Would you use money printed by me instead of officially printed money (government) ?
It's not printed by you, it's printed by a decentralized Byzantine fault tolerant network of computers, where nobody can unilaterally decide how much to print at any time.
And you'd use it for many reasons: extremely cheap transfers, protection from inflation, security and others.
Do you know who benefits the most from anonymous money ?
Bitcoin is not anonymous, all transactions are publicly logged.
You shouldn't need to build the whole thing at once. A decent ERP system is modular, and can be easily upgraded in place. And while there's always some duck tape, it's still much better than an assorted collection of programs, often times written in different languages and running on different machines (e.g. client vs web based). One of our clients was doing "IPC" by manually adapting files in Excel!
(Disclosure: the company I work for does projects based on a free AGPL licensed ERP system)
It manages stuff. People, salaries, suppliers, inventories, clients, payments and whatever else you can think of. In the company I work for we just did a whole school management system (students, teachers, evaluations, etc) on top of OpenERP (python based, AGPL licensed ERP).
Averages are a method to look at a population but it excludes the individuals which should be the focus.
But if you're focusing on the individuals, there's no point in grouping people.
The book Freakonomics suggested children of African descent who did well in school were teased for being sell outs and acting white. Conversely, children of countries that were influenced by China in the past put education, respect for elders, and support for family as their top issues. Of course these values may erode somewhat as their descendants live in America a long time, but I would suggest it is one possible way to explain some of the factors that affect the different groups of children in our schools.
Certainly, but how does grouping people, particularly in the standardized tests, help with that? I'm not claiming one should ignore the student's background and treat everyone the same. But we should strive to treat each individual for her/himself and not because of a label we attached to her/him.
You mentioned number of parents, are there any studies that correlate this or are you throwing out ideas?
I believe a correlation has been observed, but I don't think it was adjusted for other factors (e.g. economic status) and I don't remember a cause-effect relationship being teased out. It was mostly just an example.
Finally, what are the current actions by our country impacting our future? Gay marriage, legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding gambling, eliminating Christian and Jewish religion from public places, no Pledge of Allegiance in schools, etc. are hot topics. Are they worth eroding at what was previously considered "American values" or are we just becoming a more hedonistic and accepting society? I dunno, but I do know we've changed a lot and worry that our priorities are on our personal freedoms and not on our education, culture, and the future of our country.
Not being American, I'm afraid I don't have a clear view on the issue. From where I stand, I'm fully in favor of all of those movements, though I would gladly give up on the gay marriage for an elimination of state marriages.
That said, I find it sad that a prioritization of personal freedom is considered worrying and an erosion of American values. Whatever happened to Don't Tread on Me?
Are we to think all races learn all subjects equally in school?
In average? Probably not, but so what? There are many other groups in which you could separate the kids - say, number of parents in home - and you'd probably get different averages as well. Grouping by "race" is arbitrary.
Also, the groups themselves show that, because they're bogus: there's no such thing as an "Asian" race.
The truth is, we're all a little different
That's exactly why we shouldn't make up arbitrary groups of people.
It doesn't matter if it's the same "impulse". The same "impulse" may be behind protecting a kid from falling in a pool or attacking someone for being a perceived (but not actual) pedophile, but the results are diametrically opposed.
Nobody's speech is endangered because the Slashdot community mods it down, just their ability to use the site as their publishing platform, and that's not a right anymore than I have the right to demand the NYT publishes my rants.
It's the State, exactly because it has an unrivaled position power - both in breadth and strength - it must be much more restrained than any individual or community.
Doesn't matter; under democracy, they speak for you
No. I have, in good conscience, to respect their decision, but they don't speak for me. The people I voted for, and which are also seated at the Parliament, do.
I'm also not from the UK, so they don't speak for me in any way.
According to the Composite Index of the London-based coffee export country group International Coffee Organization the monthly coffee price averages in international trade had been well above 100 US cent/lb during the 1970s and 1980s, but then declined during the late 1990s reaching a minimum in September 2001 of just 41.17 US cent per lb and stayed low until 2004.
