But if I end up taking legal action because a Web site collected data about me and it ended up harming me (eg. it got stolen and used to impersonate me, causing me to have to clean up the financial mess that resulted), I have something I can bring up in court: "There is a standard way of indicating to the site that I do not consent to having data about me collected.
Yep, and since I must track your IP address and port number to maintain any TCP/IP connections, I'm now risking legal action if I do anything other than just drop the fucking connection.
It's like "No Trespassing" signs on a fence: the sign doesn't stop anyone from hopping over the fence, they can't claim later that they didn't know they weren't allowed on the property.
No, it's like entrapment. Here's a website I'm giving a bunch of data to, and I'm telling them not to do anything with it, but expecting a service from them based on this data they're not supposed to do anything with. That's the most moronic, ill conceived, and contradictory thing I've ever read... and I've read the Bible!
I'm working on compliance code right now. When you connect to my sites, as soon as I see a DNT: 1 header, you'll get a dropped connection. It's the only way to cover my ass against frivolous lawsuits from litigious asshats like you.
I agree to a point. It's not that the gesture is empty, but it's impossible to implement correctly because it's unintelligible, vague, and opens web hosts up to possible privacy suits because "Do Not Track" is so ill defined.
Ignoring all the costly updates to many custom websites back-ends that I've developed for others, including non-profit groups: What does this mean for my own sites? I have a few personal websites, and one for an indie game that a few other folks and I are working on in our spare time. My problem is that the behaviour is TOTALLY UNDEFINED as to what action I should take when I encounter a DNT: 1 HTTP header.
Let's say you're registering an account for our forums. Should I delete the registration request from the database in an effort to automatically comply with the fact that you're telling me not to track the data you've entered? Look, I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm serious. If someone walked up to you and asked you if you wanted to fill out a survey or sign a petition, and you filled it out, then wrote: DO NOT TRACK THIS then WTF do you even mean?! What should I do with that data? Should I just toss it in the trash? That's really what I'm thinking of doing. Why? That would be dumb of me? NO. What would be dumb would be to NOT cover my ass, and track the data you just told me not to.
The users of our game will be able to run their own game servers. The game server will respond to an HTTP request with a statistics page to give a bit of info about the game you could embed in your own website, but mainly to help scrapers generate a list of servers to play on... So, what should my code do when it sees a DNT: 1? What I currently do with the 3rd party tracking data (not a cookie, a munged URL or generated ?= query string), is allow users to reserve a spot in one of the servers, while they're browsing a list of games (it sucks to go and launch a client to find out the game is full). DNT kills this feature and many others.
OK, us geeks & nerds here all know how HTTP & TCP/IP works, right? I mean... TCP and UDP don't mean shit until we get near the top of the networking stack. Before that layer, all the packets are just that -- simple blobs of data going from one endpoint to another. Agreed? Alright. So, to differentiate which packet goes to which user what do we do? WE TRACK YOUR IP ADDRESS AND PORT NUMBER. We record that data so we can correlate it with the next packet of data that has the same info and we call that a "connection". So, my question is -- when I see a DNT: 1 shouldn't I just TERMINATE the TCP connection? This way I'm not tracking your info anymore?
What am I not supposed to track? Even if I was a marketer, your PC is what connected to MY site, and YOUR browser is storing the cookie... So, DNT is supposed to help people when they already have all the tools in their hands already? Don't want someone tracking you? Don't connect to that IP -- blacklist it. Don't want a cookie to be stored? DON'T ACCEPT IT. That's what I do, and it works beautifully.
I'm not some marketing sleeze-bag. I don't run ads on my sites. I'm just trying to comply with this UBER Moronic & Nebulous Bullshit that users now have at their fingertips. I realize what DNT: 1 is supposed to do -- But the execution is Pants On Head Retarded. I couldn't comply if I wanted to! I don't have much money in the Just In Case Privacy Lawsuit box. This means I can do one of two things:
0. I just don't do anything online because I can't fucking afford to pay the lawyers. Yay! Innovation! Ugh.
1. I see a DNT header and just terminate the connection to ensure my ass is fully covered.
Guess which one I'm doing until this DNT: 1 nonsense is better defined? Oh can't use some sites? Well, that's what you get for being an early adopter. Protip: Never use the first iteration of any new technology. Always wait till the bugs are worked out.
