Looks great except for One thing: No SD card slot, so screw it. I'm not buying into the "stream everything" BS. "Always online" is a disease. Lack of this basic feature is a huge "Fuck You" to me and anyone else who shuffles a lot of data -- The power users -- The people who would by the thing -- The target demographic...
I mean, even my cunting Sansa Clip+ has a fucking SD card reader -- Loaded with a 64 gig micro SD... Which is more than this damn thing can store (the full 64GB of the 64GB version isn't fully usable for data) -- And I have a 8 of these cards (in a CD jewel case holder). It takes me 10 seconds to swap cards -- That's 384 GB/sec... For the price they're changing for this thing, it should be as feature complete as a $30 music player.
What is it going to take? Wait until software defined radio gets cheap enough before I can have a damn SD card slot back? Ugh.
When I read the "100%" I had to go to TFA and read the whole thing...
The Nasa article ( http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-144 ) says "... with almost 100-percent efficiency " but the submit uses the hyperbole "... it uses 100 percent of all the available hydrogen to supply the protostars, leaving no waste."
Imagine if it were as efficient as Slashdot:
The SlashStar Galaxy would recycle things so efficiently that it wouldn't need to produce any light of its own -- feeding only from the energy of other nearby systems. It would sometimes appear to have two of the same starticles in the same region, not due to gravitational lensing, but due to not caring enough about how it looks enough to even notice it had already processed the same material earlier. Every entity responsible for the formation of the SlashStar Galaxy itself would be either an invisible blacktroll of negativity or a nebulous "dark matter" hidden in its shadowy basements. Any direct observation would be near worthless without extensive research to discern what the measurements actually meant, but spending time on such a thing would be frowned upon -- Merely seeing what system it passed in front of next being the prime interest of the scientific community. Though you could not observe the individual components that make up the SlashStar Galaxy, you could measure their collective effect on their surroundings: Occasionally the maelstrom of minutia would align in a catastrophic conjunction causing a great funnel of forces that eject great streams of individual energetic particles, obliterating any unfortunate system in its path -- The SlashStar effect.
The SlashStar Galaxy: Dark energy from Nerds, Stuff made of strange matter.
Everyone? Wow, are you from another planet? The only ones I know who thought that were a bunch of geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years.
Well, not Everyone, IMO... But certainly anyone who's hooked up an n.net program and trained it to do first simple, then increasingly complex tasks faster and easier than any almost any organic creature can be trained. I guess you don't know many of this type of folks, that also weren't geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years... It's odd to find any successful scientist that doesn't fit this description; In fact they frequently cite science fiction as a key inspiration.
Of course, I'm just talking about Earth here. Maybe I am from another planet than you are... Perhaps your race has no TV? I doubt the Venn Diagram of aliens who manage interstellar travel and also end up inventing TV looks like anything but a perfect circle.
You know, twenty five years ago, everyone was convinced it would be computers built by the military-industrial complex that would become self-aware and take out the human race. Now I'm beginning to wonder if HFT algorithms will be the ones that do it.
Well, I study machine intelligence systems, and when I observe what's possible with a few servers in my garage, and then observe the fact that we don't have any announcements of nearly self aware systems already out of the military-industrial complex already, it kind of scares the living shit out of me... I mean, I don't care if they've got them already and are keeping such AI tech quiet, but if cryptography is anything to go by and they are just keeping a lid on things then cyberneticists like me could find ourselves under very extreme restrictions in the near future -- Or worse...
Sadly that is true and why FOSS will ALWAYS suck for anything bigger than a project that can be done by a handful in a garage, its a problem I noted years ago and gave the name "Busted shitter problem".
You see if I ask for somebody to paint me a picture or sculpt me a bust or write a song for free? I will get several offers, some of which might even be really good. If I ask someone to come fix that overflowing shitter for free? Well I better get used to pissing in the sink.
