The FCC has authority over the *transmission* of signals in most wireless frequencies and at some power levels. The FCC has authority over the *transmission* of signals over the phone lines.
You mean like the ones used to transmit your post?
They can pull my OPEN SOURCE, PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED PC out of my cold dead hands.
They're not after your PC, just the wire plugged into the back of it.
Yes. I've even taken pictures with radio telescopes, although not of the Aricebo facility. I've got an invisible light laser hanging around the place in some drawer or other too.
I've never been to Aricebo myself, but my mother has. She took pictures of it, in visible light.
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?"
No.
Because for television broadcast to the general population you want to wash the signal over the whole earth, rather than trying to target each receiver. And if you think your reception sucks when it's raining out now. ..
Making the statement: "Microsoft ain't good for shit," a simple fact.
Yes, I know. That sentence, constructed in the colloquial, is ambiguous and can be interpreted in two ways. Microsoft ain't good for shit that way either. Try it, you'll see. But don't say I didn't warn you.
How could you borrow the CD if your friend downloaded it?
Presumably the same way I give friends Linux install disks of distros I've downloaded.
Or if that person lives on the other side of the country?
Over the internet? Isn't that what it's for? If worst comes to worst there are people who will actually carry hard copy from you to him, and never underestimate the bandwith of a 747 hurtling down the flight path.
A goal of this project is to make things easier.
Easier isn't actually always better. IE and Outlook, for instance, have been made so 'easy' that's it easy for just about anybody to fuck up your computer from afar.
Actually, there has been quite a bit of rhetoric thrown about of late claiming that the vetting process of a commercial company prevents deliberately stolen code from being included in the base.
They argue that if the closed source software has stolen code the vendor would be to blame, not the end user.
Which arguement is also fallacious, since it is a matter of copyright, patent and trade secret law which makes no distinction between open and closed source code and is only concerned with rights. That is why open source code is distributed under license, just as is closed source code.
A company may choose to indemnify its customers from legal consequences, but the validity of such indemnification is still left to the courts to decide, and, again, has nothing to do with whether the code is open or closed (as, indeed, the openess of the code has no bearing on whether it is written and/or distributed by commercial vendors or not).
Could the "Free Market" believers just shut the fuck up?
It doesn't seem likely, nor do I necessarily believe that they should, however, it might be nice when offering personal advice to an individual if they did so based on the actual tactical situation on the ground, rather than on the fantasy that their ideal free market actually currently exists.
You have to match the solution set to the problem , and not to what you wish the problem was.
Either they're idiots and I don't want to work for them or they're up to some sort of Evil and I don't want to talk to them.
But wait! Don't order now, you're both right.
And the biggest problem with evil idiots is that there's no way to plan for what they do, the havoc they cause even takes them by surprise, since it isn't at all the havoc they intended. About all you can do is watch the windshield getting closer, and closer, and closer. ..
Worked there, done that, lost my T-shirt.
Come my brothers in source. Let us climb the corporate Masada (The Empire State Building), lift our eyes to the heavens and swear:
"Never again! Never again!"
Dear corporate world, perhaps there is no shortage of Open Source developers. Perhaps people who are attracted to Open Source are just the sort of people who get tired of taking your crap the soonest and would rather jump into the volcano than take your $300 a week. I have my own business to attend to. I was not put on this earth for the purpose of minding your business. Mind your own. If you did I might well be more inclined to lend a helping hand. I like helping. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Implimenting some cockamamie scheme that anyone with one brain cell to rub against itself can tell is only going to blow up your face isn't helping, I'll go where I can see I can do some real good.
Currently that means showing the Moms and Pops how to get off the Microsoft wagon and keep that money in their own pocket, as well as relieve themselves of license anxiety, by switching to Linux and OpenOffice.
There's no shortage of Open Source people, it's just that you're looking straight at us and we're still managing to 'fly under the radar.'
No, I think the affect of the wind farms gets added to the account of the blocky buildings, the blocky buildings being the root cause of the existence of the wind farms.
Two sides of the same coin.
Of course, it's the people inside of them that are the root cause of the blocky buildings. Aha! Now we're getting somewhere. Isn't reductionism fun?
You can only put so many rats in the same cage before things start going all to hell, especially if the rats keep using more and more energy per rattus.
Oh well, there's always Soylent Green.
KFG
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i could have bought a hundred cheap watches for the price of my omega. ..