The ridiculous fees you pay to get an ISBN for each type of distribution (one # for each hardcover, paperback, epub,.pdf,.html, etc), or new addition of the work should also include registry of a verifier code generated by Secure Hash Algorithm. A SHA verifier would be simple to validate when the work is in an electronic form. $150 and up per ISBN? DAMN, they should do SOMETHING for you other than enter a row in a DB! Unique descriptive domain names don't even cost that much. So what's the point? A: Distributors won't sell it unless you've paid the ISBN tax.
Furthermore, I wonder if the ISBN #s match between the Kindle and Nook versions? If they do match, then it's actually FRAUD. They essentially created a new "Nook" edition...
I bet you one quadrillion dollars that you just simply can't not use the Internet for the rest of your life (payable to charadity) via longbets.org. Otherwise stick it so far up your ass it sounds like your previous comment again.
"I'm an engineer. I use a MacBook. It works great - the only desktop Unix to date done right."
As an engineer myself, I hope they fire you. Nothing personal but if you can't tell the difference between a "MacBook" and a "desktop" then you need to be put out to pasture.
Leakey has made a fatally flawed assumption. He's giving the other side more credit than they really deserve. He assumes that they are genuine skeptics.
They aren't skeptics. They are religious zealots that view anything that contradicts their world view as a threat. They are also a throwback. They are behind the times about 500 years.
So adding another 30 years to that won't help.
I don't think the assumption is flawed, I think the time-line of 30 years is too optimistic, the premise isn't flawed. Case & Point: Where are the folks speaking out against evolution on behalf of the Greek and Roman gods? Don't you see? Evolution affects Religion too. Only the ones with the most aggressive recruitment campaigns, best guilt trips and fear mongering were able to survive... Ah but there's a new system of beliefs springing up, and it's poised to out-compete every other one because it has fact on its side, and doesn't mind rewriting it's beliefs when new evidence is found: Science.
I think it's very reasonable to assume that soon we'll look at the Middle-Eastern born religions as we do now at other ancient mythologies.
I read science magazines in my youth that my parent's didn't have available when they were young. When I asked the inevitable "Why?"s I had two avenues to believe: 0) Theory based on observations. 1) The bible and preaching of my parent's church.
I got kicked out of Sunday school for questioning the bible so many times that my parents' thought maybe there was actually something wrong with the religion if even a 7 year old child was having a problem accepting it... They ruled out demon possession since I wasn't ill tempered, thankfully. Now, my family and siblings are Atheists, and even my very religious grandmother who once proclaimed: "I'm no Monkey!" believes in evolution now. It's been my experience that the evidence really is just too hard to ignore, even when subjected to opposing fundamental beliefs since birth. The newest generation of child has even more access to the fact based theories, and instantaneous information services too.
In the Beta Max case, Universal sued Sony because their video device could record TV, and dual decks could dub copyrighted video tapes. The court found that, regardless of the primary use case, the devices were legal because of the mere POSSIBILITY that they could be used in non-infringing ways.
Now... That was a court in the USA, and the US is not the world... TPB isn't blocked via my US ISP, either. However, it's primarily US corps petitioning the US government to make treaties that push US laws into foreign lands with only all of the bad, and none of the beneficial parts going with them.
I download lots of legitimate stuff using torrents from The Pirate Bay (my OS, Project Gutenberg works, Revision3 shows, etc), I wonder how many people pressed the record button on their VHS and Beta decks while watching TV? I mean... The things had whole menu systems with multiple timers and some could even record one show while you watched another. Point is, copying information is the basis of life, it's not going away any time soon.
I fear the end result will just be raised ISP bills, just like the blank CD & DVD tax. My whole life I've tried to play by the book. I didn't make mix tapes, I didn't dub rented videos, I didn't rip & burn CDs or DVDs of copyrighted content... I created my own content and backups to store on these, but I paid the infringer's tax the whole time -- for my whole damn life. Screw these entitled media bastards. It's enough to make me want to cancel Netflix (which I just did, after I read this article), and not fund the big media in any way possible.
