That's what happens when you live in a socialist country like the Netherlands. Here in the good 'ole USA, we have capitalism to make sure there is good competition to keep prices low. Wait, what?
This means that you get to see whatever GPL'd code Skype was using, and if they made changes to that code, they are required to release them as well under the GPL. You don't have access under the GPL to any of their other code that does not meet these conditions. But the source code is not required to be available to anyone. Skype only has to make the source available to people who have the rebranded open moko phone. Of course, it is perfectly legal for those people to redistribute the source to anybody else and Skype cannot stop them.
Actually it is owned by us (no communism involved). The spectrum is owned by government and leases it to private companies for limited/unlimited time. We are the government, ergo we own the spectrum and the government (supposedly) acts in our best interest when managing it. It's one of those "public commons" goods.
Why do people keep pretending that the ease of use of the iPhone isn't a feature!? Arguably it is the most important feature to arise in cellphones introduced to the US in a long time!
> If we assume that all physical processes can be simulated by a computer (given complete knowledge of the laws of physics), which seems to be a safe assumption...
Aha, but your given is anything but, and hence your asumption isn't so safe.
Well, that's because you haven't seen the next piece of legislation up the RIAA/MPAA sleeve:
"AP: RIAA/MPAA spokespeople announced another legislative victory requiring anybody who wishes to create content to sign a contract with a member of the RIAA/MPAA"
And those choices are narrowing especially in the face of being called Anti-American for daring to use my Constitutional Rights of Dissent and Free Speech
That is exactly the problem. The rights of dissent and political speech are the cornerstone of our Constitution, what our citizens of old regarded as one of the defining characteristics of being American. And now in the face of this new "war", these rights are silenced by the doublethink that exercising them is anti-American. I say (and I know well that I'm preaching to the choir) the reverse is true; suppressing such speech is anti-American. Freely espousing such views is the pinnacle of what it is to be American, so if someone should ever attempt to shame you by stating that your contrary views are anti-American, then i would go so far to state that they are the ones who are truly anti-American, and those who are critical of our government at every step are the true patriots. Sorry for that rant. I'll get off my soapbox now.
Linus was also in university at the time, and we all know that university students have lots of time on their hands, and also not having to worry about the current economic climate.
About taking a different direction in graduate school, i can only add "yep." I did CS in undergrad, and now I'm doing a Ph.D in molecular biophysics (although computer science really does come in handy:) Take some courses in other fields if you aren't sure. My biochemistry minor really came in handy. Although I really wish I had some background in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics.
For one thing, you might want to change the background and text colors to make the site easier to read. Black text on white a white background is a lot less straining on the eyes than white on black.
We are now witnessing the new theatre of war. This is how war will be fought in the 22nd century. Along with, expect to see us lose all our rights. Imagine this:
Us: "We want privacy because..."
Them: "Just take a look at these pictures showing the World Trade Center collapsing. This is a matter of national security"
Maybe if this happens, Microsoft might be considered a basic, essential utility and have to be regulated by the government... After all, it's no good to let a power company arbitrarily set prices.
What most people don't realize is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE! Don't like the tactics of the MPAA and RIAA? Don't buy anything put out by their respective companies. ANYTHING. Tell everyone you know about these schemes. Tell them not to participate either. Consumers have a right to a choice. What they don't have a right to do is to dictate to other people what or how they must manufacture, except through the act of not buying said products. If you buy them, you just reinforce the manufacturers notions that no matter what they do, people will still consume from them.
Otherwise, start your own media company. Support companies that don't do these evils schemes. You'll probably have to live with less stuff and have access to a smaller range of products, but that's the price to pay. Only then will these organizations listen. When they don't have any money left.
Here's an email I received from somebody who was there
From: StevenM820@aol.com [mailto:StevenM820@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 3:44 AM
To: weschat alumni mailing list
Subject: Florida recount info
Hello again,
Thought you'd like another update from the inside. I spent much of Wed. as the Palm Beach County Dem. Party observer in the recount room at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. Also present were lawyers and a staffer representing GWB, several lawyers representing Gore, representatives of the Reform Party, the Fla. Democratic and Republican Parties, the DNCC, US Rep. Clay Shaw and his Dem. challenger Elaine Bloom (this race is still contested), a Dem. State Senator and a Dem. State Representative from the County.
The recount was supposed to begin at 1:30, was delayed until 4:00 and ended at 11:30. Our role basically consisted of sitting in a cramped room watching five staffers run stacks of puch card ballots through counting machines. Pretty dull all in all until it was discovered that one precinct had not been counted in full. This resulted in a net gain for Al of about 360 votes. The Bush boys lost their smug attitudes and began huddling and whispering every few minutes.
The absentees came through for Al too. When one votes at the polls in Florida, they provide a punch instrument which, if used correctly, completely perforates the ballot. However, absentee voters often use a pen or other implement which does not fully perforate the card. This was apparent to us from the fact that over 10,000 voters in the County, about 2.2% of the overall turnout did not make any choice in the residential race, but did vote in the US Senate or Congressional races. We theorized that many voters had partially perforated the card, but the machines weren't reading them. The more times the ballots are run through the counting machine, the more likely the loosened chits fall off.
