I have a sneaking suspicion it's because they want to take your stuff. Without, like, paying for it.
Now that you know their motivation perhaps you can do away with band-aid measures to prevent it, and then apply it to diamonds, money and TV sets so we can get rid of all of our alarms, locks and stuff.
Should be easy. It's surprising that nobody's done it already, innit?
In NYS vs. 2600 the judge's decision made use of an analogy I posted to Slashdot. This isn't to say he got it from me, it was a fairly obvious analogy, but it was known at the time that both parties were reading arguments on Slashdot and I believe incorporated some of them into their arguments.
Sometimes we are watched.
Oh yeah. The analogy?
Buying a DVD is like buying a book locked in a safe, where the seller won't give you the combination unless you pay him additional money.
This is as far as the judge took it in ruling against 2600. My analogy went on to point out that DeCSS was like getting the combination from some other source to open the safe you own to read the book you own. And there's certainly no law against cracking your own safe, or providing instruction to someone on how to do it.
Well, ideas of when life began on earth are based on resonable hypothesis as much as anything else. An educated guess. Those guesses are informed by what we know about the conditions needed to sustain life. The discovery of black smokers has changed ideas about what's needed to support life and thus pushed back estimates of when life began a billion years or so.
As concepts of life as we know it change, so does everything we suppose about life.
I always imagine someone who really knows the subject on one of these shows.
"So, tell us Doctor Foo, for one million dollars, how old is life on earth?"
"Well, that's a very good question. No one really knows your see. We can take current knowledge and exprapolate that into the past, but need to construct testable hypothesis and one test can overthrow current beliefs. So, given the state of the earth as we think we know it at the time we think we know and life as we know it and after running some test in the lab. . . , On the other hand. . . "
The game shows get their answers from the popular "brochures" of the day, so in a sense are really only testing cultural knowledge. Cultural scientific knowledge is base on the pat anwers they give you in grade school.
"How far away is the moon?"
"At apogee or perigee, or do you mean right now?"
"Don't be cheeky son. You get an F. Suzy?"
"240,000 miles, sir."
"Very good, Suzy. You get to stay after class and clean my eraser."
The current brochure answer for when life began on earth is 4 billion years ago. Life is hardier and more variable than was expected. Why they didn't expect that is beyond me though.
Ideas are not stolen. I did not steal my language, or algebra, or the laws of thermodynamics. Nor did I steal the art of fire making, the wheel or the chain drive.
All joking aside, I think that if winning the lottery causes stress for someone, it is likely because they have a poor grasp on the concept of money.
No, the concept is stress, which does not mean, in the biological sense, what it means in the colloquial. To the body winning the lottery is stressful, unless one takes the matter as one does making tea, as I suppose there might be one who does.
Witness the behaviour of contestants on The Price is Right or Let's Make a Deal. All that wailing and gnashing of teeth in the ecstasy of winning is stress.
But hey, at least I won't make fun of your initials like the rest of them!
Biological stress isn't the same thing as anxiety at all, although anxiety is one cause of stress reactions in the system. So is going for a jog. Google on Hans Selye.
As for controling anxiety I am a Zen Buddhist and a "certified" teacher of meditation for 30 years. I'm familiar with the concepts of societal stressors and modifying one's response to them. See my yesterday's post about who's problem it is if someone laughs at you for your choice of chair.
The stress reaction is a building process, up to a point. When you stress your muscles, they add bulk. When you stress your aerobic system, it adds enzymes. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
The "up to a point" part is the critical issue. What kills you kills you without making you any stronger, cause, like, yer dead dude.
So, stress up until that point makes you stronger, but push it any farther and things start to break instead of build up.
I know. I studied with Dr. Hans Selye for a while. What a lot of people don't understand is that that stimulus can be "good" as well as "bad."
Winning the lottery can cause a good deal of stress. Dr. Selye liked to use the example of getting a kiss from a beautiful woman as an example of positive stimulus that could cause a good deal of stress.
