Every time a significant portion of my posts is quoted, that is a slight, but non-zero infringment on my creative works.
Therefore, I demand that forum posts be included as part of the metric for determining who gets paid. This demand is every bit as cromulent as the demand to extract money from an unrelated party to pay for a supposed violation on a subset of the total creative works that are actually being infringed upon.
As evidence for the oddity of their beliefs regarding copyright, I need only direct you to the situation that resulted in this mess in the first place.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws.
I somehow doubt that their choice is limited to those two options.
It's going to be shit. Real time optical tracking is so far off. This whole natal campaign sticks of bull. Seriously, optical tracking didn't even work properly on AVATAR ! They ended up having to manually animate the faces....i>
Just so we are clear, you are comparing capturing the facial expressions of actors using optical tracking to capturing body motion and gestures using a combination of optical and distance tracking?
I think you lost a few orders of magnitude in your comparison.
That's not to say evolution in humans has stopped. Instead, we're simply not weeding out the negative traits.
We aren't weeding out traits which are negative in your perspective. We also have introduced new dangers in the form of cars. I'd imagine that 30,000 people dying every year in the US probably has placed a fair amount of pressure on some traits.
Doesn't a difference of 1% in the rate of fertility between two groups eventually result in the less fertile group vanishing after only a relatively short amount of time (genetically speaking). Car fatalities in the US are killing 0.01% of the population each year, so it doesn't seem to be insignificant.
In fact, since auto fatalities often occur early in life and to individuals who are still prime reproducers (under 40, and over 15). The pressure is probably even more pronounced.
Nuclear reactors do not generate radioactive waste, they take a mass of mater with some energy content, and then extract some of that energy to make my coffee. There is less energy in the stuff that come out of the reactor than there was when it went in. Don't mess with my coffee!
If you take 10 tons of lead ore out of the ground and use 95% in a process which binds it and keeps it from entering our effective ecosystem, but releases 5% of it as waste. What is the net change in our ecosystem?
The answer is that there is now an additional 0.5 tons of lead in the effective ecosystem. I don't care that 9.5 tons of it were bound up since the original 10 tons were not part of our effective ecosystem in the first place.
I'm no atmospheric physycist, but this sounds incredibly compelling, actually. So should we build bigger solar chimneys and send more hot air into the upper atmosphere, generating free electricity while cooling the earth at the same time?
Ever think you could save the world AND get your doomsday mad scientist weapon at the same time? Well here's how.
1. Collect energy from the Earth, either in the form of wind turbines or capturing heat from a system such as this.
2. Use that energy to power a giant laser which you fire off into outer space.
3. The energy of the light which escapes the atmosphere is the amount of energy you have removed from the atmosphere.
Why? Of what use is a network connected television? Unless I plan to stream from my PS3 over the internet to my TV, rather than using HDMI, I can't quite see the point of this.
Fewer Set-Top Boxes. Actually that's part of the problem. With narrow TVs you might not even be able to HAVE a set-top box. Maybe a sitting on the floor next to the set boxes. So reducing the number of boxes at the TV is one advantage.
Networks are designed to send data over longer distances than traditional technologies like HDMI. The challenge of sending video data over 100' via Cat5 is trivial. Try doing that with an HDMI cable, or even component cables.
And consider firmware upgrades to your TV. They could implement at USB port so you could transfer the files that way... but why go to that trouble when a network port would give you the ability to transfer files AND receive video streams over distances greater than 6'.
Even without a cell phone plan or sim card in the device.
But not without a battery, or a functional radio. If you just want the device sans cell coverage and are really concerned about someone tracking you, disable the radio.
Greed? You do understand that by investing in companies, they're providing a lot more for other people than if they would just sit on their money and buying jets and cruises and spending it all on themself.
I don't know, speaking as someone formerly of the aerospace industry, I really would have liked him to buy a few more jets. I'm sure that several thousand of my former coworkers would as well.
What is investing other than buying a product whose return is measured in dollars rather than utils?
Your security is your responsibility. If you're that paranoid about Google, use a proxy or just don't use google
I have a problem with this kind of approach to privacy. It creates an issue in that there is no basic set of standards. A person should at least have the knowledge that if they give X data to a company, that the company may only use it in a predetermined manner UNLESS the company specifically asks for your permission to use it in other ways.
With our current approach, you literally have each entity following their own policy which they may not even uphold (I'm not aware of any real legal ramifications for violations of your own voluntary policy) So every entity you ever deal with will have a set of rules which you are supposed to investigate, send to a lawyer and then base your decision on that? Oh and that policy may include several hundred to thousand sub policies with their 'affiliates'.
