Hmm I seem to have messed up a few >s and <s... That's my fault, 0: For not giving a fuck -- It's futile to try deconverting a zealot; and 1: it's 2013 and we're still escaping HTML manually?
Truly, the whole computing world is shit strung together with bubble gum and twine. I mean, really... No isolation for code and data pointers or sacrificing a register for offset / segmentation and not giving us a new offset register so we could ACTUALLY do the heap code pointer protections.
How fucking dumb can everyone be? The language and systems programmers don't interact with the hardware makers and vise versa. What the actual fuck. I'd love just ONE MORE hardware execution permission ring level, so that SANDBOXES could actually work... Nope, not on ARM, or AMD... Just 2 levels -- Hardware designed for a monolithic kernel. It's fucking disgusting.
Thing is, everybody does not need to be taught coding,
What I heard: "Everybody does not need to be taught math, or driving, or history."
In the US, you have a hard time getting by if you don't learn to drive unless you live in specific cities with good public transportation. If you don't know how to code, you really don't know how to operate a computer. Full stop. It's true. BASIC is fucking simple, I've taught groups of 10 year olds, and alternately many other scripting languages -- Today I teach JavaScript to 8 year olds at the civic center. So much of what they do is in a browser now, not knowing how to manipulate that system is a terrible disadvantage. Folks complain all the damn time about bullshit they could write a ten line script to do for themselves if they actually knew how to use a damn computer.
It's just like not learning to drive in an environment where that's pretty much a requirement to function. Driving is life threatening and requires constant vigilance -- Coding is MUCH easier; No, really. It is. Think about it. It's about the same level as algebra. Bonus, if you teach a kid to code, they can apply mathematics to real life. Who in their right mind would teach Mathematics to kids and NOT give them the tiny bit of knowledge required to immediately apply those skills to the real / online world they live in? It's fucking ludicrous, and you are a moron.
I'm unconvinced as to the wading in water bit. It might explain somewhat better breath control than other apes (but so can benefits of refined communication), or perhaps heads full of oily hair. It's true aquatic species lose body hair when they or their ancestors were exposed to direct contact with water (hippos, whales, elephants, manatee, rhinos) or in dirt (naked mole rats) for majorities of their lives (at least to breeding age), but losing hair could also be a sexual selection increased neoteny in mates (youth is correlated with fertility, and makes the appearance of pubic hair at breeding age more visible).
As for standing upright, well, what about buoyancy and floating on your back instead? Standing erect in water wouldn't be necessary if they adapted to become blusterous tubs of lard that can have several hundreds of pounds of fat-weight without choking out their hearts by concentrating the fat outside of their core cavities, unlike most other mammals. However, plump hairless beasts could be the result of selective breeding for use as food by a superior alien race...
Now that I think of it standing upright would achieve a higher vantage to increase the area you can survey.... FOR SNAKES!
Here, I'll just copy/paste myself, WRT threat narrative:
Just a reminder: Heart Disease and Accidents cause more deaths every single year than over four hundred 9/11's. It's been over a decade now... That's more than 4000 September 11th sized attacks. Are you scared to eat and/or drive now? That's how fucking pathetic the fear narrative is.
This is America. We drive fast cars to fast food restaurants without a second thought. You want me to continue to ALLOW an expensive totalitarian spying apparatus to protect us from 0.00025 the danger we face from cars and cheeseburgers? What the fuck can the ineffectual terrorists do? If the NSA wanted to protect us they'd be making tastier health food and building self driving cars or the Hyper-Loop.
Now, that's ACTUAL terrorist attacks vs automobiles and junk food I'm talking about. You can imagine the threat from the leaks is ridiculously minuscule in comparison. As a scientist, when confronted with extraordinary claims, especially about threats, my immediate response is to shout: PROVE IT!
Now, I'm not from the UK, however, I suspect midges aren't feared as eye-pecking vultures over there. Free yourself from the threat narrative. Godwin be damned, bowing to such notions is how you wind up slaughtering Jews, Internment Camping Japanese, Victims of population control in Vietnam, and with Stasi-style police forces.
