Yeah , this is really worth a 'nothing to see here , move along'.
I mean , this is nothing new . It's been that way for over a century.
I don't like that they track down the 'creator's of those nuisance programs ' , though . Programming these things is a fun way of learning how it works.
They should be going after the people who USE it for malicious purpose instead.
I mean , maybe we should just lock up the creators of the Windows API , because you can really do some damage with that.
well , the scientific method used both : empirism and rationalism.
The only way to know wether something is true , is to have witnessed it (emperical) , and then think about it , and then to analyze is , and verify if it is possible.
If you only analyse what someone else tells you , that information itself could be faulty , and so your conclusion may be incorrect, but there's no way to verify it.
(Even though Jaron Lanier's knows his own life best , he can't prove it all )
If you only witness something and don't analyse it , you may draw the wrong conclusion . ( Looking at the sky , someone might think the sun revolves around the earth )
Another look at the meaning is clearly only stating the obvious: Just as every life has a beginning it also too must have an end. It does not say that everyone must perish in a cruel, agonizing, bloody death. Even the bible has some pretty dark lines surpassing this one.
As always , it depends on the interpretation. It's not a problem that this is in the Quran , the problem is the people who use it to justify their own evil thoughts.
And this is indeed the same for the Quran , as for the Bible , or any other form of scripture. You can get out of it whatever you want.
The problem with religion is that often you are not allowed to interpret it yourself . Instead , the interpretation is imposed on you . And so everyone believes that interpretation , rather than thinking about it.
Other than that , most holy books are rather cruel , because that was accepted back then , since it was the only way to maintain order.
This doesn't apply anymore , and you have to take that into account.
So don't judge the book , judge the people abusing the book , and the masses that remain quiet about this abuse
In the case of religions , i noticed the following:
At the start of religions , the religion is usually fought against by the powers that be. At that moment the religion is often peacefull , caring , and serves a general good.
Then the religion becomes accepted, and eventually becomes mandatory. At that point the religion becomes dogmatic , abusive , and serves basically to enslave people.
It all begins spiritually , with best intentions.But then power and greed corrupts it , and uses it to bend the people's will.
So , if you seek spirituality , you can only find it by seeking it all by yourself, not by someone else tells you to do.
One of my favorite quotes :
religion is regarded by the common man as true , by the wise as false , and by the rulers as useful.
You seem to be mixing up atheism with christianity. Just replace atheist with christian , and it makes a lot more sense , it even becomes historically relevant.
Atheists don't give a fuck about what other people believe. They just don't like it when people force their religion on others.
I'm pretty sure most atheists have higher moral standards than religious people , simply because they don't have a holy book to hide behind.
Off course , your post could have been sarcastic, and in that case , you won't mind this post.
While indeed some sales might get lost , that's not really a determinable figure , because of 2 reasons :
- Not everyone who pirates something , was going to buy it if they couldn't pirate it.
- Pirating something doesn't mean you won't buy it , or maybe have already bought it ( say for instance , you bought a game before , but the cd's is unreadable now , so you pirate it , but in reality it's not a lost sale )
Similary , it can be easier to download a song from the internet , then to go looking in your pile of cd's until you find it .
On the other hand , it's possible to copy something i downloaded and share it without using the internet , wich might be a lost sale without the download.
So x amount of downloads doesn't mean x amount of lost sales . So any claims maybe to it can never be proven . Not sure how Ars can know this any better , maybe they took this into account and got to a more probable number . But it will still remain a guess.
The selection of Biden with his Hollywood lobbyists doesn't bode well. Look up the kinds of net / technology bills Binden favors and get a taste of the future.
I discovered the same thing . Biden is like the alter ego of Obama ( both on net neutrality on Iraq) . Worst possible choice.
It's possible to put data in images , so why not in a video.
You just take something highly demanded ( could be porn , could be a movie ) , and punt your data in it , well encrypted and without anyone knowing it.
The file gets shared because of the content people want to see , and if you ever lose your data you just lookup the file via P2P , and you have it back.
You are wasting your life away. Go into something exciting, fun, and PROGRAMMING is not any of that. Especially if you are an idiot, like most so-called programmers are today.
Well , i guess it depends on the job i guess. In my job i have plenty of programming , but there's also a good part research and design,and that's exciting enough.
I'm not an American citizen . Where i live , it's all regulated , and still they easily get all the weapons they need illegaly.
In fact , i'm pretty it's easier to get an illegal gun here , then a legal one.
Your point about guns is valid ( and i wouldn't even justify using it to kill animals ) , however it can also be used to prevent killing/violence. Every police officer knows that. Most of them have used their guns to prevent someone from harming someone else , yet a lot less have actually had to pull the trigger.