The issue is that due to the complete lack of a base standard it isn't possible to make the responsible decisions that you want people to make. The only option at that point is simply not to participate and that is obviously a non-option.
A set of VERY CLEAR standards, established by the FTC and with very clear and precise consequences for violations would serve to promote use of these services, and end this literal no-privacy policy.
A law or policy without consequences for violation of that law or policy isn't worth a damn.
For all the talk around this... I seldom see my browser consuming much CPU for any significant stretch of time. The exceptions are badly written javascript and Flash. The changes being made to browsers (re: multi core) are not so much focused on speed as stability.
I seldom see my browser consume more than 10% of the CPU, but damned if that thing isn't almost always the leader in Memory usage.
I'm sure it is so large due to caching, but I'm always urged to check what processes are running to make sure I have access to all that precious memory. Sure it isn't so precious now...Maybe it is a habit left over from the days from when you would tweak your autoexec.bat and config.sys files so that you could play a certain game.
The issue that always arises in these armchair economic general discussions is that people tend to go to the most extreme responses that seem designed to intentionally provoke the most extreme reactions. I think the only thing they prove is that if every actor in the scenario behaves in the most negative manner possible then every actor will end up screwed. (And eventually the quantity of nuclear weapons each actor posesses inevitably comes into play).
If you want to live within "Safe" levels, go to another planet. Last I checked, we get a ton of radiation on earth in tons of forms that cannot be avoided. If we were to leave earth, in fact, it'd actually get less safe as most places don't have atmospheres to protect against the amount of radiation we *do* get.
Thus, your point is 100% moot.
I'm not the AC, but you did miss the point. 'Safe' is not interchangeable with 'will cause no harm'. There are 'safe' levels of lead which can exist in our environments, but NO amount of lead is safe.
I don't need a statistically insignificant increase in the amount of radiation my body receives in order to make Joe Public safer by a statistically insignificant degree.
If it's good enough to do that, that is enough. Plus, after you detonate it, you can toss the focusing casing into an engine thru the hole in the cabin and fuck the plane.
No, you can't. I'd wager a MLB pitcher couldn't get anything into an engine through a broken window while traveling at 400+ MPH.
... I can attest, that one does exactly what one is told to do. (Ex-wife claimed I threatened her with a firearm from my car. Problem was, there was no firearm in the car.)
I can attest that YOU did exactly what you were told to do. Other people in other situations will react in different ways.
I'm guessing that you were pulled over by a police officer (lights flashing), and he was wearing a uniform?
Would you have done what you were told to do if you were run off the road by someone in a non-police car who told you to get out of the car or be shot? Frankly in that situation I'd rather trust the accelerator pedal to the mercy of someone who is apparantly attacking me.
Very well, we will pay. To do that we will have to call all our foreign debt due first. In other words, fork it over! You can't? It would cripple your economy and essentially make you bankrupt? Too bad. US, would you please be so kind and file for chapter 7?
Chapter 7?
Deal. Oh, sorry, looks like the US court that governs Chapter 7 determined that YOU actually owe us money, and flapjacks.
(Honestly, do any of these lamebrained internet scenarious make a lick of sense?)
Why people keep buying these heavily scripted rollercoaster games, from Dragon Age to the hugely overrated BioShock, is beyond me.
Because the cost to profit ratio of a game that provided much in the way of non-linear story is damned low. Believe me, I've tried. Unless you go for a relatively low 10-15 ending sequences, the story can branch into an unmanageable mess VERY quickly.
Can you identify some examples of games that really did give you a true roleplaying experience complete with branching stories. One where your decisions really do significantly alter the story and don't congregate back together at the end of the game? We know about the basic branching endings of ChronoTrigger or Planescape:Torment. Those really didn't have the experience you seem to be complaining about.
When you ask "Why do these people keep buying these games?" I want to know what other games you know about that people aren't buying? Do they exist?
It's also a sign that your views don't have much intrinsic value if they can't convince people on merit alone.
Ever have a conversation about the nature of censorship with a young person who grew up in China? The beauty is when you get to a discussion about the 'great leap forward' and the term "You have to break a few eggs" comes up.
Just because you can't convince someone with words alone, doesn't mean your words have no merit. A lot of people couldn't even be convinced that Slavery was wrong.
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Every time a significant portion of my posts is quoted, that is a slight, but non-zero infringment on my creative works.
Therefore, I demand that forum posts be included as part of the metric for determining who gets paid. This demand is every bit as cromulent as the demand to extract money from an unrelated party to pay for a supposed violation on a subset of the total creative works that are actually being infringed upon.
Broadly, speaking, those are the options.
