It doesn't take a genius to see that this is just a veiled press release: "Microsoft to Users: Fuck you, we own your ass, so you can whinge all you want, you're just screwed."
The day the feral government decided to enforce secrecy rules was the day it sealed its destiny to become a criminal organization, and guarranteed the failure of democracy. Only evil occurs in secrecy, and effective democracy is impossible without an informed electorate.
The more highly credentialed of the two medical professionals actively (and successfully) treating Morgellons, from amongst those cited in the article, is a medical doctor in San Francisco. Both practitioners treat the disease with antibiotics, both have success. The physician focusses his treatment to a specific class of antibiotic, while the NP uses a broader spectrum of treatment. This suggests that the more highly credentialled practitioner has come closer to an optimal treatment than the less credentialled practitioner, which is unsurprising.
The reasoning which says "the CDC doesn't recognize it, so it's just somatization" and "since this is just somatization, there's no point in sending samples to the CDC" can have only one conclusion.
While they may be polor opposites they certainly are not polar opposites. The first says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The second says, if it's broke, here's how to fix it.
And yes, there are lots of happily running, productive applications in COBOL and Fortran. COBOL is thankfully dead, but lots of new ones are being coded in Fortran-2005 every day.
It's difficult to imagine any language interoperating more freely with C++ than Java, using GCJ and the CNI native interface. You just pass objects back and forth freely between the environments, call native methods directly across the language boundaries, and rock 'til you drop.
Unlike Rocket Boy, one day Ron will rot (with the fools who claim in their hubris to have refuted Rocket Boy's very existence). Rocket Boy, by contrast, will live forever. And that's the way it should be.
It is true. But nobody bothers, because, you see, China has succeeded in making an Internet that doesn't suck. Why would you want to go twenty miles down the road for Internet+Suck when there's a better one right on your plate?
Okay, major exception: When someone gets a wild hare up their donkey and opts to block sf.net or something stupid like that. Then you'll see a big spike in the proxy traffic.
Indeed the Internet is the information-theoretic salvation of democracy, but unfortunately only for the tiny minority who understand the difference between propaganda and reportage. Democracy is dead, because Americans are evil and stupid. This, according to the Webster definitions of "evil" and "stupid". Don't believe me? Look it up. I stand by the factual verifiability of my claim.
Agreed. The very notion of "anti-filesharing filtering technologies" is ludicrous. The entire function of the Internet, indeed of networking in general, is to share data. If you can share data, you can share files, because files are just data. And no filtering technology can ever determine what data represents, because data and information are two separate things. Without a correct interpretation, you can't know the significance of a datum. Encryption is total overkill for defeating "anti-filesharing filtering technologies". Just send EBCDIC for ASCII and vice-versa. Or XOR it with the Koran. Or send it backwards. Sheesh, snake oil sales must be a sweet job.
It is true that key management always boils down to obfuscation. For example, I obfuscate the key stored on a USB flash drive by putting it in my pocket, or I might obfuscate it by putting it in a locked, armored safe. If these are the semantics of obfuscation, I am content to play the game according to your rules, now that they are clear. As long as a computer must operate on a plaintext, that plaintext is "obfuscated" by the physical complications of access to it. It doesn't matter whether it is inside an epoxied RSA engine or inside DRAM, or written to swap space, or displayed on a monitor over Times Square -- in that sense these are merely varying modes of obfuscation. I do prefer to use words in a way that distinguishes useful cases, however. In this way they add more information when they are used.
Software development is a job for greasy rejects with the hours of a vampire and even less social life. It's a dead-end job because people who spend all their time programming computers and downloading porn have no future in commercial ventures. They have to be segregated from the functional humans. During the dot-com bubble, they had their 15 minutes, but that is long since gone, and sanity has returned. If you choose a career in software, expect a Dilbert-esque lifestyle, consisting of a sequence of death marches, punctuated by bankruptcy layoffs, reorganizations in which the new managers circle the staff like hawks looking for someone to "constructively terminate" in order to open a slot for one of their friends, and the "move to India or walk" ultimatum.
