Slashdot Mirror

It is, already.

This is just yet another media campaign against this stupid DMCA ruling. Not that I think DMCA didn't deserve it.

I already migrated my videos from youtube to archive.org for other reason. The player has some issues but otherwise seems similar.

It looks like this

Karel Kulhavy Twibright Labs

NSA has purchased enough storage for this apparently.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Archive.org has estimated the amount of memory required to store all phonecalls.

http://blog.archive.org/2013/0...

Its in THE ARCHIVE.

LOL

Not only have you confused me with the parent, you've outed yourself as an autodidact. You look absolutely ridiculous.

Leave the talk about logic to those with an actual education.

He single-handedly ported Wolfenstein 3D to iOS after the development team said it would take them two months and go over budget. He did it in four days. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Maybe you can find it here?

https://archive.org/details/DO...

Or perhaps up a step at the main archive?
https://archive.org/search.php...

(Argh, more old shit to download!! Must... resist...)

AHA! Someone discovered the NS3 source!! Resistance is futile.

Maybe you can find it here?

https://archive.org/details/DO...

Or perhaps up a step at the main archive?
https://archive.org/search.php...

(Argh, more old shit to download!! Must... resist...)

AHA! Someone discovered the NS3 source!! Resistance is futile.

The Internet archive https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

Really, the "4-simultaneous 24-hour Days" of Time Cube are just so many words to express the concept of dividing the world into four time zones. That's it. Now let's go play some GameCube.

Reagan was not even REMOTELY fiscally conservative.

Hmmm, there's a point to that.

Though going into the 1980 election, Reagan did have a favorable record from his California governorship where he did. He had increased taxation, but coupled with spending cuts and a budget running a slight surplus ($33 million in the 1974-75 fiscal year according to this budget report).

And social conservatism isn't fiscal conservatism. Reagan probably would be able to appeal to both groups today just as he did back in 1980.

Finally, would Reagan acted the same in today's political environment as he did following the election in 1980? I think it's doubtful that he would have deliberately acted in a way that alienates his supporters. That's basic politician instincts there.

As to Cantor, I think there's more to the story than he was a "RINO". To lose when an incumbent outspends the opponent so much (around a factor of 40) is not just a sign of national level sea changes, but also a sign that they failed badly to satisfy their constituency (at least the part that was Republican).

Additional correction, this is not about removing independent musicians from Youtube this story is about negotiations with "Independent Music Labels". Seriously just what the fuck is an independent music label, I have heard of independent musicians who deal direct with the public but seriously independent label. Sounds like some lame PR scam.

Perhaps musicians dealing with Google should become independent cut out the "independent label" (the only reason independent is in there is because it sounds cool) middle man and deal direct with Google.

I have discovered one of the worst things you can do with current music, is to learn about auto-tune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and to learn to hear the difference, once done there is no going back. I am really enjoying scifi radio dramas https://archive.org/details/OT... now.

In fact archive.org has very comprehensive material.

You can say with a straight face that Apple bought NeXT because Apple did indeed buy NeXT.

Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996, for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock. As part of the agreement, Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, returned to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976.[3] The merger promised to marry software from NeXT with Apple's hardware platforms, eventually resulting in OS X and iOS.

Apple Computer, Inc. Agrees to Acquire NeXT Software Inc." (Press release). Apple Computer

Charged Aaron Swartz with "MAC Address Spoofing"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

http://archive.org/stream/UsaV...

My question is what other modern tools do admins have for identifying malicious users to restrict access to open networks if automatic MAC address spoofing becomes commonplace?

See "The Skills of Xanadu", as text: http://books.google.com/books?...
and as audio: https://archive.org/details/pr...

Around 2001 or 2002, while working at at IBM Research I went to a talk by Ted Nelson there, and I asked him about the story given the similar name. He said that the story had inspired him (at least partially) to do his work, and thanked me for telling him the name of the story, saying he had been looking for that story for a long time. While I did not say so, his reply about looking for the story surprised me given that there are probably not many stories with Xanadu in the title so a library search would have found it I would think.. Ted Nelson records everything around him on a tape recorder (or at least did then), so that interaction should be on one of his tapes...

The 1956 story by Theodore Sturgeon is am amazing work that features a world networked by wireless mobile wearable computing supporting freely shared knowledge and skills through a sort of global internet-like concept. Some of that knowledge was about advanced nanotech-based manufacturing. The system powered an economy reflecting ideas like Bob Black writes about in "The Abolition of Work", where much work had become play coordinated through this global network. The story has inspired other people as well, both me from when I read it (and forgot it mostly for a long time, except for the surprise ending), and also a Master Inventor at IBM I worked with who got inspired by the nanotech aspects of that story when he was young. Even almost sixty years later, that story still has things we can learn from about a vision of a new type of society (including with enhanced intrinsic&mutual security) made possible through advanced computing.

