Most Americans have in their heads have an opinion on what net neutrality means to them regardless of what's in the legislation. This can lead to disastrous outcomes, case in point the affordable care act. People thought this would make their healthcare more affordable but for many it has done the exact opposite. The same is possible for net neutrality and it allows people to assign their own meanings to it making it palatable to a larger group..
Intent is different than outcome. If the outcome is they are embarrassed but the intent was just to share what was once a part of the perpetrators life then no crime. This bill just looks unenforceable unless someone is dumb enough to post the images with text saying the intent is to embarrass which opens up the door for false accusations where the images are posted by the victim themselves to get revenge on the purported perpetrator.
This would be sweet if they took all the imagery from google maps/streets and build out little virtual cities with no headed pedestrians and 5 legged dogs.
Don't be thick. Both I.E. and Microsoft have a long history of creating buggy software that rarely works as advertised. Firfox is the new kid on the block, even though most of us know its pretty much the same ol netscape (pronounced mozilla), it has a new name and a new face. So yes people are going to be more prone to give it the benefit of the doubt and this has little to do with a double standard and more to do with the idea that past performance = future performance and firefox doesn't have enough of a history yet to be raked over the coals for its indiscretions.
This is the new slashdot crowd the one that marks and obviously humerous comment as insightful. To think some people still aske me why I'm not more active with slashdot.
You are missing some things here. The JVM has come a long way however the abstraction layer it provides inherently introduces the use of more CPU cycles for any given task, end of story. This code doesn't magically come in a form that just flops right on into a compiled cpu native form. A process has to convert it now if you discount the role of the JVM in interpretting and managing the code, memory ussage, and io resources yes you might conclude some of the assertations made in this article. A huge point left out of the articel is that using the technology you linked to create or destroy objects may or may not happen when asked to be created or destroyed. So I could run a loop that creates and destroys millions of objects for the jvm to simply turn around and ignore the request to allocate and free the memory for those objects because they were never used or not freed until the application exit. So who runs a loop that does nothing faster, Java or C++, try it for yourself and tell me that the JVMs JITC makes java run as fast as C++ code.
This is about as much of a myth as the myth of the earth traveling around the sun. There is a lot more to allocating memory than this article lets on. Psuedocode will always be slower than machine code no matter how you slice it. You can do various tricks to make it seem faster by instruction count at certain things but in the end those same things can be applied to compiled code like c/c++. Most people can accept that as fact and move on using Java where it seems appropriate. Make all the excuses and extraordinary claims you wan tint the end Java is just plain old FAT n slow, anyone in any programming course who has used java can tell you that.
Oh and it is hard to test out his little theory on the free malloc in C++ because you can't do the same thing in Java. You can try but it will get around to the free part when it gets good and ready and may not attempt the malloc until you use the memory.
The more and more I research the space elevator the more and more I think to myself pet rock, molar's skycar, etc... I just can't buy into it any more as a praticle means of transporting anything outside out atmosphere. This technology is still in its infancy and the writter wants to take it from mere meters to the moon for less than 6B. I might as well make the claim that I can finish my wormhole research for 1B and that the government would be better to spend the money on that. NASA is using proven technologies to get to the moon and not attacking the project like some half assed "High Times" look at the situation. The strength of these fibers isn't quite there yet, less that 70% of the required strength. If anyone could say honestly that 6-10B later they would somehow majically get the additional 30+% isn't being honest the truth is they don't know how much it will cost. We know how much is costs to build rockets and the like we have been doing that for quite sometime. Even if you don't beleive we ever made it to the moon the first time, can you deny we have had astronauts in space? The trip from geosyncronous orbit to the moon is a lot easier than making the leap from 10 meters to 384 kilometers.