Everything is a tool , and can be used for good and bad. That depends on the person using it , not on the object itself.
Sure, but what if the robots are supposed to watch you for terroristic behavior? Do you think you'll be able to stop them from recording your voice and reporting any suspicious commentary back to Skynet Central?
I hope so , otherwise we would all be screwed:
Using robots the perform a part of the separation of powers ( executive, a legislature, judiciary ) , could lead to a dictatorship , were however programs the robots rules .
Water serves as a buffer , it can take in a lot of heat.
I don't think a few datacenters in the ocean is going to make any difference. When exposed to air it's the same amount anyway. And if they can save on energy this way , it will probably reduce pollution in the long run.
Exactly : you aren't paid to report/fix bugs , but you don't have to pay for the software either.
So , simply put , you can't complain . You can post bug reports to help speed things up
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Awww, did the liddle Firefox fanboy get his feelings hurt?
Poor baby!
Quick! Someone post another Firefox damage control article stop stop him from crying...
Wow , you'r defensive. It was clearly a joke , a wordplay , and a relatively good one. No reason to be defensive about it , unless you really are a troll , and thought you got caught red handed ? Or maybe you just need a good night sleep .
Btw , i'm a heavy firefox user , and the first thing i did was install Chrome to check it out. It has some interesting features , but it's not worth switching browsers for me . It's just personal taste , i guess.
A word to the wise : ignore trolls . They are not a correct representation of a user group . The worse you can do is judge the firefox user group on a few trolls.
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Yeah , this is really worth a 'nothing to see here , move along'.
I mean , this is nothing new . It's been that way for over a century.
I don't like that they track down the 'creator's of those nuisance programs ' , though . Programming these things is a fun way of learning how it works.
They should be going after the people who USE it for malicious purpose instead.
I mean , maybe we should just lock up the creators of the Windows API , because you can really do some damage with that.
All religions are dogmatic , and extremly dangerous if they becomes to powerfull.
And it's everyone's right , or even duty , to guard against that. Period.
I think he was reffering to the screaming.
No , just post your university name here, and then write a paper about browser comptibility , reffering to this article.
well , the scientific method used both : empirism and rationalism.
The only way to know wether something is true , is to have witnessed it (emperical) , and then think about it , and then to analyze is , and verify if it is possible.
If you only analyse what someone else tells you , that information itself could be faulty , and so your conclusion may be incorrect, but there's no way to verify it.
(Even though Jaron Lanier's knows his own life best , he can't prove it all )
If you only witness something and don't analyse it , you may draw the wrong conclusion .
( Looking at the sky , someone might think the sun revolves around the earth )
Another look at the meaning is clearly only stating the obvious: Just as every life has a beginning it also too must have an end. It does not say that everyone must perish in a cruel, agonizing, bloody death. Even the bible has some pretty dark lines surpassing this one.
As always , it depends on the interpretation. It's not a problem that this is in the Quran , the problem is the people who use it to justify their own evil thoughts.
And this is indeed the same for the Quran , as for the Bible , or any other form of scripture. You can get out of it whatever you want.
The problem with religion is that often you are not allowed to interpret it yourself . Instead , the interpretation is imposed on you . And so everyone believes that interpretation , rather than thinking about it.
Other than that , most holy books are rather cruel , because that was accepted back then , since it was the only way to maintain order.
This doesn't apply anymore , and you have to take that into account.
So don't judge the book , judge the people abusing the book , and the masses that remain quiet about this abuse
to summarize , most wars are based on greed.
In the case of religions , i noticed the following:
At the start of religions , the religion is usually fought against by the powers that be. At that moment the religion is often peacefull , caring , and serves a general good.
Then the religion becomes accepted, and eventually becomes mandatory. At that point the religion becomes dogmatic , abusive , and serves basically to enslave people.
It all begins spiritually , with best intentions.But then power and greed corrupts it , and uses it to bend the people's will.
So , if you seek spirituality , you can only find it by seeking it all by yourself, not by someone else tells you to do.
One of my favorite quotes :
religion is regarded by the common man as true , by the wise as false , and by the rulers as useful.
You seem to be mixing up atheism with christianity.
Just replace atheist with christian , and it makes a lot more sense , it even becomes historically relevant.
Atheists don't give a fuck about what other people believe. They just don't like it when people force their religion on others.
I'm pretty sure most atheists have higher moral standards than religious people , simply because they don't have a holy book to hide behind.
Off course , your post could have been sarcastic, and in that case , you won't mind this post.
Now, something here isn't quite right. They allow your simple scripts to expand into a huge unmaintanable mess.