A core theme is an interplay between meshwork and hierarchy, reminiscent of Manuel De Landa's writings:
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/man...
"Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation. Certain standardizations, say, of electric outlet designs or of data-structures traveling through the Internet, may actually turn out to promote heterogenization at another level, in terms of the appliances that may be designed around the standard outlet, or of the services that a common data-structure may make possible. On the other hand, the mere presence of increased heterogeneity is no guarantee that a better state for society has been achieved. After all, the territory occupied by former Yugoslavia is more heterogeneous now than it was ten years ago, but the lack of uniformity at one level simply hides an increase of homogeneity at the level of the warring ethnic communities. But even if we managed to promote not only heterogeneity, but diversity articulated into a meshwork, that still would not be a perfect solution. After all, meshworks grow by drift and they may drift to places where we do not want to go. The goal-directedness of hierarchies is the kind of property that we may desire to keep at least for certain institutions. Hence, demonizing centralization and glorifying decentralization as the solution to all our problems would be wrong. An open and experimental attitude towards the question of different hybrids and mixtures is what the complexity of reality itself seems to call for."

See also, for other "old" ideas we could still benefit from thinking about:
"The Web That Wasn't"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Google Tech Talks October, 23 2007
For most of us who work on the

The Internet Archive seems to have snapshots of the site dating back to January, so you most likely are right.

http://web.archive.org/web/200...

Since she is responding to verbal questions, her marbles are there. The essential thinking parts of the brain, the parts that will help keep her OCCUPIED and SANE through this awful time... are intact. But it is also possible that anything she attempts to do that may require visual perception and especially focus, will be difficult and frustrating.

Decide on a daily schedule for her that includes presence of family --- not just monologues, even two or more people in the room talking with one another is great. Hand holding, massage is a must. Also some time for her to listen to audio content with which she is presently unfamiliar, even when she is alone. And a firm block of time for sleep -- where a nurse turns off and removes any audio devices and dims the lights.

For the audio portion... delve into the great audio that is publicly available: great podcasts such as RadioLab, old time radio programs, chapters of audio books, certain songs of favorite music. Load an mp3 player with these and PLAY IT ON RANDOM SHUFFLE. If *I* was trapped inside my mind, I would much rather face a sense of not knowing what comes next in a mix of music and voice, even if it was out of sequence, which is stimulating --- than be double-trapped into listening to some audiobook in which I have long since lost interest.

Nothing creepy or scary, even if she likes such things! No crime or horror. Go for radio comedy or sitcom and variety like Fibber McGee or Roy Rogers, etc. You don't know how well the various parts of her brain are working, and many hospital meds (esp morphine) make one vulnerable to dark thoughts and paranoia. Chapters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 15 minute radio programs, RadioLab-type stuff (but not the creepy stuff) all shuffled together (when she is alone) or played through sequentially (when someone is present to ask her if she's enjoying it) would make for an excellent entertainment without the ultimate strain of conversation.

Bear in mind that she may be in this condition for awhile, and being exposed to audio material that is new to her might become a welcome part of her day.

All the best to her and the family in this difficult time.

Since she is responding to verbal questions, her marbles are there. The essential thinking parts of the brain, the parts that will help keep her OCCUPIED and SANE through this awful time... are intact. But it is also possible that anything she attempts to do that may require visual perception and especially focus, will be difficult and frustrating.

Decide on a daily schedule for her that includes presence of family --- not just monologues, even two or more people in the room talking with one another is great. Hand holding, massage is a must. Also some time for her to listen to audio content with which she is presently unfamiliar, even when she is alone. And a firm block of time for sleep -- where a nurse turns off and removes any audio devices and dims the lights.

For the audio portion... delve into the great audio that is publicly available: great podcasts such as RadioLab, old time radio programs, chapters of audio books, certain songs of favorite music. Load an mp3 player with these and PLAY IT ON RANDOM SHUFFLE. If *I* was trapped inside my mind, I would much rather face a sense of not knowing what comes next in a mix of music and voice, even if it was out of sequence, which is stimulating --- than be double-trapped into listening to some audiobook in which I have long since lost interest.

Nothing creepy or scary, even if she likes such things! No crime or horror. Go for radio comedy or sitcom and variety like Fibber McGee or Roy Rogers, etc. You don't know how well the various parts of her brain are working, and many hospital meds (esp morphine) make one vulnerable to dark thoughts and paranoia. Chapters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 15 minute radio programs, RadioLab-type stuff (but not the creepy stuff) all shuffled together (when she is alone) or played through sequentially (when someone is present to ask her if she's enjoying it) would make for an excellent entertainment without the ultimate strain of conversation.

Bear in mind that she may be in this condition for awhile, and being exposed to audio material that is new to her might become a welcome part of her day.

