considering what they're getting from 30 seconds of exposure on the most watched event on television, that $100million is a fantastic investment for the company.
just like the multi-million dollar salaries for the athletes playing in said event are fantastic investments for the amount of ticket sales, merch, food at events, etc they bring in.
the worth of a purchase is based on what it brings to the person writing the check, not to what someone else (or even humanity) could get if the checkbook was in their hands instead.
Let's start with the fact that as the WINNER of the contest, they were the ones who hacked it before we get into the other absurdities of that statement.
Oh, and remember that this is only a contest, so they're just trying to get through the security, not actually do anything damaging once they're in.
So I'm a comp sci major, and astronomy and cosmology and the physics of the very large and very small fascinate me but I am incredibly ignorant on them. A lot of these (seemingly?) contradictory comments are leaving me confused.
My understanding of relativity starts and stops at high school physics - I understand the basics only. I have a basic understanding (think flashlight on a train examples) of how with c being a constant that three different observers may see the same two events as simultaneous or either one happening first, depending on their relative motion, etc, and that they are all correct from their own frame of reference - and comparing results from different frames of reference is more or less meaningless because they can't be applied to the same problems.
So let's say tonight we see Betelgeuse go supernova. Is it correct in saying that from our perspective that yesterday it was still there, and it's light and gravity had a meaningful impact on it's surroundings, and tomorrow those properties will be different, but from Betelgeuse's perspective this all happened ~600 years ago? That from our perspective it has x+y mass right this second (the supernova starts later tonight, remember), but from its perspective it only has x mass (where y is what it shed as it exploded) at this particular moment, and both are true statements - right now the amount of mass Betelgeuse actually has - not just can be said to have - is dependent on whether you are looking from Earth or Betelgeuse or someplace else?
Are you implying that wasn't the case in all previous revolutions? Aspiring revolutionaries also have better technologies available now than before, so the playing field isn't any more imbalanced than ever before. Just expect more casualties on both sides if such a thing was ever to happen....but with higher populations now, even that is a wash in a sense.
I live in New York and plan on sending a letter of thanks to Sen. Wyden (even if I'm not convinced of his reasons for stopping this, it still desperately needed to be stopped) as well as letters to my own Senators. Will it do anything? No, of course not. Will it have an impact if many of us do? Probably not, but it's certainly worth a few minutes of each of our time to at least try.
The decline into an Orwellian state has been slowed down, at least a little.
You're half right. A small percentage of diseases are, by chance mutation or whatever else, resistant to the normal form of treatment. They are already present in small enough populations that they are not a substantial threat. However, microbes live in an ecosystem in many ways like the larger scale ecosystem affecting species of complex plants and animals, with typically a much shorter lifespan and higher reproductive rate allowing for microevolutionary changes to occur on a much faster scale. By wiping out, say, the 99% of microbe x that resists easy treatment all at once, the remaining 1% has a chance to thrive and is more likely to reproduce as is their offspring, etc. It does not take long for the total population to restore, except now instead of being able to treat 99% of infections we can now only treat the minority remaining population of susceptible microbes. This makes treatment substantially more difficult and costly because now we're still getting the same number of infections but the percentage of complicated cases is greatly increased - instead of (arbitrary numbers not reflecting any specific disease as an example) 200,000 people needing orange juice and bed rest and 20 needing hospitilization, now we have 100,000 people okay with oj and sleep and 100,020 needing hospitalization.
Spanish and Portuguese are more similar than English and German, fluency in one is enough to get by understanding the other (though actually speaking/writing it back is another matter.)
I am not my descendants. I'd love to see the new discoveries that will be made about our place in the cosmos, the new technologies and art and culture that will be created in the distant future for myself, as would a great many others.
Iranians are using Haystack to avoid an oppressive government. The creator says "stop using Haystack, there's a weakness - if the government does X they can see your traffic!" The government hears this, does X, and promptly arrests and kills every Iranian who used it.
I think it's clear that keeping their mouth shut just in case the government hasn't figured out what X is is the wise decision here.
For some stores you DO have to buy 10. It's often something like $1.19 for 1, $10 for 10, so the difference is miminal, but at least one store in my area does that.
> How can Rackspace refuse service to a crazy Christian because of what he believes in?
That's not what's happening at all. They're refusing service to a client who violated their contract with them...when they signed up for hosting, they signed a contract that included an agreement not to post hate speech on their servers. Now they are posting hate speech. It's not rocket science. The fact that they are Christians has nothing to do with it.
> False analogy. It's more like you demanding back a megaphone you rented me because you decide you don't like what I'm saying.
So what? I'll make it even more accurate of an analogy for you. I own a megaphone. You want to use it. We agree on a contract that states, among other things, that you will pay me $X for use of my megaphone, that you will not use it to broadcast hate speech, etc. You then turn around and broadcast hate speech, so I say "give me back my megaphone." Don't like my terms? Get your own megaphone or use someone else's.
