Mandatory Philosophy of Science classes, especially for scientist.
Amazing the number of PhD bobble heads running around Universities that could not distinguish basic things like how the world OUGHT to be (domain of philosophy), from how the world IS (domain of science). Granted, most can likly do some sort of science, but even in professional publications will turn an OUGHT in to an IS in making assertions about the World. The next bobble head will then use that as basis of some other assertion, and off we go to in to scientific fantasy land that seems to get picked up by the media as scientific fact more and more.
We then wonder why the average Joe the plumber, or Suzy the student can not engage in simple scientific activities and reasoning, as Tim the teacher had gibberish in his teaching text book to start.
yea, those are the easy ones. There a bunch of others like Baker island, Howland Island, Johnston Atoll, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef,Palmyra Atoll, Marianas Islands (Guam is part), and I am sure that is not all of them.
Do you have any idea how many territories the U.S. still holds from WWII? Many are in the South Pacific, and I bet you 99.9% of Americans could not even name half of them.
In my limited experience, what will happen if this was adopted on a wide scale is millions of people will loose their only copy of the grandkids photos and it will be a complete pain. Drives fail more often then they are hacked or used for something that needs that level of security. More typically the whole machine is stolen. It would not for example protect you from a OS level virus, or general internet stupidity.
How often is data stolen from the average user, where the thief has access to the hard drive, and also the knowledge and interest to go dumpster diving in to say a stolen laptop?
My point is that it should be a totally optional or specialized segment thing, not something used across all stock hard drives.
I used it about two years ago when I was in China without a problem. I also believe I was on an unrestricted / less restricted line at a University as a foreign teacher.
I used my students in my classes like a human scanner. I would assign them to do reports on things, knowing there where only certain sorts of sites they would likly find the info at that perhaps might contain unrelated info, and then the next day when 100 students reported back they could not finish the assignment I could at least get a sense for the difference between my connection and theirs. By the way, I never put any of my students in any sort of danger. Just more of general sweep. Things like the BBC where blocked at that time for everyone, but Gutenberg I could access and they could not. I also found out that the various government officials that I was friends with had much more unrestricted access, and even a few where a bit puzzled by why they could see newspapers in Taiwan that where otherwise blocked for everyone else.
Mostly china's sensors are about fear and white noise. Understand the limits of both of those, and China is fairly unrestricted.
yea, I believe it was like 15 or 20 years ago. I was just sharing what I know of the judge. My father tried many other cases including criminal and civil cases in front of him.
But, what is the advantage of mainframe over a cluster? Obviously, energy use might be one thing, but clusters would seem to be more reliable and cost effective. I have here the Google clusters and similar systems in mind. Anyone?
I know this judge. My father was an attorney that tried many cases in front of him including his own divorce.
My father described him for the most part as a by the book sort of judge, as far as the book would go, but tended to side with the underdog when there was no specific rule dictating how he needed to rule.
My father also described his rulings as a bit irrational. Which in this case I would take to not be a good thing for record executive or their lawyers trying to game the system to punish the little guy basically using loop holes in the law.
Yea, don't get it. Neither do win admins. I run several linux based servers of all sorts. My Total Cost of Ownership, and also the only limit on my performance is my hardware + power bill + bandwidth bill. Any of my homegrown servers will take the Pepsi challenge with the thousands spent by the big boys just paying the license fees for windows. I can handle as much email, push as many web pages, do whatever. Don't get it. Where is the value?
If you look back at the history open source, as short as it is, it was the.com bust that really pushed open source development over the edge and in to have a self sustaining momentum as thousands of out of work or under employed IT people sat at home working on projects for free. Those launched the next generation of open source, and I bet it will launch the next great generation of open source and this time I believe we will get a big piece of new open source economy as companies cut back on expensive closed source systems.
What money is out there will go to open source projects, developers, IT staff, and so on. By the time this recession is over, anyone that does not have their hands dirty in open source likly will not be able to find a job, and companies that are not seriously using it might not be around.
Might I site for example the performance of Red Hat, IBM, and other companies with strong open source relationships on the stock market, and other companies with their fingers in the open source pie. This is going to be just the tip of the ice berg. A million little open source companies will emerge, doing everything from building open source software to simply companies that are built on daily work using nothing but open source software.
