irrelevant maybe but I would expect it to be declared unsubstantiated. It is his responsibility to know the date the order was given and how long it was in effect. It was provided to him in writing. The only way he could of been safe was to have an agent of the court tell him in writing that it is expired or wasn't filed correctly. Other than that it is just hearsay. Besides, he could have called the wrong court (different jurisdiction).
I agree that it's evolution may be an insult to its foundation but that is just how language is and has always been. Words and symbols are misunderstood and their meanings changed, their original intent lost. To you this meaning will never change, and your idols will always be revered but, unfortunately, for the rest of society they will be mislabeled and misremembered in history. Personally, I believe this to be true of much of history, and why I sensibly apply the axiom: Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.
As far as flame-bait, didn't seem like it to me, either. Perhaps, off-topic, lol.
In some states, it is written pretty clearly on the restraining order itself that there are no valid excuses for violating it. Including being invited by the protected person and then showing up. They are pretty clear that you are in no way to come into however many feet of a particular address or any future address of the person, whether you are aware of it or not.
You may have been right about that at one time (even possibly now). But language evolves, words adopt new meanings based on the way people use them and understand them. Hacking has always been referred to in both connotations in my experience and I would say in the experience of most people they have only heard it refer to the Bad Guy. The spoken word defines the dictionary, not the other way around.
Cryptome reported that it's EarthLink e-mail account was compromised in ways unknown
Sounds like hacking to me. The rest was exploiting the trust all providers build around your email being secure. All to pursue the end of simple vandalism.
I think you have me confused with another poster, I didn't say the economy as a whole or individual parts of it aren't zero-sum. I said there wasn't a finite amount of money in the economy. That would be a limiter of investment capital and in turn innovation and progress (or at least that's how the banks like to tell it). So this economy was designed to be able to expand to fit any need via loans, and be reduced when then need was no longer present via repayment on the loans w/ interest. It is by no means finite.
That was true when money was backed by a finite amount of tangible items with inherent value. It is not, however, true today. The amount of money in existence is a reflection of the amount of money needed at that point in time. Every time someone (or the government) borrows money, that money is printed and and lent out. That money must then be paid back, usually with interest. You must remember when you are talking about dollars that they do not represent value, they represent debt. Every dollar you have is a debt of one dollar's effort. These debts are treated as assets and traded as though they have value, when in reality they don't. Want to shrink the money supply? Have the US Government pay back the national debt in full and every dollar in existence would instantly disappear, as they are all backed by the government's debt. The only way to grow the money supply is to have the Government borrow more....
A real dead man switch would be encrypted, so that the attacker can't substitute his own data.
My only issue with this statement is the assumption that the buzz contains no data and/or is not encrypted. I'll admit I'm not entirely sure what this station does or has been transmitting for decades but I've understood the assumption that has been repeated here a few times; that the buzz carries no data, only the messages do. This assumption could be wrong.
Deniability isn't hard in US, if you're a politician that is. You only have to deny, deny, deny. Even when presented with proof of your wrong-doing or mis-speaking, you still need only deny it. The media won't call you on it and the people, not knowing who to believe, will give you the benefit-of-the-doubt and just let it go. I laugh when any politico/spy movie mentions "Plausible Deniablility", it's such an antiquated concept.
True, if the tubes were differnt shapes/colors/sizes these mistakes woul dbe harder, but that buries the contributing factor (sleep deprivation, etc. that will simply cause problems elsewhere).
The point of making them different shapes/sizes would be to make these mistakes impossible not just harder. Please note that I said mistake, if you engineer a way to make a square peg fit in a round hole and it kills someone, you're going to be hard pressed to say that what you did was just a 'mistake'. The other thing I want to point out is that I agree by making these mistakes harder/impossible it might hide the other contributing factors that led to the mistake which could lead to other mistakes in different areas; the difference being, that those other mistakes might not be as life-threatening as this one which is plainly easy to fix but probably very costly.