They could rewrite the laws that define nude pictures of those under 18 as automatically pornography.
fair use
Does that apply in Mexico?
As evidence for the oddity of their beliefs regarding copyright, I need only direct you to the situation that resulted in this mess in the first place.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws.
I somehow doubt that their choice is limited to those two options.
It's going to be shit. Real time optical tracking is so far off. This whole natal campaign sticks of bull. Seriously, optical tracking didn't even work properly on AVATAR ! They ended up having to manually animate the faces....i>
Just so we are clear, you are comparing capturing the facial expressions of actors using optical tracking to capturing body motion and gestures using a combination of optical and distance tracking?
I think you lost a few orders of magnitude in your comparison.
Because he wouldn't answer you.
So like god then?
That's not to say evolution in humans has stopped. Instead, we're simply not weeding out the negative traits.
We aren't weeding out traits which are negative in your perspective. We also have introduced new dangers in the form of cars. I'd imagine that 30,000 people dying every year in the US probably has placed a fair amount of pressure on some traits.
Doesn't a difference of 1% in the rate of fertility between two groups eventually result in the less fertile group vanishing after only a relatively short amount of time (genetically speaking). Car fatalities in the US are killing 0.01% of the population each year, so it doesn't seem to be insignificant.
In fact, since auto fatalities often occur early in life and to individuals who are still prime reproducers (under 40, and over 15). The pressure is probably even more pronounced.
Is Teller God? Should I worship him?
Why don't you ask him yourself?
Nuclear reactors do not generate radioactive waste, they take a mass of mater with some energy content, and then extract some of that energy to make my coffee. There is less energy in the stuff that come out of the reactor than there was when it went in.
Don't mess with my coffee!
If you take 10 tons of lead ore out of the ground and use 95% in a process which binds it and keeps it from entering our effective ecosystem, but releases 5% of it as waste. What is the net change in our ecosystem?
The answer is that there is now an additional 0.5 tons of lead in the effective ecosystem. I don't care that 9.5 tons of it were bound up since the original 10 tons were not part of our effective ecosystem in the first place.
I'm no atmospheric physycist, but this sounds incredibly compelling, actually. So should we build bigger solar chimneys and send more hot air into the upper atmosphere, generating free electricity while cooling the earth at the same time?
Ever think you could save the world AND get your doomsday mad scientist weapon at the same time? Well here's how.
1. Collect energy from the Earth, either in the form of wind turbines or capturing heat from a system such as this.
2. Use that energy to power a giant laser which you fire off into outer space.
3. The energy of the light which escapes the atmosphere is the amount of energy you have removed from the atmosphere.
Just be careful where you aim it.
Why? Of what use is a network connected television? Unless I plan to stream from my PS3 over the internet to my TV, rather than using HDMI, I can't quite see the point of this.
Fewer Set-Top Boxes. Actually that's part of the problem. With narrow TVs you might not even be able to HAVE a set-top box. Maybe a sitting on the floor next to the set boxes. So reducing the number of boxes at the TV is one advantage.
Networks are designed to send data over longer distances than traditional technologies like HDMI. The challenge of sending video data over 100' via Cat5 is trivial. Try doing that with an HDMI cable, or even component cables.
And consider firmware upgrades to your TV. They could implement at USB port so you could transfer the files that way... but why go to that trouble when a network port would give you the ability to transfer files AND receive video streams over distances greater than 6'.
/me glances over at the bookshelf.
Yep, still there.
I backed up the videos from my vacation that way. I hope you weren't using the Amazon for anything, cause I kind of used it all.
Even without a cell phone plan or sim card in the device.
But not without a battery, or a functional radio. If you just want the device sans cell coverage and are really concerned about someone tracking you, disable the radio.
Greed? You do understand that by investing in companies, they're providing a lot more for other people than if they would just sit on their money and buying jets and cruises and spending it all on themself.
I don't know, speaking as someone formerly of the aerospace industry, I really would have liked him to buy a few more jets. I'm sure that several thousand of my former coworkers would as well.
What is investing other than buying a product whose return is measured in dollars rather than utils?
Your security is your responsibility. If you're that paranoid about Google, use a proxy or just don't use google
I have a problem with this kind of approach to privacy. It creates an issue in that there is no basic set of standards. A person should at least have the knowledge that if they give X data to a company, that the company may only use it in a predetermined manner UNLESS the company specifically asks for your permission to use it in other ways.
With our current approach, you literally have each entity following their own policy which they may not even uphold (I'm not aware of any real legal ramifications for violations of your own voluntary policy) So every entity you ever deal with will have a set of rules which you are supposed to investigate, send to a lawyer and then base your decision on that? Oh and that policy may include several hundred to thousand sub policies with their 'affiliates'.