All the best to her and the family in this difficult time.

The public did not know when it was part of the Manhattan Project, because it was the most secret thing the US Government could possibly do. After the propaganda machine started up about how mighty the bombs are, and a series of incredibly poor decisions from the people operating Hanford, the public began to know.

Why not provide an actual link?

Shachar

It's a fact so obvious and innocuous that no one bothers to comment on it.

Now that's an ingenious defense of a failure to produce evidence :) "Oh, your honor, we don't have the murder weapon, but it's obvious since there was a murder, there was a weapon, so let's just not comment on it!" :)

I'm sure theists believe that God's existence is so obvious and innocuous that nobody should question it either :)

The problem is you take up the contrary revolutionary position on every scientific question, that's a very reliable method for being wrong.

Really? It seems more obvious that contrary revolutionary positions is what has driven science forward :) Germs? What germs? Evolution? What evolution? Relativity? What relativity? :)

Here's the deal - where science has gone wrong has been when falsifiability has been compromised, and a "consistent message" has been the rule for the day, rather than the required skepticism of dogma that every scientist should practice :)

So a general hypothesis that the earth will warm in several decades isn't valid because it's not falsifiable for several decades.

No, it's not valid because it is not *sufficient*. Yes, a warming earth is *necessary* for AGW to be true, but you cannot simply assert that observed warming is not *natural*. That's a horse of a different color.

What's the point if you've created an impossible standard for a hypothesis or evidence?

It's not an impossible standard - there must be a set of observations excluded by the hypothesis, and a logical argument why the lack of those observations must lead *only* to the conclusion of the hypothesis. AGW has neither.

When an observation clashes with theory you go back and figure out why. Is the observation wrong? Is the theory wrong? Is it wrong in general or is there a special case responsible for this observation. That's not special pleading, that's science

AGW is filled with nothing but special pleadings. A theory with nothing but special pleadings isn't science, it's cargo-cult science:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

"There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science. ... It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked — to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.

In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

IBM introduced the 64-bit version of the PowerPC architecture in 2002,

Well before that, and, yes, the PPC 620 was used in some systems shipped by Groupe Bull. IBM's first systems using 64-bit PPC processors came out in 1997.

and I think that some of their mainframe processors were 64-bit about 2 years before that.

2 years before 2002, yes.

IBM introduced the 64-bit version of the PowerPC architecture in 2002,

Well before that, and, yes, the PPC 620 was used in some systems shipped by Groupe Bull. IBM's first systems using 64-bit PPC processors came out in 1997.

and I think that some of their mainframe processors were 64-bit about 2 years before that.

2 years before 2002, yes.

This is one of those questions that's going to keep being asked... Perhaps one day I'll be fast enough to get a first post on this that people actually read...

Link summary from last time:

• Stack Overflow's books every programmer must read question (locked since 2012).
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list.
• Top 100 Programming Books by sales stats.
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list than the above.
• Reddit has a Must Read Programming books thread.
• In this Stifflog 2006 interview with Yegge, Torvalds, Hansson, Norvig, Thomas, Van Rossum, Gosling, Stroustrup and Bray.
• One of the Kernel Hacker Bookshelf series on LWN recommends Unix Internals.
• Joel Spolsky's list of books programmers need to read.
• Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books Slashdot thread from 2008, my comment listing my favourite books.

General comments

• A few people have volumes of Knuth's Art of Programming on their shelves (but it's harder to find people who have read all of them).
• One of the consultants who taught at my University said that the Mythical Man Month and Peopleware were good. I've read these too and can also recommended them (although they are more about managing programmers rather than programming per se). The consultant also recommended Design Patterns (although he said not to read the book cover to cover but rather to just be aware of them so you could refer to them later).
• I've heard the "Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools I think is the 2nd edition) being talked of favourably.
• Many people seem to recommend reading Godel, Escher, Bach (I'd say it's about mathematical thinking)...

I've noticed which book answers tend to fall a bunch of categories:

• Books that talk about software engineering/management/teams.
• Books that talk about programming languages.
• Books that talk about Computer Science.
• Books that improve your mathematical thinking.
• Books that programmers like but aren't programming/maths at all.

If you're going to ask someone "which book?" try limit the categories they should give you an answer for...

This is one of those questions that's going to keep being asked... Perhaps one day I'll be fast enough to get a first post on this that people actually read...

Link summary from last time:

• Stack Overflow's books every programmer must read question (locked since 2012).
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list.
• Top 100 Programming Books by sales stats.
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list than the above.
• Reddit has a Must Read Programming books thread.
• In this Stifflog 2006 interview with Yegge, Torvalds, Hansson, Norvig, Thomas, Van Rossum, Gosling, Stroustrup and Bray.
• One of the Kernel Hacker Bookshelf series on LWN recommends Unix Internals.
• Joel Spolsky's list of books programmers need to read.
• Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books Slashdot thread from 2008, my comment listing my favourite books.

