You can identify an autistic mouse the same way as an autistic human, or any other mammal: Look inside its brain.
Seriously? Gut bacteria... For neurological structural issues? I mean, that's like blaming a fever on a nasal drip, or blaming a warp core breach on a tachyon emitter malfunction.
Look, we need to just ditch psychology. That's just confirmation bias: "Autism like", fucking please stop. Let the folks like neurologists and cyberneticians, who study how behaviours actually occur via observable evidence and testable models, come up with the distinctions. Remember how the DSM is basically just bullshit? Remember how Autism Spectrum Disorder was punted because there was no observable link to reality thus the term doesn't mean a damn thing? Thus taking Asperger's syndrome out too? No? Then shut the fuck up and go educate yourself. Psychology isn't a science, its confirmation bias that doesn't hold up to the null hypothesis: the hypothesis that similarities of a group are nothing more than self selected hogwash. Science requires the null hypothesis to be disproved before you write a damn prescription. How does that make you feel?
the more risk-averse would be very, very, jumpy about taking 'anonymous coward' at his word that they are authorized to use a given piece of code under the terms of whatever license, that he is even the author, and so forth. That might hinder adoption.
That's why SQLite and other programs have so many problems with adopting a "public domain" license: For all intents and purposes the public domain can not contain new works. Even if I say my code is in the public domain, I can change my mind at any later point and sue you. MIT, GPL, etc. is needed because you must expressly permit use to assure the users they won't be sued.
From SQLite copyright:
Even though SQLite is in the public domain and does not require a license, some users want to obtain a license anyway. Some reasons for obtaining a license include:
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the public domain.
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain.
You want to hold a tangible legal document as evidence that you have the legal right to use and distribute SQLite.
Your legal department tells you that you have to purchase a license.
If you feel like you really have to purchase a license for SQLite, Hwaci, the company that employs the architect and principal developers of SQLite, will sell you one.
Yay! Open source you need to pay a license fee for to cover your ass! Public Domain? No thanks. Note that to contribute code you have to jump through a bunch of legal hoops too. It's just dumb.
GP:
Is it legally possible to author and licence an opensource project without disclosing your identity?
Talk about fixing the wrong fucking problem. Gah. Source code by itself is language. Punishing folks for language is evil. I agree we need a way to drop rights to works, and to anonymously publish -- You can publish code on a paste-bin fairly anonymously through TOR. Promoting and Maintaining it is another ball of wax.
Is it legally possible to author and licence an opensource project without disclosing your identity?
What's a more pertinent question is: Shouldn't it be legal to distribute source code since end users that have to compile and run it to break the law themselves?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to distribute data, even if it's executable, because distribution and analysis of information shouldn't be a crime?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to publish books without going to jail for their content?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to have public discussions without going to jail for their content?
To put it another way: Shouldn't their encounter with the Stasi have taught Germans that laws like these are a bad idea?
To create your games, you will be using the Goo platform consisting of Goo Engine – a 3D JavaScript gaming engine entirely built on WebGL/HTML5 – and Goo Create – a visual editing tool running on top of the engine.
Fuck that. I've already got a cross platform engine with runtimes for Android / WebGL / PC (lin, mac, win). My game script compiles to interpretable bytecode or into C, JS, Java, and am working on ASM.js -- though it's a shitty target for so many reasons: no function references (function pointers? no, use a big slow switch), only a single heap, no heap offsets for int views (extra offset addition for each "instance" variable in OOP implementations), can't share heaps between ASM.js programs (OH FUCK WHY? I could see per thread limits, but per context?!) no handing off of array buffers between threads (must stringify; no point to multi threading), no instantiating multiple ASM.js programs; pass program as a string to Function() constructor as workaround. WTF is this shit? It's obviously single mindedly designed to be used as a target for Emscripten and could be MUCH more performant if any other use case was considered during ASM.js design./rant
Anyhow. I'm getting equivalent or better performance in ASM.js than in C for some things like fixed-point physics system and SHA2 hash functions (yes, even with optimizations on). I really hate the shit-pile we've made of the web through poorly thought out designs like ASM.js or TLS/SSL+HTML (secure pages can't have mixed content for caching because resource tags don't include (salted) hashes <img... hash="base64/sha-1; 15a0ed...99b">... morons), but hardware is getting fast enough it doesn't mater (still a nightmare for security though). I'd compete in the game challenge -- my code even runs on Mozilla's FirefoxOS -- However this "challenge" is really just a Mozilla backed push for vendor lock-in by Goo Engine, IMO. No fucking thanks. I will not be locked in to any platform EVER AGAIN, that goes especially for "engines" or "approved" compiler tool chains or shit like C# that only pretends to work outside of Microsoft, I'm still pissed that Apple wouldn't let anyone target iOS with meta programming tools. No fucking way will I support Mozilla doing the same shit.
Competitions such as these that dictate the toolchain are a bad idea. Love that samey look in games that occurs because everyone's using a small selection of graphics and physics engines Unreal, ID's tech, Havok, Bullet, etc. because publishers won't talk to you unless you've licensed an approved engine? I do not. We finally got back a lot of control with pixel and vertex shaders that we had back in the software rasterization era (when everything looked different, except all the doom clones). It would be a shame to piss away the differentiation now. Fuck you Microzilla, that's what you're becoming, and I don't like it one bit.
As someone who studies organic and artificial neural networks -- Prove it. "Persevere" is such a complex emergent behaviour that there's not really one brain region responsible for it. For instance: When you're just about to have an orgasm, try to stop. It's difficult. There's a "will to persevere" during high pleasure activities, specifically at climax.
