Uh you are held responsible if you give your bank card and password to someone too. It is impossible i repeat IMPOSSIBLE for them to secure your computer from people reading your keystrokes. How ARENT you responsible for it?
On the other hand i think banks should offer recovery services. But they should charge for them. AND the money should not be handed out to you. That would be like if i took money out of the bank and fucking lost it. Its not the banks fault in even the slightest.
It immediately kills any worries that this could be used for "evil" as stallman wouldnt stand up for anything that could be used for censorship. Big-names can be useful sometimes, even in nerd circles.
Man... google forced something good to happen (openess in the network). To do so they risked billions of dollars. A side-effect was a bad company (opposed to openess) had to pay more money. And they get called evil over it. Google haters confuse me sometimes
Field of view is not the problem. It is that it doesn't recognize where your head is. If the screen reacted to you moving your head around it would be better. If you had full field of view goggles that didn't react to the position of your head it would feel crappy and awkward. And if it didn't react perfectly to what reality would do it will make you sick as a dog. For some reason this is reminding me about irreducible complexity... Anyways i'm going to take a guess that position sensing earbuds/headphones need come out first.
It SHOULDNT, thats the point! If you get information back that there are alot of unemployment claims in an area you would try to create more jobs. If you also knew that every unemployed person was african-american then you have a totally different problem. You would obviously have to take a different approach to the situation.
I'm pretty sure you would go insane and die if you gave your brain over to distributed processing instead of sleeping. It would be like working at double speed when you should be asleep. Ignoring all the other obvious problems with that. Though we could use brain tissue from animals... Though i do like the idea of being able to give up the ability to speak and stand while on my computer to give it a turbo boost (using those sections of the brain for processing). That said its not remotely feasible.
I've watched several hours of youtube i'm sure. Compared to the 0 of the others listed. Youtube + Facebook + Megaupload probably accounts for a large percentage of all website traffic. As in > 30%. Xbox live move w/e is a tiny tiny blip in comparison.
So you would make it that aid to help people escape poverty should be targeted by skin colour, rather than need? Come on, poor is poor - when you're broke, hungry, and homeless, your skin colour doesn't make your stomach growl any less.
No, if a visible minority has been found to make less money and have a high percentage below the poverty line. Or many other issues... There might be something bad going on in the area. If the numbers are really bad the local government can be told to setup awareness blahblah, make certain that there is no discrimination in the work place or in hiring. There is no reason to know this stuff other than to help make sure there is an equality of opportunity. There are lots of questions on the census aimed at this type of information.
Oh god... open source cars. Car analogy definitely not working this time. While there would still be drivers and crashes i don't like the idea of having a car designed by people comfortable with a command prompt.
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"A Russian mobster selling fake handbags through a middleman in New York may also be selling pirated DVDs in London, counterfeit AIDS medicine in Africa, and child pornography over the internet."
Did he just imply that the child porn was copy written? The whole speech was on IP laws. And what do mobsters have to do with anything or the russians. Think it might be possible hes trying to link mafia, russians and CP, things people dont like in the states to piracy? Come on, russians maybe but the mob and CP is totally unrelated.
Realistically storm is probably operated by a dozen separate groups. While it would have started with a single hacker, its been around so long that a number of hackers would have added their own backdoors, or found the originals. I bet stacks and leo are in on it so the russians probably have an in (not the gov). The thing is, i doubt the us gov runs it. I've never met a hacker that didn't despise the us government, they would collect together to expunge the us from the botnet if they got the idea. And honestly i don't think the us gov is that good. While they might have a lot of talent, the higher ups are useless and probably open lindsay lohan nude attachments like other member of the government. That will hurt the us' chances.
Do you have any evidence to support that position? How many potential criminals do you think we're paying enough money to so that they think, "Oh, I was going to rob a gas station but since the government gave me $400 this month, I won't." I suspect the number is very low. And even if it isn't, that's basically a shakedown. "Here's $400, ok, don't commit crime." I don't agree that that's good policy.
The biggest factor contributing to our high prison population isn't poverty, it's drugs. Whether or not the war on drugs is a good idea is certainly something that can be debated, but it has nothing to do with the issue of whether or not a socialistic welfare state is a good idea.
