You are taking an extreme view in a fairly clear cut case. Adobe is a company with interest wordwide... Afganistan is is a terrorist country that is being delt with.
In Russia, it is illegal for Adobe to restrict their file formats as they are doing.
Not so long ago, Afghanistan was a favored country. You failed to see the analogy, you failed to understand Russia's legal standing on software (even after it was explained to you), and you failed to understand a single word I've written.
Several other people have beat me to the punch on this, so let me just wrap up with this: I don't argue with creationists; they argue from a foundation of belief and I argue from a foundation of science, and the two will never be reconciled. You'll never convince me (unless God himself steps in, smites me, and tells me I'm wrong, and even then I'll immediately start testing the hypothesis that I'm hallucinating) and I'll never convince you, which is how it should be.
PS - God loves you and longs for relationship with you.
Has he appeared to you and told you this personally, or are you guessing?
Heh. I wonder if he's related to Dwayne Gish. His fallacy, of course, is in claiming that researchers use similar genomes to prove evolution. They don't; evolution has already been shown to occur in many other studies. Evolution really *is* the only game in town that makes any sense.:)
You, however, go from your six hours at school to your 'room' at your Mom's house. You have to ask permission to stay out past 9. I can see why you don't get it. Yet.
Your stinging repartee has demolished my argument, Anonymous Coward.
A typical teen nowadays has as much "knowledge" of life as most 25/30 year olds did in the 50's.
Please cite your source.
(why they hell do [prisons] have [TVs]
You'd be surprised what you can get in prison. If I lost my house and didn't have a wife to care for, I'd definitely go commit enough crimes to put me in a minimum security facility. Just think: free room and board, free meals, free HBO, free weight room, free basketball court, free law library, free limited internet access. Possibly free beatings and sodomy too, but I bet that's less likely in min security than it is in max.
The one thing you don't have is free movement, but how much of that do you have now? How many hours a day are you chained to a desk? Hell, prison would be a luxury in many ways.
Ten years ago a computer connected to the internet was almost 100% safe because no one had the knowledge and time to find security holes, much less exploit them.
In 1991 I was breaking into Vax and Unix machines left and right, and so were many of my friends (in fact, they were much better at it than I was, which is why many of them work in computer security today and I don't). Misconfigured menu screens, unshadowed password files, Sendmail--you name it, we were exploiting it.
Disclaimer: I don't know about my friends, but I always informed the sysadmin about his security problems after playing around for a bit. While still technically illegal, none of them ever decided to press charges and I suppose the statute of limitations is up by now anyway, so thbbbbpppttttt.
If the only thing you'd ever eaten was a Big Mac would you be qualified to rate it as the best meal ever?
Straw man.
If the only thing I'd ever eaten was a Big Mac, I'd be perfectly qualified to rate it as the best meal I'd ever had. Similarly, these IMDB voters are (collectively) saying LotR is the best movie they've ever seen. Not the best movie *ever*, but the best they've seen.
As for the parent article we're all posting under--that anonymous coward must really be convinced he's right. Nothing says "I believe myself" quite like posting anonymously.
Since you missed it: he said Windows is more insecure than *nix because it's meant to be used by idiots; make it less idiot-proof and many of the recurring problems would disappear.
You're missing the point entirely. A "good idea" is just that: an idea. Whether or not you can convince people to put effort into it is irrelevant. Failing to convince people to start colonizing space might make the idea *moot*, but it's still a good idea.
So let's say you're trying to start a private manned space venture. You need all sorts of relatively exotic and high-tech equipment (the space suits, for one thing).
Getting into space isn't as high-tech as you think, as long as you have enough scientific brainpower. Look at Russia in the 60s. And speaking of Russia, notice how much good the US and NASA's "strong 'suggestions'" did when Tito wanted to tour space.
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In Russia, it is illegal for Adobe to restrict their file formats as they are doing.
Not so long ago, Afghanistan was a favored country. You failed to see the analogy, you failed to understand Russia's legal standing on software (even after it was explained to you), and you failed to understand a single word I've written.
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I'm not thats tupid.
I beg to differ. I'm leaving this horse to you.
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After all, you knew full well what you were doing when you hired on with a company with a woman CEO.
Or were you just trolling the dead horse a bit more?
-Legion
And let me save you some trouble: *he* didn't sell it in America, the company he worked for did. How many times do we have to whack this dead horse?
-Legion
PS - God loves you and longs for relationship with you.
Has he appeared to you and told you this personally, or are you guessing?
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Your stinging repartee has demolished my argument, Anonymous Coward.
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Who'd want to go back to work after lounging around watching HBO all day? I'd move to California and make sure I got three convictions....
-Legion
To paraphrase you: "You are confusing your private residence with a business. There is a difference, you know."
As another poster pointed out, your analogy is weak at best.
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Please cite your source.
(why they hell do [prisons] have [TVs]
You'd be surprised what you can get in prison. If I lost my house and didn't have a wife to care for, I'd definitely go commit enough crimes to put me in a minimum security facility. Just think: free room and board, free meals, free HBO, free weight room, free basketball court, free law library, free limited internet access. Possibly free beatings and sodomy too, but I bet that's less likely in min security than it is in max.
The one thing you don't have is free movement, but how much of that do you have now? How many hours a day are you chained to a desk? Hell, prison would be a luxury in many ways.
-Legion
In 1991 I was breaking into Vax and Unix machines left and right, and so were many of my friends (in fact, they were much better at it than I was, which is why many of them work in computer security today and I don't). Misconfigured menu screens, unshadowed password files, Sendmail--you name it, we were exploiting it.
Disclaimer: I don't know about my friends, but I always informed the sysadmin about his security problems after playing around for a bit. While still technically illegal, none of them ever decided to press charges and I suppose the statute of limitations is up by now anyway, so thbbbbpppttttt.
-Legion
Him: "Win95? Do you know where to get jolt2.c?"
Me: "Yep."
Him: "Here's how to get around our Cisco's outgoing packet filter...."
-Legion
PS: I took away my +1 bonus--(Score: -1, Script Kiddie)
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I'm glad for the opportunity to see exactly where they lied, though. Thanks, Dmitry.
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*I* have written better music then was in that movie on rainy days when I was bored.
Don't mind me, I'm just here enjoying the irony. :)
-Legion
Straw man.
If the only thing I'd ever eaten was a Big Mac, I'd be perfectly qualified to rate it as the best meal I'd ever had. Similarly, these IMDB voters are (collectively) saying LotR is the best movie they've ever seen. Not the best movie *ever*, but the best they've seen.
As for the parent article we're all posting under--that anonymous coward must really be convinced he's right. Nothing says "I believe myself" quite like posting anonymously.
-Legion
No need to be redundant.
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Like "words" and "meaning" and "intelligibility."
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I love it even more when they get modded through the roof by moderators who also didn't read the article.
-Legion
Since you missed it: he said Windows is more insecure than *nix because it's meant to be used by idiots; make it less idiot-proof and many of the recurring problems would disappear.
-Legion
"123 Main St., Yourtown, USA"
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The probable destruction of human civilization isn't a very good reason to start getting into space while we can?
Hey, if you insist. :)
-Legion
Getting into space isn't as high-tech as you think, as long as you have enough scientific brainpower. Look at Russia in the 60s. And speaking of Russia, notice how much good the US and NASA's "strong 'suggestions'" did when Tito wanted to tour space.
-Legion