I'd have to disagree and say that the basic principle is the same.
While this is not what you said, it lead me to imagine, say, a compiler in which you start with 7 "lives". You'd lose one after each compiler error or 3 warnings! After that you'd have to restart the IDE or reboot the system, depending on the OS. Some people would be a lot more careful...
I suggest that from now on, instead of linking to the bbc URL you guys use the IP address, which always works.
You aren't the guy who wrote Code Red I, are you? Keep in mind./ stories are archived, so if an IP changes after some time, boom, the link is dead.
Now, the DNS thing: sometimes adding a "www" after the "http://" does the trick for me (not with BBC but with a few other sites). I think this is easier than figuring out and typing an IP.
I lived in the U.S. for 4 months. In my first week, while riding the Metro out of D.C. I saw a guy who looked exactly like me. About the same age, same built, same face, same hair, only dressed with horrible taste. It was scary! People in the train were staring at us both. The guy was 100% absorbed in his reading, didn't even notice.
After I got home and considering how newsmedia in the U.S. are quick to show faces, I began to wonder, what if this guy is some maniac or drug pusher? We lived in the same neighbohood! I must say, at least once a week this thought came back. Paranoid? Maybe, but this Borders episode is a dangerous precedent. I've seen this patetrn before: you set up a system and tell people it is somehow error prone. The system gets it right about 6 or 7 times in a row and whoever is in charge begins to trust the system and believe its alarms are forensic evidence.
Nothing prevents an OEM to ship computers with MS-Windows and some other OS. Now, if you want a few k OEM licenses (for wich you'd pay much less than if you bought them from a retailer) then terms are obviously different. This is business commom practice: you give someone some kind of favoured treatment and you demand some loyalty in return. Whats the point of an OEM license from an OS company viewpoint? Increase installed base, so as to make shifts to other OSs more expensive.
MS could really make things hard for double booters. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this perception that a boot loader can fire up just any OS is wrong. The code in a partition boto record has to be boot loader-friendly, even if by accident. Think about this: MBR code doesn't need be interactive or offer options. One can write MBR code that leaves the processor in some funny state and write the OS partition boot code so as to count on that state or information, all 100% transparent to the user. If the user repartitions and installs a second OS and his generic boot loader of choice, this new loader has no way to know how to "deliver" the machine to this OS. Maybe one could write an "intelligent" generic boot loader that would mimick such behaviour upon detecton of the user choice, but then one would have to consider things like patents, reverse engineering, etc. Also, I'm not sure if it's possible to squeeze that much code in a MBR.
I was told once, by a Marketing professor, that the tobacco industry considers one to be a non-smoker only 10 years after the person quits. In the meantime they call them inactive smokers. Be it true or not, I think this is why it's interesting for MS to have people *at least* double booting, as long as one partiton is Windows, for you never know...
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Yeah... I've noticed that too. Plain Old Text seems to be screwed.
Let me put this Embraer x Bombardier case in perspective: Aircraft industry is highly dependent on R&D investment. You can't think of designing a jetliner with less than 200 million USD. Companies do not have this cash, as a rule, so they seek credit. The problem is, banks charge different interest rates based on risk classification, which they do not assess themselves, rather rely on classification from specialized firms, such as Moody and Standard&Poors. Countries are risk-rated too, and it is an unwritten rule in the financial market that a company can't obtain an international rating higher than that of the country in which it is based. Coutry rates issued by different firms are very close, not nominally, but in what they indicate the risk is.
Canada, I think, is rated AAA by S&P. Brazil delayed some payments to some banks in the late 70's, and has been showing a small trade surplus, sometimes even deficit in the latetr years. There are other issue, but these two have a big weight. So, Brazil is rated BB+, IIRC. This means Bombardier can obtain credit at something like 500 base points below what Embraer can. And the companies themselves are not too risky; the segment in which they compete, middle size jatliners (80-130 pass.) was highly neglected in the past, with Boeing, Airbus, MD focusing on big planes and others (Cessna, LearJet, etc.) focusing on small planes. When Fokker closed, this marked had very few contenders, so it's kind of up for grabs. What the Brazilian government did was to "cover" this difference in spread.
