I like how the entire media bandwagon is jumping all over the suicide story and looking instead for who to blame. No one has even suggested that it wasn't a suicide, or whether there might be a coverup, or how the trials might have been if he had lived, or who might have been involved if it was murder, or how the investigation into whether it was a murder is progressing, or pathology reports, toxicology reports, autopsy results. Nothing.
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All captcha technology which I am aware of has been defeated by bots. If you know of one which isn't please tell me, so I can secure my forum from spammers.
Can we really be damned about what's legal on the internet anymore? I must advocate a course of action leaning towards "That which is best for the health of the internet." In an age where litigation threatens to destroy the internet and its fundamental functions such as DNSsec, and the sending of messages such as spam, terrorist plans, child pornography, and rebellious intent, should those who hold the internet dear and want to protect it, prevent censorship and surveillance, and foster the growth of freedom in all things, really give a rat's ass about legality? Let's hold to a simpler credence that morality is what matters.
Hacking in cyberspace can be likened to assault in the real world. DDoS is injurious to ones ability to use their network services. Theft of information becomes like armed robbery, and altering information pertaining to services so as to cause undesired operation can be likened to using threats and violence to say, force someone to draw money from an ATM.
In Section 35 and 37 of the Canadian Criminal Code, there are provisions for a person being assaulted to defend themselves with equal force to that of their attacker. If someone has a gun, you're very justified in breaking their arm to keep them from shooting you, or in shooting them first. And then there's a lot of blathering about how you can't provoke someone into fighting you then beat the fire out of them.
It seems very clear to me that repelling this type of cyber-assault should be met in kind, and with no remorse, hesitation, or mercy. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and an rm -rf / for an rm -rf /
Alright so let's make damn sure none of the children can view nude women or sexual acts using their computers, but permit violent video games, movies, and yes even cartoons. I'm sure that will foster a loving and peaceful society.
I agree. I have this "problem" as well, however was never really confronted about it by any socials teacher due to such a teacher knowing my family quite well. (The marvels of growing up in a small town in the remote northern portions of my province). And it's an interesting question, but useful only in novelty. We have two arms two legs, and binocular vision, right? Pretty close...
This entire topic's title is very misleading. When I first read it I thought "hey wait. there's nothing wrong with that." merely sorting the scores of a body of students by their race can give you insight into possible causes to the shortcomings of our society and could lead to better education which deals with the differences between other cultures.
But no, I have become sadly disappointed with the actual problem with what the school system is doing. By creating different criteria for students based upon these differences, it artificially sweeps the problem under the rug, so as to comply with the "no child left behind" rule without actually doing anything about the problem the rule was intended to solve.
Can you give us some common place examples where it's NOT easy conversion of 10? The only one I can think of is kilograms to newtons of gravitational force, and it's pretty durn close to ten so no harm done. Did you know that I had to look up what hydrology meant just to understand your reasoning? It is very much useful conversions of ten for very many applications of the measurement system. from meters/liters to joules to watts to newtons to kilograms to Coulombs to Amperes and volts to telsas and henries, units are lined up straight down the aisle of base ten. Measures of volume are really just cubic versions of the meter and subsidiaries. Molar masses are based upon grams and it's not like Avogadro number or the Coulomb or elementary charge is going to line up with anything else in reality. (Though it would be an interesting math experiment to find out if they did or explore non-base10 systems of counting to discover what might be an elementary number system)
So really, can you elaborate on what seems to me like a very well drawn conclusion based upon nonsense right from the off?
In one crazy moment of a dim lightbulb coming on, I once came to the conclusion that the reason behind the USA's refusal to finally drop the imperial system is to create confusion among people who must learn and use such systems of measure. In fact, we do still use the imperial system in Canada. I was raised in school learning none of the measurements of the imperial system, yet in construction typically we talk about inches and feet, horsepower and footpounds, miles and gallons, and never in conversation refer to centimeters, meters, liters, pascals, or newtons. If the USA would just switch, the rest of the world could truly drop the system, and begin to trade like sane civilizations, with some hope of putting something useful in our brains besides how many yards there are in a mile. Isn't that really what they're trying to avoid?
