Total box cost set me back ~300$ US. Not bad...(mind you, the board and CPU were used) It could also set you back up to US$ 50,000 and 10 years in a Federal pound in the butt facility (depending on the retail value of the software you pirated).
Unfortunately, theoretical physics is not very practical and therefore does not create much wealth. You are kidding, right?
I don't even know where to begin, but here are some counterexamples of theoretical physics being quite practical: nuclear fission reactors, fusion weapons, transistors/microchips, computers, internet, TVs, sattelites/GPS, cell phones and wireless comms, MRI and PET scans, electron microscopy, LASERs...
See, I think you are making the same mistake of underestimating theoretical physics as the Germans did in the 1930s...
Well, violating arbitrary limits may yet have very real consequences. For example, try dating someone uder 18 (14 in some states) and see what happens...
It's not Free either since my taxes pay for the library.
Also, libraries are much less convenient since if you keep those 5 DVDs for two weeks, none of the other 1,000 library patrons can view them during same two weeks. So for any random popular movie that everybody wants, one has to wait an average of two years before it's your turn to check it out.
Asking when he works and when his wife and kids are home is just being a dick and you know it. He doesn't have the same kind of security a water processing plant should Security through obscurity is about the most effective kind in the "real" world. Security through obscurity is the reason why we can't get Bin Laden or know where all of Russia's or China's nukes are.
Security through obscurity is in fact extremely effective, hence the reason people use camouflage, hide their military movements, encrypt their communications, hide their passwords, etc.
The only reason it is sometimes frowned upon is because the users might tend to be overly confident and overestimate the level of protection it provides.
Bad analogy: There are exactly zero US citizens held on drug charges without access to courts and lawers. There is exactly one (1) US citizen being held without trial on terrorism charges.
One could always brute-force the password. Pre-10.3, DES brute-forcing would take about a month on your desktop computer. Since then they changed it to blowfish or something similar, so it would take longer.
Certainly, NSA or some random botnet master would be able to recover your password in minutes if they needed to.
You asked me what viruses had been eradicated since the invention of the electron microscope. I gave you two examples of that. I didn't say partial cure wasn't available prior to that, or that EM (rather than refrigiration and computers for example) was needed for eradication.
Experimenting with tensor fields on differentiable manifolds is not illegal (and all you need is a piece of paper, a pensil, and a trashcan) yet you don't see a lot of work being done by the common citizen in this area.
Some things are much harder than you might imagine. And most require more than a personal computer. The 30 second time dissolve you see in movies isn't how most of (real) science is done.
So who's stopping YOU from going out and saving the World, curing AIDS, and eradicating cancer?
What's with the victim mentality/entitlement attitude? Nobody owes you your job, food, housing, or healthcare. Why do you people always bitch about what other people aren't doing for them, instead of getting off your ass and doing it for yourselves?
It's not propaganda if it's true. What has Putin ever done for Russia except embessling billions, undermining democracy, and building up state-endorced mafia?
The one good thing I can think of is high oil prices. But the Russians should thank Bush and Jiang Zemin for that.
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So your link says garbage men make $80K in NYC and $35K in Florida. Do you believe that's because FL is closer to India?
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I don't even know where to begin, but here are some counterexamples of theoretical physics being quite practical: nuclear fission reactors, fusion weapons, transistors/microchips, computers, internet, TVs, sattelites/GPS, cell phones and wireless comms, MRI and PET scans, electron microscopy, LASERs...
See, I think you are making the same mistake of underestimating theoretical physics as the Germans did in the 1930s...
you are funny!
Well, violating arbitrary limits may yet have very real consequences. For example, try dating someone uder 18 (14 in some states) and see what happens...
It's not Free either since my taxes pay for the library.
Also, libraries are much less convenient since if you keep those 5 DVDs for two weeks, none of the other 1,000 library patrons can view them during same two weeks. So for any random popular movie that everybody wants, one has to wait an average of two years before it's your turn to check it out.
Or maybe you shouldn't be doing your "let's say" in a public place to begin with. It's just plain inconsiderate towards other people there.
Security through obscurity is in fact extremely effective, hence the reason people use camouflage, hide their military movements, encrypt their communications, hide their passwords, etc.
The only reason it is sometimes frowned upon is because the users might tend to be overly confident and overestimate the level of protection it provides.
I think using similar logic it could be shown that, say, any BIC pen is a copy of a Parker pen.
Now, a $699 license fee for any BIC user? I smell something big here...
Bad analogy: There are exactly zero US citizens held on drug charges without access to courts and lawers. There is exactly one (1) US citizen being held without trial on terrorism charges.
Well, at least we had a good run for the last 50 years.
It amazes me sometimes how clueless a lot of Americans are WRT how fortunate/lucky we have been lately.
On the upside, the number of magnetic tapes examined is 0.
I don't think chroot does what you think it does.
AK47 ownership is perfectly legal as long as your register it IIRC. Clinton's Assault Weapons law has recently expired and has not been renewed.
One could always brute-force the password. Pre-10.3, DES brute-forcing would take about a month on your desktop computer. Since then they changed it to blowfish or something similar, so it would take longer.
Certainly, NSA or some random botnet master would be able to recover your password in minutes if they needed to.
You are wrong. Geeks are just wannabe jocks that aren't getting any (until they are in their mid-to-late 30s earning a buttload of money).
You asked me what viruses had been eradicated since the invention of the electron microscope. I gave you two examples of that. I didn't say partial cure wasn't available prior to that, or that EM (rather than refrigiration and computers for example) was needed for eradication.
smallpox. polio. getting close to getting rid of HPV.
May or may not have anything to do with electron microscope in particular, but certainly has something to do with the level of our technology.
Experimenting with tensor fields on differentiable manifolds is not illegal (and all you need is a piece of paper, a pensil, and a trashcan) yet you don't see a lot of work being done by the common citizen in this area.
Some things are much harder than you might imagine. And most require more than a personal computer. The 30 second time dissolve you see in movies isn't how most of (real) science is done.
So who's stopping YOU from going out and saving the World, curing AIDS, and eradicating cancer?
What's with the victim mentality/entitlement attitude? Nobody owes you your job, food, housing, or healthcare. Why do you people always bitch about what other people aren't doing for them, instead of getting off your ass and doing it for yourselves?
Airgap curtain.
It's not propaganda if it's true. What has Putin ever done for Russia except embessling billions, undermining democracy, and building up state-endorced mafia?
The one good thing I can think of is high oil prices. But the Russians should thank Bush and Jiang Zemin for that.
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