The beef case, now, that was ridiculous. During the mad-cow disease outburst in Europe, Canadian authorities closed beef imports from Brazil as a safety measure. It was right after the Bombardier case.
However, knowing Brazil from inside (as a Brazilian), I'd say money will only be shifted from the hands of the lawful IP holder to the hands of a few "selected" companies/people inside the country.
You can't be serious about that. Procurement process is absolutely public. Yes, laboratories will make money out of this, but the money will go to the lowest bidder that qualifies technically. You don't want any home brewery making this medicine, right? And even if the law didn't dictate things to be that way, interest groups fighting for the good of HIV-positive people in Brazil are *very* powerful, and the press loves them, and we're having elections next year. No, you can't be serious.
Quite apart from the fact that these drugs aren't designed to be used in the conditions found in Brazil (which will mean that strains of HIV resistant to this treatment will be produced there),...
What do you mean by "conditions"? Maybe you mean the legal system... Oh, sure, these drugs weren't designed to work in such a framework.
After reading a few posts stating that there's the danger of such actions disencouraging research, I would like to add:
- The law says that the gov't can issue a compulsory license, which doesn't mean public domain or copying the process for free, but gives the power to the state to set the terms of the license. This is consistent with a constitutional principle that public (not gov't!) weel-being is more important than the weel-being of a few individuals.
- The law also sets a period after which this compulsory licensing can be done. I'm not sure whether it's 2 or 3 years, but should aloow for a reasonable pay-bak period.
- According to the Boston Globe article, a ptient in Brazil costs US$ 350.00, while the same tratment costs US$ 10,000.00 in the US. Clearly, there's plenty of margin for cutting.
Other few points people maybe should be aware of:
- Health Minister José Serra most definitely has an eye in next year presidential elections.
- It is illegal for individuals and private companies in Brazil to trade AIDS medicine, except for selling to the gov't. My brother died of AIDS in 97 and my mother ended up with a big supplt of DDI, which she returned to the health service. She would have done that anyway, but imagine the kind of abuse that would take place if you could obtain medication for free and trade it.
I don't think Windows does a bad job at storing data type information. It just doesn't try to. What Windows stores in the filename is file format information. A song tablature, ASCII art and C++ source code are very different things, but you can call them all TXT's and operate on them with no problem at all. The author really messes up things a bit in this matter. You can have, say, two LZW-compressed palleted images. One as a GIF and other as a TIFF. Pretty much the same data type, but with different headers/tags, different LZW max. prefix length, maybe different byte-order. Same for a JPEG TIFF and a JIFF. Actually, what is the point in saying Image/gif one you can't have Sound/gif or Text/gif?
I really don't think Apple came up with an extensionless filename scheme purely out of conceptual considerations. Anyone who has ever tried to educated someone on how to use a computer for the first time knows that file extension can be confusing! The Mac was built to be easy. I would go as far as to say it was built to reach people who were afraid of computers. The fact is that some other people do need a command prompt, and that interface does benefit from file extensions.
Now, Linux is not following Windows at all on this. Fire up Konkeror and see how it identifies most files, extension notwithstanding. Or try #man file.
For the home user, yes, Linux on the desktop is a great idea. But it can't be a replacement for Windows on the home desktop - that's throwing hard work at a bad idea.
Why that? Could you elaborate on this? I do have a ligitimate interest in knowing people's oppinion on this subject. Thanks.
Slide-rule? God, I've never seen anyone but me using those after high-school (late 70's). But that's a good thing to have in the pen mug, only that mine is 12 inches long. If I could only find one of those 6-inch rules. I don't think they make it any more...