I've long advocated that the cause is deforestation. We have way fewer forests in the world sequestering carbon naturally than we did before clearing all the land for short term farming and concrete jungles. I'm dismayed that these discussions go forward to talk about ocean acidification and I've heard a lot of discussion about natural GHG emissions such as from volcanoes, but I find it a very rare thing to mention how much slashing and burning has taken place and has reduced nature's ability to absorb these things naturally.
I must suggest that the only powers capable of bio terrorism are either parties to which weapons have been leaked (on purpose?) or parties who control HLS, so this by default must be nothing more than endless fear mongering seen during the nuclear age of the cold war, and the terrorist age of the early 21st century. Huddle in the corner and eat the grass nearest the fence, all you scared little cattle. Make sure you believe that uncle Sam is the only one who can protect you. Lead you into the slaughter house like good well behaved livestock.
I think the first key to unionizing developers would have to be some kind of end to the competition between developers of different nations. When devs come from countries like Malaysia or Brazil, they tend to settle for less pay than those who grew up and were trained in G8 countries. The first chance to get a successful union in this industry without developers bawking at it would have to guarantee that workers from other countries are with them, and not the ones who will get their jobs on day one of the strike.
In addition to not suffering from the above posted concerns of scabs and outsourcing, there will have to be a large quantity of democracy in the union local, with regard to deadlines and demands of employers. Decisions of the union will have to be very fast in the pace of the environment their members work within; a new form of organizing will be required. There must be complete unification through the internet of all developers or face strikebreaking. They might as well be the company to which outsourcing contracts are awarded.
The union must also have not only the ability to but the responsibility to set wage tiers for developers of differing skill and quality, and to suspend for training or to fire completely any worker which is not pulling their weight. I advocate this for all unions; if an employee is making the union look bad, the union must get its house in order. Either train the deficient worker better, or get rid of them. Anything less is a reason to fire the whole union.
So, with wage standards across the board, differing standards of living and costs of living in different countries, and a requirement to end competition between devs who can live anywhere and do their work over the internet with ease, there might as well be no national borders for these workers. I think this is yet another prerequisite for unions in software development. And before there will be erased borders we'll definitely have an economy which runs without a form of currency or scarcity.
So in short, the only way to get a successful software developer's union will be to remove all of the reasons to have a union in the first place. This is like saying I'm going to lift the world above my head, which is impossible on principle simply because once the world is "above" my head down is up and up is down and the world is again beneath my feet.
I think it will be far more likely to see a movement such as this come from organizations which advocate free and/or open sourced software and not from anywhere in the corporate world. The sharks of the development world don't want the remora of unionized laborers to take what difficult-to-get pay they can acquire on their own, and companies don't want to deal with terrible employees that need the protection of what is thought of as unions today.
An intelligent person will come up with the idea "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" every time they ask the questions religious people and atheists claim to know for certain. It often takes a scientist to entertain the idea of being uncertain.
It has been a good read, the comments and story, so far. But I am minded of the game Uplink where hackers (script kiddies) get paid to do nasty things to competitors and so on. DDoS is not one of them. Instead destroying R&D, stealing corporate secrets, and hacking people's bank accounts are as creative as the game's designers could get. It's a fun game, but I must consider a world where this kind of activity grows and prospers.
It would have two beneficial effects which I can think of: One it provides much needed jobs to highly skilled people, and a desire to become more skilled. The economy has always been built upon this principle, and the people who enslave us with money need more wastes of time and useless shit for people to do in return for the magic paper that permits us to get the necessities of life.
In addition, having more incentive to perpetrate such crimes and more perpetrators incentivized to do so will create a real and genuine need for better security and defense against these attacks. I have read too often about terrible security leading to really easy hacks causing complete catastrophic chaos with systems responsible for millions or billions in revenue. Cite the playstation network for example. Those who work to secure these systems deserve a raise, more resources, and more colleagues in training to do this.
The advancement in IT will only come from adversity. Comfort breeds no development.
While I am not actually advocating paying a bunch of people to attack our cyber infrastructure, I do wish to bring up the idea and cause a discussion on the matter.
the woman in the photos. People need to learn that if there are naked pictures of you on some electronic device somewhere, sooner or later they're going on a web page.
If you're going to have nude photos of yourself taken at least get paid for it.