Which is why your "busted shitter problem" works the opposite way in FLOSS. Because when a FLOSS shitter breaks, it's not just you, it's a whole mess of people. Some of them are willing to pay to have the problem fixed, and some might even be capable of cleaning the shit off themselves. When ONE of them does fix the issue, then then everyone's busted shitter is fixed all at once. Compare this to a proprietary shitter than no one is allowed to fix but the shitter manufacturer: You have to wait on a specialist to come out with a fix, if they find it in THEIR interest to fix it... So, that's why Linux is better and faster than Microsoft is at patching OS vulnerabilities -- Linux, a successful project that runs damn near every web server on the planet, and powers the most smartphones as well, I might add. The many successful FLOSS projects that are bigger than a handful of devs does not completely obliterate your points, but makes you look pretty damn foolish, IMO.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that a core team of maintainers should be small. When starting out these maintainers are also developers. However, when the project gets bigger it's restructured so that devs get to keep developing and maintainers just merge and test and verify, etc. Lather rinse and repeat. Linux is successful because the dev became a maintainer quickly and let others do the dirty work. Protip: Linus doesn't write much code these days, but every kernel patch still crosses his desk. Ballmer and the late Jobs could only dream of such levels of control... Aside: What happens when Linus dies or quits? He's already set up the system of trust so that anyone can now replace him immediately.
This flexibility and scalability in structure is something that all companies should take a look into. Many are doing so. Some, companies are letting users fix their broken shitters for free to the benefit of all. Others claim control over all shiter functions, and thus become synonymous with their broken shit.
Well, compare our trade deficits and find out for yourself. Hey, if Godwin owed Hitler money, wouldn't he come up with a Law to make him seem evil so he could default on the loan?
Well for me it's the politically motivated weasel words: "China was involved in 96% of all espionage data-breach incidents"
This means even if it was a Repulsive Russian or Clever Canadian hacker using a Chinese box as a relay, and a toolkit that Chinese folk have used before then "China" was "involved". Which is bullshit.
Let me tell you of a story of the town that has the highest drug related arrests in the county: I was pulled over for speeding, and briefly arrested for possession of drugs. I was traveling on a road marked 50mph that suddenly changed to 30mph at the edge of a small town's influence -- not a building in sight, just they have land rights. The posted speed sign was amongst some trees and partially obscured. There was a police officer with a radar gun sitting across the road from it in plain sight. I saw the cop and slowed down in case they were to pull out into traffic (but not below the new speed limit). I missed the posted speed limit sign -- I disputed its existence then got angrier when saw it later, mostly obscured -- A classic small town speed trap.
The officer's report says he saw drug paraphernalia and smelled a strong presence of marijuana, which is bullshit, and it was a pre-written canned report that shouldn't have even been valid -- It said the officer talked to the passengers in my car to ensure they weren't intoxicated: There were NO passengers. It was a copy-paste from some pre-made report! My lawyer demanded the case be dropped due to the fraudulent report. The judge just crossed that part out and had me and the cop initial it, ugh! My Uncle smokes a tobacco pipe and left it in my car -- That was the 'drug' paraphernalia they confiscated and kept. I was eventually released with only a speeding ticket, and the ticket was dropped when I showed up to fight it. That small town has the highest number of "Drug Related Arrests" in the county. Now I have to say YES on employment applications that ask: "Have you ever been arrested for a felony offense" -- Arrested, yes. Convicted? No. Still, that's not what the application asks, now is it? Might as well say: "Have you ever been assumed guilty before you had a chance to prove your innocence", but why the fuck would you ask such a thing? That's the point. It's an honesty thing, I guess. It's weasely words that say one thing but mean another and I walk right out if I get asked such things, after letting them know I don't enjoy ruses. Just ask about convictions, dolts.
Ah, but the HR employees are just doing their job the way they were told to do it, and it wasn't THEM specifically that decided to add the weasely question. Just like this report. The researchers did their job and collected the information the best they can, they didn't have a political motive. However, the data is presented by others up the chain to coach the reader into coming to conclusions that the data does not directly support. This is cause for distrust.