The issue is that due to the complete lack of a base standard it isn't possible to make the responsible decisions that you want people to make. The only option at that point is simply not to participate and that is obviously a non-option.
A set of VERY CLEAR standards, established by the FTC and with very clear and precise consequences for violations would serve to promote use of these services, and end this literal no-privacy policy.
A law or policy without consequences for violation of that law or policy isn't worth a damn.
For all the talk around this... I seldom see my browser consuming much CPU for any significant stretch of time. The exceptions are badly written javascript and Flash. The changes being made to browsers (re: multi core) are not so much focused on speed as stability.
I seldom see my browser consume more than 10% of the CPU, but damned if that thing isn't almost always the leader in Memory usage.
I'm sure it is so large due to caching, but I'm always urged to check what processes are running to make sure I have access to all that precious memory. Sure it isn't so precious now...Maybe it is a habit left over from the days from when you would tweak your autoexec.bat and config.sys files so that you could play a certain game.
The huge borders of enTourage eDGe really put me off.
For me, it is the egregious use of funky capitalizations.
The issue that always arises in these armchair economic general discussions is that people tend to go to the most extreme responses that seem designed to intentionally provoke the most extreme reactions. I think the only thing they prove is that if every actor in the scenario behaves in the most negative manner possible then every actor will end up screwed. (And eventually the quantity of nuclear weapons each actor posesses inevitably comes into play).
If you want to live within "Safe" levels, go to another planet. Last I checked, we get a ton of radiation on earth in tons of forms that cannot be avoided. If we were to leave earth, in fact, it'd actually get less safe as most places don't have atmospheres to protect against the amount of radiation we *do* get.
Thus, your point is 100% moot.
I'm not the AC, but you did miss the point. 'Safe' is not interchangeable with 'will cause no harm'. There are 'safe' levels of lead which can exist in our environments, but NO amount of lead is safe.
I don't need a statistically insignificant increase in the amount of radiation my body receives in order to make Joe Public safer by a statistically insignificant degree.
If it's good enough to do that, that is enough. Plus, after you detonate it, you can toss the focusing casing into an engine thru the hole in the cabin and fuck the plane.
No, you can't. I'd wager a MLB pitcher couldn't get anything into an engine through a broken window while traveling at 400+ MPH.
... I can attest, that one does exactly what one is told to do. (Ex-wife claimed I threatened her with a firearm from my car. Problem was, there was no firearm in the car.)
I can attest that YOU did exactly what you were told to do. Other people in other situations will react in different ways.
I'm guessing that you were pulled over by a police officer (lights flashing), and he was wearing a uniform?
Would you have done what you were told to do if you were run off the road by someone in a non-police car who told you to get out of the car or be shot? Frankly in that situation I'd rather trust the accelerator pedal to the mercy of someone who is apparantly attacking me.
Very well, we will pay. To do that we will have to call all our foreign debt due first. In other words, fork it over! You can't? It would cripple your economy and essentially make you bankrupt? Too bad. US, would you please be so kind and file for chapter 7?
Chapter 7?
Deal. Oh, sorry, looks like the US court that governs Chapter 7 determined that YOU actually owe us money, and flapjacks.
(Honestly, do any of these lamebrained internet scenarious make a lick of sense?)
How many car accidents leave nuclear fallout and potentially render large areas verbotten?
How many terrorist attacks leave nuclear fallout and potentially render large areas verbotten?
Why people keep buying these heavily scripted rollercoaster games, from Dragon Age to the hugely overrated BioShock, is beyond me.
Because the cost to profit ratio of a game that provided much in the way of non-linear story is damned low. Believe me, I've tried. Unless you go for a relatively low 10-15 ending sequences, the story can branch into an unmanageable mess VERY quickly.
Can you identify some examples of games that really did give you a true roleplaying experience complete with branching stories. One where your decisions really do significantly alter the story and don't congregate back together at the end of the game? We know about the basic branching endings of ChronoTrigger or Planescape:Torment. Those really didn't have the experience you seem to be complaining about.
When you ask "Why do these people keep buying these games?" I want to know what other games you know about that people aren't buying? Do they exist?
It's also a sign that your views don't have much intrinsic value if they can't convince people on merit alone.
Ever have a conversation about the nature of censorship with a young person who grew up in China? The beauty is when you get to a discussion about the 'great leap forward' and the term "You have to break a few eggs" comes up.
Just because you can't convince someone with words alone, doesn't mean your words have no merit. A lot of people couldn't even be convinced that Slavery was wrong.