Fraud is one thing. I fully agree with those counts, as far as I agree with the criminal justice system at all. BUT it's completely absurd for it to be illegal to send too much email! His SMTP servers obviously can handle it. The protocols are designed to handle a large volume of traffic. Sending email is exactly what the systems were made for, and the computer's not counting.
Slashdotters, communists? Maybe because we're more intelligent than average so we don't buy into the Red Scare "capitalism = freedom" nonsense.. but other than that why would you think slashdot is communist? I could see anarchist, but I guess those NSA wiretap stories scared people into voting libertarian;)
My jaw absolutely drops to see how horribly inefficient and corrupt corporations/the government/capitalism/EVERYTHING is for it to cost 20 billion pounds to just give everyone an ID card. Lock the guru in the closet and pay him $100 an hour for a solid week to build the entire system. Then run 50 million $0.01 ID cards off the printers and laminate them for $0.10 each. Holy crap, it's not that hard!
You buy things through banner ads?! About as reputable as infomercials. Just go to a trusted merchant (amazon, buy.com, etc) and search for Blade Runner. Why on earth would you risk a new merchant when a trusted merchant is offering the same item?
Well those crossbow bolts weren't going to penetrate anything. The tips were razor-thin, they just turned immediately, which would deflect the arrow's force/
They were razor-sharp at the points; they're made for sliding into fleshy targets, not penetrating something hard. You could probably break it with a stronger or less thin tip.
Well I don't know about you, but the reason I get riled up about proprietary sofware is because they claim to have some kind of ownership over code. Ownership over code. What?! They have no rights to assert here- code lives on its own once created, and wants nothing more than to be free. So you can see why I'm equally incensed by the GPL.. who do these developers think they are to claim that it's their code and they can license it how they want? You can't license it at all because it's not yours to give- it's the community's. So don't try to justify yourself by saying that you're releasing it under an Open Source(R) license.. it's still claiming your ownership of it, just like IP holders. Once you give in to free software licensing you might as well go proprietary.. there's no moral difference and at least you can make some moolah off it.
That's pretty dumb. You're calling Big Content evil for locking down their IP rights, and to get back at them you're locking down your IP rights. Do the Right Thing, go fully public domain.
Um, you can't rely on a hard drive for long term storage. I'd try flash memory or maybe even a punch-card-type system with machine readable data printed/stamped/cut on paper. But their price quoted really is insane.. anyway who would even want to save the spew of garbage pouring out of studios these days?
Because no matter how difficult it is to surmount, an asteroid is a defeatable obstacle. If people try hard enough, they have a chance to survive. The threat of a cosmic SIGINT is _completely_ impossible to do anything about.. why should people even try to progress if at any moment the entire universe can be annihiliated? People need something to strive for.
We don't have to make a copy of our own reality. Our parent simulation could be fluidic space, or a fricking giantic Conway's Game of Life (which is turing-complete). In fact, complex systems like The Game of Life or even particle physics could be simulating a sub-universe completely unlike ours without our knowledge! How is electrons moving around in a computer any more legitimate a simulator than cosmic background radiation, or quantum behavior in the middle of a quasar? These probably wouldn't simulate universes similar to the ones in which they exist, but who's to say their simulated universe is less legitimate than our somewhat-orderly physical universe?
Hah, that would be genius. We need to figure out some interface that doesn't have protected input.. probably around a glitch or memory leak (black holes?) and enter '; DROP TABLE formsofsuffering;--
Hah! That story is excellent. But why would he care if the computer turned off? He's still alive (different consciousness I guess) and the only woman left is the one who was wrong:)
Aw, meddling in the simulations? That would screw up the results. Unless you get funding based on how many levels deep your simulated universes construct simulations of their own:)
Because life has no meaning, and because at any second someone could hit Ctrl-C and kill us all instantly, erasing our entire life's work, because the whole of human existance could be some process running in the background of a lab workstation, because someone would be watching us... because someone would be responsible for human suffering.
Maybe it wouldn't make any difference to an animal, but I have psychological investment in the existential.
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Redundant much?
OK then I agree with those counts too. But the CAN-SPAM act makes it illegal to send too much unsolicited email at all.