If they called it a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) I would agree with you on the persistence angle, but since they don't your argument bears no logic. Massively Multiplayer means you can connect and play with a massive amount of other players, period. Whether or not you can play them all at the same time or not is another question. Whether the world is persistent is a third (although pretty related to the second).
I know exactly what you and the summary are referring to; that you want a physical disk to recover from should the HD fail (and render the Recovery Partition useless). I was pointing out that I don't want a recovery image of the machine as it was when it was sent to me (although for many this would suffice), I want the actual Windows Install CD/DVD (whose license I paid> for) and any additional drivers that are not included in the base install of Windows.
There are a few reasons for this, the first being that I'd like to start my machine with a 'clean' install of windows, that has no bloat-ware or trial-versions of software I will never use. Additionally, there are more things that one can do with a Windows Install disk than just install windows.
Personally, I don't want a recovery CD, I want the Windows Install CD and a Driver CD. I just bought an HP which reminded me to make my one set of recovery disks (which I did, 3 DVD's). However, what I really wanted to do was format it and re-install windows to get rid of all the junk they pre-loaded on it.
Would you feel this way if you started your own company? How would you like to have your creditors take your house and car when your business fails?
Um, that is exactly how it would go down if I tried to get business loans to start a business. I would have to personally guarantee them and if I couldn't pay it back, they would come after me and take everything they could until I paid them in full. That is what happens when the little guy sets up shop, it is a big personal risk.
And now you know why business people pushed to create Corporations in the first place, to shield themselves from personal liability. It is the only reason they exist. I think it is sickening, is not in the best interests of the people and that the protected legal status should be revoked. If a company fails because its upper-management was criminal, negligent or took great risks, then they should pay the price. All assets of the company sold, all personal assets of the upper-managers sold until all debts/bonds are paid back. If the business has more assets then debts, the excess goes to the employees, evenly divided. Oh, what about the share-holders you say? They get NOTHING! They were responsible for upper-management and should get burned if things go wrong. This will ensure major share-holders are paying attention to who is in charge, what they are doing, and what risks they are taking.
1) Unnatural = man made
It can be argued that if beaver damns are natural then why aren't man-made damns, but the actions of man are generally taken to be actions that do not occur in nature.
Just because a concept/statement is "generally taken" to be true, does not make it true. Humans, whether you like it or not, are a part of nature. We are not separate, we are not special, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves we are. Everything we do is then "Natural" as it is part of our nature to do those things. Man-Made does not mean unnatural, it just means man-made. Just as much as the dam a beaver creates, or the hive & honey bees create, or the colonies ants create are natural so is everything man creates. Stop trying to claim it is not!
It's not their right to force private businesses to accommodate them and their handicaps. The government has, however, forced private businesses to accommodate them for them, which they (the Government) believe is their (the Government's) right to do so (I don't exactly agree). A subtle distinction? Yes, but an important one.
Um, no, wrong way to look at it. The store didn't demand anything, they just didn't choose to accommodate them. On the other hand, the disabled did demand a ramp from the store. You make think it's heartless (it isn't) but one person being handicapped shouldn't be a drain on everyone else. They shouldn't make their problem other people's problem. They have no right to do so. There are plenty of other solutions (some good, some bad) that achieve the same goal without every privately-owned store front being required to pay for and install a ramp.
in North America Xbox360 is the de-facto standard console for traditional gamers
Citation please? I know of no such fact or any de-facto standard consoles. I know there are three current generation consoles; and depending on the gamer, they own one or more of them.
You can very well copy a DVD image without DeCSS'ing it
This is true, and is also true (I believe) with Blu-Ray protections as well. The CSS encryption does not prevent copying at all, not even a little bit. For anyone who understands the technology and how it works it is rather obvious that CSS encryption only prevents/limits playback of the content. What prevented copying (at the beginning) was the lack of consumer grade DVD writing hardware/software of the same capacity (dual layer DVDs). The encryption has done, and will continue to do, nothing to prevent copying, it is working as it was designed, to prevent use (play back). It does nothing to prevent you from making a 1:1 bit-for-bit copy of the original which is all you need to do for personal use.