In the same self selecting way that the police saw "pipe = drugs" this report only contains data from alleged "espionage" data-breaches, where the companies feel like divulging the information that won't make them look like completely irresponsible incompetent idiots. "A Chinese IP address! It was a state sponsored hacker who caused the data breach by exploiting the known SQL injection vulnerability that even skiddies can perform via running a pentest suite! Well, OK, maybe not, but let's make sure to point out that Chinese IP address." What of investigations into the actual nationality of the attackers? No mention of that 'eh? So maybe Maybe the report is designed to ask questions that lead folks to think one way when the data means quite another thing altogether, eh?
My IRC server logs show China is also home to the most open proxies (I actively test users for them) -- Guess where most of the folks using the proxies are from? USA. I know because they email me whe
No, the problem with DRM is that a) you are assumed to be a dirty pirate even if you pay and b) it takes your rights away.
I get where you're coming from, but that's not the problem with DRM. The problem with DRM is that it doesn't affect pirates or piracy, only the folks who actually tried to "legally" get the content. Ergo: It serves only to degrade paying customer's experience and make piracy look like a better option. That's why I say, as a content creator, DRM is just dumb.
And why would it be that it's not a "black eye" for the US? It's hardly the case that they are not spending money on creating ever more energy sources. It's just that not enough of them are green.
Does NASA need alternate funding avenues?
Space Base Bigelow's Gigolos -- A Sugar Cougar's One Stop Shop for Moon Poon Pleasure. Ask about our Zero-G Whoopee for Free!
We need a hard-nosed leader with a purer-than-the-driven-snow history, to fix this. That's a difficult combination to find. If there's any blemishes in his/her past, the security forces will 'leak' that part of their massive surveillance database to protect their 'good' deeds and eject the leader they don't like.
Or you could just lower your damn leadership standards. That's what we did in the USA...
This is Max Headroom, live on Net-Net-Net-Network 23, because what I want to know is, who's gonna stop this kind of wholesale artic--killing-ing-ing-ing. Killing. It's time that Slashdot took a stand - a stand - a *stand* on this kind of headline murder. Murder. Murder. Preferably against it.
If one woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can have a baby in one month, right?
No.
You're wrong, otherwise we'd need close to 130 million months per year. Furthermore, the 9 women have their 9 babies after ~9 months yielding in an average production rate of 1bpm (one baby per month) from this group of women -- If kept perpetually pregnant. If we put 90 women in the baby farm they will produce TEN Babies Per Month.
Some people's kids, I swear -- They must have botch the batch of logic circuits in your revision; This is Matrixology 101.
All those computers can be converted to Linux boxes and I'm sure they can find the software for all their medical records etc.
And I'm sure they're not. Medical imaging software, for example, working on embedded machines is definitely NOT available for Linux, nor they will ever be. The market is too small to allow porting software to multiple OSs. It's simply not worth it.
Well, you're wrong. Linux is great at embedded stuff. Furthermore, small specialized markets are perfect for FLOSS projects. How much less would the users of said medical software spend in the long run if they simply funded the development of an open source solution? Such things could even receive grants from the government and distributors of the compiled software can handle the cost of certification by charging for it -- The price would be far lower per copy though since you'd have competition between compilers of the same software. They can even compete by offering installation and maintenance services, along with contract programming to have new features added to the FLOSS codebase.
Essentially, the answer is FLOSS, but the biggest hurdle is giving up on the infinitely inflated software sales (inflated such due to artificial scarcity of infinitely available bits), and being willing to merely get paid when you actually do work. This is actually a high enough hurdle that I don't think anyone's going to leap it. However, there are people like me on the other side of the hurdle already who will just write code for money, and unsurprisingly, I earn the majority of my living via adding features to FLOSS projects made for small specialized niche markets... I guess that's "full disclosure", but it's also a datapoint against your assertion that such markets are too expensive to support FLOSS.