This has to be the worst article in terms of truthfulness, content, and the authors understanding of the subject in general I have seen since the last Michael Moore documentary. Most of the practices mentioned are good when they are carried out. The real issue of balancing security with delivery for the end user is a tough one and some simplistic article categorically denying the worth of all security practices is worthless itself. Security is an in depth process and with the dangerous combination of ignorance and arrogance comes a security breach. The same goes for physical security if you have inept people installing the locks and maintaining the doors, someone will eventually enter who you didn't expect. With worms the threat is even greater because it is all automated and attacking from angles your IT team may not have expected or anticipated because they are under trained over paid egomaniacs who got the job because they sounded like they knew what they were talking about and exuded a confidence far superior to their actual abilities or training, much like the author of this POS.
Why complain this is what Slashdot is. There is no more tech news after the dot com bubble so now we must suffer through people who are indecisive, unsure of themselves, and genuinely befuddled by the technologies they work with day in and day out. It shows people responsible for exploiting the technologies are even more clueless than the people they hire to manage and implement them.
But take heart, one of these days an invitation only Slashdot will emerge and it will cure many of the issues plagued by the original with real "News for Nerds" and stuff that really matters. Mmmm, I'm dreaming about it right now.
And with that argument I can simply agree to disagree. The initial one however was highly inflammatory. I'm not a hot headed bible thumper but I do take great offense when people pervert my religion to their own means. True Christians attempt to live moral lives to please their god not avoid his wrath. Christianity is simply not a fear base religion nor is it worse than useless for promoting morality in society. It has done great things to aid in protecting value systems in American culture.
You have taken the exceptions and formed rules that are not accurate. If you are to examine a system, you must look at its whole not simply the parts you find objectionable.
The real problem as you so apply noted is poor parenting of which I am in utter agreement. I think one could argue that McDonaldization has produced parents who are shorter tempered, less apt to spend time with their children, and in their quest for instant gratification raise more immature adults who complicate today's social ills with their own inability to deal with situations that they are presented with in real life.
But don't discount any religions ability to aid in righting these social wrongs. Belief systems if they come from religion or good parenting all help to promote individuals more able to cope and compete in an ever-changing world.
Simple, if you believe in the religion then you have already taken the leap of faith that is required of you to "be saved". If you are not a believer then your belief system that has replaced that taught by the church most certainly allows for the dismissal of damnation. So, either way you look at it where does the fear play in? Your simply taking a single facet of the religion and exploiting it for your own gain. Not to far removed from what terrorists have done to the religion of Islam.
My world view is the same as countless others out there who simply wish to live in peace work at something I enjoy and raise my family the best way I know how. I will also call out those who practice bigoted speech as well. Even if that speech is directed against a considerable majority. Speech like that is destructive and wrong regardless of your world views.
Unfortunately, you are reading off Air America or something to simply think the whole of this country lies in the constitution. There are many other documents drafted both before and after that built this country. In your examples, I can tell you that it embodies many of the Christian ideals of the time as well as I'm sure other religions. Do they come straight from the bible? No, but they do embody the ideals of many of the religions who sought a place free from persecution where they could live peacefully and worship without fear of persecution. So inferring they are not Christian ideals is at best simply intellectually dishonest given the majority of those who signed it were indeed believers.
I'm taking him directly in context, his use of "fear based" does not excuse his ignorance/arrogance. I understood exactly why he said it to begin with and why others have said it before him. It allows for those who are of like mind to discount the contributions of Christianity to society and look down upon those who believe.
No one said that Christianity was the founding force only that many of the men who founded this country be they of the many denominations of Christianity found out there where overwhelmingly Christian. To say that did not have an influence on the foundation of this country is absolute non-sense.
Why is something like this labeled as insightful and not flame bait? Flat out saying that Christian morals are useless in teaching morality. What kind of slack jawed ignorant ass would say that anyway? There is no such thing as fear based Christianity. Those who argue there is have their own agendas or simply don't understand the religion. It teaches consequences for actions, self sacrifice, and allows for people to make their own decisions with the understanding that someone has already payed for the mistakes we will make as humans in our lives if we simply believe it to be.
