over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell.
And it's just a matter of time until someone does. Let's hope by then software engineering will be in a better state than it is now, or we may be scrambling to kill artificial viruses along with the real ones. As if the world wasn't deadly enough...
"Innovate without permission" is an excellent expression, although not completely descriptive of the goal in this case.
What's sad is that it has to be said at all -- it implies that people need permission before molding technology and science in a way that serves the public good. I shouldn't have to ask someone for permission to learn more about the world around me and put that learning in service of the greater good. And neither should anybody else. Anywhere. Ever.
In other words, they're trying to come up with something that looks open on its face, but on closer inspection keeps all the power in the hands of private interests they can control. They realized their petty squabbling could both both their businesses in jeopardy so they're pretending to get along like a big house on fire now and praying that the FCC finds something else to pick on while they muster their political allies.
It's a tactic designed expressly to weaken the FCC's support in Congress by appearing to be the victims of the FCC "control freaks", while they, the benevolent corporate interests, only want the lowest prices and best services for you, the vulnerable consumer. Cue media relations campaign in 5...4...3...
So what they're saying is their business model is so flawed that it can only be supported by making other businesses pay for their complete failure in the marketplace? Yeah, that makes sense... in bizarro world. The FCC is being maligned for being a "liberal" establishment, but this is about as conservative a viewpoint as it gets: They're asking for their business to get special treatment because it makes horseshoes in a automobile era. Or, put another way -- they want a bailout.
there's nothing anti-science with conspiracy theories like this,
Truthers say that the towers couldn't possibly have fallen from an impact and subsequent fuel burn. Engineering analysis says that yes, it can -- and it did. There's your anti-science.
It's a real issue, not because the electrosensitives are right, but because they cause real trouble. Good evidence against them is valuable.
All the evidence is against them as it is. That hasn't stopped the damage they cause. There needs to be large, punitive punishments against people who use pseudoscience judicially. But this country won't do it for the same reason this country allows people to kill their children over their religious beliefs and kids who have never read a book wear that fact like a badge of pride in many schools.
I'm sorry to say... but maybe vigilante justice might be a better solution -- they'll worry less about their EM poisoning if they're being chased by heavily-armed scientists.
Now that he has been found innocent, does he get his 300k back?
You never get your money back if you're working class scum. You have to be born into money before they let you keep any of it. Maybe you haven't heard that if you're carrying more than a few hundred dollars you can have it seized on suspicion of terrorism or drugs and the burden of proof is on you. It's the same with every dollar you have in electronic accounts...
There's tens, if not hundreds, of millions in assets seized on suspicions by various government agencies... and never heard from again. Afterall, if you complain, they'll just come back and take the rest... conspiracy to commit... obstruction of justice... you know, the usual bullsh*t charges.
34k a month? I dont feel sorry they went after him.
Trying to edge in on Apple and Microsoft's turf, and he didn't even pay his protection money to RIAA! No wonder the police came after him. I mean, seriously, what was he thinking?
I'm calling shenanigans on that too. $300k would buy some pretty nice servers, much less a server.
The cost of the hardware is hardly worth mentioning... this little enterprise is about bandwidth. A few grand a month can easily be spent on just a T1.
When ham radio operators erect a new mast in their backyard, they often leave it unconnected for a month or two. When the inevitable complaints of baby monitors malfunctioning, televisions going crazy, and other non-sense crap from their neighbors blamed on the mast gets reported to the FCC or the police, the ham radio operator calmly leads them outside and shows them the disconnected cable that goes nowhere and does nothing.
Perhaps commercial entities should take note of this, given our remarkable slide into the cesspool of stupidity where we believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories, vaccinations causing brains to turn into jello and yellow smoke to pour out, and how we're being poisoned by EM waves, and a particle accelerator's going to cause the world to end.
Seriously... There should be an idiot tax on court filings.
WPF user interfaces use XML. ECMAScript itself is no worse than Python; in fact, several people have called ECMAScript "Lisp with C syntax". (In that way, ECMAScript could be thought of as an M-expression language.) A lot of the public griping about JavaScript relates to different web browsers' interpretations of the HTML DOM spec. But if Mozilla controls both the XUL/XBL DOM and the script that goes along with it, that becomes not an issue.
What. The. Fuck? That's a lot of buzzwords, is completely unelated to my post. Go find your own thread, dude. This one's mine!
What purpose does it serve to skip version numbers, except for some political or media-relations reason? The Linux kernel and many other open source projects have release cycles of "it's done when it's done" -- and a predictable version numbering system. What next, Mozilla Firefox 2010 Professional Edition? Delays are inevitable in any software development project.