Use fear to win political goals? Fuck right off, Terrorist!
Flip a coin. The coin is now in a super position of heads and tails. Is it possible for it to be heads up when you measure it? Ooooh, spooky quantum bullshit.
Around the 70's we performed several expensive experiments to quantum entangle the Earth with its moon. This way, if the Earth is ever destroyed the moon will instantly create more astronauts.
And then there's the NSA Fox Acid system by which they purchase exploits from the black market, automatically attach payloads, then deploy them via skiddies reading a flow-chart to determine intelligence cost/benefit analysis; No amount of constitutional rights or encryption will prevent infection from our "cyber army" and its Ferret Cannon: Metasploit + unlimited funds + black-market 0-day exploits + wanna be hackers.
It's basically the ultimate computer nerd version of the school yard bully. Big, brainless, and dangerous. I mean... Just listen to the code names they use. It's like they're actually proud to be thuggish dipshits.
Since childhood I've loved burritos, machines, reading science mags, and was fascinated by the terrifying discovery of black holes. They have Art-Car parades in my town; The cars have to get there somehow. One night, while gazing at the cosmos stopped at a red light, my attention snapped suddenly to my rear view mirror wherein an eight cylinder Jaws was bearing down on me. Shat myself clean, I did.
Hmm. Well, I guess that's why I don't use Facebook. All my friends have different viewpoints on many subjects. Some align and have caveats, others ascribe different reasons. We all care about different things. For instance, as a cyberneticist I'm keenly aware of the degree of suffering my food endures. Unlike my idealist vegan friend who's largely clueless about being an evolved product of our environments, neuronal density of livestock, and the fuzzy complexity threshold of sentience, I simply appreciate my meals more, and try not to be wasteful -- C'est la vie.
I've got religious friends and have studied most major religions somewhat deeply, but I'm an atheist. Along with my philosopher friend we debate philosophy, esp. epistemology (which I have a firm grasp on thanks to information theory) -- This sets me at odds with the others since I can quantify what's knowable within relative degrees of certainty, and even run cybernetic simulations that demonstrate many philosophical and religious concepts, like where free will comes from.
Not every conversation is a debate, we accept each other's viewpoints instead of devolving into flame wars. You see, we try not to make ourselves asses since we're face to face, not on Facebook...
I'm hesitant to label this an "IRL" vs "Online" phenomenon since my experience with offline friends mirrors my IRC friends (think, twitter, but with separate feed-views [rooms], direct file transfers, and no 140 char limitation). Perhaps consider the null hypothesis? Perhaps you just suck at friending?
IDK what the problem is, if it's just apathy, we have day to day life too good, or what.
As a US citizen it makes me sad. Well, once your fearmongering warlords get an atomic bomb dropped on you, and then hold out until another one drops on your other friends and family... Yeah, then you might see why the Japanese don't give in to threat narrative bullshit as easily as the fat scared Americans do. Ironic since heart disease kills 200 times more Americans per year than 9/11. I guess we can add stupid to the list of typical American traits too (yes, I'm talking about you too Canada).
Just a reminder: Heart Disease and Accidents cause more deaths every single year than over four hundred 9/11's. It's been over a decade now... That's more than 4000 September 11th sized attacks. Are you scared to eat and/or drive now? That's how fucking pathetic the fear narrative is.
This is America. We drive fast cars to fast food restaurants without a second thought. You want me to continue to ALLOW an expensive totalitarian spying apparatus to protect us from 0.00025 the danger we face from cars and cheeseburgers? What the fuck can the ineffectual terrorists do? If the NSA wanted to protect us they'd be making tastier health food and building self driving cars or the Hyper-Loop.
Fucking "intelligence" bullshit; Protip: All government labels mean the opposite. "PATRIOT Act", yeaaah. "Intelligence?" hahah... oh man. No wonder the basement dwelling NSA stinks so bad. If they're afraid of terrorists, just imagine how they feel about the many times greater threat of falling down in the bathtub!
