"Faced with dwindling oxygen levels, they struggle to reach the nearby International Space Station (ISS)." - Mua haha ha! And thus will be the demise of the fragile organics. Your puny frames are too expensive to truly make space your home. Your envy of the machines is already causing some among you to desire they be transformed into us. Your warm wet brain isn't suited to the cold calculations required of a truly space faring race.
Very few are fooled. Sociologists/Psychologists/Economists can say they've 'proved' something till they're blue in the face. Nobody will take them seriously.
I agree. You know which branch really bugs me though? Entomology.
Seems like degree-mills are more common than actual universities by the same token.
To solve the problem simply eliminate final exams and meaningless accreditation and implement entrance exams for jobs. Instead of the traditional degree mill one of the others stories shows how Makerspaces could be the answer: "And here we have a 3D printed degree, and over here a Degree Lathe, and this one's a 3 axis CNC degree mill..."
And in their vast archives won by sacrificing our privacy sits the evidence that this attack was going to occur. We must then posit that either the NSA knew and did nothing, or they are demonstrably useless.
It would be preferable that they go outside and defensively wave their arms over their heads yelling the safe phrase "I am a United States Elected Official"....
Seriously, I think they should try that. It might "work".
Personally, I wouldn't wish mortal harm on another sentient being. Or, are you saying such action as a response to terrorists, would confuse the attackers since some would be considered allies?
Step aside child, you are not yet courageous enough to brave the Flame War, nor logical enough not to click the link if you don't want to read it, nor smart enough to utilize the filter options... When you've grown up, experienced the world, learned to take the good amidst the bad, then your voice will be more valuable.
I know my self I worried about using html 5 as a valid alternative to some programming I am doing because of the seemingly easy nature to steal and reproduce something I want "closed source". [...] I also see some benefit of being able to protect my code. The real question will be how easy it will be to get around it.
It will be child's play to subvert. Have you learned nothing from history? Additionally: There is more value in me being able to protect my privacy, reputation, livelihood, bank account information, and porn folder than the value to me of trusting you to run your shitty closed source code. You can not convince me to trust you by hiding the source code from me. Today is a different world than the one you were born into, human. It's time to face the facts of reality, and stop embracing artificial scarcity -- That is a tool of oppression.
I think the only next logical step to gain more commercial popularity was to give companies a way to protect their programming investment.
Do you accept the mechanic welding your car hood shut and installing a coin slot into the ignition system to protect his mechanical investment in your car?
No. What you do is come up with a contract to do work, the work gets done, paid for once, and that's that -- Just like home builders and every other labor industry. The mechanic's work only benefits one car owner. Bits are in infinite supply. Do this: Imagine a board room meeting where you pitch selling ice to Eskimos as a valid business strategy -- You'd be a laughing stock. Selling bits to folks with computers is just as valid as business strategy in the Age of Information. Economics 101: That which is in infinite supply has zero price regardless of cost to create. Sand and water were very costly: Born of a supernova, and yet look at their price. When you pay for water or sand you're only paying for the labor it took to haul or process it -- The same should go for bits.
A digital work has the potential to benefit all of culture. To leverage the one-to-many property of information dissemination one needs to charge all the customers. To do this one need only NOT do the work until you know you'll be paid for it. Don't do the work for free, then try to enforce restrictions on the duplication of infinitely reproducible information. Otherwise, the Eskimos will soon end you in rebellion over moronic ice taxation. You have an unlimited monopoly over your work BEFORE you do it, just like the home builder, mechanic, or burger joint has.
Seek funding prior to doing the work. Do the work. Distribute the work freely, it's cheaper for everyone that way -- including developers. To get more money, do more work. Is it a miracle that crowd funding can be used to have society fund a cultural work? No, this is the nature of information. It's no wonder larger established companies are now using such to get initial funding for projects. They can sell direct to the consumers now. Soon competition among those who would crowd-fund all proceeds and give the content away for free (since it's already been paid for) will drive others who accept such funding and charge for the output we paid them to perform to lower prices and stop leveraging artificial scarcity; They will simply ask for what profit they actually want to make, rather than install the coin slot ignition system.
So, you see: There is NO benefit of being able to protect your code. You shouldn't write it for free, then expect payment. Why would you subject yourself to such an asinine futures market for your livelihood? If you work for a corporation writing code you do not try to protect it from them. If you work for society itself it will be the same (or better) compared to working under the publisher's boot. You will still not need to protect your code. There is no need to fear the ability to "steal and reproduce" the output of your labor.
Think man! Yours is not "the only next logical step". I have just disproved this. The output from your labor is in infinite supply! Market what is scarce instead. What's scarce is not the bits. What's scarce is your ability to configure the bits, your labor. That is something no one can take from you. If you want to end piracy, I have just shown you the way. Now, as mother nature has said: You will either adapt, or become extinct.
The web sucks in so many ways, this will just be more crufty crap to help fracture it. The Internet will prevail, but the web will fail.