Also, Slashdot -- this news post was like saying "X replaced by Y. Z reported jealous, but A and B are looking forward to bringing C onboard soon." Numbers should not be used in place of content. $WITTY_COMMENT. $RETORT. $TROLL. $VAGUE_REFERENCE_TO_SEXUALITY.
then frankly there's nothing wrong with having a large bomb explode at some large-staffed government facility or other.
Historically, terrorism has been an effective method of promoting change when all other methods have failed. That said, it is an option of last resort for a reason -- there are a large number of alternatives that have greater efficacy, deniability, and are far more cost effective. Terrorism is a blunt tool and the refuge of the desperate. It's only really effective when supported by public opinion, which is usually linked to social unrest. Even then the odds of a terrorist action causing a desirable reaction are low because there are too many uncontrolled or unknown variables. It's rarely used by organized intelligence operations or governments for that reason (amongst others noted above).
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Look, I'm sure Ruby is great. But why do so many Ruby enthusiasts come off sounding completely arrogant?
It's still early in the relationship. Once they move in with her, they'll realize she wants them to do everything her way, and that their whole apartment's been redecorated and a lot of their stuff thrown out. When they complain, she'll explain it was just a little bit of 'upgrading', and that stuff was old anyway. Same thing happened with that blonde bimbo javabeans... who now works doubles at the local Denny's and looks like she's been ridden hard and put up wet.
But the knife cuts both ways: Think about pulling that shit on me, and I will pull it on you. Even after jail and death I could get you. I would just have to publicly release the material "showing" your "crimes".
You're one person, with limited resources. Even if you had substantial resources, it wouldn't change the outcome. They will have the element of surprise on their side -- you'll be fighting from the position of having been already discredited. Any evidence you distribute will either trace back to you (and backfire) or will be viewed with suspicion because it looks too convenient. I admire your bravado, but if you were ever faced with that situation, and assuming you could extradite yourself from it and return to public life, there are better ways to spend your resources and you should consider how much your time (and your life) is worth.
They can stop looking. Either the signal processor is of poor quality, or the antenna is too short. AT&T typically runs at a lower frequency than T-mobile, which means the signal attenuation is greater. The two GSM bands in use in the US are 850 and 1900 Mhz.
Son, you won't ever bed a girl with that attitude.
Actually, many straight girls dumb themselves down or change their behavior to avoid scaring off the men (or attract them, for that matter). Last week I had a friend over with me and my girlfriend and we watched movies and TV episodes all night. I bartered a back rub for my girlfriend in exchange for a foot rub. So we puppy-piled on the couch, sipped some tea and enjoyed a sensual evening. This wouldn't happen with guys around because they'd all get stiffies and have to make a comment and thereby ruin the entire point. The conversation was also quite a bit more frank, open, and topical than it otherwise would have been.
The internet is assumed by default to be a mixed group, and only in very specific ways and places do women express themselves openly and honestly on it -- mostly because of exactly the kind of behavior you just pointed out. If I didn't have such a stubborn passion for science and technology, I would have given up on this line of work years ago because of it. Every few months I still think about quitting and going into a more woman-friendly environment. I stay in it because the money's good and I don't want to be the stereotypical cash-starved lesbian. Making more than $25k a year in this community is nearly an act of heroism...
This might be a dumb question, but why do we have to build http servers that integrate everything? Wouldn't it make sense to design a very minimal http server which focuses on using a minimal amount of resources and have an API layer that enforces security permissions from the start? Every time I ask this, the answer eventually boils down to it being a tradeoff between performance and reliability -- either you can have a well-designed core and a strong security model, or you can allow the plugins to execute code directly in the same space as the server.
The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy.
But it's not so critical we're going to do give the citizens broad access to strong encryption and authentication, and force vendors to provide secure products with documented source code and APIs, because that would impede our ability to spy on them. The message to China is: We hate competition.
Now imagine someone reporting you for pirating movies and your little disc spinning at 25,000 rpm then being shot out at 200 mph.. DRM now stands for Decapitation & Radical Maiming.
Apple perfected this technology with their floppy disk drives with the Mac Classic. It's not new. But there's no way to remotely retension the spring...
It took them five months to uncover this. If the contractor hadn't been greedy, it probably would have gone on a lot longer. It's no surprise though -- most camera feeds aren't encrypted/authenticated in any way. Nonetheless, the justice system and juries will rely on them as irrefutable evidence of a crime. And anyone who claims they were photoshopped into the scene will be laughed out of the courtroom.
The industrial espionage possibilities are quite lucrative.
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Does that make ReactOS the Vista of the open source world?!!!
No, if any FOSS OS deserves comparison to Vista, it's GNU Turd.
over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell.
And it's just a matter of time until someone does. Let's hope by then software engineering will be in a better state than it is now, or we may be scrambling to kill artificial viruses along with the real ones. As if the world wasn't deadly enough...
