A big problem is latency and overhead. The Bittorrent protocol is designed for asynchronous downloading of large, immutable data files, not serving relatively small web resources while you wait for the page to load. Particularly dynamic pages like a wiki, where you'd have additional latency+overhead due to the static files getting stale and having to be reseeded.
Naturally, the actual PDFs could be torrented, which would be a great idea. I don't think we'll see websites on magnet:// URIs viewable in the browser, though.
‘You see what I have done?’ he asked the ceiling, which seemed to flinch slightly at being yanked so suddenly into the conversation. ‘I have transformed the problem from an intractably difficult and possibly quite insoluble conundrum into a mere linguistic puzzle. Albeit,’ he muttered, after a long moment of silent pondering, ‘an intractably difficult and possibly insoluble one.’ --Dirk Gently.
start displaying "FRIDGES ARE A CRIME AND WE WILL FIND YOU" signs all over shops that sell them, much like the movies.
That makes MORE sense than the piracy ads at the movie theater. A better analogy would be screaming "FRIDGES ARE A CRIME AND WE WILL FIND YOU" at everyone who goes out and buys your icecubes, just in case he might ever decide to get a fridge instead.
"Citizen's arrest" powers are naturally subject to the authority of law enforcement, because you're not a law enforcement officer.
Why this makes sense, consider this example:
Police and other emergency services are not bound by traffic laws during an emergency. This privilege can get abused. However, even if you think it is being abused, you could be wrong. Impeding an officer during an actual emergency is bad, and the average person isn't trusted to make that decision.
You have the right to a trial if you make a complaint, but you do not have the right to interfere with the police directly any more than you can overrule the judge's verdict after a trial. All you can do is make an appeal to a higher court.
Closer to Neanderthals, maybe... some of the mutations responsible for our development might have been caused by virus infections instead of transcripting errors.
(Speculation from a non-biologist. This could be complete nonsense.)
Doesn't patent law require Google to disclose the invention in order to get it protected? I mean, I only have a vague idea of how it works, but I thought this was one of the points.
I mean, what idiot programs a number field to be ambiguously hexadecimal or decimal? Of course you'll be screwed as soon as you leave the single digits.
... know exactly which airport is best for smuggling explosives.
I mean, responsible intrusion and disclosure is useful on computer systems, but what exactly did this test accomplish? All I know is that I'm not flying to Bratislava.
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Sure it will recharge your battery...
over the next few years. :P
A big problem is latency and overhead. The Bittorrent protocol is designed for asynchronous downloading of large, immutable data files, not serving relatively small web resources while you wait for the page to load. Particularly dynamic pages like a wiki, where you'd have additional latency+overhead due to the static files getting stale and having to be reseeded.
Naturally, the actual PDFs could be torrented, which would be a great idea. I don't think we'll see websites on magnet:// URIs viewable in the browser, though.
China isn't playing fair, so Google is playing hardball.
If their government attacks and infiltrates Google's infrastructure, Google should indeed think twice about obeying its ridiculous censorship whims.
I think it was "the".
You got stuck on the DROP DATABASE, didn't you. Happens to a lot of db developers. :P
We're lucky Slashdot properly escapes its SQL input. Aa headline like "Firm to 'DROP DATABASE `web_server`" might otherwise result in havoc. :P
That's not so bad. I'd rather be hung than hanged...
‘You see what I have done?’ he asked the ceiling, which seemed to flinch slightly at being yanked so suddenly into the conversation. ‘I have transformed the problem from an intractably difficult and possibly quite insoluble conundrum into a mere linguistic puzzle. Albeit,’ he muttered, after a long moment of silent pondering, ‘an intractably difficult and possibly insoluble one.’ --Dirk Gently.
A sample was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things.
That's a good new name. :P
(PS: Except for the EU flipping their shit. But from the whole secret prison stuff, it's clear that doesn't make a difference.)
I'm actually in Europe, so the CIA would have no problem there. ;)
Or a few thousand of them.
Hey, funny you should mention that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
That makes MORE sense than the piracy ads at the movie theater. A better analogy would be screaming "FRIDGES ARE A CRIME AND WE WILL FIND YOU" at everyone who goes out and buys your icecubes, just in case he might ever decide to get a fridge instead.
Don't encourage them.
What?
"Citizen's arrest" powers are naturally subject to the authority of law enforcement, because you're not a law enforcement officer.
Why this makes sense, consider this example:
Police and other emergency services are not bound by traffic laws during an emergency. This privilege can get abused. However, even if you think it is being abused, you could be wrong. Impeding an officer during an actual emergency is bad, and the average person isn't trusted to make that decision.
You have the right to a trial if you make a complaint, but you do not have the right to interfere with the police directly any more than you can overrule the judge's verdict after a trial. All you can do is make an appeal to a higher court.
Closer to Neanderthals, maybe... some of the mutations responsible for our development might have been caused by virus infections instead of transcripting errors.
(Speculation from a non-biologist. This could be complete nonsense.)
Doesn't patent law require Google to disclose the invention in order to get it protected? I mean, I only have a vague idea of how it works, but I thought this was one of the points.
Watches a movie the year it's out, anyway?
It'll keep. And you'd be surprised how cheap it is once the hype is over...
... did something like this in one story, I'm fairly sure.
Those toy trains are very versatile.
Is this some kind of job security feature?
I mean, what idiot programs a number field to be ambiguously hexadecimal or decimal? Of course you'll be screwed as soon as you leave the single digits.
... know exactly which airport is best for smuggling explosives.
I mean, responsible intrusion and disclosure is useful on computer systems, but what exactly did this test accomplish? All I know is that I'm not flying to Bratislava.
Evolutio is Latin for "unfolding", and evolvere Italian for "to develop".
Mutation and reproduction has nothing to do with it. What it means is a "gradual, unfolding development".
Except that we're seeing these galaxies as they were when they were young.