Its not a strawman when the FCC is not proposing net neutrality. They are just proposing something called net neutrality.
The fools are those that care so much for net neutrality that they will bend over and let the FCC stick it directly into them, just because the FCC uses the words you care so deeply about.
Here is an idea.. wake up and feel the shaft that is being introduced to your rear end by the FCC. They are slowly injecting it right now and you don't seem to notice, or care.
Devils advocate - what the fuck does it matter if he drives an SUV?
They are crying about the evil oil companies... while giving it a good shot at maximizing their usage of oil.
I assume you never use any kind of product or service that has any link to petroleum
Thats your fucking problem. You assume instead of read what what said. Likely, this is a common problem of yours. You never expect people to say exactly what they mean. I said exactly what I meant, and didn't mean any more than that. I'm an thinking individual that knows how to form sentences to express an exact intended meaning. I find that people that don't 'get' this simple concept of others saying exactly what they mean, are also incapable of saying exactly what they mean themselves. Usually they are prone to extreme exaggerations, faulty logic, and bullshit asshole assumptions.
I had one person un-friend me because I pointed out what a huge hypocrite they were, owning and driving an SUV all the time while they were also complaining on facebook about those dirty oil companies....
This person wasnt a friend tho... its called a friends list but really its just a contact list of sorts.. I have like 100 people from work 'friended', maybe 20 family members, 5 or 6 old friends from 'back in the day', maybe 5 actual current friends, and then a couple of jam band guys (such as a member of RAQ.. some youtube samples) that I've met over the years...
The females more often than not treat it like the worst aspects of twitter.. "I'm doing my laundry", "cleaning is done", "leaving for work", or some feel-good "copy this if you..." crap.
The guys more often than not are posting about up-coming events... bands that are coming to town and so forth...
Companies like Google are primarily a content delivery company with many services.. so they get to play some serious hardball like screwing over [pick a browser] users (*) every few months with browser sniffing bullshit. They are also playing games with the video tag, as if users were pawns to be thrown at the competition. It wasn't that long ago that Google was more than happy to support both Theora and H.264, professing loudly the fact that playing both was a strong selling point for its browser. Now they have their own format and have changed to what is essentially a "fuck everyone" stand that has this seemingly sweet-smelling bullshit spin attached by an army of drones.
In fact, I would dare say that Google is well into the conflict-of-interests territory. Its got near-monopoly services, a browser, setting up its own ISP, multiple rapidly growing OS's, producing multiple plugins for other browsers to make them behave "the google way", the primary financial backer of another top W3C member, and this could go on (tracking services, advertising, etc,,) I would not be surprised if a few years from now that we find out that Google completely dominates all decisions at the W3C.
(*) if it works when I identify as Firefox.. why does it not work when I identify as Opera? Why is that, Google? Got an explanation that isnt evil? Didn't think so.
These conditions persist at this one location for hours on end, every single day. How many hash challenges do you suppose there are in just this one photo?
My estimate is that there are 250 vehicles in the photo, generating 31250 hash challenges in a single moment of time at a single location.
Hundreds of billions of hash challenges per hour would be a severe low-ball on this planet, especially if we use your 10 mile radius figure. I am not full of shit as these conditions happen in hundreds of thousands of places around the world all the time
Whenever the car starts, generate a random ID that's statistically certain to be unique.
This is slashdot. You are supposed to be familiar with why this line of thinking is wrong. Did you not learn about hash tables and their nonintuitive collision rates? The fact that you have "randomized" it doesnt change the problem.
The problem isn't that at any given moment a vehicle in operation is around only a few other vehicles. Sure, the collision rate will be small for any particular car, but there are millions of cars on the road right at this moment.. tens or even hundreds of millions of ID vs ID collision chances are happening right now as a type...
Hour after hour.. day after day.. you are rolling those hundreds of millions of chances looking for hash collisions...again and again and again...
These random ID wouldn't be 'statistically certain to be unique'... quite the contrary, they are statistically certain to eventually match
The bill was SEVERAL THOUSAND pages long (about 50% longer than War and Peace) The Bill was finalized on a Friday and then voted on the following Monday.
Does this really need to be explained to you? No Senator read the fucking bill before voting on it. Not a single fucking one of them. Before you go there, the bill originated in the Senate... Franken is a Senator for Minnesota.
Following the Senate (who didnt read the bill) passing it, the House Majority Leader attempted to force it through the House without even a vote because public opinion (after people had a chance to read it) was going to badly.
They stated their positions, but you apparently felt that they "never said anything comprehensible."