My small company is one of them. I save over $250,000 a year in software, licenses, support, and going in to a recession I can afford to run my old hardware right through the other side of the recession. I have a very positive balance sheet, because I don't use closed source software. I make all my IT purchase decisions around support for open source.
Anything customized I need, I can typically throw a couple hundred dollar reward at a particular project and get whatever. hell, half the time the developers never even ask to collect the reward. They are just happy to see there is serious demand for some say x, y, or z type extension or function to whatever software and take up the challenge.
The pclinuxos has several remixs specifically for eee already that I have tried with all driver support built in, but the stock PCLOS 2009 that is about to be released is suppose to support it out of the box.
It is a livecd distro, that you can also remix to your hearts content. It started as a mandriva spinoff, but has gone way beyond Mandriva for usability, quality, and reliability. None of that after thought throw everything plus the kitchen sink in to the distro just to have more DVD's to ship.
yea, I seen a novice account holder on one of my servers made the same permissions mistake and got hacked by the Russians. I run several dozen domains with joomla myself, both old and new versions, without a problem for years.
Basic web site security 101 rules will keep it safe, even when security bugs appear.
The nature of the structure of modules really does not lend itself to auto updates however. I can not really say the same thing for PHPbb either or many other CMS like web systems.
They are too easy for newbies to the web to install, but not easy for them to update and maintain. There should be one click security patches.
As a windows license victim forced to buy windows licenses, and never able to obtain my legal refund for the unused product I here by relinquish the money owed to me by Microsoft to the former employees.
I would vote for keep the government out of the development directly, but provide money for Universities, schools, and others in education circles to provide education on using, creating, marketing, philosophy, and so on of open source software. It is the new edge of of IT curriculum, so it should be included.
I would also vote for putting the money behind open transparent industry standards so both open and closed source can save money by not having everyone reinvent the dam wheel.
I would throw in reform to the patten and copyright laws so they are something that does not look like they came out of some sort of by product of the Spanish inquisition, and they stop hobbling innovation and lower cost.
I might even vote yes to open source government type grants that are some how similar to grants for other projects, or education academic research type grants, but for the most part I do not believe government direct money is all that useful.
I have been remastering my own custom linux distro based on PClinuxos for many months now for use in my office (my own server distro and my own desktop distro). The writing is on the wall, that as things like remasterme become more user friendly more people and more companies will start producing customs linux distros exactly for what they need. MS would have a hard time following that act.
It is ways off on a large scale, but not that far away. Imagine ordering your new notebook, you start it up, it asks you some questions, it download the software, and builds you your own custom distro.
The problems in the Muslim world have very little to do with the West. They are same reasons that communism and just about every other evil form of politics takes hold, poverty and ignorance exploited by politicians. The Muslim world is so extrema because their poverty is so extrema. More exactly, the income gap is so extrema across the Muslim worlds. The west is a scapegoat for criminals to stay in power. It is not that much different from say Venezuela, Bolivia, or say the Nazi party and the Jews, Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinians and Isreal. The enemy of my enemy is my friend principle is most useful in politics. Look what it did for the Bush administration.
Even the "authentic" software is often pirated in China. I mean with laser stickers sold by the largest brand name stores in China. Even if you wanted to, you might have trouble finding real software.
In my year in China, I seen thousands of computers and not single one had a real copy of windows on it. Even the computer provide to me by my Chinese government handlers for my work had a hot copy.
I promptly installed my own copy of linux. No windows machine in that environment can withstand the volume of malware attacks from every direction. There are virus in the wild in China that simply have not made it in to the virus software yet.
By the way, there are no copies of anti-virus software for sale on the streets either. In over a year, I never seen one single copy, and Chinese I talked to about it think they are silly.
So, switch to linux or live with it. Copying others is a tradition that goes back thousands of years, and it is not going to change simply by the central government outlawing. All property is public property in China.
There already is a bunch of these. Even better is the ability to remaster your own distro at home is becoming fairly point and click to an almost novice level.
PCLINUXOS and bunch of similar distros have the minime, tinyme, and so on versions plus remaster features. Diversity is good.
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People that figured out that using Linux is still cheaper than being sued by MS, even if they could drag every user in to court.
Mandatory Philosophy of Science classes, especially for scientist.
Amazing the number of PhD bobble heads running around Universities that could not distinguish basic things like how the world OUGHT to be (domain of philosophy), from how the world IS (domain of science). Granted, most can likly do some sort of science, but even in professional publications will turn an OUGHT in to an IS in making assertions about the World. The next bobble head will then use that as basis of some other assertion, and off we go to in to scientific fantasy land that seems to get picked up by the media as scientific fact more and more.