Adding energy to a system adds energy to a system...
The speed of light is also by definition the fastest information can travel.
We once thought the sound barrier was unbreakable. So far no matter can travel through space faster than light, but that won't stop us from using relativity to change the definition of travel. There is a horizon beyond which we can not currently see -- Galaxies are travelling away from us faster than the speed of light from them can reach us. Aren't they traveling faster than light? Oh, that's expansion... So, if it's space that's moving then the matter doesn't have to travel through space to achieve faster than light speeds.
Of course, since you're being metaphysical, I suppose one could argue that since information is made of matter that even if FTL drives enable us to reach our destination before light would it doesn't mean that our meanings mean the same things once we do so -- The information mightn't really travel with us, it'll be different by definition when it gets there due to entropy.
The pressure from the International markets is only a smidgen of what MS deserves for helping the NSA all theses years starting when they got the pork handouts to port Omnivore away from Unix (Solaris) to MS's systems in 1998, and create Carnivore -- despite everyone else in the military, etc. having POSIX requirements... And despite Linux existing in 1998 if "miniaturization" (PCs) were what they were shooting for. Yeah, MS has been in the thick of this shit for a good while. Snowden's privilege escalation makes a hell of a lot of sense if ECHELON, PRISM, etc are running on Microsoft Windows, eh? If a contractor like Snowden can do it, then state sponsored enemy spies can get at even more.
Oh, MS is going to show the governments the source code so they can be sure that there are no back doors in the compiled code they sell them -- AND UPDATE REMOTELY? Hell, even if they never installed updates and gave them compilers to build the code with they'd be subject to the Ken Thompson Hack. Might as well just write, "Promise there's no backdoors -- Love, Billy and Ballzy" on a post-it note. The code only gives the governments another way to look for exploits.
MS? Openness? What, they'll publish one set of encryption protocols and use a slightly different algorithm? Like when they made their Office document format open?
Screw me once, MS, shame on me. Actively screw me continually for the past two decades? For Shame.
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety and get IE6 instead." - Benjamin Franklin's Grave Rolling Ghost.
You will never get what you want if you hold out...
Well, this law provides protections from big companies from small companies, but doesn't actually protect small companies from large patent arsenals used to prevent innovation, and you call this is progre-- Wait a second.
BEEP BEEP. You are standing in the way of progress. Get out of the way.
Ah, of course. I had always suspected, but had no proof until today, that a contingent of A.C.s were actually Vogons.
Modern connection interfaces are complex enough that you need an IC to negotiate a connection before you can even get a LED blinking. Today's systems aren't exactly designed for hobbyists to build things.
Get an old beige box. You can solder a resistor and LED to the DTR pin of a serial port, and program it with a couple lines of assembly -- Oop, nope. The modern OSs aren't really designed for hobbyists to build things either. You'll be learning how to write a kernel driver for your OS if you use Linux. This is why I still use and make small DOS-esque OSs -- It's quite easy using BIOS interrupts. Also, you can still install DOS on nearly all x86-64 systems...
Data Terminal Ready is just one pin, but with it and the RxD / TxD pins you can build a simple lock-step electronic coms project on a serial port -- So you don't have to implement the whole RS232 chipset just to do a little manual IO. Parallel ports have many more such pins to play with, and don't require serialization either. That's why I teach kids to make robotics with DOS like OSs on my spare "junk" -- Because it's so much faster, cheaper, and easier than with USB, or even RS232 serializing and deserializing state -- Save that for when they get a bit more skilled. There's something almost magical to watching bits flip in memory by making and breaking electrical contacts; Folks immediately start thinking up ways to use such a thing. It's fun watching the scales fall from their eyes as kids realize computers aren't impenetrable black boxes full of voodoo. It's kind of funny that you have to buy a kit with ICs to make more transparent the interface provided by making and breaking pins on older hardware.
In my experience, once you get past a couple of LEDs or controlling higher voltage switches via contactors, etc. the next stop usually isn't a notification app for your system -- It's a breadboard full of gizmos, or using your PC to control your other gadgets.
Eg: Readers who liked TFA also liked LIRC. (swap the LED with IR-LED, and control your home theater setup)
Do not try to land the job with your mind, that is impossible. To land the job you must realize the truth: There is no job.
MS and other tech companies are lobbying for more H1B visa employees. In order to employ H1B visa workers they must demonstrate that they looked for local talent, but could not find any. They put out an ad in the paper, and then instruct their HR to find or invent any reason they can to not grant the position to any local workers, no matter how trivial. Then, they cry out that they need more STEM field college students meanwhile not employing very many locally thus making sure their theater of demand only exists overseas. Finally, they employ lower paid H1B workers, while driving down the acceptable pay through artificial scarcity of applicants, and continued unemployment. This allows them to get governments to agree with allocating more H1B employees, despite high local unemployment rates, and to allow more outsourcing with no additional tax / trade tariffs.
Hey Joe, Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
You bought a Chinese computer with a Chinese version of Windows in China and you were upset because there was no easy/free way to change it to English?
No, you dolt, they bought a general purpose computing device with a general purpose multi-language OS pre-installed on it and they were upset because, despite the fact that bits are in infinite supply, MS wanted to charge additionally for the language pack install instead of the price economics 101 would say an infinitely reproducible item would have: $0. That's why it costs nothing on Linux to switch languages: if ( supply == infinite ) price = ZERO;// Regardless of cost to create.
