Slashdot Mirror


User: buravirgil

buravirgil's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
108
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 108

  1. Re:Robot Wars and the Three Laws on Robot Warfare Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Conquering gods their titles take from foes they captive make.
    -White Goddess

  2. Phenomenology on The Problem With Cable Is Television · · Score: 1

    What "I" want/would pay for...is anecdotal. The chasm between Broadcast and Distributed prevails. "You" don't watch such'n'such but advertisers have bet dollars others do. Circling the dial is indicative and instructive of what humanity you share inclusive of age, taste and intelligence. The math used to measure and maximize the behavior of a demographic is a battle of trade secret equal to military campaign.

  3. Re:Involve kids in free software? on Involving Kids In Free Software Through Games · · Score: 1

    No...but proprietary efforts have a tendency to exaggerate success and undermine what is meant by applying a "gold standard" to education.

  4. LOGO on Involving Kids In Free Software Through Games · · Score: 1

    teaches more. Doom + Myst isn't a magical formula for learning unless the plan is to populate Second Life. But an open source, immersive environment is exciting if, say, Powers of 10 is the bar. Doesn't virtual reality promise means of illustration limited only by imagination? Game environments seek to temper all the running around (that is so fun) with puzzles that are, in a way, signatures of what abstract thinking skills its players possess.

  5. Re:Oh pulllllleeeze on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 1
  6. Re:ethics are overrated on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 1

    Morality is a code determined by the interpretation of a text. Ethics are a code of behavior to which a group agrees and continues to evolve. Ethics is a present consensus. I agree with the post in regard to how the term is tossed around, but would warn against the semantic of "concepts of right and wrong." That people have differing values and opinions is what drives the study and application of ethics, not what limits it.

  7. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "It's illegal to secretly record people, especially in their own homes (reasonable expectation of privacy)."

    This falls apart with leasor/ee agreements and what fraction of a population owns the property of another.

    "No laws on the books," is what i've heard repeated through the years-- citing technology as the specific without enforcement

  8. Re:A root cause you'll never hear about on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    My point is the poster claims to myth bust and his very terms are machoistic metaphor. Your own diction, such as bitchy, pretends to communicate beyond insinuation in a tone of superiority. My point is beer swelling, caffeinated tech-heads loooove to believe the contentions of gender are a two-way street...when on this very day, King Spam commited the kind of murderous control typical of a man's psyche, but is far less common of women. And by the way, maxume, blather is an aural adjective and fountain usually implies the written word. That's a mixed metaphor-- hack.

  9. Re:A root cause you'll never hear about on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A root cause you'll never hear about IF "you" are a conceived audience of feminist troglydites...and voila...women are once again "really" what is? keeping culture stagnant...as far as VICIOUS...really? as in what a woman will SAY? versus the propensity for a testerone heavy humanoid to execute gunpowder, fire, blunt and sharp instrument and muscular advantage? Insight into human behavior IS gender savvy, but illustrating the subtlety of verbal power struggles with a metaphor of CUDGEL???...this argument is as idiotic as the Harvard guy that started this nonsense for which he should have been decapitated Saudi style...to exagerrate MY point

  10. Re:Numbers? on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    The Russians have an appreciation for an "idiot". If you have facts to describe, describe them. Insulting the author of the post to which you're responding is one way to "fuel" your fire, but it's not going to make your argument any more lucid, useful or correct.

    Your analysis proffers the "widget" as your economic/transactional model but taxes are applied to products and services of which people depend: food, water & power, heating oil, clothing, gasoline, and on and on.

    Sadly, proffering the widget as your central model is how children are first introduced to economic models in programs such as Junior Achievement or an introductory Economics class on a typical American university campus.

    You've confused market models with public policy and are prone to zestful, robust promises of a labor-absent, capitalist propaganda.

