...up phone numbers on the Internet?
Of course. Everyone's grandma is knowledgeable enough to be asked when it comes to internet legislation. Want to introduce new sorts of internet censorship? New data retention laws? Do a poll in some home for old people. Result? 90% 'of course we need to regulate the evil internet'.
So I expect everyone's grandma to be able to look up numbers on the internet.
Never said media. But Slashdot is part of a world wide society. And if something stupid like this happens, many people automatically think 'America'. So what do you think this could mean?
and the world will do nothing, because you jumped in the shark tank with roast beef strapped to your balls.
This may be true, or not. Depends on what is politically opportune in that moment.
I understand that the US govt sucks, but we know that because we're permitted to bitch about it A LOT, and there's nothing we like to do more than bitch about things and post it all over the internet.
You are allowed to bitch as long as it has not real consequences. The US government is
stable enough to tolerate it. Should you become influential enough to be really heard by the greater masses, which is really hard, you will be labeled as crackpot by your propaganda industry. If this is not enough and you are really annoying for certain groups... From that point on I doubt there will be much difference between your 'democracy' and countries like South Korea.
Believe me, I know the difference between North and South Korea. And when it comes to throwing into jail... The only difference between North Korea and the USA is that one both countries has to construct a pretense.
I don't think North Korea is safer than US of A - just that they will treat you less like a criminal.
This means it is safer. First as you say, it is less likely they will treat me as a criminal. And if they do, the world is on my side. If the USA treats me as criminal for what reason ever, there will be plenty of brainwashed zombies who will think I must deserve it somehow.
I am German. Would have no legal problems to enter the USA, but I love them that much that the only reason I'd visit Satan's own country would be that I can leave it with very much more money I entered it. When it comes to a simple vacation there are better and safer alternatives. Like China, Cuba, or North Korea.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong? ....
What a silly supposition. It is a _Slashdot_ summary. Of course it isn't correct.
Maybe, but for the sake of my questions this does not matter. If a law demands encryption it has to define what counts as encryption. This is so technical that you can be sure that no government would get it right.
I just suppose that the article summarizes the law correctly, I am too lazy to actually read it, since it won't affect me anyways. But from a technical point of view, what is encryption? Would it be sufficent to xor each byte with a constant?
It is not exactly the same. Your system might inform you whether there is a regression of some sort. What happens here is that you can have a very ugly for humans nearly unreadable code base, which happens to be very fast. Now you refactor your code until it is perfectly readable and maintainable, and basically doing the same as the ugly version did, but slightly slower.
With what IBM patented you'd keep and see the good code, while the compiler sees only the bad but faster version.
I cannot say that I like this idea very much. I'd say something very similar exists in the way C/C++ compilers can rearrange and modify instructions for optimization reasons. Works perfectly for single threaded programs, but can give surprising results in multi threaded programs.
This patent too smells for a good source for very hard to find bugs.
Here's the point of patents: you have to reveal how it works.
Just forget it. I have some experience with patents. Even helped writing an application. The usual way to do it is to omit important parts and tweak some parameters so that it is not too obvious, but makes it almost useless for 3rd parties.
Can't do this. From what pool will you recruit your leaders later when you cull the offspring? Bullying is necessary for your betters to learn how to accomplish something in life. So you cannot punish it too hard.
If Cosmic rays could seriously affect the relatively simple electronics in cars, then your (much more complex) desktop computer would be completely unusable.
Not necessarily. Most changes in a desktop you would not notice. Ram in an area you currently do not use changes. A pixel on your screen changes from white to light gray. And even if you notice because your program crashes, how do you know what caused that crash? Most likely a coding bug. But how can you be sure?
The electronic structures in modern chips get smaller and smaller. Unfortunately this also means that they get more sensitive to problems like that.
Apart from that do I believe that this really causes the problem in Toyota cars? Nope, not unless they give me a believable explanation why it happens much more often to Toyota and there mostly in one part of their system.
...is totally normal matter, but invisible for us because it is located in another universe?
I am not a physicist so my idea might be totally wacko, but ages ago I watched the BBC documentation 'The elegant universe'. One of the string theories explained there proposed that the reason gravity is so weak compared to other major forces is that the 'strings', which are responsible for gravity have the ability to migrate into parallel universes. Therefore we always feel only a fraction of the gravity mass 'produces'. <--- Please be lenient with my very unscientific wording.:-)
So when I saw this documentation I always wondered, when 'our' gravity migrates into other universes, shouldn't also migrate gravity from other universes into ours? I wondered if this theory was true, how would a black hole in a parallel universe look like here?
So maybe, if we had the ability to fly to those places where hubble located the 'dark matter', we would find nothing. The space is curved there for no apparent reason. It is actually because of normal matter in a parallel universe.
i would really refrain from calling web development community 'sheep'.
Minor misunderstanding. I did not mean the web development community in particular, but the facebook users. A dozen disgruntled developers compared to thousands user who do not care at all. Where do you think the money lies?
Facebook is far too big now that it needs to care what the developer community thinks. It is even big enough that it does not need to care what a good deal of their customers think.
Keyboard proxy. A device which is plugged between keyboard an computer and which accepts key strokes and sends them in a freely selectable pattern to the computer. The base package contains: 'young white woman', 'trustworthy, well situated man', and 'perfect lover'. Additional packages like 'honest politician' or 'horny milf' can be ordered separately.