You don't.
You do.
"Innovate without permission" is an excellent expression, although not completely descriptive of the goal in this case.
What's sad is that it has to be said at all -- it implies that people need permission before molding technology and science in a way that serves the public good. I shouldn't have to ask someone for permission to learn more about the world around me and put that learning in service of the greater good. And neither should anybody else. Anywhere. Ever.
In other words, they're trying to come up with something that looks open on its face, but on closer inspection keeps all the power in the hands of private interests they can control. They realized their petty squabbling could both both their businesses in jeopardy so they're pretending to get along like a big house on fire now and praying that the FCC finds something else to pick on while they muster their political allies.
It's a tactic designed expressly to weaken the FCC's support in Congress by appearing to be the victims of the FCC "control freaks", while they, the benevolent corporate interests, only want the lowest prices and best services for you, the vulnerable consumer. Cue media relations campaign in 5...4...3...
So what they're saying is their business model is so flawed that it can only be supported by making other businesses pay for their complete failure in the marketplace? Yeah, that makes sense... in bizarro world. The FCC is being maligned for being a "liberal" establishment, but this is about as conservative a viewpoint as it gets: They're asking for their business to get special treatment because it makes horseshoes in a automobile era. Or, put another way -- they want a bailout.
Yes, how very liberal of them. /snark
there's nothing anti-science with conspiracy theories like this,
Truthers say that the towers couldn't possibly have fallen from an impact and subsequent fuel burn. Engineering analysis says that yes, it can -- and it did. There's your anti-science.
Drift around in a small ship until you get assimilated.
That only works at Target or if you've managed to build a ship capable of interstellar travel.
It's a real issue, not because the electrosensitives are right, but because they cause real trouble. Good evidence against them is valuable.
All the evidence is against them as it is. That hasn't stopped the damage they cause. There needs to be large, punitive punishments against people who use pseudoscience judicially. But this country won't do it for the same reason this country allows people to kill their children over their religious beliefs and kids who have never read a book wear that fact like a badge of pride in many schools.
I'm sorry to say... but maybe vigilante justice might be a better solution -- they'll worry less about their EM poisoning if they're being chased by heavily-armed scientists.
Now that he has been found innocent, does he get his 300k back?
You never get your money back if you're working class scum. You have to be born into money before they let you keep any of it. Maybe you haven't heard that if you're carrying more than a few hundred dollars you can have it seized on suspicion of terrorism or drugs and the burden of proof is on you. It's the same with every dollar you have in electronic accounts...
There's tens, if not hundreds, of millions in assets seized on suspicions by various government agencies... and never heard from again. Afterall, if you complain, they'll just come back and take the rest... conspiracy to commit... obstruction of justice... you know, the usual bullsh*t charges.
34k a month? I dont feel sorry they went after him.
Trying to edge in on Apple and Microsoft's turf, and he didn't even pay his protection money to RIAA! No wonder the police came after him. I mean, seriously, what was he thinking?
I'm calling shenanigans on that too. $300k would buy some pretty nice servers, much less a server.
The cost of the hardware is hardly worth mentioning... this little enterprise is about bandwidth. A few grand a month can easily be spent on just a T1.
When ham radio operators erect a new mast in their backyard, they often leave it unconnected for a month or two. When the inevitable complaints of baby monitors malfunctioning, televisions going crazy, and other non-sense crap from their neighbors blamed on the mast gets reported to the FCC or the police,
the ham radio operator calmly leads them outside and shows them the disconnected cable that goes nowhere and does nothing.
Perhaps commercial entities should take note of this, given our remarkable slide into the cesspool of stupidity where we believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories, vaccinations causing brains to turn into jello and yellow smoke to pour out, and how we're being poisoned by EM waves, and a particle accelerator's going to cause the world to end.
Seriously... There should be an idiot tax on court filings.
WPF user interfaces use XML. ECMAScript itself is no worse than Python; in fact, several people have called ECMAScript "Lisp with C syntax". (In that way, ECMAScript could be thought of as an M-expression language.) A lot of the public griping about JavaScript relates to different web browsers' interpretations of the HTML DOM spec. But if Mozilla controls both the XUL/XBL DOM and the script that goes along with it, that becomes not an issue.
What. The. Fuck? That's a lot of buzzwords, is completely unelated to my post. Go find your own thread, dude. This one's mine!
What purpose does it serve to skip version numbers, except for some political or media-relations reason? The Linux kernel and many other open source projects have release cycles of "it's done when it's done" -- and a predictable version numbering system. What next, Mozilla Firefox 2010 Professional Edition? Delays are inevitable in any software development project.