Quite a few people use various flavors of the 2.0 kernel for various reasons. The 2.2 installed base is huge, and not going anyplace fast. Larger minor version number (or even major version number) does not even vaguely imply greater security. You are buying the myth.
In fact, quite the opposite is often the case if older versions remain maintained, because they are more thoroughly debugged and locked down. And they are maintained because there is no profit motive to not do so.
While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health.
Indeed, and when you play your boom box on the bus or your cell phone goes off in the theater you are likely to be subsequently engaged in social interaction for the mental health of of the public weal.
You arent' guarunteed much mental, or other, health out of the deal though.
Yeah, I read it that way too on the first go through, then went back and read it again. He's just talking about IT industry entrenchment, just as there's still a mountain of COBOL code out there that isn't going to be replaced by anything soon.
You are thinking as a programmer, in which case Python, Ruby, Smalltalk and CLOS are all viable competitors to Java.
The author of the article is thinking in terms of what your boss is going to insist you code in because all the other bosses are insisting that their people code in it and thus it has built up an nearly unassailable position in the business code base and mindshare. MS, of course, is assailing it.
I'm afraid that's how so. Technical merits and suitability aren't even an issue to be discussed at this point.
In your own business and projects your milage may vary considerably. Lord knows mine does.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a sneaking suspicion it's because they want to take your stuff. Without, like, paying for it.
Now that you know their motivation perhaps you can do away with band-aid measures to prevent it, and then apply it to diamonds, money and TV sets so we can get rid of all of our alarms, locks and stuff.
Should be easy. It's surprising that nobody's done it already, innit?
KFG
Well damn, talk about serendipity, guess what just came on Encore? And it seems they've lost contact with the colony.
I wonder if anything bad happened to them?
KFG
Ah, but in this case you have purchased all the tools to play it, except for the CSS key.
And just as in the case of a safe, you have even payed for, and thus own, the locking mechanism itself. It is built into your computer's DVD drive.
KFG
Gee, ya think?
KFG
Why yes, yes it is. They made flying boats and seaplanes and won the Schnieder Cup race for such three times.
Supermarine History
KFG
Now don't you go being a Spitfire 'round here boy.
KFG
A version of X-Copy without the DeCSS componant has already been announced.
KFG
In NYS vs. 2600 the judge's decision made use of an analogy I posted to Slashdot. This isn't to say he got it from me, it was a fairly obvious analogy, but it was known at the time that both parties were reading arguments on Slashdot and I believe incorporated some of them into their arguments.
Sometimes we are watched.
Oh yeah. The analogy?
Buying a DVD is like buying a book locked in a safe, where the seller won't give you the combination unless you pay him additional money.
This is as far as the judge took it in ruling against 2600. My analogy went on to point out that DeCSS was like getting the combination from some other source to open the safe you own to read the book you own. And there's certainly no law against cracking your own safe, or providing instruction to someone on how to do it.
KFG
Why don't you just ear tag them?
KFG
You could write cool python scripts to visualize your commute to work, etc.
Or someone else's.
Divorce lawyers/investigators would love this shit. No thank you.
KFG
But a rat's mind is way simpler.
Allow me to introduce you to our management team.
KFG
Unurned Grecian
KFG
Well, ideas of when life began on earth are based on resonable hypothesis as much as anything else. An educated guess. Those guesses are informed by what we know about the conditions needed to sustain life. The discovery of black smokers has changed ideas about what's needed to support life and thus pushed back estimates of when life began a billion years or so.
As concepts of life as we know it change, so does everything we suppose about life.
I always imagine someone who really knows the subject on one of these shows.
"So, tell us Doctor Foo, for one million dollars, how old is life on earth?"
"Well, that's a very good question. No one really knows your see. We can take current knowledge and exprapolate that into the past, but need to construct testable hypothesis and one test can overthrow current beliefs. So, given the state of the earth as we think we know it at the time we think we know and life as we know it and after running some test in the lab. . . , On the other hand. . . "
The game shows get their answers from the popular "brochures" of the day, so in a sense are really only testing cultural knowledge. Cultural scientific knowledge is base on the pat anwers they give you in grade school.