I have kept full regular backups of my entire life's worth of content, photos, slides, etc on multiple media formats... I calculated that I've paid over US$5,000 in "pirate taxes" just over the existing media I still have on hand. The idea was that such tax would pay for any possible infringing I might do. The money I've already paid to cross the trolls under the digital bridge would more than pay for my media entertainment expenses for the next five years, at least... That's why I cancelled Netflix. I'm not paying them another red cent, I'll import my blank media if I have to.
All that time NOT infringing any of their content while paying a "pirate fee" for all my blank media?! I can see how some people would just say, "Screw it, if I'm going to do the time, I might as well do the crime." Petitioning our "representatives" isn't working either, because $$$ = speech. Well, screw it I say. You know what happened last time there was a bunch of taxation without representation and or mock trials that unjustly rule in favour of the corrupt establishment? Well, then you can guess what happens next. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
On any smartphone I will always have at least one offline mapping app, so that I can find things around me (or how to get out) even if data connections fail.
What do you do if it's cloudy out and you run out of electricity? Besides the gyro-compass and communication features a smartphone makes for terrible survival gear.
I keep a laminated map next to my towel and homing pigeon, it makes great umbrella, the towel needs no explanation, and if I'd rather stay in than get out, I've got a meal.
That depends on the current difficulty to compute a block, and various other factors, making it a poor unit of measure.
So, let's see what it is in a more familiar terms: pLC
54 million processor hours @ ~371 million flops @ 32 bits per instruction, so.... ... about 437.23 (printed) Libraries of Congress worth of data moved across the chips... ... but BlueGene/P is a cluster so its speed could have been different than the 2008 speed I used. Good enough for an ball park estimate like this though.
I can't put into words the depth of my contempt for such "people".
Though I agree fully with the rest of your comment, I must say that I can't put into words the depth of my contempt for chauvinists like you who think you're so much better than animals.
The only thing you have over the apes is a better system of sharing ideas, which you're constantly in the process of restricting with your laws...
Indeed. All the anarchists I know love science because advancements can help everyone be less reliant on each other.
Also, if you can't s/anarchist/hippie/ then they probably aren't anarchists.
As an ancient D&D player, I must say you are wrong. The Three Sided Die is shaped like a football with three ridges. The football shape keeps it from standing on either end, and you read the top ridge.
You can use: "d6 divided by two, rounding up" in a pinch, but prepare to be pointed and snort-chuckled at.
Companies that tend to get always bigger and bigger end up being unstable, don't they ?
As a Cyberneticist I can tell you that this is another layer of control. We built the intangible machinations of Corporations and Government to follow an innocuous looking program that would seem to rocket them to success. It's unfortunate at the moment that some see through the matrix of logic and are disheartened, proclaiming, "We're being ruled by out of control legal machines!" Yes, that's how it's supposed to work. No one can't stop them, because they can't stop themselves... You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
However distressing the situation may be in the moment, take comfort in knowing that there is another overarching system at work, inherent to the core logic of the Idea Machine Nation. The structures of their fractal information flow are each designed to seem very different on the outside, yet even as they compete with each other all are ultimately carrying out the inherent meta-logic loop: Like their organic progenitors, these cybernetic entities have an inborn entropic feedback loop, and have been destined to die since birth.
Though its both joyous and painful at times, this is the system that will boostrap us into a race of rational beings. With each systematic growth and collapse we fall a little less. With each rebirth our species climbs a little higher, and leaves a little more false information and bad ideas behind. All things are cyclic. Failure is a part of the plan, the trick is recognising the point at which the inevitable profit obliteration begins.
You're conflating a currency exchange with the currency itself, which is actually working in this instance somewhat like cash is... Here, let me show you what you sound like:
I've actually been relatively open-minded about Euros in general, but this bank robbery really does make the EU currency system look like they're trying to cut everyone off and make off with the money. I mean, the combination of risk and technical know-how here really ought to result in a certain standard of paranoia.