  11. Re:HELLO WORLD on On This Date in 1964, the First BASIC Program · · Score: 1

    10 PRINT "[user's name]";
    20 GOTO 10

  12. Trigger? on Linus Announces the 2.6.25 Linux Kernel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i hear the term 'trigger' from as educated circles as the Supreme Court

    Trigger is a horse
    Trigger is a causal construct
    Trigger has dubious connotation

    Precipitate is a correlation of a field and a force

    Forces are expressions of an interruption of a
    field's equilibrium

    many fields can be contained, many cannot
    many forces are introduced, many are arrived by
    a stress around a contained field

    a "trigger' is either directly linked or "acts" from a balance of links

    a trigger is a node and behaves to a prioritized
    link or balances input from many

    either heirarchically prioritized or given equity

    the variable of a trigger is clock timing...

    how many times around a value will be "seen" and by what order

  13. Delaware: A Creditor's Haven on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    What else do i have to say?

    Wallace S.
    13 Ways of Seeing a Blackbird

  14. FOIA on FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion · · Score: 1

    So, let us see...suppose an individual had some
    indication that they were being harassed by
    sharply dressed men in neighborhoods where they
    might not usually be...and suppose an individual
    had made a FOIA request, but the request had gone
    ignored because a US citizen without the consult
    of a barraster or esquire or lawyer dude isn't
    really a recognized citizen by anyone
    Hey, everyone knows you had better lay out some
    bucks if you want sweet Justice to wear a blind.

    Now, I wonder if the FOIA documents bequeathed by
    so audited and transparent an entity that might
    exist under the unitary executive's thumb of late

    I wonder if the names of those targeted by what is
    called "exquisite intelligence" is redacted.

    I wonder if, in the beginning, but a few
    troublesome individuals were bullied and
    threatened by implication and a "the gloves have
    come off" mentality felt the need to bureaucratize
    its systemic abuse and broaden its number of
    transgressions to make an acute elision of the
    Constitution's spirit merely a matter of numbers.

    To lessen the legal ramifications...turn a
    shoot-out into a civil lawsuit, knowing full well
    (Senior Justice: "Well, well, well") citizens
    can't very well sue its govenment as redresses
    of grievance are CLEARLY covered in the Constitu-
    tion.

    I wonder...is my name among redacted? And what
    FOIA's price is to be paid to find out?

  15. Re:Effectiveness on Movement Sensors a Less Invasive Alternative To CCTV · · Score: 1

    atoms so possess such elasticity

    "If two people walk towards each other and pass each other in the hall, that would be essentially identical to them walking up to each other and turning around - identity obfuscated."

    i'm unsure humans do, but as to the topic of this thread, Mit has clearly been given a blow

  16. Re:Scare tactics on UK Banking Law Blames Customers For Insecure OS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suppose your argument lies in the term "access" as when you sign on to the bank's servers, you have "entered" a bank and to what party a responsibility of security is assigned is the literal argument you so damn with time.

    This very question has already been addressed by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15norris.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
    with a decision with which, I might infer from this quickly modded post, you profanely contend.

    I would pose the question as to the greatest likelihood of fraud that might go undetected. A bank blaming an individual, of which there would be potentially hundreds of thousands to consider or an individual blaming a bank, fewer in number, properly regulated and inspected.

    Moreover, given the advantage Gate's OS has maintained for decades and its nearly endemic nature of viral infection...pretty much anybody logging onto a bank's servers has a virus on it and all a bank need do is task the police to recover a computer, find a virus and claim the bank is not at fault.

    So, the question becomes a chain of evidence and which route is of less resistance.

  17. Re:Track this! on ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" On 100,000 Users · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that rabbit might take your head off
    i know a lapland tale about a hole where women
    got dropped off...turned my stomach a little
    but i don't know, maybe the story will keep

    and never repeat if the tale is told of what
    fools of old kept their King a fold and a
    narrative hit the street

  18. Faith in Godel on ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" On 100,000 Users · · Score: 1

    deeplink down
    deep packet clowns
    show me your packets
    is that a smile or a frown?
    thrice cola crown
    Godel the bounds
    where is Gibran's appendix found?

