That is why carbon caps and trading are important to addressing the greenhouse gas emissions problem: A large portion of the world will only abide by ecological imperatives to the extent those imperative are reflected by monetary expense.
Some people insist on using money as the final quantification/valuation of all things, despite the fact that there are many things that it cannot measure responsibly. So regulation steps into the market to make money fundamentalists take notice of the problem, and curbing GHG emissions is then expressed in terms they can understand (saving money).
However, the article doesn't have any elements that would entice the reader to buy more stuff. He's not very pointed about it, but is essentially saying that if you need the processing power then moderate overclocking is a pretty 'green' option.
Some people on the CPDN forums track their system efficiency in terms of work units per Watt-hour and have noted the dramatic increase in efficiency in opting for a quad-core CPU even over a dual. TFA's advice has a lesser but similar effect and I would recommend it to anyone running CPU-intensive applications.
Will the Linux Foundation provide the comprehensive Hardware Compatibility List so Linux users can apply their own market pressure?
It is bizarre and dysfunctional that a project which is largely about getting various hardware to work together does not itself publish an easily searchable HCL.
Maybe OEMs would be more eager to reciprocate if they saw some organized activity from Linus & Co on this front.
That way, we could spend more time using equipment after shopping among competing items that are known to be compatible, instead of relying on the method of Googling the 'word on the street', buy it , and pray we don't have to return it method (which only die-hard techies are ever going to put up with).
I know that various HCLs already exist, but they tend to be small or dated or full of guessing (non-authoritative). We need an HCL that comes from the horses mouth.
As the dollar weakens, the US becomes more and more attractive for foreign investment. The US was already on its way to pauperization through foreign investment. If the rest of the planet invests even more (presumably with dollars they are eager to get rid of) then inflation would run rampant and things become too expensive for the locals.
As much as I like the sound of your wildfire analogy, its much more serious than that. You can't motivate people in a purely capitalist society without a stable currency that engenders trust. That is what we are facing: a profound breakdown of confidence and trust.
Within certain well-known parameters, Einstein's relativity could certainly be considered 'true' much like Newton. It shows that we can hone our ability to explain and predict. This becomes a crucial point when considering that, post relativity, the suitability of Newton's laws did not change in virtually all the situations where they were used.
As for string or 'M theory', in its current form it does predict more than four dimensions and supersymmetry. These will soon be tested.
How can the Philosophy of Science tell us that truth doesn't exist when experimental and applied sciences are constantly showing us what is at least provisionally true? Do scientists not struggle to persuade everyone that evolution and anthropogenic climate change are real? Are they wrong to do so?
"truths". No such thing. There is observation, hypothesis, experiment, prediction. 'Truth'? Leave that for people who believe in fairies etc. The philosopher doth protest too much. You cannot prove a negative, and those are awfully stark and sweeping declarations coming from someone doesn't acknowledge truth. I thought philosophers were supposed to study hypocrisy, not internalize it.
Daily Show is part of TV's problem. Part of me would just love to revel in all of the neocon-ridiculing, hipper-than-thou shtick; its a dangerous temptation.
Dangerous because A) it is 97% an expression of negativity... they tear-down all the right things but their ability to inform about positive trends and potentials is close to zero; and B) its still too much of a passive experience, where I am supposed to sit through stuff I already know because of the cute faces/personalities on display.
On the whole, I don't see devotees of Air America and Daily Show as being fundamentally healthier than outraged 'progressives' who hang on Rush Limbaugh's every word. The former group are still transfixed by doings of the cleptocrats to the exclusion of being able to think of alternatives.
Science and mathematics are another way to see. They reduce and cancel-out the observational variations produced by differing points of view.
This is why different cultures tend to agree on scientific grounds much more than they do in governance, trade, etc.
Newtonian physics is almost the same as Einsteinian at normal velocities, but the ideas are vastly different. Then consider that there is a vast set of theories that is consistent with observation (hence Occam's Razor... which is only a guide), we pick the most pleasing theory. Hence a subjective view. What a steaming pile of hippie philosophy. Physics and math are full of isomorphisms, some matching within only a certain range of parameters, others matching completely. Even in the latter case, such as when five 'different' string theories emerged, the differences create a huge bullseye for lab testing or Occam's Razor. Your worldview would have had people accepting them as five separate subjective views, whereas it was discovered that they were all the same theory expressed in different terms.
As for Einstein, what he taught us was that relativistic effects can be explained consistently from different points of view. We can factor-in those POVs without reducing our predictions and observations to mere subjectivity.