Your extreme bias has already been exposed in your last reply to me. Thats all there is to it. Anybody that you feel diametrically opposed to is automatically "incomprehensible" which obviously equates to "I wont try to comprehend it because a dirty teabagger said it"
Oh, don't get me wrong. Obama is not doing the right thing by using executive orders.
That should have been the end of your reply, but it wasn't.
You need to examine your own extremely strong bias (everything you wrote afterwards was spawned from it) before you take losing "bets" on what I did during Bush.
Obama does not need to use the executive order precedent set by Bush.
Then why is he?
Please talk about the issue. The issue is that Obama IS doing what you are trying to vilify Bush for. If Bush is a villain, and Obama is doing just as Bush, doesnt that make Obama a villain as well?
If not, why not? Please talk about the issue raise.
Attacking someones position involves talking about their position.
If they believe that privatizing social security will destroy social security, then why are they talking about Paul Ryan instead of talking about Social Security and its privatization?
This is proving the point. They are not attacking the position.. they are attacking the person that just happens to have a position. The intent is to destroy the person, not the position.
Just so you know, Chechen is not a religion like Islam/Muslim is.
The Chechen people are primarily Islamic in faith.
I know that you didnt really want to support the point of the person you were replying to, but thats exactly what you did.
Now I don't know if its the religion itself, the economic conditions that are primarily experienced by those of the religion, the political situations in the regions of its popularity, or what...
..the fact remains that most of the time that somebody blows themselves up, intent on taking others with them, it is someone from an Islamic background.
One might argue that this fact is evidence that the other religions and their respective political blocks have so thoroughly long-term-fucked these people over that this sort of thing just plain makes more sense to them than it does to others.
Now what I truly believe is that poverty is at the core of all this shit, that if you remove wide-spread poverty from the equation then you end up with a different sort of problem. People rioting instead of people blowing themselves up.
First, because wealth distribution is probably the single best predictor of both general quality of life and levels of violent crime in a country.
You got a citation for the quality of life part?
The countries with the greatest economic freedoms are also the countries with the greatest life expectancies (ex: Japan, Hong Kong,..), and it is also highly correlated with greatest per capita GDP levels.
Wealth disparity leads to higher rates of violent crime and lower rates of self reported happiness according to almost every sociological study to ever consider the topic. The correlation is extreme.
Self reported happiness? What kind of hogwash shit is that? Sounds to me like a measure of jealousy and it also sounds like it has no bearing on the quality of life of people.
Standard of living is a very flexible term and studies show exactly opposite results based upon how someone decides to measure it.
In other words, you failed to cite the stuff and even then feel that you have to qualify the un-cited sources as contradictory bullshit.
No, it's science. Maybe you should have read the Slashdot thread in the previous article about engineers and scientists in politics and how science is ignored.
Apparently you failed to learn what science is. Go to my citation above and play around. If you find your smoking gun, then let us have it. Pay particular attention to the Human Development Index as it related to GDP per person.
Contrary to popular belief, Americans are fucking very well off in spite of your rantings based on economic "hes too rich" jealousy.
That's when you find out just how concentrated income and wealth in this country really are.
Why is this a problem?
The big fallacy is that an unequal distribution of wealth is 'evil.'
The only important metric is how well off people are, more specifically their standard of living, and that is NOT tied to wealth distribution at all.
In America, the poor get richer.. the standard of living for everyone in America has been growing fairly consistently here in spite of wealth not being evenly distributed.
You can respond with something about standard of living, but I will not accept responses that cry about wealth distribution... because thats just a fucking appeal to jealousy that has been used to co-opt the easily tricked by those that want to trick them.
But apart from that there is the threat of injunctive relief, perhaps a court order to remove the offending code. It might also require Google to stop distributing old versions of Android that contain the offending code. That's powerful leverage that Oracle could use to extract a significant licensing fee from Google.
Google cannot stop distributing the code to Android if there is GPL in there, right? Must they not make it available per the GPL license?
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Its not a strawman when the FCC is not proposing net neutrality. They are just proposing something called net neutrality.
The fools are those that care so much for net neutrality that they will bend over and let the FCC stick it directly into them, just because the FCC uses the words you care so deeply about.
Here is an idea.. wake up and feel the shaft that is being introduced to your rear end by the FCC. They are slowly injecting it right now and you don't seem to notice, or care.
Devils advocate - what the fuck does it matter if he drives an SUV?
They are crying about the evil oil companies... while giving it a good shot at maximizing their usage of oil.
I assume you never use any kind of product or service that has any link to petroleum
Thats your fucking problem. You assume instead of read what what said. Likely, this is a common problem of yours. You never expect people to say exactly what they mean. I said exactly what I meant, and didn't mean any more than that. I'm an thinking individual that knows how to form sentences to express an exact intended meaning. I find that people that don't 'get' this simple concept of others saying exactly what they mean, are also incapable of saying exactly what they mean themselves. Usually they are prone to extreme exaggerations, faulty logic, and bullshit asshole assumptions.