That's not the point. You don't give people money, you help them. Thats why systems are there for drug-rehab, health care, psychiatry, child services... People don't usually rob for the hell of it and people are not just criminals. They rob because they feel they have to. All the services i listed are valid reasons to rob a place. By that i mean, it is understandable people stealing if they need it to live or for kids, or they are having mental difficulties/drug problem. In these situations you can't help yourself usually, you need someone else to help you. The question that needs to be asked is 'does everyone deserve this service'. If you truly think that people don't deserve rehab programs then ok, otherwise put your wallet behind your moral code and chip in. Its easier to have hope for a future when you are clothed, sheltered drug free and healthy. Also wealth inequality is a contributor...
What you theoretically save by reducing the profit motive (which also reduces the motive to innovate new drugs) is going to be dwarfed by the increased cost of government inefficiency and the fact that the more people see something as "free," they more they will use it. If it costs a $40 co-pay to see a doctor, I'm not going to go and see the doctor for a case of the sniffles. If it's free and I sniffle for more than a day or two, I just might do that.
Life-expectancy in sweden is 3yrs more, Infant mortality rate is 1/2, gov pays for 88.5% vs 44% of costs AND they spend less! $3,149 per capita vs $5,711 in the US (9.4% vs 15.2%). The US is the worst 1st world country in the world for health-care, precisely BECAUSE of the everyone for themselves sentiment. The 'profit' motive you mention motivates companies to release lifetime use drugs not cures. Government can pay for drugs that need be created rather than ones they can profit off the most. The motivation is anything but helpful.
I'd say that's a perfect case of your bias clouding your view of reality. There are surely plenty of conservative--even neocon--bloggers. Good ones. But I'm guessing you don't really seek out that point of view so you aren't going to know much about them.
Agreed, the comment was uncalled for. I'll take it as a poorly thought out joke.
Agreed, but he makes the point that America which has a large percentage of christians has a decidedly un-christian viewpoint. Showing that religion isn't all that great in defining morals. Since morals need to be learned and understood, not told (which i believe is the point you make).
Why not disallow hammering? I mean have the chip block attempts more than 1ce per 30seconds. In a bus pass system i cannot see this being a problem. Or better yet, have it beep when it gets read. I'd love to see someone trolling for a pass and 60 peoples cards beep. This of course would solve the pass system only, not shipping or w/e but they don't use it in a security intensive system (ussually).
For minimum possible deaths: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ 100,000, these are bodies that have been hand counted and reported on. Also they are deaths caused by direct violent action. As well it should be noted that since the vietnam war america does not count civilian corpses. This is to shield them from exactly this question.
I however am concerned about deaths caused by the invasion itself, aka 'how many more people would be alive had the invasion not happened?'. This is a much harder question to answer. Food shortages, missing parents, no electricty or running water. These are problems that plague iraq citizens for months during the beginning less no now infrastructure problems have seemed to stabilize. But precise numbers are impossible to determine. Feel free to shoot them down since i personally believe they are flawed whether right or not. So long as you realize the number will be much greater than 100,000
'How many will it take till you know. That too many people have died?'. I hope you answer dylans question, how many people are you willing to sacrifice for the regime change? Think about it.
I stand corrected on 'voluntary' insurance if it is voluntary it is acceptable ty. However you didn't mention my other points, libertarians are anti-public services. That includes healthcare, post-office, public schools, police, military, food-aid, post office, fire-fighting, water treatment. Of course while libertarians wouldn't want to get rid of all of these, they do want to decrease or get rid of some. Explain to me why 'every-one-for-himself' does not describe libertarianism please.
Oh and about the government and health care... Life-expectancy in sweden is 3yrs more, Infant mortality rate is 1/2, gov pays for 88.5% vs 44% of costs AND they spend less! $3,149 per capita vs $5,711 in the US (9.4% vs 15.2%). The US is the worst 1st world country in the world for health-care, precisely BECAUSE of the everyone for themselves sentiment.
How did this get modded insightful?? It'd be like if a prof was chewing you out over dress-code rules whilst wearing no pants. Or if an anti-gay rights republican got busted having gay relations. Its funny watching evil do something bad, and have it blow up in their faces. The hypocrisy IS what is funny, i can't wait for them to say the charges are unreasonably high. When they are the ones that campaigned for it in the first place.
No, libertarians support separation of people from everyone else. Essentially they purport an "Everyone for themselves" system. This, amazingly shows little concern for the PUBLIC good. Libertarianism works in some situations, but the everyone for themselves system does NOT work. When it comes to issues like scarcity of resources, a laissez-faire system will all rush to get as much as they can accelerating the problem. It works even less in health-care and insurance systems, 'why should i pay for other peoples problems, you are trying to take away my freedom'. I would agree with a more libertarian system as it encourages people and nations to grow but it is too unhindered to be kept fair.