We could instead put them in containment vessels and stick them on a ring world, then extinct the galaxy... You know, because if we had containment vessels impervious to galaxy death ray, we wouldn't just climb inside, detonate the nuke then repopulate. Fucking moronic Bungie writers.
Yeah, but the latency! Forget playing BattleField 4 with those pings.
Well, yes, to the DRM server... But multiplayer should be fine over LAN (Lunar Area Networking). The store and forward DTN (delay tolerant networking) of the interstellar Internet will have to be supported eventually anyway. I've actually been experimenting with "games" that have persistent worlds that can support multiple planets worth of people via sparse information graphing, going so far as to use your "Network Simulator" on Debian to implement an aproximation of NASA's planned solar system wide DTN implementation. The laser bandwidth is going to be an awesome boon, much needed before any amount of populous can correspond interplanetarily in a practical manner.
For slower-than-light interplanetary "gaming" the answer is to do like those beloved "BBS" classics, e.g., Tradewars, for the synch data. That way whenever more data becomes available it can appear, without the requirement for a real-time centralized server system. I still think that's a great way to play a game -- Get in, do your actions for that day, check messages and what not, then put it down and get to work, check back the next day -- Rather than the frantic skinner box, just make it part of the daily routine, ah those were the days. Mine has world building with quotas on vertex and texture amounts per volume, and is indexed via huge sparse octree -- Procedurally generating the unmodified nodes so folks who haven't staked a claim can still explore the same areas. For realtime gameplay atop the semi-synchronized user generated content, faction vs faction matchmaking only works in your latency neighborhood. So, ISS to other orbital platforms could work for a quick deathmatch if they weren't in too wildly different of an orbit, but otherwise they'd be limited to the secondary slower gameplay between Earth, its moon, and Mars, etc.
DTN support would actually be friggin' awesome to have built in down here too. It's basically automatic caching w/ deduplication and free collocation. Methinks you'll have to ditch the "filename" idea though (at least in its current form) -- Eventually you'll realize those are only useful for display of a "region" specific designation, but what your mechano-electic slaves will request instead is the info-hash; So that renaming "Album03-0003.ogv" to "Moon-Cat-Leaps.ogv" or "QIp vIghro' pum.ogv" will end up being only one payload no matter which you request. That's also VERY MUCH NEEDED for mixed secure and insecure content display anyway, so that the secured page can specify the hash of the unencrypted external file to embed and be sure it wasn't tampered -- SSL that can be cached! What am I saying? That's crazy talk! The W3C HTML goons will never go for anything that logical, unless you grease their grubby little lobes, ugh, Ferengi...
Oh, look at me just bubbling over about your species burgeoning potential progress. I'll just let you nudies get back to your exciting earth news... Nope, don't mind me, not socially engineering alien acclimation systems; No sir, not a violation of the prime directive at all... It's not like I need a vacation from watching all the depressing politics going on down here or anything.
Hahhaha. Wat? As someone who's installed Linux since you had to write over the MBR manually, you sound ridiculous man. You know, Linus cranked out the simplest and most hacky POS kernel in a few days, bare minimums to get a shell up, using a shit ton of GNU software -- Ever write a compiler or editor? (Man, yeah, that's the real engineering feat). Linus then immediately got help from lots of folks who wanted to have Unix on their home PCs. If anything Linux is the epitome of the Bazaar approach vs the Cathedral (HURD) approach -- The EXACT OPPOSITE of know-how vs lots of hackers incrementally tinkering. Folks who had time to waste had home PCs, Linux was a kernel for 386 for home PCs. Blam. Win win.
Linux wasn't some major genius of engineering feat -- Remember when he didn't think real programmers needed an init? He admitted himself somewhat recently that was stupid before giving the finger to Nvidia. To this day Linus's best decisions were in project management. He was in the right place at the right time, and can manage a project like nobody's business. That's why Linux beats HURD -- that and HURD has some deep design issues, with FS nodes supplying their own "..", for example. In otherwords, there are not just BAD engineering choices in Linux -- The whole thing is full of them! We work them out over time to get by -- Read a mailing list, man. This project has a head of steam, and that's why it's awesome; Really has nothing to do with "common sense" (NO INIT?!) or "understanding of reality" (Programming the IO directly?! NO HDD driver?!) -- It has everything to do with tons of folks not wanting to run Windows.