We then wonder why the average Joe the plumber, or Suzy the student can not engage in simple scientific activities and reasoning, as Tim the teacher had gibberish in his teaching text book to start.
he is taking the wrong class then, from the wrong school.
yea, those are the easy ones. There a bunch of others like Baker island, Howland Island, Johnston Atoll, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef,Palmyra Atoll, Marianas Islands (Guam is part), and I am sure that is not all of them.
Do you have any idea how many territories the U.S. still holds from WWII? Many are in the South Pacific, and I bet you 99.9% of Americans could not even name half of them.
I hear Iran is hosting a bittorent copy, and North Korea is about to test it out to make sure they got all the directions right.
In my limited experience, what will happen if this was adopted on a wide scale is millions of people will loose their only copy of the grandkids photos and it will be a complete pain. Drives fail more often then they are hacked or used for something that needs that level of security. More typically the whole machine is stolen. It would not for example protect you from a OS level virus, or general internet stupidity.
How often is data stolen from the average user, where the thief has access to the hard drive, and also the knowledge and interest to go dumpster diving in to say a stolen laptop?
My point is that it should be a totally optional or specialized segment thing, not something used across all stock hard drives.
I used it about two years ago when I was in China without a problem. I also believe I was on an unrestricted / less restricted line at a University as a foreign teacher.
I used my students in my classes like a human scanner. I would assign them to do reports on things, knowing there where only certain sorts of sites they would likly find the info at that perhaps might contain unrelated info, and then the next day when 100 students reported back they could not finish the assignment I could at least get a sense for the difference between my connection and theirs. By the way, I never put any of my students in any sort of danger. Just more of general sweep. Things like the BBC where blocked at that time for everyone, but Gutenberg I could access and they could not. I also found out that the various government officials that I was friends with had much more unrestricted access, and even a few where a bit puzzled by why they could see newspapers in Taiwan that where otherwise blocked for everyone else.
Mostly china's sensors are about fear and white noise. Understand the limits of both of those, and China is fairly unrestricted.
yea, I believe it was like 15 or 20 years ago. I was just sharing what I know of the judge. My father tried many other cases including criminal and civil cases in front of him.
My father was an attorney. People use to call him and say things like, "they can't put me in jail".
My father would ask, "where you calling from"?
They would say, "jail".
Guess they can put you jail.
But, what is the advantage of mainframe over a cluster? Obviously, energy use might be one thing, but clusters would seem to be more reliable and cost effective. I have here the Google clusters and similar systems in mind. Anyone?
Does anyone have the full terms of this agreement? How long, do they own it, borrow it, control it in anyway?
I know this judge. My father was an attorney that tried many cases in front of him including his own divorce.
My father described him for the most part as a by the book sort of judge, as far as the book would go, but tended to side with the underdog when there was no specific rule dictating how he needed to rule.
My father also described his rulings as a bit irrational. Which in this case I would take to not be a good thing for record executive or their lawyers trying to game the system to punish the little guy basically using loop holes in the law.
Thank you. Finally someone stated the obvious.
Yea, don't get it. Neither do win admins. I run several linux based servers of all sorts. My Total Cost of Ownership, and also the only limit on my performance is my hardware + power bill + bandwidth bill. Any of my homegrown servers will take the Pepsi challenge with the thousands spent by the big boys just paying the license fees for windows. I can handle as much email, push as many web pages, do whatever. Don't get it. Where is the value?
If you look back at the history open source, as short as it is, it was the .com bust that really pushed open source development over the edge and in to have a self sustaining momentum as thousands of out of work or under employed IT people sat at home working on projects for free. Those launched the next generation of open source, and I bet it will launch the next great generation of open source and this time I believe we will get a big piece of new open source economy as companies cut back on expensive closed source systems.
What money is out there will go to open source projects, developers, IT staff, and so on. By the time this recession is over, anyone that does not have their hands dirty in open source likly will not be able to find a job, and companies that are not seriously using it might not be around.
Might I site for example the performance of Red Hat, IBM, and other companies with strong open source relationships on the stock market, and other companies with their fingers in the open source pie. This is going to be just the tip of the ice berg. A million little open source companies will emerge, doing everything from building open source software to simply companies that are built on daily work using nothing but open source software.
