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Re:I don't get it
Just look at these articles "White woman call cops on black woman" ( http://archive.fo/T4qIo archive of Metro's article)
Plot twist: They're BOTH Hispanic. Didn't stop the news from race baiting.
The NY Post too, later corrected the article but the URL itself still shows how they pushed the "white woman" angle at first ( https://nypost.com/2018/08/02/... )
They have created Schrödinger's Hispanic: They're neither black or white until a narrative need to be observed.
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GPL Recission
Main:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/1... (GPL Recission announcement (to show it can be done and encourage others to do it))
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/... (Debunking of SFConservancy's statement)Anti-Rescind:
ZDNet "Debunking" lulz.com article (by quoting PJ the paralegal, who got it wrong): https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
This is constantly cited by "no recind"ers.
SFConservancy's "Debunking" of lulz.com article: http://sfconservancy.org/news/...
(The new section: https://copyleft.org/guide/com... )
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Pro-Rescind:
Refutation of SFConservancy's "debunking" of lulz.com article: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/...
(Published 5 hours after the "debunking")Public announcement of GPL Recission of GPC-Slots 2 game vs "Geek Feminists": https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/1...
(This was also posted elsewhere, so as to be visible to the recindees, and sent to the mail of the named individuals, where it could be determined)Submission to slashdot (wasn't posted): https://slashdot.org/submissio...
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Eben Moglen vows to write a paper about how the GPL is irrevokable:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/...
2 months later still no paper to be found: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/...
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Other useful links:
8chan discussions with author, and expositions on the law:
http://8ch.net/tech/res/101340...
http://8ch.net/tech/res/101782...
http://8ch.net/tech/res/101872...4chan
https://warosu.org/g/thread/S6...
http://archive.fo/OhIR4
http://boards.4channel.org/g/t...
---Here's one user who did as suggested and consulted with an attorney friend, the attorney friend refuted the "following the GPL is consideration" argument nicely:
https://archives.gentoo.org/ge...Thank you for the response, though I feel you don't address my
question. Happily though, I spoke with an acquaintance and it was
determined that the subservience to the license (i.e. agreeing to be
bound by the GPL2) could not be offered as consideration as its
restrictions were not the licensee's to offer at the time of
acceptance of the license. The licensee had no rights to offer as part
of the contract, as the contract had not yet given them any rights to
give up. The terms put forth by the GPL2 are only restrictions that
are part of the license.Furthermore, as stated above, it should seem quite self referential -
I can't offer my acceptance of a license as consideration, because it
is what I am trying to accept.As I am sure you are aware, under US law there is no contract if both
sides have not provided consideration. This leaves us in the strange
place of gratis licenses being suggestions.Cheers,
R0b0t1---
Various other threads:
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Re:What do I get in return?
Don't forget those sweet, sweet tailored ads, popping up on every screen you lay your eyes upon!
Funny thing about that, Bell Canada was busted by the CRTC for illegally manipulating and throttling traffic(of their and TPIA's) among other things by using Sandvine boxes back in 2008/2009. Don't trust them, not at any point. Especially since they also manipulated the news for their own benefit(2015), and were caught doing it.
Archive, because Globe and Mail is paywalled for old articles.
Original link here if you're a G&M subscriber.
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Re:Goal post moving much?
At least you were able to make that point this time without calling anybody a moron. Baby steps.
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Re:He is not wrong tho
... and going...
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Re:He is not wrong tho
... and going...
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Re:He is not wrong tho
keeps going and going...
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Re:He is not wrong tho
Behold the Energizer Bunny.
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Researchers find way to spy on remote screens
Researchers find way to spy on remote screens -- through the webcam mic
* Remote audio plus machine learning equals rudimentary remote screen viewing.
* That web cam could be giving up what's on your screen, if the person on the other end is listening the right wayâ"with the help of some machine learning and your monitor's coil whine.
Daniel Genkin of the University of Michigan, Mihir Pattani of the University of Pennsylvania, Roei Schuster of Cornell Tech and Tel Aviv University, and Eran Tromer of Tel Aviv University and Columbia University investigated a potential new avenue of remote surveillance that they have dubbed "Synesthesia"[1]: a side-channel attack that can reveal the contents of a remote screen, providing access to potentially sensitive information based solely on "content-dependent acoustic leakage from LCD screens."