You have a point. I am a strong believer that "bible thumpers" of any flavor are simply willing to believe anything, and have been tamed into not thinking for themselves, on purpose! The New Testament is a mere reinforcement and further dissuasion of free thought for the Old Testament, and the Qu'aran is merely a plagiarism of them. (or so I've heard. I have yet to finish reading The Bible, and I haven't started the Qu'aran. So here I am believing what others say about it.)
But we must never burn our books. There are inspirational things in there, and strange clues about things to come. If you kill someone, you perform a terrible crime against that person, their family, and any children they might have had. However, if you destroy the knowledge, even false knowledge, within a book, you perform a crime against anyone and everyone who might have read it; you deny its possibilities for all humanity.
Linus, I cannot disagree with you at all. Standards should improve, not regress. However I have to put forward the suggestion that this is driven by the interests of computer makers, and not whats best for software makers such as yourself, nor anything to do with what consumers of such a market want.
So, like the reasons to create an open-sourced operating system, the reasons for the consumer base to design and build its own hardware has never been stronger. I would encourage anyone reading this, and anyone in the linux environment of organizations, to get to work on making what has been discussed here a reality.
Looking up at the discussions of data rates for resolutions such as this, can I suggest small microprocessors at either end of the links to give compression and decompression support to the display links? It can help, and latency shouldn't be a huge issue.
Oh fabulous. The days when your children cry about their games blowing up in their face and you're not allowed to cuff them and make them shut the fuck up.
Bring back the ruler beatings in our schools!
Lets all just wear RFIDs or barcodes so that we can scan one another in the street and learn all there is to know about someone. Then we can just meet someone, conduct the formal beep exchange, and then go straight to the bedroom if we like what we see.
You won't even have to say anything; you'll be able to learn all the things they like about sex and will not even have to ask if they like it. Heck you won't even have to say goodbye or call the next morning. Society would be perfect!
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You don't really have to sneak into Canada from the US. Just walk across where there's no custom's station.
I like how the entire media bandwagon is jumping all over the suicide story and looking instead for who to blame. No one has even suggested that it wasn't a suicide, or whether there might be a coverup, or how the trials might have been if he had lived, or who might have been involved if it was murder, or how the investigation into whether it was a murder is progressing, or pathology reports, toxicology reports, autopsy results. Nothing.
Current captcha technology is pretty much bot proof
All captcha technology which I am aware of has been defeated by bots. If you know of one which isn't please tell me, so I can secure my forum from spammers.
Of course. I'm sure Leonard Hoffstadter has one in his lab. If you can get him to stop yacking about the spherical chickens in a vacuum.
Something stepped on the rover, and they're just trying to clean up the video and figure out what it was!
Can we really be damned about what's legal on the internet anymore? I must advocate a course of action leaning towards "That which is best for the health of the internet." In an age where litigation threatens to destroy the internet and its fundamental functions such as DNSsec, and the sending of messages such as spam, terrorist plans, child pornography, and rebellious intent, should those who hold the internet dear and want to protect it, prevent censorship and surveillance, and foster the growth of freedom in all things, really give a rat's ass about legality? Let's hold to a simpler credence that morality is what matters.
Hacking in cyberspace can be likened to assault in the real world. DDoS is injurious to ones ability to use their network services. Theft of information becomes like armed robbery, and altering information pertaining to services so as to cause undesired operation can be likened to using threats and violence to say, force someone to draw money from an ATM.
In Section 35 and 37 of the Canadian Criminal Code, there are provisions for a person being assaulted to defend themselves with equal force to that of their attacker. If someone has a gun, you're very justified in breaking their arm to keep them from shooting you, or in shooting them first. And then there's a lot of blathering about how you can't provoke someone into fighting you then beat the fire out of them.
It seems very clear to me that repelling this type of cyber-assault should be met in kind, and with no remorse, hesitation, or mercy. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and an rm -rf / for an rm -rf /
Alright so let's make damn sure none of the children can view nude women or sexual acts using their computers, but permit violent video games, movies, and yes even cartoons. I'm sure that will foster a loving and peaceful society.
The more ridiculous crap everyone puts up with, the further and further they will be pushed.
I agree. I have this "problem" as well, however was never really confronted about it by any socials teacher due to such a teacher knowing my family quite well. (The marvels of growing up in a small town in the remote northern portions of my province). And it's an interesting question, but useful only in novelty. We have two arms two legs, and binocular vision, right? Pretty close...