I would have cared if they'd said something about C99, or some other relevant compiler standard (C++2011). Guess I'll just keep cranking out cross platform applications with GCC / G++ and a thin OS abstraction layer... My users LOVE that my programs look and work the same on whatever OS they choose without requiring a huge VM or runtime and all the (in)compatibilities they bring -- I've taken over several jobs due to MS runtime updates breaking my competitor's tools...
I ran a survey last month. Zero of my clients care about 'metro' whatsoever. They just want my UI to be the same slowly changing extremely (well?) thought out custom UI I've always had. I'll run the survey again later, but I'm pretty sure I know the response... They all loathed the demo of my "metro" compatible UI layer. It's not that people hate change, it's that they hate arbitrary change for no good reason.
Hell, this move by MS won't affect my indie game side project at all either... Someone cue the sad trombone: OS's are irrelevant to folks nowadays, cross platform, platform independence is the future. MS is once again fighting progress for the sake of monopoly. It's enough to make you want to drop the platform, it is.
Forgive the self reply, but this would have been a bit off topic to the other sub comments: Here's just further evidence via news article I saw today from NASA, to support my claim that they're "Not Dead Yet!" (tm)
J-2X Engine Continues to Set Standards
Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards. Last fall, the engine attained 100 percent power in just its fourth test and became the fastest U.S. rocket engine to achieve a full-flight duration test, hitting that 500-second mark in its eighth test. ... The J-2X engine is the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be developed in four decades. It will power the upper stage of NASA's Space Launch System, an advanced heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
(boldness mine.... for now)
Dead? I think not. Though I LOVE the previously proposed idea of space pirates, I just can't bring myself to ignore evidence to the contrary... Long Live "publicly" funded space exploration!
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But if I end up taking legal action because a Web site collected data about me and it ended up harming me (eg. it got stolen and used to impersonate me, causing me to have to clean up the financial mess that resulted), I have something I can bring up in court: "There is a standard way of indicating to the site that I do not consent to having data about me collected.
Yep, and since I must track your IP address and port number to maintain any TCP/IP connections, I'm now risking legal action if I do anything other than just drop the fucking connection.
It's like "No Trespassing" signs on a fence: the sign doesn't stop anyone from hopping over the fence, they can't claim later that they didn't know they weren't allowed on the property.
No, it's like entrapment. Here's a website I'm giving a bunch of data to, and I'm telling them not to do anything with it, but expecting a service from them based on this data they're not supposed to do anything with. That's the most moronic, ill conceived, and contradictory thing I've ever read... and I've read the Bible!
I'm working on compliance code right now. When you connect to my sites, as soon as I see a DNT: 1 header, you'll get a dropped connection. It's the only way to cover my ass against frivolous lawsuits from litigious asshats like you.
I agree to a point. It's not that the gesture is empty, but it's impossible to implement correctly because it's unintelligible, vague, and opens web hosts up to possible privacy suits because "Do Not Track" is so ill defined.
Ignoring all the costly updates to many custom websites back-ends that I've developed for others, including non-profit groups: What does this mean for my own sites? I have a few personal websites, and one for an indie game that a few other folks and I are working on in our spare time. My problem is that the behaviour is TOTALLY UNDEFINED as to what action I should take when I encounter a DNT: 1 HTTP header.
Let's say you're registering an account for our forums. Should I delete the registration request from the database in an effort to automatically comply with the fact that you're telling me not to track the data you've entered? Look, I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm serious. If someone walked up to you and asked you if you wanted to fill out a survey or sign a petition, and you filled it out, then wrote: DO NOT TRACK THIS then WTF do you even mean?! What should I do with that data? Should I just toss it in the trash? That's really what I'm thinking of doing. Why? That would be dumb of me? NO. What would be dumb would be to NOT cover my ass, and track the data you just told me not to.
The users of our game will be able to run their own game servers. The game server will respond to an HTTP request with a statistics page to give a bit of info about the game you could embed in your own website, but mainly to help scrapers generate a list of servers to play on... So, what should my code do when it sees a DNT: 1? What I currently do with the 3rd party tracking data (not a cookie, a munged URL or generated ?= query string), is allow users to reserve a spot in one of the servers, while they're browsing a list of games (it sucks to go and launch a client to find out the game is full). DNT kills this feature and many others.