The research, supported by the Check Point Institute for Information Security at Tel Aviv University[2] (of which Schuster and Tromer are members) and funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, examined what amounts to an acoustic form of Van Eck phreaking. While Van Eck phreaking uses radio signal emissions that leak from display connectors, the Synesthesia research leverages "coil whine," the audio emissions from transformers and other electronic components powering a device's LCD display.
source: https://arstechnica.com/inform...
archived: https://archive.fo/ZmO62[1] https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~trom... & https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~trom...
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Re:He is not wrong tho
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Re:Marine Heat Wave
As usual, Jane is just unskeptically regurgitating this crackpot's claims.
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Of course they areTwitter's CEO retweeted this article and commented "Great read". https://archive.fo/I5WqT
The next time you call for bipartisan cooperation in America and long for Republicans and Democrats to work side by side, stop it.
The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war.
Why would Twitter want to help the enemy? When you consider your own people "enemy", then things are very far gone. Twitter is the de facto public square these days and having it under the control of the Left is going to turn out badly for everyone.
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Re:Thatâ(TM)s a shame
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Who controls Tor's DNS traffic? [AC, can't submit]
Who controls Tor's DNS traffic? An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape
= Article: https://medium.com/@nusenu/who...
= Archived - https://archive.fo/iGQJE"How is the tor network doing two years after Philipp Winter et al. urged the tor relay operators to stop using Google's DNS resolver?
With new players like Quad9 and Cloudflare on the "DNS resolver market" asking for your DNS traffic, who are the big DNS players on today's tor network?"
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Re:Why does basic income keep appearing here?Pff, wealthy educated people have zero compassion for the working class. Twitter's CEO retweeted this article and commented "Great read".
The next time you call for bipartisan cooperation in America and long for Republicans and Democrats to work side by side, stop it.
The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war.
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Re: veterans?
Remember the vile misogynistic assault on Sarah Palin? It was OK to do it to her, but as soon as Hillary ran, it was wrong.
It's not exactly an absurd set of characterizations to say that the American Left despises the working class. They voted for Trump! The Democrat strongholds of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin betrayed their Party and turned their coats to vote for the enemy. To better understand this attitude, let's look at this article that Twitter's CEO retweeted and commented "Great read".
The next time you call for bipartisan cooperation in America and long for Republicans and Democrats to work side by side, stop it.
The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war.
They hate us. Remember when they encouraged the BLM riots and cheered as people were attacked and neighborhoods burned? They encouraged and paid thugs to attack Trump supporters at rallies? Yup. It's because the Left regards the Right as "The Other" and doesn't feel that the rules of civilized discourse apply.
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Re:Inertia, primarilyIt's bad that Twitter controls the platform, for sure. Their CEO just retweeted this this article and commented "Great read".
The next time you call for bipartisan cooperation in America and long for Republicans and Democrats to work side by side, stop it.
The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war.
Is it any wonder that Twitter bans so many conservatives? Their CEO considers them as enemies!
It's good that Trump has a way to bypass the media and talk directly to the people, though. Th media abuses their gatekeeper position to manipulate the news in a direction favorable for their political goals. It's so harmful to democracy to do that. I can't even believe we have a media with political goals, but here we are.
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Re:The right wing has been stacking the courts
Yes, because I should vote for a Left that is beyond convinced that we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler. All the leftist sects agree - they have found the revealed truth, and imposing it upon the benighted normals like us is so transcendently important that they are relieved of any moral limitations. They *hate* us. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. Twitter's CEO retweeted this article and commented "Great read".
The next time you call for bipartisan cooperation in America and long for Republicans and Democrats to work side by side, stop it.
The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war.
If we ever voted you bastards in you'd use the power to put an end to us. No thanks, I prefer living in a free America, not Venezuela 2.0. Democrats have been in power for decades in places like Baltimore, Detroit, and San Francisco and have run them into the ground. Why would we want you to do this to all of America?
Then there is the hatred. It turns out berating a bunch of struggling, working class white families about their "white privilege" and then circling back around to mock them for being poor and uneducated isn't likely to get them to vote for you. Who could have known!
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Foxconn buys Belkin, Linksys, and Wemo
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The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users
The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Internet paranoiacs drawn to Bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, Bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable - while also offering discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money moves, would, some of Bitcoin's fierce advocates believed, naturally try and thwart the coming techno-libertarian financial order.