You however, are arguing against the very fiber this country was built upon. This was a country founded on many of the core values of the Christian religion. It is the reason this country was so great for so long. Now you erode the value of this contribution diminishing the very values that made it so great and you want to say the cause for this downfall is "MCDonaldization". Get a clue, your the problem, get out of denial and see the forest for the trees.
What about network latency. That is the thing that has kept me from using cell networks. You get decent speeds at 15-45k/s but with ping times around 2 seconds it really makes the connection perform more like sub dialup than isdn+.
If apple would be so kind as to send me, gratis, a dual G5 2.7 I'm sure I could help them find a way out of the legal troubles tiger direct has caused and even put tiger direct out of business in the process. When I'm done with them they will have to change their name to big pussies direct.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're wrong in your assumptions about science and you're wrong in your vain attempt to explain why super conductive materials should be used. If anything in your world was as you explained your biggest problem would be getting out of bed in the morning as you would be a human popsicle. As it is you simply must overcome your own ignorance. Given the level of persistence with the discussion and unwillingness to concede I'm guessing you will leave the world just the same as you came into it.
Why answer a poster effectively refuting your original post with statements that make even less sense than the ones you lead off with? You do realize superconductive materials given their temperature instability would actually complicate the circuitry vs. simplify it right?
I will close with RTFA, RAFPB, LIUIFG, GAC, and see if you can figure out how this effects circuits given P=I^2R and why the over all stability of the circuit is effected with superconductive materials. This isn't some entertainment show talking about ufos and chupacabra this is real science.
Enlighten you to what. The fact you know absolutely nothing about North Korean diplomacy. I think you illustrated that quite well if your wanting me to fill you in on the past 60 or so years of history that is the stuff books are made of go read one.
Here is the jest of the current situation. North Korea has used the premise of nuclear weapons as the basis for extorting money from various governments around the world to support its current isolationist infrastructure that is so poorly managed it has been failing rapidly ever since song died around 94-95. They have discovered an easy way to rally the support of the people against a common enemy to help maintain popularity of chong-il it has worked before but the only way to keep it moving it to continually escalate the situation until they get their way.
President Bush rightly named North Korea in the axis of evil because of their past practices of extortion. Now 3 years later a country as poor as North Korea has a working nuclear weapons program? I'm 95% sure it is and always has been a bluff of the North Koreans to help support their struggling isolationist economy. Given their historical interactions and the state of their economy it is the only explanation that makes sense.
For many the fact that we have a president that spends more time on foreign affairs than marital ones clouds their judgment of his character and forces them to consistently side with the enemies of the United States. This is why the media tends to focus on various aspects of the issue that aren't exactly flattering, instead of taking the time to research stories, they find an emotional angle that sells and proceed to build stories around that and as we have seen in the past they can be wrong even though they will never admit to it.
That has to be the most idiotic thing I've ever read. You have to be quite ignorant on the subject of North Korea not to know this has nothing to do with "sticking up for themselves" and everything to do with world extortion.
I can wait to read all the comments from the mental midgets who claim this somehow relates to iraq, or a wmd inference, or the claims that it is somehow ok for north korea to build weapons because after all America did. All the while failing to recognize the real threat of the armament of a country that has in the past extorted money from the US under former presidents for exactly this scenario.
From my perspective this is more than likely a bluff on the part of North Korea as we still have not given them the money the originally asked for not to develop the nuclear weapons. I hope I am right on this more than anything and if I'm not maybe those people who would rather spread lies an innuendo because they think their socialist professor hung the moon would be better off in another country, sorry Canada. I'll be voting for the no take backs on your us citizenships though.
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Most Americans have in their heads have an opinion on what net neutrality means to them regardless of what's in the legislation. This can lead to disastrous outcomes, case in point the affordable care act. People thought this would make their healthcare more affordable but for many it has done the exact opposite. The same is possible for net neutrality and it allows people to assign their own meanings to it making it palatable to a larger group..