I had one person un-friend me because I pointed out what a huge hypocrite they were, owning and driving an SUV all the time while they were also complaining on facebook about those dirty oil companies....
.. some youtube samples) that I've met over the years...
This person wasnt a friend tho... its called a friends list but really its just a contact list of sorts.. I have like 100 people from work 'friended', maybe 20 family members, 5 or 6 old friends from 'back in the day', maybe 5 actual current friends, and then a couple of jam band guys (such as a member of RAQ
The females more often than not treat it like the worst aspects of twitter.. "I'm doing my laundry", "cleaning is done", "leaving for work", or some feel-good "copy this if you..." crap.
The guys more often than not are posting about up-coming events... bands that are coming to town and so forth...
Yes, but it's "fuck everyone" in the sense of "hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!" right after you buy new hardware that doesnt even exist yet
Fixed that for you, fanboy.
WebKit is not a reference implementation. Its certainly an implementation, but it is neither complete nor authoritative.
Companies like Google are primarily a content delivery company with many services.. so they get to play some serious hardball like screwing over [pick a browser] users (*) every few months with browser sniffing bullshit. They are also playing games with the video tag, as if users were pawns to be thrown at the competition. It wasn't that long ago that Google was more than happy to support both Theora and H.264, professing loudly the fact that playing both was a strong selling point for its browser. Now they have their own format and have changed to what is essentially a "fuck everyone" stand that has this seemingly sweet-smelling bullshit spin attached by an army of drones.
In fact, I would dare say that Google is well into the conflict-of-interests territory. Its got near-monopoly services, a browser, setting up its own ISP, multiple rapidly growing OS's, producing multiple plugins for other browsers to make them behave "the google way", the primary financial backer of another top W3C member, and this could go on (tracking services, advertising, etc,,) I would not be surprised if a few years from now that we find out that Google completely dominates all decisions at the W3C.
(*) if it works when I identify as Firefox.. why does it not work when I identify as Opera? Why is that, Google? Got an explanation that isnt evil? Didn't think so.
No, alphabets are not purely methods of representing audible sounds.
Computers encode information with a 2 symbol alphabet, for example, and further use that alphabet to encode a larger 256 symbol alphabet.. and so on.
These conditions persist at this one location for hours on end, every single day. How many hash challenges do you suppose there are in just this one photo?
My estimate is that there are 250 vehicles in the photo, generating 31250 hash challenges in a single moment of time at a single location.
Hundreds of billions of hash challenges per hour would be a severe low-ball on this planet, especially if we use your 10 mile radius figure. I am not full of shit as these conditions happen in hundreds of thousands of places around the world all the time
You need to check some of your assumptions.
Whenever the car starts, generate a random ID that's statistically certain to be unique.
This is slashdot. You are supposed to be familiar with why this line of thinking is wrong. Did you not learn about hash tables and their nonintuitive collision rates? The fact that you have "randomized" it doesnt change the problem.
... quite the contrary, they are statistically certain to eventually match
The problem isn't that at any given moment a vehicle in operation is around only a few other vehicles. Sure, the collision rate will be small for any particular car, but there are millions of cars on the road right at this moment.. tens or even hundreds of millions of ID vs ID collision chances are happening right now as a type...
Hour after hour.. day after day.. you are rolling those hundreds of millions of chances looking for hash collisions...again and again and again...
These random ID wouldn't be 'statistically certain to be unique'
The bill was SEVERAL THOUSAND pages long (about 50% longer than War and Peace) The Bill was finalized on a Friday and then voted on the following Monday.
Does this really need to be explained to you? No Senator read the fucking bill before voting on it. Not a single fucking one of them. Before you go there, the bill originated in the Senate... Franken is a Senator for Minnesota.
Following the Senate (who didnt read the bill) passing it, the House Majority Leader attempted to force it through the House without even a vote because public opinion (after people had a chance to read it) was going to badly.
You were saying?
Perhaps you were already masking as FireFox?
Identify as Opera works perfectly with Opera.
They stated their positions, but you apparently felt that they "never said anything comprehensible."
Your extreme bias has already been exposed in your last reply to me. Thats all there is to it. Anybody that you feel diametrically opposed to is automatically "incomprehensible" which obviously equates to "I wont try to comprehend it because a dirty teabagger said it"
What is it, MSNBC? Is that your source of news?
Oh, don't get me wrong. Obama is not doing the right thing by using executive orders.
That should have been the end of your reply, but it wasn't.
