First: You are mixing up bacteria and viruses. Bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics. Viruses do not, because they do not react to antibiotics in the first place.
Second: Evolution in biology does not work like in poorly researched science fiction. While you can throw any factor you want into a fitness function, there are limits on what can be replicated in a cell. The viral capsid has to consist of protein and be of a certain shape, and the immune system can be trained to recognize it.
Third: Even if it worked, you're running the small risk of the spontaneous appearance of a disease that could overcome vaccinations and infect everyone, as opposed to not vaccinating and definitely allowing ordinary diseases to infect everyone. Unlike the antibiotic, the vaccine is preventive, long-term and specific to a disease. The danger of antibiotic abuse (ie. irregular or uncompleted treatments, or regular small doses) is that it exposes bacteria just enough to allow resistance to evolve, rather than killing off the infection completely. Vaccination doesn't do that because the immune system will kill the infection before it can take hold.
Names have nothing to do with it. They could have just as well written their JVM in Python, Perl or PHP - except that none of those languages have undergone ten years of browser vendors fighting head to head to shave off another few microseconds on benchmarks, so their interpreters would be too slow to run an effective virtual machine.
I'm going to propose creating a new.xxy TLD for the real celebrity porn now that.xxx is exclusively used to pre-emptively block celebrity porn domain names..xxy is one whole letter more naughty than.xxx, so domain names cost twice as much to register!
.xxy domains can be pre-reserved within a sunrise period over the next N years, where N is the time until I have enough money from registrations to retire. After that time it will totally launch, honestly. So if want to prevent spammers from offering pornography on a website that has your name in the address (rather than just all over the page), be sure to buy up all variations and misspellings of your name now!
I'll confess that my experience with Amazon's download client was limited to trying to install it on my system, but running into a "i386 architecture" error due to my 32-bit system, and giving up. It's possible that I could have fiddled around a bit and gotten it to work, since 32-bit applications can technically be made to run on 64-bit systems. The download client Amazon offers seems to be standalone, though - how do you get Banshee to work with Amazon?
Their user interface sucks. Their download client is two years out of date (Ubuntu 9.10) and does not support 64 bit architectures; their browser-based interface requires downloading every file individually - and very carefully, because for reasons that only make sense to Amazon, your personal download link will only work once.
Apple is evil, but they always make it as easy as possible to buy from them.
Since it is now public knowledge these automated tools are unreliable, simply stop allowing its users to pretend to good faith while using them. Rights holders should not be able to pass the cost of policing their rights on to society by spamming the legal system with invalid notices.
(Not taking into account that "passing the cost of policing their rights on to society" is what they have done for decades.)
So if Apple, Google and Microsoft were to stop suing each other for a few days, they could buy up the entire recording industry. Of course, a music industry owned by these three (or worse, just one of them) would be hardly preferable to what we have now.
It's certainly a comfort that they are not allowed to lie^H^H^H get caught lying. Next I suppose they will be required to pinky swear without crossing their fingers.
The Mexican drug cartels are pragmatic, but their pragmatism largely involves not paying anyone they can kill instead. The rationale is that if they bribe you, they might have to bribe you again tomorrow, and a dozen other people might show up wanting a bribe too. If they kill you, you stay dead, and everyone else will think twice about messing with them.
Yes, but the only copy is in the hands of the ones who don't want anyone to see it, so it doesn't matter how many people want it. The Streisand effect doesn't work in that case...
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First: You are mixing up bacteria and viruses. Bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics. Viruses do not, because they do not react to antibiotics in the first place.
Second: Evolution in biology does not work like in poorly researched science fiction. While you can throw any factor you want into a fitness function, there are limits on what can be replicated in a cell. The viral capsid has to consist of protein and be of a certain shape, and the immune system can be trained to recognize it.
Third: Even if it worked, you're running the small risk of the spontaneous appearance of a disease that could overcome vaccinations and infect everyone, as opposed to not vaccinating and definitely allowing ordinary diseases to infect everyone. Unlike the antibiotic, the vaccine is preventive, long-term and specific to a disease. The danger of antibiotic abuse (ie. irregular or uncompleted treatments, or regular small doses) is that it exposes bacteria just enough to allow resistance to evolve, rather than killing off the infection completely. Vaccination doesn't do that because the immune system will kill the infection before it can take hold.
You had me up until "subluxations".
Film at 11!
Seriously, companies have been lying to sell overpriced crap to gullible people who don't need it forever.
Names have nothing to do with it. They could have just as well written their JVM in Python, Perl or PHP - except that none of those languages have undergone ten years of browser vendors fighting head to head to shave off another few microseconds on benchmarks, so their interpreters would be too slow to run an effective virtual machine.
So the report saying we are all completely fucked is actually criticized because things are much worse than it says?
The internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
Sure, they will "win them over" with a Predator drone.
Well, yeah. Championing the cause of privacy protection in social networks earns you that right many times over.
I'm going to propose creating a new .xxy TLD for the real celebrity porn now that .xxx is exclusively used to pre-emptively block celebrity porn domain names. .xxy is one whole letter more naughty than .xxx, so domain names cost twice as much to register!
.xxy domains can be pre-reserved within a sunrise period over the next N years, where N is the time until I have enough money from registrations to retire. After that time it will totally launch, honestly. So if want to prevent spammers from offering pornography on a website that has your name in the address (rather than just all over the page), be sure to buy up all variations and misspellings of your name now!
I'll confess that my experience with Amazon's download client was limited to trying to install it on my system, but running into a "i386 architecture" error due to my 32-bit system, and giving up. It's possible that I could have fiddled around a bit and gotten it to work, since 32-bit applications can technically be made to run on 64-bit systems. The download client Amazon offers seems to be standalone, though - how do you get Banshee to work with Amazon?
Their user interface sucks. Their download client is two years out of date (Ubuntu 9.10) and does not support 64 bit architectures; their browser-based interface requires downloading every file individually - and very carefully, because for reasons that only make sense to Amazon, your personal download link will only work once.
Apple is evil, but they always make it as easy as possible to buy from them.
Since it is now public knowledge these automated tools are unreliable, simply stop allowing its users to pretend to good faith while using them. Rights holders should not be able to pass the cost of policing their rights on to society by spamming the legal system with invalid notices.
(Not taking into account that "passing the cost of policing their rights on to society" is what they have done for decades.)
I see what you did there
I can get the "nickle-and-diming" argument when talking about in-flight food, but seriously? It's not exactly essential.
That feels far safer, indeed. :P
SYKE! HAHA!
Brings a new meaning to "con".
So if Apple, Google and Microsoft were to stop suing each other for a few days, they could buy up the entire recording industry. Of course, a music industry owned by these three (or worse, just one of them) would be hardly preferable to what we have now.
The law is a pile of crap and needs to be tossed out yesterday. And now even the RIAA agrees!
That, or hit New York.
Apple would go iMedieval on their ass.
It's certainly a comfort that they are not allowed to lie^H^H^H get caught lying. Next I suppose they will be required to pinky swear without crossing their fingers.
Is "Trinity" a deliberate allusion to "Unity"?
The Mexican drug cartels are pragmatic, but their pragmatism largely involves not paying anyone they can kill instead. The rationale is that if they bribe you, they might have to bribe you again tomorrow, and a dozen other people might show up wanting a bribe too. If they kill you, you stay dead, and everyone else will think twice about messing with them.
Yes, but the only copy is in the hands of the ones who don't want anyone to see it, so it doesn't matter how many people want it. The Streisand effect doesn't work in that case...
(Rimshot)