In some states, like mine, a drivers license is NOT a legal id. It is strickly a license for driving, and only must be presented in that form. You are required to carry an offical id when NOT on your own property (aka social security card, state issued id, military id, other offical id's).
Please let me know what state you live in, so that I can make sure to never visit.
Generally, you click the link and it takes you to a page that will try one of many (mostly patched) javascript exploits to install malware on your system. I reverse engineered a few of these pages last week and, while they weren't amazingly clever, it is interesting.
If that doesn't work, they usually bring up a page saying something like 'If you are seeing this message, please download our secure login software', along with a link.
I'm surprised they even try something as obvious as this, but I assume that it works to some extent, based on the fact that I'm still getting the spam.
I tend to think that the real question here is not where the line is, but whether it is necessary at all. It doesn't take mass piss sampling to tell what areas use more... If any of the so-called experts are surprised by this, I don't think they are the ones for the job.
That said, the only thing I can imagine being revealed by this is that usage is not as much of a problem as the powers-that-be claim-- as evidenced by the lower usage rates throughout the week.
Funny that I'm typing this thoroughly high on gin, (considering your sig), but I'm with you on this. Thomas Payne wrote that it's just common sense for the people to revolt when they no longer are in control... America is getting lazy, cause they have had very little control over the last hundred years. I hate violence, but there's a time and place for everything. The legal system won't fix America.
However, I didn't have the money to pay a software engineer (code monkey) If you get your hands on the source code, I'd be happy to look at it. I'm sure there are others here who would do the same.
There is no problem with press getting in- we just want to know that they are press. The press can get in to the con just like anybody else, but they wear special badges.
Of course, anybody who starts talking just cause she has breasts is a dumbass and deserves to get caught.
I'm at DEFCON right now (posting from the hotel's now free wifi... MAC spoofing rules). Basically, the whole thing has turned into a running gag.
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Because she was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.
After that she and Joe got it on.
That said, it is only one example, and a few years ago. I read about it in Rolling Stone at the doctor's office, so maybe it wasn't as big a deal as they made it sound. I'm actually hoping somebody can give more details, cause I'd like to find the guy's music. At any rate, I do expect there to be many more examples like this coming in the near future. Most major pop culture movements have come from grass-roots origin. The internet makes it a lot easier.
If robot A is good at finding energy, robot B is good at finding titanium, and robot C (let's call him a bending unit) is good at shaping that titanium to build more robots, they can all share and we have the beginnings of an ecosystem. This is perfectly normal in organic life, and isn't hard to imagine in artificial life.
You're really stretching for moral controversies, aren't you?
It's cute.
You can't get the full effect by taking it in floppy form though. Once you've mainlined the stuff, you'll never want to go back.
Completely off-topic, but I can't be the only one that finds himself accidentally using semicolons in regular sentences, can I?
oh, shit. That was supposed to be posted as AC.
Ah, well. See you guys in guantanamo;
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of. Considering recent news regarding the DoD, It's pretty much down to the CIA and the NSA, and I have my doubts about their competence.
My tinfoil hat may be unnecessary after all.
Little known fact- muffler throwout bearings can be discarded, and the only impact will be slightly higher emissions- still legal in most states.
Now piston return springs... you don't want to mess around with old ones. Just replace 'em outright, I always say.
You make a good point, but it really just enforces my original point.
Maybe Darwinian evolution isn't as definitively proven as I think, but it does fit the facts a lot better than creationism theory. So I may be wrong. And I can admit that possibility and move on with my life.
Wasn't that fun?
I have no beef with any major religion, but when large groups of people continue to insist that something as definatively proven (and relatively obvious) as evolution does not exist, they lose an awful lot of credibility.
If your entire system of beliefs relies on blindly sticking to what a book of scripture says, you have serious issues. It is not hard to fathom that there was human error somewhere in that book, be it in the writing, the translation (or the translation's translation), or your own interpretation. It should not be so hard to admit that you could be wrong, without your life falling apart.
The issue in TFA is really either all about Ego or Money. I tend to think it's a little of both.
Content providers can send me all the advertisements that they want, but I have no obligation to view it. MAYBE if they put that in as a condition of their terms of use, which the user has to agree to before viewing the content, they would have a case, but as it is, it's hard to steal free content.
I beg to differ. That is exactly what most revolutions are fighting. For example the IRA is fighting British control, various groups in Latin America are fighting the control of the imperialist USA, African nations are against more powerful African nations, etc.
Show me a revolutionary group, and I'll show you somebody fighting against either a foreign power or a local power under foreign influence. I may not agree with revolutionary practices (I usually do), but it's hard to argue with the objectives and reasoning.
Right... but when there's a few thousand security researchers out there looking for exploits, you don't have to- just add bugtraq's rss feed to your newsreader and you're relatively safe. With closed source, that's not really an option.
Generally, you click the link and it takes you to a page that will try one of many (mostly patched) javascript exploits to install malware on your system. I reverse engineered a few of these pages last week and, while they weren't amazingly clever, it is interesting.
If that doesn't work, they usually bring up a page saying something like 'If you are seeing this message, please download our secure login software', along with a link.
I'm surprised they even try something as obvious as this, but I assume that it works to some extent, based on the fact that I'm still getting the spam.
I tend to think that the real question here is not where the line is, but whether it is necessary at all. It doesn't take mass piss sampling to tell what areas use more... If any of the so-called experts are surprised by this, I don't think they are the ones for the job.
That said, the only thing I can imagine being revealed by this is that usage is not as much of a problem as the powers-that-be claim-- as evidenced by the lower usage rates throughout the week.
Funny that I'm typing this thoroughly high on gin, (considering your sig), but I'm with you on this. Thomas Payne wrote that it's just common sense for the people to revolt when they no longer are in control... America is getting lazy, cause they have had very little control over the last hundred years. I hate violence, but there's a time and place for everything. The legal system won't fix America.
There is no problem with press getting in- we just want to know that they are press. The press can get in to the con just like anybody else, but they wear special badges.
Of course, anybody who starts talking just cause she has breasts is a dumbass and deserves to get caught.
I'm at DEFCON right now (posting from the hotel's now free wifi... MAC spoofing rules). Basically, the whole thing has turned into a running gag.
I considered putting in a 'First post' 10 minutes ago and only a half dozen people have commented since.
Apparently nobody cares.