It turns out the conspiracy theorists were onto something.
Archived: https://archive.fo/z5zzo
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The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users
The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Internet paranoiacs drawn to Bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, Bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable - while also offering discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money moves, would, some of Bitcoin's fierce advocates believed, naturally try and thwart the coming techno-libertarian financial order.
It turns out the conspiracy theorists were onto something.
Archived: https://archive.fo/z5zzo
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Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism'
'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves
"What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018https://twitter.com/RichardDaw...
https://archive.fo/kSmgi"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/n..."'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.co...and:
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Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism
'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves
"What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018https://twitter.com/RichardDaw...
https://archive.fo/kSmgi"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/n..."'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.co...and:
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Classic Slashdot Summary
1) Summary indicates there are people who are annoyed. No actual links to annoyance.
2) Summary indicates it's quoting a blog post. No blog post linked, just the rules page.
3) The rules page has been around since 2015: https://archive.fo/https://www... - not that "new code of conduct" means that the writer intended to convey it was brand new, but certainly it will be interpreted that way by a lot of folks.
4) FreeBSD had some sort of discussion around it when it came to be in 2015: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.... and it looks like there was some actual internal stuff for project participants that occurred but again, nothing really happened
5) This type of code of conduct isn't really crazy in the OSS world by a simple search. For example, https://www.contributor-covena... shows a plethora of OSS projects that participate and is based on similar principles. Big names OSS participants include Eclipse, Spring, Atom,
6) Microsoft has code of conduct that touches on similar issues: https://opensource.microsoft.c...
7) Github has a guide actively encouraging codes of conduct within communities: https://opensource.guide/code-... and pointing to other OSS projects that have them: https://www.djangoproject.com/...If you look at FreeBSD's code of conduct in context it really seems like they're late to the party, which may just be a formality (the community norms might already be enforcing these types of rules anyway) or a dramatic change, but there's no way to actually get that from the summary at all.
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Re:How many Library of Congresses, though?
The Science seems sound. Incoming Gaia smiting of humanity for heresy unless we all agree to go vegan and cycle everywhere.
Don't listen to Alt RIght, racist misogynist pro Putin Nazi Trump Terrorists who tell you the left is a church of no salvation. Give up your SUVs, free speech rights, guns and beef and you will enter the promised land just like Cat Lady Ascendancy Hierophant Hillary Clinton did.
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Re:What did the leaflets say?
The Coup D’E tat of the United States Press
Red 'X' SocietyThursday, 2 March 2017
by Tracy MapesSACRAMENTO,California--In America, it has long been held that there is a sacred bond between the United States Government, and the People of the United States.
That bond is the unbendable document called the Constitution of the United States, and, as I am about to embark, this bond has been broken by the Corruption of Our Central Bodies of Government, Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, Agency, and the Press.
This means that while Americans have been kept busy with the non-essential, info-tainment of the Press, both Print and Broadcast, these bodies along with all key positions in the Government of the United States, have been subverted and replaced with loyalist Felons and Street Prostitutes as legitimate Journalists, Political Appointees, Judges, and even Entertainment Personnel.
This means that along with the Silent Subversion of the 1st Amendment of Our Constitution, a facade of disinformation has cloaked the atrocity with unfounded fears of the necessity to increase the National Security risks assessed to convince the Citizens of the United States that loss of their personal freedoms, restriction on travel, and the production of “Fake News” in warranted to maintain the Secrecy of the Criminal Enterprise Our Government has become.
I became aware of this situation in quite an unconventional manner.
As I have described over the past 8 years, to United States Government agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Congress, the United States Senate, and News Media alike, without material response, I met over 150 Pimps, Prostitutes, and Individuals involved in criminal acts in the related to the before mentioned street crimes on the streets of Sacramento, California during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Since my involvement with these persons over a 7 year period, 2 of the persons involved in narcotics use and prostitution have become Presidents of the United States of America.With the addition of a First Lady, a Supreme Court Justice, State Senator, City Mayor, and County District Attorney of Sacramento, there are nearly 150 persons that have been placed, appointed, hired, or infiltrated into the Newsrooms of America.
One could look at this as a miracle of some great proportion, but in fact, the pattern sings of racketeering, espionage, and the criminal manipulation of All Avenues of Control and Command of the United States Government and the Media.