General comments

• A few people have volumes of Knuth's Art of Programming on their shelves (but it's harder to find people who have read all of them).
• One of the consultants who taught at my University said that the Mythical Man Month and Peopleware were good. I've read these too and can also recommended them (although they are more about managing programmers rather than programming per se). The consultant also recommended Design Patterns (although he said not to read the book cover to cover but rather to just be aware of them so you could refer to them later).
• I've heard the "Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools I think is the 2nd edition) being talked of favourably.
• Many people seem to recommend reading Godel, Escher, Bach (I'd say it's about mathematical thinking)...

I've noticed which book answers tend to fall a bunch of categories:

• Books that talk about software engineering/management/teams.
• Books that talk about programming languages.
• Books that talk about Computer Science.
• Books that improve your mathematical thinking.
• Books that programmers like but aren't programming/maths at all.

If you're going to ask someone "which book?" try limit the categories they should give you an answer for...

This is one of those questions that's going to keep being asked... Perhaps one day I'll be fast enough to get a first post on this that people actually read...

Link summary from last time:

• Stack Overflow's books every programmer must read question (locked since 2012).
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list.
• Top 100 Programming Books by sales stats.
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list than the above.
• Reddit has a Must Read Programming books thread.
• In this Stifflog 2006 interview with Yegge, Torvalds, Hansson, Norvig, Thomas, Van Rossum, Gosling, Stroustrup and Bray.
• One of the Kernel Hacker Bookshelf series on LWN recommends Unix Internals.
• Joel Spolsky's list of books programmers need to read.
• Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books Slashdot thread from 2008, my comment listing my favourite books.

General comments

• A few people have volumes of Knuth's Art of Programming on their shelves (but it's harder to find people who have read all of them).
• One of the consultants who taught at my University said that the Mythical Man Month and Peopleware were good. I've read these too and can also recommended them (although they are more about managing programmers rather than programming per se). The consultant also recommended Design Patterns (although he said not to read the book cover to cover but rather to just be aware of them so you could refer to them later).
• I've heard the "Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools I think is the 2nd edition) being talked of favourably.
• Many people seem to recommend reading Godel, Escher, Bach (I'd say it's about mathematical thinking)...

I've noticed which book answers tend to fall a bunch of categories:

• Books that talk about software engineering/management/teams.
• Books that talk about programming languages.
• Books that talk about Computer Science.
• Books that improve your mathematical thinking.
• Books that programmers like but aren't programming/maths at all.

If you're going to ask someone "which book?" try limit the categories they should give you an answer for...

This is one of those questions that's going to keep being asked... Perhaps one day I'll be fast enough to get a first post on this that people actually read...

Link summary from last time:

• Stack Overflow's books every programmer must read question (locked since 2012).
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list.
• Top 100 Programming Books by sales stats.
• Top Programming Books a more diverse list than the above.
• Reddit has a Must Read Programming books thread.
• In this Stifflog 2006 interview with Yegge, Torvalds, Hansson, Norvig, Thomas, Van Rossum, Gosling, Stroustrup and Bray.
• One of the Kernel Hacker Bookshelf series on LWN recommends Unix Internals.
• Joel Spolsky's list of books programmers need to read.
• Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books Slashdot thread from 2008, my comment listing my favourite books.

General comments

• A few people have volumes of Knuth's Art of Programming on their shelves (but it's harder to find people who have read all of them).
• One of the consultants who taught at my University said that the Mythical Man Month and Peopleware were good. I've read these too and can also recommended them (although they are more about managing programmers rather than programming per se). The consultant also recommended Design Patterns (although he said not to read the book cover to cover but rather to just be aware of them so you could refer to them later).
• I've heard the "Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools I think is the 2nd edition) being talked of favourably.
• Many people seem to recommend reading Godel, Escher, Bach (I'd say it's about mathematical thinking)...

I've noticed which book answers tend to fall a bunch of categories:

• Books that talk about software engineering/management/teams.
• Books that talk about programming languages.
• Books that talk about Computer Science.
• Books that improve your mathematical thinking.
• Books that programmers like but aren't programming/maths at all.

If you're going to ask someone "which book?" try limit the categories they should give you an answer for...

The American shoot-down was during a time of crisis

You did see where I said that, right? "the incident did happen in a tense combat zone"

when the people responsible believed themselves to be under attack

Which they shouldn't have, if they had actually listened to what their instruments where telling them. As I said, it's a good case study for scenario fulfillment. Sensors report the aircraft is ascending, crew reports that it's descending on an attack vector. IIRC they had just run a drill days before using the exact same attack scenario they believed they were under, which explains why they ignored what was clearly displayed on the screens in front of them.

