Oh wait, you aren't joking, you sick nutcase. You actually WANT America to fail. You would rather we are all plunged into poverty and chaos than admit your ideology is broken.
Here's a hint: you may want to stop looking at politics as something with 'sides' and realize we are all in this together.
I'm not sure either history or the contemporary government of the nations of the world with the highest quality of life and safest populations really support that view.
Nations such as who? Certainly no one involved in WWI or II.
While there are probably places this could be cut, let's remember that the biggest purpose of government in the first place is to protect its citizens. 4-6% of the GDP goes to the military right now, which is entirely reasonable IMHO. I would love a world that doesn't require us to have a standing military or to remain on the forefront of military research, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.
The parasites would all just get job offers and increase the power of the RIAA. After all, what judge would rule against parasites with the power to destroy the world's bee population?
Close. By that time Linux will have gained enough steam with things like Suse 13 and Mighty Mandrake that they'll change the name to make sure they don't look inferior. It'll be called Windows 9000: Accounting Alan.
They're more profitable for the hits, but I doubt that they're all that much more profitable per game. If every game maker decided to make only casual games, the market would become flooded and it would be harder to make a profitable game. How many different games is a casual gamer going to play through the year?
Take Stardock, for example. They saw the opportunity created by game companies moving to making console games because the market was bigger and they could get better copy protection. They've been making money hand over fist because they recognized that the PC market was alive and well and nearly vacant, despite the articles about PC gaming dying. The games they make are hardcore games that are also old school and dependable. They're not spectacular, but they know their audience and they serve the hell out of it.
So, if casual gaming ever eclipses hardcore gaming to the extent that computer gaming eclipses pen and paper, there will still be companies like Stardock that serve the market. Hardcore gamers will never disappear, and companies that are looking to make millions upon billions of dollars probably won't serve them, but companies that recognize the potential and have talent and a passion for gaming will still serve it.
That's funny, but it's also true. Not too many years ago, there could just as easily been an article about how the rise of computer games would lead to the decline and eventual, near-certain death of tabletop or pen and paper gaming. While it's true that electronic gaming has absolutely eclipsed more traditional methods of hard-core gaming, they haven't been killed entirely. In fact, I would wager that they're nearly as popular as they've ever been, they just don't dominate the space anymore. As long as there are people who are willing to do hardcore gaming, there will be people willing to take their money to feed the habit.
using this guys logic, he should be saying to dump Microsoft and use another OS due to the large number of breakins on Windows boxes.
Unless he thought that the cost of switching OSes was significantly higher than the cost of switching to another free piece of software on top of that OS. With Windows, people need it to do things that no other operating system can do, namely, running Windows-only applications as well as they can be run. Switching to another OS requires either dealing with emulation, a VM, or not being able to run those programs at all. In addition, there are costs in either a steep learning curve going to linux or hardware to get a Mac. Cost to change: many, many hours of learning or a few thousand dollars.
On the other hand, as long as these PDF readers can read any pdf that adobe can, and as long as they're free like adobe is, there's no other cost. Hell, you can even have adobe installed just in case you'll need it, but make another reader the default for everything, thereby giving you the security of having another reader without any loss in functionality. Cost to change: maybe half an hour.
Since that didn't work out so well for them re: the internet, I'm not all that worried.
I know you're talking about sites, but it worked horrifically well with browsers. Do you know of a large commercial site that can afford to ignore IE6?
My hometown did that, and then sold the fiber network after a few years rather than continue bleeding money. That's not to say that it can't be done (there are a few other cities around here that seem to be doing it just fine), but there are risks and people need to be willing to research it thoroughly and stick to it. Unfortunately, governments in the US don't seem to be able to stick to anything for more than a few years.
Internet is flat-rate, and should be, IMHO because it represents nothing real
Reminds me of the joke that the power company, with it's alternating current, is taking advantage of us by charging for the same electrons over and over.
Read further into the article. The companies tell their shareholders that they're paying the same amount for the newest, fastest equipment that provides 50megabit connections as they did for the equipment for 6 megabit, but they're charging a couple times more for it than they've charged for their highest internet in the last 5 years. Their profit margins are solid but the amount they invest in the networks is falling. This at a time when youtube is drawing more and more bandwidth and sites like Hulu are becoming more popular. It's a pretty solid case of the ISPs milking their monopolies for all they're worth.