And, after engaging in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America
The Red ‘X’ Society was formed as an Idea, to redress this wrong, and hold those accountable for this Horrific Tragedy of United States Government Miss-Management, and urge All Americans to display the Red ‘X’ until this matter is resolved in accordance with the written word of the U.S. Constitution.
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Re:What did the leaflets say?
CBS have declined to explain but a bit of searching turns up this
https://www.facebook.com/RedXS...
https://archive.fo/eoZiNhttps://www.facebook.com/Tracy...
https://archive.fo/IcXKVhttps://www.facebook.com/notes...
https://archive.fo/ywhAktl;dr - nothing particularly interesting. Archive links because FB will probably pull his account to protect us all from reading his rather empty, but basically harmless rants.
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Re:What did the leaflets say?
CBS have declined to explain but a bit of searching turns up this
https://www.facebook.com/RedXS...
https://archive.fo/eoZiNhttps://www.facebook.com/Tracy...
https://archive.fo/IcXKVhttps://www.facebook.com/notes...
https://archive.fo/ywhAktl;dr - nothing particularly interesting. Archive links because FB will probably pull his account to protect us all from reading his rather empty, but basically harmless rants.
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Re:What did the leaflets say?
CBS have declined to explain but a bit of searching turns up this
https://www.facebook.com/RedXS...
https://archive.fo/eoZiNhttps://www.facebook.com/Tracy...
https://archive.fo/IcXKVhttps://www.facebook.com/notes...
https://archive.fo/ywhAktl;dr - nothing particularly interesting. Archive links because FB will probably pull his account to protect us all from reading his rather empty, but basically harmless rants.
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Re:Fake News
Taipei can get above 37% and is very humid. Humidity never gets to 100% but it's dang hot and humid
http://www.taiwan.climatemps.c...
Humans have been living in conditions like this long before there was airconditioning.
Then again maybe that's the reason people decided to do the contemporary equivalent of an interstellar journey - a series of risky boat journeys across the pacific eventually reaching Hawaii
Sure a lot of people must have ended up dieing of thirst in the middle of the Pacific ocean but perhaps it was better than staying in a place where the climate was literally like ass.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
https://archive.fo/BSsElMAORI legend has it that Polynesians originated from a place called "Hawaiki". Where Hawaiki was located is a mystery. But the toings and froings of the Polynesians-arguably the greatest seafarers in history-have long intrigued researchers of an anthropological turn of mind, and two of them, Jean Trejaut and Marie Lin of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, think they know the answer to the riddle of Hawaiki: Taiwan.
This is not a total surprise. Linguistic evidence pointed that way already. But, in a study just published in Public Library of Science Biology, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin nail the question down with that talisman of modern research, genetics.
Present day Taiwan has a population of 23m, but only 400,000 are descended from the island's original inhabitants (the majority of the population is descended from mainland Chinese who have settled there over the past 400 years). Those 400,000 speak-or, at least historically spoke-languages belonging to a group known as Austronesian, which is unrelated to Chinese, but includes the Polynesian tongues. Indeed, small though the aboriginal Taiwanese population is, it accounts for nine of the ten linguistic sub-families of Austronesian. Hence the supposition that Hawaiki might be Taiwan.
To check this out, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin decided to look at variations in mitochondrial DNA. This is passed from mother to offspring without genetic admixture from the father, because it is found in the bodies of cells-including, crucially, egg cells-rather than in the cell nuclei where the rest of the genes reside. (Sperm jettison their mitochondrial DNA at fertilisation.) That makes tracing mutations through the generations easier than looking at those genes that get mixed up by sex.
In a study involving 640 people from nine Taiwanese tribes, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin found three mutations shared by Taiwanese, Polynesians and Melanesians (who also speak Austronesian) which are not found in other Asians. So the mystery seems to have been solved at last. Where the Taiwanese came from, though, is a different question again.
Still regardless of whether the Polynesians came from Taiwan, the fact that Taiwan has been populated long enough for that to be possible shows that humans can exist just fine in an environment which is hot and humid. Hell even non Taiwanese like me can adapt to it.
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Re:Patent trolls are not inherently bad.
Except the original justification for patents is so that the people who own the factories and printing presses have to pay the people who do the inventing or writing.
No copyright means the publisher keeps all the money and the author gets none. No patents mean the factory owner keeps the money and the inventor gets none.