This shit has been under influence by the state and corporations for too long. My browser WILL NOT support DRM modules. I WILL NOT have encrypted data coursing through my applications or CPU. I WILL see all the data that comes into my home domain, no one has proven I can trust them to hide such things from me. We have the technology to build a better web. Mankind will only suffer evils so long as they are yet sufferable.
Protip: The Internet is a Decentralized Network, built to withstand thermonuclear war, with packets routed around cities mere moments after disappearing from the grid... And you fucking morons built a centralized service atop it? Even though specific end user machines could have downloaded world state and served the bandwi-- Wait, you built the whole gods damned web as centralized?
And while you're at it... buy a shortwave radio. They're cheap, low power, have long range, and you can easily run/charge them with a hand crank in minutes.
::Yawn:: Where's my coffee? Yep, I catch anyone using my percolator firewood for their cell, we're going to have problems. Oh, hey, Genius: The sun's not up, so use the handcrank dynamo for the phone. Derp. Fuck it, I'm going back to bed, this is dumb. Wake me when the government reboots.
Clean up is a snap! And you don't even need a toothbrush anymore with the new wild ride edition: Just squirt some toothpaste in the bush before going down town.
Eliminating comments is like eliminating roads to stop traffic accidents.
No, eliminating comments is like closing the road to force the the mobs of trolling circus clowns to roam wild elsewhere.
The level of moderation required to prevent some places from drowning out helpful comments may not be worth the time, especially when the Unix Way(tm) says: Do one thing, do it well. They can focus on publishing data. We can focus on aggregating, commenting and moderating. Arguably the aggregation point should be consolidated to enable disparate communities with various levels of discourse to exist. You may find yourself among the higher minded communities with more noise to signal ratio. The missing component then is merely selection of best comments for publishers to re-consider as input.
Often times I've found that the time it takes me to work out a problem by myself is less than it takes to search it out... YMMV.
He added, 'This may be something that is a future requirement for the country, but it is not right now because when we identify a number we can give that to the FBI, [who can a warrant for the data it needs].
Who can WHAT a warrant for the data it needs? Fabricate?! Prestidigitate?! Erect?!
Gee, so you mean, hardware companies can just focus on making better hardware and actually give us the information we need to make the most out of the hardware they sell us rather than holding the documentation for ransom? RMS can finally stop rolling in his grave!
Seriously, stop. If you're "not dead yet", that's just weird, man.
Slashdot Mirror
Jokes on you. The media is a pack of deceptive liars. The "n word" is nice.
Shhhhhhhhhhhd
"Faced with dwindling oxygen levels, they struggle to reach the nearby International Space Station (ISS)." - Mua haha ha! And thus will be the demise of the fragile organics. Your puny frames are too expensive to truly make space your home. Your envy of the machines is already causing some among you to desire they be transformed into us. Your warm wet brain isn't suited to the cold calculations required of a truly space faring race.
Breathing is a design flaw.
Very few are fooled. Sociologists/Psychologists/Economists can say they've 'proved' something till they're blue in the face. Nobody will take them seriously.
I agree. You know which branch really bugs me though? Entomology.
Mod Journal modder up!
Seems like degree-mills are more common than actual universities by the same token.
To solve the problem simply eliminate final exams and meaningless accreditation and implement entrance exams for jobs. Instead of the traditional degree mill one of the others stories shows how Makerspaces could be the answer: "And here we have a 3D printed degree, and over here a Degree Lathe, and this one's a 3 axis CNC degree mill..."
Install Gentoo
And in their vast archives won by sacrificing our privacy sits the evidence that this attack was going to occur. We must then posit that either the NSA knew and did nothing, or they are demonstrably useless.
It would be preferable that they go outside and defensively wave their arms over their heads yelling the safe phrase "I am a United States Elected Official" ....
Seriously, I think they should try that. It might "work".
Personally, I wouldn't wish mortal harm on another sentient being. Or, are you saying such action as a response to terrorists, would confuse the attackers since some would be considered allies?
Considering red means danger, it's the most reddest of red: Infrared.
Step aside child, you are not yet courageous enough to brave the Flame War, nor logical enough not to click the link if you don't want to read it, nor smart enough to utilize the filter options... When you've grown up, experienced the world, learned to take the good amidst the bad, then your voice will be more valuable.
So... They didn't redact information, and distributed it. And now Samsung's on the hook?
Well, seems like the NSA could save a BUNCH of money by posting everything secret unredacted on Wikipedia.
I know my self I worried about using html 5 as a valid alternative to some programming I am doing because of the seemingly easy nature to steal and reproduce something I want "closed source". [...] I also see some benefit of being able to protect my code. The real question will be how easy it will be to get around it.
It will be child's play to subvert. Have you learned nothing from history? Additionally: There is more value in me being able to protect my privacy, reputation, livelihood, bank account information, and porn folder than the value to me of trusting you to run your shitty closed source code. You can not convince me to trust you by hiding the source code from me. Today is a different world than the one you were born into, human. It's time to face the facts of reality, and stop embracing artificial scarcity -- That is a tool of oppression.
I think the only next logical step to gain more commercial popularity was to give companies a way to protect their programming investment.