The problem is because of an inherent distrust of the source of the facts when they contradict information someone already believes to be true. Trust and knowing who to believe are big problems for people especially as they become more-and-more bombarded by bullshit day-in and day-out. Who do you trust?
After the trust hurdle comes the self/ego-preservation-instinct of people not being able to admit they are wrong or were ever wrong, despite evidence to the contrary. Think "LA, LA, LA, LA, I can't hear you". It reminds me of the Matrix a little; "We have a rule...We never free a mind after it reaches a certain age. It is dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before and I'm sorry".
As much as I hate to admit it, it does look way too similar to a lightsaber.
So? Does LucasFilm have a Design Patent on a functioning Light Saber and not just a toy Light Saber? They serve different purposes and therefore cannot create confusion. I understand that LucasFilms owns a Trademark on Light Saber which is why Wicked Lasers can't call it that (and they don't).
On a side note: they aren't very similar to any of the Light Saber replicas I've seen, they are missing quite a bit of extra hardware sticking out the sides. These are way more sleek than a light saber
The thing that didn't impress me (with all the questions being asked and all) is that they state the mass of the nucleus is not equal to the sum of the components and in fact is usually less. Okay, good observation but my immediate question is how did they measure the mass of the components individually and then the nucleus as a whole? Then once I understood that I'd wonder how could the result of this method be affected in ways not originally intended that would could the mass of the nucleus to appear to be less than the masses of its individual components. I don't claim to know much about quantum physics but I do know the masses involved are almost infinitesimally small and any measurement of them is likely to be incorrect as our methods of measuring are far from perfect.
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irrelevant maybe but I would expect it to be declared unsubstantiated. It is his responsibility to know the date the order was given and how long it was in effect. It was provided to him in writing. The only way he could of been safe was to have an agent of the court tell him in writing that it is expired or wasn't filed correctly. Other than that it is just hearsay. Besides, he could have called the wrong court (different jurisdiction).
I agree that it's evolution may be an insult to its foundation but that is just how language is and has always been. Words and symbols are misunderstood and their meanings changed, their original intent lost. To you this meaning will never change, and your idols will always be revered but, unfortunately, for the rest of society they will be mislabeled and misremembered in history. Personally, I believe this to be true of much of history, and why I sensibly apply the axiom: Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.
As far as flame-bait, didn't seem like it to me, either. Perhaps, off-topic, lol.
In some states, it is written pretty clearly on the restraining order itself that there are no valid excuses for violating it. Including being invited by the protected person and then showing up. They are pretty clear that you are in no way to come into however many feet of a particular address or any future address of the person, whether you are aware of it or not.
You may have been right about that at one time (even possibly now). But language evolves, words adopt new meanings based on the way people use them and understand them. Hacking has always been referred to in both connotations in my experience and I would say in the experience of most people they have only heard it refer to the Bad Guy. The spoken word defines the dictionary, not the other way around.
Cryptome reported that it's EarthLink e-mail account was compromised in ways unknown
Sounds like hacking to me. The rest was exploiting the trust all providers build around your email being secure. All to pursue the end of simple vandalism.
I think you have me confused with another poster, I didn't say the economy as a whole or individual parts of it aren't zero-sum. I said there wasn't a finite amount of money in the economy. That would be a limiter of investment capital and in turn innovation and progress (or at least that's how the banks like to tell it). So this economy was designed to be able to expand to fit any need via loans, and be reduced when then need was no longer present via repayment on the loans w/ interest. It is by no means finite.