"How far away is the moon?"
"At apogee or perigee, or do you mean right now?"
"Don't be cheeky son. You get an F. Suzy?"
"240,000 miles, sir."
"Very good, Suzy. You get to stay after class and clean my eraser."
The current brochure answer for when life began on earth is 4 billion years ago. Life is hardier and more variable than was expected. Why they didn't expect that is beyond me though.
KFG
Ideas are not stolen. I did not steal my language, or algebra, or the laws of thermodynamics. Nor did I steal the art of fire making, the wheel or the chain drive.
Ideas are used.
Patents are infringed.
KFG
All joking aside, I think that if winning the lottery causes stress for someone, it is likely because they have a poor grasp on the concept of money.
:)
No, the concept is stress, which does not mean, in the biological sense, what it means in the colloquial. To the body winning the lottery is stressful, unless one takes the matter as one does making tea, as I suppose there might be one who does.
Witness the behaviour of contestants on The Price is Right or Let's Make a Deal. All that wailing and gnashing of teeth in the ecstasy of winning is stress.
But hey, at least I won't make fun of your initials like the rest of them!
Oh come on. That takes all the fun out of it.
KFG
Biological stress isn't the same thing as anxiety at all, although anxiety is one cause of stress reactions in the system. So is going for a jog. Google on Hans Selye.
As for controling anxiety I am a Zen Buddhist and a "certified" teacher of meditation for 30 years. I'm familiar with the concepts of societal stressors and modifying one's response to them. See my yesterday's post about who's problem it is if someone laughs at you for your choice of chair.
KFG
The stress reaction is a building process, up to a point. When you stress your muscles, they add bulk. When you stress your aerobic system, it adds enzymes. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
The "up to a point" part is the critical issue. What kills you kills you without making you any stronger, cause, like, yer dead dude.
So, stress up until that point makes you stronger, but push it any farther and things start to break instead of build up.
KFG
I know. I studied with Dr. Hans Selye for a while. What a lot of people don't understand is that that stimulus can be "good" as well as "bad."
Winning the lottery can cause a good deal of stress. Dr. Selye liked to use the example of getting a kiss from a beautiful woman as an example of positive stimulus that could cause a good deal of stress.
KFG
Other people cause stress. So the mail server goes down, big deal. Unless people, like your boss, get all worked up over it.
Stress is a function of living beings, not machines.
KFG
Quite a few people use various flavors of the 2.0 kernel for various reasons. The 2.2 installed base is huge, and not going anyplace fast. Larger minor version number (or even major version number) does not even vaguely imply greater security. You are buying the myth.
In fact, quite the opposite is often the case if older versions remain maintained, because they are more thoroughly debugged and locked down. And they are maintained because there is no profit motive to not do so.
KFG
While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health.
Indeed, and when you play your boom box on the bus or your cell phone goes off in the theater you are likely to be subsequently engaged in social interaction for the mental health of of the public weal.
You arent' guarunteed much mental, or other, health out of the deal though.
KFG
Yeah, I read it that way too on the first go through, then went back and read it again. He's just talking about IT industry entrenchment, just as there's still a mountain of COBOL code out there that isn't going to be replaced by anything soon.
KFG
You are thinking as a programmer, in which case Python, Ruby, Smalltalk and CLOS are all viable competitors to Java.
The author of the article is thinking in terms of what your boss is going to insist you code in because all the other bosses are insisting that their people code in it and thus it has built up an nearly unassailable position in the business code base and mindshare. MS, of course, is assailing it.
I'm afraid that's how so. Technical merits and suitability aren't even an issue to be discussed at this point.
In your own business and projects your milage may vary considerably. Lord knows mine does.
KFG
Vested interest does not mean hidden. It means invested in some manner, such as a right in an estate.
Or, in this case, the relevant meaning is this one:
3. A special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage.
And Sun most certainly is promoting Gnome for its own personal advantage.
KFG
Can I get a bonus point for bringing up CLOS?
KFG