If you are more or less like me, who keep things "just in case" maybe you have lots of paper with info. I have lots of notes from college wich I'm scanning, a few per day. Then I'll hack some script to thumbnail and HTML them. A CD can hold up more than 1000 pages, and you can organize things very well.
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How about a GIMP or Photoshop plugin to randomly insert junk data in any JPEG saved in order to make this technique useless?
You can't do that. JPEG/DCT (as is the norm with files adhering to the JIFF) is a lossy compression scheme, which means LSB's are lost in the process.
This is one reason why I think it is not practical to embed messages in images files posted over the Internet. De-facto standards are JPEG and GIF's, and although LZW is lossless, you don't want to mess with LSB's in a 256-color palleted image (except if you "color" pallete is an ordered grayscale pallet). A TIFF file with either grayscale, RGB or CMY/CMYK data would do the trick, but who sends TIFF's? If someone already has an eye on you, that would definitely look suspicious.
If there is something about Java that means it conflicts with this (or some other important) VM, that would be interesting to hear.
I'm not familiar with chip design and construction but I see a conflict; please educate me if I'm wrong: I don't see anything "virtual" about machine code being executed by a processor, specially one that can't be flashed. And the fact that a Pentium MMX instruction set is a superset of that of an 80386 does not mean that a Pentium has to use its "native" instructions to mimick those of the 80386.
You seem to like Java. I'm trying it right now and I think it has its place. I've heard about benchmarks showing Java to be slower than C++ (my favourite) by a factor of less than 2, but the litmus test, for me, is to write some stuff and run it, and my experience has been that it is much slower, maybe by a factor of 5 or more. I must point out, though, that I'm using JBuilder 4, a gift from Borland when I bought C++Builder5.0, maybe Sun tools are better.
My hunch is that, given the fall in the overall level of opinions posted in Slashdot over the last months, Hemos is dilligently bringing up such absurd questions so as to educate people who, although misinformed, can spot good advice when exposed to it.:)
These licenses are for sissies. Real men either release their work under public domain or charge for binaries.
I have a couple of projects I'm thinking of making available to the public, and the only reason I see to release under, say, the GPL is that I feel deeply indebted to the FSF and others who contributed to free software. Other than that, these licenses are too restrictive, except maybe for BSD and X licenses. They may bring a feeling of assurance to developers, but users do suffer.
This fucking Tax Auditor is posting as AC in respect for other peoples threshold!
I see LA cops beating up black people on TV too. About the police in that fucking city, read the news, they have arrested 500 or so police officer in the last month because of these things.
Nope. Im not saying those things are right or wrong, Im stressing theyre different. The only judgement you can draw from my post (ok, maybe rant) is that narrow-mindness and ignorance hurt the narrow-minded ignorants. No offense intended, I also broadened my mind a lot living abroad. But in the case of the U.S., on a second thought, with all that steel and silicon so conveniently shaped to be of good use to millitary porposes, that may well hurt others too.
Is that "dont show your face here again" thing your sig?
Smells trolly. Given the choice between having my machine flood others or be shutdown, I'd rather it be shut down.
I'm guessing you've never been DoS'd? Its easy to make statements like yours when living in lala land.
There are posts in this discussion from people who claim to have lost work because of that childish link. Im not trolling, I even think that this calls for an apology from/.
Un unpatched IIS server does not mean an infected one. Granted, Ive never been DoSd, but Im not the type who takes justice in my own hands. Or else I would think this should be done to spammers, then to sites with pop-up windows, then to sites with banner adds, then to sites I just happen not to like.
If you were not so well armed, you USians would be the funniest breed in the world, even without Dennis Miller or Dana Carvey.
Ive been ther a few times, I lived there for a while. I was amazed when I saw someone on TV or at an University setting claiming that the U.S. should not do business (actually *buy* things) from nations that did not respect basic human rights. Though thats not what the article says, Id say it falls in the same broad category of narrow perspective.