Look, up through Win 95 I booted to the DOS terminal, and typed "win" to lose my shell if I needed some windows GUI program. I was not alone. When MS killed the terminal in 98, Linux was there for us to regain it, if we were crazy enough to do the highly impractical, nonsensical, detached from reality thing, and Install Linux -- A Work In Progress, instead of Windows.
Correcting biased text is a thankless job for those Wikipedia editors — the literary-world equivalent of killing endless hordes of zombies approaching your protective fence. But that job gets even harder when a PR agency deploys dozens, or even hundreds of writers to systematically adjust clients' Wikipedia pages."
Interesting... You're aware that you also allow feminists to push their ideologically slanted non scientific Marxist agenda of marginalizing men's issues to dominate state funding allocation? I mean, granted, most folks are ignorant about the movement's hijacking and operate on the untested assumption that the ideology's re-branding as "Woman's Studies" courses actually furthers a fair and rational agenda; I'm a scientist, you must prove it's good for me to believe such... I have seen much evidence to the contrary. Feminism is the radical belief that no one needs unbiased peer reviewed evidence to turn Hypotheses based on emotional appeal into Theories, and these ideological Theories into actual Laws. Note: Neither Women's Rights, Human Rights, nor Men's Rights need an ideology to back them...
Perhaps the sock puppets merely took it as par for the course, since, e.g., all of the entries discussing Feminism are wholly biased, and indeed you welcome Women's Studies courses assigning their "armies" of impressionable students to work on cleaning up Feminism's image by spreading their easy to believe untruths, and removing negative discourse. Yep, that's mostly welcome unless anyone takes the time to go to war over some slanted edit, or the blatant bias makes you look too bad, you don't oppose such activity. You say you wouldn't tolerate a group of political ideologists organizing a campaign to do the same, but that's exactly what you embrace. Indeed, many edits are done as part of a project assigned by these biased groups; Some edits are reverted, but you also have fiefdoms where biased editors control which edits are and aren't included. It's telling indeed that the wiki fiefdoms of the ideologists cover their ideologies... The edit army is only one issue; IMO, the dictators are a bigger problem, but strangely Wikipedia embraces them once they gain control over an information territory.
Hell, I once tracked down and added some information to the 3D.OBJ file format page, but that showed up on the wiki-dictator's radar who had taken ownership of that page. They marked the page for delete then moved it to a private area that only they could see and edit -- I found out because I went back to add more data and reference the file format... However, the most widely supported 3D mesh file format in the world had been removed as "not notable". It came back some time later with my edits "corrected" to actually be incorrect. That was when I gave up on Wikipedia. Shit like that is commonplace. The data can disappear right from under your foot, without any real oversight, and when debating other important political topics -- such as boy's suicide rate being 8 times that of girls or over 90% of workplace deaths involving men, men being over 90% the victims of violent crimes, and over 90% of the homeless being male, and domestic abuse not being gendered, yet there's no support or funding for men's homes, only homes for battered women... that's equality? -- I've foolishly referenced factual information on Wikipedia only to have the very ideologues I'm arguing against retroactively edit the page and prevent reversions to make me out to be a misleading asshole.
Edit armies are only opposed when the owners of Wikipedia are opposed to their political agenda. A blind eye is turned when the shoe is on the other foot. I think the problem is that Wikipedia is sending mixed messages; No one knows if their sock-puppet army will be welcomed or shunned until they try to add their bias to the site. So, the answer seems plain to me.
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Hmm I seem to have messed up a few >s and <s... That's my fault, 0: For not giving a fuck -- It's futile to try deconverting a zealot; and 1: it's 2013 and we're still escaping HTML manually?
Truly, the whole computing world is shit strung together with bubble gum and twine. I mean, really... No isolation for code and data pointers or sacrificing a register for offset / segmentation and not giving us a new offset register so we could ACTUALLY do the heap code pointer protections.