You know how to eliminate all piracy? Stop leveraging artificial scarcity laws. Authors, like mechanics and all other labor market workers have an infinite monopoly over their work before it's created. Market what's scarce -- The ability to do work -- not what's in infinite supply: 1's and 0's. Unsurprisingly, this is how I make a living creating FLOSS.
Maybe the lesson should have been "avoid wireless", not "avoid Microsoft".
Maybe just think outside of the box for once. Take your USB cable, plug it into your mouse pad. Now, near field induction to power your mouse or stylus. That's what I do with my Wacom mouse / pen tablet.
Soon no one will be able to do stuff on their own, as they will be sued into oblivion just for thinking about something.
I believe that's the point.
By the time these large companies patent everything and claim ownership of 'innovations' which had been around for years or were widespread knowledge already, the goal is to more or less ensure there's not a damned thing you can do with technology for which you won't be beholden to them.
It's rent-seeking on a large scale, and the governments are just handing it over to them.
At a certain point, it will be impossible for new companies to create anything at all, because the web of patents and the like will be so extensive we'll have only a few large players.
Welcome to the oligarchy of the future. It will only keep getting worse.
It is FAR worse than you imagine. The current patent laws state that it is not only illegal to sell an infringing technology, but to merely use it yourself. So, even if you, as I do, create your own hardware in your own garage without caring to look at the designs of others, and design hardware and compilers without even a single formal instruction on the topic at hand -- Being that such optimal designs are self evident simply from studying the cybernetic nature of interacting information pools. Even if you've NEVER looked through the patent database -- as all companies tell employees not to do, for risk of treble damages -- your own works can be seen infringing and taken from you. Is that an unlicensed homemade computer or circuit board or OS? Well, we'll be confiscating it for patent infringements. They do not do so currently, but the patent laws say they can prevent your use of technology you've invented independently yourself.
There is absolutely ZERO evidence that patents and copyrights are beneficial. The US plagiarized the Statute of Anne to include a provision for the development of copyright and patents. This is an ideological assumption, much like creationism: It's a good idea to think of things this way because that's the way we've always thought of things. No one has ever tested the damn hypothesis. No engineer or scientist should agree to run the world's economy based on unproven and untested hypotheses that copyright and patents are beneficial. What if they're very harmfull?! It's egregious to take that risk.
Let's examine the Telephone, invented by Elisha Gray, and yet awarded to Alexander Bell. Regardless of who is the rightful inventor, both worked on the problem. Both invested much time and energy. Gray was prevented from benefiting from his works, while Bell was granted a monopoly over the variable resistor solution. Telephone was actually an iteration. We already knew you could transmit language via wire telegraph, we knew you could transmit tones and sounds, but we just lacked the resolution of modulation required for speech. Look at the very symbol for an ingenious good idea -- The lightbulb. Edison did not invent the incandescent bulb! There were prior patents for it. If Edison hadn't existed we would still have found a cheap gas to fill the bulbs with and extend filament life -- Many were working on the problem, but the rich arrive at the solution sooner.
Patents have only ever benefited the big guys over the little guys. Artists, researchers, and scientists are foolishly accepting far too little up front pay for what is scarce: Their ability to do work. They bet their efforts away like gambling addicts in a copyright and patent futures market. So much talent is wasted on work that doesn't pan out, so many bright minds are lost to the economic and employment churn of betting on their future earnings. Even if you do invent something valuable, the Immortal Corporations can just wait 20 years before utilizing it. Instead of paying full price for the valuable act of research and creation o
Depends on how you define metadata. Nowadays the line between privacy, metadata and your last name, habits, shopping, etc seems to be a single "SELECT" line involving one or two tables.
The information is obviously a valuable law enforcement tool. Just like phone records, like wiretapping (under a judge auth.). At least my perception, way before snowden and all the latest leaks, was that this was actually happening. This is just a confirmation.
Would be great if, as in wiretapping, this would be supervised by justice, and used only in criminal investigations. Sound naive...i know
but that depends not just upon improving technology but also having a dense enough population of activist-enthusiasts.
No, it will depend on a Fidonet-esque infrastructure whereby most links are local and a few links are longer distance and higher powered. We have the technology to seek to noise free channels and scale signal strength according to noise so that near link frequencies can be reused nearby. Just like wired packet switching networks we will need store and forward -- the bigger the caches the better, so your friend who told you about that youtube vid will be one of the peers pushing it to you instead of ridiculously repeating content from end to end -- Free collocation.
We already have the technology, we've had it for decades. However, the FCC says store and forward is illegal on all our public access frequencies, and HAM licenses need to be relaxed. The airwaves belong to we the people. Cellular works. We just need the FCC to give us a section of airwaves to use and you'll have your free decentralized internet where you only pay once -- To buy the hardware and become a node -- Bigger node, faster connection. Bonus: Anonymity is inherent not only because it's routed through peers, but because the data doesn't have to come from the endpoint, it can come from next door.
"You have to have a sworn record before I can do something dramatic." Judge Alsup said he would consider the document if and when Ms. Mustafa Kamal arrives in San Francisco and can testify as to its authenticity.
A "false positive" occurs when a passenger who is not on the No Fly List has a name that matches or is similar to a name on the list. False positive passengers will not be allowed to board a flight unless they can differentiate themselves from the actual person on the list, usually by presenting ID showing their middle name or date of birth. In some cases, false positive passengers have been denied boarding or have missed flights because they could not easily prove that they were not the person on the No Fly List.