This entire topic's title is very misleading. When I first read it I thought "hey wait. there's nothing wrong with that."
merely sorting the scores of a body of students by their race can give you insight into possible causes to the shortcomings of our society and could lead to better education which deals with the differences between other cultures.
But no, I have become sadly disappointed with the actual problem with what the school system is doing. By creating different criteria for students based upon these differences, it artificially sweeps the problem under the rug, so as to comply with the "no child left behind" rule without actually doing anything about the problem the rule was intended to solve.
Can you give us some common place examples where it's NOT easy conversion of 10? The only one I can think of is kilograms to newtons of gravitational force, and it's pretty durn close to ten so no harm done. Did you know that I had to look up what hydrology meant just to understand your reasoning? It is very much useful conversions of ten for very many applications of the measurement system. from meters/liters to joules to watts to newtons to kilograms to Coulombs to Amperes and volts to telsas and henries, units are lined up straight down the aisle of base ten. Measures of volume are really just cubic versions of the meter and subsidiaries. Molar masses are based upon grams and it's not like Avogadro number or the Coulomb or elementary charge is going to line up with anything else in reality. (Though it would be an interesting math experiment to find out if they did or explore non-base10 systems of counting to discover what might be an elementary number system)
So really, can you elaborate on what seems to me like a very well drawn conclusion based upon nonsense right from the off?
In one crazy moment of a dim lightbulb coming on, I once came to the conclusion that the reason behind the USA's refusal to finally drop the imperial system is to create confusion among people who must learn and use such systems of measure. In fact, we do still use the imperial system in Canada. I was raised in school learning none of the measurements of the imperial system, yet in construction typically we talk about inches and feet, horsepower and footpounds, miles and gallons, and never in conversation refer to centimeters, meters, liters, pascals, or newtons. If the USA would just switch, the rest of the world could truly drop the system, and begin to trade like sane civilizations, with some hope of putting something useful in our brains besides how many yards there are in a mile. Isn't that really what they're trying to avoid?
I've long advocated that the cause is deforestation. We have way fewer forests in the world sequestering carbon naturally than we did before clearing all the land for short term farming and concrete jungles. I'm dismayed that these discussions go forward to talk about ocean acidification and I've heard a lot of discussion about natural GHG emissions such as from volcanoes, but I find it a very rare thing to mention how much slashing and burning has taken place and has reduced nature's ability to absorb these things naturally.
I must suggest that the only powers capable of bio terrorism are either parties to which weapons have been leaked (on purpose?) or parties who control HLS, so this by default must be nothing more than endless fear mongering seen during the nuclear age of the cold war, and the terrorist age of the early 21st century. Huddle in the corner and eat the grass nearest the fence, all you scared little cattle. Make sure you believe that uncle Sam is the only one who can protect you. Lead you into the slaughter house like good well behaved livestock.
We are a herd.
There is no ocean acidication.
There is also no atmospheric contraction due to CO2 (there is due to changes in solar wind and magnetic influence).
I'm glad you brought all sorts of facts and citations to this intellectual discussion.
I think the first key to unionizing developers would have to be some kind of end to the competition between developers of different nations. When devs come from countries like Malaysia or Brazil, they tend to settle for less pay than those who grew up and were trained in G8 countries. The first chance to get a successful union in this industry without developers bawking at it would have to guarantee that workers from other countries are with them, and not the ones who will get their jobs on day one of the strike.
In addition to not suffering from the above posted concerns of scabs and outsourcing, there will have to be a large quantity of democracy in the union local, with regard to deadlines and demands of employers. Decisions of the union will have to be very fast in the pace of the environment their members work within; a new form of organizing will be required. There must be complete unification through the internet of all developers or face strikebreaking. They might as well be the company to which outsourcing contracts are awarded.
The union must also have not only the ability to but the responsibility to set wage tiers for developers of differing skill and quality, and to suspend for training or to fire completely any worker which is not pulling their weight. I advocate this for all unions; if an employee is making the union look bad, the union must get its house in order. Either train the deficient worker better, or get rid of them. Anything less is a reason to fire the whole union.