How fucking dumb can everyone be? The language and systems programmers don't interact with the hardware makers and vise versa. What the actual fuck. I'd love just ONE MORE hardware execution permission ring level, so that SANDBOXES could actually work... Nope, not on ARM, or AMD... Just 2 levels -- Hardware designed for a monolithic kernel. It's fucking disgusting.
A rare breed worth risking your neck to hunt?
What you said;
Thing is, everybody does not need to be taught coding,
What I heard:
"Everybody does not need to be taught math, or driving, or history."
In the US, you have a hard time getting by if you don't learn to drive unless you live in specific cities with good public transportation. If you don't know how to code, you really don't know how to operate a computer. Full stop. It's true. BASIC is fucking simple, I've taught groups of 10 year olds, and alternately many other scripting languages -- Today I teach JavaScript to 8 year olds at the civic center. So much of what they do is in a browser now, not knowing how to manipulate that system is a terrible disadvantage. Folks complain all the damn time about bullshit they could write a ten line script to do for themselves if they actually knew how to use a damn computer.
It's just like not learning to drive in an environment where that's pretty much a requirement to function. Driving is life threatening and requires constant vigilance -- Coding is MUCH easier; No, really. It is. Think about it. It's about the same level as algebra. Bonus, if you teach a kid to code, they can apply mathematics to real life. Who in their right mind would teach Mathematics to kids and NOT give them the tiny bit of knowledge required to immediately apply those skills to the real / online world they live in? It's fucking ludicrous, and you are a moron.
I'm unconvinced as to the wading in water bit. It might explain somewhat better breath control than other apes (but so can benefits of refined communication), or perhaps heads full of oily hair. It's true aquatic species lose body hair when they or their ancestors were exposed to direct contact with water (hippos, whales, elephants, manatee, rhinos) or in dirt (naked mole rats) for majorities of their lives (at least to breeding age), but losing hair could also be a sexual selection increased neoteny in mates (youth is correlated with fertility, and makes the appearance of pubic hair at breeding age more visible).
As for standing upright, well, what about buoyancy and floating on your back instead? Standing erect in water wouldn't be necessary if they adapted to become blusterous tubs of lard that can have several hundreds of pounds of fat-weight without choking out their hearts by concentrating the fat outside of their core cavities, unlike most other mammals. However, plump hairless beasts could be the result of selective breeding for use as food by a superior alien race...
Now that I think of it standing upright would achieve a higher vantage to increase the area you can survey.... FOR SNAKES!
Here, I'll just copy/paste myself, WRT threat narrative:
Just a reminder: Heart Disease and Accidents cause more deaths every single year than over four hundred 9/11's. It's been over a decade now... That's more than 4000 September 11th sized attacks. Are you scared to eat and/or drive now? That's how fucking pathetic the fear narrative is.
This is America. We drive fast cars to fast food restaurants without a second thought. You want me to continue to ALLOW an expensive totalitarian spying apparatus to protect us from 0.00025 the danger we face from cars and cheeseburgers? What the fuck can the ineffectual terrorists do? If the NSA wanted to protect us they'd be making tastier health food and building self driving cars or the Hyper-Loop.
Now, that's ACTUAL terrorist attacks vs automobiles and junk food I'm talking about. You can imagine the threat from the leaks is ridiculously minuscule in comparison. As a scientist, when confronted with extraordinary claims, especially about threats, my immediate response is to shout: PROVE IT!
Now, I'm not from the UK, however, I suspect midges aren't feared as eye-pecking vultures over there. Free yourself from the threat narrative. Godwin be damned, bowing to such notions is how you wind up slaughtering Jews, Internment Camping Japanese, Victims of population control in Vietnam, and with Stasi-style police forces.
Use fear to win political goals? Fuck right off, Terrorist!
duckbilled dinosaurs
We just call those ducks now...
Flip a coin. The coin is now in a super position of heads and tails. Is it possible for it to be heads up when you measure it? Ooooh, spooky quantum bullshit.
Around the 70's we performed several expensive experiments to quantum entangle the Earth with its moon. This way, if the Earth is ever destroyed the moon will instantly create more astronauts.