Agreed. Headphones and music are better than listening to people, but I'll take silence almost every time to wearing headphones. Music can help me by soothing parts of my mind that end up distracting me, so speakers can often add something to the programming environment, but it's definitely not a majority of the time.
The best place for me, then, is my home desktop where I have dual 22" monitors, speakers, a good internet connection, and the ability to program until I'm the only person awake in my house and probably the block. Solitude allows me to exclude everything and focus on the task at hand, and that's the optimal condition for me. When I have to listen for someone coming in or talk to someone or in any other way watch for and respond to external stimuli, my output goes down.
And, of course, that all goes away when the stress rachets up and I need to focus and fix the problem ASAP. That's a mode that I can only work in for about 1 day before it starts to burn me out, but there's no more productive mindset, and that mindset is one that automatically excludes everything for me.
So, in summary, what was the question? I got sidetracked.
they dont need books outside of the one required for their classes
There's a strong argument to be made that most books will contribute to a child's education, which of course is the point you're making. However, the vast majority of the internet won't contribute to a child's education more than they could get by just reading a decent book. In addition, websites tend to promote extreme views which is exactly what you don't want to present to children in an educational setting.
Nor should they being able to watch any videos programs unless they are some kind of homework
In school they shouldn't be allowed to watch any videos that aren't related to their education.
They dont need to hear the thoughts from other people than their parents. Those are MY children after all, they should think like me and act like me
You mock it, but that's the real crux of the matter. Children are sponges ready to be taught what society expects of them. If you were a parent, would you leave that to the schools or would you try to teach your children as best you can without interference from the schools? The author implies that there's a double standard in Utah schools when it comes to religion, and there may well be, but you'd be surprised at how much religion is kept out of classes. I went to a school that was literally over 90% mormon, and we weren't allowed to discuss religion in class, pray at any official functions or even unofficial functions with even a whiff of a connection to the school, etc. The same thing that keeps religion out of the classroom is what keeps open discussion of LGBT issues out of the school as well.
So, basically, the problem wasn't that the LGBT website was blocked, but that the anti-homosexual site wasn't blocked as well. These issues should be kept out of public schools as much as possible.
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Right, but then you're talking about the ridiculously large space or encrypted passwords instead of plaintext passwords which are a much smaller space. I agree with you that it's weird and probably wrong behavior, but it's not a security risk to an application that would have been considered secure otherwise.
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If you're storing passwords in the database in plaintext, you're doing it wrong. Personally, I don't think they should be stored in any recoverable way, but there's a legitimate argument to the opposite. Either way you're using a transformation function on the password field that does take case into account.
the only face he ever shows in public is that of the bombastic, self-aggrandizing jerk
I certainly don't seek out information on the man, but I do know that there have been interviews where he's out of character. He still cracks jokes, but he's not playing the self-aggrandizing jerk. He's got a lot of wit, which seems to indicate that he's at least reasonably smart. He's married, has three kids, and doesn't let them watch the show, so you've got to figure that he's a caring father in at least some respects.
I disagree. Colbert's a bombastic idiot (or at least he plays one on TV), but he's funny and he entertains a lot of people, usually including the targets of his behavior. Have you ever seen so many people interested in a node on the ISS? When was the last time a popular show's had one a couple of astronauts in the timespan Colbert has?
With me, Colbert's personality and manner is fun to watch, fun to maybe participate in if it's not malicious (as with this vote), and definitely not something to emulate. However, now we have a large portion of the nation who's interested in what's happening on the ISS and knows how to edit wikipedia. If they went to the site after his show, they even got to see a locked down article in place!
In short, I don't see Colbert's show as promoting this behavior, I see him as exploiting the fact that this is the way our society's willing to act right now. You're just killing the flamboyant messenger.
Not only that, but for most uses that's what you're going to do anyway. Driving to work is rarely greater than 220, and then it sits there for eight hours. Then you drive it home, and it sits there for 16 hours. I know I own a car that's just used for commuting; it would be quite easy for me to plug it in at home at night. If there were a really cheap electric car, I would replace my current one in a heartbeat.
Then we can use that as a stepping stone towards things like a high current home battery, which can then be installed into existing gas stations where they'll gladly charge your car for cheaper than you can do it at home, but since it'll take 5-30 minutes, you'll be more likely to peruse their goods. Gas stations already make most of their money off of the convenience store, so holding the customer hostage for longer than they do currently but not so long that the customers won't stand it is in their best interest.