That's an oversimplification. If the patches are signed and the update system verifies the signatures using well tested libraries, it's probably much harder to attack it that way instead of using any of the other "data entry points", even if that data isn't supposed to contain code.
They're not going to pay minimum wage. Didn't you read TFS? They're just going to use machines, and employ a couple of engineers to watch over the production line, just like most other American manufacturers.
Google DNS can only tell the domain, not the specific page you were looking at, so it's much less useful than other kinds of trackers. Yeah, they might know you've been to e.g. Amazon, but they have no idea what products have you looked at.
Considering that the number of people who block tracking is ridiculously low, I think the data from DNS is hardly useful.
There isn't even a word for men who experience sexual desire towards legally-underage pubescent girls
Well, there's a word for it when it's the "primary or exclusive sexual interest" of the person: it's Ephebophilia. But, it's not regarded as a pathology by psychologists.
Yeah, our tax software here in Portugal must also be closed source, by rules of the IRS (which must certify it), since it uses a private key to chain sign the invoices and such, preventing "accidental deletions".
In reality I extracted the private key from one of such applications using nothing but Ollydbg and notepad during my lunch hour, and I'm a newbie in software cracking.
The security of proprietary software is illusionary. He who controls the machine, controls the software.
The Dropbox share is part of the file system. They don't mount a virtual fs or anything, they just create a directory and sync the files in and to it when anything changes.
That's not the ownership of the object, that's the "ownership" of the information. You'd be just as liable if you owned the piece of paper with the formula.
Slashdot Mirror
Dropbox uses S3, which does store data redundantly.
A scam involves deceit. The early adopters didn't deceive anyone. If they benefit from speculators, good for them.
Would you use money printed by me instead of officially printed money (government) ?
It's not printed by you, it's printed by a decentralized Byzantine fault tolerant network of computers, where nobody can unilaterally decide how much to print at any time.
And you'd use it for many reasons: extremely cheap transfers, protection from inflation, security and others.
Do you know who benefits the most from anonymous money ?
Bitcoin is not anonymous, all transactions are publicly logged.
you do realize that bitcoin is mostly used by criminals for illegal transactions and by people who want to avoid income tax
And you know this.. how?
It is certainly used by criminals - like any other currency - but "mostly" is just baseless speculation.
You shouldn't need to build the whole thing at once. A decent ERP system is modular, and can be easily upgraded in place. And while there's always some duck tape, it's still much better than an assorted collection of programs, often times written in different languages and running on different machines (e.g. client vs web based). One of our clients was doing "IPC" by manually adapting files in Excel!
(Disclosure: the company I work for does projects based on a free AGPL licensed ERP system)
It manages stuff. People, salaries, suppliers, inventories, clients, payments and whatever else you can think of. In the company I work for we just did a whole school management system (students, teachers, evaluations, etc) on top of OpenERP (python based, AGPL licensed ERP).
So what if they do? Do you have any evidence of Mozilla tracking users without their consent, or are you just defaming them?
Stopping the USA? How do you think the USA has been steadily and heavily increasing its manufacturing output while shedding jobs?
I'll just leave this here: Making It In America.
Averages are a method to look at a population but it excludes the individuals which should be the focus.
But if you're focusing on the individuals, there's no point in grouping people.
The book Freakonomics suggested children of African descent who did well in school were teased for being sell outs and acting white. Conversely, children of countries that were influenced by China in the past put education, respect for elders, and support for family as their top issues. Of course these values may erode somewhat as their descendants live in America a long time, but I would suggest it is one possible way to explain some of the factors that affect the different groups of children in our schools.
Certainly, but how does grouping people, particularly in the standardized tests, help with that? I'm not claiming one should ignore the student's background and treat everyone the same. But we should strive to treat each individual for her/himself and not because of a label we attached to her/him.
You mentioned number of parents, are there any studies that correlate this or are you throwing out ideas?
I believe a correlation has been observed, but I don't think it was adjusted for other factors (e.g. economic status) and I don't remember a cause-effect relationship being teased out.
It was mostly just an example.