Which used to happen in the US. E.g.
https://www.charlesdickensinfo...
In January 1842 Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine, traveled to the United States. Dickens wanted to see the sites, learn about the country and do research for a future series of articles.
While on tour Dickens often spoke of the need for an international copyright agreement. The lack of such an agreement enabled his books to be published in the United States without his permission and without any royalties being paid.
This situation also affected American writers like Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works were published in England without his consent.
Dickens first realized that he was losing income because of the lack of national in international copyright laws in 1837 when The Pickwick Papers was published in book form. At times the novel was reprinted without his permission and sometimes even imitated.
Lobbying by people like Dickens and Poe is what created a system where the US respected the copyright of UK authors and vice versa. Before that if you bought a copy of a book by an author outside your country, the author got nothing. And Dickens was apparently driven crazy by people launching copies of his books with the endings changed!
Of course these days if you got rid of copyright and patents you'd find that the factories and printing presses would all be in China or some other low wage/minimal worker's rights jurisdiction.
IP now means even when an iPad is made in China, most of the value stays in the US
http://www.economist.com/node/...
https://archive.fo/UlRbFThe chart shows a geographical breakdown of the retail price of an iPad. The main rewards go to American shareholders and workers. Apple's profit amounts to about 30% of the sales price. Product design, software development and marketing are based in America. Add in the profits and wages of American suppliers, and distribution and retail costs, and America retains about half the total value of an iPad sold there. The next biggest gainers are South Korean firms like Samsung and LG, which provide the display and memory chips, whose profits account for 7% of an iPad's value. The main financial benefit to China is wages paid to workers for assembling the product and for manufacturing some inputs-equivalent to only 2% of the retail price.
Get rid of IP and you end up with a dystopia where no one invents anything, you've got no idea if the device you buy is genuine and the only people making money are the people who own the factories in China making the hardware. All the businesses in the US, UK and EU which depend on license fees disappear, and so do all the jobs.
And if you do invent something either you keep it a trade secret, or you hand it over to someone to manufacture. However if you do the later they don't need to pay you a penny! In fact allowing people who invent things to work with people who manufacture them without losing all rights is the original justification for copyright and patents. Trademarks are there so people can tell if they have a genuine device.
Also the GPL depends on copyright. If copyright didn't work, companies wouldn't need to release their changes back to the users. So all open source would disappear and each company would maintain an incompatible fork, keeping their changes from competitors.
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Re:Make it stop....
It now competes head to head in performance and features, and offers an alternative with improved privacy.
The improved privacy is bullshit. WebExtensions breaks a large number of privacy plugins that blocked fingerprinting (Stop Fingerprinting), stopped redirects (NoRedirect), provided control over cross-site requests (RequestPolicy Continued), self-destructed cookies, super-cookie safeguards (BetterPrivacy), and these won't be ported. David Teller of the Mozilla Foundation has stated "some of our priorities with WebExtensions are - improving privacy.
Then there is the Mozilla Cliqz partnership and the October experiment. "In August 2016, Mozilla
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Re:Make it stop....
It now competes head to head in performance and features, and offers an alternative with improved privacy.
The improved privacy is bullshit. WebExtensions breaks a large number of privacy plugins that blocked fingerprinting (Stop Fingerprinting), stopped redirects (NoRedirect), provided control over cross-site requests (RequestPolicy Continued), self-destructed cookies, super-cookie safeguards (BetterPrivacy), and these won't be ported. David Teller of the Mozilla Foundation has stated "some of our priorities with WebExtensions are - improving privacy.
Then there is the Mozilla Cliqz partnership and the October experiment. "In August 2016, Mozilla
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Re:Elections
I think the flaw in AV for a leadership contest is that it is incompatible with humans' monkey brains.
Consider primates. The best primate - and best is probably some mix of size, charisma and popularity - becomes the alpha male and the other primates accept this.
AV is explicitly designed so that this isn't always the case. The second 'best' primate wins and that is the wrong result - as happened in the Ed vs David Miliband case.
Primate leadership contests are inherently analogous to FPTP where number one wins and that rule has been wired into us by evolution for a very long time.
In fact there have been studies that size is an important predictor of presidential success.
Thus it is plausible that FPTP is actually a formalisation of the primate leadership contest based on same criteria - size, charisma and popularity. Successful US politicians certainly seem to behave like the dominant male monkey. It explains Clinton and Trump and all the sexual shenanigans that male US politicians seem to get up to.