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Companies are a collection of people. 'Who' can refer to plural. So yes, it is perfectly acceptable.
Uh you are held responsible if you give your bank card and password to someone too. It is impossible i repeat IMPOSSIBLE for them to secure your computer from people reading your keystrokes. How ARENT you responsible for it?
On the other hand i think banks should offer recovery services. But they should charge for them. AND the money should not be handed out to you. That would be like if i took money out of the bank and fucking lost it. Its not the banks fault in even the slightest.
If anybody would it would be wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia They have a whole section insulting theirselves...
Great sample... They should test the algorithm on maybe 80 historical seasons and maybe we will be able to see something.
It immediately kills any worries that this could be used for "evil" as stallman wouldnt stand up for anything that could be used for censorship. Big-names can be useful sometimes, even in nerd circles.
Man... google forced something good to happen (openess in the network). To do so they risked billions of dollars. A side-effect was a bad company (opposed to openess) had to pay more money. And they get called evil over it. Google haters confuse me sometimes
I'm not sure what would be worse, wiiCUP or iCUP. For some reason this article brings out the grade schooler in me.
Field of view is not the problem. It is that it doesn't recognize where your head is. If the screen reacted to you moving your head around it would be better. If you had full field of view goggles that didn't react to the position of your head it would feel crappy and awkward. And if it didn't react perfectly to what reality would do it will make you sick as a dog. For some reason this is reminding me about irreducible complexity... Anyways i'm going to take a guess that position sensing earbuds/headphones need come out first.
So the it will be as realistic as a 2d i*j array? I don't get it.
It SHOULDNT, thats the point! If you get information back that there are alot of unemployment claims in an area you would try to create more jobs. If you also knew that every unemployed person was african-american then you have a totally different problem. You would obviously have to take a different approach to the situation.
I'm pretty sure you would go insane and die if you gave your brain over to distributed processing instead of sleeping. It would be like working at double speed when you should be asleep. Ignoring all the other obvious problems with that. Though we could use brain tissue from animals... Though i do like the idea of being able to give up the ability to speak and stand while on my computer to give it a turbo boost (using those sections of the brain for processing). That said its not remotely feasible.
I've watched several hours of youtube i'm sure. Compared to the 0 of the others listed. Youtube + Facebook + Megaupload probably accounts for a large percentage of all website traffic. As in > 30%. Xbox live move w/e is a tiny tiny blip in comparison.
No, if a visible minority has been found to make less money and have a high percentage below the poverty line. Or many other issues... There might be something bad going on in the area. If the numbers are really bad the local government can be told to setup awareness blahblah, make certain that there is no discrimination in the work place or in hiring. There is no reason to know this stuff other than to help make sure there is an equality of opportunity. There are lots of questions on the census aimed at this type of information.
Oh god... open source cars. Car analogy definitely not working this time. While there would still be drivers and crashes i don't like the idea of having a car designed by people comfortable with a command prompt.
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don't use apple products if you want to know whats going on.
"A Russian mobster selling fake handbags through a middleman in New York may also be selling pirated DVDs in London, counterfeit AIDS medicine in Africa, and child pornography over the internet."
Did he just imply that the child porn was copy written? The whole speech was on IP laws. And what do mobsters have to do with anything or the russians. Think it might be possible hes trying to link mafia, russians and CP, things people dont like in the states to piracy? Come on, russians maybe but the mob and CP is totally unrelated.
Realistically storm is probably operated by a dozen separate groups. While it would have started with a single hacker, its been around so long that a number of hackers would have added their own backdoors, or found the originals. I bet stacks and leo are in on it so the russians probably have an in (not the gov). The thing is, i doubt the us gov runs it. I've never met a hacker that didn't despise the us government, they would collect together to expunge the us from the botnet if they got the idea. And honestly i don't think the us gov is that good. While they might have a lot of talent, the higher ups are useless and probably open lindsay lohan nude attachments like other member of the government. That will hurt the us' chances.
That's not the point. You don't give people money, you help them. Thats why systems are there for drug-rehab, health care, psychiatry, child services... People don't usually rob for the hell of it and people are not just criminals. They rob because they feel they have to. All the services i listed are valid reasons to rob a place. By that i mean, it is understandable people stealing if they need it to live or for kids, or they are having mental difficulties/drug problem. In these situations you can't help yourself usually, you need someone else to help you. The question that needs to be asked is 'does everyone deserve this service'. If you truly think that people don't deserve rehab programs then ok, otherwise put your wallet behind your moral code and chip in. Its easier to have hope for a future when you are clothed, sheltered drug free and healthy. Also wealth inequality is a contributor...