So, with wage standards across the board, differing standards of living and costs of living in different countries, and a requirement to end competition between devs who can live anywhere and do their work over the internet with ease, there might as well be no national borders for these workers. I think this is yet another prerequisite for unions in software development. And before there will be erased borders we'll definitely have an economy which runs without a form of currency or scarcity.
So in short, the only way to get a successful software developer's union will be to remove all of the reasons to have a union in the first place. This is like saying I'm going to lift the world above my head, which is impossible on principle simply because once the world is "above" my head down is up and up is down and the world is again beneath my feet.
I think it will be far more likely to see a movement such as this come from organizations which advocate free and/or open sourced software and not from anywhere in the corporate world. The sharks of the development world don't want the remora of unionized laborers to take what difficult-to-get pay they can acquire on their own, and companies don't want to deal with terrible employees that need the protection of what is thought of as unions today.
An intelligent person will come up with the idea "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" every time they ask the questions religious people and atheists claim to know for certain. It often takes a scientist to entertain the idea of being uncertain.
It has been a good read, the comments and story, so far. But I am minded of the game Uplink where hackers (script kiddies) get paid to do nasty things to competitors and so on. DDoS is not one of them. Instead destroying R&D, stealing corporate secrets, and hacking people's bank accounts are as creative as the game's designers could get. It's a fun game, but I must consider a world where this kind of activity grows and prospers.
It would have two beneficial effects which I can think of: One it provides much needed jobs to highly skilled people, and a desire to become more skilled. The economy has always been built upon this principle, and the people who enslave us with money need more wastes of time and useless shit for people to do in return for the magic paper that permits us to get the necessities of life.
In addition, having more incentive to perpetrate such crimes and more perpetrators incentivized to do so will create a real and genuine need for better security and defense against these attacks. I have read too often about terrible security leading to really easy hacks causing complete catastrophic chaos with systems responsible for millions or billions in revenue. Cite the playstation network for example. Those who work to secure these systems deserve a raise, more resources, and more colleagues in training to do this.
The advancement in IT will only come from adversity. Comfort breeds no development.
While I am not actually advocating paying a bunch of people to attack our cyber infrastructure, I do wish to bring up the idea and cause a discussion on the matter.
the woman in the photos. People need to learn that if there are naked pictures of you on some electronic device somewhere, sooner or later they're going on a web page.
If you're going to have nude photos of yourself taken at least get paid for it.
Welcome to the beginning of Farenheit 451.
You have a point. I am a strong believer that "bible thumpers" of any flavor are simply willing to believe anything, and have been tamed into not thinking for themselves, on purpose! The New Testament is a mere reinforcement and further dissuasion of free thought for the Old Testament, and the Qu'aran is merely a plagiarism of them. (or so I've heard. I have yet to finish reading The Bible, and I haven't started the Qu'aran. So here I am believing what others say about it.)
But we must never burn our books. There are inspirational things in there, and strange clues about things to come. If you kill someone, you perform a terrible crime against that person, their family, and any children they might have had. However, if you destroy the knowledge, even false knowledge, within a book, you perform a crime against anyone and everyone who might have read it; you deny its possibilities for all humanity.
Because she is a slut, and conservative christian politicians fucking hate that.
Linus, I cannot disagree with you at all. Standards should improve, not regress. However I have to put forward the suggestion that this is driven by the interests of computer makers, and not whats best for software makers such as yourself, nor anything to do with what consumers of such a market want. So, like the reasons to create an open-sourced operating system, the reasons for the consumer base to design and build its own hardware has never been stronger. I would encourage anyone reading this, and anyone in the linux environment of organizations, to get to work on making what has been discussed here a reality. Looking up at the discussions of data rates for resolutions such as this, can I suggest small microprocessors at either end of the links to give compression and decompression support to the display links? It can help, and latency shouldn't be a huge issue.
Oh fabulous. The days when your children cry about their games blowing up in their face and you're not allowed to cuff them and make them shut the fuck up. Bring back the ruler beatings in our schools!
Shush you. Retards need practice at engrish too!
Lets all just wear RFIDs or barcodes so that we can scan one another in the street and learn all there is to know about someone. Then we can just meet someone, conduct the formal beep exchange, and then go straight to the bedroom if we like what we see. You won't even have to say anything; you'll be able to learn all the things they like about sex and will not even have to ask if they like it. Heck you won't even have to say goodbye or call the next morning. Society would be perfect!