Politicians elected by other, inferior, systems are simply not as alpha and in the long run that explains continuing US hegemony despite usually electing people who seem - at least to an outsider - as extremely questionable individuals.
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Re:SJW are weird
I bet that whatever happened, it's not as simple as that. What happened to "that apple employee" (whoever they were) may still be wrong, but it cannot possibly be that simple.
Oh, but sometimes it really is *that* simple. And it gets even better! Are you enjoying the progressive stack yet?
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Mirror to avoid paywall
By Christopher Mims
Nov. 19, 2017 9:00 a.m. ETA funny thing is happening to the most basic building blocks of nearly all our devices. Microchips, which are usually thin and flat, are being stacked like pancakes.
Chip designers-now playing with depth, not just length and width-are discovering a variety of unexpected dividends in performance, power consumption and capabilities.
Without this technology, the Apple Watch wouldn't be possible. Nor would the most advanced solid-state memory from Samsung, artificial-intelligence systems from Nvidia and Google, or Sony's crazy-fast next-gen camera.
Think of this 3-D stacking as urban planning. Without it, you have sprawl-microchips spread across circuit boards, getting farther and farther apart as more components are needed. But once you start stacking chips, you get a silicon cityscape, with everything in closer proximity.
The advantage is simple physics: When electrons have to travel long distances through copper wires, it takes more power, produces heat and reduces bandwidth. Stacked chips are more efficient, run cooler and communicate across much shorter interconnections at lightning speed, says Greg Yeric, director of future silicon technology for ARM Research, part of microchip design firm ARM.
While the principles that underlie 3-D microchips are straightforward, making them is anything but. First proposed in the 1960s, the technology has sporadically appeared in high-end applications, such as military hardware, Mr. Yeric says.
But stacked-chip offerings from most major chipmakers-AMD, Intel, Apple, Samsung and Nvidia-plus smaller, specialized companies like Xilinx, have been around only five years or so, says Sinjin Dixon-Warren, an analyst at microchip research firm TechInsights. What changed? Engineers started running out of other ways to squeeze more performance out of microchips.
Stacked chips are frequently part of a "package" of other scrunched-together chips. In addition to saving space, this lets makers create many different chips-with different manufacturing processes-and then more or less literally glue them all together. The "3-D system in package" approach contrasts with the "system on a chip" approach frequently used in mobile phones, where all the different components of the phone are etched on a single piece of silicon.
One of the most advanced 3-D chip packages has powered the Apple Watch since its introduction, Mr. Dixon-Warren says. Thirty different chips are hermetically sealed inside a plastic envelope. To save space, memory is stacked on top of the logic circuit, he says. The watch couldn't be so compact without chip stacking.
But where Apple's chips are stacked only two stories high, Samsung has produced a veritable silicon high-rise. Samsung's V-NAND flash memory, used for storing data in phones, cameras and laptops, has 64 chips placed one atop the other. Samsung just announced that a future version will have 96 layers.
Nvidia's Volta microprocessors are built for artificial intelligence, with up to eight layers of high-bandwidth memory stacked onto the GPU. Shown, Nvidia chips exhibited at the Computex show in Taipei in May.
Memory is a natural application for chip-stacking technology, since it solves a problem that has long plagued chip designers: Adding more cores to anything from an iPad to a supercomputer didn't translate to hoped-for speed gains because of the communications lag between logic circuits and the memory they need to do their jobs. Sticking memory right on top of chips allows for many more short connections between the two.
That's how Nvidia's built-for-AI Volta microprocessors work, says Brian Kelleher, the company's senior vice president of hardware engineering. By stacking up to eight layers of high-bandwidth memory directly on top of the GPU, these chips are breaking records in processing efficiency.
"We are power-limited," says Mr. Kelleher, referring to the amount of
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Re: 2016 MacBook Pro!
It's only a matter of time before someone does a Nintendo DS like clamshell design with the top screen as a screen and the bottom screen as a touchpad.
A clamshell with two displays, the bottom one as a keyboard seems like something which is worth experimenting with, even though I hate touch screen keyboards myself. It's actually a bit mysterious why touch typing on a mechanical keyboard is so much easier than on a touchscreen given that you're not looking at the keys.