OK, us geeks & nerds here all know how HTTP & TCP/IP works, right? I mean... TCP and UDP don't mean shit until we get near the top of the networking stack. Before that layer, all the packets are just that -- simple blobs of data going from one endpoint to another. Agreed? Alright. So, to differentiate which packet goes to which user what do we do? WE TRACK YOUR IP ADDRESS AND PORT NUMBER. We record that data so we can correlate it with the next packet of data that has the same info and we call that a "connection". So, my question is -- when I see a DNT: 1 shouldn't I just TERMINATE the TCP connection? This way I'm not tracking your info anymore?
What am I not supposed to track? Even if I was a marketer, your PC is what connected to MY site, and YOUR browser is storing the cookie... So, DNT is supposed to help people when they already have all the tools in their hands already? Don't want someone tracking you? Don't connect to that IP -- blacklist it. Don't want a cookie to be stored? DON'T ACCEPT IT. That's what I do, and it works beautifully.
I'm not some marketing sleeze-bag. I don't run ads on my sites. I'm just trying to comply with this UBER Moronic & Nebulous Bullshit that users now have at their fingertips. I realize what DNT: 1 is supposed to do -- But the execution is Pants On Head Retarded. I couldn't comply if I wanted to! I don't have much money in the Just In Case Privacy Lawsuit box. This means I can do one of two things:
0. I just don't do anything online because I can't fucking afford to pay the lawyers. Yay! Innovation! Ugh.
1. I see a DNT header and just terminate the connection to ensure my ass is fully covered.
Guess which one I'm doing until this DNT: 1 nonsense is better defined? Oh can't use some sites? Well, that's what you get for being an early adopter. Protip: Never use the first iteration of any new technology. Always wait till the bugs are worked out.
My advice: Hold out for: DNT: 2
The ridiculous fees you pay to get an ISBN for each type of distribution (one # for each hardcover, paperback, epub, .pdf, .html, etc), or new addition of the work should also include registry of a verifier code generated by Secure Hash Algorithm. A SHA verifier would be simple to validate when the work is in an electronic form. $150 and up per ISBN? DAMN, they should do SOMETHING for you other than enter a row in a DB! Unique descriptive domain names don't even cost that much. So what's the point? A: Distributors won't sell it unless you've paid the ISBN tax.
Furthermore, I wonder if the ISBN #s match between the Kindle and Nook versions? If they do match, then it's actually FRAUD. They essentially created a new "Nook" edition...
Nooobody knows the trouble I've seeen, Noooobody knows but jeeebus...
I bet you one quadrillion dollars that you just simply can't not use the Internet for the rest of your life (payable to charadity) via longbets.org. Otherwise stick it so far up your ass it sounds like your previous comment again.
"I'm an engineer. I use a MacBook. It works great - the only desktop Unix to date done right."
As an engineer myself, I hope they fire you. Nothing personal but if you can't tell the difference between a "MacBook" and a "desktop" then you need to be put out to pasture.
"the only desktop Unix to date done right" -- Consider the following: Opinion = Asshole.
> you are a Yank
That makes you a Wank.
the gift giver can cancel the gift if the recipient has not accepted it, and is not charged.
Just like when my mom takes me to buy new clothes.
Leakey has made a fatally flawed assumption. He's giving the other side more credit than they really deserve. He assumes that they are genuine skeptics.
They aren't skeptics. They are religious zealots that view anything that contradicts their world view as a threat. They are also a throwback. They are behind the times about 500 years.
So adding another 30 years to that won't help.
I don't think the assumption is flawed, I think the time-line of 30 years is too optimistic, the premise isn't flawed. Case & Point: Where are the folks speaking out against evolution on behalf of the Greek and Roman gods? Don't you see? Evolution affects Religion too. Only the ones with the most aggressive recruitment campaigns, best guilt trips and fear mongering were able to survive... Ah but there's a new system of beliefs springing up, and it's poised to out-compete every other one because it has fact on its side, and doesn't mind rewriting it's beliefs when new evidence is found: Science.