I'm not trying to play the moral equivalency game, I'm just pointing out the facts of a sad truth. We fucked up and several hundred people died that shouldn't have. The other poster strikes me as the blame America first sort, and is not really worth engaging, but he is right about one part: Captain Rogers was a hothead. Did he purposefully order the shoot down? Of course not. But he was using a $3,000,000,000 air defense cruiser to engage gunboats, stretching his rules of engagement to the absolute limit, even breaking them at times. His actions left the Commanding Officer of another ship in his task force baffled, which was noted in the public literature available on the subject.

Creative Computing, Volume 4, Issue 3 (1978)

It starts on page 132. Mod to your heart's content.

The biggest problem I can see with running an MMO server is that server and game designs aren't using the optimal division of matter-energy over space-time. Network perspective can provide endpoint identity authentication; DHT can locate, subscribe to and enlist world servers; And network consensus can detect and correct game-state based "cheating" at the cost additional logic batch processing (which you're doing anyway for client side prediction). Recording signed input streams, starting state and output state snapshots and flagging them as "invalid batches" of gamestate if desynchronization occurs, and resolving conflicts and providing redundancy by multiple nodes processing the deterministic output again are all existing distributed technologies not currently leveraged by MMOs.

In other words: Most people don't have the hardware or bandwith to run the entire Folding@Home system, but they don't need to, that's not how distributed computing and decentralization works.

There are other big problems with the current business method of selling ice to eskimos: Doing a bunch of work for free and then trying to monetize that effort via selling infinitely reproducible bits. However, this being the 1st generation of the world wide information networks, the market will soon correct for this absurd lack of understanding in economics 101 (infinite supply = zero price; regardless of creation cost). You have an infinite monopoly over your effort before you expend it, not afterwards. That's why mechanics get payment agreements up front for the work they get paid for once, then they "give their work away for free" since it's already been paid for, and they don't care how many folks benefit from the labor they only do once. Since mechanics market what is actually scarce -- the ability to create new work -- they don't have to use planned obsolescence like dealerships, manufacturers, and game publishers like to do in today's unfree "free market". As more developers decide to work like the Mechanics and FLOSS devs do, the MMO problem will solve itself. I mean, who wants to put such a large chunk of their life into creating art that is needlessly doomed to die? Culture won't abide this too much longer. Think about it: Without copyright you have to create more works to make more money...

Until then, realize the truth: You can not buy a game that does not come with its server. A client is only part of the game.

"I wrote this in a very obscure British lefty magazine called Strike Magazine, going out on the Internet, and within three or four weeks, I think it had been translated into 14 different languages"

Strike Magazine is even more obscure now. See where it's been disappeared from the web and been replaced by a similarly sounding fashion and lifestyle mag.

www.strikemag.org
archived
strikemagazine.co.uk created: 06-Jun-2013

I have never, ever, ever seen a course catalog that lists CS 201 FORTRAN PROGRAMMING.

I guess it's "bear in the woods" time...

That is because you are a kid who learned after 1986 in the U.S., after they changed the accreditation standards, and caused the next crop of CS graduates to not have learned programming languages specifically (i.e. caused then to learn their tools, as opposed to "learn the tools on your own and apply them to a problem domain"). That change is one of the reasons it's frequently more useful to hire people graduating from European Universities than U.S. Universities, and why we need so many H1-B visas for those folks: U.S. Students know theory, but can't code, because they don't know how to use their tools, unless they come out of a college or university that offers non-acreddited language courses on top of the rest of the curriculum - e.g. Rice University, Brown University, and so on, or they otherwise mastered (not just learned) them on their own.

https://archive.org/details/co...
Illinois State University course catalog, 1982 - Pg 53 - Applied Computer Science Courses
164 INTRODUCTION TO FORTRAN PROGRAMMING
169 INFORMATION PROCESSING USING PL/1
265 JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE
272 COBOL AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
274 PL/1 AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
283 ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING
288 ADVANCED ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING

CS Used to be taught very differently than it is today. Today, ABET Accreditation requires that you implement "Outcome Based Courses", which means that it's really not about coding any more, it's about documenting a process, and then documenting that you followed that process. See also:

ABET - Criteria for Accrediting Computing Programs, 2012 - 2013
http://www.abet.org/DisplayTem...

Anyone worth hiring today that graduated with a U.S. CS degree in the last two and a half decades graduated from one of a handful of universities with "Extra requirements" that include actually learning specific computer languages, or included self-directed programs, where one of the options was learning one or more specific computer languages. Or they have been involved in one or more large Open Source projects where participation required that they learn one or more specific computer languages, and that they actually participated more than tangentially in the project.

I've seen many outstanding U.S. candidates, as an interviewer, and either they graduated before 1986-1988, OR they went to one of those universities, OR they participated heavily in an Open Source project. Very few not in one (or more) of those buckets were what I would call "top tier candidates".