We humans (and even some animals) evolved with more than our five senses and intuition. We have the ability to calculate, or deduce, truths that cannot be intuitively grasped.
The vendor was Verisign. And after reading some of these posts I think some clarity may help everyone. We have about 600 ssl certificates in geographically distributed data centers, with another 25,000 other types of internal certificates. You would not just go to CACert or RapidSSL for this. We need an API and Control Panel, Audit privileges, management tools etc.
I agree. Its a stupid service founded on a misconception of what https is supposed to offer.
Https verifies the domain-based, Internet 'who' which is the important (and the most semantically verifiable) aspect of server's identity. Real-world addresses are actually more ambiguous and wouldn't matter anyway unless you have a penchant for entering sensitive info on sites you've never heard of before.
Yes, simply verifying the domain name when looking for the lock icon would fix the problem. Except that most people IMO don't even look for the lock.
And us techies are to blame for not educating users on using https to begin with. When I ask techs whether they instruct/remind people about https, they write the users off as too stupid... but when I ask when was the last time they tried, the answer is 'I just don't' or 'don't remember' which I uncharitably interpret as NEVER.
Sadly, most techs (incl. CNEs and such) don't even know how to use https in a web browser. Techies culture has a serious problem that must be fixed if we don't want the net to be handed over to authoritarian control.
You had no reason to expect that hardware to work unless you had verified its compatibility or shopped for Ubuntu-compatible hardware beforehand.
The OS X advantage (which I admit is real and makes the Mac more user friendly) is that most of the compatibility are made for you when you take the system out of the box.
OTOH anyone could have Googled around for "Ubuntu and dual head" to see if Ubuntu could handle it (no, it can't). Same RE: RAID controller. Where Ubuntu (and Linux in general) is poorly documented is on the OEM peripheral/component packaging, where Linux is often ignored whether its considered compatible with the product or not.
I suggest you put pressure on the Linux Foundation to publish a hardware compatibility guide, instead of throwing Linux distros at unknown/untested hardware and getting frustrated. Since their handles the driver/hardware compatibility layer in any Linux distro, the Linux Foundation is responsible more than anyone else for providing this documentation.
One groups news is another's propaganda and vice versa. Indeed. It all depends on where the group's suspicions lie.
As things are today in the US, the suspicions of the upper class are acted on as 'just cause' by default (usually against the poor), whereas the suspicions of the poor and middle class are energetically denounced as 'conspiracy theories' since they are known to originate from confirmed conspiracy theorists (just look at them-- outsiders). Its a signal that those suspicions are NOT to be investigated, irregardless of whether significant suspicious activity was shown to exist.
Likewise, some the the wackiest conspiracy theorists that exist today control Wall St. and the US government. Those theories, often borne of anti-plebe paranoia and xenophobia, are the vehicle for driving this place to a police state.
Except that in places like England and the US, the hyperventilating over the Russian government is often followed by or subtexted with characterizations (or slurs) about how popular Putin has remained with the 'increasingly nationalistic/fascistic/racist' population.
TFA plays fast and loose with the term 'extremism' to play on people's fears about Russia. OTOH the US government defines extremism as resorting-to or advocating violence to further a cause; Sort of like terrorism but not necessarily aimed at civilians or even people (i.e. could be the pursuit of damaging property).
In fact, I'd say the author is a Russophobe banging out another red meat article: In the last paragraph he goes beyond the original AFP article and paints the incitement of terrorism (incitement of violence) as normally censored only by the likes of China and very recently the EU... when the US and also the EU member states have censored such speech before living memory.
"Therefore, all BitTorrent or P2P traffic not sponsored by one of our esteemed sponsors will be allowed 100MB a month. Over that and your bill will go up." There, fixed that for you...
They have been making noises about the 'right' to use P2P or whatever protocol. But they aren't saying anything about communicating with whomever we choose at full bandwidth.
So the substitution doesn't fit. And confusing labor with the product of labor is disingenuous.
Both revenues and profits in the entertainment industry continue to increase in the face of rampant copying because it allows people to become exposed to far more material that they had forgotten about or never knew they liked. That's a huge contrast to having our culture rented out to us based on what multinational corps perceive to be trendy and market-able.
They blew it. Right at the moment when everybody was about to go online, media corps were writing legislation for obscene amounts of entitlements over content produced by people already long dead, and introducing medieval concepts like "intellectual property".
I do believe in copyright to an extent, as most people do here and elsewhere. But I wouldn't encourage you to enforce it to a very large degree unless you want to remain obscure.