Oh, and this is 2013, so if you want to port my code between Linux or Mac or Windows or even some Arm platforms this is how you do it: git pull && make
Yep, that's all.
Interesting isn't it? How ineffectual the DDoS is, incapable of actually stopping anything from happening for any length of time. It only raises awareness. The hive needs information outlets (many of them, because: why not?), and all are just as "official" as the others, yet it will freely fling its own "weapons" at itself, knowing it can not truly harm the body -- like an anemone immune to its own poison. It's merely communicating with itself.
The DDoS has become only a way to make a proportion of disapproval known through exerting sheer evidence of the existence of differing ideas. Like an arched cat walking sideways, or a Lion's thundering roar, it serves only to intimidate, provide proof of their presence, and in the hive's case, perhaps spark discussion. Since it takes energy to continue in a strong enough capacity to affect any real change this discord will fade into the mass of other chaotic signals as the dissenters grow bored, the protested cease action, the DDoSed get more support in the form of more traffic and bigger pipes, or the conflict of wills is resolved.
As one who studies and applies a wide range of systems from genetic algorithms to neural networks in accordance with information theory and a host of other sciences it's interesting to me how self organizing forms emerge and evolve. Humans are a hive-mind themselves: Their complex genetic programs dispatch chemical signals from the nucleus of each cell causing the cells to perform a multitude of actions, some more specialized for a task than others, from livers to bones to white blood cells, to neurons, or egg and sperm; These collectives have reached a sufficient level of complexity in interaction between the cells to give rise to minds where thoughts themselves dwell as echoes of electro-chemical currents, and the humans have themselves began interacting in such complex ways with thoughts that they can form meta structures too. This generation of humans being more capable of connecting and communicating ideas directly than any other in history rushes faster still toward the next phase of macro organization and awareness: They themselves are becoming merely cells forming the loose structure of yet a larger organisms made of like-minded thoughts...
Corporations and governments are similar meta structures in some ways, but these are the product of intelligent design. What we have here is the natural emergence of a species of organizational amoeba -- A slime-mold-like entity capable of dispersing and regrouping instantly, one that needs no constant influx of energy to survive because it thrives by being completely abandoned husk of dormant ideas that surges to life in sections at a time when the larger cultural system senses the need or opportunity to put forth the pressure of those ideals to the other meta structural entities.
If you study life as a system of information, what's going on here is clear. I will stop now, however, because if I continue it may also become clear to others how to end such an organisms' life before it truly has a chance to begin. Have no fear though, if the design or configuration is unfit death is optimal. Look at yourself though -- Little amoebas running around in your blood, born from within the relatively static bone structure -- And these are your best defense against invaders who would hijack your very cells and turn them against you. The configuration of Anonymous may or may not survive, but the useful structures will be preserved in future generations. Humans can serve as host cells for more than one intangible thought system.
"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
-- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
-- Six, Battlestar Galactica
"That's excellent! Now that they're a legitimate public entity, they can be sued! That gets them out of criminal court, and into profit court err I mean civil court."
I can hear the excited clicking of Mont Blanc pens now...
I tire of this game. There are many heads. This one you may sever from the hydra, and carry back to your town as a trophy. The trumpets will welcome you as a returning hero, but anyone with half a mind will know the truth of this day.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks great except for One thing: No SD card slot, so screw it. I'm not buying into the "stream everything" BS. "Always online" is a disease. Lack of this basic feature is a huge "Fuck You" to me and anyone else who shuffles a lot of data -- The power users -- The people who would by the thing -- The target demographic...
I mean, even my cunting Sansa Clip+ has a fucking SD card reader -- Loaded with a 64 gig micro SD... Which is more than this damn thing can store (the full 64GB of the 64GB version isn't fully usable for data) -- And I have a 8 of these cards (in a CD jewel case holder). It takes me 10 seconds to swap cards -- That's 384 GB/sec... For the price they're changing for this thing, it should be as feature complete as a $30 music player.