Example: I pick a random POSIX-2001 function (let's not worry about all the large file cruft and other APIs that came about because some OS vendors were to lazy to implement per-thread working directories or credentials; we'll make it easy). Can you describe it's parameters and return values without looking at the man page? OK, that might not be entirely fair; random might get me something like "poll", with structure inputs, etc. -- how about if I picked 8 of them; could you describe the parameters and outputs of at least 8 of them?

I think the answer for most people on that question will be "no" - because they don't know the libraries in the UNIX Programming Environment, which are one of their most important tools. These are the people most likely to implement their own version of strncmp(3) because they don't realize that there's an existing function that solves the problem. They are the people who aren't going to realize that asprintf(3) allocated memory which they are responsible for freeing later, intil the memory leak in their code bites them in the butt.

If you want to say "But I don't program a UNIX system, I program Windows!", I invite you to explain CoCreateFreeThreadedMarshaler(

And even more fun, on Japanese and Korean locales, it renders as the yen sign (¥) or the won sign (). Yes, even in paths. C:¥Program Files¥SeaMonkey¥seamonkey.exe

People tend to get used to it, though.

No they're not. They want limits like every other amendment. It's only your paranoia.

It's not paranoia if they're really trying to do it.

Perhaps your allies haven't gotten the memo but they are trying to eliminate the second amendment, like that quote from a sitting United States Senator.

How about asshole Bruce Perens take on the issue?

Or how about this one from a sitting United States Congressman saying "I sure wish they would" when asked why his party won't come out against the second amendment?

Or what about this editorial from the Detroit Metro Times entitled Ban all guns, now?

The primary difference between them and you is that they're telling the truth about the ultimate goal.

I'll phrase it this way, for the hard of thinking, I adopt an absolutist position in my defense of second amendment rights because my enemies are absolutists about the destruction of those rights.

For example, I don't think that people should carry guns on airplanes. I don't think that people should have guns in courtrooms. That said, I'll oppose any and all effort to codify into law and and all further restrictions upon the types of firearms I may or or from whom I may buy them. They are not the end, they are a means to the end of an absolute prohibition on civilian gun ownership.

LK

written by richard lightman [ ... ] his web site is now offline: you can get a copy of depinit however using archive.org.

Last snapshot I could find on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/200...

... due to the law of diminishing returns... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

H1Bs directly reduce wages of technical employees, plus they also displace local contractors who otherwise get much higher hourly rates than employees generally due to the short term nature of the projects and higher skill levels and so on. Even if there is not a lump of labor, there is such a thing as a fixed budget at any point in time.

The US created just about zero net new jobs in the last decade while the population and the GDP grew. So, output is increasing in a 21st century economy while labor stays fixed or declines as a percent of the population.

On top of that, it doesn't matter how much labor is needed if it can be done more cheaply by robots and AIs. And before such replace human workers entirely, they will let a few workers do the work of many, thus increasing unemployment,

There are many possible "solutions" to this situation being tried, which I catalog here:
http://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a...

The real future of work is to make it play and pleasant. See Bob Black and EF Schumacher:

Black: http://www.whywork.org/rethink...
"What I really want to see is work turned into play. A first step is to discard the notions of a "job" and an "occupation." Even activities that already have some ludic content lose most of it by being reduced to jobs which certain people, and only those people, are forced to do to the exclusion of all else. Is it not odd that farm workers toil painfully in the fields while their air-conditioned masters go home every weekend and putter about in their gardens? Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them."

Schumacher: http://www.centerforneweconomi...
"The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence. Again, the consequences that flow from this view are endless. To organise work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence. Equally, to strive for leisure as an alternative to work would be considered a complete misunderstanding of one of the basic truths of human existence, namely that work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure."

The 1950s short story "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon depicts a society powered by mobile computing that has realized both these objectives (especially the first).
http://books.google.com/books?...
https://archive.org/details/pr...

For some comic relief see also the 1950s story "The Midas Plague" where only the very wealthy were allowed to have full-time jobs and work overtime and live in small homes, while everyone else was limited to part-time jobs as best or unemployment and forced consumption of mansions and massive amounts of food and consumer goods at worst..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

That is because "XP IS broke", but it will not "just get more so over time." Its bugs exist whether they get patched or not, there will not be new bugs introduced, it's just that more will be discovered. All MS's other OSs are also "broke". The problem is that new OSs (or new code in general) means new bugs. So, not only does planned obsolescence (and code re-use) mean the full version set will forever be susceptible (often to a common bug), but artificial scarcity of patches means you can force the customers to buy things they don't want or need and perpetuate the cycle.