That's pretty much exactly what's going on here, and there is no violation of free speech or any other right.
There are situations where this does not hold up - for example, if I had a monopoly (especially a government-subsidized monopoly) on megaphones and you couldn't get one from anyone else. But that is not what's going on here - there are dozens if not hundreds of hosting providers out there that this church can choose to do business with instead.
> The problem is, of course, that rackspace, isn't "refusing to distribute" it's blocking distribution. If you wrote, say, a book on evolution, and I used force (as rackspace did) to prevent you from doing this, surely you'd agree I'm suppressing your free speech. The same is going on here.
I'm not sure I follow you. Rackspace is a hosting provider that is choosing not to host a website that violates its policies. That is entirely different from being, for example, an ISP that is blocking traffic to their site. To expand on your book analogy, they are a publisher choosing not to publish your manuscript...they aren't going into bookstores and libraries and pulling it from the shelves.
That sounds like the exact opposite of my experience. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I went to a state school, or the average income in my area, or some other factor, but textbooks are a very common target of theft here due mostly to their fairly high resale value and relative difficulty tracking.
>it would be astounding if students (parents!) didn't sell them off immediately.
Assuming sane policies in place by the school (yes I know that's a stretch, but if they don't take a step like this it's their own fault) students/families would be responsible for replacing lost or stolen devices, so selling them would leave them with a best case net gain of zero, most likely a loss as they won't be able to sell for full price. That or the student has no textbook, which will have repercussions itself (and likely won't go unnoticed by staff)
When you upload the video, if it finds a content match it tells you and explains what that means for you. I did a music video for "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley and it identified the audio track, told me that it identified the audio track, and placed a link to buy the song under the video. I assume had it been from an artist/label/etc who doesn't want any unauthorized use of their content, it would have blocked the audio (or entire video) and notified me in the same way that it had done so.
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So it's a new N-Gage.
And Sony thinks that THIS TIME it will be successful? They really have lost touch with reality.
considering what they're getting from 30 seconds of exposure on the most watched event on television, that $100million is a fantastic investment for the company.
just like the multi-million dollar salaries for the athletes playing in said event are fantastic investments for the amount of ticket sales, merch, food at events, etc they bring in.
the worth of a purchase is based on what it brings to the person writing the check, not to what someone else (or even humanity) could get if the checkbook was in their hands instead.
secret police.....of supporters.
File it under "support is too great".
Let's start with the fact that as the WINNER of the contest, they were the ones who hacked it before we get into the other absurdities of that statement.
Oh, and remember that this is only a contest, so they're just trying to get through the security, not actually do anything damaging once they're in.
So I'm a comp sci major, and astronomy and cosmology and the physics of the very large and very small fascinate me but I am incredibly ignorant on them. A lot of these (seemingly?) contradictory comments are leaving me confused.
My understanding of relativity starts and stops at high school physics - I understand the basics only. I have a basic understanding (think flashlight on a train examples) of how with c being a constant that three different observers may see the same two events as simultaneous or either one happening first, depending on their relative motion, etc, and that they are all correct from their own frame of reference - and comparing results from different frames of reference is more or less meaningless because they can't be applied to the same problems.
So let's say tonight we see Betelgeuse go supernova. Is it correct in saying that from our perspective that yesterday it was still there, and it's light and gravity had a meaningful impact on it's surroundings, and tomorrow those properties will be different, but from Betelgeuse's perspective this all happened ~600 years ago? That from our perspective it has x+y mass right this second (the supernova starts later tonight, remember), but from its perspective it only has x mass (where y is what it shed as it exploded) at this particular moment, and both are true statements - right now the amount of mass Betelgeuse actually has - not just can be said to have - is dependent on whether you are looking from Earth or Betelgeuse or someplace else?
Or am I way off base here?
Are you implying that wasn't the case in all previous revolutions? Aspiring revolutionaries also have better technologies available now than before, so the playing field isn't any more imbalanced than ever before. Just expect more casualties on both sides if such a thing was ever to happen....but with higher populations now, even that is a wash in a sense.
I live in New York and plan on sending a letter of thanks to Sen. Wyden (even if I'm not convinced of his reasons for stopping this, it still desperately needed to be stopped) as well as letters to my own Senators. Will it do anything? No, of course not. Will it have an impact if many of us do? Probably not, but it's certainly worth a few minutes of each of our time to at least try.
The decline into an Orwellian state has been slowed down, at least a little.
