Did you read the paper? I'll just give you the abstract and let you decide for yourself if there was heavy editing...
"Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bitarchitectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce."
CS is not about programming I know... but still, starting off with pure math without any applied courses is just a bad idea (at my uni advanced logic is a freshman course for CS BTW).
Not everyone is going to agree with their definition of free but they get airtime because they run projects providing useful code and they created the most popular share-alike software license (although the share alike part of it is secondary to them).
Open Source projects are a technocracy, contribute enough and you can be as loony as you want.
"There are some conservatives who will argue that too MUCH regulation caused the current financial crisis by laws mandating "community lending" to those who couldn't afford to borrow"
Some conservatives are idiots.
Forcing banks to write out bad loans is not a good idea, but in a market which can recognize bad loans as such it wouldn't have been a problem for anyone but the banks giving them out. On the other hand if you can write out a bad loan and shift off the default risk to a sucker why wouldn't you do it? No one needed their arms twisted to create this situation, the market did it on it's own. The ratings agencies and the trust placed in them were by far the biggest cause of the mess.
The invisible hand gave the financial market a circle jerk and we are left to clean up the results.
AIG didn't insure all those loans because the state told them to.
Lehman Brothers didn't buy all those MBS because the state told them to.
Even assuming some wacky legislation created most of the bad loans (which isn't true) that wouldn't have resulted in this crisis if the market had forced the banks to sit on these loans themselves. Bad loans were traded by a financial system which convinced itself they were actually gold... without any help from the state.
The state did help accelerate the growth of the housing bubble... but the blindness of the market to the effect of investing in a bubble was self inflicted.
Follow a couple of links in that article. While it's fully electronic, it doesn't directly connect buyers to sellers. The Market Makers and their advantages are still there.
If you click one link further from that you get to naked short selling and you realise just how insidious the whole thing is...
Individually we need to assholes because of the tragedy of the commons... but when it comes time for voting we can enforce our values on others through the state and thus avoid that tragedy to an extent. Socialism works not because of individual actions, but because of statism.
Or if you can't stand the resulting fight get her hooked on cocaine or something, that will take her mind off it... not much worse than letter her play 18-20 hours a day for years on end...
Banks allowing automated withdrawals are standard here too in the Netherlands (although you can block automated invoicing for your account all together). The companies keep your admission slips and only have to reproduce your admission when you challenge a payment (in time).
There should obviously be an automated system where you yourself can allow automated invoicing for specific accounts and for specific maximum amounts... but there isn't. All the banks have are some heuristic automated checks to make sure everything is above board, if you manage to evade both those checks and no one challenges your invoices for the time you need to siphon away the money and collect it you are homefree.
Without a QPI license they can't make dual 16x slot motherboards (the DMI interface doesn't have that kind of bandwidth) so they are relegated to making low end motherboard chipsets only... that is not a place they want to be.
AMD can't really save them there, since AMD is pretty much dead in the high end in the moment... and they are in bed with ATI, which makes it hard for NVIDIA to compete on the integrated front.
If they don't get a QPI license they will phase out their chipset business, the "denial" was just damage control... as was the planted misinformation about them having a QPI license through third parties (they would sing it from the trees if they really did).
A completely fanless system is not going to be cheap even for a low end setup... even with a low end gaming processor/GPU natural convection inside a vented case won't cut it. You need to attach everything to the case via heatpipes. There are several manufacturers offering small boxes with this system, but I don't know of any with anything resembling a good video card... if you want to be able to pick your own components you are looking at something like the Zalman TNN 300, a 1000$ case...
With big heatpipe heatsinks and a good case you can get away with 500/800 RPM fans... which while of course not silent are very quiet.
I'd go for an Antec 300 with a pro82+ or vx450 PSU. Low end Wolfdale CPU with a heatpipe tower cooler (spoiled for choice here, see a review site like Frostytech and pick whatever is decent, available and cheap). HD4850 GPU with an Accelero S1 or Auras Fridge cooler. Replace all the fans (put one on the GPU cooler as well) and throw in an enclosure for the HD and it's going to be very quiet. Not silent, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a TNN 300.
There have been plenty of stories about disclosure responsible or otherwise, that isn't what makes this one special. The fact that multiple courts decided that prior restraint was fine and dandy is what stands out here... so no, it's not a red herring.
Why indeed have the court make a decision in this matter?
Prior restraint isn't their business... there was no decision to be made by them, the fact that they thought there was something to decide in the first place is the problem.
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Stop trying to pretend that free speech means the right to say anything about anybody anytime and anywhere.
Non sequitur, that was not what the part of his message you quoted was doing.
I assume there is a second layer of encryption/authentication ... they couldn't be that stupid, right?
Did you read the paper? I'll just give you the abstract and let you decide for yourself if there was heavy editing ...
"Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bitarchitectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce."
I just can't escape the feeling there are some astroturfers posting in this story. Touch computing is a bubble.
CS is not about programming I know ... but still, starting off with pure math without any applied courses is just a bad idea (at my uni advanced logic is a freshman course for CS BTW).
Quite simple isn't it?