Perhaps you could use haptic feedback to trick your fingers into thinking they're hitting keys either dead centre or a bit off so your muscle memory can calibrate. I remember reading about haptic feedback and how the holy grail was to be able to simulate fur. If you can do that you could probably simulate keys.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
https://archive.fo/O4197When someone moves a finger over a sharp surface, typically both vertical and lateral forces are applied to the skin, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. Using a haptic interface called GRAB, which was developed by Carlo Alberto Avizzano and his colleagues at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, the researchers showed that a realistic sensation can be created using skin-stretch alone, and leaving out the vertical forces. The device consists of a thimble on a motorised arm. Using the motors to apply short bursts of very precise resistance it applies slight lateral stretches to the skin of a fingertip passing over the thimble, giving the impression of a sharp edge.
The ultimate aim of this sort of research would be to find ways to simulate any kind of shape, sensation or texture, says Dr Robles-De-La-Torre. "The holy grail for me is to do fur," says Dr MacLean. There is a long way to go, but it should eventually be feasible, she says. One of the difficulties of simulating textures, says Dr Hayward, is that the sensation of texture depends on the interaction between the surface and tiny ridges in the skin at the fingertips. In theory, it should be possible to stimulate these ridges individually using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, but so far nobody has tried, says Dr MacLean.
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Re:Did you really just link to goo.gl?
archive.is is, IME, a better way to break through paywalls. I use it all the time for WSJ links, and it looks like it'll also work for the Economist: https://archive.fo/4xW6A. (They have multiple TLDs, any one of which might be the one used for any given article.)
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Re:Opportunistic
Have you been in a cave? They're complaining about white cops and the police culture.
Have you? NWA was calliging out racist black cops in the mid-80s, and I am sure they weren't the first.
Check your confirmation bias.
Check yours.
Ambush-style killings of police up 167% this year. (2016) You think that's just coincidence?
These assassins had BLM affiliations or sympathies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...Here are some very anti-white racist statements by BLM co-founder Yusra K. Ali.
https://archive.fo/kpjIG/e8a79...Remember this?
http://www.washingtontimes.com...Many lawsuits pending for their violence:
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Re:It'll convince people who want to be convinced
Really? That's the example you're going with? The one where the whole last week has been detail after detail coming to light showing collusion is incredibly likely to any reasonable person?
You mean the one with the sources of "anonymous" "anonymous" "anonymous" "anonymous source" and so on? Oh yeah. Very solid sources there, just like the one about Russia hacking that electrical grid that WAPO published right.
I heard through an anonymous source that your waifu is shit. That's 100% true right?
Just because your panties are in a twist, I'll even add something that doesn't relate to it. Where Kotaku and Destructiod Turns around and lies about a mentally ill person filing multiple false DMCA's to get games taken down, and issuing death threats against those people. But Kotaku ignores the death threats that the person filing the DMCA's is sending.
But just jumping back to Trump, the only dog I've got in this race is that he's doing more for Canada then Trudeau is. But nice job on showing how much of a bubble you're really in. I'd hate to see what your comments on Andrew Jackson back in the day would have been like.
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Re:Feminists...sigh
Someone with a butt fracture modded you down but you are absolutely right. Quoting Lauren Duca directly: "Friendly reminder that there's an uneven playing field and straight, white men are generally trash!" Parent deserves +5 informative.
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Re:So they sell to anyone
Our flavor of anarchists want the government out of our personal lives.
Uh, no I am not talking about the semantic differences of the role/size of government. Wanting a limited government is not the same as wanting NO government. I am talking about the legitimate dictionary definition of anarchist that doesn't want a government or hierarchy.These are the type of anarchists I am talking about. Notice that they struggle with idea of a leader to organize their riots..
Antifa uses violence to achieve their political goals. Literally the definition of terrorism. In that thread they muse about combat training to better beat up people they don't like. If you think these are your traditional liberals, no. If you support these methods then you do not support freedom or liberty. It doesn't matter how you dress it up "punch a nazi" or "bash the fash", antifa uses violence to silence people.
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Re:Still think female CEO's are cool, kids?