  19. Re:Android phones coming this year on Google Ends Silence On C Block Auction · · Score: 1

    i'd say you've properly framed the term 'hack' as to usage which is a path of etymology...in my experience, a meaningful appreciation of a term can be found in historical parallel as 'problems' or 'quandries' and their solutions make appearance in seemingly unrelated phenomena

    my apprecation of hack came from writers and though hack has negative connotation, no writer begins with accomplished technique...it's 'hacked' which is to say developed by hours and hours of earnest iteration and eventually derivation

    some of the best writing to be read might never find an audience, but that writing is no less an accomplishment and a dedication to process

    etymology, as a discipline, was greatly abandoned by the 1950s because there are two 'paths' to walk-- phonetic value and semantic value

    the supposition of an indo-european root did much to kill the art of etymology...any old dictionary you look at connotes through an * that no actual example of the syllable exists in a written record but is supposed by the comparison of lexicons

    the paradigm was that a "single" language might be constructed from which all others were derived, but modern linguistics contends a more complex scenario as does anthropology as to a scenario of a protean hominid

    prior to the Second Great War, many countries had earnestly been translating their dictionaries into other languages but such effort was halted by the dogs of war...a failed return to Babel

  20. Re:Only the 4th ammendment? on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Not only is only just a piece of paper, i don't recall having signed the damn thing...why don't we just cut through the cheese and start issuing stocks under the name of our Presidents...but you know, don't tell nobody...our civil servants have given so much of their lives to a churlish, unappreciative constituency...and a pay out is in order here...

  21. Re:Not quite the same on Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too) · · Score: 1

    I am such an old man, at 41...

    Apple NEVER STOLE the design of its GUI...APPLE traded stock with XEROX to be taken on a tour of PARC and Gates was too biased by a command line to recognize the innovation of Palo Alto's research

    Jobs EXCELS at recognizing the utility of others' work...Gates was too content with a burgeoning success

    MOST users were biased by the command line...they LOVED the esoteric knowledge because they'd invested YEARS of their lives to understand its SYNTAX...and there is no more demanding syntax than that of a computer

    maybe a grandmother

  22. Re:handy though on Sequoia Threatens Over Voting Machine Evaluation · · Score: 1

    Sequoia is frightened that the contracts they've secured for the next few years will become worthless if what happened to Diebold happens to them.

    They're unconcerned with public relations because their contracts were secured with congressional reps and senators.

    The only damage that can be done is if some geeks discover what's been discovered in Diebold machines, making the contracts worthless and making some VC's very, very unhappy.

    Sequoia doesn't know which end of the Ace is up and that's why they're sending out ambiguous, legal threats to a university AND any state with which they have a contract-- arrogant rich men playing by old school rules in an industry they don't understand

  23. Re:And the loyal opposition, the Democrats, will.. on Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier · · Score: 1

    >Make a roaring bluster about this and then fold like wet paper tigers when it comes time to put up or shut up..

    a pretty big assumption there,
    as many have made blusters and never folded, and you've never heard of them;
    but, rage on because rage is appropriate, though clouded

    i read in your words an unproven faith in your own discernment of those you describe in words as possessed with a courage and the dismissable mad person on the street

  24. Another 50 Years on Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This country's hypocrisies are a persistent, petty and subtle agenda of a few, tired dying people. The LoC was never the people's library in practice so much as a promise...folk recordings represented that promise crying out from a stubborn reality that not everbody can afford to make a trip to D.C., stay at a hotel, and view the library's contents.

    And the internet was going to change that...and dying, dying dying Micro$oft steps in to handle the bottleneck.

    Not for another 50 years now will the promise of the LoC be realized because somebody's daddy is somebody's daddy in America

  25. saudi alliance on Saudi Arabia Bans Roses · · Score: 1

    As our unitary executive waxes Dieboldly democratic,
    Inking the tips of fingers, scrawling toe-tags;
    A land rule by a King,
    Prefers sword over guillotine, and
    Cauls over faces

    Nine eleven Laden and 15/19...0.789
    Assuredly a Saudi alliance

    But a Rose by any other name?