You need to examine your own extremely strong bias (everything you wrote afterwards was spawned from it) before you take losing "bets" on what I did during Bush.
Until recently, 1280x1024 was the most common gaming resolution on PC's.
Now 1680x1050 is in the #1 spot and 1920x1080 is #2, with that 1280x1024 at #3.
Obama does not need to use the executive order precedent set by Bush.
Then why is he?
Please talk about the issue. The issue is that Obama IS doing what you are trying to vilify Bush for. If Bush is a villain, and Obama is doing just as Bush, doesnt that make Obama a villain as well?
If not, why not? Please talk about the issue raise.
Attacking someones position involves talking about their position.
If they believe that privatizing social security will destroy social security, then why are they talking about Paul Ryan instead of talking about Social Security and its privatization?
This is proving the point. They are not attacking the position.. they are attacking the person that just happens to have a position. The intent is to destroy the person, not the position.
The Tea Party has never said anything comprehensible enough to be refuted.
You proved his point with your first sentence.
Just so you know, Chechen is not a religion like Islam/Muslim is.
..the fact remains that most of the time that somebody blows themselves up, intent on taking others with them, it is someone from an Islamic background.
The Chechen people are primarily Islamic in faith.
I know that you didnt really want to support the point of the person you were replying to, but thats exactly what you did.
Now I don't know if its the religion itself, the economic conditions that are primarily experienced by those of the religion, the political situations in the regions of its popularity, or what...
One might argue that this fact is evidence that the other religions and their respective political blocks have so thoroughly long-term-fucked these people over that this sort of thing just plain makes more sense to them than it does to others.
Now what I truly believe is that poverty is at the core of all this shit, that if you remove wide-spread poverty from the equation then you end up with a different sort of problem. People rioting instead of people blowing themselves up.
In other news...
Google CIO submits orders to increase their tracking database by 1 bit per user.
I got the first 3 as a boxed set many years ago, so.....
First, because wealth distribution is probably the single best predictor of both general quality of life and levels of violent crime in a country.
You got a citation for the quality of life part?
..), and it is also highly correlated with greatest per capita GDP levels.
The countries with the greatest economic freedoms are also the countries with the greatest life expectancies (ex: Japan, Hong Kong,
The "evil" countries with economic freedom are doing quite well. You may not want to admit it, so here is a god damned citation
Wealth disparity leads to higher rates of violent crime and lower rates of self reported happiness according to almost every sociological study to ever consider the topic. The correlation is extreme.
Self reported happiness? What kind of hogwash shit is that? Sounds to me like a measure of jealousy and it also sounds like it has no bearing on the quality of life of people.
Standard of living is a very flexible term and studies show exactly opposite results based upon how someone decides to measure it.
In other words, you failed to cite the stuff and even then feel that you have to qualify the un-cited sources as contradictory bullshit.
No, it's science. Maybe you should have read the Slashdot thread in the previous article about engineers and scientists in politics and how science is ignored.
Apparently you failed to learn what science is. Go to my citation above and play around. If you find your smoking gun, then let us have it. Pay particular attention to the Human Development Index as it related to GDP per person.
Contrary to popular belief, Americans are fucking very well off in spite of your rantings based on economic "hes too rich" jealousy.
That's when you find out just how concentrated income and wealth in this country really are.
Why is this a problem?
The big fallacy is that an unequal distribution of wealth is 'evil.'
The only important metric is how well off people are, more specifically their standard of living, and that is NOT tied to wealth distribution at all.
In America, the poor get richer.. the standard of living for everyone in America has been growing fairly consistently here in spite of wealth not being evenly distributed.
You can respond with something about standard of living, but I will not accept responses that cry about wealth distribution... because thats just a fucking appeal to jealousy that has been used to co-opt the easily tricked by those that want to trick them.
But apart from that there is the threat of injunctive relief, perhaps a court order to remove the offending code. It might also require Google to stop distributing old versions of Android that contain the offending code. That's powerful leverage that Oracle could use to extract a significant licensing fee from Google.
Google cannot stop distributing the code to Android if there is GPL in there, right? Must they not make it available per the GPL license?
The GP pointed out that if Microsoft was doing this, that people would be "screaming bloody murder"
So far, the comments (such as yours) seem to be about why Microsoft is evil, and not about why this move from Google should not be considered bad.
If Microsoft did this very thing, would you be rejoicing the move or would you be screaming bloody murder?
He's been asked and hasn't answered. Now you have been asked.
An entropy encoder encodes symbols taken from an alphabet of symbols.
A boolean coder is a special case that has an alphabet of exactly 2 symbols, which is not required.. or even common.
Most compressors use an alphabet of 256 symbols.
Why do people that don't know data compression make ignorant comments about data compression?