What is it going to take? Wait until software defined radio gets cheap enough before I can have a damn SD card slot back? Ugh.
When I read the "100%" I had to go to TFA and read the whole thing ...
The Nasa article ( http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-144 ) says " ... with almost 100-percent efficiency " but the submit uses the hyperbole "... it uses 100 percent of all the available hydrogen to supply the protostars, leaving no waste ."
Imagine if it were as efficient as Slashdot:
The SlashStar Galaxy would recycle things so efficiently that it wouldn't need to produce any light of its own -- feeding only from the energy of other nearby systems. It would sometimes appear to have two of the same starticles in the same region, not due to gravitational lensing, but due to not caring enough about how it looks enough to even notice it had already processed the same material earlier. Every entity responsible for the formation of the SlashStar Galaxy itself would be either an invisible blacktroll of negativity or a nebulous "dark matter" hidden in its shadowy basements. Any direct observation would be near worthless without extensive research to discern what the measurements actually meant, but spending time on such a thing would be frowned upon -- Merely seeing what system it passed in front of next being the prime interest of the scientific community. Though you could not observe the individual components that make up the SlashStar Galaxy, you could measure their collective effect on their surroundings: Occasionally the maelstrom of minutia would align in a catastrophic conjunction causing a great funnel of forces that eject great streams of individual energetic particles, obliterating any unfortunate system in its path -- The SlashStar effect.
The SlashStar Galaxy: Dark energy from Nerds, Stuff made of strange matter.
Everyone? Wow, are you from another planet? The only ones I know who thought that were a bunch of geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years.
Well, not Everyone, IMO... But certainly anyone who's hooked up an n.net program and trained it to do first simple, then increasingly complex tasks faster and easier than any almost any organic creature can be trained. I guess you don't know many of this type of folks, that also weren't geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years... It's odd to find any successful scientist that doesn't fit this description; In fact they frequently cite science fiction as a key inspiration.
Of course, I'm just talking about Earth here. Maybe I am from another planet than you are... Perhaps your race has no TV? I doubt the Venn Diagram of aliens who manage interstellar travel and also end up inventing TV looks like anything but a perfect circle.
You know, twenty five years ago, everyone was convinced it would be computers built by the military-industrial complex that would become self-aware and take out the human race. Now I'm beginning to wonder if HFT algorithms will be the ones that do it.
Well, I study machine intelligence systems, and when I observe what's possible with a few servers in my garage, and then observe the fact that we don't have any announcements of nearly self aware systems already out of the military-industrial complex already, it kind of scares the living shit out of me... I mean, I don't care if they've got them already and are keeping such AI tech quiet, but if cryptography is anything to go by and they are just keeping a lid on things then cyberneticists like me could find ourselves under very extreme restrictions in the near future -- Or worse...
Indeed. Which is why it's more important than ever to think for yourself and always consider the source.
Sadly that is true and why FOSS will ALWAYS suck for anything bigger than a project that can be done by a handful in a garage, its a problem I noted years ago and gave the name "Busted shitter problem".
You see if I ask for somebody to paint me a picture or sculpt me a bust or write a song for free? I will get several offers, some of which might even be really good. If I ask someone to come fix that overflowing shitter for free? Well I better get used to pissing in the sink.