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...up phone numbers on the Internet? Of course. Everyone's grandma is knowledgeable enough to be asked when it comes to internet legislation. Want to introduce new sorts of internet censorship? New data retention laws? Do a poll in some home for old people. Result? 90% 'of course we need to regulate the evil internet'. So I expect everyone's grandma to be able to look up numbers on the internet.
Never said media. But Slashdot is part of a world wide society. And if something stupid like this happens, many people automatically think 'America'. So what do you think this could mean?
You are absolutely right. Nevertheless, it tells much when everybody automatically assumes this is an American thing.
This may be true, or not. Depends on what is politically opportune in that moment.
You are allowed to bitch as long as it has not real consequences. The US government is stable enough to tolerate it. Should you become influential enough to be really heard by the greater masses, which is really hard, you will be labeled as crackpot by your propaganda industry. If this is not enough and you are really annoying for certain groups... From that point on I doubt there will be much difference between your 'democracy' and countries like South Korea.
Believe me, I know the difference between North and South Korea. And when it comes to throwing into jail... The only difference between North Korea and the USA is that one both countries has to construct a pretense.
This means it is safer. First as you say, it is less likely they will treat me as a criminal. And if they do, the world is on my side. If the USA treats me as criminal for what reason ever, there will be plenty of brainwashed zombies who will think I must deserve it somehow.
Do it. And then do something for your education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
I am German. Would have no legal problems to enter the USA, but I love them that much that the only reason I'd visit Satan's own country would be that I can leave it with very much more money I entered it. When it comes to a simple vacation there are better and safer alternatives. Like China, Cuba, or North Korea.
One word: Americans.
spam, porn, botnets, phishing
....
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
Maybe, but for the sake of my questions this does not matter. If a law demands encryption it has to define what counts as encryption. This is so technical that you can be sure that no government would get it right.
I just suppose that the article summarizes the law correctly, I am too lazy to actually read it, since it won't affect me anyways. But from a technical point of view, what is encryption? Would it be sufficent to xor each byte with a constant?
It is not exactly the same. Your system might inform you whether there is a regression of some sort. What happens here is that you can have a very ugly for humans nearly unreadable code base, which happens to be very fast. Now you refactor your code until it is perfectly readable and maintainable, and basically doing the same as the ugly version did, but slightly slower.
With what IBM patented you'd keep and see the good code, while the compiler sees only the bad but faster version.
I cannot say that I like this idea very much. I'd say something very similar exists in the way C/C++ compilers can rearrange and modify instructions for optimization reasons. Works perfectly for single threaded programs, but can give surprising results in multi threaded programs.
This patent too smells for a good source for very hard to find bugs.
Did you miss my ';-)'?
You mean they don't want to patent trial and error, but the usage of repositories? ;-)
Of course I write all my software from the first to last line with perfect efficiency. No bugs, no need to refactor. So IBM and now prove me wrong.
Just forget it. I have some experience with patents. Even helped writing an application. The usual way to do it is to omit important parts and tweak some parameters so that it is not too obvious, but makes it almost useless for 3rd parties.
Can't do this. From what pool will you recruit your leaders later when you cull the offspring? Bullying is necessary for your betters to learn how to accomplish something in life. So you cannot punish it too hard.
And you are? I am certain you are willing to reveal your real name to us so we can read your papers on that topic.
Not necessarily. Most changes in a desktop you would not notice. Ram in an area you currently do not use changes. A pixel on your screen changes from white to light gray. And even if you notice because your program crashes, how do you know what caused that crash? Most likely a coding bug. But how can you be sure?
The electronic structures in modern chips get smaller and smaller. Unfortunately this also means that they get more sensitive to problems like that.
Apart from that do I believe that this really causes the problem in Toyota cars? Nope, not unless they give me a believable explanation why it happens much more often to Toyota and there mostly in one part of their system.
...is totally normal matter, but invisible for us because it is located in another universe? I am not a physicist so my idea might be totally wacko, but ages ago I watched the BBC documentation 'The elegant universe'. One of the string theories explained there proposed that the reason gravity is so weak compared to other major forces is that the 'strings', which are responsible for gravity have the ability to migrate into parallel universes. Therefore we always feel only a fraction of the gravity mass 'produces'. <--- Please be lenient with my very unscientific wording. :-)
So when I saw this documentation I always wondered, when 'our' gravity migrates into other universes, shouldn't also migrate gravity from other universes into ours? I wondered if this theory was true, how would a black hole in a parallel universe look like here?
So maybe, if we had the ability to fly to those places where hubble located the 'dark matter', we would find nothing. The space is curved there for no apparent reason. It is actually because of normal matter in a parallel universe.
Minor misunderstanding. I did not mean the web development community in particular, but the facebook users. A dozen disgruntled developers compared to thousands user who do not care at all. Where do you think the money lies? Facebook is far too big now that it needs to care what the developer community thinks. It is even big enough that it does not need to care what a good deal of their customers think.
Yeah, an article in /. nothing more. Face it, on one caring developer come how many sheep who do not care at all?
This is common sense. Not much worth in court.
Keyboard proxy. A device which is plugged between keyboard an computer and which accepts key strokes and sends them in a freely selectable pattern to the computer. The base package contains: 'young white woman', 'trustworthy, well situated man', and 'perfect lover'. Additional packages like 'honest politician' or 'horny milf' can be ordered separately.