Sweatshops? Is that what do you call a place where one has to work for more than 12 hours a day under pressure? Like a law firm in D.C. or some programming shops in CA? No matter these guys are working so as to be able to afford their condos or wine&dine twice a week, its still food and housing, only at first-world standards. Not too different from minework in Congo, given ones expectations. Thanks God I have to work only 8 hours a day, if I ever do more than that its because I want to.
How about human rights? Where I live an employee is entitled 30 days of vacation every 12 month period. Oh, you dont in the U.S., would that be a human right violation? Children are allowed to work here after they are 16, is that a HR violation? Whos to say? You think its fine to show a kids face on TV and screw him for the rest of his life if he has been charged with some felony even before conviction? You cant do it here even after conviction. You think you live in a free country? I never felt so oppressed and watched and under someones monitoring as I did while in the U.S.. Granted, I was living in D.C., but I think the average urban USian is yet to experiment real freedom. Maybe that would explain their behaviour when they come over... I could do this the whole day (even without mentioning U.S. foreign policy), but the point is: you have to broaden your horizons! Stop judging everyone under your values. They are good, very good indeed, but they dont work all over the world! Youll only profit from that.
Way to go, michael!!! Putting a link on/. frontpage to a script that shuts down machines.
You guys have crossed a dangerous threshold here (Im assuming this is the first time). My guess is that it will take people quite a while to forget this.
Has anyone had any experience with international dial-up connections? I mean long-distance, not USA/Canada or Italy/France stuff. What speeds can be obtained?
isn't making a good decision the best way to hedge against critisism?
Good question!
No. If one keeps both goals in mind, he's screwed. And doing the right thing doesn't mean one won't be criticised.
But saying that what he did was right or wrong is beyond my point. What I understood from his address last night was: the White House is not sure whether embryos are living humans or not, but we will fund research on this technology anyway, as long as application papers don't mention the icky part.
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I'd have to disagree and say that the basic principle is the same.
While this is not what you said, it lead me to imagine, say, a compiler in which you start with 7 "lives". You'd lose one after each compiler error or 3 warnings! After that you'd have to restart the IDE or reboot the system, depending on the OS. Some people would be a lot more careful...
I suggest that from now on, instead of linking to the bbc URL you guys use the IP address, which always works.
You aren't the guy who wrote Code Red I, are you? Keep in mind ./ stories are archived, so if an IP changes after some time, boom, the link is dead.
Now, the DNS thing: sometimes adding a "www" after the "http://" does the trick for me (not with BBC but with a few other sites). I think this is easier than figuring out and typing an IP.
I lived in the U.S. for 4 months. In my first week, while riding the Metro out of D.C. I saw a guy who looked exactly like me. About the same age, same built, same face, same hair, only dressed with horrible taste. It was scary! People in the train were staring at us both. The guy was 100% absorbed in his reading, didn't even notice.
After I got home and considering how newsmedia in the U.S. are quick to show faces, I began to wonder, what if this guy is some maniac or drug pusher? We lived in the same neighbohood! I must say, at least once a week this thought came back. Paranoid? Maybe, but this Borders episode is a dangerous precedent. I've seen this patetrn before: you set up a system and tell people it is somehow error prone. The system gets it right about 6 or 7 times in a row and whoever is in charge begins to trust the system and believe its alarms are forensic evidence.
Nothing prevents an OEM to ship computers with MS-Windows and some other OS. Now, if you want a few k OEM licenses (for wich you'd pay much less than if you bought them from a retailer) then terms are obviously different. This is business commom practice: you give someone some kind of favoured treatment and you demand some loyalty in return. Whats the point of an OEM license from an OS company viewpoint? Increase installed base, so as to make shifts to other OSs more expensive.