Intent is different than outcome. If the outcome is they are embarrassed but the intent was just to share what was once a part of the perpetrators life then no crime. This bill just looks unenforceable unless someone is dumb enough to post the images with text saying the intent is to embarrass which opens up the door for false accusations where the images are posted by the victim themselves to get revenge on the purported perpetrator.
This would be sweet if they took all the imagery from google maps/streets and build out little virtual cities with no headed pedestrians and 5 legged dogs.
I would like to add this appears to be at least three distinct seperate bugs.
Don't be thick. Both I.E. and Microsoft have a long history of creating buggy software that rarely works as advertised. Firfox is the new kid on the block, even though most of us know its pretty much the same ol netscape (pronounced mozilla), it has a new name and a new face. So yes people are going to be more prone to give it the benefit of the doubt and this has little to do with a double standard and more to do with the idea that past performance = future performance and firefox doesn't have enough of a history yet to be raked over the coals for its indiscretions.
This is the new slashdot crowd the one that marks and obviously humerous comment as insightful. To think some people still aske me why I'm not more active with slashdot.
They opperate out of the US and are subject to US law and requests by the US government not India.
You are missing some things here. The JVM has come a long way however the abstraction layer it provides inherently introduces the use of more CPU cycles for any given task, end of story. This code doesn't magically come in a form that just flops right on into a compiled cpu native form. A process has to convert it now if you discount the role of the JVM in interpretting and managing the code, memory ussage, and io resources yes you might conclude some of the assertations made in this article. A huge point left out of the articel is that using the technology you linked to create or destroy objects may or may not happen when asked to be created or destroyed. So I could run a loop that creates and destroys millions of objects for the jvm to simply turn around and ignore the request to allocate and free the memory for those objects because they were never used or not freed until the application exit. So who runs a loop that does nothing faster, Java or C++, try it for yourself and tell me that the JVMs JITC makes java run as fast as C++ code.
This is about as much of a myth as the myth of the earth traveling around the sun. There is a lot more to allocating memory than this article lets on. Psuedocode will always be slower than machine code no matter how you slice it. You can do various tricks to make it seem faster by instruction count at certain things but in the end those same things can be applied to compiled code like c/c++. Most people can accept that as fact and move on using Java where it seems appropriate. Make all the excuses and extraordinary claims you wan tint the end Java is just plain old FAT n slow, anyone in any programming course who has used java can tell you that.
Oh and it is hard to test out his little theory on the free malloc in C++ because you can't do the same thing in Java. You can try but it will get around to the free part when it gets good and ready and may not attempt the malloc until you use the memory.
The more and more I research the space elevator the more and more I think to myself pet rock, molar's skycar, etc... I just can't buy into it any more as a praticle means of transporting anything outside out atmosphere. This technology is still in its infancy and the writter wants to take it from mere meters to the moon for less than 6B. I might as well make the claim that I can finish my wormhole research for 1B and that the government would be better to spend the money on that. NASA is using proven technologies to get to the moon and not attacking the project like some half assed "High Times" look at the situation. The strength of these fibers isn't quite there yet, less that 70% of the required strength. If anyone could say honestly that 6-10B later they would somehow majically get the additional 30+% isn't being honest the truth is they don't know how much it will cost. We know how much is costs to build rockets and the like we have been doing that for quite sometime. Even if you don't beleive we ever made it to the moon the first time, can you deny we have had astronauts in space? The trip from geosyncronous orbit to the moon is a lot easier than making the leap from 10 meters to 384 kilometers.