When an airline ticket is purchased, the reservation system uses software to compare the passenger's name against the No Fly List. If the name matches, or is similar to a name on the No Fly List, a restriction is placed in their reservation that prevents them from being issued a boarding pass until the airline has determined whether or not they are the actual person whose name is on the No Fly List.
In order for a citizen to comply with the laws it is essential that they be allowed to know the laws that apply to them. A restriction on flying, driving or status as a prisoner under arrest must be public information available to the citizens that such rules affect. The citizens can not protect themselves from secret rules they know nothing about. The system should have notified her at purchase that she was subject to a law which could require her facing additional government scrutiny. Judge Alsup should subpoena the no fly list as of the time Kamal purchased the airline ticket, and fucking check it himself -- He can write a Java range check program, so he can Ctrl+F a partial name match, or even look at the matching algorithm in use and see the evidence for himself.
IMO, he is right in desiring a sworn testimony of the wronged party before taking action on their behalf -- A higher court may throw out such actions without at least a party claiming damage. However, the government is NOT allowed to withhold evidence. The no-fly list is evidence. They're not allowed to tamper with witnesses either. The list may no longer contain her name, but it very well may have. If the witness can not get on the plane to fly to court then how in the flying fuck can they give their sworn testimony? The court wants the witness, they should pay the fucking air fare -- at least give a voucher redeemable for an equivalent to their mile-high club. The government created the damn problem in the first place, they're the ones who should have a taste of their own invasive inspection medicine.
In other words: If citizens should be assumed innocent until proven guilty -- The laws themselves should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
4) No. I've done nothing wrong, but fear that my political stance and cryptographic, OS development, and online research for fictional writing and game development will wrongfully place me in the cross-hairs of the surveillance state. Though metadata collection is too invasive, I continue to exercise my freedom of speech against my better judgment although I'm aware of the very real threat to myself and my loved ones. I remember the brave men who died for my freedom and the friends, family and neighbors who served for our country under the goal of upholding our constitution in the fight against enemies both foreign and domestic who would create dystopia through leveraging such Stasi-esque spying practices. If I do not uphold my end of the bargain and exercise my freedoms, then those brave soldiers sacrificed for nothing.
Protip: Voltage at your 120V outlet will fluctuate during the day connected to directly to the grid. It can go higher than 130 volts in some areas during peak times. This is why 130V incandescent light bulbs last longer, and why folks should clean the power to their electronics via UPS (uninterpreted power supply, not the brown shirts) in order to prevent disasters such as millions of transistors suddenly melting down in overload before suddenly being silenced... 110V is 120V -- 120V is sort of the defacto observed average, but not the actual maximum or minimum.
Source: My high multimeter count allows me to sense EM fields -- I'm keenly aware of disturbances in the force.
If you look at the choices they're different types of plants that provide different things: Basil / Cress, seasoning, greenery -- You eat the leaves. Turnip, a tuberous plant with starch / calories -- you eat the root. I recall a prior story about this that also listed Sunflower seeds: Oils, proteins -- You eat the seeds; And another small flowering plant which herpetologists have gene sequenced and use as a model... Can't recall its name, ATM.
Plant growth at Earth gravity has been well studied and there has been a lot of research on plant growth in microgravity on Shuttle and Space Station. Recently, ISS payloads have been able to simulate partial gravity (eg. Kiss et al. 2012, Planta 236, 635-645.). The surface of the Moon however is the only location in which the effects of both lunar gravity and lunar radiation on plant growth can be studied. Eventually human exploration of the Moon will require plant growth systems for life support. Germination is the first step in plant growth and thus forms the focus of this first experiment. We will also look for phototropism and circumnutation. The basic data from the experiment would be the growth rate, expressed as leaf area, over time. This would be extracted from images of the plant growth area. In addition image data would be collected to investigate both phototropism (plant motion in response to changes in position of the light source) and circumnutation (plant circular motion). The growth and movement of the plants on the Moon would be compared to similar data from Earth controls in identical growth units.
The growth rates will be important for determining how much space will be required to grow food to feed Astronauts who take extended trips to the moon base. Of course it'll have the crew rotated like the ISS due to atrophy in weaker gravity, but they may be able to stay longer on the moon's gravity than in orbital microgravity.
This research isn't a waste of money or publicity thing. The question isn't can we grow a plant on the moon, it's can we grow tasty edible things up there and eventually get a few of our eggs out of this one basket. The moon is made of the same ratios of elements the Earth is. This means we may eventually be able to dome over some craters or caves / mines, and get plants and microbes -- possibly genetically engineered life -- to break down the rock into organic chemical rich dirt and air, then grow other crops. We're a long way away from bio-dome construction and lunar microbes; However, we have the technology to launch and connect a lunar habitat, and possibly grow plants therein -- We already know for sure that plants can grow in near zero G.
Exposing seeds to UV or Cosmic Rays is one way to accelerate mutation and this is currently used to speed up cultivation of desirable traits in crops -- Moon crop technology could help feed people on Earth. I always think about space exploration when I brush my teeth with the non-toxic toothpaste and clean water sanitation system that NASA invented for Astronauts and terra lubbers alike.
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You can identify an autistic mouse the same way as an autistic human, or any other mammal: Look inside its brain.
Seriously? Gut bacteria... For neurological structural issues? I mean, that's like blaming a fever on a nasal drip, or blaming a warp core breach on a tachyon emitter malfunction.