MS could really make things hard for double booters. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this perception that a boot loader can fire up just any OS is wrong. The code in a partition boto record has to be boot loader-friendly, even if by accident. Think about this: MBR code doesn't need be interactive or offer options. One can write MBR code that leaves the processor in some funny state and write the OS partition boot code so as to count on that state or information, all 100% transparent to the user. If the user repartitions and installs a second OS and his generic boot loader of choice, this new loader has no way to know how to "deliver" the machine to this OS. Maybe one could write an "intelligent" generic boot loader that would mimick such behaviour upon detecton of the user choice, but then one would have to consider things like patents, reverse engineering, etc. Also, I'm not sure if it's possible to squeeze that much code in a MBR.
I was told once, by a Marketing professor, that the tobacco industry considers one to be a non-smoker only 10 years after the person quits. In the meantime they call them inactive smokers. Be it true or not, I think this is why it's interesting for MS to have people *at least* double booting, as long as one partiton is Windows, for you never know...
Yeah... I've noticed that too. Plain Old Text seems to be screwed.
This comment posted with Plain Old Text setting.
Let me put this Embraer x Bombardier case in perspective: Aircraft industry is highly dependent on R&D investment. You can't think of designing a jetliner with less than 200 million USD. Companies do not have this cash, as a rule, so they seek credit. The problem is, banks charge different interest rates based on risk classification, which they do not assess themselves, rather rely on classification from specialized firms, such as Moody and Standard&Poors. Countries are risk-rated too, and it is an unwritten rule in the financial market that a company can't obtain an international rating higher than that of the country in which it is based. Coutry rates issued by different firms are very close, not nominally, but in what they indicate the risk is.
Canada, I think, is rated AAA by S&P. Brazil delayed some payments to some banks in the late 70's, and has been showing a small trade surplus, sometimes even deficit in the latetr years. There are other issue, but these two have a big weight. So, Brazil is rated BB+, IIRC. This means Bombardier can obtain credit at something like 500 base points below what Embraer can. And the companies themselves are not too risky; the segment in which they compete, middle size jatliners (80-130 pass.) was highly neglected in the past, with Boeing, Airbus, MD focusing on big planes and others (Cessna, LearJet, etc.) focusing on small planes. When Fokker closed, this marked had very few contenders, so it's kind of up for grabs. What the Brazilian government did was to "cover" this difference in spread.
The beef case, now, that was ridiculous. During the mad-cow disease outburst in Europe, Canadian authorities closed beef imports from Brazil as a safety measure. It was right after the Bombardier case.
However, knowing Brazil from inside (as a Brazilian), I'd say money will only be shifted from the hands of the lawful IP holder to the hands of a few "selected" companies/people inside the country.
You can't be serious about that. Procurement process is absolutely public. Yes, laboratories will make money out of this, but the money will go to the lowest bidder that qualifies technically. You don't want any home brewery making this medicine, right? And even if the law didn't dictate things to be that way, interest groups fighting for the good of HIV-positive people in Brazil are *very* powerful, and the press loves them, and we're having elections next year. No, you can't be serious.
Quite apart from the fact that these drugs aren't designed to be used in the conditions found in Brazil (which will mean that strains of HIV resistant to this treatment will be produced there),...
What do you mean by "conditions"? Maybe you mean the legal system... Oh, sure, these drugs weren't designed to work in such a framework.
After reading a few posts stating that there's the danger of such actions disencouraging research, I would like to add:
- The law says that the gov't can issue a compulsory license, which doesn't mean public domain or copying the process for free, but gives the power to the state to set the terms of the license. This is consistent with a constitutional principle that public (not gov't!) weel-being is more important than the weel-being of a few individuals.
- The law also sets a period after which this compulsory licensing can be done. I'm not sure whether it's 2 or 3 years, but should aloow for a reasonable pay-bak period.
- According to the Boston Globe article, a ptient in Brazil costs US$ 350.00, while the same tratment costs US$ 10,000.00 in the US. Clearly, there's plenty of margin for cutting.