MS did the right thing by pushing out a patch to XP. They're doing the right thing by allowing you to pay for access to more patches too. However, they're doing the wrong thing by leveraging artificial scarcity and planned obsolescence to make sales on new OSs. The open source model is better because the components that need no more innovation settle down, don't require changes, and can have patches backported to them from newer source distributions; FLOSS also allows you to opt-out of change for the sake of change. Keeping as much older cross platform bug-free code.

There's rarely ever a reason to literally break everything by "rewriting" a significant portion of a codebase -- such rewrites tend towards entropic minimum as they converge on optimal functionality. "New" OSs aren't sufficiently different from their predecessors in functionality to require an expensive purchase. In fact, the OS is irrelevant as drivers are to properly written software. People use hardware for the software applications, not the OS or drivers.

That's the problem with the intellectual property future's market: If you do your work for free and hope to recoup costs by selling infinitely reproducible copies of it, the Eskimos will refuse to buy your Ice. However, if you monetize that which is actually scarce -- the ability to do more work -- then users get features they are willing to pay for, you get paid once for the work done once, and no amount of "piracy" can hurt your bottom line. It's just free advertising for your ability.

In other words: Microsoft should have only ever been charging for their patches, and instead of artificial scarcity of infinitely reproducible bits they shouldn't do the patches until everyone put up the money to pay for the work to create them (we can do this now, "contributions" via crowd-funding existed long before PBS). Then once the work is done and paid for, everyone gets a copy for free since they've already been paid for doing work. Bonus: You don't do work that there is no demand for, you don't have to force users to upgrade, nor do you have to hold features (like start menus) for ransom and charge an exorbitant price for update-roll-ups to recoup the work you're doing. If you do it right, all the "new OS features" are things everyone wanted in the 1st place. Then the "Windows 7 was made by me" ads wouldn't just be marketing lies.

You can use the FLOSS software model to make proprietary software. The only difference is you don't open the source, and you're the only one who can compile the cluster fsck.

As for iPads, Cook still believes tablets will quickly replace PCs

That's not what Tim Cook's predecessor thought. Steve Jobs always used to claim that iPhone and iPad are to the Mac as cars are to trucks. The iPad is not a truck. Case in point: I'd be surprised if tablets replaced Apple's own PCs for running Xcode.

And here's a man trying to BUY THEM BACK. Get off your asses and HELP HIM.

I would if I was under the delusion that voting actually mattered. Let me know when he wants to fix the rigged game called Gerrymandering.

Don't get me wrong, I'm just not insane. I'll throw in bitcoin but I realize that all this will do is demonstrate that the problem is deeper than you imagine. The government isn't influenced by the corporations, the government IS the corporations. They fight wars to deregulate and privatize national economies. USA isn't a capitalist country, the USA is capitalism.

"National security" means maintaining the social economic and political status quo despite the will of the people. The plutocratic media is in on it too. They pay what the market will bear, if there's a price war for congress critters the guys we're up against will just achieve their ends by putting more of their endless stream of money into the system. The sad thing is that not even a free market can fix things, because even they collude.

The sad thing is that people will actually do whatever it takes to survive, that means fighting over lower wages during and after the international corporations gut your nation. The founding fathers knew, "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." It's the natural cycle of history, until a decentralized system is in place to match the decentralized nature of life. Things WILL get worse before they get better, I've watched it play out over the last five decades in lots of other smaller places with less resources, it's just taking us a bit longer. 100% chance that this dumbass move will just make things worse, but bring it on, any change is better than nothing at this point. It's not like we didn't go into this crap fully knowing EXACTLY what we were doing: Eisenhower warned us about everything that has happened. IMO, It'll be a bit entertaining to raise the price so the smaller lobbyists can't compete...

On second thought, maybe I should fund a video game dev. At least I might get something enjoyable out of it, enjoy life's pleasures while they're enjoyable instead of lamenting them later. Cybernetics will show you that the disparity in system powers is so vastly different between us and them that the bigger system can't be changed except through natural entropic heat death, just like The USSR. You could learn a lot from a Russian: Keep your head down and survive until this batch of bullshit blows over again, it'll be winter soon, and it won't be the last one either.

According to their link as of this posting:

Pages matching "1313802" in Launchpad
Bug #1313802 “Ubuntu for Android described as "must-have feature...
3 days ago ... describes Ubuntu for Android as "the must-have feature for late-2012 high-end Android phones". Ubuntu for Android is no longer in...

Since neither them nor Slashdot won't pick up the full content, here is the page content:
Text: Pastebin
Site: imgur

A modern Richard Guindon cartoon that best represents this Slashdot story ... an urban legend ... [1998, archived] essay on teachers' and students' increasingly virtual role in a tech society ... a mad hunt for the original 1963 New Yorker cartoon that started it all ... and an ugly mouse squeak toy.

Flaxseed meal is worse. Can't find the chart offhand but as I recall the phytoestrogen content is 300,000 units per kg. For comparison, soybeans contain 100,000 units/kg, and the next most of any foodstuff has 25,000. Mean has 800.