This has to be the worst article in terms of truthfulness, content, and the authors understanding of the subject in general I have seen since the last Michael Moore documentary. Most of the practices mentioned are good when they are carried out. The real issue of balancing security with delivery for the end user is a tough one and some simplistic article categorically denying the worth of all security practices is worthless itself. Security is an in depth process and with the dangerous combination of ignorance and arrogance comes a security breach. The same goes for physical security if you have inept people installing the locks and maintaining the doors, someone will eventually enter who you didn't expect. With worms the threat is even greater because it is all automated and attacking from angles your IT team may not have expected or anticipated because they are under trained over paid egomaniacs who got the job because they sounded like they knew what they were talking about and exuded a confidence far superior to their actual abilities or training, much like the author of this POS.
Why complain this is what Slashdot is. There is no more tech news after the dot com bubble so now we must suffer through people who are indecisive, unsure of themselves, and genuinely befuddled by the technologies they work with day in and day out. It shows people responsible for exploiting the technologies are even more clueless than the people they hire to manage and implement them.
But take heart, one of these days an invitation only Slashdot will emerge and it will cure many of the issues plagued by the original with real "News for Nerds" and stuff that really matters. Mmmm, I'm dreaming about it right now.
And with that argument I can simply agree to disagree. The initial one however was highly inflammatory. I'm not a hot headed bible thumper but I do take great offense when people pervert my religion to their own means. True Christians attempt to live moral lives to please their god not avoid his wrath. Christianity is simply not a fear base religion nor is it worse than useless for promoting morality in society. It has done great things to aid in protecting value systems in American culture.
You have taken the exceptions and formed rules that are not accurate. If you are to examine a system, you must look at its whole not simply the parts you find objectionable.
The real problem as you so apply noted is poor parenting of which I am in utter agreement. I think one could argue that McDonaldization has produced parents who are shorter tempered, less apt to spend time with their children, and in their quest for instant gratification raise more immature adults who complicate today's social ills with their own inability to deal with situations that they are presented with in real life.
But don't discount any religions ability to aid in righting these social wrongs. Belief systems if they come from religion or good parenting all help to promote individuals more able to cope and compete in an ever-changing world.
Simple, if you believe in the religion then you have already taken the leap of faith that is required of you to "be saved". If you are not a believer then your belief system that has replaced that taught by the church most certainly allows for the dismissal of damnation. So, either way you look at it where does the fear play in? Your simply taking a single facet of the religion and exploiting it for your own gain. Not to far removed from what terrorists have done to the religion of Islam.
My world view is the same as countless others out there who simply wish to live in peace work at something I enjoy and raise my family the best way I know how. I will also call out those who practice bigoted speech as well. Even if that speech is directed against a considerable majority. Speech like that is destructive and wrong regardless of your world views.
Unfortunately, you are reading off Air America or something to simply think the whole of this country lies in the constitution. There are many other documents drafted both before and after that built this country. In your examples, I can tell you that it embodies many of the Christian ideals of the time as well as I'm sure other religions. Do they come straight from the bible? No, but they do embody the ideals of many of the religions who sought a place free from persecution where they could live peacefully and worship without fear of persecution. So inferring they are not Christian ideals is at best simply intellectually dishonest given the majority of those who signed it were indeed believers.
I'm taking him directly in context, his use of "fear based" does not excuse his ignorance/arrogance. I understood exactly why he said it to begin with and why others have said it before him. It allows for those who are of like mind to discount the contributions of Christianity to society and look down upon those who believe.
No one said that Christianity was the founding force only that many of the men who founded this country be they of the many denominations of Christianity found out there where overwhelmingly Christian. To say that did not have an influence on the foundation of this country is absolute non-sense.
Why is something like this labeled as insightful and not flame bait? Flat out saying that Christian morals are useless in teaching morality. What kind of slack jawed ignorant ass would say that anyway? There is no such thing as fear based Christianity. Those who argue there is have their own agendas or simply don't understand the religion. It teaches consequences for actions, self sacrifice, and allows for people to make their own decisions with the understanding that someone has already payed for the mistakes we will make as humans in our lives if we simply believe it to be.