Look, we need to just ditch psychology. That's just confirmation bias: "Autism like", fucking please stop. Let the folks like neurologists and cyberneticians, who study how behaviours actually occur via observable evidence and testable models, come up with the distinctions. Remember how the DSM is basically just bullshit? Remember how Autism Spectrum Disorder was punted because there was no observable link to reality thus the term doesn't mean a damn thing? Thus taking Asperger's syndrome out too? No? Then shut the fuck up and go educate yourself. Psychology isn't a science, its confirmation bias that doesn't hold up to the null hypothesis: the hypothesis that similarities of a group are nothing more than self selected hogwash. Science requires the null hypothesis to be disproved before you write a damn prescription. How does that make you feel?
the more risk-averse would be very, very, jumpy about taking 'anonymous coward' at his word that they are authorized to use a given piece of code under the terms of whatever license, that he is even the author, and so forth. That might hinder adoption.
That's why SQLite and other programs have so many problems with adopting a "public domain"
license: For all intents and purposes the public domain can not contain new works. Even if I say my code is in the public domain, I can change my mind at any later point and sue you. MIT, GPL, etc. is needed because you must expressly permit use to assure the users they won't be sued.
From SQLite copyright:
Even though SQLite is in the public domain and does not require a license, some users want to obtain a license anyway. Some reasons for obtaining a license include:
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the public domain.
You are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain.
You want to hold a tangible legal document as evidence that you have the legal right to use and distribute SQLite.
Your legal department tells you that you have to purchase a license.
If you feel like you really have to purchase a license for SQLite, Hwaci, the company that employs the architect and principal developers of SQLite, will sell you one.
Yay! Open source you need to pay a license fee for to cover your ass! Public Domain? No thanks. Note that to contribute code you have to jump through a bunch of legal hoops too. It's just dumb.
GP:
Is it legally possible to author and licence an opensource project without disclosing your identity?
Talk about fixing the wrong fucking problem. Gah. Source code by itself is language. Punishing folks for language is evil. I agree we need a way to drop rights to works, and to anonymously publish -- You can publish code on a paste-bin fairly anonymously through TOR. Promoting and Maintaining it is another ball of wax.
Is it legally possible to author and licence an opensource project without disclosing your identity?
What's a more pertinent question is: Shouldn't it be legal to distribute source code since end users that have to compile and run it to break the law themselves?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to distribute data, even if it's executable, because distribution and analysis of information shouldn't be a crime?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to publish books without going to jail for their content?
To put it another way: Shouldn't it be legal to have public discussions without going to jail for their content?
To put it another way: Shouldn't their encounter with the Stasi have taught Germans that laws like these are a bad idea?
To create your games, you will be using the Goo platform consisting of Goo Engine – a 3D JavaScript gaming engine entirely built on WebGL/HTML5 – and Goo Create – a visual editing tool running on top of the engine.
Fuck that. I've already got a cross platform engine with runtimes for Android / WebGL / PC (lin, mac, win). My game script compiles to interpretable bytecode or into C, JS, Java, and am working on ASM.js -- though it's a shitty target for so many reasons: no function references (function pointers? no, use a big slow switch), only a single heap, no heap offsets for int views (extra offset addition for each "instance" variable in OOP implementations), can't share heaps between ASM.js programs (OH FUCK WHY? I could see per thread limits, but per context?!) no handing off of array buffers between threads (must stringify; no point to multi threading), no instantiating multiple ASM.js programs; pass program as a string to Function() constructor as workaround. WTF is this shit? It's obviously single mindedly designed to be used as a target for Emscripten and could be MUCH more performant if any other use case was considered during ASM.js design. /rant
Anyhow. I'm getting equivalent or better performance in ASM.js than in C for some things like fixed-point physics system and SHA2 hash functions (yes, even with optimizations on). I really hate the shit-pile we've made of the web through poorly thought out designs like ASM.js or TLS/SSL+HTML (secure pages can't have mixed content for caching because resource tags don't include (salted) hashes <img ... hash="base64/sha-1; 15a0ed...99b">... morons), but hardware is getting fast enough it doesn't mater (still a nightmare for security though). I'd compete in the game challenge -- my code even runs on Mozilla's FirefoxOS -- However this "challenge" is really just a Mozilla backed push for vendor lock-in by Goo Engine, IMO. No fucking thanks. I will not be locked in to any platform EVER AGAIN, that goes especially for "engines" or "approved" compiler tool chains or shit like C# that only pretends to work outside of Microsoft, I'm still pissed that Apple wouldn't let anyone target iOS with meta programming tools. No fucking way will I support Mozilla doing the same shit.
Competitions such as these that dictate the toolchain are a bad idea. Love that samey look in games that occurs because everyone's using a small selection of graphics and physics engines Unreal, ID's tech, Havok, Bullet, etc. because publishers won't talk to you unless you've licensed an approved engine? I do not. We finally got back a lot of control with pixel and vertex shaders that we had back in the software rasterization era (when everything looked different, except all the doom clones). It would be a shame to piss away the differentiation now. Fuck you Microzilla, that's what you're becoming, and I don't like it one bit.
Burn you brighter, live you shorter. I do not recommend over clocking your organic brains. Consider a hardware upgrade instead.
As someone who studies organic and artificial neural networks -- Prove it. "Persevere" is such a complex emergent behaviour that there's not really one brain region responsible for it. For instance: When you're just about to have an orgasm, try to stop. It's difficult. There's a "will to persevere" during high pleasure activities, specifically at climax.
Adding energy to a system adds energy to a system...
The speed of light is also by definition the fastest information can travel.