Phytoestrogens in flaxseed meal are apparently better-absorbed than those in soybean meal -- flaxseed in dog food will cause a 50% loss of fertility, and some male puppies will have midline deformities (open skull, open gut, underdeveloped mouth with cleft palate, and occasionally, hermaphrodites), tho I have not seen the issue with soybean meal (tho it causes such an increase in gut mucus production that the phytoestrogens may not be well-absorbed). But there's considerable research indicating soy as a large component in human diets causes the same sorts of problems.

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

While the site kinda listed all one way, the research linked was very interesting, and should be a wakeup call to those promoting soy for everything. Remember, soy farmers want bigger markets too... just like grain farmers did 50 years ago.

A good time to introduce programming is likely between ages 7 and 12, as a way to introduce abstract reasoning as their minds develop. Alan Kay had a lot of success with that age group, but he's kind of an ass toward educators (with some justification) and here we are in 2014 and little Billy and Susie can't evaluate (+ 2 2).

The entire series was donated to The Internet Archive I find it awesome watching the old episodes to see how far we came. Seeing laptops that boast about a fantastic battery life of 2 hours with an *OMG* color screen or seeing a Panasonic rep saying about how the 3DO will kill Nintendo is a great nostalgia trip.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

When you use the mset attribute, you would be saying where the content is hosted, yes? What happens when sites like the Wayback Machine cease to exist?

That's obvious -- before it ceases to exist, it should use the mset tag to the Google archive or the Coral cache! That way, when someone points at the archive.org page that no longer exists because the server's offline, they get, er, redirected instead of a 404. Yeah, that's it!

This is a client-side issue, not a server-side issue. You can fix a few 404 issues server-side by practicing good hosting, but it's really down to the client browser to go and find a reasonable facsimile should the original page go down.

Since finding that page requires some sort of a link, maybe whoever provides the link should cache the page they link to, and provide that cache as the alternative if the original 404s? If you've got it bookmarked, the cache would be in the bookmark (also doubles as offline reference); if it's Google search, they've already got the cache -- if it's some blog, they've cached the basic HTML output of the target page. Of course, this tramples all over copyright and security issues (new attack vector: craft a page that infects sites that linkcache it), so won't likely fly. Easier just to use Errorzilla and call it a day.

When you use the mset attribute, you would be saying where the content is hosted, yes? What happens when sites like the Wayback Machine cease to exist?

IMEI blacklists are common in many countries, including the UK. When a device is stolen the IMEI number is put on the list and carriers reject the device and (potentially) notify investigators.

It's not the IMEI blacklists that I'm worried about. See, if we already have the technology to disconnect devices from the networks, and we have encryption available on the devices, so we really don't need this new "remote kill switch" anti-feature. Folks worried about losing data can use encryption if they want to protect their data, and the remote kill switch doesn't prevent theft because Faraday Cages exist, and black-market thieves will figure out a way to zilch the chip's radio or NoOP the part of baseband/firmware blob that activates the kill switch, etc.

What I'm worried about is getting a "device bricking" standard for all devices so that all they have to do is flip from blacklist to whitelist, and presto they'll only function if they ping corporate/government towers every so often and authenticate with an approved citizen's ID code. Can you say Forced Obsolescence? Intel demonstrated their capability for PCs, and cars now have black boxes standard. The Pentagon has plans to push things like this through for anti-activism purposes.

Here's how you know it's a government job: This non-feature isn't being implemented by customer demand. This isn't something that these folks started offering then got popular and now they're standardizing on, nope. It's something they're making standard whether you want it or not. That's a huge red flag. Isn't this a fucking capitalist country? No, it really isn't. This is anti-consumer collusion of the highest degree. The US Is a plutocracy. Just like Noam Chomsky has been saying for decades. If the USA was a capitalist country then we would allow the market to decide if end users actually want this non-feature whereby the government or your carrier can not just cut off the cell-tower, but brick the devices, cars, computers, etc. to prevent them from being used anywhere. Late on a payment? Oh, they don't just cut off your service, you won't have a device or car to drive to work. Say something "anti-American"? Well, your cell will die on the road and so will your car, then you'll just be black-hooded out of service too. Do consumers really want this? Of course the answer is no. Thus this will be legislated into place "for your own good". Just like censorship and wholesale warrant-less wiretap spying is, and for the same reason as always.

The Stasi would have creamed their pants for some shit like this on machines and typewriters. What soldier would sign up to fight for a country that's doing this shit? If not for uniforms, you wouldn't know which side to fight against: Given only a description of the country's behaviors you'd find us indistinguishable from our supposed worst enemies. If you don't think that's a valid comparison because of some moral high-ground, then you don't know about the Native American genocide or the US eugenics programs. What a sad time to be an American.