You however, are arguing against the very fiber this country was built upon. This was a country founded on many of the core values of the Christian religion. It is the reason this country was so great for so long. Now you erode the value of this contribution diminishing the very values that made it so great and you want to say the cause for this downfall is "MCDonaldization". Get a clue, your the problem, get out of denial and see the forest for the trees.
What about network latency. That is the thing that has kept me from using cell networks. You get decent speeds at 15-45k/s but with ping times around 2 seconds it really makes the connection perform more like sub dialup than isdn+.
If apple would be so kind as to send me, gratis, a dual G5 2.7 I'm sure I could help them find a way out of the legal troubles tiger direct has caused and even put tiger direct out of business in the process. When I'm done with them they will have to change their name to big pussies direct.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're wrong in your assumptions about science and you're wrong in your vain attempt to explain why super conductive materials should be used. If anything in your world was as you explained your biggest problem would be getting out of bed in the morning as you would be a human popsicle. As it is you simply must overcome your own ignorance. Given the level of persistence with the discussion and unwillingness to concede I'm guessing you will leave the world just the same as you came into it.
Relativly small amount of money? Whats in your wallet?
When I think nanotech Rice isn't exactly the first place that comes to mind.
Why answer a poster effectively refuting your original post with statements that make even less sense than the ones you lead off with? You do realize superconductive materials given their temperature instability would actually complicate the circuitry vs. simplify it right?
I will close with RTFA, RAFPB, LIUIFG, GAC, and see if you can figure out how this effects circuits given P=I^2R and why the over all stability of the circuit is effected with superconductive materials. This isn't some entertainment show talking about ufos and chupacabra this is real science.
Enlighten you to what. The fact you know absolutely nothing about North Korean diplomacy. I think you illustrated that quite well if your wanting me to fill you in on the past 60 or so years of history that is the stuff books are made of go read one.
Here is the jest of the current situation. North Korea has used the premise of nuclear weapons as the basis for extorting money from various governments around the world to support its current isolationist infrastructure that is so poorly managed it has been failing rapidly ever since song died around 94-95. They have discovered an easy way to rally the support of the people against a common enemy to help maintain popularity of chong-il it has worked before but the only way to keep it moving it to continually escalate the situation until they get their way.
President Bush rightly named North Korea in the axis of evil because of their past practices of extortion. Now 3 years later a country as poor as North Korea has a working nuclear weapons program? I'm 95% sure it is and always has been a bluff of the North Koreans to help support their struggling isolationist economy. Given their historical interactions and the state of their economy it is the only explanation that makes sense.
For many the fact that we have a president that spends more time on foreign affairs than marital ones clouds their judgment of his character and forces them to consistently side with the enemies of the United States. This is why the media tends to focus on various aspects of the issue that aren't exactly flattering, instead of taking the time to research stories, they find an emotional angle that sells and proceed to build stories around that and as we have seen in the past they can be wrong even though they will never admit to it.
What is funny is given the current slashdot crowd I wouldn't be surprised to see this moderated as insightful rather than funny..
That has to be the most idiotic thing I've ever read. You have to be quite ignorant on the subject of North Korea not to know this has nothing to do with "sticking up for themselves" and everything to do with world extortion.
I can wait to read all the comments from the mental midgets who claim this somehow relates to iraq, or a wmd inference, or the claims that it is somehow ok for north korea to build weapons because after all America did. All the while failing to recognize the real threat of the armament of a country that has in the past extorted money from the US under former presidents for exactly this scenario.
From my perspective this is more than likely a bluff on the part of North Korea as we still have not given them the money the originally asked for not to develop the nuclear weapons. I hope I am right on this more than anything and if I'm not maybe those people who would rather spread lies an innuendo because they think their socialist professor hung the moon would be better off in another country, sorry Canada. I'll be voting for the no take backs on your us citizenships though.