Not everyone is going to agree with their definition of free but they get airtime because they run projects providing useful code and they created the most popular share-alike software license (although the share alike part of it is secondary to them).
Open Source projects are a technocracy, contribute enough and you can be as loony as you want.
Making it less commercially viable?
Pfftt, I don't care ... never made money off it in the first place.
To just adapt something you have to set aside your ego and admit to yourself that the original writer was a better story crafter than you.
PS. a movie or miniseries could never do justice to the foundation series, perhaps a cartoon series with the length of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
Humans are not provably indeterministic.
Had to be said.
"There are some conservatives who will argue that too MUCH regulation caused the current financial crisis by laws mandating "community lending" to those who couldn't afford to borrow"
Some conservatives are idiots.
Forcing banks to write out bad loans is not a good idea, but in a market which can recognize bad loans as such it wouldn't have been a problem for anyone but the banks giving them out. On the other hand if you can write out a bad loan and shift off the default risk to a sucker why wouldn't you do it? No one needed their arms twisted to create this situation, the market did it on it's own. The ratings agencies and the trust placed in them were by far the biggest cause of the mess.
The invisible hand gave the financial market a circle jerk and we are left to clean up the results.
AIG didn't insure all those loans because the state told them to.
Lehman Brothers didn't buy all those MBS because the state told them to.
Even assuming some wacky legislation created most of the bad loans (which isn't true) that wouldn't have resulted in this crisis if the market had forced the banks to sit on these loans themselves. Bad loans were traded by a financial system which convinced itself they were actually gold ... without any help from the state.
The state did help accelerate the growth of the housing bubble ... but the blindness of the market to the effect of investing in a bubble was self inflicted.
As long as there is going to be a monopoly anyway, the government is the best one to have.
Utilities always end up being (local) monopolies because infrastructure cost makes competition pretty much impossible.
Follow a couple of links in that article. While it's fully electronic, it doesn't directly connect buyers to sellers. The Market Makers and their advantages are still there.
If you click one link further from that you get to naked short selling and you realise just how insidious the whole thing is ...
Note that he still votes socialist ...
Individually we need to assholes because of the tragedy of the commons ... but when it comes time for voting we can enforce our values on others through the state and thus avoid that tragedy to an extent. Socialism works not because of individual actions, but because of statism.
You can pull the plug.
Or if you can't stand the resulting fight get her hooked on cocaine or something, that will take her mind off it ... not much worse than letter her play 18-20 hours a day for years on end ...
Or at least you could setup a warning system assuming you can get electronic transaction sheets via e-mail.
Hmm, though come to think of it ... it wouldn't be that hard to set this up yourself with electronic banking ...
Banks allowing automated withdrawals are standard here too in the Netherlands (although you can block automated invoicing for your account all together). The companies keep your admission slips and only have to reproduce your admission when you challenge a payment (in time).
There should obviously be an automated system where you yourself can allow automated invoicing for specific accounts and for specific maximum amounts ... but there isn't. All the banks have are some heuristic automated checks to make sure everything is above board, if you manage to evade both those checks and no one challenges your invoices for the time you need to siphon away the money and collect it you are homefree.
Without a QPI license they can't make dual 16x slot motherboards (the DMI interface doesn't have that kind of bandwidth) so they are relegated to making low end motherboard chipsets only ... that is not a place they want to be.
AMD can't really save them there, since AMD is pretty much dead in the high end in the moment ... and they are in bed with ATI, which makes it hard for NVIDIA to compete on the integrated front.
If they don't get a QPI license they will phase out their chipset business, the "denial" was just damage control ... as was the planted misinformation about them having a QPI license through third parties (they would sing it from the trees if they really did).
A completely fanless system is not going to be cheap even for a low end setup ... even with a low end gaming processor/GPU natural convection inside a vented case won't cut it. You need to attach everything to the case via heatpipes. There are several manufacturers offering small boxes with this system, but I don't know of any with anything resembling a good video card ... if you want to be able to pick your own components you are looking at something like the Zalman TNN 300, a 1000$ case ...
With big heatpipe heatsinks and a good case you can get away with 500/800 RPM fans ... which while of course not silent are very quiet.
I'd go for an Antec 300 with a pro82+ or vx450 PSU. Low end Wolfdale CPU with a heatpipe tower cooler (spoiled for choice here, see a review site like Frostytech and pick whatever is decent, available and cheap). HD4850 GPU with an Accelero S1 or Auras Fridge cooler. Replace all the fans (put one on the GPU cooler as well) and throw in an enclosure for the HD and it's going to be very quiet. Not silent, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a TNN 300.
How exactly do you grind from level 1-60 without getting your very own level 38 world drop ... which you can then sell for enough gold to buy one.
There have been plenty of stories about disclosure responsible or otherwise, that isn't what makes this one special. The fact that multiple courts decided that prior restraint was fine and dandy is what stands out here ... so no, it's not a red herring.
Why indeed have the court make a decision in this matter?
Prior restraint isn't their business ... there was no decision to be made by them, the fact that they thought there was something to decide in the first place is the problem.