Other few points people maybe should be aware of:
- Health Minister José Serra most definitely has an eye in next year presidential elections.
- It is illegal for individuals and private companies in Brazil to trade AIDS medicine, except for selling to the gov't. My brother died of AIDS in 97 and my mother ended up with a big supplt of DDI, which she returned to the health service. She would have done that anyway, but imagine the kind of abuse that would take place if you could obtain medication for free and trade it.
I don't think Windows does a bad job at storing data type information. It just doesn't try to. What Windows stores in the filename is file format information. A song tablature, ASCII art and C++ source code are very different things, but you can call them all TXT's and operate on them with no problem at all. The author really messes up things a bit in this matter. You can have, say, two LZW-compressed palleted images. One as a GIF and other as a TIFF. Pretty much the same data type, but with different headers/tags, different LZW max. prefix length, maybe different byte-order. Same for a JPEG TIFF and a JIFF. Actually, what is the point in saying Image/gif one you can't have Sound/gif or Text/gif?
I really don't think Apple came up with an extensionless filename scheme purely out of conceptual considerations. Anyone who has ever tried to educated someone on how to use a computer for the first time knows that file extension can be confusing! The Mac was built to be easy. I would go as far as to say it was built to reach people who were afraid of computers. The fact is that some other people do need a command prompt, and that interface does benefit from file extensions.
Now, Linux is not following Windows at all on this. Fire up Konkeror and see how it identifies most files, extension notwithstanding. Or try #man file.
But, what do I know?
For the home user, yes, Linux on the desktop is a great idea. But it can't be a replacement for Windows on the home desktop - that's throwing hard work at a bad idea.
Why that? Could you elaborate on this? I do have a ligitimate interest in knowing people's oppinion on this subject. Thanks.
Slide-rule? God, I've never seen anyone but me using those after high-school (late 70's). But that's a good thing to have in the pen mug, only that mine is 12 inches long. If I could only find one of those 6-inch rules. I don't think they make it any more...
If you are more or less like me, who keep things "just in case" maybe you have lots of paper with info. I have lots of notes from college wich I'm scanning, a few per day. Then I'll hack some script to thumbnail and HTML them. A CD can hold up more than 1000 pages, and you can organize things very well.
How about a GIMP or Photoshop plugin to randomly insert junk data in any JPEG saved in order to make this technique useless?
You can't do that. JPEG/DCT (as is the norm with files adhering to the JIFF) is a lossy compression scheme, which means LSB's are lost in the process.
This is one reason why I think it is not practical to embed messages in images files posted over the Internet. De-facto standards are JPEG and GIF's, and although LZW is lossless, you don't want to mess with LSB's in a 256-color palleted image (except if you "color" pallete is an ordered grayscale pallet). A TIFF file with either grayscale, RGB or CMY/CMYK data would do the trick, but who sends TIFF's? If someone already has an eye on you, that would definitely look suspicious.
If there is something about Java that means it conflicts with this (or some other important) VM, that would be interesting to hear.
I'm not familiar with chip design and construction but I see a conflict; please educate me if I'm wrong: I don't see anything "virtual" about machine code being executed by a processor, specially one that can't be flashed. And the fact that a Pentium MMX instruction set is a superset of that of an 80386 does not mean that a Pentium has to use its "native" instructions to mimick those of the 80386.
You seem to like Java. I'm trying it right now and I think it has its place. I've heard about benchmarks showing Java to be slower than C++ (my favourite) by a factor of less than 2, but the litmus test, for me, is to write some stuff and run it, and my experience has been that it is much slower, maybe by a factor of 5 or more. I must point out, though, that I'm using JBuilder 4, a gift from Borland when I bought C++Builder5.0, maybe Sun tools are better.
My hunch is that, given the fall in the overall level of opinions posted in Slashdot over the last months, Hemos is dilligently bringing up such absurd questions so as to educate people who, although misinformed, can spot good advice when exposed to it. :)
These licenses are for sissies. Real men either release their work under public domain or charge for binaries.