You're half right. A small percentage of diseases are, by chance mutation or whatever else, resistant to the normal form of treatment. They are already present in small enough populations that they are not a substantial threat. However, microbes live in an ecosystem in many ways like the larger scale ecosystem affecting species of complex plants and animals, with typically a much shorter lifespan and higher reproductive rate allowing for microevolutionary changes to occur on a much faster scale. By wiping out, say, the 99% of microbe x that resists easy treatment all at once, the remaining 1% has a chance to thrive and is more likely to reproduce as is their offspring, etc. It does not take long for the total population to restore, except now instead of being able to treat 99% of infections we can now only treat the minority remaining population of susceptible microbes. This makes treatment substantially more difficult and costly because now we're still getting the same number of infections but the percentage of complicated cases is greatly increased - instead of (arbitrary numbers not reflecting any specific disease as an example) 200,000 people needing orange juice and bed rest and 20 needing hospitilization, now we have 100,000 people okay with oj and sleep and 100,020 needing hospitalization.
That would be Cooks' not Cook's
"Never start with the head...the victim gets all woozy, can't feel the next blow." - The Joker, The Dark Knight
You mean like, they had a Facebook account?
Fixed that for you.
I wasn't aware SC2 had 36-hour cut scenes to fit a game of civ into.
What's remarkable is how you've found a way to feel superior to both.
Spanish and Portuguese are more similar than English and German, fluency in one is enough to get by understanding the other (though actually speaking/writing it back is another matter.)
I am not my descendants. I'd love to see the new discoveries that will be made about our place in the cosmos, the new technologies and art and culture that will be created in the distant future for myself, as would a great many others.
If you think relying on judges is such a better alternative, I suggest you do some research into Japan's legal system.
Imagine this scenario.
Iranians are using Haystack to avoid an oppressive government. The creator says "stop using Haystack, there's a weakness - if the government does X they can see your traffic!" The government hears this, does X, and promptly arrests and kills every Iranian who used it.
I think it's clear that keeping their mouth shut just in case the government hasn't figured out what X is is the wise decision here.
Or better still, completely eschew all forms of religion and live in the real world :)
For some stores you DO have to buy 10. It's often something like $1.19 for 1, $10 for 10, so the difference is miminal, but at least one store in my area does that.
> Most of the PS/2 items I've seen don't have EULAs that I've seen.
I agree, none of my keyboards or mice have had EULAs.
> How can Rackspace refuse service to a crazy Christian because of what he believes in?
That's not what's happening at all. They're refusing service to a client who violated their contract with them...when they signed up for hosting, they signed a contract that included an agreement not to post hate speech on their servers. Now they are posting hate speech. It's not rocket science. The fact that they are Christians has nothing to do with it.
> False analogy. It's more like you demanding back a megaphone you rented me because you decide you don't like what I'm saying.
So what? I'll make it even more accurate of an analogy for you. I own a megaphone. You want to use it. We agree on a contract that states, among other things, that you will pay me $X for use of my megaphone, that you will not use it to broadcast hate speech, etc. You then turn around and broadcast hate speech, so I say "give me back my megaphone." Don't like my terms? Get your own megaphone or use someone else's.
That's pretty much exactly what's going on here, and there is no violation of free speech or any other right.
There are situations where this does not hold up - for example, if I had a monopoly (especially a government-subsidized monopoly) on megaphones and you couldn't get one from anyone else. But that is not what's going on here - there are dozens if not hundreds of hosting providers out there that this church can choose to do business with instead.
> The problem is, of course, that rackspace, isn't "refusing to distribute" it's blocking distribution. If you wrote, say, a book on evolution, and I used force (as rackspace did) to prevent you from doing this, surely you'd agree I'm suppressing your free speech. The same is going on here.
I'm not sure I follow you. Rackspace is a hosting provider that is choosing not to host a website that violates its policies. That is entirely different from being, for example, an ISP that is blocking traffic to their site. To expand on your book analogy, they are a publisher choosing not to publish your manuscript...they aren't going into bookstores and libraries and pulling it from the shelves.
>college textbooks
>not a target for theft
That sounds like the exact opposite of my experience. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I went to a state school, or the average income in my area, or some other factor, but textbooks are a very common target of theft here due mostly to their fairly high resale value and relative difficulty tracking.
>it would be astounding if students (parents!) didn't sell them off immediately.
Assuming sane policies in place by the school (yes I know that's a stretch, but if they don't take a step like this it's their own fault) students/families would be responsible for replacing lost or stolen devices, so selling them would leave them with a best case net gain of zero, most likely a loss as they won't be able to sell for full price. That or the student has no textbook, which will have repercussions itself (and likely won't go unnoticed by staff)
When you upload the video, if it finds a content match it tells you and explains what that means for you. I did a music video for "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley and it identified the audio track, told me that it identified the audio track, and placed a link to buy the song under the video. I assume had it been from an artist/label/etc who doesn't want any unauthorized use of their content, it would have blocked the audio (or entire video) and notified me in the same way that it had done so.