We once thought the sound barrier was unbreakable. So far no matter can travel through space faster than light, but that won't stop us from using relativity to change the definition of travel. There is a horizon beyond which we can not currently see -- Galaxies are travelling away from us faster than the speed of light from them can reach us. Aren't they traveling faster than light? Oh, that's expansion... So, if it's space that's moving then the matter doesn't have to travel through space to achieve faster than light speeds.
Of course, since you're being metaphysical, I suppose one could argue that since information is made of matter that even if FTL drives enable us to reach our destination before light would it doesn't mean that our meanings mean the same things once we do so -- The information mightn't really travel with us, it'll be different by definition when it gets there due to entropy.
The pressure from the International markets is only a smidgen of what MS deserves for helping the NSA all theses years starting when they got the pork handouts to port Omnivore away from Unix (Solaris) to MS's systems in 1998, and create Carnivore -- despite everyone else in the military, etc. having POSIX requirements... And despite Linux existing in 1998 if "miniaturization" (PCs) were what they were shooting for. Yeah, MS has been in the thick of this shit for a good while. Snowden's privilege escalation makes a hell of a lot of sense if ECHELON, PRISM, etc are running on Microsoft Windows, eh? If a contractor like Snowden can do it, then state sponsored enemy spies can get at even more.
Oh, MS is going to show the governments the source code so they can be sure that there are no back doors in the compiled code they sell them -- AND UPDATE REMOTELY? Hell, even if they never installed updates and gave them compilers to build the code with they'd be subject to the Ken Thompson Hack. Might as well just write, "Promise there's no backdoors -- Love, Billy and Ballzy" on a post-it note. The code only gives the governments another way to look for exploits.
MS? Openness? What, they'll publish one set of encryption protocols and use a slightly different algorithm? Like when they made their Office document format open?
Screw me once, MS, shame on me. Actively screw me continually for the past two decades? For Shame.
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety and get IE6 instead."
- Benjamin Franklin's Grave Rolling Ghost.
You will never get what you want if you hold out ...
Well, this law provides protections from big companies from small companies, but doesn't actually protect small companies from large patent arsenals used to prevent innovation, and you call this is progre-- Wait a second.
BEEP BEEP. You are standing in the way of progress. Get out of the way.
Ah, of course. I had always suspected, but had no proof until today, that a contingent of A.C.s were actually Vogons.
Modern connection interfaces are complex enough that you need an IC to negotiate a connection before you can even get a LED blinking. Today's systems aren't exactly designed for hobbyists to build things.
Get an old beige box. You can solder a resistor and LED to the DTR pin of a serial port, and program it with a couple lines of assembly -- Oop, nope. The modern OSs aren't really designed for hobbyists to build things either. You'll be learning how to write a kernel driver for your OS if you use Linux. This is why I still use and make small DOS-esque OSs -- It's quite easy using BIOS interrupts. Also, you can still install DOS on nearly all x86-64 systems...
Data Terminal Ready is just one pin, but with it and the RxD / TxD pins you can build a simple lock-step electronic coms project on a serial port -- So you don't have to implement the whole RS232 chipset just to do a little manual IO. Parallel ports have many more such pins to play with, and don't require serialization either. That's why I teach kids to make robotics with DOS like OSs on my spare "junk" -- Because it's so much faster, cheaper, and easier than with USB, or even RS232 serializing and deserializing state -- Save that for when they get a bit more skilled. There's something almost magical to watching bits flip in memory by making and breaking electrical contacts; Folks immediately start thinking up ways to use such a thing. It's fun watching the scales fall from their eyes as kids realize computers aren't impenetrable black boxes full of voodoo. It's kind of funny that you have to buy a kit with ICs to make more transparent the interface provided by making and breaking pins on older hardware.
In my experience, once you get past a couple of LEDs or controlling higher voltage switches via contactors, etc. the next stop usually isn't a notification app for your system -- It's a breadboard full of gizmos, or using your PC to control your other gadgets.
Eg: Readers who liked TFA also liked LIRC.
(swap the LED with IR-LED, and control your home theater setup)
Do not try to land the job with your mind, that is impossible.
To land the job you must realize the truth: There is no job.
MS and other tech companies are lobbying for more H1B visa employees. In order to employ H1B visa workers they must demonstrate that they looked for local talent, but could not find any. They put out an ad in the paper, and then instruct their HR to find or invent any reason they can to not grant the position to any local workers, no matter how trivial. Then, they cry out that they need more STEM field college students meanwhile not employing very many locally thus making sure their theater of demand only exists overseas. Finally, they employ lower paid H1B workers, while driving down the acceptable pay through artificial scarcity of applicants, and continued unemployment. This allows them to get governments to agree with allocating more H1B employees, despite high local unemployment rates, and to allow more outsourcing with no additional tax / trade tariffs.
Hey Joe, Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
You bought a Chinese computer with a Chinese version of Windows in China and you were upset because there was no easy/free way to change it to English?
No, you dolt, they bought a general purpose computing device with a general purpose multi-language OS pre-installed on it and they were upset because, despite the fact that bits are in infinite supply, MS wanted to charge additionally for the language pack install instead of the price economics 101 would say an infinitely reproducible item would have: $0. That's why it costs nothing on Linux to switch languages: // Regardless of cost to create.
if ( supply == infinite ) price = ZERO;
You know how to eliminate all piracy? Stop leveraging artificial scarcity laws. Authors, like mechanics and all other labor market workers have an infinite monopoly over their work before it's created. Market what's scarce -- The ability to do work -- not what's in infinite supply: 1's and 0's. Unsurprisingly, this is how I make a living creating FLOSS.
Maybe the lesson should have been "avoid wireless", not "avoid Microsoft".