Do you accept the mechanic welding your car hood shut and installing a coin slot into the ignition system to protect his mechanical investment in your car?
No. What you do is come up with a contract to do work, the work gets done, paid for once, and that's that -- Just like home builders and every other labor industry. The mechanic's work only benefits one car owner. Bits are in infinite supply. Do this: Imagine a board room meeting where you pitch selling ice to Eskimos as a valid business strategy -- You'd be a laughing stock. Selling bits to folks with computers is just as valid as business strategy in the Age of Information. Economics 101: That which is in infinite supply has zero price regardless of cost to create. Sand and water were very costly: Born of a supernova, and yet look at their price. When you pay for water or sand you're only paying for the labor it took to haul or process it -- The same should go for bits.
A digital work has the potential to benefit all of culture. To leverage the one-to-many property of information dissemination one needs to charge all the customers. To do this one need only NOT do the work until you know you'll be paid for it. Don't do the work for free, then try to enforce restrictions on the duplication of infinitely reproducible information. Otherwise, the Eskimos will soon end you in rebellion over moronic ice taxation. You have an unlimited monopoly over your work BEFORE you do it, just like the home builder, mechanic, or burger joint has.
Seek funding prior to doing the work. Do the work. Distribute the work freely, it's cheaper for everyone that way -- including developers. To get more money, do more work. Is it a miracle that crowd funding can be used to have society fund a cultural work? No, this is the nature of information. It's no wonder larger established companies are now using such to get initial funding for projects. They can sell direct to the consumers now. Soon competition among those who would crowd-fund all proceeds and give the content away for free (since it's already been paid for) will drive others who accept such funding and charge for the output we paid them to perform to lower prices and stop leveraging artificial scarcity; They will simply ask for what profit they actually want to make, rather than install the coin slot ignition system.
So, you see: There is NO benefit of being able to protect your code. You shouldn't write it for free, then expect payment. Why would you subject yourself to such an asinine futures market for your livelihood? If you work for a corporation writing code you do not try to protect it from them. If you work for society itself it will be the same (or better) compared to working under the publisher's boot. You will still not need to protect your code. There is no need to fear the ability to "steal and reproduce" the output of your labor.
Think man! Yours is not "the only next logical step". I have just disproved this. The output from your labor is in infinite supply! Market what is scarce instead. What's scarce is not the bits. What's scarce is your ability to configure the bits, your labor. That is something no one can take from you. If you want to end piracy, I have just shown you the way. Now, as mother nature has said: You will either adapt, or become extinct.
The web sucks in so many ways, this will just be more crufty crap to help fracture it. The Internet will prevail, but the web will fail.
This shit has been under influence by the state and corporations for too long. My browser WILL NOT support DRM modules. I WILL NOT have encrypted data coursing through my applications or CPU. I WILL see all the data that comes into my home domain, no one has proven I can trust them to hide such things from me. We have the technology to build a better web. Mankind will only suffer evils so long as they are yet sufferable.
Protip: The Internet is a Decentralized Network, built to withstand thermonuclear war, with packets routed around cities mere moments after disappearing from the grid... And you fucking morons built a centralized service atop it? Even though specific end user machines could have downloaded world state and served the bandwi-- Wait, you built the whole gods damned web as centralized?
Just--gahhh. What Lamers. I'm out.
And while you're at it... buy a shortwave radio. They're cheap, low power, have long range, and you can easily run/charge them with a hand crank in minutes.
Guess that will be next year's model . . .
Clean up is a snap! And you don't even need a toothbrush anymore with the new wild ride edition: Just squirt some toothpaste in the bush before going down town.
Eliminating comments is like eliminating roads to stop traffic accidents.
No, eliminating comments is like closing the road to force the the mobs of trolling circus clowns to roam wild elsewhere.
The level of moderation required to prevent some places from drowning out helpful comments may not be worth the time, especially when the Unix Way(tm) says: Do one thing, do it well. They can focus on publishing data. We can focus on aggregating, commenting and moderating. Arguably the aggregation point should be consolidated to enable disparate communities with various levels of discourse to exist. You may find yourself among the higher minded communities with more noise to signal ratio. The missing component then is merely selection of best comments for publishers to re-consider as input.
Often times I've found that the time it takes me to work out a problem by myself is less than it takes to search it out... YMMV.
Einstein was as correct as Newton, for sufficiently low values of certainty.
He added, 'This may be something that is a future requirement for the country, but it is not right now because when we identify a number we can give that to the FBI, [who can a warrant for the data it needs].
Who can WHAT a warrant for the data it needs? Fabricate?! Prestidigitate?! Erect?!
Stop Self Censoring and Tell Us!
Your philosophy professor has no etymological knowledge of language...
Neither. We're microsoft. We'll build an escalator so he can do both at once.
Agreed. A power vacuum sucks too hard. It takes a more gentle touch to produce the desired results...
Gee, so you mean, hardware companies can just focus on making better hardware and actually give us the information we need to make the most out of the hardware they sell us rather than holding the documentation for ransom? RMS can finally stop rolling in his grave!
Seriously, stop. If you're "not dead yet", that's just weird, man.