It seems like there's a clear line of development for getting electric cars economically viable and then eventually replacing gasoline completely.
Let's not forget that, even if the electric car were a bit less efficient than one with an ICE, the power's being generated in a central place. By offloading to the electric grid, you make it so that the production of energy and greenhouse gases can be centralized and dealt with in that central place. If it's a coal plant, they can do better scrubbing and maybe some sequestering; you can't do that with every car's engine. You also make it so that the companies can use more nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, etc to charge your car, which isn't something that you can do very well on individual cars.
Centralization of energy production is a very good thing if you're aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Even if your initial math isn't correct (and I'm pretty sure that it's missing some important factors), it doesn't matter, because a car won't be able to produce the energy on board and be able to deal with the pollution efficiently with our current technology. The only way that we've got to improve the emissions *right now* are hydrogen and electric, both of which are essentially methods of storing energy produce elsewhere.
When I upgrade Ubuntu, its painless, just about everything works the same, same data, same everything just newer versions of some software which generally work the same as the prior versions.
What I wouldn't give to have had that experience. When I worked at an all Ubuntu programming shop, every time a new version was released there would be a few guys who lost two or three days trying to fix what the update broke. My home computer would still be running Ubuntu if it hadn't hosed something in the upgrade.
I always thought it probably had to do with the fact that the editors who choose which letters to print would want to choose a balanced view anyway, so they'd print as many of one side as they would the other, regardless of the actual ratio that came in.
I'm fairly certain that, were you to be into kiddie porn, you'd be looking at it more than necessary and be noticed by those around you or be caught with it outside an investigation. It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would work out quite as well as you're implying.
I agree, and I'm technical enough to get those applications to run. I just hate the OS making me hack it to make it work. I love the ability to recompile the kernel or manually configure my network settings, but I hate being forced to. Ubuntu is by far the best I've ever tried in this regard, but it's still miles away from Windows or OSX.
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Oh wait, you aren't joking, you sick nutcase. You actually WANT America to fail. You would rather we are all plunged into poverty and chaos than admit your ideology is broken.
Here's a hint: you may want to stop looking at politics as something with 'sides' and realize we are all in this together.
Good job sir. Way to practice what you preach.
I'm not sure either history or the contemporary government of the nations of the world with the highest quality of life and safest populations really support that view.
Nations such as who? Certainly no one involved in WWI or II.
While there are probably places this could be cut, let's remember that the biggest purpose of government in the first place is to protect its citizens. 4-6% of the GDP goes to the military right now, which is entirely reasonable IMHO. I would love a world that doesn't require us to have a standing military or to remain on the forefront of military research, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.
The parasites would all just get job offers and increase the power of the RIAA. After all, what judge would rule against parasites with the power to destroy the world's bee population?
* Windows 9 (maybe?)
Close. By that time Linux will have gained enough steam with things like Suse 13 and Mighty Mandrake that they'll change the name to make sure they don't look inferior. It'll be called Windows 9000: Accounting Alan.
They're more profitable for the hits, but I doubt that they're all that much more profitable per game. If every game maker decided to make only casual games, the market would become flooded and it would be harder to make a profitable game. How many different games is a casual gamer going to play through the year?
Take Stardock, for example. They saw the opportunity created by game companies moving to making console games because the market was bigger and they could get better copy protection. They've been making money hand over fist because they recognized that the PC market was alive and well and nearly vacant, despite the articles about PC gaming dying. The games they make are hardcore games that are also old school and dependable. They're not spectacular, but they know their audience and they serve the hell out of it.
So, if casual gaming ever eclipses hardcore gaming to the extent that computer gaming eclipses pen and paper, there will still be companies like Stardock that serve the market. Hardcore gamers will never disappear, and companies that are looking to make millions upon billions of dollars probably won't serve them, but companies that recognize the potential and have talent and a passion for gaming will still serve it.
That's funny, but it's also true. Not too many years ago, there could just as easily been an article about how the rise of computer games would lead to the decline and eventual, near-certain death of tabletop or pen and paper gaming. While it's true that electronic gaming has absolutely eclipsed more traditional methods of hard-core gaming, they haven't been killed entirely. In fact, I would wager that they're nearly as popular as they've ever been, they just don't dominate the space anymore. As long as there are people who are willing to do hardcore gaming, there will be people willing to take their money to feed the habit.
using this guys logic, he should be saying to dump Microsoft and use another OS due to the large number of breakins on Windows boxes.