That was true when money was backed by a finite amount of tangible items with inherent value. It is not, however, true today. The amount of money in existence is a reflection of the amount of money needed at that point in time. Every time someone (or the government) borrows money, that money is printed and and lent out. That money must then be paid back, usually with interest. You must remember when you are talking about dollars that they do not represent value, they represent debt. Every dollar you have is a debt of one dollar's effort. These debts are treated as assets and traded as though they have value, when in reality they don't. Want to shrink the money supply? Have the US Government pay back the national debt in full and every dollar in existence would instantly disappear, as they are all backed by the government's debt. The only way to grow the money supply is to have the Government borrow more....
It is not possible to continue to use the Playstation Network if you don't continually install the firmware upgrades.
It is also not possible to continue to play new games, which also require you to install the newest version of the firmware.
A real dead man switch would be encrypted, so that the attacker can't substitute his own data.
My only issue with this statement is the assumption that the buzz contains no data and/or is not encrypted. I'll admit I'm not entirely sure what this station does or has been transmitting for decades but I've understood the assumption that has been repeated here a few times; that the buzz carries no data, only the messages do. This assumption could be wrong.
Wait, I thought only the RIAA/MPAA used circular references to justify their facts....
Deniability isn't hard in US, if you're a politician that is. You only have to deny, deny, deny. Even when presented with proof of your wrong-doing or mis-speaking, you still need only deny it. The media won't call you on it and the people, not knowing who to believe, will give you the benefit-of-the-doubt and just let it go. I laugh when any politico/spy movie mentions "Plausible Deniablility", it's such an antiquated concept.
True, if the tubes were differnt shapes/colors/sizes these mistakes woul dbe harder, but that buries the contributing factor (sleep deprivation, etc. that will simply cause problems elsewhere).
The point of making them different shapes/sizes would be to make these mistakes impossible not just harder. Please note that I said mistake, if you engineer a way to make a square peg fit in a round hole and it kills someone, you're going to be hard pressed to say that what you did was just a 'mistake'. The other thing I want to point out is that I agree by making these mistakes harder/impossible it might hide the other contributing factors that led to the mistake which could lead to other mistakes in different areas; the difference being, that those other mistakes might not be as life-threatening as this one which is plainly easy to fix but probably very costly.
If they called it a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) I would agree with you on the persistence angle, but since they don't your argument bears no logic. Massively Multiplayer means you can connect and play with a massive amount of other players, period. Whether or not you can play them all at the same time or not is another question. Whether the world is persistent is a third (although pretty related to the second).
I know exactly what you and the summary are referring to; that you want a physical disk to recover from should the HD fail (and render the Recovery Partition useless). I was pointing out that I don't want a recovery image of the machine as it was when it was sent to me (although for many this would suffice), I want the actual Windows Install CD/DVD (whose license I paid> for) and any additional drivers that are not included in the base install of Windows.
There are a few reasons for this, the first being that I'd like to start my machine with a 'clean' install of windows, that has no bloat-ware or trial-versions of software I will never use. Additionally, there are more things that one can do with a Windows Install disk than just install windows.
Personally, I don't want a recovery CD, I want the Windows Install CD and a Driver CD. I just bought an HP which reminded me to make my one set of recovery disks (which I did, 3 DVD's). However, what I really wanted to do was format it and re-install windows to get rid of all the junk they pre-loaded on it.
Would you feel this way if you started your own company? How would you like to have your creditors take your house and car when your business fails?
Um, that is exactly how it would go down if I tried to get business loans to start a business. I would have to personally guarantee them and if I couldn't pay it back, they would come after me and take everything they could until I paid them in full. That is what happens when the little guy sets up shop, it is a big personal risk.
And now you know why business people pushed to create Corporations in the first place, to shield themselves from personal liability. It is the only reason they exist. I think it is sickening, is not in the best interests of the people and that the protected legal status should be revoked. If a company fails because its upper-management was criminal, negligent or took great risks, then they should pay the price. All assets of the company sold, all personal assets of the upper-managers sold until all debts/bonds are paid back. If the business has more assets then debts, the excess goes to the employees, evenly divided. Oh, what about the share-holders you say? They get NOTHING! They were responsible for upper-management and should get burned if things go wrong. This will ensure major share-holders are paying attention to who is in charge, what they are doing, and what risks they are taking.