Also, Slashdot -- this news post was like saying "X replaced by Y. Z reported jealous, but A and B are looking forward to bringing C onboard soon." Numbers should not be used in place of content. $WITTY_COMMENT. $RETORT. $TROLL. $VAGUE_REFERENCE_TO_SEXUALITY.
Cut approaching.
Cut approaching.
Cut here.
Cut here.
You have cut the wrong wire.
Recalculating...
Recalculating...
Get soldering iron.
then frankly there's nothing wrong with having a large bomb explode at some large-staffed government facility or other.
Historically, terrorism has been an effective method of promoting change when all other methods have failed. That said, it is an option of last resort for a reason -- there are a large number of alternatives that have greater efficacy, deniability, and are far more cost effective. Terrorism is a blunt tool and the refuge of the desperate. It's only really effective when supported by public opinion, which is usually linked to social unrest. Even then the odds of a terrorist action causing a desirable reaction are low because there are too many uncontrolled or unknown variables. It's rarely used by organized intelligence operations or governments for that reason (amongst others noted above).
Look, I'm sure Ruby is great. But why do so many Ruby enthusiasts come off sounding completely arrogant?
It's still early in the relationship. Once they move in with her, they'll realize she wants them to do everything her way, and that their whole apartment's been redecorated and a lot of their stuff thrown out. When they complain, she'll explain it was just a little bit of 'upgrading', and that stuff was old anyway. Same thing happened with that blonde bimbo javabeans... who now works doubles at the local Denny's and looks like she's been ridden hard and put up wet.
Wrong. Tmo uses 1700 and 2100.
Still a significantly shorter wavelength than 850.
But the knife cuts both ways: Think about pulling that shit on me, and I will pull it on you. Even after jail and death I could get you. I would just have to publicly release the material "showing" your "crimes".
You're one person, with limited resources. Even if you had substantial resources, it wouldn't change the outcome. They will have the element of surprise on their side -- you'll be fighting from the position of having been already discredited. Any evidence you distribute will either trace back to you (and backfire) or will be viewed with suspicion because it looks too convenient. I admire your bravado, but if you were ever faced with that situation, and assuming you could extradite yourself from it and return to public life, there are better ways to spend your resources and you should consider how much your time (and your life) is worth.
They can stop looking. Either the signal processor is of poor quality, or the antenna is too short. AT&T typically runs at a lower frequency than T-mobile, which means the signal attenuation is greater. The two GSM bands in use in the US are 850 and 1900 Mhz.
Son, you won't ever bed a girl with that attitude.
Actually, many straight girls dumb themselves down or change their behavior to avoid scaring off the men (or attract them, for that matter). Last week I had a friend over with me and my girlfriend and we watched movies and TV episodes all night. I bartered a back rub for my girlfriend in exchange for a foot rub. So we puppy-piled on the couch, sipped some tea and enjoyed a sensual evening. This wouldn't happen with guys around because they'd all get stiffies and have to make a comment and thereby ruin the entire point. The conversation was also quite a bit more frank, open, and topical than it otherwise would have been.
The internet is assumed by default to be a mixed group, and only in very specific ways and places do women express themselves openly and honestly on it -- mostly because of exactly the kind of behavior you just pointed out. If I didn't have such a stubborn passion for science and technology, I would have given up on this line of work years ago because of it. Every few months I still think about quitting and going into a more woman-friendly environment. I stay in it because the money's good and I don't want to be the stereotypical cash-starved lesbian. Making more than $25k a year in this community is nearly an act of heroism...
This might be a dumb question, but why do we have to build http servers that integrate everything? Wouldn't it make sense to design a very minimal http server which focuses on using a minimal amount of resources and have an API layer that enforces security permissions from the start? Every time I ask this, the answer eventually boils down to it being a tradeoff between performance and reliability -- either you can have a well-designed core and a strong security model, or you can allow the plugins to execute code directly in the same space as the server.
Isn't there a better way to handle this?
The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy.
But it's not so critical we're going to do give the citizens broad access to strong encryption and authentication, and force vendors to provide secure products with documented source code and APIs, because that would impede our ability to spy on them. The message to China is: We hate competition.
Now imagine someone reporting you for pirating movies and your little disc spinning at 25,000 rpm then being shot out at 200 mph.. DRM now stands for Decapitation & Radical Maiming.
Apple perfected this technology with their floppy disk drives with the Mac Classic. It's not new. But there's no way to remotely retension the spring...
It took them five months to uncover this. If the contractor hadn't been greedy, it probably would have gone on a lot longer. It's no surprise though -- most camera feeds aren't encrypted/authenticated in any way. Nonetheless, the justice system and juries will rely on them as irrefutable evidence of a crime. And anyone who claims they were photoshopped into the scene will be laughed out of the courtroom.
The industrial espionage possibilities are quite lucrative.