I would like to do with Linux what I did with Firefox, give it to all my novice friends for their own good, safety, and enjoyment. This point is somewhat in the future still, in part because of the communities ethos. The overall expectation is for the KDEs and Firefoxes to add the user-friendly aspect to an OS like frosting on a cake. But modern OS design doesn't work like that: A lot of particular hardware behavior has to be accounted for and expressed at even the highest-level UI.
The LSB Desktop spec is supposed to play a role in all this. But the effort is looking pretty anemic so far. After years of sitting there it has achieved near-zero mindshare even among application developers.
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That is why carbon caps and trading are important to addressing the greenhouse gas emissions problem: A large portion of the world will only abide by ecological imperatives to the extent those imperative are reflected by monetary expense.
Some people insist on using money as the final quantification/valuation of all things, despite the fact that there are many things that it cannot measure responsibly. So regulation steps into the market to make money fundamentalists take notice of the problem, and curbing GHG emissions is then expressed in terms they can understand (saving money).
However, the article doesn't have any elements that would entice the reader to buy more stuff. He's not very pointed about it, but is essentially saying that if you need the processing power then moderate overclocking is a pretty 'green' option.
Some people on the CPDN forums track their system efficiency in terms of work units per Watt-hour and have noted the dramatic increase in efficiency in opting for a quad-core CPU even over a dual. TFA's advice has a lesser but similar effect and I would recommend it to anyone running CPU-intensive applications.
Will the Linux Foundation provide the comprehensive Hardware Compatibility List so Linux users can apply their own market pressure?
It is bizarre and dysfunctional that a project which is largely about getting various hardware to work together does not itself publish an easily searchable HCL.
Maybe OEMs would be more eager to reciprocate if they saw some organized activity from Linus & Co on this front.
That way, we could spend more time using equipment after shopping among competing items that are known to be compatible, instead of relying on the method of Googling the 'word on the street', buy it , and pray we don't have to return it method (which only die-hard techies are ever going to put up with).
I know that various HCLs already exist, but they tend to be small or dated or full of guessing (non-authoritative). We need an HCL that comes from the horses mouth.
Pied Piper of the Internet youth.
An exodus from there could only be a positive thing.
As much as I like the sound of your wildfire analogy, its much more serious than that. You can't motivate people in a purely capitalist society without a stable currency that engenders trust. That is what we are facing: a profound breakdown of confidence and trust.
As for string or 'M theory', in its current form it does predict more than four dimensions and supersymmetry. These will soon be tested.
How can the Philosophy of Science tell us that truth doesn't exist when experimental and applied sciences are constantly showing us what is at least provisionally true? Do scientists not struggle to persuade everyone that evolution and anthropogenic climate change are real? Are they wrong to do so? "truths". No such thing. There is observation, hypothesis, experiment, prediction. 'Truth'? Leave that for people who believe in fairies etc. The philosopher doth protest too much. You cannot prove a negative, and those are awfully stark and sweeping declarations coming from someone doesn't acknowledge truth. I thought philosophers were supposed to study hypocrisy, not internalize it.
Daily Show is part of TV's problem. Part of me would just love to revel in all of the neocon-ridiculing, hipper-than-thou shtick; its a dangerous temptation.
Dangerous because A) it is 97% an expression of negativity... they tear-down all the right things but their ability to inform about positive trends and potentials is close to zero; and B) its still too much of a passive experience, where I am supposed to sit through stuff I already know because of the cute faces/personalities on display.
On the whole, I don't see devotees of Air America and Daily Show as being fundamentally healthier than outraged 'progressives' who hang on Rush Limbaugh's every word. The former group are still transfixed by doings of the cleptocrats to the exclusion of being able to think of alternatives.
Mass media is for the dogs.
This is why different cultures tend to agree on scientific grounds much more than they do in governance, trade, etc. Newtonian physics is almost the same as Einsteinian at normal velocities, but the ideas are vastly different. Then consider that there is a vast set of theories that is consistent with observation (hence Occam's Razor
As for Einstein, what he taught us was that relativistic effects can be explained consistently from different points of view. We can factor-in those POVs without reducing our predictions and observations to mere subjectivity.
We humans (and even some animals) evolved with more than our five senses and intuition. We have the ability to calculate, or deduce, truths that cannot be intuitively grasped.
Thawte is now also owned by Verisign.
I wonder what Barry Goldwater (with his famous quote about extremism) would think of that.