You are right , but that depends on the developer , not on the scripting language itself.
I'd submit a bug report , but i don't know the URL of God's bugtracker.
:-)
( Wish i had mod points )
While indeed some sales might get lost , that's not really a determinable figure , because of 2 reasons :
- Not everyone who pirates something , was going to buy it if they couldn't pirate it.
- Pirating something doesn't mean you won't buy it , or maybe have already bought it ( say for instance , you bought a game before , but the cd's is unreadable now , so you pirate it , but in reality it's not a lost sale )
Similary , it can be easier to download a song from the internet , then to go looking in your pile of cd's until you find it .
On the other hand , it's possible to copy something i downloaded and share it without using the internet , wich might be a lost sale without the download.
So x amount of downloads doesn't mean x amount of lost sales . So any claims maybe to it can never be proven . Not sure how Ars can know this any better , maybe they took this into account and got to a more probable number . But it will still remain a guess.
The selection of Biden with his Hollywood lobbyists doesn't bode well. Look up the kinds of net / technology bills Binden favors and get a taste of the future.
I discovered the same thing . Biden is like the alter ego of Obama ( both on net neutrality on Iraq) . Worst possible choice.
It's funny , but it might be practical in way.
It's possible to put data in images , so why not in a video.
You just take something highly demanded ( could be porn , could be a movie ) , and punt your data in it , well encrypted and without anyone knowing it.
The file gets shared because of the content people want to see , and if you ever lose your data you just lookup the file via P2P , and you have it back.
You are wasting your life away. Go into something exciting, fun, and PROGRAMMING is not any of that. Especially if you are an idiot, like most so-called programmers are today.
Well , i guess it depends on the job i guess. In my job i have plenty of programming , but there's also a good part research and design ,and that's exciting enough.
I'm not an American citizen . Where i live , it's all regulated , and still they easily get all the weapons they need illegaly.
In fact , i'm pretty it's easier to get an illegal gun here , then a legal one.
Your point about guns is valid ( and i wouldn't even justify using it to kill animals ) , however it can also be used to prevent killing/violence. Every police officer knows that. Most of them have used their guns to prevent someone from harming someone else , yet a lot less have actually had to pull the trigger.
Everything is a tool , and can be used for good and bad. That depends on the person using it , not on the object itself.
The problem with gun/knife control is that the real criminal will still be able to get knives or guns from the black market.
So it won't really stop crime . It may however , decrease the chance of accidents happing with guns.
But still , anything can be used as a lethal weapon in some way. You can do some serious damage with an umbrella if you know how.
it works better with a picture :
http://xkcd.com/378/
You are probably right , but not everyone needs the features of vim , and so why should they learn it , when there's an easier way ?
nano is as good as it gets if you just want it plain and simple.
vim is a lot more powerful , and as a result more complex.
only off by 5 minutes . Keep trying
Sure, but what if the robots are supposed to watch you for terroristic behavior? Do you think you'll be able to stop them from recording your voice and reporting any suspicious commentary back to Skynet Central?
I hope so , otherwise we would all be screwed:
Using robots the perform a part of the separation of powers ( executive, a legislature, judiciary ) , could lead to a dictatorship , were however programs the robots rules .
that chance is really rather slim. By the time they have taken out the memory and analyze it , the data will likely be gone.
Even so , it only works if your truecrypt volume was mounted at that moment. I don't auto mount it.
But that UPS gave me an idea though.Maybe it can be coupled to an auto forced dismount when the power is cut off.
Water serves as a buffer , it can take in a lot of heat.
I don't think a few datacenters in the ocean is going to make any difference. When exposed to air it's the same amount anyway. And if they can save on energy this way , it will probably reduce pollution in the long run.
Exactly : you aren't paid to report/fix bugs , but you don't have to pay for the software either.
So , simply put , you can't complain . You can post bug reports to help speed things up
Awww, did the liddle Firefox fanboy get his feelings hurt?
Poor baby!
Quick! Someone post another Firefox damage control article stop stop him from crying...
Wow , you'r defensive. It was clearly a joke , a wordplay , and a relatively good one. No reason to be defensive about it , unless you really are a troll , and thought you got caught red handed ? Or maybe you just need a good night sleep .
Btw , i'm a heavy firefox user , and the first thing i did was install Chrome to check it out. It has some interesting features , but it's not worth switching browsers for me . It's just personal taste , i guess.
A word to the wise : ignore trolls . They are not a correct representation of a user group . The worse you can do is judge the firefox user group on a few trolls.
You didn't continue :
Costumer learns that not verifying the domain is stupid . Customers will hopefully not make the same mistake again.
Costumer has no one to blame but himself .