No, all XML was supposed to do is add semantics to the web. The idea that it could be used to merge databases was a later addition by people who really don't seem to understand the concepts.
To merge databases all you really need is a previously agreed upon semantics. Since there is an "X" in XML those semantics are not inherent in XML itself and must be included with the data.
The thing is, that if one includes the semantics with the data (or simply agrees on it ahead of time) the inclusion of tags is completely unneccessary and thus verbosely redundant.
"Yo, dude. First field is going to be name. Second field address. Third field phone number."
name, address, phone number
As opposed to:
"Yo, dude. The name tag is going to be name. The address tag is going to be address. The phone number tag is going to be phone number."
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The FCC has authority over the *transmission* of signals in most wireless frequencies and at some power levels. The FCC has authority over the *transmission* of signals over the phone lines.
You mean like the ones used to transmit your post?
They can pull my OPEN SOURCE, PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED PC out of my cold dead hands.
They're not after your PC, just the wire plugged into the back of it.
KFG
Then I can't say I'd recommend broadcasting from Mars in the first place.
KFG
Ever see a picture of Aricebo?
Yes. I've even taken pictures with radio telescopes, although not of the Aricebo facility. I've got an invisible light laser hanging around the place in some drawer or other too.
I've never been to Aricebo myself, but my mother has. She took pictures of it, in visible light.
Just a big version of what you got on your house.
My house is not so bedecked.
KFG
radio waves are a form of light.
Ah, but then why do they even bother calling masers masers, Mr. Smartypants?
KFG
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?"
.
No.
Because for television broadcast to the general population you want to wash the signal over the whole earth, rather than trying to target each receiver. And if you think your reception sucks when it's raining out now. .
KFG
Which is why we could have dirt cheap, coast to coast transportation. Just build a tube from NY to LA.
LA sucks and NY blows.
Of course, once LA sucks you in you're pretty much stuck there forever.
KFG
I just duct tape the leads of an LED to an AA battery. The duct tape is a 'free sample' if you steal it from work.
KFG
Making the statement: "Microsoft ain't good for shit," a simple fact.
Yes, I know. That sentence, constructed in the colloquial, is ambiguous and can be interpreted in two ways. Microsoft ain't good for shit that way either. Try it, you'll see. But don't say I didn't warn you.
KFG
How could you borrow the CD if your friend downloaded it?
Presumably the same way I give friends Linux install disks of distros I've downloaded.
Or if that person lives on the other side of the country?
Over the internet? Isn't that what it's for? If worst comes to worst there are people who will actually carry hard copy from you to him, and never underestimate the bandwith of a 747 hurtling down the flight path.
A goal of this project is to make things easier.
Easier isn't actually always better. IE and Outlook, for instance, have been made so 'easy' that's it easy for just about anybody to fuck up your computer from afar.
KFG
Right now, it just sounds like security pros are whiny babies that don't want to do their jobs.
Gee, thanks a lot. For the rest of the day my tongue is going to hurt.
KFG
. . .with address like "Starbase773!BubbaShrimp!Blake8!Bob@bitnet.net"!!!
Ah, the "Good Old Days" when you could use lines like, "Hey baby, what's your bang address?"
KFG
No one argues that.
Actually, there has been quite a bit of rhetoric thrown about of late claiming that the vetting process of a commercial company prevents deliberately stolen code from being included in the base.
They argue that if the closed source software has stolen code the vendor would be to blame, not the end user.
Which arguement is also fallacious, since it is a matter of copyright, patent and trade secret law which makes no distinction between open and closed source code and is only concerned with rights. That is why open source code is distributed under license, just as is closed source code.
A company may choose to indemnify its customers from legal consequences, but the validity of such indemnification is still left to the courts to decide, and, again, has nothing to do with whether the code is open or closed (as, indeed, the openess of the code has no bearing on whether it is written and/or distributed by commercial vendors or not).
KFG
The question it rasises is how much other stuff is in windows that has IP violations?
And the answer it provides is that the idea that closed soure software somehow becomes magically free of stolen or infringing code is fallacious.
At best it provides the bliss of ignorance, but an ignorance difficult or impossible to correct.
KFG
Could the "Free Market" believers just shut the fuck up?
It doesn't seem likely, nor do I necessarily believe that they should, however, it might be nice when offering personal advice to an individual if they did so based on the actual tactical situation on the ground, rather than on the fantasy that their ideal free market actually currently exists.
You have to match the solution set to the problem , and not to what you wish the problem was.