1) Unnatural = man made It can be argued that if beaver damns are natural then why aren't man-made damns, but the actions of man are generally taken to be actions that do not occur in nature.
Just because a concept/statement is "generally taken" to be true, does not make it true. Humans, whether you like it or not, are a part of nature. We are not separate, we are not special, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves we are. Everything we do is then "Natural" as it is part of our nature to do those things. Man-Made does not mean unnatural, it just means man-made. Just as much as the dam a beaver creates, or the hive & honey bees create, or the colonies ants create are natural so is everything man creates. Stop trying to claim it is not!
It's not their right to force private businesses to accommodate them and their handicaps. The government has, however, forced private businesses to accommodate them for them, which they (the Government) believe is their (the Government's) right to do so (I don't exactly agree). A subtle distinction? Yes, but an important one.
Um, no, wrong way to look at it. The store didn't demand anything, they just didn't choose to accommodate them. On the other hand, the disabled did demand a ramp from the store. You make think it's heartless (it isn't) but one person being handicapped shouldn't be a drain on everyone else. They shouldn't make their problem other people's problem. They have no right to do so. There are plenty of other solutions (some good, some bad) that achieve the same goal without every privately-owned store front being required to pay for and install a ramp.
in North America Xbox360 is the de-facto standard console for traditional gamers
Citation please? I know of no such fact or any de-facto standard consoles. I know there are three current generation consoles; and depending on the gamer, they own one or more of them.
You can very well copy a DVD image without DeCSS'ing it
This is true, and is also true (I believe) with Blu-Ray protections as well. The CSS encryption does not prevent copying at all, not even a little bit. For anyone who understands the technology and how it works it is rather obvious that CSS encryption only prevents/limits playback of the content. What prevented copying (at the beginning) was the lack of consumer grade DVD writing hardware/software of the same capacity (dual layer DVDs). The encryption has done, and will continue to do, nothing to prevent copying, it is working as it was designed, to prevent use (play back). It does nothing to prevent you from making a 1:1 bit-for-bit copy of the original which is all you need to do for personal use.
The problem is because of an inherent distrust of the source of the facts when they contradict information someone already believes to be true. Trust and knowing who to believe are big problems for people especially as they become more-and-more bombarded by bullshit day-in and day-out. Who do you trust?
After the trust hurdle comes the self/ego-preservation-instinct of people not being able to admit they are wrong or were ever wrong, despite evidence to the contrary. Think "LA, LA, LA, LA, I can't hear you". It reminds me of the Matrix a little; "We have a rule...We never free a mind after it reaches a certain age. It is dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before and I'm sorry".
As much as I hate to admit it, it does look way too similar to a lightsaber.
So? Does LucasFilm have a Design Patent on a functioning Light Saber and not just a toy Light Saber? They serve different purposes and therefore cannot create confusion. I understand that LucasFilms owns a Trademark on Light Saber which is why Wicked Lasers can't call it that (and they don't).
On a side note: they aren't very similar to any of the Light Saber replicas I've seen, they are missing quite a bit of extra hardware sticking out the sides. These are way more sleek than a light saber
The thing that didn't impress me (with all the questions being asked and all) is that they state the mass of the nucleus is not equal to the sum of the components and in fact is usually less. Okay, good observation but my immediate question is how did they measure the mass of the components individually and then the nucleus as a whole? Then once I understood that I'd wonder how could the result of this method be affected in ways not originally intended that would could the mass of the nucleus to appear to be less than the masses of its individual components. I don't claim to know much about quantum physics but I do know the masses involved are almost infinitesimally small and any measurement of them is likely to be incorrect as our methods of measuring are far from perfect.