Which is why your "busted shitter problem" works the opposite way in FLOSS. Because when a FLOSS shitter breaks, it's not just you, it's a whole mess of people. Some of them are willing to pay to have the problem fixed, and some might even be capable of cleaning the shit off themselves. When ONE of them does fix the issue, then then everyone's busted shitter is fixed all at once. Compare this to a proprietary shitter than no one is allowed to fix but the shitter manufacturer: You have to wait on a specialist to come out with a fix, if they find it in THEIR interest to fix it... So, that's why Linux is better and faster than Microsoft is at patching OS vulnerabilities -- Linux, a successful project that runs damn near every web server on the planet, and powers the most smartphones as well, I might add. The many successful FLOSS projects that are bigger than a handful of devs does not completely obliterate your points, but makes you look pretty damn foolish, IMO.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that a core team of maintainers should be small. When starting out these maintainers are also developers. However, when the project gets bigger it's restructured so that devs get to keep developing and maintainers just merge and test and verify, etc. Lather rinse and repeat. Linux is successful because the dev became a maintainer quickly and let others do the dirty work. Protip: Linus doesn't write much code these days, but every kernel patch still crosses his desk. Ballmer and the late Jobs could only dream of such levels of control... Aside: What happens when Linus dies or quits? He's already set up the system of trust so that anyone can now replace him immediately.
This flexibility and scalability in structure is something that all companies should take a look into. Many are doing so. Some, companies are letting users fix their broken shitters for free to the benefit of all. Others claim control over all shiter functions, and thus become synonymous with their broken shit.
[Ctrl + F] "Planning Fallacy" --> Phrase not found
Oh you.
Just blocking access from China to your network?
But then the world's hackers will just use proxies in other countries -- Especially the Chinese ones, who do this anyway...
Well, compare our trade deficits and find out for yourself. Hey, if Godwin owed Hitler money, wouldn't he come up with a Law to make him seem evil so he could default on the loan?
Could you cite the reason you distrust the DBIR?
Well for me it's the politically motivated weasel words: "China was involved in 96% of all espionage data-breach incidents"
This means even if it was a Repulsive Russian or Clever Canadian hacker using a Chinese box as a relay, and a toolkit that Chinese folk have used before then "China" was "involved". Which is bullshit.
Let me tell you of a story of the town that has the highest drug related arrests in the county: I was pulled over for speeding, and briefly arrested for possession of drugs. I was traveling on a road marked 50mph that suddenly changed to 30mph at the edge of a small town's influence -- not a building in sight, just they have land rights. The posted speed sign was amongst some trees and partially obscured. There was a police officer with a radar gun sitting across the road from it in plain sight. I saw the cop and slowed down in case they were to pull out into traffic (but not below the new speed limit). I missed the posted speed limit sign -- I disputed its existence then got angrier when saw it later, mostly obscured -- A classic small town speed trap.
The officer's report says he saw drug paraphernalia and smelled a strong presence of marijuana, which is bullshit, and it was a pre-written canned report that shouldn't have even been valid -- It said the officer talked to the passengers in my car to ensure they weren't intoxicated: There were NO passengers. It was a copy-paste from some pre-made report! My lawyer demanded the case be dropped due to the fraudulent report. The judge just crossed that part out and had me and the cop initial it, ugh! My Uncle smokes a tobacco pipe and left it in my car -- That was the 'drug' paraphernalia they confiscated and kept. I was eventually released with only a speeding ticket, and the ticket was dropped when I showed up to fight it. That small town has the highest number of "Drug Related Arrests" in the county. Now I have to say YES on employment applications that ask: "Have you ever been arrested for a felony offense" -- Arrested, yes. Convicted? No. Still, that's not what the application asks, now is it? Might as well say: "Have you ever been assumed guilty before you had a chance to prove your innocence", but why the fuck would you ask such a thing? That's the point. It's an honesty thing, I guess. It's weasely words that say one thing but mean another and I walk right out if I get asked such things, after letting them know I don't enjoy ruses. Just ask about convictions, dolts.
Ah, but the HR employees are just doing their job the way they were told to do it, and it wasn't THEM specifically that decided to add the weasely question. Just like this report. The researchers did their job and collected the information the best they can, they didn't have a political motive. However, the data is presented by others up the chain to coach the reader into coming to conclusions that the data does not directly support. This is cause for distrust.