I mean, after all Trump is a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe, but the four Chicago assholes torturing a guy with mental deficiencies is
What? It was on both NBC and CBS national news broadcasts last night. I'm positive without even looking that it was on FOX News. At this moment, it's the prominent top story on CNN ("Hate Crime Charges. 4 charged for Facebook Live torture of special-needs teen"), the #2 story on NBCNews.com ("Teens in Facebook Torture Video Face Hate Crime Charges") and above the fold on CBSNews.com ("Hate crime charges in attack live-streamed on Facebook. Four black suspects are in custody in the attack on a mentally disabled white teen from suburban Chicago"). If this is your idea of a non-story, you should take your blinders off.
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Re:Still think female CEO's are cool, kids?
I mean, after all Trump is a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe, but the four Chicago assholes torturing a guy with mental deficiencies is
What? It was on both NBC and CBS national news broadcasts last night. I'm positive without even looking that it was on FOX News. At this moment, it's the prominent top story on CNN ("Hate Crime Charges. 4 charged for Facebook Live torture of special-needs teen"), the #2 story on NBCNews.com ("Teens in Facebook Torture Video Face Hate Crime Charges") and above the fold on CBSNews.com ("Hate crime charges in attack live-streamed on Facebook. Four black suspects are in custody in the attack on a mentally disabled white teen from suburban Chicago"). If this is your idea of a non-story, you should take your blinders off.
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Re:It's easier if you know there are 3 sets of lea
That would be great, if not for the fact that Hillary didn't release all of the emails to the FBI to begin with. The FBI only got paper copies after a lot of them were deleted and
Also, we know now that they use a bunch of aliases that make it hard to tell who is who. Here's a short cheat-sheet of those I happen to know. All of this is easily discovered by reading Wikileaks, so every item is an open secret at this point to anyone who cares to find out. I'm sure I forgot a few so feel free to correct me. This is interesting because sometimes there are subpoenas / FOIA requests that only target specific email addresses or names.
Hillary Clinton
hrod
HRC
EvergreenChelsea Clinton
CVC
Diane ReynoldsAnthony Wiener
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Re:"Pirate site"
They had a ton of films and TV shows streaming on demand, with a good ratings and comment system. They streamed everything themselves and made money by embedding ads inside the streams. Their player had multiple language subtitles for many films. There was also an enormous list of serials/cracks that was much better than the putrid remains of astalavista. Sample page for a movie listing.
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The people who ate each other
"15,000 years ago a group of our ancestors were munching on the flesh of other humans. We still do not know exactly why"
"About 15,000 years ago in Gough's Cave, near Bristol in the UK, a group of people ate parts of each other.
They de-fleshed and disarticulated the bones, then chewed and crushed them. They may also have cracked the bones to extract the marrow inside.
It was not only adults that showed signs of being eaten. A three-year-old child and two adolescents all had the tell-tale marks of being nibbled on.
Some of their skulls were even modified into ornaments called "skull cups", which may have been used to drink out of.
What was going on in Gough's Cave? Was this an example of human violence between rivals, a strange kind of ritual behaviour, or simply a desperate bid for survival?"
Article: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story...
Archived: https://archive.fo/JeZdl
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/*/... -
Has slashdot comments too
Seems there is a slashdot user named stonetear as well.
https://slashdot.org/~stonetea...
His comments:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
on Tuesday April 16, 2002, (archived link)
The IIS patches aren't on liveupdate, you have to go get them
on Thursday January 24, 2002, (archived link)
I'm contracted to a state government, and let me tell you, everyone here saves EVERYthing for cover-your-ass purposes.. it's really sad to see every little memo back to 1997 in someone's inbox taking up PHAT amounts of disk space on the GroupWise server
Thursday July 19, 2001, (archived link)
Gasbag Joe Liberman
Note: I do think clinton should win, but I'm still doing this, and if its just for transparency purposes.
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Has slashdot comments too
Seems there is a slashdot user named stonetear as well.
https://slashdot.org/~stonetea...
His comments:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
on Tuesday April 16, 2002, (archived link)
The IIS patches aren't on liveupdate, you have to go get them
on Thursday January 24, 2002, (archived link)
I'm contracted to a state government, and let me tell you, everyone here saves EVERYthing for cover-your-ass purposes.. it's really sad to see every little memo back to 1997 in someone's inbox taking up PHAT amounts of disk space on the GroupWise server
Thursday July 19, 2001, (archived link)
Gasbag Joe Liberman
Note: I do think clinton should win, but I'm still doing this, and if its just for transparency purposes.