KFG
He says if consumers wanted more features, they'd tell Microsoft. . .
Which they are doing with their 'feet.' Perhaps he should learn how to listen?
KFG
Either they're idiots and I don't want to work for them or they're up to some sort of Evil and I don't want to talk to them.
.
But wait! Don't order now, you're both right.
And the biggest problem with evil idiots is that there's no way to plan for what they do, the havoc they cause even takes them by surprise, since it isn't at all the havoc they intended. About all you can do is watch the windshield getting closer, and closer, and closer. .
Worked there, done that, lost my T-shirt.
Come my brothers in source. Let us climb the corporate Masada (The Empire State Building), lift our eyes to the heavens and swear:
"Never again! Never again!"
Dear corporate world, perhaps there is no shortage of Open Source developers. Perhaps people who are attracted to Open Source are just the sort of people who get tired of taking your crap the soonest and would rather jump into the volcano than take your $300 a week. I have my own business to attend to. I was not put on this earth for the purpose of minding your business. Mind your own. If you did I might well be more inclined to lend a helping hand. I like helping. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Implimenting some cockamamie scheme that anyone with one brain cell to rub against itself can tell is only going to blow up your face isn't helping, I'll go where I can see I can do some real good.
Currently that means showing the Moms and Pops how to get off the Microsoft wagon and keep that money in their own pocket, as well as relieve themselves of license anxiety, by switching to Linux and OpenOffice.
There's no shortage of Open Source people, it's just that you're looking straight at us and we're still managing to 'fly under the radar.'
KFG
No, I think the affect of the wind farms gets added to the account of the blocky buildings, the blocky buildings being the root cause of the existence of the wind farms.
Two sides of the same coin.
Of course, it's the people inside of them that are the root cause of the blocky buildings. Aha! Now we're getting somewhere. Isn't reductionism fun?
You can only put so many rats in the same cage before things start going all to hell, especially if the rats keep using more and more energy per rattus.
Oh well, there's always Soylent Green.
KFG
i could have bought a hundred cheap watches for the price of my omega. . .
Oh sure, but do you know what time it is?
KFG
I thought XML was supposed to do that?
[ phone number]phone number[/phone number]
No, all XML was supposed to do is add semantics to the web. The idea that it could be used to merge databases was a later addition by people who really don't seem to understand the concepts.
To merge databases all you really need is a previously agreed upon semantics. Since there is an "X" in XML those semantics are not inherent in XML itself and must be included with the data.
The thing is, that if one includes the semantics with the data (or simply agrees on it ahead of time) the inclusion of tags is completely unneccessary and thus verbosely redundant.
"Yo, dude. First field is going to be name. Second field address. Third field phone number."
name, address, phone number
As opposed to:
"Yo, dude. The name tag is going to be name. The address tag is going to be address. The phone number tag is going to be phone number."
[name]name[/name]
[address]address[/address]
It's all very silly and smacks of making things complicated because you think complicated must be more advanced than simple somehow.
KFG
. . .relate their own ontologies out of English text. . .
Which would be perfectly dandy, if we were storing data for computers to use for their own purposes.
So long as we are storing data for interpretation by human minds we circle back to your own arguments for why the semantic web is silly.
Some developers get so wrapped in the AI that they entirely neglect that their own I is part of the system.
KFG
Or even a pipe maker's right to have a long-term vacation to Huntsville?
Screw Kevin Mitnick. Nothing against the man, per se, but he actually did shit that was a Bad Thing.
Free Tommy Chong.
KFG
Can we make a beowulf cluster of him?
/. front page?
Would you believe that Clonaid already has?
Ok, then would you believe that we could get AP to pick up the 'story'?
Ok, then would believe we could get Cowboy Neal to believe it and post it the
Well, Ok, then how about Hymie is a beowulf cluster, but he can't find the silverware drawer either?
KFG
Why is "hey did you guyz know you can put video files on teh intarweb!" front page news on slashdot?
Massteria! Friends an idle brain is the devil's plaything. Trouble! Oh yes, we've got trouble, right here.
KFG
"that's a 6 foot fuckin RABBIT with his ears tucked under a baseball cap...
.and they all started out with bad directions.
Nobody brings anything small into a bar around here. .
KFG
Don't those people know that pots of gold are always guarded by trixy leprechauns. . .
No, no, no. Trix are guarded by kids. Lucky Charms are guarded by leprechauns.
KFG