In the same self selecting way that the police saw "pipe = drugs" this report only contains data from alleged "espionage" data-breaches, where the companies feel like divulging the information that won't make them look like completely irresponsible incompetent idiots. "A Chinese IP address! It was a state sponsored hacker who caused the data breach by exploiting the known SQL injection vulnerability that even skiddies can perform via running a pentest suite! Well, OK, maybe not, but let's make sure to point out that Chinese IP address." What of investigations into the actual nationality of the attackers? No mention of that 'eh? So maybe Maybe the report is designed to ask questions that lead folks to think one way when the data means quite another thing altogether, eh?
My IRC server logs show China is also home to the most open proxies (I actively test users for them) -- Guess where most of the folks using the proxies are from? USA. I know because they email me whe
No, the problem with DRM is that a) you are assumed to be a dirty pirate even if you pay and b) it takes your rights away.
I get where you're coming from, but that's not the problem with DRM. The problem with DRM is that it doesn't affect pirates or piracy, only the folks who actually tried to "legally" get the content. Ergo: It serves only to degrade paying customer's experience and make piracy look like a better option. That's why I say, as a content creator, DRM is just dumb.
Christ you've been fucking up the planet for decades - no centuries, and now you have the gall to complain about China.
Ah ha! Bad move high-grounder, you exposed yourself as an immortal. Now that I've found you, and There Can Be Only One!
And why would it be that it's not a "black eye" for the US? It's hardly the case that they are not spending money on creating ever more energy sources. It's just that not enough of them are green.
Fine. A "brown eye" then.
Does NASA need alternate funding avenues?
Space Base Bigelow's Gigolos -- A Sugar Cougar's One Stop Shop for Moon Poon Pleasure. Ask about our Zero-G Whoopee for Free!
Be honest. Would you, a Christian or a Jew
Hell yeah I would. Would you a pasty basement nerd? Call me for a time.
We need a hard-nosed leader with a purer-than-the-driven-snow history, to fix this. That's a difficult combination to find. If there's any blemishes in his/her past, the security forces will 'leak' that part of their massive surveillance database to protect their 'good' deeds and eject the leader they don't like.
Or you could just lower your damn leadership standards. That's what we did in the USA...
"are often.. scarce". Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine.
My pet peeve is when folks place contradictory words too close together. Thanks for the double dot, that was awfully... kind of you.
This is Max Headroom, live on Net-Net-Net-Network 23, because what I want to know is, who's gonna stop this kind of wholesale artic--killing-ing-ing-ing. Killing. It's time that Slashdot took a stand - a stand - a *stand* on this kind of headline murder. Murder. Murder. Preferably against it.
I dunno, your check seems a bit off: It had plenty of redundancy to me, try another cycle?
If one woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can have a baby in one month, right?
No.
You're wrong, otherwise we'd need close to 130 million months per year. Furthermore, the 9 women have their 9 babies after ~9 months yielding in an average production rate of 1bpm (one baby per month) from this group of women -- If kept perpetually pregnant. If we put 90 women in the baby farm they will produce TEN Babies Per Month.
Some people's kids, I swear -- They must have botch the batch of logic circuits in your revision; This is Matrixology 101.
All those computers can be converted to Linux boxes and I'm sure they can find the software for all their medical records etc.
And I'm sure they're not. Medical imaging software, for example, working on embedded machines is definitely NOT available for Linux, nor they will ever be. The market is too small to allow porting software to multiple OSs. It's simply not worth it.
Well, you're wrong. Linux is great at embedded stuff. Furthermore, small specialized markets are perfect for FLOSS projects. How much less would the users of said medical software spend in the long run if they simply funded the development of an open source solution? Such things could even receive grants from the government and distributors of the compiled software can handle the cost of certification by charging for it -- The price would be far lower per copy though since you'd have competition between compilers of the same software. They can even compete by offering installation and maintenance services, along with contract programming to have new features added to the FLOSS codebase.