I agree. Its a stupid service founded on a misconception of what https is supposed to offer.
Https verifies the domain-based, Internet 'who' which is the important (and the most semantically verifiable) aspect of server's identity. Real-world addresses are actually more ambiguous and wouldn't matter anyway unless you have a penchant for entering sensitive info on sites you've never heard of before.
And are you going to tell them the key to using it properly, to check the domain spelling??
What's that? "...no??"
Yes, simply verifying the domain name when looking for the lock icon would fix the problem. Except that most people IMO don't even look for the lock.
And us techies are to blame for not educating users on using https to begin with. When I ask techs whether they instruct/remind people about https, they write the users off as too stupid... but when I ask when was the last time they tried, the answer is 'I just don't' or 'don't remember' which I uncharitably interpret as NEVER.
Sadly, most techs (incl. CNEs and such) don't even know how to use https in a web browser. Techies culture has a serious problem that must be fixed if we don't want the net to be handed over to authoritarian control.
I have to agree with dbcad7's sentiment.
You had no reason to expect that hardware to work unless you had verified its compatibility or shopped for Ubuntu-compatible hardware beforehand.
The OS X advantage (which I admit is real and makes the Mac more user friendly) is that most of the compatibility are made for you when you take the system out of the box.
OTOH anyone could have Googled around for "Ubuntu and dual head" to see if Ubuntu could handle it (no, it can't). Same RE: RAID controller. Where Ubuntu (and Linux in general) is poorly documented is on the OEM peripheral/component packaging, where Linux is often ignored whether its considered compatible with the product or not.
I suggest you put pressure on the Linux Foundation to publish a hardware compatibility guide, instead of throwing Linux distros at unknown/untested hardware and getting frustrated. Since their handles the driver/hardware compatibility layer in any Linux distro, the Linux Foundation is responsible more than anyone else for providing this documentation.
As things are today in the US, the suspicions of the upper class are acted on as 'just cause' by default (usually against the poor), whereas the suspicions of the poor and middle class are energetically denounced as 'conspiracy theories' since they are known to originate from confirmed conspiracy theorists (just look at them-- outsiders). Its a signal that those suspicions are NOT to be investigated, irregardless of whether significant suspicious activity was shown to exist.
Likewise, some the the wackiest conspiracy theorists that exist today control Wall St. and the US government. Those theories, often borne of anti-plebe paranoia and xenophobia, are the vehicle for driving this place to a police state.
Except that in places like England and the US, the hyperventilating over the Russian government is often followed by or subtexted with characterizations (or slurs) about how popular Putin has remained with the 'increasingly nationalistic/fascistic/racist' population.
TFA plays fast and loose with the term 'extremism' to play on people's fears about Russia. OTOH the US government defines extremism as resorting-to or advocating violence to further a cause; Sort of like terrorism but not necessarily aimed at civilians or even people (i.e. could be the pursuit of damaging property).
In fact, I'd say the author is a Russophobe banging out another red meat article: In the last paragraph he goes beyond the original AFP article and paints the incitement of terrorism (incitement of violence) as normally censored only by the likes of China and very recently the EU... when the US and also the EU member states have censored such speech before living memory.
They have been making noises about the 'right' to use P2P or whatever protocol. But they aren't saying anything about communicating with whomever we choose at full bandwidth.
You bet its about net neutrality.
So the substitution doesn't fit. And confusing labor with the product of labor is disingenuous.
Both revenues and profits in the entertainment industry continue to increase in the face of rampant copying because it allows people to become exposed to far more material that they had forgotten about or never knew they liked. That's a huge contrast to having our culture rented out to us based on what multinational corps perceive to be trendy and market-able.
They blew it. Right at the moment when everybody was about to go online, media corps were writing legislation for obscene amounts of entitlements over content produced by people already long dead, and introducing medieval concepts like "intellectual property".
I do believe in copyright to an extent, as most people do here and elsewhere. But I wouldn't encourage you to enforce it to a very large degree unless you want to remain obscure.
Miro is a video feed aggregator, player, search tool, downloader with torrent support; recently out of beta and has improved a lot.
The Miro folks are even trying to help people distribute their videos via bittorrent, esp. as a way to get full SD and HD shows published at low cost.
It kind of competes with Youtube, but with better video quality. It even handles feeds from Youtube.
But creating a list would add pressure for them to stop that practice.
The LSB Desktop spec is supposed to play a role in all this. But the effort is looking pretty anemic so far. After years of sitting there it has achieved near-zero mindshare even among application developers.