When the absentees were counted, 221 ballots that had previously registered no vote now did show a vote in the Presidential race. These went overwhelmingly for Gore, leading to some whooping and high fiving from our side. The Bushies really lost it at this point and got a little hostile with the staffers, which in turn elicited some harsh responses from the assembled masses.
Gore's net gain in the County was 643. Word from other counties is that Gore closed the 1,700 deficit by over 1,200. Only half of the counties conducted their recounts on Wednesday. The rest are on Thursday. The bigger problem is that the ballot in Palm Beach County, which differs in its layout from the ballots elsewhere in the State, is illegal for several reasons. Florida statutes specifically mandate the precise layout of the ballot and the order of candidates. The law was not followed. Bush's name was first, with Buchanan below him and Gore third. This is completely improper, as well as the fact that the law requires the names to be placed to the left with the punch holes to the right of the candidates' names. On this ballot, some names were on the right and some on the left, with all of the punch holes in the middle. It was difficult to line up the name with the correct hole.
Moreover, 19,000 ballots were disqualified because they voted for two or more candidates. This is a direct result of the confusing layout of the names on the ballot. This represents over 4% of the total ballots. It was as high as 15% in some predominantly African-American precincts and about 10% in some precincts with large numbers of Jewish retirees. The Gore vote in many of these precincts was over 90%.
This explains the networks' exit polling which reflected voters' belief that they had voted for Gore, but in fact their ballots had been disqualified. This led to the initial awarding of Florida to Gore.
Folks, the bottom line is that if the names on the ballot were properly situated Gore would have had an additional 11-13,000 vote margin in this County, and the election would be over. We have done a precinct by precinct analysis of where the disqualified votes came from. By attributing the same percentage of the vote Gore obtained in those precincts to the disqualified ballots, Gore would be winning Florida by at least 10,000 votes. In other words, Gore has actually won the election both in the popular vote and in the electoral vote, but he may well still lose it.
You should also be aware that other large counties in the State disqualified about one half of one percent of their ballots for casting two or more votes in the Presidential race. In Palm Beach County it was 4.4%.
Lastly, don't expect the recount to be over on Thursday, as the media is stating. Legal actions are underway. The next question, will a judge order a re-vote just in Palm Beach County with a new ballot?
Slashdot Mirror
That's what happens when you live in a socialist country like the Netherlands. Here in the good 'ole USA, we have capitalism to make sure there is good competition to keep prices low. Wait, what?
You have no license to redistribute the code. Copyright says nothing about use (but personal usage in this case would be pretty useless).
Actually it is owned by us (no communism involved). The spectrum is owned by government and leases it to private companies for limited/unlimited time. We are the government, ergo we own the spectrum and the government (supposedly) acts in our best interest when managing it. It's one of those "public commons" goods.
Why do people keep pretending that the ease of use of the iPhone isn't a feature!? Arguably it is the most important feature to arise in cellphones introduced to the US in a long time!
> Well then relocate your servers to Antigua.
That doesn't matter - if you are based in the US you can still be prosecuted. I'm sure the Linden folk don't want to go to jail.
Enough said.
> If we assume that all physical processes can be simulated by a computer (given complete knowledge of the laws of physics), which seems to be a safe assumption...
Aha, but your given is anything but, and hence your asumption isn't so safe.
Please put me on the list too. I couln't find you're email, otherwise I would have emailed you personally.
infinite8s@yahoo.com
So what's the ratio or cornstarch to water?
Well, that's because you haven't seen the next piece of legislation up the RIAA/MPAA sleeve:
"AP: RIAA/MPAA spokespeople announced another legislative victory requiring anybody who wishes to create content to sign a contract with a member of the RIAA/MPAA"
And those choices are narrowing especially in the face of being called Anti-American for daring to use my Constitutional Rights of Dissent and Free Speech
That is exactly the problem. The rights of dissent and political speech are the cornerstone of our Constitution, what our citizens of old regarded as one of the defining characteristics of being American. And now in the face of this new "war", these rights are silenced by the doublethink that exercising them is anti-American. I say (and I know well that I'm preaching to the choir) the reverse is true; suppressing such speech is anti-American. Freely espousing such views is the pinnacle of what it is to be American, so if someone should ever attempt to shame you by stating that your contrary views are anti-American, then i would go so far to state that they are the ones who are truly anti-American, and those who are critical of our government at every step are the true patriots. Sorry for that rant. I'll get off my soapbox now.
Linus was also in university at the time, and we all know that university students have lots of time on their hands, and also not having to worry about the current economic climate.
I think he meant Von Neumann architecture, which is where program code is stored as data.
About taking a different direction in graduate school, i can only add "yep." I did CS in undergrad, and now I'm doing a Ph.D in molecular biophysics (although computer science really does come in handy :) Take some courses in other fields if you aren't sure. My biochemistry minor really came in handy. Although I really wish I had some background in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics.
Someone please mod this up
For one thing, you might want to change the background and text colors to make the site easier to read. Black text on white a white background is a lot less straining on the eyes than white on black.