My small company is one of them. I save over $250,000 a year in software, licenses, support, and going in to a recession I can afford to run my old hardware right through the other side of the recession. I have a very positive balance sheet, because I don't use closed source software. I make all my IT purchase decisions around support for open source.
Anything customized I need, I can typically throw a couple hundred dollar reward at a particular project and get whatever. hell, half the time the developers never even ask to collect the reward. They are just happy to see there is serious demand for some say x, y, or z type extension or function to whatever software and take up the challenge.
accept that is a bloated dog of an linux os with a want to be windows vista complex.
The pclinuxos has several remixs specifically for eee already that I have tried with all driver support built in, but the stock PCLOS 2009 that is about to be released is suppose to support it out of the box.
It is a livecd distro, that you can also remix to your hearts content. It started as a mandriva spinoff, but has gone way beyond Mandriva for usability, quality, and reliability. None of that after thought throw everything plus the kitchen sink in to the distro just to have more DVD's to ship.
The pclinuxos.com for more info.
yea, I seen a novice account holder on one of my servers made the same permissions mistake and got hacked by the Russians. I run several dozen domains with joomla myself, both old and new versions, without a problem for years.
Basic web site security 101 rules will keep it safe, even when security bugs appear.
The nature of the structure of modules really does not lend itself to auto updates however. I can not really say the same thing for PHPbb either or many other CMS like web systems.
They are too easy for newbies to the web to install, but not easy for them to update and maintain. There should be one click security patches.
As a windows license victim forced to buy windows licenses, and never able to obtain my legal refund for the unused product I here by relinquish the money owed to me by Microsoft to the former employees.
"temporarily assigned network address" the way to get around it, is not to be temporary.
silly silly all the same.
I would vote for keep the government out of the development directly, but provide money for Universities, schools, and others in education circles to provide education on using, creating, marketing, philosophy, and so on of open source software. It is the new edge of of IT curriculum, so it should be included.
I would also vote for putting the money behind open transparent industry standards so both open and closed source can save money by not having everyone reinvent the dam wheel.
I would throw in reform to the patten and copyright laws so they are something that does not look like they came out of some sort of by product of the Spanish inquisition, and they stop hobbling innovation and lower cost.
I might even vote yes to open source government type grants that are some how similar to grants for other projects, or education academic research type grants, but for the most part I do not believe government direct money is all that useful.
I have been remastering my own custom linux distro based on PClinuxos for many months now for use in my office (my own server distro and my own desktop distro). The writing is on the wall, that as things like remasterme become more user friendly more people and more companies will start producing customs linux distros exactly for what they need. MS would have a hard time following that act.
It is ways off on a large scale, but not that far away. Imagine ordering your new notebook, you start it up, it asks you some questions, it download the software, and builds you your own custom distro.
The problems in the Muslim world have very little to do with the West. They are same reasons that communism and just about every other evil form of politics takes hold, poverty and ignorance exploited by politicians. The Muslim world is so extrema because their poverty is so extrema. More exactly, the income gap is so extrema across the Muslim worlds. The west is a scapegoat for criminals to stay in power. It is not that much different from say Venezuela, Bolivia, or say the Nazi party and the Jews, Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinians and Isreal. The enemy of my enemy is my friend principle is most useful in politics. Look what it did for the Bush administration.
Even the "authentic" software is often pirated in China. I mean with laser stickers sold by the largest brand name stores in China. Even if you wanted to, you might have trouble finding real software.
In my year in China, I seen thousands of computers and not single one had a real copy of windows on it. Even the computer provide to me by my Chinese government handlers for my work had a hot copy.
I promptly installed my own copy of linux. No windows machine in that environment can withstand the volume of malware attacks from every direction. There are virus in the wild in China that simply have not made it in to the virus software yet.
By the way, there are no copies of anti-virus software for sale on the streets either. In over a year, I never seen one single copy, and Chinese I talked to about it think they are silly.
So, switch to linux or live with it. Copying others is a tradition that goes back thousands of years, and it is not going to change simply by the central government outlawing. All property is public property in China.
There already is a bunch of these. Even better is the ability to remaster your own distro at home is becoming fairly point and click to an almost novice level.
PCLINUXOS and bunch of similar distros have the minime, tinyme, and so on versions plus remaster features. Diversity is good.