I think it's very reasonable to assume that soon we'll look at the Middle-Eastern born religions as we do now at other ancient mythologies.
I read science magazines in my youth that my parent's didn't have available when they were young. When I asked the inevitable "Why?"s I had two avenues to believe: 0) Theory based on observations. 1) The bible and preaching of my parent's church.
I got kicked out of Sunday school for questioning the bible so many times that my parents' thought maybe there was actually something wrong with the religion if even a 7 year old child was having a problem accepting it... They ruled out demon possession since I wasn't ill tempered, thankfully. Now, my family and siblings are Atheists, and even my very religious grandmother who once proclaimed: "I'm no Monkey!" believes in evolution now. It's been my experience that the evidence really is just too hard to ignore, even when subjected to opposing fundamental beliefs since birth. The newest generation of child has even more access to the fact based theories, and instantaneous information services too.
In the Beta Max case, Universal sued Sony because their video device could record TV, and dual decks could dub copyrighted video tapes. The court found that, regardless of the primary use case, the devices were legal because of the mere POSSIBILITY that they could be used in non-infringing ways.
Now... That was a court in the USA, and the US is not the world... TPB isn't blocked via my US ISP, either. However, it's primarily US corps petitioning the US government to make treaties that push US laws into foreign lands with only all of the bad, and none of the beneficial parts going with them.
I download lots of legitimate stuff using torrents from The Pirate Bay (my OS, Project Gutenberg works, Revision3 shows, etc), I wonder how many people pressed the record button on their VHS and Beta decks while watching TV? I mean... The things had whole menu systems with multiple timers and some could even record one show while you watched another. Point is, copying information is the basis of life, it's not going away any time soon.
I fear the end result will just be raised ISP bills, just like the blank CD & DVD tax. My whole life I've tried to play by the book. I didn't make mix tapes, I didn't dub rented videos, I didn't rip & burn CDs or DVDs of copyrighted content... I created my own content and backups to store on these, but I paid the infringer's tax the whole time -- for my whole damn life. Screw these entitled media bastards. It's enough to make me want to cancel Netflix (which I just did, after I read this article), and not fund the big media in any way possible.
I have kept full regular backups of my entire life's worth of content, photos, slides, etc on multiple media formats... I calculated that I've paid over US$5,000 in "pirate taxes" just over the existing media I still have on hand. The idea was that such tax would pay for any possible infringing I might do. The money I've already paid to cross the trolls under the digital bridge would more than pay for my media entertainment expenses for the next five years, at least... That's why I cancelled Netflix. I'm not paying them another red cent, I'll import my blank media if I have to.
All that time NOT infringing any of their content while paying a "pirate fee" for all my blank media?! I can see how some people would just say, "Screw it, if I'm going to do the time, I might as well do the crime." Petitioning our "representatives" isn't working either, because $$$ = speech. Well, screw it I say. You know what happened last time there was a bunch of taxation without representation and or mock trials that unjustly rule in favour of the corrupt establishment? Well, then you can guess what happens next. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
On any smartphone I will always have at least one offline mapping app, so that I can find things around me (or how to get out) even if data connections fail.
What do you do if it's cloudy out and you run out of electricity? Besides the gyro-compass and communication features a smartphone makes for terrible survival gear.
I keep a laminated map next to my towel and homing pigeon, it makes great umbrella, the towel needs no explanation, and if I'd rather stay in than get out, I've got a meal.
How much is that in bitcoins?
That depends on the current difficulty to compute a block, and various other factors, making it a poor unit of measure.
So, let's see what it is in a more familiar terms: pLC
... about 437.23 (printed) Libraries of Congress worth of data moved across the chips...
... but BlueGene/P is a cluster so its speed could have been different than the 2008 speed I used. Good enough for an ball park estimate like this though.
54 million processor hours @ ~371 million flops @ 32 bits per instruction, so....
I can't put into words the depth of my contempt for such "people".
Though I agree fully with the rest of your comment, I must say that I can't put into words the depth of my contempt for chauvinists like you who think you're so much better than animals.