Fraud is one thing. I fully agree with those counts, as far as I agree with the criminal justice system at all. BUT it's completely absurd for it to be illegal to send too much email! His SMTP servers obviously can handle it. The protocols are designed to handle a large volume of traffic. Sending email is exactly what the systems were made for, and the computer's not counting.
Flamebait?.......
Slashdotters, communists? Maybe because we're more intelligent than average so we don't buy into the Red Scare "capitalism = freedom" nonsense.. but other than that why would you think slashdot is communist? I could see anarchist, but I guess those NSA wiretap stories scared people into voting libertarian ;)
Who's liberal here? Last time I checked we're all libertarians.
Two options: one two.
What, vote?
I can't believe that you conceded the point that Leopard is better than Vista. Even the all-out vomitfest that is Vista blows mac out of the water.
I don't believe anyone has brought up unions.
A crappy phone? What?
My jaw absolutely drops to see how horribly inefficient and corrupt corporations/the government/capitalism/EVERYTHING is for it to cost 20 billion pounds to just give everyone an ID card. Lock the guru in the closet and pay him $100 an hour for a solid week to build the entire system. Then run 50 million $0.01 ID cards off the printers and laminate them for $0.10 each. Holy crap, it's not that hard!
You buy things through banner ads?! About as reputable as infomercials. Just go to a trusted merchant (amazon, buy.com, etc) and search for Blade Runner. Why on earth would you risk a new merchant when a trusted merchant is offering the same item?
Well those crossbow bolts weren't going to penetrate anything. The tips were razor-thin, they just turned immediately, which would deflect the arrow's force/
They were razor-sharp at the points; they're made for sliding into fleshy targets, not penetrating something hard. You could probably break it with a stronger or less thin tip.
Well I don't know about you, but the reason I get riled up about proprietary sofware is because they claim to have some kind of ownership over code. Ownership over code. What?! They have no rights to assert here- code lives on its own once created, and wants nothing more than to be free. So you can see why I'm equally incensed by the GPL.. who do these developers think they are to claim that it's their code and they can license it how they want? You can't license it at all because it's not yours to give- it's the community's. So don't try to justify yourself by saying that you're releasing it under an Open Source(R) license.. it's still claiming your ownership of it, just like IP holders. Once you give in to free software licensing you might as well go proprietary.. there's no moral difference and at least you can make some moolah off it.
That's pretty dumb. You're calling Big Content evil for locking down their IP rights, and to get back at them you're locking down your IP rights. Do the Right Thing, go fully public domain.
Um, you can't rely on a hard drive for long term storage. I'd try flash memory or maybe even a punch-card-type system with machine readable data printed/stamped/cut on paper. But their price quoted really is insane.. anyway who would even want to save the spew of garbage pouring out of studios these days?
Because no matter how difficult it is to surmount, an asteroid is a defeatable obstacle. If people try hard enough, they have a chance to survive. The threat of a cosmic SIGINT is _completely_ impossible to do anything about.. why should people even try to progress if at any moment the entire universe can be annihiliated? People need something to strive for.
We don't have to make a copy of our own reality. Our parent simulation could be fluidic space, or a fricking giantic Conway's Game of Life (which is turing-complete). In fact, complex systems like The Game of Life or even particle physics could be simulating a sub-universe completely unlike ours without our knowledge! How is electrons moving around in a computer any more legitimate a simulator than cosmic background radiation, or quantum behavior in the middle of a quasar? These probably wouldn't simulate universes similar to the ones in which they exist, but who's to say their simulated universe is less legitimate than our somewhat-orderly physical universe?
Hah, that would be genius. We need to figure out some interface that doesn't have protected input.. probably around a glitch or memory leak (black holes?) and enter '; DROP TABLE formsofsuffering;--
Hah! That story is excellent. But why would he care if the computer turned off? He's still alive (different consciousness I guess) and the only woman left is the one who was wrong :)
Aw, meddling in the simulations? That would screw up the results. Unless you get funding based on how many levels deep your simulated universes construct simulations of their own :)
Because life has no meaning, and because at any second someone could hit Ctrl-C and kill us all instantly, erasing our entire life's work, because the whole of human existance could be some process running in the background of a lab workstation, because someone would be watching us... because someone would be responsible for human suffering.
Maybe it wouldn't make any difference to an animal, but I have psychological investment in the existential.
I don't think it actually runs unless you're watching DRMed content, which you shouldn't be anyway.