What you theoretically save by reducing the profit motive (which also reduces the motive to innovate new drugs) is going to be dwarfed by the increased cost of government inefficiency and the fact that the more people see something as "free," they more they will use it. If it costs a $40 co-pay to see a doctor, I'm not going to go and see the doctor for a case of the sniffles. If it's free and I sniffle for more than a day or two, I just might do that.
Life-expectancy in sweden is 3yrs more, Infant mortality rate is 1/2, gov pays for 88.5% vs 44% of costs AND they spend less! $3,149 per capita vs $5,711 in the US (9.4% vs 15.2%). The US is the worst 1st world country in the world for health-care, precisely BECAUSE of the everyone for themselves sentiment. The 'profit' motive you mention motivates companies to release lifetime use drugs not cures. Government can pay for drugs that need be created rather than ones they can profit off the most. The motivation is anything but helpful.
I'd say that's a perfect case of your bias clouding your view of reality. There are surely plenty of conservative--even neocon--bloggers. Good ones. But I'm guessing you don't really seek out that point of view so you aren't going to know much about them.
Agreed, the comment was uncalled for. I'll take it as a poorly thought out joke.
Agreed, but he makes the point that America which has a large percentage of christians has a decidedly un-christian viewpoint. Showing that religion isn't all that great in defining morals. Since morals need to be learned and understood, not told (which i believe is the point you make).
Why not disallow hammering? I mean have the chip block attempts more than 1ce per 30seconds. In a bus pass system i cannot see this being a problem. Or better yet, have it beep when it gets read. I'd love to see someone trolling for a pass and 60 peoples cards beep. This of course would solve the pass system only, not shipping or w/e but they don't use it in a security intensive system (ussually).
For minimum possible deaths: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ 100,000, these are bodies that have been hand counted and reported on. Also they are deaths caused by direct violent action. As well it should be noted that since the vietnam war america does not count civilian corpses. This is to shield them from exactly this question.
I however am concerned about deaths caused by the invasion itself, aka 'how many more people would be alive had the invasion not happened?'. This is a much harder question to answer. Food shortages, missing parents, no electricty or running water. These are problems that plague iraq citizens for months during the beginning less no now infrastructure problems have seemed to stabilize. But precise numbers are impossible to determine. Feel free to shoot them down since i personally believe they are flawed whether right or not. So long as you realize the number will be much greater than 100,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey_of_casualties_of_the_Iraq_War - Sept 2007 (Estimates 1.2Million)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War - Looong article about death estimates
'How many will it take till you know. That too many people have died?'. I hope you answer dylans question, how many people are you willing to sacrifice for the regime change? Think about it.
I stand corrected on 'voluntary' insurance if it is voluntary it is acceptable ty. However you didn't mention my other points, libertarians are anti-public services. That includes healthcare, post-office, public schools, police, military, food-aid, post office, fire-fighting, water treatment. Of course while libertarians wouldn't want to get rid of all of these, they do want to decrease or get rid of some. Explain to me why 'every-one-for-himself' does not describe libertarianism please.
Oh and about the government and health care... Life-expectancy in sweden is 3yrs more, Infant mortality rate is 1/2, gov pays for 88.5% vs 44% of costs AND they spend less! $3,149 per capita vs $5,711 in the US (9.4% vs 15.2%). The US is the worst 1st world country in the world for health-care, precisely BECAUSE of the everyone for themselves sentiment.
How did this get modded insightful?? It'd be like if a prof was chewing you out over dress-code rules whilst wearing no pants. Or if an anti-gay rights republican got busted having gay relations. Its funny watching evil do something bad, and have it blow up in their faces. The hypocrisy IS what is funny, i can't wait for them to say the charges are unreasonably high. When they are the ones that campaigned for it in the first place.
No, libertarians support separation of people from everyone else. Essentially they purport an "Everyone for themselves" system. This, amazingly shows little concern for the PUBLIC good. Libertarianism works in some situations, but the everyone for themselves system does NOT work. When it comes to issues like scarcity of resources, a laissez-faire system will all rush to get as much as they can accelerating the problem. It works even less in health-care and insurance systems, 'why should i pay for other peoples problems, you are trying to take away my freedom'. I would agree with a more libertarian system as it encourages people and nations to grow but it is too unhindered to be kept fair.