Comment Re:He left in 1002? (Score 1) 53
That man is OLD.
That man is OLD.
Du jour, and I was not anon. Peeze no retributtys.
I am in sympathy, but overuse of the class warfare meme-du-jure "privilege" makes me wanna pee on a puppy.
Anonymity of speech is a core aspect of freedom of speech, and is needed to prevent retribution against speakers.
Believe it or not, this includes retribution by cliques of folks who speak "check your privilege" every other paragraph. They want to expose, say, petition signers to get things on a ballot for the expressed (literally) purpose of harassing them, which the Supreme Court found "troubling", even as it approved the FOI request.
Anonymity protects everyone from all would-be centers of power.
Modded down, nice. There's a special place in Hell for people who mod down humor.
what the DOJ failed to do.
Well not quite. The DOJ proposed splitting microsoft in half. Chinas solution to corruption tends to involve ventilating the CEOs brain with lead, 15 minutes after the judge declares "Fuck this guy!".
The only one who seemed to be advocating caping bill G here was probably ESR, because ESR is kind of a mentalist (RMS doesnt do guns)
The Chinese officials, like the US officials, are more interested in kickbacks. All this "anti-monopoly" stuff is meme pap for consumption by voters.
It's the way things have gone through history. Just the wrappers change, to obfuscate it and feign justification. Microsoft learned, and now donates vast sums in US elections.
System working as intended...by the politicians. We get in the way so we can get paid to get back out of the way. This rule of thumb has never failed.
> "Unesco is now concerned"
Who cares what those gigantic cow-sheep-tick thingies think?
Fascinating. If they can detect suspicious fraud nodes, TOR could build into their project a blacklist support that they publish and honor in their code. Then it becomes a whack-a-mole issue, which is better han the current situation.
Ummm...what with Russia trying to de-anonymize TOR and all. Bad Rooskies.
Lots of old, cranky people have CDs. This is why they included cassette players up through he 2000s as "dual media" player options. Old fucks with money buying cars and why the hell can't I play my Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass cassette?!?!?
Oh I should add that once you are in this regime, the term "hire" may be somewhat different than it is in other circumstances. I mean a more straight-forward means of dealing with cheating is to punish cheating with a degree of severity that matches the potential harm inflicted by having cheaters with their fingers on The Big Red Button -- so the circumstances of the "employment" may involve such any aspects of such punishment as are practically applicable. Military justice isn't burdened with your usual Civil Libertarian constraints.,
Well, that applies to any device.
I worked on these devices in the late 90s when they were moving from high end cars to upper mid range. The hardware has the ability to rip radio and phone audio streams, too, but they didn't wanna touch either of those with a 40 foot lawyer's schwantz.
Ripping CDs (and USB sticks) was deemed OK because you could do this at home already. And as long as you couldn't take it back off, they felt OK.
Service has a way to shift all your stuff on a "repair" that is a radio swap, without cloning the HDD, but again that is not end user.
If you have people that are even remotely tempted to cheat that have their fingers on The Big Red Button, you have a serious threat to civilization.
Having an incentive to cheat is a great way to elicit this potential. The proper national security response is not to remove the incentive to cheat but to increase the detection sensitivity and then hire the guys who cheated to compete with others who cheated to design test regimes that are more likely to elicit cheating while also being more sensitive to detecting cheating.
Will saves didn't exist under any of the editions he wrote.
No, but CHA did, as in "I've been forced out. God damn 18 charismas!!! >:-( "
He also labors under the left-wing echo chamber meme about "corporate personhood".
In the ruling, the SC made it expressly clear this was not some corporate pseudo-person's right to speech, but rather the rights of the owners, who carry along the right of free speech whatever they do, like anyone. Congress is specifically disempowered from attaching conditions to speech when creating groups of people, such as a "corporation".
For that matter, the money is speech because it buys use of a press, which is also specified in the First Amendment, and deliberately so, lest rulers want to try to control speech indirectly by banning or controlling the press, which they did all the time, too.
It's called the "tyrrany of dimensions". The more variables you have, the more data points you need exponentially to derive meaningful partitioning analysis from it, regardless of how clever your distance algorithms are.
And they have hundreds of questions when a dozen would be about all the entire population of Earth could support.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