Unless he thought that the cost of switching OSes was significantly higher than the cost of switching to another free piece of software on top of that OS. With Windows, people need it to do things that no other operating system can do, namely, running Windows-only applications as well as they can be run. Switching to another OS requires either dealing with emulation, a VM, or not being able to run those programs at all. In addition, there are costs in either a steep learning curve going to linux or hardware to get a Mac. Cost to change: many, many hours of learning or a few thousand dollars.
On the other hand, as long as these PDF readers can read any pdf that adobe can, and as long as they're free like adobe is, there's no other cost. Hell, you can even have adobe installed just in case you'll need it, but make another reader the default for everything, thereby giving you the security of having another reader without any loss in functionality. Cost to change: maybe half an hour.
In other words, your bias is showing.
Since that didn't work out so well for them re: the internet, I'm not all that worried.
I know you're talking about sites, but it worked horrifically well with browsers. Do you know of a large commercial site that can afford to ignore IE6?
My hometown did that, and then sold the fiber network after a few years rather than continue bleeding money. That's not to say that it can't be done (there are a few other cities around here that seem to be doing it just fine), but there are risks and people need to be willing to research it thoroughly and stick to it. Unfortunately, governments in the US don't seem to be able to stick to anything for more than a few years.
Internet is flat-rate, and should be, IMHO because it represents nothing real
Reminds me of the joke that the power company, with it's alternating current, is taking advantage of us by charging for the same electrons over and over.
Read further into the article. The companies tell their shareholders that they're paying the same amount for the newest, fastest equipment that provides 50megabit connections as they did for the equipment for 6 megabit, but they're charging a couple times more for it than they've charged for their highest internet in the last 5 years. Their profit margins are solid but the amount they invest in the networks is falling. This at a time when youtube is drawing more and more bandwidth and sites like Hulu are becoming more popular. It's a pretty solid case of the ISPs milking their monopolies for all they're worth.
Agreed. Headphones and music are better than listening to people, but I'll take silence almost every time to wearing headphones. Music can help me by soothing parts of my mind that end up distracting me, so speakers can often add something to the programming environment, but it's definitely not a majority of the time.
The best place for me, then, is my home desktop where I have dual 22" monitors, speakers, a good internet connection, and the ability to program until I'm the only person awake in my house and probably the block. Solitude allows me to exclude everything and focus on the task at hand, and that's the optimal condition for me. When I have to listen for someone coming in or talk to someone or in any other way watch for and respond to external stimuli, my output goes down.
And, of course, that all goes away when the stress rachets up and I need to focus and fix the problem ASAP. That's a mode that I can only work in for about 1 day before it starts to burn me out, but there's no more productive mindset, and that mindset is one that automatically excludes everything for me.
So, in summary, what was the question? I got sidetracked.
they dont need books outside of the one required for their classes
There's a strong argument to be made that most books will contribute to a child's education, which of course is the point you're making. However, the vast majority of the internet won't contribute to a child's education more than they could get by just reading a decent book. In addition, websites tend to promote extreme views which is exactly what you don't want to present to children in an educational setting.
Nor should they being able to watch any videos programs unless they are some kind of homework
In school they shouldn't be allowed to watch any videos that aren't related to their education.
They dont need to hear the thoughts from other people than their parents. Those are MY children after all, they should think like me and act like me
You mock it, but that's the real crux of the matter. Children are sponges ready to be taught what society expects of them. If you were a parent, would you leave that to the schools or would you try to teach your children as best you can without interference from the schools? The author implies that there's a double standard in Utah schools when it comes to religion, and there may well be, but you'd be surprised at how much religion is kept out of classes. I went to a school that was literally over 90% mormon, and we weren't allowed to discuss religion in class, pray at any official functions or even unofficial functions with even a whiff of a connection to the school, etc. The same thing that keeps religion out of the classroom is what keeps open discussion of LGBT issues out of the school as well.
So, basically, the problem wasn't that the LGBT website was blocked, but that the anti-homosexual site wasn't blocked as well. These issues should be kept out of public schools as much as possible.