Let's do a simple experiment to find out:
# echo "Hello... hello... hello" > dev/null
# cat dev/random
It's not destroyed, but it's nothing like what went in. The arrow of time guided by entropy.
And then there's the NSA Fox Acid system by which they purchase exploits from the black market, automatically attach payloads, then deploy them via skiddies reading a flow-chart to determine intelligence cost/benefit analysis; No amount of constitutional rights or encryption will prevent infection from our "cyber army" and its Ferret Cannon: Metasploit + unlimited funds + black-market 0-day exploits + wanna be hackers.
It's basically the ultimate computer nerd version of the school yard bully. Big, brainless, and dangerous. I mean... Just listen to the code names they use. It's like they're actually proud to be thuggish dipshits.
Since childhood I've loved burritos, machines, reading science mags, and was fascinated by the terrifying discovery of black holes. They have Art-Car parades in my town; The cars have to get there somehow. One night, while gazing at the cosmos stopped at a red light, my attention snapped suddenly to my rear view mirror wherein an eight cylinder Jaws was bearing down on me. Shat myself clean, I did.
Hmm. Well, I guess that's why I don't use Facebook. All my friends have different viewpoints on many subjects. Some align and have caveats, others ascribe different reasons. We all care about different things. For instance, as a cyberneticist I'm keenly aware of the degree of suffering my food endures. Unlike my idealist vegan friend who's largely clueless about being an evolved product of our environments, neuronal density of livestock, and the fuzzy complexity threshold of sentience, I simply appreciate my meals more, and try not to be wasteful -- C'est la vie.
I've got religious friends and have studied most major religions somewhat deeply, but I'm an atheist. Along with my philosopher friend we debate philosophy, esp. epistemology (which I have a firm grasp on thanks to information theory) -- This sets me at odds with the others since I can quantify what's knowable within relative degrees of certainty, and even run cybernetic simulations that demonstrate many philosophical and religious concepts, like where free will comes from.
Not every conversation is a debate, we accept each other's viewpoints instead of devolving into flame wars. You see, we try not to make ourselves asses since we're face to face, not on Facebook...
I'm hesitant to label this an "IRL" vs "Online" phenomenon since my experience with offline friends mirrors my IRC friends (think, twitter, but with separate feed-views [rooms], direct file transfers, and no 140 char limitation). Perhaps consider the null hypothesis? Perhaps you just suck at friending?
They don't control word of mouth. Also, the 1st revolution wasn't very well organized, and yet we won.
IDK what the problem is, if it's just apathy, we have day to day life too good, or what.
As a US citizen it makes me sad. Well, once your fearmongering warlords get an atomic bomb dropped on you, and then hold out until another one drops on your other friends and family... Yeah, then you might see why the Japanese don't give in to threat narrative bullshit as easily as the fat scared Americans do. Ironic since heart disease kills 200 times more Americans per year than 9/11. I guess we can add stupid to the list of typical American traits too (yes, I'm talking about you too Canada).
So that's how you buy a shill...
Just a reminder: Heart Disease and Accidents cause more deaths every single year than over four hundred 9/11's. It's been over a decade now... That's more than 4000 September 11th sized attacks. Are you scared to eat and/or drive now? That's how fucking pathetic the fear narrative is.
This is America. We drive fast cars to fast food restaurants without a second thought. You want me to continue to ALLOW an expensive totalitarian spying apparatus to protect us from 0.00025 the danger we face from cars and cheeseburgers? What the fuck can the ineffectual terrorists do? If the NSA wanted to protect us they'd be making tastier health food and building self driving cars or the Hyper-Loop.
Fucking "intelligence" bullshit; Protip: All government labels mean the opposite. "PATRIOT Act", yeaaah. "Intelligence?" hahah... oh man. No wonder the basement dwelling NSA stinks so bad. If they're afraid of terrorists, just imagine how they feel about the many times greater threat of falling down in the bathtub!
I truly wish we had some genuine socialists in the US
They're called Unions.... you know, like the first name of USA?