Maybe just think outside of the box for once. Take your USB cable, plug it into your mouse pad. Now, near field induction to power your mouse or stylus. That's what I do with my Wacom mouse / pen tablet.
I believe that's the point.
By the time these large companies patent everything and claim ownership of 'innovations' which had been around for years or were widespread knowledge already, the goal is to more or less ensure there's not a damned thing you can do with technology for which you won't be beholden to them.
It's rent-seeking on a large scale, and the governments are just handing it over to them.
At a certain point, it will be impossible for new companies to create anything at all, because the web of patents and the like will be so extensive we'll have only a few large players.
Welcome to the oligarchy of the future. It will only keep getting worse.
It is FAR worse than you imagine. The current patent laws state that it is not only illegal to sell an infringing technology, but to merely use it yourself. So, even if you, as I do, create your own hardware in your own garage without caring to look at the designs of others, and design hardware and compilers without even a single formal instruction on the topic at hand -- Being that such optimal designs are self evident simply from studying the cybernetic nature of interacting information pools. Even if you've NEVER looked through the patent database -- as all companies tell employees not to do, for risk of treble damages -- your own works can be seen infringing and taken from you. Is that an unlicensed homemade computer or circuit board or OS? Well, we'll be confiscating it for patent infringements. They do not do so currently, but the patent laws say they can prevent your use of technology you've invented independently yourself.
There is absolutely ZERO evidence that patents and copyrights are beneficial. The US plagiarized the Statute of Anne to include a provision for the development of copyright and patents. This is an ideological assumption, much like creationism: It's a good idea to think of things this way because that's the way we've always thought of things. No one has ever tested the damn hypothesis. No engineer or scientist should agree to run the world's economy based on unproven and untested hypotheses that copyright and patents are beneficial. What if they're very harmfull?! It's egregious to take that risk.
Let's examine the Telephone, invented by Elisha Gray, and yet awarded to Alexander Bell. Regardless of who is the rightful inventor, both worked on the problem. Both invested much time and energy. Gray was prevented from benefiting from his works, while Bell was granted a monopoly over the variable resistor solution. Telephone was actually an iteration. We already knew you could transmit language via wire telegraph, we knew you could transmit tones and sounds, but we just lacked the resolution of modulation required for speech. Look at the very symbol for an ingenious good idea -- The lightbulb. Edison did not invent the incandescent bulb! There were prior patents for it. If Edison hadn't existed we would still have found a cheap gas to fill the bulbs with and extend filament life -- Many were working on the problem, but the rich arrive at the solution sooner.
Patents have only ever benefited the big guys over the little guys. Artists, researchers, and scientists are foolishly accepting far too little up front pay for what is scarce: Their ability to do work. They bet their efforts away like gambling addicts in a copyright and patent futures market. So much talent is wasted on work that doesn't pan out, so many bright minds are lost to the economic and employment churn of betting on their future earnings. Even if you do invent something valuable, the Immortal Corporations can just wait 20 years before utilizing it. Instead of paying full price for the valuable act of research and creation o
Depends on how you define metadata. Nowadays the line between privacy, metadata and your last name, habits, shopping, etc seems to be a single "SELECT" line involving one or two tables.
The information is obviously a valuable law enforcement tool. Just like phone records, like wiretapping (under a judge auth.).
At least my perception, way before snowden and all the latest leaks, was that this was actually happening. This is just a confirmation.
Would be great if, as in wiretapping, this would be supervised by justice, and used only in criminal investigations. Sound naive ...i know
Even in your WEAKEST definition of metadata, it's still FAR to invasive. The preceding link walks thorough an easy to follow demonstration how a few simple rows in "one or two tables" and some matrix multiplication can be used. In short: You are ignorant, please educate yourself. The "law enforcement tools" are only ever used against people, never for them; Innocent or not, it's the job of prosecutors to prosecute. Parallel construction is a technique in active wide-spread use by Law Enforcement Agenices that utilizes such "harmelss" metadata to build a separate case against you if they "like you" for a different crime but don't have the evidence.
In short, either you agree warantless wiretapping must end, otherwise I dub thee Stasi.
I have so much I could say about this, but instead of trying to preach to the choir or deconvert the atheists I'll just post this:
Leaked ISP Net Neutrality market research video The Internet Must Go (No, it's not a dune reference.)
Additionally: The First Honest Cable Company
When we can no longer laugh about the horrible state of things, I'll know it's time to leave.
but that depends not just upon improving technology but also having a dense enough population of activist-enthusiasts.
No, it will depend on a Fidonet-esque infrastructure whereby most links are local and a few links are longer distance and higher powered. We have the technology to seek to noise free channels and scale signal strength according to noise so that near link frequencies can be reused nearby. Just like wired packet switching networks we will need store and forward -- the bigger the caches the better, so your friend who told you about that youtube vid will be one of the peers pushing it to you instead of ridiculously repeating content from end to end -- Free collocation.
We already have the technology, we've had it for decades. However, the FCC says store and forward is illegal on all our public access frequencies, and HAM licenses need to be relaxed. The airwaves belong to we the people. Cellular works. We just need the FCC to give us a section of airwaves to use and you'll have your free decentralized internet where you only pay once -- To buy the hardware and become a node -- Bigger node, faster connection. Bonus: Anonymity is inherent not only because it's routed through peers, but because the data doesn't have to come from the endpoint, it can come from next door.
Self-censoring? Yep. It's rife in mainstream media. The famous linguist Noam Chomsky showed us how tainted journalism was decades ago.