If you would like a real job, where you produce something or help someone instead of pushing buttons to make the leeches of the world fatter and the sheep ever more anemic, I suggest biomedical engineering. Who knows, you might even develop software in such a career -- but it would be useful software. Not MIS's leech-farming, or CSci's infinite regression of tools for the toolmakers.
Where's the fleecing? Music is free. Performance is a paid service. Fans win, artists win. Artists win because they get much more of the consumer dollar when it goes into a performance than when it goes into a record company distribution and control scheme. Fans win because the high cost of top tier acts means that more new acts hit the road, and release their music on the networks to advertise their shows.
Best of all possible worlds, if you ask me. Vested interests always complain about disruptive change, but it's always good for the vast majority of participants, who are not at the top of the food chain.
And SISC. SISC is actually a living project. I wish the best virtues of the three could be merged. In an Eclipse environment, this would be the most productive of all possible programming worlds.
We apply our laws extraterritorially to our conquered subjects. In fact, I think that might be a good definition of a conquered subject nation. A Judge who applies a foreign law in the U.S. is an agent of a conquering power. I'd call that treason, according to the constitutional definition.
Extraterritoriality is always, uniformly, without exception, evil evil evil. The Opium Wars are perhaps the paradigmatic exemplar of this particular flavor of evil.
Extraterritoriality is contradictory to the notions of sovereign determination, of democracy, of self-government, of personal liberty, and of trial by a jury of peers.
I may or may not be a "fucking idiot". I think that what you are is made evident by your actions.
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It doesn't take a genius to see that this is just a veiled press release: "Microsoft to Users: Fuck you, we own your ass, so you can whinge all you want, you're just screwed."
COBOL is as dead as Latin. There is no significant growth in the literature in either language.
The day the feral government decided to enforce secrecy rules was the day it sealed its destiny to become a criminal organization, and guarranteed the failure of democracy. Only evil occurs in secrecy, and effective democracy is impossible without an informed electorate.
The more highly credentialed of the two medical professionals actively (and successfully) treating Morgellons, from amongst those cited in the article, is a medical doctor in San Francisco. Both practitioners treat the disease with antibiotics, both have success. The physician focusses his treatment to a specific class of antibiotic, while the NP uses a broader spectrum of treatment. This suggests that the more highly credentialled practitioner has come closer to an optimal treatment than the less credentialled practitioner, which is unsurprising.
The reasoning which says "the CDC doesn't recognize it, so it's just somatization" and "since this is just somatization, there's no point in sending samples to the CDC" can have only one conclusion.
While they may be polor opposites they certainly are not polar opposites. The first says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The second says, if it's broke, here's how to fix it.
And yes, there are lots of happily running, productive applications in COBOL and Fortran.
COBOL is thankfully dead, but lots of new ones are being coded in Fortran-2005 every day.
If you're confusing JINI with JNI, then I have to question both your claim of experience in Java and your familiarity with C++.
It's difficult to imagine any language interoperating more freely with C++ than Java, using GCJ and the CNI native interface. You just pass objects back and forth freely between the environments, call native methods directly across the language boundaries, and rock 'til you drop.
Unlike Rocket Boy, one day Ron will rot (with the fools who claim in their hubris to have refuted Rocket Boy's very existence). Rocket Boy, by contrast, will live forever. And that's the way it should be.
> In Japan, you have only one choice: channel 14
Those lucky Japanese. They get 14, and we just get Fox News. I knew I picked the wrong dictatorship to be born into.
Some things that are PERMITTED are also STUPID.
Have no fear, this plugin is vaporware.
I think it's bundled with Duke Nukem' Forever.
It is true. But nobody bothers, because, you see, China has succeeded in making an Internet that doesn't suck. Why would you want to go twenty miles down the road for Internet+Suck when there's a better one right on your plate?
Okay, major exception: When someone gets a wild hare up their donkey and opts to block sf.net or something stupid like that. Then you'll see a big spike in the proxy traffic.
Indeed the Internet is the information-theoretic salvation of democracy, but unfortunately only for the tiny minority who understand the difference between propaganda and reportage. Democracy is dead, because Americans are evil and stupid. This, according to the Webster definitions of "evil" and "stupid". Don't believe me? Look it up. I stand by the factual verifiability of my claim.