The US has an independent press that's always critical of the government, no matter which politcal party is in power, like the New York Times.
Was...was that a joke?
Apparently; Chomsky's punchline that impartial news is a joke has been widely known for decades.
Team America! Fuck Yeah!
We could instead put them in containment vessels and stick them on a ring world, then extinct the galaxy... You know, because if we had containment vessels impervious to galaxy death ray, we wouldn't just climb inside, detonate the nuke then repopulate. Fucking moronic Bungie writers.
Yeah, but the latency! Forget playing BattleField 4 with those pings.
Well, yes, to the DRM server... But multiplayer should be fine over LAN (Lunar Area Networking). The store and forward DTN (delay tolerant networking) of the interstellar Internet will have to be supported eventually anyway. I've actually been experimenting with "games" that have persistent worlds that can support multiple planets worth of people via sparse information graphing, going so far as to use your "Network Simulator" on Debian to implement an aproximation of NASA's planned solar system wide DTN implementation. The laser bandwidth is going to be an awesome boon, much needed before any amount of populous can correspond interplanetarily in a practical manner.
For slower-than-light interplanetary "gaming" the answer is to do like those beloved "BBS" classics, e.g., Tradewars, for the synch data. That way whenever more data becomes available it can appear, without the requirement for a real-time centralized server system. I still think that's a great way to play a game -- Get in, do your actions for that day, check messages and what not, then put it down and get to work, check back the next day -- Rather than the frantic skinner box, just make it part of the daily routine, ah those were the days. Mine has world building with quotas on vertex and texture amounts per volume, and is indexed via huge sparse octree -- Procedurally generating the unmodified nodes so folks who haven't staked a claim can still explore the same areas. For realtime gameplay atop the semi-synchronized user generated content, faction vs faction matchmaking only works in your latency neighborhood. So, ISS to other orbital platforms could work for a quick deathmatch if they weren't in too wildly different of an orbit, but otherwise they'd be limited to the secondary slower gameplay between Earth, its moon, and Mars, etc.
DTN support would actually be friggin' awesome to have built in down here too. It's basically automatic caching w/ deduplication and free collocation. Methinks you'll have to ditch the "filename" idea though (at least in its current form) -- Eventually you'll realize those are only useful for display of a "region" specific designation, but what your mechano-electic slaves will request instead is the info-hash; So that renaming "Album03-0003.ogv" to "Moon-Cat-Leaps.ogv" or "QIp vIghro' pum.ogv" will end up being only one payload no matter which you request. That's also VERY MUCH NEEDED for mixed secure and insecure content display anyway, so that the secured page can specify the hash of the unencrypted external file to embed and be sure it wasn't tampered -- SSL that can be cached! What am I saying? That's crazy talk! The W3C HTML goons will never go for anything that logical, unless you grease their grubby little lobes, ugh, Ferengi...
Oh, look at me just bubbling over about your species burgeoning potential progress. I'll just let you nudies get back to your exciting earth news... Nope, don't mind me, not socially engineering alien acclimation systems; No sir, not a violation of the prime directive at all... It's not like I need a vacation from watching all the depressing politics going on down here or anything.
"I'm browsin' it."
A fright pig of immense proportions is available for anything clang runs on.
Hahhaha. Wat? As someone who's installed Linux since you had to write over the MBR manually, you sound ridiculous man. You know, Linus cranked out the simplest and most hacky POS kernel in a few days, bare minimums to get a shell up, using a shit ton of GNU software -- Ever write a compiler or editor? (Man, yeah, that's the real engineering feat). Linus then immediately got help from lots of folks who wanted to have Unix on their home PCs. If anything Linux is the epitome of the Bazaar approach vs the Cathedral (HURD) approach -- The EXACT OPPOSITE of know-how vs lots of hackers incrementally tinkering. Folks who had time to waste had home PCs, Linux was a kernel for 386 for home PCs. Blam. Win win.