I have a couple of projects I'm thinking of making available to the public, and the only reason I see to release under, say, the GPL is that I feel deeply indebted to the FSF and others who contributed to free software. Other than that, these licenses are too restrictive, except maybe for BSD and X licenses. They may bring a feeling of assurance to developers, but users do suffer.
Half an hour now.. Did you get your food?
This fucking Tax Auditor is posting as AC in respect for other peoples threshold!
I see LA cops beating up black people on TV too. About the police in that fucking city, read the news, they have arrested 500 or so police officer in the last month because of these things.
Yeah, youd better go now.
Nope. Im not saying those things are right or wrong, Im stressing theyre different. The only judgement you can draw from my post (ok, maybe rant) is that narrow-mindness and ignorance hurt the narrow-minded ignorants. No offense intended, I also broadened my mind a lot living abroad. But in the case of the U.S., on a second thought, with all that steel and silicon so conveniently shaped to be of good use to millitary porposes, that may well hurt others too.
Is that "dont show your face here again" thing your sig?
Smells trolly. Given the choice between having my machine flood others or be shutdown, I'd rather it be shut down.
I'm guessing you've never been DoS'd? Its easy to make statements like yours when living in lala land.
There are posts in this discussion from people who claim to have lost work because of that childish link. Im not trolling, I even think that this calls for an apology from
Un unpatched IIS server does not mean an infected one. Granted, Ive never been DoSd, but Im not the type who takes justice in my own hands. Or else I would think this should be done to spammers, then to sites with pop-up windows, then to sites with banner adds, then to sites I just happen not to like.
If you were not so well armed, you USians would be the funniest breed in the world, even without Dennis Miller or Dana Carvey.
Ive been ther a few times, I lived there for a while. I was amazed when I saw someone on TV or at an University setting claiming that the U.S. should not do business (actually *buy* things) from nations that did not respect basic human rights. Though thats not what the article says, Id say it falls in the same broad category of narrow perspective.
Sweatshops? Is that what do you call a place where one has to work for more than 12 hours a day under pressure? Like a law firm in D.C. or some programming shops in CA? No matter these guys are working so as to be able to afford their condos or wine&dine twice a week, its still food and housing, only at first-world standards. Not too different from minework in Congo, given ones expectations. Thanks God I have to work only 8 hours a day, if I ever do more than that its because I want to.
How about human rights? Where I live an employee is entitled 30 days of vacation every 12 month period. Oh, you dont in the U.S., would that be a human right violation? Children are allowed to work here after they are 16, is that a HR violation? Whos to say? You think its fine to show a kids face on TV and screw him for the rest of his life if he has been charged with some felony even before conviction? You cant do it here even after conviction. You think you live in a free country? I never felt so oppressed and watched and under someones monitoring as I did while in the U.S.. Granted, I was living in D.C., but I think the average urban USian is yet to experiment real freedom. Maybe that would explain their behaviour when they come over... I could do this the whole day (even without mentioning U.S. foreign policy), but the point is: you have to broaden your horizons! Stop judging everyone under your values. They are good, very good indeed, but they dont work all over the world! Youll only profit from that.
Way to go, michael!!! Putting a link on /. frontpage to a script that shuts down machines.
You guys have crossed a dangerous threshold here (Im assuming this is the first time). My guess is that it will take people quite a while to forget this.
And, no, my machine was not shut down.
Thanks.
isn't making a good decision the best way to hedge against critisism?
Good question!
No. If one keeps both goals in mind, he's screwed. And doing the right thing doesn't mean one won't be criticised.
But saying that what he did was right or wrong is beyond my point. What I understood from his address last night was: the White House is not sure whether embryos are living humans or not, but we will fund research on this technology anyway, as long as application papers don't mention the icky part.