> They were not talking about Desert Storm, but something radically different. As usual, the media offered much rhetoric, few details.
Wow, sound similar?
We are now witnessing the new theatre of war. This is how war will be fought in the 22nd century. Along with, expect to see us lose all our rights. Imagine this:
Us: "We want privacy because..."
Them: "Just take a look at these pictures showing the World Trade Center collapsing. This is a matter of national security"
Does anyone have any more info on this?
Maybe if this happens, Microsoft might be considered a basic, essential utility and have to be regulated by the government... After all, it's no good to let a power company arbitrarily set prices.
What most people don't realize is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE! Don't like the tactics of the MPAA and RIAA? Don't buy anything put out by their respective companies. ANYTHING. Tell everyone you know about these schemes. Tell them not to participate either. Consumers have a right to a choice. What they don't have a right to do is to dictate to other people what or how they must manufacture, except through the act of not buying said products. If you buy them, you just reinforce the manufacturers notions that no matter what they do, people will still consume from them.
Otherwise, start your own media company. Support companies that don't do these evils schemes. You'll probably have to live with less stuff and have access to a smaller range of products, but that's the price to pay. Only then will these organizations listen. When they don't have any money left.
Hmmm, I wonder how a nipple-based interface to your computer would work. Any suggestions or ideas?
From: StevenM820@aol.com [mailto:StevenM820@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 3:44 AM
To: weschat alumni mailing list
Subject: Florida recount info
Hello again,
Thought you'd like another update from the inside. I spent much of Wed. as the Palm Beach County Dem. Party observer in the recount room at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. Also present were lawyers and a staffer representing GWB, several lawyers representing Gore, representatives of the Reform Party, the Fla. Democratic and Republican Parties, the DNCC, US Rep. Clay Shaw and his Dem. challenger Elaine Bloom (this race is still contested), a Dem. State Senator and a Dem. State Representative from the County.
The recount was supposed to begin at 1:30, was delayed until 4:00 and ended at 11:30. Our role basically consisted of sitting in a cramped room watching five staffers run stacks of puch card ballots through counting machines. Pretty dull all in all until it was discovered that one precinct had not been counted in full. This resulted in a net gain for Al of about 360 votes. The Bush boys lost their smug attitudes and began huddling and whispering every few minutes.
The absentees came through for Al too. When one votes at the polls in Florida, they provide a punch instrument which, if used correctly, completely perforates the ballot. However, absentee voters often use a pen or other implement which does not fully perforate the card. This was apparent to us from the fact that over 10,000 voters in the County, about 2.2% of the overall turnout did not make any choice in the residential race, but did vote in the US Senate or Congressional races. We theorized that many voters had partially perforated the card, but the machines weren't reading them. The more times the ballots are run through the counting machine, the more likely the loosened chits fall off.
When the absentees were counted, 221 ballots that had previously registered no vote now did show a vote in the Presidential race. These went overwhelmingly for Gore, leading to some whooping and high fiving from our side. The Bushies really lost it at this point and got a little hostile with the staffers, which in turn elicited some harsh responses from the assembled masses.
Gore's net gain in the County was 643. Word from other counties is that Gore closed the 1,700 deficit by over 1,200. Only half of the counties conducted their recounts on Wednesday. The rest are on Thursday. The bigger problem is that the ballot in Palm Beach County, which differs in its layout from the ballots elsewhere in the State, is illegal for several reasons. Florida statutes specifically mandate the precise layout of the ballot and the order of candidates. The law was not followed. Bush's name was first, with Buchanan below him and Gore third. This is completely improper, as well as the fact that the law requires the names to be placed to the left with the punch holes to the right of the candidates' names. On this ballot, some names were on the right and some on the left, with all of the punch holes in the middle. It was difficult to line up the name with the correct hole.
Moreover, 19,000 ballots were disqualified because they voted for two or more candidates. This is a direct result of the confusing layout of the names on the ballot. This represents over 4% of the total ballots. It was as high as 15% in some predominantly African-American precincts and about 10% in some precincts with large numbers of Jewish retirees. The Gore vote in many of these precincts was over 90%.
This explains the networks' exit polling which reflected voters' belief that they had voted for Gore, but in fact their ballots had been disqualified. This led to the initial awarding of Florida to Gore.
Folks, the bottom line is that if the names on the ballot were properly situated Gore would have had an additional 11-13,000 vote margin in this County, and the election would be over. We have done a precinct by precinct analysis of where the disqualified votes came from. By attributing the same percentage of the vote Gore obtained in those precincts to the disqualified ballots, Gore would be winning Florida by at least 10,000 votes. In other words, Gore has actually won the election both in the popular vote and in the electoral vote, but he may well still lose it.
You should also be aware that other large counties in the State disqualified about one half of one percent of their ballots for casting two or more votes in the Presidential race. In Palm Beach County it was 4.4%.
Lastly, don't expect the recount to be over on Thursday, as the media is stating. Legal actions are underway. The next question, will a judge order a re-vote just in Palm Beach County with a new ballot?
Steven Meyer
So what bank was this? I'd be interested in checking it out to see if it fits my needs.