Linux wasn't some major genius of engineering feat -- Remember when he didn't think real programmers needed an init? He admitted himself somewhat recently that was stupid before giving the finger to Nvidia. To this day Linus's best decisions were in project management. He was in the right place at the right time, and can manage a project like nobody's business. That's why Linux beats HURD -- that and HURD has some deep design issues, with FS nodes supplying their own "..", for example. In otherwords, there are not just BAD engineering choices in Linux -- The whole thing is full of them! We work them out over time to get by -- Read a mailing list, man. This project has a head of steam, and that's why it's awesome; Really has nothing to do with "common sense" (NO INIT?!) or "understanding of reality" (Programming the IO directly?! NO HDD driver?!) -- It has everything to do with tons of folks not wanting to run Windows.
Look, up through Win 95 I booted to the DOS terminal, and typed "win" to lose my shell if I needed some windows GUI program. I was not alone. When MS killed the terminal in 98, Linux was there for us to regain it, if we were crazy enough to do the highly impractical, nonsensical, detached from reality thing, and Install Linux -- A Work In Progress, instead of Windows.
Correcting biased text is a thankless job for those Wikipedia editors — the literary-world equivalent of killing endless hordes of zombies approaching your protective fence. But that job gets even harder when a PR agency deploys dozens, or even hundreds of writers to systematically adjust clients' Wikipedia pages."
Interesting... You're aware that you also allow feminists to push their ideologically slanted non scientific Marxist agenda of marginalizing men's issues to dominate state funding allocation? I mean, granted, most folks are ignorant about the movement's hijacking and operate on the untested assumption that the ideology's re-branding as "Woman's Studies" courses actually furthers a fair and rational agenda; I'm a scientist, you must prove it's good for me to believe such... I have seen much evidence to the contrary. Feminism is the radical belief that no one needs unbiased peer reviewed evidence to turn Hypotheses based on emotional appeal into Theories, and these ideological Theories into actual Laws. Note: Neither Women's Rights, Human Rights, nor Men's Rights need an ideology to back them...
Perhaps the sock puppets merely took it as par for the course, since, e.g., all of the entries discussing Feminism are wholly biased, and indeed you welcome Women's Studies courses assigning their "armies" of impressionable students to work on cleaning up Feminism's image by spreading their easy to believe untruths, and removing negative discourse. Yep, that's mostly welcome unless anyone takes the time to go to war over some slanted edit, or the blatant bias makes you look too bad, you don't oppose such activity. You say you wouldn't tolerate a group of political ideologists organizing a campaign to do the same, but that's exactly what you embrace. Indeed, many edits are done as part of a project assigned by these biased groups; Some edits are reverted, but you also have fiefdoms where biased editors control which edits are and aren't included. It's telling indeed that the wiki fiefdoms of the ideologists cover their ideologies... The edit army is only one issue; IMO, the dictators are a bigger problem, but strangely Wikipedia embraces them once they gain control over an information territory.
Hell, I once tracked down and added some information to the 3D .OBJ file format page, but that showed up on the wiki-dictator's radar who had taken ownership of that page. They marked the page for delete then moved it to a private area that only they could see and edit -- I found out because I went back to add more data and reference the file format... However, the most widely supported 3D mesh file format in the world had been removed as "not notable". It came back some time later with my edits "corrected" to actually be incorrect. That was when I gave up on Wikipedia. Shit like that is commonplace. The data can disappear right from under your foot, without any real oversight, and when debating other important political topics -- such as boy's suicide rate being 8 times that of girls or over 90% of workplace deaths involving men, men being over 90% the victims of violent crimes, and over 90% of the homeless being male, and domestic abuse not being gendered, yet there's no support or funding for men's homes, only homes for battered women... that's equality? -- I've foolishly referenced factual information on Wikipedia only to have the very ideologues I'm arguing against retroactively edit the page and prevent reversions to make me out to be a misleading asshole.
Edit armies are only opposed when the owners of Wikipedia are opposed to their political agenda. A blind eye is turned when the shoe is on the other foot. I think the problem is that Wikipedia is sending mixed messages; No one knows if their sock-puppet army will be welcomed or shunned until they try to add their bias to the site. So, the answer seems plain to me.