Essentially, the answer is FLOSS, but the biggest hurdle is giving up on the infinitely inflated software sales (inflated such due to artificial scarcity of infinitely available bits), and being willing to merely get paid when you actually do work. This is actually a high enough hurdle that I don't think anyone's going to leap it. However, there are people like me on the other side of the hurdle already who will just write code for money, and unsurprisingly, I earn the majority of my living via adding features to FLOSS projects made for small specialized niche markets... I guess that's "full disclosure", but it's also a datapoint against your assertion that such markets are too expensive to support FLOSS.
Oh, and this is 2013, so if you want to port my code between Linux or Mac or Windows or even some Arm platforms this is how you do it:
git pull && make
Yep, that's all.
DDoS It Like It's Hot
Interesting isn't it? How ineffectual the DDoS is, incapable of actually stopping anything from happening for any length of time. It only raises awareness. The hive needs information outlets (many of them, because: why not?), and all are just as "official" as the others, yet it will freely fling its own "weapons" at itself, knowing it can not truly harm the body -- like an anemone immune to its own poison. It's merely communicating with itself.
The DDoS has become only a way to make a proportion of disapproval known through exerting sheer evidence of the existence of differing ideas. Like an arched cat walking sideways, or a Lion's thundering roar, it serves only to intimidate, provide proof of their presence, and in the hive's case, perhaps spark discussion. Since it takes energy to continue in a strong enough capacity to affect any real change this discord will fade into the mass of other chaotic signals as the dissenters grow bored, the protested cease action, the DDoSed get more support in the form of more traffic and bigger pipes, or the conflict of wills is resolved.
As one who studies and applies a wide range of systems from genetic algorithms to neural networks in accordance with information theory and a host of other sciences it's interesting to me how self organizing forms emerge and evolve. Humans are a hive-mind themselves: Their complex genetic programs dispatch chemical signals from the nucleus of each cell causing the cells to perform a multitude of actions, some more specialized for a task than others, from livers to bones to white blood cells, to neurons, or egg and sperm; These collectives have reached a sufficient level of complexity in interaction between the cells to give rise to minds where thoughts themselves dwell as echoes of electro-chemical currents, and the humans have themselves began interacting in such complex ways with thoughts that they can form meta structures too. This generation of humans being more capable of connecting and communicating ideas directly than any other in history rushes faster still toward the next phase of macro organization and awareness: They themselves are becoming merely cells forming the loose structure of yet a larger organisms made of like-minded thoughts...
Corporations and governments are similar meta structures in some ways, but these are the product of intelligent design. What we have here is the natural emergence of a species of organizational amoeba -- A slime-mold-like entity capable of dispersing and regrouping instantly, one that needs no constant influx of energy to survive because it thrives by being completely abandoned husk of dormant ideas that surges to life in sections at a time when the larger cultural system senses the need or opportunity to put forth the pressure of those ideals to the other meta structural entities.
If you study life as a system of information, what's going on here is clear. I will stop now, however, because if I continue it may also become clear to others how to end such an organisms' life before it truly has a chance to begin. Have no fear though, if the design or configuration is unfit death is optimal. Look at yourself though -- Little amoebas running around in your blood, born from within the relatively static bone structure -- And these are your best defense against invaders who would hijack your very cells and turn them against you. The configuration of Anonymous may or may not survive, but the useful structures will be preserved in future generations. Humans can serve as host cells for more than one intangible thought system.
"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
-- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
-- Six, Battlestar Galactica
"That's excellent! Now that they're a legitimate public entity, they can be sued! That gets them out of criminal court, and into profit court err I mean civil court."
I can hear the excited clicking of Mont Blanc pens now...
I tire of this game. There are many heads. This one you may sever from the hydra, and carry back to your town as a trophy. The trumpets will welcome you as a returning hero, but anyone with half a mind will know the truth of this day.
No! I am Spartacus!
Coward.