"You have to have a sworn record before I can do something dramatic." Judge Alsup said he would consider the document if and when Ms. Mustafa Kamal arrives in San Francisco and can testify as to its authenticity.
FTFNFLA:
A "false positive" occurs when a passenger who is not on the No Fly List has a name that matches or is similar to a name on the list. False positive passengers will not be allowed to board a flight unless they can differentiate themselves from the actual person on the list, usually by presenting ID showing their middle name or date of birth. In some cases, false positive passengers have been denied boarding or have missed flights because they could not easily prove that they were not the person on the No Fly List.
When an airline ticket is purchased, the reservation system uses software to compare the passenger's name against the No Fly List. If the name matches, or is similar to a name on the No Fly List, a restriction is placed in their reservation that prevents them from being issued a boarding pass until the airline has determined whether or not they are the actual person whose name is on the No Fly List.
In order for a citizen to comply with the laws it is essential that they be allowed to know the laws that apply to them. A restriction on flying, driving or status as a prisoner under arrest must be public information available to the citizens that such rules affect. The citizens can not protect themselves from secret rules they know nothing about. The system should have notified her at purchase that she was subject to a law which could require her facing additional government scrutiny. Judge Alsup should subpoena the no fly list as of the time Kamal purchased the airline ticket, and fucking check it himself -- He can write a Java range check program, so he can Ctrl+F a partial name match, or even look at the matching algorithm in use and see the evidence for himself.
IMO, he is right in desiring a sworn testimony of the wronged party before taking action on their behalf -- A higher court may throw out such actions without at least a party claiming damage. However, the government is NOT allowed to withhold evidence. The no-fly list is evidence. They're not allowed to tamper with witnesses either. The list may no longer contain her name, but it very well may have. If the witness can not get on the plane to fly to court then how in the flying fuck can they give their sworn testimony? The court wants the witness, they should pay the fucking air fare -- at least give a voucher redeemable for an equivalent to their mile-high club. The government created the damn problem in the first place, they're the ones who should have a taste of their own invasive inspection medicine.
In other words: If citizens should be assumed innocent until proven guilty -- The laws themselves should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
4) No. I've done nothing wrong, but fear that my political stance and cryptographic, OS development, and online research for fictional writing and game development will wrongfully place me in the cross-hairs of the surveillance state. Though metadata collection is too invasive, I continue to exercise my freedom of speech against my better judgment although I'm aware of the very real threat to myself and my loved ones. I remember the brave men who died for my freedom and the friends, family and neighbors who served for our country under the goal of upholding our constitution in the fight against enemies both foreign and domestic who would create dystopia through leveraging such Stasi-esque spying practices. If I do not uphold my end of the bargain and exercise my freedoms, then those brave soldiers sacrificed for nothing.
We need proportional protection from proportional risk. Heart disease and accidents kill 400 times more people every year than a 9/11 scale terrorist attack. Freedom means being free to take such risks as eating cheeseburgers, driving cars, showering while standing up, and traveling our great country unmolested by useless and expensive government agents.
Protip: Voltage at your 120V outlet will fluctuate during the day connected to directly to the grid. It can go higher than 130 volts in some areas during peak times. This is why 130V incandescent light bulbs last longer, and why folks should clean the power to their electronics via UPS (uninterpreted power supply, not the brown shirts) in order to prevent disasters such as millions of transistors suddenly melting down in overload before suddenly being silenced... 110V is 120V -- 120V is sort of the defacto observed average, but not the actual maximum or minimum.
Source: My high multimeter count allows me to sense EM fields -- I'm keenly aware of disturbances in the force.
s/herpetologists/botanist/
Herbology / herbalism / herbal medicine isn't what I meant either. Bad combination of brain fart and auto-correct.
If you look at the choices they're different types of plants that provide different things: Basil / Cress, seasoning, greenery -- You eat the leaves. Turnip, a tuberous plant with starch / calories -- you eat the root. I recall a prior story about this that also listed Sunflower seeds: Oils, proteins -- You eat the seeds; And another small flowering plant which herpetologists have gene sequenced and use as a model... Can't recall its name, ATM.
From TFSA (the fucking space agency):
The growth rates will be important for determining how much space will be required to grow food to feed Astronauts who take extended trips to the moon base. Of course it'll have the crew rotated like the ISS due to atrophy in weaker gravity, but they may be able to stay longer on the moon's gravity than in orbital microgravity.
This research isn't a waste of money or publicity thing. The question isn't can we grow a plant on the moon, it's can we grow tasty edible things up there and eventually get a few of our eggs out of this one basket. The moon is made of the same ratios of elements the Earth is. This means we may eventually be able to dome over some craters or caves / mines, and get plants and microbes -- possibly genetically engineered life -- to break down the rock into organic chemical rich dirt and air, then grow other crops. We're a long way away from bio-dome construction and lunar microbes; However, we have the technology to launch and connect a lunar habitat, and possibly grow plants therein -- We already know for sure that plants can grow in near zero G.
Exposing seeds to UV or Cosmic Rays is one way to accelerate mutation and this is currently used to speed up cultivation of desirable traits in crops -- Moon crop technology could help feed people on Earth. I always think about space exploration when I brush my teeth with the non-toxic toothpaste and clean water sanitation system that NASA invented for Astronauts and terra lubbers alike.
deterrence
Prove the deterrence exists, otherwise the equation is irrational: Based zero evidence, and on speculative bullshit instead.
Unsurprisingly, this is a preemptive measure to prevent DoS of the moderation system.