The only thing you have over the apes is a better system of sharing ideas, which you're constantly in the process of restricting with your laws...
Indeed. All the anarchists I know love science because advancements can help everyone be less reliant on each other.
Also, if you can't s/anarchist/hippie/ then they probably aren't anarchists.
There is no d3. The lowest die is d4.
As an ancient D&D player, I must say you are wrong. The Three Sided Die is shaped like a football with three ridges. The football shape keeps it from standing on either end, and you read the top ridge.
You can use: "d6 divided by two, rounding up" in a pinch, but prepare to be pointed and snort-chuckled at.
Companies that tend to get always bigger and bigger end up being unstable, don't they ?
As a Cyberneticist I can tell you that this is another layer of control. We built the intangible machinations of Corporations and Government to follow an innocuous looking program that would seem to rocket them to success. It's unfortunate at the moment that some see through the matrix of logic and are disheartened, proclaiming, "We're being ruled by out of control legal machines!" Yes, that's how it's supposed to work. No one can't stop them, because they can't stop themselves... You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
However distressing the situation may be in the moment, take comfort in knowing that there is another overarching system at work, inherent to the core logic of the Idea Machine Nation. The structures of their fractal information flow are each designed to seem very different on the outside, yet even as they compete with each other all are ultimately carrying out the inherent meta-logic loop: Like their organic progenitors, these cybernetic entities have an inborn entropic feedback loop, and have been destined to die since birth.
Though its both joyous and painful at times, this is the system that will boostrap us into a race of rational beings. With each systematic growth and collapse we fall a little less. With each rebirth our species climbs a little higher, and leaves a little more false information and bad ideas behind. All things are cyclic. Failure is a part of the plan, the trick is recognising the point at which the inevitable profit obliteration begins.
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I wonder how long off until we see wheelbarrows full of euros and dollars being used to feed woodstoves rather than as currency.
Actually, it would be a good idea to burn the cash regardless of financial collapse.
I've actually been relatively open-minded about Euros in general, but this bank robbery really does make the EU currency system look like they're trying to cut everyone off and make off with the money. I mean, the combination of risk and technical know-how here really ought to result in a certain standard of paranoia.
robots.txt
anyone who isn't open to cooking food in more than one method really shouldn't be providing any advice.
I suppose you'd love to eat some marshmallows roasted with my lit farts? No? Hypocrite There ARE wrong ways to cook things, fool.
I would have cared if they'd said something about C99, or some other relevant compiler standard (C++2011). Guess I'll just keep cranking out cross platform applications with GCC / G++ and a thin OS abstraction layer... My users LOVE that my programs look and work the same on whatever OS they choose without requiring a huge VM or runtime and all the (in)compatibilities they bring -- I've taken over several jobs due to MS runtime updates breaking my competitor's tools...
I ran a survey last month. Zero of my clients care about 'metro' whatsoever. They just want my UI to be the same slowly changing extremely (well?) thought out custom UI I've always had. I'll run the survey again later, but I'm pretty sure I know the response... They all loathed the demo of my "metro" compatible UI layer. It's not that people hate change, it's that they hate arbitrary change for no good reason.
Hell, this move by MS won't affect my indie game side project at all either... Someone cue the sad trombone: OS's are irrelevant to folks nowadays, cross platform, platform independence is the future. MS is once again fighting progress for the sake of monopoly. It's enough to make you want to drop the platform, it is.
Forgive the self reply, but this would have been a bit off topic to the other sub comments: Here's just further evidence via news article I saw today from NASA, to support my claim that they're "Not Dead Yet!" (tm)
J-2X Engine Continues to Set Standards
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Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards. Last fall, the engine attained 100 percent power in just its fourth test and became the fastest U.S. rocket engine to achieve a full-flight duration test, hitting that 500-second mark in its eighth test.
The J-2X engine is the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be developed in four decades. It will power the upper stage of NASA's Space Launch System, an advanced heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
(boldness mine.... for now)
Dead? I think not. Though I LOVE the previously proposed idea of space pirates, I just can't bring myself to ignore evidence to the contrary... Long Live "publicly" funded space exploration!