Right, but then you're talking about the ridiculously large space or encrypted passwords instead of plaintext passwords which are a much smaller space. I agree with you that it's weird and probably wrong behavior, but it's not a security risk to an application that would have been considered secure otherwise.
If you're storing passwords in the database in plaintext, you're doing it wrong. Personally, I don't think they should be stored in any recoverable way, but there's a legitimate argument to the opposite. Either way you're using a transformation function on the password field that does take case into account.
the only face he ever shows in public is that of the bombastic, self-aggrandizing jerk
I certainly don't seek out information on the man, but I do know that there have been interviews where he's out of character. He still cracks jokes, but he's not playing the self-aggrandizing jerk. He's got a lot of wit, which seems to indicate that he's at least reasonably smart. He's married, has three kids, and doesn't let them watch the show, so you've got to figure that he's a caring father in at least some respects.
I disagree. Colbert's a bombastic idiot (or at least he plays one on TV), but he's funny and he entertains a lot of people, usually including the targets of his behavior. Have you ever seen so many people interested in a node on the ISS? When was the last time a popular show's had one a couple of astronauts in the timespan Colbert has?
With me, Colbert's personality and manner is fun to watch, fun to maybe participate in if it's not malicious (as with this vote), and definitely not something to emulate. However, now we have a large portion of the nation who's interested in what's happening on the ISS and knows how to edit wikipedia. If they went to the site after his show, they even got to see a locked down article in place!
In short, I don't see Colbert's show as promoting this behavior, I see him as exploiting the fact that this is the way our society's willing to act right now. You're just killing the flamboyant messenger.
Not only that, but for most uses that's what you're going to do anyway. Driving to work is rarely greater than 220, and then it sits there for eight hours. Then you drive it home, and it sits there for 16 hours. I know I own a car that's just used for commuting; it would be quite easy for me to plug it in at home at night. If there were a really cheap electric car, I would replace my current one in a heartbeat.
Then we can use that as a stepping stone towards things like a high current home battery, which can then be installed into existing gas stations where they'll gladly charge your car for cheaper than you can do it at home, but since it'll take 5-30 minutes, you'll be more likely to peruse their goods. Gas stations already make most of their money off of the convenience store, so holding the customer hostage for longer than they do currently but not so long that the customers won't stand it is in their best interest.
It seems like there's a clear line of development for getting electric cars economically viable and then eventually replacing gasoline completely.
Let's not forget that, even if the electric car were a bit less efficient than one with an ICE, the power's being generated in a central place. By offloading to the electric grid, you make it so that the production of energy and greenhouse gases can be centralized and dealt with in that central place. If it's a coal plant, they can do better scrubbing and maybe some sequestering; you can't do that with every car's engine. You also make it so that the companies can use more nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, etc to charge your car, which isn't something that you can do very well on individual cars.
Centralization of energy production is a very good thing if you're aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Even if your initial math isn't correct (and I'm pretty sure that it's missing some important factors), it doesn't matter, because a car won't be able to produce the energy on board and be able to deal with the pollution efficiently with our current technology. The only way that we've got to improve the emissions *right now* are hydrogen and electric, both of which are essentially methods of storing energy produce elsewhere.
When I upgrade Ubuntu, its painless, just about everything works the same, same data, same everything just newer versions of some software which generally work the same as the prior versions.
What I wouldn't give to have had that experience. When I worked at an all Ubuntu programming shop, every time a new version was released there would be a few guys who lost two or three days trying to fix what the update broke. My home computer would still be running Ubuntu if it hadn't hosed something in the upgrade.
RT: @rs79 "I say anything that slows down the spread of those fucking annoying twitter people is a good thing and he should be awarded a medal.
Tweet this, bitch."
I always thought it probably had to do with the fact that the editors who choose which letters to print would want to choose a balanced view anyway, so they'd print as many of one side as they would the other, regardless of the actual ratio that came in.
I'm fairly certain that, were you to be into kiddie porn, you'd be looking at it more than necessary and be noticed by those around you or be caught with it outside an investigation. It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would work out quite as well as you're implying.
I agree, and I'm technical enough to get those applications to run. I just hate the OS making me hack it to make it work. I love the ability to recompile the kernel or manually configure my network settings, but I hate being forced to. Ubuntu is by far the best I've ever tried in this regard, but it's still miles away from Windows or OSX.