Finally, what are the current actions by our country impacting our future? Gay marriage, legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding gambling, eliminating Christian and Jewish religion from public places, no Pledge of Allegiance in schools, etc. are hot topics. Are they worth eroding at what was previously considered "American values" or are we just becoming a more hedonistic and accepting society? I dunno, but I do know we've changed a lot and worry that our priorities are on our personal freedoms and not on our education, culture, and the future of our country.
Not being American, I'm afraid I don't have a clear view on the issue. From where I stand, I'm fully in favor of all of those movements, though I would gladly give up on the gay marriage for an elimination of state marriages.
That said, I find it sad that a prioritization of personal freedom is considered worrying and an erosion of American values. Whatever happened to Don't Tread on Me?
Are we to think all races learn all subjects equally in school?
In average? Probably not, but so what? There are many other groups in which you could separate the kids - say, number of parents in home - and you'd probably get different averages as well. Grouping by "race" is arbitrary.
Also, the groups themselves show that, because they're bogus: there's no such thing as an "Asian" race.
The truth is, we're all a little different
That's exactly why we shouldn't make up arbitrary groups of people.
It doesn't matter if it's the same "impulse". The same "impulse" may be behind protecting a kid from falling in a pool or attacking someone for being a perceived (but not actual) pedophile, but the results are diametrically opposed.
Nobody's speech is endangered because the Slashdot community mods it down, just their ability to use the site as their publishing platform, and that's not a right anymore than I have the right to demand the NYT publishes my rants.
It's the State, exactly because it has an unrivaled position power - both in breadth and strength - it must be much more restrained than any individual or community.
Doesn't matter; under democracy, they speak for you
No. I have, in good conscience, to respect their decision, but they don't speak for me. The people I voted for, and which are also seated at the Parliament, do.
I'm also not from the UK, so they don't speak for me in any way.
This is the government that the majority of UK voters chose. Most people here aren't part of that group.
According to the Composite Index of the London-based coffee export country group International Coffee Organization the monthly coffee price averages in international trade had been well above 100 US cent/lb during the 1970s and 1980s, but then declined during the late 1990s reaching a minimum in September 2001 of just 41.17 US cent per lb and stayed low until 2004.
That's an oversimplification. If the patches are signed and the update system verifies the signatures using well tested libraries, it's probably much harder to attack it that way instead of using any of the other "data entry points", even if that data isn't supposed to contain code.
You just need The Universal Operating System.
http://www.google.com/search?q=The%20Universal%20Operating%20System
They're not going to pay minimum wage. Didn't you read TFS? They're just going to use machines, and employ a couple of engineers to watch over the production line, just like most other American manufacturers.
The real cheap labor is not labor at all.
Google DNS can only tell the domain, not the specific page you were looking at, so it's much less useful than other kinds of trackers. Yeah, they might know you've been to e.g. Amazon, but they have no idea what products have you looked at.
Considering that the number of people who block tracking is ridiculously low, I think the data from DNS is hardly useful.
There isn't even a word for men who experience sexual desire towards legally-underage pubescent girls
Well, there's a word for it when it's the "primary or exclusive sexual interest" of the person: it's Ephebophilia. But, it's not regarded as a pathology by psychologists.
Yeah, our tax software here in Portugal must also be closed source, by rules of the IRS (which must certify it), since it uses a private key to chain sign the invoices and such, preventing "accidental deletions".
In reality I extracted the private key from one of such applications using nothing but Ollydbg and notepad during my lunch hour, and I'm a newbie in software cracking.
The security of proprietary software is illusionary. He who controls the machine, controls the software.
GPL doesn't force anyone to give back code, though. It's strictly a pay-it-forward system. "Help others as I've helped you".
And expecting people to do the right thing is wonderful, but we're not just dealing with people, we're often dealing with corporations.
According to the link I posted, torts (i.e. civil wrongs) are included, not just crimes.
There's also https://github.com/ghewgill/ssh-otp.
The Dropbox share is part of the file system. They don't mount a virtual fs or anything, they just create a directory and sync the files in and to it when anything changes.
That's not the ownership of the object, that's the "ownership" of the information. You'd be just as liable if you owned the piece of paper with the formula.
Since when does property of an object influence who can take and distribute pictures of it?