Agreed. The very notion of "anti-filesharing filtering technologies" is ludicrous. The entire function of the Internet, indeed of networking in general, is to share data. If you can share data, you can share files, because files are just data. And no filtering technology can ever determine what data represents, because data and information are two separate things. Without a correct interpretation, you can't know the significance of a datum. Encryption is total overkill for defeating "anti-filesharing filtering technologies". Just send EBCDIC for ASCII and vice-versa. Or XOR it with the Koran. Or send it backwards. Sheesh, snake oil sales must be a sweet job.
It is true that key management always boils down to obfuscation. For example, I obfuscate the key stored on a USB flash drive by putting it in my pocket, or I might obfuscate it by putting it in a locked, armored safe. If these are the semantics of obfuscation, I am content to play the game according to your rules, now that they are clear. As long as a computer must operate on a plaintext,
that plaintext is "obfuscated" by the physical complications of access to it. It doesn't matter whether it is inside an epoxied RSA engine or inside DRAM, or written to swap space, or displayed on a monitor over Times Square -- in that sense these are merely varying modes of obfuscation. I do prefer to use words in a way that distinguishes useful cases, however. In this way they add more information when they are used.
That's informative? Only if misinformation is a flavor of information.
The Chinese (stereotypically) have a hard time pronouncing the English letter "R".
The English (stereotypically) have a hard time pronouncing the French letter "R".
The French (stereotypically) have a hard time pronouncing the Spanish letter "R".
The Spanish (stereotypically) have a hard time pronouncing the Japanese lettter "R".
Strange, but true. Those liquids are a bitch.
In an encrypted keychain, naturally. It's standard best practice.
Software development is a job for greasy rejects with the hours of a vampire and even less social life. It's a dead-end job because people who spend all their time programming computers and downloading porn have no future in commercial ventures. They have to be segregated from the functional humans. During the dot-com bubble, they had their 15 minutes, but that is long since gone, and sanity has returned. If you choose a career in software, expect a Dilbert-esque lifestyle, consisting of a sequence of death marches, punctuated by bankruptcy layoffs, reorganizations in which the new managers circle the staff like hawks looking for someone to "constructively terminate" in order to open a slot for one of their friends, and the "move to India or walk" ultimatum.
If you would like a real job, where you produce something or help someone instead of pushing buttons to make the leeches of the world fatter and the sheep ever more anemic, I suggest biomedical engineering. Who knows, you might even develop software in such a career -- but it would be useful software. Not MIS's leech-farming, or CSci's infinite regression of tools for the toolmakers.
I'm sure that companies who build disk encryption hardware do.
Personally, I consider El-Gamal to be encryption rather than "obfuscation", and quite happily store authentication token ciphertext in mysql.
Hasn't scratched yet.
Where's the fleecing? Music is free. Performance is a paid service. Fans win, artists win. Artists win because they get much more of the consumer dollar when it goes into a performance than when it goes into a record company distribution and control scheme. Fans win because the high cost of top tier acts means that more new acts hit the road, and release their music on the networks to advertise their shows.
Best of all possible worlds, if you ask me. Vested interests always complain about disruptive change, but it's always good for the vast majority of participants, who are not at the top of the food chain.
Very, very not true.
There are things that turn people off from Scheme, but that's not one.
Allergy to parentheses is one. That's a fault of the user.
Lack of a consensus on portable interfaces for things outside the Scheme world is another. That's a fault of the Scheme community.
And SISC. SISC is actually a living project. I wish the best virtues of the three could be merged. In an Eclipse environment, this would be the most productive of all possible programming worlds.
We apply our laws extraterritorially to our conquered subjects. In fact, I think that might be a good definition of a conquered subject nation. A Judge who applies a foreign law in the U.S. is an agent of a conquering power. I'd call that treason, according to the constitutional definition.
Extraterritoriality is always, uniformly, without exception, evil evil evil. The Opium Wars are perhaps the paradigmatic exemplar of this particular flavor of evil.
Extraterritoriality is contradictory to the notions of sovereign determination, of democracy, of self-government, of personal liberty, and of trial by a jury of peers.
I may or may not be a "fucking idiot". I think that what you are is made evident by your actions.
sort of like Jini, only non-portable and a few years later?